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Another person has died of Lassa fever in Lagos, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, confirmed this in a statement. The victim a 27 -year-old lady died at the Ijede General Hospital, Lagos.

According to the Commissioner, the patient had received treatment from a private hospital and three churches before she was referred to the general hospital where she eventually died of the virus.


SOURCE: http://nigerianewsonline.com.ng/lassa-fever-death-toll-increases-in-lagos/

A Federal High Court in Abuja heard on Tuesday how the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) paid N1.4billion to 78 firms including Destral Investment Limited owned by the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, non-existing contracts.

The information is contained in a document – an electronic mandate – tendered before the court by the prosecution in the trial of Metuh before Justice Okon Abang.



The document, tendered through an official of the ONSA, Bali Ndam, was said to have been issued by former NSA, Sambo Dasuki, to the Abuja branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria, authorizing payment of various sums of money running into N1.4billion.

“What is written on the document is payment for security services,” Ndam, a Legal Adviser at the ONSA, said while testifying in the case. Ndam was led in evidence by lead prosecution lawyer, Sylvanus Tahir.

Although the prosecution accused Metuh of receiving N400million from the ONSA for the presidential campaign of the PDP, Ndam, when confronted with the document by Metuh’s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), read out the document, where it stated that the ONSA paid Metuh for providing “three operational vehicles.”

Ndam, who testified as the third prosecution witness, said investigation into the arms scandal was informed by a petition from the incumbent NSA, Babagana Monguno, dated November 28, 2015.



SOURCE: http://nigerianewsonline.com.ng/witness-reveals-how-metuhs-firm-77-others-got-n1-4b-for-fictitious-contracts/

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Tuesday called on the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru to give priority to the completion of the East-West Road project in the Niger Delta region.

Odigie-Oyegun made the call when he received in audience the minister on a courtesy visit to the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.



The APC National Chairman decried that despite huge funds sunk into the East-West Road by successive administrations since 2006, the 338km dual carriage road, which traverses towns in Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Delta States remains uncompleted.

He said: “You have one of the most challenging and strategic assignment as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. The Niger Delta is an area that had been steeped in unrest. You must ensure that the unrest does not arise again.

“You have the East-West Road which is a major challenge. It will be a significant achievement for this administration if the project is completed. The project will go a long way in assuring the region that this government is working in their interest”

The contract for the construction of the East-West Road was first awarded in 2006. The road was initially divided into four sections, but late 2014, a fifth section was added to it, covering Oron to Calabar in Cross River State.

Meanwhile, Odigie-Oyegun disclosed that the APC was planning a three-day policy dialogue tentatively scheduled for March 2016 which will bring together party leaders, government and relevant stakeholders to exchange ideas and profer solutions to guide the country out of the challenges facing the country, particular the economy.

Responding, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru said the ministry under his watch was poised to contribute to the achievement of the party’s Change Agenda for the country and also bringing sustainable development to the Niger Delta area.

The minister promised to give priority to the completion of the East-West road.



SOURCE: http://nigerianewsonline.com.ng/apc-tasks-niger-delta-minister-on-completion-of-east-west-road/

A mentally ill woman who was hit by a vehicle, has been lying down unclad under the red truck seen in pic above for about 2 weeks now, according to an eyewitness. The woman is lying between Ajiwe police station and Abraham adesanya roundabout, directly opposite Forte oil filling station in Ajah, Lagos. She’s not dead. The relevant authority should come and help this woman.

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SOURCE: http://nigeriabreakingnews.com.ng/unclad-mad-woman-hit-by-a-vehicle-lying-under-truck-in-ajah-photos/

THE feud between the Igbo and the Yoruba ethnic groups is contrived, just like the feud between the Igbo and the Ikwere. Whenever these feuds take centrestage, the impetus is invariably traceable to the divide-and-rule imperative, which inevitably profits the oligarchy of northern Nigeria. Every other explanation adduced in the explanation of the phenomenon can only be peripheral. It is important to make this point from the outset, before going about the business of explanations – for the benefit of those who may genuinely be ignorant of a crucial factor in the continued inability to resolve some of the more critical of Nigeria’s contradictions.

Femi Aribisala, one of the more perceptive of the motley coterie of columnists currently on the national stage, discussed the origins and manifestations of this feud in an incisive article entitled Time To End the bad blood between the Yorubas and Ndigbo (Vanguard January 12, 2016). “What is the basis of all this hate?” Mr. Aribisala asks.”In the sixties, the Igbo were slaughtered in pogroms in the North. However, the principal exchange of hateful words today is not between Northerners and Easterners, but between Easterners and Westerners. Why are these two ethnic groups so much at loggerheads?”



The straightforward answer is that it serves the interest of the “core” North to keep the South permanently in mutually assured destructive contention on largely immaterial issues. It happened between the Igbo and the old Rivers State in the wake of the Nigerian civil war. It was suddenly and conveniently “discovered” that the Ikwerre were not and had never been Igbo. The people went into a flourish of re-spelling: Umuomasi became Rumuomasi; Umukrushi became Rumukrushi; Umuola became Rumuola; Umueme became Rumueme.In truth, all these represent no more than distinct dialectal spellings of Igbo root names typical to the areas around Port Harcourt. But the re-spelling exercise was used to manufacture an entirely new ethnic group.

Awolowo: Founded Action Group and Azikiwe: Succeeded Macaulay as NCNC president
The acclaimed writer, Professor (Captain) Elechi Amadi, who led the group that lent intellectual weight to this fad,went further to celebrate in fictional terms the political marriage between Rivers people and Northern Nigeria. Yet, he did not see it fit to change his name to Relechi Ramadi. Of course, the contrived ethnic dissonance achieved its purpose. While the fight raged relentlessly on “Abandoned Properties”, mostly mud houses built in the 1930s and 1940s, the “core” North moved in and harvested the oil rewards. Their members became instant millionaires by being allocated shiploads of crude, which they sold off at the Rotterdam Spot Market. Further, they appropriated 99 percent of the oil blocs. Then they seized Professor Tam David-West, a Rivers man, “tried” him for causing the country “economic adversity” and handed him a tidy prison term. But the picture is becoming clearer. Had the black gold been found in the “core” North, would the Rivers man have been allocated even one percent of the oil blocs?

It was not the Igbo that killed Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro. It was not the Igbo that killed Ken Saro-Wiwa.

It was not the Igbo that banished Delta nights with the interminable flare of gas. It was not the Igbo that ordered the November 20, 1999 expeditionary attack on Odi that left 2500 Ijaw citizens killed and the town reduced to rubble.

The Igbo was accused of desiring nothing but the expropriation of Delta oil and gas. But geophysicssince proved that the entire Igbo country sits on oil, and holds in its bowels the largest concentration of gas on the Africa continent. That is the way everything goes and turns round.

The Delta people, previously cajoled into believing that they had been liberated from Ndigbo, are beginning to know differently. They have discovered their real oppressors. President Jonathan, a Rivers man, was denied a second term in office. His single tenure was covered in a mountain of mendacity by the manipulators of sectional press and political blackmail. The traditional “political allies” of the Southern minorities felt affronted by being asked to vote a second term for one of those they claimed to have “liberated” from Igbo clutches and talons!

It is on the same plane that the feud between Ndigbo and the Yoruba sits today.True, prophets abound who received messages directly from God that President Jonathan would lose his reelection bid. But realpolitik always made it obvious to informed non-prophets that no two of the ethnic tripod of Nigerian politics could bind together without carrying theday of national ballot. That is what the entire feud currently playing out between the Yoruba and the Igbo is about. Suddenly, it was discovered that Ndigbo are in cahoots to adulterate Yoruba culture! Suddenly it was remembered that, during the 1950s, Chief Awolowo had cheated Dr. Azikiwe of the West Regional premiership by playing the ethnic card. In the circumstance, verbal missiles have been hitting antipodal zones with the destructive insistence of heavy artillery concentration.

While this distraction was in ascent, a leeway was created for imbuing the Chosen One with the political sagacity that he so pitifully lacks. While this distraction runs, the entity suffers because a divided South guarantees less than enough mobilization for a national front to push for positive movement and needed reforms. This is where Aribisala’s lament becomes more apposite: “[The Yoruba and the Igbo]prefer a Nigeria that practices fiscal federalism. Both want a country with a weaker centre. Both want a Nigeria that rewards merit, with a state-structure based on resource-control. Both groups want a Nigeria committed to self-determination. These are grounds for cooperation as opposed to discord. If the North is not to continue to take the South for granted, it must not be allowed to continue to operate in the confidence that the East and the West will always be divided.”

That is the problem. The North does not operate in the confidence of eternal East-West dislocations. It surreptitiously incites and nurtures them, remotely controlling surrogates who celebrate sinecures at the expense of self-determination and fiscal independence! That is why, despiteAribisala’srealism, Northern pragmatism will ensure that the contrived Yoruba-Igbo discord does not abate. If anything, it is set to escalate. One only needs to critically examine the true nature of the Government of Change since served Nigerians on a platter of media overkill, to fully understand the state of play. Despotism is staging a comeback, propped up by a – not the – Yoruba media, which objectifies its permutations and predilections through a virulent antipathy for Ndigbo.

This ensures the attenuation of pressure from the Chosen One. There is firmly in place an abundance of menopausal professors of Law rabidly justifying the unfolding, visceral string of disobediences to court injunctions. The allegiance to true fiscal federalism, a central plank of the Yoruba profession of a continued corporate Nigeria, has all but been deliberately diminished. And, generally obfuscating every space for rational thinking and committed leadership, is the conundrum of trial by media. Those who have been setting the national clock back by decades confuse themselves by thinking that they are getting one back on the PDP. That is false. What they are doing is simply intensifying the artificial war between the Igbo and the Yoruba, in order that those born to rule would hold permanent sway. Yet, there is a redeeming feature in this morass of crassness – the very fact that everything goes and turns round.


SOURCE: http://nigerianewsonline.com.ng/the-igbo-yoruba-feud-how-it-all-started/

1956 Throwback: Ahmadu Bello Bowed To Greet Queen Elizabeth - Do You Think It's Right
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SOURCE: http://wanwod.com/post-12-1956-throwback-ahmadu-bello-bowed-to-greet-queen-elizabeth-do-you-think-it-s-right.html

imas:
OP, so you no include Fashola?

Fashola no reach to dey top 7

As President Muhammadu Buhari's administration begins to take shape, the powerful men listed below are those who will most likely determine the fate of his government. They have the president's ears on all matters and are the most influential people behind the president.

Yemi Osinbajo:

Professor Osinbajo is the 2nd citizen of Nigeria and is predictably going to run the economy. And based on Buhari's Anticidents, a lot of power and duties will be delegated to him. Also when the president is away from country he substitutes him.

Major-General Tukur Buratai:

With Security being Buhari's number one priority, this Army chief is highly influential and has unhindered access to the president's innermost circle. He is expected to help the president stop the insurgency in the North East - this will bring the most glory to Buhari's administration. In fact, if Buhari is thinking of contesting a second term, his fate is in the hand of this army general.

Rotimi Amaechi:

This Ex-Rivers state governor's influence in this administration was directly felt during the ministerial screening exercise. Despite being indicted for corruption in a probe of his administration by his state government, he still scaled through to become a minister in a government whose mantra is "War Against Corruption".

Femi Adesina:

This man is Buhari's mouth-piece and image maker. That means he serves in the president's innermost circle and will be the one to handle all PR issues as well as take all the heat and bashing directly from Journalists.

Nasir El-Rufai:

Though not directly in the president's cabinet, the Kaduna state governor has the president's ears in all important political matters. It is even rumoured that he was the one that vetted the ministerial list before it was sent to the senate.

Lai Mohammed:

Likely to serve as Buhari's Propaganda machine. This All Progressives Congress publicity secretary did a marvelous image laundering job for the party when it was in the opposition. Buhari will depend on him to replicate the same for his administration. Especially to market his policies to Nigerians effectively

Abba Kyari:

This is the man you must see before seeing the President. He is Chief of Staff and the No.1 Citizen's gatekeeper. This makes him very powerful as he determines what reaches Buhari's ears and when.


SOURCE: http://thesummary.com.ng/index.php/news-categories/national/item/4315-list-of-the-7-most-influential-people-in-buhari-s-government-these-men-are-really-powerful



TRUE OR FALSE WHATS YOUR OPINION

If the Biafra was to break-away it doesn't necessary mean that there will not be biafrans still in Nigeria the difference is they will become foreigners in Nigeria just as Nigerians are foreigners in other countries now

Thats very Good

efilefun:
369k jobs and we still have jobless PDP e-rats on NL.... abegiii next story

Why you hate PDP

American Govt are hypocrites when Buhari was inciting violence with his speeches in previous elections why was he not barred, nonsense

The National Bureau of statistics has said a total of 369, 485 jobs were created in the fourth quarter of 2014 in the Nigeria economy.

The NBS, giving a break down of the number said, 138,026; 227,072; 4,387 were created by the formal, informal and the public sector respectively. The formal sector recorded 5.1%, informal 14.6 and public 23.5 decrease in Job creation. The report further shows that the education sector generated the most jobs in the fourth quarter compared to manufacturing which have the highest in the third quarter


PS: This article is a summarized version of the original news

Source: http://thesummary.com.ng/index.php/component/k2/item/454-369-485-jobs-created-between-oct-and-dec-2014

IgboPhobia - Fear of Igbos most Nigerian's suffer from this

NL ladies i need to be molested anyone up for it

The major issue is the white wedding, for the traditional the lady's family will handle the major aspects except na poor family the lady comes from.
800k - 1m should give you a standard wedding unless na inside town then it will not be enough for the hall alone.

PDP is united and will win the election with or without the suit.




Unwanted impact of antibiotics broader, more complex than previously known
http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/more-news/science-tech-news/item/3199-unwanted-impact-of-antibiotics-broader-more-complex-than-previously-known

We need leaders like him in Nigeria now more than ever may his soul rest in peace.




Boko Haram training new recruits – FG
Source: http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/world-news/item/3197-boko-haram-training-new-recruits-fg

huh

Randy men everywhere but 13 in Primary 3 at that age i was in JSS3





Suspected Boko Haram leader captured
Source: http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/national-news/item/3216-suspected-boko-haram-leader-captured

Why be say celebs na them dey always get the finest babes.





Facebook Just Made It Possible To Will Your Page To Someone When You Die(SEE HOW)
Source: http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/more-news/odd-news-reports/item/3198-facebook-just-made-it-possible-to-will-your-page-to-someone-when-you-die

God help us, We overcame Ebola this too we shall overcome by His grace.





Hoodlums set suspected suicide bomber ablaze in Gombe
Source: http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/national-news/item/3215-hoodlums-set-suspected-suicide-bomber-ablaze-in-gombe

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In Nigerian politics Pastors, Imams, herbalist and even witches and wizards dey take side why not traditional rulers everyone is entitled to their own opinion






No Avian Influenza ‘Birdflu’ In Oyo – Expert
Source: http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/more-news/health-news2/item/2987-no-avian-influenza-birdflu-in-oyo-expert

When Tinubu has payed them all of what do you expect





Buhari VS Jonathan: See Who Your Favourite Celebrities Are Voting For!
Source: http://www.e reporter.com.ng/index.php/entertainment-news/item/2990-buhari-vs-jonathan-see-who-your-favourite-celebrities-are-voting-for

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