Tuesday 8 April 2014

Expose!Clark's Son Plotted Own Kidnap, Scammed Delta Govt. – MEND

MEND says Delta state govt. has been conned by son of Ijaw leader Edwin Clark who feigned his own kidnap.

 


The son of Ijaw leader,  Chief Edwin Clark  Ebikeme Clark, plotted his own  abduction to extort money from Delta State Government according to The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
MEND spokesman Bomo Jomo, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, alleged that the abduction was orchestrated by Mr Ebikeme Clark himself.
"Mr Ebikeme is following the footsteps of his father where the Senior Clark is amongst those that hatched the fraudulent Niger Delta Amnesty Programme which has only made billionaires of a few thugs and him, at the detriment of millions of impoverished indigenes and the peace and security in the region,” Bomo said.
Jomo also claims that the Delta State Government paid a N500Million ransom from its security vote and that the sum was shared amongst all those involved in this scam before Ebikeme regained his freedom.
He accused the Delta State police command of being in the know of the scam.
It is rather unfortunate that in a desperate bid for relevance and extra funds to maintain a private jet, certain unscrupulous persons, including the Delta State Police will conspire to deceive Nigerians with a phantom abduction, release of the so-called hostage," the statement read.
It will be recalled that unknown gunmen abducted Ebikeme last week, with a N60m demanded for his release.
Though it was not confirmed if any ransom was paid, the elder statesman’s son regained his freedom shortly after Ijaw youths lead by Government Tompolo mounted pressure on the abductors to free him.

Sunday 6 April 2014



One of Nigeria's best comedian, Klint Da Drunk whose real name is Afamefuna Igwemba, is right about now doing everything possible to clear his name from an alleged fraud scandal involving him and a church in Abuja, the nation's capital.

From what we gathered, the church named Christos International Church, had paid Klint the sum of N250, 000 to anchor an empowerment programme organized by the church on Saturday March 22, 2014, but on the day of the event, the comedian was no where to be found.
All efforts by the church to get him online was to no avail as his phones were all switched off and attempts to make him refund the money was to no avail. But when Klint was contacted, he gave a different account of the issue.

This is what he said:
The date I was given by the church was Sunday, March 23, 2014, as against March 22, which they claimed.
But the church has countered his claim saying that they had also contracted two other entertainers, Frank Edwards and Asu Ekiye for the same event and the two were in attendance, so they could not have made any misteke. 
Meanwhile, the church says it has reported the case to the police and that they will do anything to recover their money from the comedian.
A protracted crisis at the Lagos State University over fee hikes that have outraged students and led to protests reached another juncture yesterday with Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State proposing a reduction of tuition.

Mr. Fashola made the proposal during a meeting yesterday with the protesting students. The students, under the auspices of Education Rights Campaign (ERC), are demanding full reversal of the hiked fee. They have staged several rallies and protests to press their case.

At the meeting, Mr. Fashola offered to reduce, rather than reverse, the hiked fee. He teased the students and members of the ERC to consult among themselves and propose an acceptable reduction.

After the meeting, some of the student executives in the ERC told SaharaReporters that, even though they would hold meetings and consult with other activist groups, they remain committed to fighting for a total reversal.

“In fact, we believe education should be totally free and not an option of a reduced fee. The government has every resource to achieve that,” said Mr. Hassan Soweto of the ERC.

One protester claimed that, following the controversial hike, the school has continually has had a low number of choice applications from candidates in the annual Unified Tertiary Examinations.
Sources within the school told SaharaReporters that, this year, no disciplinary faculty in the institution has up to 500 students.

“This year, for example, there are only 15 students in the Faculty of Law,” the source said. He added that the institution may be considering the option of merging departments and laying off some of the lecturers due to the unfortunate decline in the number of students wishing to enroll at the university.

“It’s sad that the Lagos State government is betraying the legacy of the late great Chief Awolowo who laid the foundation of free education,” said one of the student leaders.

Source: SaharaReporters
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Rahamon Bello, has challenged matriculating students to distinguish themselves in their academics so as to enjoy the institution’s motivational package for scholars.

Bello spoke at the 2013/2014 Matriculation ceremony for fresh students of the university in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 6,488 new students were administered the matriculation oath by the vice-chancellor.

He noted that 32,764 candidates applied for admission into the 50 year-old institution, urging the lucky ones to see their admission as not only noble, but glorious.

“You therefore must have the goal to acquire academic excellence for which this university is reputed.

“I wish to encourage you all to work hard and distinguish yourselves in your academics as our university has a motivational package for distinguished students on Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.50 and above.

“Included in the package are a scholarship of N50,000, provision of accommodation in choice hall, 50 per cent discount on bed space and nomination to participate in seminars and conferences nationally and internationally.

“You shall also be entitled to participate in recruitment tests in the final year, nomination for scholarship from external bodies on the request from organisations as well as selection as guest speaker at orientation programmes to motivate fresh students,” he said.

According to Bello, the package is not only attractive, but equally inspiring.

He admonished the students that the journey required determination diligence, focus and resilience.

The vice-chancellor, who gave a breakdown of the number of admitted students, said that 728 were in the Faculty of Arts and 940 in the Faculty of Business Administration.

He said that 1,036, 592 and 398 were admitted into the Faculties of Education, Engineering and Environmental Sciences respectively.

Bello also said that 289 students were admitted into the Faculty of Law, while 1020, 747 and 177 went into the Faculties of Science, Social Sciences and Pharmacy respectively,.

According him, the College of Medicine has 561 new intakes. (NAN)
Olamide,who is MTV Base artiste for March, has told NET he’s going back to school.

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The artiste was a part-time 300 level mass communication student ofTai Solarin University when he dropped out to pursue his music dream.
‘I found out I was gifted in it so I had to explore it; it’s my life, my hustle, my world’,he told our corespondent when we asked why he abandoned his education
But he’s going back soon: ‘I will be doing a professional course in South Africa to study Music Business and I’m certain about it. Hopefully in 2015.’
"The Potter's Wheel" tells of Obuechina Maduabuchi (mouthful), the only brother of six older sisters, prize pupil in the village school, apple of his doting mother(Mama Obu)'s eye, eight years old and hopelessly spoilt.

In a vain attempt to salvage his character, his father (Papa Mazi Lazarus Maduabuchi) decides he must be sent away as a servant to a schoolmaster with a dragon of a wife.

Obu goes and he comes back very different.

POINT TO TAKE NOTE OF IN POTTER's WHEEL

The story is all about obuechina*, mazi* is the father of obu and he has seven children*, obu is the 6th child* and he is the only son* of the family, his best friend is oti*, while the eldest of the three friends is samuel* who is referred to as the bully and trickster*.

Obu lived with his family in the village of Umuchukwu*. obu came first in the school exam while he was 5 years old.

Ogechukwu(obu's immediate sister)* is three years older than obu, but ogechukwu failed. Obu 'wished' he didn't want to go to school at the age of 5*, but his parents refused. (Mazi, obu's father was a cloth dealer* and he was a dancer when he was young.

Obu's father also had a bicycle but the first person to have ridden a bicycle in ummuana town* was chief okeke okafor*).

Obu was given a red flute* to congratulate him on his success, when obuechina was asked to name anything he wanted and he asked for a goat*, mazi his father said they had one for Christmas already.

obu said he wanted to learn how to ride a bicycle* and it was granted unto him, although, he never got to learn it*.

obu's mother over pampered him which led him to bed wetting and obu was meant to die at his 9th birthday, as a result of a mark and a stone called ogbanje stone* which was buried and which represent the life of obu. then obu wanted david* to teach him how to ride a bicycle but by that time when he went to david's house, david was sick, so he went to his friend, oti* who had followed his brothers to the river for fishing.

Obu was over pampered and his father was not pleased with his mother so his father sent him to a village called Aka*, in mr kanu zaccheus' (a schoolmaster)* place, the man was known to be wicked himself, same as his wife (frequently called 'missus'). on getting there, obu was maltreated by the schoolmaster's wife. later, obu was registered in a school named central school* where he met an osu girl called margret*, osu means outcast*, so obu was classified as impure as a result of the interaction between him and margret.

Monday* was the eldest of the houseboys, he was 19yrs old, after a long while, obu began to play tricks on the teacher as a result of the way he was treated by the teacher's wife, he wrote fake letters to the teacher that his dad needed him at home but the teacher refused them,until his dad sent madu (mazi's friend)* to visit Aka town to check how his son, obuechina was doing. on getting there, he slept over and came back the next day with obuechina whom his mother always calls "onyigbo"*.

His mother was so happy that she left what she was doing and welcomed obuchina, then obu has totally changed as a result of the lesson he learnt in Aka town.

GET THE MEANING OF THIS IDIOM AS USED IN THE NOVELS >>

It is because you have not trained him very well that I'm talking about sending him away before he dissolves completely like a bag of salt"

>> " The dog does not eat the bone chained round its neck"

>> 'John whose face knows no laughter"

>> " Vultures will eat your meat as thy ate Jezebel's if you continue answering me without putting Ma"

>> "When the cricket knows the crime is has committed, it dabs whitewash round its eyes.

WHAT YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF Tips how to get where question may be ask.

While reading the novel pick up pen and jotter and jot down
(1) names of major roles
(2)idioms use in d passage.
(3)events that took place that is significant
(4)quotation passage which they will ask e.g quoting a passage and asking u who quote this or who does it refer too
(5)the mood of the writer , dates,places,author autobiography.note potters wheels has 10questions 15marks and sucessor 5questions: more tips till coming.
(6) The Writer's Mood or the Writer's Point of View.

>> Let us help Ourself by Posting any Important Spot of the Novel Here if we have it.

Readers are leaders!
The potter's wheel is a novel that takes us to the village called umuchukwu in the eastern part of Nigeria, where one of the basic elements of the local idioms is sayings or proverbs, much like a Bible-based community where people communicate through chapters and verses citations.

In the story, even the young ones had riddle and proverb contests to see who knew the most. The story was set about the time of the Second World War (1939-1945). In the story, references are frequently made to the ongoing war, which Nigerians, at that time were part of, through conscription or voluntary involvement.

The story centres on Obu, an eight-year-old boy, who, as the only son with five older sisters and one younger sister, had been badly spoiled by his adoring mother. The mother’s reason for her indulgence towards him was simple; it was the boy’s eventual birth that gave her strong footing in her husband’s house, for the husband’s family had compelled him to take another wife who would give them – the family – a male child.

In fact, the five female children that were born before Obu had been given names suggestive of the degree of anxiety and faith, with which Mama Obu and her husband had longed for a male child. The name “Uzoamaka”, given to their first female child, means “The road is excellent”; the second, “Nkiru” means “That which is yet to come is greater”; the third, “Njideka” means “Hold what you have”; the fourth, “Nkechi”, means “Whatever God gives”; and the fifth, “Ogechukwu”, means “God’s time is the best”. Besides that, when Obu arrived, he became a cynosure to the parents, the mother particularly, so much so that apart from his first name “Obuechima”, which means “Compound must not revert to bush”, he was given all sorts of endearment names, such as “Ezenwa”, meaning “infant king”, “Nwokenagu”, meaning “A male child is desirable”, “Oyinbo”, meaning “A companion”, and “Obiano”, meaning “Solace”. No other boy came after Obu, but a girl came two years after his birth, and she was named “Amuche”, meaning “No one knows God’s mind”. All these events depict the superstitious nature of the Ibos; how they weave some stories around everything that happens to them.

Obu’s father, Mazi Lazarus Maduabuchi was a successful cloth dealer. He was a kindly man, but fearing for the boy's future in the hands of his over doting mother, he sent him off to be a servant of a weird, fearsome couple, Teacher Zaccheus Kanu and Madam Deborah Onuekwucha Kanu, both of whom were childless and lived in Aka, a village, some sixty miles away from Umuchukwu.

Mama Obu was vehemently opposed to the seemingly suicidal idea of having her treasured son sent to the house of a “wicked man and the witch he has as wife”, even when her husband proverbially reasoned with her that, “He who does not suffer hardship cannot develop any common sense”. In the end however, her resistance, merely verbal, cut no ice, for she was the one, who even later took Obu to the Teacher’s house in Aka, where the boy was to begin a new life as a servant.

This event is symbolic of the prevalent mentality of African parents, fathers specifically, who so much believe, against the stifling fondness of mothers, that some degree of hardship and suffering is very essential in the upbringing of a child, if such child is to be useful to him/herself in the future. Also, the subservience and abject obedience of mothers and wives to their husbands was aptly portrayed by Mama Obu, as such slavish compliance, as far as African traditions are concerned, is crucial to the continued survival of a marriage.

Teacher Zaccheus Kanu’s house, a reformatory home of some sort, sheltered an assortment of other youngsters: Silence (who was 14yrs), Moses, Ada (who was 16, and a cousin to Teacher), Mary (who was a spoilt girl, already engaged to a man but was ‘enrolled’ by the fiancé at Madam’s home, for her to undergo some tutelage in domestic and wifely training), Monday (who was 19, and Madam’s cousin), Bright (whom his father gave out to Teacher in exchange for the money the father was owing Teacher), and Obu, the newest arrival. These children were beaten and abused, and were subjected to slavish lives.

For instance, apart from the ‘baptism of fire’ slap that Obu got from Madam, Teacher’s wife, on his first day at Teacher’s house, for talking back at the woman, he also, at another time, was served another deafening smack by the ruthless Madam, because of his careless and wasteful attitude of pouring away the excessively salted pottage that she had asked him to prepare for her. The smack sent him sprawling on the ground and made him dizzy for some time. At some other time, Obu was openly embarrassed and beaten so wickedly on the assembly in his school, by the headmaster, who must have been told by Teacher that Obu stole a piece of meat from the pot at home the previous night.

Expectedly, these children, in their various childish ways, devised different acts of vengeance, to get back at their two oppressors – Teacher and Madam. First of all, they all developed strong flair for lying, as they mostly had to lie to escape from the unwarranted harsh punishment they were endlessly subjected to. Besides, Silence, the very tricky fourteen year old boy, would never answer a call by either Teacher or Madam, the first two successive times. He would neglect the call the first two times, with the hope that if he didn’t answer it, his caller would call someone else. He would answer the call only if it came the third time. Bright was another character.

Teacher almost always liked to insultingly remind him that he – Bright – was serving him (Teacher), because of his (Bright’s) father’s debt to him. When once, he gave Bright such humiliating reminder, and even attempted to wipe his oil-soiled hand dry on Bright’s head, the boy, “like a drenched dog...” (pg. 133), “…shook his dripping head vigorously…”, and he let drops of the oily water splash on Teacher’s shirt.

Ada was yet another character! Exasperated by Madam’s unrepentantly cruel behavior towards her and others in the house, Ada once poured on her Madam “…a bowl of dirty water containing cocoyam peels, discarded ora leaves, and a coating of palm oil from the cooking utensils she had washed in the bowl…” (pg. 186). Even after that mischief, Ada stood unremorseful and ready for the consequences of her actions. As the furious Madam punched and hit and smacked Ada, the girl defensively fended off some of the blows and mockingly took some, unwearyingly. Even the bigger punishment from Teacher, which came much later – scrubbing the school latrine every day for one whole week – meant nothing to the girl. She was happy that she had succeeded in cutting her Madam down to size!

The brutalities that abound in the Aka home provoked nostalgic feelings in Obu about his birth place. He had nostalgia about home, through dreams and reminiscences. He was so home-sick that he thought of what seemed to be a foolproof strategy, which was to write a letter in the guise of his mother, to Teacher. In the short letter which he eventually wrote, in Igbo, his impersonated mother said she wanted Obu to come home, to Umuchukwu, to look after his younger sister. What Obu had thought would work against Teacher was so easily faulted by the crafty Teacher. Teacher was nonetheless stunned by the creativity of the boy (for him to have thought of something as ingenious as impersonating his mother!)
After a year of the hellish life Obu had lived in Aka, his father requested that he be allowed to return home for Christmas, and by the time he returned to Umuchukwu, Obu had become so much transformed into a dutiful, hardworking boy. His return sent everywhere agog! He had shed his old habits – he was no more the loafing, bed-wetting, spoilt Obu!

However, happy about his eventual rescue from the tortuous Aka life, Obu never wished to return to Teacher’s house. He asked his mother to help him tell his father about his decision, but the mother, understanding how predictably fruitless such effort of hers would be, urged Obu to speak to his father himself.

After some long contemplation as to how to tell his father about his decision not to return to Teacher’s house, he finally broached the topic. His father’s compromising response trivialized Obu’s protracted worry, and he (Obu) wished he had said his mind long before he later did. And after Obu’s father’s seeming compromising response, he later called Obu to sit. With some wise cajolery, the silver-tongued father of Obu succeeded in making the boy see the need for him to return to Teacher’s house.

“…Nobody who does not suffer can succeed in life. Edmund is what he is because his father forgot yams, forgot cocoyams, forgot meat and sent him to suffer in Teacher’s hands. It was Teacher who made him.

Teacher tells me your brain is even hotter than Edmund’s. So, there is no reason why you should not drink tea with the white man and study in the white man’s land. But if you want to be like Caleb, you should come and live with your mother, eating goat meat and drinking palm wine and dancing with masquerades. But when the time comes, don’t say that I did not warn you. You can go.”

After this persuasive talk with his father, Obu himself voluntarily returned to Teacher’s house in January (after the Christmas holiday).

The story ultimately centres (thematically) on the challenges of parenthood. With the constant interplay between the vernacular Igbo and the English language, the author enlightens us on many things: The plight of a ‘maleless’ (without a male child) wife or couple in traditional Igbo or Nigerian society; the concept of Ogbanje (or Abiku) children and the societal attitudes to such children; the richness of traditional values as seen in the prevalently mentioned local food (especially the uncommon ones as fried termites, which were here considered as a treat; and the very common one, kola nuts, which are usually served, as etiquette demands, by hosts to visitors.); local names guarded or prompted by some superstition; local proverbs put to various communicative uses; local beliefs and traditions, etc.

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Article written by Associated Press writer, Michelle Faul. It's quite interesting. Read!

Nigeria's recalculated economy is worth $510 billion, by far the biggest in Africa, officials announced Sunday using long overdue revised data that gives the West African nation continental bragging rights but does little for the 70 percent of its citizens living in poverty.
The new value of Nigeria's GDP adds previously uncounted industries like telecommunications, information technology, music, airlines, burgeoning online retail outlets and Nollywood film production that didn't exist when the last GDP count was made in 1990. Then, there were 300,000 landlines. Today, Nigeria has 100 million cell phone users.

The new figures also will take account of growth in agriculture and tourism that have flourished since democracy was restored in 1999, ending decades of military dictatorship.
With one fell swoop, Nigeria knocked out of the ring South Africa, whose GDP of $353 billion was previously counted the biggest on the continent and which is the only African member of the G20.
"Nigeria's success is a reminder that Africa is moving ahead despite its current challenges," said investment manager Kevin Daly of UK-based Aberdeen Asset Management, which invests in Africa. He pointed out that it is a Nigerian, billionaire Aliko Dangote, who is building Africa's largest privately owned oil refinery.
Investors' attention will be drawn by the fact that while oil remains the biggest source of government revenue, about 80 percent, oil production is declining while Nigeria's agriculture, communications and service sectors are enjoying healthy growth.

Nigeria has been Africa's biggest drawer of direct foreign investment despite myriad woes, from massive corruption and oil thefts costing the country some $20 million a day to an Islamic uprising in the northeast that has killed more than 1,200 people so far this year, to a paralytic electricity supply that keeps businesses dependent on diesel-run generators.
Finance Minister Ngozi Ikonjo-Iweala told a news conference Sunday that the new data makes Nigeria the 26th largest economy in the world and raises its per capita income to $2,688, making it No. 121 in the world, up from No. 135.
That is still feeble compared to South Africa's $7,336 for its population of 48 million. South Africa, bedeviled by mining strikes, violent protests over services and a lackluster performance that has kept annual growth at around 3.5 percent, still has infrastructure unrivaled on the continent, most notably a power sector that generates 10 times more electricity than Nigeria.
Nigeria's revised figures will lower its much-vaunted growth rate of 7 percent but also will decrease an already low debt to GDP ratio of 21 percent, which should lower interest rates should the government want to borrow more, economists said.
Ikonjo-Iweala blamed decades of military rule for the delay in repositioning Nigeria's economy, but the country is not alone. Ghana's economy jumped by 60 percent when it recalculated its goods and services production in 2012, and Kenya and Zambia are considering the same.
Ikonjo-Iweala has said that Nigeria's economy needs to grow at about 10 percent to address massive poverty and youth unemployment. Government statistics say unemployment increased from 12.7 percent in 2007 to 23.9 percent in 2011; the World Bank says unemployment among young Nigerians stands at 38 percent but analysts say it is as high as 80 percent in many parts of the country.
Financial analyst Bismarck Rewane called the revisions "a vanity. The Nigerian population is not better off tomorrow because of that announcement. It doesn't put more money in the bank, more food in their stomach. It changes nothing."
Nigerians took to social networks to share their feelings. "So Nigeria has now supplanted South Africa as Africa's largest economy. But I've not had light (electricity) for seven days, so it means nothing to me," said one tweet.
Another commented: "Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy - on paper. So technically, I'm rich in theory."

Saturday 5 April 2014

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The National Examinations Council has released the 2013 NovemberDecember Senior School Certificate Examination,which recorded a marked improvement over that of 2012.

Registrar and Chief Executive of National Examination Council, Professor Promise Nwachukwu Okpala, announced the release of the result at the Headquarters of NECO in Minna.
He disclosed that a total of 61,897 candidates registered for the examination.
He said a total of 30,000 candidates secured credit and above in eight subjects including English and Mathematics which represent about 48.77 percent.
The Registrar particularly expressed delight at the drastic reduction in malpractice in the last year’s November /December examination which recorded only 0.14 percent.
He said, “The low level of malpractice is an eloquent testimony of the painstaking efforts the council has consistently made to eradicate examination malpractice.”
He assured that examination body will do everything humanly possible towards ensuring that it record zero malpractice in the coming years.
Giving a breakdown of candidates performances by subject for three years, senior secondary certificate examination from 2011 to 2013 he said the council recorded 10.3 per cent pass in 2011, 33.89 per cent pass in 2012 and 48.77 per cent pass in 2013.

Professor Okpala attributed the remarkable improve performance of candidates in NECO examination to efforts being made by the present administration to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

Source: PUNCH


What is it about guys who are just a little apart from the mainstream that makes them so desirable? While a guy who plays by the rules often succeeds, the rules of love and attraction are frequently much different than those of climbing up the corporate ladder.
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Look at a couple where he has a hint of danger and you will see many reasons why she is with him. Some of these reasons are all about him, but most of the time they are really all about her. When a woman loves a bad boy, something more than his attitude drove her there. And usually it was already inside her.

The Thrill
Dating a man who stands apart from the norm is known to deliver a heightened level of excitement. Perhaps he slightly ignores you and makes you work harder for attention – the thrill of finally getting him alone and to yourself can be an overwhelming rush. Maybe he is a little confrontational with people, and perhaps gets into altercations. That can make you feel even more special when he is affectionate toward you. It all gets your adrenaline pumping and your heart racing. The badder he is, the more stimulating the intimacy becomes.

A Cure for Boredom
A girl who has a succession of boring dates will more easily follow a guy whose very presence in her life charges things up. If she is getting out of a long-term relationship that stuck to a simple pattern, she is an unwitting foil for the charms of a guy whose whims will take her out of the traditional routine for good.

Filling the Emptiness
If your life has become a repetitive series of cell phone conversations about trips to the mall, an interesting guy who stands apart from the crowd can fill the emptiness in a hurry. The downside is that your world can suddenly look mighty small when you are in the arms of a man who doesn’t operate by society’s chosen standards. When everything you represent fails to impress him, all of your values could disintegrate. For such a reassessment of one’s existence to occur in a short period of time with one guy, indicates that you are not living your own life’s potential. Your bad boy is able to enter and rock your world because there is a space inside you that is open to anything.

Reflected Glory
Does his unconventional appearance cause people to stare at you two? Does his nonconformity have the potency of an aura? All of this attention is bouncing back onto the people closest to him. The taste of this reflected glory can be like a powerful drink or drug. You may quickly get addicted to the limelight he provides. When you walk into a room and the people react to his presence, it may become impossible for you to wander more than a few feet away from him.

Danger is an Aphrodisiac
If your man has his own way of doing things it could bring about situations that are tense and dangerous. While we all have a built-in fear response, being around this element can make you slightly used to extreme situations. The danger of everyday life can become a turn-on. While someone putting you in harm’s way should be something from which you need to be protected, you could grow accustomed to the danger a bad boy creates and embraces.

The excitement of it all could make you feel more alive, but you might be growing blind to the actual danger you are facing more regularly. Your bad boy could be your lover, but he is not necessarily your protector.
Rebelling Against Family or Upbringing
Dating a bad boy is announcing that you make your own choices in life. The need to make such a defiant statement may be based in having a strict upbringing. A need to rebel could be manifested in your relationship with a bad boy. When you embrace a taboo relationship, you are telling the world that everything up until this point in your life is worth sacrificing in order to be your own woman. In this regard, your bad boy may really be just a prop. As bad as he is, he might have a heart of gold and your using him as an assertion of your independence could carry consequences far beyond what you imagine your conservative family and friends have waiting in store for you.

Fear of Real Intimacy
Your need for a man who lives by his own rules might be a way for you to maintain an avoidance of really confronting your emotions on an intimate level. If your bad boy is a drug user or heavy boozer, his stunted emotional development may ensure that he never delves deep into your psyche. And if he were to clean up his act, it would be grounds for you to look elsewhere, again running from a true emotional bond. Maybe your bad boy has a criminal side and is in and out of jail. You can assure yourself of never risking intimacy when your bad boy is locked up away from you.

Trying To Top Your Friends
If you have friends who are marrying successful men, the bar might be raised quite high in your social circle. If you were dating a car mechanic and your best girlfriend is engaged to a doctor, you might look like a real loser in the eyes of a certain clique, no matter how deep your love for Mister Transmission Repair goes. But if you are suddenly dating a bad boy, the hierarchy is turned over. Now your girlfriends will be seen as marrying members of the drab establishment while you are living on the edge, high above them all. What fantastic revenge … unless of course you fall.

Drama Addict
All of the above scenarios carry a common thread no matter what mold your bad boy springs from: your love of drama is necessary for the bad boy to turn you on properly to maintain your wild affair. A love of drama in your life attracts you to bad boys in order for others to see you as larger than life, and to leave them all in their boredom while you have a more interesting existence than they could ever imagine.




The Popular Senior Pastor and general Overseer of Maximum Deliverance Church, Pastor John Simon allegedly caught with the wife of a Top Military officer..According to reports, the husband suspected them all along and engaged some policemen to secretly monitor them...
Heard he claimed he was casting out evil spirits and needed her to be n*ked so the spirits could run out easily... 


lool this guy is really funny!!!
 
 

See Trouble In Ogun State As Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Students Burn House, 2 Vehicles Of Suspected Ritualists 

 

 

Moshood Abiola Polytechnic students 3rd of april stormed a particular house in Akinremi Estate, Adigbe, Abeokuta in Ogun State, after a young pregnant lady escaped from the house to another building pleading with residents to come to her rescue and save her from her kidnappers.



According to eye witnesses, the lady rushed out and pleaded with us to save her from her kidnappers. She said her sister brought her from Delta State after she sold her to the kidnappers for N100,000.





Residents quickly alerted the Police, who came to search the house and found three more pregnant women and five babies. Two people were arrested immediately and taken to the police station.

But then, soon as the students heard of the incident, they rushed down and invaded the house, burnt the storey building and the two cars parked in it.



People who lived around testified that the house was leased out to an individual and the owner never lived in the place. The two arrested ritualists pleaded not guilty and insisted it was a baby factory and not for ritual purposes.


Part of what was found in the house by the students was a blood-filled basin, coffin, mortar, calabash, effigy, assorted charms, clothes, live scorpion and other suspected fetish items.

 

Friday 4 April 2014




In Interview with vanguard Read Below:

How did you come about the name “Saka”?
The name Saka was a prominent role I played in a T.V Series titled “House Apart” by Wale Windapo and me in early 2000 and it was produced by Royal Hood Communications.

Stage name
Basically, ‘Saka’ is a stage name I got on stage, and since then, the name just stuck.

Evaluate the entertainment industry over the years?
In the past, it was very discouraging, both the industry and practitioners were not given due respect. The society saw entertainers as never-do-well people, failures, and wayward people with no future ambition, yet, passion was the aim of the practitioners, the content, message and values then were more relevant, meaningful and moral centred in all ramification.

Presently, the technicality is improving, radio live shows and the incorporation of technology has made it more glamorous, commercially viable, more regulations are now being experienced, but in terms of content and values, there seems to be a decline  as more emphasis is now being placed on financial gains rather than the content itself. Dedication was the focal thing at a time but reverse is the case now.

In future, the audience and society will be selective as they are now raising eyebrows than before. I strongly believe that soonest, value will be the most utmost thing in the industry. Recent research reveals that we are second to Hollywood in the world, in terms of volume of production, but I believe that we will claim that first spot in future  when the industry develops in its content and gets enough support from the Government.

Apart from entertainment, which other area would you have pursued a career?
Honestly speaking, I do not know yet, because I have not ventured into any other profession while growing up. Although as a child, I used to dream of being a pilot, but the academic environment where I found myself did not encourage me to go after the dream. I guess because I was not really good in mathematics.

So in my free periods, I joined a performing group called “Akewiebi Theatre Groups” based in Iseyin. In fact when I watched a TV series program in OGTV, the first year it was formed, that added flare to my quest for the entertainment field.

How have you benefited from the Federal Government intervention fund into the entertainment industry?
I am still looking forward to benefiting from it. I am not a producer yet as such, but I have some works I  am working on and I intend producing  in future. For now, I am a full-time lecturer, but from all feelers I get, those who try accessing the funds said the process is very cumbersome and stressful, yet they ended up not getting it, that is Nigeria for you.

How do you feel about all the awards you have won?
It is very encouraging, each time I realize I have such recognitions. I am praying to God to get there by His grace, but on the average, I have about fifteen awards excluding international awards, and presently, I am being nominated for an international award, one in London and the other in one of the African countries. I believe that one’s work always speaks for one anywhere one finds oneself, no matter the location.

What has stardom cost you?
Although I have not and will never allow my achievements to go into my head.  I still live my normal life and still do those things which I would have done if I hadn’t hit stardom. I always feel grateful to God, my fans, my supporters, and my parents, who have spent so much in bringing me up over the years and my colleagues (lecturers) too, who have always believed in me.

How do you relate with people?
I entrench values in those I come across, that is why, most times, in the private I  prefer spending more time on building myself because I know I am charged with the responsibility of impacting positively on lives of those I meet as an actor.

How do you relax?
I spend time with my wife and children. We watch programs and play games together. I listen a lot when I am relaxing and most people don’t know that I enjoy Badminton as a game a lot. I call my wife “Olomi,” my sister, my love and my mother.

Qualitative time with family
She accepted me the way I was few years ago without nothing, but believed in my future, so whenever I have any ample time to spend, I spend it qualitatively with my family. She has time for the children; she has built a home for me and not a house.

Will you accept political position if given the opportunity?
Based on my kind of person, I am very shy and sentimental. I love to be found where people are smiling and laughing and politicians are not noted for such. I can accept political appointment in an event where their philosophy is people-friendly, but for me to compete for a political position in an election, that, I will not do. To me, I don’t see that field as my calling any time.

How did you feel winning the African Viewers Choice Award  last year?
Of course, I was very happy, coming at a time when this award was first introduced to us, “The best comedian actor award”. The memory is awesome. I want to use this medium to thank all those who voted for me during the voting process.

How has the war on piracy been in the Industry?
There seems to be no war in the industry at all. The law is there but no action to safeguard intellectual property.Marketers and producers need to come together to review their contracts because many producers are losing out to marketers.

Many producers work and labour in vain, but the marketers plough in little capital and gain millions of naira in return. Some producers even pirate their works because they know at the end of the day; they will end up becoming the losers after all. Again, we don’t have a united union, but these pirates have a unified union and strong cabal, and it only takes associations with strong unions and government backings to eliminate these leeches  from our industry.

Recently you lost your father, any long lasting memory you can never forget?
Pa Oyetoro, my biological father passed away this year, January 2014, at the age of 98, and has since been buried according to Islamic rites. It is something I cannot just quantify, but one thing I am grateful to God for, is that he was alive to see me become that which he did desire before his demise. I have so many resounding memories of my late father that I cannot forget in my life time. He has lived his life and has left his mark on the sand of time.

We learnt you are a Rich man, how true is it?
Honestly, I am not a rich man, but I am comfortable, satisfied and happy.

 




This week’s edition of Pulse Music Video Chart is the first of 2014. Cocoa Na Chocolate, the D'banj-led wake-up song for African Agriculture, is on top of the pile.
This opening “Surulere” jam which has many in Nigeria dancing comes next. Davido's “Aye”, gets the next slot, with Yemi Alade getting in on the act with her Johnny. Prepping the list is Lynxxx and his big booty-filled “Ifeoma”.
The Pulse Music Video Charts is put together by Pulse.ng’s team of seasoned music experts, backed by data from streaming site, Youtube, and opinion polls from our readers.
Enough talk, let’s get this started.
Cocoa Na Chocolate – D'Banj Ft. African All Stars
Surulere – Dr. Sid & Don Jazzy
Aye – Davido
Johnny – Yemi Alade
Girlie O - Patoranking
Ragga Ragga – Seyi Shay
My Way – Wande Coal
Anifowose - Olamide
Dance - Tekno
Ifeoma – Lynxxx
The aim of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) syllabus in Use of English is to prepare the candidates for the Board’s examination. It is designed to test their achievement of the course objectives, which are to:
(1) communicate effectively in both written and spoken English;
(2) have a sound linguistic basis for learning at the tertiary level

The syllabus consists of two sections SECTION A: Comprehension/Summary SECTION B: Lexis, Structure and Oral Forms

DETAILED SYLLABUS TOPICS/CONTENT/NOTES

1. Comprehension/Summary
(a) description
(b) narration
(c) exposition
(d) argumentation/persuasion
(i) Each of the four passages to be set (one will be a close test) should reflect various disciplines and be about 400 words long.
(ii) Questions on the passages, The Potter’s Wheel by Chukwuemeka Ike and The Successors by Jerry Agada will test the following:
(a) Comprehension of the whole or part of each passages.
(b) Comprehension of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, figures of speech and idioms as used in the passages.
(c) Coherence and logical reasoning (deductions, inferences, etc.)
(d) Synthesis of ideas from the passages.

NOTE:
By synthesis of ideas is meant the art of combining distinct or separate pieces of information to form a complex whole, that is;” the ability to make generalizations from specific ideas mentioned in the passages, such generalizations involve identifying the mood or tone of the writer, his attitude to the subject matter, his point of view, etc. In this regard, synthesis is a higher-level skill than summary.

OBJECTIVES

Candidates should be able to:
i. identify main points in passages;
ii. determine implied meaning;
iii. identify the grammatical functions of words, phrases and clauses and figurative /idiomatic expression; iv. deduce or infer the writer’s opinion, mood, attitude to the
subject matter, etc.

TOPICS/CONTENTS/NOTES

2. Lexis, Structural and Oral Forms
2.1 Lexis and Structure
(a) synonyms
(b) antonyms
(c) homonyms
(d) clause and sentence patterns
(e) word classes and their functions
(f) mood, tense, aspect, number, agreement/concord, degree (positive, comparative and superlative) and question tags
(g) punctuation and spelling
(h) ordinary usage (words in their denotative or dictionary sense), figurative usage (expressions used in ways other than literal) and idiomatic usage (expressions whose meanings cannot be determined hrough a mere combination of individual words) are to be tested.

NOTE:
Idioms to be tested will be those expressed in standard British English (i.e those with universal acceptability)

OBJECTIVES

Candidates should be able to:
i. use words and expressions in their ordinary, figurative and idiomatic contexts;
ii. determine similar and opposite meanings:
iii.differentiate between correct and incorrect punctuation and spelling;
iv. identify various grammatical pattern in use;
v. interpret information conveyed in sentences.

TOPICS/CONTENTS/NOTES

2.2 Oral Forms
(a)Vowels (monophthongs and diphthongs
(b)Consonants (including clusters)
(c)Rhymes (homophones)
(d)Stress (word, sentence and emphatic)
(e)Intonation

NOTE:
Sentence stress should not be mistaken or emphatic or contrastive stress.It involves the placement of normal stress on content words (nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs) in an utterance. Here, no emphasis or contrast is intended. For example, the words ‘see’ and ‘soon’ would normally be stressed in the sentence, “Till i see you soon”.

OBJECTIVES

Candidates should be able to:
i. distinguish correct from incorrect vowels;
ii. differentiate correct from incorrect consonants;
iii identify silent letters, vowel length, consonant clusters, etc.
iv. determine appropriate uses of stress in words (monosyllable, disyllable and polysyllable) and in sentences (emphatic/contrastive);
v. detect partial and complete rhymes

C. THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXAMINATION

SECTION A: Comprehension/Summary
(a)2 comprehension passages (10 questions in all, 3 marks each) = 30 marks
(b)I close passage (10 questions in all, 2 marks each) = 20 marks
(c)2 texts (The Potter’s Wheel 10 questions -15 marks and The Successors 5 questions-10 marks) = 25 marks

SECTION B: Lexis, Structure and Oral Forms
(a)Sentence interpretation (10 questions in all, 2 marks each) = 20 marks
(b)Antonyms (opposite in meaning – 10 questions in all, 1 mark each) = 10 marks
(c)Synonyms (same in meaning – 10 questions in all, 1 mark each) = 10 marks
(d)Sentence completion (filling in the gaps – 20 questions in all, 1 mark each) = 20 marks
(e)Oral forms (15 questions in all, 1 mark each) = 15 marks

Total: 100 questions = 150 marks
Total marks scored over 150 is thereafter prorated over 100% to get your published score
A notice just released by JAMB has a stated that the registration for the 2014 UTME for the CBT type of the exam has been again, shifted to 6th April.

This simply means that any interested candidate who wants to take the 2014 UTME and has still not registered has the opportunity to do so until 6th April.

To register, simply visit any accredited JAMB cybercafe or business centre in your area and explain to them that AGENT NEWS UPDATEl said the registration for CBT UTME exam has been extended.

We don't expect an extension in this registration exercise after 6th April so do so as soon as possible.



Strictly for those who must have read the book already. This is serving as a quick revision reference.....

Okoh Ameh

Terkura Asten

Matthew Asten (Terkura's father, who is also a farmer and a catechist)

Margaret (Terkura's mother)

Sgt. Ameh Onyilo (Okoh's father)

Eyum (Okoh's mother)

Onyema and Enewa ( Sgt. Ameh Onyilo's other wives)

Ezekiel Onah (Margaret's father)

Rev. Fr. Mckinnon (the current reverend of the church)

Fr. Martin Wolfgang (the man that wedded Terkura's parents)

Adole (Okoh's step-brother)

Mr. Eze (Provincial Hotel's regular client and also Terkura's friend)

Mr. Gordon Finlay ( the foreign manager of provincial hotel where Terkura and Okoh worked)

Torkwase (the lady Terkura's parents wanted him to marry)

Mwoicho Ako (Okoh Ameh's primary school friend)

Msendo, Ngodoo, Terngu, Mimidoo and Mwuese - the Asten's (Terkura's siblings)

Maria (Okoh's wife)

Ochai Ojobo (Maria's father)

Terngu (Terkura's brother)

Nguher (Terngu's wife)

Mathias Tyowua (Nguher's father, who is also the village school master)

Chief Samson Ofega (Terkura's client who wasn't ready to pay what he owe Terkura)

Helen Tyona (Terkura's secretary)

Ifenne, Agbo, Veronica, Innocent, Emmanuel, Ada and Ene (Okoh Ameh's children)

Mfa Agera (Okoh's drinking mate who gave him a bad advice on what to do with Ifenne)

Cecillia (Okoh's woman friend)

Josiah (Cecillia's new man friend)

Onyeche (Ifenne's crush)

Nato (Notorious bus service conductor)

Oga Olu (Ifenne's boss)

David Asten (Terngu's son and Terkura's nephew)

Agnes (David's woman friend)

Mwuese Ayem and Ene Anyebe (Graduating
secondary school students of St. Elizabeth)

Mr. Aduke (Teacher at St. Elizabeth)

Torkwase (Mwuese's mother, who is also the lady Terkura was expected to marry by his parents)

Iorfa Achir (Mwuese's fiance, who later died of
AIDs)

Iorfa (Matthew Asten's errand boy)

Mwuese (Ifenne's fiancee)

Mercy Lovefest (The lady at the telephone exchange room whom Ifenne was lusting after)

Ada (Ifenne's other fiancee aside Mwuese)

Sylvester Oguche and Andrew Tor (David's Asten's luxury friends)

Dolly, Esther and Doris (David, Sylvester and Andrew's girlfriends)

Jacinta, surnamed Immaterial (David's girlfriend who went with him to Port Harcourt)

Ene Okoh (David's fiancee whom he later married)

Ezekiel Agaku (Patron of MRC 1950)

MRC 1950 (Makurdi Reform Club 1950)

Professor Daga (Governorship aspirant)

Chief P.L.O Atetan (Ifenne's competitor for the Governor's seat)

Justice Azenda Ver (Swearing in judge, who is also the chief Justice of Benue state)

Aper Aku (Ifenne's predecessor, the former governor before Ifenne)

Dr. Aondona Agber (Ifenne's deputy governor)

Ibrahim Babangida Square (Venue for Ifenne's inauguration and 42nd independence day celebration)

The two political parties are National Republican Party (NRP) with Chief P.L.O Atetan as the flag bearer and Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) with Ifenne Ameh as the flag bearer.

Mwuese's brother was a protocol officer at the Ministry of Defence, Abuja.

God bless you as you read.

Courtesy
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April 1, 2014. 
Here are common physics formulas that you should know prior to the coming JAMB exams.

Study and drop your comments
I'm still your well wisher
I wish you all success

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1) u=F(mg sin¤)/R(mg cos¤)

2) limiting frictional force (F)=UR

3) F(total)= F + mg sin¤ ...i.e force required to move a load up the plane

4) angular velocity (w)=¤/t..........where ¤=angle....T=TIME measured in rad.s-1

5) period of a motion... T=2#/w......where # =pie..and w=angular velocity

6) linear velocity.. V=WR....where W=angular velocity R=radius

7) Force F =ma...where m=mass....a=acceleration

8)centripetal force F = MV^2/R......where M=mass...V=velocity ..R=radius

9)centripetal force = mv^2/r

10) centripetal acceleration = v^2/r

11) Newtons law of motion ....
v = u + at.......1
s= ut + 1/2at^2.......2
v^2 =u^2 + 2as.........3
 





President Jonathan arrived Yenagoa, Bayelsa State today to attend the traditional wedding of his first adopted daughter Faith Sakwe Elizabeth, who will wed her heartthrob Prince Osim Godswill Edward tomorrow Saturday April 5th. Continue to see more pics...
 






President Jonathan being received by Gov. Dickson as he arrives Yenagoa today

Former governor of the CBN, Sanusi has won N50 million Naira in damages following a Lagos High Court ruling.



The Federal Government has been ordered by a Lagos High Court to pay the sum of N50million to the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as "exemplary damages" for the illegal detention and seizure of his international passport.

Delivering the verdict, Justice Ibrahim Buba ordered the State Security Service and the police to instantly release his passport.

"An exemplary damages against the respondents jointly and severally is also awarded, in the sum of N50 million only.

"An order for immediate release to the applicant of his international passport forcefully withdrawn and seized on Feb. 20, is hereby made.

Justice Buba also held that the provisions of sections 251 of the Constitution vest jurisdiction of the FHC, to entertain matters touching on enforcement of fundamental human rights.

According to him, the applicant had brought the suit under the provisions of chapter 4 of the constitution seeking an enforcement of his rights, and so, is not a dispute relating to his terms of employment.

"The facts deposed in the applicant's originating summons and his affidavit, speaks for itself; it is a suit for enforcement of his fundamental right which is recognisable by the federal high court.

"The court allows any person who perceives that his rights are likely to be infringed on, to approach the court for redress" he said.
"This court has no doubt that the applicant has made out his case against the respondents."
Justice Buba also asked the defendants to tender an unreserved public apology to Sanusi for his unlawful arrest, harassment, intimidation and seizure of his passport.

"An order is also made, directing the respondent to make a public apology to the applicant for unlawful arrest, detention and harassment" Buba held.

"An order of this court is hereby made restraining the respondent, their agents, privies or any other law enforcement agency of the respondents, from further interfering, harassing or infringing on the personal liberty of the applicant.





Nollywood actress, Lizzy Gold, says the major criteria for any man to woo her is that he must be rich and that no poor man should even think of admiring her picture, let alone 'toast' her. In a chat with Entertainment Express, Lizzy also said bank alerts turn her on. What she said below...
"A poor man shouldn't even think of admiring my picture, not to talk of wooing me. I love money so much so I can't marry a poor man. I don't even want a man who is merely comfortable. My interest and affection are for millionaires, if possible billionaires. Money means so much to me, in fact money makes me wet. Sometimes when I imagine so much money in my account, I could just get wet. Bank alert is like my best friend. I just need to imagine so much money in my account and I am turned on. When I get a credit alert on my account, Oh my God, I get turned on immediately.
Lizzy says asides having money and being willing to spend it on her, another very important thing she looks out for in a man is that he must be well 'endowed'.
 



 Judge of Nigerian Idol show, Nneka seemed lost in the moment after one of the contestants kneeled down and presented her a red rose. It looked like he made a marriage proposal to Nneka.

Nneka was very moved by his gesture and even blushed. She said some worm words to Xolani: "Awesome charisma, you were very in tune with the lyrics and you have a charming look and personality, but I just need to you to be careful, so you don’t lose yourself in the show. 


Thursday 3 April 2014






38 year old former footballer David Beckham poses for photographer Glen Luchford as he models his H&M 2014 body-wear collection. Oh dear...*fans self*. See another pic after the cut...


Wednesday 2 April 2014



Skelewu creator, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, is spreading his tentacles in the entertainment industry as he is set to feature in a Nollywood movie which is to be produced by his cousin, Ikechukwu Ojeogwu, himself an actor cum producer.
From what we gather, Omo Baba Olowo would be working under the directions of veteran director, Teco Benson.
The movie which is still in the works, we hear, will also expand Davido's repetoire of talents and it is left to be seen if he can recreate what he has been doing in his music videos.
We can't wait to see the Gobe crooner in action.