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Phones have been buzzing and messages flooding in.

And, sadly, we can now confirm that Chidinma Mbalaso, the beautiful Koko Mansion contestant, who was yesterday involved in a road mishap in Kaduna, is dead.

Details are scanty for now, but multiple sources, including Koko Mansion winner Bolanle Okhiria and another contestant Sharon Ojong have confirmed Chidinma’s unfortunate passing.

Okhiria was in tears when she spoke with us few minutes ago.

Also, Abuja-based Amara Nwakpa, who sources say was close to the deceased, has taken to microbloging site Twitter to announce her death and bless her soul. ‘RIP Chidinma Mbalaso – 22 Jan 1989 – 25 Mar 2011. You will be remembered fondly and with love. Adieu little sister’ Nwakpa posted through his handle (@bubusn).

Mbalaso, who schooled at University of Abuja, and was building a career as a stylist and actress, was reportedly in a Coma for hours, as friends and family members ran helter-skelter trying to get her blood donation.

‘She lost so much blood. We were really working hard all night to get blood donations’ a friend tells us.

From midnight to this morning, several messages were spreading, urging anyone with contacts in Kaduna to please rise up and convince them to donate blood for the young lady.

‘Chidinma is at St Gerald’s hospital in Kaduna. Please call … (numbers withheld) if you can help. If you’re a B- or O-. She needs blood donation. Please save a life. Thanks!’

A reliable source tells us she was on her way back to Abuja, from Kaduna where she had gone to pick up her car. ‘This was her first car; she paid for with her money. She was driving back to Abuja when a motorcycle ran into her path. She was trying to avoid the motorcycle when she lost control…’

Miss Mbalaso’s death, coming a day after that of comedian CD John, and about a year to the anniversary of Dagrin’s, brings to the fore again, the horrible state of Nigerian roads, and the mess our medical system is in.

No word yet from HiTV or Mohits, but our reporters are working the phones to get more details and reactions.

una no go stay one place, waka waka

mgbeke feeling funky

Nkiru Sylvanus A cry for help 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Shey una see say she no dey act again, dat na becos say the tears for eyes don finish and na there her talent dey

Darey is the bomb

na wa oh

georgywest:
u dont av to re-register, they av to re-print it 4 u. We av anoda way to re-print witout showin duplicate copy. Am an adhoc staff. U cant vote wit a duplicate copy

@georgywest what do advice him to do now? did'nt the person that registered him observe this error?

abeg @OP just go there and ask them to register u (do this without telling them that u ve registered b4) then if they refused, tell them to find solution to the duplicate copy

hi John, I saw same thing yesterday on my friend's voters card. I tried asking him y duplicate copy was written on his own and the others I have seen appeared clear without that inscription cos I was surprised myself. But he too could not give me any concrete answer.
from the info am having now, its like urs is invalid i.e its not accepted, you have to go back and re-register

bdidi:
A man is married for three years now and they have o lovely child but his wife committed adultery and got pregnant. The man is shattered emotionally and confused. The funny part of it all is that[b] he still loves his wife and the wife does not want 2 commit abortion. [/b]And the fool who did this to his wife is still alive.

If u find yourself in this shoe, what will you do?

He should take the wife to Dubai for shopping, buy her a brand new suv of her choice, buy her an awesome apartment of her choice, and fly her abroad during childbirth so that the child can become a us citizen , Mchew

Mcleo007:
@poster,nobody "jazzed" anybody! I believe the problem with them is their refusal to move to lagos (wondering why every act has to move) and settle in for their career when they started. Look at Psquare, Timaya etc, their quick successes was fuelled by that move. And that is what happens in an industry that lacks vision and investment. That is why Its so quick to forget about some stars were once on top,e.g Tetuila, Daddy fresh, baba fryo

In addition to this, they should try to associate and do collabo with some of this top stars, abeg make them try mingle, they ve been on their own for too long

Written by Adebayo Waheed
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A landlord, Mr Isiaka Oluwakemi, has been arrested by the police in Oyo State, for allegedly killing a 35-year-old tenant, Jelili Akande, over N300 electricity bill.



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The incident, the Nigerian Tribune learnt, occurred on Monday, in Moniya, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, when the deceased was going to his office.

It was gathered on Tuesday that the deceased, a staffer of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, had owed N300 electricity bill for sometime and whenever the landlord asked him, he would promise to pay at the end of the month.

On Monday, a source told the Nigerian Tribune that the deceased and the landlord had just finished praying inside the mosque when he (the landlord) approached him for the payment of the money and, as usual, he promised to pay at the end of the month.

According to the source, the tenant had hardly finished his explanation when the landlord picked quarrel with him, insisting that he had to pay the money before going to office that day.

It was learnt that the wife of the deceased came out when the argument ensued and decided to pay N200 with a promise that she would pay the balance of N100 when she returned in the evening.

This, the Nigerian Tribune learnt, did not go down well with the landlord, who dragged the tenant, slapped him, before hitting him on his chest.

The source said the deceased collapsed immediately, while all efforts to revive him failed.

He was first taken to a nearby hospital, where he was confirmed dead, before he was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, where his remains were deposited at the mortuary.

The landlord, according to the source, was consequently arrested and taken to Moniya police station for interrogation.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olatunji Ajimuda, confirmed the incident, adding that the matter would soon be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further investigation.

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up man u

oh oh, I feel so sorry for her family

This should be a kind of lesson for young girls to try and know the kind of friends they keep cos from the story, both of them are friends and even family friends.

May her soul rest in peace and may God give the family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

abeg born ur children make u train them well instead of to dey talk this kind inheritance matter as if u even get many moni

All thesame, give ur children a viable and worthwhile education then everybody would be able to take kia of his or herself

ah ah, celebrities few for this marriage oh, abi the Akande's still place embargo on them? Even the few ones when go sef kit up (no exposures) just as if say them select them. The Akande's harsh sha, (abeg go ma gurl, money talks afterall, them wen still dey the industry still dey hussle America based businessmen when this kind big fish dey).I will surely miss ma gurl in Nollywood.
Happy married life to them

Na wa oh, I just dey laugh
Signs of the end time

Monday, January 17, 2011

Congregation seals off church over pastor's transfer

Femi Makinde

Churchgoers, the choir and the pastors of the Christ Apostolic Church in Dalimore area of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, were on Sunday prevented from having the usual Sunday service as some aggrieved members locked them out.


Protesting church members

Residents of the area were treated to a free show as the members who were protesting the transfer of the former pastor of the church, Rotimi Oluwatusin, to Sokoto State, closed the church auditorium and also locked the church's main gate.

The new pastor and his family were locked inside the church's mission house by the church members, who also made sure that they did not escape the house arrest to hold the service anywhere.

Our correspondent, who visited the church around 9am, found the members, who were armed with placards, singing protest songs.

PUNCH METRO learnt that the protesters had gathered in front of the church before the time of service. They also locked other smaller gates into the church premises and posted some of the placards on the gates and wall.

Some of the placards read, "Restore Baba Oluwatusin to us; No Oluwatusin, no service in CAC Oke-Iye; No to imposition of pastors."

The congregation, which obviously was in support of Oluwatusin, told our correspondent that the church had been witnessing a steady growth since the pastor was transferred to the church.

Many of them said that they would ensure the church become autonomous if the transfer of Oluwatusin was not reversed.

The youth leader of the church, Mr. Gbenga Ojo, in a chat with PUNCH METRO, faulted the transfer of the cleric, saying that Oluwatusin had just spent three years in the church. He pointed out that there were other CAC pastors in the state who had spent over 12 years and were not transferred.

Ojo said, "This Pastor has just spent three years and to the best of our knowledge, pastors spend up to five years before they are considered for transfer. So, I don't know the rationale behind this particular transfer. We suspect a foul-play and we will not allow this to stand.

"The only way we can believe that justice has prevailed is by returning the Pastor to this church and until this is done, there may not be peace."

A representative of the women, Mrs Modupe Adeleye, said that Oluwatusin had demonstrated through his actions that he was really sent by God to the church. She added that the church members would not allow imposition of any strange pastor on them.

She alleged that previous pastors in the church had always collaborated with the leadership of the church to defraud the members, saying they would no longer allow that to happen.

She said, "Our church has experienced a tremendous growth since Pastor Oluwatusin was brought here. We have never had it so good. Before his arrival in this church, some of the pastors we had, used to defraud us.

"We will no longer allow that. We want to see money contributed by the congregation spent on development projects here and not to be used elsewhere."

By the time our correspondent left the scene at 11am; two hours after the service was supposed to start, the aggrieved congregation was still on ground to make sure service was not held.

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This man fit who dem dey can well well

Speech by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, former vice president, Federal Republic of Nigeria and presidential aspirant at the special convention of of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Eagle Square, Abuja
Thursday, 13 JANUARY, 2011

(Protocol)
I welcome all of you to this historic gathering of our party’s delegates to elect a candidate to contest the presidential election in April. At great risks to yourselves you have come from far and near. You have come because of an idea, an idea so powerful that it breaks down walls and frightens those who like to impose their will on others. You have come because you believe in democracy, in freedom and in the rule of law. I also believe that you have come because you believe in the truth, integrity, fairness and equity, and that the unity, stability and development of this country are paramount.

You have been called upon to make a critical decision that would save the country and hasten its progress. Our great party, the PDP, has an opportunity to once more produce the President of this county in April. But, more importantly, it has an opportunity to provide real, visionary, focused and people-oriented leadership to this country. How you vote at this convention will determine not only whether we will win that general election but also whether we give Nigerians a leader who understands the challenges they face and has a plan to address them, or someone who simply thinks that being president is an end in itself. Your votes will determine whether the world will continue to ignore and ridicule this country or begin to take us seriously in global affairs.

I believe that you have come because you believe that agreements among individuals and groups must be kept if order and peace are to reign and in order to avoid chaos and lawlessness, and the might-is-right syndrome. I would like you to vote for me to be the candidate of this great party in the upcoming presidential election. At the risk of sounding immodest, I declare that I am more trustworthy, experienced, and prepared for the onerous task of leadership than my opponents.

I am a party builder. I have made great sacrifices for our party and for our nation. I have demonstrated my love for my country many times. And if you believe that the constitution of our party is supreme and that we must obey our rules and regulations, then there is no better person than me to fly our party’s flag in the April election. Vote for me because it is the right thing to do.

I am the candidate that you can trust. Anyone who cannot be trusted to stand by his word should not be entrusted with the leadership of this country. Membership in any association or organization is a privilege and it usually requires members to abide by the rules and regulations of that organization. If rules can be thrown away by just anyone who feels that he is powerful enough to do so, then it is an invitation to lawlessness and anarchy.

Nobody wants that. The founders of this party, in their wisdom, devised rules for the rotation of power between North and South in response to cries of marginalization and domination. We wanted peace and justice to reign. And we put it in our Constitution (Section 7.2.c), and we all know what a Constitution means. That provision has not been altered. In 2002, an expanded caucus of our great party met and reaffirmed that policy. Here are the minutes of that meeting. My main opponent was at that meeting and voted in favour of that resolution.

He signed as no. 35 on the list. Today he pretends that that meeting never took place and that the resolution never happened. Yet he would not summon a meeting of our party to discuss that issue and if deemed appropriate jettison it. In fact on October 27, 2010, he publicly declared that zoning does not exist in our party. Talk about throwing away the ladder that got you up there! That is not the kind of person you would entrust the fate of this country. Our word must be our bond. But my main opponent believes in doing things simply because it is convenient.

He does not seem to care if the country is thrown into chaos and anarchy as long as he remains in power. This is dangerous. The vehicles for democratic governance are political parties. They must be built and nurtured in order to provide the anchor and direction for democratic governance to flourish. In terms of party building, there is really no basis for comparing me with my opponents. Rather than help build and strengthen our party, my main opponent is destroying the great party we all struggled to build.

At the risk of sounding immodest I can say that there are not many people alive today who have contributed more than me to building the PDP in terms of mobilizing resources for it, setting up its structures in various parts of the country, expanding the party’s reach and helping members to resolve disputes. But under the watch of my main opponent our party has actually been shrinking. Under President Obasanjo many party members, including me, were driven out of the party; and now many members have been leaving voluntarily to join other parties, including members a Minister. We must arrest this ugly trend if we do not want electoral defeat in April. And I am the one who can lead this party to victory.

One of the qualities that I want you to consider today is experience. I want to remind you that experience counts. I have run successful businesses, employing thousands of Nigerians. I was Vice President in an activist government in which I played a number of critical roles. I largely assembled the economic team, pursued the privatization programme of the government and gave direction to the National Economic Council.

I vigorously pursued reforms within the limits of the responsibilities assigned to me as Vice President. I played an important role in the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and, in particular, sourced funds within government to enable it to commence operations. And it was my recommendation, after a trip to Brazil, which led to the enactment of the Public Procurement Act, another initiative to reduce the pervasive corruption in our public life.

While we made some mistakes as a government, there is no doubt that we made progress, including macro-economic stability, the reduction of our external debt burden, the reduction of the government’s overbearing influence in the economy as well as the restoration of some confidence and credibility to the country.

But after eight months in office, the current leadership cannot point to one concrete achievement or even one key problem that he has made any appreciable effort in solving. Rather our country is more divided than it was when he came to office; our excess crude account has been virtually wiped out – from about $20 billion to a mere $3million; our external debt has been rising dangerously at a time that world oil prices have remained very high; our physical infrastructure have collapsed; insecurity across the country has worsened.

Even the Niger Delta amnesty programme which he inherited from the late President Yar’Adua, has been hopelessly mismanaged, with the militants going back to the creeks to wage war on the nation. We cannot afford to continue to tolerate this level of incompetence and indifference. In critical situations there seems to be no one in charge. This leadership appears clueless on virtually every critical issue that should call for decisive action. My dear delegates, please ask him what exactly he stands for. What is his vision for the country? Please ask him. I would be surprised if you get a coherent response.

My dear delegates, what Nigeria needs now is someone who is prepared to lead. I have demonstrated over the last few years that I am ready and prepared to govern this country from day one. Leadership is a serious responsibility, which is why I have a clear programme of what to do and how to do it. That programme, the Atiku Policy Document, was put together by a team of experts drawn from various sectors of our society under my leadership. My Policy Document has five key priorities as detailed in the document. The key areas are:

•Employment Generation and Wealth Creation
• Power Generation and Infrastructural Development
• Security, Good Governance and War Against Corruption
• Education, Health and Social Services, and
• The Niger Delta

The details are outlined in the Policy Document.
The Presidency of this great country should be occupied by someone who is exposed, have wide contacts here and abroad, someone who is not provincial in thought and action. I have always put Nigeria first before my personal interests and ambitions. I am and able to easily assemble the best and brightest minds in the country to tackle any challenge, be it in private business or in public life.
My dear friends, in the pursuit of national unity, peace and stability I made enormous sacrifices for the sustenance of our democracy.

At the SDP convention in 1993, I stepped down to enable Chief Moshood Abiola to emerge as the party’s presidential candidate. In 2003, I resisted the urge to contest the PDP presidential primary even though I could easily have won it. And when President Obasanjo wanted to subvert our country’s Constitution and the PDP’s zoning policy and run for a third term in office, we put everything on the line to lead the struggle against it. The success of that struggle is what made it possible for us to assemble here today to elect a candidate for our party in this year’s Presidential election.

Without that struggle which I was privileged to lead, there would not be elections in this country this year or next. My opponent heavily supported third term. I fought against it; the Nigerian people fought against it, and the Nigerian people won. Who would you rather vote for: someone who supported the third term project or someone who put his life on the line so that our country can be free from tyranny and arbitrariness?

I have often been asked by concerned individuals why I have not given up on Nigeria after all the trials and tribulations that I have gone through. My answer is and has always been that Nigeria is worth all the trouble. I have a stake in this country. My family is here; my businesses are here; my employees – thousands of them and their families - are here; and Nigerians are here. Also Africa and the world need Nigeria to get it right. This country has been very good to me considering how far I have come in spite of my humble beginnings. It is time to give back. It is time to make good things happen.

Dear delegates, these are dangerous times; these are challenging times. We are indeed in a time of crises, a time of national emergencies. We need solid hands, firm and tested hands; we need hands that have managed things successfully. This country must be put in secure hands, not uncertain hands, not shaky and inexperienced hands. You cannot entrust the fate of 150 million Nigerians in the hands of someone who has demonstrated that he cannot get any problem right – the economy, our unity, terrorism, even the Niger Delta. You cannot entrust the security of the Niger Delta and indeed the entire Gulf of Guinea, so vital to our economy and the world economy, to a man who has demonstrated utter lack of capacity to focus on even the simplest of our problems.

You cannot entrust the fate of millions of Nigerians in the hands of someone who fumbles at every opportunity. Obviously you can become a President by accident or good fortune. But you do not govern a country by accident or luck. Governing a country requires a plan and its courageous execution. It requires the capacity and willingness to assembly the best and brightest people to help you get things done.

The last eight months have clearly demonstrated that he does not have what it takes to lead this country. It is time for us to move beyond this luck thing. It is time for serious people to take over the affairs of this country. The world is changing and we must change with it.

My dear delegates, your votes will make that happen. When you vote, forget all the threats and intimidation. Vote your conscience. Vote for progress. Vote for development. Vote for the peace, unity and stability of this country. Vote for me and together we shall make good things happen for our people and our country.

Thank you and God bless Nigeria.

ok na

@ovo4u
y u dey vex like this na, u b my own brother(oniovo me) oh, no vex again eh, the thing b say Ogboru wan form oga, him own na to disappear and reappear, make una advise am make e sidon watch him state dis time instead of tullaing

semid4lyfe:

Ok, I geddit. . .when another party wins, it's free and fair and when PDP wins, it was rigged

Thank u ma brother, if the reverse was the case, u for don dey hear " good radiance to bad rubbish", "progress to democracy and the rule of law" and other story story, but since their ultimate wish did not come to pass, it now becomes "bad radiance to bad bad rubbish" and " this is failure to democracy and the rule of law"

PapaBrowne:
The lesson in my opinion is that opposition parties should learn from PDP. PDP understands one very strong principle in elections.  It is Rural folk that vote. Urbanites just make a lot of noise before elections and for fear of violence stay at home on election day. Rural folk don't read papers so they don't care for all the bad news about PDP. What interests them is the man who comes around to their village just before elections and doles out cash and items.
It is all about money. And Nigerians are still very willing to trade off their votes because they've realised that PDP, AC, DPP, ANPP or whatever goes the acronym, they all consist of the same thieving politicians.

I love this part well well

freecocoa:
I lost my mum and uncle in 2010,its the worst experience i've had so far in life,i'm yet to fully recover.

My condolence

Also, I lost my beautiful baby cousin, I cried most times on xmas day

@ Aloy, this topic neva reach to argue, afterall u brought it up for discussion not for arguement

oh boy yea, see mama, she no wan gree oh, abeg make una leave her make she enjoy her life, where she dey go naim near

Don't 4 give her oh! she go show u anoda 99, Nigerian girls dem dey leave their love 4 their mama kitchen b/4 dem dey come man house so open ur eye, She love you na 4 mouth oh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks b to God for that beautiful family