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- Mercy Johnson and husband build palatial home in Edo State
- Can a baby that is a product of rape be aborted? Pastor Oyakhilome answers the question
- Lekki Wives the Movie premieres in the UK
- Elohor Aisien quits Miss Nigeria, sets up Prive luxury event company
- Who rocked the shorts suit better; Jim Iyke or Pharrell Williams?
- More photos from Uvie Ibru & Maxwell Peile's traditional wedding
- Anglican Church members now take anti-homosexuality oath
- Michael Jordan earned $90m in 2013, more than nearly any active athlete
- Boko Haram strikes again in Borno state, 33 killed yesterday
- Three students arrested and paraded for raping female colleague
- Perez A.G.O Studio presents the Gospel Voice Abuja
- Kim K, Khloe K and Kelly Rowland at Elton John's Oscars afterparty
- Graphic photos: Brothers kill brother over their father's house
- Damilola Adegbite confirms she's marrying Chris Attoh
- Oscar Pistorious Trial begins. Showing live on DStv's Channel 199
- Become One of Jumia’s Independent Sales Consultant
- The epic Oscar selfie that broke Twitter record, retweeted 2.2m times
- Lupita, Matthew Mcconaughey win 2014 Oscars. Full list of winners
- 2014 Oscars Red Carpet Photos
- Lupita Nyong'o a vision in light blue at the Oscars
- PrivateProperty 10 Smartphones Giveaway: 6 phones left to be won
- Kanu Nwankwo undergoes heart surgery again!
- Social Media in the Jonathanian Age - Written by Reno Omokri
- Pics: Ex-Governor Ohakim's daughter Adanna weds David Steineker
- Armed robbers invade Vine Branch Church in Ibadan during service
| Mercy Johnson and husband build palatial home in Edo State Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:26 PM PST  | ||||
| Can a baby that is a product of rape be aborted? Pastor Oyakhilome answers the question Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:17 PM PST   | ||||
| Lekki Wives the Movie premieres in the UK Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:06 PM PST  London Sat 15th March - Lighthouse Camberwell, 254-270 Camberwell Road, corner of Medlar street London SE5 0DP. Time: 6-11pm. Tickets from £15 more at the door For tickets www.cokobar.com or call 02089531219. See promo trailers after the cut...   Promo Trailers https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.youtube.com/watch? | ||||
| Elohor Aisien quits Miss Nigeria, sets up Prive luxury event company Posted: 03 Mar 2014 10:47 AM PST   Elohor Aisien has bid goodbye to Nigeria's foremost beauty pageant, Miss Nigeria. The Miss Nigeria team had handed over the creative and management rights in July, 2012 to Mrs. Elohor who is widely acclaimed for organizing one of the biggest fashion events in Nigeria – The Elite Model Look. After organizing the 2013 Miss Nigeria Pageant, which produced the reigning Queen, Ms Ezinne Akudo, Elohor has bid a sad goodbye to Miss Nigeria in order to focus on her fast growing Luxury Event Management Company – Prive which was launched in the later part of 2013. Prive is currently catering for some of the biggest and elitist events in the country. With a very busy and tight schedule, meeting appointment with clients, attending Master classes abroad to managing her modeling agency and planning the Elite model look 2014, her hands are quite full to say the least. | ||||
| Who rocked the shorts suit better; Jim Iyke or Pharrell Williams? Posted: 03 Mar 2014 10:47 AM PST   | ||||
| More photos from Uvie Ibru & Maxwell Peile's traditional wedding Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:09 AM PST | ||||
| Anglican Church members now take anti-homosexuality oath Posted: 03 Mar 2014 11:57 AM PST  Members of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) are now to carry out an oath exercise denouncing any trace or affiliation for homosexuality before they can take up any leadership position in the church. The church which has over the years held strong opposition against homosexuality included this oath taking into its constitution recently. Yesterday, the first oath-taking against homosexuality was conducted at the St. Matthews, Maitama, Abuja branch when new members of the Parish Church Council were sworn in by the Vicar of the Parish, Ven. Ben Idume. Continue... "I declare before God and his Church that I have never been a homosexual/bisexual or (have repented from being homosexual/bisexual) and I vow that I will not indulge in the practice of homosexuality/bisexuality. "If after this oath I am involved, found to be, or profess to be a homosexual/bisexual against the teachings of the Holy Scriptures as contained in the Bible, I bring upon myself the full wrath of God and subject myself willingly to canonical discipline as enshrined in the constitution of the Church of Nigeria, so help me God".While administering the oath, Vicar Idume stressed that henceforth no one who has any trace of homosexuality or bisexuality will be allowed to take up any leadership role in the church. | ||||
| Michael Jordan earned $90m in 2013, more than nearly any active athlete Posted: 03 Mar 2014 07:02 AM PST  Nike released the Air Jordan 10 "Powder Blue" retro sneaker on Saturday, 20 years after the first Jordan 10s hit shelves. Like all the Jordan retro releases, this one was highly anticipated and first-day sales hit $35 million. Retail shoe sales for the Jordan Brand in the U.S. grew 11% last year to $2.7 billion, with basketball making up 84% of that, according to Powell. Roughly 50% to 55% of that goes to Nike. If you factor in sales of Jordan apparel, the international Jordan business and sales at Nike stores, the Jordan brand is contributing roughly $2 billion of revenue to Nike, which posted sales of $26 billion over the last 12 months. Jordan, the man, gets a cut of every shoe, hoodie or pair of shorts sold by Nike under the Jordan Brand. We estimate MJ's take from Nike was at least $75 million last year. "Given that he is the name that launched the brand, you could argue that he deserves more," says Phil de Picciotto, founder and president of Octagon. "Jordan is the perfect athlete." For perspective, in all of 2013, Adidas sold $40 million in the U.S. of the signature shoes of its top star, Derrick Rose. The Bulls' current star guard isn't the only one operating in the shadow of Jordan. Reigning MVP LeBron James is the top seller among current NBA players with $300 million at retail last year for his Nike shoes, according to data tracker SportsOneSource. Jordan crushed those numbers with $2.25 billion in U.S. retail basketball sales in 2013. It has been more than a decade since Michael Jordan last appeared in an NBA uniform, but MJ most certainly has still got it. | ||||
| Boko Haram strikes again in Borno state, 33 killed yesterday Posted: 03 Mar 2014 07:16 AM PST  The Islamic sect men struck again yesterday March 2nd in Borno state in Mafa Local Government area, a border community between chad and cameroon, killing scores of people. According to residents in the area, the men came into Mafa town using Hilux Toyota vans armed with AK47 rifles, Improvised Explosive Devices ( IED's ), Rocket Propelled Launchers, petrol bombs and opened fire on residents who were asleep, which led to at least 33 people being killed, with several injured, and property worth millions of Naira destroyed. The gunmen are reported to have had a field day in Mafa having overpowered the military personnel stationed in the Village. The Borno state Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko, has confirmed the incident but says he has no exact number of casualties. More than 200 people have died in the siege the sect men have laid in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in the past one week. | ||||
| Three students arrested and paraded for raping female colleague Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:09 AM PST  Parading the suspects to journalists in Ilorin on Friday, the state Commissioner of Police, Ambrose Aisabor, said the female student was drugged by the six suspects before they raped her. He said that the suspects raped the victim "mercilessly until she became unconscious." Continue... Aisabor, who said that the victim had been admitted at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) in Ilorin for treatment, assured that the remaining three suspects who were at large would be apprehended and brought to book alongside their arrested colleagues. The police boss said items recovered at the scene of the incident included three used condoms, a bottle of Ponche liquor, one red lady's pants, a pair of lady's shoes and one Samsung handset belonging to the victim. Source: Tribune | ||||
| Perez A.G.O Studio presents the Gospel Voice Abuja Posted: 03 Mar 2014 05:31 AM PST   It's an opportunity to become the next big thing in the Gospel music industry either as a solo Artist, a Group or as Choir. You could as well win yourself a record deal, a cash prize of 2million naira and a brand new car by obtaining free forms at the various centre including The PEREZ A.G.O studios in wuse11, Drumstix, Silverbird, exclusive stores and Grand Square Abuja. Continue... Form closes on the 8th of March 2014, and auditions commences on the the 14t -15that the National Universities commission (NUC) Maitama, Abuja. Grand Finale comes up at the Thisday dome on Saturday 22nd march, 2014 with a Red Carpet at 5pm. #Event Endorsed by Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN)#Event Powered by Spirit and Life Bible church#EVENT Sponsored by PEREZ A.G.O music House, Abuja Visit www.thegospelvoice.com.ngand follow @thegospelvoice1 for more information and updates | ||||
| Kim K, Khloe K and Kelly Rowland at Elton John's Oscars afterparty Posted: 03 Mar 2014 02:06 AM PST | ||||
| Graphic photos: Brothers kill brother over their father's house Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:09 AM PST   TelegraphNG reports Three brothers have been arrested by the police in connection with the murder of their blood brother. Fatia Osun (31), Sakiru Osun (20) and their step-brother, Tunji (34), were accused of killing Yusuf Osun (27) over N15 million which was to be realized from the sale of a house left behind by their late father. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday, Feb. 27, at Kano street in Mobile Estate, Satellite Town, Lagos and left residents of the estate and its environs jittery.
After the murder, the half brother of the perpetrators and the deceased, Tunji, sent a text message to a neighbour, telling him that Yusuf had passed away. He informed the neighbour that Yusuf had gotten drunk, slipped in the bathroom and hit his head. However, his story was suspect because Yusuf was a known teetotaller, and suspicious neighbours came to the house and found Yusuf's body with all the wounds. They alleged that Tunji assisted his brothers in moving Yusuf's body to the bathroom and cleaning out the sitting room, where the incident had occurred. At this point, the crowd turned into a mob, and beat up the brothers before informing the police who promptly arrested the brothers. The genesis According to neighbours, their late father had willed the house to Yusuf because of long lasting disagreements that he had with Fatia, the eldest over his lifestyle. But, said neighbours also claimed that the men's father failed to leave a written will behind. After the death of their parents, Alfa proposed the sale of the house to his brothers but the late Yusuf objected to the sale of the property which was valued at His refusal led to a disagreement between with his brothers, which resulted in a bloody fight. It was alleged that in that fighting, his brother, Fatia, stabbed him six times. Yusuf however survived this fight and was admitted to hospital where he recovered after spending almost 3 weeks. Upon his release from the hospital, Yusuf apparently accepted to sell the house and divide the money as his brothers wanted, so the house was put up for sale. Eventually, a buyer showed interest and offered Upon reaching an agreement with the prospective buyer, the eldest, Fatia, informed his brothers that he was entitled to The neighbours said that Yusuf had the previous night asked people to lend him Neighbours react When a TelegraphNG correspondent visited the neighbourhood, the residents were all still in shock. A neighbour who pleaded anonymity, said he was surprised that Alfa could carry out such a dastardly act adding that she never imagined that such a thing will happen in their estate. "That means, his going to mosque and the whole Alfa thing is all camouflage, we all need to be wary about people around us, how can someone be so inhuman and callous to kill another person not to talk of killing his own brother over worldly things". A neighbour, Yinka Adewale, said one of the accused and the most senior (Fatia) was also responsible for the death of their late father. "His plan was to sell the house long time ago, the death of his brother is not surprising to me because his father died mysteriously, so did his mother. He was taking out all those that seemed like a stumbling block to him," Yinka said. "Something of this nature has never happened nor heard of within this vicinity, Mobile Estate is a peace place to live. Its a sad event, I don't even want to talk about it again. Its just so painful" another resident lament. Confession During interrogation, Sakiru, one of the accused who is also the youngest in the family, said his elder brother promised to send him abroad so he can have a good life if he took part in eliminating their brother, Yusuf. Investigations are currently ongoing at the Area E command Police station, Lagos and will be transferred to the Panti police station Yaba for further investigation. | ||||
| Damilola Adegbite confirms she's marrying Chris Attoh Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:51 AM PST   | ||||
| Oscar Pistorious Trial begins. Showing live on DStv's Channel 199 Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:20 AM PST  The murder suspect pictured above as he arrived in court for his trial this morning Monday March 3rd | ||||
| Become One of Jumia’s Independent Sales Consultant Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:10 AM PST  Nigeria's biggest online retailer has expended its reach, connecting entrepreneurs, students, workers and others with the new sales program 'Independent sales consultant'. Continue... The Independent consultant schemeis an avenue for people to make more money for themselves, just by beingentrepreneurs through Jumia. It is an open ground for everyone, who wants to extra money on the side, network with people and enter the world of online retail at little or no cost to them. The opportunity offers attractive commissions for top salesmanship without committing to full employment with Jumia. Hours are flexible;only required for regular training. In 3 Easy steps you can become an Independent Sales Consultant 1. Register 2. Create your own Team (Network of people selling) 3. Start selling Jumia Products and Make money Wondering what you gain from being an Independent sales consultant? - Become you own boss - Meet more people - Expand your reach: By selling to more people - Make more money: Increasingly the fastest way to make money on the side. Since the program started in December 2013, over 200 Independent consultants have signed up and are currently making more money from Jumia. On an average an consultant takes home N250,000 every month from his commission and from the commission of his team as well. The opportunities are unlimited with the jumia independent sales consultant program. Join now by sending your cv to independentconsultant@jumia.com.ng Click Here for more info | ||||
| The epic Oscar selfie that broke Twitter record, retweeted 2.2m times Posted: 02 Mar 2014 11:16 PM PST  When Ellen posted it on her twitter page, it broke twitter record for most retweets. The pic got over 2.2million retweets beating the 778,000 most retweets previously held by President Barack Obama. The tweet also 'broke Twitter' as the site crashed for a few minutes because of the traffic from the pic described as the 'best photo ever!' See more photos after the cut...    | ||||
| Lupita, Matthew Mcconaughey win 2014 Oscars. Full list of winners Posted: 02 Mar 2014 10:30 PM PST   "When I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child, that no matter where you're from, your dreams are valid" Lupita said during her acceptance speechAnd my Leo didn't win...again! Oh well! Congrats to Matthew Mcconaughey who won Best Actor in a Leading Role. See full list of winners at the 86th Academy Awards, plus a video of Lupita Nyong'o accepting her award and her powerful acceptance speech after the cut... Best Picture -12 Years A Slave Best Director - Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) Best Actor in a Leading Role - Matthew McConaughey Best Actress in a Leading Role - Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) Best Actress in a Supporting RoleLupita Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave) Best Animated Feature - Frozen Best Live Action Short Film - Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson) Best Visual Effects Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould) Best Film Editing Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger) Best Sound EditingGravity (Glenn Freemantle) Best Original Score Gravity (Steven Price) Best Original Screenplay Her (Spike Jonze) Best Make-up and Hairstyling Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews) Best Animated Short Film Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares) Best Documentary Feature 20 Feet from Stardom Foreign Language Film The Great Beauty, Italy Best Costume Design Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby Best Cinematography Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) Best Production Design The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn) Best Documentary Short Subject The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life Best Original Song Let It Go (Frozen) Best Adapted Screenplay 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley) Best Sound Mixing Skip Lievsay, Niv Adirj, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (Gravity) Photos from the awards     Lupita being congratulated by Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize Theron            The host Ellen Degeneres   Lupita at the Oscars... | ||||
| Posted: 02 Mar 2014 06:23 PM PST      Charlize Theron and Jessica Biel   Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Garner   Kerry Washington and Julia Roberts   Penelope Cruz and Lady Gaga   Matthew McConaughey and wife, Chiwetel Ejiofor and girlfriend   Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Channing Tatum with wife Jenna   Chris Hemsworth and wife, Pharrell and wife   Faysal Ahmed & Barkhad Abdi and Christian Bale   Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper   Emma Watson and Sandra Bullock   Alfre Woodard and Gabourey Sidibe   Anna Kendrick and Laura Dern   Meryl Streep and Glenn Close   Will and Jada Smith, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn    Amy Adams, Naomi Watts and Portia de Rossi     Cate Blanchett and Robin Roberts   Olivia Wilde and Kristen Bell    Viola Davis, Kristen Chenoweth and Kelly Osborne   Guiliana Rancic   Charlize Theron and Chrissy Teigen   Amy Adams   Maria Menounos   Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kellan Lutz   Ryan Seacrest and Tyson Beckford   Christopher Waltz and Kevin Spacey   | ||||
| Lupita Nyong'o a vision in light blue at the Oscars Posted: 02 Mar 2014 04:42 PM PST   | ||||
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| Kanu Nwankwo undergoes heart surgery again! Posted: 02 Mar 2014 03:28 PM PST   The surgery was carried out during one of his normal yearly routine medical checks at the hospital following the 1997 heart surgery at the same hospital. Co-ordinator of the Kanu Heart Foundation, Pastor Onyebuchi Abia confirmed the success of the surgery adding that the former Super Eagles captain has since left the intensive care unit, ICU, of the hospital and is recuperating in the hospital "He'll be back home in a few days time. I spoke with him Sunday afternoon and he confirmed he's in a stable condition.'', Abia said in a statement.His younger brother Ogbonna Kanu confirmed to me that the surgery did take place and Kanu is recovering well. | ||||
| Social Media in the Jonathanian Age - Written by Reno Omokri Posted: 02 Mar 2014 03:10 PM PST  Increasingly, Social Media status is depending on how many friends you have on Facebook or how many followers you have on Twitter and so much investment goes into this because many derive their sense of self worth from these numbers.
This behavior is very contagious and many youths simply conform and lose their personality to the crowd. And it is not just youths. Increasingly, we are seeing elders, even those who might have been elder statesmen, kowtow to much younger Social Media overlords. What is happening here is very subtle but very real. In the New Testament, satan showed Christ all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and said to Him in Matthew 4:9 "all this I will give you, if you will bow down and worship me." Today, many overlords are presenting a large following to Social Media adherents in Nigeria and saying 'all this I will give to you if your subsume your opinion to mine'! And what makes a person an overlord? The answer is of course Social Media followership. Social Media was created to influence the real world, however, it was not meant to be an alternative to the real world. But increasingly we are seeing that what you might call a cabal has formed in the Nigerian Social Media space and I, for one have experienced first-hand where members of this cabal have invested so much on their Social Media personalities that they have detached themselves from the real world. Not long ago, I paid a condolence visit to Malam Nasir Elrufai after he lost his daughter and I met a renowned Social Media personality at his residence who to my surprise introduced himself to me as his Twitter handle! And this is a regular phenomenon I am told by others who have come across some of these personalities. And when somebody invests so much time and focus on the virtual world of Social Media how can you convince them that that world is surreal and they have to reflect the real world on Social Media rather than reflect Social Media on the real world? I am going somewhere with this. At the beginning of the year, I wrote a piece, Nigeria in 2014: Facts Versus Fiction, chronicling President Jonathan's achievement in office. A blogger wrote a rejoinder saying in essence that President Jonathan had achieved nothing and that my piece was not based on reality. I did not take offense but I wanted to know which aspects of what I wrote were in his opinion (and others like him) inaccurate. To cut a long story short, it turned out that he disagreed with the achievements I had listed and that was his basis of calling them inaccurate. If care is not taken, overlords can have their opinions amplified back to them by their fawning followers which in itself is not such a bad thing, however, where the overlord is not perceptive enough to distinguish an echo from a real voice, he/she may end up mistaking that echo as the voice of the people. Some people say vox populi vox Dei (the voice of the people is the voice of God). They may be right or they may be wrong, but certainly no one can argue that the voice of an echo is not the voice of God. It may be the voice of a tin god, that I concede, but never the voice of God. And the behavior I have constantly seen displayed by many an overlord in the Nigerian Social Media space is indicative of a narcissistic dictatorial tendency among many people who criticize the government on Social Media. This behavior is briefly summarized in this phrase, 'when I need the public's opinion, I will give it to them'. They assume that whatever they disagree with is a lie. In other words, their opinions are superior to facts. So, for instance, when you write with data from the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, IMF, the United Nations and other tested and recognized world regulatory bodies, they take only those aspects which are negative and amplify them while rejecting those aspects which paint the government and Nigeria in good light. Some have tried to justify this behavior by saying they are closer to the people. But with all due respects, many of those on Social Media today are some of the most privileged youths in Nigeria. They have iPads, iPhones and the latest Blackberry devices. They frequent the homes of prominent and wealthy Nigerians and some of their parents are among the elite members of the Nigerian political and business royalty. In fact, from available records, a good number of those with the loudest voices on Social Media do not even live in Nigeria. These regular Social Media users are a great asset to Nigeria, but many of them are detached from the poorest of the poor and would not know how to represent them. In fact, I wager that the overlords amongst them (not the regular users) may not know how to connect with the average rural dweller. Very few would argue with me that they are more interested in the political fortunes of their handlers. Yes, you heard me right-handlers. I put it to Nigerians that this administration cannot be vulnerable to the antics of these mercenaries for the simple reason that the Jonathan administration has connected with the masses who form the bulk of the electorate that gave it its mandate in the first instance. When this administration revived the railways, many critics said these trains were not the most modern trains. You can see from this type of thinking a validation of my arguments that these Social Media mercenaries are disconnected from the masses of Nigerians. If they are not, why would they criticize a man who has given food to starving people because the food was not prepared by a gourmet chef? If you had no trains for decades and somebody brought you trains, your only thought is that you now have a cheaper alternative to get you from point A to B. When the consumer keeps patronizing the rail services, naturally the law of process will kick in and these trains will eventually be modernized as turnover increases. But here is the thing. Every time a passenger travels from the Lagos Terminus at Iddo to Kano at a cost of 1500 Naira, the President is putting back 10,500 Naira into his pocket which is the saving on the 12,000 Naira he would have spent on a bus ticket to Kano. In the same vein, whenever a Nigerian flies out of Nigeria directly from or to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, the President is putting back sixty thousand Naira that he/she would have spent on connecting flights to either Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja or Kano Airports back into his pocket. It doesn't end there. When an itinerant scholar known as Almajiri goes to school in the newAlmajiri Model schools built by the Jonathan administration in EVERY state of the North, he no longer has to stay under the heavy rays of the sun during the hottest periods of the day. He can then learn and assimilate what he has learnt and with the combination of Eastern and Western education that such schools provide, he is better able to add value to himself, his family, his community and Nigeria. This is the impact of President Jonathan on Nigeria. The essence of that impact is to build up the abilities of the vast majority of the Nigerian masses to the level where they can join those privileged youth on Social Media and speak for themselves rather than have an overlord hand them their opinion. And it is happening right before our very own eyes. Unbeknownst to the overlords, there is a miracle taking place in rural Nigeria called the Conditional Cash Transfer. The Jonathan administration is giving cash to women who go to Federal Government provided health centers for pre and post natal care. If they choose to have their babies in these centers, they get another cash transfer. Many of these rural women are thus enjoying for the first time the better life they have been hearing about since the 1980s. Another miracle occurring right before our eyes is Dry Season farming. For the first time in Nigeria, farmers in arid and semi arid areas are being assisted by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to engage in dry season farming where they had hitherto only farmed during the rainy season. Many people in Nigerian cities are buying roasted and boiled corn as I speak. This is a new phenomenon. It used to be that corn was only available during the corn season. That you are able to buy fresh corn by the road side in March is one of the miracles of Dry Season Farming. Ask yourself how it is possible that Nigeria did not face a food crisis after the 2012 flood disaster that wreaked havoc on much of Nigeria? It was because of the miracle of dry season farming! After the flood, in just one week, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture distributed free of charge, 20,000 metric tonnes of rice seeds. In addition to these, farmers also received another batch of flood resistant rice seeds sourced from the Rice Research Center in the Philippines, a country that has learnt to cultivate rice in spite of their regular annual floods. The end result is that Nigeria's annual food import bill has reduced from 2.3 trillion Naira per annum before 2011 to 1.8 trillion Naira today. This is 500 billion Naira that has remained in Nigeria instead of finding its way to Far East Asia from where we import a lot of our dry staple foods. And I encourage every reader to verify these reports. They are publicly available and you can Google them. Farmers, Almajiri, and rural women may not all presently have access to the Internet and Social Media, but they all have access to and have been touched by the Transformation Agenda and are the major reason why Nigeria's Per Capita Income which was at $1091 in 2009 is $1721 today. (Please see tinyurl.com/y5tfwwd) They are the reason why Average Life Expectancy in Nigeria which was 47 years in 2007 is today 52 years (please see tinyurl.com/yyl5xy2) And they are the reason why I remain unapologetically a supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan and his Transformation Agenda irrespective of what an overlord may say. Reno Omokri is Special Assistant on New Media to President Jonathan. Reno | ||||
| Pics: Ex-Governor Ohakim's daughter Adanna weds David Steineker Posted: 02 Mar 2014 03:33 PM PST  
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| Armed robbers invade Vine Branch Church in Ibadan during service Posted: 02 Mar 2014 02:08 PM PST  According to eyewitnesses, the robbery gang stormed the church around 12noon while the service was going on and after offering and tithes had been collected. The robbers told the congregation to lie on the floor and robbed in an operation that lasted 15 minutes. They took away Tithes/Offering, phones and other items.     |
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