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Saturday 26 November 2016

Celebrity Zone: Rita Ora Defends Justin Bieber After He 'Punched' Fan, Says Fan 'Crossed The Line'

Rita Ora has jumped to the defense of Justin Bieber after he 'punched' a fan in Barcelona on Tuesday. The 25-year-old said she can empathise with the pop star who struck out at 18-year-old fan Kevin
Ramirez and left him with a bloodied lip after he reached through the window of Justin's moving car to touch his face.

Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode haslaunched an attack on businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim via social media.

The war of words began after Ibrahim was dethroned as the official governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the upcoming Ondo elections.

Outgoing Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is in bed with the All Progressives Congress to prevent a free and fair governorship election in the state.

Speaking at a press conference at the State International Event Centre, The Dome, Akure, on Friday, November 25, Mimiko said INEC has put measures in place to ensure the APC candidate, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), wins the election.

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has threatened showdown if the Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State is rigged.

Fani-Kayode said he will unleash "the dogs of war" on the country if INEC comprises the process.

"INEC should not allow itself to be used by a rapacious and desperate Federal Government to win the state "at all costs," the former minister said in the statement

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday promised to ensure that the 2017 Budget is not padded like was done with the 2016 Budget.

He said he would never allow “rogue projects and figures” to be injected into the financial document again under his watch.

Buruji Kashamu and seven others have been suspended by the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over alleged financial improprieties and anti-party activities.

In an official statement signed by Olawale Ogundele, the state party chairman, Buruji was suspended alongside seven other persons – Bayo Dayo, Pegba Otemolu, Semiu Shodipo, Fatai Adeyanju, Segun Seriki, Daisi Akitan and Bowale Solaja.

A Human Rights Watch researcher says that the number of people who were killed in a fuel tanker explosion in Mozambique last Thursday has risen to 93 (see photo of blast above).

Fifty-one patients, including one pregnant woman and three children, remain hospitalised, 13 in critical condition.

The country held three days of mourning after the blast, which happened in the village of Caphirizanje in Tete province, near the border with Malawi. May the rest be healed.

Michael Essien back at Chelsea

Chelsea legend Michael Essien is back at Cobham.

Essien, who played for the Blues for nine years from 2005 to 2014, has been working on his fitness with Chelsea after finding himself without a club.

It’s the wedding anniversary of the VP and his wife, Dolapo Osinbajo. Mrs Osinbajo started early celebration this morning by posting a photo of her family on IG to mark their 27th wedding anniversary. She wrote; 27 years with my friend. All glory to the Lord. #wedding anniversary.

Too cute! God bless their union more!!

Ondo Election and blood Sacrifice got APC Chieftain Is Murdered

Mr Afolabi Olaposi, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Owo, Ondo State, was on Thursday night killed by unknown gunmen in Owo.

The Party said in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Abayomi Adesanya, on Friday in

Team news

Chelsea have been hit by a fresh injury blow with captain John Terry ruled out for up to three weeks with a buttock injury.

Kurt Zouma continued to build on his fitness with a run out for the under-23′s in midweek but he’s not yet ready for the first team so Conte will stick with his usual back three.

Suspected cultists have killed a student of the University of Abuja, Onyekachi Azubuko. He was killed behind his parents’ residence off Gado Nasko Way, Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory.

Northern City News gathered that Onyekachi, 25, was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon shortly after stepping out of the house to meet some friends.

His corpse was identified by his brother, Joel, before it was taken to the Kubwa General Hospital by the police.

A 911 dispatcher in the Florida Panhandle received an unusual -- albeit heartwarming -- call from young resident on Thanksgiving Day.

"A little boy melted all the hearts in Walton County Sheriff's Office Communication Center today," read a post on Walton County Sheriff Michael A. Adkinson, Jr.'s Facebook page.

Chelsea welcome Tottenham to west London sitting one point clear at the top of the table but things are tight as fifth-placed Tottenham are just four points behind so it’s all to play for at the Bridge this weekend.

Conte told Chelseafc.com:

‘John Terry and Obi Mikel are not available,’

‘John has a muscular problem in his gluteus, and he will be out for maybe two or three weeks, I don’t know. It’s a pity because he recovered very well from his last injury and now he needs to stop again.

Malawi is to hold public consultations to assess whether to reform colonial-era laws that ban homosexuality, the government said today, AFP news agency reports.

The southern African nation was the focus of controversy in 2010 when it jailed a gay couple for gross indecency after they held the country's first same-sex public "wedding".

Late President Bingu wa Mutharika said the pair had committed a crime against Malawi's culture, religion and laws but later pardoned them on "humanitarian grounds" after a meeting with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

Legislation outlawing sodomy was suspended two years ago to await a government review in a country where many traditional Christian communities view homosexuality as sinful.

President Peter Mutharika's government will hold "public enquiries... in order to seek the views of Malawians on the issue," Janet Banda, solicitor general and secretary for justice, said in a statement.

AGN President: Stealing Of iphones A Shame

Mr Tope Babayemi, Interim Chairman of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Lagos chapter on Friday described the alleged theft of nine iPhones by Oluwaseun Olasunkanmi as shameful.

Babayemi said that the law must take its course if he is tried and found guilty.

Olasunkanmi popularly known as “Seun Egbegbe’’ was alleged to have stolen nine iPhones at the Computer Village, in Ikeja.

Advice: Here are evidence that you are settling for less in your relationship

If you have been in relationships that took the whole of you and still ended badly, you might be left thinking you probably never deserved a good, happy relationship.

Whatever you must have been told, or whatever you have been made to go through in the past still does not change the fact that you deserve happiness and those your [reasonable] standards remain valid.

As much as every woman wants to reach a place in her relationship where she completely understands her man and know how his mind works, they still expect to be surprised, to have their minds blown occasionally.

If, as a man, you are not meeting this criterion you are not doing your relationship right and you need to change quick.

In your desire to turn things around, here are the things to change, because they are the reasons women may find relationship with you boring

Some weeks ago, Nikkyberry, the current girlfriend of the embattled movie producer shared this loved up photo of herself and her better half Seun Egbegbe and wished him a safe journey.

King Sunny Ade and Onyeka Onwenu have held their first ever interview together after many years. The duo granted their first ever interview together.

The duo who are legends of Nigerian music held the interview at Pulse Nigeria on Friday, November 25, 2016.

King Sunny Ade is a Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a pioneer of modern world music who has been classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time.

Ghost Workers And Programmed Dysfunction By Ayo Olukotun

“It is fraud galore. They know who is responsible for all those things. And we all know this money gets back to the big Ogas”

–Sunday Fagbemi commenting on the discovery of 8, 863 ghost workers in the Kwara State civil service, November 23, 2016.

The opening quote sourced from Mr. Sunday Fagbemi, factional Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, typifies the outrage that greeted the discovery, recently, of almost 9,000 ghost workers who have been receiving salaries and emoluments from the state for several years. It should be noted that the figure of fictitious names smuggled into the state payroll is almost one-third of the entire workforce and that salaries had not been paid for several months.

The tweet is very explanatory. Hahaha this is why he remains a role model, love love him hahahha

Is Obasanjo Right To Call N’Assembly A Den of Robbers? | Punch

He (Obasanjo) is not right. He was so hard on the National Assembly. If he was there for eight years and he didn’t do anything. It is not proper now that he is out of power to be castigating the National Assembly. He should understand that in a presidential system of government, there is separation of power between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. You don’t say things that don’t have facts and figures.

Top officials of the Federal Government on Thursday met with the Commissioners of Budget and Economic Development and Permanent Secretaries of related departments in states of the federation to get their inputs into the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.

The gathering was an initiative of the Federal Government to harvest inputs from all segments of the country to produce an all-inclusive development plan that would pull the economy out of recession and set it on the path to sustainable growth and development.

Nigeria is still reeling from a stranglehold of smothering economic recession. Nigerians are panting for breath under the clubbing, drubbing and slogging of financial difficulties. This Giant of Africa remains an emaciating elephant in the forest of despair and pervasive malaise. There seems to be no realistic, conceivable or visible end in sight to the grotesque and vile picture of the state of our nation.

A few hours ago, former President Olusegun Obasanjo weighed in on the troubling times in a lecture: “…No administration can nor should be comfortable with the excruciating pain of debilitating and crushing economy. Businesses are closing, jobs are being lost and people are suffering. I know that President Buhari has always expressed concern for the plight of the common people but that concern must be translated to workable and result-oriented socio-economic policies and programmes that will turn the economy around at the shortest time possible…” Obasanjo spoke the minds of many home and abroad.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has given access to about 7,792 requests for foreign exchange valued at over $867 million to manufacturers and other strategic actors in the Nigerian economy, according to a statement.

The statement by acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okoroafor, on Thursday in Abuja, stated that the access was in continuation of CBN’s resolve to ease foreign exchange pressure on manufacturers.
The access, Mr. Okoroafor noted, was given through inter-bank window to enable manufacturers and strategic actors source for vital raw materials and spare parts for their respective industries.

Here’s how Vanguard reports theirs.

A Lagos State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, remanded in Kirikiri Prison, Seun Egbegbe, former boyfriend to actress and social media celebrity, Toyin Aimakhu, for alleged theft of 10 pieces of iPhones.

Seun was arraigned before Magistrate Y. O. Aje-Afunwa, on one count charge of theft slammed against him by the police. Seun, who pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him, was alleged to have committed the offence at the Computer Village, Ikeja, where he requested for the phones.

Nigeria suffered a revenue loss of about $51 million in export sales as result of the activities of militants in August, which impacted the revenue available for sharing on Wednesday, an official said.

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, stated this on Wednesday at the end of the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting in Abuja.

Consequent to the revenue loss, about N420 billion was shared by the three tiers of government in October, with about N203.952 billion shared as statutory allocation.

Banks often don’t tell customers what they should know. This is why the customers must research to know his or her rights. Here are some secrets you should know, according to www.advicesavings.com:

Know the protection or insurance on your payment card

If you’re using your ATM card for debit transactions, ask your bank what kind of protection it offers if the card is stolen or lost. Thousands of naira could be pulled from your current account and, in many cases, you won’t be nearly as protected as you will be with a stolen credit card.

Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has called on traditional medicine practitioners in the state to help the police tackle “kidnapping and human parts” business.

The police boss made the call in Sango-Ota, while declaring opened a one-day workshop on Effective Policing: Role of Traditional Medicine Practitioners.

As the world begins to adjust to a newly re-ordered world, Africans cannot and should not continue to lament over the new realities confronting us. A re-ordered Pan-Africanism is nigh to effectively confront the enormous challenges that may predictably emerge from the current realities.

The world is set to undergo fundamental changes, first with Brexit and second, and most importantly, with a Donald Trump at the White House in quick succession. Throughout the Western world, populism and nationalism is on the rise, evident in these two historic but unexpected events. If the world was set on the edge by Trump’s candidacy, the world is shocked and in some cases devastated by his emergence as the president of the United States, the most powerful nation on planet earth. Between Brexit and Trump’s election is a common thread of nationalism, with the question of immigration at the core.

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday, asked the people of Ondo State to protect their votes ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

Fayose spoke in Akure during a rally held at the Democracy Park along the Oba Adesida Road shortly after the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), arrived in Akure.

Genuine democracies are incompatible with building personal wealth. That is why the White House does not know what to do with about Donald Trump’s billions. It’s a unique situation.

The Americans have been treating Donald Trump’s billions like a curse, a headache. Where will he put his wealth? How will he avoid this and that conflict? How will he do this? How will he do that? It’s almost like his wealth is a liability for their democracy, their presidency.

A new report by Amnesty International (AI) has revealed how extrajudicial execution and torture by Nigeria security forces, especially the Nigerian Army, led to the death of at least 150 pro-Biafra protesters across Nigeria’s south-east, between August 2015 and August 2016.

The report titled: “Bullets Were Raining Everywhere”: Deadly Repression of Pro-Biafra Activists,released on Thursday relied on the analysis of 87 videos, 122 photographs and 146 eye witness testimonies that revealed soldiers of the Nigeria military firing live ammunition to disperse protesters, most of them members of the separatist group, Indigenous People of the Biafra (IPOB), without warning.

A 32-year-old man, Obed Fwoms, was, yesterday, arraigned in an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stabbing his neighbour, Emeka Ofoke, on his manhood.

Fwoms, a resident of Awori in Dopemu, Agege, Ikeja, is standing trial on a charge of wounding and similar acts.

This Ethnic Group Has A Mind That Works By Tunji Ajibade

Catergorising these guys is a tough task. It’s tough categorising all the actors in the conflicts in the Middle East, anyway. This can happen wherever non-state actors are more than state actors. The Kurds belong to the former, and I pick them first from a host of others. Yet, this description of Kurds doesn’t tell who they are exactly. For instance, Kurds of Iraq are almost state actors, but Kurds of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Armenia are non-state actors. Wherever they’re found, Kurds are a force to reckon with in any matter, including the violent conflicts that ravage the Middle East at the moment. Along with Arabs, Azeris, Persians, Egyptians and Turks, they make up the largest ethnic groups in the region. Kurds are the 12th entity in the series in which I look at the role each actor plays in the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

In October, it was reported that a bill to protect people against jungle justice had scaled second reading in the Senate and might soon become a law. Considering that there are already laws against wanton killings in place, such a bill is superfluous. Nigerians practise jungle justice, not for a lack of laws but because our institutions are too tepid to enforce existing ones.

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a pastor, Adekunle Francis, at Ipamesan, Sango Ota, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl, Dolapo.

The suspect, who was arrested on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, was said to have lured the girl into an uncompleted building under the pretext of praying for and anointing her.

For describing the National Assembly as being peopled by a gang of unarmed robbers, the House of Representatives has lashed out at ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, calling him the grandfather of corruption.

The Reps described Obasanjo as the most corrupt Nigerian that ever held a public office, adding that he, however, saw himself as the only clean human being.

Seek Daily (NBC)

Friday, November 25

Revelation 7:9-12

WORSHIP WITHOUT END

“And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb.’” Revelation 7:10, NIV

Why Tinubu Must Be Rescued By Ochereome Nnanna

IT is obvious now that, for the first time in his illustrious political career, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the much touted National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has fallen into a political ditch.

He needs a helping hand to get out fast. If the APC manipulates itself to victory in Ondo State (by using the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Judiciary to ensure that a fake candidate, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, stands for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it might signal the end of the Tinubu political saga in the South West.

Former Barcelona and Real Madrid player Luis Figo's Madrid mansion was attacked on Wednesday night while the footballer wasn't around and the robbers made away with jewellery worth €500,000 according to reports in the Spanish media. According to top Spanish magazine, AS, who reported the story;

Trump Begs Americans | Vanguard

U.S. Presiden

t-elect Donald Trump has called on Americans to “speak with one voice and one heart” after a long and bruising political campaign.

Trump’s plea was made in a video posted on YouTube after he announced the selection Wednesday of two more Cabinet officials on Wednesday.

The officials are South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley who was appointed as ambassador to the United Nations and Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos who would work as secretary of Education.

Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of Nigeria’s Ogale people, unpacked four bottles of water from his homeland and lined them up on a table to show why his subjects are suing Royal Dutch Shell in a London court.

The Nigerian water is contaminated with oil and cancer-causing compounds such as benzene. It is what his people drink every day.

Lawyers for more than 40,000 Nigerians are demanding action from Shell to clean up oil spills.

Popular Lagos pastor‎/former Vice Presidential candidate, Tunde Bakare, and his wife, Olayide, are celebrating their 32nd wedding anniversary today November 24th. The couple got married in 1984. Congrats to them. More throwback photos from their wedding after the cut.

Johannesburg (CNN)Images of a South African Pastor spraying insecticide into the faces of his congregants are circulating on social media.

Lethebo Rabalago, of the Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA), in Limpopo, has openly posted photographs on his Facebook page of him spraying congregants with Doom Super Multi Insect Killer to cure various ailments.

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