Yoruba Movie Star, Ajigijaga Dies Months After Taking New Wife

Babangida Threatens Buhari... I WILL PULL YOU DOWN

Former Military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida yesterday hit back at former Presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change [CPC], Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who accused his regime of being behind the destruction of oil sector.

Babangida, a Chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] threatened to expose the “holier-than thou-attitude” of Gen. Buhari.

The former head of state, who spoke through Prince Kassim Afegbua, his media adviser, reminded Gen. Buhari that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Besides, Babaginda, the former PDP Presidential aspirant, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to learn to accept criticisms.

He also advised Dr. Jonathan to look elsewhere, not him, if he is blaming past leaders that are criticizing him.

Afegbua said: “On President Jonathan, there is nothing wrong in criticism if it is constructive and in the interest of the country. Gen. Babangida is one unique former President who does not criticise a sitting President as a matter of courtesy.

“If President Jonathan is blaming past leaders, he should look elsewhere, certainly not IBB.


“On Gen. Buhari, it is not in IBB’s tradition to take up issues with his colleague former President. But for the purpose of record, we are conversant with Gen. Buhari’s so-called holier-than-thou attitude.

“He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister.

“Secondly, he also presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund ( PTF) which records we also have.

“We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those two portfolios he headed. Or, we will help him to expose his. “records of performance during those periods.

“Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones. Gen. Buhari should be properly guided.”

Planning For MissGlobalNigeria 2015 Audition Tomorrow? These Are Beauty Pageant Tips You Need

This is from a Pageant Girl for Pageant Girls,
If you are new to pageants, you may be thinking, "I need all the beautypageant tips I can get!" If you've competed in pageants before, perhaps you
are looking for guidance, or you may have found that not all pageants are
created equal, and each one looks for something different. Or perhaps you
just need some extra tips to help you get farther in your quest to win.

Miss Global Nigeria is the site for pageant girls of all experiences to find the beauty pageant tips and tools needed to feel like a winner!
Words can't describe how it feels to win...how it feels to get something you've worked so hard preparing for...something that took a team of people with knowledge in different areas of pageants...something that I want other
girls, young women, and women to be able to enjoy and experience.

So...

This post was created to help you. To provide the support needed to do your best!

Whether you're preparing for your 1st pageant or your 100th, you'll find valuable information to your pageant questions here to help you succeed and to get the most life-enhancing, and positive experiences in pageantry.
Winning the pageant itself is not nearly as important as what you'll learn from the preparation for it. It's a classic example of the saying, "it's not getting there that matters, it's the journey." And, after all these years, I am still learning and enjoying the journey from that one
experience.

Beauty Pageant Tips:
The Psychology of Winning
No one can deny that winning is awesome and it feels great! Realistically, not everyone who reads this site will win a title; only a select few will do that. But if you redefine the word "winning," and realize that the journey
to the crown has longevity in its values and lessons, then you will win.
And if winning is what you want, then the information on this site will help you get there!

We will cover beauty pageant tips such as:
pageant interview tips (including common pageant questions asked in the interview room), hair care, makeup, Walking in Heels,
Stage Presence, Pageant wear from clothes and accessories to shoes, Fitness preparation and how to get that bikini body, How to pick the right song for your talent, Platform Development, Fundraising, Community Service
As well as...developing good leadership qualities
How to lose gracefully and moving forward plus
public speaking tips.
Then how to be an Ambassador of your organization and much more...
We're so excited to walk on this journey with you! Keep a date with us after that audition tomorrow. All the best!

Once again, the final audition for the MissGlobalNigeria 2015 edition is tomorrow, Friday, July, 31st and in case you still interested to be part of the contestants, try and register now or read details here:
Global Nigeria 2015 Final Casting, Grand Finale's Itineraries Out
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Police Arrest Notorious Kidnapper Alias Vampire in Owerri

Henry Chibueze, a 28 year old notorious kidnapper popularly known as “Vampire”, who was on his way to kidnap the tribunal Judges lodged at Disney Hotels along Onitsha-Owerri Road, has been arrested.

Security operatives acting of a “tip-off” tracked him down. He tried to escape but didn’t go far without a couple of bullets already deposited in his body. He was later arrested at the house of his elder brother’s wife, where he had gone to get treatment. .

He said he operates in many parts of Nigeria, Cotonou and Abijan, where his family lives. He said his wife, a Cameroonian, believes he is a clothes dealer and confessed to many high profile kidnappings and in most cases, assassination of the victims, if they prove “stubborn”.

He also confessed to killing his girlfriend in Lagos, alongside her family, which includes her parents and siblings, because the girlfriend, whom he opened a supermarket for in Aba, ran away with his money totalling N45 million.

He was arrested alongside Hakeem Bello from Kwara state. who absconded from the Nigerian Army. He fled from Boko Haram and has been providing cover for Vampire with his Army Identity card.

Vampire’s native doctor, Alexander Ohigide, and his treasurer, were also arrested.

Comedian Basketmouth On Vac. Spoils Wife, Kids Silly In US...See pix

Top Nigerian stand-up comedian Basketmouth is not only doing shows in America where he is commenting about Goodluck and the Nigerian music scene.

Basketmouth who is married with two kids is spending quality time with his family.

The Okpochas are on vacation in America, and yesterday (July 29) Basketmouth shared pictures of his kids and wife Elsie at Magic Kingdom Park in Miami.

They have been on vacation for a week now, and have been doing fun things together.

Basketmouth will be back on TV screens again as the host of The Big Friday Show. The new season of MTV Base’s Friday night comedy show introduces Falz The Bahd Guy as one of the hosts on the show alongside Basketmouth

The previous seasons saw Nigeria’s favourite comedian as the main host of the show, with a new guest host every week.

Yar’Adua Shouldn’t Have Cancelled Refineries’ Sale To Dangote –Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that late President Yar’Adua was wrong for cancelling the sale of the Kaduna and Port Harcourt refineries to a Dangote-led consortium by his administration .

In the second part of an interview granted a private television station, Channels TV, monitored by our correspondent on Wednesday, Obasanjo accused Yar’Adua of sacrificing public interest on the altar of pressure by some people by cancelling the said contract.

Obasanjo, while justifying some of the claims he made in his controversial three-volume autobiography, My Watch, spoke about his efforts to get people to invest in the oil sector and how the country eventually secured buyers for two of its four refineries.

He said, “Eventually Aliko Dangote led a group that paid $750m for the privatisation of two of the refineries – 51 per cent privatisation – and my successor (Yar’Adua) came (in), he turned it down. In fact, he paid back the money because they (investors) had paid the money.

 “And I went to him; I said ‘look, do you know…? And he said well, he did it because of pressure. I said ‘pressure?’, so to you what matters is pressure, not what is in the best interest of Nigerians. I said, but you know it will not work. Then I said in 10 years, if you continue, you would have spent two times the amount that these people had paid and it still would not work. And that is what happened.

“Today those two refineries, you can never make them work. And if we are going to sell them, we would be lucky to get $250m out of them because they have become a huge scrap. Now, why shouldn’t I explain that (in my book)?”

The former President, who denied leaving out parts that painted him in a bad light in the book, said he cared less what critics said about him or his book.

Obasanjo said people were often quick to form opinions about him without taking time to know him, making reference to a lawyer, Mr. Tunji Braithwaite; and the Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, who had written a rejoinder to his book. The rejoinder is titled, Watch the Watcher.

He said, “When I wrote a book, Braithwaite, it was My Command, he condemned my writing the book and they asked, have you read the book? He said ‘No. Once it is written by Obasanjo, it cannot be a good book. Now what do you say to that?

“People have invariably made up their minds (on) what they would do and what they would say. Why should that worry me? Why should I allow your own opinion, which you have formed, advertently or inadvertently, and wrongly to worry me? Your opinion which you have formed because you are being paid to write to castigate a book that you virtually didn’t read. So, why should I allow that to worry me?

“If I would read all the criticisms people write about me, most of which are not true, then I would not have time to do anything really useful and good for humanity. If I can be sent to jail wrongly, then anybody can do anything to me wrongly and I could jolly well have been killed wrongly.”

Obasanjo again took a swipe at Yar’Adua’s successor, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, for rehabilitating the railway system with locomotive engines.

He said, “Where I made (a) mistake, which I know is (a) mistake, I own up. But the point is this, in government we need to have all the facts that led to a person making a particular decision before your criticism can be right. Take the railway for instance, for what reason should anybody in his right senses in Nigeria of today believe that rehabilitating the railway system, which was completed in 1903 to carry three million tonnes of goods, is what we need today?

“There is no earthly reason by which a rehabilitated railway system of Nigeria today can serve our purpose, there is no way.”

Obasanjo said that before he left office as President, his administration had concluded the design of a modern rail system to cost $8.3bn that would make a trip of about 120 kilometres in 45 minutes.

He said, “Part of the design criteria is 150km per hour. You will leave Lagos and in 45 minutes you will be in Ibadan, and you don’t understand that if we are going to achieve Vision 20 2020, we will need a first class land, water and air transportation.

“Your land transportation can only be railway and road and if you don’t think this way and don’t think one generation ahead, how can you make progress? Will you say that a man who wants to rehabilitate the Nigerian railway system of 1903 is one generation ahead (in his thinking)?”

Woman Drops Her Child As She Fights To Catch Wedding Bouquet (VIDEO)

A video which shows a woman drop her baby to catch a wedding bouquet instead has gone viral. In the video, we hear the MC count down from 3 to 1 when the bride throws her bouquet into the crowd.
A woman who has probably been praying and fasting for the Lord to send her a husband saw “opportunity comes but once” and rushed to catch the bouquet forgetting that she held a baby in her hands. The father of the child has since sued the woman for attempted murder.
Watch video below..

Hotel Where Perverts Pay to Have Sex With Animals Busted by Police (Photo)

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Miss Global Nigeria 2015 Final Casting, Grand Finale's Itineraries Out!

Miss Global Nigeria 2015 Final Casting, Grand Finale's Itineraries Out!

The itineraries for the final audition and grand finale of the 2015 edition of the pageant which prides itself as Nigeria's fairest have been released by the organizers.

According to a statement by the MissGlobalNigeria management, the final audition for the 2015 pageant holds this Friday, July, 31st at the R&A City Hotel, 2 Majekodunmi Street by Oshopey Plaza Off Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos by 10am prompt while the grand finale takes place at 10 Degrees Events Centre, Billingsway, Oregun, Ikeja Lagoson Sunday, August, 23rd, 2015.
Calling For MissGlobalNigeria Final Audition!

Are you one of our contestants who couldn't make it to the last screening or will you like to use the opportunity to come on board as one of the 2015 lucky girls, then this is your last chance.

In case you've not registered, you can quickly pay into any ZenithBank branch in favour of MissGlobalNigeria account number 1012298052 and bring your teller to the audition venue.

What you need to bring? Your Teller if you've registered or N5,000 if you're joining the team afresh, then don't forget your Tank Top, Bum Short and 6 inches shoes.

You have nothing to lose when you're part of the MissGlobalNigeria team, all contestants get 22inches pure Brazilian hair courtesy of Ebube Nwagbo's Posh Hair, you don't have to bother for your evening gown because TSmart Couture is making you one, free of charge. Queen and Runners-up get 1 year wardrobe supply from Tsmart Couture and Chidinma Obairi plus international endorsements. Kindly help that girl-next-door live her dream by re-bcing. Many thanks.

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The Beginning Of The End Of Saraki's Corruption Dynasty

Politics in Kwara State has been under the control of Saraki family for years. It is normal for a politician’s son, wife, brother or other kinsman to run for the same or other government office. This is known as political dynasty. In political science, the equivalent is oligarchy.

In 1979, Dr. Olusola Saraki, father of Senator Bukola Saraki, was elected Senator in the Second Republic and became Senate leader. In 1983, he was re-elected into the Senate on National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform. In the 1980s, Olusola Saraki founded Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN) an offshoot of the Societe Generale Bank of France. Based on 2013 data, SGB is France’s third largest bank by total assets and the sixth largest in Europe. Founded in 1864, SGB France is one of the oldest banks in France.

Once his political tentacles were firmly entrenched in Kwara and in the Senate, Olusola Saraki wasted no time to launch the Saraki family corruption dynasty. As the powerful and influential national vice-chairman and Kwara State chairman of NPN, he became the kingmaker in Kwara politics and decide who gets what.

With his political connections and the SGBN in his kit, the elder Saraki got better in the corruption business. The entire Saraki family was baptized with catechism of corruption, anointed with extreme shamelessness and greed. The family became polluted and degenerated. Corruption was the glue that kept the Saraki dynasty together. The family became a center of licentiousness and depravity of corruption and influence peddling.

The SGBN became the nominally powerful institution that fostered official and family corruption. Members of the family clan – Bukola Saraki, Gbemisola Saraki, and Toyin Saraki – were instrumental in the demise of the SGBN. They are well known for their legendary reputation for financial as well as political corruption.

To the Sarakis, honesty in business doesn’t matter. Efficiency doesn’t matter. Progressive vision doesn’t matter. Corruption, greed, and power matter. Olusola Saraki and other directors of SGBN crippled SGBN. Nuhu Ribadu, former EFCC chairman and his team were to launch an investigation and arraign Saraki and nine others – Robert Mbonu, Hafiz Bakare, Toyin Idowu, G.A. Oyenola, Yinka Fagbemi, Kennedy Izuagbe, Dele Iluyomade, Noah Olopoenia, and Lana Haastrup as accused persons.

Ribadu intended to prosecute Bukola Saraki but could not because he enjoys the immunity clause bestowed on serving governors by the Nigerian Constitution. The trial of Olusola Saraki and other accomplices would have commenced pending the expiration of his son’s term as governor, but because Bukola Saraki was a member of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet, the suit got buried and Ribadu was disgraced and forced out of EFCC.

Bukola Saraki was elected Kwara Governor in 2003. He replaced his father’s former political godson, Mohammed Lawal. It was under his watch as the vice-chairman of SGBN when the bank collapsed. Ten months into his tenure as governor, the House of Reps summoned the then Central Bank Governor Joseph Sanusi to explain how SGBN overdrew its capital base by N1 billion.

While SGBN was in financial distress, on November 29, 2001, Bukola Saraki bought a mansion in London for four million, two hundred and fifty thousand pounds. The house with title number NGL 805616, located on 70 Bourne Street, London SW1W8JW, is not far from Buckingham Palace road. The three-story edifice has been described as “a house worthy of a king.”

On March 20, 2003 NDLEA and EFCC were drafted to investigate some allegations of fraud at SGBN perpetrated  by Saraki family. Olusola Saraki, his wife Florence, son Bukola and daughter Gbemisola and other shareholders were accused of money laundering. They were accused of using depositors funds to buy shares in the ailing SGBN contrary to the Banking and other Financial Institutions Acts (BOFIA). The presidency intervened and the case never saw the light of day. By early 2004, the bank and its top management were accused of defrauding the bank of N37 billion .

Barely two months after Bukola Saraki and his criminal gang in the Senate forged Senate Standing Order that got him elected as the Senate President, his wife, Toyin was invited by EFCC. Toyin Saraki scheduled to appear at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja July 28, is wanted in relation to “questionable inflow of funds into companies where she has interest.”

The question on every lip of right thinking Nigerians should be: “How could Bukola Saraki from the well known corruption dynasty got away with many murders so many times without being caught, prosecuted, and punished? How could he have spearheaded the forgery of the Senate Standing Order and installed himself Senate President? Is the Senate the den of robbers, Zombies and Bozos?

With Buhari in Aso Rock, the chickens are coming home to roost. Until now, the Sarakis – a byword for corruption – seemed unassailable despite their conspicuous greed and soaring ill gotten wealth. There is no question that the Sarakis are outright thieves and that the dynasty has a series of reoccurring scandals.  After flourishing for decades, with the possibility of Toyin Saraki being convicted for money laundering and Bukola Saraki going to jail for forgery of the Senate Standing Order, certainly, this is the beginning of the end of the Saraki corruption dynasty.

Billions of Naira were swindled by the Sarakis from Nigerian depositors and from the general public. Like many complicated systems, the Saraki corruption dynasty grew brittle and inflexible. It could not adjust to new realities. Addicted greed, out sized fraud, outlandish personality, pride, unrestrained appetite for graft and corruption and power will ultimately eclipse the dynasty sooner than expected.

Corruption patterns in Nigeria have become more complex, sophisticated, and deep-rooted. One case leads to another. But it might also reflect the resistance from those who have benefited from the existing system and face losing everything.

The anxiously awaited police report on the forgery of the Senate Standing Order has been submitted to President Buhari. The police report confirmed that Standing Rules used to elect Saraki and his deputy Ike Ekweremadu on June 9, 2015 were forged. The culprits in the Senategate scandal – David Mark, Saraki, Ekweremadu, Victor Ndoma-Egba, Ita Enang and the National Assembly clerk Salisu Maikasuwa – must be prosecuted without delay. They should receive the maximum jail sentence for the crime to serve as deterrence to other lawbreakers operating as lawmakers in the National Assembly.

We have no doubt that the Buhari administration is genuinely concerned about the challenge that corruption poses to its credibility and the country’s ability to function. Corruption entrenches and widens economic inequality. It disproportionately affects the poor. Watching a parade of officials like Dasuki, Saraki, Yar’Adua, etc., being shamed offers at the least a sense of vengeance, at best a hope of future justice.

We love to see corrupt officials being brought down. But the system that makes corruption possible remains unaffected by the crackdown. We need powerful investigators something that would be anathema to Nigerians. We need a strong court system with judges that money cannot buy. We need to prune and purge corrupt judges who are allies of the criminals. We need efficient and professional state and local government police charged with the 21st century community policing in terms of crime prevention, detection, and prosecution.

Let’s have the first casualties of war on corruption!

Written by Bayo Oluwasanmi.

Beggars’ Threat: El-Rufai Appoints Special Assistant on Persons with Disability

Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna  State, today appointed a Special Assistant on Persons with Disability. This seems to be in reaction to the threat by beggars in the state to bring down his government.
A statement signed by Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the governor, disclosed that El-Rufai has appointed Aliyu Muhammed Salisu as his Special Assistant on Persons with Disability.

Salisu, who hails from Sabon Gari, Zaria, holds a diploma in Special Education from the Kaduna Polytechnic and another diploma in Guidance and Counseling from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He is a member of the National Association of the Blind and has worked at the Kaduna State Rehabilitation Centre. He is the chairman of the Braille Production Centre in Kaduna.
Recalled that beggars in the state on Monday threatened to bring down El-Rufai government if he fails to reverse the ban on begging or provide alternative means of income, stressing that they used proceeds from begging to enthrone him as the governor of the state.
“We decided to support El Rufai, because we were tired of the then Governor, (Mukhtar Ramalan Yero) who did not show any regards to our survival. We worked hard, spent money and prayed and God heard our prayers and brought down Yero.

“Now, it would appear that we made a mistake. The new governor wants to bring us down. He does not want us to live. He has chased us out of the streets and has made no alternative arrangement for our survival.
“We are asking the governor to rescind this decision now or find ways to meet our basic needs.
“If he refuses to heed to this demand, we shall make sure we bring down his government. We are not going to pray that he dies, even if he wishes us so. We are not going to say that he should be impeached, because we voted him to power. What we will do is to hand him over to the Almighty God, and we know he will remove him the same way he removed the former person. We are servants of God, and he always hear our cry,” Kaduna State Beggars Association said in a statement on Monday.