GOVERNOR YAKOWA'S REMAINS ARRIVE KADUNA AMID TEARS

Diddy Involved In Car Crash In L.A.

Music mogul Diddy was today involved in a serious car accident in Lor Angeles. Reports from Law enforcement sources says a car turned left in front of Diddy's SUV and Diddy's driver rammed into the other vehicle. It was learnt that no one was seriously injured in both vehicles but Diddy appeared to be shaken by the incident. I say that was a close shave for Diddy and he should be glad he came out quite unscatched.

Dana Air Emmerges Best Domestic Airline in Nigeria.

Despite the tragedy that befell it some months back from a  crash that killed over 158 people in June, Dana Air has been named the best domestic carrier in Nigeria by the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

According to the Regional General Manager of FAAN, Mr. Chris Bature, Dana Air got the award because of its good customer service, and prompt payment of dues. Among the domestic carriers, they were the best. They had the best volume; they were punctual in their operations” he added and said the award would have been presented earlier in the year if not for the plane crash incident that go their license withdrawn.

Hmmn.....it makes me wonder if getting an award for prompt payment of dues is one thing but what about prompt checkup and maintenance of their aircraft? If they had been consistence and committed with that aspect also then the tragedy that befell those on that fateful flight in June would not have perished.

BREAKING: Mimiko gets a second term in office as Governor of Ondo State

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today declared the incumbent Ondo State governor and candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Olusegun Mimiko as winner of the Governorship election which took place Saturday 20th October 2012.

According to the returning officer Mr. Adebiyi Daramola,  he announced that the three major candidates for the top seat at the Alagbaka Government House – Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), LP and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shared between them over 86 percent of the total number of 645, 597 accredited votes.

Below is the final results of the Ondo governorship election:

We say a cheerful congratulations to the IROKO man himself for breaking the jinx of the first ever governor of Ondo State to returgn to office for a second term.

Sports: World’s 50 Fastest Players, Martins, Nsofor & Ahmed Musa makes the cut.

The Nigerian trio of Obafemi Martins (Levante) Spain, Victor Obinna Nnsofor (Locomotive Moscow) Russia and Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow) Russia have been named in Bleacher Report’s World Football’s 50 Fastest Players.

Martins was listed in 35th position, one place ahead of Lokomotiv Moscow forward, Obinna while CSKA Moscow speedster, Musa placed 38th.

Arsenal winger Theo Walcott was first with Dutchman Arjen Robben and Aaron Lennon coming 8th and 9th respectively.

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo emerged in 14th place while Barcelona’s Lionel Messi placed 31st.

Ivoirian Seydou Doumbia (11th) of CSKA Moscow is the first African on the list while Burundian Mohammed Tchite (16), Ghanaian Dominic Oduro (18), Malian Jimmy Kebe (19) and Waris Majeed Abdul complete the African list.

Winners Emmerge At The Headies: 2012 Hip Hip World Awards

The 2012 Hip Hop World Awards have come and gone and outstanding artist were rewarded for their excellence in the music industry with the presentation of the Headies to various deserving artists.

it was a a battle royal between each of the categories on the night with Davido taking away the Next Rated Award. Some were surprising while others are expected, below is a roll call of artist that went home with the coveted awards.

Full List of Winners at the 2012 Headies
Best RnB Singer – May D – Soundtrack
Best Pop Single – Iyanya – Kukere
Best Rap Single – Angeli -Vector ft 9ice
Best RnB/Pop Album – P Square
Best Street Hop – Chuddy K
Best RnB Pop Album – P-Square
Best Rap Album – Ice Prince – E.L.I
Best Vocal Performance (Male) – Wande Coal – Private Trips
Best Vocal Performance (Female) – Tiwa Savage – Love Me Love Me Love Me
Best Collaboration – Sound Sultan ft Excel and Flavour – Orobo
Revelation of the Year – Wizkid
Recording of the Year – Brymo – Ara
Best Label Head – Banky W
Producer of the Year – TY Mix – Super C Season (Naeto C)
Lyricist on the Roll – Vector – Angeli
Next Rated – Davido
African Artist of the Year – Sarkodie (Ghana) Azonto
Artiste of the Year – Wizkid
Album of the Year – Psquare – The Invasion
Best Music Video (Director) – Jude Okoye – Chop My Money
Song of the Year – D’banj – Oliver Twist
Headies Hall of Fame – Femi Kuti

Breaking: Boko Haram Commander Captured In High-Level Politician’s Home

Spokesman for the Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col Sagir Musa has disclosed to the media that a top boko haram sect commander, Shuaibu Mohammed Bama had been picked up and is currently in the JTF's custody. According to reports, Shuaibu was said to have been arrested during a raid in the home of a high level national politician but Lt. Col Sagir has refused to name the politician.

The captured high-profile boko haram commander has been on the  list of wanted terrorist of the JTF for a very long while and  and was successfully captured by task force troops in the home of a serving politician.

Source said that crack security team have been trailing Bama, from Kano to Kaduna and finally Maiduguri where he was barbed on Thursday in Cordon and Search Operation style, that have armed to teeth combat soldiers. The suspect was arrested in a high brow area in Maiduguri axis of Borno State.

Videos From Felabration 2012 Performances.

The spirit lives on as Felabration 2012 continues to make wave, the event which is currently on its Fourth day has seen a lots of international and local top artists take to the stage to drop various vibes to entertain the crowd who came to celebrate the late Afro icon.

check out some of the videos on day one of the event as artists perform various hit tracks of Fela's songs.
Click to watch Felabration Video 1, Felabration Video 2.

'Breaking The Mould' Campaign: Serena and Venus Williams Live in Lagos on Oct.30th.

Venus and Serena Williams

Delectable American International Tennis sisters, Venus and Serena Williams will be touching down in Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday 30th of October for a visit as part of a planned African Tour.

Their presence in Lagos would be the first leg of the recently launched "Breaking The Mould" (BTM) campaign.

BTM is a new campaign to catalyse, acknowledge and reward women who have risen above their own set of challenges and adversities to succeed and inspire

The campaign which is a women empowerment initiative has already garnered international support after it was launched.

SOCCER: Nominees Emerge for Nigerian Sports Award

John Obi Mikel

Peter Osaze Odemwingie

Nominees have emerged for the maiden edition of the Nigerian Sports Award being put together by Unmissable Incentive Limited in partnership with Mastersports International.
The list of the nominees was released at a press briefing held in Lagos Wednesday.

The General Manager, Unmissable Incentive, Mr. Kayode Idowu, revealed that 15 categories of the award have been approved by the award panel for this year after the nomination process which commenced on July 19, and ended on September 28.

The categories include: Team of the Year Award, Footballer of the Year Award (Male), Footballer of the Year Award (Female), Ball sports Person of the Year Award, Special sports person of the Year Award, Sport Man of the year Award, Sport woman of the Year Award, Administrator of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement in sports Award, Sports journalist of the Year Award (Print), Sports journalist of the year Award (Electronics).

According to Idowu, the Falconets, D’ Tigers and Heartland FC are the teams nominated for the Team of the year Award while in the Coach of the Year Award,  Head Coach of Falconets, Okon Edwin,  Head Coach, Nigeria’s  Power Lifting team to the last London Paralympic Games, Feyisetan Are, and Head Coach of the Tigers, Ayodele Bakare are in contention.

The Footballer of the year Award for the male category will be a battle between John Mikel Obi, Osaze Odemwingie and Ikechukwu Uche. Francisca Ordega, Perpetual Nwokwocha and Desire Oparanozie are up for the female footballer of the year award.

BREAKING: D’banj Voted ‘Best African Act’ For The 2012 MTV EMA

Dapo Oyebanji aka D’banj has emerged as the  ‘Best African Act’ for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2012. He claimed the coveted award after receiving the highest number of votes from fans across the Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Nigerian superstar warded off challenge from four other African nominees – Camp Mulla from Kenya, Sarkodie form Ghana and South Africa’s Mi Casa as well as Nigerian counterpart Wizkid to emerge victorious.

He has previously won Best African Act at the 2007 MTV EMA, ‘Artist of the Year’ at both the 2008 and 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards, and ‘Best International Act: Africa’ at the 2011 BET Awards which he shared with 2face.

He will now go on to contend with other music artistes India’s Alobo Naga & the Band and Ahmed Soultan from the Middle East for the chance to represent the region in the Worldwide Act category.
The 19th edition of the awards which will be hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum will take place in Frankfurt on November 11, 2012.

We say props up for the Koko Master for doing Nigeria and indeed Africa proud and hopes he come back with the Worldwide act Award..

AMAZING! NYSC Rejects Three(3) Graduates Of ESUT As Illiterates!

Three “graduates” of Enugu State University of Science and Technology(ESUT) mobilised to participate in the National Youth Service Corps scheme have shown lack of competence and intelligence level expected of genuine degree holders, Blueprint learnt last night. In education circles, questions are being asked over the competence of the university and indeed other institutions of learning.

The three corps members are: Nwankwo Elias Chukwuebuka, a graduate of BSc Electrical/Electronics, with code number NG/11B/1660 and a NYSC call-up number NYSC/EST/2011/1777093; Mbah Linda Akunna, a graduate of BSc Electricals/Electronics with code number LA/11B/5245, a call-up number EST/2011/178882 and matriculation number ESUT/2005/96998, and Okochi Adaeze Kate, a graduate of Geography/Meteorology, with codenumber AD/12B/0389, call-up number EST/2012/148292 and matriculation number ESUT/2006/10400.

According to documents obtained by Blueprint, the three “graduates,” who are serving in Niger, Lagos and Adamawa states respectively, were rejected, with formal letters sent to the state coordinators by their areas of primary assignment and forwarded to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja. The national headquarters, in a August 29, 2012 letter signed by the Director General of NYSC, N.T. Okore-Affia, had informed the NUC of the presence of corps members who displayed “glaring lack of academic ability and intelligence level expected of genuine Nigerian graduates,which were consistently exhibited by the three students from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology.”

Attaching copies of letters from NYSC secretariats in Niger, Adamawa and Lagos, Okore-Affia noted: “As contained in the reports, the corps members exhibited signs of incompetence and low intelligence level which range from inability to complete registration formats correctly to not being able to teach pupils at nursery school level. These inadequacies led to their rejections by their employers in their various states of deployment.” The case, according to an insider’s account, has baffled the National Universities Commission (NUC) and prompted the setting up of a committee to “verify the integrity of the degrees,” and find out if there was collaboration by the university. Federal education authorities are suspecting a wide-ranging scam that might have been going on for years.

To unravel how the three corps members were mobilised, the NUChas already set up a panel, comprising officials of NYSC, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the State Security Service ( SSS ). The mandate of the panel, according to a letter dated September 24, 2012 signed by NUC Director of Quality Assurance,Professor C.F. Mafiana, “is to fully investigate the reportwith a view to identifying the culprits, including others similarly mobilised and their collaborators, and ensuring sanctions accordingly.

The team would be chaired by a visiting professor in the NUC.” Out of the three corps members, Okochi could hardly write the Roman figures from one to 10 in words, just as she could not write three states and their capitals. She could not provide the names of two major rivers in Nigeria, just as she failed to name three countries that share border with Nigeria. Akunna, according to the documents, was rejected by Kings College, Lagos, after it was discovered that she was grossly incompetent to perform her duties. A further test on her by the Lagos state NYSC secretariat revealed that though a graduate of Electricals/Electronics, she never passed any of the science subjects at the secondary school level. The third fellow, Chukwuebuka, who was posted to Niger state, was rejected by a nursery/primary school known as FEMA Schools because of his inability to read and write. Having been rejected by two employers, he had to be reposted by Niger state NYSC to a bakery, pending the final determination of his case by the NYSC national headquarters.

When queried on his incompetence, Chukwuebuka proved his incompetence when he responded in writing: “I awarded a degree in Enugu State University of Science and Technology I have a probeam in my university am manegn my siefe to funsh my school.” A source disclosed last night that members of the panel would soon commence probing the circumstances under which the “graduates” were released by the university to participate in the NYSC scheme.

“My Life Has A Price" Godwin Okpara Turned Me Into A Sex Slave.

Tina Okpara, the teenage girl who was serially Molested by Super Eagles star, Godwin Okpara, has released a book, detailing how the intimate assault went on for two years. Tina Okpara In the book titled, “My Life Has A Price”, the victim narrates how she was adopted at age 13 by the Okparas and taken to France. Linda, Okpara’s wife, then enslaved her for five years and turned a blind eye to the intimate abuse, she says in the book.

Tina’s decision to write the book seven years after she regained freedom, aims at raising awareness and helping other girls who might be going through the same horrendous experience, she said in an interview with TheNews magazine. “One day, I told myself that if I refused testifying, other girls will continue to experience modern slavery,” she said. She explained how her biological father was tricked by the Okparas into believing that she would be sent to school in France where the Super Eagles star was playing for Paris Saint Germain.

However, once in France, she was used as a sex slave. She was also prevented by Linda from attending school. “The day she spat it on my face that schooling was not for me because I was too silly, I lost all hope,” she said As the abuse worsened, Tina kept secret notebooks where she could “dump all my sorrow”.

“These notebooks were used to dump all my sorrow, all my hatred for Linda. It was my lifeline and my friend,” she said. The 188-page book, originally written in French, has just been translated into English. Godwin is currently serving a 10-year jail term in France, while his wife, Linda, will be in jail for 15 years.

Another Lynching In Warri, Thief Burnt To Death In Broad Day Light

For those who do not know a lot about Nigeria and the culture of jungle justice, it is the natural way of executing a criminal in Nigeria. Although things have now changed because people now have camera phones and websites like youtube and twitter to share the stories, but days after the infamous lynching and gruesome murder of the four innocent students of the Uniport at Aluu community in Port Harcourt in Rivers State.

A supposed thieve was burnt to death in Warri, Delta State. It is not a new phenomenom, the only thing new is that people can record and share it, Nigeria has always been in this state of Dismal-Abysmal and barbarism which I can only regard as totally Lugubrious at