The young lady who went down in the Guinness book of world records as the tallest teen, has found love in a quite shorter place. World’s tallest teen, 18-year old Elisany da Cruz Silva is set to become a bride. Elisany met her boyfriend two years ago and they have both been living together as a couple in a small town in Brazil for about a year now. Elisany is 18 and 6ft 8ins tall, while her boyfriend, Francinaldo da Silva Carvalho is 5ft 4ins tall.
Author: Wale Adebayo
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has issued a seven day ultimatum to politicians in Taraba to remove all campaign billboards and posters or face prosecution. The state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Austin Okojie, gave the directive at a stakeholders’ meeting on Saturday in Jalingo, the state capital. He warned that pasting of campaign posters now violates the Electoral Act. “The commission has given those behind the erection of campaign billboards and pasting of posters seven days within which to remove their billboards and posters. “If they fail to comply with the directive, we will appeal to law enforcement…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured that all election materials would be deployed to all states of the federation in good time for the 2015 general elections. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Zamfara State, Alhaji Jibrin Zarewa, gave this assurance at a news conference in Gusau on Friday. He said adequate arrangements were being made by the commission throughout the country to ensure that all lapses recorded during 2011 general elections were addressed. He said materials for the smooth take off of voter registration were already at the state offices of the commission. He said the materials would…
FROM LEFT: Gov. BABATUNDE FASHOLA OF LAGOS; DEPUTY GOVERNOR, MRS ADEJOKE ORELOPE-ADEFULIRE AND SPEAKER, Lagos HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, MR KUFORIJI ADEYEMI, AT THE 11TH Lagos EXECUTIVES AND LEGISLATIVE PARLEY IN LAGOS ON FRIDAY (9/5/14). Gov Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has advised the National Assembly to make laws to allow for establishment of state police in view of the security challenges in the country. The governor made the call at the 11th Lagos State Executive and Legislative Parley in Lagos on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the parley had the theme: “Public Sector Management Engineering: The…
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration as a colossal failure to the Nigerian people. The Nobel Laureate made this assertion while fielding questions as a guest on the BBC’s HardTalk show yesterday. Prof. Soyinka, who was reacting to questions posed on the over 200 abducted female students of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, stated that the primary responsibility of any government was to be responsible to its citizens. When asked about an editorial in a national daily that described Nigeria as a failed state, Soyinka said he has had cause to use…
Mrs. Mayowa Ikuforiji, the wife of the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, says she is set to adopt an abandoned child at the Little Saints Orphanage in Lagos. She told newsmen of her plan on Friday at the Little Saints Orphanage at Akowonjo, Shasha, in Lagos, saying the gesture was to give a fulfilling life to the child. “It is a social service which requires collective responsibility, the information of the abandoned child came to me through a phone call. “I have to do everything to help the innocent baby achieve his purpose in life”, she said. Ikuforiji said the…
President GOOLUCK JONATHAN, ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS AFTER THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON AFRICA IN ABUJA ON FRIDAY (9/5/14). President Goodluck Jonathan has condoled with the FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, over the death of his mother, Hajiya Aishatu Mohammed, describing it as an irreparable loss. Jonathan stated this in Bauchi State on Saturday during his condolence visit to the minister’s family. Represented by the Vice-President, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, the president said death was a final destination of mankind. “Aishatu had lived a fulfilled life; it was her time to go and God took her away. “May the Almighty Allah forgive and…
Kano-Kambarawa Village in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State has been attacked by gunmen. The incident which took place on Friday, left two persons dead. The state police spokesperson, Joseph Kwaji, who confirmed the killing yesterday in a chat with journalists, said the assailants stormed the village at about 10.30am. “Yes, I can confirm to you that at about 10.30am, our men found two corpses in Kano-Kambarawa village. “Our investigations revealed that the two men were shot by heavily armed herdsmen who stormed the village”, he said. Kwaji, however, said that a joint patrol of mobile police and military…
The list of the schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014 in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram gunmen has been released. An online report by Daily Trust on Friday said the list had the names of 53 schoolgirls that escaped from their captors. The list includes those who escaped on the night of their capture at the Government Secondary School Chibok, on April 14, as well as those who escaped from the Boko Haram camps where they were being held. A breakdown of the list, citing information provided by the girls’ parents show that seven of them are Muslims, while…
It’s really impressive to see how much our Nigerian celebrities are getting involved in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Famous Nollywood screen goddess — Genevieve Nnaji granted international cable network, CNN an interview about the missing school girls, where she said ‘we won’t stop until the girls are found’. The interview was conducted by Max Foster. Read through below: – Genevieve: Everyone is involved. We are all mothers, we are all humans and these are young girls that have been taken into captivity and uh…. we just felt that as.. some of us who have a bigger face and more…
Nigeria’s movie industry gets hundreds of people trying to break into the industry daily but very few of them make it. In an interview with an upcoming Nigerian actresses, Chika Agatha Oguine reveals a lot. The heavy chested actress who started acting in 2012 in a new interview with Vanguard spoke about ‘cumming’ during s*x and how she chases men away by giving them bills upon bills to handle. She also spoke about not needing a vibrator when their are male friends she can do it with when the feeling arises. Read excerpts below: – How do you deal with your male…
Abuja Area Fada — Charly Boy lost his dad a couple of days ago and he started making plans for his dad’s burial. However, the entertainer has sent out a warning while speaking with the Vanguard. In a new interview when he was asked if he would mind a state burial for his father as an eminent jurist and one-time Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria? This is what he said: – My father’s death should not be used for politics because I will resist any attempt to hijack the burial plans by politicians. My father was not a politician…
Richard Mofe Damijo popularly known as R.M.D, in the movie industry, presently the Delta State Commissioner for Culture & Tourism o Friday said that the Delta Talent Quest was designed to help curb youth restiveness in the region. Speaking in an interview with Hip TV, he disclosed that his commission decided to engage the youths with their talents in order to keep them from falling prey to militants. RMD noted that his commission has strived to make Delta State a mecca of the performing arts in Nigeria by actively funding programs that are culturally based, which has helped changed the perception…
The Defence Headquarters has faulted the allegation by Amnesty International that the military authority was informed of the impending attack on the school in Chibok but failed to act accordingly. It described the allegation as “very unfortunate and untrue”. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja and signed by Major General Chris Olukolade. The statement said that as much as the Nigerian military appreciated the global concern and show of solidarity with the country at this trying moments it, however, noted that falsehood should not be introduced as a means of assessing the situation. “It has…
The Lagos State Government has warned residents against carrying out jungle justice or meting out instant punishment in form of lynching, burning or killing suspected criminals in the state. In the past one week, more than one case of lynching of suspected ritualist/kidnapper has been reported in the nation’s commercial capital. In a statement signed by the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, the government warned that henceforth, it would bring full weight of the law to bear on anyone caught engaging in jungle justice, no matter the offence of the alleged criminal. Mr. Ipaye said anybody…
The member representing Daura Constituency at the Katsina State House of Assembly on the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC), Yusuf Shehu, has expressed dismay at the delay in concluding the party’s congress in the state. Shehu, who made this known at a press briefing yesterday, expressed disappointment with the way the party congresses were being handled in the state, insisting that urgent steps must be taken to ensure quick conclusion of the exercise. “I am disappointed at the way the congress is being handled in Katsina state. It is exactly six weeks now and we have not concluded the…
President GOODLUCK Jonathan DECLARING OPEN THE 2014 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON AFRICA IN ABUJA ON THURSDAY (8/5/14). President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday admitted that since the April 14 abduction of the female students from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, he no longer sleeps with his two eyes closed, adding that the situation will remain so until the girls are rescued. The president expressed optimism that the over 200 abducted school girls were still being kept within the country by the Boko Haram sect. He also ruled out the possibility that the girls could have been moved out of…
Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido, has disclosed that he only disbursed the sum of N56 billion as intervention fund for the provision of infrastructure at 27 universities and six polytechnics across the country. According to him, based on the dividend payments to the Federal Government in two years – 2012 and 2013 – there was nothing wrong in the apex bank undertaking “capital projects of N56 billion in five years”. These formed part of his remarks at the Zonal meeting of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, (SSANU) held at Kano University…
President Goodluck Jonathan says he will “not sleep” or rest on his oars until the over 200 abducted girls in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, are rescued. He stated this at a world press conference to mark the end of the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF) hosted in Abuja. Jonathan, who appealed to the parents of the abducted girls to be patient and cooperate with government, said that the girls and their abductors were still within Nigeria. He assured that with the support of the international community, the satellite imagery to be deployed would locate the kidnapped girls and…
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima has appealed to the people of the state irrespective of religious inclinations to embark on three days fasting and prayers beginning from Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th May, 2014 for the safe release of the students abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Government Girls Secondary School Chibok on April 14. According to Shettima, the fasting and payers from all and sundry became necessary as all efforts put in place to rescue the innocent girls by security agencies and government have so far proven abortive. Shettima made the plea to the people of the state…