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A 25-year-old Islamic cleric, Alfa Rahmon Alabi, has been reportedly murdered in strange circumstances »by hoodlums suspected to be cultists »because he refused to buy Indian Hemp (Igbo), for them.

The incident which happened on Thursday, July 9, at the Ayobo area of Lagos State, has thrown the community into a frenzy and apprehension.

It was gathered that the Iseyin, Oyo State indigene, was on his way to the Mosque to conduct the Tahajjud (Night Prayer), when the hoodlums accosted him and requested he bought marijuana for them, but he refused, saying doing such against his Islamic faith, abusing them in the process.

The apparently 'stoned' hoodlums reportedly became angry and attacked him and in the process, stabbed him with knives and bottles after dispossessing him of his phones and money.

One of Alfa Rahmon's friends narrated how the ugly incident happened:

“Alfa was very popular around here and we all loved him. He had nothing to do with cultism. In fact, he served as the Muezzin (Islamic faithful who calls for prayers), and also woke people up with songs every morning for the Sahur, preparatory to the fasting.

On Thursday night, he said he was going for prayer. When he got to Kaka Junction, the cult members stopped him and told him to buy hemp for them.

He refused and said he was on his way to the mosque for a prayer. He showed them his Quran as a proof.

Then the cultists said if he knew what was good for him, he would buy the hemp because they were Eiye members (cultists).

He replied them and said, ‘The Eiye (birds) I know, do not live with humans, they stay in the forest’. They became angry that he had the boldness to reply them. They then collected his phones and stabbed him.”

A community leader, Demola Olota, said four of the six cult members that perpetrated the crime had been arrested by the police.

http://pulse.ng/gist/by-fire-by-force-suspected-cultists-murder-islamic-cleric-for-refusing-to-buy-igbo-id3981688.html

jcmaiah:
Upon all the money wey him chop he still resemble refugee.

Wait for justice...

Na one person go kill the other for dis matter...
I believe you jare Oshiomole...

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday asked ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to “come out clean” on the issue of the $2.1bn Excess Crude Account revenue.

Oshiomhole said that rather than provide answers to pertinent questions on how “accruals into the Excess Crude Account got depleted without the knowledge of the National Economic Council,” and how “monies that were supposed to accrue into the said account cannot be found in it going by the balance sheet provided by the former minister,” Okonjo-Iweala had been “shifting the goal post” in her statements.

The governor, in statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Prince Kassim Afegbua, said he had nothing “personal” against the former minister, but that her claim that he chose to criticise her because she had turn down a loan request made by his administration was a “blackmail” that would not help her.

He said, “It is instructive at this point in time to state categorically without equivocation that there is nothing ‘personal’ between Okonjo-Iweala and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in terms of the request by the Edo governor that Okonjo-Iweala should come clean on the issue of revenue that accrued to the Excess Crude Account.

“As much as her spokesman tries to dramatise his response in defence of his boss, he has shown a manifest uninformed disposition to issues of simple economics of naira and kobo. Here is a former minister who has changed her position four times in the last 40 days; each position exposing her dubiety of facts and inherent contradictions in the concocted tales she has been weaving on one simple issue: what happened to the $2.1bn ECA funds?

“How come that the minister finds it convenient to publish allocations to states and local governments, but refused to publish accruals into the same account for us to know the status of the account at any point in time; how much was left from where she was distributing from?

http://www.punchng.com/news/eca-fund-say-the-truth-oshiomhole-tells-okonjo-iweala/

utumunta:
I hear prior to his elavation as Governor, he used to be the song composer for AD, A C N, APC(south west). That was his qualification for the job.

You can lie o...
By the way, this man has demonstrated his incompetence to the glare of the public. He should be probed.

Nobody is judging anyone. It is how you prepare your bed that you lie on it. America evolved from its crudeness in the past to be the most powerful nation on earth because they put adequate measures in place that won't burden it's citizens. Freedom thrives in the US. With all the inhumane activities happening every single day in Nigeria, you people still have the guts to be comparing Nigeria to US. Shame on you.
As I rightly said, there is no God anywhere judging anyone. This is how it will continue if you don't put your nation to order. Stop spiritualizing situations just because you cannot find a way out of it.

hatux:
Mehn! I bow for that 48, though she will even be more than that....

True!

dekdek:

Fool, u even have to qoute me twice and u claimed u do not have my time.
U seems to be running mad ooo.

Oga take am easy nah...

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
And the APC commando is also trying to tell you that President Goodluck Jonathan was clean and trustworthy hence he chose him to replace Dr Peter Odili.

Had Yar'dua continued after sidelining OBJ and revoking the sales of refineries he awarded himself through proxies, the tortoise in Baba has already been provoked and was waiting to give Yar'dua the same treatment he selfishly gave GEJ. Death that killed Yar'dua had numerous options to choose from the past rulers and military heads of States but decided on President Yar'dua of blessed memories

Goodluck Jonathan legacy (Transformation Agendas) forever lives on.

What is dis one saying

pretydiva:
Their lives,their business..not mine

Ok

Igbos...your dream is like fart in the air. It will soon vanish...

jieta:
Is obasanjo indirectly saying that atiku is more corrupt than him?

Not indirectly..this is direct as much as it can get.

I just love this man front, back and centre
Tell it like it is. He is not inferring anything. He has said it directly. Atiku is highly likely to be corrupt if he gives it to him while Odili already stinks of corruption from afar.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday that he chose the late former President Umaru Yar’ Adua as his successor because the others who wanted the post were corrupt.

Obasanjo said one of the people who wanted to succeed him in 2007 was “stinkingly corrupt” and that the only way he (Obasanjo) could justify himself before man and God was to go for Yar’Adua, who, he said, was the only one among the contenders then who was not corrupt.

The former President, who spoke in an interview with a private television station, Channels Television, in Abeokuta, did not mention the ‘corrupt’ Yar’Adua rivals.

Among the prominent presidential hopefuls in the Peoples Democratic Party in 2007 were Obasanjo’s deputy, Abubakar Atiku; and ex-Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili.

Atiku later abandoned the PDP to contest the presidential election on the platform of the defunct Action Congress while Odili’s ambition fizzled out with the nomination of Yar’Adua.

The AC later metamorphosed into the Action Congress of Nigeria, which later merged with the Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party to form the now ruling All Progressives Congress.

Obasanjo’s choice of successor died on May 5, 2010 from heart-related ailments. Many condemned Obasanjo for choosing a man who was manifestly sick to lead the country.

But in the Channels interview, Obasanjo said he only acted based on the information made available to him.

He said, “Even if you take your son as your successor, you are not sure of what he will do when he gets there. Don’t ever kid yourself.

“What do I know about any successor? What he presents. When he gets there, he presents it differently.

“We did our best, but if you say our best is not good enough, I will say, when it comes to your turn, do better.

“With all the people that are available for successor, what we came up with was about the best that we could think of at that time.

“One of those who wanted to do the job came to me and said, ‘Sir, I like your job, but I cannot do it the way you are doing it.’ Now, if he had told me that, should I then come and say, ‘okay, come, let me give you the job?’ He had told me that, ‘I like your job, but look, the way you are doing it, I haven’t got the stamina to do it that way.’ Then, what do you expect me to do?

“Or the one that I know that, oh!, this one, before he gets the job, he’s stinkingly corrupt. Now will I be able to defend myself before God and man if with what I know I give this job or I encourage the man to have this job?”

http://www.punchng.com/news/i-chose-yaradua-because-others-were-corrupt-obasanjo/

Taylor86:
lol

dude am fine

I really hope so

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Having a successful acting career doesn’t seem to be enough in Africa as a woman is expected to be married at a certain age. But these women seem to have defied all odds and are content being single at such age, after all, ‘life they say begins at 40′.

We present seven actresses who are above 40 years old and are currently living the singles life:

1. Rita Dominic 40
Rita Dominic Nwaturuocha is a very outstanding actress and fashionista. One of the few celebrities who has almost no scandal to her name, the actress is regarded by many as “a cultured lady”.
And while her fans and the whole world are asking, “What is she waiting for to get married?”, she keeps doing her thing on our TV screen undeterred.
With her beauty, charisma and charm, she seems to have all it takes but is missing a man.

2. Kate Henshaw 43
Known as one of the most popular and talented actress in Nollywood, not much has been said about her relationships but she was once married to Rod Nattal back in 2000 but the two split and she has been single ever since then. Her being single might have stemmed from a statement where she alleged she couldn’t date Nigerian men.

3. Monalisa Chinda 40
Monalisa Chinda is another actress who is still keeping it single.
Though, once married to Dejo Richards, the talented actress has refused to give marriage another try and is yet to say ‘i do’ to another person.

4. Bimbo Akintola 45
Versatile actress, Bimbo Akintola is another relationship enigma, The sultry actress has the ability to blend into any role given her but hasn’t quite snatched Mr. Right.

Acording to her: “There is no such thing as an ideal man. There is no perfect man or woman. What you have is work in progress. Once you meet half-way, you just have to build from there.”

5. Bukky Wright 48
Yoruba actress, Bukky Wright continues to dazzle even at 48. Beautiful, attractive and talented, the mum of three is still single!

6. Shan george 44
Actress, Shan George can easily pass for a young lady with her agility and beauty. The Cross River State star is over 43 years old but there is no telling as she can easily pass for a 28 years old lady. The mulatto, Cross River State born star has been begged by fans to settle down several times. But it seems like she is still willing to mingle.

7. Eucharia Anunobi Over 40
Actress cum Televangelist, Eucharia Anunobi, is over 40 years and still has the ability to be appealing. The single mother recently agreed that she is seriously praying for a husband after her marriage to Innocent Ekwu broke down some years ago.

http://madailygist.com/photos-meet-7-single-nigerian-female-celebrities-over-40/

Mtcheeew

A controversial message posted on the Twitter handle of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Monday night, sparked a serious controversy which forced his media team to make clarifications that further provoked critical reactions from Nigerians, on Tuesday.

Saraki, in his tweet, said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not require the approval of the Senate to nominate the country’s service chiefs.

He specifically said it was not the business of the Senate to approve the appointment of service chiefs.

Saraki was reacting to the President’s statement on Monday that the newly-appointed service chiefs would function in acting capacity pending the Senate’s approval.

He noted that the upper chamber could only approve the appointments of ministers and heads of Federal Government agencies.

The Senate President wrote, “Appointment of service chiefs is an exclusive function of Mr. President. Senate can only approve ministerial, parastatals etc.”

But while reacting to the controversy generated by the statement, Saraki’s media team said those who made comments on the social media over the issue actually misinterpreted Saraki’s message.

The statement read in part, “The attention of the Media Office of the Senate President has been drawn to a story making the rounds to the effect that the Senate does not need to screen or confirm the new service chiefs appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“However, we want to make it abundantly clear that based on inquiries made from the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on whether the Senate was consulted before the appointment of the new service chiefs was announced, he had in response tweeted that the appointment of service chiefs is the exclusive function of the President as stipulated by the constitution.

“Let it be known that his comment is now being misinterpreted to say the Senate will neither screen nor confirm the new service chiefs. This is far from the truth.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Saraki has said his comment is without prejudice to the extant laws and court pronouncements on the issue and that the Senate will do the needful when the list of the new service chiefs is sent to it by Mr. President.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/sarakis-tweet-on-service-chiefs-stirs-controversy-2/

Berra..waiting.

The NNPC (Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation) must die!” These were the words of the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, in Abuja on Monday.

A visibly angry el-Rufai, while speaking at the 7th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, lambasted the national oil firm for being run like a parallel government, adding that he was hopeful that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari would “kill” the corporation.

The governor called for the setting up of another national oil firm as he argued that the present NNPC would kill Nigeria if it was allowed to continue running.

“If you don’t kill the NNPC, it will kill Nigeria,” el-Rufai said.

According to him, the oil firm is riddled with corruption and until it is destroyed completely and rebuilt from the scratch, there will be no headway for Nigeria.

El-Rufai argued that with his experience as a former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprise, it was possible to destroy a bad organisation and turn it into a good firm.

He maintained that Nigeria’s collective wealth was being feasted upon by the less than 1,000 employees of the corporation, alleging that the NNPC only remitted 42 per cent of what it ought to remit to the Federal Government for about three years.

The governor used statistics to defend his recommendation on why the current NNPC must be destroyed

He said in 2014, the country produced on the average about 2.2 million barrels of crude oil per day, while importing most of its daily consumption of 43.5 million litres of refined petroleum products.

He stated that the reliance on imports of refined products led to unsustainable expenses on questionable subsidy payments, exemplified by the $8.99bn spent in the 18 months between January 2012 and June 2013.

[b]El-Rufai said, “About N971bn was budgeted for subsidy payments in 2014 alone (more than twice that was eventually paid). You all recall how trillions of naira were paid out as oil subsidy in 2011, when only N254bn was appropriated. No one has been successfully prosecuted for this scam. Huge deficits in gas supply have ensured that the country’s thermal plants cannot produce power at optimal levels.

“In the eight years leading up to 2014, joint venture production declined by 50.4 per cent. Some 100,000 barrels per day, about five per cent of total production, is estimated to be lost to organised theft. And we all dread the ease and rapidity with which supply shortages lead to endless queues, widespread panic and mortal consequences for the many victims of tanker accidents.

“The long and short of the situation of our oil industry is best exemplified by the parallel government called the NNPC. In 2012, it sold N2.77tn of ‘domestic’ crude oil but paid only N1.66tn to the Federation Account. In 2013, it earned N2.66tn but paid N1.56tn to FAAC; in 2014, (it earned) N2.64tn, but remitted N1.44tn; while between January and May 2015, it earned N733.36bn and remitted only N473.2bn.

“That means that the NNPC only remitted about 58 per cent of the monies earned between 2012 and the first half of 2015. A company with the audacity to retain 42 per cent of a country’s money has become a veritable parallel republic!”
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The governor noted that the NNPC felt entitled to consume more resources than the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, and the Federal Government combined.

“The example just given is only with respect to domestic crude oil sale. Similar leakages exist in the NPDC, NAPIMS procurement and subsidiary budgets,” he added.

On the way out for Nigeria, the governor said the country could demonstrate a new purpose by slaying three huge dragons, which he outlined as “a fixation with public ownership and control of every major oil asset, the corruption and distortion that oil subsidy is inflicting on our economy, and the NNPC in its current form is not in our collective national interest.”

El-Rufai went on to state that the corruption and distortion in the subsidy regime must be tackled.

He argued that the oil subsidy regime had neither grown the Nigerian people nor guaranteed stability of refined products’ supplies.

Rather, he said, what the subsidy had achieved was to create a huge hole in the budget and a new array of overnight billionaires.

The governor said, “An efficient and productive oil sector, able to create jobs, spur industrialisation and earn more revenues, requires that we tackle the monster that the NNPC has become. This country can no longer afford to maintain an NNPC that arrogantly, unlawfully and unconstitutionally spends an unhealthy proportion of national oil earnings on itself.

“We should replace the NNPC with brand new organisations that are fit for purpose, among others, a commercialised and corporatised national oil company, and new industry regulators. This new national oil company should be capitalised once and for all, and then freed to fend for itself like other national oil companies do, seeking its financing independently from the financial markets and paying due taxes and royalties.

He noted that no one was better qualified to do this than the person that birthed the NNPC through the merger of the NNOC and the Ministry of Petroleum in 1977, President Buhari himself.

“No one can appreciate the gap between the vision of the NNPC’s founding fathers, the beautiful baby of 1977 and the 38 year-old monster it has become better than President Buhari. The NNPC of today must make Chief Sunday Awoniyi of blessed memory squirm in his grave. Something fundamentally decisive must be done to tame this monster,” el-Rufai added.

The governor noted that Nigeria had an oil fortune, adding that the decline in the nation’s revenue or the negligence in using it to build human capital or enduring physical infrastructure was another matter.

El-Rufai stated that despite a 60 per cent fall in oil prices between June 2014 and the end of last year, Nigeria still earned $77bn from oil exports in 2014.

“The PUNCH Newspaper of April 2, 2015, quoting figures from the United States Department of Energy, placed oil export earnings for the year 2011 at $99bn. Indeed, in the five Jonathanian years, Nigeria earned nearly $500bn from crude oil and gas sales,” he said.

According to him, about 40 per cent of Nigerians are estimated to be very poor, adding that this means about 70 million citizens are living below the poverty line in a country that has earned at least $1tn from oil in 50 years.

“Our rich enjoy the lifestyles of the richest in the world, while our poor are truly the wretched of the earth. This inequality is most unfortunate. That wide gulf in living standards is clearly problematic.”

When contacted to speak on the points raised by el-Rufai, the spokesperson of the NNPC, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, told our correspondent that he was in a meeting.

A text message was sent to his mobile telephone line demanding a response. However, as of the time of filing this report, no response had come from the corporation.

One of the guests at the lecture series, who is the Chairman, Editorial Board of The Nation newspaper, Sam Omatseye, argued that caution must be applied when dismantling the current NNPC.

He stated that the government must be careful not to create another national oil firm that would be worse than the current NNPC.


http://www.punchng.com/news/nnpc-must-die-says-el-rufai/

dridowu:
Lovely, thanks op for ds thread

Thank you...just that it won't hit front page. I no know wetin i do MOD.

Ovems:
Thanks. I knew it would be tragic.

Yeah, you are welcome.

Yomieluv:
I love india films,have watched a lot to the extent I don't need a subtitle to understand it again..

Have watched nearly all the films you listed there,and more.

#Teamindiafilm.

Me sef no need subtitle...sometime i even speak the language when watching the film.

Ovems:
Hmmm! I have seen most of them. Their movies were very sorrowful. I haven't seen Deewaar but from the photo, I am very sure that it was really sorrowful. I have forgotten her name but the lady in the photo is known as Mother of Mystery in Bollywood. Always suffering in her films, eg Mother Indian and Mard.

Deewar is a story of two brothers, Amtiabh Bachchan and shashi kapoor. Their father was killed as a result of mob action while they were still kids and their mother had to run away from the village with them. Grown up, Amitabh turned a gang boss while his brother joined the police force. In a nutshell, shashi shot and killed Amitabh due to his attrocities and Amitabh died in their mother's arms in a temple....Pheeewwww, I still remember this movie vividly. Yes like you said, it's a tragedy.

Precious memories

Freemanan:
That's a social banta nau....
It's not an insult...
Chai you never come warri...
Where folks will tell you "your fada" even when they are clearly having fun with you... Just a merry cliche...


As you are alien to it... I take it back.... I wouldn't want the wrath of the gods

Now we are at par...by the way, guess the collection is on point.