Kevin Abosi Updates

Thursday, 17 September 2015

Buhari: I’ll appoint ministers but technocrats do the job

President Muhamadu Buhari will appoint his ministers before month’s end as he promised although he believes technocrats do much of the job.

In a 12-minute interview with France 24 Television during his state visit to France from where he returned yesterday, the President was quoted to have said: “The ministers are there to make a lot of noise; for the politicians to make a lot of noise. But the work is being done by the technocrats. They are there to provide the continuity, dig into the records and then guide us, [those of us] who are just coming in.

When I say . . . I am a Christian I'm not shouting "I am saved." I'm whispering "I get lost" That is why I chose this way.

When I say . . . I am a Christian I don't speak of this with pride. I'm confessing that I stumble and need someone to be my guide.

When I say . . . I am a Christian I'm not trying to be strong. I'm professing that I am weak and pray for strength to carry on.

A Senior Magistrate’s Court in Benin, Edo state yesterday ordered the remand of Prince Rich Arisco-Osemwingie, in prison custody, for unlawfully coronating himself as His Royal Majesty, Ogiamen of Utantan in Benin nation.

Arisco-Osemwingie, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was arraigned along with his brother, Patrick Osabuohien, on a six-count charge of felony and misdemeanour before Chief Magistrate M.C. Ojobo, (Mrs.), in Charge No. MOR/148c/2015.

I am God. Today I will be handling all of your problems.

Please remember that I do not need your help.

If the devil happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, DO NOT attempt to resolve it. Kindly put it in the SFJTD (something for Jesus to do) Box. It will be addressed in MY time, not yours.

Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold on to it or attempt to remove it. Holding on or removal will delay the resolution of your problem.

The Zone 9 Police in Umuahia, Abia state capital, said yesterday that they arrested eighteen members of the Movement For the Actualization of Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB), an Igbo secessionist group, who held the Parish Priest of St Luanga Catholic Church, Opoko in Onitsha, Anambra state, hostage, forcing him to conduct a mass for their 16 year anniversary celebration.

The wife of President Muhammed Buhari, has lamented the dearth of trained dermatologists in Nigeria as there were only 120 of them registered to serve a population of 170 million.

Aisha Buhari, who was speaking at the scientific conference and annual general meeting of the Nigerian Association of Dermatologists (NAD), in Abuja lamented that it was not acceptable bearing in mind the critical roles they play in safeguarding the health of Nigerians since the skin is the largest organ in the body.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, yesterday appeared before the State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja to give evidence on the petition he filed at the tribunal.

Dakuku and his party dragged Governor Nyesom Wike before the tribunal to challenge his victory at the April 11 poll.

Nigerian Army contingent win gold at All Africa Games

3 officers of the Nigerian Army, Lance Corporal Kehinde Obareh, Lance Corporal Edith Agu and Private Caroline Linus who are currently representing Nigeria in the Boxing event at the 11th All Africa Games holding in Congo have won Gold and Silver medals respectively. The trio won the medals during the boxing final competition on Sunday September 13th. Congrats to them.

Seyi Sodimu (Love Me Jeje Crooner) and one of Nigerian music pioneers partners with wife - Tolu Sodimu to build a brand new multi-million naira International School in the heart of Agboju Festac area of Lagos state. Tolu Sodimu who is already an established educationist, is also the founder of Alicemay Hope Foundation for the girl child and women education.

The aim of building this new state of the art, government approved school is to provide world class education for future world leaders.

Seven journalists who were arrested in Ogun were released three hours later, thanks to a snake ..at the court premises today.
The detained journalists were in the High Court 1, Ota court premises by 11:40 am to make an inquiry in respect of two matters – cases involving victims of Pakoto demolition and killing in Oke – Ore community, which were believed to have been listed for hearing today at the Ota arm of the Ogun state Judiciary.

A Kenyan maid was arrested for using her urine to prepare meals for her boss and family ..According to Modern Kenyan Corps, she did it because she was maltreated by her boss' family.

The 19-year-old girl was caught after her boss decided to install a Close Circuit Camera in the house following cases of housemaids maltreating kids left in their care. He was shocked to see the girl urinating in a pot of soup she was preparing.

I asked : "What's the one thing that surprises you most about mankind?"
He answered: "That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.
That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future.

That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived..."
His hands took mine and we were silent.
After a long period, I said, "May I ask you another question?"
He replied with a smile.

Nigeria U-23 team, the Dream Team VI Tuesday failed in their bid to play in the finals of the All Africa Games football event following a 3-1 loss to Burkina Fasso.

The Samson Siasia tutored side appeared to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed as their woes started very early with the first goal conceded very early in the game no thanks to Sydney Sylla in the 11th minute.

Two women alleged to be notorious robbers alleged to specialize in entering people's shops, boutiques, restaurants, etc pretending to buy something but end up robbing them in Uyo, have been arrested by the police. The suspects, Grace Ekpo and Mfon Daniel from Itiam Ikot Ebia, Uyo LGA, were arrested last Thursday after they stole from a boutique and were making their escape in a Keke. The owner of the store raised the alarm and passersby pursued the women and caught them.

The Federal Government will adopt a zero-based budgeting format for next year, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday.

He spoke while receiving the National Economic Summit Group (NESG) at the State House in Abuja.

He also received a delegation from the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) and the Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria (ASHON).

The senior special assistant (SSA) to the governor of Bayelsa State on non-indigenes, Chief Chinedu Mba, yesterday resigned his appointment, citing non-payment of his salaries and allowances for over a year.
Mba’s resignation was said to have caused panic in the Government House following fears that the action could negatively affect non-indigenes’ support for the re-election bid of Governor Seriake Dickson.

No Matter How Successful You Are, You Need a Husband: Charly Boy

The area father is of the opinion that societal compliance demands that women no matter how independent and successful they are should get married in other to become whole.

See what he wrote after the cut:

A blonde Danish teenager murdered her mother after watching ISIS' sickening filmed beheadings of British hostages. She has been jailed for 9 years along with her older jihadi lover.

According to Daily Mail,Lisa Borch was aged only 15 when in October last year she spent hours on YouTube watching footage of the savage decapitations of David Haines and Alan Henning.

Afterwards she and her radical Muslim boyfriend Bakhtiar Mohammed Abdulla, 29, took a long-bladed kitchen knife and stabbed her mother Tina Römer Holtegaard at least 20 times at the home they shared in rural Kvissel.A court which sentenced Borch to nine years in jail heard how she became obsessed with militant Islam after falling in love with an unnamed Muslim man. But he jilted her when he moved back to Sweden to be with his wife and children.

Nevertheless she found a new soulmate in Iraq-born Abdulla, whom she befriended after meeting at a refugee centre near her home.Following the brutal murder, in which both Borch and Abdulla participated, the teenager called police claiming:

One day, a man went to visit a church. He arrived early, parked his car, and got out. Another car pulled up near him, and the driver told him, "I always park there. You took my place!"
The visitor went inside for Sunday School, found an empty seat, and sat down. A young lady from the church approached him and stated, "That's my seat! You took my place!"
The visitor was somewhat distressed by this rude welcome, but said nothing.

1. Face Facts: YOU may just be the bump in the road that's slowing you down.

Often the most difficult step in getting out of one's own way is recognizing that you are indeed, in it. When you encounter problems in achieving your goals, carefully consider whether or not you are the source of those problems.

2. You can do anything you want. However, you may not be able to do everything you want.

Most of the time we get in our own ways by trying to do too much all at once. By working hard at trying to do everything we end up accomplishing very little. Concentrating on one or two projects at a time will actually increase your chances getting what you want.

A former member of the House of Representatives and chairman, House adhoc committee on the power sector probe during the sixth National Assembly, Godwin Ndudi Elumelu, yesterday, gave an insight into how government officials and contractors allegedly connived in the past, to fleece the federal government of trillions of naira.

A hotel building falls into the floodwaters at Nikko mountain resort in Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo Photo: AFP

Hundreds of bags containing radioactive waste from the Fukushima disaster nuclear clean-up have been swept away in recent floods in Japan, it has emerged.

The torrential rainfall which hit Japan last week resulted in at least 293 bags of radioactive waste collected after the 2011 nuclear disaster being washed away from the village of Iitate, Fukushima prefecture.

A Chinese woman who suffered a miscarriage has been arrested for allegedly stealing another mother’s child in order to conceal the truth of her loss from her family.

According to People’s Daily Online, the Suspect, who is known as Zhao Juan, dressed up as a nurse on August 23 and took a new-born boy to pass off as her own from a hospital in eastern China’s Hongze county.

She was apprehended by the police when she was faking childbirth in the same hospital on the same day.

The Economic and Financial Crimes on Monday interrogated the immediate past Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, David Parradang, over alleged corruption.

The spokesperson of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview.

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has said that it will celebrate its 16th anniversary of its campaign to revive the failed republic of Biafra. It said over the past 16 years it was brutalized and suppressed by agents of the federal government.

Addressing journalists in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, MASSOB administrator of Ikwuano region, Mr. Davidson Ohaegbu, said the programme of events would include thanksgiving service in different churches in the state to show appreciation to God for protecting members of the group from “annihilation by successive governments and their agents”.

At least 20 persons were killed yesterday morning following attacks in Zakupwang, Fan village in Foron district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Plateau State, by unknown gunmen suspected to be herdsmen.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the attack was carried out between 12am and 1am.

Piqued by the killings in the state, Governor Simon Lalong has set up a 14-man committee, seven each from the Berom and Fulani communities, to reconcile their differences and provide the ground for lasting peace.

The wife of The Sun Deputy Managing Director Steve Nwosu, Toyin, has been kidnapped.

An armed gang, numbering about seven, stormed Nwosu’s Ago Palace Way, Okota home, entering the house through a window.

They took advantage of the absence of electricity supply, the transformer stationed in front of the building before scaling the fence.

They were said to have broken the bulb at the corridor, entered the house and turned off the lights. They headed straight to the rooms.

Orphaned Teenager With No Legs Achieves Lifelong Ambition to Go to University

AN ORPHANED teenager who lost both her legs as a child has achieved her lifelong ambition – to go to university.

Wang Juan, 19, was in a horrific car accident when she was just six years old and had a double above-knee leg amputation.
Tragically her mother then committed suicide after being unable to cope with the pressures of rising a physically disabled child.

Those Little Things - 3 Ways To Show Love To Your Partner

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When you are in a relationship, whether married or yet to be, the easiest way to keep the love and romance alive is to keep looking for ways to make the other person happy. Even if you don't get it right all the time, the fact that you are making efforts to do so goes a long way to show that you care and appreciate your spouse or partner. And in my personal experience, I have found that often, it is those little things that are the most important when it comes to laying a foundation of love and sweet memories in your relationship.

Dabota Lawson's billionaire husband,Prince Sunny Aku has opened upon their one year union.Speaking to City People Magazine, he showered praises on her ,even promising to dedicate a multi-billion business to her.

I thank God I found Dabota. I love her so badly. She plays the role of a wife to me. She is also like a girlfriend in that she knows how to spice up our marriage. She makes me feel young. She is my all in all. That's why I spoil her silly. Most of the time she appears more matured than I am. She is always advising me. That is why I consult her on every step I take. She encourages me.

A man and woman have been stoned to death by Taliban militants in northern Sar-i-Pul province for having immoral contacts. Abdul Jabar Haqbin, acting governor of Sar-i-Pul province said that Taliban had kidnapped the man and woman three days before.

He said Taliban planned to execute the hostages on Friday but it was delayed due to an airstrike by Afghan forces. Haqbin added that the execution was ultimately carried in Kata Qala area of Suzma Qala District yesterday.

Two persons were arrested on Sunday night by the officers of the Nigerian Legion, Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun state for attempting to exhume a corpse.

The two culprits Oke Akindele, an herbalist, who lives at 1, Palace road, Agido, Igbogila and Timothy Oniyide, 19, a welder, residing at 3, Olorunsogo street, Igan-Alade in Yewa North local government area of Ogun state.

Scores of workers at Lacasera Company Plc staged a protest, on Monday, in Lagos State moments after about 700 workers received their sack letters. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the company, however, described the protest as an invasion of its premises by 'hoodlums.'

Police say the 39-year-old unnamed woman, who will appear in court later Monday, switched the 10 million baht ($278,000) gem with a fake one at a jewellery fair on the northern outskirts of Bangkok on Thursday.

She then tried to flee Thailand undetected by ingesting the gem.

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja for Paris on Monday to begin a three-day official visit to France at the invitation of President Francois Hollande.

This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.

It stated that President Buhari’s talks with President Hollande and other senior French Government officials would focus on further strengthening and consolidation of ongoing bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and France.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he left in the national treasury over N287bn, made up of $2bn, £100m and N10bn in cash and property, being the loot recovered from the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha.

Obasanjo left office as President in 2007 after serving two terms of eight years and handed over to the now late former President Umaru Yar’Adua.

At times, our worries and anxieties can overwhelm us. In addition, our worries can distort our perception of what is reality and what is not. Here is a brief list of techniques that you can use to help gain a better perspective on things during your anxious moments.

When feeling anxious, stop what you are doing and try to do something relaxing. You should take a deep breath and try to find something to do for a few minutes to get your mind off of the problem. You could get some fresh air, listen to some music, or do an activity that will give you a fresh perspective on things.

Mayweather came out attacking and scored an easy victory with a unanimous decision over Andre Berto in a welterweight world title bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, improving his record to 49-0. Despite all the skepticism about whether he is ready to start the next chapter in his life, Mayweather continued to insist that this was indeed his final fight.

Police said the bullets that struck three cars in his convoy were not aimed at the former rebel Renamo commander's convoy but targeted a motorist who had refused to stop at a road block.

"Police ordered a car (not linked to the Renamo convoy] to stop for a routine check. But the car didn't stop, so the police opened fire," Manica province police inspector Manuel Lourenço told AFP.

The military has said the new strategies being employed by its new leaders have started yielding positive results with scores of terrorists surrendering to troops engaged in the counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in the North-east tagged: ‘Operation Lafiya Dole.’

The Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), Col. Sani Usman, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, saying that more terrorists and fighters are willing to surrender to the Nigerian military.

Usman listed the new strategies employed to include sustained offensive operations, pre-emptive air strikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and routes blocking by ground troops all geared towards constricting and snuffing out the Boko Haram terrorists.

There are strong indications that the Department of State Service, (DSS) has completed a screening process for some of the ministerial nominees to make up the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Among the list of those who were said to have been screened by the DSS are, former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, Femi Falana (SAN), a former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former finance commissioner in Lagos State, Mr. Wale Edun and Former Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Limited, Mr. Festus Odimegwu.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, weekend, burst a major corporate fraud when it took into custody one Alhaji Mohammed Gobir for allegedly defrauding foremost outdoor advertising company, Afromedia, huge sums of money in various currencies. The act fetched Gobir a huge fortune in both local and foreign currencies worth billions of Naira.

With only few weeks to the October 31 deadline, Nigerian bank customers living in India and China may have difficulty registering for their Bank Verification Number (BVN) as customs officials delay commencement of the registration process.
This, according to the managing director and chief executive of Nigerian Inter Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) Ade Shonubi, is because materials to be used in the registration process in India and China are still being held by custom officials of the two countries.

Shonubi while speaking with journalists last week revealed that NIBSS which is spearheading the BVN is having challenges in clearing the registration materials in Bo India and China for over three weeks.

“We have devices that are stuck in India and China and for the last three week we have been unable to get them out. And these are devices that are meant to be set up there but we can’t get their customs to review and release it.

Apart from barefaced theft of public funds, corruption has also been cited as the main reason for poor policy choices, the prevalence of poverty in the midst of plenty and waste of resources in the country, according to President Muhammadu Buhari in his Goodwill message to the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Nigeria earlier on Sunday in Port Harcourt.

At least seven people were killed when a school building collapsed on Sunday in Jos, Plateau State.

A witness said Abu Naima Primary and Secondary School in Bukuru, Jos South local Government Area, said to be an Islamic school, collapsed on Sunday evening killing some of the pupils.

The incident happened at about 6:30 p.m. local time.

Each year, millions of Nigerians who face a cancer diagnosis are a constant reminder that Western medicine has certainly not found a cancer cure. VICTOR OKEKE writes on how omega-3 fatty acids acts against cancer.

When it comes to fat, there’s one type you don’t want to cut back on: omega-3 fatty acids. Two crucial ones – EPA and DHA – are primarily found in certain fish. ALA (alpha-linolenic acid), another omega-3 fatty acid, is found in plant sources such as nuts and seeds.

Rick Perry Quits Presidential Race 'With No Regrets;' Says God's Will 'Superior to Mine'

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry salutes the audience at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, United States, July 18, 2015.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Friday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, becoming the first to drop out of the 2016 Republican presidential nominating contest. He said he still believes in the conservative message and that Christ's "ways are greater than my ways. Your will superior to mine."

"When I gave my life to Christ, I said, 'Your ways are greater than my ways. Your will superior to mine,"
Perry said at a conservative conference in St. Louis, Missouri. "Today I submit that His will remains a mystery, but some things have become clear. That is why today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States."

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the present crop of northern leaders is responsible for the backwardness of the region, saying they have abandoned diligence and selfless service and resorted to personal aggrandizement, Vanguard reports.

Osinbajo made the remark at the opening ceremony of Northern Reawakening Forum (NRF) Summit, held under the theme “Building a Safe, Secure and Economically Inclusive Northern Nigeria” and held at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, on Saturday.

He regretted that the elite had jettisoned the foundation set by the founding fathers, leading to the challenges confronting the country.

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