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Showing posts with label #nigeria. Show all posts

Was Queried By My Pastor For Kissing Flavour"

Top Nigerian songstress, Chidinma and ace singer, Flavour have been accused severally of having a romantic affair becasue of how often the duo kiss when they work together.
However, in recent interviews the stars have both debunked rumors of anything going on between them both. #
Chidinma while discussing on the topic of her kissing Flavour time after time, she had this to say; “My pastor asked me to explain when I said the kiss between I and flavour is not real but we were just acting,” noting that “I and flavour are cool and after work, we move unto the next one.”

$2.1bn Arms probe: EFCC slams fresh charges against Olisa Metuh

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, on a fresh two-count-charge of destroying the evidence against him.

Metuh, who was yesterday, docked before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama on a two-count charge bordering on his alleged destruction of evidence against him, pleaded not guilty to the charge. Metuh was for the second time brought to court in handcuffs.

This happened just as the trial of embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) on a 19-count-charge turned dramatic, yesterday, at the Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama as the trial judge stood down trial for two hours, insisting that he must be produced in court as required by law before he could continue with the proceedings.

Vanguard

$2.1 Arms Scandal: I Spent My Money On Jonathan’s Campaign- Anenih

A former Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT)  of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, has given an insight into the controversial N260 million he received from the embattled former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuko (retd), during the Jonathan administration.
Sunday Vanguard learnt, at the weekend, that Anenih shed light on the money in a letter to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The money is the subject of a probe by the EFCC as part of the investigation into the $2.1 billion arms money Dasuki allegedly disbursed for purposes other than security.

A source at that anti-graft agency quoted the former BoT Chairman of the PDP as  saying, in the letter, that the N260 million was a refund of the N400 million he disbursed, on the instruction of Jonathan to elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai; the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae; and the leader of the Accord Party, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, among others, for ‘special political assignments’ ahead of the 2015 polls.

The source added that Anenih claimed that he merely, on request, gave the former President his bank account details into which the refund should be made, and that he was not in the position to ask Jonathan how he was going to source money for the refund or through which office it would be made.

Falae and Ladoja have confirmed receiving N100 million each  from the PDP leader while Yakassai took N63 million.

According to the EFCC source, Anenih explained that the N263 million he gave to the three men  was N3 million in excess of the N260 million paid him, while he had outstanding balance of N180 million to collect from the former President.

“The PDP leader made it clear in the letter to the EFCC that he was not a beneficiary of the money and that he was only acting on the instruction of Jonathan  to disburse it”, the source stated.

Other disbursements Anenih made on Jonathan’s instruction to bring the total to N400 million, according to the letter, include N25 million to a former deputy governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Muktari Shagari, and N35 million to a delegation of local government leaders from Katsina State.

Besides, Anenih was said to have indicated in the letter that, on the instruction of the former President, the BoT of the PDP then, under his chair, embarked on a nationwide reconciliation tour and that the money he spent on hiring private jet during the tour, among other responses, was also not refunded to him.

The PDP leader pointed out that, in spite of his commitment to stabilising the party and its leadership and to ensure post-election peace, he was pressurized to resign as BoT chair on  trumped-up charges  of anti-party activities and alleged overbearing influence.
Daily independent

Lassa fever: Three die as Lagos, Rivers monitor 307 persons

The Rivers State Government has confirmed that three persons have died, while more than 200 others are currently under observation following the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.

Also, the Lagos State government said on Saturday that it was monitoring at least 107 persons suspected to have been in contact with an index case of Lass fever at Ahmmadiyyah Hospital and at Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Speaking on Saturday, the state Commissioner for Health in Rivers, Dr. Theophilus Odagme, said about 50 people who had contact with the first reported two cases could be out of observation because they had not shown symptoms of the disease.
Similarly, at a press conference in Lagos, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said that the private hospital which the Lassa fever patient was taken to had been temporarily shut down while its 15 patients as well as 25 health workers in the clinic are being observed.

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Golden Eaglets Allegedly Unhappy After Receiving Paltry N20,000 Each

Members of the FIFA U-17 World Cup winning squad, the Golden Eaglets have
confided in NIGERIAN PILOT that they are yet to recover from the shock after the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF handed them a paltry N20, 000 each before they dispersed in Abuja last Thursday.“It’s surely not the best way to treat heroes.




The money they gave us could not even fetch us flight tickets to take us home to see our loved ones,’’ said one of the players who did not want his name in print for fear of victimisation by officials of the football federation.
Another player said on phone yesterday:
“I’ve heard about how badly players have been treated in the past. I didn’t think ours would come so soon. I am still, however, grateful to God we came home with the trophy. The victory has opened new doors of opportunity which we are already exploring,’’ said the player who is on verge of sealing a lucrative professional contract with an English Premier League club.

Players and officials of the U-17 NationalTeam returned to the country last
Wednesday, following a successful campaign at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in
Chile. They were driven round parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory in a motorcade before the convoy arrived at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel.
The new Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalong, later had dinner with the team at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel.
The team will be decamped on Thursday, to reconvene for a presidential reception which Nigerian Pilot gathered, has been scheduled for November 28 in Abuja.

The team helped Nigeria become the first country to win the FIFA U-17 World Cup title for a fifth time in Chile recently. The Eaglets also became only the second side to retain the FIFA U-17 World Cup with a 2-0 win against Mali in the grand finale. A key member of the team, Victor Osimhen, clinched the Adidas Silver Ball for the highest goal scorer of the tournament where he banged in a record-breaking ten goals. Captain Kelechi Nwakali was also adjudged
the most valuable player and went home with the Adidas Golden Ball award.
He scored three goals, including two penalties, and provided a further three
assists, a haul that also brought him the Adidas Bronze Boot.


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