Picture of Lagos Crashed airplane.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Nigeria Came Into Being on Oct 1, 1960, Not 1914, Don’t Distort History — Fashola Reminds Jonathan
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola said Nigeria came into being on October 1, 1960, and not in 1914 as he gave unsolicited advice to the Federal Government not to distort history by its planned centenary celebration in 2014.
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R.I.P: Tony Umez Loses Mum
His exact words are..
''I lost my dearest mum,5 minutes to midnight, on the 1st of October, 2013. Adieu Mum. Rest in perfect peace in d bosom of d Lord. U wer d greatest. We mis u dearly. God will keep u safe & warm in His bosom. Wit a heavy heart, I say, ADIEU, to d best mum ever.''
#LagosPlaneCrash: Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Releases The Names Of Survivors & Dead Persons
Agagu’s family members and Ondo state officials were in the plane. Two of Agagu’s children, a son and a daughter, did not survive. However, ex-governor’s wife was not in the plane crash; she and Agagu’s brother, Femi, arrived Akure earlier in a separate flight.
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Short Story: Family is the most important thing in the world
SON: “Daddy, may I ask you a question?”
DAD: “Yeah sure, what is it?”
SON: “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?”
SON: “I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “If you must know, I make $100 an hour.”
SON: “Oh! (With his head down).
SON: “Daddy, may I please borrow $50?”
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Just In: Plane Crashes At Lagos Airport [Photos]
It's not yet known if there has been any casualties.
In accordance with a witness, the crash occurred at the area wing of the airport near the section were JET-A1, plane fuel, is stored.
Fire service officials were seen evacuating the occupants of the plane.
The spokesman of the Nigeria aviation agencies, Yakubu Datti, called for additional time to get details of the incident, Premium Times reports.
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Catholic Priest Nabbed For Molesting and Rá*ping Over 20 Children
A priest has been reportedly arrested and is now facing charges for rapé.
75-year-old Father Robert Brennan allegedly s-éxually assaulted over 20 children.
He was arrested under the charges of rapé, involuntaryf deviate s-éxual intercourse, and aggravated indecent assault in connection with incidents between 1998 and 2001. The victim was 11 to 14 years old.
The allegations include oral sé-x and digital penétration, or finger penétration.
According to allegations from a male victim, he said the priest routinely touched altar boys inappropriately in exchange for candy or prizes.
Lawyer, Marci Hamilton represents the current victim, now 26 years old, and two other alleged victims.
Source: Huffington Post
Thugs Cause Disruption At Redeemed Church Construction Site
invited land grabbers to claim a portion of the land which the Redeemed Christian Church of God had earlier bought for N215 million.
Two Ogun State Government receipts dated July 22nd and 29th, 2009, serve as the evidence for purchase. The land was also allocated to the church for 99 years by the Ogun State Bureau of Lands and Survey, Abeokuta, in July 2009.
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Woman stabs husband in the butt after he comes home late
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| Yvette Raylene Jones |
Police were called when a woman stabbed her husband after he came home late. Police and emergency workers in Ferndale, Michigan, were called at about 10:25 pm, on reports of an injured man.
Police found the man bleeding from the upper leg and buttocks at the motel. Yvette Raylene Jones, 49, told police her husband fell on glass and hurt himself.
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National confab, attempt to deceive Nigerians — CNPP
MAKURDI—The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has declared the President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed National Conference as another dummy by the presidency to deceive Nigerians.
According to them, ”the process will definitely be manipulated by the government to suit their own purpose. The fact is that, at the end of the day, it will turn out to another jamboree and avenue for people to make money from the system.”
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Lagos State Almost Self-Sufficient In Power Generation – Fashola
To this end, it said a number of public institutions was being moved out of the national grid and connected to the power being generated from the power plants built by the state government.
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No to ‘extension of colonialism’: Gambia dumps British Commonwealth.
Gambia has withdrawn from the Commonwealth, a collection of 54 nations made up largely of former British colonies, saying it will “never be a member of any neo-colonial institution”.
In an unexpected announcement broadcast by the west African nation on state television on Wednesday it was not immediately clear what prompted the decision to leave the Commonwealth, which is headed by the Queen.
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Moscow police detained 16 Nigerian students over Embassy violence
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| Ambassador Assam |
The 16 suspects were removed from the embassy building at the request of Nigerian staff, Russia’s interior ministry told local media.
All of them are enrolled at colleges of higher education in Russia, it added.
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Spilling of innocent blood unIslamic – NSCIA
Ibadan – The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) on Wednesday described the spilling of innocent blood of students of the College of Agriculture in Yobe as “unislamic and sadistic’’.
This is contained in a statement entitled “Spilling Innocent Blood is Unislamic’’ issued in Ibadan and signed by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Secretary-General of NSCIA.
“No group or person, militant or terrorist, should take pleasure in brutal elimination of innocent lives,’’ the statement stated.
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Just in: Nollywood Star Shot Dead in Benin
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Washington live: US government tweets its shutdown
Lots of federal services are disrupted in US as the government shutdown went deep into a second day. What keeps kicking is Twitter. Federal agencies didn’t forget to tell Netizens that they were not working anymore.
First of all most agency branches' simply tweeted of the news.
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How we robbed Pasuma of his Range sport & distributed the money - Robber confesses
A source, who craved anonymity told Crime Alert that the police launched a manhunt for the gang after Pasuma’s encounter, during which they were intercepted.
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We Want 3 Trillion Before Calling off the Strike-ASUU
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| Dr. Nasir Fagge, National President, ASUU |
George Okoh
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Nasir Fagge, has accused the federal government of not telling Nigerians the truth about the demand of the union as regards the government’s statement that the union's demand has been met.
According to Fagge, ASUU had a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the federal government for it to spend over N3 trillion to turn around the fortune of all federal and state universities and also to better the lot of the educational sector in the country.
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