“Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.” -Goethe (1749-1832) THE ruthless apotheosization of money, wealth, success, fame, greatness and power etc has stimulated the passion for multidimensional strategies for achieving them. The deification of money and power has ascended the dangerous crescendo where human spare parts, diabolical rivalry, spiritual poisoning, family feud, voodooistic proclivities
YOU CAN'T ARREST US: OMIRIN TELLS FAYOSE
The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has reacted to the directive by Governor Ayodele Fayose urging the Ministry of Justice to write a memo authorising the Commissioner of Police to arrest the 19 APC lawmakers that sat in a plenary last Thursday in the state capital.
WHEN COUPLES CAN'T CLIMAX
Sex is fun, it makes one feel good, and it is a great way to be physically and emotionally close to your partner. But without an orgasm, it can be a less satisfying experience for both people involved, says, Isadora Alman, MFT, a board-certified sexologist and psychotherapist in private practice in Alameda, California. According to Isadora, there could be physical or emotional reasons why couples are not experiencing sexual climax, but the right diagnosis and possibly sex therapy could teach them how to attain orgasm and have a satisfying sexual relationship.
PDP RAISES N21 BILLION FOR 2015 ELECTION CAMPAIGN
L -R : President Goodluck Jonathan ; Vice President Naqmadi Sambo ; and PDP National Chairman , Adamu Mu'azu arriving the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa for the PDP fund raising dinner, Abuja Saturday. Photo: Godwin Omoigui. Amaechi constitutes Buhari’s campaign team Tuesday, as party decides launch date Monday. Gana: don’t take opposition for granted
It was a rain of Naira Saturday in Abuja as Peoples Democratic Party realised more than N21 billion at its fund-raising dinner towards next year’s general election from donors spanning business, elected government officials, and private individuals. Although the president, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who was billed to be the chief launcher, was absent at the dinner held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, the event received huge financial commitment from those present.
‘NIGERIA'S CORRUPTION NOW INSTITUTIONALIZED INTO THE POLITICAL SYSTEM'
Corruption in Nigeria has become institutionalised in the political system, and the government of the day must come clean and lead the fight against the scourge in a bid to allow rational economic growth and development of the people.
To fight against corruption, the Federal Government has also been enjoined to let the anti-corruption agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the ICPC off the chain and allow them to prosecute those indicted by various audit reports which exposed years of corruption in upstream and downstream sectors in the oil and gas industry.
EMIR SANUSI SNUBS SHEKAU'S THREAT SAYS I'M SAFE WITH ALLAH
Braving Boko Haram leader Shekau's threat to kill him, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, has said that he remained protected against any evil attack and nothing was going to happen to him except the will of Allah, the Creator."I am protected and nothing is going to happen to me", Emir Sanusi said.
PETROL LANDING COST NOW BELOW PUMP PRICE
Against the backdrop of the fall in global oil prices, the landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly known as petrol, has dropped to N82.57 per litre as of Thursday, December 18, from N127.57 on November 3.
The Federal Government’s spending on petrol subsidy has, therefore, fallen to a five-year low of N1.06 per litre as of that, compared to N44.94 on November 3, according to data obtained from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency. Subsidy refers to the money paid, usually by government, to keep prices below what they will otherwise be in a free market system. For instance, the Expected Open Market Price (retail price) of petrol is N98.06 per litre as of December 18, but the regulated price is N97. The difference is subsidy.
BUHARI CAPABLE OF SALVAGING NIGERIA FROM CURRENT 'WOES' - – TAMBUWAL
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and All Progressives Congress, APC’s gubernatorial candidate in Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has hailed the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo as the party’s presidential candidates, saying Mr. Buhari is capable of saving Nigeria from its current “woes”.Mr. Tambuwal spoke on Friday at the monthly APC Stakeholders meeting in Sokoto, expressing happiness for the candidacy of Mr. Buhari and his running mate, Mr. Osinbajo. He also thanked the Sokoto people for giving him the APC gubernatorial ticket in the state. Also speaking at the meeting, Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State said the APC would set up a reconciliation and campaign committees across the state soon.
FAMILY ACCUSES NIGERIA POLICE OF BEATING SON TO DEATH
The family of Mr. Femi Bello has accused the police in Nasarawa State of allegedly torturing their son to death while he was in detention. source learnt that 31-year-old Femi was a 300-level student of Economics of the Kaduna State University, Tafawa Balewa Way, Kaduna State. Our correspondent gathered that Femi had initially been arrested by the police attached to the Mararaba division on Thursday, December 4, when he went to visit a friend after which he was taken to the police station. It was learnt that when his mother and siblings went to the station on the following day to check on him, they were told that their son had died. Speaking on behalf of the Bellos, the family lawyer
THOUSANDS SCRAMBLE FOR TINUBU'S XMAS GIFTS
Thousands of Lagos residents converged on the Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, on Saturday to receive Christmas gifts from the Bola Tinubu Foundation, a non-profit organisation owned by a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The gifts comprised bags of rice, salt, vegetable oil, T-shirts and cash.
JONATHAN LEADING A VISIONLESS GOVT- OSINBAJO
Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has described the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government as “inadequate and visionless.” The former Attorney-General of Lagos State said it was unfortunate that in spite of the fact that Nigerians had given “so much” to the present administration, they have got nothing in return for their sacrifices. Osinbajo argued via his Twitter page that the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is a “strong character” that brings to the table a ray of hope for millions of Nigerians.
CBN BANKS MOVE TO TACKLE E-FRAUD
Central Bank of Nigeria and the Committee of e-Banking Heads are set to partner with other stakeholders in the financial sector to mitigate the spate of electronic fraud in the country. As a result, the CBN said it would adopt a more collaborative approach towards achieving improved regulation of the nation’s payment system.
These were contained in a communiqué issued after a special conference organised by CeBIH in Abuja recently.
The Deputy Governor, Operations Directorate, CBN, Alhaji Suleiman Barau, who highlighted a paradigm shift in the regulation of the payments system, said the central bank would adopt measures aimed at facilitating the achievement of the objectives of the Payment Vision 2020.He added that the CBN would also promote self regulation among
PIRATED COPIES OF OBASANJO'S BOOK SELL FOR N7,000
Pirated copies of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s controversial autobiography titled ‘My Watch’ have flooded the streets of Lagos State, selling for as low as N7,000. The development came after a Federal Capital Territory High Court judge, Justice Valentine Ashi, ordered that security agents, including the police and men of the Department of State Service, should confiscate all copies of the book.
Our correspondent learnt that Obasanjo’s original book which has three volumes, costs about N15, 000 while the pirated copy, which has two volumes, costs less than half the price and comes in a white cover as opposed to the original’s yellow and brown colour. Our correspondent, who spoke to hawkers selling the book in the Maryland and Opebi areas of the state, was told that Obasanjo’s original book had become scarce.
PDP HAS FAILED AND WILL CONTINUE TO FAIL - ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU
Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has commissioned a new 60-bed Specialist Hospital, built by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole government, in Ewohinmi, Esan South East Local Government area of Edo State, complete with state-of-the-art equipment, 3-bedroom doctors’ quarters and 2-bedroom Nurses’ quarters. Speaking, Sunday, at the commissioning of the hospital project which was first conceptualized but abandoned over 25 years ago, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who is also a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said with the commissioning of the hospital and other projects in the state, Governor Oshiomhole has introduced infrastructural development revolution to Edo state.
NEW VIDEO SHOWN BOKO HARAM KILLING CAPTIVES IN DORMITORY
TESTS CONFIRMS CAMBODIA HIV MASS INFECTION
A third round of tests has confirmed that at least 90 villagers in a small rural community in northwest Cambodia have contracted HIV in an unexplained and panic-inducing mass infection.
MOTHER ARRESTED OVER AUSTRALIA CHILD MURDERS
The mother of seven of the eight children who were found killed at a home in Cairns has been arrested after receiving treatment for her injuries, Australian police said. “The 37-year-old mother of several of the children involved in this incident has been arrested for murder overnight and is currently under police guard at the Cairns Base Hospital,” detective inspector Bruno Asnicar told reporters on Saturday. “At this time we are not looking for anybody else,”
HOW FAYOSE DISTRIBUTES CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO EKITI PEOPLE
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has distributed not less than 80,000 chickens and 100,000 bags of rice to Ekiti residents between Thursday and Friday. His Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti, said the Christmas largesse, including cash gifts, were distributed under the Stomach Infrastructure programme. He said people of the state, who besieged the Governor’s Office and those who had theirs delivered to them at their homes, were amazed by Fayose’s generosity. Adelusi added that, “Some of the elderly, who could not hide their joy at the rear opportunity of having to celebrate the season with the package, poured torrents of prayers on the man they referred to as supporter of the common man.
NGO PLANS 1MILLION JOBS FOR NIGER DELTA YOUTHS
An NGO, Waltz Environmental Solution, said it planned to create one million jobs for the youths in the Niger Delta, including Cross River, in the next ten years. The Director of the organisation, Mr Samuel Ekong, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar on Sunday, that the jobs would be in technical areas, especially in oil and gas.
PAKISTAN STEPS UP CAMPAIGN AGAINST TALIBAN
The Pakistani military has stepped up its campaign against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan after the group claimed the attack on a school in Peshawar earlier this week that left 148 people, most of them children, dead. Air strikes and ground operations on Saturday targeted fighter hideouts in the Khyber Agency in the country’s northwest, where Peshawar is located.
KENYA TELLS U.S TO BACK OFF OVER TERROR LAW
A senior Kenyan official at the State House has criticised the United States for raising concerns about a new Kenyan law aimed at fighting “terrorism”. Munyori Buku said in a statement on the presidential website that Kenya’s new law had checks and balances, unlike US security laws that have created the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and given the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and intelligence officers “a carte blanche in the fight against terrorism and biological warfare”.
OBAMA CONDEMNS MURDER OF NEW YORK POLICE
US President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of two New York police officers shot by a man who then turned his gun on himself. “I unconditionally condemn today’s murder of two police officers in New York City,” Obama, who is on Christmas holiday in Hawaii, said on Sunday. “Officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day.”
MUHAMMAD ALI IN HOSPITAL WITH PNEUMONIA
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was admitted to an undisclosed hospital Saturday with pneumonia, his spokesman Bob Gunnell said. Ali’s treatment prognosis is good, he said. Ali, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, is being treated by his team of doctors and is in stable condition,” Gunnell said in a statement. The illness was caught early, and Ali, 72, is not expected to be in the hospital for long. “At this time, the Muhammad Ali family respectfully requests privacy,” the statement said
‘LACK OF JOB IS DANGEROUS FOR UNITY' IN NIGERIA
The Methodist Church of Nigeria has warned that Nigeria may explode any time soon if the threats posed by food and job insecurities are not urgently addressed. The National President, National Men’s Fellowship of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr. Samuel Ejiofor, who made the observation in Umuahia, said that the threats posed by food and job insecurities in Nigeria were worse than the menace of the Boko Haram terrorist sect.
DON'T DUMP PDP JONATHAN BEGS AGGREIVED ASPIRANTS
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday appealed to all the Peoples Democratic Party aspirants who are aggrieved as a result of the outcome of its primaries across the country not to leave the party. He said the party leadership was working hard to resolve the conflicts thrown up by the primaries in many states. Jonathan spoke at the PDP Fund Raising Dinner, held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Many state chapters of the party are currently enmeshed in controversy over alleged cases of imposition of candidates, either by state governors or the national headquarters of the PDP. The situation has led to many party stalwarts leaving the party or threatening to leave.
MY DAD DIED TWICE SAYS EX-MINISTER'S SON
Femi, the son of the late former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, has said that his father died and came back to life, before he finally gave up the ghost on November 29. Femi made this revelation during the service of songs organised in honour of his late father at the All Souls Anglican Church, Lekki, Lagos on Sunday.
In an emotion-laden voice, Femi narrated how his father spent his last days on earth and how his mother stood by him.
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