Okorocha kicks off cleanliness, beautification competition in 637 communities

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday, kicked-off the cleanliness and beautification competition among the 637 communities in the state, to revive the culture of village and community sanitation exercise.
It is also to be used to re-awaken the consciousness of keeping a clean and healthy environment in the rural communities.

2015: Opposition could kill Jonathan to take over govt — Clark

IJAW leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has expressed fears over President Goodluck Jonathan’s safety, preparatory to the 2015 presidential election, saying the opposition politicians could go all out to kill the president in order to be in power.
The elder statesman said recent statements from the party’s chieftains were worrisome, suggesting that they would stop at nothing to harm the president to get to the seat of power.
Clark said this yesterday, in Abuja, at a conference organised by a group under the aegis of Peoples Democratic Party Ward2Ward Initiative.
He alleged that the opposition politicians in the APC were celebrating the heightening of insecurity in the North East, with the belief that such development would not only degenerate into anarchy but make the president and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led administration unpopular so that their dream of winning the hearts of Nigerian electorate to get into power in the forth coming elections could be realized.

APC gov primaries: Tinubu begs Lagos aspirants •Jubilation over Ambode •Tambuwal, Umana , Ajimobi, Ahmed, Amosun win

A national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, assured governorship aspirants in Lagos State that losers would be rewarded.
He admonished the losers to support the eventual winner as voting was underway at Onikan Stadium to pick the standard-bearer for the 2015 election.
Tinubu, in his address delivered by state spokesperson of the party, Joe Igbokwe, described the day as historic and another steady march in democratic journey in the country, saying that it was a day members gathered to pick a candidate that would fly the APC flag for governorship post in 2015.
The national leader, who recalled that it was the desire of all the aspirants, based on the meeting he had with them, to have a candidate freely chosen in a fair contest, expressed the belief that such desire would be accomplished at the end of the exercise.

INTERVIEW---Rivers: Why they’re against me — Wike

MR Nyesom Wike, a former local government chairman, erstwhile chief of staff to Governor Chibuike Amaechi and until recently, minister of state for education is a leading aspirant for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview, he speaks on allegations by 16 other governorship aspirants of his party that he was behind their initial disqualification by the South South zonal screening committee of the party and other topical issues. Excerpts
What is your reaction to the claim by your 16 rivals that they were unjustly disqualified from the contest? 

Nyanya Suspect Wants N100m Compenstion

Less than two weeks after the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast that killed over 75 persons and wounded 100 others at a crowded motor park in Nyanya, Abuja, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, was set free, he has filed a suit against the Federal Government asking for compensation.
According to the suit filed by Ogwuche at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, he prayed the court to compel the Federal Government to pay him the sum of N100million as damages.
The suspect insisted that his continued detention in the custody of the Department of State Security, DSS, amounted to ‎a gross abuse of his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution
Ogwuche contended that ‎the Federal Government, having breached his constitutional rights, ought to be compelled by the court to pay damages to him.

Ali Baba plans new year gift for Nigerians

In a bid to give Nigerians a most memorable start to year 2015, Nigeria’s King of Comedy, Ali Baba, is set to organize a unique comedy show laced with music on January 1, 2015, at the prestigious Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The show, which is aimed at giving fun lovers a wow moment, will feature 24 popular comedians as well as sensational music acts in the country.

Tiwa Savage, Kcee, others shine at Channel O Music Video Awards 2014

So Channel O Music Video Awards 2014 went down in Soweto, South Africa last Saturday night.
South African rapper Cassper Nyovest stole the show beating Diamond Platnumz’s “Number One” and Davido’s “Aye” to bag the Most Gifted Video of the year Award. Cassper Nyovest also won Most Gifted Male award and Most Gifted Southern Award. Also winning big was Diamond Platnumz with the Most Gifted Newcomer award, Most Gifted Afro Pop award and the Most Gifted East award.

Lady Gaga reveals rape as teenager

Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped as a teenager and said that it took her years of therapy to acknowledge and start to recover from the trauma.
“I don’t want to be defined by it,” the pop star said. “I’ll be damned if somebody is going to say that every creatively intelligent thing I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead that did that to me.”
Lady Gaga, 28, said that the rape took place when she was 19 and that she has gone through years of therapy. She did not go into detail but said that the aggressor was 20 years older than her.
“It happens every day. It’s really scary and it’s sad and it didn’t affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later,” she told radio host Howard Stern.
“I didn’t tell anybody — I didn’t even tell myself for the longest time,” she said. “Then I was like, you know what, all this drinking and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source, otherwise it won’t go away.”

‘Gangnam Style’ gallops beyond YouTube counter

Just how big a hit was “Gangnam Style”? So mammoth that the Internet literally wasn’t ready to handle it.
YouTube said that the 2012 song by South Korea’s Psy — accompanied by a horse-riding-like dance that became a global sensation — this week reached the maximum number of views that its counter had imagined to be conceivable.psy-gangnam
The video-sharing site shows that the official version of the video has had more than 2.15 billion views — the equivalent of one-third of the world’s population, although of course many people watched more than once.

Nigerian film industry can generate N1bn annually – TAMPAN

The newly founded One Love Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Producers’ Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) on Tuesday said that the Nigerian film industry could generate N1 billion annually.

Mr Debo Alexander, the Interim Governor of the Association made the statement at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly- elected executive members of the association in Lagos.
Alexander was elected the Governor of the association.