tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69041967820391842024-03-14T10:02:25.289+01:00 Welcome to John Greatman's BlogNews, Business Ideas and Tips, Events, Entertainment, Inspiration, Sports, Interviews, Entrepreneur, Jobs, Lifestyle,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-57265635677655490282017-04-20T09:09:00.000+02:002017-09-21T22:30:37.313+02:0053 ARRESTED IN ZARIA FOR ATTENDING GAY MARRIAGE<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;">
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The prosecutor, Sgt. Mannir Nasir said the accused were arrested on April 15 at Zaria Motel and were being charged with conspiracy, unlawful assembly and belonging to a gang of an unlawful society.</div>
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He said the offenses contravened Sections 97, 100 and 197(a) of Criminal Procedure Code [CPC].</div>
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“On April 15, 2017, at about 2100 hours a team of policemen led by DSP Muhammad Lawal-Mashi arrested and brought to police station, 53 persons.</div>
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“The arrested persons included Jibril Abdullahi, Sagir Abubakar, Anas Mohammed, Mustapha Abubakar, Taofeek Olanrewaju, Musa Ibrahim and Suleiman Usman among others, all of the various addresses.</div>
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“Information reached the police that these group of persons conspired to celebrate a gay marriage at Zaria Motel between one Faruk and Sanusi both at large,” the prosecutor said.</div>
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The accused persons, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges, and their counsel, Yunusa Umar asked the court to release them on bail in line with sections 35 (4) and 36 (5) of the Constitution.</div>
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Umar lamented that the accused persons were detained in police custody for more than 24 hours contrary to the provisions of section 341 of CPC.</div>
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The Chief Magistrate, Auwal Musa-Aliyu, granted bail to the accused persons in the sum of N500,000 each, with one surety each in the like sum, who must be a blood relation to the accused.</div>
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He ordered that each surety must present two passport size photographs, valid identity card, bank account number, letter of credence from a traditional ruler, a 2015 utility bill and a valid GSM number.</div>
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The Chief Magistrate adjoined the case till May 8, for further hearing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> Ms. Rufa’I, who made the appeal at a meeting with vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities in Abuja, said: “we plead with them to go back to classes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> “We are having a meeting tomorrow at the National Assembly with the Senate and House of Representatives to resolve all the issues.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> “My attention has also been drawn to the mobilisation of unqualified students for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC.) “In line with the extant rules, the NYSC is exclusively for graduates from recognised universities and accredited programmes,” she said.</b></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-91751551904904666732013-07-10T00:55:00.002+02:002013-07-10T00:55:16.068+02:00FG Urged To Retain NECO, UTMEThe Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has advised Federal Government to retain the central admission system for Nigerian universities and jettison the Oronsaye report that recommended the scrapping of National Examination Council, NECO.<br />
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Rising from its meeting held in Lokoja, Kogi State, the union’s WAEC, libraries and other trade groups’ branch described the proposals contained in the Steve Oronsaye committee report.<br />
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The union said: “It will increase the level of unemployment, the ills in the society and also defeat the essence of national cohesion.”<br />
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NASU’s views were contained in a resolution signed by its Deputy President, Mr. Michael Adegoke and Secretary, Prince Damola Adelekun. It expressed concern about insecurity in the country and called on all tiers of government to “intensify action in protecting the lives and property of the citizenry.”<br />
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However, labour relations appear strained between the union and WAEC as the union accused the management of WAEC of high-handedness.<br />
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Making reference to the queries issued to three principal officer of the union in WAEC, the union said: “The cordial industrial relationship that has been in existence between the Union and WAEC is being threatened by this repressive, choice of monologue and oppressive posture of WAEC management.”<br />
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It advised the management of WAEC to “as a matter of urgency, start dialogue with the union over the demands of its own members. “The union will not compromise the rights of its members at any time.”<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-498080053494831482013-05-24T00:27:00.001+02:002013-05-24T00:36:32.322+02:00Chinua Achebe: Nigeria Holds Funeral For Author<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Thousands of mourners have paid their last respects to renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in his home town in Anambra state.</div>
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A host of dignitaries attended the funeral including President Goodluck Jonathan.</div>
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Crowds of mourners surrounded the church, some wearing traditional shirts emblazoned with Mr Achebe's image.</div>
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The author is widely regarded as the founding father of African literature in English.</div>
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The John Greatman's blog reporter. who was at the funeral, said that Mr Achebe was given a colourful, grand send off in his home town of Ogidi.</div>
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However, much of what he abhorred was on full display at the service - political patronage and the trappings of power, he says.</div>
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Local politicians were escorted into church by men from the State Security Service wielding sophisticated weapons while a large number of men and women came dressed head to toe in political party outfits, our correspondent adds.</div>
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President Jonathan and Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama flew in by helicopter to attend the service at the packed Anglican church.</div>
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Thousands of mourners followed proceedings from huge marquees outside.</div>
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President Jonathan said Mr Achebe's writings - which were often fiercely critical of Nigeria's leadership - remained an inspiration for political leaders to do better.</div>
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He said he had not known Mr Achebe personally, but had admired him.</div>
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In a reference to the author's last book, There Was a Country, Mr Jonathan said: "All of us must work together so that our children will know there is a country."</div>
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After the church service, Mr Achebe was buried in a mausoleum on the family compound in a private ceremony.</div>
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Mr Achebe's body had arrived back in Nigeria on Wednesday from the US, where he died in March at the age of 82.</div>
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His 1958 debut novel, Things Fall Apart, which dealt with the impact of colonialism in Africa, has sold more than 10 million copies.</div>
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The writer and academic went on to write more than 20 works - some fiercely critical of politicians and what he described as a failure of leadership in Nigeria.</div>
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He had been living in the US since 1990 after a car crash left him partially paralysed and in a wheelchair, returning to Nigeria infrequently.</div>
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Although people have been mourning, the life of the influential Nigerian writer was also being celebrated, our reporter says.</div>
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"I left my house in Asaba (a nearby city) at 05:00 this morning (04:00 GMT) in order to pay my last respects for this illustrious son of Nigeria who has done his people proud," said Sylvanus John, a 31-year-old engineer, AFP news agency reports</div>
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<strong style="text-align: left;">The Presidency has described former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), as the major sponsor of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram and a leading protagonist of violence.</strong><br style="text-align: left;" /><a href="" name="more" style="text-align: left;"></a><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">It said that apart from his ambition to rule the country again, Buhari had refused to contribute meaningfully to actions capable of ending insecurity in the country. Buhari, a National Leader of the CPC, had, on the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday, said that the Federal Government should be blamed for the lingering security challenges in the country.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">According to Punch Newspaper, Buhari also flayed the Goodluck Jonathan administration for what he called “poor handling of insurgency” that had led to the death of many Nigerians and destruction of properties. While reacting to this, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said it was unfortunate that such a statement could emanate from Buhari. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Describing Buhari as a man he respects so much, Okupe added that he had no option but to reply to his accusations against the Federal Government and the President.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">He reminded Nigerians that Buhari had previously been credited with a statement that he would make the country ungovernable if the last presidential election did not favour him. Okupe said, </span><strong style="text-align: left;">“Everybody in this country knows that it was Buhari who vowed that if he did not win the election, he would make the country ungovernable for this President Goodluck Jonathan.</strong><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><strong style="text-align: left;"> It was this same Buhari who said during the electioneering period that if the votes were counted and he lost, people should go for blood.</strong><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">He is not in any position to apportion blame on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only solution he sees to his not being President is to call for violence. This government has tried to contain some of the repercussions of the unguarded statements made by Buhari and I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take him seriously on this allegation.”</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">The presidential aide added that if there were those to be blamed for the insecurity in the country, the name of Buhari should top the list. Okupe wondered why the Katsina State-born general had refused to visit states like Borno and Yobe despite the fact that he hails from the northern part of the country.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">He said, “As a former Head of State, have you ever seen him (Buhari) visiting Borno or Yobe States?</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;"> Have you ever seen him show sympathy to people, either Christians or Muslims that have been killed during these attacks by Boko Haram? Have you see him as a leader, a man who traversed the entire length and breadth of the North especially to canvass for votes seeking an end to the violence? Why is it that he cannot use that same clout that he has to get leaders together and say we must put an end to this carnage? He finds it comfortable to shift the blame to other people.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">What has he done as a leader, who is from that region to help Nigeria and the North out of this unfortunate development? Nigerians should ask him, as a former Head of State and stakeholder in the Nigeria project and a man who wants to be President again, if he would want Nigeria to be destroyed up to a point before he can try to wade in? It does not work that way.”</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Okupe said that as a leader, Buhari should stop apportioning blame, but should do something crucial to bring the carnage in the country under control.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">He reminded the former military ruler that during the crisis in Niger Delta, leaders from the region went into the creeks and discussed with the militants to lay down their arms. “Has Buhari done that? When Christians were killed, he kept quiet, when mosques were bombed, he did not say anything. He doesn’t have any other interest in Nigeria but his inordinate ambition to rule,” he added.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">In his reaction, Buhari said there was no way he could be involved in the discussion on how to end the carnage since he was not part of the problem. Buhari, who spoke through the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, also said it was apparent that those responsible for the crisis in the Niger Delta were the ones that volunteered to end it.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">He said, “When the Niger Delta militancy reached a crescendo, some notable people from that region went into the creeks as he (Okupe) alleged. The question is: ‘Who were the people who started the Niger Delta imbroglio ab initio?’ If the people that initiated and executed a problem decided to resolve it, what can anyone do about it? This is totally different from the Boko Haram palaver.”</span></div>
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<em><strong>A former servant at the palace of the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, where the mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was kidnapped has told PUNCH Metro that he gave the kidnappers the necessary information for the job.</strong></em><br /> </div>
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The suspect, Chiejine Onochie, said although the kidnappers collected N13m as ransom before the 83-year-old Prof. Kamene Okonjo was released last December, he was not given any money and therefore, was not culpable.<br /><a href="" name="more"></a></div>
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He said, “I’m 32 years old and I worked in the palace from 2007 to 2012 after which I left because the pay was too little. A friend of mine approached me and told me that I could make a lot of money if I gave kidnappers information on how to get into the palace.<br /> </div>
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“However, after the operation, I did not get a dime. It was later that I learnt that they had collected N13m as ransom. I felt cheated and I left everything to God. I cannot be held for the crime because when police started arresting people, I went to report at the station voluntarily, I was not dragged to the station.”<br /> </div>
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Another suspect, Jideofor Ogbue, aka Marvelous, who claimed to be the leader of the gang, said after gaining entrance into the palace, he and his gang members did not force Okonjo out of the palace but she followed them willingly after they had told her that they were sent by President Goodluck Jonathan.<br /> </div>
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The 22-year-old said, “It was my friend, Ifeanyi, that informed me about the operation. On the day of the kidnap, we had no difficulty because Onochie had told us that the security around the palace was lax. Although 12 of us were involved in the operation, only eight actually went to the palace.<br /> </div>
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“We went with three AK47 rifles and a pump-action rifle. When the woman (Okonjo) saw us, she asked who we were and we told her that President Goodluck Jonathan sent us from Abuja to arrest her because her daughter (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) had embezzled public funds.<br /> </div>
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“We took her to Kwale and her family paid us N13m as ransom. They packaged the money in polythene bags and dropped it around an expressway in Benin. My share was N2m.”<br /> </div>
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Chukwuma Okoh, a suspect who claimed to be a graduate of Accounting and Finance from Ambrose Alli University, said he joined the gang because of unemployment. He said he was not given any money after the operation.<br /> </div>
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He said, “I’m 31 years old and I graduated in 2007. Since then, it has been hard to get a decent job. It was Onochie that brought the idea of kidnapping Okonjo-Iweala’s mother.<br /> </div>
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“However, as God is my witness, I did not receive a dime from the gang after the operation.”<br /> </div>
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The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Umar Manko, identified other members of the gang as Michael Ojeabulu, Endurance Oke, Ibrahim Abubakar, Buhari Hamadora and Hassan Oseni.</div>
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Manko, while parading the suspects, said the suspects were arrested in different states comprising Edo, Enugu, Delta and Anambra.<br /> </div>
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The police boss said contrary to reports, kidnapping was not on the rise in Lagos.<br /> </div>
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He said, “Marvelous was arrested in Port Harcourt after he had perfected plans to kidnap the Commissioner of Commerce in Anambra State.<br /> </div>
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“As you can see, these kidnappers do not operate in Lagos State, they just come and go. You therefore cannot say kidnapping is on the rise in Lagos.”<br /> </div>
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Meanwhile, the same gang of kidnappers also confessed to killing a 72-year-old woman, Regina Obi, after collecting a ransom of N2m from her family.<br /> </div>
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The suspects told PUNCH Metro that Obi was killed because one of their gang members was killed during a gun duel with the police some days earlier.<br /> </div>
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Onochie said, “After the first operation in which I was not paid, they approached me again for another operation and told me that they would pay me this time around. They said they needed information about the family of Obi, who owns a big hotel in Delta State.<br /> </div>
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“I traced the residence of their mother and told them how they could kidnap her. She sells land so I told the gang to tell her that they had a good deal and when she follows them to conclude transactions, they should kidnap her.”<br /> </div>
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Marvelous said he was not around on the day Obi was killed. He however said it was another gang member, Peter, that pulled the trigger.<br /> </div>
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“We demanded N2m from the family and they paid immediately. However, because Peter’s brother had been killed during a police raid some days ago, he took the anger out on the old lady and killed her. I did not kill anybody; I’m a kidnapper, not a murderer,” he said.</div>
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The body of the late veteran actor, Justus Esiri, was buried today in his hometown, Abraka, Delta State.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzohCim4jYoP3nODkZEeiP6VVMSYPcwnA6RzaAzrqNiCtTvgyA3NrcZEzYBCvOFOmW0qqpygWWVlVXLkvvz3nG0iK-sU3QqkkXAM6lKXouKBbm6plDxyD0XKh5HCcDew5hlQ_jzMVn0wU/s1600/justusesiri2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzohCim4jYoP3nODkZEeiP6VVMSYPcwnA6RzaAzrqNiCtTvgyA3NrcZEzYBCvOFOmW0qqpygWWVlVXLkvvz3nG0iK-sU3QqkkXAM6lKXouKBbm6plDxyD0XKh5HCcDew5hlQ_jzMVn0wU/s1600/justusesiri2.jpg" /></a>The late theatre icon began his final journey home with a Tribute Night organised by the Actors’ Guild of Nigerian in Lagos. It was followed by a service of songs and general mass on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively at St. Jude Catholic Church, Mafoluku, Lagos, before his body was taken to Delta State for burial.</div>
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Friday morning, a commendation mass/lying-in-state was held at the Polo Turf in Abraka, before the body of Esiri was moved to his residence in Abraka for interment and entertainment of guests.</div>
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Chief Esiri popularly known as the Village Headmaster, died on 19 February following complications from diabetes.</div>
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Born in 1942, Esiri had his primary and secondary school education in Abraka and Warri, respectively, before proceeding to the Maximillan University and Weners Institute of Engineering in Germany, between 1964 and 1968.</div>
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Having worked for some time as a newscaster with the Voice of Nigeria, German Service, he veered into movie, had a stint with the Schiller Theatre in Berlin before returning to Nigeria in 1976.</div>
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The late actor played a key role in the production of Dr. Ola Balogun’s movie, Dinner with the Devil, as well as during the Second World Black and African Festival of Art and Culture in Lagos, tagged FESTAC ’77 in 1977.</div>
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There are strong indications that popular comedienne, Damilola Adekoya, a.k.a Princess, will be walking down the aisle any moment from now.</div>
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A source close to the bulky humorist hinted that she will be saying ' I do' to her beau, Ade on the 8th of May, which interestingly, happens to be her birthday.</div>
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Our tweetbird also said, Princess and Ade had known each other since 2005.</div>
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Ade had been trying to get Princess' attention to no avail until a friend introduced them to each other, and they hit it off from there. Meanwhile, those in the know said, while Princess is loud and outgoing, </div>
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Ade is on the quiet side and one who cherishes his privacy a lot. He's also a lover of entertainment.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-36557133526334451602013-03-26T05:01:00.001+01:002013-03-26T05:01:07.944+01:00Boko Haram is Ignorant, Says Soyinka<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nobel
laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said members of Boko Haram, in their
opposition to western education, are ignorant of the teachings of Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Soyinka, who spoke Monday in Port Harcourt as chairman of the
opening ceremony of the Third Rivers State Education Summit, noted that some of
the world’s greatest philosophers and mathematicians were Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He expressed regret that a group of people felt they were
educated to say western education was wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He said: “Those who call themselves Boko Haram, for instance,
yes they claim to be educated; educated to mean books, and they are not
sufficient, even about their religion to know that some of the greatest
philosophers came from that religion, some of the greatest mathematicians were
the pioneers Muslims, Islamic scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“So these killers roaming around saying that they hate western
education, they are uneducated; but they think they are educated. They have
been taught on a monorail – one track lane. But they need to be re-educated
even about their own history, their own culture.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Soyinka also decried the sorry
state of education in the country, noting that people now equate cultism with
fraternities.<br />
He said the situation had become so bad that a vice-chancellor of a university
had to take extra measures to restore sanity to his institution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The
rot in tertiary institutions is trickling down to other levels of education in
the country,” he said, adding that urgent steps needed to be taken by
government at all levels to clean up the rot in the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He called for a multi-pronged approach to education in the
country, adding that close supervision was necessary to achieve results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“When people talk about the multi-pronged approach, I agree and
I approve of the attempts being made to create the so-called Almajiri schools
which should be supervised – the content and the method of teaching should be
supervised,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He called on the Federal Government to take issues of security
seriously to provide the necessary atmosphere for learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“At the same time, however, to
impact knowledge, you have to have the heads where they belong for the
knowledge to be imparted. So at the same time, talk about amnesty as much as
you want, but you have to catch those who are trying to take the heads off
where we are supposed to impact knowledge,” he<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">advised.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He called for the re-education of members of Boko Haram who are
caught, but added that those who are recalcitrant should be punished according
to the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Soyinka
said: “When you catch them, you have to re-educate them very seriously. If they
refuse to be re-educated, you must punish them. I am not sentimental at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The society must first of all protect itself and the citizens
must be taught how to protect their society, how to ensure their own survival.
So let’s not be sentimental at all about this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I want to see the head into which I can put in the material
(knowledge). I want to be sure that teachers are not being slaughtered for
following their vocation. Those teachers must be protected. The universities
must be reopened, the schools must be reopened.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Soyinka commended the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi,
for his achievements in education, but urged him not to feel despondent because
of some of the challenges inflicted by teachers and other managers who try to
subvert the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In his speech, Amaechi, said it was necessary to look beyond the
façade of the beautiful buildings and facilities put in place by his
administration to boost education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He expressed concern that despite the directive by his
government that no pupil in the state’s primary schools should pay fees, some
teachers were still forcing them to pay fees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He also noted that teachers were not making use of the ICT and
other facilities in the schools, adding that the state House of Assembly was
already working on a bill on quality assurance in the school system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In her welcome address, the state Commissioner for Education, Ms. Alice
Lawrence-Nemi, said the summit was the third in the series in five years, and
was expected to come up with recommendations which “when properly implemented
will give Rivers’ children access to education that will enable them fit into
and adequately face the challenges of the 21st century.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">How does one begin to
pay tribute to Chinua Achebe—</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">author, educator, critic and battler of colonialism’s sticky,
shameful, single-story residue? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is an insoluble task
to derive a quote or anecdote that describes him better than his own words,
which signify his most useful tool for battle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“My weapon is literature,”
Achebe once said. We lost him, the man we champion as our initial, and
most authentic and intimate African voice in literature, one who told us not
only that Africa is not a country, but more importantly that it is a continent
inhabited by proud, beautiful, complicated <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and diverse people who
are more than a backdrop to its vast savannahs, lions, and diamonds.
He <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">died</span></b></a> after a bout with a short illness in Boston last
week at the age of 82. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about griots, however, is that they manage to live forever through their
stories, and their aims for telling their stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wole Soyinka, celebrated
Nigerian poet and playwright, commenting on the giant’s death, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/chinua-achebe-wole-soyinka-jp-clark" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">writes</span></b></a>, “His works provide their enduring testimony to the
domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression, bigotry and
retrogression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">” His seminal work <i>Things
Fall Apart </i>(1958), which tells the tale of colonialism through a
distinct Nigerian-Igbo narrative voice, will continue to encourage many
generations to come that hope to read and write about Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When Achebe speaks of
Africa, he speaks of it not as a land that became human once Europeans arrived,
but possibly one that became less human after. When asked the <a href="http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/afrwritr.htm" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">role</span></b></a> of
the African writer, Achebe offers the following truths:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“African peoples did not
hear of culture for the first time from Europeans; their societies were not
mindless but frequently had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty,
that they had poetry and, above all, they had dignity. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is this dignity that
many African peoples all but lost in the colonial period, and it is this
dignity that they must now regain. The worst thing that can happen to any
people is the loss of their dignity and self-respect. The writer’s duty is to
help them regain it by showing them in human terms what happened to them, what
they lost. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a saying in Ibo
that a man who can’t tell where the rain began to beat him cannot know where he
dried his body. The writer can tell the people where the rain began to beat
them. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">After all the novelist’s
duty is not to beat this morning’s headline in topicality, it is to explore in
depth the human condition. In Africa he cannot perform this task unless he has
a proper sense of history.”</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Achebe sought to inject
dignity where it had become barren. </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For the Igbo people of Nigeria, Africans throughout the
continent, and even those living in the Diaspora, he reminded us that we have a
history that outlives slavery and colonialism, and his reminder was
majestic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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language of his oppressors and used it to translate what had somehow become
lost in our native tongues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He stole language,
re-seamed it, and made it into a brand new garment. Chimamanda Adichie, a
new African storyteller and author of <i>Purple Hibiscus </i>agrees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://premiumtimesng.com/arts-entertainment/108378-chinua-achebe-at-82-we-remember-differently-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">She writes </span></b></a>on Achebe’s significance to her and many:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Achebe was an
unapologetic member of the generation of African writers who were ‘writing
back,’ challenging the stock Western images of their homeland, but his work was
not burdened by its intent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is much-loved not
because Achebe wrote back, but because he wrote back well. His work was wise,
humorous, human.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> For many Africans, <i>Things Fall
Apart </i>remains a gesture of returned dignity, a literary and an
emotional experience; Mandela called Achebe the writer in whose presence the
prison walls came down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This idea of “writing
back” is definitely witnessed in Achebe’s fiction, but may be more transparent
in his <a href="http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">essays</span></b></a> and
public <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCic_RoPhoM" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">conversations</span></b></a>.
My own introduction to Achebe was not through his novels (which include <i>Arrow
of God</i> and <i>Anthills in the Savannah</i>), or his short stories
(one of my favorites is “Vengeful Creditor”), but his fiery and accurate <a href="http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">response</span></b></a> to
Joseph Conrad’s very racist adaptation of Africa, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Today I teach students
who are also learning literature, but without many of the binds my generation
experienced. When speaking with them on Achebe’s death, they asked, “Isn’t
that the guy who <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/14/chinua-achebe-50-cent" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #415a69; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sued</span></b></a> 50 Cent?” “Yes” I replied, “Now let
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It all ended too soon for Oluwabimpe Susan Filani Harvey, better known as Goldie. To her very end she had the capacity to shock people out of their wits. Her exit from the earth was no less astonishing: no long drawn bout of illness, no ailment whatsoever. One moment she was there, so full of life and in a jiffy she deleted her physical presence from our collective psyche.</div>
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Many Nigerians were still on an overdose of love-induced activities on Valentine Day when they were jolted back into reality with the news of the demise of Goldie whose entertainment career was only beginning to roll into the speedy lane.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Piece of Bad News</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For many Nigerians and her increasing fans across Africa it was a piece of bad news they did not want to believe. Not minding scores of messages from close associates, it sounded all so surreal, the credibility of the tale-bearers notwithstanding. Channel O VJ, Denrele Edun who has made a couple of appearances in Goldie’s recent videos including ‘Skibobo’ featuring AY is definitely a trusted source when it comes to issues relating to Goldie. He did not mince words with his post on social media. He claimed to be the last person who saw her alive. According to Denrele, Goldie arrived from the US where she was in the company with her record label, Kennis Music boss, Kenny Ogungbe, at the 2013 Grammys Awards.</div>
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“She was full of life upon her return, but suddenly, something went tragically wrong.” Perhaps, only Denrele knows the source of this tragedy.</div>
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It was only natural for Denrele to be Goldie’s pal. Apart from being joined together by their unconventional behaviour, both entertainers had recently started a television reality programme, ‘True Friendship’. It was Denrele who revealed that Goldie died in his arms at Reddington Hospital in Victoria Island, Lagos. To absolve itself of any complicity, the hospital issued a statement claiming that the singer was dead by the time she was brought there from her Parkview, Ikoyi residence. Goldie’s management would later announce on her Facebook page and on her twitter handle: “It is with heavy heart that I have to inform you all that Goldie passed this night shortly after arriving Lagos from LA. May her soul rest in the eternal peace of the Lord – Admin!!”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Goldie Was to Feature on MTV</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Base Celeb Segment</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Goldie was scheduled to feature on the Celeb Surprise Segment, of MTV Base’s Big Friday Show at the weekend. About this time last year, Goldie dropped ‘Say My Name’, a love song for the Valentine season. Last year too, she released her second studio album, ‘Gold Reloaded’ on Kennis Music label to which she was signed on in 2010. She had previously released her debut titled, ‘Gold’ on the same platform.</div>
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Even as a counter message purportedly from her manager, Teejay tried to give a lie to the death story, insisting she was alive and well, Kenny Ogungbe sealed the hope of anyone hoping against hope that the Goldie death story might just turn out a hoax. Kennis Music’s official statement confirmed her demise. “On behalf of Kennis Music, I’m sad to officially confirm the shocking and untimely passage of Nigeria’s pop star, Goldie Harvey. With a deep sense of loss, we announce the shocking death of our darling music star, Goldie Harvey. Goldie, 31, died on Thursday after she complained of a severe headache at her Parkview, Ikoyi, Lagos residence shortly after her arrival from the United States where she went to witness the Grammy Award. She was rushed to her official hospital, Reddington, Victoria Island, Lagos, where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival. We consider this period a gloomy moment for us and the entire Nigerian music industry in view of the circumstance in which Goldie passed away, the abundance of talent she has exhibited in her short but eventful music career and the various opportunities her trip to the United States of America would have availed her. She is survived by her father, step-mother, brothers and sisters. We deeply sympathise with her family and fans all over the world and very grateful to all and sundry, especially, the vibrant Nigerian media for their concern and prompt reportage. We shall keep everybody informed as events unfold as we are still devastated by the sudden loss.”</div>
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Kenny’s business partner and friend Dayo Adeneye has been reported to give the cause of death as pneumonia, while earlier posts suggested she succumbed to migraine. A post-mortem is yet to be carried out, but her body has already been deposited at the Ikeja General Hospital. There is also the speculation that she might have died from an overdose of hallucinatory drugs. But all of these are in the realm of conjecture as a post-mortem has not been performed on her body.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Revealing Encounter with Goldie</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A few months ago, this reporter had an encounter with Goldie at a hotel at Parkview Estate in Ikoyi. She said she was staying there because her house was being renovated. She laid bare her personality. “I am the first child of my parents. I was born and grew up in Lagos, but we are from Ikole in Ekiti State. I come from a very religious and academic background. I went to Green Springs Primary School, St. John’s College and I have a degree in Business Management from the University of Sunderland. Goldie is a pop artiste and she is different from Oluwabimpe Susan.</div>
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“I am the only person in my family that has this colour of skin. I won’t call myself an albino. When I got to the UK, my friends started calling me Goldie. There is a phase in my life when I used to pick on everything metallic, anything shiny. I am trying to think whether it was because of my skin tone or because of my love for gold jewelry back then, but they nicknamed me Goldie and when I wanted to start music I decided to stick to Goldie, first because I was already used to the name and secondly because I wanted my brand to inspire and imbibe all the attributes that gold has to offer which includes class and expense.</div>
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“The essence of the Goldie brand is to inspire confidence in women and young girls from all walks of life just so that they know that they can be whoever they want to be and not let anyone put them down. They can express themselves in ways that add value to society not in ways that subtract from society. My brand is very homely, very spiritual in a way and just confident; the modern woman.”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nigeria’s Lady Gaga</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“I have heard a lot of people compare me with Lady Gaga and frankly I am flattered by the comparison. I have looked back at my old works, before Lady Gaga became known I have always been theatrical, having all my corsets, all my hats. I am talking about 2007/2008-. Before Lady Gaga I have always been this way. I am not Nigeria’s answer to Lady Gaga. I am Nigeria’s Goldie. I will always be this way. This is who I have always been from when I was young I have always been full of drama. I feel that you need to express yourself and I just want to express myself-my outfit, my shoes-everything has to be expressive. You can express yourself without even speaking and that is what I try to do with my work and what I wear.</div>
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“My dad’s mother is fair and I think I take after her, but it is not exactly like mine. If I go into the sun now I become very red. I am 5 feet 7 inches tall. I started (music career) by myself in 2007, trying to work, trying to do videos, go to studios recording, go to different producers, trying to manage myself and run everything. I then realized that as an artiste, you can’t really do a lot of things by yourself. You need to work with people who are professionals in their field. “Therefore, I went to Kennis Music and we have a working relationship which started in 2009 and they gave me a recording contract. That is how my professional music career started, but I had been doing music by myself since 2007. My first video, ‘Komole’ was released that year.</div>
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“I have always been someone in love with expressing myself from when I was very little. I remember doing a lot of writing. I remember doing a lot of personal reading, like taking the newspapers and taking the political articles from them. I always knew I would go into some form of self-expression or the other. I did not know that music would be the outlet that God would put in front of me.</div>
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“I feel that education is very important. No matter what you read, education enables you to be able to connect with your fans. I would not say that I should have studied music or something else. An education is an education and it is helping me in my music career in ways that might not be apparent now but I will get to know later.</div>
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“I have other creative talents. I am an artiste, anything that has to do with expression. I can design outfits; I can design food. I write. I draw. I am an artiste through and through. I work with designers but I have the ideas in my head. I sketch them and the designers come and I tell them what I want and they make it. Before I go to an event I need to have at least an hour to make-up and get my accessories right.”</div>
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At some point she stopped the interview to deal with a stubborn strand of hair that was irritating her eyes. “I have this eyelash on and I feel that there is something that has been affecting my eyes. I am not sure if it is the lash but I just have to take it off, I have put eye drop but it is not working. I like to be comfortable. I would not wear anything if I’m not comfortable. I want to be natural if it is making me feel ok I will wear it, if it is not, I really don’t care, I like to be comfortable.</div>
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“I don’t really dress for the public. I dress up when I am at home. Sometimes I dress up and just stand before the mirror. It is not just for the show. Of course, when I am going to bed I am not going to be wearing heavy clothes. I wear my pyjamas, if you come to my house sometimes, you see me dressed up. It depends on my mood for the day. Sometimes when I go out, I wear a jeans and T-shirt. I do not think the outfit is Goldie, I think Goldie is the outfit.”</div>
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At the hotel room, there were over 40 pairs of shoes and she claimed there were lots more in her house. “I can’t believe that you have been counting my shoes. All my shoes are not here I stay in the estate (Parkview). These are the ones I know I will be using regularly. Don’t count them. There are more. I don’t even know how many shoes I have. I love corsets; I think corset showcases the female hour-glass figure. I think a woman should have a good top, a good bottom and a slim middle. That way you can see the curve and the figure. I think that is the real feminine shape that a woman should have. I feel comfortable in a corset. Most women today have little things they call body magic that they wear under their clothes to give them that added hour-glass shape. I don’t wear body magic. I have a naturally slim figure. That is because I work out and I eat right and I thank God for my great metabolism. But I like to wear a corset on top of my outfit because that is how I feel. I don’t wear the corset inside; I show it.</div>
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“The most startling encounter I have had in my life is when myself and the rest of the Kennis Music stars went for a show in London. Jaywon and I got on stage. We performed. Afterwards we were leaving the event and we were going to another event and this guy followed us out, he was shouting ‘Goldie, Goldie come and take me from my girlfriend,’ he was singing the chorus of the song ‘mo le gba oko lo’wo e.’ I have the goodies and he pulled down his trouser and pulled down his boxers and bared his manhood. I couldn’t believe he did that.</div>
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“I think the guy was a little over excited and had taken some hallucinatory stuff. That was totally weird…in public! I said to myself, ‘is that the CV to get a girlfriend nowadays? That never happened to me before and it has not happened since then<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“Music has been good to me in the last two years. I feel that people have started to appreciate my works and all the efforts that go into what I do. I have gotten more validation. More awards, more recognition for my works. I remember when I did not feel so good, but when I look at myself and what I have accomplished and I review the plans that I have for the next song, for the next show, for the next video, that makes me happy.</div>
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“Concerning the 'mo le gba oko lowo e' song, nobody has ever walked up to me to say something nasty. I think everybody knows it is just a cheeky song. It was not targeted at any woman in particular. It was more of a feel good song for any girl or guy who feels downtrodden or hated. People just laugh about it. I am mischievous girl. I have always loved playing pranks. I think life sometimes can be too serious, so you play pranks. You play with people around to make them laugh.</div>
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“In five years, I will be fulfilling the destiny which I know God has set out for me. As they say man proposes and God disposes. At the end of the day, you can only hope that your life is in line with what God has chosen for you. Right now I am working towards a particular goal that I have in mind, which is spreading the message of my music, creating different things, which I don’t really want to talk about but I am going to go into a lot of corporate things, not just in music but other aspects, writing, directing-movies, videos.</div>
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“I have been approached for a couple of roles but I did not feel that I was ready at the time. I would prefer to direct than to act. I feel that I have an eye for what I want people to see. I have a three-album contract and I have done two but I intend to maintain a relationship with Kennis because I think the CEO has maintained his word and he is good to me. You don’t repay evil with good.</div>
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“There was a point in my life when I felt really down. I had friends and I will go hang out with them and all my friends will have guys talking to them and nobody will say hi to me and I used to ask myself why guys will not say hi to me and why they don’t ask me out. I was talking to my mum one day and she said look at the way you are- ‘shoe gold, bag gold, they will feel intimidated and say this one is going to cut my neck, that is why they are not asking you out. You don’t have to feel you are not beautiful enough. They are scared that you are going to cut their neck or you are too confident for them.’</div>
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“Things have changed. I am in a relationship now and I am very happy. He is someone I have known for a while and I think you become friends first. This person did not know I was into music before he liked me and when he now knew it was an added plus. I think he likes creative people. When people come to artistes you don’t really know their motive, you don’t know whether they are trying to have a feel good girlfriend. With someone who does not know you are an artiste, then you know he likes you for who you are.</div>
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“I think that I have an entrepreneurial spirit. I used to have a date reminder company, which is like an event planning. We were into souvenirs and gift packaging before but I had to stop it because it is a very personal business. You have to spend time on it. Music does not give me time. The name of my company is Harfil Limited.”</div>
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She was working on a continent-wide musical project titled The African Invasion album. Three singles off the album are already in the public space. They are ‘Skibobo’ featuring AY (Tanzania), ‘Miliki’ featuring NAVIO (Uganda), and ‘Give it to Me’ featuring J MARTINS (Nigeria).</div>
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Her playlist on the Kennis Music Channel rates ‘You Know It’ featuring Eldee D Don as her favourite. The song is alternately known as ‘Mo Le Gba Oko Lowo E’.</div>
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The famous R&B singer, blew the minds of his fans with the special love concert which held on Sunday at the Conventional Centre of the Eko Hotel and Suites.</div>
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The concert, which was hosted by Darey and US reality TV show star, Kim Kardashian featured performances from 2Face, Waje, Banky W, Ice Prince, Mo’Eazy, Zaina among others.</div>
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The show met the expectation, it was described as the best show in Nigeria. Although there were disappointments after Kim Kardashian came on stage for only 40 seconds.</div>
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Darey thrilled the audience with his “Boyz II Men songs which he featured Tolu (Mtn projectfame),Praiz, Banky W and Timi Dakolo, he also did a duet “Endless Love ft Waje.</div>
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Darey later performed a tribute song for the late singer Goldie Harvey.</div>
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The show was a well organized show, the red carpet perfectly arranged also with a touch of some fashion police experts.</div>
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The show also had a 3D background, with bright lights</div>
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There were South-African dancers who thrilled the stage and a phenomenal sand artist.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">An explosion in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos killed a man and injured another on Monday sparking fears of violence spreading to the south of the country. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The blast that occurred under a bridge, killed a sand dredger while a policeman was injured. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Police at the scene of the incident believed the bomb to be battery-operated or an explosive. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><table align="right" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 260px; line-height: 22px;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">It is yet to be known if the dead victim was the target of the attack or if the bomb was planted at random. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The north of Nigeria has been attacked several times by radical Islamic group Boko Haram which has vowed to establish an Islamic caliphate in the country since 2009. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Boko Haram has engaged in several suicide bombings, gunfights and drive-by shootings since it commenced the insurgency and thousands have lost their lives. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br />
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Barely days after she came back from the Grammys in the United States of America, Nigeria's version of Lady Gaga, Susan Oluwabimpe Harvey, popularly known as Goldie, is dead.</div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Although details of her death was sketchy as at press time, THISDAY gathered that the musician popularly known for her collaboration with Eldee D Don died at Reddington Hospital at about 11 p.m. last night.</div>
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Her death was allegedly confirmed by her best friend and entertainer, Derenle Edun.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Also some posts by her management on some of her social media platforms; twitter and facebook, confirmed her death.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The posts read: "It is with heavy heart that I have to announce to you all that Goldie passed on this night (last night) shortly after arriving Lagos from Los Angeles. May her soul rest in the eternal peace of the Lord... Amin."</div>
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According to reports, the deceased was full of life days back but suddenly fell ill and was rushed to the hospital where she reportedly died.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Signed on the Kennis Music Label, she became more popular when she went to represent Nigeria in the Big Brother Africa (BBA) show tagged the Star Game as part of the seven celebrity housemates at the seventh season of the show.</div>
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The deceased attended Green Springs Montessori Primary School and then St. John’s College, Palm Grove before moving on to attend the University of Sunderland where she studied Business Management.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />She joined Kennis Music label in 2010 and had her debut album titled Gold but her most popular songs include, “You Know It”, “JawoJawo” and DTMB (Don’t Touch My Body).</div>
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Goldie won the best female video at the 2010 SoundCity Music Video Awards for the video ‘You Know it’ and also picked the award for best use of costume at the Nigerian Music Video Awards; while her song DTMB picked up best Afro Pop video at the 2011 Nmva’s.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In 2012, she garnered about 10 awards including the Exquisite Lady of the Year (ELOY), Best Female Artiste award and City People Best Female Artiste of the year, amongst others.</div>
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The deceased who also dabbled into designing was an ambassador of Project Alert and also an inductee into the Federal Celebrity Special Marshal Corps alongside other notable Nigerian celebrities.</div>
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This is celebration hour after our men of Super Eagles wins the AFCON 2013.<br />
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D'banj was there live and performed at the closing ceremony..... the pictures above speaks more than words<br />
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SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO KESHI AND HIS MEN......Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-44618635710835902013-02-12T00:49:00.000+01:002013-02-12T00:49:23.234+01:00Money Laundering: EFCC Re-arraigns Fani-Kayode<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the 47-count charge, Mr Fani-Kayode, between November 2006 and January 2007, while serving as minister of Aviation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was alleged to have made some financial transactions exceeding N500,000 which was not done through a financial institution by accepting tax payment of N10 million, which sum was further carried in cash to First Inland Bank, Apapa branch, through one Mark Saviour Ndifreke, his own associate now at large, and put it in an investment account in his favour for 90 days.</strong></em></div>
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Benedict delivered the news at the Vatican, speaking in Latin.</div>
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"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the 85-year-old pope told the cardinals.</div>
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"In order to govern the bark of St. Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary -- strengths which in the last few months, have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.</div>
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Benedict said Feb. 28 will be his last day on the job.</div>
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The decision marks the first time in nearly 600 years that a sitting pontiff has left his position voluntarily. The last pope to resign voluntarily was Pope Gregory XII, in 1415. Gregory stepped down to deal with the Great Western Schism among competing papal claimants. Prior to that, Pope Benedict IX resigned from the post in 1045.</div>
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Benedict's decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March, and opens the door to widespread speculation among Roman Catholics about his possible successor.</div>
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Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops are considered among the top candidates for the job.</div>
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Toronto's archbishop, Cardinal Thomas Collins, said he was stunned by the news Monday morning and hasn't even begun to think about a possible successor.</div>
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"It is a time to thank God for (Benedict's) mission amongst us and to pray for him in the years ahead as he enters into this new time," Collins told reporters in Toronto. "As he said he will spend the rest of his life in prayer, no longer having the heavy responsibilities as the Vicar of Christ on Earth and as the successor to Saint Peter."</div>
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Collins, who was installed as a cardinal in 2012, will be among those voting for Benedict's replacement during the process known as a conclave. He said no timeline has yet been set, but the process will likely begin immediately after Benedict's term ends at 8 p.m. on Feb. 28.</div>
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All cardinals will meet and discuss the needs of the church for several days. Those who are under 80 will then go behind closed doors to vote for the next pope, a process that could take days.</div>
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"I think the whole church gathers together at such a time in prayer for the College of Cardinals and this most profound mission we have, which is to elect the successor to (Saint) Peter," Collins said.</div>
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The Vatican stressed Monday there is no specific medical condition that affected Benedict’s decision.</div>
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Benedict's 89-year-old brother, Georg Ratzinger, said doctors had recently advised the Pope not to take any more trans-Atlantic trips, and he had slowed down considerably.</div>
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"His age is weighing on him," Ratzinger told the dpa news agency. "At this age my brother wants more rest."</div>
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Still, the news was so unexpected that several cardinals on Monday didn't even understand what Benedict had said when he made the announcement in Latin. Those who did were stunned.</div>
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"All the cardinals remained shocked and were looking at each other," said Monsignor Oscar Sanchez of Mexico, who was in the room when Benedict made his announcement.</div>
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In 2010, in an interview for the book "Light of the World," Benedict raised the possibility of resigning if he were simply too old or sick to continue on.</div>
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"If a pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right, and under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign," Benedict said at the time.</div>
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Benedict – formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- was elected pope on April 19, 2005 in one of the fastest conclaves in modern history. He reportedly was elected after four ballots, with 84 of 115 votes.</div>
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He had spent his life working in the Catholic church. Born in 1927 in Germany, Ratzinger wrote in his autobiography that he considered the church and Catholic seminary where he studied to be a "citadel of truth and righteousness against the realm of atheism and deceit."</div>
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Though he joined the Hitler Youth movement at 14, when it became mandatory in Germany to do so, he said he shared his father's opposition to Nazi ideals.</div>
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As a young man, he was eventually conscripted into the German military in 1943. He later deserted and became a prisoner of war in the custody of the Americans.</div>
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After the Second World War he returned to Munich, completed his studies and was ordained as a priest in 1951. From there, Benedict went on to graduate studies, a professorship, and the work within the church that would eventually see him rise to the ranks of archbishop, cardinal and finally pope in 2005.</div>
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In one of his more influential moves after assuming office, Benedict changed the rules for electing a new pope in 2007, reversing reforms made by Pope John Paul in 1996.</div>
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Benedict's predecessor altered the process so that an absolute majority of cardinals could choose the new pope in the event they were unable to reach a two-thirds majority after several days of balloting.</div>
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Benedict returned to the traditional method, whereby a new pope can only be elected by a minimum two-thirds majority of cardinals, regardless of how long it takes.</div>
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<strong>Stephen Keshi</strong> has resigned his position as the head coach of the Nigerian Senior Football Team, the <strong>Super Eagles</strong>.</div>
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The news was broken online by SuperSport presenter, Robert Marawa who tweeted the following:<br />“<em>Stephen Keshi has just announced that he handed over his resignation letter after the game exclusively on 083Sport@6With Marawa on MetroFM</em>”</div>
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<a href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/RM.jpg" style="color: black; text-decoration: initial;"><img alt="RM" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-196515" height="124" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/RM.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px;" width="520" /></a>Keshi hinted that he was “fired” before the AFCON match against Ivory Coast as Nigerian Football Authorities did not believe the Super Eagles would progress beyond that stage of the competition. Though there is no “official” word on the reason for this move, sports pundits are speculating that the continuous “meddling” and “lack of support” by the Nigerian Football Authorities are among the reasons for his resignation.</div>
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The Head Coach role of the Super Eagles has a major high turnover rate, Keshi is the 19th coach in 19 years. He was quoted as saying “<em>It’s a shame in Africa, When there’s an African coach nobody wants to give you time, they want you to have the job today, build a wonderful team tomorrow and next year win the World Cup. If only we could work out how these things work we could have more success. But most coaches aren’t given freedom to work so they are held back.</em>“</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The country home of Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo at Olusegun Osoba Hilltop in Abeokuta, Ogun state has been damaged by a fire outbreak, which consumed the office building in the complex.</strong></em></div>
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The fire started just about 20minutes after the former president left his Abeokuta Hilltop Mansion residence on Thursday. Photo by Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji</div>
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The fire which lasted for about 30 minutes was allegedly caused by a power surge.</div>
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One of the attendants in the house, who does not want to be identified, said that as soon as the blaze was noticed, men of the Ogun state fire service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were contacted.</div>
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The inferno was reportedly brought under control.</div>
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The former president returned home after the inferno started.</div>
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Addressing journalists that were present at the house, the former President in Yoruba language, jokingly used a native adage that the King’s house that burns will only be beautified.</div>
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“Go, go and sing to the whole world that ‘the King’s house that is gutted by fire only beautifies the house,” the former president cheerfully said.</div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">He then dismissed the reporters as he continued to jest with members of family and guests that had rushed there to sympathize with him.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-41301701441826137722012-12-16T04:18:00.001+01:002012-12-16T04:21:32.770+01:00 Another Gov, Chime of Enugu Feared Dead <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Enugu State
Governor, Sullivan Chime, was feared dead on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Punch
unconfirmed reports had it that Chime passed on at an Indian hospital after
battling an undisclosed ailment for some months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, <i>Punch
news reporter</i> correspondent, Ozioma Ubabukoh, was harassed by seven
men who claimed to be security agents in front of his apartment in Enugu around
11.45pm on Saturday while trying to get detailed info about the incident<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The men
seized Ubabukoh’s phone and his laptop in order to stop him from sending
stories to the head office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As at press
time, the men were still in Ubabukoh’s apartment and insisted that they were
not leaving until 3am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Efforts to
get across to some commissioners in the state were not successful as their
phones were switched off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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us just conformed the death of Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, former
national security adviser, NSA, General Owoeye Azazi were said to be in the
naval aircraft at the time of the crash.</span></div>
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helicopter has reportedly crashed near Yenegoa in Bayelsa State, Saturday
evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the ill-fated crash include a top politician from Kaduna state Dudas
Tsoho, Azazi’s orderly, the pilot and his co-pilot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was
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It is no longer news that Prof. (Mrs.) Kamene Okonjo; mother of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy who was kidnapped in her husband’s palace in Ogwashi Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State on Sunday had been freed by her captors.</div>
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Contrary to the earlier report that the Octogenarian was dumped by the daredevil abductors at the popular Kwale Junction; from where the police picked her up, the police have claimed that she was rescued from the kidnappers’ hideout in Asaba, Delta State capital.</div>
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Narrating how Prof Okonjo was rescued, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ikechukwu Aduba, in a press conference in Asaba, Friday, said that one of suspected kidnappers was killed in the rescue operation, while four others were arrested by security operatives.</div>
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According to him: “we felt very sad when Mama was kidnapped and of course, we swung into action and we are happy to announce that Mama has now been released. Right now, she is at home hale and hearty. She reunited with her family early this morning. Mama was brought in this morning on a bike.”</div>
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“When we kick-started the operation, we knew their target, but we needed to be cautious and handle it professionally, considering the age of Mama.</div>
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“We knew what could have happened if we had invaded or stormed the place initially. We were able to identify the number one target, who masterminded the abduction. He is one Nwaeze Nwosa aka Bolaji, known to be a notorious kidnapper. He was arrested some couple of months ago before my arrival in the state. He was arraigned in court and was released on bail. He came to Asaba and continued the nefarious act, but this time around, he has met his waterloo.”</div>
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The police boss said nemesis caught up with the kidnappers when men of his command, supported by a heavily armed men from the Inspector General of Police special task force on terrorism, Abuja, invaded the hideout in Asaba.</div>
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He said: “They jumped a very high fence. Our men had no option other than to obey the rule of engagement. They opened fire and shot him (Bolaji), but he continued. Eventually we got him and arrested him and he was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), where he gave up the ghost. Four of them were picked, including the deceased. The deceased and another notorious member called Bright have been indicted in connection with the abduction.</div>
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“These are bunch of terrorists because of the names they bear. They call one Hard Rock, another one is Tse-Tse fly and the other is Tipper Boy. You can imagine. We thank God we have gotten enough data to go after the other hoodlums.” Aduba said the Volkswagen Golf car with registration number ASB 697 AA, which the hoodlums allegedly used in abducting Okonjo-Iweala’s mum has been recovered. Also recovered, according to him, was a white Toyota Bus with registration number APP 64 XA. The bus marked, missionary with the bold inscription of ‘God’s Delight City Church International’ on both sides.</div>
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It was gathered, the abductors tried to move the 82-year-old woman from one part of the state to another, in an attempt to smuggle her out the state entirely.</div>
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It was gathered that since, the palace of the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku and Prof Okonjo’s husband was deserted yesterday, except for the presence of armed security men on the road leading there.</div>
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While reacting, Palace spokesman, Chief Lawrence Okolobi, said: “Mama has been released. She is in the palace now. She came here on a bike this morning, but right now, the children have instructed that no member of the royal family should speak on the matter.”</div>
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DailyPost learnt that the freed woman has since been flown to Abuja, through the Asaba Airport.</div>
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Delta State Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah, while reacting to the release, described the development as “a thing of great joy. My heart is full of joy and the relief palpable for this runs contrary to all we hold dear as African in general and Midwestern Igbo in particular, where our culture is laced with respect for the elderly and where our traditional institutions are held in the highest esteem. “My prayer is that we shall never see anything like this again and our youth are admonished to retrace their steps from such hideous evil so as to avoid the wrath of God.</div>
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Ekamen Asuquo, a pupil of Ikorenim Primary School Calabar, was confirmed pregnant after a test was conducted on her at the General Hospital, Calabar state. Ekamen who is just in primary five and resides with her mother at 2, Pipeline Road, Ikorenim was suspected to be carrying a baby by her observant mother going by the symptoms exhibited by the teenage girl who was sick for a while. This led the woman to take her to the hospital after she failed to get well, despite long period of self medication.</div>
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It was a shocked and devastated mother who was told that her 11-year old daughter was pregnant after a series tests.</div>
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Ekamen’s mother who allegedly sells hot drinks and illicit drugs confronted her daughter to know who impregnated her only for her to mention one Tony, – a regular caller at her mother’s hot drinking joint.</div>
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The confrontation of the said Tony only led to a further heartbreak for the distraught mother as more revelations emerged of how Ekamen had been a subject of tussle among her mother’s clients including two tenants who were living in the woman’s house. At the last count, five men had slept with Ekamen and true to age, she could not tell who was responsible.</div>
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A source stated that out of annoyance, “She has since asked the two young men living in her house to quit but they are asking for time to secure another accommodation before they can vacate the house.”</div>
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When the distraught mother was asked what she was going to do with the daughter’s predicament, tears rolled down her cheek, as she said “I leave everything to God.”</div>
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The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr John Umoh, has denied knowledge of the incident as it had not been reported to them.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718347269696820299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904196782039184.post-71915914228863098162012-12-15T09:56:00.002+01:002012-12-15T09:56:16.335+01:00Don Jazzy Set To Open New Hangout In Lagos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For music producer Don Jazzy, 2012 started on a sad note, as he split with his protege and business partner of many years, D’Banj. The pair cited difference in philosophies moving forward, for the break up and promptly dabbled into other things.</div>
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However, the year is ending on a good note for the Delta State-born celebrity. After sealing a deal reported to be worth N50 million, to become the new Brand Ambassador of Loya Milk, Don Jazzy went on to acquire a Lekki property, that cost him around N160 million.</div>
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It has not ended yet. Don Baba J, as he is fondly called, has announced that he will be opening his new night club in Victoria Island, on December 21.</div>
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“Hey tweeps. I dey hail o. Pls join me as I launch my new club in V.I “PoP” next week Friday 21st December if the world no end. Lol. IDJA.”</div>
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Before now, he ran the Koko Bar, inside Ozone Cinemas with D’Ban</div>
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