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- Fashola addresses Lagosians on Saturday's governorship election
- Jesse Jagz returns to Chocolate City after three years
- Househelp kidnaps three young boys from their home...
- How big girls roll...(photo)
- Difference Entertainment present Bottles by Sean Tizzle
- Former Senate Majority leader, 2 serving senators dump PDP for APC
- First Lady Patience Jonathan seen today in Okrika, Rivers state
- Oh Maheeda! Singer shows off 'birth mark' around her private area
- Obama makes telephone calls to President Jonathan and Buhari
- Luxury hair extensions and The Hair Laundry Port harcourt
- PDP Queries Buhari’s Indifference To Burning National Issues
- Sitting next to the man who raped and made her pregnant, Afghan woman forced to marry her attacker to avoid prison
- Photos: President Jonathan visits Gen T. Danjuma at his home
- Ini Edo covers April issue of Genevieve magazine...
- Amadak Ubeng Romances Traditional African Practices In 'Under World Heaven'
- This viral photo of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is hilarious
- Man with earphone on crushed to death by train in Lagos this morning
- Kenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected financiers of Al-Shabaab
- 2face Idibia's youngest son with Pero Adeniyi, Innocent Jnr, turns 3
- Samsung Galaxy S5 On Countdown
- Court orders DStv to suspend increase in subscription fees
- Heartbreaking drawings by child survivors of Boko Haram massacre reveal the atrocities they witnessed
- Angry LIB reader shares chat messages between her husband and other women
- He's joined them! Footballer Aaron Samuel poses with wads of dollar bills
- New Video: Ikes ft Maleek Berry - They Know (Wan Mo)
| Fashola addresses Lagosians on Saturday's governorship election Posted: 08 Apr 2015 01:01 PM PDT 
You will also be electing members of the State House of Assembly who will make laws on your behalf to assist the Governor and his team in the Executive arm. Although your votes will be cast for one political party or the other, let me remind you that you will actually be voting for your wellbeing, security, prosperity and future. You will also be voting for the future of your children. You will be choosing candidates and a party that you will entrust your lives to. Think hard, think clearly, think deeply. Ask yourselves a few questions. Who has shown a better record and example of protecting and securing you between the political parties? Which of the parties cares more when disasters happen? What is the record of the parties as it relates to the promises they have made to you in the past? Which of the parties do you see regularly and which one do you see once in a while? Which of the parties do you see when your life or property is threatened by epidemics like Ebola or by unfortunate accidents like plane crashes? Which of the parties is showing that you can become home-owners without knowing anybody? Which party has responsibility for providing electricity for you, and which one is taking up the responsibility to light up your streets and communities at night? Which of them cares more about your children and their safety? Indeed ask yourself; which of the parties threatened you with thugs on that sad Mondayof March 16th and which is seeking to protect you by supporting the police; with patrol vehicles, fuel and other equipment? Ask yourself when last you saw the Federal Fire Service in Lagos. The proud men and women of the Lagos State Fire Service have taken over admirably. Ask yourself who should be supporting the police and who is actually doing it? Dear Lagosians, your choice of who to vote for will be easy if you answer these questions within yourself honestly. Indeed, you have clear choices to make between parties that use your resources to develop your society and community on the one hand, and the party that chooses to bring money to you for distribution when election beckons. So you can choose between schools for your children, hospitals for your community, roads for your transportation or in the alternative, you can choose to have these services monetized once in four years. Remember, that choices have consequences and your vote will decide the choice that shapes your lives. Dear Lagosians, it is tempting to take the right and opportunity to vote for granted. It is tempting to think that it is too much trouble. I agree that the process can be made much easier. But it is no excuse to refuse to vote. Out of 5.8 million registered voters and 3.8 million PVC collections, only about 1.5 million turned out to vote, on the 28th March 2015. Think of all the pain, the effort, the sleepless nights it took to get the PVCs to you. Think of the best way to show that the effort was not wasted or in vain. It seems to me that the best way is to have all these 3.8 Million voters come out to vote. By refusing to vote, you surrender decision making to a few and you will be bound by the consequences of your choices. By refusing to vote, you do a great disservice to many who have lived before you, who fought very hard at great personal costs to themselves, to earn you this right. By refusing to vote, you dishonour the sacrifice of patriots before you who fought for the right to vote. Remember that when they were fighting for the right to vote, they were not fighting for yesterday, they were fighting for today and tomorrow. They have handed today to you and I, can we secure tomorrow for the next generation? Remember that since the capital of Nigeria was moved from Lagos 24 years ago in December 1991, Lagos has been abandoned by the Federal Government. Ask yourself when the last major new road in Lagos was built by the Federal Government. It was the 3rdMainland Bridge completed in 1990. The assets the Federal Government left behind almost became a burden but for our resilience to maintain them. Today the Federal Government is owing Lagos N51 Billion which remains unpaid. This is not in accord with the spirit of the promise made to Lagos when the Federal Government first declared Abuja as the capital in 1976. The Head-of-State at the time, the late Gen Murtala Muhammed, said then and I quote him: "…Lagos will, in the foreseeable future, remain the nation's commercial capital and one of its nerve centres. But in terms of servicing the present infrastructure alone the committed amount of money and effort required will be such that Lagos State will not be ready to cope. (But we have coped at great sacrifice) "It will even be unfair to expect the state to bear this heavy burden on its own. It is therefore necessary for the Federal Government to continue to sustain the substantial investment in the area. The port facilities and other economic activities in the Lagos area have to be expanded. "There is need in the circumstances for the Federal Government to maintain a special defence and security arrangement in Lagos which will henceforth be designated a special area. These arrangements will be carefully worked out and written into the new constitution. Kaduna and Port Harcourt are to be accorded similar status and designated as Special Areas…" Sadly, no Federal Government and indeed not the PDP Government has done anything to redeem that promise for the 16 years it was in power or to protect Lagos. Instead of assisting Lagos, they attacked her. If you remember FERMA, in 2006, the same PDP seized your Local Government money and resisted the attempt to bring Government closer to you by creating more local Governments. On Monday 16thMarch 2015, the same PDP continued in their tradition of assaulting Lagos. Their supporters took over a major road in Lagos and threatened your peace and security. On Wednesday 18thMarch 2015, the President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari came to Lagos and said Lagos will receive compensation for the role she has played in maintaining Federal Government Assets. Yesterday on Tuesday the 7th of April 2015, he was here in Lagos in his first political engagement since he became President-Elect and he reiterated his commitment to support Lagos. This is what I will vote for. This is what I urge you to think about as you vote on Saturday. This is the place that every Nigerian calls his home. It is the home of displaced people. It is the place where the homeless arrive and are made welcome. It is the place where generations of Nigerians have arrived without knowing anybody but have, through the opportunities and inclusion, become somebody. This is the place where the Late Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya and Owelle Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe consummated the handshake across the Niger and played politics without bitterness. Tell those who try to divide us that our greatest strength has always been our diversity. Tell them that you feel safe here, and that I have continuously assured you of your safety as the basis of our mutual co-existence. Tell them that our waterways have been assets of prosperity and sustenance, for transport, recreation and fishing and they will remain so. Let nobody now attempt to re-write that history for you. When they reel out false statistics about Lagos, please ask them the statistics about the places they governed for 16 years. When they reel out statistics, please remind them that those statistics don't stand in isolation, they are the burden of a whole nation and many parts of West Africa that Lagos state bears. When they promise you heaven and earth, remember their broken promises on power, security and many more. Ask them to show you a plan, if they can produce one, which is doubtful, ask them whether they have implemented it elsewhere. Tell them that you have seen the Lagos Development plan for 2012 – 2025, that the Lagos Light Rail Project, the Adiyan Water Works Phase II of 75 Million gallons a day, the solar power for all schools and many more which are part of the plans for you and your children and which are already being implemented. Tell them that you will vote to keep a plan that you can see, that is already working, instead of a plan that you have not seen. Ask them what happened to Vision 20:20, to the 7-Point Agenda and to Transformation. Tell them that your bird in hand will not be traded for a dozen unseen birds in the bush. Tell them that this election is not about money, tell them that it is not about ethnicity and it is not about religion. Tell them that this election is about the place you call your home, the place you earn your living and the place where your investments are the safest. Tell them that you will not play ethnic or religious politics with your survival. Tell them that you will not vote with anger. Tell them that you will vote with common sense and for experience. Tell them that you have seen Lagos survive without Federal support, and you wish to see her flourish with Federal support. That will be the most historic thing you will have done, putting Lagos in the centre with your votes. History and tomorrowbeckons. Don't turn your backs. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN Governor of Lagos State. |
| Jesse Jagz returns to Chocolate City after three years Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:39 PM PDT  |
| Househelp kidnaps three young boys from their home... Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:28 PM PDT  "Our children Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4 years and Demola Orekoya, 6 years are missing! The house help only resumed yesterday, took the kids out at 8am this morning and never returned. What kind of heartless person will do this to a family? Please help us, our hearts are broken, we've cried and cried so much, we don't know what to do anymore. Please if you see these kids kindly call this numbers 08052062117, 09098097935." |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:52 AM PDT  |
| Difference Entertainment present Bottles by Sean Tizzle Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:55 AM PDT Without further delay, Here is the release to the most anticipated video to his banging new single "Bottles". The video shot in South Africa was produced by Uprooted Media and directed by Unlimited LA. Sit back and brace yourselves because this is history in the making!! Enjoy. |
| Former Senate Majority leader, 2 serving senators dump PDP for APC Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:50 AM PDT  |
| First Lady Patience Jonathan seen today in Okrika, Rivers state Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:43 AM PDT  |
| Oh Maheeda! Singer shows off 'birth mark' around her private area Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:30 AM PDT |
| Obama makes telephone calls to President Jonathan and Buhari Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:14 AM PDT  |
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| PDP Queries Buhari’s Indifference To Burning National Issues Posted: 08 Apr 2015 08:55 AM PDT 
"Whereas General Buhari had assured Nigerians that he would be the President of the entire nation and not of a political party, his actions in the last one week show otherwise as he has continued to display sectionalism and insensitivity to matters inimical to the survival of our democracy and wellbeing of Nigerians. "Instead of settling down to plan a smooth transition and design ways of deepening democracy in appreciation of the mandate given to him, General Buhari has tacitly encouraged his men to foment crisis and cause panic in the bid to muzzle personal freedom and impose a reign of terror in the land. "For instance, Gen. Buhari has remained indifferent to the crisis in Ekiti where outgoing APC lawmakers who are supposed to be campaigning for the renewal of their mandates on Saturday have been mobilized to Oshogbo in Osun state by the APC to perfect an ignoble plot to remove a democratically elected government in the state. "APC's ambition in Ekiti coupled with its odious triumphalism in the aftermath of the Presidential election have led to avoidable confrontations and near breakdown of law and order in the state as the people rise to defend the mandate freely given to the PDP. "In continuation of this display of arrogance in victory, Buhari's men in Lagos have dragged the revered traditional institution into the political fray with the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwanu Akiolu threatening death to supporters of the PDP, an action that has brought outrage from Nigerians with General Buhari playing the ostrich. "It is indeed unfortunate that while his men are causing crisis and threating Nigerians, General Buhari, instead of calling them to order displays his insensitivity by jetting around the country campaigning for his party. "If this sort of insensitivity and arrogance of victory are foretaste of what to expect in a Buhari presidency, then our dear nation and its people are headed for a long trek in the wilderness", the statement said. Meanwhile, the PDP in reaction to reports of defection from its fold described the defectors as political Trojans, who from within have ceaselessly worked against the interest of the party and now fear that they would face sanctions for their actions. Stating that it would not miss such fair weather members, the party commended the courage and steadfastness of all its supporters and members who have remained committed to the course and urged them to go a step further by emulating Senate President David Mark and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu in speaking out publicity in favour of the PDP, its ideals and visions of the founding fathers. The PDP said adequate machinery is already in motion to reorganize and to reposition itself to regain power in the next four years since it is obvious that the APC lacks what it takes to effectively lead the nation. It therefore called on Nigerians to use the Saturday's election to demonstrate their commitment to democracy by voting enmasse for the PDP bearing in mind that a vote the party is a vote for the unity and stability of the country. Signed: Olisa Metuh National Publicity Secretary |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2015 08:45 AM PDT  Talking to CNN about her life, Gulnaz said she only agreed to marry her rapist so that her daughter - named Smile could live a shame-free life in the Afghan capital's 'traditional' society. 
And through out the interview, she refused to look her husband in the eye. The man, Asadullah - who was jailed for the rape in 2008 but later released, said the woman owed her freedom to him.
Asadullah is still married to Gulnaz's first cousin - with whom he has five children. |
| Photos: President Jonathan visits Gen T. Danjuma at his home Posted: 08 Apr 2015 08:09 AM PDT   |
| Ini Edo covers April issue of Genevieve magazine... Posted: 08 Apr 2015 07:53 AM PDT   Photography: Yetunde Baba Eko. Make-up: Bimpe Onakoya... |
| Amadak Ubeng Romances Traditional African Practices In 'Under World Heaven' Posted: 08 Apr 2015 07:38 AM PDT   The last time I had the opportunity to dine with few international writers in Zurich, we discussed on the need to encourage African writers who have passion for fantasy and sci fi genre. I knew it was going to be difficult with most young Nigerian writers looking up to genres of the likes of Adichie but I always knew there was going to be an exception.My favorite African fantasy writer is now Amadak Ubeng. The writer of the much awaited "under world heaven". A book that flows realism from fantasy and fantasy from realism. A newer style of writing and a splash of dark intriguing experiences. Below are two excerpts, two invoking excerpts, drawn out of a darker artistic build. 'If after the first month she gains weight, they would proceed to the second step and that is teaching her how to please her husband in every way, house chores and what was needed taught. It was an education of some sort. By the end of the second month she would gain more weight, even more than before. Then the last step would begin: The circumcision. It was a horrific sight, a sight that would give you sleepless nights' "Sometimes in life, unimaginable, unbelievable and unpredictable things happen and set mouths questioning, heads thinking and minds wondering why and how it happened. This just brings to mind a thought about my past life I'm about to lay open. Figuratively, I'm as old as the hills and as young as the most beautiful wish of your heart. These things you are about to read may sound absurd and this is not a hoax. It is real because it happened to me and I will tell you how it happened and let you be the judge. This is my story"……… One introduces your senses and expectations and the other a tiny drop of relatable taboo topics, practices, cherished and nurtured by certain traditions and cultures. The underworld heaven is due for world wide release in May and would be lunched in three major cities, although unofficial from the publishers, Onuk interactive inc. a company that promotes traditional African history and practices in form of art. As a way of honoring the underworld communities in Africa, the major drive of this fiction is the usage of real cult symbolisms. To get more quotes from Amadak Ubeng's under world heaven, follow her for updates: Twitter: www.Twitter.com/OfficialAmadak Facebook: www.Facebook.com/AmadakUbeng Website: www.Amadakubeng.com |
| This viral photo of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is hilarious Posted: 08 Apr 2015 07:22 AM PDT  |
| Man with earphone on crushed to death by train in Lagos this morning Posted: 08 Apr 2015 07:22 AM PDT  A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who was inside the train reports that the man was standing on the rail track oblivious to the fast approaching train. The NAN correspondent reports that the Ogun-Lagos-bound mass transit train was leaving its Oshodi station to Mushin when the accident occurred. The train had as usual, sounded its horn repeatedly as it was approaching the railway crossing at Ilupeju Bye-pass for clearance of its track. According to an eyewitness, the man who had his earphone on was apparently carried away with either the call he was receiving or listening to music.
NAN reports that people standing by the rail track that saw the incident raised their hands over their heads in a show of pity for the deceased.
NAN reports that it was not the first time a moving train would crush to death people standing on the rail track because of having their earphones on. Among them was a lady in 2006, killed at Shogunle GRA railway crossing, while another one was killed in 2007 at Oshodi. Source: NAN |
| Kenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected financiers of Al-Shabaab Posted: 08 Apr 2015 07:00 AM PDT  According to the spokesperson of Kenya's Interior Ministry, Mwenda Njoka, the move is designed to choke the flow of money to the Islamist terror group Al-Shabab. Owners of the 86 accounts have also been put on a government watch list. Al-Shabab has carried out multiple attacks in Kenya in recent years, and has warned that more will come unless Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia. |
| 2face Idibia's youngest son with Pero Adeniyi, Innocent Jnr, turns 3 Posted: 08 Apr 2015 06:41 AM PDT  "Mennnnnnn like play like play this my little charmer just turned 3yrs 2day! HbD 2 Innocent Idibia jnr. The lord will protect and guide your footsteps always my son" |
| Samsung Galaxy S5 On Countdown Posted: 08 Apr 2015 06:25 AM PDT  |
| Court orders DStv to suspend increase in subscription fees Posted: 08 Apr 2015 06:24 AM PDT  The restraining order was given at the court following a class action suit filed by two Lagos-based lawyers, Osasuyi Adebayo and Oluyinka Oyeniji, challenging the increase. The judge said there should be no increase until the court meets on April 16th to hear the case. |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2015 08:48 AM PDT |
| Angry LIB reader shares chat messages between her husband and other women Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:50 AM PDT   Dear LIB readers, I have always thought my husband was faithful until I saw this in his FB box. We have been married and blessed with 2kids and he acts like a saint all the time. I am shocked at this and more upset because the conversations are with both married and single ladies. What can I do in a situation like this? Do I just stay mute and move on like nothing happened or talk to him about it. Even if I do. I know his still going to deny it..   |
| He's joined them! Footballer Aaron Samuel poses with wads of dollar bills Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:30 AM PDT  |
| New Video: Ikes ft Maleek Berry - They Know (Wan Mo) Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:29 AM PDT UK based Nigerian artist Ikes has unveiled his latest single 'They Know (Wan Mo)" Featuring Maleek Berry'. The infectious new single was also produced by Maleek Berry who was behind Ike's previous singles 'Let It Go' and 'GirlTalk' ft Jermaine Riley & Scorcher. "They Know" is definitely a new direction for both artists as it showcases both artists in a new light; Ikes, tapping more into his Nigerian/Igbo roots but still maintaining his London street, hip-hop edge and Maleek Berry showcasing his vocal skills and catchy melodies for the first time. The energetic single is a refreshing take on the African sound with a hip-hop twist to it and is surely set to light every street corner and nightclub on fire this year. Produced by ......@Maleekberry  SOUNDCLOUD - http://soundcloud.com/ TWITTER - http://twitter.com.com/ FACEBOOK - http://facebook.com/ INSTAGRAM - @IkesOnTheReal |
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