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Thursday, 5 December 2013

South African president, Jacob Zuma Confirms Mandela's Death

South African President , Jacob Zuma has finally come out to confirm the death of the south African legend , madiba whose death is been carefully reported because of the frequent rumours about his death has now been finally confirmed dead...more details soon

BREAKING: Nelson Mandela Reportedly Dead

Information has it that South Africa and legendary African leader and ex South African President, Nelson Mandela is Dead. Mandela gave up the ghost in his home in South Africa. Madiba survived by wife, children and grand children.

We will keep you updated as soon as we get detailed information but what we can confirm through our source in South Africa is that Mandela is Dead.

Long Live Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013.

Asuu Strike Update: List Of Schools To Pull Out Of Strike And Questions Arising

Now that the academic staff unio of nigerian universities is adamant on the the strike, some schools have decided to pull out of the ongoing strike , one of such schools is uniben while others are UNN, UNIZIK, FUTO, IBBU, EBSU, ESUT, UNIPORT and OAU. As it is now, is asuu winning the battle or loosing and as for the schools resumption, will the academic staffs resume with them ? Considering he fact that the school management are only dancing to the federal government tune......

Asuu Strike Latest: Uniben Joins Schools To Pull Out Of Strike

University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo State has pulled out of the ongoing ASUU Strike and academic calendar modified. UNIBEN is one of many Universities that have pulled out of ASUU Strike. Click on the name of the following schools to see how and when they are pulling of ASUU Strike .

According to an announcement on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the management of UNIBEN has instructed students to resume on 7th December, 2013 for the conclusion of lectures for the session.

A new academic calendar for the 2012/2013 academic session has already been pasted in the school.

Examinations for the session has been scheduled to commence on 6th January 2014.

Students of UNIBEN are advised to adhere to this schedule though its not yet sure if the lecturers will comply with this order. See below for the proposed academic calendar

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PHOTO: Checkout Lady Gaga's All Gold Outfit

It was all gold outfit yesterday when lady gaga stepped out in London.... see below for photo

Toke Makinwa Breaks Up With Boyfriend Of 11yrs

After so many years of relationship with up and downs, toke makinwa's boyfriend has now dumped her, even calling her names after 11 solid years. It's really sad. Toke Makinwa told us few weeks back that she and Maje Ayida are already engaged but they are too busy to plan their wedding. Now we know it was just a longthing

In a bid to cover up, a source said she tried to force her boyfriend of 11yrs, Maje, into a private marriage but the guy did not show up at the venue after everything. Now it is over! See the tweet below...

PHOTO: Check Out What Ronaldo Is Doing To His Girlfriend While Madrid walloped Valladolid

Real Madrid FC’s centre forward Cristiano Ronaldo was spotted at the Bernabeu stadium on Saturday flirting with his stunning Russian girlfriend Irina Shayk as his team walloped Valladolid 4 – 0 in the Spanish La Liga game.

Ronaldo hardly misses a match except when he is injured and seems his injured lay-off was effectively put into another use. The Portuguese winger and his girl took seats in an exclusive member’s area high in the stands and the pair spent more time lustfully looking at each other than the actual goal fest taking place on the pitch.

The couple only had eyes for each other and at some point, theBallon D’or winner was seen wrapping his arms around the Russian model and pulling her closer. Meanwhile Irina appeared to be love-struck as she nestled her head into his well built but clothed chest and seemed delighted.

The Russian model recently topped Maxim Russia’s Hot 100 Women List, an accolade that follows her first place in theHottest Russian Women poll conducted by Complex Magazine.

Sadly, Ronaldo will have to leave his sexy lady love behind as he returns to play next week. He confirmed to reporters, “I no longer have an injury... I am on good form... I will be there for the next game for sure”

Real Madrid takes on Olimpic de Xativa on December 7.

Brad Pitt In Trouble With Angelina Jollie, says He's Never Faithful, Relationship May Crumble

As reported from star magazine who have been known to get facts about the couple wrong in the past, Hollywood duo Angelina Jolie and long time boyfriend Brad Pitt are having their relationship rocked by cheating accusations.

Star mag brings up an August 30 incident when Pitt was with an unidentified brunette woman at the 12 Years a Slave premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

According to Star an “insider” Jolie “called him, crying, and accused him of cheating on her while she’s been working her butt off and taking care of their kids… She told him that she thinks he’s been unfaithful many times and said she’ll never trust him again.”
The couple’s subsequent months apart while working on different movie projects, claims Star, were fraught with tension and fighting.
“Brad and Angelina had an epic showdown over the phone.” In early November, says the lifestyle and entertainment magazine
“This was the worst fight they’ve ever had,” the mystery source tells Star. “There’s a good chance their relationship will never fully recover.”

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Controversy As Kardashian Family Xmas Card Is Linked With Illuminati

Recently, the beautiful baby mama of Kanye West, Kim Kardashian disassociates self from the Iluminati group claiming to be a Christian but her recent Christmas card got everyone talking.

While some see it as mere publicity stunts, core spiritual people claim that there is something to the card than meets the eye. Her Christmas card leaves her faith at a cross road.

However, recent images which make up the Christmas card are a bit disturbing. Considering Christmas is the celebration of Christ's birth. There are lots of symbols, Illuminati signs and a dark tone to it which makes many wonder if it’s just for show or if they are paying homage to the dark world.

We gathered that the photographer that shot this work of art is Kanye West's favorite photographic auteur, David LaChapelle, so the card looks like what Kanye would want considering the similarities with most of his controversial artworks..

He is even featured in the card on a rolling stone magazine cover. He may not exert much influence in the streets but he sure does in the Kardashian clan.

Gareth Bale, Alaba Tops List As UEFA Releases List Of 40 Best European Footballers

The European football governing body , UEFA has released the list of 40 nest players in Europe and below is the list....

Goalkeepers: Petr Cech (Chelsea), Thibaut Courtois (Atletico Madrid),
David De Gea (Manchester United), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich).
Defenders: David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus),
Dante (Bayern Munich), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund),
Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Stephan
Lichtsteiner (Juventus), Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid), Vincent
Kompany (Manchester City), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos
(Real Madrid), Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain).

Midfielders: Gareth Bale (Tottenham/Real Madrid), Ilkay Gundogan
(Borussia Dortmund), Isco (Malaga/Real Madrid), Paul Pogba
(Juventus), Mesut Ozil (Real Madrid/Arsenal), Nemanja Matic
(Benfica), Blaise Matuidi (Paris-Saint Germain), Marco Reus
(Borussia Dortmund), Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich), Arjen Robben
(Bayern Munich), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Yaya
Toure (Manchester City).

Forwards: Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Edinson Cavani (Napoli/
Paris Saint-Germain), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid), Radamel Falcao
(Atletico Madrid/Monaco), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain),
Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund), Mario Mandzukic (Bayern
Munich), Jackson Martinez (Porto), Lionel Messi (Barcelona),
Thomas Mueller (Bayern Munich), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid),
Robin Van Persie (Manchester United).
The nominees were chosen by UEFA.com staff writers on the basis of
their performances for a European club or national side in 2013

With or against?

PHOTO: Eniola Badmus Takes The Gun Man Pose To The Shrine

A won eleyi, a won mama o.....another twist to the baddestguyeelibet pose has been taken by eniola bad us as she has chosen the shrine for er own pose...see below for the photo

INTERVIEW: Wole Soyinka Talks About Been A Pirates Member And Wh Buccaneers Eiye And Others Broke Out

Nobel laureate, Professor. Wole Soyinka, is not somebody you meet every time, not to talk of interviewing. But at one of the programmes of the just concluded Ake Art and Books Festival held at June 12 Cultural centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, tagged In the Shadow of memory: An audience with Wole Soyinka, afforded four undergraduates the opportunity to meet him and ask questions on his muse, activism, religious views, the Pyrates Confraternity and others. Vanguard Art was there too. Excerpts:
What kept you going during your 22- month incarceration during the Civil War and how were you able to write under such condition?
It took a while before I was able to smuggle in books. That was at a later stage, after I managed to corrupt my jailer. At the beginning I wrote on the ink pad, sheets of cigarette packs and at some stage, toilet paper. I didn’t eat much so I didn’t need too much toilet paper (laughs), so I wrote on them. Later on I was able to smuggle in some books; I was able to read and write in between the lines with the ink I had manufactured. That way I kept my sanity.
Did winning the Nobel Prize influence your writing?
I don’t think that winning the Nobel Prize affected my writing in any way. When I say that, I don’t mean it’s normal. For instance, somebody after he won the Nobel decided he’s not going to write anymore. It disturbed me in the beginning for the simple reason that you have to respond to all kinds of invitations. It was a nuisance at the beginning but I learnt to manage it and subsequently, I got used to writing more in (air)planes than I normally do in my sanctuary. So all it did was that it affected me in terms of my working methods but I don’t think for a moment it affected the intensity of what I wrote.
In the 1994 fight against military rule, how did you survive?
I had to take a most unusual route to exile which I felt was most undignifying. It wasn’t the first time I would ride on a motorcycle, as a rider and as a passenger but in this particular instance, I had to go through the bush, being lashed by branches at night. I felt that it wasn’t something that should be happening at my age during that period.
Having said that, … many people don’t understand my relationship with the military. The first thing that happens is that military rulers actually have no tails between their legs. (Normal just one head, two arms ) and many of them do think. And I should say some of them are even writers.
I have had a very easy relationship with the military from my student days and as some of you know from my biography I actually enrolled in the university’s officer corps because I thought it would be possible to go to South Africa and liberate South Africa so I never had any problem with the military. The problem is when they try to go outside their role and not only go outside their role as if they are gods and even goddesses because some female officers behave worse to civilians than male officers. Others retain their humanity. And don’t forget that this was a period when military rule was a way of life. Civilians would come out depending on who got in, have their expectations and hope. People would come out and applaud … but the moment they say, as happened with Buhari for instance, the moment they say we don’t even want anybody to discuss return to civilian rule, they become enemy number one, straight away I engage them. There are others who say we are just here to correct some anomalies and we will return to civilian rule by so so date and when that date is approaching, they find an excuse to delay. They say we haven’t got rid of all the money bags, give us a little more time. I get suspicious and all collaborations stops.
The continent and even the outside world accepted that military rule is a corrective arm of humanity. Well, I’m sorry but in most cases they very badly let us down. So it’s been a roller coaster kind of a relation but the moment there is a sadistic regime like Sani Abacha’s, the man whose record was known even when he was in the Army, then you know from the very beginning it’s war.
A youth actually posed the question that it may be time to invite the military back, may not have the worst memories of military rule.
A message for the youths to remind them why that’s not a good idea. Listen, if you want to have the military back, military rule or dictatorial rule of any kind, it’s really re-colonisation. That’s the first thing to remember. Military rule, dictatorship in any form, deserves no sense of moral superiority. Two, external colonial rule. You are denied of your volition, you are deprived of your civic dignity. One way or the other, you are under colonial rule. Yes, there was a time when indeed the civilians were exceedingly dictatorial, which means you have to treat the civilian government as no better than a dictatorial rule. What we have learnt from our experimentation with military rule is that they are just as corrupt, incontinent, unreliable, treacherous towards civilian existence as the very worst civilian rule.
Enlighten us on the Confraternity you set up while in school, its mission and vision. How has the society taken it?
This is a question I am always very delighted to be asked; can’t believe that the media conflates two words: cultism and fraternity.
College fraternity is a time honoured tradition. It exists virtually all over the world where there are tertiary institutions. In Germany, in Britain, college fraternity is a time honoured tradition… Many presidents of the United States belonged to fraternities in their universities and many of them attend reunions where they come with their wife and children and donate to their alma mater. They are part and parcel of university culture.
When the Pyrates were formed, I was one of the founding members, fraternities for at least two decades, didn’t have one negative word against them. But of course, society being what it is, fraternities became corrupted. They turned fraternities to somewhere where you can exercise macho instincts and bully the rest of society. Of course they were thrown out or else they were never admitted in the first instance which was our idea of the original fraternity. So they went out and set up their own organisations which were also called fraternities but which soon showed exactly what they were.
The Bucanneers, that was the first to break out. The Eiye Society, The Vikings and even today you have Daughters of Jezebel. The women who one acknowledges for gender struggles, equality and all that, unfortunately, this is one area which they never should have attempted to be equal. Daughters of Jezebel in some of the colleges today are the most vicious; more vicious than their male counterparts.
Then outside society, which also includes politicians, who wanted to recruit students into their own absolute decadent conduct began to seduce with money, cars. These ‘fraternities’ turned them to outright killers, glorified thugs. So instead of having youth divisions of political parties in the tertiary institutions, what evolved were thug societies. So the ‘fraternities’ became killers, they became corrupt, gang rapists, acid throwers etc and I can say categorically that you can never find a member of the original Pyrates Confraternity in these criminal and anti social activities. To mention — the Ife killings and how the culprits were flown abroad by their parents, children of the elites. They are the ones with total immunity, privileged — those who are supposed to be rotting in jail.
Cultists drink unbelievable potions. The only negative thing I can confidently tell you about Pyrates Confraternity, sometimes they get drunk (laughter). But they don’t molest you when they are drunk. They get drunk when they are ‘sailing’, they fall asleep totally drunk until the sun beats them where they are lying in the open.
You use a lot of Yoruba mythology in your works, has there been any negative reaction to the cultural aspect of your work?
This is a result of Western or Eastern orientations. Christians or Muslims think that they have the ultimate key to the kingdom of heaven and that if you don’t follow either scriptures, you are forever damaged.
This is my world, my created environment; the myths of my society. Christians and Muslims must accept this, that they also exist in mythical worlds but the thing is that they would not accept. Who would tell me that the angels and the saints of either Islam or Christianity are not mythological figures? Prove to me that they are not before you ask me to prove to you that mine are not decent, respectable and even creatively enabling mythological figures. So let all of us stick to our mythology. Don’t try and denigrate mine because if you do then I will denigrate yours. My myth does not require me to turn the other cheek and stop claiming knowledge of absolute truth. Stop saying there is only one way, path to the god-head. All religions are equal.
Liquor and collarless shirt
I’m against liquor; completely against liquor. Wine is not liquor (Laughter from audience). Even a good brandy is not liquor; single malt whiskey is not liquor, palm wine is not liquor. All the rest is liquor. Right from when I was a child — I started reading from an unbelievably early age — and it’s the same with medicine. I discovered very early, today people are talking about traditional medicine, acupuncture, since I was little I knew the medicinal values of palm wine (component of red wine), What the doctors are talking about I knew since I was three, intuitively. I recommend red wine for everybody.
Anything that is not liquor, I think hurts the productive system. Wine is excellent…what corrodes the body for me is water. I can’t imagine anybody being creative with orange juice, pineapple juice and all that. I can’t imagine it. It’s very difficult.
Collarless shirt
I think it was as a result of my abandonment of ties. I felt restricted by ties. Why on earth should somebody put a rope around my neck and at the same time they don’t like being hanged. Does it make sense to you?
Once I abandoned ties, the next thing was what was that tie doing around my neck. Nothing mysterious about it; straightforward practicality.

Credit: Vanguard

FG To Place Ban On Importation Of Rice

There is a strong indication that the Federal Government may soon place total ban on importation of rice, fish and other food items into the country.
Giving the hint in Lagos,the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development; Dr Niyi Odunlami, said that government was desirous of stopping the importation of rice, fish, wheat and tomatoes.
Odunlami spoke as a member of the supervision team visiting staple crops processing zones of the World Bank-assisted Commercial Agriculture Development (CADP) project in Lagos.
He said that the Federal Government was working in partnership with state and local governments as well as Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to bring infrastructural development to rural farming areas.
”The Federal Government cannot do it alone; it needs the collaboration of states and local governments as well as LCDAs.
”The rural farming areas need to be developed in terms of infrastructure, so as to reduce or possibly eradicate the importation of what can be produced here, such as wheat, vegetable, rice and fish.
“The fish we import is not different from what we can find in the Nigerian waters,” Odunlami said, adding that there is absolute need to develop staple crop processing zones.
Some primary processing zones in the country had been selected as models.
They include Kogi, Kano, Niger, Lagos and Rivers states. The supervisory mission commenced work on Nov. 28, with a visit to the Lagos State Integrated Rice Processing Factory, Imota.

.... my very gud food, I hope it wot be costly

Credit: Vanguard

Wahala! As Nigerian Senate To Start Jailing Social Media Critics 7yrs Jail Term

BBC Africa has reported that the Nigerian Senate has proposed a bill to jail social media critics who are found guilty of inciting the public against the Nigerian government for seven years!

‘#Nigeria‘s Senate proposed bill seeks a 7-year jail term for social media critics found guilty of inciting the public against govt‘, @BBCAfrica tweeted hours ago. It is believed this proposed law if passed will cover social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and blogging platforms such as Blogger and WordPress

Not a joke o....or are they joking

PHOTO: Checkout Ini Edo's 370k Customisd Fendi 2jour tote Bag

The gorgeous fuchsia pink coloured Fendi 2jours tote bag is part of Fendi’s Spring/Summer 2013 Bag Collection.

The tag bears the inscription ‘INI‘. According to several online stores, it cost $2,260 (N370,000). Ini shared the photo on instagram with the caption 'got my fendi customized.biggup‘,

See photo below

Politics: Nobody Defected From PDP - Bamanga Tukur

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday said he was not aware of any member of the PDP defecting to another party.

Tukur said this while fielding questions from journalists after meeting behind closed doors with the PDP Senate caucus and the Central Working Committee of the party.

Aggrieved members of the PDP in the Senate such as Bukola Saraki, Shaaba Lafiaji, Wilson Ake, Danjuma Goje, Ali Ndume, Adamu Abdullahi, Magnus Abe, Hassan Barata, Jubrin Bindo and Aishat Al-Hassan, did not attend the meeting which lasted about four hours.

But Tukur said the meeting was silent on the reported issue of defection because it (meeting) was a family talk aimed at reviewing the activities of the party.

He said, “We did not talk about people who want to go or stay (defection) I came here because this is the first time I am coming to meet my family members; they are my members.”

Tukur explained that the need for the entrenchment of democracy, discipline and good governance formed the basis of his message to the senators during the meeting.

Asked if it was an earlier visit to the National Assembly by the defunct New PDP that informed his decision to meet the senators, he replied , “Of course not, this is PDP and there is no other PDP.”

Also asked whether he discussed the impact of the defection of five PDP governors to the All Progressives Congress, Tukur said, “Have they defected? they have not gone yet.”

The five governors are Rotimi Amechi (Rivers); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano); Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara); and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).

Tukur, had before journalists were excused from the meeting, explained that he was in the Senate to fraternise and exchange ideas with the PDP senators on how they could continue to work together as one family.

Tukur also acknowledged the challenges facing the party but said that they were surmountable “because PDP is one family working together towards achieving a common goal.”

The President of the Senate, David Mark, who led the PDP senators to the meeting,also admitted that the party was facing some challenges.

But he said that the party was capable of addressing the issues like a family matter.

Mark said, “We admit we have some challenges in the party . It is expected in a big party like PDP . It is not unusual. We are equal to the challenges as a party . Hopefully , we shall come out of the crisis stronger.”

He also assured the National Working Committee of the party that the PDP senators were united in one accord and working together to ensure that the transformation agenda was carried out to its logical conclusion .

The Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma -Egba, said, “We discussed issues affecting members of the PDP Senate Caucus and the national chairman listened attentively and responded and gave us words of reassurance.

“They are domestic issues; you don’t expect me to come and discuss domestic issues in public. They are issues that affect the members of the party in the Senate.”

Ndoma – Egba also said the issue of defection was not discussed at the meeting.

He said, “The issue of defection never came up and I can say it categorically that no senator has indicated that he is going anywhere. So, the issue never came up.”

On automatic ticket for senators in 2015, Ndoma-Egba said, “We discussed the provisions of the constitution and emphasised democracy.

“Our party is called Peoples Democratic Party and we reminded ourselves that we must be democratic at all times .We had a useful meeting with our national chairman.”

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Asuu Stike Latest: OAU Orders Student To Resume, Announced December 8 Resumption Date

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has directed its students to resume on Sunday.

A statement by the Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr. Biodun Olarewaju on Wednesday said, “The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have announced Sunday, December 8, as the resumption date for the 2012/ 2013 rain semester.

“Accordingly, students of the university are expected to come into residence on the above date as lectures will commence immediately.”

Asuu Strike Update: Strike Continues As Asuu Distribute Food, Money To Members

Striking lecturers at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria on Wednesday received relief materials, including food and money to enable them to cushion the effect of the ongoing industrial action.

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities of the institution, Dr. Mohammed Kabir-Aliyu, who confirmed this to one of our correspondents, said the offer would help the beneficiaries to survive the hardship occasioned by the non-payment of their salaries.

According to him, lecturers in the university have not earned their salaries in the last four months.

Among items distributed to the lecturers were rice, semovita, vegetable oil and cash ranging from N20, 000 to N50, 000.

Kabir-Aliyu said they were ready to call the Federal Government’s bluff concerning the sack threat.

University teachers nationwide embarked on strike on July 1 to force the Federal Government to honour an agreement it had with them since 2009.

The Supervisory Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had last Thursday threatened the striking lecturers to return to work on or before December 4 or face dismissal.

However, the resumption deadline was on Tuesday extended to December 9 to enable the striking teachers to honour Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died on his way to attend ASUU NEC meeting in Kano.

As of Wednesday, there were no signs that the striking lecturers would comply with the government directives to return to the classroom on Monday. Also, the university authorities had yet to issue a circular directing students to return for lectures.

Meanwhile, the National Parent-Teacher-Association of Nigeria has asked the striking teachers to see the extension of the resumption deadline as a sign of goodwill from the Federal Government.

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday, the NAPTAN North Central Coordinator, Alhaji Danladi Aliyu, said the extension showed that the government was committed to ending the strike.

Aliyu said, “I am pleading with both parties not to see this issue as a war that must be won or lost as both are working in the interest of moving the nation forward.

“ASUU should use this deadline extension to resume duties, while we also urge the Federal Government not to come down hard on them.”

In a related development, Nnamdi Azikiwe University branch of ASUU has ordered its members that signed the attendance register to delete their names from the book.

Also, the management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has directed its students to resume on Sunday.