Kevin Abosi Updates

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

May 29 fever grips states

Governor-elect rejects N15b Govt House

Fashola, Ambode meet security chiefs

Suntai packs out of Govt House

APC to review governor’s ‘rush hour’ pacts

Some 48 hours to the inauguration of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, there seems to be a surge of activities in the land.

Dignitaries are arriving for the ceremony, which will take place at the Eagle Square in Abuja. Guinean President Alpha Conde arrived yesterday. The city’s streets are festooned with flags.

A committee has started the accreditation of the media for the historic event for which all the big hotels have been booked.

House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal yesterday gave up his seat to forestall a vacuum.

Tambuwal, governor-elect of Sokoto State, will be sworn in on Friday.

Tambuwal said yesterday that there would be no vacuum even though there was no mention of steps to be taken in the constitution in the occurrence of such development.

Photos: Toolz And Tunde Demurun Are Now Engaged

Beautiful Toolz and longtime boyfriend, Captain Tunde Demuren are finally engaged!! Big, big congrats to her and hubby to be. It all happened at the Dominican Republic where they are currently on a vacation.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a herbalist, Ismaila Abdullahi, and a prophetess, Bola Ojo, for allegedly defrauding two bank workers of a sum of N6m in the Egbeda area of the state.

The suspects, however, told PUNCH Metro that the bank workers brought the money to them for prayers without being coerced.

They added that the bank workers wanted to perform ‘money rituals’.

According to the police, Ojo is the prophetess of a Cherubim and Seraphim church in the Iyana Ipaja area, while Abdullahi is a herbalist in the Egbeda area.

Officials of the Nigerian Army on Monday took over the Ojodu Berger outlet of Capital Oil, buying petroleum products in drums, after scaring away thousands of consumers.

The armed personnel came in the guise of maintaining peace and order, but they soon abandoned their primary responsibility for fuel racket. They shoved, maltreated and sent away those who were on queue to be attended to, thereby gaining access to have their drums loaded with fuel.

As of press time, the unregistered white Isuzu truck they use for the ‘deal’ had visited the filling station for the fourth time.

The National Association of Nigerian Students has advised South African President, Jacob Zuma, to stay away from the inauguration of the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.

The organisation also threatened to storm the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, should Zuma step into the country’s airport.

The Federal Government has declared Friday 29th May, 2015 as Public Holiday to celebrate the 2015 Democracy Day.

The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement signed yesterday by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Abubakar Magaji.
The statement urged Nigerians at home and Diaspora to support the incoming government and pray for the success of Nigeria’s democratic process.

President Goodluck Jonathan has released N5 billion to the Ministry of Environment for the purchase of clean cook stoves for rural women, a project which is expected to gulp N9.2 billion.

Minister of Environment Laurentia Mallam, who said this yesterday, added that the President will inaugurate the project today.

Mrs. Mallam said the stoves will be distributed to women in the rural areas through the state ministries of environment.

Patience Speaks On Fuel Scarcity - Skit By Yaw

This will make you laugh! A parody of first lady, Patience finally speaks on fuel scarcity issue in Nigeria.

This skit was produced by OAP, Yaw in anticipation of his forthcoming event titled ‘YOU’, which features himself and Okey Bakassi at Eko Hotel on May 31st 2015.

Actress Eucharia Anunobi removed her shoes while ministering at a church in Delta state recently. She got in the spirit and had to take dem shoes off..:-). She also recently received an award during the African Arts and fashion week in Washington DC for her outstanding commitment to the African Movie Industry. BTW. today is her birthday. Happy birthday, UK. See more photos after the break...

The Nigerian military has killed a Boko haram commander and recovered thousands of Euro currency on his body after troops successfully repelled the insurgents on Mafa towards the Nigerian border with Chad.

A statement from the Defence Headquarters said that the terrorist who is an Amir by status is believed to be of foreign descent. He was among 30 terrorist fighters who died in the encounter with Nigerian soldiers.

See photos after the cut.

Vice-President Namadi Sambo has presented the handover notes of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to the transition committee of the incoming government, with a promise that members of the outgoing cabinet will make themselves available for clarifications when needed.

Ahmed Joda’s, chairman of the transition committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), received the report on behalf of the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari.

Anxiety at the weekend enveloped Abraka metropolis in Delta State when a suspected insane man identified as Theophilus (surname withheld) allegedly raped 22-year-old female student of the state-owned university, DELSU, when she went to get some money at a popular ATM unit.

Reports said the suspect emerged from the bush close to the ATM unit unseen by unsuspecting persons waiting to the withdraw money and allegedly pounced on the victim, identified Ejiro (surname withheld), dragged her into the bush. Her attempt to raise the alarm failed.

A man survived against the odds after his skull was ripped from his spine in a car crash.

Tony Cowan, 29, suffered injuries similar to those suffered by Christopher Reeve and was left paralysed following the crash in September last year.

His car hit a speed bump before spinning out of control and hitting a telephone poll in Newcastle. Only muscle and tissue prevented him from being decapitated.

He suffered a complete spinal cord injury and there appeared to be no brain activity so his partner of 10 years, Karen Dawson, took the decision to turn his life support machine off.

But after she, his mother Pepsi Cowan and the rest of his family had said their goodbyes, Tony opened his eyes.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday urged Nigerians to be patient with the in-coming Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Obasanjo said the expectations are enormous, but advised Nigerians to accept the fact that what was destroyed in the last eight years cannot be fixed overnight by Buhari.

He expressed the confidence that the Buhari administration would “perform,” adding that Nigerians now have a “ new opportunity” to make the country work.

Obasanjo, who quit party politics to assume the position of a statesman, spoke yesterday in his Abeokuta residence at the Presidential Hilltop Estate, where he hosted Southwest women leaders.

The women leaders, including the Iyaloja – General of Nigeria, Chief Folashade Tinubu – Ojo, were led by the Iyalode of Yorubaland, Chief (Mrs) Alaba Lawson.

But for the intervention of the police, two suspected kidnappers would have been lynched in the Odoyanta, Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State on Sunday for allegedly kidnapping a fish farmer.

8 Simple Signs of A Solid Relationship

By Michelle Beltran

It can take a lot of first dates before you find someone you feel compatible enough with to want to continue a meaningful relationship. However, do you ever worry about whether your current relationship is a good match? Good relationships have a lot of common qualities; here are a few of the signs you are in a solid relationship with someone who is right for you:

With five days to the end of President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure, the President, Vice-President Namadi Sambo, 29 governors and 42 ministers have been asked by the Code of Conduct Bureau to declare their assets, SUNDAY PUNCH authoritatively reports.

Also on the list of public officials who must declare their assets before leaving office are the country’s 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives.

The bureau, last week, issued the Completed Assets Declaration Forms to them with a 30-day deadline to return the completed forms. The deadline countdown starts from the day of the receipt of
the forms.

Nigeria - According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Sokoto is the poorest state in Nigeria with an 81.2% poverty rate.

Furthermore, a 2012 information posted on the bureau’s website listed the top 10 poorest states in the country:

Solomon Arase, IG of Police

By Olakiitan Victor in Ado Ekiti

Eleven kidnap victims, who were abducted at various locations within Ekiti State in the last three weeks, were Saturday rescued and they have been released by security agencies to be reunited with their families.

The victims, including a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Femi Omisore were freed by combined forces of the Police and local vigilant group at Esure Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of the State.
The traditional ruler of Esure, Oba Adebanji Ajibola, who recounted how they were freed at his palace in Esure Ekiti, said the local hunters had located the kidnappers’ den through a tip-off from a woman, who complained that she saw a suspected armed man in the bush.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy (CME) and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Saturday put the nation’s total debt stock at $63.7 billion, which encompasses multilateral as well as domestic loans by successive federal and state governments since 1960. She said that of this figure, $21.8 billion was incurred under the outgoing government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma yesterday asked the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to probe the outgoing government.

Danjuma said the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was very corrupt.

He spoke to reporters in Takum, Taraba State, while commissioning three newly built bridges along Takum-Katsina Ala road.

Meets PM Cameron

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, currently on a private visit to England, on Friday turned down the use of a Rolls Royce made available for him by the Nigerian High Commission in London.

Buhari shocked officials of the High Commission when, on landing at the Heathrow Airport, he declined to make use of the Rolls Royce and other facilities offered him.

Nollywood producer, Obi Osotule, is married to Bola, a banker. They talk about their nine-year-old marriage

How did you meet your husband?

Bola: We met through Gilda Amata, who is Ruke Amata’s wife. We have been friends since secondary school.

MTN, Beatfm, Naija FM Shut down operations over fuel scarcity

Many businesses have shut down and others suffering huge losses over the recent fuel and diesel scarcity in Nigeria.This evening,BeatFm and it's sister station NaijaFM shutdown operations early over diesel scarcity.
MTN Nigeria also posted a statement announcing the quality of it's services would be drastically affected if they are not supplied with diesel within the next 24 hours ..

Read MTN's release below

In a bid to improve sales, a Chinese restaurant recently ran a special promotion by offering discounts to female customers based on the length of their skirts. For the restaurant, the shorter the skirt, the higher the discount.

Christian couple Sheathed, 35, (R) and Shamah Masih (L), 31, were killed for allegedly desecrating the Quran in Pakistan, November 2014.

An Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan convicted on Thursday 106 suspects believed to have taken part in the lynching of a Christian couple in November 2014. Shama and Shahzad Masih were beaten and burned to death by a Muslim mob, who accused the Christians of burning a copy of the Quran.

Annegret Raunigk (L) posing with her daughter Leila in Berlin, Germany in 2005
(Picture: EPA)

A 65-year-old woman has given birth to quadruplets- meaning she now has 17 children.

Annegret Raunigk, a teacher from Berlin, Germany, gave birth to a girl, Neeta, and three boys – Dries, Bence and Fjonn – by caesarean section at a Berlin hospital on Tuesday.

The four newborns weighed between one lb, seven ounces and two lbs, two ounces each. The children were said to be healthy but were being moitored as they had been born prematurely at only 26 weeks.

Ms Raunigk was said to be doing ‘well’ after the birth.

Many people are claiming that coconut water has a magical effect on our health. You may have heard about the coconut oil and some benefits it offers. In this article you will learn about the biggest benefits of coconut water of which you may never heard.

Practically, the coconut water and the blood plasma in human bloodstream have approximate structure. This is proved by the use of coconut water as a blood substitution in the bigger conflicts in the past, and in this way many lives human lives were saved.

He titled it, Go Ye Well, President Jonathan
Our dear President, please permit me to write my last epistle to you as our leader and Commander-in-Chief. By this time next week, I expect you to have flown back to Yenagoa via Port Harcourt. How I wish I could have the opportunity of being on that last trip, not to mock you but to capture your swinging moods in those few moments of realising that the end has come eventually. I would love to know how many of your big friends would take the pain to follow you or if most would abandon you to your fate and move on pronto to the new brides. Even as a writer with what I believe is vivid imagination, I’m not able to paint a picture of the sort of life or future that awaits you in Otuoke, Yenagoa, Abuja, Chad, Germany, Dubai or wherever you decide to hibernate in the short or long run.

In the next few days, Goodluck Jonathan will hand over the nation’s mantle of leadership to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari. The five-year tenure of the President was topsy-turvy because of the motley crowd in his cabinet. In this piece, The Nation's BELLO IMAM takes a look at cabinet members who actually failed to deliver, which later rubbed off on Jonathan as he lost the goodwill of Nigerians.

The reality of leaving the posh Aso Rock Presidential Villa has finally dawned on President Goodluck Jonathan...

Of a truth, unless a woman allows herself to be humble towards her husband and love him sincerely, nothing he does will make her happy. She'll see wrong in everything. Read a wife's confession:

My "Aha Moment" happened because of a package of meat. I asked my husband to stop by the store to pick up a few things for dinner on his way home, and when he got home, he brought the bag to me in the kitchen. I started pulling things out of the bag but realized he'd gotten the 70/30 meat - which means it's 70% lean and 30% fat.

I got mad at my husband. I asked, "What's this?" Looking confused, he replied, "meat."

"You didn't get the right kind," I shouted.

ISIS has released a chilling document in which it justifies the kidnapping and rape of slave girls - and brands Michelle Obama a prostitute whose 'price won't even exceed a third of a dinar'.

These shocking admissions are made by a jihadi bride in the ninth edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, in a feature entitled: 'Slave girls or prostitutes.'

The hate-filled rant is penned by a suspected jihadi bride named Umm Sumayyah Al-Muhajirah, who called for her 'sisters' to emigrate to Syria and become wives to Islamic State extremists in the previous edition of Dabiq.

Last year, veteran Nollywood actor and lawyer,Kenneth Okonkwo shocked man when he said he had not cheated on his wife of 7 years..In a new interview with the Sun,when asked how he achieved that, he said

I don’t like discussing my private life. So, I don’t want to be hammering on that because some of my brothers who may not be on that pedestal may view it as if one is trying to make them feel guilty. I was not a good guy. The truth is that, I have told my wife that I am not cheating on her, not because of her but because of God. So, it is rather about the fear of God than love for my wife, which is legendary.

A Nollywood actor and his wife have sensationally told the police why they decided to sell their two-year-old son, Samuel Chukwuneye for N350, 000 to a Port Harcourt based woman simply identified as Ogechi. The couple, though not legally married, had been living together. They were identified as Kanayo Awurum, 29, and Ugochi Kelechi, 28, both of who are from Ikeduru Local Government Area in Imo State.

Rasak Adeyinka

Crack detectives attached to Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 29-year-old man, who keeps weapons for armed robbery gangs. Rasak Adeyinka, a native of Abeokuta, Ogun State, was apprehended in his hideout, Owode, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun state sometime in March 2015.

Among them, it was learnt, was an attack on retired Primate of Anglican Communion also, an indigene of Abeokuta, Rev. Peter Jasper Akinola, on December 24, 2013, at Aro, Abeokuta. Also, it was said that the gang attacked the Rector, DS Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Abeokuta, on March 24, 2013, at Papalanto area where the driver of the rector, one Musibau was killed and the Bursar of the institution sustained bullet wounds. Only the rector, it was learnt, escaped unhurt, while their Toyota Hilux was snatched, until the vehicle was demolished, on account of the tracking device installed in it.

No fewer than six persons, including four Anglican priests, were on Friday allegedly beaten to stupor by some members a task-force working with the Enugu State Housing Corporation.

The victims were Reverends Collins Odoabuchi, Mbaka Peter, Eugene, and Maxwell Onyia.

Others members of the church affected were Ekpecha Okechukwu and Naomi Ibekwe.

The development, which is building up tension in Enugu, the state capital is coming one week to the end of Governor Sullivan Chime’s administration.

Mothers in the Hungarian capital Budapest have occupied a McDonald's restaurant in protest against its move earlier this week to stop a woman from breast-feeding her baby.

Several baby-carrying mothers entered a McDonald's near the Western Railway Station, sat down, bared their breasts and began feeding their babies.

TheNational Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC,has sealed the elite confectionaries and multinational food outlet, Chocolate Royale, for various unethical practices and non-adherent to good manufacturing and hygienic practices.

The action was as a result of a tip-off and intelligence report which indicted the company of illegal importation, storage and use of expired ingredients and food products for preparing of food and confectionaries served to unsuspecting customers at Chocolate Royale as well as operating and maintaining illegal cold rooms at their Managing Director’s residence where large quantities of various expired and spoilt food ingredients worth millions of naira were uncovered.

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke

There was a mild drama at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja on Friday, as the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, ran to catch up with the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.

Chris And Anita Oyakhilome Settle Their Differences

An unverified report on OluFamous.com is claiming that the General Overseer of Christ Embassy Church, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, and his estranged wife, Anita Oyakhilome, have settled their differences.

The blog claimed someone forwarded the information to them. See the message allegedly sent below:

A group of women in San Francisco staged a topless protest to further draw attention to the deaths of black women and girls at the hands of police, and they completely shut down the city’s busiest streets during morning rush hour in the process.The women held signs displaying the hashtag #SayHerName and photos of slain black women and girls.

As Chinyere Tutashinda, founding member of the BlackOut Collective and a member of the Bay Area chapter of Black Lives Matter, put it:
“We also understand that we live in a country that commodifies black women and black bodies but ignores the death of black women and black girls.” (TIME)

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If you’re wandering around the Gagosian Gallery in New York any time soon, don’t be surprised if you see your Instagram posts adorning the walls of the gallery.

Two gay men who met online and started a physical relationship discovered they were actually brothers live on the Jeremy Kyle show.

A DNA test revealed the shock truth for lovers Paul and Lee, who had been a couple for years after coming across each other online.

A senior civil servant in the Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Mr. Ojo Owolabi, has attempted suicide by drinking a large quantity of insecticide because of his inability to feed his family due to the failure of the state government to pay salaries for the past six months.

Ireland goes to the polls to vote on whether same-sex marriage should be legal, in a referendum that has exposed sharp divisions between communities in this traditionally Catholic nation.

Allowing gay couples to wed would be a seismic change in a country where homosexuality was only decriminalised in 1993, and where abortion remains illegal except where the mother's life is in danger.

TOTTENHAM have granted striker Emmanuel Adebayor compassionate leave after revealing he contemplated suicide.

The former Arsenal and Manchester City striker said he considered killing himself "many times" in a Facebook post over issues between him and his family.
Today his club has granted him compassionate leave to return to Togo to resolve the issues brought up in the social media posts.

A general court martial holding at the 9 Brigade Officer’s Mess, Ikeja Cantonment has reportedly acquitted Brigade Commander of the 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, Adamawa State, Colonel Victor Ebhaleme.

There was pin-drop silence in an Ikeja High Court in Lagos yesterday as one of the women physically abused by a mob in Ejigbo two years ago relived her ordeal.

Led in evidence by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mrs Idowu Alakija, Mrs Ajoke Agomo told Justice Toyin Ipaye how she and her daughters were stripped naked and pepper robbed on their faces and private parts.

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Ireland goes to the polls to vote on whether same-sex marriage should be legal, in a referendum that has exposed sharp divisions between communities in this traditionally Catholic nation.