Shan George who relocated to Calabar last year
was visited by armed robbers..She shared her
pain on facebook
"robbers entered my house in Calabar last
nite. Carted away electronics, money,
jewelry, shoes, watches. They broke my car
side window to open d car door and
practically tore d car apart. Friends who r
trying to console me since this morning say
i should not worry bcos its a blessing……
How is a thing like this a blessing?”
Abuja - The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the cancellation of the proposed idea to commercialise Federal Government-owned media houses and the privatisation of refineries in the country.
The congress gave the advice in a statement signed by its President, Abdulwaheed Omar in Abuja.
The statement said NLC was disturbed by the announcement that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) had concluded plans to privatise the refineries.
It said the haste with which government seemed determined to sell off public properties under the guise of making them more efficient was alarming.
“We are disturbed by the statement from the Director-General of BPE, Benjamin Dikki, who was reported to have announced that plans have been concluded by the BPE to privatise refineries .’’
The statement said BPE had also announced the commercialisation of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), NAN and the Nigeria Films Corporation.
The Congress said there was the need for caution "because these properties belong to the Nigerian people as a collective wealth of Nigerians.’’
It said the Nigerian people have to be consulted and their interests should be put into consideration before the sales.
The statement said the NLC wished to remind government that it had always promised to use the gains from petroleum price increases to reactivate existing refineries and build additional ones.
It said there was no evidence that previous privatisation exercises have succeeded.
"The major privatisation exercise that was implemented recently is electricity and ever since that exercise, electricity supply has worsened.
“Consumers pay higher, even as the lights have gone off under excuses that question the competence of the new electricity companies.
“Government should not abdicate its social responsibilities by selling off everything that delivers services to the people.
“This is unwarranted, especially in a country where poverty and unemployment have become endemic, coupled with the collapse of industries.
“We, therefore, advise the BPE to stop the proposed sales, while we call on the National Assembly to probe all previous sales and retrieve public properties which may have been sold to private interests.’’
The NLC noted that private individuals could build their refineries, but government must reactivate, maintain and take full charge of existing public refineries and also build new ones.
- NAN
Abuja - The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the cancellation of the proposed idea to commercialise Federal Government-owned media houses and the privatisation of refineries in the country.
The congress gave the advice in a statement signed by its President, Abdulwaheed Omar in Abuja.
The statement said NLC was disturbed by the announcement that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) had concluded plans to privatise the refineries.
It said the haste with which government seemed determined to sell off public properties under the guise of making them more efficient was alarming.
“We are disturbed by the statement from the Director-General of BPE, Benjamin Dikki, who was reported to have announced that plans have been concluded by the BPE to privatise refineries .’’
The statement said BPE had also announced the commercialisation of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), NAN and the Nigeria Films Corporation.
The Congress said there was the need for caution "because these properties belong to the Nigerian people as a collective wealth of Nigerians.’’
It said the Nigerian people have to be consulted and their interests should be put into consideration before the sales.
The statement said the NLC wished to remind government that it had always promised to use the gains from petroleum price increases to reactivate existing refineries and build additional ones.
It said there was no evidence that previous privatisation exercises have succeeded.
"The major privatisation exercise that was implemented recently is electricity and ever since that exercise, electricity supply has worsened.
“Consumers pay higher, even as the lights have gone off under excuses that question the competence of the new electricity companies.
“Government should not abdicate its social responsibilities by selling off everything that delivers services to the people.
“This is unwarranted, especially in a country where poverty and unemployment have become endemic, coupled with the collapse of industries.
“We, therefore, advise the BPE to stop the proposed sales, while we call on the National Assembly to probe all previous sales and retrieve public properties which may have been sold to private interests.’’
The NLC noted that private individuals could build their refineries, but government must reactivate, maintain and take full charge of existing public refineries and also build new ones.
- NAN
The soul singer shared this loving message and
affectionate pic on his instagram as he and his
wife, Busola, mark their second wedding
anniversary today. They got married in 2012 in
Ilorin.
"Thanks for everything Busola
Dakolo..thanks for always bringing me
steamed meat every time u are
cooking...thanks for saying the nicest sorry
every time arsenal looses..thanks saying
yes inspite of all my excesses. ..thanks for
running me mad and calming me
down..thanks for giving me the world most
awesomest (kids)...Thanks for turning this
Boy into a Man..Thanks for being my
Biggest Fan and critic..thanks For love so
uncommon...thanks for always laughing at
my jokes..Thanks for being my partner in
crime (lol)!..thanks for my employers (our
gang/children)..thanks for yelling in labour
room...I fear you sha..but e no easy...Happy
Anniversary to Us
When asked by the Nigerian Tribune why he got
his first tattoo for $4000..
He said
"Well, obviously; but the tattoo is not really
for fashion. What I have written on my body
is an inspirational message.The one I got on
my arm means ‘Work Hard Stay Humble’. I
have another one on my chest which means
‘We built America"
Last year, it was rumoured Dbanj wanted to sign
Olamide to his DB record label but the deal didn't
pull through..
He told encomium why
"There was nothing like that. Dbanj is a big
brother. He gives me advice when
necessary, and he also respects me for the
efforts I have put into the industry. And we
do low key business together too. He
advises me a lot about the industry. People
just hear things and they get it twisted
I would have accepted it, if it was years
back. But now, I think I am blessed and
good. All I need to do is to help myself,
others and the artistes with me."
DJ Jimmy Jatt and his lovely wife have been
together for 22 years now, married for 18. Happy
wedding anniversary to them.
Chocolate City hip hop artiste Panchak Zamani,
better known as Ice Prince, has signed a deal
with the biggest music corporation in the world,
Universal Music Group. The ‘Fire of Zamani’
rapper, who said the deal has been sealed and
signed but is yet to be announced officially,
didn’t give full details of the deal. Speaking with
the Pulse in a recent interview, the rapper said, ‘I
recently signed with Universal Music Group. the
official announcement hasn’t been made yet.
They will start first with my ‘I Swear’ track,
which will be licensed in the UK, after which
other tracks will follow.’ The deal will have Ice
Prince expanding his fan base and reaching his
audience globally through international channels.
Last November, the rapper signed an
endorsement deal with telecommunication
company, Etisalat, reportedly worth 20 million
naira. Universal Music Group is the largest music
corporation in the world. An American-based,
French-owned multinational music corporation, it
currently operates as a subsidiary of Paris-based
media conglomerate
Area Fada showed off his new bald look in these
photos he shared ..Who prefers the new look ....
No cause for alarm when Boko Haram gunmen
attack the Headquarters of the State Security
Service? These terrorists are getting bolder, so I
think there's cause for alarm...
Look what we have here, HipTV reveals that top
African/Nigerian rapper M.I is set to unleash a
new single which features Veteran rapper Nas
and Senegalese star Youssou N’Dour .
The report reads as follows…
HipTV can authoritatively claim
that Chocolate City rapper; M.I
Abaga has recorded a song with
American rap heavyweight Nas.
The song also features Senegalese
star Youssou N’Dour. The title of
the track and the release date
wasn’t revealed, but sources close
to the award winning rapper is
considering whether to release the
track as his next single.
The song is the first collaboration M.I will have
with an international Hip Hop act. His label mate
Ice Prince collaborated with US rappers Wale and
French Montana on his last album Fire of Zamani.
M.I’s last album M.I 2 was released in 2010.
All you Naija celebrity men know you can have sex (plenty of it sef) without getting any woman pregnant, right? Olamide has joined the growing list of celebs having kids outside marriage as his long-time girlfriend, Adebukunmi Aisha Suleiman, is said to be expecting a baby.
Bukunmi is the same girl he flaunts on his instagram page (though he recently deleted most of her pics from his page) and calls her the 'love of his life' and 'boo from day one'. Congrats to them.
British investigators have concluded that missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's last position was in
the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth,
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
Najib Razak told a press conference new analysis
by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and
tracking firm Inmarsat suggested the flight ended
in the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from
civilian radar screens less than an hour after
take-off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239
people on board on March 8.No confirmed
sighting of the plane has been made since, but
much debris has been found in remote waters off
Australia which might be part of the missing
plane.
Both of the announcements were made as an
Australian navy ship was on its way today to
retrieve two new objects spotted by military
aircraft in the search for the missing Malaysia
Airlines jet.
Oh no!!!!!!
After crying helplessly for nearly 24 hours inside
a soak away pit, a day old-baby was over the
weekend rescued from a pit in Olomore area of
Abeokuta North local government of Ogun state.
An eyewitness said that residents of Surulere
community in Olomore area of Abeokuta North
woke up to a cry of a little baby coming from a
soak away toilet behind a church in the area.
Residents said they'd heard the baby crying in
the early hours of Saturday morning but could
not link the cries to a particular direction.
However, later in the day, around 6pm, the baby’s
crying became more pronounced and they traced
it to a soak-away pit. There, they found the baby,
a boy, who was alive with his placenta uncut.
The pit slab cover had collapsed some years ago
and had not been replaced. The damaged slab
concrete saved the baby from going deep into the
soak-away pit. (Source - Telegraphng.com )
And some people don't believe in God!
The House of Representatives yesterday passed a
resolution to probe the expenditures of the
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani
Alison-Maduekwe, on a private jet she allegedly
charters for private use and maintains with public
funds.
According to the sponsor of the bill, Hon Samuel
Adejare who represents Lagos State, the minister
maintains the jet with 500,000euros or N130
million monthly
"Thus, in the last two years, the minister
has committed at least N3.120bn to
maintaining the private jet, which is used
solely for her personal needs and those of
her immediate family, which is an appalling
act"he said. He said the frequent use of the
Jet by the Minister and her family members
has caused an estimated N10billion to be
spent on it for maintenance, fuel, payment of
crew members, hanger rentage and others.
In a unanimous vote, the house members
adopted the resolution and mandated its
committee on Public Accounts to investigate the
matter and provide results within 3weeks.
In a related development, a member of the House,
Hon Aminu Suleiman through a motion he
presented to the house, revealed that the Nigeria
Liquified Natural Gas NLNG had not remitted any
of its generated revenue to the federation account
since 2004 till date. The house committee on
Natural Gas was directed to investigate the claims
by Hon Aminu.
Who else can rock a see through lacy skirt? No
one but Rihanna. She stepped-out last night in
this sexy ensemble admist reports Drake dumped
her (which I don't believe)
Anyway sha i love what i'm seeing.....lol
According to a TMZ report, Chris Brown was
arrested in Malibu yesterday after getting kicked
out of rehab for violating rules...
From TMZ,
Chris Brown is in jail right now, because he
violated a judge's order by getting booted
from the rehab facility where he's been
living for nearly 4 months ... TMZ has
learned. The judge in the Rihanna beating
case ordered Chris to live in the Malibu
rehab facility for 90 days to get anger
management therapy, and he completed the
stint earlier this month.
But ... at the last
court hearing, the judge modified things and
ordered Chris to stay in the facility while the
Washington D.C. assault case ran its
course.The deal was this ... if Chris left
rehab, he would go directly to jail.Sources
familiar with the situation tell TMZ ...
Brown
was thrown out of the rehab facility this
morning, for violating "internal rules." We
do not know precisely what Chris did, but
we're told it did not involve violence or
drugs.Sources tell TMZ ... Chris was caught
having "an inappropriate relationship" with a
female worker at the beginning of the month,
but that is NOT why he was thrown out
today.As you recall, Chris was previously
thrown out of a different facility for throwing
a rock at his mom's car window. Chris was
picked up by L.A. County Sheriff's deputies
this afternoon and is now in jail ...being
held with no bail.
Lupita has been in a relationship for 6 months and
not with Jared Leto!
Lupita Nyong’o has been America’s sweetheart
after her whirlwind victory in practically every
award she was nominated for. The fact that she
never missed on the red carpet sealed her
fashionista status.
Thus it comes as no surprise that the media
unrentlessly digs around her private life. So far,
the world was convinced that Lupita and fellow
Oscar winner Jared Leto were romantically
involved.
However, according to US Weekly , Lupita has been
dating Somali-born rapper K’Naan since
September.
Rumors had been swirling about a relationship
when K’Naan and Lupita were spotted walking
hand in hand with the rapper holding her Oscar in
the other arm. This was after a special post
Oscars interview.
The two stars apparently share the same passion
for humanitarianism and issues affecting Africa.
The Wavin' Flag star, whose real name is Keinan
Abdi Warsame, has 2 kids with ex-wife Deqa
Warsame. Sources say that Lupita is yet to be
introduced to rapper’s kids.
Olamide and his boo of way back are still going
strong.He took her to the UK for his Birmingham
show and this is what he said about her "Birthday
party in Birmingham after show.. 1soul I don't
joke with after my mama.. Let me zone her she's
like my sister lol
If you recall, he said she is the only one who was
there when he didn't have money and was
jumping on Okada's.
How sweet..Not all men remember their lady from
way back....
How does a plane full of people disappear without
any trace? The Malaysian Airlines flight MH307
that vanished off the coast of Vietnam two hours
after taking off at Kuala Lumpur airport with 239
people on board has still not been found and now
there are fears that the plane may have been
taken down by terrorists because nothing else
makes sense, the weather was great, the pilots
were experienced, the plane was new, there was
no distress call and now it's been discovered that
4 people on the flight traveled on passport stolen
in Thailand and the tickets they used were bought
through a Chinese airline.
One passport was
registered to an Italian and another to an
Austrian.
Malaysian security officials say they have footage
of 2 passengers traveling on those stolen
passports as they made their way through the
airport to the aircraft. They now are investigating
these men.
A major search has been launched for a Malaysian Airlines jet with 239 people on board after it lost contact flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Airline officials admitted they were gravely concerned for the safety of the aircraft, which was carrying four Americans and seven Australians, as well as passengers from France and China.
Crying relatives of Chinese passengers on board the plane wept at Beijing airport as it became clear the jet had probably crashed.
An unconfirmed report on a flight tracking website said the aircraft had plunged 650ft and changed course shortly before all contact was lost.
The route would have taken flight MH370, a B777-200 aircraft, across the Malaysian mainland in a north-easterly direction and then across the Gulf of Thailand.
Those on board included two infants and 12 crew members, Malaysian Airlines said in a statement, adding it was working with all authorities in the region and search and rescue teams had been mobilized.
As well as the American and Australian passengers, the aircraft was carrying 153 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians and 32 people from France.
The aircraft had been due to land in Beijing at 6.30am local time but at 7.54am the airline issued a statement saying it had not landed and was officially missing.
Aviation experts said that if the report of the aircraft suddenly plunging was correct it could be due to a number of factors.
President Jonathan's spokesman Reuben Abati
has explained why late military dictator Gen. Sani
Abacha was given the controversial Centenary
Award, saying that the government was in no way
supporting corrupt practices...
"This (award) does not in any means
translate to supporting sharp practices or
corrupt practices. It is important to make
the clear distinction in this regard.
I think it is important to make the necessary
distinction here. The centenary award, like
every award, has its own criteria. That
centenary award was in relation to the
amalgamation, the national unity, the history
of Nigeria and the roles played by certain
individuals.
The centenary award was not a test of
sainthood. In giving the award to the former
Head of State, Gen. Abacha, the committee
in charge made it very clear that the award
in the category in which the former Head of
State appeared was awarded with regard to
the contributions of those individuals in
keeping Nigeria together." Continue...
You will find out that under that category,
there were largely former Heads of State,
persons who have at one time or the other
presided over Nigeria and under whose
watch, in spite of whatever challenges they
might have faced, helped to sustain the
unity of the country and helped to defend
the integrity and sovereignty of the country.
That was a specific criterion in this
particular category. Of course, every award
at all, be it for beauty or any other thing has
its own criteria.” Reuben Abati tells Punch
Kim and Kanye have decided to sign a prenup
even though Kanye didn't want to because he
loves her that much. Radaronline reports
Kim will get $1 million for every year she
stays married to the Yeezus singer.
The entire process for the prenup for Kim
and Kanye has been extremely easy, and
relatively drama free. Kanye didn’t even
think the couple needed a prenup, and was
ready to give Kim carte blanche to all of his
financial assets. Yes, he loves Kim that
much. There is a huge difference from
Kim’s prenup with Kris Humphries… the
preparation of their agreement went on for
several months. It was long and tedious.
Among the prenup details, for every year
Kim is married to Kanye, she will get $1
million, capped at $10 million, the title of
their Bel Air mansion will be in Kim’s name,
even though Kanye is footing a majority of
the bill, and the sex tape star will keep all
jewelry and gifts given to her by Kanye.
Money she earns from Keeping Up With The
Kardashian‘s, the Kardashian clothing line,
and promotional appearances, will be
considered her separate and sole income.
One of Kanye’s life insurance policies
valued at $20 million will name Kim as the
beneficiary, for life, even in the event of a
divorce.There are NO clauses in the
agreement concerning custody
arrangements of their daughter, North.
According to reports, Yeezus is worth $100
million, and Kim’s is worth $40 million.
