Student expelled for studying too much

Different strokes they say are for different folks. In the part of Nigeria where I grew up, what could have been  recommended for emulation has been seen as being an obsession in another part of the world.

 18 year old Gagliardi has been expelled from Ifield Community College in southern England,  subsequently handed over to the police for refusing to leave the library.
 The school accused him of being too obssesed  studying and constituting a nuisance


He said “I have been punished for wanting to do well. I am a hardworking and a dedicated student, and this could have such an impact on my future.”

Marilyn Evans, director of school administration, said: “He became loud and angry that he could not study after school.” 

The student went to the library despite being banned from the premises for the day as punishment for disrupting the school principal during a meeting to request special meetings. 

Gagliardi is described as the “best student”, who wants to do well on tests, but had been “causing a nuisance and a disturbance on the property.” The school authorities added that “He is obsessed with making the revision after school.”

A police spokesman confirmed that officers were called to the school to remove a “disruptive” student who refused to leave the premises, but said Gagliardi will not face charges.
 

New Video : KaySwitch - Sister Caro Ft. D’banj

Ready to try new dance steps as Tonto Dikeh set to release video?

Speculations are that the actress turn musician or should I say singer will be releasing a new video the coming Thursday. Get your dancing shoes ready!

Don Jazzy took Dbanj's fight head on

Remember D'banj called a fan a fool few days ago? Another fan tried to get on D'banj's nerves today, but before D'banj could read or reply the tweet, Don Jazzy already replied on his behalf.

Marriage is not for me - Seun Kuti

The Afrobeat prince who recently turned 30 told an Encomium mag reporter that he 'doesn't do marriage' when asked when he plans to get married...

"No, I don't do marriage. Anything that I stand the risk of potentially losing half of my earnings is not something I look forward to. Anything that has the potential of that for any reason whatsoever, I try not to indulge.

Sol Phenduka - Isolomzi ft. Cama Gwini (Official Video)

New Video : KaySwitch - Sister Caro Ft. D’banj

Med View Airline Mid-Air Air Disaster averted

What could have been a major airline disaster was yesterday averted as the Med View Airline made an emergency air return to Lagos after the second engine failed.
The Flight 214 airline, a Boeing 737-400 series marked 5N-BPA with 74 passengers on board made a return mid-air when the pilot heard a loud bang.
The passengers were thereafter to another aircraft, a Boeing 737-400 series belonging to the airline and flown safely t Abuja. Med View Airline commenced operation on domestic routes in November, 2012

Stoned to death for involvement in beauty peagent

A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine. Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home. Friends said she liked wearing fashionable clothes and had come seventh in a beauty contest. Her battered body was buried in a forest and was found a week after she disappeared. Katya Koren, 19, lived in the Crimea region of the Ukraine. Her battered body was found buried in woodland

MEND writes to tell Federal Goverment of the coming days as Henry Okah is convicted

MEND has come out to disclose that the Federal Government will be in for it as Henry Okah has been convicted by the South African Court claiming the Judgement was influenced by the Government

For complete mail 

Japan's Lady of Eternal Youth

Well, this is the 21st century and honestly speaking, a lot of people can do a lot of magic with Adobe Photoshop, but this is no photogimmicks, it is real. MASAKO MIZUTANI is a Japanese model and housewife and even though many will bet that she is just 16, she is actually a mother of two and is aged 43! 

Huangluo The World's First Long-Haired Village

It is said that the crowning beauty of a woman is her hair. Well, the ethnic Red Yao women of the Huangluo Village in China have taken the art of hair care to the next level. For them, the hair is the most important possession that any lady can have. They number around 82 households and they got their name from the red clothes that they wear traditionally. 

 

Their village is set in a very beautiful natural environment and they are strongly into maintaining their old traditions, one of which is an obsession with very long hair. To back up their claims, the Guinness Book of World Records has named the 'Long Hair Village' the 'world's longest hair village'. Of the 120 women in Huangluo, the average hair length is 1.7 meters and the longest can exceed 2.1 meters!!! That's taller than most people! Check out the pictures and judge for yourself.

These ladies believe that long hair brings good luck, fortune and blessings. Welcome to Huangluo, where the hair of the women brush against the surface of the road. And for those ladies in love with Brazilian or Indian hair, I guess Chinese hair is the best for you! :) 

World record for the deformed face

Tang has worked his way in deforming his face in the most horrible way possible.

He was rewarded for his years of hard work with a $10,000 prize and medal of the Guinness World Record for the most twisted face in the world.

He challenged any person in the world who can make an even uglier face and will award $15,000.

Henry Okah's accomplice, Edmond Ebiwere, jailed for life

One of Henry Okah's accomplice, Edmond Ebiwere, has been  sentenced to life imprisonment today by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for the 2010 Independence Day bombing that left 12 people dead and several  others injured. He was arrested on October 2nd in Abuja and was arraigned alongside Henry Okah and his brother Charles Okah.

Henry Okah had earlier been convicted by a South African court and may be transferred to Nigeria to serve his terms.

More photos after the cut shows him putting up resistance as he his been led away.

Thieves Rob Microsoft Office, Take Only iPads

Seriously, this must hurt. Someone raided Microsoft's Silicon Valley Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., and stole five iPads, but left all the Microsoft stuff just sitting there. This happened over the Christmas break. Not a big deal, as these things go. The iPads were worth about $3,000 in total. But still, not a great publicity coup. The news showed up first in a local Palo Alto paper, The Daily Post, after Microsoft reported the theft to police. (They might be wishing they hadn't done that.) Some people thought it might be a hoax, but apparently it's true. Wow.

Emma Nyra - Ori Mi Wu [Official Video]

Obasanjo to Govenor: How can I be colleague to a failure like you?

Every society has theirs. In Nigeria, it is our own Baba Iyabo from Ota. One may wonder if the Ota farmer will ever change. He recently broke a friendly protocol when  described Rochas Okorocha, Governor of  Imo State as failure saying:
 "How can I be a colleague of a failure? You are a failure in contesting the presidency of Nigeria!”

“Obasanjo is indeed PDP. But in the actual sense, he’s a national leader. He does not belong to the PDP alone but a national leader of Nigeria. If I have another opportunity to advise him, I will tell him to be the national leader of the country and not the national leader of the party.

“We are here to give honour to whom honour is due. Obasanjo will remain immovable and unshakable. He is a man that is very difficult to describe. He represents different things to different people. But for me, he represents a former colleague. We both ran for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And later when he appointed me as his adviser, I gave him all the good advice.

“All the good things he did for those eight years, I advised him but all the bad ones he did, I travelled out of the country. I want to join Nigerians to celebrate this icon — this great and steadfast Nigerian, who is not afraid of fighting any battle. But when he starts fighting he doesn’t stop until he finishes fighting. He’s a general’s general and a soldier’s soldier.”

The ever hilarous former president however responded in a sharp twist saying  “I met Okorocha a long ago by virtue of the fact that he was brought up in Jos — one of the few cities that I found in the fifties and seventies as a genuine melting pot in Nigeria. He is a true Nigerian and when he wants to pull me down, he will say we are colleagues. How can I be a colleague of a failure? You are a failure in contesting the presidency of Nigeria!”

Federal Goverment to Ban sale of Energy drinks

The house of Representatives ha directed its Joint Committee on Health/Commerce to investigate the importation and distribution of the drinks, following a motion sponsored by a member, Mr. Yacoob Bush-Alebiosu.

He expressed concern that the drinks were first choice beverages among young people, especially on campuses, bars, clubs and social functions across the country.

Private Sector Rise To Rescue Police College

The private sector is taking up the challenge of fixing the dilapidated Police Training College in Lagos, as the Contemporary Group, a Lagos based construction and building Development Company is partnering with Channels Television to remodel and redesign the college.

In continuing our series on the Police College Ikeja, our correspondent, Ayoola Kassim, now reports on some of the efforts being made by the corporate world as a health centre which been donated by an organization, a lecture hall by a bank and a bore-hole water pump, has been donated by a religious organization.

A lot more still needs to be done and Channels TV welcomes all.

Source: Channels TV

A wife's unfailing love for hers husband

Kindly Read on…

A Wife’s Unfailing Love For Her Husband

I, Sarah Adams take you, Lawson Kuti as my lawful wedded husband, to love and to cherish, in sickness and in health, till death do us part” she smiled at him through her veil.

“You may now kiss your bride Mr. Lawson” The Pastor beckoned.

Lawson’s heart raced as he gently unveiled his bride’s face. She looked so beautiful. He gently bent over and placed a soft kiss on her lips. Sarah in turn embraced him tightly with tears of joy streaming down her face.

New release : WE MADE IT - eLDee ft. Sojay

This is a cool release from the stable of Trybe records. Relax and listen. Click to play after cut

No election in 2015 but 2014 - Pastor Tunde Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Assembly Bible Church had said there will be no election in 2015. Click to watch the video where he explained his position after cut

Farmer Builds A Meadow Of 6,000 Trees In Honour Of Late Wife

It is said that love is like a wind, you may not see or touch it but you will always feel it wherever it is present. For those who think true love, unflinching loyalty and sincere devotion are just myths, it must be stated that true love is like a miracle, only those who experience it can understand. Read the heart-rending story of love between a farmer and his wife. 

The wonderfully-made heart-shaped meadow Winston Howes made in honour of his late wife. True love is always distinct and different.

Tukur replaces Oyinlola as PDP secretary

By SaharaReporters, New York 

The crisis at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has further escalated today with the decision to shunt aside, the national secretary, former governor of Osun state Olagunsoye Oyinlola who was suddenly removed via a court order last week.
A fiat released by PDP chair, Bamangar Tukur via a terse press release said a deputy national secretary Solomon Onwe is ordered to resume the office as “Acting National Secretary” immediately
Onwe was Deputy National Secretary of the PDP  prior to his appointment by Tukur today.
 

Sick firstlady flown out

By SaharaReporters, New York

Nigerian First Lady, Patience Jonathan, is scheduled to visit hospitals in Germany and Spain in a few days, according to medical sources in Abuja.

Mrs. Jonathan, who returned to Nigeria last year after a prolonged stay at a German hospital, is officially headed for Spain but our source said she is scheduled for medical treatment in Germany to ready her fit enough so that she can attend an African First ladies event  scheduled for Addis Ababa later in the month.

Since her tumultuous return from her extended trip abroad last year, Mrs. Jonathan has remained largely marooned inside the Presidential villa only attending few public events and church services in Abuja.  Although SaharaReporters fully reported on her medical excursion in Germany throughout her absence from Nigeria, she claimed not to have been in a hospital.

Our source said the First Lady has been struggling with a variety of ailments that have refused to go away, some of them being complications relating to the surgery she embarked upon during her medical trip abroad.

Concerning Mrs. Jonathan’s trip to Spain, it is known that she had previously attended "health farms" in the Malaga area of the European country.  It is there that a former Nigeria First Lady, Stella Obasanjo, tragically lost her life in a cosmetic surgery operation in 2005.

I pray she gets well real soon.

Coffin with built-in speakers linked to a music playlist.

A coffin with built-in speakers linked to a music playlist that can be updated by the living has been designed in Sweden.

The hi-fi coffin designer, Fredrik Hjelmquist told reporters that the coffin is engineered as an entertainment medium for the dead and provide solace for grieving friends and relatives by making it possible for them to alter the deceased’s playlist online.

He planned to be buried in such a coffin and would choose opera for his long sleep. He has not sold any of his coffins, but there have been many enquiries, he said.

The coffin goes for 199 000 Swedish crowns ($30 700).

“We’ve had an unbelievable amount of inquiries, not so much in Sweden, but many from the United States and Canada, also from Taiwan,” he said.

Somebody ought to do it because this is really rock n’ roll I think...but at the same time beautiful,” he added.

One kidnap too many. Speaker's mum kidnapped

One may wonder if kidnapping is now a profession in Nigeria as the mother of the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Kombowei Benson was kidnapped from her home at Korokorosei community in Southern Ijaw council area of the state by unknown armed men this morning.

Dialogue with Boko Haram. Abdusalam urges Federal Govement.

A former Head of State, General. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Saturday called on the government to engage in dialogue with the Boko Haram sect to end the insecurity in Northern Nigeria. Abubakar made the call at the graduation ceremony at Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development Studies, Minna.

"Today, the cycle of blood-letting, the brutal termination of lives of innocent and defenseless Nigerians should not be tolerated," he said. Abubakar said dialogue between the Federal Government and Boko Haram was the only way to tackle the current security challenges in the North.

Boko Haram member arrested with former House of Rep member

The State Security Service (SSS) has arrested a Boko Haram member, Hassan Pagi Bukar, at the residence of a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tijani Umara Kumalia.
Bukar is suspected of visiting Abuja to wreak some havoc. The ex-lawmaker was interrogated by the SSS on Friday.
He denied having any link with Boko Haram.

Obama wants Iginidinedion to stay off US

Culled from Sahara Reporters

Former Governor Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State may no longer enter the US, SaharaReporters has discovered from sources in Washington, DC. One of the sources revealed that the American consular authorities had written to Mr. Igbinedion to tell him that he was no longer welcome in the US.

Another source indicated that the former governor, who has been convicted for corrupt practices shortly after  his governorship term, had multiple entry visas to the US. "However, he has received a letter revoking his visa," said one source.

Our source in Washington, DC disclosed that the US government was reviewing the files of some of Nigeria's current and former government officials and will deny them visas once they are deemed undesirable on account of their engagement in corruption.

Alison Maduekwe celebrates Birthday in in low key

The minister turned 52 a few weeks back and held a low profile birthday party at her Queens Drive, Ikoyi home. Only a few family members and close friends were invited to the shindig. You looks more beautiful by the day

Don Jazzy and Princewill Ojukwu make up

Source: Lindaikeji blog:

Don Jazzy and Princewill Ojukwu met this evening and settled their issues. Don Jazzy apologized to Princewill and Princewill says he's forgiven him totally.

Just to refresh your memory; the popular Lagos socialite accused the ace music producer of asking thugs to beat him up on Friday December 21st after he and Jazzy exchanged words at Jazzy's night club, PoP.

Ruggedman gives account of how Medical Doctor was Shot dead in broad day light

Nigeria as a nation becomes moe insecure as the day goes by. A young man, Irawo Adamolekun who incidentally was a Medical doctor was shot dead yesterday in Lagos by an unknown gunman. Rapper, Ruggedman witnessed the killing and tweeted about the incident which occurred at Anthony............

 

However another eyewitness has a different nation of the event. Click to check her view after the break

Which of the following is your choice for your child

Which of the following individuals do you think is the best for the country?
A) General Ibrahim  Gbadamosi Babangida.
B) Gen Buhari
C) Doctor Ebele Goodluck Jonathan
D) Prof Okwonjo Iweala
E) Sen. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu  
F) Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi . 

Hmm mine is General Buhari o. Lets hear yours

Vidoe:We dropped MayD because become Psquare in a year- Jude Okoye

"We sign in artistes as our way of giving back to the society, and by the time they become known, we let them be. However when May D came in, he wanted more than that, he wanted to be Psquare, a name that we have struggled to be build for years."- Jude Okoye
 He also said May D wanted to live a good life with cars and flashy things all in a year, forgetting that it took P Square 8years to achieve that. 
Watch the full video after the cut. 

Video: Oshimole says "Police is reponsibe for the killing of his pesonal S

The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has accused the Nigerian Police of being responsible for the assassination of his Special Adviser and Personal Secretary,Mr Olaitan Oyerinde.

He said both the assassin and the weapon used to murder the late Oyerinde were in police detention as at the time the assassination was carried out. This he said at the launching of the new code of conduct for the Nigerian police.

Governor Sule Lamido's Son arrested again!

According to the reports made available to SaharaReporters, The police in Kano State had arrested the First Son of  the Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido for Vehicular homicide.
The Kano State police spokesperson, ASP Magaji Majia, confirmed the death of the yet-to-be identified victim, and that Aminu was being detained by the police.
Aminu has however been released as was the case when she was arrested by the EFCC for money laundery.
As at the time of filing this report, it has not been confirmed if she will be arraigned or not.
Ours is a nation "Four legs good, Two legs better".

Federal Goverment bans anti-rape drug

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) had placed Flunitrazepam distribution under stricter control.
The drug widely known as a date-rape drug patented as Rohypnol by Pfizer and Swinol by Swiss Pharma, is sold under strict control in other countries because of the abuse by teenagers.
According to the restrictions announced Tuesday by NAFDAC, the drug can only be dispensed on doctors' prescription. Holders with authorization to market the drug will also submit quarterly reports to the agency.
The control followed approval from health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu and recommendations by the National Drug Safety Advisory Committee to prevent it's continual abuse.
 
The drug was allegedly used on Cynthia Osukogu, a 24-year-old postgraduate student of Nasarawa state university, who was drugged and killed last year in a hotel in Lagos by her Facebook friends.
"Until the recent incident which claimed the life of Miss Osukogu, there had not been any report in the database," NAFDAC director general Paul Orhii said at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.

EFCC arrests former CBN governor, Charles Soludo

Former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Prof Charles Soludo, was Thursday arrested  by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). apprehend

He was picked up from his Abuja residence a source in EFCC confirmed to Sahara reporters.
 Sahara reporters gathered that Soludo’s arrest was in connection with the controversial contract he awarded for the printing of polymer currency notes to an Australian firm while he was governor of the CBN between 2006 and 2008.

 The source also said about a dozen other CBN former and serving CBN officials have also been apprehended for questioning on the deal.

However, EFCC spokesperson could not be reached for confirmation of the arrest.

It was not clear as at the time of filing the report if the operatives would release the former Anambra State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate.