Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped the six-year-old son of a former Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Godknows Powell. Information available to us reveals that the boy was abducted in the early hours of New Year day along Etegwe road in Yenagoa, the state capital. Powell was the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development during the…
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Jonathan Re-Appoints NAFDAC Boss
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the re-appointment of Paul Orhii as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC. This was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the Federal Government, Anyim Pius Anyima, on Tuesday, in Abuja. According to the statement, the re-appointment of Orhii takes…
Top Fashion Designer, Toyin Lawani Gets New Year Baby
While many were celebrating crossing-over from 2013 to 2014, Lagos-based and respected fashion designer, Toyin Lawani, was celebrating the arrival of her first child into the world. For her, it was a double celebration and she could never have asked for more. Pretty Toyin welcomed a bouncing baby boy at the wee hours of Wednesday,…
PHOTONEWS: Man Of 7 Kids Set Ablaze In Abuja Over Debt
In President Goodluck Jonathan’s New Year message to the nation, he stated that 1.6million jobs were created in 2013 in Nigeria by his administration. The President also disclosed that his ‘Transformation Agenda’ has been yielding the needed ‘economic growth’ to boost the standard of living of Nigerians. But for one Fedrick Onuigbo, he never felt…
New Year Message: Jonathan Calls For Unity (Full Text)
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has called on Nigerians to embrace unity as the nation marks her centenary celebration on January 1, 2014. In a New Year message released on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 by his media aide, Reuben Abati, the President maintained that the “amalgamation of 1914 was certainly not a mistake but a blessing.”…
Jonathan Mourns Death Of Soyinka's Daughter
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed grieve over the death of the daughter of Professor Wole Soyinka, Iyetade, on Sunday, December 29, 2013 at UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, who conveyed Jonathan’s condolence message, said that Jonathan, “on behalf of himself and the FG, extends [his] sincere…
Fuel Scarcity Looms As Petroleum Workers Begin Strike January 1
As the nation marks the New Year day celebration tomorrow, Wednesday, January 1, 2014, the country may be plunged into another inglorious experience of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria, though a lighter version this time around. This is because the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and members of the Petroleum and Natural…
Oduah To Splash N.8b On Cars In 2014
The embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, according to a report by PM News, will spend at least N800 million on vehicles in 2014, after splashing N643 million on 54 vehicles in 2013, her budget proposal shows. The budget proposal, obtained by PM News, shows that Oduah will spend N250 million on eight operational vehicles…
I Pray To Have Bigger Artistes Than Wizkid—Banky W
The prayer of good fathers is to have children who will be more successful than them. If the statement recently made by the boss of Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), Banky W is to be taken seriously, then the RnB singer might be categorized as a good father or leader. In an interview with a music…
Tambuwal To Join APC In January
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, is set to declare dump the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, for the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in January 2014, National Mirror reports. “Mr Speaker… is set to tap the numerical strength of APC in the House to retain his seat. The defection of…