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What Nigerian Celebs are Doing On Instagram Today – Saturday, January 31, 2015…Checkout their video and image posts. Stay abreast of their daily Instagram activities on this BLOG.

Scene of the incident | credits: Femi Makinde

The residents of the Ijetu area of Osogbo have been thrown into mourning following the discovery of the corpses of two pupils on the Osun River. PUNCH gathered that a woman had gone to the river to fetch water when she found the corpses of the two pupils floating on the river.

High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. Tompolo

President Goodluck Jonathan as a lone debater during the 2011 Presidential Debate

What Nigerian Celebs are Doing On Instagram Today – Thursday, January 29, 2015…Checkout their video and image posts. Stay abreast of their daily Instagram activities on this BLOG.

Looking good: On Wednesday night Kim Kardashian kept up with appearances as she stepped out to dinner with Scott Disick in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Encino

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PDP Rivers State Rally yesterday - Jan 28

The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, says the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, is a tax defaulter. Fashola said this on Wednesday [Jan. 28] at the eighth Annual Lagos State Taxation Stakeholders’ Conference in the Ikeja area.

R-L: Governor Adams Oshiomhole receiving Hon Roland Ehigiamusoe, Hon Ehiogie West-Idahosa and Chief (Mrs) Evelyn Igbafe in Edo state

The gale of defection hitting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), across the nation on Wednesday [Jan 28] swept through Edo state with the defection of the national president, Goodluck-for-Transformation and state Women Coordinator, Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Edo state, Chief (Mrs) Evelyn Igbafe and over 5000 others who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Among other notable members from the PDP who abandoned the umbrella for the broom in the state were three-time member of the House of Representatives and Senatorial aspirant of the PDP in Edo South, Hon Ehiogie West-Idahosa and a former Commissioner in the old Bendel State and a founding member of the PDP, Hon. Roland Ehigiamusoe. Chief Igbafe who was received to the APC by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, said she was merely on sabbatical before, but she is now fully back to the party where her heart truly belongs.

“I am back here, to my home. I have gone on sabbaticals, but I am now back home.” She disclosed to the governor that many people are disenchanted with the PDP and “are on their way to the APC”.

To former national leader and founding member of the PDP, Hon. Roland Ehigiamusoe, the party is a sinking ship which is under the grip of a single man. ”I have been a member of the PDP right from inception when it was formed on August 30, 1998. I have been there since and I have witnessed a lot of things. “I am not surprised today that the PDP is sinking and sinking very fast because for quite a long time, it has been working for self-destruction. There are a lot of injustices in that party. That is why over two years now, I have been working behind the scene for the All Progressive Congress because of the great things that the governor has been doing and has done for us.

“Many of you think that the greatest thing that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has done for us is tarring roads, building schools and infrastructure. Yes, that has been a revolution, very unique but the greatest thing he did for us was to free all of us from one man’s prison. We have all been in one man’s prison in Uromi since that 1998 and he came and in a wonderful way to free all of us,” he said.

He further disclosed to the governor that, “I have been a gubernatorial aspirant, I have participated in many activities in the party and I found that there was nothing we could do unless you are given the opportunity by one man and so when you came with the one man, one vote, you freed all of us from the prison at Uromi, so I want to say thank you our Comrade Governor.”

On his part, three-time member of the House of Representatives, Hon Ehiogie West-Idahosa, said he joined the APC to propagate the message of ‘Change’. “We went for a race, we lost not just the race, we lost a human being and we feel very pained that had we been here in APC, our safety would have been guaranteed. “Many said to me, West, are you sure you can make it there? Are you sure that you are in the right place? Today, my position is clear. We are all supporters of change and for me, I believe in those values you represent, you (Oshiomhole) want water, light, good schools, good roads and the best standard of living for our people. Everything you want for our people is to add value to life and as far as we are concerned, we are here to support you and to mobilize the people to join you in pursuing the mandate of 2015 and after that mandate, Change will come to the nation,” Idahosa said.

Receiving the defectors, Governor Oshiomhole said, ‎”when, I saw the number of people here, I wondered if there is anybody of note that is left under the umbrella that is now severely tattered. I want to join my chairman in expressing my joy at the opportunity of being able to receive you back to the house that I believe is traditionally yours. “I have argued this at the beginning and I will like to repeat it that I am convinced as our democracy matures, there are two forces in most democracy – the conservative forces that is dedicated to preserve the privileges of the few and the progressive forces that want an egalitarian society, a country that offers hope and opportunity to all its citizens and the political environment in which people can realize their potentials even if they do not have god fathers.

“Today is not just the fact of the huge number in this hall but it is also about the quality of the brains that have now joined us and in a world that is knowledge-driven, it is only the party that can parade the best brains that can drive the sustainable change that Nigeria is currently battling with in order to bail our people from its present political quagmire.”

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday [Jan 27] set an age barrier for a possible successor if he wins re-election, saying that anyone above 57 years would not receive his support in 2019.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Lafias, Nasarawa State the president also disowned the governorship aspiration of his former minister of information, Mr. Labaran Maku, affirming he never supported his move from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

What Nigerian Celebs are Doing On Instagram Today – Wednesday, January 28, 2015…Checkout their video and image posts. Stay abreast of their daily Instagram activities on this BLOG.

15-year-old schoolgirl, Precious Okoro

The Ohanaeze Youth Wing, the youth arm of the foremost socio-political body in Igboland, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said it is not happy with President Goodluck Jonathan and all Igbo working with him. The youth wing, made up of all youth organisations in the South-East, accused Jonathan of failing to fulfil numerous promises he made to the Igbo in the build up to the 2011 presidential election, which they said prompted Ndigbo to give him about 98 per cent of their votes in the polls.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a three-day public holiday for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) nationwide. The party further stated that it would resist attempts by President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration to postpone the forthcoming general election.

What Nigerian Celebs are Doing On Instagram Today – Tuesday, January 27, 2015…Checkout their video and image posts. Stay abreast of their daily Instagram activities on this BLOG.

Tragedy struck in the sleepy rural community of Umuokwe, Umuhu Ezechi in Bende LGA of Abia State last week as a young man said to be in his early 30s, Ahamefula Mba, was beheaded by his kinsman, Chinedu Okorie. The incident was said to have happened at the village stream, where he had gone to fetch water.

Late Mba, said to be a relation of the former Commissioner for Lands in the state, Chief Paul Chikezie, was reported to have squatted to fetch water from the stream when his assailant came from behind and chopped off his head. The suspect, Okorie, is said to have gone into hiding since the incident as both the community and the police have been on his trail.

A Niger Republic-based kidnapping syndicate has demanded the payment of $100, 000 as ransom for the release of its 15-year-old victim, Precious Okoro. The victim’s father, Nwaigwe, explained that Precious was kidnapped around Sangotedo, in the Ajah area of Lagos State, where she had boarded a commercial vehicle en route to her school in Ikenne, Ogun State.

He said he never knew his daughter had been abducted until two weeks later when the school management contacted him to say Precious had not reported in school. He explained that he reported the matter to the police at the Ajah Police Division, where he was asked to exercise patience. He said the cops initially thought she fled to a boyfriend’s house.

Joy: Rev Libby Lane with the Archbishop of York after being consecrated as Bishop of Stockport

The long anticipated interview of D’banj on The Truth with Olisa gives the deepest insight on the split between the erstwhile friends and business partners Don Jazzy and D’banj. In the explosive interview, D’banj went as deep as revealing how he met Don Jazzy, their return to Nigeria, how Mo’ Hits began and its ultimate end.  Olisa who relentlessly probed the split and circumstances involved, got D’banj to open up on the details and mentioned names. D’banj dropped major bombshells, in the two-part interview,  that will keep the industry vibrating for a long while.

What Nigerian Celebs are Doing On Instagram Today – Monday, January 26, 2015…Checkout their video and image posts. Stay abreast of their daily Instagram activities on this BLOG.

Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda

Revelations by Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda on the stoning of President Goodluck Jonathan in the state during a campaign rally was said to have shocked the Presidency and the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party. Yuguda, in an interview with the BBC Hausa service, said that the stoning and the attack on the President were carried out by members of the ruling PDP.

Before now, the Presidency and the ruling party had accused the opposition All Progressives Congress of being the mastermind of the attack. Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali, and the PDP Presidential Campaign Office, however insisted that the attack was carried out by the APC.

The Augustine’s’ rented apartment | credits: Olaleye Aluko

The four suspects ─ Amache and Seun Augustine, Taiwo Dada and Ezekiel Alawode ─ were apprehended while allegedly robbing at Santos Crescent, Araromi Estate. They were reportedly arrested at about 9.30pm on Saturday, January 17.