The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, on Saturday urged the electoral commission to review and if possible, repeat the Permanent Voter’s Card/Registration (PVC) in Lagos. The candidate made the appeal at an endorsement rally organised by the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Support Groups, NGO’s, Marketers and Traders for President Goodluck Jonathan and Mr. Agbaje’s 2015 bid. Complaints had continued to trail the PVC distribution and registration of fresh voters by the electoral commission, INEC, in Lagos. INEC had earlier said that no Nigerian of voting age would be left out of the process…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan, has stated that women and children will soon enjoy a N1 billion Motherhood Centre to cater for them, especially the less privileged ones, who do not get the deserved medical attention in private medical hospitals. The wife of the president, who stated this at the foundation laying ceremony of the centre in Abuja recently, said “the centre would benefit women and children and the less privileged who find it difficult to get good medical attention in big and private hospital. It always break my heart when I hear of increase in cases of…
This isn’t really news as the couple had already broken up months ago. Even though they now share a son named Future Zahir Wilburn together, they ended their engagement after trying to repair their strained relationship. The duo had been plagued in recent months by rumors that Future cheated and, though Ciara never addressed that directly, an insider revealed that she was “humiliated” by the stories. And now a source exclusively tells E! News that it has been over for a while despite attempts to make it work. Read the report below: – “They tried to work…
The Headies award is gone and people have already forgotten but did you know this??? Apparently, while women cause traffic on roadsides with their butts and boobies, Davido causes traffic in bathrooms. According to Punch’s Saturday Beats, fans followed the 22-yr-old hitmaker to the toilet at the Headies despite him having no less than 9 bodyguards around him. Read below: – Davido has a massive following. So many people seem to love him and would always want to mob him; no wonder he is always seen with not less than nine bodyguards at all times. At the Headies, there still…
It’s really funny when I see comments like this, you should be bragging of being the best actress not having the biggest boobies or b*tt. Anyways, fast rising Nollywood actress, Didi Ekanem has said she knows she has the biggest bum in Nollywood, in an interview with Vanguard newspaper. Didi says her bum has put her through crazy things like, people focusing more on her bum than her talent, like a day a mad man grabbed her bum and refused to let go and of course how she tries her possible best to always use the bum well. She also…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Plateau has commenced the process of reconciling aggrieved members ahead of the 2015 general elections, Gyang Pwajok, the party’s governorship candidate, has said. “With the party primaries producing winners and losers, the party found it necessary to set up machinery that will ensure that everyone is carried along. “We have particularly tried to reach out to aggrieved groups and individuals. “We need the support of every member of the party to emerge victorious in the 2015 general elections”, Mr. Pwajok told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Sunday. He said that as…
The last has not been heard of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary in Lagos State, as the immediate past Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has asked a former deputy national chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, to seek rehabilitation for post-traumatic stress arising from his stint in prison. Mr. George, alongside five others in 2009 were found guilty by a Lagos State High Court of contract splitting and inflation during his time as Chairman of the Board of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and sentenced them to a thirty month jail term without option of fine. However,…
Veteran politician and Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, on Saturday said the future of Nigeria under the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government is gloomy. The elder statesman noted that the way the Nigeria was being governed showed that Jonathan was incapable of running the affairs of the country. He also argued that the president’s sympathisers have come to terms with that reality. Musa, who claimed that neither the All Progressive Congress nor the ruling Peoples Democratic Party would win the presidency in 2015, said his party, Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, though deregistered by INEC, had gone into…
A Niger Delta activist, Ms. Annkio Briggs, has said the South-South would not have enjoyed any benefits if the All Progresives Congress, APC, had picked a running mate for its presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammed Buhari (retd.) from the region. The APC, on Wednesday, named a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), as its vice-presidential candidate. Prior to Osinbajo’s emergence, there were media speculations that two Governors from the South-South, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Adams Oshiomhole of Edo were in top contention for the vice-presidential slot of the opposition party. In her…
Justice Kudirat Jose of a Lagos High Court has convicted and sentenced Promise Ntuen Ekemini to one year imprisonment for hijacking the e-mail of a lawful owner of a property, located in Western Australia valued at $800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), and attempting to sell the property. A statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said the accused was arraigned in April, 2014 on a 5-count charge bordering on conspiracy to defraud, attempt to obtain money by false pretences and forgery. He was found guilty of all the charges and subsequently convicted by…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Akwa Ibom Command, has described the existence of illegal security outfits in the country as a threat to national security. Public Relations Officer of the Command, Ime White, Public Relations Officer told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Uyo that the insurgency in the northern part of the country has raised concern over the operations of unregistered private security companies across the country. “With the current insurgency in the country, nobody knows who will hide under the cover of a private security guard company to unleash terror on others,”…
Men of the Rivers State police command, on Friday, recovered one general purpose machine gun (GPMG), one G3 rifle, 85 rounds of live ammunition, five assorted phones and the sum of N22,450 from sea pirates operating along the Opobo Queen Town Sea in the state. “On 19/12/2014 at about 1300 hours along Opobo Queen Town Sea, policemen on patrol engaged sea pirates while robbing innocent Nigerians,” a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, in Port Harcourt, on Saturday read. “At the end of the gun, duel one of the robbers was fatally wounded while others…
Former miss world Agbani Darego and music superstar Dapo Oyebanjo popularly known as D’banj were guests at the white wedding ceremony of Ivie Okunbor and Tsola Emiko.
Wack Rapper Vic-O’s Girlfriend. The Rapper uploaded this pix online and twittered on his Love for his angel…. See tweet below:
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has cleared the air on the truck load of 1550 ballot boxes intercepted in Bauchi State on Friday. It would be recalled that tension swept through Bauchi State political space on Friday following the interception of a truck load of 1550 ballot boxes expected to be used in next year’s elections. According to The Nation newspaper report online, transparent white empty ballot boxes were on Friday intercepted by state security operatives on the Darazo -Dukku road, 110 kilometres from Bauchi state capital. It was disclosed that the boxes were found in a 24 feet container trailer with…
The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, arrested and repatriated 430 illegal immigrants in Jigawa State between January and November 2014, the service said. The service also said its personnel seized temporary and permanent Nigerian voter cards from nationals of Niger who entered Nigeria illegally. The Comptroller of the NIS in the Jigawa State, Isa Jere, made the announcement on Saturday in Dutse, the state capital, while parading seven illegal immigrants from Niger and one from Mali. Mr. Jere said 90 percent of the arrested immigrants were from Niger Republic while others were from Cameroun, Chad and Mali. According to him, the…
Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, has warned that Nigeria will return to what he called, combative presidency, if Nigerians decide to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). The PDP national chairman said that with his military background, Buhari cannot operate in a free society as obtained at the moment. According to Muazu, the type of President Nigerians and Nigeria deserve at the moment has to be one that would further drive home the dividends of democracy and use dialogue…
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…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the acts of intolerance by Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State, who it alleged has been working hard to obliterate the APC presence and also victimize the party’s members in the state. In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Governor’s actions when he visited Kashere, the hometown of his predecessor, Senator Danjuma Goje, on Thursday, were despicable and barbaric, and should be condemned by all right thinking people. “During his visit, Gov. Dankwambo personally ordered the removal of…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last night demonstrated why it is the largest political party in Africa as its fund raising dinner towards President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election in 2015 generated over N21 billion. Donors at the fund raiser, which held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, included businessmen/women, multinational organizations, PDP governors and individuals. Mr. Tunde Ayeni, who was chairman of the event, opened the set the ball rolling with a donation of N2 billionn on behalf of himself and unnamed friends while a prominent businesswoman and friend of the First Family, Hajiya Bola Shagaya and…