Buy my N8,000 worth 'aso-ebi' and get an IV to my wedding - Princess

Comedienne Princess, has told her friends and family members that whoever does not buy her N8,000 worth 'aso-ebi' should not get an IV for her wedding. Princess is very serious about it. You either buy her aso-ebi which sells for N8,000 and N6000 or you forget about getting an IV for the wedding. The wedding is on the 8th of this month

Treason for MASSOB, amnesty for Boko Haram

“Besides the Jews, probably no other linguistic group has suffered so much persecution in history as the Igbo have been obliged to endure in Nigeria.”

—Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1964

Although the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than one million Igbo ethnic group, ended more than four decades ago, it appears however, that our country has yet to learn any lesson from the devastating consequence of the war. Recent events have shown that the ruling elite are poised to reopen the wounds of our ugly past thereby perpetuating the injustices that triggered one of the worst chapters in our nation’s history.

All-German final as Bayern whip Barca 3-0

                                 Robben

Bayern Munich advanced to the Champions League final for the third time in four years, routing Barcelona on 7-0 aggregate and setting up the first all-German final against Borussia Dortmund.

Coasting from a 4-0 win in the first leg at home last week, Bayern beat Barcelona 3-0 Wednesday night in the second leg on goals by Arjen Robben in the 49th minute and Thomas Mueller in the 76th around Gerard Pique’s own goal in the 72nd.

The final at London’s Wembley Stadium on

Stop governors before they ruin Nigeria – Jubril Aminu

                                         Jubril Aminu

…says they want to swallow Jonathan ahead of 2015
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Senator Jubril Aminu, yesterday, pleaded with the Presidency and patriotic Nigerians to restrain governors from ruining the country.

Aminu, who spoke in an exclusive interview with Sunday Vanguard, accused the governors of arrogating to themselves roles that were not in the Constitution thereby conferring illegal advantage on themselves to the detriment of majority of Nigerians.

The former minister pointed out that, apart from acting

FG orders sack of 20,000 PHCN workers

ABUJA — THE Federal Government has ordered the retrenchment of no fewer than 20,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, ahead of takeover by successful bidders of its assets.

Vanguard gathered that the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, issued the directive to the Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, of the 18 successor companies to PHCN at a meeting in Abuja, to compile names and drastically reduce the 50,000 strong workforce before the new investors take over.

It was gathered that new investors demanded that the workforce must be pruned before government hands off.

Labour kicks, warns on danger of action

Satellite images show 2,275 burnt houses in Baga –HRW

An international rights crusader, Human Rights Watch, on Wednesday described as hogwash, military’s claim that the fires that razed thousands of buildings in Baga, Borno State were caused by rocket-propelled grenades fired by members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.

HRW, in a statement on its website, said satellite images showed that soldiers may have set the fires that razed down “2,275 buildings and left 125 others” in the town severely damaged.

Calling on the Federal Government to impartially probe the incident, it said that the military was covering up something going by the fact that it had vehemently refused to

Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele, Karen Igho: THE AWARD GOES TO.....

Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele, Osas Ighodaro and Karen Igho
So who played the cleavage game best?

Take a closer look below before you decide…

Traffic law: Motorists accuse enforcement agents of extortion

                                 A section of Ikorodu Road.

Motorists, who usually ply the Ojota-Maryland end of Ikorodu Road, have accused officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority as well as the police of extortion.

The motorists alleged that the enforcement agents used the peculiarity of the terrain to unjustly arrest and extort money from them.

A motorist, Charles Udah, said LASTMA officials and policemen usually arrestmotorists attempting to divert to the service lane through the lane designated for the Bus Rapid Transit buses.

He said, “If you are coming from Ojota and heading

Polymer Currency: Waste, Deceit & Commonsense

The concept of moral hazard is defined as a situation where there is a tendency to take undue risk, because the costs are not borne by the party taking the risk.

Apart from the recent IMF advice to wind down AMCON because of the threat of moral hazard, the policies and strategies of government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, particularly those of the Central Bank of Nigeria are fraught with moral hazards. However, in this article, we will discuss the production and adoption of polymer currency notes and coins as an illustration of the odious implications of such decisions.

In an article titled “Polymer Currency: Waste, Deceit and Commonsense” in November 2009, we discussed issues relating to CBN’s misguided currency strategy; a summary of that article is as follows:

After a frustrating and fruitless attempt to

Colonial crime files on Nigeria hidden in London

As Nigeria prepares for her centennial celebration next year, British lawyers have revealed that a file containing Colonial Britain’s criminal activities in Nigeria are in secret boxes.

An online publication said the information is contained in 200 boxes of files: 1.5 tons of paper covering about 200 metres of shelving.

They are files on torture from 37 different colonies and protectorates, including Aden, Ceylon, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaya, Malta, Nigeria and Northern Rhodesia.

The Northern and Southern protectorates were

Driving through the ‘slope of death’

                                        A section of the road

It is a highly unpredictable stretch of road. Commuters have frustrating tales to tell, having to use the unavoidable Abuja-Karu-Nyanya-Mararaba Expressway daily.

Whether they are going to the Abuja city centre in the morning or returning after finishing the day’s job, the experience most times remains frustrating for them.

A simple vehicular breakdown, rain drops, deliberate wrong parking of articulated vehicles and accidents that are frequent, all can combine to force commuters to pass the night on the road.

A dreaded stretch of this road, Mogadishu Barracks-Kugbo-Nyanya

Mother slashes daughter with blade for wasting N100

                                          Precious

Angry residents of Ono-Odan Street, Ijanikin, Lagos, nearly lynched a mother, Kudirat Abiola, for cutting her nine-year-old daughter, Precious, with razor blade.

Kudirat made deep cuts on Precious’s back, left leg and right arm with the blade to “teach her a lesson.”

We leant that Kudirat decided to punish her daughter after she wasted N100 given to her by her father on junk food.

A resident, who pleaded anonymity, Us

Airtel moves to make voice, data and SMS roaming affordable

Nairobi – Bharti Airtel (“Ariel”), a leading global telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa has introduced the ONE AIRTEL service which will further ease the burden of roaming costs whilst travelling.

The newly introduced service will further enhance communication for travelers from Africa by enabling them access data and SMS, in addition to the currently available voice roaming, at a flat attractive rate whilst travelling within Africa and South Asia.

Commenting on the service, Andre Beyers, Chief

Yahoo yahoo aside, guys are honestly making it online

Some 15 years ago, making money online was largely synonymous with advance fee fraud, popularly called yahoo yahoo in Nigeria. That was when the Internet revolution was just taking shape in the country, which was also just getting off the hook of military juntas that thrived on trampling on freedom of information.

While many people could not yet appreciate what the Internet and accompanying social media trends stood for, most of the few that first caught the bug exploited it to dupe unsuspecting folks, especially foreigners. Indeed, that is the time the notorious and ever-recurring letter in which an online conman (or woman), who claims he is stranded in some foreign country or has problems accessing a huge fund, was first composed. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since,

Phone dealers decry China phones’ low durability

Abuja - Dealers in GSM phones and accessories in Abuja on Monday said that Chinese phones sell more due to its dual SIM.

Some of the dealers and repairers at the GSM village on Tuesday said that Chinese phones were also affordable but noted that their accessories were expensive and hard to find.

Mr John Chukuma, a dealer said that Chinese phones were cheap to get but had low durability and battery problems.

He said the phones helped to reduce the number of phones