Tambuwal: 48 Garlands For The Peoples’ Rep-By Imam Imam

TAMBUWAL

On January 10, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, added a year to his life and his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Imam Imam, took out time to pen him a note.  Hear Him:

Eulogising the life of any person, especially a respected leader who has stood for the common good, is not easy. As US President Barrack Obama said while reading his tribute at the funeral of the great Nelson Mandela, it is hard to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person – their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone’s soul.  How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world.

Michael Ezuruonye Ports to Airtel after Glo Stint

After his stint as Glo ambassador ended, Nollywood actor, Michael Ezuruonye has officially ported to Airtel, another telecommunications giant. Big congrats to him. Let the dough keep flowing bro.

Rape Joke Controversy: Basketmouth Yet to Get that ‘Jokes Should Have Limit” –

Barely days after he made a half-hearted apology for the crude joke he made about rape, which got him censure, Basketmouth is truly yet to get  it. During an interview with Adesope Olajide of Vox Africa, he said JOKES SHOULD HAVE NO LIMIT.

Hear him on the Rape Joke Controversy: “Definitely I am sorry about what happened. The people that it offended…I won’t say the people that misunderstood but the people that it offended. It limits me though. Now it limits the type of jokes I’m going to be cracking right now. Sadly, every joke hits people the wrong way. If I crack jokes about food, there are people in third world countries saying, ‘Why is he cracking jokes about food? Have I chop na?’ They will just go on twitter and say ‘This guy should stop cracking jokes about food, I haven’t eaten’.”

EXCLUSIVE; Navy Arrests, Hands Over 12 Suspects to FG for Poaching

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Andoni, under the command of NNS BEECROFT, Apapa, Lagos, has handed over the arrested 12-man crew of fishing trawler FT Hajiya Binta to the Federal Department of Fisheries for illegal poaching fishes.

The suspects who were arrested by Andoni under the command of Captain Ifeanyi Okpala, during a routine patrol of the Lagos fairway buoy, were handed over to the department of fisheries for further investigation and prosecution.

Vanguard Awards Yul Edochie, Tonto Dike Most Sexiest Actor, Actress in Nollywood

THE VOTES HAVE SPOKEN!!!!! Finally, at the end of a very tough competition that paraded Nollywood stars, Vanguard Newspaper has announced Tonto Dikeh  and Yul Edochie as the Sexiest Actress and Actor in Nollywood respectively for year 2013. Tonto who won through sms and cut-off coupons, beat Ebube Nwagbo and Colette Orji, Cynthia Agholor and Stephanie Okereke who came in second, third, fourth and fifth respectively..

FEATURES: Lagos Fire Victims Count Losses

Oil Tanker Fire

Chiemelie Ezeobi who visited the scene of the tanker fire that killed 15 people and razed over 50 shops in Lagos on Tuesday, writes that it was a new year gone bad for the victims

It is no gainsaying that people often approach a new year with hopes and aspirations of better things to come and it was no different for the residents and traders that dot the stretch of road that makes up the Berger Suya area in Lagos.

MERRY XMAS TO YOU ALL

  HEREZ wishing you all an awesome and memorable Xmas. It can only get better

SSS Parades Air Force Personnel, Six Others for Kidnapping, Killing

Chief of Air Staff

The operatives of State Security Service (SSS) Tuesday paraded Sulaiman Mohammed, a Lance Corporal with the Nigerian Air Force and six others for allegedly kidnapping a businessman, who later died 11 days after his release. Others are Mustapha Isah, Mohammed Abubakar, Farouk Waziri, mohammed Bukar, Usman Idah, and Abdullahi Musa.

Speaking on behalf of the SSS yesterday in his office in Abuja, an Assistant Director, Mr. Doyin Adetuberu, said the men were caught after the mastermind of the criminal act, Isah, was arrested and later confessed to the crime.

Read Simon Kolawole's Hilarious 'The Old Man and the Manual'

Simon Kolawole Live  simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com, sms: 0805 500 1961

Once upon a time, there was a king that reigned over Nigeria in majesty and grandeur. When he ascended the throne in 1999, he developed a Manual on how to rule Nigeria. He enjoyed the “ogbono” soup in Aso Rock so much that he did not want to leave after spending eight years and two terms. He wanted a third term. His manipulation to rewrite the constitution failed spectacularly at the National Assembly, and he hurriedly left power in humiliation in May 2007. He forgot the Manual in the side drawer of his bed. Alas! One of the successors discovered the Manual and started borrowing from it.

YOUTUBE Video Reveals Sgt. Rogers' Testimony on Al Mustapha’s Killer Squad

More facts have emerged on how Sergeant Barnabas Jabila Mshiela, aka Sergeant Rogers, a member of the killer squad allegedly trained and maintained by Major Hamza Al Mustapha the former Chief Security Officer of late General Sani Abacha, on how Mustapha ordered him and others to assassinate Kudirat Abiola, the wife of Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12 1993 general election.

Although Mustapha was acquitted of the murder of Mrs. Abiola a few months ago by the Court of Appeal following a 14-year trial, a YouTube video uploaded Monday on the website of online news medium Sahara Reporters, has revealed Sgt. Rogers being cross-examined by lawyers of a commission set up to investigate Mustapha and the Strike Force that he headed.