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Las Vegas Shooting, Families Of Those Killed To Get ₦100m Each

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:30 PM PST


Las Vegas Shooting, Families Of Those Killed To Get ₦100m Each

The dailymail UK has reported that the United States Government has concluded plans to compensate  families of the people killed in the Las Vegas shooting. Those killed  would be compensated with $275,000 each and those with permanent paralysis/Brain Damage would be given $275,000 each.


See the full story below and the table of categorization as reported by dailymail.co.uk

A $31.5million victims' fund that started as a GoFund Me effort announced plans Friday to pay $275,000 to the families of each of the 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
The Las Vegas Victims Fund said the maximum $275,000 also will be paid to 10 other people who were paralyzed or suffered permanent brain damage in the October 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

The full $31.5million will be distributed among the injured and families of the dead, the group said.
The nonprofit posted a chart projecting payments on a scale to a total of 532 people, including more than $10million divided among 147 people who were hospitalized.

The fund includes millions of dollars in corporate donations and tens of thousands of individual donations that ranged in size from $1 to $400,000.

On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concert goers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 851 injured. 

Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel. 

About an hour after he fired his last shot into the crowd, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 

His motive remains unknown.

The aftermath of the October 1 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival is seen. 

A victim's fund is preparing to make disbursements to those injured and the families of the dead.

Credit: dailymail.co.uk


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Fatima Ganduje And Abolaji Ajimobi’s Arabian Themed Henna Party

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:56 PM PST


First Look at Fatima Ganduje & Abolaji Ajimobi's Arabian Themed Henna Party



In Nigeria cultures play a major role in traditional wedding ceremonies.




Fatima Ganduje who is the founder of Let's Talk Humanity, a charitable organisation is right now getting married to her heartthrob Abolaji Ajimobi who is a businessman/entrepreneur.



The couple had their Arabian themed Henna party code named Fatima's Henna Playday in Kano captured by Nigerian talented George Okoro.






Photo credit: George Okoro

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Goodluck Jonathan Appointed Leader Of Sierra Leone’s Election Observers Team

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:43 PM PST

Goodluck Jonathan Appointed Leader Of  Sierra Leone's Election Observers Team

Ex- President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been appointed as the leader of a team of observers to Sierra Leone's general election scheduled to take place on the 7th of March, 2018.


Jonathan will serve as head of the Election Observation Mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA).

Dr. Jonathan departed Nigeria for Freetown on Friday, 2nd March, 2018

This was disclosed by his spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze in a statement Friday. The Statement reads in part: 

The mission has observers drawn from civil society organisations and election management bodies from across the continent of Africa.

Eze stated that the former president "is pleased to be part of the process in support of a peaceful and transparent election in Sierra Leone."

EISA is a not-for-profit election-focused organization that is working with national, regional, Pan-African and global partners throughout the African continent.

It is based in South Africa with field offices across the continent and has supported or observed over 100 electoral and political processes in Africa.

Its assignment in Sierra Leone is in line with the organisation's "vision of an African continent where democratic governance, human rights and citizen participation are upheld in a peaceful environment."


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Tboss Looking Smashing In Wedding Themed Photoshoot

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:09 AM PST

Tboss Looking Smashing In Wedding Themed Photoshoot 

Pretty Tboss has been looking so cute for a while now and these photos explains it all which she coded  named 'Wedding Themed Photoshoot' 


The Big Brother Nigeria #BBNaija goddess, with real name Tokunbo Idowu is really smashing in these photos shared by her.








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Asari Dokubo Throw Weight Behind Supports For Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidacy, Dismisses Fayose, Tambuwal - Over 2019 Election

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:28 AM PST

Asari Dokubo Throw Weight Behind Supports For Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidacy, Dismisses Fayose, Tambuwal - 2019 Election

Ex-militant leader in the Niger Delta, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party to be wise on the choice of presidential candidate ahead of the 2019 election.


Asari, who spoke with Sun disclosed that only the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has the credentials to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, come 2019.

He further disclosed that if the opposition party is ready for the 2019 election, they should forget other candidates like Sule Lamido, Tambuwal and others showing interest to run under the umbrella of the PDP and field the former Vice President.

See it in the ex-militant's words: 


"Yes, the PDP is not ready for a fight. If the PDP is ready for a fight, there won't be talks of Tambuwal candidature, someone who is a governor in APC. He destroyed PDP and ran to APC. They are talking of Tambuwal, who knows him in Bayelsa?

"PDP governors are lobbying a character like that to join the PDP and contest for the presidential ticket. They are talking of Makarfi, a man who could not win Senate election; a man who during the 2015 presidential election allegedly voted for Buhari and showed his ballot paper to the people before putting it in the box.

"Such a man is the one some PDP people are lobbying to get on the presidential ticket.

"Sule Lamido is not different from Buhari. He is one of these arrogant Fulani people who feel they own this country and the rest of us are just like appendages.

"Yes, I was in the SDP with Atiku Abubakar. He is the most liberal of all the people coming from the North. He has his own baggage. Let us look at other people. What are people like David Mark doing that they can't contest?

"Is it that they are not courageous enough to come and fight? So everybody in the North would abdicate to the Fulani. Other Northerners are even afraid to take their liberty even when we have told them that we have taken our liberty and they should take theirs."

Talking about Fayose, the ex-militant has this to say, "Yes, he has signified his intention but it is not going to fly. Who is going to run Fayose's election for him? Whose money is going to be used?

"The South West does not vote heavily. The percentage of voters is low. Ekiti state where Fayose is governor has one of the lowest voting population.

"The other voters in South West are in the hands of the APC. For me, David Mark would have been the very best for PDP to galvanise the swing nationalities; those people outside Hausa, Fulani and Yoruba and bring them together to join with the Igbo and some other liberal Yoruba people.

"But if David Mark is not there, among the Fulani if the PDP insists on having a Fulani to become its presidential candidate, Atiku is their best bet.

"We also have Ibrahim Shekarau, a very honest and cerebral man. But does he have resources because election demands resources. At the end of the day, a lot of people do not know Shekarau in the South.

"Atiku already has platforms across Nigeria and whatever it is he can fight more. Aside that, he has also talked about restructuring and as an Ijaw man, we want to engage him, what he means by restructuring. If PDP is looking for somebody with a war chest to fight and that would attract a lot of people from the APC, it is Atiku."


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UN Begins Evacuation Of Aid Workers Over Recent Deadly Attack By Boko Haram

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:51 AM PST

UN Begins Evacuation Of Aid Workers Over Recent Deadly Attack By Boko Haram 

The United Nations  on Friday began the evacuation of it's aid workers from Rann community in the Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State,over the recent killing of three of it's aids workers by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.



Information about the attack reveals that the Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Rann Internally Displaced Persons camp late on Thursday, and three of the UN workers were killed.


According to a report, two of the killed workers were with UN agency; International Organisation for Migration, while the third victim was a medical doctor, working with the UN Children's Fund. The insurgents also reportedly abducted a female UN nurse in the attack. 

Report has it also that apart from the officials, a yet-to-be-ascertained number of civilians in the camp were killed while many others were injured during the attack. It was similarly reported that the Boko Haram terrorists group abducted three aid workers and civilians apart from the UN nurse.

Among the abducted workers are two; reportedly working with the International Committee of the Red Cross – another major international relief agency helping out in the North-East.


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We Will Sign The Peace Corps Bill If We Regain Power -PDP Declares

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PST

We Will Sign The Peace Corps Bill If We Regain Power -PDP Declares

The major opposition party to the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that its government would not waste time in assenting to the Peace Corps of Nigeria establishment bill if voted into power in the 2019 presidential elections.


Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party's national publicity secretary, disclosed this in a statement while reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari's denial of assent to the Peace Corps bill passed by the National Assembly in 2017.


Ologbondiyan revealed, "The PDP noted with dismay how a party that promised massive job creation would decline assenting to such a bill meant to create millions of jobs for Nigerians".

The party stressed that citing of financial difficulties as reasons for rejecting the bill as laughable, questioning what the APC administration was doing or has done with the so-called billions of naira it allegedly recovered in its witch-hunting fight against corruption.

The main opposition party maintained that voting the APC out of power was the only option left for Nigerians, declaring that the APC had nothing tangible to offer Nigerians rather than leading the country backward.


Credit Dailypost.ng


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Cameroonian Woman Kills Four Neighbour's Children After Kidnapping Them (Viewer Discretion Advised)

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:40 AM PST

Cameroonian Woman Kills Four Neighbour's Children After Kidnapping Them (Viewer Discretion Advised)

The story of a Cameroonian woman who was caught after  killing her neighbor's children in cold blood has gone viral online. According to the story, the woman who conspired with some men to carry out the dastardly act, kidnapped her neighbor's four children. She allegedly lured them into an inn called "Auberge Ordinaire", where the children were strangled in a border village in Southern region of Cameroon called Kye-Ossi.



The woman and her cohorts deposited the children's corpses in a car as they wait for the buyers that demanded them. According to the report, the buyers are said to be coming from Gabon.


When the mother of these children, who went to take a nap after they came back from school, started looking for her children, this woman that kidnapped them joined them in the search for them.

When their corpses was eventually  discovered in the car, one of them was still breathing. But the other three had died. As the residents heard of the evil and on seeing the corpses, they went on rampage and burnt down the inn.

The woman was beaten beyond recognition before the arrival of the police, who prevented them from lynching her to death and her own three children. Under serious torture, the woman begged not to be killed, that she will name all the people who are involved in the business(crime).

The Police has made series of arrests so far, including the husband of the chief culprit.



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Timber Market In Enugu Consumed By Inferno As Traders Weep Over Losses

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:54 AM PST

Timber Market In Enugu Consumed By Inferno As Traders Weep Over Losses 

A popular Timber market in Maryland, Enugu in Enugu state, on Friday night went up in flames. The Inferno according to eye witnesses started at about 10.30pm after close of the market.


On receiving the emergency information many of the traders who had closed, rushed back to the market  and their was wailing and tears as they see their goods worth millions of Naira go up in flames.

Some of the traders were seen making  frantic efforts to salvage some of their goods from being consumed by the inferno.

 The state governor, Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who was personally touched by the incident has sent his sympathy to the affected traders and promised to investigate the cause of the fire.



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Fresh Crisis Hits PDP As Party Elders Dump Party For SDP - Over 2019 Election

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:18 AM PST

Fresh Crisis Hits PDP As Party Elders Dump Party For SDP -  Over 2019 Election

The news of mass defection from the APC and PDP to the SDP hit the air waves three days ago and many disregarded it with a wave of hands.


If what is reported here from the Nation News Online has taken place, then there is a major crisis hovering over APC and the PDP.

See the full details of the recent defection from PDP to SDP as told by the Nation:

Three former ministers are leading an exodus of top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after efforts to heal the wounds of the last national convention of the party hit the rocks.

Ex-Information Minister Jerry Gana,ex-Education Minister Tunde Adeniran and ex-Niger Delta Minister Godsday Orubebe are moving to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) which is merging with the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Peoples Salvation Party (PSP) to form a formidable party ahead of next year's elections.

More chieftains of the PDP are expected to join them, The Nation gathered yesterday.
The Olusegun Obasanjo-inspired Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) is in talks with the SDP to work together.

The likes of Gana, Adeniran and Orubebe,all founding members of the PDP, are still displeased with what they see as the hijack of the party by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and others during the party's last national convention.

Adeniran was defeated in a bitter chairmanship election by Wike's candidate, Uche Secondus.
A high powered committee headed by Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State to reconcile the aggrieved members could not help the situation.
The aggrieved party chieftains launched into a marathon meeting/negotiation with the leadership of SDP on Thursday night in Abuja for a merger.

The meeting ended early yesterday with the the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by the coalescing group at Ladi Kwali Hall in Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.
Joining Gana from the PDP are a former Military Administrator of Katsina State, Sen. Joseph Akaagerger; a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Peter Godsday Orubebe; Chief Mike Oghiadhome, who was a former Chief of Staff to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan; ex-Governor Saminu Turaki of Jigawa State; and ex-Minister of Defence, Dr. Olu Agunloye and a former Deputy Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Dare Emiola.

Also teaming up with SDP are a former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed; Sen. Bassey Ewa Hensaw; a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Olamide Oni; Supo Shonibare (South-West Zonal chairman of SDP), Hon. Dipo Olaitan (a former leader of the Alliance for Democracy in the House of Representatives); a former Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Kehinde Ayoola; Amb. Yemi Farounbi; leaders of the Middle Belt Forum; Mr. John Dara; the leaders of the National Intervention Forum led by Dr. Tafawa Balewa; Amb Bejide; Shehu Gabam who gave the vote of thanks.

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae is a stalwart of the SDP.
Although ex-Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and a former Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ibrahim Mantu were part of the preliminary talks, it was unclear why they were not at the signing of the MoU.
A highly placed source in the group said:"As a matter of fact, Mantu propped up the name of a party which should be included in the merger but it was rejected. He attended the initial meeting but by the time the MoU was signed, he was not there.

"We are hopeful that he will be at our subsequent meetings. Some of our leaders are suspecting that Mantu may chicken out because he has been begging Adeniran and Gana not to leave PDP.
The MoU entered into by the leaders was obtained yesterday by The Nation.

Jointly signed by Falae (for SDP) and Prof. Gana (for Movement for a New Political Order), the MoU reads in part: "Whereas on the 12th Day of February 2018, a joint resolution was adopted at Sheraton Hotel Abuja, for working together to ensure the emergence of a new and credible political order to deepen democracy, good governance and genuine development, with peace, security and social justice. The said meeting also unanimously resolved to build:

a)a restructured, balanced equitable and truly functional Nigerian Federation:
b)a humane, free, seIf-reliant and democratic society;
1. c) a dynamic, productive, transformed and sustainable economy;
2. d) a just, fair, egalitarian and peaceful nation
3. e) a land of bright and full of opportunities for all Nigerians; and
4. f) a national culture of raising good leaders through effective mentoring;
"Whereas, it was also agreed that the proposed movement shall be directed, driven and defined by such core values as: 1. Justice, fairness, equity and progress; 2. Democracy, good leadership, good governance and sustainable development; 3. Transparency, integrity, truth and honour; 4. Accountability and zero tolerance for corruption; 5. Respect for human dignity, human rights and sanctity of human life;; and 6. Peace, security, harmony, cooperative solidarity, within the rule of law; and 7. International cooperation for a common humanity within a secure and peaceful order.

"Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

"Whereas with due reference to these objectives, core values, and ideals, a Strategy Committee was mandated to search for a suitable, popular, meaningful and widespread platform, with a name that already resonates with the people and to make appropriate recommendations; and
"Whereas, the Strategic Committee, comprising representatives from all the six geopolitical zones of the Federation, have met and submitted their report, unanimously recommending the adoption of Social Democratic Party(SDP) vehicle by the movement for a new political order:

"Therefore, we hereby resolutely agree to: (a) Fuse together into one political form; (b) adopt the Social Democratic Party(SDP) as the political vehicle for the fused political formation; (c) Convene a non-elective convention for Saturday, 14th April, 2018; (d) authorize the National Working Committee to serve as the Interim Management Committee until the said convention; Set up a National Steering Committee of 12 members to guide the Interim Management Committee during the transition period; Raise a Constitution Review Committee to consider all necessary amendments to the party constitution."
Speaking with our correspondent last night, Dr. Junaid Mohammed said: "Those involved in SDP are the Peoples Redemption Party(PRP), Peoples Salvation Party(PSP), the Social Democratic Party(SDP) and some elements of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). It was like a merger but we do not want to call it so because the All Progressives Congress(APC) has destroyed the concept of merger.

"I am an optimist, I believe SDP will make a great impact. The main reason I want to be associated with it is because it is ideologically driven. Even it was not ideologically driven before, it has to be ideologically driven.

Asked if some governors and National Assembly members have subscribed to SDP, Mohammed added: "It is not compulsory to have governors or members of the National Assembly in a party to succeed. There are about 65 to 67 parties thereabout in the country. In terms of electoral performance, most of the parties are not on ground. The two parties which have led the country are not doing well. They have impacted negatively on the economy and our political life. A three-party or a four or five -party system will be better."
A top source in the SDP said: "The SDP has been approached by the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) which has been founded by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. We are hopeful that our ongoing talks will be fruitful.

"We share common ideals with the CNM on how to move the nation forward'. 


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Anti Saraki’s Camp Unveils Members - Pro-Saraki Not Bothered!

Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:47 AM PST

Anti Saraki's Camp Unveils Members - Pro-Saraki Not Bothered!

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, camp kicks as a new group tagged "Pro Buhari Senators" has emerged in the House, the Senate's camp seem not to be bothered, calling the new group a minority.


According to a report online, the camp emerged as a result of the controversy that trailed the reordered election sequence passage in the House. 

In  a meeting last Thursday night in a Senator's house, who was a State Governor the list of members were unveiled. The mission of the group is to rebel against any legislation or act targeted at Buhari.

Saraki camp has however gotten wind of the membership of the group as the list has leaked, though not made public, yet. The list which comprises of 
11 senators in the Southwest, 4 in South south, 2 in Southeast, 3 in North central, 11 in Northwest and 9 in Northeast


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