So this is the stunning yellow gown our very own and dear Genny wore to The Africa Movies Viewers Choice Awards held at Eko Hotel, Lagos. Hot or Not? I vote HOT!!!!!!!!
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Kenya Presidential Elections: Jonathan Congratulates Kenyatta
President Goodluck Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta on his victory in Monday’s presidential election in Kenya as declared Saturday in Nairobi by the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
President Jonathan noted that as Kenyatta prepares to assume office later this month as the first Kenyan President to come into office under the country’s new constitution, which was adopted after the crisis that followed its 2007 elections, he urged him to rededicate himself to carrying forward the process of national healing and reconciliation.
Nigeria: Islamist Group 'Executes' Foreign Hostages
IGP Mohammed Abukakar
Nigeria-based Islamist group Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said.
The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said. One screenshot showed a man with gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground, reports Reuters.
Conclave to Elect New Pope Begins Tuesday
By Yemi Adebowale with agency report
Roman Catholic cardinals will start their conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XV next Tuesday, the Vatican said yesterday, with no clear favourite to take charge of the troubled Church. Benedict's surprise abdication last month brought most of the world's cardinals to the Vatican for discussions on the problems facing the 1.2 billion-member Church, and to decide on the profile of the man they want to lead them.
After five days of closed-door debate, the red-capped prelates decided yesterday to begin their secret ballot in the frescoed Sistine Chapel on the afternoon of next Tuesday following a Mass in St Peter's Basilica in the morning. A total of 115 elector-cardinals, all aged under 80, are expected to take part in the elaborate ritual, which will continue until one man receives at least a two-thirds majority, or 77 votes.
DELE MOMODU: Why I’m Not President Jonathan’s Fan
By Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, the story you’re about to read is a true account of the reasons I criticise President Goodluck Jonathan these days. I don’t want you to believe all the cheap blackmail that it is because we lost an election or wanted favours and attention. While I may not know why other columnists criticise him, mine is very simple and straight-forward. The sad thing about men of power and their supporters is no one ever remembers when you praise a leader. You will never receive a simple thank you message. What is worse is that some of your readers would conclude that you’ve been settled like others with some stupendous gratification.
On the other hand, when you criticise the leader, you instantly become an enemy and persona-non-grata. You must have been sponsored by some mischievous members of opposition. These days the agents of government swarm all over the place. The best way government knows how to create employment in our clime is to engage the services of those who are incapable of persuading anyone with superior logic. The only qualification needed is the ability to spit bile and hurl insults at enemies of government. But a columnist who’s not venomously attacked is not worth his salt and the ink of his pen.
Navy Court Martials Senior Officer for Misconduct
Nigerian Navy
Ahigh-ranking officer of the Nigerian Navy (NN), (name withheld) is being court-martialed for ‘indiscipline and gross misconduct’, THISDAY investigation has revealed. The senior officer, who used to head one of the naval units in Lagos, was accused of assigning some naval personnel as security details offshore without the ‘full’ certification of the naval authorities, a claim he has since denied.
Although the accused person was also affected by the massive transfer in the navy, it was gathered that he is yet to report to his new duty post because of his current travails.
Finally! FG Replaces Maina as Director CIPPO
Maina
The Federal Government might have sealed the fate of the embattled former Chairman of Federal Pension Reform Task Team as his Civil Service Posting as the Acting Director of Customs, Immigration & Prisons Pension Office (CIPPO) has been excised from him.
Federal Government had during recent routine posting exercise of Civil Servants by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOS) appointed Mrs. Olabisi Bolanle Jaji as the new Head and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of CIPPO in Gwagwalada, Abuja.
COLLINS EDOMARAUSE: Black Spots in Naija
OSUN STATE
High crime areas…
• Ife town/Ilesha
• Gbogan Town
• Modakeke-Ife
• Ikirun
• Osogbo area
• Ila-Orangun
RECOVERED VEHICLES IN LAGOS STATE – (3)
Vehicles Reg . No Location
Toyota Camry AV280 FKJ Elere
Ford Escape Jp Unregisrered Apapa
Nissan Primera XY 313 APP A/Adele
Toyota Hiace XJ 751 AGL Ojo
Officials’ Sharp Practices Threat to Airport Security
Passengers lament extortion at Murtala Muhammed Airport
Anyone that travels regularly would notice, both on domestic and international departures that security operatives request for money from travellers. It has been confirmed that corruption among security operatives at the nation’s airports, especially the ever busy Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos may threaten the safety of passengers, aircraft and the airport itself.
Eye witness account has exposed how security officials collude with passengers to smuggle banned materials, including hard objects to the aircraft by collecting bribes and allowing them to board with carry-ons (hand luggage) containing the illegal objects.
FEATURES: Preserving the sanctity of the family as a unit
Aigbonoga
Traditionally, families were seen as units. However, the same cannot be said to hold true today. But the publisher of Jemima magazine, Mrs. Vera Aigbonoga, maintains that there is yet hope, writes Chiemelie Ezeobi
A larmed by the increase in disintegration of the family unit, publisher, Jemima magazine, Mrs. Vera Aigbonoga, sought ways to propagate the importance of the family. The solution for her came in no other form but a magazine that would propagate the preservation of the sanctity of the home front.
Jemima, according to her, would spread oneness to all families in the hope of strengthening the bonds that hold it together. Her rationale is borne out by the belief that once the family unit is healed, it would ensure the wholeness of the society at large. Speaking to THISDAY at the launch of the magazine in Lagos, Aigbonoga said the launch was an avenue to support the elderly in the society.
FEATURES: No Nation Develops Without Robust Infrastructural, Industrial Base
President, National Society of Chemical Engineers, Dr. John Erinne, recently made known the association’s position on key issues including, the boosting of the nation’s infrastructural and industrial base. He also spoke on the oil and gas sector as well as the petroleum industry bill amongst others. Chiemelie Ezeobi writes
When the President, National Society of Chemical Engineers (NSChE), Dr. John Erinne, called for a media parley recently, one thing was clear. He meant to intensify calls on the Federal Government to reverse the de-industrialisation of the country as well as boost the nation’s petrochemical sector.
According to Erinne, “cognisant of the fact that no nation can truly develop without a robust infrastructural and industrial/manufacturing base, there is a need to re-focus attention on the creative role of chemical engineering in these areas.”
The NSChE, as a division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), seeks to promote the practice of chemical engineering for national development and to enhance the usefulness of the profession to the public and to cater for the interest of chemical engineers in Nigeria.
Pirates Kidnap Three in Niger Delta
Nigerian Navy officers
Pirates have attacked on oil industry supply vessel in the Niger Delta, kidnapping three crew, security sources told Reuters Thursday, in the latest attack off the coast of Nigeria.
The captain, chief engineer and second engineer were abducted on Monday when gunmen boarded the Malaysia-flagged Armada Tuah 22 around 50 nautical miles (90 km) off the coast of the Brass region in the Niger Delta, three security sources said.
One of the sailors kidnapped was Indonesian, the sources said.
The vessel is a tugboat contracted to supply an offshore oil platform. Nigeria’s navy spokesman gave no comment. A fishing vessel, Orange 7, was attacked on March 2 in a similar position and one of the crew was killed, sources said.
This Chime is Sick!
Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime
-culled from THISDAY
Health, the cliché says, is wealth. But that’s an advice for the wise. For the greedy and short-sighted, reverse is the case; the overriding principle is wealth accumulation- sometimes primitive! It is no wonder, therefore, that many of the so-called rich and the highly placed, who desire endless accumulation at the expense of their health often die cheaply.
There have been stories about how some of them discover certain ailments late; many of such, terminal. But before they start to roll out their ‘hard earned’ fortune to rescue their health, money, at that point would have become helpless. And lo, they bid an untimely goodbye to their labour- sometimes left in the hands of total strangers.
How North cornered Nigeria's oil blocs
Written by Donald Ojogo, Regional Editor, South-South/South-East and culled from nairaland forum
• Revealed: 80% of ownership of the nation's oil reserves is in the hands of some influential northerners • North, South-South in battle royale over oil
Tension over the allocation of Nigeria's oil wealth among the states of the federation is assuming an interesting dimension with key figures in the South-South taking on the North over its recent call for a fiscal redress. The North, through the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) appears set its goal of changing the revenue allocation formular in its favour while the South-South described such calls as idle and insulting.One of the Niger Delta leaders even said the North is ungrateful to the South.
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