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Always the best in what they do.

gboss4sure: Thiefs. Dem don share the money come here to the make noise

No mind dem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AEXln6NZDk


Channels Television has emerged the ‘best television station of the year’ for 2012 in Nigeria.

At the 12th edition of the Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) held at the Eko Hotels in Lagos, Channels Television beat all comers to clinch the laurel for an unprecedented seven times.

Within the last decade, Channels Television won the NMMA an amazing six times between 2000 and 2010 culminating in the distinction of “Station of the decade.”

Channels Television’s bias for news has placed it well above other competitors in the Nigerian Television industry.
www.channelstv.com/home/2012/12/09/channels-is-nigerias-best-television-station-for-the-seventh-time/

Check out the photo of the
Eberi-Papas. Here is
Timaya with his
daughter
Emmanuela, and the
baby's mum Barbara who
happens to be an
actress.
www.amebortalk.com/members-gossip/naija-gossip/2297-photo-of-timaya-daughter-and-babys-mum-the-eberi-papas

You mean I should live in a
country where Atiku is a Preside
God forbid! I have a problem
understanding a well educated
Jonathan let alone Atiku. Nigeria
deserves better, okay?

It is time to name this sect as Terrorist
Group. Our president is clueless on
how 2 tackle this menace.

FRESH pressure is mounting on the US
President Barack Obama and the
outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton to designate Nigeria’s Islamist
group, Boko Haram, a Foreign
Terrorist Organisation (FTO) before the end of Obama’s first term next
month. At the White House, an ambitious
effort has been launched by a team
of several US groups led by Jubilee
Campaign and supported by the
Christian Association of Nigerian-
Americans (CANAN) to mobilise thousands of Americans to sign a
petition addressed to President
Obama, demanding the designation. According to the petition, already
posted on the White House website,
the organisations and the petitioners
observed that despite all the
uncontested evidence on the
activities of Boko Haram, “the US has refused to designate Boko Haram a
Foreign Terrorist Organisation.” The petition, which has to get 25,000
signatures by December 29, to have
the US President respond to it, stated
that in the last three years, Boko
Haram has killed an estimated 3,000
Nigerians, adding, “they have directly targeted helpless Christians, and any
Muslims who dare to disagree with
their genocidal ambitions.” CANAN in a statement said it was
mobilising the over 1,000 US-based
Nigerian churches to get their
members to endorse the petition
within the time limit, so as to get a
response from the White House. Opening up the White House website
to Americans to petition the US
government is one of the initiatives of
President Obama to bring the US
government closer to the American
people. But his administration has been reluctant to go after Boko
Haram as a group. Rather in June, the US government
designated three leaders of the
group as terrorists, but fell short of
declaring the entire group an FTO, a
situation the President of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor described in
July at the US Congress as
“hypocrisy.” Similarly, at the US Senate late last
week, an amendment to a bill
sponsored by Senator Scott Brown, a
Republican from Massachusetts State,
was passed demanding that the US
State Department should “report on the designation of Boko Haram as a
foreign terrorist organisation, and
for other purposes.” The US House of Representatives
version of the same bill, sponsored by
Congressman Pat Meehan, is being
revived, according to the
Congressman’s office, which is
working with CANAN, to shore up national support for the bill . However, the Nigerian Ambassador to
the US, Prof. Ade Adebowale, is known
to be working closely with members
of the US Congress to avoid the
designation of Boko Haram. He is arguing to US Senators and
Representatives that while Boko
Haram must be stopped, a
designation may not be the right
approach. It will require both US houses of
Senate and Representatives before
the bill can be forwarded to White
House for signing into law. But one of the US groups working with
Senator Brown’s office and in
Congress generally to push the bill,
Frontline Missions International, is
expressing optimism that with the
passage of the bill in the Senate, a new onslaught has been launched
against the indecision of the US State
Department on the issue of
designating Boko Haram. According to John Hutcheson of
Frontline Mission International, “we
have been lobbying the US Congress
on this matter since the State
Department has been unwilling to
designate Boko Haram, and this is great news,” (passing of the bill in the
Senate recently). Legislative Aide, Michael Spierto, said
Congressman Meehan is seeking co-
sponsors to reintroduce his
concurrent legislation in the US House,
demanding designation of Boko
Haram by the State Department as an FTO. Spierto added that Meehan and
CANAN would soon do a joint press
statement “in order to call attention
to Boko Haram and why the Congress
bill on the matter is necessary.” The US groups pressing the issue of
Boko Haram are, however, not
focusing only on the petition drive
and lobbying the US Congress to
legislate; a number of them have also
submitted a legal brief to US Secretary of State Clinton, showing
how legally Boko Haram has met the
US legal requirement for designation
as an FTO. The group includes Advocates
International, Alliance Defending
Freedom, CANAN, Jubilee Campaign,
American Centre for Law and Justice,
Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institution, Igbo League, Family Research Council, Institute on Religion
and Democracy, Justice for Jos Plus
and the Westminster Institute. The legal brief running into 66 pages
says, “Boko Haram has threatened US
interests and attacked US citizens,”
already. The brief noted that one American,
who is a UN official, survived the
attack on the UN Building in Nigeria in
August 2011, while another US official
escaped.
www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107130:fresh-pressure-on-obama-clinton-over-boko-haram-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

As the feud between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his one-time protégé, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, deepens, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared that he is not involved in their voyage of acrimony.

Atiku, who is the Turakin’Adamawa, disclosed that contrary to reports that he is teaming up with Obasanjo to fight Jonathan, nothing of such existed.

Whereas an interview request with the former number two citizen is pending, Sunday Vanguard was informed by the Atiku camp that the former VeePee is not in any type of talks, formal or otherwise, with Obasanjo for the purpose of moving against the incumbent president.

Long time spokesman for the former Vice President, Mallam Garba Shehu, disclosed that “there are no formal talks going on between former President Obasanjo and the Turaki (Atiku Abubakar).”

Shehu told Sunday Vanguard: “We are aware that alignments and realignments are going-on on almost every front. This is to be expected. It is in the nature of politics. For some time now the Turaki has fully immersed himself in reconciliation with party members across the length and breadth of the country”.

Responding to the specific issue of the 2015 presidential election and plots to root out Jonathan, he said: “On the recurrent issue of the alleged face-off between former President Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan, the Turaki strongly insists that he knows nothing about it. He, too, he says, has read about it in the newspapers and left it at that.

“To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of any political meeting between President Obasanjo and his former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Speculations to the effect that he has teamed up with his former boss to fight President Jonathan are therefore totally unfounded”.

When he was reminded that the peace initiative Atiku engaged with Obasanjo may have suggested that both men have patched up their differences and may be once again working together for the 2015 project, especially given the very frosty relationship between Obasanjo and President Jonathan now, Mallam Shehu explained thus:

“Turaki’s peace overture to his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, although much misunderstood, should be taken in this context. Today, the Turaki feels much as ease with himself having taken the olive branch to about everyone with whom he had one form of falling out or the other.

“The former Vice President believes that vengeance is a negative emotion that ruins the quality of one’s happiness. Many people are amazed why he has no difficulty talking to perceived enemies. His conviction, however, is that forgiveness costs him nothing.


www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/no-talks-with-obj-to-fight-jonathan-atiku/

May his soul rest in
perfect peace, Lord
God please grant the mother/
families the heart to bear this
lost of a young man, its so
painful when a loved ones dies,i should know because my
grandma just passed away
lastweek and she will be buried
next week, Jonathans families
please take heart, God gives
and takes life, God have mercy.

President Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday, said his junior brother, Chief Meni Innocent Jonathan, died of cardiac arrest.

The late Jonathan who, until his death, was the chairman of Otuoke chiefs council, was laid to rest, Saturday, at his Otuoke home town in Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State after a solemn funeral service at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church.

In an emotional laden voice, President Jonathan, clad in a black shirt, who described the death of Meni as very painful, said he died of cardiac arrest.
The president spoke at the church service. According to him, his brother lived a good life, though he was still a young person at his death, his death is particularly too painful to bear.

His words, “I always know that people will surely die. I always believe that people will live to an age where they make their names. Some persons die before they are born, there are a lot of still births. Some others die before they grow up to an age where people recognized them. He (brother) had his two sons fairly grown up; that, at least, will be with us. The circumstances of the death sometimes worries me. What worries me is the he died so suddenly.

”This was a young man I came home on a Friday, he came to my house, nobody carried him, he moved down just from his house across the road. We discussed he was a bit frail.I said follow us so that he could do medical check up.

”He drove himself down to Yenagoa to board the chopper to Abuja. He got to Abuja that Saturday and was admitted in hospital. The following Monday, his breathing changed. I said, ‘let us make arrangement to get him out to let him get treatment outside’. So an arrangement was being made. Unfortunately the following he had cardiac arrest and inflamed heart at the State House Clinic.

”We were making arrangement to move him to National Hospital. It is a very sad thing. He had been covering the home front for us. He has a very humble person. He was a reliable and trustworthy person you could ask to handle things for you. He is dead, there is nothing we can do. I must thank all of you who have come to join the Jonathan family to give us this respect. In some traditions, I’m supposed not to be in church. It is tradition that you don’t bury your younger ones.

Luckily for this community, we don’t have too many of these cultural and traditional things. It is quite sad, it pulled the whole Nigerians to the community to bury my younger brother.”

Present at the church service were Mrs. Eunice Jonathan, mother of the president; Dame Patience Jonathan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; his Deputy, Emeka Ihediora; Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State and his wife. Also in attendance were Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan; (Delta); Matin Elechi (Ebonyi), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Theodore Orji (Abia); among others.




www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/my-brother-died-of-cardiac-arrest-president-jonathan/

Sleeping

Toni Braxton, the 45-year-old R&B singer, remains in a hospital in Los
Angeles for “minor health issues”
related to Lupus. Braxton tweeted
the news to fans on Friday, saying,
@tonibraxton: “Hey guys, I’m in the
hospital for health issues related to Lupus & Blood clots, I will be home
soon…Thanks for all the love&support!
Xoxo.” Neither the hospital nor any
spokesperson has as yet released
further details. Braxton announced she had
diagnosed with systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) in November 2010.
She has a brother also diagnosed
with the disease and an uncle who
died from complications from Lupus. Doctors told her that the illness
would likely reduce her ability to
perform. Other health issues the
singer has faced include the removal
of benign tumor from her breast in
2008 and later that year, she announced while appearing on
“Dancing with the Stars” that she had
also been diagnosed with
microvascular angina. Two weeks ago Braxton sat down
with 20/20 to discuss her financial
trials and tribulations over her
career. During the star’s ‘Unbreak My
Heart’ heyday, she earned over $170
million in record sales; yet she claims to have been paid less than $2000
from her record label. Ms. Braxton
explains, “”What happens is they will
give you an advance of a million on
the next record and the next record,
so you kind of stay in debt in a sense”. Toni Braxton has not yet released any
additional details on her
hospitalization. Feel well soon!
www.popularcritic.com/2012/12/08/toni-braxton-in-hospital-for-blood-clots-related-to-lupus-condition/

:DThank God My Father Is A Senator.

Eko o ni baje.

Sincere 9gerian: These sorts of threads dont make front page. But threads such as "what is wrong in having Buhari as president" made front page. Yeye dey smell for NL!

No mind dem.

The story line sounds fake.

Nokia has quietly unveiled the dual-
SIM Nokia 114. The phone popped up
on the Nokia India website without so
much as an official word from the
company. Nokia 114 looks like the dual-SIM
variant of the Nokia 109 that was
unveiled in some markets (but not
India) last month. The phone features
a 1.8-inch (4.57 cm) QVGA colour
display, 32GB of expandable storage and Bluetooth. It comes with a 0.3-
megapixel camera capable of
recording QCIF video at 15fps. The
Nokia 114 comes with a 1020mAh
battery capable of 637 hours
standby time and 10.5 hours talk-time or 27 hours of music playback. This 2G-only phone measures 110.0mm
(H) x 46.0mm (W) x 14.8mm (D) and
weighs just 80 grams.
www.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/nokia-quietly-unveils-dual-sim-nokia-114-300331

Iykopee: I wont be surprise if we make it @ d top next year...

True talk bro.

LAGOS — Global perception of
the anti-corruption battle in
Nigeria got a modicum of
approval, yesterday, after the
global anti-corruption body,
Transparency International, TI, moved the country four places
up in its yearly ranking of public
sector transparency. Nigeria’s 139 ranking was up
from the 143rd position the
country was ranked last year,
according to the TI ranking
released early yesterday. This came as the Federal
Government, yesterday,
dismissed the rating by TI, saying
it was a product of “synopsis of
negative media reports.” The relatively better ranking
nonetheless, reactions within the
country was not cheery as it
was the opinion of many that
corruption remained deeply
rooted in the nation’s body polity. In the release made available on
its website, TI put Nigeria in a
joint 139 position with
Azerbaijan, Kenya, Nepal and
Pakistan among the 178 nation’s
surveyed. Nigeria was effectively ranked as the 35th most corrupt
country in the world. In the
rankings last year, Nigeria got a
total score of 2.4 out of a total
of 10. The ranking based on public
sector corruption, among other
indices, followed a total score of
27 out of 100 in the Corruption
Perception Index, CPI. The CPI is
the degree to which corruption is perceived to permeate among
public officials and politicians in
a country by the business
community and country experts. The scale is based on a rating of
100 for very clean to 0 for very
corrupt. For the first time since the
beginning of the rankings in 2005,
three countries, Denmark, Finland
and New Zealand, were joint first
in the rankings having obtained
an average score of 90 out of 100.
Afghanistan, North Korea and
Somalia, like last year, were tied
at the bottom of the rankings
which essentially were reflective
of the perception of the business
community on the transparency and cleanness of public officials
and politicians. The ranking sent mixed signals
among the political class and the
civil rights community with some
lauding the improvement while
some faulted the position. The first African nation on the TI
index is Botswana which is 30th
on the global ranking. Nigeria’s
139th position and total score of
27 is reflective of the country’s
score of 32 out of 100 in the African Development Bank’s
Governance rating. Remarkably, two thirds of the
176 countries ranked in the 2012
index score below 50, on a scale
from 0 (perceived to be highly
corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be
very clean), showing that public institutions need to be more
transparent, and powerful
officials more accountable. “Governments need to integrate
anti-corruption actions into all
public decision-making. Priorities
include better rules on lobbying
and political financing, making
public spending and contracting more transparent and making
public bodies more accountable
to people,” Ms Huguette Labelle,
the Canadian Chairperson of
Transparency International said
yesterday. “After a year of focus on
corruption, we expect
governments to take a tougher
stance against the abuse of
power. The Corruption
Perceptions Index 2012 results demonstrate that societies
continue to pay the high cost of
corruption,” Labelle said. FG dismisses rating
Minister of Information, Mr
Labaran Maku, who reacted to
the rating, said the agency did
not take cognisance of the
achievements recorded by this administration in its fight
against corruption. According to him, “the TI report
and a recent Gallup Poll that
also showed that Nigeria was
among corrupt nations globally
were products of perceptions of
both the people and the media practitioners which fail to
appreciate that the incumbent
administration was taking steps
to deal with corruption by
employing systematic and
institutional approaches that are gradual in yielding results.” Citing the instance of the
prosecution of alleged
fraudsters implicated in the fuel
subsidy scam, investigation into
the pension fund scandal, the
geometric auditing of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)
and curbing of graft in the
supply of fertiliser and seeds to
farmers, the minister said these
were concrete efforts that
should be commended.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/nigeria-improves-in-corruption-rating/

Have u ever wondered
why the most terrorizd
countries are countries
that are dominated by
islams? I heard that islam
is a religion of peace. Indeed it is. The people
behind terrorism are nt
our leaders but islamic
extremists who believe in
jihad. Our leaders are
guilty for nt been serious in tackling the menance.
F.uck this country.

LAGOS — FROM a disturbing
position of 16, four years ago,
Nigeria has sank deeper into the
abyss of terrorism and is now
the seventh most-terrorised
country in the world, according to the latest ranking of the
Global Terrorism Index (GTI). From the 16th slot in 2008, Nigeria
went down to 11 in 2009; 12 in
2010; and now seven with a GTI
of 7.24. According to the report,
Nigeria recorded 168 incidents of
terrorism in 2011 from which 437 persons died, 614 persons
sustained injuries and 33
property were destroyed. Nigeria is worse than Sudan,
which is ranked 11th and Mali
(34th). Ahead of Nigeria on the index are
Iraq (9.56), Pakistan (9.05),
Afghanistan (8.67), India (8.15),
Yemen (7.30) and Somali (7.24) Of the 158 countries, 43 are free
of terrorism. They include Burkina
Faso, Brazil, Congo Republic,
Gabon, Ghana, Jamaica, Gambia,
Liberia, North Korea, South Korea,
Poland, Uruguay, Singapore and Zambia. Produced by the Institute for
Economics and Peace, the GTI
maps and analyzes trends in
terrorism over the last 10 years
and systematically ranks and
compares 158 countries according to the impact of
terrorism. The index is based on
data from the Global Terrorism
Database (GTD) from the
National Consortium for the
Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, START,
at the University of Maryland. The GTI uses four indicators to
measure the impact of terrorism:
the number of terrorist incidents,
the number of deaths, the
number of casualties and the
level of property damage. These indicators are used to
create a weighted five year
average for each country, which
takes into account the lasting
effects of terrorism. The score
given to each country therefore indicates the impact of a
terrorist attack on a society in
terms of the fear and
subsequent security response. According to the report, from
2002 to 2011, North America was
the region least likely to suffer
from terrorism. Other findings
include: • While more terrorist attacks
are being recorded, the number
of fatalities has declined by 25
per cent since 2007. • Only 31 out of 158 countries
ranked have not experienced a
terrorist attack since 2002 • Most terrorist attacks occur
in the context of a wider conflict
situation • Since the start of the Iraq
invasion the number of terrorist
incidents occurring each year
has increased fourfold, globally • In 2011 Iraq was the country
that was most impacted by
terrorism, followed by Pakistan
and Afghanistan
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/nigeria-now-7th-most-terrorised-nation-in-the-world-gti/

The police are assuring us that they
are ready to protect us when they
have not even secured their own
lives.

Abuja- The Nigeria Police Force
on Tuesday dismissed rumour of
a bomb explosion at a shopping
complex in Lokogoma, a
settlement in the Federal Capital
Territory. The Force Public Relations
Officer, CSP Frank Mba, who
dismissed the rumour during an
interaction with newsmen in
Abuja, described the
unfortunate incident as false alarm. Mba said that no case of bomb
explosion was reported in or
around the FCT, noting that
investigations by security
operatives had indicated that
the incident was a mere fire outbreak. “It is unfortunate that some
people have gone to town to
report that it was an explosion;
it was a mere fire outbreak at a
shopping complex in Lokogoma. “Reports reaching us showed
that the fire, triggered by an
electrical fault, started from a
laundry shop at the shopping
complex. “It was also said that part of
the building was razed by the
fire and the explosion. “The big sound that caused the
false alarm came from the
compressor of the air
conditioning system at the shop,
”he said. Mba also said that no lives were
lost in the incident except for the
property contained in parts of
the building razed by the fire. He urged residents of the
territory to disregard the
rumour and move on with their
legitimate businesses, assuring
them of police’s readiness to
protect their lives and property. The police spokesman,however,
advised property owners to
always provide safety
equipment in their buildings and
to ensure strict adherence to
safety precautions and to avoid similar occurrence in future. A loud explosion was heard at
the Lokogoma area of the FCT
early Tuesday morning. (NAN)
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/police-dismisses-rumour-of-another-bomb-explosion-in-abuja/

LOKOJA—The crisis over the
rightful ownership of the
disputed oil wells between Kogi,
Enugu and Anambra states will be
determined in the next six months,
Director-General, National Boundary Commission, Dr.
Mohammed Bose Ahmed, has said. Ahmed spoke at a joint meeting
between Anambra and Kogi
states on the dispute in Lokoja,
yesterday. He pointed out that the disputed
boundaries were demarcated
about 58 years ago in 1954, but
that issues of development,
population and the nations
federalism had necessitated fresh demarcation exercise in the
affected areas. Ahmed said the fresh
demarcation exercise would help
resolve issues surrounding the
boundaries and bring about
peace and good neighbourliness. He added that the discoveries of
natural resources had made
determination of boundaries in
the country very tasking and
difficult. He said the present exercise to
determine the boundaries in the
affected states was a
Presidential directive and
appealed for cooperation from
the states involved. Kogi State Deputy Governor, Mr.
Yomi Awoniyi, said the state
would do everything to ensure
an amicable resolution of the
crisis, and appealed that the
exercise be conducted in a manner that would enable the
people to continue to live as
brothers and sisters. He appealed to boarder
communities to allow government
carry out its work of
determining the true boundaries
without rancour.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/oil-wells-anambra-kogi-meet-over-boundaries-demarcation/

FOUR female corps members abducted
at the Iriebe corps members’ lodge in
Oyibo Local Council of Rivers State
were Sunday rescued by the police. The Guardian learnt that a gang of
about seven armed bandits gained
entrance into the National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC) transit camp at
Iriebe through the fallen part of the
fence. They entered the corps members’ rooms through the doors
that had no burglary proofs, stole
their phones, laptops and cash. It was further learnt that the
hoodlums abducted four of the
female corps members during the
operation. While confirming the incident, the
Spokesman of the State Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Ben
Ugwuegbulem, said the Oyigbo Police
Division swiftly mobilised the team of
police officers to the scene immediately they received the
information. He said that the hoodlums abandoned
the corps members as the police
chased them.
www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106492:police-rescue-four-abducted-female-corps-members-in-rivers-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559