₦airaland Forum

9ja4eva:
So NCC head don correct now.

Spice girl:
Guess what peeps?
Ofunneka is in my MD's office right now! Yet to meet her.

No big deal!
She was also in my bedboardroom yesterday   

At least 500,000 Lagosians have the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, that is, they are HIV positive, current statistics from the Lagos State Government has confirmed. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, disclosed at the commemoration of the World AIDS Day last weekend, that out of the figure, 100,000 children were carrying the virus.

According to him, the figure represents 3.3 per cent of the population, which is lower than the South-West zonal average.

The commissioner added that four million Nigerians are currently living with the dreaded disease, with more than one million children infected, and a national prevalence of 4.4 per cent.

Idris stated that the United Nations AIDS Agency (UNAIDS) estimated that 39.6 million people worldwide are living with HIV, including 2.3 million children.

He said in 2006 alone, 4.3 million people were infected with the virus.

The commissioner stated that the World AIDS campaign slogan which is Stop AIDS: Keep The Promise, appeals to governments, policymakers and regional health authorities, to ensure that they meet the many targets that had been set in the fight against HIV/AIDS, especially the promise of universal access to HIV treatment, care, support and prevention services by 2010.

“This campaign will run until 2010 with a related theme chosen for the commemoration of World AIDS Day each year.

“The theme for this 20th World AIDS Day commemoration, Leadership, highlights the need for innovation, vision and perseverance in the face of the AIDS challenge.

“This year’s campaign calls on sectors of the society such as families, communities and civil society organisations, rather than governments, to take the initiative and provide leadership on AIDS,” he said.

Idris stated that HIV prevention messages is being disseminated in all regions of Lagos State, both urban and rural.

He said findings of the 2005 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health survey revealed that more than 97 per cent of adults aged 15-64 had heard of HIV, while more than 94 per cent of them had basic knowledge of its prevention.

Idris noted that tuberculosis has been recognised as the major killer disease in HIV positive patients, adding that in some centres in the state, adequate management of the dually infected patients was provided without having to visit separate facilities to get treatment.

“More than 90 per cent of paediatric HIV is due to vertical transmission from the parents. In order to reduce this burden and protect the future generation, prevention of mother to child transmission of the HIV virus is now provided during the antenatal care for pregnant women attending our facilities,” he stated.

Pastor of the Household of God, Reverend Kris Okotie, has finally put an end to the speculations surrounding the woman he wants to marry. The funky preacher and presidential candidate of Fresh Democratic Party (FDP), during the April 2007 election told his church members that he will be getting married to Stephanie Henshaw, a widow and mother of three children.

In the course of making the announcement on Sunday 02 December, 2007,The 49-year old musician turned pastor told he congregation at his church in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, that he will marry Stephanie because she is beautiful and his friend.

He said he did not want to go into details to prevent the press from having a field day.

Meanwhile, Okotie has sacked, Ms. Sola Salako, the church administrator for undisclosed reasons.

Ms. Salako told P.M.News yesterday in church that contrary to insinuations that she had resigned, she was sacked by Okotie. “I’m no more working with them. Pastor has restructured the church and decided that I am no longer in the team,” Sola said.

P.M.News learnt that since Ms. Salako came back from the United States, she has not been attending church regularly. Besides, she no longer visits Okotie’s office.

She, however, said all is well, adding that she has not left the church.

“Don’t believe all the things that you read in the papers; all of them are not true. I’m still here, all is well,” she added.

P.M.News gathered that before her sack, Sola Salako had been the church’s administrator for many years and had no problem with Okotie.

But problems allegedly started when Okotie told her that she was not going to be his wife.

After the shocking news, she immediately left for the U.S. and there were speculations in the media that she had left the church.

Former military president, General Ibrahim  Badamasi Babangida (rtd) has finally opened  up on his assessment of the eight-year administration of  former  President Olusegun Obasanjo.

His verdict is that the Obasanjo  government did not really meet the aspirations of most Nigerians in terms of infrastructural  development and provision of social services  to the people commensurate with the huge  resources at its disposal.

Speaking in a rare interview  with People Monthly, published in its December 2007 edition, IBB, as he is fondly called  also accused the immediate past administration of lacking  ingenuity in initiating its own policies  and programmes but merely  mimicked the Babangida reform programmes   implemented between August 1985 and August 1993.
On Obasanjo's score  sheet IBB  declared: "We  provided  the platform and he tried to build on  this  platform. They did not create anything  new, maybe apart from the slogan but every other thing you can trace it to our administration.

"What I would probably say is that I ran an administration for eight years and during  those eight  years what accrued  to the federal government, what accrued  to us as an administration was about N565 billion that is less than what was accruing to the Obasanjo government in a year. What they were getting in one year, we got less in eight years."
Babangida added that "I know what we  achieved with that little amount of money  in eight years; if I had  that kind of money may be we could have gone places. That, I am absolutely confident about and that is number one.

"Number two, the world is made to  believe that and  you in the media got that contraption, that my administration institutionalized corruption. Now we know better who instutionalized corruption. So I am  grateful to God  and may be history will eventually vindicate us."

klas:
At long last, MNET acting through its subsidiary company - Electronic Media Network Limited has got youtube to withdraw the fingergate video

klas:
The poster put his/her name on it and even changed the username few days ago

**Thinking**
This guy was really monitoring the clip
seems his day was not complete until he has watched the free porn
ogbologbo 

There are strong indications that the pains suffered by Nigerians before the reversal of fuel pump price from N75 to N70 by the President Yar’Adua administration may soon return, as the Presidency revealed that continuous increase in the price of crude may lead to a corresponding increase in pump price in Nigeria.

According to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, with price of crude in the international market going for $100 per barrel, the N70 pump price was no longer attractive to private investors.

lawyerchap:
It was a delightful experience chatting with the real life Salsera (who flew in from Italy that morning)

lawyerchap:
We had fun eating food we couldn't pronounce and drinking chapman till we almost drowned.

Multichoice Nigeria has been fined the sum of N10million for violating Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Act by beaming pornographic  images to Nigerian viewers during the ‘Big Bother Africa’ programme which has recently terminated.

The chairman of the committee, Hon. Dino Melaye confirmed to newsmen yesterday in Abuja that the company has agreed to pay the fine even as  it has already tendered a public apology to Nigerians on the act.

He said that the intention of the House committee was to demand for $5million fine relying on the powers of the regulatory body to fix the fine but  officials of the Federal Ministry of Information and the NBC had prevailed on the committee to lesson the fine.

The producer of the offensive edition, Mr. Martins Ngubane has been allegedly relived of his position by the authority of the company to show their displeasure over the airing of the programme.

oluwanisol:
@ spora
How r u? how far with this evening?

randa:
i am becoming a necessary evil in her life, whats the catch?

3d_hunter:
i was only fingered

Q: You were not linked to any of the house mates throughout the show, why?
A: Flirting was not one of my objectives for being in the House. Besides, I wanted to study everyone and get to know every opportunity for me to win.

Q: So you were not attracted to any of the men in the House?
A: I was not there for a romance and I am not one that can easily be influenced by what is happening around me.

Q: Is it true that Richard raped you?
A: I was not raped and as I said earlier and whatever happened on the day I was drunk in the House is being sorted out. I am still in consultation with them.

Q: Do you regret getting drunk in the House?
A: Yes, I had let my dad down and I am sorry about that, but everything had to happen because I am human, I can’t tell you for real how I am feeling now and this is why I said I am trying to sort out things with my family because they can understand.

Q: Do you have any regret over BBA 2?
A: No, I don’t. This is because I think I am getting more opportunities than I would have had if I hadn’t registered.

Q: If you are to choose among the guys you’d have loved to date in the House, who would it be?
A: None, because I was not interested in dating anybody.

Q: Do you love football, because you are expected to watch the World Cup?
A: Yes. I do and my favourite premiership club is Arsenal. So, I am a ‘gunner’ for real.

If the paramedics hadn't come in R would have had sex with Ofu(n she would have been able to refuse). Infact she cud have ended up pregnant.

Angelgirl:
@Spora
Thanks for that newspaper links on MNET's apology. I want to know more about Richard and Tatiana, anyone with news and authentic links should please post. and puuuleeaaase lets stop all these warring in the house.

yimiton:
I heard something about Big Brother apologising to Ofuneka today and someone got fired for this show.

Mnet, a South African distributor network, yesterday apologized to the Nigerian government over some sexually offensive video clips on the just concluded version of the Big Brother Africa reality show. Joseph Hunda, Director, Africa Operations for Mnet, made the apology while briefing the House of Representatives Committee on Information and National Orientation on some of the immoral scenes on the show.

“We want MNET to bring out something we believed would be entertaining to Nigerians and Africans and I think it went a long way in projecting the local content. It is important for one to highlight that there were certain aspects of the show that were not acceptable to the public. The NBC called our attention to certain aspects that were not acceptable to the public.

We agreed to use material with parental advisory. We assured the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) that we would refrain from showing certain scenes of the Big Brother Africa and we complied with that, but what happened (during the show) was beyond our control. So we apologize for those scenes that were shown and in the future such scenes will never be shown.”

The apology followed the decision of the Committee on information to ban Multichoice and its distributor networks from airing the reality show on Nigerian Television networks.

The Chairman of the Rep. Dino Melaye(Bunu/Kabba/Ijumu-Kogi PDP) who spoke earlier, said Multichoice and other networks had no right whatsoever to continue showing obscene clips of the show.

DIRECT Satellite Television (DSTV) operator, Multi-Choice, on Thursday in Abuja apologised to Nigerians over the controversial sexual relationship between two housemates during its recently-concluded Big Brother Africa (BBA) show.

On October 27, 2007, the television had recorded live, the footage of the eventual winner of the show, Richard, assaulting sexually, the runner-up, Ofuneka, a Nigerian lady.

Managing Director, Multi-Choice, Collins Kumalu, gave the apology when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Information and National Orientation, which was probing the offensive show.

Ofuneka was also before the committee together with the team of Multi-Choice.

Kumalu, who said Multi-Choice was a platform which had no absolute control over the editorial contents of the channels that they subscribed to, but tried its best to get things under control based on directives from the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), expressed regrets over the scandal.

Spice girl:
LC
Bro, some charisma you've got! The extent some people would go to defend you is quite touching. If you were to start a new brand of religion, imagine the number of followers you'll get on this forum alone.