2016: Pastor Bakare - Terror’ll increase globally

The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that terror will increase globally in 2016.

He made the proclamation in Lagos, western Nigeria, during the Cross-Over church service to usher in the new year.

Pastor Tunde Bakare , Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly

 According to him, terror will increase globally because nations have rebelled against God.

Pastor Bakare, who said he has reserved his full address concerning the state of the nation till 10 January,

Baby of the year in Gwagwalada, FCT, born at 1:55 am

 FILE PHOTO of a baby

The first baby of the year at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada, FCT, was born at 1:55 a.m. on Friday, the hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Frank Omagbo, confirmed.
Omagbo said five other babies were born after the first delivery.
The first baby of the year, a male, was born into the family of Mr and Mrs Francis Elue of Niger and weighed 3.9 kilogrammes.
The baby was born through normal delivery and was the first child of the family after nine years of marriage.
The family thanked God for blessing them with the gift of a child at the beginning of the new year.

2016 Budget: FG to spend N4.1bn on cars

Lagos— Further details emerging from the recently presented 2016 budget have shown that the executive arm of the government would spend the lion share of N5.87 trillion, or about 96.5 per cent of the total N6.1 trillion about N205 billion or 3.5 per cent to the other arms of government, with the Legislature and the Judiciary, spending N115 billion and N90 billion respectively.
The breakdown of the budget also indicates that the government intends to spend N39 billion in running the Office of the President with major allocations going to car purchase at N3.9 billion and another N189 million to change tyres for some specified vehicles in the Presidency.

Buhari presents N6.08trn 2016 budget to NASS

Some details provided indicate that the vehicles that will gulp the budgeted sum for tyres include Mercedes Benz bullet proof and plain, Toyota cars, trucks Land Cruiser SUV, Prado SUV, Hilux, Peugeot 607 and

black market fuel: Top spots where Nigerians buy in Lagos

Two months after another round of fuel scarcity hit the country, fuel queues have not gone away. As a result, many Nigerians spent Christmas in search of petrol.

 

Although the product is increasingly available at filling stations now, many stations sell well above the official pump price of N87 and many people have to settle for black market fuel, paying even more extortive prices.

A survey of 187 of our readers on Christmas Day showed that the majority of them bought the product above the official price. Specifically, only 11 of them bought the product at the official rate.

The rest had to pay between N90 and an outrageous N1,000.
Out of the 187 readers who shared the highest price at which they had bought the product via our Facebook page, 14 bought fuel between the official price and N100, while 119 others had to pay between N101 and

New Year is the beginning of the Fresh Year and the ending of the present year

New Year is the beginning of the Fresh Year and the ending of the present year which is welcome by many people all over the world. The aim behind celebrating New Year is that everyone wants to look forward to the new opportunities and surprises that they are going to get in the New Year. People flush all their sorrows and sadness and looks towards the brighter year going to come. People wish each other and exchanges Gifts and Greetings which is a sign of showing love and respect to each other.

Lucky student, 19, scoops more than £9,000 from a 10 PENCE bet after predicting six placed horses at Cheltenham

 Birmingham University student says his grandfather inspired his win
    Now lucky Lewis Sindle, 19, plans to splash out on a family Christmas
    'My girlfriend thought I was joking when I told her,' says happy student

 Christmas came early for a 19-year-old student after he scooped more than £9,000 on the horses - for a bet of just 10 pence.

      



Lewis Sindle, a second year student at Birmingham University, picked placed horses in all six races at Cheltenham races to win £9,177.

Lewis, who lives in Selly Oak in Birmingham in a house he shares with seven other students, now plans to splash out on his family and girlfriend Ilana - to give them their best Christmas ever.

He revealed he placed the bet because of his racing-mad grandfather.

Lewis said: 'I had dropped my sister at school and, on the way home, I picked up a
Racing Post for my grandad and dropped in to see him.

Federal Government may reduce petrol to N85/litre January 1

The Federal Government may reduce the pump price of petrol to N85 per litre from January 1, 2016.
  

   

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, made this disclosure to journalists at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, Rivers State, after inspecting the plant.

Asked when the Federal Government would release the new petrol price template prepared by the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulation Agency, Kachikwu said that he approved the new price for the agency on Thursday.

Pressed to reveal when the new price would become effective, Kachikwu, said “like I said, we have done a modulation and it is showing us below N87. I imagine that if PPPRA publishes it today, it will

B’Haram: Stop misleading Nigerians, Fani-Kayode tells Lai Mohammed

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has berated the Minister of Information and Culture, Ahaji Lai Mohammed, for saying that Boko Haram terrorism had been technically defeated.
   

Fani-Kayode said this in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari which was posted on his official Facebook page.

He said the statement by the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that Boko Haram had been technically defeated was misleading as terror attacks had worsened in recent times.

The former minister, who insisted that he was a ‘loyal subject’ of Buhari, asked the President to return to his ‘gallant ways’ as this was the only way to defeat insurgents.

He said it was unfortunate that Cameroonian soldiers invaded Gwoza Local Government in Borno State

Roman Abramovich's wife soaks up the sun on Chelsea owner's £1.5billion yacht

The Russian has taken friends and family on holiday on board The Eclipse, the largest private yacht on the planet, which he owns

 Roman Abramovich and wife Dasha Zhukova have been soaking up the sun in the Caribbean as Chelsea's slump continues.

Art collector Zhukova, 34, was snapped alongside pal Jen Meyer on Abramovich's luxury £1.5billion yacht on Tuesday.

The family and friends of the Blues owner were pictured on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy, where they are enjoying a winter vacation in the sun.

Abramovich's super-yacht, which is called The Eclipse, is the largest private yacht on the planet.
While the Russian and his family were enjoying a holiday, Chelsea, in their second match under interim boss

Pandemonium in Badagry over iman’s alleged bid to use lover for money ritual

LAGOS—Mowo 11, a suburb of Olorunda Local Council Development Area of Badagry area in Lagos State, was yesterday thrown into pandemonium, as an Islamic cleric, Mallam Shehu, popularly referred to as Alhaji Sambo, attempted to use his 20-year-old lover, Busayo Amdalat, for money ritual.
The victim, who resides in Ibeju-Lekki, was said to have visited the cleric at Mowo Phase 2 in Badagry to spend the Christmas holidays.

It was gathered that in the early hours of yesterday, the cleric had a visitor known as Ifa and they asked the victim to put on a white cloth and when she did, the cleric and his accomplice hit Busayo with an iron rod on her head.
Slashing the victim’s throat
It was gathered that when Sambo’s accomplice, Ifa was slashing the victim’s throat, she was able to muster courage by hitting Ifa on the head with a bottle and in the process ran to a nearby street where a carnival was taking place.
Rushed to hospital
Some residents, who saw her drenched in a pool of blood with injuries inflicted on her neck and other parts of her body, quickly rushed her to an undisclosed hospital in the area.

 Badagry: The 20-year-old victim, Busayo Amdalat in hospital

A resident, Taiwo Abdulraman, who spoke with said, the residents quickly mobilized themselves into two groups; one of them went after the cleric and his friend, Ifa, while others took the lady to hospital.
“We quickly mobilised and went after him, when we got to his house, we saw blood in parts of the

Nigerian jailed 330 years in the US for raping daughter

This holiday season, Emmanuel Ngene is spending his sixth year inside a South Eastern United States penitentiary. At 56, he has 225 years, five months and ten days left to serve for first degree rape of his

daughter, a crime he continues to deny, supported by members of his network of friends and family. Few years after he was incarcerated, Emma Ngene had partial stroke from the stress of the trial and subsequent imprisonment.

Emmanue Ngene, like most aspiring young Nigerians whose lives were mortgaged to a battered inflation-driven economy of early 80s, sought survival overseas. He chose the United States as his destination for better life. He relocated in 1981. He would discover that life in God’s own country was just an imaginary tale. On arrival, Emmanuel desired education. But he had no money. Survival in a strange place, alone, was then important to him. He engaged in menial jobs to

Shuo! Suspected robber misses way after operation, arrested

The police in Lagos have arrested a suspected robber, Saliu John, on the Old Apapa Road, Oyingbo, after allegedly dispossessing some market women of about N28,000.

Our correspondent gathered that John, who was said to have come to the area with two others, was nabbed by members of a vigilance group after he reportedly missed his way after the operation.

   


It was learnt that John and other accomplices had suddenly become separated, forcing the suspect to hide behind a tanker parked on the road. It was learnt that some local security men later sighted him there.

We learnt that John, who was arrested at about 9pm on Monday, was questioned by the security men and he told them that he had come to do business in the area from Ijora, after which he missed his way.

When the suspect was, however, searched, the vigilance group members were said to have found different purses containing money, arousing the suspicion of the security men that John allegedly attacked some market women.

IS IT A PENALTY? -Manchester City denied 'stonewall penalty' at Leicester, claims Robbie Savage... as he recreates incident backstage

Manchester City were held to a goalless draw at title rivals Leicester City
    Sergio Aguero went down in the box under pressure from Gokhan Inler
    Referee Craig Pawson waved away the visitors' protests in second half
    BT Sport pair Robbie Savage and Howard Webb debated the incident
    Pundit Savage was in no doubt that City deserved penalty on Monday
    In an amusing debate, Savage and Webb recreated incident backstage

Robbie Savage believes Manchester City were denied a 'stonewall penalty' in their goalless draw at Leicester City - and the BT Sport pundit recreated the scenario backstage to prove his point.

In the second half of the Premier League clash, Sergio Aguero theatrically went down in the box under pressure from Gokhan Inler but referee Craig Pawson waved away the visitors' protests.

It proved to be one of the talking points of the draw, with Savage and BT Sport analyst Howard Webb - the

Mother of twins killed by drunken-cop- I’ve been stripped naked

Seventy-five-year-old Beatrice Oyesolu, the mother of twin brothers shot dead on Saturday by a trigger-happy policeman guarding Paulson Hotel on Anibaba Street, Ketu-Ikosi, Lagos, says the promises her children made to her had been shattered.

The septuagenarian said the children ─ Taiye, a naval officer and Kehinde, an engineer ─ had concluded plans to start building her a house next month before the tragedy struck.

The twin brothers, aged 34, who hailed from Oro, Kwara State, were bachelors.

The drunken policeman, Stephen James, with Force number 217884, had opened fire on the brothers and their friend, Jeje, who was celebrating his birthday on the fateful day. The trio had cautioned him to stop harassing customers, who reportedly declined to buy him bottles of beer.
James, said to be a drug addict and notorious for shooting sporadically, killed the twins and their friend

PICTURES: LEICESTER 0 v MANCHESTER CITY 0 FT - That's one way of stopping Mahrez and Vardy! Arsenal enter 2016 as No 1 after combative City ruffle Foxes' feathers in goalless draw

Leicester City 0-0 Manchester City: Sergio Aguero and Jamie Vardy draw a blank as Foxes hold City to goalless draw at King Power

    Manchester City controlled the opening 35 minutes with Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne both denied
    Leicester sprung into life before half-time with Marc Albrighton going close before Jamie Vardy missed a chance
    Jamie Vardy went close for Leicester but fired over and Sergio Aguero missed a great chance after half-time
    Leicester go level on points with Arsenal at the top while City climb back into top three leapfrogging Tottotenham

 Leicester will not enter 2016 as Premier League leaders after all. They are as near as

 dammit, mind you, and only a fool will not take them seriously after this.

They gave Manchester City a game. A proper game, a top four game, the sort of