OMOADE'S BLOG: 2015-07-05

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Beyonce, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj & Big Sean Nominated For Best International Act At MAMA 2015

Lagos, 7 July 2015: MTV Base has revealed that Beyoncé, Big Sean, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and Rihanna have been nominated for Best International Act at the MTV Africa Music Awards KwaZulu-Natal 2015.
The urban giants will go head to head at MAMA 2015, which is sponsored by KwaZulu-Natal in association with Absolut Vodka and in partnership with The City of Durban. The winner, chosen by music fans voting online at http://mama.mtv.com, will be revealed at the live awards ceremony on

THE relative peace that reigns at Iwo road interchange, Ibadan, was ruptured yesterday as some Vehicle Inspection Officers, VIO, caused the death of a motorcyclist who fell under a Lagos bound articulated vehicle which crushed his head instantly.
The VIO officials, whose manner of operations had been roundly condemned by motorists in the state, were said to be in hot pursuit of a commercial cab for alleged breach of traffic rules.

Look @ How Pastor Got Disgraced After Woman From Previous Relationship Storms His Wedding With His Children

The drama happened at the NPC Church in Valley Road in Kenya.
The ceremony was going on well until a woman with her children came into the church claiming she had been married to the pastor, and she brought her kids too just to show the public that she had kids for the pastor. Pastor John immediately burst into tears as the women started exchanging words.

A TEAM of policemen yesterday interrogated Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, for an alleged unwholesome alteration of the Senate Standing Rule.
It was learnt the police operatives arrived at the National Assembly complex around 2p.m. and departed after over two hours.

The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112.Momoi, born months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, passed away late on Sunday, said the official at Saitama City, north of Tokyo, where he had lived for many years.
The supercentenarian, recognised as the world's oldest male at the age of 111 last year, died of kidney failure in a care home in Tokyo.May his soul rest in peace.

CASH-STRAPPED states got a breather yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari approved the release of N713.7billion intervention funds for them to pay workers’ salaries.
The bailout is part of a three-pronged relief package that will end the workers’ plight.
In the package are N413.7billion special intervention funds and the balance of about N250billion to N300billion, which is a soft loan to states.

Sacked Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has told Nigerians to leave him alone after being relieved of his duties by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) at the weekend.
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi with Home Based Super Eagles at a News Conference at the Eagles' Camp in Abuja

The Nigerian army has released 182 suspected Boko Haram members from the Maimalari Cantonment in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri. All the 182 were arrested on suspected ties to the dreaded terrorist group and they include 100 men, 24 women, 40 boys and 18 children.
Lt Gen. Kenneth Minimah, the Chief of Army Staff, presented the former detainees to Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima at the 7 Division Headquarters, Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri.

President Goodluck Jonathan speaks during his visit to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos, on March 12, 2015. President Jonathan visited the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on March 12, and launched a new online mobile platform, X-Gen, designed to increase local investment. The platform is targetted at increasing the number of local investors in the country and to enable about 30 millions domestic investors have access to the market. AFP PHOTO

Former Press Secretary to the military government of Olusegun Obasanjo and now a monarch, Igwe Alex Nwokedi, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the complaints resulting from selective justice in the pardon by former President Goodluck Jonathan over the phartom coup of 1997.
The monarch’s appeal came against the backdrop of publication of gazette authenticating the March 12, 2013 presidential pardon granted Chief Diepriye Alamieyeseigha and officers involved in the General Oladipo Diya-led phartom coup in 1997.

Ahmed Musa has been lined up to be the next captain of Nigeria when Vincent Enyeama is stripped of the captaincy.
Lille goalkeeper Enyeama is expected to be dropped as the country’s skipper after his recent act of indiscipline when on national team duty.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been stripped of the welterweight world title he won after beating Filipino Manny Pacquiao this year for failing to comply with rules, the World Boxing Organization said on Monday.
Mayweather, who improved to 48-0 by beating Pacquiao in May, missed a deadline by which he had to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee from the fight and vacate the junior middleweight title he also held, the WBO said in a statement.

Only 24 hours after a bomb blast killed about 44 people in the city of Jos, Plateau state, another explosion has been reported to have gone off near a Mosque in Kano state, northern Nigeria.
According to a report published by The Premium Times, quoting police officials and other witnesses, the female suicide bomber ferrying the explosive died in the explosion.Though the report did not mention the number of innocent lives that were lost in the incident, the spokesperson for the Kano

A horrifying giant python was spotted eating a large black bat for half an hour in front of shocked couple at Sunshine Beach, Queensland, Australia.
Please, scroll down to see the jaw-dropping photographs below!

A female suicide bomber Monday night blown herself up after detonating explosives at Dangi Jumat Mosque in Kano State.
Police spokesman in the State, Magaji Majia, confirmed the incident but said he was not sure if there were other casualties.

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode, shared his thoughts on the recent spate of killings by the Boko Haram insurgents on his Facebook page.

No fewer than 20 persons were killed on Monday in an early morning crash around Irepeni, along Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highway. About 25 cows were also killed in the incident.
the accident was caused by a road block mounted by armed robbers along Irepeni axis of the highway. The robbers were said to have fled the scene afterwards.

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on members of the National Assembly to stop playing politics with the nation,s budget, saying timely and realistic budget will save the nation a lot of loss.
In a statement, its President, Tony Ejikeonye said there will always sharp disagreement between the Executive and Legislature in the area of budget benchmark, urging that theleaders should stop playing politics with the country’s budget parameters.

Hon. Danladi Angulu Kwasu, a retired Wing Commander, with the Nigeria Air Force, at a Press Conference in Kaduna yesterday accused the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, of deliberating pushing his 19- year -old son, Elshadai Kwasu, (NDA/10037) , into a 100 metre-deep lake, and drowning him during a training .
Kwasua, now a member of Kaduna State House of Assembly, KDHA, representing Zangon Kataf State constituency, alleged that out of negligence, about 20 cadets had died in swimming exercise with the NDA doing nothing to change the situation.

Hehehe! Kenyans don’t want Obama in their country after he legalized same-sex marriage in US!.. About 100 Kenyans yesterday protested against homosexuality in Nairobi, the country’s capital.
The demonstration was aimed at US President Barack Obama, who protesters fear will put pressure on the government to legalise it when he visits on July 25 July
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The crisis rocking the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo Local Government has continued to linger, as the school management postponed the first semester examination scheduled to commence Monday, indefinitely.
Meantime, the LASU Student Union Government has condemned the postponement, saying “The postponement has delayed our academic progress, and the reason given by the school management was wrong and untenable.”

Below are cars recovered from the Ikorodu Bank robbers paraded in Lagos yesterday.The cars were bought with their shares of the money..hopefully 4 of them will give useful information that will lead to arrest of others
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No fewer than 100 people are feared killed in the Sunday night twin explosions in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
The state government put the death toll at 44 and 48 injured. But the magnitude of the blast and the burials that took place yesterday showed that the death toll was higher.

A man carries jerrycans to search for fuel in Lagos, on May 21, 2015. Long queues formed at petrol stations across oil-rich Nigeria on May 21 following a row over subsidy payment to petrol importers as well as sale of government oil blocks to private investors, union officials said. AFP PHOTO

Supply of Petroleum products in the country is expected to receive a significant boost in the next couple of days, with the inauguration, by the Governors of Cross River and Delta states, of Fynefield Petroleum FZE’s 40 million-litre capacity ultra-modern petroleum products depot located at the Calabar Free Trade Zone in Cross River State, built at the cost of N3 billion.
The company, in a statement, yesterday, disclosed that the facilities, which was built to international standard, have a combined capacity for 40.7 million litres of petroleum products, of which petrol,

Wait For Buhari’s 100 Days In Office--APC

Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, Donatus Nwankpa, has faulted the labelling of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s stay in office so far as a month of all motion, no movement and urged the party to wait for his 100 days in office.
Nwankpa, who stated this in an interview with Vanguard in Aba, insisted that rather criticism, the President should be supported to select the right people to serve in his administration.

Rihanna Shows Off Under-B0''0b In New Photo (See)

Hottie of the day... Riri is not gonna give up atall
See full photo after the cut;...

Fresh facts have emerged in the Ikorodu banks robbery operation where N80 million was reportedly carted away a fortnight ago, following the discovery that 12 members of the gang were recruited from the Niger Delta region.
This is just as the four suspects arrested in connection with the operation, that lasted close to two hours, have confessed that their gang was responsible for similar operations at Ijede road three weeks before that of Ipakodo also at Ikorodu, and that of Lekki, where five persons, including three policemen, were killed.

THE National Party of Nigeria (NPN) the ruling party in the Second Republic was disliked by millions of people particularly the youths.
It was perceived as the party of the rich. Indeed, it was founded by the ruling class including groups referred to as the Kaduna Mafia and ‘Money Bags’ Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola was to respond that it was an insult to refer to him as a ‘money bag’ because no bag could contain all his money.

The Presidency yesterday disowned the Twitter comments allegedly posted by Zahra Buhari, one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the tweets were from an account falsely linked to Zahra Buhari.

The embattled Unification Leader of the Celestial Church of Christ worldwide, Rev. Olatosho Oshoffa, on Sunday said the emergence of factions in the church would soon come to an end.
Olatosho said he was working to unite the warring factions in the church, adding that “my divine commission is to bring all celestials back into one fold”.

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The father of a 19-year-old student of Federal Government College, FGC, Jos, allegedly impregnated by the Principal of the College, Mr. Muhammad Manko, has denied the allegation.
According to him, the allegation is an attempt by detractors to defame the character of his daughter and that of the principal.

Four people suspected to be members of the armed robbery gang that attacked two banks in Ikorodu area of Lagos State on the 24th of June 2015, have been arrested by the police.
According to Tribune Online, the men of the Nigerian Army who were on a stop and search mission, arrested one of the four suspects in Ondo State while he was trying to escape to Okitipupa while the
Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Lagos State police command arrested three others at different locations in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

A group, Ray of Hope Empowerment Foundation (ROHEF), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that a young Nigerian becomes the minister of Youth Development.
ROHEF, a non-governmental non-profit organisation, said such a young person should be able to feel and understand the difficulties that other young Nigerians are going through daily.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode

A member of the House of Representatives from Lagos State, Mr. Oghene Emma-Ogoh, on Sunday called on Governor Akinwumi Ambode to protect the interest of traders in the ongoing remodeling of the Ladipo Market by the government.
Emma-Ogoh, who represents Amuwo/Odofin Federal Constituency, alleged that many traders had lost property due to the “breaking of market shops” by agents of the state government.

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SQUABBLES, even fisticuffs, are considered “normal” in legislatures all over the democratic world. Here in Nigeria, issues of power and money sharing are constant factors behind every open confrontation among our lawmakers.
The eighth National Assembly has been bedeviled from day one with crises. Clashes between rival factions of the majority All Progressives Congress (APC) in the National Assembly have made it difficult for the federal lawmakers to settle down to serious business. The Party had fielded Senators

Parents of the abducted pupils of Government Secondary School (GSS), Chibok, Borno State, yesterday alerted the public on the activities of fraudsters using their names to defraud Nigerians and corporate bodies.
More than 200 students of the school were abducted by suspected insurgents on April 14 last year while writing their final examination.

The younger brother of Coach Samson Siasia has expressed his desire to contest the Bayelsa State governorship election next year.
Moses, who spoke at a news conference in Yenagoa, on Saturday, lamented that Bayelsa had witnessed several broken promises since its creation in 1996.

Following separate deadly attacks by the murderous Boko Haram terrorist group in Borno State that has left no fewer than 200 persons killed in the last 10 days, the Nigerian military said yesterday that it recovered a four-wheel vehicle loaded with bombs meant for further attacks.
According to Defence headquarters, “A jeep full of Improvised Explosives Devises, IEDs, was among the weapons recovered by troops conducting Cordon and Search Operations after suicide bombing attacks on Zabamari Muna, near Maiduguri.

National President, Nigerian Union of Teachers, Mr. Michael Alogba Olukoya

One hundred and twenty teachers in public secondary schools in Ogun State have been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to answer questions on a N200m loan they allegedly took from one of the old generation banks (name withheld) since 2011. The loan has yet to be repaid.
They will be quizzed today (Monday) at the anti-graft agency’s Lagos office.
The teachers, our correspondent learnt, were invited through the state’s Teaching Service Commission.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari in tackling the boko haram insurgents in the country.
above is what he posted on his Facebook page

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A bomb has exploded in Jos, Plateau state, central Nigeria, in the midst of a gathering of muslims listening to some sermons on Islam.
The ceremony called Tafsir was holding at the Yantaya area of the city, which had witnessed terrorists attacks in the past.

Kim Kardashian celebrated US independence day in style. The reality TV star rocked US printed wears for 4th of July.
Kim Kardashin is currently expecting her second child with Kanye West ."

NFF Sacks Keshi

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) yesterday terminated the appointment of Stephen Keshi as Head Coach of the Senior National Football Team, Super Eagles.
According to a statement by the body’s Executive Committee, it said the decision was made, “having thoroughly reviewed the reports/findings of the NFF Disciplinary Committee and NFF Technical and Development Committee, as well as having reviewed the actions and inactions of Mr. Stephen Keshi, in the performance of his duties as Super Eagles’ Head Coach, which we found to lack the required commitment to achieve the Federation’s objectives as set out in the Coach’s employment contract.”

Following the relocation of Boko Haram detainees to the Ekwulobia Prisons in Anambra State, the military have taken over the security of the facility.
SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that security operations in the Federal Government facility are no longer the exclusive preserve of the officials of the Nigeria Prison Service.
The development, sources told our correspondent, is not unconnected with the calibre of the detainees being held behind the walls of the facility.

A former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant and educationist, Mr. Kenneth Imasuagbon, yesterday, formalised his return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his ward in Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State.
Imasuagbon, a founding member and a major financier of the then AC , which is today APC, joined the Edo PDP where he ran for the governorship primary in 2012, but dumped the party earlier this year to rejoin the APC.

The 32 year old singer puts her body on display in a fishnet jumpsuit that revealed her undergarment as she performed on stage at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark on Saturday, July 4th. The rapper has been receiving backlash as many expected her to wear something patriotic to celebrates America’s birthday.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday insisted on the immediate removal of the newly appointed Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Amina Zakari.
The party said information at its disposal confirmed that Mrs. Zakari enjoys “a strong relationship” with President Muhammadu Buhari and an unnamed APC Governor in the Northwest.

Sometimes we need to laugh off the stress. Lol…this one na olodo grade one.
Read the hilarious letter below;

Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Those who have followed the arguments of the governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, since early last year on the running of the nation’s economy and its future will understand why the governor is angry today about the parlous state of the economy.
When he declared recently that “this is the time for everybody to answer his or her father’s name”, the governor was not only directing the statement to the former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, but also to the 18 local government chairmen in Edo, who he ordered to pay salaries owed to their workers or face the music.

Scores of people were killed on Friday night at Zabarmari village, 10 kilometres from Maiduguri, Borno State, by six female suicide bombers who blew themselves up amid panicked villagers fleeing an attack by Boko Haram terrorists, the army and witnesses said yesterday.
The carnage caps a week in which the sect killed about 200 people in separate attacks in the state, the bloodiest being Wednesday night’s attacks on residents of Kukawa as they gathered in mosques for Ramadan prayers.

The Islamic State (IS) group on Saturday released a video showing 25 Syrian government soldiers being executed by teenagers in the ancient amphitheatre in the city of Palmyra.
The video documented an execution that reportedly happened shortly after the jihadist group captured the city on May 21.
It shows the soldiers in green and brown military uniforms being shot dead on the amphitheatre's stage in front of an enormous version of the group's black and white flag.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday promised that his administration will ensure that all cases of political assassination and kidnapping in the country are thoroughly investigated.
A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, quoted the President as making the promise while addressing state chairmen of the All Progressives Congress who visited him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara;Senate President, APC Chirman Chief John Odigie-Oyegun Dr. Bukola Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari at the APC NEC Meeting.

Like a prosecution counsel whose absence stalled the hearing of his case in a law court, the failure of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the former interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande’s, to attend the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, on Friday, stopped the hearing of “their case” against the leadership of the party and the National Assembly respectively. This is the inside story of how the APC National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun, was let off the sack hook.
Apart from President Muhammadu Buhari, a retired military general who is obviously not known with generous, frivoulous, broad smiles, every other person wore smiles on their way out of the meeting.

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