EXCLUSIVE: Fun Seeker Drowns in Bar Beach

A yet to be identified youngman yesterday night drowned at the Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos,after he waded deep into the volatile sea with some of his friends.
Confirming the incident, Spokesperson, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), South-west Zone, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, said the deceased and his friends had strayed from the usual area where fun-seekers converge.

EXCLUSIVE: Finally, Police Arrest Elusive Member of Airport Robbery Gang

In a final mop up of the eight gang members that carried out the huge robbery operations that shook the Murtala Mohammed Airport last year, the Lagos State Police Command yesterday paraded the elusive member of the gang who had been at large.

The suspect, Samuel Mayegun popularly known as Asiwaju, was arrested alongside Abiodun Adegayo, Ezekiel Anthony, Ibrahim Sado and Femi Osiyelu, at the Ikorodu area of the state.

Ronaldo, Trumps Messi to Win FIFA Ballon d'Or

Cristiano Ronaldo

Today, Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'Or, trumping Lionel Messi and Frank Ribery. The award was held at Kongresshaus in Zurich, saw the best of the crop in attendance. Congrats to the winner. 

Funny Enough, Ronaldo had threatened to boycott the ceremony days earlier following a comment made by UEFA president Michel Platini. Playing had joked that the award's voting deadline was extended for the sake of the Real Madrid forward and in response, Ronaldo had suggested he may not go to the ceremony on January 13 in Zurich and instead stay in Madrid or go to Portugal.

SEASON OF OPEN LETTERS: Tolu Ogunlesi Writes President Jonathan One

Tolu Ogunlesi writes an open letter to President Jonathan, thereby joining the growing list of people writing an open letter, which started with former president, OBJ. For those who dont know Tolu, google is your friend but he is an award winning journalist with a knack for news. Read What Tolu said; 

Dear Mr. President,

I am constrained to write this open letter to you before this season of letters comes to a close. I will go straight to the issues at stake. Let’s start with the level of toxic-ness in the air, sustained to a large extent by the attitude of your array of spokespersons, who today do little more than insult and dismiss everyone deemed to be an “enemy” of the President. Just as you have a point when you said that the easiest way to be deemed “progressive” is to abuse Jonathan, it has also become that criticising the President quickly earns one all sorts of unprintable labels from the your camp.

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.