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lonelydora:
HIV weaker and Ebola stronger.

Both are deadly disease

unibenstudent1:
With condom aids has no power

If your condom tear nko

Thank God first page today in my life....oya sekem + skelewu ;DThank God first page today in my life....oya sekem + skelewu

melotreaah:
Come and cook urs dear>.....................

Dont mind him

Stop hating bro!

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Lil Kesh Album Track-List
1. Intro
2. Shoki
3. Shoki rmx
4.Shoki female remix
5. Shoki gospel remix
6. Shoki Agegunle remix
7. Shoki raggae remix
8. Outro
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Osun Election Tribunal: Omisore (PDP) Received More Valid Votes.

**Re-counted Result: Aregbesola 296,344 Votes; Omisore 308,299.
**Omisore (PDP) asked Tribunal to declare him winner & governor elect.
**Aregbesola (APC) demands INEC to re-run the Election.

The proceeding at Osun election has indicted that the likelihood of Osun state having a new chief executive in the next few weeks is very high.
The tribunal's manual inspection and re-counting of ballot papers used for the election exposed that over one hundred thousand invalid votes were dumped in favour of Governor Aregbesola in almost all the Local authorities in the states.

Majority of these thumb printed ballot papers are from Ekiti state election in favour of Aregbesola (APC), were discovered in local government like Osogbo, Olorunda, Ejigbo, Ede North, Irewole, Ila-Orogun, Irepodun and others Aregbesola (APC) claimed he won.

Tribunal adjourned sitting to 30th of October, 2014 with newly appointed Judges as members. Justice E.N. Ikpejime from Benue State, will serve as chairman, Justice V.I Ofesi from Delta State and Justice Kutigi from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja are members.

As things stands now Omisore secured more valid votes in the Osun state governorship election and according to Hope for Nigeria, if the new Tribunal members confirm the re-counted results, Osun state will surely be having a new governor in couple of weeks to come

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NFF revealed the list of candidates shortlisted to
replaced under fire Super Eagles coach Stephen
Keshi.
According to NFF, the body is ready to take a
drastic step that will favor Nigerians who are
football lovers.
Following the Super Eagles 0-1 defeat to Sudan
on Saturday,soccer fans, pundits among others
have called for his sacking.
Thus tonight’s game against Sudan in Nigeria may
be the last game for Stephen Keshi as coach.
Here is the list of shortlisted candidate;
(1) FUTBALL GALORE
(2) OJO TOSIN
(3) OBA ADENIJI
(4) TOBI CHARLES
(5) ADEPOJU TOBI SAMUEL
(6) TAYE HASSAN ADIGUN
(7) GBENGA OGUNLEYE
( WALE MUSTAPHA SPORTPRO
(9) SAMUEL AHMADU
(10) TAIWO SPORT JOURNALIST IBRAHIM
(11) TUNDE SHAMSUDEEN
(12) IBITOYE SHITTU
(13) GOKE SLANKEY SOLANKE
(14) ONI GUARANTOR AFOLABI
(15) VINCENT AKINBAMI
All the shortlisted candidates are considered fit
for the job, but the most qualified hands will be
chosen for the hot seat job.
Source:starafrica.com

The last 72 hours were probably the most intense in my
life. The love, kind words and support I’ve received in
that period from, mostly, total strangers have been
overwhelming. I want to thank everybody who saw the
good in what I did. Though, to be honest, I think it was a
little silly. What was I thinking putting my life and
probably my career on the line in an attempt to change
something so entrenched it seems unchangeable? But
really I’m not fazed by the trash talk from those allergic
to the truth.
It’s a long time coming and someone has to put the Big
Ben on the fat cat, I guess.
During the same period I’ve also been insulted like never
before. I’ve been called the most uncomplimentary names
and all the curses in Deuteronomy hurled towards me.
They should be ashamed that the brushed ego of their
spiritual Godfather meant more to them than the over 90
lives that perished under the rubble.
I can deal with the trash talk and name-calling. But I’m
also not naïve. I’ve made plans to evacuate my family to
safety at the shortest notice in case things escalate. I hope
they don’t. But one can never be so sure with these
fundamentalists.
They said I’m an attention freak; that I published the audio
clip because I yearned to be a social media celebrity
(whatever that means). Well, I won’t lie; I enjoyed the 15
minutes of fame. I loved the thrill of being in the eye of the
storm. In case my accusers are reading this, I got over
2,000 followers on twitter within the period. I don’t know
what to make of that yet. I’m not so sure about this Twitter
thing but if there’s a way I can convert that to money, that
would be something. Gbenga Olorunpomi, how much does
one twitter follower exchange for a dollar these days?
So why did I publish the audio?
I had recorded the audio six days before posting it on
Twitter. To be sincere, I didn’t think much of it until
Saturday morning (I’d explain later). I was intently
watching the way the collapsed building was being played
out in the media after the rather disappointing way Lagos
State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, dodged reporters
through a back door after his private meeting with TB
Joshua on September 14. I observed that Nigerian media
were being too gentle on TB Joshua despite the glaring
irregularities surrounding the collapse. I read more reports
about the “hovering craft” and how Boko Haram could’ve
sabotaged the building and other poppycock the
televangelist wanted the world to believe.
Very little was reported about the structural defects of the
building. Not much was written about the fact that the
building originally had 2 floors and was being illegally
refurbished with 4 additional floors when it collapsed. We
didn’t come hard on the Synagogue Church goons who
attacked first responders. We didn’t highlight the fact that
many of those that perished could have been saved if
NEMA officials weren’t barred from the site for almost
three days! We didn’t make an issue of the fact that our
colleagues who had gone to report the collapsed building
were molested on Saturday.
So when I woke up last Saturday morning and saw the
picture of Jonathan shaking hands with a grinning TB
Joshua with headlines like “Jonathan consoles TB
Joshua,” I said damn it! I couldn’t stomach this blatant
impunity.
TB Joshua is perhaps the most powerful preacher in Africa
and politicians all over the continent fawn at him. But as
watchdogs, journalists must hold entrenched powers to
account. If Nigerian politicians didn’t realise that more
than 90 lives had just perished underneath a building
without requisite permit and that those responsible should
be held accountable, then the responsibility falls on
journalists to force them to do the right thing.
Journalists shouldn’t be seen or heard telling the prime
suspect they would write “just like you said” after he
offered to buy their consciences with N50,000.
Some of the reporters who collected the N50,000 have
called me after the audio went viral to complain. They told
me they have been getting calls from colleagues and
family members who recognised their voices in the
recording. One even accused me of a breach of trust. I told
him I didn’t sign a pact of silence with anybody. For me
the decision was between covering the ethical
shortcomings of my colleagues or doing that which is right
to make sure those who died and their families get justice.
The decision was easy.
Why didn’t I publish the audio the same day I recorded it?
Nigerian journalists habitually ask for gratification at
press conferences and corporate events that it has
unfortunately become a norm. Reporters actually think
you’re a fool if you turned down what they call “brown
envelope”. There are several excuses to justify it: “We’re
poorly paid,” “We have not been paid for months,” etc.
Honestly, it’s hard to dismiss some of these excuses
sometimes. Nigerian Journalists are perhaps among the
worst paid in the world. This is where the Nigerian Union
of Journalist should do more. Its officials should stop
paying courtesy calls to politicians (of course, we know
what exchanges hands during these visits) and do more to
force Jet-flying owners of media organisations to pay
reporters more and on time. We deserve it.
Journalists should also explore other related and
legitimate means of making money like researching,
writing and editing reports for NGOs, writing and editing
of brochures and reports, working as fixers to foreign
journalists, blogging (I recently met a Nigerian television
reporter that make quite some money monthly from his
blog), etc.
Like everything in Nigeria, this “brown envelope” thing
has been stretched beyond the limit of ridiculousness. I’d
give some examples: On August 15, 2010 a truck
belonging to Dangote Sugar Refinery caused an inferno at
the Ojodu Bridge outside Otedola Estate in Lagos. More
that 50 lives perished in the fire. An inquest was initiated
by a non-governmental organisation, Access to Justice and
Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana. Please take a deep
breath before reading the next sentence. During the
inquest, officials of Dangote Industries distributed cartons
of Spaghetti (and some money, probably to buy
ingredients) to court reporters at the Ikeja High Court to
probably skew their account of the hearing. In case you
missed it let me repeat. Some Nigerian Journalists
collected packs of Spaghetti as bribes! Are we that
hungry? Some reporters got as little as 12 packs of
spaghetti. My friend, Ben Ezeamalu, was almost beaten up
for speaking against it.
In fact, they erected a wall of hostility around themselves
whenever he came around. According to him, a very senior
journalist pulled him aside and told him it was easy for
him to turn down the brown envelope because he wasn’t
married and had no school fees to pay.
Ben said his curiosity was excited while he was
researching for material on the internet for an article he
was writing days before the coroner’s verdict on the
inquest. To his surprise, there was very little material for an
inquest that involved Africa’s richest man and had lasted
19 months! After the coroner delivered his verdict, in
which he indicted Dangote’s company as well as the
Nigeria Police, the (short) article was tucked away in a
remote corner in almost all the newspapers the next day.
The fact that the coroner indicted Dangote was also
carefully left out in the articles.
Other journalists have tagged Ben “a spy” for
consistently refusing to collect “brown envelopes”.
Nigerian journalists no longer know where to draw the
line. A father that lost his son during last Dana plane crash
was forced to pay journalists during his son’s wake-keep
before it was reported. There are more puke-inducing
instances but I’d stop here.
For those of you saying N50,000 ($300) was too little to
entice Nigerian reporters, I’ve seen reporters scuffle over
N2,000 ($12) during a press conference.
During last year’s gubernatorial election in Ondo State,
reporters literally came to blows at Governor Mimiko’s
home after the latter released “appreciation money” for
journalists who covered his polling unit. The sharing
formula was N10,000 per head, until the cash ran low and
the formula switched to N7,000. Cue bedlam. The
governor’s PA, looking on with contempt, threatened to
evict them from his employer’s residence if they failed to
conduct themselves with decorum. One fellow even started
arranging for another group of journalists to go meet the
governor for another “appreciation money.”
Editors should also monitor their reporters too, but we all
know that some editors get theirs through subtler manner
(Bank transfers). I’m a Nigerian journalist I want to change
things the only way I know how to – going public with it.
I’m not saying anything new here, everybody who has one
thing or the other to do with journalists knows that these
things happen. Maybe I’m the first journalist to go public
with it in such a manner.
Corporate organisations and individuals should also stop
offering these bribes (I still insist that they are bribes and
nothing else). Journalist will report your events whether
they like it or not. They want to stay in business. My heart
skips anytime I get a call from my editor or receive that
email with a subject that reads: “Pending stories”. I know
I’m required to deliver. I don’t need that “brown envelope”
to turn around that copy. I know in the Punch for instance,
reporters are required to fill a certain number of pages
every week. They can’t sit around waiting for “money to
fuel your cars” to write stories to fill those pages. The
threat of losing one of the most lucrative jobs in the
industry is enough “inducement”. But the truth is most
pressers aren’t news worthy so PR officials feel they need
to induce reporters to write about them.
And for the fundamentalist followers of TB Joshua, this
isn’t about your spiritual Godfather. I would still have
gone public with this if the Pope was involved. I can’t say
I’m sorry that his ego was bruised. He clearly meant for the
money to influence the reporting of the event. “So what
are you going to write?” He had asked. That makes it a
bribe. Simple. I can’t help you if you couldn’t decipher
that. I’m a reporter not a brain surgeon.
This is the last I’m going to say on this issue unless
something drastic happens. Let the personal attacks
continue.
Source:- Nicholas Ibekwe Blog

Commentaries have been made concerning the Osun 2014 governorship election convincingly won by the APC flag bearer, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
There were losers, who have the right to either raise their voices in favour or against the conduct of the election. This was the path of honour taken by the Labour Party and its flag-bearer, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, who conceded defeat and congratulated Aregbesola. What a true democrat Akinbade is?
However, the major opposition party in Osun, the PDP, has been crying wolf where there is none. Again, they are entitled to freedom of expression as enshrined in our Constitution. But through their utterances and actions, Osun PDP is standing truth on its head to whip up sentiment. But one is happy that despite the odds put on the ways of the Osun electorate, before and during the election, with the deployment of the so-called federal might, PDP was denied victory.
In order to give a dog a bad name, to justify hanging it, the Osun PDP has gone to town to wrongly assert that the two officials suspended by INEC, on one allegation or the other, connived to ‘rig election’ in favour of the APC. And in a jiffy, a press release was sent out by the Osun PDP to confuse the electorate on the issue.
On the eve of the election, the Electoral Officer (EO) for Obokun Local Government, Anthony Olusegun Eshinoye, was said to have been arrested while allegedly attempting to divert some electoral materials to the residence of a PDP big-wig in the council area and he was promptly handed over to law enforcement agents. But what happened thereafter is better imagined.
Be that as it may be, one is happy that the Public Relations Officer of INEC in the State of Osun, Mrs Adenike Tadese, has categorically stated that the suspension of the two INEC officials has nothing to do with electoral malpractices to favour APC, as the action resulted from “administrative lapses” on the part of the officials, who are still under further investigation.
Having tried all kinds of behind the scene maneuver, ranging from a call to change Osun Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju, which was effected ahead of the poll, to the issue of deployment of battle-ready security operatives, which failed woefully, Osun PDP has resorted to painting APC as the tormentor and intimidator in the election, whereas that is exactly what the Osun PDP show-cased.
Osun PDP should stop its campaign of calumny against INEC and APC and go to the tribunal to prove its case. If the Osun electorate refused to be cowed into submission by the PDP, is it right for the party to continue to insult the collective intelligence of the people, who stood solidly behind their darling party-APC-and gave it the much-desired victory on August 9?
The APC thoroughly prepared for the election relying on God and the good works of Aregbesola, who positively impacted on the peoples’ lives, whereas the opposition party just wanted power for its sake and to satisfy the yearnings of an individual. They forgot that ultimate power belongs to God. But one good thing the national leadership of the PDP did on the election was that it congratulated APC. Ditto President Jonathan. What therefore is the “stolen mandate” that Osun PDP wants to reclaim? Again, the tribunal will resolve the matter.
During the poll, many commissioners, the first civilian governor of Osun, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, among other APC members, were intimidated, harassed and arrested by the security operatives brought to Osun for no just cause. So, who were the hunters and the hunted? The slogan of “we are going to war to capture Osun” by some PDP big wigs fell flat.
The Osun electorate was there for the APC and Aregbesola 24/7 and shall continue to.
If I were Jeleel Adesiyan or Musiliu Obanikoro, I would have resigned as minister, following the defeat handed to them by the enlightened electorate who, like the biblical David, messed up these GOLIATHS in their raw and forceful manner of wanting to capture Osun.
Jonathan should, by now, know that these two ministers are paper-weight politicians back at home, who could not win their polling units, as shown in Adesiyan’s case at Ago-Igbira polling unit, Odeomu where his party lost the election.
I will like to appeal to APC teeming supporters to remain like the Rock of Gibraltar behind Aregbesola.
Whatever impediments the opposition may wish to create in the battle concerning the election petition tribunal shall be overcome.
I praise my boss, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, for being a game changer going by the good performance he recorded at the August 9, 2014 governorship election. His experience at an hotel in Osogbo, sometime ago, has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him and the APC.
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No fewer than 50 persons have been feared dead, with several others injured during the collapse of a six-storey building in the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos on Friday.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigerian at the scene reports that ambulances were seen taking people out of the collapse building to the Isolo General Hospital.
There had yet to be an official confirmation of the number of casualties.
Policemen were on the ground dispersing crowds, who were gathered outside the gate of the collapse building.
An eyewitness, who spoke to NAN on anonymity, said that the building collapse at around 1.30pm.
He said the building, which usually serves as a guest house for some foreigners and people from the neighbouring African countries, was completed four months ago.
The eyewitness added that the building, which was a four-storey building, was converted to six-storey building to accommodate more of its visitors.
”We were all surprised with this incidence. At around 1.30pm, the building collapsed while people were inside.
“This building was a four-storey building but it was converted to seven,” he said.
NAN also observed that Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, National Emergency Management Agency and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were also on the ground.
LASEMA officials were denied access into the premises of the church while journalists were also chased away from the scene of the incidence.
People, who attempted to take pictures of the scene were harassed by members of the church.
More details later.
Source
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Fear gripped students, parents and staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife on Tuesday over a report that a patient on admission at the OAU Health Centre was a suspected Ebola Virus Disease victim.

Though the management of the school initially denied the development but the Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Temitope Ilori, said the sick student had confessed having contact with the late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the EVD after he secretly treated an infected ECOWAS diplomat, Olu-Ibukun Koye, in a hotel in the Rivers State capital.

The commissioner said the female student had been put in the isolation ward.

Ilori said, “I was told that a student of the OAU who had contact with the doctor who died of the Ebola virus in Port Harcourt walked into the health centre when she was sick.

“She was said to have told doctors at the health centre that she had contact with the Port Harcourt doctor and was put under surveillance but she said she tested negative that time.

“Now she returned to the OAU to continue with her studies and was sick. She was said to have walked to the health centre and told them everything about her contact with the doctor.

“Her blood sample has been taken for another test in Lagos and we are awaiting the result. We pray she is not positive but she has been isolated at the health centre.”

When one of our correspondents visited the hospital on Tuesday, it was observed that health officials were disinfecting the surroundings of the medical centre and more attention was paid to places where patients sit before being attended to.

It was also learnt that top officials of the hospital held an emergency meeting after testing the suspected patient, who was said to have been on admission in the hospital since Monday.

Before the confirmation by the commissioner, the Public Relations Officer of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, Mr. Olu Bello, had denied the report that a suspected Ebola virus patient had been admitted to the hospital.

Bello said he also heard that a student of the OAU, who returned from Port Harcourt, was down with the virus but he said the hospital did not have any case of Ebola.

“There is no case of Ebola at the OAUTHC. Nothing like that; I also heard something like that but such rumour has been causing unnecessary tension among the people but it is not true.”

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju, said the university would make its findings known to the public later Tuesday night.

“It is a suspicion; we don’t know yet. We will make our position on it known tonight. We are still working; we are in the office now,” he told one of our correspondents on the phone.

Olanrewaju later told The Punch that the ailing student had been moved to Lagos.

Though, medical officials in the hospital had denied that the said student tested positive to the Ebola virus, they confirmed that the Federal Government Emergency Ebola Team had been contacted.

One of the officials, who preferred not to be identified because he was not authorised to speak, said the suspected patient would be made to go through an intensive examination on Wednesday (today) by the EVD team from Lagos.

Another official claimed that the symptoms showed by the student “are not too different from fever”.

The official said, “A patient was brought to the health centre and due to the fact that she hails from Port Harcourt there were fears that it might be Ebola. We have carried out tests on the victim and found that she is suffering from a likely fever. Not satisfied, we pressed further by holding an emergency meeting which finished five minutes ago.”

When asked why the hospital was disinfecting its surroundings, another staff said, “We are only taking preventive measures. To be 100 per cent satisfied, we have sent a letter to the Ebola Emergency Team in Lagos and the team should arrive by tomorrow (today).”

To ensure calmness in the institution, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole, urged students to desist from spreading rumours about EVD.

He spoke during the 52nd matriculation ceremony for 5,608 newly-admitted students of OAU on Tuesday.

He said, “A current issue of concern to us as an institution, which is also related to the judicious use of the facilities in the halls of residence, is maintaining a high standard of personal hygiene to halt the spread of EVD. The virus, which is not airborne, spreads through bodily fluids such as blood, sweat, urine, saliva and vomit. We should all co-operate to halt the spread of this disease by arming ourselves with adequate information about the disease and avoid spreading false rumours that certainly can cause fear and panic.

“A committee of experts had been set up in the university and it will step up its sensitisation and enlightenment campaign about the symptoms, modes of transmission and preventive measures of the disease.”

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