Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Amber Rose To Host D'Banj' 10th Year Anniversary Show in Lgos
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Hepa Global Energy Limited Staff Declared Wanted By EFCC For Oil Theft
The public is hereby notified that Agbebi Samuel Adebanji, of Hepa Global Energy Limited, 33, Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos, whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for conspiracy and illegal dealing in Petroleum Product.
He was on board a vessel MT Good Success carrying 1,459 metric tonnes of Premium Motor Spirit, instead of the 350 metric tons of Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, it was licensed to carry.
Samuel, 49, is dark in complexion. An indigene of Ogbagi Akoko Local Government Area of Ondo state, he speaks English and Yoruba language fluently.
He is currently on the run and all efforts to get him arrested have proved abortive.
Anybody with useful information as to his whereabouts should please contact the Commission in its Enugu, Kano, Lagos, Gombe, Port Harcourt and Abuja offices or through these numbers 09-9044751-3, 08093322644, 08183322644, 070-26350721-3,070-6350724-5;
its e-mail address: info@efccnigeria.org or the nearest Police Station and other security agencies.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
"I'm Not Afraid Of President Jonathan "- Rev Fr Mbaka -
Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka on sunday while giving a sermon at the Christ the King Catholic Parish GRA, Enugu, said he had been receiving threat messages after his Dec. 31st, message where he said Nigerians should not vote for President Jonathan . He said;
“Tell them I am not afraid of them. I have said what I was asked to say. The only word I have for them is Isaiah 54:15,17: “Surely they shall gather, but because the gathering is not of God they shall scatter. No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper
“They said Buhari gave me money, but I have never met with Buhari. I don’t know him in person. I only delivered the message I was given and I stand by that message because the future of this country is bleak with Jonathan on the saddle.”
He also said, he had asked the first lady, Patience Jonathan when she came to his church to give him her number so he could pass messages across whenever he receives any, but thrice the first lady refused and asked a pastor with her to give him his own number instead.
“So, before that message, I had called the number for two weeks but it was always the Personal Assistant to the pastor that picked the calls,“ he said.
Saturday, 3 January 2015
Man Drives Two Hours With Knife Lodged In His Head
TERESINA, Brazil: A Brazilian man who was stabbed in the head with an 11-inch knife survived the attack and drove himself two hours to a hospital.
Nigerian Army Has Buhari’s Academic Records, But He Needs To Apply
Courtesy -SaharaRreporters
The director of public relations of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier Olaleye Lajide, has dismissed reports in the Nigerian media claiming that the army could not find academic records of General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.), the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Brigadier Lajide described the reports as false.
Monday, 20 October 2014
BON.,LINDA IKEJI's WARPED UNDERSTANDING OF ENGLISH, AND GOV. AMAECHI. (video)
On Friday 17th of October 2014, Popular Gossip blogger Linda Ikeji posted a story where she reported that Governor Amaechi of Rivers state made insultive remarks about Nollywood artistes to their faces at the just concluded BON Awards 2014.
In her post titled “Gov Rotimi Amaechi Insults Nollywood Practitioners To Their Faces, Says They Are Products Of Circumstances’, Linda Ikeji said Governor Ameachi during his speech at the award after he gave veteran actress Liz Benson a Lifetime Achievement Award, said that people in Nollywood are products of circumstances/necessity. He said that the only reason they are in Nollywood is because they couldn’t find other jobs, that if they had, they won’t be actors. Rotimi said these actors studied sciences, law, medicine etc but because they couldn’t find jobs, they embraced Nollywood.
Continuing, she said “Governor Rotimi also put two veteran actresses on blast. He told the crowd that he gives Joke Silva and Kate Henshaw bags of money whenever they come to Rivers state. And then claimed he was the one who encouraged Kate Henshaw to go into politics.
Like that wasn’t enough, Governor Amaechi then said he went into politics for money”.
Meanwhile, BON Awards organizers have responded to Linda Ikeji’s publication describing it as pure falsehoold and malicious content.
Below is their response:
Our attention has been drawn to a report on the Linda Ikeji Blog wherein she purported that Governor Rotimi Amaechi insulted Nollywood practitioners to their faces and called them products of circumstances at the Best of Nollywood Awards which held inside the banquet hall of the Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday, October 16th 2014. While we consider the report malicious, mediocre and outright falsehood on which the blogger thrives, it is expedient to however set the record straight.
At no point did Governor Amaechi insult Nollywood practitioners. Instead, he commended them for growing the industry into a multi billion naira industry without any form of institutional or government support.
Nollywood, he says, now employs hundreds of thousands of Nigerian youths who, despite their qualifications, may have remained jobless because of the unemployment challenge in Nigeria which has led to a situation whereby graduates of medicine, law and other such disciplines end up in Nollywood. At that point, popular entertainer, Okey Bakassi, interrupted the governor, saying he is an agricultural engineering graduate of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, which threw the whole hall into laughter.
The Governor then recalled that at the 40th birthday party of Kate Henshaw a while back, Basorge Tariah Jnr reminded her how they used to slap the streets in search of jobs and that it was Nollywood that rescued them. Governor Amaechi also cited the example of the banking industry which has become a dumping ground of sort for graduates of different disciplines that are not even remotely related to the banking profession.
It does not beggar rational understanding, except that the blogger may not be so conditioned, therefore, that this allusion is a thumbs up for the pioneers of Nollywood, not an insult as she inanely interpreted it. More so, at no point did the Governor say he gives Kate Henshaw money. He did, however, say that the state has contracted Mrs Joke Jacobs to turn Chinua Achebe’s political satire, A Man of the People, into a movie because of its inherent, timeless social message.
After his speech, an excited Patience Ozokwor re-invited the Governor to the stage to co-present the Movie of The Year award. We wonder if the practitioners did indeed feel insulted, the Governor would still receive a standing ovation for stating that after his term in office expires, he would devote the next couple of years to reading and research and that one of the research topics he has chosen is the dynamism and evolution of Nollywood.
Watch The video of his full speech below
Watch "governor's full speech_1.3gp" on YouTube
governor's full speech_1.3gp: http://youtu.be/QUbPz_BwINk
It is noteworthy to mention that despite starting behind schedule, Governor Amaechi sat through the awards which lasted over three hours.
We therefore want discerning Nigerians to discountenance this ill-intentioned report as it is not only the product of warped reasoning and deliberate misinterpretation, it is most uncharitable to Governor Amaechi and demeaning to the Nollywood stars and stakeholders that were at the event.
Tarahtalks:
I really can't say what the plight is here @lindaikeji 's account of the event but the whole twist don't seem innocent to me. Asides trying to get catchy headlines out there which every blogger or writer does, all the konakona quoting no be am at all and I think amends should be made from the Linda ikeji's quarters .. #okTainsBye
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