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Thursday, 5 February 2015

Exposed! How Obanikoro, Fayose, Chris Uba And Brig. Gen. Momoh Rigged Ekiti Governorship Election In Collusion With The Nigerian Army

The 37-minute recording details the conversation between these PDP leaders and politicians as they bribed Brigadier General Momoh with a promotion for his assistance in carrying out election fraud in Ekiti. In it, Obanikoro is clearly heard informing the group of men, “[I] am not here for a tea party, am on special assignment by the President.”

SaharaReporters has received unimpeachable documents and audio recordings providing substantial evidence that major Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders planned and successfully rigged the gubernatorial elections in Ekiti State, and plotted a similar scenario in Osun in 2014.

How The Council Of State Rejected President Jonathan’s Proposal To Postpone General Elections

Following a grueling eight-hour meeting on Thursday,Nigeria’s National Council of State emphatically rejected a proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to postpone the 2015 general elections.

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The meeting was Mr. Jonathan’s final open effort to rescue an election that seems to have got away from him very quickly.

Under the Nigerian constitution, the Council advises executive branch, and is chaired by the President. Other members are the Vice-President, who is the Deputy Chairman; all former Presidents of the Federation and all former Heads of the Government of the Federation; all former Chief Justices; the President of the Senate; the Speaker of the House of Representatives; all State Governors; and the Attorney-General of the Federation.

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The Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has launched Nigeria’s national security documents, aimed at tackling the various security challenges facing the country, especially terrorism.

The launch of the documents formed part of the agenda of the Council of State Meeting which is holding at the Presidential Villa, in the nation’s federal capital, Abuja.

In attendance are Nigeria’s past heads of state, including the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari.

There's nothing more doctors can do for Bobbi Kristina -- and they've told Bobby Brown it's time to withdraw life support ... TMZ has learned.

Family sources tell us the decision is now in Brown's hands -- but we're told he's refusing to make the painful choice today, and instead wants to wait until after the weekend.

A crucial meeting of Nigeria National Council of State presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan was going on at press time in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Thursday.

The meeting is expected to take a crucial decision on whether to postpone or go ahead with the presidential election slated for 14 February, 2015.

Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is expected to brief the meeting on the preparation of the Commission for the polls.

The roots of the current in-fighting in the Presidential camp of the APC which their VP candidate, Prof Yemi Osibanjo's group claimed is because he was forced to sign a letter of resignition for APC. This means that Pastor Osibanjo will step down for Bola Tinubu as the VP, if the APC wins the Presidential election.

According to this video, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Muhammadu Buharis running mate in 2011 recounts his similiar experience in 2011.
"Tinubu asked me to sign a resignation letter to sign a resignation leter that says I will resign as Vice President once Buhari wins the election (thus bringing about the Muslim-Muslim ticket through the backdoor)

These are photos from the burial Ceremony of Late Actor, Muna Obiekwe’s at his Hometown, Umudioka in Anambra State. .

Pictured above are few pictures were could gather where mourners gathered around his casket ahead of his interment. May His Gentle Sould Rest in Perfect Peace!! Amen!

Muna died on Sunday, January 18, 2015 due to a kidney related illness. A candle light procession held on Saturday February 1, 2015 to honour him.

An image of a conference in Saudi Arabia on the topic of “women in society” – with not a single female present - has gone viral.

The picture features row upon row of men in traditional keffiyeh and white thobes. A single Westerner in a flannel shirt is the only person breaking up an otherwise uniform sea of what appear to be Arab men.

Saudi Arabia’s laughably prestigious University of Qassim played host to one of the biggest women’s rights conferences in the Arab world in 2012. Ironically, the institution managed to hold the event without the advice or attendance of a single woman.

Ahead of today’s National Council of State meeting, All Progressives Congress, APC, governors were, yesterday, mobilizing to fend off pressures to use the platform to push forward agitations for the postponement of this month’s scheduled elections.

A number of APC governors, who had in the past stayed away from the meeting, were last night headed for Abuja to add verve to the opposition to the postponement. APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, who had in the past three years also ignored the meeting according to feelers, could show up today. There were also speculations that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who had also been absent in recent meetings, could attend the meeting.

Jonathan's Media Aide Conducts Opinion Poll, Buhari Wins

President Goodluck Jonathan has lost to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress [APC] Muhammadu Buhari, in a tweet poll organised to test the popularity of presidential candidates.

The poll was organised by one of Mr. Jonathan’s aides, Reno Omokri.

Using his Twitter handle, @Renoomokri, Mr. Omokri asked two questions.

“Who will be more tolerant of criticisms? Retweet to choose GEJ. Favourite for Buhari. Answer honestly with the fear of God! #WhyIwillVoteGEJ”.

President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday rejected any attempt by the Federal Government to postpone the February 14 and 28 elections.

Its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, also kicked against such plans.

APC warned members of the National Council of State, which is meeting today, against being involved in a postponement which can damage the nation’s electoral process.

It accused the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) of acting a script to deny Nigerians the right to vote for their preferred leader — a charge the ruling party denied yesterday.

As preparations for the general elections gather momentum, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, Wednesday cancelled the much awaited media briefing on the readiness of INEC for the big task.

It was not clear why the INEC boss cancelled the event, which was to take place in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, but some sources have revealed that it might be linked with the mounting pressure to postpone the elections.

A friend of Bobbi Kristina claims it was he and not her alleged husband Nick Gordon who called 911 after finding her unresponsive in a bathtub on Saturday morning.

Max Lomas, who has previously been arrested on drug distribution charges, claims Gordon was ‘elsewhere in the residence’ and it was he who removed her from the tub.

Lomas’ lawyer told Access Hollywood on Wednesday that it was his client ‘who began the process of hopefully helping her recover.’

A taxi driver is lucky to be alive after a passenger plane clipped his vehicle before hitting a motorway overpass and crashing into a river in Taiwan killing at least 31 people.

The cabbie, named locally as Mr Zhou, scrambled from the wreckage of his car with serious injuries before telling doctors 'I fainted the moment it hit us'.

Flight 235 with 58 people aboard - many of them travellers from China - banked sharply on its side on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Taipei, smashing into a highway bridge and then plunging into the Keelung River below.

Mr Zhou, who is said to have a heart condition, reportedly clambered from his vehicle before admitting: 'I am lucky to be alive'.

PHOTO- Gov. Fashola Throwing T-shirts, Recharge Cards In Surulere Lagos

United Arab Emirates [Dubai] Visa Age Restriction For Nigerian Nationals

Coscharis Motors Attempted To Bribe Pastor Bakare With Rolls Royce Phantom

Cosmas Maduka, whose auto dealership, Coscharis Motors, was involved in a shady car purchase deal by former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, apparently tried to offer Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly a Rolls Royce Phantom during the pastor’s 60th birthday celebration, SaharaReporters has learnt. Coscharis Motors had presented invoices to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) claiming to have supplied two bulletproof BMW cars for the use of Ms. Oduah at the cost of $800,000 per car.

Election Postponement Plot Thickens As 16 Minor Political Parties Endorse Shift Of Election Date, Threaten Boycott Of Polls

In a dramatic shift, 16 minor political parties on Tuesday threw their support behind some calls for the postponement of Nigeria’s general elections slated for February.

In addition, five of the 14 presidential candidates signed a joint statement urging the electoral commission to postpone the elections to a “more appropriate” date.

Although they do not have much to lose in the process, they threatened to boycott the elections if their wishes were not heeded.

The case of Mrs. Caroline Orugude deserves a place in the spotlight. On that unforgettable Sunday, which will remain engraved on the hearts of the thousands of people that heard her, she gently made her way to the altar of The SCOAN. Delicately clenching a hand that was just recovering from a recent attack of stroke, the elderly woman had the air of one with important news.

She came with a simple gift and message that would speak volumes to men and women of God the world over. A retired teacher from Bayelsa in Southern Nigeria, this woman still had a thing or two to teach the “young ones”.

One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, analysis suggests.

Cancer Research UK said this estimate, using a new calculation method, replaced a forecast of more than one in three people developing the disease.

It said longer life expectancies meant more people would be affected.

But it was not inevitable and improving lifestyle, such as losing weight and quitting smoking, could have a major impact, the charity added.

The good news is cancer survival figures are also rising.

Image of plane crashing over bridge in Taiwan (4 Jan 2015 - image by @Missxoxo168)

At least 12 people have died after a TransAsia Airways plane clipped a bridge and crashed into a river near the Taiwanese capital, Taipei.

Fifty-eight people were onboard the domestic flight, and a number of people were reportedly injured.

Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) broadcast footage of the plane almost submerged in the Keelung river.

Rescue teams are alongside the plane trying to rescue several people still trapped inside.

Nigerian Man & His Bride Are Arrested In The UK For Sham Marriage

A BRIDE-TO-BE was arrested along with her groom minutes before they were due to wed in a sham marriage.

Nigerian Joseph Iwueke was about to marry Slovakian Ingrida Stojkova, from Daubhill, in a bid to keep him in the UK.

But Home Office investigators swooped to arrest the pair in July last year after suspicions were raised by a registrar in Leeds just before the bogus ceremony was about to take place.

Stojkova was led away in a white dress, while Iwueke was arrested by officers in his wedding suit.

Protesters numbering about 100 stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Monday, demanding the postponement of this month’s general elections.
The youth gathered at the INEC headquarters in the Maitama District of Abuja asking it to delay the polls because of the difficulty in the distribution of the Permanent Voters Card, PVCs.

Brutal: The footage, which is titled 'Healing the Believers Chests' appears to show the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit as a trail of petrol leading up to the cage is seen being set alight

Militants fighting for the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq have released a video they claim shows Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive while locked in a cage.

The footage, which is titled 'Healing the Believers' Chests' appears to show the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit as a trail of petrol leading up to the cage is seen being set alight.

Flames are seen quickly spreading to the cage where they completely engulf the helpless pilot in images that are far too distressing to publish.
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Frank Akpoebi, a close political associate of President Goodluck Jonathan, declared on Sunday that a whopping N32 billion was missing from the treasury of Bayelsa State Government when Jonathan was governor between 2005 and 2007.

He made the stunning revelation on Sunday at a press conference held at the National Headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja where he gave reasons for his defection and of hundreds of others from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to APC.

Photo: Alaafin of Oyo & Wife Test Motorcycles They Donated To APC

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III & his beautiful wives donate 20 motorbikes to APC. Photo credit: Dele Momodu

2015 Poll: Doyin Okupe Predicts How Goodluck Jonathan Will Win Presidential Election

Sultan Cautions Oyedepo, Tompolo Over Inflammatory Statements

President of Jamatul Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad has advised the founder and General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo to henceforth stop heating up the polity ahead of the February 2015 elections.

The Sultan also cautioned former Niger Delta militants; Asari Dokubo, Victor Ben Ebikabowei (Boy Loaf), Government Ekpudomenowei (Tompolo) and other militants in the same manner to stop beating war drums if President Goodluck Jonathan fails to win the February 14 Presidential election .

Man Survives Being Thrown From 7-Storey Building By Isis For Being Gay Then Stoned to Death

A picture shows him sitting up after being thrown from the building.

This blindfolded man was allegedly thrown from the roof of a tower block, simply for being gay.

According to reports from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, members of Isis threw the man seven storeys, but despite surviving the fall, he was then stoned to death.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the man’s crime was to have a ‘homosexual affair’.

He talked about his fiancee, relationship with ex-wife Fathia Balogun, Nollywood and how they beg for money from politicians and more, see excerpts below:

2015 has just begun, what are your plans for the year?
My plan is to expand my business, repackage myself and move forward.

Do you subscribe to the fact that there is poverty in the industry as some people are saying?
Yes, that’s why you see some of our people running helter skelter, campaigning for all these politicians. But there is one question we have all not asked and that’s what makes American artistes donate to politicians and what’s making we the actors asking from politicians here in Nigeria? I must tell you the truth, that’s the main issue on ground unaddressed.

Every member of National Assembly has not made any reasonable law on piracy which has devoured the industry. So, there is poverty in the industry, I won’t lie. If there is not, you won’t see our people flocking around all these politicians, campaigning, singing and dancing for them. I saw a candidate being surrounded by some of our colleagues, I now said to myself, “If this man eventually wins, how many actors or musicians will he remember?”

Although, some are doing it, to make ends meet. And it’s sad because we’re stars. I think we’re supposed to be worshipped, not worshipping others. Even if a governor holds your hand, he is supposed to be happy. But now, the reverse is the case. If you have been following the trend concerning me as a person, I have campaigned for many governors.

Just to talk of South-West alone, and not other parts of the country. I campaigned for Kwara State governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, he won. I campaigned for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, he also won. Equally, I campaigned for Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, he won as well. Yet, I am still hustling. I think you can decode something from the point I am trying to make. And I am one of the old-young guys, we have been following politicians for long. Old in the sense that old in the political scene, I have been into that for more than 20 years, but age wise, I am still young. Even, the new actors are still coming in joining the train, I still remain an old guy doing the hustling thing.

Mr Justice Cobb held a two day hearing at the Court of Protection after health and social services applied to sterilise a mother-of-six against her will

A mother-of-six with severe learning difficulties could be taken into hospital using 'necessary restraint' to sterilise her.

At a hearing at the Court of Protection, health and social services applied for permission to enter the woman's home and take her to hospital to be sterilised against her will because they said her health would be put at risk if she had more children.

John McKendrick, who represented a health authority, hospital trust and council - which cannot be identified - said the application was 'extraordinary' and would involve serious interference with the woman's human rights.

Mr Justice Cobb held a two day hearing into the case and heard that health workers had struggled to get the woman, who cannot be named, to take contraception, the Sun reported.

Her six children have been taken into care and Mr Justice Cobb said the case was one of 'enormous gravity.'

The hearing took place at the Court of Protection in London, the UK's most secretive court which deals with cases involving usually highly vulnerable people who lack the mental ability to make decisions for their well being themselves.

The court heard that the woman, who is in her 30s, has medical problems which will pose a significant risk if she has another child.

'I thought it was a BOMB': Passengers tell of terrifying moment double-decker's roof was ripped off by a TREE in centre of London - leaving five passengers injured

Passengers on a double-decker bus which had its roof ripped off by a tree have told how they thought the vehicle had been targeted by a bomb.

Startled passengers have told how the tree's branches cut through the vehicle 'like a knife through butter', scraping off the bus's roof to leave upper-floor seats and handrails visible outside.

Five people were injured in the 'freak accident' on the 91 bus in Kingsway, Holborn, with one man left with a broken nose.

One woman, sitting on the lower deck, said she thought the crashing she heard had been caused by a bomb.

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Bobbi Kristina drowned in her bathtub ... and the word 'drown" is critical.

TMZ has obtained the police report in which an officer writes they responded at 10:25 AM Saturday in reference to a "drowning."

"Drowning" typically means someone died underwater. As we reported, Bobbi Kristina's husband and friend administered CPR after they found her face down in the bathtub and paramedics were able to revive her.

Fund raising for Buhari presidential campaign took place last night with people from all works of life in attendance,Captains of industry, Nigerians in diaspora,the elites,the average Nigerians,the poor, APC party chieftains, Presidential candidate General Buhari, Vice presidential candidate Prof Osibanjo, friends and families all in attendance.

Bobby Brown is finally speaking out about Bobbi Kristina Brown’s condition following her hospitalization on Jan. 31.

Bobby Brown, 45, who rushed to be with his 21-year old daughter at her hospital bed soon as he learnt of what befell her, has released a statement asking everyone for love and support.

BILLIONAIRE businessman, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas is dead. According to reports, he died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 79.

Okoya was the Asoju Oba of Lagos, Babasuwa of Ijebu-Remo, Odofin of Ife, the current Chancellor of Lagos State University and chairman of CFAO Nigeria Limited. He is also a well known sports enthusiast, Okoya-Thomas was a committed sponsor of the popular annual Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championship in Lagos.

Sunday, 1 February 2015

THREE-YEAR-OLD Boy Shoots His Heavily Pregnant Mother And His father In Motel Room After Finding Loaded Gun

A three-year-old boy has shot and injured his heavily pregnant mother and his father after reaching into his mother's purse for her iPod and discovering a loaded handgun, police have said.

The toddler was sitting in a motel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his mother, Monique Villescas, father, Justin Reynolds, and two-year-old sister on Saturday when the shooting occurred.

He reportedly reached into Miss Villescas's purse in a bid to reach her iPod, but unwittingly pulled out a gun instead. Seconds later, he fired one shot, striking his father in the right buttock.

The bullet then traveled out of Mr Reynolds's hip and struck his long-term girlfriend - who is eight months' pregnant - in the arm, police said. The pair were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds.

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Alan Barnes, the disabled man who suffered a broken collar bone after he was mugged outside his home and knocked to the ground as he put the bins out, has met the woman who started a fundraising campaign to help him which has ended up raising almost a quarter of a million pounds.

Mr Barnes described the moment he met beautician Katie Cutler as 'absolutely magic'.

The mother-of-one initially set out to raise £500 for Mr Barnes after she learned how the 67-year-old, who was born with growth problems and is now partially sighted, was mugged and left lying on his doorstep in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

FORMER CPC vice presidential candidate and founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has declared that he earnestly yearns for a better Nigeria where good governace, equal distribution of the nation’s resources amongst others for all citizens.

The former running mate of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) made this remarks while ministering during the inauguration and commissioning of Grace and Glory Chapel in Ikeja, Lagos, while giving reasons why he rejected a car gift for his 60th birthday.

Pastor Bakare said he was not interested in becoming a local champion in a city of the blind, recalling that, some persons brought him a 2015 model of Rolls Royce during his 60th birthday which, he said, he out rightly rejected, adding that he was not in need of such exotic car while majority of Nigerians are wallowing in poverty.

Wanted drug trafficking kingpin, Kashamu Buruji has shipped thousands of of bags of rice inscribed with President Goodluck Jonathan’s picture and placed them in a warehouse in Ogun state ready to be deployed to lure hungry residents to vote for the president on February 14.

Danger to February 14 Election: NSA Compounds INEC’s Woes

*Logistic challenges emerge

*Jega’s plan for free, fair polls in trouble

*960,000 election-day staff needed

Facts emerged, yesterday, suggesting that Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was grappling with problems which may have compelled it to postpone the February 14, 2015, presidential election, had the National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, not publicly called on the electoral body to consider the option of postponement.

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Sunday Vanguard was made to understand in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, that the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, had summoned an emergency meeting of Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, penultimate week, to review the Commission’s preparedness for the election, as well as look into areas requiring urgent attention.

Nigerian Doll Created By Man Who Couldn't Find A Black Toy For His Niece Is So Popular in His Country That It's Outselling BARBIE

A man who couldn't find a black doll in the shops as a gift for his niece decided to take matters into his own hands.

In 2007, Taofick Okoya, 43, created his own doll that Nigerian girls could identify with by recreating their skin colour and style - and it is now so successful that it is outselling Barbie.

The doll, which is called Queens of Africa, comes with traditional outfits and accessories and costs around £4.50.

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The increasing spate of attacks on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign train in some parts of the North is rattling the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH in Abuja, on Friday, showed that the grave situation were made worse by allegations that the attacks had been carried out by aggrieved members of the party.

It was learnt that the situation had prompted the President’s security team to take extra measures to protect him as he prepared to visit Gombe, Yobe and Niger states this week.

Our correspondents also gathered that the PDP had been further unsettled by the hot exchange of words between the Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, over the stoning of the President’s convoy in Katsina State.

L-R: Wife of the Vice-President, Mrs. Amina Sambo; Vice-President Namadi Sambo; wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan; and President Goodluck Jonathan, at the PDP presidential campaign in Kaduna… on Saturday.

The police and other security operatives on Saturday chased out pro-Buhari supporters at the Kaduna rally for the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan.

The main bowl of the 30,000-capacity Ahmadu Bello Stadium, the venue of the rally, was half-filled. It was the last in the series of North-West rallies scheduled for President Jonathan’s re-election bid.

When the state Governor, Mukhtar Yero, mounted the podium to read his welcome address, as soon as he shouted ‘PDP,’ a large section of the crowd chorused ‘Sai (only) Buhari.’

Also, when the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, shouted ‘Sai Nigeria,’ the crowd responded, ‘Sai Buhari.’

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