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Thursday, 9 July 2015

NFF confirms Oliseh as Super Eagles Coach, approves Dutch assistant

The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed that former Nigeria international Sunday Oliseh will coach the Super Eagles with a team that will include a Dutch as an assistant.

A manager close to Oliseh in Europe, who has full knowledge of the talks between the NFF and Oliseh in London, confirmed to The PUNCH on Wednesday that the former Eagles captain had accepted the job offer and would work with an assistant from Europe.

As a result of tight fiscal policy anchored on blocking of leakages, Nigeria’s foreign reserves has risen from $29.1 billion left by the immediate past government to $31.89 billion presently.

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele made this disclosure yesterday while briefing the Senate leadership on the state of the nation’s economy and actions being taken by CBN to boost it.

Emefiele, at the briefing explained that though the crash in the price of crude oil in the international market since last year still has serious rippling effect on Nigeria’s economy, being a mono-product one over the years, signs of recovery are already emerging, one of which is the rise in the nation’s foreign reserves from $29.1billion to $31.89billion within a space of five weeks.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday maintained that the handling of the Chibok girls issue by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration was not impressive.

He spoke when he received the #Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) camapigners at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where they made numerous demands of the government.

Buhari also said it was a matter of right for the government to take care of the escaped girls and parents of the over 200 secondary school girls abducted from Chibok, Borno State on April 14.

He said: “Nobody in Nigeria or outside could have missed your consistency and persistence, demonstration of the injustice meted on you, the parents, the community and Nigeria.

The federal ministry of health has disclosed it was currently computing all salaries and allowances which accrued to the impersonator, Martins Okpeh Ugwu, during what it described as his mischievous sojourn in the ministry, for full retrieval by the relevant law enforcement agencies.

Speaking to newsmen yesterday at the ministry, the permanent secretary, of the ministry, Mr Linus Awute, said, “The fake doctor continued his deceit and practised as a medical doctor and collected salaries from the ministry until the lid was blown off his scheme.”

The Police have killed three suspected kidnappers in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital.

The command’s spokesman, Ahmed k. Mohammed in a statement in Port Harcourt Wednesday said the kidnappers were killed at about 9:30 pm Tuesday night while trying to abduct their victim at the gates of his residence in Port Harcourt.

The police also said they arrested a member of three-man robbery gang in Port Harcourt, and recovered a vehicle and the sum of N2, 350 million among other items.

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has called for stiffer penalties for persons convicted of rape, defilement and other forms of child abuse to serve as a deterrent to others.

He also urged the people of the state to stop giving alms to child beggars to discourage the rising trend of child beggars in the state.

Oshiomhole, who spoke when he received members of the state chapter of International Federation of Women Lawyers who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, decried the rising cases of the menace in the state and the country which he described as “heinous crimes” that must be prosecuted diligently.

Stop Making Fun Of Pastors In Your Jokes, Oyakhilome Warns Comedians

Pastor Oyakhilome has warned comedians asking them to stop making jest of pastors while cracking jokes. According to him, this is not a message from him, but from God. The General Overseer of Christ Embassy made this known during a meeting which holds every first Sunday of the month with the BLW nation’s citizens worldwide and a host of other global audience spanning more than 6 continents via live transmission across TV stations and online platforms around the world.

Nollywood actor Emeka Ike’s wife, Emma, has filed for divorce after 12 years of marriage which were predominantly filled with tales of domestic violence. Mrs Emma Ike told the court that her hubby has a habit of battering her at the slightest opportunity he gets.

She also spoke of how they lost their school to the government after her husband stopped her from managing it. “It was when my husband beat me mercilessly I believed that people truly saw stars whenever they were unconscious. It was my brother who took me to the hospital where I spent two months. There was also a day I was feeding our last child with tea, my husband, out of anger took the tea and poured it on my head.”

A statue of Bill Cosby has been removed from Walt Disney World in Florida, following therevelation that the comedian bought drugs togive to women he wanted to have sex with.

A spokeswoman for the park confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday that the bronze bust of Cosby’s head and shoulders was being taken down.

It was removed from display after the park closed on Tuesday night.

The Enugu State chapter of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria on Wednesday called off the industrial action it embarked on in a bid to compel the state government to comply with constitutional provisions on the independence and financial autonomy of the judiciary.

The strike had lasted six months.

However, the judicial workers decided to resume work after their leaders held discussions with Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi at the government house.

Speaking to journalists after the meeting, which lasted about four hours, the state chairman of JUSUN, Comrade Chinedu Mbah, disclosed that members of the union will resume work on Thursday.

A 22-year-old woman has been arrested and charged before Magistrates’ court sitting in Ejigbo for allegedly inflicting injury on her rival’s face with razor blade in Lagos State. Miss Mary Atiake, who is a daughter of a senior police officer serving in Lagos, met her rival, Sarah Ogunyemi, in her lover’s house identified as Joe at Olowo Close in Igando and became angry.

She allegedly went and bought a razor blade with which she inflicted injury on Sarah’s head and face. The victim who bled profusely after the attack was taken to Igando General Hospital where she is being treated. The matter was reported at Igando Police Division and Atiake was arrested.

45-year old Lawrence Agbe (pictured above) was yesterday July 7th arrested by security officials at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja Lagos while trying to transport fake dollar bills totaling $2.1 million from Lagos to Abuja.

While speaking on the arrest, the Commissioner of Police for the command, Mr. Fredrick Lakanu, said during interrogation Lawrence said the fake dollar bills were owned by one Steve.
"After further interrogation, the suspect mentioned one Steve residing in Abuja as the owner of the said €1.25m. But Steve is at large.”CP Lakanu said

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may not involve the nation’s anti-graft agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission in his government’s efforts at recovering looted funds, The PUNCH has learnt.

Our correspondents learnt on Monday that the President did not have confidence in the anti-graft agencies.

A top government official, who is familiar with the Buhari’s government’s efforts at recovering looted funds, told The PUNCH in confidence that President might rely more on people outside the system to achieve good results.

The official said, “The President’s body language as far as the anti-corruption agencies are concerned suggests that he does not have so much confidence in them.

“Most of the recovery job may be done by people outside the system, like consultants.”He added that Buhari’s reliance on outsiders had started yielding positive results and that the President was currently in possession of incriminating information about individuals and institutions suspected to be culpable in looting the nation’s treasury.

76-yr-old retired school principal identified as Pa Alphonsus Dimgba, has reportedly died while exerting himself on an 18-year-old girl he was having sex with.

According to reports, the incident occurred in a community in Enugu State where the old man who retired from a public school in Anambra State some years ago, had gone back to and became a community leader. But his undoing, according to residents, was his love for anything in skirt, not sparing the young and the old, even the married women.

A resident of the community who sent in the report, said that Pa Dimgba, an elder in the local Catholic Church, was so fond of philandering with other women and had been caught several times and warned to desist from such acts but he always waved such away until the last 'supper' which sent him to the great beyond.

Residents of Iwogban community protest at Head office of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC)

For allegedly being in total blackout for the past five months, residents of Iwogban community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo State on Tuesday staged a mass but peaceful protest to the Head office of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC).

The angry protesters numbering hundreds who carried placards of different inscriptions, said they were mainly artisans and owners of small scale businesses who depend on electricity for the survival of their businesses, adding that, they have been thrown into total darkness since January this year.

They demanded immediate restoration of power to the community.

An NYPD sergeant has been suspended after a co-worker claimed he threw semen on her inside of police headquarters, police sources said Tuesday.

The sergeant, identified as Michael Iscenko, 54, allegedly tossed semen on the unidentified woman near a freight elevator at 1 Police Plaza, according to the reports.

The victim — who worked with Iscenko in the Organized Crime Control Bureau - reported the recent incident immediately after it happened, police sources said.

The substance that was splattered on her was tested and determined to be semen, a police source said. It had not yet been determined if it was Iscenko’s semen.

Iscenko had previously told the co-worker he liked her, a police source said.

Fani Kayode has reacted to reports he said Nigerians deserve Boko Haram for voting out Jonathan..Read press statement
It has been brought to our attention that Premium Times, a popular Nigerian online magazine, has alleged that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode wrote the following words on his Facebook page- ''For rejecting Jonathan, Nigerians deserve Boko Haram''. This is false and, needless to say, Chief Fani-Kayode has never and would never say such a thing or harbor such a horrendous and heartless view.

For the last few years Chief Fani-Kayode has been one of the loudest and most strident voices against Boko Haram in Nigeria and he has continously and courageously condemned them. He has also continously expressed his grave concerns about the barbarity and sheer evil that they have unleashed on the Nigerian people and he has constantly expressed his condolences to and support for the families whose loved ones have been murdered by them over the years.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has rearrested a former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, and his two sons Aminu and Mustapha over fraud running into billions of naira.
The ex governor and his sons are said to have been moved to Kano for arraignment in court either Wednesday or Thursday.

The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest of the former governor.
In November 2013,Mr. Lamido’s sons were arrested in Kano and flown to Abuja..He was not arrested because he enjoyed immunity as a governor ..Lamido surrendered himself to the commission at the end of his tenure on June 15.They were accused of using their positions to siphon Jigawa State funds,using construction firm, Dantata and Sawoe.The firm is said to have paid N1.3 billion as 10 percent kickback for contracts it won, into accounts owned by the governor and his sons.

The long arm of the law caught up with a 44-year-old secondary school certificate holder, Martins Ugwu Okpeh, who, for nine years had been parading himself as a medical doctor and even rose to become the chairman of a branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA.

Okpeh, an indigene of Ogbadibo local government area of Benue State and father of five stole copies of the medical and academic credentials of his childhood friend Dr. George Davidson, a medical doctor practising in Jos and used it to secure employment in the Federal Ministry of Health.

The fake doctor continued his deceit and practised as a medical doctor and collected salaries from the ministry until the lid was blown off his scheme.

There was pandemonium at a court in Ejigbo, Lagos, after a snake was discovered in the chambers of one of the Magistrates.

The incident which occurred at about 8:30am on Monday terrified the court support staff, who were at the time preparing to receive the newly posted Magistrate, Akeem Fashola.

The Nation gathered that the Magistrate, who resumed duty at the court premises and had sat on his desk, did not know there was a green snake beside his table.

Seven policemen attached to the Anthony Police Division are being quizzed for their roles in a fracas involving fuel vendors at the Ishaga junction, Lawanson Road, Surulere, Lagos State.

The policemen were alleged to be in the habit of collecting money and free fuel from the vendors as part of arrangements to give the black marketers freedom to operate by the roadside.

However, there was a disagreement between the two groups on Thursday, which led to a fight.

Three of the uniformed men were said to have chased some of the vendors into Orotedo Street, shooting sporadically.

One of the fuel vendors, Kamarudeen Olalude, was said to have been shot in the waist.

Some hoodlums in the area reportedly surrounded the policemen with clubs, bottles and other weapons, in a bid to fight back.

The various assets of four of the six companies charged with money laundering along with a former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, were on Tuesday forfeited to the Federal Government.

Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court in Lagos pronounced the companies’ assets and all the funds standing to their credit in various banks forfeited to the Federal Government after they had been convicted for the offence levelled against them.

Kim K squeezes her baby bump into tight LBD

Kim Kardashian seems to be handling her second pregnancy well..The pregnant star was spotted in a tight black dress after filming for reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians in Van Nuys, California on Monday. A braless Khloe was also spotted on set..

Embattled popular US comedian Bill Cosby admitted having drugged at least one woman with Quaaludes to have sex with her, in court documents unsealed Monday.

Cosby, accused of sexual assault by about 30 women over decades but who has so far escaped justice, made the admission in a deposition in 2005, talking about an incident from 1976.

The 77-year-old was questioned by Dolores Troiani, a lawyer for Andrea Constand, ex-women’s basketball director at Philadelphia’s Temple University where Cosby studied and was a member of BOT.

Constand took her rape case to court, but the case was dropped.

Cosby’s lawyers had sought to block publication of the court transcripts, but they were released Monday on the PACER public court records website.

The rough girl mounted the stage at London Wireless Festival on Sunday evening in a raunchy outfit that put her stuffs on display to the extent that her "oranges" were exposed. See the photos...

Ladies, no man can love you more than your husband. If you are not getting his love, discuss it with him in humility, things could change. But if you think otherwise, go try another man and see how it goes.

I hope you remember the case of that married lady who was said to have died in her secret lover's custody in a suburb of Lagos recently? Well, there are new updates to the very shameful saga.

A suicide note the late married woman wrote has been found in the room...

A bus has fallen off a bridge and plunged into a lagoon at Ajibandele on Ijebu Ode- Ore Expressway. Luckily enough nobody died as passengers sustained injuries. What a miracle! See more photos below.

Following the recent 30 day assessment of the new government led by President Buhari, and Buhari being referred to Baba Go-slow, former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has pleaded with Nigerians not to rush the new president.

Speaking exclusively with the Nigerian Tribune, in Ibadan, Gowon said;

"Give him a chance. You cannot solve any problem within two or three days. People say they want a change but as far as the problem of Nigeria is concerned, you cannot do it in one day, in one month. It will take time before a lot of these changes would be done and done effectively.”

University of Ibadan has emerged the best in Nigeria and the 8th in Africa..The University established in 1948 was ranked by Journals Consortium on 1,447 higher institutions.

The Journals Consortium arrived at the ranking through research publications and citations from the last five years (2010 to 2014) as well as visibility on the internet.

University of Cape Town topped the rank followed by Cairo University , and the University of Pretoria at 3rd place..The top 10 include six institutions from South Africa, two from Egypt and one each from Kenya and Nigeria (University of Ibadan)

Top Universities in Nigeria according to the ranking are:

The WBO stripped pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather of his welterweight world title on Monday for his failure to comply with the organization's rules.
Mayweather claimed the WBO welterweight title when he outpointed Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a 147-pound unification fight that shattered all financial records for a boxing match, including total gross, pay-per-view subscriptions, closed circuit revenue, live gate, foreign television sales and sponsorships.

Mayweather, who holds two other alphabet welterweight world titles, let come and go the 4:30 p.m. ET Friday deadline by which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the May 2 fight (for which he earned more than $220 million) and vacate the two junior middleweight titles he also holds.

"The WBO world championship committee is allowed no other alternative but to cease to recognize Mr. Floyd Mayweather Jr. as the WBO welterweight champion of the world and vacate his title for failing to comply with our WBO regulations of world championship contests," the WBO wrote Monday in its resolution.

All real fine curves..

New regulations aimed at rolling back Brazil’s obsession with Cesarean sections took effect Monday, with the government hoping it can steer the country from its status as a world leader in C-section births.

The rules and a campaign called “Childbirth is normal!” address what Health Minister Arthur Chioro has dubbed an “epidemic” of Cesareans, currently accounting for more than half of births in this nation of 200 million.

About 84 percent of Brazilian mothers on private health care undergo the operation, in which the baby is delivered through a small incision in the mother’s abdomen — often for no other reason than the convenience of being able to choose the date.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have condemned the police harassment of the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu under the guise of investigating the alteration of the Senate’s standing rules.

The allegation of forgery of the Senate’s standing rules was first raised by Senator Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara Central) on the floor of the Senate on June 10, 24 hours after the inauguration of the Eighth Senate and election of its presiding officers – Senate President Bukola Saraki and Ekweremadu as his deputy.

Marafa also restated the allegation through another point of order on June 23.
But in response to Marafa’s point of order, Ekweremadu had explained that every edition of the Senate standing orders was only valid for a tenure of four years.

There was serious pandemonium in a district in Chad as a top military personnel fought law enforcers dirty over the full-face veil of his wife in public. The Chadian government had earlier on the 17th of June, 2015 banned the use of full-face veil throughout the country. The military officer and his boys descended on the officials who attempted to remove the veil off his wife. It was indeed a drama. See more photos below.

No fewer than 20 persons were killed on Monday in an early morning crash around Irepeni, along Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highway. About 25 cows were also killed in the incident.

Vanguard gathered that the accident was caused by a road block mounted by armed robbers along Irepeni axis of the highway. The robbers were said to have fled the scene afterwards.

An eyewitness said a luxury bus with number plates KRD 799 LC, which was heading to Abuja from Lagos, suddenly ran into the road block mounted by armed bandits. As the bus was trying to avoid
the blockade, a truck, with number plates KTN 711 YZ, loaded with cows, reportedly rammed into it, killing several people on the spot.

Ciara is one beautiful lady..The singer and mum of one was spotted out and about as she displayed her really toned legs..

The general superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry and Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, is set to visit Adamwa State next week Tuesday to “strengthen the church and identify with the people” over persistent attacks by Boko Haram insurgents.

Kumuyi will also hold a special meeting with residents of the state, “irrespective of religion”.

The state overseer of the church in Adamawa, Pastor Adeniyi Hassan, made this known in Yola at a news briefing. He also revealed that the church had so far expended about N7.6 million on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state.

Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday abolished the state/local government joint account. He said his government would remit 10 per cent of its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to local government councils.

El-Rufai spoke while swearing-in chairmen of the Interim Management Committees of the 23 local councils.

The governor warned the chairmen against residing outside their councils and advised those that could not abide to vacate the office.

He said: “You have no excuse to fail. Perform and bring real development to our state at the local level. This is to fulfil our campaign promises that we will not hold local government funds if elected.

Muhammadu Buhari has approved a whooping sum of 400bn Naira to settle the ongoing crisis over unpaid salaries.

With several states crying out that they are in debt and some states not being able to settle salaries of over 7 months, the president has had to intervene to get the nation back on track.

He today approved a relief package valued at over N400bn, which would then be distributed evenly between the states of the federation.

Bomb Blasts: Restore checkpoints in Plateau, Lalong tells FG

Simon Lalong, Plateau State Governor

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has appealed to the Federal Government to restore checkpoints in the state to check the movement of suspected terrorists.

The governor made the call on Monday following multiple bomb blasts in Jos on Sunday night in which 44 people died and 67 got injured, according to figures by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

Lalong said shortly after he visited the scenes of the blasts and the injured victims at Plateau Specialist Hospital that “today I made an appeal to Mr President to please allow us to have checkpoints.

“This is because without the security checkpoints, people can flow from all angles and attack innocent people.”

Over a decade ago, Modupe Ozolua, took the beauty scene by storm when she pioneered cosmetic surgery in Nigeria. To some extent a controversial enterprise at the time, once the uproar it generated subsided the enthusiastic entrepreneur thrived.
Recalling how she weathered the storm, Ozolua says, “I became synonymous with plastic surgery in Nigeria, which led both privileged and underprivileged persons to my offices. I have a way making extremely difficult circumstances appear easy, but that is due to my philosophy. If you work hard, you will be rewarded.

“The obsession with self-improvement also applies to our physical appearance. That’s why people want to lose weight, eat healthy and undergo cosmetic surgery so they can look good. As long as that remains in our DNA, there will always be gyms for people to exercise and more cosmetic surgical treatments will take place.”
Today, the 41-year-old philanthropist is of the opinion that more Nigerians are now open to having cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, unlike what obtained when she started out.

Professor Jega who retired as INEC Chairman on June 30th resumed as a lecturer at the department of Political Science, Bayero University Kano today July 6th. Professor Jega had said he would be returning to the classroom to teach once he retires as INEC chairman.

The Yoruba actress is getting her groove back and has been sharing pics with fans. More pics...

Jada Pinkett has revealed her husband knows she can't cheat on him. Speaking to hosts of Today's Show, she said

'After you’ve been with somebody for 20 years, you think there’s any room for [jealousy]? He knows he got me on lockdown.'

She says it doesn't mean she doesn't get tempted to stray,she said but she knows how to handle it

“[When that happens], the good Jada says, ‘Boo boo, you’re married, okay, so we need to shut it down.’ But the bad Jada goes, ‘Wow, procreate! Procreate! Procreate!’

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday said the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, had summoned the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery of the Senate Rules on election of its principal officers.

The PDP said Ekweremadu is expected to appear before a team of investigators at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday (today).

It said the letter inviting the deputy senate president was dated July 1, 2015 and was signed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of criminal investigation at the FHQ.

Says he’s in Germany, not UK
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja

Former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, Sunday said he was not arrested in London for wife beating.

His lawyer, P.H. Ogbole, who spoke in Abuja yesterday called on friends and family of the former governor to disregard the publications claiming that Suswam was arrested in the United Kingdom for beating up his wife, Yemisi.

While threatening to take legal action against those behind the falsehood, Suswam described publication alleging that he beat his wife as a calculated attempt to smear his image.

THREE masked men broke into Buchu Meat Wholesalers in Bulawayo's Thorngrove industrial area and fatally struck a security guard with a four-pound hammer on the head before robbing him of $300.

Workmates and family members of the slain security guard said the incident occurred on Saturday shortly after 1AM. The victim identified as Jabulani Madolo, 48, of Mpopoma suburb was manning the premises when he was attacked by three men who concealed their faces under woollen monkey caps.

Two of the suspects have since been arrested after their images were captured on the company's closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV).

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