Super Eagles of Nigeria and Chelsea F.C
footballer, John Obi Mikel welcomed a set of
twins few months back with his girlfriend,
Olga Diyachenko.
Mikel Obi’s boo, Olga Diyachenko shared a
couple of nice photos of their daughters and
herself recently, one of which is above check
out more below:
Adele’s “Hello” after breaking the Vevo record
of most viewed song in 24 hours on Youtube,
has broken yet another record, this time its
the record of becoming the fastest selling
record in 18 years.
Adele sold four hundred and eighty thousand digital copies
of the song in America in just three weeks.
Her song becomes the first song to top four hundred
thousand sales since the release of Elton John’s Candle in
the Wind, in 1997, which was a tribute to the late Princess
Diana, this makes Adele’s song the fastest selling in 18
years.
Adele jokingly likened this massive success of her song to
Kim Kardashian’s controversial shoot that broke the
internet. During an interview with stalk.com, Adele said: “I
did a Kim Kardashian. Thank God it wasn’t with my a**. It
would’ve actually broke the Internet if it was my bum!”
Yesterday, reported how a daredevil security man connived
with his friends to murder a 25-year-old final year Civil
Engineering student of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo
State, Mr. Innocent Ndukwe.
A security guard, who was recently arrested by the Imo
State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his boss to
death and stealing his belongings, said he committed the
dastardly act because he wanted to celebrate Christmas
lavishly.
Punch reports that the guard, David Kwaguru, and two of
his friends Friday Ayuba and Francis Amos, made away
with the deceased’s Nissan Pathfinder with number plate,
KRD109AD, two plasma TV sets, one home theatre and
other valuables.
Confessing to the crime, the security guard said that the
rationale behind their evil act was that they needed money
to celebrate Christmas next month.
He said,
“Since oga Ndukwe had the money (because of his
wealthy parents) and expensive household
electronics, we decided to kill him, put the devices
inside his vehicle and drive to Plateau State where
we come from.
“We waited and monitored him. And when he went
into the toilet, we broke the door open, tied his
hands and legs and started stabbing him all over his
body. We stabbed him several times in the neck and
abdomen so that he would die quickly. After killing
him, we drove off in the jeep only to be nabbed by
the police at West End Road in Owerri.”
Also speaking, an accomplice, Ayuba, said that it was Amos
that first struck the victim in the neck while he stabbed the
student in the stomach.
He said,
“It was Kwagwuru who told us about the student.
Since we are all from the same state, we decided to
run back to Plateau after the crime, and not to return
to the South-East ever again. We also planned to
sell the vehicle and other valuables and share the
loot.”
While parading the suspects, the CP said the police control
room got a call on the incident and policemen raced to the
crime scene.
He said, “As a result, the assailants who tried to
escape were subsequently apprehended along West-
End old Nekede road, Owerri.”
He said that the deceased was found in a pool of blood in a
toilet at his residence when policemen arrived.
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday in
Abuja disagreed with his colleagues in the governors
forum, insisting that state governors must pay the
18,000 minimum wage which was signed into law by
former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking after the first Central Working Committee
(CWC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Abuja,
yesterday, Oshiomhole said the minimum wage
agreement was reached after painstaking negotiations
among labour, employers and government.
He said with current economic realities, the 18, 000
minimum wage, which is less than 100 dollars is
nothing to write home about.
He said, “I joined the NLC to protest to the National
Assembly when they were going to amend the
constitution to make the minimum wage a concurrent
issue.
“I said workers have a stake in this democracy. They
are the ones who could afford to match the street and
they matched the street for democracy. Democracy
doesn’t have to run at the comfort or convenience of
governors, ministers, and presidents. I believe that the
issue in the economy hasn’t got to do with minimum
wage. I have always also reminded my colleagues that
the minimum wage was not imposed, it was negotiated
and state governments agreed to it, the president
signed it not under duress, there was no strike to
compel the then president to sign it, he signed it
voluntarily.
“I believe when you look at the minimum wage as it is
today at N18,000, it is less than 100 dollars. I think it is
now about eighty dollars. Now, divide eighty dollars by
31 days, you will be getting about two point something
dollars. Now we cannot argue that workers in Nigeria’s
formal sector should not earn more than two dollars a
day, I cannot subscribe to that because the art of
governance is the welfare of the people.”
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the
Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have warned
that any attempt to undermine the payment of the
N18,000 minimum wage by the state governors will not
be taken lightly by workers.
Both unions were reacting to recent report in the
national dailies saying that governors in their meeting in
Abuja said they can no longer pay N18, 000 national
minimum wage because it was imposed on them when
oil sold for $126 as against the present price of $41 per
barrel.
Dear President Buhari, I will like to extend an invitation to
you for a tour of down town, so that you can have a clear
view of what the people who voted you into office feel
about certain decisions your government has taken so far,
especially the decision to ban ‘I-pass-my-neighbour
generator’.
Contrary to the picture your advisers have painted to you,
the decision to ban ‘I-pass-my neighbour’ generators will
only bring more hardship to the people down here who have
never in any way, benefitted from the Nigerian government
at any time. The little hope that your “change” mantra
brought to the poor man is fast becoming another tale in
the book of presidential lies.
So, for you to really understand the ramification of your
decision, I urge you to come for a quick tour of down town.
Don’t worry sir; it won’t cost you a thing. We will ensure
that your visit is as comfortable as we can. Yes, we know
you don’t take ‘shepe’ or ‘mishango’ or ‘Ghana root’ mixed
with ‘draw-draw’. But don’t worry, we will have enough pure
water available for you to cool your feet, wash your face
and quench your thirst.
It is true that the streets down here are littered with broken
water pipes and heaps of smelly refuse dumps as a result of
lack of government presence. But babu wahala, we will see
to it that your danshiki doesn’t get so messed up.
It will be nice to have you address the youths and explain to
them why you have taken the decision to throw our streets
into darkness and expose us to more terror from armed
robbers.
Sir, have you considered the amount of small business
operators that will be incapacitated by the ban you have
imposed on ‘I-pass-my-neighbour generators’? Come sir,
and see for yourself how many families will lose their
source of livelihood simply because they cannot afford to
purchase the bigger generators.
Sir, what becomes of the barber, the hair dresser, the
recharge card seller whose business is run with ‘I-pass-my-
neighbour’ generator? Have you considered the difference
between N10, 000 generator and a N50, 000 generator? Do
you think the people are happy using ‘I-pass-my-neighbour
generators? Someone who earns as low as N15, 000
monthly, how do you expect him to buy and maintain a
N50, 000 generator?
You should also consider they have other needs. I think this
is a wrong move and one that will drive most self-employed
youths into armed robbery and other illegal activities.
And ‘I-pass-my-neighbour generator kills? Hmmmm Mr.
President, I thought hunger and bad roads have killed more
Nigerians than generators? How come you haven’t placed a
ban on hunger and bad roads? Is this a part of the “change”
we should expect from this regime? Is this one of the
groundbreaking ideas given to you by the new minister for
power? How do we achieve steady supply of electricity by
banning smaller generators?
What I see here sir, is the government favouring the rich
against the poor. The importers of bigger generator will no
doubt see this as a welcome idea; that is if they didn’t lobby
for it. This is one of the most insensitive decisions taken by
any Nigerian government. Shouldn’t it be a general ban on
generators?
Is it that punishing the poor has become a goal in itself for
the government? Too many affluent Nigerians – and, in
particular, members of the political elite – seem to have no
sense of how much suffering is down here on the streets.
Little wonder the governors woke up one morning and
decided that they can no longer pay the N18, 000 minimum
wage of workers. For these governors, what is really
striking is the total disconnect between conventional
wisdom and the reality of life – and death – for much of the
nation. It is like there’s a badge of wickedness on the
forehead of our politicians.
Sir, what we want is for you politicians to stop talking
blithely about the importance of alleviating the sufferings of
the masses and truly start looking at the way their less-
fortunate citizens live.
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole on Thursday
accused Lucky Igbinedion, a former Governor of Edo
State of embezzling funds for the development of the
state. Oshiomole made the allegations at an event
organized to mark his 7th year anniversary as
Governor of Edo State in Benin-City.
According to Governor Oshiomole, the Igbinedion
University Okada, a private university owned by Sir
Gabriel Igbinedion, father of former Edo State
Governor Lucky Igbinedion, was built with Edo State
money.
“There are many files I am yet to open. I am not here
to probe the past, but if the past if preventing the
present…” Oshiomole said.
The Governor noted that he has terminated and
revoked all their contracts.
He decried the fact that the Igbinedion family
privatized the commonwealth of the Edo people by
collecting royalties on lands illegally.
He promised to further revoke all lands and private
properties illegally acquired by the Igbinedion family in
Edo State.
Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune has climbed to $47billion,
according to a list of the richest people in the US under
the age of 40.
The Facebook CEO is more than four times wealthier than
the second richest on the top ten list – who happens to be
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, with an estimated
worth of $9.7billion.
Zuckerberg was named number one in Forbes magazine’s
run down of the most successful young entrepreneurs in
the US.
Shares in Facebook hit a record $109 earlier this month
and more than a billion people use the social network
every day, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The third person on the list is Jan Koum, the 39-year-old
WhatsApp founder who is estimated to be worth
$8.8billion according to Forbes.
Earlier this year it was reported that Zuckerberg, who
founded Facebook in 2004, was the 16th richest person in
the world after a surge in Facebook stocks.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates remains the richest person
in the world. Currently, his fortune stands at $84.7 billion
Former United States President Jimmy Carter has
described Nigeria’s former president, Dr. Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan, as a symbol of democracy on the
African continent.
Carter, the 39th US President, said this when he
received Jonathan yesterday at the Jimmy Carter
Presidential Library and Museum located at the Carter
Centre in Atlanta.
A statement issued on Friday said the two former
presidents held a fruitful meeting at the carter Centre
where they held wide-ranging discussion on global
issues and shared views on how to promote peace,
democracy and good governance in Africa and the
world.
It quoted Carter as saying “President Jonathan is the
symbol of democracy in action. You set an example
that other African leaders should follow.”
He praised Jonathan for organising a transparent
election and easily conceded defeat by handing over to
the opposition, stressing that by doing so, Jonathan
showed his deep democratic commitment.
In his remarks, Jonathan stated that his actions while
in office were informed by his belief in a peaceful,
transparent and people-oriented governance, adding
that Africa can only move forward through democracy
and good governance.
Jonathan also commended President Carter for the
exemplary manner he led in his post-presidential life,
adding that he was inspired by Carter’s commitment to
causes which advance the path of humanity.
The statement said Jonathan and Carter shared a
common experience as one term presidents and have
both retired involuntarily from politics while
rededicating their lives towards making the world a
better place.
