Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Photo: Tiwa Savage And Teebillz Are Expecting Their First Child!
Vote Jonathan, Vote Hunger! - APC VP Candidate Osinbajo
First Gay Weddings In Scotland Held At Midnight!
The first gay wedding ceremonies in Scotland took place on Wednesday just after the stroke of midnight, as two couples tied the knot in Glasgow. Dressed in kilts, Joe Schofield and Malcolm Brown, both 42, entered the Trades Hall to the sound of bagpipes at 11:30 pm on Tuesday, and after the clock chimed midnight, the formalities got under way.
Nigerians Will Appreciate Me When I Leave Office – Jonathan
My 55-Year Old Husband Raped Our 9 Year Old Daughter & Impregnated Our 17 Year Old!-Wife Tells Police
A 55-year-old man, identified as Osaro, has been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly defiling his nine-year-old daughter. Osaro, according to his wife, Stella, had earlier impregnated their 17-year-old daughter, just as she told newsmen at the Ogida Police Division, Benin, that she recently returned to her husband’s house after he said he had repented.
Jimi Agbaje Can Not Govern Lagos State, He Lacks Experience! - Fashola
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola says Lagos State is too big to be handed over to the Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP, governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje to experiment with as he lacks experience.
88-Year Old Beji Caid Essebsi Becomes Tunisia’s President.
Beji Caid Essebsi, 88, is the new Tunisian president. Essebsi was sworn in today as Tunisia’s first freely elected president.
Having An Abortion When I Was ATeenager Has Haunted Me All My Life-Nicki Minaj
32-year-old rapper, Nicki Minaj, has revealed a secret heartache that has hung over her like a shadow for years. She spoken openly for the first time about having an abortion when she was a teenager in a candid new cover interview with America’s Rolling Stone magazine. Detailing the horror of making the decision to terminate a pregnancy at such a young age, she said:
Have You All Seen The Timetable And Schedule Of Activities For General Elections 2015?
Read Buhari's New Year Message To Nigeria’s Youth.
As we welcome the year 2015, I have shared a message to Nigerians in general, but I find it crucial to send another message directly to Nigeria’s youth, who are the major stakeholders of this enterprise.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
MUST READ: Buhari Has Health Problems And May Not Last More Than A Year In Office!
A source, knowledgeable of happenings within the corridors of power, Aso Rock, has said there is a security report concerning the health of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential standard bearer.
Debris Of Missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Found.
Officials this morning confirmed they have discovered debris from the missing AirAsia flight. Bodies, life jackets, and luggage have all been seen in the search zone for the plane which was carrying 162 people when it vanished in poor weather on Sunday morning. The plane was on route from Surabaya to Singapore.
Monday, December 29, 2014
First Case Of Ebola Recorded In Scotland!
The first case of Ebola virus has been recorded in Scotland. According to the Scottish government, the Ebola patient is a health worker who arrived Scotland from Sierra Leone today December 29th where she was helping to care for Ebola victims.
She arrived Glasgow in Scotland from London Heat throw airport on a British Airways flight. All passengers on-board the flight are now being traced for examination. Meanwhile the woman has been quarantined at the Gartnavel hospital.
Photo: We Didn’t Rob; We Only Collected Our Dues - Robbers Tell Police!
According to Punch, the ten-man gang, with other members still at large, raided mostly shops of phone dealers, stealing 70 smartphones and Ipads which were worth about N1.5m.
When interrogated, one of the suspects, 35 year old father of three, Onyenge Osanie said
"We usually work with phone dealers in the market who specialise in selling stolen phones. When we steal, they sell, and they then settle us. But later on, some of them defaulted, and we attacked their shops. It was not as if we robbed them, we only came to ask for our money. On that day, we had taken only 10 phones before the police apprehended us. I had initially escaped, but two gang members who were caught at the scene later brought the police to arrest me." he said
Another gang member, 27-year-old Eboh said he joined the gang because of his unemployment status "What we learnt initially was that a market chairman was coming to give out money but he later failed to show up. That was when we decided to deal with the traders. When we got to the shops, we broke their glasses and carted away expensive phones. I joined the gang because I did not have a job. I have been living in hardship with my family."he said
Another gang members, 22 year old Michael who claims to be an ex truck driver said their robbery act wasn't deliberate
"I was working as a truck driver before I met them. I had gone out with the gang on three occasions to rob in the market. We only took advantage of the commotion of the market to rob them. It was not deliberate," he said.
Police Public Relations officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu while confirming their arrest, said investigation is going on the matter.
I Don't Care What People Say About My Failed Marriage -Ini Edo
Ehiagwina, insisted the house should be jointly owned by the two of them being a couple. She refused ,prompting him to call it quits and relocate to Ghana where he eventually found a new love whom he is perfecting plans to wed soon. When asked to confirm it, she told the magazine this month......
"Let me be frank with you, I have not spoken with anybody concerning the break-up of my marriage. And I am not going to say anything about it. It's my past and I have put it where it belongs. So, let it remain like that.
"I don't care whatever people might have said or written as the cause of the break-up, that's their business. I have not granted anybody any interview and I won't do that. It's my private life, you guys should please let me be."
Friday, December 26, 2014
16yr Old Student Arrested For Insulting Turkish President!
The boy, identified by his initials M.E.A., was believed to be a member of a leftist organisation, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
He delivered a speech on Wednesday in the central Anatolian city of Konya, a bastion of Erdogan's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), in memory of a young secular teacher killed by Islamists in 1930, according to the newspaper.
The boy, who was arrested by police at school, is now facing up to four years in prison if convicted on the charge.
It was the latest controversial arrest in Turkey in recent weeks. Recent police raids on media outlets affiliated with Erdogan's top foe, the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, sparked an angry exchange with the European Union, which said the arrests undermined media freedom.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu supported the court's decision on the juvenile's arrest.
"Everyone must respect the office of president whoever he is," Davutoglu said, quoted in Turkish media.
In his testimony to prosecutors, the boy denied links with any political party and said that the local governor's office granted permission for the commemoration ceremony organised through social media.
"I've made the statement in question. I have no intent to insult," he reportedly said.
The boy's lawyer, Baris Ispir, submitted a petition to the court, together with around 100 colleagues who came from Istanbul in a show of support.
"Even if he is convicted, he is 16 years old which requires a one-third reduction in his penalty," the lawyer said, according to the private Dogan news agency.
Riza Turmen, lawmaker of the secular opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), denounced the arrest as a violation of the UN charter on children's rights.
"Regimes taking children out of classes by police force and putting them in jail are fascist regimes," Turmen, a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, wrote on Twitter.
"This goes against the UN charter on children's rights."
Turkey's government faced an unprecedented wave of protests in 2013 against what was seen as authoritarian policies from Erdogan, who was then prime minister.
The AKP government was shaken by a vast corruption scandal last December that dragged down four ministers facing accusations of bribery and influence-peddling.
Erdogan, who was elected president in August, angrily accused his former ally-turned-foe Gulen of concocting the graft scandal.
Thirty people were arrested in raids earlier this month against those deemed to have links to Gulen.
Most have now been released but a court has remanded in custody on terrorism charges the head of the pro-Gulen Samanyolu TV and three former police chiefs. It also issued an arrest warrant for Gulen himself.
In power since 2003, Erdogan has brought relative stability to Turkey after years of rocky coalition governments and an economic meltdown in 2001.
But what critics describe as his increasingly authoritarian style and zero-tolerance of criticism have proved a major test for democracy in the country which has long sought to join the European Union.
Tragic Christmas: Trailer Crushes Five People In Delta State!
According to witnesses, the trailer didn't stop after killing the victims who were apparently trying to cross the busy expressway.
The incident has been confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Celestina Kalu who said that the victims' remains have been taken to the mortuary at the Federal Medical Centre in Asaba.
Security officials in the state are also said to be tracking down the driver of the trailer.
Photos: Justin Bieber Buys Himself A Private Jet At 20!
Thursday, December 25, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday joined Christians to celebrate Christmas in a service held at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Maitama, Abuja.He was accompanied to the service by his wife, Patience; his mother, Eunice, top government officials including ministers and other members of the Federal Executive Council.In a short remark, the President urged politicians to watch their utterances ahead of the 2015 general elections.
The Old Testament reading for the service was taken by the President's wife from Isaiah 9:2,6 and 7 while the President read the Epistle from Hebrews 1:1-12.The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Nicholas Okoh, in his sermon titled "The Jewish messianic expectations and 2015 elections," taken from Isaiah 61 urged those who seek political offices at all levels to be aware that Nigerians have huge expectations from them.He said their decisions, when they finally get the positions they are seeking, should be guided by such expectations.He further urged them to be concerned about the total wellbeing of the people.
Obasanjo Is A Shameless lair! Wole Soyinka Slams Obasanjo Over His New Book.
"For Wole, no one can be good, nor can anything be spot-on politically except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him.""He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful "aparo" (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic, not to talk of what he would do as a politician," adding "I take him seriously on almost all issues except on the political particularly Nigerian politics.
Reacting, in a piece titled, 'Watch And Pray, Watch And Prey', Prof. Soyinka described Obasanjo as an expert in telling lies and a shameless man.
"I despise that species of humanity whose stock-in-trade is to concoct lies simply to score a point, win an argument, puff up his or her own ego, denigrate or attempt to destroy a fellow being.
"However, even within such deplorable species, a special pit of universal opprobrium is surely reserved for those who even lack the courage of their own lies, but must foist them on others."
For now, let me single out just one of the most glaring instances of this man's compulsive career of lying, one sample that the media can readily check upon and use as a touchstone – if they do need one – in assessing our author's multifaceted claims and commentaries on people and events.
"I refer here to the grotesque and personally insulting statement that he has attributed to me for some inscrutable but obviously diversionary reasons.
"In the process, this past Master of Mendacity brazenly implicates an innocent young man, Akin Osuntokun, who once served him as a special adviser. Instead of conferring dignity on a direct rebuttal of an ignoble fabrication, I shall simply make a personal, all-embracing attestation:
"When an old man stuffs a lie into the throat of an age-mate of his own children – omo inu e! – we can only pity an irredeemable egomaniac whose dotage is headed for twilight disgrace."
He continued
"In this season of goodwill, we owe a duty to our immediate and distant neighbours: CAVEAT EMPTOR! Let all beware, who try to buy a Rolex from this indefatigable watch peddler," he said.
"Our author invokes God tirelessly, without provocation, without necessity and without justification, perhaps pre-emptively, but does he really believe in such an entity? Does our home-bred Double-O-Seven believe in anything outside his own Omnipotence?
"Could he possibly have mistaken the Christian exhortation – 'Watch and Pray' for his private inclination to "Watch and Prey?""This is a seasoned predator on others' achievements – he preys on their names, their characters, their motivations, their true lives, preys on gossip and preys on facts, preys on contributions to collective undertakings…..even preys on their identities, substituting his own where possible,"
Merry Christmas To DCN Readers....
Sad! Baby Falls Off Mother's Back On Okada And Got Crushed To Death By A Truck On Motion!
According to witnesses, the mother of the baby, who is in her 30s and simply identified as Ese, was said to have been struggling to adjust the wrapper with which she strapped the baby to her back, while the Okada was in motion.
One of the witnesses, identified as Efemena Okiemute, told Vanguard that the baby fell on the middle of the road and was immediately crushed by the truck, which was directly behind the Okada.
When Vanguard visited the scene, officials of Ughelli Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, were seen clearing the remains of the dead baby from the road.
So sad!
Photos: See The 13 Year Old Girl Arrested In Kano Wearing Explosive Vest!
The Kano State Commissioner of Police Alhaji Tashid Aderile Shinaba said she was arrested by police officers who found her moves suspicious. When interrogated, the young girl said her father was the one who took her to the people who strapped her with the bombs.
According to her, the unknown men told her she had to carry out the suicide attack in order to make heaven. She said the men told her they would kill her if she doesn't follow through with the bomb attack. The Kano state government however said that the young girl was not one of the missing Chibok girls.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Dangote Loses $7.8 Billion As Naira, Stocks Plunge!
A few weeks ago, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, announced a nearly 10% devaluation of the Naira, Nigeria's currency, after admitting that a plunge in world oil prices and dwindling dollar reserves were making it difficult to defend the value of the currency. The Naira is now trading at N187 to $1, compared to N165 in November. In dollar terms, the devaluation has knocked more than $40 billion off the value of Nigeria's economy.
Dangote is the biggest loser among Nigeria's richest people as the Naira's slump, coupled with falling stock prices, has erased more than $7.8b of his fortune since Feb, when Forbes locked in the values for its annual ranking of the World's Billionaires.
Dangote was worth $25 billion at the time; as of market close on Tuesday, he's worth $17.2 billion. More than half of the drop in his fortune has happened since early November. As of Nov. 7, Dangote was worth $21.6 billion, $4.4 billion more than now.
Here's why: The last few weeks have been a bit of a disaster for many companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Several blue-chip stocks such as Dangote Cement, Zenith Bank, Transcorp and United Bank of Africa among several others have hit one-year-lows as a result of the fall in oil prices, a general uncertainty regarding the 2015 general elections, Central Bank regulatory headwinds, and weak earnings from large cap companies. These have all contributed toward putting naira-denominated assets including equities at risk.
After Dangote, the second biggest loser among Nigeria's ultra-rich is Tony Elumelu, the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, an investment company. Heirs Holdings, which is wholly-owned by Elumelu, is the controlling shareholder in Transcorp, a publicly-listed conglomerate with interests in power production, hotels and agriculture. Transcorp's current market capitalization is now $700 million, down from $1.4 billion at the beginning of November. Heirs Holdings has lost an estimated $345 million in paper value on Transcorp, and its stake in the company as at Monday is now worth roughly $400 million, down from $700 million. Elumelu's investments in other listed companies like UBA, Africa Prudential PLC and UBA Capital have shed a little over $27 million in value.
Other big losers include Nigerian multi-millionaire banker Jim Ovia, a co-founder of Zenith Bank. The value of his stake in the financial services provider is $240 million as of late Monday, down from more than $350 million last month. He owns a 9% stake in the bank.
Photos: See The 13 Year Old Girl Arrested In Kano Wearing Explosive Vest!
The Kano State Commissioner of Police Alhaji Tashid Aderile Shinaba said she was arrested by police officers who found her moves suspicious. When interrogated, the young girl said her father was the one who took her to the people who strapped her with the bombs.
According to her, the unknown men told her she had to carry out the suicide attack in order to make heaven. She said the men told her they would kill her if she doesn't follow through with the bomb attack. The Kano state government however said that the young girl was not one of the missing Chibok girls.
Check Out Julius Agwu’s Christmas Card With Family.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Lagos State Government Allegedly Deports 70 Beggars To Northern Nigeria!
Monday, December 22, 2014
Donate Your N21.27bn Campaign Money To Improve Electricity! Buhari Group Tells Jonathan
The Buhari 2015 Support Group Centre have asked president Jonathan to spend the N21.27bn donated bybusinessmen, multinationals and PDP governors to finance his 2015 presidential election campaign, onelectricity.
Wife Drags Kano Millionaire To Court For Infecting Her With HIV!
A house wife in Kano has dragged her husband, Mansur Musa to a Sharia court sitting at Sabon Gari in the State for allegedly infecting her with HIV. The estranged wife dragged her husband to court at the beginning of the year, but it seems the husband and his counsel wants the case settled out of court.
What Fight? Kim And Kanye West Covers Balmain Looking So In Love!
See Photos Of Lil-Wayne's New Illuminati Tattoo That Has Got Everyone Talking!
Rapper and YMCMB Boss Lil Wayne is making headlines for his new 'controversial' tattoo.
The 32 year old rapper who is no stranger to inkings has added a new 'eye' tattoo to his 'face collection'. The tattoo, an eye- dubbed the illuminatti logo, is further fueling claims that Lil'wayne may be connected with the occult many celebrities have in the past been affiliated with, through various conspiracy theories.
See the tattoo after the jump:
Pastor Flees Over Death Of Two Brothers During Spiritual Bath!
The Police in Lagos have arrested a member of New Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ajah area of the state over the alleged death of two men during a spiritual bath, weekend. The deceased identified as Abiodun and Ayinde Oniru, of same parents and one of their step-brothers were alleged to have been taken to the church by their father and step-mother last Thursday for spiritual cleansing.
Graphic Photo: Dead Female Body Along UNILAG Road
There's a dead body of a woman along University road close to the University of Lagos, Akoka near a car wash. The body was spotted there in the early hours of this morning and as you read this, it's still there. Here's calling the appropriate authorities to please attend to this..
Hoodlums Attack Church In Akure, Make Away With Tithe, Offering!
‘God Sees Your Ungrateful Evil Soul’ – Nicki Minaj Blasts Ex Safaree Samuels!
15 People Reported Dead As Bomb Blast Hit Gombe Motor Park.
Fuji Star, King Saheed Osupa Sets To Feature Tiwa Savage, MI, Phyno, Reminisce.
Lagosians Scramble For Tinubu’s Xmas Gifts
Thousands of Lagos residents converged on the Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, on Saturday to receive Christmas gifts from the Bola Tinubu Foundation, a non-profit organisation owned by a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The gifts comprised bags of rice, salt, vegetable oil, T-shirts and cash.
Photos: Sir Elton John & David Furnish Tie The Knot In Front Of A Star-Studded Audience.
Sir Elton John and David Furnishwere officially married yesterday morning, nine years to the day after they entered into a civil partnership. And later on in the day, they tied the knot in a romantic ceremony in front of family, friends, numerous celebrities (including Gary Barlow, Lulu, Kate Bush and Ed Sheeran) and of course, their sons Zachary, three and Elijah, 23 months. The couple were eager for the whole world to share in their happiness and posted pictures to their Instagram pages throughout the ceremony with the hashtag #sharethelove. No comments from me … More pictures below;
Marriage Not On My Mind – Timaya
According to Saturday Beats, 37-year-old self-acclaimed Egberipapa 1 of Bayelsa, Timaya, is not ready to make an honest woman of his ‘baby mama.’ The artiste told Saturday Beats recently that he is not getting married any time soon even though he has a daughter whom he loves very much. The singer said that he is “too young” to tie the knot.
List Of 54 Nigerian Soldiers Sentenced To Death!
Friday, December 19, 2014
No More “Bikini” Rounds For Future Miss World Pageants.
The owners of the Miss World pageant have announced that there will be no swimsuit round in next year’s competition. In an interview withElle, chairwoman Julia Morley explained: