I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Bank detain female customer 3 days for default in payment of loan

                                         *The Micro Finance Bank (Insert Mrs Rose Abbey)
A Petty trader, Mrs. Rose Abbey got what she didn’t bargain for when she was allegedly detained in a Micro Finance Bank at Ipaja area of Lagos, for failing to pay a weekly N2,000 earlier agreed on towards offsetting the N17,000 loan she borrowed from the bank.

It was alleged that she was abducted and beaten up before she was locked up in a room at the bank located at 170/ 172, Ipaja Road Baruwa on April 25. She was, however, released three days later. Before then, she was allegedly neither allowed to have access to members of her family nor given food. The housewife who hails from Edo state later regained her freedom, after her friend paid the N2,000 to the bank.

Workers insist on 10% equity in PHCN

WORKERS in the nation’s electricity sector, have insisted that they will not forgo the 10 percent equity share in the assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, being privatized by the Federal Government in accordance with the law setting up the National Council on Privatisation, NCP.

This came as they urged Government to come up with a policy statement on metering of customers in the sector because of seeming confusion over provision of meters to customers. Under the umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, and its Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, counterpart said any individual or group who buy any of the assets 100 percent, does so at his or her own risk.

Youths protest Ekiti varsity student murder

ADO-EKITI— Scores of youths, mainly students, yesterday, staged a protest at Ilupeju Ekiti over the killing of 400 level student of Ekiti State University, Mr. Seyi Fasere.

Fasere was killed in controversial circumstances in February 28, in Oye Ekiti by the police after some armed bandits struck at a first generation bank in the town.


*PROTEST: Youths and students protesting the killing of a student of Ekiti State University in Ilupeju-Ekiti, yesterday.

Breaking news: Manchester United, Alex Ferguson retires

LONDON (AFP) – Alex Ferguson is to retire as Manchester United manager at the end of this season, the English Premier League champions announced Wednesday, bringing down the curtain on one of the most successful careers football has known.


Ferguson, 71, has been in charge at Old Trafford for 26 years, guiding United to 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League crowns.

“The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly. It is the right time,” Ferguson said in a statement released by the club.

Bloodbath in Borno as 22 policemen,14 prison officials, others killed

                                 

MAIDUGURI— Boko Haram militants, yesterday, launched series of coordinated attacks on Police, Army and Prison formations in Bama town, Borno State, leaving no fewer thatn 55 persons dead.

JTF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, who conducted newsmen round the affected places in company of the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel AG Laka, confirmed that the dead include 22 policemen, 14 prison officials, 2 soldiers, 13 Boko Haram members, one woman who just got married to a police corporal and three children.

The burnt Bama Police Barracks yesterday

100 LASPOTECH students donate blood

AT least 100 students of Lagos State Polytechnic have participated in the just concluded voluntary blood donation exercise which took place in the Ikorodu main campus recently.

During the exercise organised in conjunction with the Lagos State Blood Transfusion committee, Nigerians were urged to donate blood voluntarily without expecting financial reward.

A member of the committee, Mr. Solomon Eka, described blood donation as an important exercise in saving lives adding, ” Nigerians should show concern when privileged to do so.”

Nigerian doctors seek national policy on e-Health

FEDERAL government has been urged to urgently develop and establish an effective strategy for the implementation of e- Health in Nigeria.

President of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele who made the plea in Lagos, regretted that Nigeria is yet to explore the many benefits of e-Health, which he described as a safe, secure, ethical and cost effective transmission and exchange of health data and information

Enabulele, who called for implementation of the strategy through the Federal Ministries of Health, Communications and Technology, spoke during the 53rd NMA Annual Conference with the theme: “e-Health and its potentials for Improving Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria” sponsored by Dettol.

Uncivilised treatment of female suspects

THE herding of male and female suspects into a detention cell or prison is one more example of the callousness and human rights violation perpetrated by the police and other law enforcement agencies in the country. Undoubtedly, it is an action not associated with decent societies as it violates the United Nations rules for the treatment of women prisoners and offenders. Regrettably, Nigeria seems to be descending into this immoral abyss without the authorities realising it or aware of its dangers. The UN specifically states that women must be kept in separate quarters from men; and girls in separate quarters from boys. There is an urgent need to educate and train security agents on gender-specific rights of those in detention.

Burna Boy signs Glo ambassador deal

                                             *Burna Boy
‘Like to party’ crooner Damini Burna Boy Ogulu has signed an ambassadorial deal with telecom giant Glo worth over 10 million naira. Burna Boy broke the news himself on twitter.

It is reported he replaced Wande Coal who had earlier been in negotiation with Glo but was later dropped

Lewd lyrics: Mountain Dew drops Lil Wayne as spokesperson

Mountain Dew has severed business relationship with American rapper Lil Wayne over lewd lyrics on 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was killed nearly 60 years ago.

Emmett was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman. He was beaten to the extent that his face was unrecognizable when his body was discovered. He was identified by a monogrammed ring belonging to his father.

Lil Wayne’s Future’s Karate Chop leaked online containing the lyric, “I’mma beat the pu**y up like Emmett Till”

Travelling on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway with tears

                                         A failed section at Adura Bus/Stop.

 Travelling on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway can best be described as nightmarish, given the number of potholes motorists have to contend with.

Although it is a federal road, it covers some parts of Lagos State. Right from Oshodi, Iyana Ipaja, down to Meiran, Ijaiye, Alakuko, among others, Lagosisans are currently suffering from the deplorable state the road has fallen into.

Worsened by floods from recent rains, countless potholes, which cause gridlocks, have surfaced in several sections. This causes untold hardship to motorists and commuters, who spend endless hours in traffic snarls, which have become a regular feature on that road. A motorist says between Iyana Ipaja and Sango alone, a distance of about seven kilometres, he has counted up to 52 potholes.

Paternity controversy: Paul of P-Square abandons ex beauty queen mother, baby in London hospital

                                          

Paul Okoye A raging controversy trails one of the P-Square twins Paul Okoye; as Sahara Reporters claim in a story that he (Paul Okoye) has abandoned a 19 year old Miss Elshama Benson Igbanoi and a newly born child said to be Paul’s baby in a London hospital.

According to Sahara Reporters, Paul Okoye is denying fathering the child and is insisting on paternity tests to prove his innocence.

Sahara Reporters claim they have spoken to the woman’s father, Benson Igbanoi, in Abuja who they say revealed that he had sent several emails to P Square

May D, P-Square reconcile, twins featured in new album

P Square and May D in good times
Late August last year, pop singer Akinmayokun May D Awodumila got the shock of his life when he learnt he had been dropped from Square records (P-Square record label) due to irreconcilable differences, he screamed blue murder, threatened litigation and countered by launching his own outfit Confam Entertainment; releasing singles and videos. Today, however, these two camps may have reconciled.

Come May 10, this writer has learnt May D’s highly anticipated album will drop and it features PSquare in a powerful collaboration called You want to know me.

The 20 tracked album titled Chapter one also features Tu face in No Body, K-Switch and Olamide in Kigbe and then Davido in Ur Eyes.

There Will Be Heavy War In Nigeria If Jonathan Don't Win In 2015 ––Asari Dokubo

These are not the best of times for Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo, has described him as a traitor that would be dealt with.
According to the ex-militant leader, since the governor joined forces with the North to work against President Goodluck Jonathan, he has betrayed the people of the Niger Delta. He said the 2015 general elections would “define and decide” the existence of Nigeria...

Dokubo-Asari, who spoke with journalists on Friday in Abuja, on Jonathan-Amaechi rift among other issues, said “Rotimi Amaechi has been making disparaging statements against the person of President Goodluck Jonathan. He went to Kano State and declared there that he would contest 2015 presidential election as a running mate to a northern aspirant.

Facebook friends urge Jonathan to settle Patience, Turai rift

Facebook friends urge Jonathan to settle Patience, Turai rift

The friends of President Goodluck Jonathan on Facebook have asked him to find a lasting solution to the legal tussle between his wife, Patience and Turai, wife of his predecessor, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, over a parcel of land in the Federal Capital Territory.

Earlier, the FCT administration had revoked the land, which was allocated to Turai, in favour of Patience. Although an Abuja High Court declared the decision null and void, the President’s Facebook friends insisted that the matter must not be allowed to drag on to the appellate court.

They argued that Jonathan’s tribute to his predecessor,