Photos: Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo Arrives Kuwait For 3rd Africa- Arab Summit
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
The Vagina Stadium: Design for Qatar's World Cup purpose-built stadium released 
The design for the 1st of a series of new stadiums built for Qatar's
2022 world cup hosted tournament has been released...and urm, it looks
like a Vagina. (Pictured above) Hehe. This is actually a virtual
rendering of the fully air
conditioned 40,000-capacity Al-Wakrah stadium which will be completed
by 2018.
The architects are a little embarrassed that their design looks kinda
like a vagina. They said the multi-billion dollar stadium is designed to
resemble the sails of a dhow boat which is traditionally
used for pearl fishing by Qataris...and not a vagina! See a video design
of the stadium after the cut..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIXWn_m41c&feature=player_embedded
Activities for the Lagos Countdown kicks off...
Activities for this year’s Lagos
Countdown kicked off in earnest on Friday November 15th with a press
conference at the LASAA head office to unveil the event sponsors as well as the
countdown ambassadors. Among the countdown sponsors are
Nigeria Breweries Plc, Zenith Bank, Airtel, Mikano, Pepsi, Forte oil, Dangote
group and ICSL.
Some ambassadors present were Don
jazzy, Tuface, Funke Akindele and Funmi Iyanda. It was an evening of fun and good
music. The Lagos countdown kicks off
from December 7 at the Lagos Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos. Continue to see photos from press conference...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Federal Govt (PDP1) marks PDP2's new headquarters for demolition
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed, has ordered the Development Control of the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, to demolish the official Secretariat of the Baraje-led new PDP situated at 4, Oyi River Crescent, off Babangida Way, Maitama in Abuja.
The building (pictured above) was marked for demolition on October 11 about a month and a half after the new place was locked up by heavily armed policemen.
From Sahara Reporters
Even as the minister of aviation began a new spin today that the BMW armored cars purchased by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for her use were done on "hire-purchase", SaharaReporters has unearthed new details about the $1.6 million spent by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to purchase the armored BMW cars for Nigeria's Aviation Minister Stella Oduah.
A highly reliable source has told SaharaReporters that the shady deal for the car was done entirely between Coscharis Motors Limited, a dealership from which the cars were purchased, one of Ms. Oduah’s private firms based in Abuja, and First Bank of Nigeria.
“The NCAA was not even aware of the deal until the minister told them to sign that they had received two BMW cars,” said our source.After inking the deal, Coscharis Motors, sellers of the highly inflated automobiles, reportedly gave the Aviation Minister more than N112 million as kickbacks. Our source added that Cosmas Maduka, who owns Coscharis Motors, pocked N60 million for each of the two BMW cars.
marry thing
Sigh* One day sha! Lol. Tiwa will marry Teebillz traditionally on Saturday Nov. 23rd in Lagos.
Friday, 30 August 2013
I Can Be Very Romantic If… – Ruggedman
Ruggedman who has been working on the singing sensation, Mbryo he just signed to his label, Rugged Records Label believes he's the next act to blow from Nigeria.
When asked if he was the romantic type he replied "Says who? I am very romantic when I’m with the right woman. Just like love and marriage, romance isn’t something I throw around.
I remember one St. Valentine’s day. I went to see my Val but I didn’t meet her at home. I tied a rose(a real one not plastic) to her door and wrote my initials on a paper. When she returned and saw it, she knew I was the one who put it there.
The incident that made me put my romance in check happened years ago too on another St. Valentine’s day. I bought loads of gifts and fifteen cards because I don’t like getting just one. I even booked an hotel room for dinner and all.
All she did was say “you shouldn’t have done all these!” She didn’t even bring me a card. After that, I put a leash on my romance. She has to be worth it before I show her that side of me.
Ruggedman who said the incident happened at the start of his career and can't be treated like that now went on to say the how he feels having experienced the other side of love "I learnt that life goes on no matter what, and you need to know who you do things for.
On if he has anyone in his life: Right now I don’t have anybody in my life. It’s been my work and me for a while now. Although it feels somehow sometimes, especially when I see couples out and about . But I find solace with the thought that the right person is out there for me.
For Ruggedman wedding bells are not ringing anytime soon but he's very happy it’s ringing for others and prays their union stands the test of time.
On if it he has a really had hard times with ladies "Not at all, the ladies love me and I love them right back. It’s getting the right one for me that’s the issue.
A while ago, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe looked at me and said “Rugged, it’s not a curse but before you find a babe for you, it will be difficult.” She said I’m a fine man, successful artiste and so, women will come and it will be hard to know who is who. Now I understand what she meant but God is in control".
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The Lagos State Government on Thursday sealed off 13 buildings
on Nnamdi Azikwe Street in the Idumota area, which it said were sources
of environmental pollution.
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Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency in company with some policemen conducted an early morning raid on the street.
They shut the buildings which were partly residential and commercial, saying they indulged in dislodging human waste into public drainage channels.
Newsmen, who visited the area, observed that odour of human waste, was oozing out of the drainage channels connected to many of the houses.
General Manager, LASEPA, Mr. Rasheed Shabi, said the action followed series of warnings issued to the owners and occupiers of the houses.
He said, “We actually received petitions from concerned residents of the area about the activities of some people on the street. And from our investigations, we realised that a lot of buildings on that street have toilets with no septic tanks.
“And whenever they pass out their waste, it directly dislodges into the drainage channels which in turn washes into streams, rivers, lagoon and other water bodies. This act has been causing water pollution and contaminating aquatic life. When the fishes are eaten, it could lead to outbreak of diseases.
“Initially, we engaged the residents by issuing them warnings and over the past three weeks we have been urging them to stop to no avail.’’
Shabi, who described the level of pollution in the area as worrisome, said the sealed buildings would not be reopened until the affected residents sign an undertaking to contruct their septic tanks.
He added, “We are not victimising anybody but trying to improve and safeguard the quality of life and the environment. If people at the helms of affairs can’t protect the lives of citizens, what then is the essence of government?
One of the affected residents, who identified herself simply as Peju, said she knew about the warnings after her building had been sealed, saying she was not aware that the residents were causing any environmental pollution.
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Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency in company with some policemen conducted an early morning raid on the street.
They shut the buildings which were partly residential and commercial, saying they indulged in dislodging human waste into public drainage channels.
Newsmen, who visited the area, observed that odour of human waste, was oozing out of the drainage channels connected to many of the houses.
General Manager, LASEPA, Mr. Rasheed Shabi, said the action followed series of warnings issued to the owners and occupiers of the houses.
He said, “We actually received petitions from concerned residents of the area about the activities of some people on the street. And from our investigations, we realised that a lot of buildings on that street have toilets with no septic tanks.
“And whenever they pass out their waste, it directly dislodges into the drainage channels which in turn washes into streams, rivers, lagoon and other water bodies. This act has been causing water pollution and contaminating aquatic life. When the fishes are eaten, it could lead to outbreak of diseases.
“Initially, we engaged the residents by issuing them warnings and over the past three weeks we have been urging them to stop to no avail.’’
Shabi, who described the level of pollution in the area as worrisome, said the sealed buildings would not be reopened until the affected residents sign an undertaking to contruct their septic tanks.
He added, “We are not victimising anybody but trying to improve and safeguard the quality of life and the environment. If people at the helms of affairs can’t protect the lives of citizens, what then is the essence of government?
One of the affected residents, who identified herself simply as Peju, said she knew about the warnings after her building had been sealed, saying she was not aware that the residents were causing any environmental pollution.
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Thursday, 22 August 2013
Members of the National Executive
Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party loyal to President Goodluck
Jonathan will be proposing an amendment to the party’s constitution
at today’s NEC meeting.
The amendment will give the
President and governors currently serving their first tenure automatic
ticket for the 2015 elections.
It was gathered that Jonathan’s
loyalists would , through a motion at the meeting, seek the inclusion
of “the right of first refusal” in the party’s constitution.
A source at the Wadata Plaza National
Secretariat of the PDP Abuja, made this known just as the President met
with the Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko, and PDP leaders from
the South-West, including ex-convict, Chief Olabode George.
The source said that if the motion,
which is expected to be the high point of the crucial deliberations at
the NEC meeting was approved, it would be taken to the national
convention of the PDP for ratification on August 31, 2013.
Article 31, sub section (3) of the 2012
PDP Constitution as amended states, “The decision of the NEC shall be
binding on all organs and members of the party.”
It was learnt that the strategists of
the President had arranged that the motion should be moved by a
distinguished politician from the North-West, who would be seconded by
another top politician from the North- East.
The PUNCH also gathered that sustained efforts had been made to convince and co-opt state chapters of the PDP to embrace the idea.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, had broached the idea of automatic
tickets for the President and other elected office holders in the
country in May.
Anenih, a staunch supporter of Jonathan,
argued at a party’s family dinner in May that the fight for PDP’s
tickets had always generated intra- party bitterness and tension even
before main elections.
A PDP NEC member, Chief Ebenezer
Babatope, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents on
Wednesday, said “over 95 per cent of PDP members are in support of
President Goodluck Jonathan vying for second term in office.”
He said, “All I know is that this
doctrine of fresh refusal does not apply to President Jonathan, who
will remain the candidate of the PDP in 2015. Ninety-five per cent of
PDP members are supporting him to win the 2015 presidential election.”
When our correspondent contacted the
Acting National Publicity secretary of the PDP, Mr. Tony Okeke, on the
telephone, he picked but declined to make any comments on the
issue.
• President meets Wamakko, PDP South- West leaders
Meanwhile, one of the five northern state governors, who visited so
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
The
Nigerian Navy on Tuesday paraded four suspected sea robbers who had
allegedly hijacked a barge (huge boat) MV Crow, on August 14, 2013 at
Escravos River located on the Gulf of Guinea.
The PUNCH had reported that the men of the Nigerian Navy killed some sea robbers during a 30-minute gun duel on August 16.
The Commander, NNS Beecroft, Commodore
Chris Ezekobe, said while addressing journalists at the Defence Jetty in
Lagos that shortly after the hijack, the navy was alerted by the
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
He said, “We were alerted by NIMASA’s
Regional and Maritime Awareness Centre and we pursued the vessel to
Aiyetoro in Ondo State. When we circled her, there was no sign of life
on board. We called and radioed several times but there was no response.
Of course, our suspicion was aroused and then we fired shots into the
air. Once they heard the shots, the sea robbers came out and threw their
weapons into the water.”
Ezekobe said in a bid to secure the
nation’s waters, the navy recently acquired four Shaldag and four Ocean
boats and three mantra class boats to patrol the waterways.
He said, “If the acquisition of more
vessels are maintained, our waters would be safer. The International
Maritime Bureau has listed our country as the second next to Somalia and
we are working assiduously to change that perception.
“But it is pertinent to state that our
challenge in Nigeria is sea robbery as opposed to piracy which is
obtained in Somalia. We have over 6,000 creeks between Lagos and Calabar
and it is easier for the sea robbers to attack and slip back to the
creeks.”
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