Don Jazzy Shares His Thoughts On Nigeria In New Music, "Arise"

by Omotosho Adeola

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Mavin Records CEO Don Jazzy shared his thoughts on Nigeria and the ongoing series of negative messages that are gradually defining the modern Nigerian perception, through a new song titled "Arise". Arise is an up-tempo song about belief and pride in the Nigerian heritage and potential. Released as Don Jazzy's contribution to the International Peace Day, the song also features vocals from Reekado Banks and Di'Ja.

Usher Admires Alicia Keys Baby Bump At Music Show

by Omotosho Adeola 

Usher pictured admiring the baby bump of his dear friend, singer Alicia Keys at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Vegas on Friday

Boat Capsizes In Port Harcourt

by Ogundimu Omolabake

At least 10 persons have been confirmed dead after a boat carrying 35 people capsized in the early hours of  August 29th in a river in Port Harcourt, Rivers State

The coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mr Onimode Bandele said rescue efforts are still ongoing in the search of more people.

“We can confirm that 10 persons died early friday when a Port Harcourt-bound passenger boat sank. Rescue efforts are ongoing and the agency is already working with other bodies and security agencies in the rescue efforts.” he said

Chairman of Bonny local government council, Adonye Wilcox, said

"Information available indicates that the boat hit an object on the way and sank. Local divers have rescued 17 persons, including four members of the National Youth Service Corps, while 10 persons died as a result of the accident” he said.

The search for the missing passengers of the capsized boat is still ongoing and hopefully they will be found alive.

Qatar Will Not Host World Cup - FIFA Official

by Sulaimon Shakirudeen Adetunji





The 2022 World Cup will not be held in Qatar because of the scorching temperatures in the Middle East country, FIFA Executive Committee member Theo Zwanziger said

"I personally think that in the end the 2022 World Cup will not take place in Qatar," the German told Sport Bild

"Medics say that they cannot accept responsibility with a World Cup taking place under these conditions," the former German football (DFB) chief, who is now a member of the world soccer's governing body FIFA that awarded the tournament to Qatar in 2010.

Although wealthy Qatar has insisted that a summer World Cup is viable thanks to cooling technologies it is developing for stadiums, training areas and fan zones, there is still widespread concern over the health of the players and visiting supporters.

"They may be able to cool the stadiums but a World Cup does not take place only there," Zwanziger said.

"Fans from around the world will be coming and traveling in this heat and the first life-threatening case will trigger an investigation by a state prosecutor.

"That is not something that FIFA Exco members want to answer for."

FIFA officials, contacted by Reuters, said Zwanziger was not giving the view of the all powerful Executive Committee.

"He is expressing a personal opinion and he explicitly says so," FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said. "We will not comment on a personal opinion."

FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in May that awarding the World Cup to Qatar was a 'mistake' and the tournament would probably have to be held in the European winter.

"Of course, it was a mistake. You know, one comes across a lot of mistakes in life," he told Swiss television station RTS in an interview at the time.

"The Qatar technical report indicated clearly that it is too hot in summer, but the executive committee with quite a big majority decided all the same that the tournament would be in Qatar," he added.

FIFA is now looking to shift the tournament to a European winter date to avoid the scorching summer where temperatures routinely rise over 40 Celsius.

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa chaired a meeting to discuss the matter earlier this month with the options of January/February 2022 and November/December 2022 offered as alternatives to June/July.

However, talk of a potential change away from the usual dates has resulted in plenty of opposition from domestic leagues around the world, worried the schedule switch would severely disrupt them.

Both FIFA and Qatar World Cup organizers have also been fending off questions of corruption ever since they were awarded the tournament back in 2010, while Qatar has also been criticized for the conditions provided for
migrant workers' in the tiny Gulf state.

Police Officer Beats up Harmless Trader for no Reason

by Ogungbo Shamsideen

A female trader identified as Madam Pere was battered by the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Oko-Oba Police Station, Mr. Akintade Williams, on Tuesday night at Olayinwola road Abule-Egba.

According to the woman, after the workday she was going home when suddenly the DPO who was on patrol of the area ordered her to come to him.

And as soon as she approached him, the policemen just pounced on her as if they were having problems before. 

Then he tore her clothes, punched her in the face, destroyed victim's cell phone and took all the sales proceeds she was bringing home.

Later on Madam Pere has reported the attack to the State Commissioner of Police, Umaru Manko and referred to Ikeja General Hospital for treatment.

The incident caused widespread outrage.

An anonymous resident of Abule-Egba said the attitude of Williams since he took the post of the DPO of Oko-Oba is troublesome and unacceptable.

And the way the DPO behaves does not correspond to his position.

Residents expressed outrage as they do not understand how a DPO could beat up a harmless trader for no reason.

When contacted the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer of the state Police Command, Mr. Damasus Ozoani to speak on the matter, he directed the reporter to the PPRO, Mrs. Ngozi C Braide.

She could not be reached at the time of filing this report.

It was gathered that last year Williams battered a police corporal attached to his house for going out to eat on a Sunday.

Fashion Trens On The African Attire: "Ankara Blazers"

by Abiodun Olaoluwa




In latest times, many fashionable outfit rules the town in Africa. The developed countries brought the knowledge to Africa and the Africans have taken a very good advantage of that to explore better in fashion, bringing the English style pattern of dress into the African style to make an outstanding unique look.

"Ankara" usually known to be a traditional native attire has now become a material for the exploration of different fashion style

African women are embracing a range of new ideas and have continued to expand their taste by spreading their styles across different African ethnic formal wears.

Nigeria and African designers are fast redefining and redesigning styles emerging from the continent by defying stereotypes and encouraging people especially African women to wear hand made Ankara Jackets.

Ankara blazers have become a part of everyday casual clothing, that most female have at least an Ankara Print Blazer in her wardrobe.

Jonathan Emerges PDP's Endorsed Candidat For 2015

 by Sowemimo Itanola Omowunmi

All things seem set and good for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) officially endorsed him as the party's sole candidate for the forth coming 2015 General elections. This is coming at a time were various speculations have being made wether Jonathan would be given the mandate to re-run, but with the turn out of things now, President Jonathan can now breath a sigh of relief.

In lieu of this,President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, tactically accepted his nomination by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Executive Committee (NEC) and Board of Trustees (BoT), promising not to disappoint in his capacity.

The president as a form of acceptance stressed that For the Board Of Trustees (BOT)and National Executive Council (NEC) to have that kind of confidence in me, is a big challenge, extremely big challenge. But I promise, I will not disappoint you.”

It should be further noted that  The motion to adopt the president at the NEC was moved by former acting national chairman of the party, Dr Haliru Mohammed, who was seconded by Second Republic governor of the old Enugu State, Chief Jim Nwobodo.

In addendum, the  PDP NEC’s endorsement is the penultimate step in the emergence of the president as the standard-bearer of the party, which is now set to be ratified by its national convention on December 6, before he is proclaimed the candidate.

FG Recalls 16,000 Residents Doctors

by Ogundimu Omolabake

The Federal Government has reinstated the 16,000 resident doctors it sacked on August 13th.

Announcing their reinstatement today August 29th in Abuja, spokesman for the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh said the reinstatement became effective Thursday August 28th.

War Against Terrorism

by Ogundimu Omolabake

* DSS to quiz Alimodu Sheriff over Boko Haram sponsorship allegation

The Department of State Security, DSS, says it will be inviting former Borno state governor, Alimodu Sheriff, for questioning following recent allegations leveled against him by Australian. hostage negotiator, Stephen Davis, who said he's a Boko Haram sponsor.

Speaking at a news conference today in Abuja, spokesperson for DSS, Marilyn Ogar, said the former governor had in the past been invited to the DSS office for questioning over Boko Haram activities and they will be inviting him again. Ogar also dismissed insinuations that former Army chief, Lt. Gen Azubuike Ihejirika is a Boko Haram sponsor, describing it as untrue, uncharitable & wicked. Find the statement after the cut.

"I would want to say here that it is absolutely uncharitable for us as Nigerians to reward somebody who laid down his life in pursuing this same people (Boko Haram) for us to accept that he can in any way be associated with or seen sponsoring the same sect he together with this service succeeded in pulling down their activities in Kano, Okene and other parts of Nigeria to a halt and pushing them to Sambisa forest. Its the same man we want, because he is no longer in office, to say he is the one sponsoring the sect. I think its being wicked. That shouldn't be the way we reward people who lay down their lives to provide a secure environment for us. As for the former Governor, he has been invited twice by this service and the service has also invited him again" she said

Moral Decency Among Youths

by Oshikoya Olawale




The high level of moral decadence among the Nigerian youth is one issue that needs to be checked urgently before t is too late. In time past, African (Nigeria) youths were known to be of good moral and conduct.

There was respect for not only parents and elders among the youth, but also for constituted authorities. The respect was such that parents could decide for their child who to marry irrespective of the child’s opinion, though this practice had its own effect but the child was obliged to obey.

It was a common practice for youth who were courting each other to wait till the night of their wedding before having mutual knowledge of one another (sex). It was regarded as a thing of pride when a lady marries as a virgin. It brought the lady and her family great honor, while shame and
dishonor were accorded to ladies who did not marry as virgins. Premarital sex was not only seen as a sin but was also considered a taboo in our society.

However, all the good morals and conduct attributed to the Nigerian youth seems to have been lost or replaced by foreign ones. Recently the PM News reported the case a 300 level student Redeemers University who killed his father after an argument ensued between them and this not the first time that such incident will be reported by the media.

It is no longer uncommon to see youths and even teenagers give birth outside wedlock. Abortion as become the order of the day. Some youth have referred to lack of sex before marriage as lack of opportunity and not ability to control one self. All of this decadence can be traced to cultural imperialism which has been propagated by the media.

The Nigerian broadcast media carries 70 percent of western content and just about 30 percent of local content and with the aid of other mass medium such as the internet, films, music videos and novels the need to be of good conduct and be morally upright seems to have lost its value among our youth. A very large number of the media audience in Nigeria is made up of the youth and this explains the high level of decadence amongst them.

In the light of all these, we advise that the Nigerian Broadcasting commission (NBC) take the needed steps to ensure that the ratio of foreign content in the broadcast media is properly controlled; punishment for stations that exceed the ratio of foreign content allowed should be clearly stated and adequately carried out.

ODD: Man Bites Dog Repeatedly

by Arowolo Timothy




A U.K. man by name Luke Shearer repeatedly bit a Staffordshire Bull terrier on the face after it attacked his own Dog named Sky and wouldn’t let it go.

26-year-old Luke Shearer from Coventry and his 59-year-old father were happily walking Luke’s beloved three-year-old Husky, named Sky, to his grandma’s house one fine morning when, out of nowhere an out of control Bull
Terrier, steamed straight into an unsuspecting Sky and went straight for his neck.

Once it had Sky’s neck firmly between its jaws, the Staffie refused to let go, Luke reacted by biting the dog in its face repeatedly until the Dog let go.

When asked why he did that he said

“It happened so quickly. We were walking to cut my grandma’s hedge so luckily we had some shears with us. The dog came and jumped at Sky’s neck, and it was life or death for my dog, so I just reacted and hit it with what I had. My dad was hitting it with his walking stick but that didn’t work, so I stabbed it four or five times in the spinal column, but it kept coming. I jumped on it and started biting its face until it let go.”

The UK authorities have decided not to prosecute him, because it was deemed as self defense.

Police are still trying to trace the owner of the rouge dog, but thankfully Sky will make a full recovery

Great Quotes For The Week

by Agbeleye Oyetunji




"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
Audrey Hepburn

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but is ours to win or lose."
Lyndon B. Johnson

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” 
Benjamin Franklin

“Failure is they key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” 
Moribei Ueshiba

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” 
Oscar Wilde

"Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
Bananna

"Don't say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it."
Anonymous

"Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too."

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
Jim Rohn

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
Milton Berle

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
Oscar Wilde

Finding The Social Media Balance

by Awosanya Ayomide




Remove the web and all its content from the world of today and our continent may be in commotion. That is how well pure reliance on virtual space has become. Information and the speed at which it comes is the currency of the moment and nations that matter have a top on happenings in cyber space,using it for predictions and, where possible to increase the country's cross domestic product. Online transaction fast becoming the trend.

Social media being an important aspect in the web, starts out as something you check occasionally, but before long, it takes over your life. You stop reading books or sitting with yourself quietly. Instead, you check facebook. Then check it again, and again.

But there's hope. And you don't have to quit social media; the trick is finding balance. This balance include;

Quarantine your smart phone, first and foremost, remove your smartphones from the bedroom. Stop using it as an alarm clock, reading device or music played next to your bed. The temptation to wake up and check your email, or respond to someone on Facebook or blackberry messenger is too great. And once you have fallen into the trap, it is game over. 

Resistance is not futile; take away the itch to check your accounts. Oscar Wilde once said , "I can resist everything except temptation." You can block sites on your computers and mobile phones. If that sound relevant to your online habits, you need to download some free software that will make it simple to block website.

Start a new routine; If you are like me, you didn't join facebook and instagram and start using it 24 hours a day. 

To get back to a more appropriate amount of time, set up a new routine that doesn't involve your phone or laptop or tablet.

Read a book for 30 minutes in the morning before logging on, or spend the last hour without technology (or do both).

Finally, whatever you do, don't go and announce your plans to slow your use of social media on social media ( the  temptation to see what followers are saying may be to great).

Pastor Machete Wife For Not Going To Church

by Ogungbo Shamsideen

Daniel, an Apostolic Church pastor was reported to have used a cutlass to inflict a deep cut on his wife, Patient Samuel in her neck in Adeyele in Coker-Aguda local government area of Lagos State.

It was gathered that, the offence of the 42 -year -old wife of the Pastor was because she gave preference to her work over the church programs.

It was further gathered that, shortly after the man attacked his wife with cutlass, he alerted the neighbors that his wife has been matcheted by some unknown men, urging the people to help him take his wife to hospital. But with a lot of torture from the police he confessed that he was the one who did it to her.

Taking a cursory look into this matter, why would a pastor harm his wife for refusing to go to church. 

Should this man be charged for attempted murder or what?

What is your take on this? Let's have your say.

Father Beats Son To Death In Ikeja, For Stealing N1, 000

by Ogungbo Shamsideen

In another child abuse case, a father identified as Bright has beaten his son to death with an iron belt for allegedly stealing N1, 000.

The incident happened at 6, Olarenwaju Street, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday.

According to a police report, the victim was said to have been rushed to Divine Private Hospital at Lawal Street also in Oregun where he was confirmed dead.

Lagos State Police Spokeswoman, Ngozi Braide, who confirmed the incident, said the matter is being investigated at the Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.

A Stitch In Time

by Ogundimu Omolabake

The university of Lagos has always been known as one of the leading Universities in Nigeria, although it achievements do not extend to the academic pitch. The school is known for an active social life which is evident in the student’s day to day activities both off and on campus.

In a bid to sanitize the school surrounding and prevent the spread of Ebola virus, the university embarked on a thorough cleaning programme of the school environment especially the hostels.

The students were asked to evacuate the hostels and it was sanitized for a period of two days, the hostel was treated for all manners of pests and bugs which have been plaguing it. The students were then allowed back into their rooms but were strongly advised to take precaution and maintain a clean and germ free environment.

The  school’s medical unit has embarked on an extensive campaign as to how to curb and prevent the spread of the dreaded disease, fliers and stickers to that effects were posted everywhere on campus. 

How We All Want To Be Like Every Achiever

by Ogundimu Omolabake Saidat

In our world today, all youth wants to be like one successful person or another. Yet all they do is laze around doing nothing but say I want to be like M.K.O Abiola, Wole Soyinka, Femi Otedola and the likes of this people. Do you know what it takes to be like this people? Or what it takes to be where they were or are today? If you do not, please sit back and read about a global achiever born and breed of our soils.A great playwright and poet was brought to this world on July 13, 1934. His name is oluwole Soyinka, Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family, a descendant of a Remo family in Abeokuta, ogun state in Nigeria, a time of British dominion.

After his primary schooling in st peters primary school in Abeokuta, he went to Abeokuta grammar school where he won several awards for his literary composition .however during studies at the university college in Ibadan which was affiliated with the university of London, he began has first ever work with a radio play for Nigerian broadcasting service.

Still while at the university, Soyinka and six others founded the pirates confraternity, an anti corruption and justice seeking organization. After this fraternity, Soyinka moved around and made great impact with is writing. On his becoming chief cathedral of drama at the university, he becomes more politically active. He was however imprisoned for 22 months and still he still wrote a significant body of poems and notes criticizing the government.

At 80 years of age, Soyinka is still a force to reckon with, which promoted Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, rivers State Governor to describe hi m as a global achiever at a dinner held in his honour at a banquet ball of the government house.

Explaining that Soyinka’s achievements spanned the globe and that Soyinka was however only able to attain such feat as a result of hard work and persistence. Governor Amaechi said “you have in the midst of our so many bad news brought Nigeria honour, this is because even the football that we were very good in those days is no more ,the country is in disarray. But you have remained consistent in the literary world. Reading begets writing and you must understand what you are writing about “He said Nigeria needs the experience and wealth of knowledge of literary icon to get out of troubled waters.

Wole Soyinka persistence and hard work led him this far with education from not just school, his parent and the society and himself accepting this knowledge and using them. For him to be where he is today, he read ,wrote ,became politically active, he was brutalized in prison for 22 years and his other many attributes included justice, fair play ,dignity for human society and faith in good governance which by far excluded any form of tribalism and plagiarism.

Do you want to lose your parent, family, friend or any body part, do you want to be beaten and imprisoned for years perhaps, if yes then you can wish to be like every rich, successful and popular person on earth. If No, never wish onto yourself what other has gone through rather pray for such hard work, knowledge, persistence and consistence and be your own person and give to your country what it takes to swim out of their troubled water heads up?

Cameroonian Army Claims to have Killed Boko Haram Leader Shekau

 by Rabiu Idris Olamide




Nigerian security authorities are currently  investigating the Cameroonian army’s claims that they have killed Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.

The army is said to have posted a photograph purported to show Shekau’s corpse on social media, The Times  reports.

Shekau is said to have been killed during a battle between Cameroon’s troops and the insurgents in the border region of Gambaru.

There are no official reports confirming whether Shekau is indeed dead.

Sources from the Nigerian military have reportedly stated that the person killed by the Cameroonian army was not Shekau.

According to Sahara Reporters the person killed was Bashir Mohammed, leader of Boko Haram’s Uye camp.

Authorities also allege that it was Nigerian soldiers, and not the Cameroonian military that killed Mohammed.

Bus Conductor Arrested For Biting Passenger's Ear Over Fare

by Ajose Olawale Adegboyega




A 32-year-old bus conductor, Taiye Ajayi, was yesterday, charged with biting off the ear of a passenger at an Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos.

Ajayi, whose address is unknown, is being tried for unlawfully inflicting wounds.

The prosecutor, Corporal Oluwafemi Adeleye, told the court that the accused bit off the ear of one Kabiru Olugbemi for allegedly refusing to pay his fare.

Adeleye said the accused committed the offence at MicCom Bus Stop, Egbeda, a Lagos suburb, on, at about.

He said: “The passenger boarded a bus from Oshodi to Egbeda and informed the conductor about the little money he had on him as fare.

“The accused demanded for the balance of the fare when he got to the bus stop and thereafter a fight ensued.

“In the process, the accused bit off Kabiru’s ear.”

Adeleye said the offence contravened Section 244 (a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused may be sentenced to three years imprisonment on conviction.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the offence.

The Magistrate, Mr P.E. Nwaka, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum.
The case has been adjourned for trial.

Ban On Police Road-Blocks/Check-Points Still In Force - IG of Police

by Omotosho Adeola

The police road block in Lagos is so annoying. And according to press release signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, the ban on the road blocks is still in force. Guess the police officers we see on the roads didn't get the memo. Find the press release below..The Inspector-General of Police, Acting IGP Suleiman Abba, has stated unequivocally that the order banning the setting up of Police road-blocks nationwide is still strictly in force. In a directive issued to all Commands and Formations of the Force, the IGP warned that all semblances of Police road-blocks and permanent check-points reportedly re-emerging in some parts of the country, especially in the South-East, South-South and South-West geo-political zones of Nigeria should immediately be dismantled.

The IGP who described the trend as a serious violation of subsisting order on road-blocks warned that severe sanctions await any Police Commands, Formations and personnel who violate the order.

While charging the Command Commissioners of Police and Heads of Formations to ensure total compliance with this order, the IGP further orders extensive visibility patrol and effective surveillance on our roads.

Motorcycle Riders Protest On The Street

by Ajose Olawale Adegboyga

Commercial tricycle operators in Bayelsa State, popularly known as Keke Napep, yesterday protested against the alleged excessive use of force and extortion by policemen on the roads following the hitting of a pregnant woman by a policeman along Azikoro Road, Ekeki in Yenagoa.

The policeman, said to be an Inspector, was said to have hit the pregnant woman while trying to hit a Keke Napep driver with his gunbutt for refusing to part with a N50 bribe.

Though some security operatives described the action of the inspector as “careless” and denied the alleged use of the rifle butt, the irate protesters claimed the action of the police led to excessive bleeding by the pregnant women from the mouth.

The victim, according to the protesters, was rushed to Glory Land Hospital.

Attempts by the protesters to barricade the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) along the Azikoro Road was thwarted by armed policemen who fired tear gas.

The incident attracted the attention of newsmen who had gone to the NUJ to cover an assignment.

One of the protesting Keke Napep drivers described as unbecoming the activities of policemen at check points in the state capital.

He said: “This is a small state but the amount paid as bribe to policemen is exorbitant and fearful. Can you imagine we pay as much as N600 daily?

“It is wrong and criminal. Most of our passengers are embarrassed by these policemen at night. They extort us and some of the passengers. They call everyone criminal. This is wrong.”

Contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alex Akhigbe, said he was not aware of the incident.

Woman Arrested For Slicing Stepdaughter's Buttocks.

by Ajose Olawale Adegboyega





A 29-year old woman, Lucy Samuel has been arrested by the police for allegedly maltreating her stepdaughter, Joan Samuel, 15, by slicing her buttock with a hot knife in Lagos state, Southwest, Nigeria.

She was charged before Magistrate’s court, Isolo with the alleged offence after she inflicted injury on the victim. The incident happened at 14/16 Isheri Oshun road Bucknor in Ejigbo, Lagos.

On the day the incident happened, Lucy reportedly took her kitchen knife and put it inside a burning stove until it turned red. Lucy then took off Joan’s cloth and used the knife and sliced her bottom, stomach and laps.

The teenager lives with Lucy and her father, Samuel after her mother was sent away shortly after Lucy married her father.

Police sources said Lucy was not happy Joan was staying with them because she believed that her presence was a threat to her marriage.

we gathered that after she failed to convince her husband to send her away, she started maltreating her. Her unpleasant attitude towards the girl was noticed by neighbors who alerted the police shortly after Lucy had cut Joan.

The woman was arrested and charged to court with grievous harm under the Criminal Code. When she was arraigned, she pleaded not guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, granted her bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

She was remanded in prison custody pending when she fulfills her bail.

CBN Reintroduced ATM of N65

By Abiola Serah Funmi

Do you think it will have negative impact on the cashless policy and economic growth in general?.

The bank have spent a lot of resources in deploying ATM infrastructure and they. Have responsibility to recover their cost.Before the banking consolidation. We had probably less than one hundred ATM in Nigeria was in 2004. Today in every nook and cranny,you see ATMs deployed and they are still not sufficient.

If you go outside Lagos, you see queues for ATMs, they (the banks) need to be able to recover part of this cost so that there can be an incentive for them to continue to deploy them.The removal of the charges initially affected the bank performance when you talk about banks profit,nobody looks at the capital employed or human resources deployed,nobody thinks about the infrastructure they are using to generate these billions.

But the truth of it that this arrangement is excess for people who are withdrawing,it's marginal fee in terms of payment, you must have done three withdrawal but applies to you,so, it will also help those who withdraw money not to do so in frivolous manner and plan their cash flow I believe that banks must encouraged to continue to deploy ATMs. I don't think we have sufficient really after Lagos, where you have a lot of queues,the incentive for them to deploy more must never be lost.And so, there should be some compensation for that services.

Former Titans Kicker Bironas Kiled In Car Crash

by Omotosho Adeola

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rob Bironas, who worked his way through odd jobs and the Arena Football League before becoming one of the NFL's most accurate kickers, died in a car crash. He was 36.

The former Tennessee Titans player died Saturday night when he lost control on a curve in his 2009 GMC Yukon Denali and crashed after 11 p.m. less than a mile from home.

Report  said his SUV was speeding when it went off the road and hit a line of trees before coming to a stop upside down in a culvert.

Bironas was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead with out any evidence of alcohol or drugs at the scene.

The Titans released Bironas in March after nine seasons. The Tennessean reported that Bironas worked out for the Detroit Lions and for Tampa Bay during the off season.

The Titans, who play at Cincinnati, extended condolences Sunday.

The team said in a statement "Rob made a significant impact as a player in his nine years with the team and more importantly touched many lives in the Nashville community off the field,".

Bironas was the fourth most-accurate kicker in NFL history, connecting on 85.7 percent of his kicks (239 of 279). Only David Akers made more field goals (247) between 2005 and 2013 than Bironas. For kickers with 100 or more field goals since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, Bironas ranked third making 75.2 percent of his kicks from 40 yards or longer (94 of 125).

He finished as the Titans' second all-time leading scorer with 1,032 points, and he set a franchise record scoring triple digits in seven straight seasons. He also set an NFL record in 2011 in hitting a field goal from at least 40 yards in 10 consecutive games.

Bironas made a franchise-record 11 game-winning field goals during his career, including a 60-yarder against the Indianapolis Colts in 2006 that remains the longest field goal in Oilers or Titans history. Bironas kicked an NFL single-game record eight field goals in a 2007 victory over the Houston Texans, including a 29-yard game-winner as time expired. That helped him make his only Pro Bowl, the same year he was an Associated Press All-Pro.

He went to Auburn and transferred to Georgia Southern, where he won a Division I-AA national title. Bironas went to work for his father's company in Louisville, Kentucky, and was cut by Green Bay in 2002. He played in the Arena Football League and even the AF2 while spending time in training camps with Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh working as a part-time security guard and other jobs while trying to stick with an NFL team.

Masses turn out large for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus.

By Adesanya Adeola Oluwaseun

This is serious, After days of waiting and sleeping outside stores, obsessed, Apple fans have finally laid their hands on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

According to Mailonline, Demand was so high that people have been selling their place in queues for thousands, and Apple has been limiting customers to two phones each.

Sam Sheikh, 27, based in east London said he’d been waiting there for over three days to bag his gold coloured iPhone plus and was the first customer in the UK to get his phone. He said:

'I’m very excited. I came last week and started queuing with my friends.

But the question is: why not just wait till its in stores?

Davido shows off new 'Gangsta' look

By Adesanya Adeola Oluwaseun

Davido is on full gangsta mode as he prepares for his show in Glasgow tonight.

Maybe this is his new signature look.

Tips On How To combine matured Colour Blocking

By Adesanya Adeola Oluwaseun

Color-blocking trend has been lingering around for a while now. From last year’s spring up to this year’s spring and summer, fashion designers have given color-blocking only new interpretation  cheerful color-blocking, pastels, surprising color-blocked combo’s and many more.

Another way to take advantage of this trend is by wearing already-color-blocked pieces such as shoes, bags, accessories, and separates.

Many fashionistas would love to wear the trend to work but in a professional and respectable way. So if you’re one of those over-achieving chicks who want to wear color-blocking to the office but isn’t quite sure how, check out these inspirations below.

Daniel not from Ogun, says Amosu

by Oladapo Oreoluwa

The political rivalry between Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his predecessor, Gbenga Daniel, took a new dimension yesterday, as Amosun queried Daniel’s lineage.

Amosun said he knew how Daniel was helped to claim Sagamu as his home town, when he aspired to contest in 2003.

The governor, who spoke in Odeda, Odeda Local Government Area while on an assessment tour, vowed before All Progressives Congress (APC) members to expose the ‘intrigues’ surrounding the ex – governor.

Amosun’s comments followed allegations by Daniel last week that the present administration has sold off all the farmlands in the area.

Daniel said: “When I came into power in 2003, the first place we visited was Odeda and we established 13 farm settlements.

“Today, we are sorry that this present administration has started selling our farmlands to other neighbouring states.

“He is busy building roads and bridges which we did when we came in 2003. When I was coming today, I tried to check on the road, the road was very bad.

“ I want to ask you people of Odeda, what has Amosun done for you here? He has been building bridges all over and nothing was done here for you, he neglected you.”

But the governor said his predecessor frittered away all the state’s wealth under spurious concession.

He cited Apoje farm settlement which was sold to a former commissioner in Lagos State at a giveaway price.

The governor said: “Although, it isn’t time for political campaign, yet I will not hesitate to respond to Daniel’s allegations which he leveled against me and my administration here in the same Odeda Local Government.

“The farmlands were over 60, when we came in, they were five left. God will punish them all.

“Our forefathers will never forgive them and future generations will also curse them. They thought we are like them, we are not, we are true sons of Ogun State.

“He is envious of our achievements and successes. We need to let them know that we are not thieves.

“They will not be able to stand and campaign here in Odeda by the time I start exposing them.

“If not for the type of the country we are, they ought to bury their heads in shame rather than boasting around town.

“We are bona fide sons of the soil and will never do things that will destroy the future of our children.

“They are not happy because all the property they stole; we have retrieved them.

“The hotels, farms, money and others have been collected back; we will do what is needful.

“They said we didn’t do anything here, when we came in, we planned to begin work on this road, but we were stopped because the Federal Government has begun work on it.

“Here it is now, nothing is being done here. When we start the work, I promise you it will be stopped at Bakatari town.

But the former governor in a statement by his media aide, Ayo Giwa, said:

“The people of Ogun State are saying it loud and clear that they are tired of this government.
“As governor why did he not institute a probe to look into the concessions?
“He has all the machinery of government at hand so what is he waiting for?
“The statement that Otunba Gbenga Daniel is not from Sagamu is an insult to the people of Sagamu.
“It’s also a taboo and effrontery on the traditional institutions in the land, especially the thrones of the Akarigbo of Remoland as well as the Ewusi of Makun in Remo Kingdom.
“That Otunba Daniel sold all the state’s assets is cheap blackmail. Is concession not different from outright sale?”

Nigerians Promote Culture Through Attire

by Ugwuodoh Stephen Nnamdi

Attire is well imbedded into people’s culture as a symbolism or representation of their ethnicity, everywhere in the world. In Nigeria, we have various materials that are of cultural relevance used for several generations till date, some of which are Ankara, Asooke, Asoofi,Adiredanshiki, George,Lace among others, styled into Iro and Buba, skirt and blouse, oleku, Kaba.

Native attire is observed as the people favorite for occasions and weekends wear; Due to the fact that people wants to appear western in their dressing on weekdays as it is the acceptable standard for private formal institution in Nigeria or because they feel smart and at ease in casual wears.

According to Omolewa Savage, 300 level student, department of Broadcasting, she said “I wear natives occasionally and on weekends to portray my origin in Yoruba land, because I have been confused most time by people as an easterner.”

According to Omotosho Victoria, a fashion designer, she said, “Sowing African attires keeps me in business, I don’t see African attires going into extinction anytime, because there is new innovation and more patronage of the African materials to sow.”

The Nigeria president Dr.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, adorn himself always in his native attire, just like his predecessor chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and there is freedom for government officials to put on native attires to the office. This act signify the willingness of the Nigerian Government to promote her culture nationally andinternationally.

It is the rave of the moment, to see young ladies clad in short iro and buba accompanied with bangles, shoes, bags, gele or George iro and French lace has buba looking elegant and gorgeous.

Face Off Betwen LASU Students And The Government

by Ogundimu Omolabake

Lagos state university for years have been in lots of challenges, one of which is the increment in their tuition fees.

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, upon his entry as the governor of Lagos state implemented a lot of changes of which the increment of Lagos state university tuition fee was included. The fee was increased from #25,000 to a whooping sum of #197,000 for art students and #350,000 for medical students.

The governor said the decision for hike in the institution tuition fee was reached when in 2010, the students of the institution besieged the Lagos state assembly demanding for certain changes to be made in their school as the condition of the school was in a deplorable condition and part of the recommendation of the visitation panel set up by the governor and his aides was that the tuition of the school should be increased for progress of the school.

Parents, students and stakeholders alike were not pleased with this increase as they said it was a move aimed at denying lower class children an opportunity to acquire education, and a route out of poverty

The student union and academic staff union of universities members called for a reduction as at when the increase was stated and in an effort to calm these bodies the government assured the existing students that the implementation of the increased school fees would only apply to the new intake of the institution. Howbeit that did nothing to reduce their anger over the 100 percent increase and so ensued a fight on behalf the new intakes by the existing students.

Asuu-lasu started the struggle for the reduction of the school fees but lasuites continued the struggle. Akeem Olalekan, the student union president as at then, organized protests, series of riots and protests were held by the students, all this yielded negative response from the governor and students had to drop out of the institution by forfeiting their admission.

Awoyeni Tunde said “it was a day of joy when I got admission to study economics in Lagos state university after so many trial to gain admission, but when I and my family heard about the increasement in the school fees everything fell out place for me till my parents were able to borrow the money from people to enable me get an education by all means”.

One of the members of the student union, who desired anonymity, described the increment as an idea to take away education from children of common men, saying that the increment is meant for the children of the elite further describing the move as an unjust, unfair and irrational move on part of the government.

The institution continued with academic activities but never gave up hope for the reduction of the school fees. The academic session of 2013/2014 brought Nurudeen Yusuf into power as the president of the school’s student union, he brought forth hope and more compelling protest were made outside the governor’s office, this time the protest included cooking of meals indicating that they had no intention of leaving without positive response.

After three years of continuous struggle by the affected students and subjection of governor Fashola to a barrage of remonstration by the public for what they called an irrational increment of fee in a state owned university, the governor announced the reduction of the fees by 34- 60 percent on June 11, 2014.

On the 19th convocation ceremony of the institution, if there was any news that the entire Lasu community wanted to hear from the governor, it was the news of reversal of the fees back to #25,000 implemented immediately.

Though a big relief, parents and students saw this reduction as too good to be true, saying that after three years of struggle and after his recent decision to reduce the fees by 34-60 percent, that this decision of reversal is a political tactics for the 2015 election.

Students who scurried to pay will now be reimbursed at the rate of the June 2014 reduction made by the governor, it took three years to reduce the fee, and students wonder now how long it will take to refund them. Will it be refunded before the election? If then we will know if this action of reversal is a tactics to help the governor and his party in the 2015 election or the governor’s conscience telling him to listen to the agitation of the students after so long.

However, students still have a big smile on their faces, thanking the student union president for never giving up hope and the governor for finally acknowledging their grievances.

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