₦airaland Forum

Sunshine Stars of Akure
have earned a free ride to
the semi-finals of the CAF
Champions League after
group A opponents Etoile
du Sahel were kicked out of
the competition by the
continent’s soccer ruling
body.
CAF expelled the Tunisian
club following the crowd
trouble that led to the
abandonment of a home
fixture against Esperance on
August 18.
This action eliminated Etoile
from the competition and
erasing their results with
immediate effect and as a
result, Esperance and
Sunshine Stars with six
points each on the table
have now qualified from
Group B.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/caf-champions-league-sunshine-qualify-for-semi-finals/

Today (August 28) is the
birthday of star actress, Mercy
Johnson. She is from Okene in
Kogi State.
https://nollywoodmindspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mercy-Johnson-400-x-596.jpg
The first Nollywood
movie in which she appeared
was The Maid (2002). Some of
her other movies are Weeping
Soul, Corporate Maid, Strength to
Strength, Act of Faith, Fathers
Blood, and Mirror of Life.

http://nollywoodmindspace.com/2012/08/28/celebrity-birthday-mercy-johnson/

ijebabe: *busybody peeps in thread*
So open ur thread na. What kind of complaint is this one

it aint only a complaint thread. You better start reading properly.

IT wasn’t long ago when
Ayodele Balogun a.k.a
Wizkid arrived on the music
scene and since that
intrusion in a collaboration
with M.I on “Fast Money,
Fast Cars” on the Talk About
It album in 2009 things
have started happening for
the Lagos Island born
Young man who is singing
his way into the heart of the
international music lovers.
https://vml1.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Wizkid.jpg?9d7bd4
Though
he is
currently
on tour of
the
United
Wizkid
States on
the wings
of EME
with
Banky W.
and
Skales yet
things are
happening for him back
home.
On Sunday while he was
reliving the ecstatic feeling
of taking on the
Washington D.C crowd In
the United States of America
where it is said, he put up a
superlative performance the
Future Awards holding in
Porthacourt, Rivers state,
Nigeria, was singing his
name and put up his name
in gold as the ‘Musician of
the Year’.
Just on Saturday, Vanguard
published an article
‘Nigeria’s Reigning
Superstars of Twitter’ and it
was same Wizkid who
reigned supreme to be
followed by the Kokomaster.
His recorded reaction to
winning Future Awards
‘Musician of the Year’ has
been “I’m just what you
made God!..Blessed!” on
Twitter.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/wizkid-on-thrill-of-a-lifetime/

Great joke.

Inflation knocking . . .

Ok create the thread.

ABUJA—Second Republic
lawmaker, Dr. Junaid
Mohammed, has given a
stern warning to the
Political Adviser to President
Goodluck Jonathan, Mr.
Ahmed Gulak, to desist from
hauling insults on Nigerians
because of his selfish
interest.
Besides, he has challenged
the president’s aide to show
to Nigerians what his boss
has achieved so far in office
to warrant celebration by
the citizens.
Mohammed and former FCT
minister, Nasir El-Rufai,
apparently incurred the
wrath of Gulak for recently
criticising President
Goodluck Jonathan for not
doing enough to protect
lives and property of
Nigerians following rising
insecurity in parts of the
North.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/show-us-jonathans-achievement-junaid-mohammed-blasts-gulak/

Alhaji Ahmad Gulak, a lawyer
and politician is the Special
Adviser on Political Matters
to President Goodluck
Jonathan. He can be
described as a sharp
shooter because he does
not mince words on issues
bothering on the
administration and Nigeria.
His depth of knowledge of
contemporary Nigerian
issues, eloquence,
fearlessness and
outspokenness, especially
on matters that seem to
touch on his boss, have
singled him out as one of
the most visible aides of
President Jonathan.
In this interview Gulak takes
the opponents of the
President to task and
warned them to desist from
distracting Mr. President
from concentrating on the
job Nigerians elected him to
do.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/2015-northern-leaders-opposition-to-jonathan-a-huge-joke-gulak/

Asaba—DELTA State
Governor, Dr. Emmanuel
Uduaghan, has said that his
administration was already
building a vision plan that
will span 50 years.
Uduaghan, in a lecture at
the Business Hallmark Public
Policy Forum Niger Delta:
Beyond Resource Control,
Burdens and realities of
Transformation, in Asaba,
said: “The vision to build a
Delta State beyond oil, is a
daunting one, but clearly
conceived in anticipation of
the day we will not depend
on it entirely or the day oil
will be one of the many
other revenue streams of
the state, not its only
revenue stream.
“All over the world, feverish
efforts are being made to
end oil’s dominance of the
energy basket. We will be
foolish not to prepare for
the end of the oil era.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/why-my-vision-plan-spans-50yrs-uduaghan/

Calabar — Joint Task Force, JTF, which rescued 28 workers of an oil servicing company, China Petrochemical Corporation, Sinepoc on Ikang waterways in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, has declared wanted, leader of the militant group, Lapto Marine Force.

One of the workers, who allegedly ran away out of fear, when JTF attacked the camp, where the militant leader, Lapto, had held them hostage, has been rescued in neighbouring Akpabuyo Local Government Area.

Commander of JTF, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, Major General Johnson Ochoga, yesterday, said, "The 28th person has been found. All of them are safe. The one that was not immediately seen has been picked up and he is safe. They have been handed back to the oil company, Sinopec.

"The last person was rescued at Akpabuyo. The 27 others were rescued from Lapto's camp in the creeks, close to Ikang. All the oil workers were kidnapped when they were going to Sinopec's worksite in Akwa Ibom State."

JTF also denied allegations that the militant group was agitating for self determination for Bakassi people.

Although JTF had on Saturday, when it rescued the abducted oil workers, declared the gang leader, Lapto wanted, Gen. Ochoga, who said the militant leader was on the run, maintained, "He is declared wanted. He is not a friend to any one, if he can take 28 Nigerians captive and this is not the first of its kind."

One of the rescued workers, Mr. Boniface Christopher, explained that their abductors picked them up on their way to work at Coco River, adding that they were ordered to lie down before their raincoats were used to blindfold them.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201208270218.html

THERE are strong indications
that the presidency has not
relented in its attempt to
break up Nigeria Labour
Congress, NLC, as a former
Registrar of Trade Unions
(names withheld) has been
recruited to hasten the plot.
President of NLC, Mr.
Abdulwaheed Omar, in an
interview, claimed that
several clandestine
meetings had been called by
the former registrar with
some of the affiliates of NLC
that were registered when
he was saddled with the
responsibility of registering
unions.
Omar, however, said most
of the invited affiliates told
the registrar that they were
committed affiliates of NLC.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/presidency-plotting-nlcs-break-up-omar/

WHEN the Central Bank of
Nigeria CBN wanted to
introduce the cash less
policy its argument was that
less than 10 per cent of the
Nigeria population draws
on the average that amount
of money from the banking
system thus placing the
burden of cost of cash
management on the banks
and the CBN. Every entreaty
to persuade the CBN out of
it failed. The rest is now
history.
Today the apex bank has
come up with yet another
controversial policy, that of
introducing N5, 000 note
and the coinage of the
lower denomination of the
naira. Economic history has
shown that several nations
that travel this path have
long abandon the use of
higher currency
denomination in favour of
electronic transaction
towing the cashless policy.
The move by the CBN to
introduce the N5,000 into
circulation in the face of its
cashless policy is an
admission of failure of the
policy and is looking for a
way out. The introduction
and coinage of the lower
denomination will have
several unwanted effect on
the economy. With the
introduction of N5, 000 it is
good business for those
who are engaged in
currency counterfeiting as it
pays to do the business the
higher the denomination in
circulation.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/new-notesll-ruin-the-economy-kill-cashless-policy/

LAGOS — A self-acclaimed
Man of God, was weekend,
arrested in connection with
the alleged death of a
motorcyclist in the Bariga
area of Lagos.
The deceased identified as
Sule Ade reportedly left the
suspect’s apartment on
Ajenifuja Street, Bariga,
about 8 p.m. on Saturday,
but started bleeding as he
was about mounting his
motorbike. He was said to
have fell and died on the
spot.
Reports, however, said no
one could say what his
mission was at the home of
the suspect, popularly called
prophet.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/police-arrest-prophet-for-mans-death/

Starting this Monday
morning in Abuja, 26
players of the Super Eagles
will be literarily up in arms
against themselves as they
battle to impress Coach
Stephen Keshi and his crew
that they are up for the
Nations Cup qualifier
against the Lone Star of
Liberia.
The Eagles crew is expected
at the end of the week to
name an additional 11 or
nine players to complement,
the 11 foreign based
players already announced
for the September 8
encounter, that will hold at
the Samuel Kanyon Doe
Stadium in the Liberian
capital
For sudden first teamers like
Godfrey Oboabona,
Azubuike Egwueke, Sunday
Mba, Ejike Uzoenyi and
Gabriel Reuben, the battle
will be stiffer as they will
battle against fresh faces
like Sani Sanusi, Philip
Asuquo, Zango Umar,
Jabason Solomon, Solomon
Kwambe and Emmanuel
Francis, who were very
impressive in the
international friendly
against the Menas of Niger
Republic two Wednesday’s
ago.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/26-eagles-resume-battle-for-shirts-against-liberia/

OWERRI—The principal of
Holy Ghost College, Owerri,
Rev. Fr. Cyprian Ogu,
narrowly escaped death
when gunmen suspected to
be assassins, stormed his
residence in the institution
and fired several shots into
his bedroom.
Vanguard investigations
revealed that the unusual
and ceaseless barking of
dogs for about two hours
aroused the suspicion of
the priest about the
presence of unwanted
visitors in the premises at
that unholy hour of the day.
It was gathered that a note
left behind by the suspected
assassins and signed by
Canon Terror Acid, showed
that they could be members
of the
Confraternity, AYE.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/cleric-escapes-suspected-assassins-bullets-in-owerri/

One of the five ousted
Bayelsa State local
government area chairmen,
Chief Timipa Orunimighe,
has instituted a N100
million suit before a Bayelsa
State High Court sitting in
Yenagoa, challenging his
purported removal from
office.
Respondents in the suit are
Governor Seriake Dickson;
Speaker of Bayelsa State
House of Assembly, state
Attorney General; Clerk of
the Bayelsa State House of
Assembly; state
Commissioner of Police and
Mr Felix Ayah, who was
sworn-in as his
replacement.
Orunimighe, who was one
of the five council chairmen
removed by the state House
of Assembly on July 26, is
claiming N100 million as
damages against the
defendants for his alleged
unconstitutional removal
from office, arguing that the
House lacked the
constitutional powers to
sack him. He is also asking
the court to reinstate him as
the chairman of the council.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/sacked-council-boss-drags-bayelsa-gov-speaker-to-court/

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare
returned to more track
misfortunes as she was
disqualified in the women
100m race at the Aviva
Grand prix meet in
Birmingham, England
Sunday.
Okagbare was hoping to
put the disappointment of
London 2012, where she
failed to meet expectations
in all her outings, including
her signature event the long
jump.
But she failed at the blocks
while compatriot, Gloria
Asumnu raced 11.22
seconds to place fourth in
the race won by Olympics
silver medalist, Carmelita
Jeter with 10.80 seconds,
she beat gold medalist
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryse who
returned at 10.90 seconds.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/okagbares-olympics-woes-continue/

Abuja - The National Sports
Commission (NSC) has given
the various sports
federations in the country a
two-week ultimatum to
submit their programme
and target for the 2016
Olympics or get blacklisted.
Malam Bolaji Abdullahi,
Chairman of the NSC and
Minister of Sports, gave the
directive on Sunday in Abuja
at a meeting with the
sports’ federations’
presidents and secretaries.
He said the federations
must hit the ground
running as he would set up
a committee that would
monitor their programmes
and target for the next four
years.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/minister-gives-sport-federations-ultimatum-on-2016-olympics/

Fast . . . Bed bars . . .

I spit Psquare flow . . . with rhymes well tailored/ to smear this hedghog/
. . . got a rhombus of tracks . . . cos I square records/
I ether lay men/ serving the kinda verse that maim 'em/
. . . my rhymes like a show in KD . . . cos I bring Northside entertainment/
This kid should take correction/ and quit dissing a professor/
. . . cos the fact that you type skeleton bars . . . is the bone of contention/
Ya wordplays lack connection . . ./
. . . ya Embassy rhyme is weak/ but watch out how mine will click . . . /
. . . so believe this guy is skilled/
Its a sin to outshine me . . . so like Adeboye,get ya life Re-dimmed/
I type it brief . . . / pointing out ya rhymes to show you re a thief/
high-light 'em . . . like I was placing his bulb on a cliff/

You're a phucking non entity/ who steals my puns and just envy me/
If my sis ever stationed . . . then it means shes on MTV/

BERLIN (AFP) – Michael
Garcia, the newly-appointed
joint chief investigator of
FIFA’s ethics committee, has
said the awarding of the
2018 and 2022 World Cups
to Russia and Qatar
respectively will come under
scrutiny.
Garcia of the USA and Hans-
Joachim Eckert of Germany
were appointed joint
chairmen of the Ethics
Committee during FIFA’s
extraordinary meeting in
Zurich in July.
The awarding of the 2006
World Cup to Germany will
also come under scrutiny as
part of the pairs’ inquiries,
Garcia told German
television in an interview.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/fifa-to-probe-2018-2022-world-cup-winning-bids/

Brilliant response.

Lagos – The Federal Ministry
of Works has debunked
speculations in the social
media that the Third
Mainland Bridge, Lagos, was
about collapsing due to
structural defect.
A statement by Mr Dominic
Avishigh, the ministry’s
Director of Highways Design
(Bridges), on Sunday in
Lagos urged the motoring
public, and indeed
Lagosians, to disregard this
unfounded rumour.
It said that a joint
inspection of the bridge
was first carried out by a
combined team of
engineers, following
insinuations that the bridge
was oscillating in 2006.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/third-mainland-bridge-not-under-structural-threat-ministry/

The menace of armed
hoodlums resurfaced in
Owerri again Sunday
morning as two persons
were shot by a gang
believed to be kidnappers
that stormed the
municipality in Jeep.
Vanguard investigations
revealed that a man and his
wife, whose identities could
not be ascertained at press
time, was driving in his
Peugeot 407 saloon with
registration number, Abuja,
HM 301 ABC, when the
gangsters struck.
It was equally gathered that
the hoodlums ambushed
the couple in front of the
New Market, along Douglas
Road, while an armed man
jumped out of the Jeep and
ordered the hapless man
into their vehicle.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/kidnappers-storm-owerri-shoot-two/

Our political journey is
strewn with thorns and
thistles leaving little hope
that the vehicle of state
would get us to the
Promised Land anytime
soon, according to Prince of
Nigeria, Rev. Chris Okotie, in
reaction to the present state
of the nation.
The sickening revelation of
monumental corruption
involving the governing
elites and their cronies
continue to assault the
national psyche. “We seem
to be stranded in the hands
of a cabal that is
irredeemably committed to
feathering their own nests
even as the misery circle
expands at an alarming
rate”, the pastor-politician
lamented.
The vexed question is
where do we go from here?
What can we say about this
show of shame going on in
the fuel subsidy probe
where children of our ruling
elites are facing prosecution
for the monumental fraud in
the oil sector in the middle
of the present economic
alienation of the poor in our
society?


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/the-epiphany-of-prince-of-nigeria/

Calabar – The Golden Eaglets
on Saturday inflicted a 9-0
defeat on the Western
Rovers FC of Calabar in a
friendly played at the U. J.
Esuene Stadium in Calabar.
The team is camped in
Calabar ahead of the Sept. 9
qualifying match against the
Nigerien team in the CAF
2013 African Under-17
Youth Championship.
Parading the team’s
probable, the Golden Eaglets
looked sharp and trim with
commanding display after
taking the kick off.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/golden-eaglets-thrash-western-rovers-fc-9-0-in-friendly/

They” in this piece refers to
all the cynics, the pestle-
wielding critics, the
unrelenting, self-appointed
activists, the idle and idling,
twittering, collective
children of anger, the
distracted crowd of
Facebook addicts, the BBM-
pinging soap opera gossips
of Nigeria, who seem to be
in competition among
themselves to pull down
President Goodluck
Jonathan.
This army of sponsored and
self-appointed anarchists is
so diverse; many of them
don’t even know why or
how they should attack the
President.
The clear danger to public
affairs commentary is that
we have a lot of
unintelligent people
repeating stupid clichés and
too many intelligent persons
wasting their talents
lending relevance to
thoughtless conclusions.
Hold on. I don’t want to be
misunderstood. I am not
saying nobody should
criticize the Nigerian
President. I spent some time
learning that legal maxim:
“volenti non fit injuria”.
Public position comes with
its own share of risks and
exposure. But the
twittering, pinging,
Facebook crowd of the new
age must be guided by
facts.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/the-jonathan-they-dont-know/

They” in this piece refers to
all the cynics, the pestle-
wielding critics, the
unrelenting, self-appointed
activists, the idle and idling,
twittering, collective
children of anger, the
distracted crowd of
Facebook addicts, the BBM-
pinging soap opera gossips
of Nigeria, who seem to be
in competition among
themselves to pull down
President Goodluck
Jonathan.
This army of sponsored and
self-appointed anarchists is
so diverse; many of them
don’t even know why or
how they should attack the
President.
The clear danger to public
affairs commentary is that
we have a lot of
unintelligent people
repeating stupid clichés and
too many intelligent persons
wasting their talents
lending relevance to
thoughtless conclusions.
Hold on. I don’t want to be
misunderstood. I am not
saying nobody should
criticize the Nigerian
President. I spent some time
learning that legal maxim:
“volenti non fit injuria”.
Public position comes with
its own share of risks and
exposure. But the
twittering, pinging,
Facebook crowd of the new
age must be guided by
facts.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/the-jonathan-they-dont-know/

KATHMANDU (AFP) – A
farmer in southern Nepal
mistook his son for a
monkey trying to steal his
crops and shot the 12-year-
old dead, police said on
Sunday.
Chitra Bahadur Pulami had
been climbing a tree to
chase away macaques that
had become a nuisance to
the family but his father
Gupta Bahadur, 55, spotted
the boy and opened fire,
wrongly believing him to be
one of the animals.
“The son was hiding in a
tree at their farm to chase
away monkeys that used to
come searching for food in
the maize field,” said Arun
Poudel, deputy
superintendent of police in
the remote Arghakhanchi
district.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/man-mistakes-son-for-monkey-shoots-him-dead/

A pastor, Samuel Oyedotun,
stunned an Ake Customary
Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State
when he said he wouldn‘t
have got married to his
wife, Lydia, if he knew the
woman was not
responsible.
Oyedotun said his wife
made him believe she‘was
religious when they met,
until after she bore two
children for him and he
discovered she indulged in
drinking beer and was also
adulterous.
This, according to him, gives
serious concern to the
extent that he hardly prayed
as he used to do before
they became husband and
wife.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/pastor-laments-rich-church-members-snatched-my-wife/

Stop lifting ma bars/ before you get really harrassed/
Wack brat . . . ma kid sis aint even ya class/
Quit this game/ you such a big shame/
You've being rapping since last year . . . and you still this lame/
Ya case is spiritual . . . you need Christ's Embassy. . . /
Cos you're the wackest guy Ive ever seen/
Get a life . . . Relax . . . for you rap is a hard venture/
Claiming you got Multi choice . . . when its only exam questions/
Dumb brat . . . you dont even comprehend the verse you spitting/
Cos you 'wacker' than walking . . . enunciated in pidgin/
'Run like Peacock' . . . you mean thats a simile?/
Stupid boy . . . even a job applicant cant be feeling him/
Tutorial . . . I show you how to rhyme it so ill/
I make rappers lose bars . . . like Michael Scofield/
FFR KING . . . my verses show/
DJ a bread baker . . . MC LOAF/
. . . Mr Lecturer . . . tutor him well . . . Im his Eedris/
Everything about my flow is sick . . . even got an Ill-bliss/