SaharaTV Interview with Goodluck Jonathan On The Streets Of New York

I love this Sahara reporter, she hit the nail on the head. And our President, I do not know he stammer.

Mikel Obi Scores His First Premier League Goal

After seven years and 185 premier league games, Mikel Obi finally score his first premier league goal.
Mikel score Chelsea's second goal against Fulham in Stamford Bridge.

Kidnapped Anglican Archbishop Freed

The kidnapped  Dean of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kattey has been freed by his abductors.
Kattey, who was abducted along with  his wife, Beatrice last week  Friday along Aleto-Eleme in Eleme Local Government Area of River State, was freed on Saturday night.
His release  was confirmed by the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Angela Agabe, who said the cleric was rescued by the police and other security forces.

Culled from The Nation

Peter of P-Square 'Tabon' for Twitter

Peter Okoye of Psquare recently had an online spat with a Twitter follower, who spotted a grammatical error in the singer’s tweet at KCee of Limmpopo fame. While congratulating his colleague, who recently joined the league of entertainers with interests in oil and gas business, Peter wrote, “Personally, welcome on bored.” A smart Alec quick to spot the error tweeted back at the singer saying, “Bored!!!Shaking my head!!!Empty head!!” .An angry Peter immediately blocked the follower and retorted, “Appreciate if you correct me, but don’t insult me. My block button is very active.

Meet Kristy Love: She Makes Thousands of Dollars Massaging Clients With Her 48NN Breasts .

A busty masseuse who couldn’t get a job in a health spa because she was too big has now set up a successful business - massaging clients with her 48NN breasts.

Kristy Love, from Atlanta, Georgia in America, spent a year training only to be turned down for a job, but now earns more than a thousand dollars a day ribbing and smothering clients with her massive boobs.

She admits she was unsure at first, but after one client asked if she was going to take her top off, she revealed how clients wanting her to hit them over the head with one breast has boosted her self-confidence.

"When I finished massage school, no one wanted to hire me," said Kristy, who is known as BBW Kristy Love.



“I kept getting asked if I'd be able to stand on my feet all day. People assumed my size would be a disadvantage. No-one ever called me back.

“I decided to give massages from home and then one customer asked if I was going to keep my top on.

“At first, I was indignant and said I didn't give those kinds of massages,” she explains. “I was ashamed of my body because I was so big.

“But when I realised there might be something in breast massages I put an advert in the local newspaper and the phone began ringing off the hook.

“At first it was difficult to get over my body issues and I would only give massages with the lights off.

“But the more compliments I got from my clients, the more my confidence was boosted. It has really helped me get over my low self-esteem.”

Kristy, who is single, was already a B cup as a nine-year-old, but they rocketed to a NN when she got older.

Big breasts run in her family – her oldest sister, Denise, 51, was also a size 52NN until she had them reduced to an H cup.

But it didn’t sit well with their strict Jehovah’s Witness upbringing.

Kristy, who was also married to a Jehovah’s Witness for six years before divorcing, dressed as conservatively as possible – hiding her bosom under high-necked tops and baggy shirts.

But she says it didn’t stop the unwanted attention and, when her back ached under the weight, she found herself cursing her big chest.

Today she wouldn’t dream of getting rid of her prized assets, which she calls her ‘bread and butter’

In the past two years her weight has rocketed from 15 to 23 stone – thanks to binges on full American breakfasts, hamburgers and fries, fried chicken and her favourite snack – Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

But Kristy isn’t ashamed of her size – saying business is booming as a result.

Not only does Kristy offer squashing as a service, she also practices body gliding, which involves covering herself in oil and sliding over the customer.

She added: "I have to keep an eye out when I'm squashing someone. I look at their feet and their fingers to make sure there is still movement there and they’re still breathing."

Kristy massaging client

Business may have rocketed in recent years – but Kristy admits she’s faced opposition.

Her doctor has told her that her weight is unhealthy and prescribed her diet pills – but Kristy is worried her boobs will shrink if she slims down so she threw them away.

She said: "My weight isn't an issue at the moment, but the doctor was concerned that it might be in the future. He said I was at risk of developing high blood pressure, diabetes or heart disease.

"But that doesn't run in my family so it doesn't bother me. I could be hit by a truck, I can't keep worrying about those things that could happen in the future. I just live each day as it comes."

Her family is also against her vocation – but for different reasons.

She says: "They're totally against it. Obviously it goes against their moral code - they don't understand it. Also, because I'm the biggest in the family, I embarrass them. But no matter how many times they call me 'thunder thighs', I'll never be ashamed of my body."





Culled from Mirror

Edo State Governor Grant The Teennage Stowaway Scholarship

Bible said ''the gift of a man will make a way for him', I believe this is the story of the stowaway boy,Daniel Oikhena as Gov, Oshiomole grant him schorlarship.
 Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole, made this disclosure during the visit of Mr. George Uriesi, Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and members of his management team at the Government House  Wednesday.
In governor's word, “Without meaning to encourage anyone else, we decided to support him by sending him to one of the top secondary schools in Edo State that is owned by the government.
“The reason for opting for a boarding school is that we think that they need to closely watch him which his parents could not do.
“He is an intelligent young man with uncommon challenges, but one that has a vision. We had him examined by people who should know and the result confirmed that he is normal.”

*I hope we will not see another stowaway very soon with this kind of gesture.*

Ibori Recommended Waziri For EFCC Job – Obasanjo

 

 

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the appointment of Mrs. Farida Waziri as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission slowed down the fight against corruption in the country.

 Obasanjo, in an exclusive interview he granted Zero Tolerance, a magazine published by the EFCC,  said Waziri was a wrong successor to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chairman of the anti-graft agency.

The former President, whose administration established the  EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission, added that  he was aware that convicted  former Delta State Governor,  James Ibori, played a major role in  her  appointment.

He said, “I know that the woman they brought in to replace Ribadu was not the right person for that job  because I understood that one of those who head-hunted her was Ibori. If  Ibori, who is now in a UK (United Kingdom) prison for fraud, head-hunts somebody who will fight corruption in Nigeria, then you can understand what happened.”

  To butress his argument that Waziri was a wrong person for the job, he challenged the publication to “go and look at her track record.”

 “Go and look at the condition or the qualification; go and look at the type of interaction that anybody holding that job will have with a similar organisation elsewhere; did Waziri have that type. What connection did she have with the FBI, what relationship did she have with Metropolitan Police in London. It’s not a picnic,”Obasanjo  added.

Waziri, a retired senior police officer, was appointed head of the EFCC in 2008 after the controversial exit of  Ribadu, who was  also a former police officer.

Obasanjo  commended   Ribadu, saying his performance as the  EFCC boss helped reduce corruption in Nigeria and improved her rating by the Transparency International.

He said, “When I was there, the EFCC and ICPC worked tirelessly and we moved this country from the corruption perception index being number two from the lowest to number 45 from the lowest. We should have graduated from being number 45 to being number 50 to being number 60, to being number 100. But we are not doing that, rather we have started sliding down.”

The former President flayed  the manner Ribadu was removed from office, saying he cautioned  the late President Umaru Yar’Adua against  his  removal.

Obasanjo said if given the opportunity again, “I will reappoint Mallam Ribadu and I will not dismiss him the way he was dismissed from the EFCC.”

He, however, criticised  Ribadu for hobnobbing “with people he had declared as corrupt.”

Asked to rate the incumbent EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, on the fight against corruption, Obasanjo, said he did not know how to score him.

  But he recalled that Lamorde was directly involved  when he requested the anti-graft agency to investigate him.

He said, “I was investigated. I told  the EFCC to investigate me. I told the  EFCC to carry out clinical investigation and they did.

 “They also did same with all people on my farm. One of them was telling me the other day how Lamorde called him three times and took statements from him. The EFCC even made sure they did not submit that report to me; they waited until I left and updated their report after going round the world and saying look this is the report. Nobody should be below board in the fight against corruption.”

 The Egba chief  also  expressed concerns about the perceived corruption in the judiciary, saying  it required the efforts of all Nigerians to check the trend.

In a separate interview with Zero Tolerance, Waziri denied that Ibori supported her appointment as the EFCC chairman.

 She said, “I never knew him. I never knew James Ibori.

 “Let me ask you, if I was in league with Ibori and was not sincerely pursuing him, would he have run, gone out of this country to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates?

 “It is all lies of the enemies.  By the time I write my book,  the truth will prevail. I never knew Ibori; look I believe what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. I don’t believe in half measures. By my training and upbringing, I can never betray my country for anyone.”

 Justifying her appointment, Waziri said she secured the first conviction  in the history of the  EFCC.

“N190bn, one single recovery from one person that went to jail was during Farida Waziri. That is why it is good to have changes in an organisation”, she added.

Waziri faulted the manner she was sacked by the Goodluck Jonathan administration despite committing more than  30 years  to serving the nation.

 She said she learnt  of  her removal  in November 2011  in the news media and stated that she did  not deserve the humiliation since she had not been found wanting for any misdemeanour.

“If you are removed like that, it has a tendency to scare some people. I wasn’t bothered that I left because my philosophy of life is simple, ‘what has a beginning has an end,’’  Waziri said.

Meanwhile, the EFCC has said that it secured 80 convictions in eight months.

The 80 were part of the 368 cases charged to court.

In a statement by its Acting Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, the commission said it had also recovered N6,583,108,350 ; $19,251,519; 20,520 Euros and £19,000.

“Beyond the recovery, the EFCC intensified the prosecution of politically-exposed persons, failed bank executives, captains of industry, beneficiaries of fraudulent oil subsidy payments and senior civil servants involved in pension fraud.

“A number of cases for which investigations have been concluded, would be charged to courts across the zones where the Commission maintains offices as soon as the courts resume from recess.

“The commission deplored attempts by mischievous elements to distract it by imputing political motives to some of its investigations.”

 

Culled from Punch Newspaper

Cabinet Reshuffle:President Jonathan Sacked Nine Ministers

President Jonathan's administration has sacked nine serving ministers in the name of cabinet reshuffle (yes, cabinet reshuffle or did I hear you say politics). Those affected are:

Education minister - Ruqayat Rufai ( nobody can question this, after all this strike but this is also a dent on President image)
Minister of State for Power - Zainab Kunchi
Minister of State for Agriculture - Buka Jinani.
Minister for National Planning - Shamsudeen Usman.
Minister for Science&Technology - Ita Okon.
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Olugbenga Ashiru (This is one of the shining light in Jonathan's cabinet but payback time for Obasanjo) 
Minister for Lands - Ama Pepple, (Rotimi Amaechi's connection)
Minister for Environment - Hadiza Mailafia
Minister of State for Defence -Erelu Olusola Obada ( Olagunsoye Oyinlola's connection).


 

Baby Bride Of Eight Dies of Internal Injuries After First Night of Sex With 40 year old Groom

An eight-year-old child bride has died in Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed. 

The girl, identified only as Rawan, died in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. 

Activists are now calling for the groom, who is believed to be around 40 years old, and her family to be arrested so they can face justice in the courts.

The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen and has attracted the attention of international rights groups seeking to pressure the government to outlaw child marriages.
Yemen's gripping poverty plays a role in hindering efforts to stamp out the practice, as poor families find themselves unable to say no to 'bride-prices' that can be hundreds of dollars for their daughters.
More than a quarter of Yemen's females marry before age 15, according to a report in 2010 by the Social Affairs Ministry.
Tribal custom also plays a role, including the belief that a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.
In September 2010, a 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.
Yemen once set 15 as the minimum age for marriage, but parliament annulled that law in the 1990s, saying parents should decide when a daughter marries.





Source:DailyMail

Naija Bus Tickets At Oya.com

Here is a good news from Nigeria, you can now buy your intercity bus tickets online through Oya.com.ng.
Oya.com.ng is Nigeria's largest online bus tickets service with operations across the nation. Nigerian can now save themselves from the stress of long queues and other hassles associated with bus travel by placing a call to Oya.com care lines or visit their website to book for their ticket .
Customer have the option of:
- Choosing their bus seat
- Booking return tickets (at a discounted rate)
- Comparing prices
- Choosing from amongst multiple bus operators, boarding points and timings

Couple Sue Gynaecologist After Post-Birth Surgery, Says Vagina Too Tight For Sex

A couple are suing a gynaecologist, claiming surgery he performed after the woman gave birth, left her vagina too tight to have sex.

The woman gave birth to a baby boy in September 2010 and was given an episiotomy by Dr Guy Bolduc in CHUL hospital in Quebec, Canada.

The procedure sees a doctor or midwife making a cut in the woman’s perineum (the area between the vagina and anus) to widen the opening during delivery, the NHS explains.

Dr Bolduc noted an internal vaginal tear after the baby was born and performed surgery to repair it, the Toronto Sun cites the lawsuit, filed in Quebec’s Superior Court on 29 August, as stating.

The paper reports Dr Bolduc advised the 36-year-old woman to avoid sex for six weeks to allow time for healing.

But the plaintiff was unable to have penetrative sex until more than a year later and claims she still finds it too painful, despite prescriptions of vaginal estrogen cream and exercises with a vaginal dilator.

The woman is seeking damages of $225,000 and her husband wants $75,000 for pain and suffering.

Source: Huff Post

My Trillion Naira Letter to President Jonathan By Dele Momodu

Your Excellency, I’m compelled to write you again today since I don’t have any other form of access to deliver this to you. I’m also not sure you read the other open letters I have written to you, especially ‘My Kobo Advise to Mr President’. If you did I hope that you digested the content and pondered on them as I expected you would. My doubts are due to your continued actions.

You must be wondering why I have chosen the present title. The reason is not far-fetched. Since my Kobo advice seems not to have resonated with you and your aides, and our budgets are now quoted in trillions, this title is ostensibly symbolic and truly emblematic of our latest craze and propensity for mentioning figures that most calculators won’t be able to evaluate.

The decision to write this latest epistle was reached after watching the bizarre movie that was acted by your fellow party men and produced by very senior directors of your seemingly formidable political organisation. Let me confess that no scriptwriter would have visualised such melodrama on any regular day. If anyone had ever suggested that such a humiliating scenario would occur we would have dismissed it as a product of a cruel imagination or lunacy. But we saw this one before our very eyes and became stupefied to say the least.

Let me assure you, Sir that it is in the nature of politics and politicians for such brickbats to occur. We must thank God for little mercies because we are lucky in these parts that citizens don’t pelt their leaders with rotten eggs and juicy tomatoes. You would remember that someone once threw shoes, javelin-like, at President George Bush during a Press conference and his face could have been badly bruised and readily bloodied but for the fact that his reflexes were superbly efficient and automatically responsive.

It is for this reason that I wish you can put the matter behind you as quickly as possible and forgive even if you cannot forget. It is sad that you apparently did not envisage the tragedy that was going to befall your party and tear your members asunder. Those of us on the side-lines knew it was a matter of time before the implosion would ignite and ricochet across the land like an Iraqi bomb. The collapse of a party that had held Nigeria by the jugular for the past 14 years was destined to carry some collateral damage with it.

If you and your aides were politically savvy, you probably would have managed the situation better. And if the truth must be told, most of strategists you parade are nothing but tyros who know little or nothing about the complexities that make up Nigeria. They sit in their gilded cage of Aso Rock and forget you are inhabitants of the place today through the sheer trickery of providence and convoluted collaboration of godfathers.

If your kitchen cabinet understood the rudiments of politics, they would have hopefully averted this monumental disaster by avoiding a war they were bound to lose before it even started. They allowed you to be messed up and tossed around due to their gross incompetence and pomposity. Your rabid supporters are behaving like the peacock or to be more precise like the soldiers of fortune that most political jobbers are often are in Nigeria. Pity is they still can see the handwriting on the wall nor decipher the code of grand conspiracy that is so palpable. They are gloating all over the place and deluding themselves about the power of life and death which you wield as the Nigerian President. But a power misused is a power wasted. Reality is not all wars are won through the use of force or violence.

I will now go ahead to highlight some of the terminal mistakes made by your embattled camp and juxtapose with what I consider to be the practical solutions to these humongous problems. Whether we like former President Olusegun Obasanjo or not he’s a man who truly believes in the unity of Nigeria. I cannot but be very charitable to him on this occasion. As a man who played a crucial role during the Nigerian civil war, I believe this has made him permanently paranoid and terminally neurotic about the likelihood of Nigeria ever breaking up in his lifetime or even thereafter. Obasanjo was therefore the one man God used to make it possible for an Ijawman to ultimately become the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

It is no longer relevant or important to us if Obasanjo did what he did genuinely out of love for the so-called minorities to have a chance or for very personal and selfish reasons. Even if his decision to install as President and Vice President a sickly Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and a taciturn Dr Goodluck Jonathan is turning dangerously pyrrhic, credit must still go to Baba Iyabo that he fulfilled all righteousness by handing power to you through the backdoor, thus empowering you to grab the chicken that lays the golden eggs that we all savour today. The essence of this unusual but objective hagiography on Obasanjo today is that you should have done everything humanly possible to tolerate and accommodate his human foibles and overt idiosyncrasies.

The costliest mistake you ever made was to have allowed your relationship with a veteran of many wars to degenerate to the level fisticuffs or what the Yoruba call ‘roforofo’. It is a battle you can’t afford to fight because you have no chance of winning it at the end of the day. Please try and tell those illusionists who typically swarm around the corridors of power like locusts that if they have forgotten how God brought you to the pinnacle of the temple, your memory and gratitude are intact. And that you will never encourage Lucifer to send you on a kamikaze dive.

The second mistake was the manner your acolytes exposed your second term bid prematurely. It was totally unnecessary. As an African, you must be aware of the adage that a wise man always keeps the name of his impending baby to himself until after his wife delivers. The manner they’ve been threatening hellfire and brimstone if you don’t secure a second term has been very rude, crude and outlandishly provocative. No Jupiter can stop you from running if you so desire and eventually decide to try your luck again. It is true that you promised to serve only one term but it is still entirely your privilege and prerogative to change your mind. That can’t be a crime because we all do it most of the time. It is also your Constitutional right and you should not have been lured into dissipating some badly-needed energy on useless rigmarole and semantics.

Sir, if I were you I would have concentrated rigidly and passionately on delivering the dividends of democracy by making life better for the generality of Nigerians. Your greatest armour against real and imagined enemies is performance. If you can make conscious effort to curb the wasteful ostentation and the obsession for pomp and pageantry ascribed to your office I’m certain even your vociferous critics would become your assiduous fanatics. What you have advertently done by abandoning governance on the altar of pecuniary politics is to allow your common enemies to gang-up and have enough time to mobilise their war-chest, assemble their arsenal and fire their long-range missiles.

The third mistake is the commonest in all wars known to mankind. You opened up your flanks by fighting too many people on too many fronts. Only a poor General does that. In the haste to crush the rebellion of some of your former foot-soldiers as well as your implacable enemies, you got sucked in because you were stupendously engaged in too many directions. This was bound to take its toll on you and your combatants. Coupled with that was the obvious fact that you underrated your opponents. That is usually a regrettable strategy in guerrilla warfare.

It should have been clear to you that you had to employ a new, even if temporary, modus operandi once the Governors loyal to you were soundly and roundly beaten by the Amaechi supporters. If I were you Sir, I would have made a tactical withdrawal by sticking to the lie that I knew nothing about the Nigeria Governors Forum crisis and maintain my straight poker face. I would have reassessed the efficacy of those who sold the dummy that all was well but could not deliver the goods after fallen jejunely for the scam of collecting some fake signatures. What I expected you to do was to accept the temporary defeat with equanimity and invite Rotimi Amaechi into a room and embrace him warts and all.  You seemed to have done this at Port Harcourt Airport and expected you build on that window of opportunity. I was one of those who saluted your statesmanship on that occasion but was sorely disappointed when you allowed the opportunists to send you back to the trenches.

I still don’t know who subsequently persuaded you to fall for the self-immolating decision to continue to recognise the Jang faction when it was obvious the man lost the election fair and square. That was the moment you lost all moral authority and rights by allowing some political adventurers to drag you down the depths of their abject pettiness. You should have borrowed a leaf from Obasanjo’s experience with the once powerful Atiku Abubakar who controlled the Governors and practically brought the former President on his knees begging for support. As a veteran soldier, Obasanjo was sufficiently trained in the art and science of tactical retreat.  The crafty General knows that he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.

The example of Obasanjo’s strategic cowardice was very instructive and opulently didactic. As he told everyone who cared to listen: what Atiku did was tantamount to pulling out a loaded gun and pointing it at his head. He knew it was no use arguing with a man who could pull the trigger in a mere matter of seconds. The only option left was to use the power of native intelligence and foxiness by persuading the man not to commit premeditated murder. Once Atiku made the error of pitying his supposed prey and showing mercy, he became a dead man walking himself. Same goes for James Ibori who walked into a similar trap.

Sir, though your case is slightly different it still bears some resemblance to that of Obasanjo. Your infantry men wasted all your bullets without catching an antelope not to talk of capturing elephants, the king of the forests. You should have wooed Amaechi to your side at all cost because he was apparently equal to all your own combined forces. A hunter should always be proud of a brave son. You can do with a few guys like that in the days of tribulation. It is noteworthy that Governors control their states. How do you hope to secure your second term ambition if you control less than half of the states in the country? What is more, Amaechi is capable of delivering one of the largest votes to you from Rivers State or conversely waste most of it if he decides to be vengeful.

Finally, I wish to assure you Sir that it is not an act of timidity to seek peace and tranquillity in a country where everything seems to be going haywire. Whosoever tells you to unleash terror and mayhem on your enemies is not a true friend. Elections are won as a game of figures. The candidate who is able to attract the largest number of voters becomes electable. Rigging may never work like it used to due to several developments in the world. The New Media, otherwise known as Social Media, is breaking down walls of intimidation and oppression. Telephony and the internet combined have become more lethal than most conventional weapons. At the touch of buttons, many wonders can instantly unfold and make it possible to monitor occurrences in distant places. There is also the human factor, like the case of that Kwara man who rejected the fake election that awarded him victory when he knew in his heart that he lost. Mass education is beginning to change how we do many things even if slowly.

Your best bet is to stay on the path of honour, peace, equity, justice and unimpeachable truth. God has been too kind to you. Even if you return to your village today, you have enjoyed what no one has ever attained before which is being permanently in power and high positions since coming into relevance and prominence from relative obscurity. There is nothing more to add. If you work harder on a few of the content of your Transformation Agenda, you may easily end up as a hero. Getting a second term if you stay lucky will then be icing on your national cake. You don’t need all this stress and blackmail in the name of seeking what is not necessarily glorious. I read somewhere that a man is powerful when he controls power and powerless when power controls him. The choice is yours.

Sir, permit me to conclude with a powerful Yoruba proverb: when we are praying not to be put to shame but the prayer is not instantly answered we should start praying that God should at least keep us alive.
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America Senate Gives Obama Go Ahead To Bomb Syria

America Senate committee, on Wednesday, passed a resolution to bomb Syria in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21 that killed over 1,400 people as they slept in their homes.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10 to 7, with one present, to let President Barack Obama mount a bombing campaign aimed at the Syrian regime's weapons of mass destruction for up to 90 days, albeit within a more limited scope than Obama had requested. Specifically, the committee included language that would prohibit the use of U.S. troops on the ground "for the purpose of combat operations."
The President told Congressional leaders he wants to “degrade Assad’s capabilities”. He said: “We have a broader strategy that will allow us to upgrade the capabilities of the opposition (and) allow Syria ultimately to free itself from the terrible civil war, death and activity that we've been seeing.”

Source: Huff Post