Corps member offers free surgery to Adamawa indigenes

Reprieve has come to the way of cleft lip/palate victims in Adamawa State as a corps member serving in the state, Victor Hilenen Aben offered them free surgery.

Aben who partnered Oral Health Advocacy Initiative, OHAI, a non governmental agency that aimed at increasing awareness on the problems of oral health in the society, said the free healthcare was part of his Community Development Service, CDS, of NYSC programme.


Representative of NYSC State Coordinator, Adamawa

Desperation, fraud mar 2013 UTME … as FG moves to widen access

                                           Candidates writing UTME exams.

Highlights how inadequate space in universities enhanced fraud in the conduct of 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination

Last Saturday, 1,735,720 candidates sat for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Out of this number, only 520,000 will be offered admission to all the tertiary institutions across the country.

About 320,000 of this number will make it to the university while the rest will be shared between the polytechnics and the College of Education. Due to this lack of access, some desperate parents and candidates colluded with some unscrupulous security men and invigilators to compromise the integrity of the examination.

In the Federal Government’s initial response, the

Kenny Ogungbe, Okoroji exchange hot words at Entertainment Confab

The Nigerian Entertainment Conference held over the weekend at the Grand ball room of the Eko Hotel and suites, Victoria Island, Lagos was nearly marred by violent exchange of words between Kennis Music Boss Mr. Kenny Ogungbe and Chairman of Copyright Society of Nigeria COSON, Chief Tony Okoroji.

Chief Tony Okoroji had confronted Kenny Ogungbe in the presence of journalists for daring to say in public that COSON owed him (Kenny Ogungbe) money.

“How could he say such a thing? And in public?” Chief Okorogie fumed.

Kenny Ogungbe and Chief Okoriji shortly before the exchanges

There needs to be coup in PMAN says MI

M.I

Dexterous and award winning rap artist Jude Abaga better known as MI has lashed out at the executive members of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria PMAN, stating in very strong terms that the association is an ‘embarrassment’ to the industry and should be usurped via a ‘coup’.

MI said this at the Nigerian Entertainment conference held Friday, April 26 at the Grand ball room of the Eko Hotel and Suites Victoria Island Lagos where incidentally no executive member of PMAN was present.

MI said “There is a systemic breakdown at PMAN. I recently held a meeting with them and the way it went, it was an embarrassment to the industry we have now. We don’t know the way forward because the present PMAN no longer represents the Nigerian artist,

Three UNILAG graduates bag Elumelu Prize

Honours came the way of three graduates of the University of Lagos on April 23, when they received the Elumelu Legacy Prize from the Tony Elumelu Foundation.

They are Adijat Isiaq, Moninuola Ojikutu and Abdu-Hakeem Buhari.

The three were celebrated at a special ‘convocation’ hosted by UNILAG Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Rahmon Bello.

The Elumelu Legacy Prize is awarded annually to the best undergraduate

Be best among equals, Stephanie Okereke urges colleagues

                                           *Stephanie Okereke
Lagos – A popular Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke, on Sunday urged her colleagues to be the best among equals in their professional output.

Okereke in Lagos said that stakeholders need not lag behind now that Nollywood had became a household name in the world.

She urged her colleagues to utilise any opportunity of retraining themselves to bring out the expertise in them.

She said that officials of the New York Film Academy

RE: Chioma Chukwuka’s AMAA plane drama, by AY

                                                 Chioma
RECALLING what happened between Chioma Akpotha and Yemisi (The Vanguard reporter) on the AMAA flight from Port Harcourt, one would have expected a cultured woman to be contrite and apologize forthwith, since everybody is error-prone. I crave your indulgence to say this not because the former is a movie star and the latter a journalist. More so, I dread not to raise my voice for the truth and my compassion against injustice.

It was quite unfortunate to read a report from today’s Vanguard Online in favour of Yemisi (their staff), as against Chioma Akpotha who was publicly insulted alongside

Manipulating judiciary will lead to chaos – Soyinka

                                         Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka

NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has urged politicians to desist from manipulating the judiciary to prevent a state of anarchy in the country.

Soyinka explained that though the judiciary was making headway in reforms, there was still the need to tackle some dark areas in the sector.

The literary giant, who spoke with reporters on Monday in Port Harcourt, pointed out that such dark areas had created the political crisis rocking the state.

Soyinka was in the state to mark the emergence of Port

Jim Iyke breaks silence on relationship with Nadia Buari

Recently, speculations have been rife that Jim Iyke might be secretly dating Ghanaian actress Nadia Buari.This is not unconnected with their latest appearance together at the premier of his Unscripted reality show in Lagos. Everyone kept asking why Nadia,(not Keturah )was his date .
According to Nigerian Films, Jim Iyke’s image maker, Mitch Ngaman has denied any romantic liaison between them. He said they are ‘best of buddies, they

Women Who Eat More Bananas Get More Sons – Scientists

Women can influence the gender of their child with what they eat before they conceive, according to new research that lends scientific support to age-old superstitions about pregnancy. The study of 740 women showed that higher calorie intake led to a higher probability of a male birth.
The discovery shows higher calorie intake prior to conception can significantly increase the chances of having a son while women on restricted diets are more likely

Deportation fears: Nigerian attempts suicide in UK

A Nigerian asylum seeker, who is married to a British man, is fighting for her life in hospital after an overdose medication just days before she was due to be sent back to Nigeria.

May Brown, a 19-year-old college student, fled to Britain from her home country three years ago after witnessing her father’s murder and being subjected to sexual abuse.

She settled in Weymouth, Dorset, where she met her

We only target people in flashy cars – Suspected kidnapper

                                          Suspected kidnappers

 Kidnapping suspect, Sunday James, arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, has said he and his gang only go after people in expensive cars.

James was arrested along with five others- Solomon Eze, aka Pastor, Ikechukwu Chedom, Obinna Egbugha and Emmanuel Iloakazi- on April 6, 2013.

James, 29, said he had been involved in four kidnap operations.

He said, “I am from Ebonyi State but I live in Coker, Orile, Lagos.

Unemployed youths urge FG to forget amnesty for Boko Haram

ABUJA — Barely 24 hours after President Goodluck inaugurated a 25-man committee to work towards disarming members of the Boko Haram sect and granting them amnesty, thousands of unemployed youths have asked the Federal Government to jettison the idea or risk their wrath.

Although the angry youths drawn from the 774 local government areas of the country, did not say what the form of their action would be, their leader who gave his name as Okey Felix Nwachukwu, warned that they would take steps to compel the government to

Olayinka: Heroine of democracy

Late Olayinka

Residents of Ekiti State were shocked when the news of the death of Deputy Governor, Mrs. Funmilayo Aduni Olayinka, filtered into the state in the evening of Saturday April 6. Many were aware that she was sick having taken a sick leave two weeks earlier but death did not listen to pleas of many of her admirers, and she eventually succumbed to breast cancer despite her struggles to pull through.

Olayinka’s death at 52 brought grief to the state and the grief was shared by the majority of the people in the state irrespective of political or religious belief.

2015: Jega’s reforms stir INEC

Should it fail to give Nigerians free, fair and credible elections in 2015, it would mean that Professor Attahiru Jega led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fallen short of all promises of reforms it had made to the people since its inception in 2010.

And so, to get it right and avoid mistakes of the past, the regime has seemingly started off programmes and activities envisaged to produce the needed results in 2015 elections.

But there are aggressions against some of the moves