Myworldnaija: September 2015

Wednesday 30 September 2015

DO NOT ABUSE OR INSULT BUHARI - PDP

PDP has called on all Nigerians to show some respect to the office of the President. In their independence message to Nigerians, the party said

He just tweeted this an shared photos of receiving the list from Chief of Staff to President Buhari

Following a heated argument between two friends in Benue state, Ngbede Omale and Agabaidu Omale, the earlier killed Agabaidu and Buried him in a shallow grave.
Ngbade Omale, the secret killer who was arrested by the Benue state police command confessed, “I

Yinka Olukunga Popularly known as Nnena came to limelight through Wale Adenuga Super story and her programme with kids, 'Nnenna and friends'.
Funny enough she has not featured in any home video be it English or Yoruba, she has never gone out

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, recently took his anti-gay campaign to the ongoing United Nations General Assembly where he made it known that Africans were not g@y like other countries.
Mugabe explained to the world leaders at the assembly that what the world needs is cooperation on

Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin, is seriously not happy with the way people try to mess around her life especially peddling of false rumours about things which are not true about her.
Some few days back, the actress was alleged(Not NFC)to have gone bankrupt and had to close down

Nollywood actress,Ini Edo has proved to her fans that shes an enterprising lady. The pretty actress is set to open a new club in Lekki, Lagos. The club named Mimz lounge is located on Durosinmi Etti

The Director General National Centre for Women Development Lady, Onyeka Onwenu visited IDPs camp in Damare Yola on Tuesday 29th September 2015. She was accompanied by Director Relief and Rehabilitation of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mr Ezeh Udemezue

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says President Muhammadu Buhari, who is a Fulani man, is sympathetic towards Fulani herdsmen.
The former minister said this in a Facebook post titled, ‘Herdsmen from hell’ while reacting to the

Prolific filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, is a year older today, Wednesday, September, 31, 2015.
The talented filmmaker-cum-director is 41 and he is celebrating on board a plane from South Africa to Nigeria.

It seems Nollywood actress, Angela Okorie, is furious and the reason is because of critics, who like to use every available opportunity to pounce on her.
A moment ago, she was in the news over the display of her ‘mammary glands’, which some of her

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, on Wednesday condoled with the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, over the tragedy that occurred in Mecca toward the final days of this year’s Hajj exercise.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday named Nigeria’s petroleum minister. And that is himself.

Mr. Buhari said he would personally head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in the new cabinet.

Addressing some select reporters in New York on Tuesday, after addressing a Global Leaders’

Actress Georgina Onuoha turned a year older yesterday and had a party with family and friends. See more photos from the party

Nigerian lawmakers are stepping up the pressure on the federal government and President Muhammadu Buhari to promptly release all funds earmarked for their “constituency projects” in 2014, in addition to new allocations for the same projects in 2015, PREMIUM TIMES can report today.

One of the governorship aspirants in Bayelsa state, Timi Alaibe has pulled out of the APC governorship primaries in Bayelsa state. In a statement he released today, Alaibe who is a former MD of NDDC, said he was stepping down in the interest of the party. His statement in part reads

The woman in the photo supposedly mistook a can of expanding builder’s foam which is used in building construction to fill, seal and insulate materials, for hair mousse and the result is what is seen in the photo. The image is said to have been taken in an A&E department of a hospital in Eastern Europe.

SENATE ENDS SITTING WITHOUT MINISTERIAL LIST

The senate has ended its sitting today without the much-awaited ministerial list. The senators deliberated on Nigeria at 55 and afterwards adjourned sitting to a new legislative date. Buhari had promised to release the ministerial list before the end of this month. The month ended today

HEROIC SIKH MEN IGNORE THEIR STRICT RELIGIOUS PROTOCOL BY SAVING 4 TEENAGERS FROM DROWNING WITH THEIR TURBANS

The turban is a hugely important religious symbol in Sikhism - and removing it for any reason is not an easy decision. But two Sikh men put aside their strict religious protocol to save four drowning teenagers, using their turbans as ropes to pull them to safety.

The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has asked the Nigerian media and other individuals to stop misinterpreting its stance regarding same sex marriage in the country.
The bishops maintained their earlier position that gays and lesbians do not deserve severe punishment

Press statement from the Nigerian Army

In an offensive operation to clear Boko Haram terrorists enclave around Kwatarha and Torikwaptir general area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, a notorious

The Federal Road Safety Corps has emerged winner of the Phillips Consulting Inaugural Public Sector Web Jurist Awards, as the best Public Agency in the Country that has maintained a topflight site in the category of experience and performance in the World Wide Web.

Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II has responded to criticisms following his marriage to 18 year old Sa'adatu Barkindo-Musdafa last week. In a private email sent to select people which has leaked to many social media platforms, he explained why he decided to marry Sa'adatu. Read below

The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on the Federal Government to bring to an end the nomadic system of rearing cattle to check the alleged criminality being committed by Fulani herdsmen in rural communities in the land.

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun on Tuesday announced and appointed a new Senior Special Assistant on Media.
He is Adejuwon Soyinka, publisher of Untold, a new investigative online publication.

The Chairman of the Senate Ad-hoc committee on Publicity, Senator Dino Melaye says the screening of ministerial nominees will not be business as usual. Speaking with journalist at the end of today's plenary, Dino said - "In our screening of ministers, it will not be business as usual. The era of take a bow and go are over. The right people will be made ministers without any political or religious affiliation"he said

MILITARY ACTION CANT DEFEAT WAR ON TERROR - BUHARI

President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement delivered on Tuesday at the Global Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism organised by President Barack Obama on the sideline of the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York said military action alone would never be enough to end terrorism and extremism around the globe.

Senator Oluremi Tinubu on Tuesday said she did not get the support of her husband, ABola Tinubu to run for second term in the 2015 National Assembly election.
Mrs. Tinubu (APC-Lagos Central) made the disclosure while answering questions at the ongoing

Remember Nelson Oamen, the 34-year-old drug addict who allegedly stabbed his 74 year old Dad, Ehiremen Oamen, to death and took his heart on Sept. 21st in Ipaja, Lagos?

Well, he turned himself in to the police at the Ipaja Police Division on Thursday and has since been

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said the Federal Government had plans to distribute 6,000 megawatts of electricity in the country by the first quarter of 2016.
According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice

Porsche has responded to Meadow Walker's wrongful death lawsuit, which claimed her father’s tragic death was due to design flaws with the car he was in.
Lawyers for 16 year old Meadow Walker, claim her Dad survived the impact of the crash but suffered

In an offensive operation to clear Boko Haram terrorists’ enclaves around Kwatarha and Torikwaptir area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, a notorious Boko Haram terrorist was shot dead by the Nigerian Army.

After several last ditch effort to keep their client alive, Georgia has executed its only female death row inmate.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner died by lethal injection of pentobarbital today, Wednesday at 12:21 a.m. at

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday sought the support of his colleagues to stand with him against “some powerful individuals” outside the Senate in order to defend the sanctity and independence of the legislative body.

Borno State Government yesterday Tuesday sent fifty girls whose parents were killed by Boko Haram on full junior and senior secondary school scholarship ‎at Zaria Academy, in Kaduna State, a famous institution said to have with records of excellence in academics.

COURT HEARING BEGINS IN THE CASE OF A 15YR OLD NIGERIAN BOY JOEY ADESINA WHO WAS STABBED TO DEATH IN LONDON

On December 5, 2014, Joey Adesina was tracked, chased, cornered in a dead-end street in Padbury Court, off Bethnal Green road and stabbed to death by two men, Lincoln Olaribigbe, 23, and Georgie Philips, 20, according to prosecutors in court yesterday Tuesday, September 29.

The Senate resumed plenary Tuesday, after a six-week recess, with members passing a vote of confidence on Senate President Bukola Saraki.
Mr. Saraki was arraigned last week before the Code of Conduct Tribunal over a 13-count charge of

Nigerian Police Force officer rides on excavator on morning of 19 Sept 2015

The atmosphere at Badia East, a slum community in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on Thursday, September 24, the day of the 2015 Muslim Eid-el-Kabir festival, was anything but celebratory.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, (UNOCHA), has told us that Nigeria was officially informed and properly invited to a high-level event in New York where the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin was discussed.

Sergeant 1st Class Charles Martland, the Green Beret being separated involuntarily from the U.S. Army for kicking and body slamming an Afghan police commander he describes as a "brutal child rapist," told his side of the story on Monday.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday named Nigeria’s petroleum minister. And that is himself.

Mr. Buhari said he would personally head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in the new cabinet.

The footballer shared the photo online and wrote "Branded (Porsche) mylatestbaby".

MAN WHO ENCOURAGES OTHER MEN TO MARRY MORE HAN ONE WIFE, SAYS I AM HAPPILY MARRIED WITH MY 3 WIVES

Fresha Nyambura, Esther Nyaguthii and Agnes Wambui have been married to Charles Macharia for 30 years. The women are now jointly planning the payment of their dowry. They organised an

REJOINDER ON RANSOM PAYMENT BY THE FAMILY OF CHIEF OLU FALAE

This is a police press statement. Read below...

The office of the Inspector-General of Police has been inundated with enquires on claims by Chief Olu Falae and his family that a ransom was paid to his abductors following the kidnapping incident involving him on 21st September, 2015 and eventual release on 24th September, 2015. As a law enforcement agency guided by

One of the survivors from the recent stampede in Saudi Arabia, an indigene of Osun State, resident in Warri, Delta State revealed that paramedics ignored African pilgrims and concentrated on rescuing

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