PRESS RELEASE: CRAN CONDOLES FAMILY OVER FATAI ROLLING DOLLAR’S DEATH

FATAI ROLLING DOLLARS

The officials and members of the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN), led by its President, Christopher Orji of Sun Newspapers, wish to commiserate with family, friends and the Nigerian musical entertainment industry over the death of the Octogenarian musician, Fatai Rolling Dollar, whose sad event happened today June 12, 2013.

CRAN cherished the relationship between it and the musician while he was alive. We remember his live performance free of charge at the 2012 CRAN Lecture and Award ceremony at the LTV 8 Multi-purpose Hall, Ikeja. His presence added colour to the ceremony.

QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN WRITES LETTER TO GIRLS OF THE WORLD

QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is queen of Jordan and has been an advocate for children's education for years in her country, across the region and around the world, working with such groups as UNICEF. She wrote an open letter to the girls of the world as part of the "Girl Rising" project.

Dear Girls of the World,

Some of you will be familiar with the childhood rhyme, "What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice, that's what little girls are made of."

Marketing and stereotyping combine to have us believe that you're also made of pink dresses, pigtails, dolls, ringlets, ribbons, bows and tiaras. That you like cupcakes. That all you will want to be are wives and mothers. That you're more "inclined" to the arts and "better suited" to caring professions like teaching and nursing.

And, maybe, that's true for some. But my daughter Salma teaches me every day that there's so much more to you -- and for you.

Fatai Rolling Dollars is Dead

Highlife music veteran, Fatai Rolling Dollar is dead. He died at 85. The octogenarian passed on this morning at Ahmadiyya Hospital in Abule Egba, Lagos. Fatai had been rushed to the hospital by his wife about  a week ago after he came back from America where he had gone for shows.

EXCLUSIVE: Native Doctor who Uses Human intestine, liver and sensory organs for pepper soup

The native doctor and his accomplices

Sixty-year-old native doctor turned cannibal, Gazali Akwedola, does not believe in doing things in half measures. An extremist to the core, he firmly believes that the best way to teach is by example. Therefore to teach his followers on the spiritual efficacy of human parts,  Akwedola, does not bat an eyelid in gnawing some chunks himself.

But he does not just eat the human parts for academic purposes but because he derives joy in it. According to him, the taste in the human parts lies in washing it down with a hot drink, cold beer or wine. He also used the intenstine, liver, heart, eyes, lips and tongues for pepper soup.

NADECO Recounts How Abiola Beat Abacha’s Security

Nineteen years after the death of the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has revealed how he escaped the security cordon of the then Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha, to declare himself president on June 11, 1994.

NADECO was formed by some politicians and rights activists to campaign for the actualisation of the presidential mandate believed to have been given to the late Abiola before the then military President Ibrahim Babangida annulled the election, setting off a chain of reactions that eventually culminated in the return of democracy in 1999 after Abacha’s death.

Kano: Unknown Assailants Kill Woman 10 Days after Wedding

Kano Police Commissioner

Unknown assailants have killed a woman who only got married 10 days ago in Kano. Zainab Idris Yakasai was found dead at her residence on at Maidile area of Kumbotso Local Government, Kano State on Tuesday.

Recounting the incident, the husband of the deceased, who is the Director of Information, Kano Ministry of Information, Malam Inuwa Idris Yakasai, said the incident happened on Tuesday at around 5:36pm when he returned home after closing from work and knocked at the gate but his wife didn't come to open it for him as she used to do.

National Anthem Composer, Odiase Dies at 79

Pa Benedict Elide Odiase (MON) 

The former Director of Music and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Pa Benedict Elide Odiase (MON), passed on Tuesday night at the age of 79. The late Odiase, who composed Nigeria’s national anthem, died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos after a brief illness. According to a family source, a condolence register has been opened at his Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Lagos home. His burial arrangements will be announced later.