Tuface Signs Sir Victor Uwaifo To Hypertek Digital

2face Idibia has announced the signing of prolific and veteran Nigerian musician Sir Victor Uwaifo to his new record label HyperTek Digital.

The announcement was made on November 30, 2013 at Club Rumours, Ikeja, Lagos. The details of the deal have not been disclosed but we know Uwaifo will be releasing new music under the label.

‘To belong to the artistes in HyperTek is my joy. I have the propensity to change. If you say it’s Jazz, I’ll play Jazz. If you say it’s Hip-Hop, I’ll play it‘, Uwaifo said at the unveiling.

‘My manager and I Efe Omorogbe, we’ve been talking about it for quite some time and we just decided to go for it. Sir Victor Uwaifo was really forthcoming and he was down with the idea and here we are today‘, 2face explains the reasons for the signing.

Uwaifo joins Pop artiste Dammy Krane and dancehall act Rocksteady as the fourth official artiste under the label. No other artistes have been announced for now.

The deal comes shortly after HyperTek rebranded and sold some shares to a parent company 960Music, founded by former Spinlet boss Eric Idahi.

Uwaifo is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor, born in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria in 1941. His best-known song, is ‘Guitar Boy. a huge hit in 1966. He also served as commissioner for arts and culture in Edo State under the government of Lucky Igbinedion.

Asuu Strike Latest: We Have No Business With Minister - Asuu

The Chairman of ASUU at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, on Thursday said that the lecturers were not bothered by the federal government’s one week ultimatum to return to class which it issued yesterday.
Speaking with journalist yesterday in Nsukka, Abada said the union has no business with the minister who issued the order but with President Jonathan, adding that the order cannot work.

“It is unfortunate that the minister thinks that he can use his office to threaten lecturers. The December 4 ultimatum to lecturers to resume work or risk being sacked cannot work,’’ Abada said.

According to Abada, the minister was issuing a ‘military order’ rather than seek ways of settling things amicably with the lecturers.

Also reacting to the ultimatum, the immediate past chairman of the branch, Prof. Aloysius Okolie, described the ultimatum as unfortunate and an act of over-zealousness.

“Let the minister go ahead and sack all the lecturers in the country if he has such powers.

“The minister wants to start a fight he cannot finish,” said Okolie, who is also a senior lecturer in the department of political science.

He said it was against labour laws for the government to use the instrument of starvation on striking workers by invoking no-work, no-pay policy

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Checkout Yvonne Ekwere's Ankara's Gift To Rapper Wale And His Respone When Asked Which God He Serves

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Asuu Strike Update: Asuu Leaders Relocates From Abuja To Annul FG Threat

Following threats from the Federal Government,
leaders of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) yesterday relocated from
Abuja to their various campuses in readiness
for expected crackdown.
It was gathered that President Goodluck
Jonathan might no longer be directly involved in
negotiation with the lecturers because he is
angry angry with ASUU leaders for three
reasons, namely their contempt for the office
of the President, their decision to issue new
conditions and their alleged backing by some
external forces.
Investigation revealed that after spending
almost a week in Abuja for the resumption of
talks, the ASUU leaders were left with no
option but to go back to their various
campuses.
It was learnt that the leaders felt disappointed
that in spite of the fact that they had avoided
making the negotiation talks a media affair, the
Federal Government bungled the opportunity to
wrap it up.
A top leader of ASUU, who spoke in confidence,
said: “Our leaders have returned to their
campuses. They were disappointed with the
Area Boy or Agbero method adopted by the
Minister.
“The military style of the Minister of State for
Education will only compound the situation.
“So, we are back to our trenches as it was the
situation during the military era. We are ready
for the worst now.
“If the situation becomes uncontrollable, we will
also go underground and resort to guerilla
tactics.”
There were indications yesterday that the
Federal Government might level sabotage
allegation against the lecturers if they remain
unyielding and the strike paralyses universities.
A senior government official, who confided with Journalist, said: “We hope that they will not
overreach their bounds, because what they
have done in the last four months amounted to
economic sabotage.
“If they continue to take the law into their
hands by paralysing activities in the
universities, we may try them for economic
sabotage. This is also the extreme end the
government may go too.
“Let them study the enabling laws to see what
they have been violating. We are not yet
disposed to wielding the big stick, but if the
government is pushed to the wall, it will invoke
relevant laws to manage the situation. We are
waiting for what they will do.”
Top ASUU leaders were said to have been
placed under security watch at the time of
filing this report.
A different source said: “All the security
agencies have been directed to protect lives
and property on all the campuses nationwide,
especially in the universities that have
reopened.
“Union leaders are also under watch to prevent
recourse to self-help, which may lead to
wanton destruction of property.
“The government will not tolerate any
intimidation or harassment, and any violent
union leader risks being arrested. But those
who restrict themselves to the confines of the
law have nothing to fear.”
A government source yesterday said that
President Goodluck Jonathan might no longer
be directly involved in negotiation with ASUU to
preserve the Office of the President.
A government source said: “We are trying to
insulate the Office of the President from further
negotiation with ASUU if at all the union will
allow such or there will be room for such.
“We think relevant ministers and the Committee
of Pro-Chancellors/Vice-Chancellors should be
able to handle the rest of the talks/
negotiation.”
According to investigation, the December 4,
2013 ultimatum given by the Minister of State
for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, followed the
directive of the Presidency.
The government source added: “The President
is angry because he over-indulged ASUU
leaders. It is only in Nigeria you see the
President sitting for 13 hours with union
leaders on any issue and at the end of the day,
there will be no courtesy from the union.
“While the President was expecting feedback
from ASUU leaders within 72 hours, they kept
him in suspense for two weeks or more.
“And instead of feedback on where the talks
stopped, ASUU leaders came up with fresh
conditions when even during the negotiation,
they admitted that some of the clauses in 2009
agreement cannot be implemented.
“The President is human. He now has every
cause to believe that the strike action seems to
have the backing of external forces seeking to
bring his administration down. That was why
he decided to come down hard on ASUU too.”

My Parent Were So Poor And Couldn't Bring Me Home - Wale

Nigerian/American rapper , wale revealed why he was yet to come to Nigeria until now. The rapper said his parent were so poor that other were leaving in a projest at DC and $20,000 annual income couldn't afford bringing him down to Nigeria.....Thank God for his life now

Brandy Set To Storm Nigeria Tomorrow !

American R&B Singer Brandy is set to be in nigeria come this tomorrow,  December 1st 2013 to perform at the Face of Sofa 2013

The event will take place at the Thisday Dome, Abuja the federal capital, and will be host by Jara Tv presenters, Actor and Model Uti Nwachukwu and Comedienne Helen Paul.

This is not the first time Brandy has been in nigeria, infact this will be her second time. She came sometime in 2011 for a performance at the Project Fame West African Launch held in Lagos in 2011.
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I like Confident Guys - karen Igho

Fashionista Karen igho came out in a recent interview with punch of what he likes in men and what she thinks about cleavage exposure and all that, check her response below

What do you admire in a man?

Confidence. If a man is decked up from head to toe in a designer label but lacks confidence, then he is lacking the most important fashion accessory of them all. Arrogance should not be confused for confidence though. There’s a very thin line and it should not be crossed.

What is your take on cleavage exposure and ladies wearing skimpy and tight dresses?

Whatever rocks anybody’s boat; anything that makes anyone happy, the person should go for it. Who am I to judge? So far they feel comfortable in the dress and they are rocking the dress properly, that is okay for them.

PHOTO: What Could Eniola Badmus Be Doing In This Photo?

Nollywood Actress, Eniola Badmus  shared this photo on his instagram page and even stated it clearly that something is hidden in the photo, meanwhile here is a lighter laying on her table, could she be we*ding or what else could the lighter be doing there?

Saheed Balogun Drags Fathia To Court Over Name

Few years ago, Saheed Balogun reportedly said he would soon stop his ex wife, Fathia Balogun, from using his name.

Saheed was quoted to have said “She is my ex. As for my name that she is still answering, the deed will be done soon. The Nigerian law says that after three or four years, you can do something about it. If somebody wants to keep my name, what of the new person coming in? This has nothing to do with grudges.”

And now, it looks as if Saheed is set to do something about his threat.

A reliable source informed Saturday Beats that the actor had taken his ex to court insisting that she drop his name.

Recall also that Fathia had also reportedly boasted in an interview last year, that nobody could stop her from using her name.

Fathia had said, “I laugh, my name is Fathia Balogun and it’s going to remain Balogun; nobody can ever change that and nobody can stop me from answering that name.”

When Saturday Beats contacted Saheed over the recent development, the actor chose to be evasive.

“I have told you that I don’t like talking about my private life. I will talk about my new project. Go and meet those people telling you about this story,” he said.

Several calls were also made to Fathia Balogun, she didn’t respond. A text message was sent to her, she didn’t respond.

Asuu Strike Latest: FG Deploys Policemen To Federal Universities To Effect Resumption Order

The tussle between the academic staff Union of Nigerian university and the federal government has taken a new twist as the federal government has fully resolved to use force, check below as reported by punch

The Federal Government has directed the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to deploy policemen to all federal universities in the country  in its bid to ensure  resumption of academic activities in universities on or before December 4.

Saturday PUNCH learnt this development was disclosed  at  an emergency meeting   the Federal Government held  with  all vice-chancellors of federal universities at the National Universities Commission building in Abuja on Friday. The Acting Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, and the Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof Julius Okojie, were also at the meeting.

Though Friday’s meeting was held behind closed door, a source at the meeting who craved anonymity because he was not authorised to speak with the press, told Saturday PUNCH  that the Federal Government  directed the IG  to draft policemen to federal universities to prevent members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities from disturbing some of their members that might want to resume work in line with government’s directive.

The meeting, Saturday PUNCH further learnt, also  discussed other  modalities for calling off the bluff of ASUU whose members  have been on strike for over five months.

The Friday meeting began at 9am and lasted for two hours. Part of the meeting’s deliberations, Saturday PUNCH gathered, also centred on how to recruit new lecturers to fill the space of ASUU members who might refuse to obey government’s  directive.  Also, the vice-chancellors were directed to call students back to campus on Sunday in preparation  for academic activities which should start on Monday.

Wike, had on Thursday  ordered  lecturers to resume duties on or before December 4 or face being sacked summarily by the Federal Government.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that already Okojie had been mandated to  start the process of recruiting new lecturers by placing vacancy adverts in international journals and media.

Also, the vice-chancellors were directed  to open registers in their institutions where ASUU members that resume work would sign so that those who failed to resume could be sacked.

Saturday PUNCH further learnt that the Federal Government was planning to adopt the Ghanaian method where lecturers were asked to re-apply for their jobs after two years of strike.

“Not all lecturers are members of ASUU. Most professors don’t belong to the union,  people think every lecturer in public university is a member of ASUU, which is not true. Government means business this time around and it is going to call  off the bluff of ASUU,’’ the source explained.

Nigerian universities are currently in need of at least 30,000 lecturers because of acute shortage of lecturers in the university system..

There are also indications that the Federal Government and university lecturers may be   heading for a clash as the  December 4 deadline given by the Federal Government for the lecturers to return to work is also the date set aside by ASUU to bury a former President of the union, Prof. Festus Iyayi.

Iyayi died in a ghastly auto accident along the Abuja-Lokoja Road when the vehicle in which he was travelling had a collision with the convoy of Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State on November 12, 2013.

The former ASUU chairman was on his way to Kano to attend a crucial meeting of the union which was called to deliberate on the Federal Government’s offer to the lecturers.

The Federal Government had claimed it decided to go tough on ASUU because the union made fresh demands  in its letter to the government as  a condition for calling  off the lingering strike action.

ASUU had demanded payment of the four-month salary arrears of its members from July when the strike commenced and the release  of N200bn that President Goodluck Jonathan promised to inject into the university system within the next two weeks.

The union also said the agreement reached between it and the Federal Government  should be signed by the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federation.

Though  the  President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Faggae,  refused to pick his calls and also did not respond to a text message  sent to him on the latest development, the  Enugu State Police Command confirmed that its men had been directed to man universities  to quell any protest that might result from the Federal Government’s order on lecturers to resume work on or before Wednesday.

The command told Saturday PUNCH  that police officers had also  been directed to be stationed at the universities  to forestall any disturbance from various groups or lecturers on Monday.

“There is no cause for alarm and we are combat ready in the event of any violence or disturbance,” the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, said.

Also, the Police Public Relations Officer, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Etim Dickson, confirmed that the police had been mandated to provide security for lecturers that want to resume work against molestation by their other colleagues, who may not want them to do so.

“We are not going to their houses to force them to come and teach in the universities. Even though the Federal Government has taken a stance, we are not in the military rule to molest lecturers,” he said.

But reacting to the latest development, the Chairman, ASUU, UNIBEN chapter, Emina-Monye, said ASUU members were not bothered about government’s   latest  strategy.

He said, “They can go ahead with that. We are not perturbed. Let them call the police; let them advertise vacant positions and see how many international scholars will want to accept what Nigerian university lecturers are taking- let them go ahead.”

Also, ASUU branch at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said government’s directive  was an attempt to waste students’ time.

The UNIUYO ASUU Chairman, Dr. Nwachukwu Anyim, said in Uyo on Friday that Nigeria was no longer in  a military era  and so  lecturers could not  be coerced by anybody to work against their wish. He said, We will see how they will come to our homes and force us to resume work.

“Only the Federal Government  can tell the world what it has  in mind. We have a shortfall of 60,000 lecturers in the university system. If they are advertising this one, it means they must have an idea of where they are going to put them, and they must be people who are going to work without equipment.”

However, the University of Nigeria chapter of ASUU  on Friday said its members would not resume work  until their demands are met.

The UNN-ASUU also described the Minister of Education,  Wike, as a “tout”.

The union, however, told Saturday PUNCH that it won’t react officially to Wike’s order until President Goodluck Jonathan speaks.

“We have not heard from the President, so we cannot speak officially on the matter. It would be senseless to begin to react to a statement from Wike since he is a tout,” said Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, Chairman of UNN-ASUU.

Abada said that Wike’s order cannot hold and vowed that ASUU would unleash terror if the minister attempts to carry out the order.

“We stopped the late General Sani Abacha, so stopping Wike and these bloody civilians won’t be any problem to us,” Abada vowed.

Also, the Nigeria Labour Congress on Friday  described the action of Wike as hasty.

The  Acting General Secretary of the NLC, Mr. Chris Uyot, said in a telephone interview with  one of our correspondents  that Wike ought to have considered the circumstances that delayed the leadership of ASUU  from getting their resolutions to the government.

Uyot said that ASUU was not able to get the resolutions of the NEC meeting to the Federal Government because of the death of Iyayi.

Reacting to the latest development, Mr Femi Falana [SAN], said  President Goodluck Jonathan should call Wike  to order in the interest of the education system..

.He said  If Wike had familiarised himself with FG/ASUU face-off in the past two decades, even under the defunct military junta, he would have discovered that ASUU members had never been cowed to submission.

He said, “In 1992, the Ibrahim Babangida junta fired all lecturers and threatened to eject them from their official quarters. When the lecturers defied the junta a decree was promulgated which made strike by teachers a treasonable felony. ASUU also ignored the obnoxious decree  and called off the bluff of the military dictators. But at the end of the day it became clear to the regime that universities could not be run like military barracks. Hence the junta swallowed its pride, withdrew its empty threats and decided to honour the Agreement which it had rejected.’’

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Must Read! No Business Like Church Business - Nigerian Pastor

A Nigerian entrepreneur has appeared on Dragon’s Den, a reality television programme in which budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi-millionaires willing to invest their own cash.

The eloquent young man who introduced himself as Pastor Jonah, wanted two hundred and fifty thousand pounds to start a new Pentecostal church, and promised returns of 500% within the first three years.

Producers of the series described the recently filmed episode as featuring the most incredible idea ever brought to the show.

They said of the Nigerian entrepreneur, “He was very confident and very smartly dressed in an Armani suit. He was charismatic and extremely knowledgeable of the Bible, and he appeared to have really done his research.”

His opening line was, “Brothers and sister, the Lord has brought me here today to tell you that there is no business like church business.” In the episode which will air next season, the entrepreneur defends his business case by presenting data gathered from churches in Nigeria where he plans to setup his own church.

In a tense moment when he is being grilled by Theo Paphitis, he asks the Dragons a rhetorical question, “How many of you own private jets?”

“You don’t want to miss this one,” a member of the production crew disclosed this

She however declined to comment on the outcome of the pitch, saying instead, “Let’s just say, the Dragons know a good investment when they see one.”

Why Actress Uche Iwuji's One Year Marriage Crashed

It is a tale of another Nollywood marriage hitting the rocks as actress, Uche Iwuji’s  marriage is said to have crashed like a pack of cards.

Reports had it that the actress who had a baby boy in August this year, got married to a London based Nigerian businessman, Juwon Lawal, late last year. Their marriage has been experiencing hiccups in recent times, and when the center could no longer hold, the couple decided to go their separate ways. Insiders say the couple could not come to terms with lots of irreconcilable differences, coupled with Uche’s alleged past dalliances with men, which could not be completely forgotten as such stories kept cropping up, putting a lot of strain in their union.
A close friend of the actress hinted that Uche had always been unlucky when it comes to love and her  past relationships with former Super Eagles defender and captain, Joseph Yobo and one other Spanish based Nigerian man was not fruitful.

Asuu Strike Update: FG Order Will Worsen Strike Action - Asuu

Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities [ASUU], Calabar Zone, has reacted angrily to the order to return to the classrooms issued to them by the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, saying that the action would worsen the strike action rather than solving the problem.
ASUU accused the minister of deceiving  President Jonathan on the crisis, alleging that Wike and some other unnamed officials of the Government did not want the lingering problem between the union and the Federal Government to be resolved.
According to the zonal coordinator of ASUU Calabar zone, Dr. Charles Ononuju, with such threat the crisis would linger far longer than expected.
In a statement in Umuahia,. Ononuju said that the union received with shock the pronouncement by the supervising minister, saying the crisis could not be resolved that way.
“We received with shock the pronouncement of by the Supervising Minister of Education, Wike, that lecturers should resume work or be sacked”, Ononuju said.
He said that the union had gone far with discussion on how to resolve the crisis and was waiting for President Goodluck Jonathan’s reply to their letter after their meeting when the minister came up with the “unfortunate” pronouncement.
“Sacking lecturers will not solve the problem but will compound it. Wike should resign and come to the university and teach. This is not the way to go if they go this way, the crisis will not be resolved in the next 100 years”, he warned.

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Asuu Strike Update: Asuu Denies Fresh Demand Claims By FG

Information reaching us is that the leadership of the striking Nigerian lecturers has denied the fresh demand claims in the letter sent to Mr President, which means the federal government is only trying make asuu lose support of the masses.......more details coming soon

Peter Okoye Speaks On Family Reaction To His Marriage

Peter Okoye in a new interview with Encomium has denied the stories that his family members were not in support of his marriage to wife Lola.
Or that that was the reason his elder brother Jude didn’t attend his wedding.

In the chat, Peter said:

    Is there any iota of truth in the tale that your family didn’t support the wedding?

    That is very far from being the truth. I saw some of those reports and was full of laughter. Everybody is just laughing because the reports are like comedy to us. Honestly, there is no iota of truth in the rumour. But it’s one of the prices you pay as a celebrity, so I remain focused.

    How would you describe your wife?

Honestly, she is a wonderful woman. She has virtually all the qualities that every man would want in his ideal woman. She’s caring, loving, God-fearing, hard working – just name it, that’s my wife for you.

    What are the sterling qualities that endeared her to your heart?

I just said that now. No man will not want to spend the rest of his life with a woman that possesses the qualities I mentioned.

    Why was the wedding delayed till now despite having all it takes to be a husband?

The truth is that we have always known that the wedding will come up. We just didn’t want to rush things unnecessarily. We waited for the right time.

    Entertainers are not used to keeping one woman, how is your own case going to be different?

Entertainers don’t keep one woman? I don’t think so.

Asuu Strike Latest: So Far, So Bad

July 1, 2013: ASUU began a nationwide strike over alleged Federal Government’s refusal to implement the agreement between it and the union over unpaid entitlements.
August 6: The Federal Government team led by Benue State Governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam had a failed meeting with ASUU officials at the office of the SGF as the teachers insisted on the implementation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement.
August 18: Meeting between striking university lecturers and the Federal Government ended without a resolution of the crisis.
August 20: Jonathan met with the Federal Government’s officials engaged in the negotiation with ASUU at the Presidential Villa, decided to lead another negotiation with the leadership of the union.
August 20: FG approves N400 billion for infrastructural development in Nigerian universities.
Aug 20: ASUU threatened to pull out from the Presidential Committee on the Implementation of the Committee of Needs Assessment of Nigeria public Universities, CNANU.
August 23: The  Federal Government reached agreement with ASUU to deploy N100 billion for the provision of infrastructure on campuses of 61 universities covered in the needs assessment .
August 28: National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the union’s leadership to resolve their differences or face serious consequences.
October 24: Senate mandated its leadership to wade into ASUU strike by meeting the Federal Government and the ASUU executives
November 4: Senate President, Senator David Mark met with the leadership of ASUU, but no resolution to end strike.
November 5: President Goodluck Jonathan in 13-hour  marathon meeting with the leadership of ASUU in conjunction with representatives of the NLC and TUC.
November 12: Prof. Festus Iyayi, former ASUU President died on his way for ASUU meeting in Kano.
November 23:  ASUU NEC members agreed that before calling off its strike government should pay the four-month salary arrears being owed varsity lecturers.
November 26: Management of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki resolved to reopen the school after ASUU fails to call off strike.
November 26: Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities  called for the immediate re-opening of all shut down universities across the country.
November 28: Federal Government gives ASUU ultimatum to call off strike in one week or face expulsion.

Credit: Vanguard

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Comedian Ay And Wife Celebrates 5th Wedding Anniversary Today!

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Soldiers And Police Chased Buhari, Tinubu From INEC Office

A combined team of security operatives including soldiers and riot policemen on Thursday stopped the leaders of the All Progressives Congress from gaining entrance to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja.

The leaders were on a peaceful protest march against the commission’s handling of the November 16 Anambra State governorship election and other forms of electoral irregularities in the country.

As early as 8.30 am, members of the party across the states had converged on its new secretariat in Wuse 2 in the Federal Capital Territory where a strategic meeting which lasted over three hours was held ostensibly to map out ways to go about the planned protest.

Although none of the rebel governors was present, the APC leaders took to the streets and embarked on a walk protest to INEC’s office in Maitama Distict.

They however met a stiff resistance from stern-looking security operatives from a combined team of the police, army, State Security Services  and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier with Registration Number NPF 6359 C measuring about 40 feet long was used to barricade the entrance to the commission’s office, while the driver of the truck (a police officer, with the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police) was pelted with sachets of pure water by the APC youths.

But despite this resistance, the party members stole the show and left their message.

Those in attendance at the protest march included the party’s national leader and a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd);  ex- Governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Niyi Adebayo;  a former member of the House of Representatives and Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network, Otunba Dino Melaye; and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba.

Others are a former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Sani Yerima; a former national Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai; Senator Oluremi Tinubu; a member of the House of Representatives, Ms. Abike Dabiri; Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajiabiamila; Mr. Pally Iriase, among others.

In their separate speeches, Akande, Tinubu; Onu and Buhari demanded the sacking of INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega with immediate effect because of his roles in the Oguta election in Imo State and the recent Delta State senatorial election.

In his speech, Tinubu said the party leadership came “to serve warning signal to INEC.”

He said, “As an institution,  INEC does not represent the interest of Nigeria. They are all compromised electoral officers. They have committed criminal offences by rigging elections in Nigeria. The electoral commissioners represent 90 per cent of card-carrying members of PDP. We are calling for the dissolution of INEC immediately.

“With the amendment of the electoral law, they have never complied with the Uwais report. They rig, after rigging, because we condone them; they are used in sharing the election, and for the promotion of corruption. We are rejecting in totality the predetermined result of the rigging in Anambra State, the Delta State Senatorial election and the Oguta House House of Assembly election. They thought they would keep us lamenting. No, we are no more in lamentation.”

Tinubu also told the police to beware. “If the Nigeria Police have become the armed wing of the PDP, let us know. That is the way you are behaving. If the Nigerian Army is now demonstrating their patriotic sense to only one party, they should serve us notice and let us know.  This nonsense must stop. APC will stop the rigging.  From now on, you must rig and roast. God bless Nigeria.”

According to Buhari, APC’s letter to INEC was the party’s demand to the institution to “do away with the election in Anambra State that was conducted and calling for the cancellation of the election totally and fixing of another day for the election.”

For Akande, the letter was APC’s protest against the rigging of Anambra State election.

He said, “We are against the rigging of Delta State senatorial election. We are against the rigging of Oguta House of Assembly election. And our coming is to ask Nigerians to support us to stop rigging in Nigeria. There is poverty in Nigeria because of fraud.

Onu said, “The APC will put an end to this. We need free and fair elections in our county. Why is PDP afraid of free and fair elections? Why are they afraid of the people?”

The APC in its letter to INEC chairman signed by Akande stated that prior to the date for the Anambra State governorship election, “the ominous signs of an election that was pre-determined to favour specific interests against the wish of the electorate were already clear.”

The APC therefore demanded “an outright cancellation of the Anambra election, having been marred by serious irregularities and non-compliance with the Electoral Act.”

The party also called on INEC to, among others, “discard the present fake multiple voter registers and produce one authentic voter register that will not disenfranchise any voter and be published 30 days before any election can take place in Anambra State.”

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Asuu Strike Update: Lecturers Dares FG On Ultimatum

Striking university lecturers have called the bluff of the federal government which yesterday gave them a seven-day ultimatum.

The supervising minister of education, Nyesom Wike, ordered the striking lecturers under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resume work on or before December 4, 2013, or face the prospect of being sacked.

Wike, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said government had reviewed the entire situation and come to the conclusion that the continuation of the strike is an attempt by ASUU to sabotage all efforts to address the issues.

He said: “It is amazing, however, that three weeks after the meeting with Mr President, ASUU responded by giving new conditions for suspending the five-month-old strike.

“As a responsible government, we cannot allow the continuous closure of our public universities for this length of time, as this poses danger to the education system.”

He said that, consequently, the federal government has directed that all vice chancellors of federal universities that are currently on strike should immediately reopen for academic and allied activities as directed by their pro-chancellors.

“Any academic staff who fails to resume on or before 4th December, 2013, automatically ceases to be a staff of the institution.

“Vice chancellors should ensure that staff who resume for work are provided with enabling environment for academic and allied activities.”

In a swift reaction to the ultimatum and threat of sack, however, ASUU dared the federal government to carry out its plan to sack university teachers, saying that it will fail.

The union said, with the plan, it has been vindicated that the federal government was not committed to implementing any resolutions it reached with the union.

While reacting to the threat by the government, ASUU national treasurer Dr Ademola Aremu said in Ibadan that the threat did not hold water as it had confirmed the fears that government cannot be trusted.

He said strike is a legal action and that the threat will fail, adding that Nigerian public universities needed 60,000 lecturers owing to failure of government to employ.

ASUU said government was wasting the time of Nigerians and youths in the country by failing to perfect the resolutions and get the strike suspended.

The academic union said it had reasons to be wary following the failure of government to honour its promises to ASUP, resident doctors, and health workers who have suspended their strikes.

ASUU further said the threat was an insult to the sense and sensibilities of Nigerians who were waiting on the federal government for a positive reaction.

Aremu: “With the latest action, the federal government has shown that they are not committed to all they have been saying. We are saying that since we agreed at the meeting that the sum of N200billion is for 2012 and 2013 revitalisation, the federal government should deposit same in the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“We are already in November and December is around the corner. If they don’t do that now, when do they want to do it?. We are saying the non-victimisation clause should be included as agreed while the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement should be included as agreed with

the presidents.

“It is a pity if the federal government is not willing to perfect the resolutions reached with the union. This is why we find it difficult to trust our leaders by their words.

“How can someone be threatening to sack lecturers when universities are already short-staffed by almost 60,000. We are not in a military era. The military tried it and failed. This one will fail again. They can re-open the school. ASUU did not shut down the universities.

“It was the school management that ordered the students to go back home.”

Some university lecturers who reacted to the federal government’s directive said it was a joke.

Dr Oghenekaro Ogbinaka, chairman, University of Lagos branch of ASUU, told NAN that the development was strange and laughable.

He said that this was so, considering the fact that the union was yet to get back to the government, after their deliberations with President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Our reaction is simple. Let us just wait for the seven days to come around. What government has just done shows that they were not committed to the offer they made with the union that had the Trade Union Congress president and the minister of labour in attendance.

“We are not going to fall to that blackmail. Now, which one is better: government acceding to our demands or issuing out threats?

“Honestly, this whole thing ought to have been easily resolved, given the approach taken by President Jonathan, but it is like we want to be taken for granted after all and it is unfair,” he said.

Prof. Oyelowo Oyewo, immediate past dean, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, simply described the development as “a glorified joke and laughable’’.

Oyewo noted that it was funny that one of the parties which had before now been holding dialogue would try to intimidate the other .

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Wyclef Jean, Brandy And Mafikizolo To Storm Nigeria By December

US R&B singer Brandy Norwood will be making her second appearance in Nigeria this December as she is billed to perform in Abuja on December 1, 2013.

The Grammy Award winning act will be performing at the ‘Face of Sofa 2013’ event holding at Thisday Dome. Brandy’s last outing in Nigeria was at the 2011 Project Fame West Africa launch in Lagos. Others billed to perform are Tiwa Savage and Olamide.

Wyclef Jean, a regular visitor, will also be in the country this December. He has been announced as co-host for this year’s Rhythm Unplugged music concert.

Organizers have announced the likes of Nigerian superstars 2face, Psquare, D’banj, Banky W, Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Ice Prince, Dr Sid as well as South African duo Mafikizolo.

Asuu Strike Update: FG Orders Asuu Back To Work, Gives One Week Ultimatum

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been given one week ultimatum to call off the ongoing strike.
The directive was given today, in Abuja by the acting Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike while speaking with journalists.
The union has been on strike since July 1 over the non Implementation of a 2009 agreement with the federal government.

According to reports, the lecturers at their NEC meeting last week in Kano, demanded that government should pay the four-month salary arrears being owed varsity lecturers while there should be immediate implementation of the N1.2tn offerred by the goverment to public varsities, starting with the release of N100bn this year, before the strike can be called off.
A demand the acting Minister Wike had described as ,”outrageous.”
Meantime, ASUU had said it would meet with President Jonathan on the decisions reached at its NEC meeting before any announcement will be made concerning the 5months old strike.

Female Fan Goes Topl*ss For Olamide

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Khloe Kardashian To Pay Lamar Odom $10,000 To End Marriage

Lamar Odom is demanding $10million to end his 4-year marriage to Khloe Kardashian!

Sources say the troubled NBA star has also taken a page out of his fellow hoopster Kris Humphries’ playbook by demanding Khloe’s $875,000 engagement ring back before he’ll agree to zip his lips about the K-clan’s secrets. Humphries got Kim Kardashian to return her $2 million engagement ring as part of their divorce agreement following their 72- day marriage in 2011. Odom, 34, laid out his conditions after “momager” Kris Jenner ordered Khloe, 29, to sit down with their attorneys and hammer out a divorce deal, an insider says.

“Kris and Khloe are very worried about Lamar. He’s a loose cannon, and he has a lot of dirt on the family and nothing to lose,” a source told The ENQUIRER. “He knows all about their extreme surgery procedures – when, how often and how much – and the pressure put on the younger girls to follow suit.”

“Lamar is also prepared to destroy Khloe’s reputation by discussing their s*x tape, and how she targeted him and tore his family apart.”

Meanwhile, with statistics showing the Kardashian family’s popularity is plummeting, matriarch Kris apparently wants the divorce deal done ASAP. “Kris is insisting on a confidentiality agreement to ensure Lamar can never discuss his life with the Kardashians either in print or verbally,” noted the source. “He’s not signing anything until they cough up the dough.”

3 Dead And Many More Damages As 2014 Worldcup Stadium Collapsed

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Three deaths have been reported since part of the stadium that will host the World Cup opener next year has collapsed on Wednesday, November 27. The accident also caused significant damage.

This could also mean a delay in delivering all 12 venues of the Itaquerao Stadium, which was 94 percent completed, by FIFA’s December deadline.

A huge metal structure appears to be buckled atop the stadium. It reportedly destroyed part of the stands in the east side of the venue, and an LED panel installed outside the venue also was hit.

Firefighter officials say at least three people died in the accident, which apparently happened when a crane collapsed on top of the metal structure. Rescue teams are checking the area.

The club that owns the stadium, Corinthians, have just issued a statement on their website, saying, “The board of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista deeply regrets the accident earlier in Corinthians Arena.”

Earlier, Brazil had admitted it is struggling to have all 12 venues ready. Six of Brazil’s stadiums are not yet ready for the World Cup next summer. Construction problems and public protests about the money being spent have delayed the preparations.

On Tuesday, Danny Jordaan, who was behind South Africa’s preparations for the 2010 World Cup, said Brazil might have to start round-the-clock construction work if it was to get things ready for the tournament.....see photos below

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Obama Mentioned Our Names Because We Are Most Relevant - Kanye West

One week after Kanye West said he wasn't going to mention President Barack Obama anymore, West mentioned President Barack Obama.

"The reason why Obama mentioned our name is because we're most relevant," West told radio host Angie Martinez during a radio interview at New York hip-hop station Hot 97. "He just says that because he's trying to be cool. Obama was supposed to be the coolest person on the planet, now he's got to say our names to be cool. It's like a feature. We featured in his interviews right now. They need a feature from us to get relevance."

West made similar comments about the president during another radio interview last week.

I just think that we're pop icons, and the president likes to use that type of thing just to be down. People was fine with me being everyone's punching bag for about five years. "This is the person we love to hate, so if you want to distract people from everything that's going on [...] just say you hate Kanye and there's going be 30 other people who say they hate Kanye." That was kind of my position in culture and he kind of used that too. "Oh, he's a jackass," because that's how the world felt.

In that interview with Philadelphia's Hot 107.9, West revealed he was done discussing President Obama in public. "I'm not gonna mention him no more, I'm passed that," West said. "That's out my thoughts. That's lowering my priority of thinking at this point."

When West was asked by Martinez on Monday if he was concerned someone from the White House would try to suppress his Obama commentary, the 36-year-old rapper seemed nonplussed. "Sometimes, I think about that at night," West said. "It don't matter, because it's still all a distraction. That's all they need and want: a distraction."

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FG To Stop Subsidizing Kerosene, Price To Shoot Up

There are indications that the Federal Government will stop kerosene subsidy in 2014 bringing to an end a scheme that has been widely criticised as corrupt and controversial.

Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that no provision was made for kerosene subsidy in the N4.77tn 2014 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Ministry of Finance sources, who gave the hint, said the budget proposal did not make any provision for kerosene subsidy.

The Federal Government spent N634bn to subsidise the retail price of kerosene in the past three years.

The Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Mr. Dakuku Peterside, who recently condemned this as wasteful spending, also said N110bn was spent on kerosene subsidy in 2010, N324bn in 2011 and N200bn in 2012, which came up to N634bn in the three years.

He said, “In the year 2010, we spent N110,068,533,988 to subsidise kerosene. This is not the cost of kerosene but the cost of subsidising the product alone. In 2011, it got worse and the government spent N324,089,961,319 on kerosene subsidy. Although we have yet to reconcile this, we spent N200bn in subsidising kerosene in 2012.

“So, in three years, we have spent N634bn subsidising kerosene. This is one third of what we spend in a year on capital budget.”

Despite the huge spending on Kerosene subsidy, the masses could not, until recently, buy the product at the regulated price of N40.90k per litre.

They had settled for alternative sources of energy such as firewood, charcoal, sawdust, electricity and gas.

However, this has recently changed as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, through the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association, has been selling kerosene at N50 per litre.

Commenting on this, the President, Nigerian Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association, Mr. Dayo Adeshina, said it would be a welcome idea if kerosene subsidy could be stopped by the government.

He said, “Government needs to take a conscious decision to drive a mass shift from kerosene to LPG as it was done in Indonesia. The Indonesian government took a conscious decision to stop kerosene subsidy, which was gulping $9bn a year. They found that they would only need to invest $2bn in cylinder and cooking stoves to save $7bn.

“We need to get to that level when we will consciously shift from kerosene to LPG and that can only happen with the right government policy.”

Adeshina argued that the N634bn spent on kerosene subsidy had little impact on the masses, saying it enriched only a few people.

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D'banj And Don Jazzy Cooking Up A Collaboration Again!

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Julius Agwu Takes Etisalat To Court For Blocking His Line, Demands N100 Million

Comedian Julius Agwu took Etisalat to court for blocking his business line.
He is demanding for the whopping sum of N100million as compensation for jobs lost, contact lost and all the inconveniences he went through .

Below is a statement from his lawyer, Festus Keyamo…

“We are solicitors to Mr. Julius Agwu, one of Nigeria’s most sought after entertainers (hereinafter referred to as “our client”) and on whose behalf we write.
Our client is the owner of the Etisalat GSM phone number 08189555555, which he uses as his business line. On the 8th of October, 2013, our client travelled out of the country and returned on the 17th of the same month. Upon his return, he tried severally to make calls from the aforestated GSM line but same could not connect.
Not only could he not make calls, he also could not receive calls on the said GSM line. This continued for some days until he got a message that his line had been blocked by the network provider.

Sequel to the above message, our client promptly visited your Abuja office at Hilton to report the matter. He was attended to by one Miss Joan, who informed him that somebody swapped his line. After our client successfully answered the security questions put to him, he was informed that his line had been restored, but the credit balance on the line was not returned.

Surprisingly, our client’s aforestated line was blocked again after he left your said Abuja office. Once again our client visited your office at the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja, Lagos to lodge a complaint, but painfully, nothing was done about it.

However, after sometime, our client was invited for a meeting at your head office in Lagos on the 14th of November, 2013 which he duly honoured.

Present at the meeting (in addition to the officials of your organization) was Mr. Mobolaji Okusaga, the Managing Director of The Quadrant Company, in his capacity as media agents/managers for Etisalat Nigeria.

At the end of the meeting, our client was told for the umpteenth time that they would get back to him, which they again failed to do.

LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
It cannot be over emphasized that your actions of unlawfully blocking and/or swapping our client’s line occasioned loss of business opportunities to him. As you are aware, our client as one of the most sought after Nigerian entertainers needs his phone line to be easily accessible to keep his business going. It therefore goes without saying that our client has lost some business opportunities as a result of your actions.

TAKE NOTICE that we have our client’s firm instruction to demand and hereby demand the sum of N100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira) as compensation for the loss of business opportunities and the inconvenience caused our client by reason of your unlawful and unjustified blocking and/or swapping of our client’s Etisalat GSM phone line.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that in the event that you fail, refuse or neglect to accede to our above stated demand within seven (7) days from the receipt of this letter, we shall be compelled to set in motion against you, all legal machineries necessary to obtain legal remedy for our client.”

Thank you.
Yours sincerely.

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