Peter Okoye Congratulates May D On Birth of Son

Jennifer Lopez:covers of Harper Bazaar

Jennifer Lopez,covers Harper Bazaar February issue wearing a very stunning dress by Versace, shoes and gold necklace all by Versace.

The Big Friday Show Begins New Season With MTV VJ Search Finalists

Nigeria’s number one entertainment TV program, MTV’s The Big Friday show, has kicked off an all new season with a big bang!
To usher in the new season, MTV Base VJ search finalists Ehis, Ada and Kemi will co-host this week’s edition with popular comedian and host, Basketmouth. The trio will battle to become the next MTV Base Nigeria VJ and win a 10 million Naira contract, a brand new car and other exciting prizes.

18 shot dead in Borno market massacre

No fewer than 18 people have been shot dead in a local market in Damboa, South of Borno by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect even as the town was deserted yesterday, being the second day of the deadly attack. Sources said the victims, mostly local hunters were at the Damboa market on Monday, being the market day to sell wild pigs and monkeys when the gunmen stormed the area and opened fired on them.
“The market was thrown into confusion as everybody ran helter skelter,” a resident hinted. Damboa, Headquarters of Damboa Local Government is about 90 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zanna Umar Mustapha, who was on his way from Biu, along same road and about 100 kilometres away from Damboa, the centre of the attack, on condolence visit was forced to stop in the town having observed that the entire area was deserted with the presence of military personnel in the town.
Briefing the deputy governor, who came to inquire about the unusual quietness of the bustling community, the District Head of Damboa, Alhaji Abba Ahmed said the gunmen came to the market on Monday afternoon at the peak of business activities and drove straight to the spot where local hunters were selling bush meat, opened fire on them and fled. Alhaji Ahmed disclosed that 18 of the local hunters were shot, adding that 13 died on the spot while five died later in the hospital.
He said the hunters were engaged in the business of selling bush meat especially wild pigs and monkeys, stressing that residents claimed some unknown persons had earlier warned the local hunters against selling the type of the bush meats apparently for religious reasons.
The district head also said reports from eyewitnesses indicated that the gunmen were not residents of the town but assailants who rode to the market in a Golf car, carried out the attack and disappeared.

Opinion: Democratising CBN is long overdue

 

 Nigerians have made it clear to their lawmakers that anything short of proper oversight of the bank should be unacceptable.

The havoc the 2008 financial crisis brought to Nigeria would have been minimal, had it not been that the breakdown in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s oversight and surveillance system, allowed the country’s banks to engage in Ponzi scheme banks; had it been that the CBN ran as if it was an academic institution, with idealised neoclassical monetary policy, allowed banks to freely cook their books!

EFCC Press Release: Retired Army Colonel Docked Over N34m Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday January 17, 2013 arraigned Eugene Okpala, a retired Colonel, before the Federal High Court, Enugu on a seven count charge of forgery, and obtaining money under false pretences.

Breaking News: President Jonathan Makes Unscheduled Visit to Police College In Lagos

 

On the way to an ECOWAS meeting in the Ivory Coast, President Goodluck Jonathan's plane was diverted to Lagos where he made a surprise visit to the police college in Ikeja. Sources say that even his top aides were taken unaware by the unscheduled stop.