Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of an 11
year old Nigerian boy named Tayo who built a game called Spike Rush. Read what
Zukerberg wrote after the cut...
Saturday, 17 September 2016
Just as the saying goes “A setback is a setup for a grand
comeback”, this certainly applies to the multi award-winning singing duo that
is PSquare as the drop their latest music video “Bank Alert”.
The video which has cameo appearances of the legendary
Onyeka Onwenu, Mr Ibu, Phyno and a host of other artistes.
Directed by Clarence Peters and Jude Okoye for Square
Records.
Enjoy.
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Thursday, 15 September 2016
Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) Bishops in Nigeria have called
on President Buhari to take full responsibility for the poor state of the
economy and stop blaming his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking through the Arch-Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Mathew Kukah at a dinner organised on the occasion of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) 2016 by Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, at the International Event Centre, Akure on Tuesday September 13th, the clergymen said Jonathan was no longer president of the country and no amount of insults heaped on him will make things change.
According to them, the reason why the new government was elected was to come in and provide solutions to move the nation forward rather than the point fingers at the ills of the past governments.
Speaking through the Arch-Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Mathew Kukah at a dinner organised on the occasion of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) 2016 by Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, at the International Event Centre, Akure on Tuesday September 13th, the clergymen said Jonathan was no longer president of the country and no amount of insults heaped on him will make things change.
According to them, the reason why the new government was elected was to come in and provide solutions to move the nation forward rather than the point fingers at the ills of the past governments.
“If the previous government did badly that is why we voted a
new government. We didn’t vote a government to complain about wednesday. If we
wanted wednesday, the new government would not be there. It is really about
taking responsibility. No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is
not the president of Nigeria. I think that people must understand, you take
power to solve problems not to agonise. As the head of a family, no matter how
bad things are if there is no food in the house; you as a father can’t enter
the house crying. It is the question of developing the mechanism. You can’t
solve the problem by guess work. Even my best friends in APC now realise that
nobody can sing the song about Jonathan being responsible for the problems we
are in. We are not asking you to change the whole world.”
According to Kukah, it was better for this administration to
identify the good in the past administration and improve on them than become
slaves to its shortcomings.
“We are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna now. The
train wasn’t there before. Things that Jonathan did that can help Nigeria,
let’s continue with them. The bad things that Jonathan did and those who
deserve to go to prison should go to prison. But sending people to prison will
only be useful if it puts bread on the table of people. I think the challenge
government is facing is this: just to be able to explain to the people that
this suffering has something redemptive about it because if you know that at
the end of this suffering something good is going to happen, people will be
ready to live with the consequences. But so far, I don’t think government is
communicating effectively with ordinary Nigerians and to know where we are and
the state of things. So, this is why you increasingly have a situation which
people are not willing to make sacrifices because they still believe that their
obligation is to protect themselves.”
On the current war against corruption by this government,
Kukah said
“I have always said, you can’t cure malaria by just
providing tablets. You might provide tablets to cure malaria but you have to
look at the cause of malaria. As long as dirty waters and mosquitoes are
around, there will still be the disease. My argument has always been that we
are not really fighting corruption. We started off with the assumption that
corruption is all about people stealing money. But stealing money is actually
the other end of corruption. The reason we don’t seem to make much progress is
based on the kind of diagnosis; how we diagnose the problem. I still believe
that unless we get to the root cause of poverty, inequality, which is really
the evidence and symptom of corruption, you can talk of fighting corruption all
the rest of your life and very little is going to happen.”
Transgender actress Larvene Cox recreated Janet Jackson's
iconic Rolling stone cover (right) for Cosmopolitan magazine. The actress also
recreated other iconic looks including Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' look, Tina
Turner and singer Josephine Baker known for her banana skirt and dance moves.
A serving youth corps member, Hafsat Isa, who was due to
complete her service and get married in December this year, died in a fatal
accident along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway. Her uncle, Mohammed Isa, took to
his Facebook page to mourn her. What he wrote after the cut...
Peoples Democratic Party has asked President Buhari to
return the country to where it was in 2015 before he came into office and then
resign his position. The party said this in a statement issued by their
spokesperson, Dayo Adeyeye, in Abuja yesterday Wednesday September 14th. The
statement in part reads
"What Nigerians want from this Administration are
results, simple! And not resorting to throwing tantrums on the PDP at every
given opportunity.
Our call for the President to return the Country to how he met it in 2015 is justified on the following grounds: a bag of rice was N7,000 and now is above N20,000; a mudu of beans was N150 and now is N500; one US Dollar was trading for N197 but now over N400; a liter of fuel was N87 but now N145; cost of transportation and other services have skyrocketed. Given our observation since the inception of this government, they have nothing to offer and as such, quitting will be a solution because nobody can give what he/she does not have. APC has failed. The PDP calls on Nigerians to recall President Buhari's purported 'body language' at the beginning of his administration and re-iterated that governance is a serious business and not about someone's body language' and de-marketing strategies of Mr. President while 'globetrotting'. When this government came to power in May 2015 riding on the achievements of previous PDP Administration, President Buhari's handlers and his Party, the APC claimed it was his 'body language' that brought some positive changes the Country was witnessing at that time; so we want to know what are the results of the so called 'body language'?" Prince Adeyeye queried. The Party concluded that the earlier the President and his team quits, the better for the Country, saying "there is no better time than now to make this call for the President to return the Country to how he met it and quit, or right away quit for a more experienced team to take over".
Our call for the President to return the Country to how he met it in 2015 is justified on the following grounds: a bag of rice was N7,000 and now is above N20,000; a mudu of beans was N150 and now is N500; one US Dollar was trading for N197 but now over N400; a liter of fuel was N87 but now N145; cost of transportation and other services have skyrocketed. Given our observation since the inception of this government, they have nothing to offer and as such, quitting will be a solution because nobody can give what he/she does not have. APC has failed. The PDP calls on Nigerians to recall President Buhari's purported 'body language' at the beginning of his administration and re-iterated that governance is a serious business and not about someone's body language' and de-marketing strategies of Mr. President while 'globetrotting'. When this government came to power in May 2015 riding on the achievements of previous PDP Administration, President Buhari's handlers and his Party, the APC claimed it was his 'body language' that brought some positive changes the Country was witnessing at that time; so we want to know what are the results of the so called 'body language'?" Prince Adeyeye queried. The Party concluded that the earlier the President and his team quits, the better for the Country, saying "there is no better time than now to make this call for the President to return the Country to how he met it and quit, or right away quit for a more experienced team to take over".
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