President's Son's $35m Malibu mansion
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-10-02 01:18:29 | 2,737 read this article |
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For a man paid less than £3,000 a month, the 16 acres of mansion, designer golf course and sprawling gardens speckled with fountains in Malibu was quite a buy. The views of the ocean alone - never mind the 15,000 sq ft mansion with eight bathrooms, a pool and tennis courts - probably accounted for a good chunk of the $35m (£18m) asking price. But then Teodoro Nguema Obiang's modest salary as a minister in his father's government in Equatorial Guinea is largely symbolic, just like the elections in which his father is returned to power with 97% of the vote and the distribution of oil revenues in a country with one of the highest per capita incomes on Earth but some of the poorest people. ...
Saudi Arabia deports 510 Nigerian Women
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-09-27 20:40:34 | 2,081 read this article |
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SAUDI Arabia, in apparent defiance of Nigeria's ultimatum, has deported 510 female pilgrims. The deportees, mainly from Sokoto, Jigawa and Kano states, arrived at the Kano International Airport at about 8.30pm on Wednesday, aboard a Meridian Airline flight. The female returnees were among the Nigerian women pilgrims for the 2012 hajj detained in Medina and Jeddah for not having male escorts while trying to enter Mecca. Vice President Namadi Sambo had on Wednesday summoned the Saudi Ambassador to Nigeria, Khaled O.Y. Abdrabuh, to register the Federal Government's displeasure over the incident. Sambo also gave Saudi Arabia a 24-hour ultimatum to redress the situation. Spokesman of the National...
The death of a journalist and the Nigerian Oil Minister
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-09-13 17:57:09 | 13,581 read this article |
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James Momoh, an Abuja-based media worker, died a gruesome death after he was run over by a convoy belonging to the Oil Resources minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Momoh was reportedly on his way back from work at Nicon Junction, Maitama area of Abuja late Wednesday, when the tragedy occurred. A PM News report indicated that Momoh, employed by the Abuja-based Pilot Newspapers, was taken to the NNPC hospital where hospital workers were not able to save his life. Momoh’s death was hushed up from the media until the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT council learned of the incident and issued a statement today expressing their condolences to his survivors. A PM News report ind...
Nigerians spend N160bn annually on education in Ghana
Author: Punch - Wale Babalakin | Published: 2012-09-09 00:28:31 | 1,544 read this article |
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The Chairman, Committee of Pro-chancellors of Nigeria, Dr. Wale Babalakin, has said that there is high cash flight of about N160bn from Nigeria to Ghana annually as the cost of university education of about 75,000 Nigerian students schooling in Ghana. Babalakin stated that Nigerians also spend huge amounts for the education of their children or wards in other countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Malaysia. He stated that Nigeria's budget for education in 2011 was not up to N160bn indicating that Nigerians spent more in Ghanaian universities in 2011 than the Federal Government spent on education the same year. Speaking during the first Leading Light award ...
My life with Ojukwu - Bianca
Author: PETRUS OBI | Published: 2012-09-08 08:27:44 | 2,107 read this article |
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My life with Ojukwu - Bianca From PETRUS OBI, Enugu Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, widow of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, recently traditionally ended her six months mourning. In an exclusive interview with our reporter in Enugu, Mrs. Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who was recently appointed Nigeria's Ambassador to Spain, opened up on her marriage to the late Ikemba Nnewi. She recalled memorable moments with her late husband. She also recalled Dim's encounters with armed robbers on two occasions. Bianca, who was speaking for the first time since the burial of Odumegwu-Ojukwu, also talked about disturbing family issues that have arisen since the death of the Igbo leader as well as the crisis in th...
Ms. Arumah Oteh, Nigerian official whose one day food bill can pay British MP salary
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-03-21 09:48:48 | 2,547 read this article |
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Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 tained by THE PUNCH on Tuesday revealed how the Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arumah Oteh, allegedly spent the sum of N850,000 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. There were, however, discrepancies in the figures on the receipt. The receipt, which was dated March 24, 2010, was issued at exactly 9.57pm to the SEC boss. The bill was issued by Zuma Grill Restaurant and it contained expenses incurred by Oteh in t...
I stole $250 million dollar, former governor Ibori pleads guilty in UK
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-28 03:24:07 | 2,299 read this article |
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"How a thief almost became Nigeria's president" - BBC James Ibori, formerly one of Nigeria's wealthiest and most influential politicians, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud, paving the way for British police to confiscate assets he stole and return them to Nigeria. On Monday, with his trial at London's Southwark crown court about to begin, Ibori, 49, changed his original plea and admitted stealing money from Delta state and laundering it in London through a number of offshore companies. Ibori admitted to fraud totalling more than $79m (£50m), said to be part of total embezzlement that could exceed $250m (£157m). Prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court Ibori had accepted he was in...
Five-year-old boy opts to become a girl with the support of his family, doctors and school
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-22 02:14:46 | 3,447 read this article |
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Five-year-old boy opts to become a girl with the support of his family, doctors and school A five-year-old boy who rejected his gender is now living as a girl with the support of his family, doctors and school. Zach Avery was three when he started questioning his gender, and began wearing dresses and ribbons in his hair. Following a psychological evaluation he was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID), and has now been living as a girl for more than a year. [Related story: Couple names baby girl after feature on Facebook] [Related story: Meet the parents raising a genderless baby] The disorder is a conflict between a person's physical gender and what they identify as. I...
The President Is A Good Son Of A Bad Family
Author: Dele Oluwole, MBCS | Published: 2012-02-19 18:01:34 | 4,453 read this article |
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"Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy" - Gandhi As a Nigerian, before I share my pain with you let it be known that the followership (all of us Nigerians) is as bad as the leadership and that is because we do not hold the leadership accountable like it is in Europe and America. Starting with a macroeconomic comparison between Ghana and Nigeria, Ghana foreign reserve is just below 3 billion US Dollars and the GDP of less than 40 Billion US Dollars. On the other hand, Nigeria's GDP is 320 Billion US Dollars and foreign reserve of almost 40 billion US Dollars. The euro bond issued by Ghana had a sovereign inte...
When You Marry An Illiterate Woman as a Wife, You Make Stupid Decisions Like Jonathan – Wole Soyinka
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-13 10:58:12 | 3,517 read this article |
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An analytical piece by Tobi Akiode. He has obliged to sharing this with as many Nigerians as possible. Please share this with friends and the general public. It's No More about Subsidy Alone. 1. The American President has only TWO aircraft, our president has 9[Nine] in his fleet and was voted money recently to buy ONE more! Making it TEN! 2. The British prime Minister has only TWO official cars, our president has 23 in his pool and only recently voted 300Million Naira to buy TWO more bullet/bomb proof ones! 3. Senators in the US earn about $6,000 dollars monthly and that's about what a university professor, or a director in a state department, or a doctor with 20y...
Robbers Strike at Nigerian Airport, Cart Away US$600,000
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-04 04:46:43 | 1,079 read this article |
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Dare-devil robbers yesterday struck at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport hit the Bureau de Change situated at the car park and carted away the sum of US$600,000 (N95, 969,998.17). Daily Champion learnt that the robbers, who were armed to the teeth, traced some Bureau de Change operators to the car park and had stormed the place like something out of a Wild, Wild West movie threatening and shooting sporadically. People using the car park at that time scampered to safety as the sound of gunfire and ricocheting bullets filled the air. Our reporter also learnt that the operator had wanted to prove stubborn by not giving up the money but the incessant gunfire around and in the air ...
Boko Haram’s leader rejects talks with President Goodluck Jonathan
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-28 11:15:27 | 1,177 read this article |
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Leader of the dreaded Islamic sect Boko Haram, Imam Abubakar Shekau, has rejected offers for a negotiated peace, instead promising to kidnap government officials' family members and bomb schools, according to an Internet audio message allegedly posted by the group. The 40-minute message also for the first time discusses Boko Haram's goal: Complete adoption of Islam across Nigeria. Shekau said he remains prepared to order more violence to accomplish that. "If (Nigerian security forces) are going to places of worship and destroying them, like mosques and Quranic schools, you have primary schools as well, you have secondary schools and universities and we will start bombing them," Sh...
Kogi: Idris Wada Swearing in nullified, Speaker told to Take over
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-27 11:30:32 | 970 read this article |
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The chief law officer of the federation says Speaker should take over from five governors sacked by Supreme Court this morning Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has asked all five state governors sacked by Friday's supreme Court ruling to immediately hand over to speakers of their various state assemblies. The attorney-general gave the orders in a statement issued Friday after the Supreme Court delivered judgment in the appeal emanating from the judgment of the Court of Appeal in respect of the tenure of the five governors - Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Sokoto and Kogi states - ruling that their tenures expired in May last year. "The Federal ...
Nigerian Minister of State humiliated in America - video clip
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-23 18:59:33 | 1,331 read this article |
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The Nigeria Democratic Liberty Forum (NDLF) has explained that it picketed last week's Town Hall meeting by a Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Viola Okwuliri, because it was "appalled by the unquestionable profligacy displayed by the Nigerian government in sponsoring the Minister on a whirlwind tour of such cities as Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, California, and New York." In a statement signed by its Executive Director, Mr Bukola Oreofe, and the Director, Publicity & International Affairs, NDLF said that its objective remains the same as it was two years ago when it protested in the frigid weather of New York against the cabal that had prevented then Vice President Goodluck J...
UNDP Job; GP PROGRAMME ASSISTANT - Abuja
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-23 05:07:31 | 667 read this article |
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GP PROGRAMME ASSISTANT Location : Abuja, NIGERIA Application Deadline : 23-Jan-12 Additional Category Management Type of Contract : Service Contract Post Level : SB-3 Languages Required : English Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 01-Mar-2012 Duration of Initial Contract : One year REFER A FRIEND APPLY NOW Background Effective day-to-day substantive, administrative and financial support to the national SGP team and the National Steering Committee to ensure the smooth operation and management of the GEF-SGP (Global Environment Facility - Small Grants Programme) programme portfolio, timely and efficient response to queries from differe...
