Monday, 14 March 2016

China seeks more crude oil export from Nigeria



China has said it seeks more crude oil exports from Nigeria in spite of the recent changes in oil prices.

Mr Zao LingXiang, Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
``But the total amount of export to China was only about one million barrels in 2015 that was just 1.3 per cent of Nigerian annual oil export.

Boko Haram: Cleric Advises government to introduce sports as panacea



Government at all levels have been advised to introduce sports as a tool to attack insurgency operations in the troubled North-East region of the country.

Speaking at the First Regional Redeemer’s Day in Maiduguri, the Coordinator of Redeemer’s Heritage Schools, Pastor (Mrs.) Fadeke Adediran said the relative peace been enjoyed in the region as a result of military action would be fast-tracked if numerous sporting activities are introduced in the troubled region.

Refugee Woman Forced To Wash Her Newborn Baby in a Puddle at The Greek Border

  

The mother bathes her newborn in a puddle outside her makeshift tent in Idomeni, Greece (Picture: Getty)

A shocking image has emerged showing a refugee mother washing her newborn baby in a puddle.

The mother was forced to wash her child using the puddle water outside her tent in the Greek border village of Idomeni.

Photos Of Ooni Of Ife With His New Bride, Wuraola

                     

The Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II is pictured with his new bride Wuraola Otiti Zynab Obanor..

Martins, Gyan, Ba, Fire Blanks In Shanghai Derby



African top stars, Obafemi Martins, Asamoah Gyan and Demba Ba failed to score for their respective Chinese Super League clubs Shanghai SIPG and Shanghai Shenhua in a derby which ended 1-1.

The widely travelled Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins and Demba Ba featured for Shanghai Shenhua, while Gyan was on parade for the hosts Shanghai SIPG.

Sunday, 13 March 2016

WATCH: Driver intentionally knocks over delivery man in racial attack


A video showing a white man in a bakkie intentionally knocking down a black pizza delivery man on a motorcycle whom he refers to among other things as “a one pizza k****r” – and recording it - is causing a major stir on the social media.The incident appears to happen as they are pulling away from a traffic light both turning right.


The video footage posted on Facebook shows the delivery man lying on the tarred road after he is struck by the vehicle.

Blast hits Ankara, causing deaths, injuries


Turkish television pictures showed burnt-out vehicles including a bus. File photo
Image by: STRINGER / REUTERS

Ambulances rushed to the scene of the explosion on Kizilay square, a key shopping and transport hub close to the city's embassy area.

A explosion ripped through a busy square in central Ankara on Sunday, killing several people and wounding many more, according to local media reports, which described it as an attack.


Turkish television pictures showed burnt-out vehicles including a bus.

Rerun elections: IGP orders AIG, 3 CPs to relocate to Rivers State


In furtherance of strategies designed to prevent electoral violence and ensure a smooth conduct of the Rivers State Supplementary elections slated for Saturday, 19th March, 2016, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, has directed the AIG in charge of Zone 6 Calabar, AIG Adisa Baba Bolanta to relocate to Port Harcourt on Monday for pre-elections preparations with a view to ensure conducive environment for free, fair and credible election.

She’s warm, he’s crazy: The media’s tale of two front-runners

                                                     

Charles Dickens was a piker. He settled for “A Tale of Two Cities,” but when it comes to an age of foolishness, America thinks big. Through seasons of light and darkness, hope and despair, our presidential holy war is unfolding as a Tale of Two Front-runners.

One front-runner says outrageous things. He willy-nilly insults everybody from his rivals to whole religions. He never apologizes, even after boasting about his penis on live television.

U-17 World Cup qualifier: Nigeria hammer South Africa 6-0



Nigeria U-17 Women’s team, the Flamingoes, humiliated their South African counterparts 6-0 on Saturday, in the first leg final round of the qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 World Cup later this year.

Bala Nkiyu’s girls scored all six goals in the first half. Rasheedat Ajibade netted four times, while Yetunde Fajobi helped herself with a brace.

Saturday, 12 March 2016

PHOTOS: Ooni of Ife's wedding venue decoration

                        

The Ooni of Ife His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi is wedding his bride Wuraola Zainab Otiti today in Benin city. Check out the decoration at the wedding venue.

South Sudan Lets Fighters Rape Women In Place Of Wages, UN Discloses

                          

South Sudan lets fighters rape women as payment, the UN rights office said Friday, describing the country as "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world."

"The assessment team received information that the armed militias... who carry out attacks together with the SPLA (South Sudanese army) commit violations under an agreement of 'do what you can and take what you can,'" the rights office said in a new report.

Career Women Narrate How Husbands Sleep With Their Housemaids



Culled from Punch


Nothing irks a busy hardworking wife more than to think that while she is busy making a living to carry her own share of the family’s burden, her husband is busy romping in a steaming session with the maid.

But despite how this may look like a story line from a Nollywood movie, more often than not, in real life, the issue pushes many marriages to the edge of the precipice.

photo: See how Nigerians now buy fuel

                 
Most petrol stations no longer sell fuel in gallons, just cars. So, Nigerians are now forced to take their generators in order to get fuel . Bad !

FG apologizes over nationwide blackout



The federal government has apologised to Nigerians for the nationwide blackout.

The FG claimed the situation was caused by gas failure as well as sabotage and vandalisation of power infrastructure.

Friday, 11 March 2016

British man gives 4-star review to his night in jail in viral Facebook post


A British man gave four stars to his night behind bars.

Christian Willoughby posted a Yelp-style review of the Grimsby Police Station after getting locked up for what he described as a “misdemeanor” on a March 9 Facebook post.

“I've given this place 4 stars,” wrote the pert perp on the Wednesday morning post, alongside six photos of his cell that he said he took on an cellphone.

Photos: 18 Burnt To Death In Calabar CBN Explosion



                 

18 people were this morning burnt to death at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, following an explosion that occurred this morning around 11:45am at the premises of the Bank located at Calabar Road by the Millennium Park.

Drama as pregnant woman runs into Police Station to stop husband from beating her over sex

                                      

There was a mild drama at Ejigbo Police Division after a pregnant wife ran to the station in tears seeking police protection to prevent her husband from further beating her over sex in Lagos State, western Nigeria.
In response, the police arrested the man and committed him to sign an undertaking not to beat her again before he was released on bail,PM News reports..

Passenger Opens Plane's Emergency Door To 'get some fresh air' Before Take Off


A claustrophobic passenger had risked the lives of all 130 passengers and flight crew on a China Southern Airlines flight when he opened an emergency door to "get some fresh air" moments before take off.

Pyrates Not A Secret Cult – Soyinka Insist Source:

      
                                   Prof Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet

Nigerian playwright and poet, Prof Wole Soyinka has canned the mentality and believe among majority of Nigerians that the National Association of Seadogs (aka Pyrates Confraternity) which he jointly formed with 6 others, 64-years ago is a secret cult.

The University of Ibadan graduate reprimanded those who believe the Pyrates is a cult, saying that they are ignorant of the association’s objectives.

Japanese tourists slammed for mass naked swim in Thailand; finger-pointing at Chinese due to stereotype

         
                                         Beach view of Hua Hin, Thailand (Photo/File)


Viral photos of dozens of Asian tourists, at first assumed as Chinese, frolicking naked inthe surf of Hua Hin, have stirred up a storm in Thailand. Some Thai people gave the"Chinese tourists" a dig about their immoral behaviors on the social media.

With The Increasing Rate of Kidnapping, Betty Irabor Advises Parents


Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Genevieve Magazine, Betty Irabor has advised parents to be cautious and to think twice before posting their children's photos online, as they could unknowingly be putting their children at risk. Below is what she wrote:

The Spectre of Obesity



With obesity on the rise despite its various health implications, Martins Ifijeh looks at why the malaise is becoming widespread and how it can be curbed

With well over 1.4 billion people in the world known to be overweight and over 500 million said to be obese, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) global statistics, it is no doubt a public health problem that needs to be tackled head on.

Ban on sexy music video raises gay rights campaign profile in Kenya



Kenya's first gay music video - swiftly banned by the country's film board - shows a well-toned young man, naked apart from his underpants, leaning over his tattooed male lover in bed.

Two pretty young women exchange kisses on a park bench, one putting a ring on the other's wedding finger, as the vocalist sings: "I can't change, even if I tried, even if I wanted to."

The song "Same Love" was originally recorded by American hip hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis during the 2012 campaign to legalise same-sex marriage in Washington State.

Budget padding: Buhari hammers 184 government officials



President Muhammadu Buhari has demoted top civil servants who tampered with figures in the 2016 budget.

Vanguard reports that at least 184 top officials were transferred to lesser establishments over the budget padding saga.

It was gathered that 22 top officers from the Budget Office of the Federation were affected in the mass deployment.

PHOTO: Bride beats up groom and cancels their wedding after he arrives drunk

       
                                                               Groom (third left)


An Indian bride beat up her groom and called off the wedding after he turned up drunk to their ceremony and passed out on International Women's Day.

Ranjeet Kumar Kamat blackened her would-be husband's face with soot and threw a garland of shoes around his neck when he began calling out for beer during the wedding rituals,Gulf News India reports..

Mechanic kills friend for urinating near shop



The park of the Association of Maritime Truck Owners in the Berger, Mile 2 area of Lagos was in turmoil on Wednesday after a mechanic, identified only as Oshare, reportedly stabbed his friend to death and injured several others.

PUNCH Metro learnt that trouble started in the park around 11am on Tuesday between Oshare and the friend, identified as Rasta, after he (Rasta) allegedly urinated beside a stationary truck.

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Woman Paid For Mother’s Funeral By Charging Men £350 To Date Her

                         

A woman paid for her mother’s funeral by charging men £350 a head to date her.


Marlene Cowens, 44, has been raking in a cool £5,000 each year since she signed up to a specialist dating website. Men pay up to £350 for just an hour or two in Ms Cowens’ company, which is at a cinema or restaurant.

PHOTOS: Ciara flaunts bikini bod during fishing trip with Russell Wilson

        

The lovely couple took some time out to go sailing and fishing. Ciara said it's her fist fishing experience.

Afghan boy who broke hearts with plastic Lionel Messi jersey won't meet the star

   

A young Afghan boy's dream of meeting superstar Lionel Messi has been crushed after it emerged a trip to visit the footballer in Barcelona will not go ahead.

Murtaza Ahmadi, 5, endeared himself to millions when he was pictured playing football in his home village in a homemade Messi kit made out of a filthy old plastic bag.

Woman Who Kidnapped 2-Day Old Baby Arrested When Baby Grew To Attend Same School With Biological Sister

                            

A South African woman has been found guilty of kidnapping a two-day-old baby in 1997. Police accused her of fraudulently claiming to be the girl's biological mother since snatching her from a hospital in Cape Town.

The 50-year-old woman was arrested last year after suspicions were raised when there was a similar-looking girl at the child's school.

DNA tests then proved that the two girls were sisters, police said.

Settle children's sleep patterns by age five for better school performance, says new study



A landmark new study has found that getting children's sleep patterns sorted out before age five helps them perform better at school.


The Australian study, carried out by Dr Kate Williams from QUT's Faculty of Education, looked at 2880 children from birth to the age of six or seven, who were all participating in the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), a large-scale study that looks at the development of 10,000 children and families from across Australia.

Grilled chicken salad with avocado, bacon and banana and minty ginger pesto

Grilled chicken salad with avocado, bacon and banana and minty ginger pesto

Ingredients

  • Pesto
  • Handful fresh mint leaves
  • 1 garlic clove, peeled
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) freshly grated root ginger
  • 60ml (4 tbsp) olive or avocado oil
  • 60ml (4 tbsp) lemon juice
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • Other ingredients
  • 6 chicken breast fillets
  • 30ml (2 tbsp) lemon juice
  • 6 rashers streaky bacon
  • Mixed spice for chicken
  • Oil, for frying
  • 2-3 gem lettuces, washed, leaves separated
  • 2 firm avocados, peeled, cut into wedges and tossed in lemon juice
  • 2 large bananas, sliced and tossed in lemon juice
  • 1 packet instant noodles
  • 2 spring onions, finely sliced

Woman Who Boasted About Her 4-Year Old Boy’s Prowess With Guns On Facebook Gets Shot By Him The Next Day



A high-profile poster girl for America’s pro-gun campaign has been shot in the back by her four-year-old son after he found her pistol in the back seat of her truck.

Jamie Gilt was wounded just a day after she sparked controversy boasting about her boy’s prowess with guns on Facebook .

House Insists N1.04tn MTN Fine Must be Paid in Full


  • Says AGF usurping powers of NCC

The House of Represen-tatives Committee on Telecommunications is insisting that the initial N1.04 trillion fine imposed on MTN Communications Nigeria Limited for failing to disconnect 5.2 million unregistered subscribers on its network must be paid in full, instead of the reduced penalty of N780 billion.

The Nigerian Communica-tions Commission (NCC) slapped the N1.04 trillion fine on MTN last October, but later reduced it to N780 billion and gave the network provider till December 31, 2015 to pay up after the company had pleaded for leniency.

BREAKING: NUPENG, PENGASSAN call off strike after midnight meeting with Kachikwu



Labour unions in Nigeria’s oil sector, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), have called off their strike with immediate effect.

The unions had shut offices of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, nationwide following the announcement of its unbundling by minister of state for petroleum, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu.

Guy whose mug shot broke the internet released from prison, starts modeling career



How time flies right ! Jeremy Meeks, a.k.a. “The Hot Mugshot Guy,” is out of his prison cell and getting ready to face the modelling world.
According to his agent and manager, Jim Jordan, Meeks was released on Tuesday morning from the Mendota Federal Correctional Institution in Northern California. He was greeted by his wife Melissa, their three children and Jordan.

50 Cent Admits He Flashed Fake Cash On Instagram After Creditors Claimed He Was Hiding Millions


Even though 50 Cent has been working hard to convince the courts that he’s too poor to pay his debts while still flaunting stacks of cash for his social media fans…the truth is in his accounts. Millions and millions of truths…

According to TMZ, Fifty says he was flashing fake cash:

Prophet challenges lions to a fight to prove God’s power & almost.. Hmm!

                         

A South African prophet who said he was filled with the Holy Spirit recently ‘challenged’ a lion to do battle in the Kruger National Park.

Prophet Alec Ndiwane who is based in the Pretoria Soshanguve was with fellow church members in the Kruger National Park where they were watching animals. It is believed the prophet went into a trance and started to speak in tongues. Ahead of them was a lion pride busy eating their impala.

Mother Gives Birth To Twins – With DIFFERENT Fathers

    

A SHOCKED mum has been told her newborn twins have DIFFERENT fathers.

The woman is thought to have slept with two men during the same ovulation cycle, it is reported.
Tests were carried out on the tots after the "dad" noticed striking dissimilarities between the two babies.
The stunned parents were told only one twin was biologically related to the dad.

I derive pleasure in stealing – Suspect

                               

A suspected thief, Babatunde Ibrahim, who allegedly specialises in stealing phones, says he derives pleasure from stealing . PUNCH Metro learnt that Ibrahim was arrested on Sunday by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, Lagos State Police Command, at the Ikeja Along end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway while he was returning from a burglary in the Ilupeju area of the state.

UEFA CL: Again, PSG Put Paid To Chelsea’s Hopes



Adrien Rabiot and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were the culprits as Chelsea fell to Paris St Germain for the second time running in the UEFA Champions League yesterday night at the Stamford Bridge.

Rabiot banked on some sleepy defending from Chelsea to latch onto Ibrahimovic’s cross in the 16th minute, before Ibrahimovic captalised on more woeful defending, beat an off-side trap and send the ball past a helpless Courtois and seal an eventful evening for the Parisiens.

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Wow! Penguin travels 5000 miles to see man who saved his life

                  

Sounds like a fable but,it real.Meet the loyal penguin who travels 5,000 miles every year to visit the man who saved him from the brink of death.

Retired bricklayer and part-time fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, found the animal back in 2011 when he washed up on a beach, starving and covered in oil.

NECO Releases Nov/Dec 2015 Results

                            

The National Examinations Council (NECO), has released the results of the November/December 2015 Senior School Certificate Examinations.

Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, NECO’s Registrar and Chief Executive, disclosed this on Wednesday in Minna while addressing newsmen.

EFCC arraigns Rickey Tarfa, Nwobike for bribery

                       

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday March 9, 2016 arraigned Rickey Tarfa, SAN, before Justice A. A. Akintoye of the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere on a 27-count charge bordering on alleged wilful obstruction of authorized officers of EFCC, refusing to declare asset, making false information and offering gratification to a public official.

When the charge was read to him, Tarfa pleaded not guilty.

Checkout Andre Dede Ayew’s Cute Daughte

  

Ghana international, Andre Dede Ayew has a very beautiful little daughter called Inaya. She is soo cute.

As you can see, she looks like her daddy.

Checkout her pictures below.

10 seconds lateness cost 61-year-old a car


Retired security officer Vittor Faustinus Komla, the oldest contestant in the maiden edition of the
“Live in and win the ride competition” has taken a rather premature exit for not reporting on time after a break.

The 61-year-old who was 10 seconds late after the first allocated 15-minute break in the competition, attributed his lateness to his failure to find his way back to the car at the West Hills Mall which cost him his chance of driving home the brand new Renault Logan.

Man in court for saying ‘President Mugabe is too old to rule




A Zimbabwean policeman has appeared in court after calling 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe “too old to rule” and accusing his wife of being a prostitute, local media reported Wednesday.

Thompson Joseph Mloyi, 44, did not enter a plea at a magistrate’s court in Harare over remarks he allegedly made at a camp shared by police and army, the privately-owned newspaper NewsDay said.

GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Ghanian Boy Kill Him Self Over Girl Friend, Leaves Suicide Note

                               
A Ghanaian boy took his life after his girlfriend ,one Hilda kept cheating on him. He also wrote a suicide note addressed to her ..The note read

Hi Hilda, why are you doing this to me.If you don't love me, y didn't you tell me,and now what you are doing to me.

ISRAEL AND HAMAS AT WAR