Photo: Media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu is engaged

Photo: Media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu is engaged

Media Personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu proposed to his girlfriend, Cynthia Obianodo, during a romantic dinner at a restaurant in Victoria Island last night . His friends, Olamide Adedeji and Noble Igwe confirmed it on social media. Cynthia is the daughter of The Young Shall Grow Motors’ Boss Vincent Obianodo. Congrats to them. More photos of the couple after the cut...

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BREAKING NEWS: Kidnapped Orekoya Kids Have Been Found

News reaching us has made it known that the three kidnapped Orekoya kids have been found.

Recall that few days ago, news went viral on all social media platforms and even instant messaging services about how three out of the four children of the Orekoya were kidnapped by their nanny, Mary Akinloye, just a night after resuming work as a nanny. Just two days ago also, the parents of the kidnapped kids were said to have lamented about not being able to raise the N13m ransom the nanny and her cohorts were asking for.
However, just few hours ago, the devastated mother of the kidnapped kids took to her Facebook account to announce that her children have been found! The kids’ mother, Mrs Adekunle Busayo Adekunle Orekoya, confirmed this on her Facebook page. However, there are no word yet on if ransome was paid but the kids were reunited with their parents yesterday April 14th 2015.

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Here’s what she wrote on Faceb
We give God all the Glory. Our Orekoya missing Kids have been found.Thank you so much everyone for ur prayers and moral and Financial support all along. The list is endless, of awesome mothers, sisters, business partners, father’s and even kids too. You’ve been amazing! May God grant all your heart desires too. Much love always.

Her Facebook update has however generated various reactions from some of the people who commented wanting to know how the children were found.  A family source told Punch on Wednesday that they were rescued on Tuesday night. Confirming the incident, the children’s father, Leke, in a telephone chat with our correspondent laughed as he said the children were undergoing medical check up at a clinic.
He said, “Yes, they have been rescued. We are very happy.”
Asked if the N13m ransom was paid or the police did the job, he said the family would like to be silent on that aspect.
Recall that the nanny who kidnapped the children was employed through a popular commerce-inclined website, OLX. The Country Manager of the e-commerce platform of OLX Nigeria, Lola Masha, spoke on behalf of the company saying, ”This is an unfortunate situation and our sympathies go out to the victim and their family. OLX is an online classifieds site that brings buyers and sellers together to promote trade. We take steps to moderate and review all ads but we do not participate in the negotiations between buyers and sellers. Transactions are performed directly between both parties. In all our marketing campaign, we continuously urge our users to take necessaryprecautionary checks when using OLX.
We continue to innovate and improve our review process with tighter measures that would help to minimize future occurrence of negative incidents. We also need our users to help us kick out bad players and ask them to report any dubious activity or user on the site for immediate action. Our customer support team can be reached at 0700-CALL-OLX (0700-22-55-659) or at support-ng@olx.com. We sincerely hope that the 3 kids are returned safely to their loved ones. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and we will provide all help within our capacity to facilitate the quick reunion of the 3 children with their family.”

House Of Reps Tells GEJ What To Do Before May 29

President Goodluck Jonathan has been asked to do everything in his power to rescue the over 200 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted a year ago by members of the Boko Haram sect before May 29 hand-over date of the current administration.

Girls abducted in Chibok by Boko Haram in April 2014

House of Representatives on Tuesday made this call to the presidency and security operatives saying it was a shame and embarrassing that the girls were still with their abductors a year after they were kidnapped.
The abduction of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram insurgents has led to outrage both within and outside the country.
Describing their abduction as a national embarrassment, the House charged the Presidency and security operatives to ensure that the girls were rescued before the expiration of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
According to Sun online, the House’s resolution followed a motion under matters of national importance, sponsored by Abike Dabiri-Erewa (Lagos, APC).
The Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, said: “As a nation, we must do everything humanly possible to recover these girls.
“We pray that God in his infinite mercy should guide our security agents on the recovery of the girls.“
He lamented that the claim by security operatives that they knew the whereabouts of the girls was not correct, saying: “As a government we should do everything possible to bring them back.”
President Jonathan has been heavily criticized for his failure to respond quickly enough to the abduction of the school girls. The president himself has remained calm and assured that the military is working hard to rescue the girls and liberate Nigeria of the Chibok girls.
Col. Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser (NSA) retired, on Sunday (the anniversary of the kidnaping of the Chibok girls) assured Nigerians that the federal government was making every effort to enable that the girls along with every other Nigerian kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists are freed.
The security adviser also stated that the girls will be rescued before May 29.

Fire Guts Iconic Kotangora House In Lagos (PHOTOS)

The famous Mamman Kotangora House situated on Marina, Lagos Island has been reportedly gutted by fire.

Mamman Kotangora House

Channels Television reports that high building houses corporate entities, including the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and the Federal Mortgage Bank.
It was gathered from eyewitnesses that the fire started-off around the generator house of the building this morning.
It is believed that properties worth millions of naira might have been gutted by the inferno but officials of the Lagos Fire Service and the National Emergency Management Agency are in combined effort to put out the ravaging fire.
Newsbreak also reports that firemen had arrived at the scene, adding that the building also housed Diamond Bank Limited, a law firm, F.O Fagboungbe and Co, MBL Financial Services Limited, among others.
Western Post reports that Maman Katangora House is a building of about 14 storeys with a lot of offices and businesses.
It explained that the building is located near the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in the CMS area of Lagos state.
Meanwhile, evacuation is currently ongoing following the arrival of fire fighters at the scene.
More Photos below:

Mamman Kotangora House 2

Smoke gushing out of Mamman Kotangora House at Marina, Lagos

Mamman Kotangora House

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Delta State Election: INEC Yet To Issue Certificate Of Return To Okowa #NigeriaDecides: INEC Yet To Issue Certificate Of Return To Okowa

Mamman Kotangora House

Mamman Kotangora House

Delta State Election: INEC Yet To Issue Certificate Of Return To Okowa #NigeriaDecides: INEC Yet To Issue Certificate Of Return To Okowa

 INEC Yet To Issue Certificate Of Return To Okowa

 April 15, 2015

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has failed to issue a Certificate of Return to the governor-elect of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.
The State Returning Officer, Professor Bio
Nyanayo, in the early hours of Monday, declared Senator Okowa the winner of the governorship poll having won in twenty-one local governments out of twenty-five.
According to Nyanayo, Okowa polled a total of 724,680 votes to defeat his Labour Party Peoples (LP) counterpart, Chief Great Ogboru who scored 130,028 votes, with the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor scoring 67,825 votes.
It was expected INEC would issue the Certificate of Return to Okowa, but such brief though significant event had not occurred.
No reason has been given so far that may be responsible for the delay in INEC issuing the Certificate to him, but there are speculations that the decision not to award the certificate may be connected with the circumstances surrounding the emergence of Okowa as governor-elect.
Few hours after declaring Okowa as governor-elect, a video emerged online was filmed massively thumbprinting ballot papers in Delta North.
It has also been reported that several petitions have been sent to INEC’s office in Abuja alleging irregularities during the elections.
In all of these, one thing can be certain: INEC I becoming increasingly under pressure to rectify these petitions. With Buhari set to become the number one citizen of Nigeria as from May 29, the interests of several bigwigs must surely be sacrificed for the common good.

Fallout of xenophobic attacks, Nigerians arm themselves in Durban

Fallout of xenophobic attacks, Nigerians arm themselves in Durban

According to this twitter user, his brother who is in South Africa has armed himself with a gun to protect his family from rampaging Zulu South Africans who have carried out xenophobic attacks on African immigrants in recent times. So sad.

What "Change" Means - Osinbajo

Nomso Obiajuru, 24 minutes ago

Vice President-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has shed more light on what the word “Change” which is the slogan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) truly means.
According to Professor Osinbajo, the word change is not just a campaign slogan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as many have insinuated.
The pastor of the Olive Tree House of Prayer for All Nations, a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) parish, stated that change is something that will work when Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) is sworn-in on May 29.
The vice-president, who thanked Nigerians for supporting APC candidates in the Governorship and States House of Assembly elections held on Saturday, also urged the party zealots to do the same in the run-off elections to hold in Abia, Imo and Taraba.

Prof Yemi Osinbajo

He advised all successful candidates of the APC to listen to clarion call of the people, saying it’s time to join hands with the electorates to build states and a nation, Nigerians have always dreamed of.

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We Deserve A Ministerial Slot - Igbos In Abuja

Investors of Igbo origin residing in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to consider appointing an Igbo man as the minister of FCT because according to them, the Igbos control over 70 per cent investment in Nigeria’s capital. 
The chairman of Zaudan Pazeri Property Owners Association, Elder Friday Ugoala, who made the assertion on behalf of the investors  in a media briefing in Abuja said the interest of Igbos who have massive investments in the city should be considered when appointing a minister.
According to Leadership, he recommended that an Igbo man should be either be made a minister with an indigene as the minister of state or vice versa.
“It is on record that Igbos are key players in terms ownership of property, merchandise and hospitality outfits in the territory, and can lay a claim to over 70 per cent investment in the FCT.
“We have reasons to demand for the slot of a FCT Minister to ensure our investments are protected. If you consider the outgoing administration of Sen. Bala Mohammed, you will see a lot of litigations that has to do with our investments. We do not want such trend to continue. We even look forward to a situation whereby those issues in the court would be withdrawn and settled amicably.
“There are two major stakeholders in the FCT, the political and economic stakeholders; the indigenes fall on the political stakeholders because they control over 65 per cent of FCT population. So, it could be justice done to these two stakeholders, if the FCT ministerial slots are given to both of them with due respect to other residents.
“History has shown and events have shown that those ministers who come from areas that do not have so many stakes in the FCT do so much havoc to investments in Abuja because they do not have people who cry to them about the pains they feel. We are uneasy that if such era continues, our investments will continue to suffer and we do not want that to happen,” he added.
In a similar vein, following the recent threat made to the Igbos by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu,