Nigeria Signs Power-Company Sales Pacts With Siemens, Transcorp

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Nigeria signed deals for the sale of 15 state power companies to buyers including Siemens AG (SIE), Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEP) and Transnational Corp. of Nigeria Plc, the West African nation’s privatization agency said.

The buyers now have 15 days to pay 25 percent of the amounts they bid, the Abuja-based Bureau of Public Enterprises said today in an e-mailed statement. The Nigerian government sold 10 power distributors and five generation companies in September and October. Full payment is due within 90 days.

PHOTOS: Prayer Session Held In Memory Of Goldie Harvey

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Exactly one week after singer, Goldie died a candlelight ceremony was held in her memory by her close friends and associates yesterday, 22 Feb 2013.

Hip-hop artiste and Nigeria’s representative at the last Big Brother Africa Star Game reality show, Goldie passed away on Thursday night shortly after she returned from the US where she attended the Grammy Awards on Sunday.

 

The musician who is famous for her sense of style, died at Reddington Hospital, in Victoria Island, Lagos. She was said to have been rushed to the hospital after she complained of a migraine and then gave up the ghost in the hands of her friend and Channel O Veejay; Denrele Edun, who was in the hospital with her.

Iran denies allegations of organizing spy cell in Nigeria

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Culled From Reuters - 

Iran denied on Friday Nigerian allegations that it had trained militants arrested in Nigeria on charges of planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets there.

Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said such allegations were "made up as the result of the ill will of the enemies of the two countries' good relations", Iranian state television reported.

"Iran and Nigeria have friendly and close relations and despite the vast efforts of the two countries' enemies in recent years relations and cooperations have always improved," he said.

Pastor Turns Magician: 4-Month Pregnancy Instantly Disappears As Prophet Performs Miracle Abortion During Service

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In an unprecedented move, Kingdom Embassy founder Prophet Passion Java allegedly performed an abortion miracle when he prayed for a four months pregnant woman and the pregnancy disappeared.

The miracle was said to have been performed last Saturday at the corner of Leopold Takawira Street and Kwame Nkrumah Avenue where the youthful prophet conducts his church services.

A local tabloid reports that its news crew did not witness the miracle as it arrived a few minutes later. However the congregation was still celebrating the abortion miracle and the unidentified woman was lying prostrate on the floor. In the same service, other congregants claimed to have received miracle money. When the lady was given time to share her testimony she had tears of joy.

Incredible: 4-year-old girl saves 2-year-old sister after Car accident kills their mother

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A 4-year-old Oregon girl pulled her toddler sister from a car wreck that killed their mother and then huddled with her under a blanket in frigid temperatures until they were saved hours later by two passersby, police said.

Jessica Rath, 26, of Astoria, was driving with her two little girls to pick up her fisherman husband from a port late Tuesday night when she fell asleep at the wheel and barreled head-on into a tree, local police said.

Rath was killed instantly. Her daughters survived, but the 2-year-old, Lylah, was severely injured, according to local reports.

woman charged after allegedly threatening mass shooting in University

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A 19-year-old Connecticut woman who prosecutors say threatened a Sandy Hook-style shooting at a community college — allegedly wanting to “one-up” gunman Adam Lanza — faces federal charges.

Amanda Bowden of East Haven was arraigned Wednesday in state Superior Court on a charge of one count of false information and hoaxes, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.  “As alleged, this defendant made a series of threats that described in great detail her intention to carry out a suicidal mass murder at a community college in New Haven,” U.S. Attorney David Fein said in a statement. “All threats of this nature will be viewed as serious by this office and prosecuted to the full extent of federal law.”

Who wants to have s*x when they’ve made love- Nse Etim's Sister Defends Her

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Who wants to have s*x when they’ve made love? I don’t. My sister who got married on Thursday, the 14th didn’t want to either… Get your minds out of the gutter lol. It’s about settling or not settling as the case may be. My sister waited 21 years to marry the one good man she had met in her teenage years.

Lagos State Speaker, Kuforiji in Alleged Adulterous Scandal

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Lagos Steta speaker, Adeyemi Ikuforiji had more than what he bargained for last week when he was highly embarrassed by a hubby of a staffer at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Ogundele.  Sources said the husband of the woman, said to be a member of the protocol team, accused the Lagos speaker of having an ‘extra marital affair’ with his wife, Mrs. Ogundele He was said to have stormed the speaker’s office and demanded the number three citizen of Lagos state stay off his heartthrob.

List Of Highest Paid Nigerian Footballers In 2012

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Nigerian footballers sure do not earn the sort of money some of their colleagues from other African countries like Ivory Coast (Didier Drogab, Yaya Toure), Cameroun (Samuel Eto) take home. However, that some of them earn quite impressive sums of money is very obvious.

Enter the List:

The fortunes of Nigeria’s footballers in various football leagues across the world may be dwindling as very few are able to land lucrative deals at prestigious clubs unlike their counterparts from South America and some African countries like Ghana, Ivory Coast (where Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba pull in enviable amounts as wages).

PHOTOS: Patience Jonathan And Protest Against Wole Soyinka Over N4bn Building Scandal

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Some "Nigerian Women" rented by Nigeria's first lady and the minister of the FCT Bala Muhmammed were out early yesterday morning on the streets of Abuja for a "staged demonstration" in support of the minister's plan to build a N4 billion mission building for the first lady's pet project.

The women, youths and physically challenged protesters were all carrying placards supposedly written for them abusing Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka. Some of the placards read: "Educated illiterate", "Soyinka: Grammar King without sense", "Abuja has come to stay ".

Cultural diversification in Nigeria: A blessing or a Curse?

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Even in the record of Nigeria, one may come to terms with the editor that it was the traditional or racial differences which propelled polarize beliefs that made indirect rule at the same time as the colonial era to be profitable in the north and success-less in the south

Cultural difference is a phrase mainly used in narrating a society with folks of different cultural roots which manifest in their languages, mode of dressing, arts, as well as other traditional practices which are either similar or in another way different from each group. Such traditional practices are highly valued and held with great adoration among common people of an ethnic congregate.

Photos from the opening ceremony of Eko Atlantic City

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Former US president Bill Clinton, President Goodluck Jonathan, Governor Fashola, Bola Tinubu and many top dignitaries attended the opening ceremony of the first phase of the Eko Atlantic City which held in Lagos yesterday.  Eko Atlantic City is a new city born from the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos. The new 5-million-square-metre city, is to be the first modern smart city in Africa to be built on reclaimed land from the Atlantic Ocean. See more photos from the dedication after the Break...

Nigeria combs border areas for kidnapped French family

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MAIDUGURI (AFP) – Nigerian security forces searched the country’s northeast along the border with Cameroon on Thursday in a bid to free a French family kidnapped earlier this week, officials said.

“Intelligence reports have shown that the abductors may be holding their victims … around the Dikwa area,” a security official in the region said on condition of anonymity.

“But I must tell you we haven’t got the exact location. Our men and other sister security agencies, especially our colleagues in the immigration service, are already on operation and we have the strictest instruction to carry out the operation with caution.”

Nigerians’ll soon enjoy regular electricity supply – Elumelu

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The Chief Executive Officer, Transcorp/Woodrock, the consortium that won the bid for Ugheli Power Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu, on Thursday said with the signing of transaction and industry agreements for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s successor companies, the stage was set for the citizens to enjoy uninterrupted power supply.

Elumelu spoke with State House correspondents shortly after his firm, which emerged the preferred bidder for the Ugheli plant, signed a Power Purchase Agreement with the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company Plc.

The NBET signed similar agreements with five other firms in respect to Geregu Power Plc, Sapele Power Plc, Kainji Hydro Electric Plc, Shiroro Hydro Electric Plc and Egbin Power Plc.

ON POINT: Spiritual, Mental Slavery Still Exist In Nigeria —Soyinka

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NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has observed that mental and spiritual slavery still exist in some parts of the world, including Nigeria, as some religious leaders are determined to enslave others rather than preach the gospel that appeal through the minds.

Soyinka made the observation in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday, at the public presentation of a book ‘’He Dared: The story of Okuku Udo Akpabio, the Great Colonial African Ruler,” written by Offonmbuck Akpabio, held at the Le’Meridien Ibom Hotels and Golf Resort.

SSS Uncovers Iranian Terror Cell In Lagos

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The State Security Service said in Abuja on Wednesday that it had uncovered a terror network, coordinated by Iranians, in Lagos.

The SSS said this while parading a leader of an Islamic sect, Abdullahi Berende, and two others said to be operators of the Iranian terror cell gathering information about Israelis and Americans living in Nigeria.

Paraded alongside 50-year-old Berende were Sulaiman Saka and Saheed Adewunmi. The three were said to be working for Iranian terrorists planning to attack Americans and Israelis in the country.

A third suspect, Bunyamin Yusuf, is said to be at large.

Berende who is said to be a leader of the Shi’a Islamic sect in Ilorin, Kwara State, told journalists that he was employed by “people who were ready to capitalise on my weakness,” though he denied being part of a terrorist network.

How Can One Nigeria Continue To Exist?

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Caging ourselves in disunity or do we need common respect (identifying all and sundry as "us", as shared Nigerians) living happily in alliance? It's our take.

The recent series of bombings by the Boko Haram crew in Nigeria has cast a new layer of lack confidence in to the portfolio of the cynic's mind questioning whether the nation conceived in alliance can survive. I agree to disagree that it cannot. The preceding journeys that our founding fathers had ushered us around, can never be gone despite the fact that it's being distracted by the present. Our future is tied to their sweat, enduring labor. A nation that continue to lives colonialism, and civil war can endure ethnicism, and Boko Haram. The following can help Nigeria continue to live as one single entity:

Redeemed Christian Church Interpreter Rapes 12-Year-Old Girl

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An interpreter with the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, identified as Akin Adewale, has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl. The suspect allegedly committed the crime in his home located at number 6, Shamusideen, Oke-Sokori area of the town when his wife was not at home.

The victim is said to be daughter of a church member of the suspect's church, and was residing with the suspect and his wife, alongside their two kids.

After violently raping the 12-year-old, the church leader threatened her and asked her not to tell anyone, the victim's mother said. The traumatized girl defied the threats, ran to the house of her biological parents and crying profusely, narrated the event to her mother.

GREED: 46-Year-Old Man Killed His Parents To Inherit N63 Million Will

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A greedy, debt ridden son, Stephen Seddon, supposedly helped rescue his parents from a car crash he staged and shot them dead four months later to inherit almost N63 Million (£250,000)
He shot both parents after learning he was the sole beneficiary of their will.The guy who is 46 and married with 2 children killed his parents despite them giving him £40,000 and buying him a home. After shooting, he made the scene look like his father killed his wife and committed suicide. This is why it is better for people to keep their will beneficiaries secret until they die naturally to avoid these terrible displays like this one, especially if it involves a lot of money.

Female Banker Jailed 9 Solid Years For Fraud

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Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former banker, Vera Ogbonna Akanni to nine years imprisonment for defrauding her bank customers various sums of money to the tune of N35.4 million.

The convict was prosecuted on an eight count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and stealing by fraudulent conversion.

Prior to her sentencing, defence counsel, Yinka Oyeniji, drew the attention of the court to an affidavit of means placed before the court on February 17, 2013.