Sir Alex Ferguson:Not just a Manager but a Legend

I am sure that for many this is coming as a rude shock. Even though many expected him to retire some day, no body expected it to be now. At seventy, Sir Alex looked good enough to go ten more season. Though he had served Manchester United for twenty Six years, for that period the club experienced his super glory days with titles upon titles both in England and in Europe as a whole. His desire to exit after two more games in a league he already won is coming as a rude shock to many including myself. Though two Managers have been linked as his possible replacement, I am sure the Epl will feel his exit for a long time to come.

Many of us came to love the Epl because of three outstanding managers. One has a culture that says we dominate, we are champions and we have the capacity to make any team bow. In cases where they have lost in twenty six years of their managers reign, they have lost with style . I

Boobs exhibition from Nollywood- A super competition

Eniola Badmus at Encomium black and white ball...encouraging the boys or should I say the men!

Picture speaks-Even this is a laptop

The ten culture of evil: The Nigeria Police and the lack of value for human life!

This report will be very brief. Again its only a simple case of raising some issues of concern. However in doing so, I must be extremely careful since I have a number of police men as friends. The issue of their being my friend is the more reason why I should do this, because this men are very good people. Some times when I hear of the many things said against the Nigeria police and I try to relate it to the lives of the ones I know, I simply wonder if it is the same police force they are referring to. I say this because this people are not only educated, they are cultured, respectful, open minded, gentle, humble and very God fearing. I know that there are many of them in this same category. These are the type who will follow the process and not do an illegal job.  

Haven said the above, let us say here that like it is in all spheres of life, there are bad eggs. Bad eggs whose dirty work seem to have defined the police force negatively. It is so bad that the good ones are no longer mentioned. Their work is completely anti police ethics are they are nothing but disciples of the devil. Some times you wonder if they got the

Genevieve Nnaji: honoring a natural talent on her birthday

You will remember the birthday of some individuals not just because they are in this world with you, but because when you look at your life so far, you cannot but thank God for the contribution they have made to your life either directly or indirectly.

Many will remember Genevieve because of her contribution to Nollywood. The face behind the name Genevieve Nnaji did much with her natural talent to bring smiles to the faces of many not just in Nigeria, but in African and the world. The style with which she played her roles, the natural inputs clearly showed that though she may have grown with the act, she was also born to act. For many, you will say, they were born to do this and such a statement is true of this being when you look at her on screen. There is nothing as beautiful as an actor who

On Marriage: if I don’t see someone that I believe I can look at for the rest of my life, I won’t do it...Bimbo Akintola

In a recent interview, star actress Bimbo Akintola had this to say about her marital status:

 “Marriage is such a huge step, it’s deep. Marriage is the relationship that is the most difficult of all relationships. If I can’t see someone and say oh, yeah, I wanna be with this person for the rest of my life or even think it, I won’t do it. I say that all the time and people say oh my God, she said she would never marry, I can’t believe it.

That’s not what I’m saying

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Top newspaper report- Controversial N4.5billion Yacht Hotel disappears from Lagos !

The controversial N4.5 billion Sunborn Yacht Hotel, brought from England and moored on the Lagos waters for over four years, has finally disappeared from the state after the controversies surrounding its ownership.

It will be recalled that the custom built yacht, with 102 elegant suites, arrived the Lagos waters in November 2008 and instantly became a cynosure of all eyes.

The yacht, expected to serve as a four_star hotel, was, however , bedeviled by controversies since its arrival which led to it abandonment and subsequent rusting away on the water-ways.

When Vanguard visited the quay, by the Army Officers’ Mess at Marina, Lagos Island Local Government Area, there was no sign that such expensive and eye catching structure ever berthed there.

Enquiries from the state

Top newspaper report-Driving through the ‘slope of death’

It is a highly unpredictable stretch of road. Commuters have frustrating tales to tell, having to use the unavoidable Abuja-Karu-Nyanya-Mararaba Expressway daily.

Whether they are going to the Abuja city centre in the morning or returning after finishing the day’s job, the experience most times remains frustrating for them.

A simple vehicular breakdown, rain drops, deliberate wrong parking of articulated vehicles and accidents that are frequent, all can combine to force commuters to pass the night on the road.

A dreaded stretch of this road, Mogadishu Barracks-Kugbo-Nyanya Bridge, has claimed many lives. This is on the return side from the city to suburbs such as Karu, Nyanya and many settlements like Mararaba and One Man’s Village in Nasarawa State. Multiple accidents, sometimes involving up to 13 vehicles, are frequent on this bridge.

The sloping, winding, slippery stretch is aptly described as the “slope of death” by those who ply the road frequently.

One of the worst tragedies

Top newspaper report-May Day: NLC blasts Jonathan over Alamieyeseigha pardon.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the pardon granted to former Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha. NLC described the pardon as a major dent on the Federal Government’s commitment to fight corruption. President of the NLC, Abdulwaheed Omar, who said this in his address at the centenary May Day celebration in Abuja, noted that corruption remained the most serious factor undermining the realization of our economic potential and urged the Jonathan administration to deal with all pending cases of corruption if he must reclaim its lost ground and reassure Nigerians of its genuine determination to fight corruption.

The NLC president, while charging government to take the fight against corruption more seriously, lamented that “over the past 10 years, there has been a catalogue of corruption allegations against highly placed government officials announced with fanfare, in some cases charged to court, but which have since vanished from national view without diligent prosecution.”

Earlier in his address,

Top newspaper report-N58.9TRN Oil Block Allocation: Senate Begins Probe Of Minister, Nnpc !

Diezani Allison Madueke illegally transferred four oil blocks which amounts to the sum of N58.9 trillion to Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited, owned by Mr. Jide Omokore.

The committee had issued summons to all stakeholders in the oil sector who are linked with the oil blocks allocation following a protest in the National Assembly last week Thursday by members of the Delta State Oil-Producing Communities.

The Communities had in a petition to the Committee of both the Senate and the House of Representatives alleged secret transfer of oil blocks OMLs 26, 30, 34 and 42 to Atlantic Energy and Drilling Concept without following the due process.

The Delta Oil producing Communities had last Thursday in a petition to the committees on Petroleum in the National Assembly alleged that the Nigerian Petroleum Develipment company and Petroleum Minister, without tendering and bidding process transferred ownership of Oil Minning licence(OML)30,34,26 and 42 to Atlantic energy Drilling concepts.

The community

Top newspaper report-Suntai: Ag. gov set to emerge gov !

Five months after his boss was hospitalized in a foreign hospital over injuries he sustained in a chopper crash, the Acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar, appears to be consolidating and set to emerge the substantive governor.

Alhaji Umar may have finalized his emergence in Nairobi, Kenya when some top Presidency officials, National Assembly members and chieftains of his Peoples Decmocratic Party (PDP) sealed the hope of Governor Danbaba Suntai coming back to office. The occasion was the swearing-in of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta three weeks ago. Sources told Daily Sun that it was for the purpose of resolving the Taraba’s political imbroglio that made the officials and Umar to embark on the trip.

“The trip afforded the officials and the Acting Governor effectively brainstorming on the political situation in Taraba, and the way forward. “The

Top newspaper report- PDP denies plot to impeach Amaechi

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State chapter, Felix Obuah, has denied involvement in the alleged impeachment move against Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

He also has absolved President Goodluck Jonathan of interference in the Abuja High Court judgement that sacked the executive of the Chief Godspower Ake-led executive.

Addressing the people of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government, who paid him a solidarity visit yesterday, Obuah said that he did not have any disagreement with the governor, noting that those hammering on disagreement between him and Amaechi in the media were doing so for their own interest.

The chairmanship of the party, he stressed, does not give him the power to impeach Amaechi, noting that he wants to work with the Governor.

“We will only

Top newspaper report-2015: I’m ready to step down for better candidate –Buhari

Former Military Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday said that he was ready to step down if a better and more formidable candidate emerged under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

Buhari stated this shortly after the Sam Nda Isaiah Media Annual Lecture Series, held yesterday in Minna, the Niger State capital.

He stressed that the APC was more concerned with the entrenchment of internal democracy, adding that whoever emerged would bring the desired change.

He said: “I will be

Top newspaper report-Jonathan ready to forgo second term –Presidency

THE Presidency on Wednesday said President Goodluck Jonathan was ready to forget his ambition to run for second term in 2015 if the Senate passed its proposal for a single non-renewable six-year tenure into law.

Though Jonathan had made half-hearted denial of his ambition for another term in office, the body movements of the President and his loyalists had clearly shown that he was preparing to run in the 2015 general election.

But the President’s Special Adviser on Political Matters, Dr. Ahmed Gulak, said the ambition to stage a return would be shelved if Senators decided in favour of a single term for the President and state governors.

Gulak who spoke to The PUNCH in Abuja said, “Nigerians will remember that it was President Jonathan that suggested an idea of a single term tenure from the beginning. So if the proposal becomes a law, the credit should go to the President.

“If

Top newspaper report-No decision yet to collect toll on Lekki-Ikoyi bridge, Lagos tells court .

LAGOS State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye, Monday told a Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss a suit challenging the proposed collection of toll on the new Lekki-Ikoyi suspension bridge.

The suit, filed by an activist lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, against the Lagos State government is challenging the legality of erecting the bridge on a federal navigable waterway and tolling same.

When the case was mentioned, Ipaye informed the court of a preliminary objection contesting the jurisdiction of the court to hear the suit.

He told the court that

Top newspaper report-Bomber: I Went to Destroy THISDAY on Revenge Mission !

Umar Mustapha, charged with the bombing of SOJ Plaza in Kaduna occupied by THISDAY, The Moment and Sun Newspapers said he did so out of vengeance.

Umar who also threatened that the first witness would be killed for daring to testify against him was said to have told police investigator that he went to destroy THISDAY newspapers on a revenge mission.

The prosecution called two witnesses Tuesday. They were police officials. They wore mask to conceal their identity, in view of the court's decision to protect their identity.

The first of the witnesses, a female police officer, said she served at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Kaduna during the incident.

In her evidence, she said that as the Investigating Police Officer, she took the statement of the accused person.

She said that

Top newspaper report-Festival of sex in FESTAC !

In the beginning, FESTAC Town was a purely residential estate. Originally referred to as Festival Town or FESTAC village, it is found along the Lagos – Badagry Expressway in Lagos. It derives its name from the second World African Festival of Arts and Culture held in Nigeria in 1977. Participants in the festival were given accommodation in the housing units, which were later allocated to winners, who emerged through a ballot.

But FESTAC Town is no longer what it used to be. It has lost its past glory in more ways than one. In particular, it is not a residential estate in every material particular anymore. It has become home to various commercial activities. Many private developers have put their fingers in the juicy pie.

Town of prostitutes

One of the businesses that define FESTAC Town presently is prostitution. Indeed, it could be said there is a festival of sex, going on in some parts of the town. Some of the residents volunteered that they were harassed daily by the commercial sex workers on the prowl.

One of the preferred places where

Top newspaper report-Man uses Adeboye’s project to swindle investors

A self-proclaimed architect, Opeyemi Oluwole, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly using a building project proposed by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to dupe scores of people.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Adeboye had announced during the church’s December Holy Ghost Service titled ‘Signs and Wonders’ that the church had a challenge of accommodation.

He had said, “The dormitories we have are many but are not enough for the number of people that attend our programmes so we need people to join us in building extra 2,000 dormitories in order to reduce the number of people sleeping on bare floor in the church auditorium.

“The dormitories, we are hoping, would be ready before the next congress and anyone willing to help should get across to us.”

According to

Top newspaper report- Lagos-Ibadan Expressway still death trap, insecure – Motorists

Motorists and commuters have expressed dissatisfaction over the state and safety of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway five months after the Federal Government promised to make it better.

The government had on November 19, 2012, revoked the concession it granted Bi-Courtney Highway Services on May 8, 2009.

Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, had said the government could not fold its hands and watch “the senseless carnage on this important expressway which is part of arterial route A1”. He added that the government had decided to embark on emergency reconstruction of the expressway.

Two firms- Julius Berger and RCC Nigeria Limited- which were engaged by the government, began a palliative repair during the yuletide, raising the hope that succor was about coming to motorists and commuters.

However, the

Top newspaper report-N100bn deceased ‘customers’ funds trapped in banks !

The House of Representatives yesterday disclosed that about N100bn belonging to deceased banks’ customers is presently trapped in dormant accounts across the country.

According to the lawmakers, while the banks continue to trade with this money, beneficiaries of the deceased persons’ estates are living in penury, with many unable to feed.

The House therefore mandated its Committee on Justice and Judiciary to liaise with the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Mukhtar to relax the requirements for access to bank accounts of deceased persons by their next of kin and dependants.

This, the lawmakers said,

Top newspaper report -2015: APC Tips Tambuwal, Buhari For Presidency …Okorocha May Get VP

Baring any last minutes political recalculation, the Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and General Muhammadu Buhari will slog it out at the Presidential primaries of the All Progressive Congress, APC, ahead of the 2015 Presidential elections.

APC leaders are reportedly considering zoning the Presidency to the Northwest and mulling zoning the running mate to the South East. The Chairmanship of the party might be zoned to the Southwest, Pointblanknews.com has been reliably informed.

Immediate past Governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau is also in the race but will face a stiff opposition from the camp of General Muhammadu Buhari. The duo of Mallam El Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu lost out of consideration because they are said to have no solid political structure to withstand the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, whose party, the All Progressive grand Alliance, APGA, is still controversially linked with APC, is being considered for the Vice Presidency slot, a reliable source knowledgeable with the thinking and calculation of the emerging opposition party, toldPointblanknews.com.

Okorocha is

Top newspaper report-Contrary to a report on an online platform, Sahara Reporters, yesterday that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has been dropped from a trip with her husband to Namibia and South Africa, as a result of her ailment, the presidency yesterday said there was no iota of truth in the claim. Instead, the Special Assistant to the President on Media, attached to the First Lady, Mr. Ayo Osinlu, said the First Lady was hale and hearty and was expected to participate as a keynote speaker at a Religious, Traditional and Adolescents Leaders Conference, an event that is part of the inauguration of the National Strategy for the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone next week. “Her preparation for this is well advanced,” Osinlu noted a press statement. The aide, who described the online report as absolutely untrue, an evil imagination and an extension of a smear campaign targeted at tarnishing the image of the First Lady, wrote that: “We wish to state emphatically that the report is absolutely untrue and a creation of the wicked expectations of Sahara Reporters and those who pay their bills.” According to the statement, any discerning person, who had been following her events in recent days would notice that she had not only been healthy but active. “Indeed, it will be recalled that the First Lady effectively participated in the tasking National Conference on 100 years of the Nigerian Woman, which she hosted as a component of the Centenary Celebration of the country in Lagos, April 18 to19, 2013,” the statement said. It added that: “Those who attended or watched the event on live television (NTA and AIT) will confirm that we saw a healthy and active First Lady in attendance during the Conference. “Only last Friday, she also presided at the inauguration of the Nigerian Prisons Staff School, built in the Federal Capital by the Prisons Officers’ Wives Association (PROWA). Media reports of the event were still trickling as at yesterday.” The aide insisted that the story about the “deteriorated” health of his principal by the online platform is a figment of its imagination and that: “The First Lady is not an official of the Federal Government of Nigeria, and is therefore not under obligation to join every foreign trip made by her husband, in perfect expression of his statutory duty to foster both bi-lateral and multi-lateral advantages for the country.” “The First Family is therefore at liberty to determine what trips they make together. Meanwhile, the mischief behind this online medium’s sudden worry that the First Lady is not on the President’s trip abroad is betrayed by the fact that the same medium led its allied choristers to belly-ache in the past about the frequency of her presence by her husband’s side on official engagements outside the country,” the statement further emphasised, expressing hope that in the future professionalism will override “personal irresponsibility.”

The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Otelemaba Amachree, yesterday raised the alarm over plot to impeach Governor Rotimi Amaechi by the Felix Obuah-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, state executive committee.

The Speaker, in a statement signed on behalf of other members of the House, alleged that a fake mace has been smuggled into the state to enable anti-Amaechi lawmakers impeach the governor and cause mayhem, as a prelude to a declaration of a state of emergency.

The statement reads: “The leadership and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly wish to bring to the notice of the people of Rivers State and Nigerians some of the dangerous moves by the Felix Obuah-led PDP to cause general chaos and confusion in Rivers State.

“We have been xreliably

Top newspaper report-Presidency denies fresh report on First Lady’s health

Contrary to a report on an online platform, Sahara Reporters, yesterday that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has been dropped from a trip with her husband to Namibia and South Africa, as a result of her ailment, the presidency yesterday said there was no iota of truth in the claim.

Instead, the Special Assistant to the President on Media, attached to the First Lady, Mr. Ayo Osinlu, said the First Lady was hale and hearty and was expected to participate as a keynote speaker at a Religious, Traditional and Adolescents Leaders Conference, an event that is part of the inauguration of the National Strategy for the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone next week.

“Her preparation for this is well advanced,” Osinlu noted a press statement.

The aide, who

Top newspaper report-Obj, Yar’adua, Jonathan wasted N1.5trn On Sao Tome, Ghana, others !

Details emerged yesterday at the Senate on the alleged abuses in the disbursement of the N701.4billion Natural Resources Funds and indeed, the N1.5trillion created by the Federal Government as “slush funds”. The money was used to funnel unauthorized loans to state governments, individuals, private companies and friendly foreign governments. Senators also insisted that the establishment of the accounts contravened sections 80 (2) and 162 of the 1999 Constitution (As amended).

Of the said sum, N701,489,494,960.61 billion was paid into the development of Natural Resources Account and the entire sum was paid out, either as loans or or grants to state governments, MDAs and a private construction company unknown to the Consolidated Revenue Account (CRF). Details of the abuses of the