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A Nigerian journalist, Fejiro Oliver, is missing after travelling from his Asaba base to Abuja allegedly on the invitation of the Secretary to the Niger State Government, SSG, Saidu Ndako, on Friday.

Mr. Oliver, who is the Managing Editor of an online news medium, Daily Voice NG, was said to be working on a story on the activities of the Niger State government. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that he called Israel Ebije, the spokesperson to Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger, to seek the governor’s version of events in the story.


Mr. Ebije reportedly referred him to Mr. Ndako.
According to Mr. Ejiro’s wife, she last spoke with her husband on Friday while he was in Abuja to honour an appointment at the instance of Mr. Ndako. Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone on Sunday, Mrs. Oliver said, “We were together when he received a call and he told me that the SSG of Niger state insisted that he should go over to Minna so that they can meet.”

She said her husband insisted that he would not go to Minna, but would meet with the SSG and Mr. Ebije in Abuja “for security reasons”.

Also speaking, the father of the missing journalist, Godwin Oliver, said his son has been missing since Friday after travelling to Abuja to meet with the Niger officials. “We have been trying to reach him but he has not been picking his calls. After sometime, the calls are either rejected or the phones are switched off and then put on back after sometime,” he said.

The senior Oliver said he planned to “go to all relevant security agencies by tomorrow (Monday) to report the matter since today is Sunday”. A close friend of Mr. Fejiro and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, also issued a statement on Saturday stating that Mr. Oliver had carried out an extensive investigation into the activities of the Niger State Government under Mr. Aliyu.

“After his investigation, he formally sought the response of the Niger State Government by contacting the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Saidu Idris Ndako Kpaki and the Chief Press Secretary to the Niger State Governor, Mr Israel A. Ebije. “Instead of responding to the issues pertaining to the alleged corrupt practices of governor Babangida Aliyu, the CPS, Mr. Ebije in an electronic mail he sent to Fejiro Oliver threatened and warned him to desist from going public with the report (the outcome of his investigations),” Mr. Effiong said.

He said the publication that Mr. Oliver works for, Daily Voice NG, few days ago wrote an editorial intimating security agencies and the general public of the threat to the life of Mr Oliver by the Niger State Government through Mr. Ebije.

Mr. Effiong also said as at the last time contacts were made with the journalist, “he was in Abuja for the sole purpose of meeting with the SSG”.

“We have reasons to believe that his incommunicado state or sudden disappearance has everything to do with his scheduled meeting with the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Alhaji Saidu Idris Ndako Kpaki. “We are therefore assuming based on the above facts that the SSG is in the know about Mr. Fejiro’s whereabouts,” he said.

Efforts to speak with the SSG, Mr. Ndako, were unsuccessful. He did not answer calls to his two mobile telephone lines. He also did not respond to a text message sent to him. In his version of events, Mr. Ebije confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Oliver had contacted him regarding a story he was working on.

He however denied threatening Mr. Oliver, but, rather “advised him to come to Minna and see for himself if the allegations against the governor are true or not. “In Niger state everything is done transparently and we have nothing to hide. The documents he is claiming to have are executive council decisions which were obviously given to him by an aggrieved official who has been relieved of his appointment,” the spokesperson said.

Mr. Ebije said he was in Abuja for an official function and “cannot confirm if he (Mr. Oliver) is with our people or not until probably tomorrow (Monday).
Editor’s Note: This story has been edited to reflect that the missing journalist traveled from his home in Asaba, Delta state, not Port Harcourt in Rivers state.
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About 700 displaced persons from Gwoza, Chibok, Bama in Borno State and its environs have fled to Kwubaru village, in Karu Local Government of Nasarawa State.
The refugees who include men, women and children are divided into three different camps of Kwubaru, Angwar Jama’a and Takwa. They have been relocating to the village since March this year, in a bid to flee the troubled North-eastern part of the country.

Since their arrival, the no government agency has acknowledged their presence or sent relive materials. They have had to survive on contributions from well meaning Nigerians and hand me downs from their host community.
The only recognition accorded to them by the government according to their leaders was when they arrived and soldiers came in trucks and Hilux vans to harass them and arrest the Chief of Kwubaru for harbouring them.
In the Kwubaru camp for example, women and children are the only ones that sleep in any one of the nine mud houses and they can be as many as 12 people or more in one room while the men sleep on sacks and mats outside even under the rain.
Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy visited the camp on a humanitarian visit to confirm the existence of internally displaced persons close to Abuja and donate relieve materials which included foodstuffs, clothing, blankets and mattresses
Leader of the refugees and former Headmaster of Ghwaa primary school, Gwoza, Mallam Yohanna Wurawa explained that he escaped Gwoza with his family after his house and school was burnt down to the refugee camp in Cameroon.
Eventually, he said, his family and a few others were assisted by the Stephanus foundation to Kwabaru.
Leader of the BBOG Hajia Saudatu Mahdi said that the group had visited the refugees as part of their humanitarian effort and to establish the fact that there is truly Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) since the government denied knowledge of them.
Saudatu promised that they group will write to National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons to notify them of the presence of the refugees and the need to come to their assistance immediately.

www.pijango..com/2014/09/boko-haram-700-refeeges-from-gwoza-flee.html

Nigerian troops might have scored a strategic victory in the current battle against terrorists operating in the North East on September 17. During a desperate attempt to capture Konduga in their delusion to eventually marching on and capturing Maiduguri, the man who had been mimicking Late Abubakar Shekau in recent videos might have been finally killed. Abubakar Shekau

According to senior military and intelligence sources, "it is getting more certain that the terrorists' commander who has been mimicking Shekau in those videos is the one killed in Konduga on September 17, 2014."

The PRNigeria sources said the suspected demise of the Boko Haram leader is responsible for the scattering of the sect members in different independent locations in the neighbouring countries, especially in Cameroon noticed in recent days.

The security sources did not deny the suspicion but cautioned that "the process of confirming that the dead body we have is the same as that character who has been posing as Shekau is ongoing. He is definitely a prominent terrorist commander. I don't want to say anything about this yet please."

Another high ranking military source insisted that the resemblance is too striking to be a coincidence. They cited his facial marks, beards and teeth apart from the recovery by the Nigerian troops of some of the Armoured Vehicles and Hilux jeeps that had featured in previous videos of the prime suspect.

The officers assured that the Defence Headquarters will soon address the nation after full investigation of their latest discovery.
www.pijango..com/2014/09/shekau-finally-dead-by-prnigeria.html

Looks like T.B Joshua won't be addressing the bribery allegation against him any time soon..,Instead, he has put out a condolence message to all those who lost their lives in the unfortunate Synagogue building collapse.He calls them Martyrs of faith ,,,,
During his sunday church service today he said this below..

CONDOLENCE SPEECH - T.B. JOSHUA
"Church and viewers from all over the world, join me in observing one minute silence in memory of martyrs of faith. Bless their souls.Those who are affected in one way or the other and those who passed on to glory, their greatest desire is to see that the work of salvation they died and suffered for continues and to reach unreachable places.
For that, what they are coming here for should be taken to meet them in their country. Once in a month, I will be travelling to South Africa to meet people from South Africa and other nations who find South Africa easier to visit, in memory of martyrs of faith. South Africa, I mean, Southern Africa, I love you with the love of God.

"My ministration in South Africa will not be on Sundays so that people would have the opportunity to attend their respective churches. This kind of faith expressed by South Africans deserves this kind of blessing from God – satan is a liar.I have been your pastor, preaching to you. Now, it is your turn that you are preaching to me. Thank you for preaching to me. I received a lot of emails and text messages full of preaching, teaching, counseling from you. "It is your turn that you are giving back what you have received in terms of preaching, teaching and counseling. Thank you for understanding the time I am in.There is a time to give and a time to receive. There is a time to run and a time to slow awhile. There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. There is a time to be born and a time to die."

www.pijango..com/2014/09/tb-joshua-to-visit-south-africa-every.html

Nollywood actor Mike Ezuruonye celebrated his birthday on Saturday 21st September 2013.

The movie star took to Twitter to thank God and his “true peeps”.
Later in the day, Mike celebrated his day with some of his celeb friends including AY Makun, Osita “Paw Paw” Iheme, Julius Agwu, Kcee, Moses Inwang, Harrysong and Sammy Okposo.
See More Photos Here>>>www.pijango..com/2014/09/photos-of-ay-kcee-osita-iheme-julius.html

Chief Orji Kalu, the immediate
past governor of Abia state
and Chairman of Slok Group of
Companies has purchased a
brand new Gulfstream G650
jet worth $72 million (N11.5 billion). The jet, according to
bayoadeyinka blog, landed
Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, Lagos,
in the early hours of Thursday
18 September from New York. “It is arguably the fastest
civilian jet in the world, has
room for a basketball team,
8,000-statute-mile range and
some of the most
sophisticated avionics rivaling nearly anything in the sky,
and it’s also perfect for doing
business on a global scale. Gulfstream described the
aircraft as ultra-high-speed,
ultra-long-range business jet
and the gold standard in
business aviation. Former
governor of Borno state, Ali Modu Sheriff was first to
acquire the jet in Nigeria,” www.pijango..com

End time tins

In a desperate effort to
bring the outbreak under
control, thousands of health
care workers began going
house to house in crowded
urban neighborhoods and remote villages, hoping to
find and isolate infected
people. President Ernest Bai Koroma
urged his countrymen to
cooperate.
"The survival and dignity of
each and every Sierra
Leonean is at stake," he said Thursday night in an
address to the nation. Health officials said they
planned to urge the sick to
leave their homes and seek
treatment. There was no
immediate word on
whether people would be forcibly removed, though
authorities warned that
anyone on the streets
during the lockdown
without an emergency pass
would be subject to arrest. More than 2,600 people have
died in West Africa over the
past nine months in the
biggest outbreak of the
virus ever recorded, with
Sierra Leone accounting for more than 560 of those
deaths. Many fear the crisis will
grow far worse, in part
because sick people afraid
of dying at treatment
centers are hiding in their
homes, potentially infecting others. However, international
experts warned there
might not be enough beds
for new patients found
during the lockdown,
which runs through Sunday. Most people seemed to be
taking the order seriously,
and there were no
immediate reports of
resistance. "It will protect our country
from this dangerous virus,"
said Ishmail Bangura, a
Freetown resident. "Many
of our people have died -
nurses and doctors, too - so if they ask us to stay home
for three days, for me it is
not bad." Across West Africa, health
care workers have been
attacked by villagers who
accused them of spreading
Ebola. Some citizens have
also violently resisted efforts to quarantine them.
As the lockdown took
effect, wooden tables lay
empty at the capital's
usually vibrant markets,
and only a dog scrounging for food could be seen on
one normally crowded
street in Freetown.
Amid the heat and frequent
power cuts, many residents
sat on their front porches, chatting with neighbors. Ambulances were on
standby to bring any sick
people to the hospital for
isolation. The health care
workers also planned to
hand out 1.5 million bars of soap and dispense advice on
Ebola.
"We hope and pray that
when we talk to people
they will take it as
counseling," said Rebecca Sesay, a community Ebola
education team leader.
"That is why we are all out
here." The World Health
Organization said it has no
record of any previous
nationwide shutdown of
this scale and suggested it
has not happened since the plague devastated Europe
during the Middle Ages.
The closest parallel seems to
have been a plague scare in
India in 1994, when officials
closed off a region around the city of Surat, shutting
down schools, offices,
movie theaters and banks.
UNICEF said the
government campaign
provides an opportunity to tell people how to protect
themselves. "If people don't have access
to the right information,
we need to bring lifesaving
messages to them, where
they live, at their
doorsteps," said Roeland Monasch, UNICEF
representative in Sierra
Leone.
In a statement, the U.N.
children's agency said the
operation needs to be carried out "in a sensitive
and respectful manner." U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon told the General
Assembly on Friday that
the U.N.'s new force to fight
Ebola, the U.N. Mission for
Ebola Emergency Response, or UNMEER, will be
headquartered in Accra,
Ghana and will have offices
in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra
Leone.
"The mission will ... emphasize community
outreach, training and
education," Ban said.
"Misunderstandings about
the disease and how it is
transmitted have hindered the response. Local leaders,
including traditional and
religious leaders, have
important roles to play in
raising awareness."
In the latest case of violence against health care
workers, six suspects have
been arrested in the killings
of eight people in Guinea
who were on an Ebola
education campaign, the Guinean government said
Friday. The victims were attacked
by villagers armed with
rocks and knives. The dead
included three local
journalists. www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/sierra-leone-commences-three-day.html?m=1

The rescue of the girl, Zama,
came to light when Sheik
Mohammed Jamie, a GOTG
representative in Nigeria,
was searching for a woman
whose daughter had contacted them for help,
founder Imtiaz Sooliman
said. "A friend of Jamie's went
first to the hospital on
Wednesday to find one
guy, and he was kicked out
[by hospital staff]. Jamie
himself then went to the same hospital later on
Wednesday evening."
He was also asked to leave
the hospital. On Thursday morning, the
South African embassy
supplied Jamie with the
names of five hospitals
where South Africans were
possibly being treated.Contin..... The second hospital on that
list was the Subol hospital
in Lagos, which Jamie and
his friend had been asked to
leave on Wednesday. Sooliman said when Jamie
entered Subol hospital
again, staff were helpful.
While there, several South
Africans recognised Jamie
from the Gift of the Givers T-shirt he was wearing.
"That's when he was
pointed at and there they
[the South Africans] spoke
to him," Sooliman said.
"He asked if they needed anything and they said 'We
haven't spoken to our
family. We are injured but
okay. Some of us are going
to be discharged soon'." This was when one woman
who had been rescued
relayed the story of Zama.
"She is still at the hospital,"
Sooliman said of Zama. It was not known whether
Zama's parents had
survived the collapse or
not.
Sooliman said both South
African embassy officials and local authorities were
doing their best to help.
However, he had heard
reports that church
members had attacked and
thrwe stones at rescue workers and members of
the public trying to help at
the collapse site. SABC radio news reported
the number of South
Africans killed in the
building collapse had
increased from 67 to 84. "The number has risen to
84," South Africa's high
commissioner to Nigeria,
Lulu Louis Mnguni, told the
SABC in an interview on
Friday morning. He said the search for those
unaccounted for had been
called off. Those people
were now presumed dead. "The search has come to a
conclusion. There were still
17 bodies outstanding," said
Mnguni.
President Jacob Zuma
announced on Tuesday that 67 South Africans were
killed when the church's
multi-storey guest house
collapsed on Friday.
On Thursday, authorities
said another 17 South Africans were still missing.
A total of 349 South
Africans were in Lagos on
church business when the
disaster occurred. Of these,
265 were found alive. www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/4yr-old-south-afrian-girl-found-alive.html?m=1

A photo of a half naked
gospel singer by the name
of Only 1
Harmony circulated various
social media sites yesterday
after the photo was posted on Facebook by an
outgraed congregation
member.
The singer was performing
at Riverside Church, New
York when the congregation member took
to facebook to express
their views, saying:
continu..... “It Is Shameful & Very
Appalling That The PASTOR
Of RIVERSIDE CHURCH In
NEW YORK,Allowed Singer
‘ONLY1HARMONY’,To Sing
In Their Church HALF- NAKED..As A Matter Of
Fact,I Don’t Call This PRAISE
& WORSHIP,Rather I’ll Call It
PERVERTED PRAISE &
LovePeddler-SHIP..
They Are Just Rubbishing The CHRISTENDOM..If The
SENIOR PASTOR Did Not See
Anything Wrong In
This,What About The
ASSOCIATE
PASTORS,DEACONS, DEACONESSES,MOTHERS &
FATHERS Of The
Church,When This
SHAMELESS LADY Stepped
On The Church Podium To
Sing?..Do They Want To Turn The Church Into A
RED-LIGHT
NIGHTCLUB?..Hmm!,Its
Really END-TIME,When All
Kinds Of People Will Claim
To Come In GOD’s Name,But In Real Sense,With Ulterior
Motives..Just Too Bad,I
MUST Say..SMH!..GOD Help Us
All, AMEN!!! :..” www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/end-time-half-naked-gospel-singer.html?m=1

Not barely few days the
synagogue church collapsed,
A one-storey building
which served as offices for
pastors belonging to Christ
Chosen Church of God collapsed in Edo state today.
Rescue operation is
currently ongoing at the
site. Three people are said to
have been rescued alive
from the collapsed building while two bodies are still
trapped under the rubble.
More later. www.pijango..com/2014/09/another-church-building-collapses-in-edo.html?m=1

President Goodluck
Jonathan promised yesterday
that by next month, the
security challenge posed by
members of the Boko Haram
sect who have engaged in massive killing and wanton
destruction of property
would change drastically. This
is just as the troops have
killed 60 of the insurgents. Speaking yesterday at the
66th National Executive
Committee, NEC of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP,
President Jonathan who
admitted that the nation’s greatest challenge was that of
insecurity, stressed that what
obtains presently in Nigeria
has gone beyond terror, but
plans to secede where
members of Boko Haram want to install their own
leadership. Commiserating with victims
of killings in Kaduna and Kano
states, the President disclosed
that he would be attending
the United Nations General
Assembly summit on Global Terrorism which all the super
powers would attend. He said: “Nigeria is having an
unfair share. Terror is a global
problem, and Nigeria situation
is going beyond terror. When
terrorists think about holding
ground, attempting to install leadership, it is no longer
terrorism, it is almost like
going into the line of
succession. Between now and
October, things will change. He appreciated the Senate and
the entire National Assembly
for their statement and
joining the government in this
regard, promising to bring it
to an end. Meanwhile, following the
regrouping of Boko Haram
terrorists and a second attack
on Konduga town by the
insurgents on Wednesday
night, the Nigerian Army said another 60 insurgents were
killed in the battle that
ensued. After the confrontation
which lasted from 4pm to
8pm, several military
hardware recovered from the
insurgents included 13 AK-47
rifles, five RPGs, two General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs)
and one anti-aircraft gun. Two Ford Ranger pick-up
vehicles that could be used to
mount anti-aircraft attack
ordnance were also recovered. http://www.pijango..com/?m=1

THE World Health Organisation has raised the alarm that desperate patients of the Ebola Virus Disease are buying the blood of survivors of the virus from the black market. Blood from survivors, referred to as convalescent serum, is said to have antibodies that can fight the deadly virus, hence the rush for the blood of survivor in the worst hit countries. Though unproven, it has provided some promise in fighting a disease with no approved drug to treat the dreaded disease. The current Ebola outbreak, said to be the deadliest in history, has killed at least 2,400 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The three West African countries have been the most affected by the virus. New cases have also emerged in Nigeria and Senegal, though authorities in Nigeria said the country had successfully battled the scourge. The WHO on Thursday said, “Studies suggest blood transfusions from survivors might prevent or treat Ebola virus infection in others, but the results of the
studies are still difficult to interpret. “It is not known whether antibodies in the plasma of survivors are sufficient to treat or prevent the disease. More research is needed.” Convalescent serum has been used to treat patients, including American aid worker Rick Sacra, who is hospitalised in Omaha, Nebraska. He got blood from Kent Brantly, a fellow American who survived Ebola. Both got infected when they were helping patients in Liberia. But unlike the situation of the Americans, patients in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are said to be procuring blood through improper channels thus raising fears that the illicit trade can lead to the spread of other infections, including
HIV and other blood-related ailments. “We need to work very closely with the affected countries to stem out black market trading of convalescent serum for two reasons,” the CNN quoted the WHO’s Director-General, Margaret Chan, as saying this week. “Because it is in the interest of individuals not to just get
convalescent serum without
going through the proper standard and the proper testing because it is important that there may be other infectious vectors that we need to look at,” Chan added. Heath experts have declared the EVD a global emergency and criticised the international community for a lax response. United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced that the US would send troops, material to build field hospitals, additional health care workers and community care kits to affected nations. The US will also create a facility to help train thousands of health care workers to identify and care for Ebola patients, Obama said, stressing, “Men and women and children are just sitting, waiting to die right now.” Hospitals in affected nations are overwhelmed, and the WHO has described the outbreak as a “dire emergency with unprecedented dimensions” of human suffering. “If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us,” Obama said. There is also a concern that the virus could mutate into an even more dangerous form. Ebola currently transmits only through contact with bodily fluids; a mutation that allows the virus to spread through the air would pose a catastrophic threat to people worldwide,
experts have said. http://www.pijango..com/?m=1

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved a list of 305 Nigerians, who will receive national honours this year. According to a statement by the Director (Special Duties), Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Dr. Tunde Adeyemo, the list includes a traffic warden, Solomon Dauda; a taxi driver, Imeh Usuah, a driver at the Nigerian High Commission in Canada,Engeniusz Howski; and Head of Presidential stewards in the Presidency, Onuh Michael. Usuah, who is said to have returned about N18m forgotten in his car by a passenger, will receive an MFR medal; Howski,MFR and
Michael, MON. Six military chiefs comprising the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh; the Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah; the Chief of Naval Staff, Usman Jibrin; the Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu; the the Director of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke; and a former General Officer Commanding the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Sunday Chikwe, are also on the list. The service chiefs and the NIA DG are to receive CFR medals while Chikwe will get OON. The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd); a former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Brig. Gen. Raji Rasaki; an ex-DG, National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Nnamdi Affia; the pioneer Force Commander of the African Union and ECOWAS Peace Mission, Usman Abdulkadir; the Chairman, United Nations Board of Enquiry in Abiyei, Lt. Gen. Chika Dibia- Obiakor; and a former Provost General of the Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Felix Iorshase, are listed among those to be honoured with CFR, CON, OFR and OON. Also in the Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) category are Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, Justice of the Supreme Court; (Justice Christopher Chukwuma – Eneh, Justice Muhammad Coomassie, Justice John Fabiyi, Justice Olufunlola Adekeye, a former Head of Service of the Federation, Bukar Aji; and Head of Service of the Federation, Danladi Kifasi. Others in the CFR category are Oba Victor Kiladejo, Chief Philip Asiodu, President Goodluck Jonathan’s Chief of Staff Jones Arogbofa, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi, and Chief Kolawole Jamodu. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie- Oyegun and a former Foreign Affairs Minister, Tom Ikimi, will be honoured
with the CON medal. Eighteen other Nigerians serving or retired from the Nigeria Police Force, Customs Service, Immigration Service and the Department of State Security also made the list. They included a police inspector, Adekoya Jamiu (FRM1); the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba; the Comptroller General of the Immigration Service, David Paradang; seven DIGs and two DSS directors. Abba, like the service chiefs is to be honoured with a CFR medal while Paradang whose organisation organised the recruitment exercise that led to the death of some applicants in March 2014 is to receive OFR. The DIGs were listed among those to receive OON while a former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Simon Okeke, will get OFR. Sportsmen and women, especially members of the victorious 2013 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, their officials and 2014 Commonwealth Gold medallists top the list of the would-be honourees. Prominent among them are members of under-17 national football team including, Kelechi Iheanacho; Success Isaac; Akinjide Idowu and Salihu Baba, who will get Member of Order of Niger. Members of the Under-20 national football team, including the highest goal scorer in the World Cup, Asisat Oshoala, will also get MON. 2014 Commonwealth gold medalist, Blessing Okagbare as well as former footballers
like Nduka Ugbade and Emmanuel Amuneke are also on the list. Also, eight governors and nine ministers will receive the award of Commander of
Order of Niger. The governors are Chief Theodre Orji (Abia); Mallam Isa Yuguda (Bauchi); Mr. Sullivan Chime (Enugu); Dr. Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Alhaji Sa’idu Dakingari (Kebbi); Senator Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); and Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti). The ministers are Prof. Chinedu Nebo (Power); Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau (Education), Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe (Water Resources); Mr. Mike Onolememen (Works); Labaran Maku (Information); Hajia Zanaib Maina (Women Affairs); Mallam Bashir Yuguda (Minister of State for Finance), Mr Nyesom Wike (Minister of State for Education); and Mr. Musa Sada (Mines and Steel). While the Deputy Governor of Kano State, Dr. Umar Ganduje, made the list by getting OFR, the governor, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso is missing on the list. A former Minister of Indurstry, Chief Onikepo Akande; Senators Nkechi Nwogu and Babajide Omoworare will get CON. The entertainment sector produced popular actresses like Joke Silva and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde as well as an actor, Kenneth Nnebue. They will get MFR. This year, unlike two previous editions, there will be no conferment of GCON. Last year, there was delay by the Federal Government in giving the medals and certificates to 355 Nigerians and foreigners who were bestowed with national honours in Abuja on November 14. According to the statement,the Investiture holds by 9am on September 29, 2014 at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. http://www.pijango..com/?m=1

Singer, Beyonce today
took to her Tumblr page
to share some pictures
from her 33rd birthday
which she celebrated
with Jay Z, Blue Ivy, her mother and mother-in-
law in the South of
France. What a body
she's got. See more
photos here>>>www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/wow-beyonce-shares-new-pics-of-her.html?m=1

Just like Nicki Minaj and
J.Lopez, Kim Kardashian's
infamous butt has gathered
so much attention during
the years. In fact, Kim's butt has had
to witness many tempting
photoshoots as if nothing
else exists on her fine body. However recently, her
younger sister, Khloe has
been struggling to take the
crown, hitting the gym for
a special ass grooming... From the same angle here, a
comparison has been made
of the sisters...who do you
think got the biggest butt-
Khloe or Kim? www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/khloe-vs-kim-who-got-biggest-butt.html?m=1

55 year old Celestino Reyna (pictured right) has been suspended for a digging up a corpse at the cemetary in Guardamar del Segura, near Alicante on the Costa Blanca, and allowing people pose next to it. He's pictured above smiling with the dead man and his nephew after digging up the body to rebury it in the same grave as the deceased's wife.

The dead man died 23 years ago and had been mummified. It was actually the dead man's niece who asked to take a pic of the corpse and when she shared it on whatsapp, it went viral with several others posting it on Facebook. When the cemetary saw their gravedigger in the pic, they fired him.

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A Pennsylvania teen who posted pictures of himself with a Jesus statue was charged with desecration of a venerated object.
The 14-year-old was charged Tuesday under a rarely-enforced 1972 law making it a misdemeanor to defile a "venerated object" after pictures posted online depicted him apparently mimicking a sex act with a Jesus statue near his home in Everett.

The pictures were posted in July, but the misdemeanor charges were not filed until this week.

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A night of tribute for phenomenal Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh who died on August 19th from Ebola Virus was held yesterday September 11th at Harbour Point Hotel in Lagos. Her ash will be buried today at a private family ceremony. Pictured above is her only child, Bankole Cardoso, 2nd right, with friends.

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The Anambra House of Assembly on today September 11th passed a bill, changing the name of the state-owned university at Uli to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University.

The bill was passed during the plenary of the legislature in Awka to honour the former Biafra hero.
The decision followed the report of the House Committee on Education which recommended the change of the name.

Mrs Rita Maduagwu (APGA Nnewi South 2), the Chairman, House Committee on Education, recalled that the bill had been read the second time on the floor of the house on Dec. 17, 2013.
She said that the committee found that the university’s name had been changed before from Anambra State University of Science and Technology and that there were a number of provisions in the extant law that required review.

“After due consideration of facts and information, the committee recommends that the law establishing the university be repealed while a new law aimed at amending the principal law be passed,” Maduagwu said.

Mr Valentine Ayika (PDP Njikoka1) said that the bill was due for passage since it was read second time in December 2013.

Mr Tony Muonagor (APC Idemili North) said that the aim was to immortalise the late Ojukwu and to encourage hard work among the people of the state and Nigeria at large.

Mr Ebele Obi (APC Idemili South) said that the passage was a welcome development.
Mr Obinna Emenakaya (APGA Anambra East) said that the application for the change of name was long over-due since it was meant to immortalise a man who fought and lived for the Igbo people.
The Speaker, Mrs Chinwe Nwaebili, said that the university would be a multi-campus institution located in Awka, Igbariam and Uli.

She said members of the committee on education did a good work and urged others to prove their worth on any assignment given at committee level or otherwise

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Humans will evolve into different species by 2050 as a result of radical new technology, behaviour, and natural selection.

This is according to Cadell Last, a researcher at the Global Brain Institute, who claims mankind is undergoing a major 'evolutionary transition'.
In less than four decades, Mr Last claims we will live longer, have children in old age and rely on artificial intelligence to do mundane tasks.Instead of living fast and dying young, Mr Last believes humans will live slow and die old.Your 80 or 100 is going to be so radically different than your grandparents,' Mr Last says

By 2040, cabs will be driven by Google robots, shops will become showrooms for online outlets and call centres will be staffed by intelligent droids.That’s the scenario depicted in recent research which suggests robots could be taking over our lives and jobs in less than 30 years.
The competition for work caused by a rise in the robots population will see us heading to surgeons for ‘additional processing power for our brains’,
We may also be requesting bionic implants for our hands that will make us able to perform tasks as fast as any machine.Futurologists, commissioned by global job search website xpatjobs.com, say workers will have less job security and will work more unsociable hours.
Those who take these risks and innovate with their own bodies will be the biggest earners in 2040, they claim.
However, the study added that workers may be left with poor eyesight, smaller sexual organs, and constantly-furrowed brows as they struggle to keep up to life in the 21st century.
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This is unbelievable, Wickeness.
Read below from News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN.)

A Minna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of a 55-year-old woman, Fatima Tsaraka for allegedly killing her grandson. The accused it was alleged abducted her grandson, took him to a nearby bush where she and two others slaughtered him, made a meal of his flesh and drank his blood.

Tsaraka, arraigned alongside Amina Mohammed, 65, and Zhitsun Aliyu, 38, is facing a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and cannibalism. Continue


The accused were arraigned on Sept. 1, but the prosecutor requested an adjournment to enable police conclude investigation. At the resumed hearing of the case, the Magistrate, Mr Hamidu Bima, ordered the continued detention of the accused pending legal advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

Bima subsequently adjourned the case to Sept. 25. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Cpl. Moses Mbaga, had told the court that the victim’s father, Mr Mohammed Doko of Koso Village, Lavun Local Government Area, reported the matter at `A’ Division Police Station, Bida, on Aug. 15.

He said the complainant alleged that the accused abducted the boy, took him to a nearby bush where they slaughtered him, made a meal of his flesh and drank his blood. The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 97, 221 and 218 of the penal code.

The accused, who pleaded guilty to the charges, however appealed for leniency and blamed their act on a spell cast on them by witches.
(NAN)
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The popular Singer 9ice, who is from Ogbomoso, Oyo state, visited his constituency today September 10th for awareness campaign and to identify with the electorate. He addressed a large crowd that gathered at the Town hall in Oja Igbo, and promised that if elected to represent Ogbomoso Federal constituency 1, he will use this salary to do developmental projects in the constituency.

The singer declared his intentions to go into politics many weeks ago. He plans to contest for House of Reps in 2015. See more photos here>>>>www.pijango..com/2014/09/9ice-takes-his-political-awareness.html

The Special Adviser to the Minister of Health on Media and Communications, Mr Dan Nwomeh, hasjust announced that the wife and sister of Dr. Iyke Enemoah have both been discharged from the isolation centre in Lagos.

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Big Money
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it will be donating $50million (N8billion) to support the efforts of Nigeria and other West African countries
hit by the Ebola Virus outbreak in containing the spread of the deadly virus.

Announcing this in a statement issued today September 10th, the foundation said the money will be immediately released to the United Nations agencies and international organizations that are involved in the Ebola fight to enable them and national governments purchase needed supplies and scale up emergency operations.



Th foundation also announced the immediate release of an additional $2million to the various Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to support incident management, treatment, and health care system strengthening during this epidemic.

The foundation also pledged to work with private and public organizations to facilitate the speedy development of therapies, vaccines, and diagnostics that could be effective in treating patients and preventing further transmission of the disease.
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According to a Vanguard report, the Federal Government is looking at banning the sale and consumption of Ponmo. Read Report below This indication
emerged Tuesday
when the Minister of
Agriculture and
Rural Development,
Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina called for
competent
regulations that
would check the
consumption and
sale of the product. If this is achieved,
he noted that
livestock farmers
would stand good
chances of making
high dollar return if the hides and skins
(Ponmo) are tanned
into leather. The minister who was
represented at the
occasion by the Director,
Animal Production and
Husbandry in the
Ministry, Dr. Ademola Raji, said, "I also commend
NIAS for its
advocacy and public
enlightenment
programs on Radio
and Television that promote value
addition in
Livestock, as against
sale and
consumption of
primary products alone, particularly
with the issue of
curtailing the
widespread
consumption of
hides and skins as Kpomo which ought
to be tanned into
leather for a very
high dollar return to
the farmer and
Tanneries. I expect that competent
regulations
acceptable by all
stakeholders will be
developed so as to
give credibility that our set standards
for food safety are
being implemented
which will boost
value addition.” www.pijango..com.es/2014/09/fg-set-to-ban-ponmo.html?m=1