Beijing 2015 Fallout: Okagbare succumbed to pressure not injury, coach claims

Nigeria’s failure to win a medal at the just concluded IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China remains the talk of the moment for athletics enthusiasts. Yesterday renowned athletics coach, Toni Urhobo declared that Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s claim of injury to Blessing Okagbare was diversionary.
Urhobo said Okagbare bowed to pressure of competing at the big stage with the big girls of world athletics.

Buhari tricked Tinubu to get power – Okunrounmu

In this interview with ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, Afenifere chieftain and Chairman of the defunct Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference, Senator Femi Okunrounmu, speaks about President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent appointments and the National Conference report

You, along with other leaders in the South, under the aegis of Southern Nigerian Peoples Assembly condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to implement the National Conference report. Do you think he won’t implement the report?

Discouraging ‘Bow’ and ‘Go’ Confirmations In the Eighth Senate

Nigeria has moved ahead as demonstrated by the calls for ‘Change’, and while previous best legislative and government practices and traditions should still be encouraged, the nominees of the President must not be prevented or protected from answering precise questions on what they are bringing to the table – for the senate to confirm their appointments as ministers.

President Buhari's Recent Appointments Ok Says APC USA International Secretariat Francis John And Prof. Isa Odidi

The purpose of this press release is to present the true position of Nigerians in diaspora regarding the recent appointments by the President Muhammadu Buhari. Truth be told, Nigerians in Diaspora see PMB’s recent appointments as helping to maintain a balanced equilibrium in the overall balanced equation of Nigerians serving in PMB’s government.

Nigeria's Oil Company Says To Deploy Drones To Fight Theft

Nigeria’s state oil giant NNPC announced Tuesday a plan to deploy drones to monitor the movement of ships in a bid to fight oil theft on the nation’s waterways.

FIFA Presidency: Odegbami joins race to replace Blatter

Patrick Olusegun Odegbami is set to announce that he will stand in next year’s election to replace Joseph Sepp Blatter as President of World soccer-governing body, FIFA.
Odegbami better known as ‘Mathematical’, a name given to him in his active days by late ace sports commentator, Ernest Okonkwo because of his zig-zag, deceptive, extraordinary dribbling skills and mastery in outwitting defenders is one of the best players to have played football in Nigeria and by his decision to join the race for the FIFA presidency stands out as the first authentic African to aspire to the position since Blatter agreed to step down as President.

Osun State Assembly assures workers that outstanding salaries will be paid soon

Osun State House of Assembly has assured its workers that the relief package given to the state would be judiciously administered, saying that they would soon have their outstanding salaries paid, while the work-in-progress of public infrastructure would be attended to.
It also vowed to drive the anti-corruption crusade with its oversight functions, promising to break bureaucratic difficulties, which are capable of dragging development at a slow pace.

Floyd Mayweather shows off his 3 Buggattis

Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather showed off his 3 Bugattis. The white Bugatti Veyron Sport convertible is worth $2.5million (£1.6m) while the two standard Bugatti Veyrons (one in red and black and one in white and silver) cost $1.5million (£970,000) each.

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Photos from Nollywood actress Uche Iwuanyanwu's Traditional wedding

 Nollywood actress Uche Joan Iwuanyanwu wed her sweetheart Prince Geoffrey Nnannah in her hometown of Okohia Mbano in Isi-Ala Mbano LGA in Imo State on Saturday, 29th August 2015.
The groom Prince Geoffrey Nnannah is the son of HRH Eze Prince G.A. Nnannah, the Eze Isiala 1 of Nkwerre in Imo state.
The event was beautiful but quiet as only very close family members were in attendance. The more elaborate white wedding will take place later in the year. More photos after the cut...

Presidency insist Buhari never made any 100 days in office promises

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, has denied claims that during the campaigns, President Buhari made some promises which he hoped to fulfill within 100 days in office.
Garba was speaking while reacting to the controversy surrounding two booklets titled “One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days” and “My Covenant With Nigerians” which details all the promises the President and APC vowed to fulfill within 100 days in office.

NDLEA arrest 5 man drug trafficking syndicate with 11.5kg of cocaine valued at N57m

A 5 man drug trafficking syndicate consisting of 28 year old Nonso Akubueze, Simon Omoluonye, Obidike Onodyer, Friday Onyeabor and Emma Ifoh, have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for trafficking 11.5 kilogrammes of cocaine valued at N57 million from Brazil into Nigeria. Punch reports that the men were arrested at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Aftermath of car crash: Akpabio flown abroad for further treatment

Former AkwaIbom governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio who survived a car crash on Monday August 31st in Abuja has reportedly been flown abroad for further treatment.

Akpabio who had some injuries on his chest after the accident, was rushed to the Trauma ward of the National Hospital Abuja for treatment. He was discharged on Monday evening but was flown abroad yesterday afternoon at about 1pm aboard his private jet.

Airport sources however say he looked fit when he arrived the airport at about 12 noon.  He traveled with 5 of his aides.

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Nigerian journalist arrested in Cameroon, accused of spying for Boko Haram

Simon Ateba works with (or used to work for) PM News and is the publisher of Simonateba.com. A few days ago, he managed to leave a message on Twitter and Facebook before he was locked up in Cameroon on spying charges. The journalist who said he was in the country to investigate the conditions of over 50,000 Nigerian refugees camped there, was arrested for venturing into a refugee camp without permission. Now they are threatening to charge him for espionage, saying they suspect he was spying for Boko Haram.

James Bond author says Idris Elba is too street to play 007

For years people have been clamoring for a black James Bond but from what the author said, that's probably not going to happen anytime soon. James Bond author Anthony Horowitz is being slammed the world over for saying British actor Idris Elba is too street to be play the famous British spy.

 “For me, Idris Elba is a bit too rough to play the part. It’s not a color issue. I think he is probably a bit too ‘street’ for Bond." he said while doing promotional interviews for his new James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis

Horowitz went on to explain his reservations about Elba: "Is it a question of being suave? Yeah.”

Buhari’s Appointment: You ‘re suffering from political depression, Sani tells Fayose

Lawmakers representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Sen. Shehu Sani has condemned Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, over his Monday’s criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments so far.

Governor Fayose had a statement issued on Monday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, accused Buhari’s style of governance since his emergence on May 29, 2015, as one that portrays him as a president of the Northern Nigeria only.

Fayose who said it was wrong for President Buhari to have made 31 major appointments and only seven will come from the South while 24 were from the North, explained that his appointments made so far negate the principle of federal character, adding that it appears the unity in diversity of Nigeria is being taken for granted by the President.

However, responding to Fayose’s outburst, Sani in a statement on Tuesday, said although everyone has a right to freedom of expression, but that Fayose’s recent utterances are nothing but “divisive, inciting, provocative, and mischievous tantrums against President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The activist lawmaker described Fayose as a man suffering from political depression in the aftermath of the defeat of his patriarch, former President Goodluck Jonathan, in the last Presidential election on March 28, 2015.

The statement reads thus:

1-I recognize the fundamental rights of Ekiti State Governor to freedom of expression.

2-I unreservedly condemn his divisive, inciting, provocative and mischievous tantrums and invectives against President Muhammadu Buhari.

3-Ekiti Governor is a relic of the old order, he represents the old Nigeria of waste, of hollow ritual of noise and nuisance.
4-Fayose is a man suffering from political depression in the aftermath of the defeat of his patriarch Goodluck Jonathan. He is a hallucinating Man of the ancient, yet to come to terms with the realities of a new dawn and new Nigeria.
5-The Ekiti governor is a man on the loose ready to use stones, sticks and any object to inflict harm and to be noticed.
6-Fayose failed to stop the election of President Muhammadu Buhari by the use of false, misleading and subversive propaganda laced with lies and deceit and now resort to firing arrows of hate, smear and distortions.
7-Fayose is a glorified tout, deficient in morals, character and courteousness.
8-Fayose’s imprudent utterances are nothing but an attempt to incite Nigerians from the South against those from the North.
9-Ekiti Governor’s utterances are unbecoming of a state Governor who should symbolize, exemplify and personify national unity and peace.
10-Fayose’s utterances are farts from a rotten road side Beans meal.
11-The constitution of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria guarantees all Nigerians the right to freely express their opinion and criticize the operations of Government. The Ekiti Governor is simply on a toxic smear campaign against PMB.
12-President Muhammadu Buhari is not a ‘northern president’:He is a Nigerian president out to correct the wrong of the erstwhile sectional president whom the Fayoses of Nigeria supported and collaborated with.
13-Fayose is a weeping and whipping boy of the dead PDP.

14-I call on the APC Governors to appropriately respond to their peer, Fayose and return him to the cesspit pit, where he rightly belongs.

Senator Shehu Sani
Kaduna Central.

Why electricity has remained stable – FG

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, on Monday said electricity has been stable in the country lately because there has not been any case of gas pipeline vandalism.

Igali spoke with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He recalled that vandalism was the bane of electricity supply during the last administration.

He said things improved with the decision of the current administration to double efforts at engaging communities where the pipelines passed through.

This, he said, led to increased gas supplies and improved power supply nationwide currently at 4,600MW.

He said, “The gas is now passing to the gas pipelines and I think that the government has been engaging the communities and the places where these gas infrastructures pass through.

“We hope it will be sustained because, like I said, there is a conscious engagement and it’s redouble.

“Redouble means that there was effort and when there was effort and you put additional effort and additional effort, then, it means that you have redoubled your work and that is what is going on.

“We saw tremendous vandalism especially before the handover. It has never been so bad.

“But for the past three months, not a single day has had that kind of vandalism. It is our prayer that this will continue.”

Igali explained that ‎apart from President Muhammadu Buhari building on efforts of past government and tasking stakeholders to double efforts, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had been holding almost daily meetings with power distribution companies on ways of improving power supply to consumers.

He dismissed the insinuation that power supply improved because of increased rains.

Igali explained that the hydro power stations in Kainji and Shiroro contribute just about 20 per cent of the entire electricity and no substantial additions come from there.

OAU Departmental Cut-Off Marks 2015/2016 (Updated)

The departmental admission cut-off marks of Obafemi Awolowo University has been released.

Below are the faculties and the various departmental cut-off marks;

FUNAAB To Admit 3500 Out Of 12,500 Candidates That Sat For 2015 Post-UTME

The management of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has disclosed that the University will only admit 3,500 out of the 12,500 candidates that participated in the 2015 post-UTME screening exercise.
This was made known by the Director of Academic Planning, Professor Olukayode Akinyemi while commenting on the just concluded screening exercise.

29m bank customers yet to register for BVN

Fresh facts emerged over the weekend that the  number of bank customers  that have yet to enrol on the Bank Verification Number (BVN) platform stands at over 29 million.
With two months to the deadline which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  set for the conclusion of the exercise, the CBN revealed that 19 million bank customers had so far enrolled for the BVN.
This means that going by available NIBSS’ document on industry analysis of BVNs linked to bank accounts as of April 2015 which listed the nation’s 23 banks as having 48,389,614 active accounts, more than 29 million customers have not registered.

15-year-old pupil conquers unemployment

At the busy Watt Market, Calabar, Cross River State, a teenager’s voice rang out like a bell in a crowded park. It was the voice of 15-year-old tricycle rider, Charles Effiong Mbarake, calling on passengers to board his keke. “Ekpo-Abasi! White House,” he shrilled at the top of his voice.

$6.9m deal: Give Jonathan fair hearing, says Babatope

A member, Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has called on the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to give former President Goodluck Jonathan a fair hearing in the yet-to-commence probe of the purchase of $6.9m mobile platforms.

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Photos: Fashola receives Poland Ambassador

                           
 Former governor of Lagos state Babatunde Fashola received the Poland Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Andrezj Dycha who paid him a courtesy visit at his Surulere residence today September 1st

Biggest payout in sports betting history in Nigeria recorded at 1960Bet

 History was made on the 22nd of August, when a Professor of Computer Engineering at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Godwin Ighalo became the proud winner of N58,945,553.

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