The star, who was born on October 1, 1966, and who was the candidate of the Congress for Democratic Change, the same party that he founded in 2003, won 13 out of the 15 counties in the country, beating Vice-President Joseph Boakai. Reports said he won with 61.5 per cent of the total votes cast to Boakai’s 38.5 per cent.
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Saturday
George Weah: A footballer’s leap to presidential palace
The star, who was born on October 1, 1966, and who was the candidate of the Congress for Democratic Change, the same party that he founded in 2003, won 13 out of the 15 counties in the country, beating Vice-President Joseph Boakai. Reports said he won with 61.5 per cent of the total votes cast to Boakai’s 38.5 per cent.
‘D’banj was not paid a dime to perform with Don Jazzy’
I don’t care what people say about Juliet Ibrahim and me –Iceberg Slim
Biggest entertainment event flops of 2017
Majek Fashek 30 years on stage and album lunch
In his heyday, veteran singer, Majek Fashek, was highly regarded by music lovers locally and internationally for to his musical prowess. In fact, some people believed in the power of his songs. For instance, ‘Send down the rain’ was considered to be so powerful that whenever he performed it on open fields, the heavens opened.
Police screen hospital visitors as Buhari checks on son again
But the security situation around the hospital remained tense, as policemen screened those gaining entry into the medical facility.
The President, who got there around 6pm, had on Thursday alongside his wife and Yusuf’s mother, Aisha, visited the hospital.
A guard near the hospital told one of our correspondents that the First Lady was believed to have slept overnight till Friday.
At about 5.30pm when one of our correspondents got to the hospital, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, also arrived to check on Yusuf.
22 unlimited sex pleasures for this season and beyond
One: When sex is on the agenda, the greatest mistake any husband would make is not to take advantage of the situation and really go down on the wife’s nipples, clitoris and vagina very carefully. Nipple, clitoral and vaginal stimulation can be the high point of foreplay for any wife, anytime. It can even be the main ‘event’ of the night or an erotic act that a couple return to frequently during a long sexual encounter.
Military redeploys spokesman, 398 officers in major shake-up
The army, which said the 2017 Fourth Quarter Postings and Appointments would take effect on January 2, 2018, noted that the shake-up affected officers in the rank of Brigadier-Generals and Major-Generals.
Our correspondent learnt that some senior officers were retired, having completed the mandatory years of service in the army.
Moribund airlines: FG to set up aviation school to raise professionals
The Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Saleh Dunoma, made the disclosure in a recent interview with our correspondent.
Our correspondent, had in a report published on November 25, 2017, x-rayed reasons why many airlines had become moribund in the country. The report was titled, ‘From sky to junkyard: Sad journey of Nigeria’s 160 moribund domestic airlines’.
Wike says $1bn ECA insurgency fund illegal –Wike
Wike stated this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said although he was in support of the fight against insurgency, the approval remained illegal.
The governor said, “For me, it (the approval) is illegal. However, we are talking about fighting insurgency and no right thinking individual will say that he will not support the government to fight insurgency.
Fuel scarcity: NLC, SERAP, CSOs clash over Dangote refinery
Also on Friday, the NLC and civil society organisations were divided over Dangote Refinery, which will begin operations at the end of 2018.
According to Ozo-Eson, the Dangote Group currently monopolises the cement sector. He said that such must not be allowed to happen in the oil refinery sector.
The NLC secretary-general blamed the Federal Government for the current fuel scarcity in the country.
Showdown looms as Senate queries FG over unapproved subsidy payment
The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), which was on Thursday mandated to investigate the current crisis over supply of the product, on Friday, asked how the government was maintaining a pump price of N145 per litre when the landing cost of the commodity was now N171.
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had on Thursday directed the committee to cut short its recess and “immediately” convene a meeting with stakeholders in the petroleum sector over the current scarcity of petrol.
Sunday
Obiano is committed to governing Anambra well
Rowland Odegbo
Since the governorship election in Anambra state was won and
lost not much in terms of the discussion still dominates public discourse.
Everybody appears to have moved on. Both the winner and the losers have since
adjusted to the reality of the time. The state has also adjusted to the
continuity train and shut its doors firmly against possible abandoned projects.
Friday
Suspected kidnapper caught chanting incantation, spewing alligator pepper on toddler’s head
The 30-year-old man, Tunde Adebiyi, who allegedly attempted to hypnotise and kidnap a toddler, was on Friday arraigned in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court.
Adebiyi had appeared before Chief Magistrate Mr. Tajudeen Elias on a charge for attempted kidnap, which he pleaded ‘not guilty’ to.
Fuel scarcity: Stop punishing Nigerians, PDP tells Buhari
The PDP, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday, in Abuja, insisted that it was wrong for the President to sit in his comfort zone and put the blames of the fuel scarcity at the doorsteps of marketers, while Nigerians continue to suffer untold hardship.
PRESIDENCY 2019 OBIANO HAS NO INTEREST
Okey Maduforo
Contrary to the rumour bruited in some
quarters that the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano is nursing an
ambition to contest the 2019 presidential election in the country the members
of the public have been urged to discountenance such stories as they are
handiwork of mischief makers.
It has been confirmed that the governor
has no such plans rather he is more interested in improving the welfare of his
people and expanding the frontiers of development in the state. What the
governor achieved in his first term in office is nowhere close to what he
intends to do in his second term and as such does not want to be distracted by
idle rumours of the type making the round.
In the same vein the story that the
governor is threatening that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) will
take over the remaining four states of the Southeast zone during the next
election was unfounded. The word threatening is alien to Governor Obiano who in
the face of provocation during the just concluded governorship in the state
maintained dignified silence. The governor is urbane and understands
Factional group: Buhari plans to be sole candidate in 2019, says PDP
It argued that this was the reason agents of the All Progressives Congress were bent on causing dissatisfaction among PDP members ahead of 2019.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, who spoke with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, said those who opened an “illegal office” of the party at the Asokoro District of Abuja were being deceived.
BREAKING: Osun workers declare strike over half salary
The workers under the umbrella of the Osun State Joint Public Service Negotiating Council gave the strike notice in a statement issued on Friday following an emergency meeting of labour leaders on Thursday.
Thursday
Cyril Ramaphosa, Possible Successor To Jacob Zuma of South Africa
Before that he was the chair of the national planning commission that produced the National Development Plan, the country’s blue print for growth towards 2030.
HIS UPSIDE: Ramaphosa founded one of the biggest and most powerful trade unions in the country – the National Union of Mineworkers.
Wednesday
Trump nears tax victory as US Senate passes overhaul
Hours earlier, Trump’s $1.5 trillion deficit-busting tax cuts cleared the House of Representatives, but a rare last-minute snag over parliamentary rules will force the lower chamber to vote on the updated package once again Wednesday.
The deepest rewrite of the US tax code in three decades provides dramatic tax breaks to corporations, and families at all incomes levels will see their income tax drop starting next year, with the largest benefits going to the wealthy.
Seven money-saving apps to help you eliminate debt
Era of endless wait for Nigerian visa over, Consul-General claims
Suleiman told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York at the inauguration of the Nigerian biometric visa project that it was another achievement of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The Nigerian official said, “The essence of this new system is to make it easier for Nigerians and other people who have legitimate reasons to visit Nigeria, to obtain Nigerian visa.
Abuja mansion: You’re chasing shadows, Mark tells EFCC
Mark, in a statement on Tuesday by his Media Assistant, Mr. Paul Mumeh, said the EFCC or any other agent of government were chasing shadows as the property was duly offered for sale, bided for and he purchased it in line with the Federal Government’s monetisation policy, which was started by the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Anambra Rice, Safe and of Best Quality -NAFDAC
The Anambra Rice brand has been satified safe and of good quality by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) contrary to a sponsored fake and malicious news being peddled by individuals who were out to score cheap political points by demarketing the product.
Mrs Christiana Essenwa, a Deputy Director of NAFDAC had on Monday during a visit to the state Ministry of Agriculture in Awka, warned against the adultration and counterfeiting of the popular Anambra Rice brand by outgrowers and individuals trying to boost sales of local rice during the Christmas holidays.
Monday
I love threesome porn — Maheeda
Davido didn’t sack me via social media- Kamal
Hip Hop star, Burna Boy docked for robbery, granted bail of N100,000
You can’t make decent life in journalism – Osinbajo
The Vice President also lamented that the private sector in the country does not respect the national minimum wage. He spoke on Monday in Abuja during an end-of-year seminar of the State House Press Corps with the theme: ‘Journalists and Retirement Plans’. The Vice President said that although remunerations were generally poor in the country, including his own and that of the President, the case of journalists was unique because many media owners are making the revenues but simply refuse to pay journalists better as and when due. He noted that while he earns about N1.5m as Vice-President, President Muhammadu Buhari earns about N1.75 million, which was not commensurate with the offices they occupy. The Vice President recalled his brief
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Nigeria should not be allowed to disintegrate during – Zik’s wife
NEMA receives another 167 Nigerians from Libya
Saturday
Odi massacre: Anyone with tribal marks on their chest was slaughtered, corpses littered everywhere –Bolou, former Bayelsa commissioner
The attack, which many observers have described as a pogrom, came at a time when there was conflict in the oil-rich Niger Delta region over widespread agitations for oil resources control and environmental protection.
My husband did chores, some neighbours thought I charmed him – Lagos State Acting Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture
25 sexual things to know before Christmas
Thirteen: Never forget that marital sex boosts self-esteem in both the wife and husband at every stage of their career, business or endeavours. Boosting self-esteem is one of the 237 reasons people have sex, as observed by the University of Texas researchers and published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour. That finding makes sense to Gina Ogden, PhD, a sex, marriage and family therapist in Cambridge, although she finds that those who already have self-esteem say they sometimes have sex to feel even better. “One of the reasons people say they have sex is to feel good about themselves,” she says. “Great sex begins with self-esteem, and it raises it. If the sex is loving, connected and what you want, it raises it.”
Reveled: What I did to enlarge my bum –Seyi Shay
But it is so apparent that Seyi doesn’t care whose ox is gored as she told Saturday Beats recently she was so proud and comfortable wearing the outfit.
Don’t free me, prison inmate begs court
Mbaekwe, from Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state, was among 13 others freed in the exercise.
Thursday
Buhari signs National Intelligence Agency Pensions bill, others into law
Breaking: Justice Ademola retires as FHC Judge
VHon Nwobu's Victory: People Finally Ready To Make Their Voices Heard?
But Chris Uba was alleged to have sworn that the congress would not hold, after making failed moves to hijack the congress and supplant his cronies all across the available positions in the Exco. These moves, sources affirmed, included nocturnal visits to the oil-rich southern states to prostrate for one very powerful governor and other party stakeholders that he be given the state structure of the party.
What Manner of Party is the PDP in Anambra?
Since losing the state to Peter Obi inspired APGA following the 2003 election that temporarily produced Sen. Chris Ngige as governor, the PDP has become a workshop for “political merchants” who continue to use the party for their business interests. The PDP stalwarts who are age-long in this trend, as the last election revealed, include; Mr. Chris Uba, Nicholas Ukachukwu and brothers, Prince John Emeka, Ken Emekayi, Ben Nwankwo and recently others joined, including Sen. Stella Oduah, Ifeanyi Ubah and almost all the PDP House of Representatives members from Anambra State.
Saturday
FRSC ON YULETIDE CHARGE TO MOTORISTS IN ANAMBRA
to observe road safety rules while driving.
The Anambra state sector commander of the federal Road Safety Corps Sunday Ajayi has warned motorists to be safety conscious especially at this Yuletide period. Ajayi Made this public in an interview with newsmen in Awka, warned motorists to always imbibe safety laws, said their safety is paramount to the corps.
Reacting to the recent crash at Oba that claimed five lives, the sector Commander attributes the crash to an act of negligence on the part of the commercial driver, who he claimed drove against traffic, knowing the state of his vehicle.