2face Idibia has shared his opinions on
how to make the country better in a video titled
‘Vote Not Fight.’
The video is directed by Yinka Obebe, the
video and passes its message mainly to the
Nigerian youth.
The 2face Foundation in partnership with
Young Stars Foundation, National Democratic
Institute (NDI) , and other partner
organisations, flagged off the “VOTE NOT
FIGHT– ELECTION NO BE WAR" campaign in
October last year.
The campaign is geared towards a violence
free electoral process in 2015.
The "VOTE NOT FIGHT, Election No Be War"
campaign is championed by the music star,
and is targeted primarily at the youth
demographic.
The Nigeria First Lady, Dame Patience
Jonathan, Thursday, urged women in
the country to vote for the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), saying no one
loves Nigerian women than President
Goodluck Jonathan.
She tried a pun about the slogan of the
opposition All Progressives Congress
(APC), as she boasts that the PDP acts
more and talks less.
“The PDP is a party that talks less and
does more, unlike the APC that tells
new lies every week.
When you catch them today, they will
tell another lie tomorrow. We (PDP)
do not tell you about change because
we are not bus conductors that ask for
change,” said Mrs Jonathan at
Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government
Area of Delta State, where the PDP
Women for Change Initiative
Presidential Rally held.
“We are now in a digital age and we
should reject anyone who wants to
take us back to analog days.
They keep saying they will do this and
that. They should tell us what they
have done for Nigerians while in
office. As for President Jonathan, he
has vowed to do more when he is re-
elected.
“President Jonathan has brought a lot
of innovation and empowerment
programmes for us women. This is
because no one loves the Nigerian
woman more than Mr. President and
the best way to pay him back is by re-
electing him.”
The First Lady cited the Youth
Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria,
YouWin and Subsidy Reinvestment
and Empowerment Programme,
SUREP, as some of the empowerment
programmes the President Jonathan
administration was using to empower
women and youths in the country.
Speaking at the rally, Delta State
governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan,
applauded the developmental
achievements of President Jonathan.
“When someone does well in office,
you should return that person to office
and that is why all Deltans are
prepared to re-elect President
Jonathan as President, come March
28.”
A Warri-based businessman, Mr. Larry
Otu, has called for investigation and justice
into the brutality allegedly meted out on
him by men of the Nigerian Air Force at the
Osubi Airstrip, Warri, where security was
beefed up over Dame Patience Jonathan’s
visit to Delta State, yesterday.
Narrating his ordeal to our correspondent , Otu,
Chief Executive Officer of LYM Consult, said
he was at the airstrip to receive his
technical partners from Canada when men
from the Warri Air Force Unit stationed at
the facility attacked him.He said:
“It happened at about 9am, when our
foreign partners arrived the airport
and I was there to clear them at the
Immigration desk. I drove to the gates
to face interrogation from the Air
Force men.
“One asked if I knew the President’s
wife was coming today. I said yes, but
that I have come to pick my foreign
partners. He asked what I do for a
living; I said I own the company being
visited by our technical partners and
he said
‘as small as you are?’
“He said okay, find me something. I
said I cannot give you anything. So he
ordered me to reverse my car and
leave. He said I cannot drive in.
“I reversed my car, drove back to the
main road and was trekking down to
go in when a team of the force men,
numbering about eight, pounced on
me.”
Otu said his attackers dragged him from
there to a point behind their caravan office
at the airport and continued the beating,
kicking, punching and hitting with their
guns, adding it took the intervention of his
manager who approached one of the
officers before the assault was halted.
He said:
“It turned out that my manager knew
one of the Air Force officers at the
airport. He ran in to tell him that it
was his company’s chairman that was
being manhandling.
“That was when the officer came and
ordered them to stop and let me go.
But before I was left with a battered,
bloodied face, N200,000 was taken
from my pocket by one of them.”
The victim called on relevant authorities to
ensure justice by bringing the culprits to
book.
He said:
“I know the man who started it all
and I know the one that took N200,000
from my pocket. We cannot continue
to live in this kind of country. Justice
must be done.”
When contacted, Commanding Officer at
the 61 NAF Detachment of the Nigerian Air
Force, Warri, Air Commodore, A. D.
Dudusola, whose men assaulted the victim,
said:
“I was not present when it happened,
but they said he was rude.
“Why must it be only him? That is the
question that comes to mind. Others
came to the airport, identified
themselves properly and were allowed
in.
“Nobody was touched, so he must have
been rude.
“My brother, it is better to face other
challenges than to face the worry that
somebody came to the airport and
blast himself, because it is not always
written in somebody’s face. That is the
truth.
“We can apologize to him later, but we
had to do our job first so that
somebody will not create problem for
us.”
Mrs Abiola Agbaje and Mrs Bolanle
Ambode hugging,showing love each other cozily at a
interactive session in Lagos.
Great women!!!
Thanks for not joining your husbands
in their war of words – it doesn’t pay
Need some cheering up? Why not start with
your clothing?! Modern Muse shows us how.
1. There is life after black and white
Granted, Coco Chanel cemented the LBD as the
must-have item in every woman’s wardrobe.
Despite her love of black, she also said, “The
best colour in the whole world is the one that
looks good on you.” This is not to say that
everyone has to ditch their black and white
items entirely but rather add a cheerful burst of
colour to your look. A punchy red bag or vibrant
yellow scarf will do. Octavia Ephraim, the
founder of Octapear Image Consulting in
Pretoria, says “Don’t get rid of all the ‘wrong’
colours in your wardrobe; just wear the right
colours closer to your face or from the waist
up.”
2. Wear happy clothes
Just like that dress you wore to a disastrous
event remains hidden at the back of your
closet; the sundress that you bought five
Decembers ago while on honeymoon gets a
regular outing. Why? Simple! It reminds you of
a happy time. Australia’s University of
Queensland did research and found that quite a
few participants mentioned that they used
clothing to change or boost their mood. “If they
get up and aren’t feeling great, they would put
on something that would brighten them up.” As
if we needed research to tell us that!
3. Go green (The Beloved Prophet, pbuh’s
favourite colour)
The Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam has found
that green puts you, and everyone who sees
you dressed in the punchy colour, in a good
mood because of its close association with
nature. It is uplifting in the same way as a brief
respite out of doors, making it the colour to
wear if you need to improve your mental acuity.
4. Pick me up, buttercup
Psychologically, yellow is the colour that has
the strongest effect when it comes to boosting
confidence and making us feel more optimistic.
That said, yellow is also associated with
anxiety and you may want to use it in
moderation – it has been found to make babies
cry!
5. Think pink, or red
Imagine a flash of fuchsia or red in a sea of
black. A striking image, is it not? That’s
because shades of pink and red, like orange
and yellow, are warm, energizing colours. This
applies to lipstick too! Spruce up your look and
boost your mood by adding a smudge of
colourful lipstick paired with a brightly coloured
statement piece. When you’re feeling down and
boring, pack away your neutral shades of
lipstick and go for something pink or red. It
won’t just perk you up, it will also change the
way that other people respond to you.
Octapear’s Ephraim emphasises that the
clothes you choose to wear will make an
impression if you concentrate on visualization:
“Imagine how you would like others to react
when you enter a room, and then work to
achieve that.” In other words, fake it till you
make it!
Bruce Jenner reportedly plans on being a
lesbian once he completes his gender
reassignment and becomes 'Belinda.'
The 65-year-old Olympic gold medalist has
told loved ones that he 'can't imagine
himself being attracted to men.'
According to reporters. 'He's not sure if
the hormone treatments will change how he
feels about men.But right now he says that
he still likes women .He's always loved the
ladies. He longs to be feminine and pretty -
and also to feel the touch of another
woman.'
Kanye West just tattooed North West and
his Late mum's birth dates in Romania
numerals. Kim said she talked him out of
getting a face tattoo..
The question is, despite worshipping the
ground Kim walks on, why no tattoo of her?
Kanye may be drunk in love but not stupid
in love
A middle-aged palm tree harvester, George
Maduabuchi, from Owerrinta in the Isiala-
Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia
State is in the police net for allegedly selling
his 14-month-old son for N300,000.
The father of four was said to have
connived with another suspect, Obinna
Erondu, now at large, to perpetrate the act.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joshak
Habila, who paraded the suspect along with
other suspected criminals on Thursday,
said,
“Luck ran out on Maduabuchi when
the wife alerted the police on his
questionable role when the baby fell
ill and he took him out and did not
return with him.”
But the suspect told our correspondent that
he did not sell his son, but only took him to
a herbalist when he took ill.
He said, “The herbalist gave me
money and told me that he could not
heal the baby. I therefore left the baby
in the herbalist’s home.”
But his explanation was countered by his
wife, Eberechi, who said he took their son,
who had a cough to the said herbalist, but
instead of returning with the baby, rather
came back with bundles of money.
She said,
“When I demanded explanations on
the whereabouts of our son, he could
not offer any convincing answer.”
The wife, who is also pregnant, said she
raised the alarm, which attracted
neighbours who helped to arrest the
husband.
The neighbours subsequently alerted the
police, who picked up the husband who
later led the police to the herbalist’s house
at Owerrinta where the boy was recovered .
