I trust Buhari but doubt his environment – Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday said that he trusted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) but not the credibility of “his environment”.

“Yes I trust Buhari and this is because I have worked closely with him but I doubt his environment. The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, which one is really clean? Only God can give us true leaders,” Bakare said.

The pastor spoke while addressing Christians at the annual Lenten lecture of the Island Club in Lagos.

“I believe in contact without contamination,” he said.

JAMB’s computer test of horror

Stranded JAMB candidates waiting to write their exams at the WAEC office, Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja... on Saturday.

Frustration seems to be at the centre of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board organised Computer-Based Test for candidates seeking admission to the nation’s tertiary institutions this year, our correspondents report

With four more days to the end of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, information from many stakeholders still does not sound so pleasant.

Indeed, for many concerned candidates and their parents, the journey in the past one week has been one long narrative of frustrations and disappointments, sprinkled with intermittent rays of hope.

From states, such as Lagos, Rivers, Ekiti, Osun, Delta and more, many candidates wore long faces, just as some called for the cancellation of the examination.

In their thinking, the full-blown Computer-Based Test, which started last Tuesday in no fewer than 400 centres

Armed pro-Jonathan groups protest against Jega in Lagos

 

The pro-Jonathan protesters in Lagos ... on Monday
| credits: Goke Famadewa

Thousands of Odua Peoples Congress and the Coalition of Concerned Nigerians members   loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party took to three major roads in Lagos on Monday demanding the sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega.

The protesters, who wore T-shirts with PDP inscriptions and pictures of President Goodluck Jonathan, started gathering in front of the Federal Road Safety Commission near the old Lagos Toll Gate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as early as 7am.

From there, they proceeded on foot and in about 100 buses to the front of the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, causing traffic snarl on the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ikorodu Road and   Funso Williams(Western) Avenue in the city.

The demonstrators, who wielded broken bottles and knives,   also displayed banners and posters calling for Jega’s removal.

They destroyed outdoor adverts of All Progressives Congress candidates on the street lights along the highways.

Fire guts INEC’s electoral institute

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Electoral Institute in Abuja has been gutted by fire.

The fire which began at about 11pm on Saturday destroyed bags, envelopes, election forms and electrical control panel/ switch   in the institute’s warehouse before it was contained at 2am on Sunday.

Before INEC spoke on the incident, there was   apprehension, especially in Abuja on Sunday that some sensitive materials for the March 28 and April 11 general elections might have been affected by the inferno.

INEC described the items damaged by the fire as “non-sensitive and old materials” used for the 2011 elections.

The result of the 2011 presidential poll was announced within the compound of the institute, which is located along the Airport Road, Abuja.

The electoral body also ruled out political sabotage and assured Nigerians that the incident would not in any way affect the conduct of the forthcoming elections.

Senate summons CBN, AMCON over Cecilia Ibru’s assets

 

Nigeria Senate

The Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and Anti-corruption has summoned the management of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria to appear before it over seized assets worth N150bn.

The two federal government agencies had seized the assets in property and cash from the erstwhile Managing Director of the defunct Oceanic Bank International Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, upon her conviction for fraud by a court of law.

A member of the committee, who preferred anonymity, told our correspondent on Sunday that the management of the CBN and AMCON, among other parties, would appear before it today (Monday) to respond to a petition.

The source said the petition alleged certain irregularities in the execution of the bank consolidation ordered by the CBN.

He added that the committee was also interested in the recovery of assets from loan defaulters and convicted managing directors of the defunct Oceanic Bank International Plc, Intercontinental Bank Plc, Afribank Plc and Bank PHB.

I didn’t collapse, says Alao-Akala

 

Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala

A former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has dismissed rumours that he collapsed at the venue of the Labour Party National Executive Committee meeting in Ibadan on Wednesday.

Alao-Akala, in a statement by his media aide, Oludare Ogunlana, on Thursday, described the rumour as the handiwork of “detractors who were not comfortable his popularity.”

The statement also said that the Alao-Akala Campaign Organisation had succeeded in tracing the true owners of the website which published the report.

It read, “Based on a false report which emerged online that Alao-Akala had collapsed at the venue of the LP National Executive Committee meeting

Conductor burns to death in Lagos auto crash

The burnt vehicle

A bus conductor was on Thursday burnt to death after an auto crash on the Odo Iya Alaro flyover in the Maryland area of Lagos State.

Textile materials in the vehicle were also burnt in the accident which was said to have happened around 4am.

The commercial bus, with registration number, Lagos XW 350 AKD, was said to have had a burst tyre during its journey towards the Ikorodu area of the state.

Our correspondent learnt from an eyewitness that there were four people in the vehicle ─ two men, who were presumably conveying the textile wares to the market, the conductor and driver.

The witness, Idowu Kuba, said immediately the tyre burst and the vehicle lost control, the two passengers

Woman with one of the world's largest breasts is looking for love

   Woman with one of the world's largest breasts is looking for love

36 year old Kristy Love has one of the largest boobs in the world - 48NN breasts that weighs over 2 stone each, (equaling the weight of a small child). She said she and her boobs are looking for a man.

"It’s time for them to find a man. My boobies do not need to be alone. It’s time for them to find a man." she said

Kristy Love, from Atlanta, Georgia, works as a masseuse and earns over a thousand dollars a day rubbing and smothering clients with her massive boobs. See the photos after this...

What! Dog kicked by driver returns with other dogs & trashes his car (photos)

What! Dog kicked by driver returns with other dogs & trashes his car (photos)

You know what they say, truth is stranger than fiction. So according to this report from China (and they have photos to back up their story) a man returned home in Chongqing China to find a stray dog lying in his parking spot. The man got out of the car, kicked the dog and parked. You would think that would be the end of the matter, right? Well, not as far as the dog was concerned. 

Fire at Mile 12 'Diesel Black Market'

     Fire at Mile 12 'Diesel Black Market'

There was serious fire at Mile 12 Diesel Black Market this morning which has since been put out by firefighters. There were also some casualties who have been attended to. See more pics after this...

Exclusive photos from the fatal accident in Abuja this morning

   Exclusive photos from the fatal accident in Abuja this morning

There was a fatal accident this morning At Nicon Junction Abuja.  A trailer lost its brake and crashed into a car killing the passenger in the car and also a passerby. Good Samaritans came to the rescue of injured victims before Road Safety Intervened. RIP to the dead. More photos after this...

Daytime horror in Lagos: Robbers invade Lekki bank, kill three policemen, girl

Robbery scenes (One of the bandits (circled))

Three policemen and a fish seller were killed on Thursday by a gang of robbers who stormed the First City Monument Bank on Admiralty Way in Lekki, Lagos State.

It was learnt that the robbers, numbering 13 arrived the bank wearing military uniform and shooting sporadically for about 30 minutes.

Eyewitnesses claimed that the robbers, who were armed with   Ak-47 guns   gained entrance into the bank after overpowering the security men.

One of the witnesses claimed that before entering the bank, the gunmen shot at a police van stationed close to the bank.

The policemen, according to him,   engaged them in a crossfire and in the process three

Police rescue NACCIMA boss from kidnappers, arrest seven

The suspects

The Oyo State Police Command has rescued 78-year-old owner of Bond Chemicals and National Life Vice President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Mines and Agriculture, Chief Adebowale Omotoso.

Omotoso was rescued in Ajia, a remote village in the Egbeda Local Government Area of Ibadan.

The police said $1m was demanded from Omotoso’s family.

Those arrested on Monday in connection with the crime are a mother of three,

If I hear! Is this how all public Pry schools look like in Rivers state?

If I hear! Is this how all public Pry schools look like in Rivers state?

APC released these photos of Buhari and other chieftains visiting a primary school in Rivers state today and claimed that this is how all public primary school in the state look like. A member of the APC Presidential team, Lola Shoneyin shared the photos and wrote "All primary schools in Rivers State look like this. Happy pupils thrilled to meet 'President Buhari!'

Biko, Rivers state residents, is this what all your primary schools look like? See more pics after this...

Card readers and electoral system

Nigerian permanent voters card

The development and use of technology in achieving a special task in an efficient and effective manner to produce a verifiable result is taking a central stage of discourse and implementation in every aspect of human endeavour. The introduction of a smartcard reader machine by the Independent National Electoral Commission to determine the validity of the Permanent Voter Cards and their owners’ identity for elections in the forthcoming 2015 elections is considered a step forward by many. However, some believe that Nigeria is not yet ripe for a technology of this nature and magnitude in our electoral system.

The introduction of the card reader machine has generated wide ranging discussions on the tendencies either