Court refuses to unseat Tambuwal as Speaker

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, refused to grant a fresh ex-parte application seeking to restrain Mr. Aminu Tambuwal from further acting as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The application was filed before the court by a member of the House House of Representatives, Mr. Abiodun Akinlade.
The applicant, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, representing Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency of Ogun State in the House, had in his application, prayed the court to stop Tambuwal from parading himself as the Speaker, pending the determination of the suit challenging his continued stay in office.

APC Meeting Deadlocked Over Choice Of VP Candidate

National leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party have hit a deadlock at the Rivers State government lodge in Abuja in a meeting convened to choose a Vice Presidential candidate for the 2015 presidential election.
Sources at the meeting said the deadlock arrived after state governors within the party rejected the candidature of former Lagos governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as well as Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, a former Lagos State Attorney General under Tinubu.

21 killed in Taliban school attack

 A Pakistani hospital official says 20 students and one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Jamil Shah, a spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital, says the killed soldier was a member of the Pakistani paramilitary forces.
The attack started with the Taliban storming the military school in Peshawar in the morning hours of Tuesday and started shooting at random.

How Jonathan Tamed Tinubu Before 2011 Presidential Election

A charge sheet prepared in 2011 by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Bello Adoke, aimed at charging with perjury former Lagos State governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has emerged.
The undated two-page charge sheet obtained by Ashiwaju.org was personally prepared by the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke.
The charges, to which were attached four documents which includes Mr. Tinubu’s INEC form, A declaration affidavits also known as INEC Form CR 001,  a letter stating that Tinubu did not attend Chicago State University which was obtained from  FBI agent, Jennifer Dent, who was the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s assistant legal attaché at the US Consulate in Lagos in 2011.

South African wins Miss World 2014 in London

Miss South Africa, 22-year-old Rolene Strauss, was crowned Miss World 2014 at the contest’s glitzy final in London on Sunday, with an estimated billion viewers watching on television around the globe.
Miss Hungary, Edina Kulcsar, was judged the runner-up and Miss United States, Elizabeth Safrit, came third in the 64th annual competition, contested by women from 121 countries.
Medical student Strauss clasped her hands together in surprise and was crowned by the outgoing Miss World, Megan Young of the Philippines, to huge cheers in the ExCeL exhibition centre.
“South Africa this is for you,” Strauss said. “I think I will brace myself for what’s about to happen. It’s a huge responsibility.”

I don’t mind being a second wife — Nkiru Silvanus

The dream of every woman is to find a man to spend her entire life with.  Even the Holy religious books have enjoined men and women, to seek each other out and cohabit as man and wife. But as beautiful and simple as this may sound, marriage has long gone from being a simple item on a menu, it has become a task, as finding a true life partner has become as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. It is particularly more difficult for the womenfolks as they have to be proposed to.
As liberated as our society is now, it is hard to find a woman that would go out of her way to propose to a man. The norm is the other way round. So, for a woman, waiting to get a marriage proposal may me as certain as waiting for the proverbial hen to play a golden egg. It doesn’t have to do with beauty, wealth or status, or else all the Nollywood divas would have been long married before they hit their 30s. Why are these ladies still single in spite of their relative affluence and beauty? Meet some of Nollywood singles in their 30s, 40s still single and why:

Aftermath of PDP Primaries: Senators plot to impeach mark

THE Senate may witness a change of leadership if the threat by aggrieved senators from the two main political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to impeach Senate President David Mark for not protecting them in the just concluded party primaries is carried out.
If successful, the plot may see the APC producing the Senate President in addition to the House of Representatives speakership. This is coming as 168 members of the House of Representatives have endorsed the plan to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan.
Some of the vocal and prominent PDP senators, who had defended the party with every available means whenever the opposition APC senators raised eye-brow over some of President Jonathan’s policies were surprised that both the Senate leadership and the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party could not reciprocate the gesture. Instead the senators were left at the mercy of state governors.

CBN introduces new N100 Friday

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Sunday said the commemorative N100 note would go into circulation on Friday.President Goodluck Jonathan had recently unveiled the N100 note in commemoration of Nigeria’s 100 years. It was in remembrance of the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 1914.

“The commemorative N100 banknote unveiled recently by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is to be officially issued into circulation by the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Friday, December 19, 2014,” the CBN said in a statement issued on Sunday.

Ebube Nwagbo reveals why she is still single

Gorgeous and talented actress, Ebube Nwagbo hasn't been linked to any man since her split from Kcee.. According to Vanguard, the actress explained why she's still single...“The reason is that I am someone who has always believed in love. It is a big deal to me so if I have to do it, it has to be right. I am a strong believer of love. I get lots of proposals; it is so crazy I do not know who to give a chance to. I think it is a price I have to pay for stardom.“Sometimes when anybody comes my way, I do not know who wants to be with me for the right reasons. I believe when that day comes, I will definitely figure out who that person is. It is not easy.“What I should be talking about is not relationship but marriage. I want to go into marriage and be in it for ever. No one goes into marriage thinking of divorce, but it happens. We try our best.“I think I am kind of scared, but I just have to give it a try whether I like it or not. It just has to happen and happen right; at the right time.”

"Why We Could Not Defeat Boko Haram"- Army Commander Writes A Powerful Letter To President Jonathan

In a desperate letter to President Goodluck Jonathan and Senate President David Mark leaked to Newsmen this past weekend, a commanding officer stationed in  Nigeria's northeast  details several troubling issues plaguing troops combating Islamist terror group Boko Haram  in the region.

The officer stated that, corruption, maladministration, lack of resources and troops motivation has militated against a successful campaign to end Boko Haram's deadly reign of terror in the northeast.

The officer's lengthy complaint which he claims would lead to a threat to his life forewarns that if his pleas continue to be ignored by the country's leadership that both the Nigerian Army and the country will crumble under the insurgency.