Who did Dangote and Jim Ovia lose the ‘Forbes African Person Of The Year’ award to?

Nigerian Agriculture Minister Akinwumi
Adesina has been named the 2013 Forbes
African of the Year beating Nigerian
billionaires Aliko Dangote and Jim Ovia.
Adesina was given the award for his
reforms to the country’s farming sector.
‘He is a man on a mission to help Africa
feed itself ’, said Forbes Africa editor Chris
Bishop .
‘My goal is to make as many millionaires,
maybe even billionaires, from agriculture
as possible’, Adesina said in his
acceptance speech.
Aliyu Tanko from BBC Hausa says Adesina
has introduced more transparency into the
supply and distribution of fertiliser, which
had previously been marred by massive
corruption.
Additional report from BBC.

ASUU Strike News Update December 2013: FUTO Sacked Lecturers, Declares Vacancy

Yesterday, ASUU officials vowed to remain
focused on their fight to ensure that the Federal
Government of Nigeria fulfills all necessary
conditions to end the 5-month-old strike.
ASUU President Nasir Isa Fagge in a press
briefing in Abuja yesterday said the
organization will not succumb to any political
blackmail, but continue to represent the interest
of Nigerians at all times.
He described the threat by the Supervising
Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, to sack
university lecturers as frivolous, saying the
victimisation of striking lecturers was against
the international law to which Nigeria is a
signatory.
He accused the minister of aggravating the
crisis by misleading President Goodluck
Jonathan and, indeed, Nigerians on the
position of the union for the strike to be called
off.
He said contrary to Wike’s allegation that ASUU
gave fresh demands, the union only replied the
Federal Government’s letter, dated November 6,
2013, suggesting that all issues agreed upon
during the meeting with President Jonathan be
put in a memorandum and signed by both
parties before the strike was suspended.
Fagge said in a letter to the president, the ASUU
stated clearly that its emergency National
Executive Council (NEC) meeting called to
consider the views of members on offers by
Jonathan could not take definite decision to
call of the strike, because of what he described
as “certain uncertainties.”
Fagge said the leadership of ASUU, while
waiting for the response from President
Jonathan, was surprised at “lies and mischief”
coming from the minister and agents of
government, “all with the intent of misleading
the Nigerian public.”
According to Fagge, “since the issuance of the
union’s response to the said letter, the salvos
that have been coming out, allegedly from the
Minister of Education, makes one to wonder
whether the person that is charged with the
responsibility of superintending over the
Nigeria’s education system has the
wherewithal to handle a vital national
assignment.”
Wike had, last week, issued an ultimatum for
the striking university lecturers to resume
classes on or before December 4 or be sacked.
But ASUU had insisted that unless the accord
struck with President Jonathan was properly
documented and the MoU signed by relevant
parties, the strike would not be called off.
Fagge said the union had no issue with the
directive by the Federal Government that gates
of universities be opened to students, but
stressed that the lecturers would not be there
to teach.
He further stressed that the demand was also
in reaction to announcements by the Secretary
to the Government of the Federation, Senator
Pius Anyim, that the 2012 MoU, “a document
authorised by himself, was not binding on
government, since it was signed by a
permanent secretary and was, therefore, a mere
promise and a non-binding piece of paper.”
In the resolution signed by the Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mac
John Nwaobiala, on November 6, 2013, it was
agreed that N200 billion would be released as
2013 revitalisation fund for public universities,
which ASUU wants “deposited with the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and disbursed to the
benefitting universities within two weeks.”
According to the resolution, a total of N1.3
trillion was to be released between 2013 and
2018, with N200 billion for 2013; N220 billion
for 2014; N220 billion for 2015; N220 billion for
2016; N220 billion for 2017 and N220 billion for
2018.
ASUU decried the state of Nigerian universities
and the “deliberate lies and misinterpretation”
of true state of things by agents of government,
adding that the union would not be deterred
from fighting for improvement of the conditions
of Nigerian universities.
To clear the air on how branches voted on
whether to suspend the strike or not, Fagge
said “of the 52 branches of ASUU, 48, roughly
92 per cent, advised conditional suspension of
the strike, that is suspending the strike only if
certain conditions are met, while four advised
on suspension of the strike before pursuing the
implementation of certain conditions.”
Insisting that the strike must continue if
government did not commit to resolutions
reached, Fagge said “we want to make it very
clear that we shall bow only to what we as
academics are convinced will serve the interest
of Nigeria and its people, no matter their ethnic,
religious or class origins. This is where we
stand. We shall not be cowed.”
He also dismissed allegation that the strike was
being hijacked by opposition parties to discredit
the President Gooluck Jonathan-led
administration.
He revealed that Nigeria lose about N60 billion
annually to Ghana, due to higher percentage of
Nigerian students that flooded the country.
He maintained that the agreement, if
implemented by the government, in the next five
years, Nigeria would have witnessed
unprecedented transformation of its university
education and would be competiting favourably
with the best universities in the world.
On the threat to sack lecturers, Fagge said
what government needed to do was to engage
more university teachers, saying there was
already acute shortage of teachers in the
universities across the country.
He said the government needed to recruitment
additional 23,000 lecturers on the basis of
50:50 ratio between the federal and state
universities.
Academic activities commence at AAUA, ESUT
Academic activities resumed at the Adekunle
Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), on
Monday, as some lecturers of the institution
complied with the directive by the management
of the school to commence lectures.
Although lectures have not started fully in all
the departments, a visit to the school campus
showed that lectures had started in some of the
departments of the university, with students in
classrooms.
It was observed that lectures were on in some
of the faculties including Arts and Education.
It was also gathered that timetables for lectures
for the second semester of the 2012/2013
academic session had been released by each
of the departments, to signal the
commencement of academic exercise.
Also meetings of the heads of departments in
each of the faculties were held to ensure proper
courses allocation among the lecturers.
The vice chancellor of the university, Professor
Femi Mimiko and principal officers of the
insitution went round the campus to monitor
the level of compliance to the directive.
Speaking after the monitoring exercise, Mimiko
expressed satisfaction, saying the development
showed that about 60 per cent of the academic
staff were back on campus.
“I am satisfied with the level of response that
we have received so far, viz-a-viz the directive
that management gave that lectures should
resume today.
“I have personally gone round and I also sent
my principal officers to go round the
classrooms and it was discovered that quite a
number of classes held.
“As we speak, lecturers are in the classrooms
teaching, yes the students are just coming
back to campus, that is not unexpected, but
the good thing there is, more than half of the
total number of lecturers have indicated their
desire to teach and they are all over the place
teaching, I hope and believe that from
tomorrow, the situation will improve,” he said.
Mimiko said it was a matter of individual choice
if a parent chose to listen to ASUU and keep his
child at home, adding that there was little or
nothing that could be done to that.
Also, students and lecturers of the Enugu State
University of Science and Technology (ESUT),
on Monday, returned to school, following a
directive by the school authorities.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported
that the authorities had directed them to
resume classes on December 2 and commence
preparations for the 2012/2013 second
semester examination.
NAN correspondent who monitored the
situation at the Enugu and Agbani campuses of
the university reported that the students were in
their various departments exchanging
pleasantries and checking the notice boards.
At the faculties of engineering and management
sciences in the Enugu campus, students in their
numbers were copying the second semester
examination timetables pasted on the notice
boards.
The lecturers, on the other hand, held a
meeting with the governing council of the
university at the Agbani campus on the
resumption of work.
Addressing the lecturers, chairman of the
council, Chief Chilo Offiah, appealed to them to
sheathe their sword and return to classes in the
interest of the students.
Offiah thanked the lecturers for attending the
meeting and assured them that the council
would do all it could to ensure the improvement
of their welfare.
The executive members of the ESUT branch of
the ASUU did not, however, attend the meeting.
Meanwhile, it was a different situation at the
Enugu campus of the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka (UNN), as only a few students and
lecturers were on campus.
NAN reported that the few lecturers were in
their various offices, while the non-academic
staff members were busy working.
Some of the lecturers who spoke with NAN on
conditions of anonymity said they were waiting
for directives from both the school authorities
and the ASUU branch.
FUTO Senate sacks teaching staff
For failure to return to classrooms, the Senate
of the Federal University of Technology Owerri
(FUTO) has sacked all academic staff on its
payroll with immediate effect.
The sack order was made known by the Public
Relations Officers (PRO) of the institution, Mr
Chike Ezenwa, while speaking with the Nigerian
Tribune in Owerri, through telephone.
According to him, the senate of the university
had declared all the positions of academic staff
in the institution, adding that they would be
advertised starting from Monday, December 2.
The senate council, he explained, had already
compiled the list of vacant positions in the
school, adding that who were willing to resume
would be adequately protected.
Meanwhile, the FUTO branch of ASUU has said
any attempt to break their ranks would be
strongly resisted by their members.
This was contained in a communiqué issued at
the end o their meeting held on Monday, and
signed by both the chairman and secretary, Dr
Ikenna Nwachukwu and Dr F.M. Eke
respectively.
The communiqué urged members to ignore the
resumption notice by FUTO management,
adding that the branch would not engage in
any academic activities until the Federal
Government commited itself to implementing
the ASUU-FGN agreement.
UNILAG lecture rooms remain shut
Lecture rooms at the University of Lagos
(UNILAG) remained shut on Monday, despite
the expiration of the one-week ultimatum given
by some members of the ASUU branch of the
institution.
Lecturers at the institution, were, last week
Monday, served with an ultimatum to resume
work by a faction of the union.
Asked their likely next line of action if the
lecturers failed to resume work, Dr Micheal
Ogbeide, one of the leaders of the faction,
refused to divulge their intention.
However, in a telephone conversation with the
Nigerian Tribune, on Monday, Ogbeide said
since the Federal Government had made a new
decision as to when the striking lecturers were
to resume, they had no choice but to await
government’s next directive.
“Government owns the school, not us, so we
have to work with the decision of government.
“The decision of the owner (Federal
Government) supersedes that of any pressure
groups in the school. By now, schools are
working their calendars and adjusting them in
preparation for resumption, so one cannot just
jump into the class and begin to teach,” he
said.
UNIJOS mgt, ASUU set for showdown
Authorities of the University of Jos (UNIJOS)
have directed all academic staff of the
university to commence work with immediate
effect, while the branch chairman of ASUU said
the union will not succumb to threat and
intimidation.
The authorities of the university, in a circular
signed by the registrar/secretary to the council,
Mr Jilli Dandam, made available to Nigerian
Tribune in Jos, Plateau State, pointed out that
all academic staff of the university shall return
to their various departments, units and
directorates and commence work immediately.
It added that daily compliance register would
be kept by all heads of department for all
academic staff, while it further directed every
head of department to publish lecture time-
table for all academic programmes by today.
However, branch chairman of ASUU, Dr
Jangkam Wannang, said the union would not
succumb to threat to call off its strike, adding
that conditions to call off the strike were well
spell out.
He said intimidation and harassment of any
form would not force the union to call off the
strike.
“We will not succumb to threat, the strike is for
the improvement of the system. The threat and
intimidation by both the government and
governing council of a universities will rather
complicate the problem rather than addressing
it,” he said.
OAU students desert campus
Students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU),
Ile-Ife, on Monday, failed to resume for
academic activities, despite the directive of the
government.
A correspondent of NAN, who visited the
institution, reported that none of the students
were seen on campus for possible
commencement of academic activities as
directed by the government.
Mr Abiodun Olarenwaju, the Public Relations
Officer of the institution, confirmed to NAN that
not a single student was on campus “for any
reason whatsoever.”
He said the few lecturers on campus were
around “for reasons other than academic,”
adding that “you know our lecturers have not
totally deserted the campus like that, many of
them still come around to do one or two things
in their offices, but no teaching and learning
activities.”
Gombe varsity lecturers fail to resume
Lecturers at the Gombe State University are yet
to resume classes, despite the directive to do
so by the government.
A NAN correspondent who visited the university
campus on Monday reported that while the
non-academic staff reported for work, offices of
the lecturers were still closed.
NAN observed that the students also did not
turn up for lectures as of the time of the visit.
When contacted on telephone, branch chairman
of ASUU, Mallam Umar Adamu, confirmed that
none of the lecturers of the university had
resumed work.
Adamu said the union would meet tomorrow, to
decide on what to do.
The premises of the university was, however,
calm as security operatives were seen keeping
vigilance at the main gate.
The academic staff of Federal University in
Kashere, also in Gombe State, did not, however,
join the strike.
UI students stay off campus
Students of University of Ibadan (UI), on
Monday, obeyed the directive of ASUU and
stayed off campus, against the order of the
Federal Government.
The UI branch of ASUU also lashed out at the
Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck
Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe, for calling the union
“enemy of the state.”
Members of the union at the institution, at a
congress, resolved not to sign any register and
were united in rejecting the directive of the
government.
In an interview, the branch chairman, Dr
Olusegun Ajiboye, said the union remained on
course at ensuring that government made
funds available to public universities.
Ajiboye said the union respected the office of
the president, but carpeted Dr Okupe and other
advisers werefor their attempts to ridicule the
office of the president through their unguarded
utterances.
Ajiboye, who lashed out at Okupe for describing
ASUU as enemy of state, asked him to separate
the roles of corrupt government officials, oil
thieves, vandals and cabals in government
from the patriotic struggle of ASUU.
“Historically, leaders have failed because of the
bad counsel of their advisers. Mr President
needs to be careful not to be derailed by people
like Okupe, who do not see corrupt politicians
and cabals as well as looters as enemies of
state.
“Okupe does not see anything wrong in bad
roads, comatose health sector, pension fraud,
subsidy saga, aviation fraud, oil theft, as well as
enough problems for the masses by the
leadership,” he said.
The union appealed to the president to read the
letter sent to him in order to know that the
union was not out to disrespect him, but to give
him more credibility.

2 Face ’ s Wife Annie Idibia & Daughter Find America Boring ?

Nollywood actress Annie Macaulay the
pregnant wife of African Queen crooner Tuface
Idibia is finally getting bored in the United
States of America .
As we are all aware that the mother of one has
travelled to the US for the delivery of her baby,
yesterday, she took to the social media to tell
fans she is a bit bored .
Annie Macaulay Idibia shared the above photo
of her daughter Isabella and herself in matching
Adidas sport wear heading out for shopping
and she captioned it:
“#red #addidas #mama #child bored so we
going shopping!!! One of her fav tinz…hehehehe
like daddy not me ooo”
Most people especially elderly folks who have
travelled outside of Nigeria to countries like
Canada and the United States usually complain
of boredom especially in the winter season.
Annie Idibia must have been used to the
exciting social life in Nigeria.
Take heart Annie it’s almost over.

Chris Okotie Defends “Catholics Are Going To Hell Fire ” Sermon On Twitter

The founder and the Pastor in charge of
Household of God, a pentecostal church in
Lagos Nigeria, Rev Chris Okotie has come open
days after he gave a controversial sermon
about the Catholic church and Pope Francis .
In a sermon he preached this past Sunday, the
eloquent preacher said his church members
should pray for Catholic members all over the
world because they’re worshipping satan
He also said their leader, Pope Francis is an
antichrist.
Read details of his sermon here .
Few hours ago, he took to Twitter to defend his
sermon saying truth is bitter.
Check out what Chris Okotie said:

APC Secretary Found Dead In Bariga Lagos Office – RIP Pastor Abiodun Adeboyejo

The man pictured above is a popular Pastor
and politician in Bariga area of Lagos State
Nigeria. He is the secretary for the Bariga
chapter of the new APC party .
According to local residents, Pastor Abiodun
Adeboyejo popularly called JP passed away on
Saturday at his office in Bariga.
After every effort to reach him proved abortive,
his landlord called police officials who forced
his office door opened after smelling an
unpleasant odour like that of a dead rat coming
from his office.
On forcing the door opened, they found his
decomposed body today Tuesday December
3rd, 2013.
Residents said JP appeared hale and hearty on
Saturday while exchanging pleasantries with
family and friends.
The financial secretary for All Progressive
Congress, APC passed away at his office on
Akinromola Street in Bariga Lagos on Saturday
night.
Hear what his landlord’s son said about his
death:
“We did not know he was dead inside his office
until he started smelling. At first, we felt a rat
had died there and we tried to call his line to
inform him of the stench coming his office, all to
no avail. It became clear that something was
amiss when one of his wives came around to
announce that their husband didn’t come
home,”. “At that juncture, we called the police
who eventually came to force the door open;
and we found him dead on the floor,”
Pastor Abiodun Adeboye is survived by his two
wives and many children.
May his soul rest in perfect peace.

Wale meets his granddad for the 1st time + Maleek Berry is a relative too

When he travelled to his home country,
Nigeria for the first time last week, the US
based rapper got to meet some family
members he’s never seen before – this
includes his grandfather. It’s good to see
the MMG connecting to his roots after so
many years gone.
He revealed in a recent interview that he
was raised in ‘the Nigerian way’ by his
parents and would do it all over again if he
had to.
In related news, little did we know that
Nigerian producer Maleek Berry and Wale
are related. Maleek was also spotted in a
family group picture with Wale and calls
him ‘my brother’.
More photos below…

OJB Jezreel returns to Nigeria on Saturday

After spending close to three months in
India where he underwent a successful
Kidney transplant operation, OJB Jezreel
will return to Nigeria this weekend.
The producer-singer’s ‘right hand man’
Nomoreloss confirms that ‘Jigga’ will land
in Lagos on Saturday, December 7, 2013.
‘He’s coming on Saturday, we don’t know
what time yet though ‘, Nomoreloss told a
NET correspondent this morning.
OJB travelled to India in the company of
his first wife Mabel ‘Mama J’ Okungbowa
on August 23, 2013 . It has been reported
that Mama J donated one of her kidneys
for the kidney transplant operation.

Boko Haram Bombs Maiduguri Airforce Barracks : 50 Soldiers & 100 Terrorists Killed

Boko Haram Attacks Maiduguri Airforce
Barracks: 50 Soldiers & 100 Terrorists Killed
In the early hours of Monday the 2nd of
December 2013, over 300 Boko Haram
terrorists attacked a military base very close to
Maiduguri Int’l Airport.
According to an eyewitness, the Islamists
stormed the airforce base in Maiduguri around
3am today killing over 150 people.
According to sources, the bold attempt made
by the dreaded Islamic sect to burn down the
international airport was foiled after a 24-hour
ban on vehicular and human movement in
Maiduguri, Borno state.
An anonymous source from the Federal
Aviation Authority in Lagos said Boko Haram’s
attempt to burn down the international airport
didn’t succeed because of the curfew.
Efforts to get official comment from federal
aviation officials proved abortive as they
declined answering their phones.
Shocked by the monumental attacks around
the Maiduguri Airport and other military
facilities in Maiduguri town today Governor
Kashim Shettima has imposed a 2- hour curfew
in the state.
Over 50 Security officials were killed in the
attack while over 100 militants were reported
killed by Joint Task Force men as the Islamist
militants struck in Maiduguri, north eastern
Nigeria this morning.
6 military vehicles were used to convey the
military dead bodies, stated a source following
a heavy attack and bombardment by the Boko
Haram.

Picture : Governor Adams Oshiomhole & His Widow , Joy Ifije

A lovely photo of Edo state Governor
Oshiomhole and his oppressed widow has
surfaced.
In the adorable picture, the former labour leader
was spotted with the woman named Joy Ifite
cheering with cups of tea.
According to sources, Adams Oshiomhole has
given the woman a whopping 2 million naira as
an apology for his cruel “go and die ” statement
in addition with an offer of employment.
If not for the timely intervention of kind-hearted
Nigerians and Naijagists who uploaded the
video, this is how this woman would have
suffered oppression from the Governor.
A widower and a widow, what a perfect match!
Nigerian politicians and their magomago
lifestyle.

2face, Tiwa Savage, Davido, Ice Prince, Iyanya lose out at Channel O Music Video Awards 2013

For the first time in many years, Nigeria
has failed to dominate the Channel O
Music Video Awards with the likes of
heavyweights 2face, Tiwa Savage, Davido
and Ice Prince all losing out.
Other Nigerians who lost out this year
include Naeto C, D’Prince, Chidinma, Jesse
Jagz, Lola Rae, Burna Boy and Iyanya .
The awards show which held on
November 30, 2013 at Walter Sisulu
Square , in Kliptown Soweto saw Pop duo
Psquare and EME boss Banky W, walking
away with the awards for ‘Most Gifted
African (West) Video‘ and ‘Most Gifted
RnB Video ‘ respectively.
Wizkid won the biggest award of the night
‘Most Gifted Video of the Year ‘ beating
Psquare, Ice Prince, R2Bees, Mafikizolo,
Fuse ODG and six others.
Check out the full winners’ list below…
MOST GIFTED KWAITO VIDEO
L’vovo Derrango Ft Professor – Palesa
Professor Ft Osikido and Character –
Finger Prints [Winner]
Ees – Woza December
Kabelo – Impilo
Dj Tira Ft Big Nuz and Joocy – Summer
Time
MOST GIFTED AFRICAN (EAST) VIDEO
AY/MARCO CHALI – Party Zone
P-UNIT FT COLLO: You Guy (Dat Dendai)
[Winner]
RADIO and WEASEL – Can’t Let You Go
SAUTI SOL – Money Lover
NAVIO – Kata
MOST GIFTED AFRICAN (WEST) VIDEO
D’PRINCE – Goody Bag
ICE PRINCE – Aboki
R2BEES – Life (WALAAHI)
DBLACK FT JOEY B – Vera
CHIDINMA FT ILLBLISS and SUSPECT –
Emi Ni Baller
P-SQUARE – Alingo [Winner]
MOST GIFTED RAGGA/DANCEHALL VIDEO
BUFFALO SOULJAH – Basawine
KAAKIE – Too Much
JESSE JAGZ – Murder Dem
P-UNIT FT COLLO – You Guy (Dat Dendai)
[Winner]
RADIO AND WEASEL – Can’t Let You Go
MOST GIFTED RnB VIDEO
BANKY W – Yes/No [Winner]
ANSELMO RALPH – Curticao
DANNY K – Brown Eyes
CHASE – Lonely
VICTORIA KIMANI/M.I – Oya
MOST GIFTED HIP HOP VIDEO
AKA – Jealousy [Winner]
JAYSO and SARKODIE – Pizza and Burger
REASON – Do It Like I Can
IFANI FT BLAKSUGA – Chocolate Vanilla
EL/M.aNIFEST – Hallelujah
MOST GIFTED AFRICAN (SOUTH) VIDEO
DAMA DO BLING – My Eish
OSKIDO – Tsa Mandebele [Winner]
BLACK COFFEE FT ZAKES – Take it All Off
PAUL G FT FABULOUS – Get Control
DJ DIMPLEZ ft L-TIDO and ANATii – We
Ain’t Leaving
KHULI CHANA – Hazzadazmove
MOST GIFTED DANCE VIDEO
KCEE – Limpopo
MAFIKIZOLO – Khona [Winner]
FUSE ODG FT WYCLEF JEAN – Antenna
(Remix)
DJ MALVADO FT PETTY – Jamaica
DJ GANYANI FT FB – Xigubu
MOST GIFTED AFRO POP VIDEO
THE SOIL FT ZAKWE – Linkomo [Winner]
SAUTI SOL – Money Lover
2FACE IDIBIA – Ihe Ne Me
THE MUFFINZ – Umsebenzi Wendoda
DAVIDO – Gobe
MOST GIFTED DUO/GROUP/FEATURING
VIDEO
TEAR GAS – Wake Up
XTATIC/AKA and PRIDDY UGLY -Hit Em
Up
MI CASA – Can’t Get Enough
EME – Baddest Boy
NAETO C FT D’BANJ – Tony Montana
(Bad Pass) Remix
ZONEFAM – Contolola [Winner]
MOST GIFTED NEWCOMER VIDEO
MONEOA – Is’bhanxa
LOLA RAE – Watch My Ting Go
KHAYA MTHETHWA – Move [Winner]
VICTORIA KIMANI – Mtoto
BURNA BOY – Tonight
MOST GIFTED FEMALE VIDEO
ZONKE – Feelings [Winner]
LIZHA JAMES FT ANSELMO RALPH – Vais
Rochar
STL – Stella Stella Stella
TIWA SAVAGE ft DON JAZZY – Without My
Heart
TOYA DELAZY – Heart
MOST GIFTED MALE VIDEO
DONALD – Over The Moon
Zeus FT AKA and TUMI – #DatsWasup
[Winner]
WIZKID – Azonto
AY/MARCO CHALI – Party Zone
IYANYA – Flavour
MOST GIFTED VIDEO OF THE YEAR
XTATIC/AKA and PRIDDY UGLY – Hit Em
Up
ZEUS FT AKA and TUMI – #DatsWasup
WIZKID – Azonto [Winner]
STL – Stella Stella Stella
AKA – Jealousy
REASON – Do It Like I Can
MAFIKIZOLO – Khona
FUSE ODG FT WYCLEF JEAN – Antenna
ICE PRINCE – Aboki
R2BEES – Life (Walaahi)
P-SQUARE – Alingo
PAUL G FT FABULOUS – Get Control

Photo : Nigerian Politicians Before & After Election

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has
exposed the common tricks used by Nigerian
politicians when seeking power.
What usually happens after their reelection is
what we saw in a video currently going viral in
the social media when the former labour leader
told a crying widow to go and die .

2face, Tiwa Savage, Davido, Ice Prince, Iyanya lose out at Channel O Music Video Awards 2013

For the first time in many years, Nigeria
has failed to dominate the Channel O
Music Video Awards with the likes of
heavyweights 2face, Tiwa Savage, Davido
and Ice Prince all losing out.
Other Nigerians who lost out this year
include Naeto C, D’Prince, Chidinma, Jesse
Jagz, Lola Rae, Burna Boy and Iyanya .
The awards show which held on
November 30, 2013 at Walter Sisulu
Square , in Kliptown Soweto saw Pop duo
Psquare and EME boss Banky W, walking
away with the awards for ‘Most Gifted
African (West) Video‘ and ‘Most Gifted
RnB Video ‘ respectively.
Wizkid won the biggest award of the night
‘Most Gifted Video of the Year ‘ beating
Psquare, Ice Prince, R2Bees, Mafikizolo,
Fuse ODG and six others.
Check out the full winners’ list below…
MOST GIFTED KWAITO VIDEO
L’vovo Derrango Ft Professor – Palesa
Professor Ft Osikido and Character –
Finger Prints [Winner]
Ees – Woza December
Kabelo – Impilo
Dj Tira Ft Big Nuz and Joocy – Summer
Time
MOST GIFTED AFRICAN (EAST) VIDEO
AY/MARCO CHALI – Party Zone
P-UNIT FT COLLO: You Guy (Dat Dendai)
[Winner]
RADIO and WEASEL – Can’t Let You Go
SAUTI SOL – Money Lover
NAVIO – Kata
MOST GIFTED AFRICAN (WEST) VIDEO
D’PRINCE – Goody Bag
ICE PRINCE – Aboki
R2BEES – Life (WALAAHI)
DBLACK FT JOEY B – Vera
CHIDINMA FT ILLBLISS and SUSPECT –
Emi Ni Baller
P-SQUARE – Alingo [Winner]
MOST GIFTED RAGGA/DANCEHALL VIDEO
BUFFALO SOULJAH – Basawine
KAAKIE – Too Much
JESSE JAGZ – Murder Dem
P-UNIT FT COLLO – You Guy (Dat Dendai)
[Winner]
RADIO AND WEASEL – Can’t Let You Go
MOST GIFTED RnB VIDEO
BANKY W – Yes/No [Winner]
ANSELMO RALPH – Curticao
DANNY K – Brown Eyes
CHASE – Lonely
VICTORIA KIMANI/M.I – Oya
MOST GIFTED HIP HOP VIDEO
AKA – Jealousy [Winner]
JAYSO and SARKODIE – Pizza and Burger
REASON – Do It Like I Can
IFANI FT BLAKSUGA – Chocolate Vanilla
EL/M.aNIFEST – Hallelujah
MOST GIFTED AFRICAN (SOUTH) VIDEO
DAMA DO BLING – My Eish
OSKIDO – Tsa Mandebele [Winner]
BLACK COFFEE FT ZAKES – Take it All Off
PAUL G FT FABULOUS – Get Control
DJ DIMPLEZ ft L-TIDO and ANATii – We
Ain’t Leaving
KHULI CHANA – Hazzadazmove
MOST GIFTED DANCE VIDEO
KCEE – Limpopo
MAFIKIZOLO – Khona [Winner]
FUSE ODG FT WYCLEF JEAN – Antenna
(Remix)
DJ MALVADO FT PETTY – Jamaica
DJ GANYANI FT FB – Xigubu
MOST GIFTED AFRO POP VIDEO
THE SOIL FT ZAKWE – Linkomo [Winner]
SAUTI SOL – Money Lover
2FACE IDIBIA – Ihe Ne Me
THE MUFFINZ – Umsebenzi Wendoda
DAVIDO – Gobe
MOST GIFTED DUO/GROUP/FEATURING
VIDEO
TEAR GAS – Wake Up
XTATIC/AKA and PRIDDY UGLY -Hit Em
Up
MI CASA – Can’t Get Enough
EME – Baddest Boy
NAETO C FT D’BANJ – Tony Montana
(Bad Pass) Remix
ZONEFAM – Contolola [Winner]
MOST GIFTED NEWCOMER VIDEO
MONEOA – Is’bhanxa
LOLA RAE – Watch My Ting Go
KHAYA MTHETHWA – Move [Winner]
VICTORIA KIMANI – Mtoto
BURNA BOY – Tonight
MOST GIFTED FEMALE VIDEO
ZONKE – Feelings [Winner]
LIZHA JAMES FT ANSELMO RALPH – Vais
Rochar
STL – Stella Stella Stella
TIWA SAVAGE ft DON JAZZY – Without My
Heart
TOYA DELAZY – Heart
MOST GIFTED MALE VIDEO
DONALD – Over The Moon
Zeus FT AKA and TUMI – #DatsWasup
[Winner]
WIZKID – Azonto
AY/MARCO CHALI – Party Zone
IYANYA – Flavour
MOST GIFTED VIDEO OF THE YEAR
XTATIC/AKA and PRIDDY UGLY – Hit Em
Up
ZEUS FT AKA and TUMI – #DatsWasup
WIZKID – Azonto [Winner]
STL – Stella Stella Stella
AKA – Jealousy
REASON – Do It Like I Can
MAFIKIZOLO – Khona
FUSE ODG FT WYCLEF JEAN – Antenna
ICE PRINCE – Aboki
R2BEES – Life (Walaahi)
P-SQUARE – Alingo
PAUL G FT FABULOUS – Get Control

Nigeria Rejects Deportee From Britain : Private Jet Carrying Isa Muazu Denied Landing In Lagos

Nigeria Rejects Deportee From London: Private
Jet Carrying Isa Muazu Denied Landing In
Lagos
A British government attempt to deport a ‘near
death’ Nigerian asylum seeker, Isa Muazu, was
thwarted on Friday after the Nigerian
government denied the chartered private jet
rights to land.
The private jet, hired at huge cost to the British
government, returned to the UK, from Malta,
with Mr. Muazu after hours in the air, sparking
backlash against the UK government.
Mr. Muazu was bundled out of the medical
wing of Harmondsworth detention centre,
amidst protests calling for his release, on Friday
for the flight to Nigeria.
Protesters from the Stop Deportations Network
closed Harmondsworth detention centre, earlier
on Friday, in an attempt to stop Mr. Muazu’s
deportation, with one man supergluing himself
to the gates of the detention centre. The man
was eventually arrested at 7a.m. by a
specialist police team who took several hours
to remove him.
Mr. Muazu, said to be only skin and bones fat,
has been on hunger strike for 100 days, to
protest UK’s refusal to grant him asylum. His
medical team declared him unfit to fly or be
kept in detention, while rights groups
condemned the British government’s
desperation to remove him from UK.
Mr. Muazu entered the UK on a valid visa in
2007, but decided to remain in the UK for fears
he will be killed by Boko Haram, whom he
claimed had killed several of his relatives. After
seeking asylum he was put in fast track
detention, and his claims expressly rejected.
Mr. Muazu’s lawyers told the BBC he had been
returned to the medical wing at Harmondsworth
detention centre since returning from the failed
deportation.
‘End of life plan’
Before arriving the Harmondsworth detention
centre, near Heathrow airport, Mr. Muazu had
health conditions including Hepatitis B, kidney
problems and stomach ulcers. He complained
that the highly processed food served to
detainees was worsening his medical
conditions but UK detention officials dismissed
him as “behaving like a child”.
In October, his physical and mental health
deteriorated. His medical team declared he was
unfit for detention and edging towards death,
but rather than release him, UK immigration
officials drew up an ‘end of life plan,’ an
alternative to deporting him.
A British High Court and the Court of Appeal
also declared Muazu’s detention lawful, ruling
that the UK Home Office had the right to
remove a man who its staff accepted was close
to death and for whom an ‘end of life plan’ had
been drawn up.
But Mr. Muazu would not take a deportation. “I
feel devastated. I’d rather die than go back. If
they can take my body and bury it, that would
be the only thing. I’m not going back, I’m telling
you. There’s nothing there for me,” he told Vice
Magazine’s Simon Childs and Lord Roberts of
Llandudno who later started an e-petition
calling for his release.
The ‘end of life’ plan included allowing him die
on his mattress in his detention room.
Expensive deportation
Apparently, the UK government would not have
an asylum seeker on hunger strike die in its
detention centre. An expensive deportation
plan, which included hiring a private jet, was
drawn up.
The UK Home office hired a private jet, with
flight number EDC684, registered with Air
Charter Scotland Ltd, the aviation firm that flew
Mary J Blige to Lagos, in September. The firm
also manages the private jet of British business
mogul, Lord Sugar.
The UK Home Office had planned to deport Mr.
Muazu on a Virgin Atlantic flight but the plan
was called off a night before. Rights
campaigners said their pressure forced Virgin
Atlantic to back down.
Campaigners also attempted to pressure the
private jet company to decline the offer to fly
Mr. Muazu to Nigeria. Protesters from Unity
Centre Glasgow and Student Action for
Refugees gathered outside the company’s East
Kilbride offices Thursday afternoon, but the firm
went ahead to execute the deportation.
Campaigners said it must have cost the British
government between 100 to 188 thousand
Great British Pounds to execute the failed
deportation.
“How can you spend that much deporting only
one person when he is not even a criminal?”
Jasmine Sallis, a volunteer caseworker at the
Unity Centre in Glasgow said. The Unity Centre
have been at the forefront of campaigns to free
Mr. Muazu.
The aircraft model used in executing the failed
deportation, rights campaigners suspect, is a
Legacy 600, the same model of aircraft used in
deporting radical preacher, Abu Qatada, to
Jordan. Mr. Qatada’s deportation was
estimated to have cost the UK Home Office
over 50 thousand Great British Pounds.
The UK home office is closed till Monday, while
the Nigerian aviation authorities could not
explains reasons for the plane’s inability to land
in Nigeria.
Yakubu Datti, the spokesperson of the Nigerian
aviation industry, told PREMIUM TIMES he
would make enquiry and revert. He is yet to do
so as at the time of publishing this.
Human Rights
UK’s desperation to deport Mr. Muazu cost it
both public funds and social capital. Human
rights campaigners condemned UK
government’s hardline stance to deport the
asylum seeker, saying he might die in the
process.
Late November, over a hundred NGOs, actors
and lawyers wrote to The Guardian to demand
Mr. Muazu’s release.
“Like Isa, many feel that their asylum claims
have not been fairly heard and that they are
losing their freedom only for the “crime” of
seeking safety in the UK,” the signatories said.
“We are extremely concerned that Isa may die
as a result of a hardened stance being taken
towards migrants in the UK. We urgently call for
clemency in this case. We ask that the home
secretary reconsider Isa’s case and act quickly
to release him in the UK, so that another death
in immigration detention can be avoided.”
Mr. Muazu is not the only person on hunger
strike in the asylum detention centre. Unity
Centre claim there are at least three other men
in the Medical Centre at Harmondsworth
detention centre on hunger strike in the same
ward as Mr. Muazu with possibly more hunger
strikers in other wards at the detention centre.
“One of the men started his hunger strike on 5
November,” the Unity Centre said.

Rapper Wale honours his father on stage in Lagos

It must have been a special moment for
rapper Wale Folarin when he performed for
the first time in his motherland Nigeria on
November 30, 2013.
And what made it more special was that
his father Mr Akintimehin was also there
to watch his son perform for the hundreds
of guests that gathered at the Oriental
Hotel in Lagos.
Wale took time to give a shoutout to his
dad who watched from backstage along
with his uncle Bayo and Storm Records
boss Obi Asika .
‘I promise to keep coming back. If y’all will
have me, I’ll coming coming back.
Shoutout to my dad, Mr Akintimehin do
you want to take a bow for these people
now? Haaa Oga! ‘, Wale said in between
performances.
The US based rapper is expected to return
to the States this weekend.
Watch the video clip below…

Pope Francis Is An Antichrist , All Catholics Will Go To Hell Fire – Nigerian Pastor Chris Okotie

All Catholics in the world will go to hell because
they worship Satan and are led by an Anti-
Christ Pope who is a friend to the devil,
Nigeria’s controversial preacher and former
presidential candidate, Chris Okotie, told his
congregation on Sunday, leaving members
bewildered.
Fifty-five year old Okotie, while preaching in his
Household of God Church in Ikeja area of
Lagos, western Nigeria, said the Catholic
church is “a counterfeit church set up by
Satan” and that Catholics “bow to idols and
crucify Jesus every Sunday when they eat
bread claiming they are eating Jesus’ body.”
“They are not Christians and have never been,”
Okotie told a stunned congregation.
“They don’t know Jesus. They believe that
when they eat bread on Sundays, they are
eating the body of Jesus. It’s ritual,” Okotie
said.
He said Pope Francis is an Anti-Christ who
does the job of the devil and that time is fast
approaching when the Catholic church will
pledge allegiance to Satan.
“The pope is an Anti-Christ and the Catholic
church will soon declare for Satan. This is the
end of times,” Okotie erupted.
He advised members of his church to come to
the rescue of Catholics and evangelise them.
This, he said, was not out of disrespect but out
of respect for the word of God.
He said those who know the truth should bring
it to those who do not know it in the Catholic
Church.
Okotie said one of the Catholic most revered
Popes, Pope John Paul 11, surrendered the
Catholic Church to Mary, the earthly mother of
Jesus Christ, instead of Jesus himself. He said
even the current Pope Francis has also done
same.
He said Catholics are not Christians and do not
worship the same Christ that he preaches in his
church, at least the one spoken about in the
Bible.
Okotie said he did not write the Bible but it was
clear to him that those in the Catholic church
were lost and were heading to hell fire.
“They don’t believe in heaven. They believe in
purgatory, the purgatory that they invented,”
Okotie said.
“That church, the Catholic church has been
there for Satan and at the right time, they will
declare for Satan,”Okotie said.
Okotie who has been married twice and
divorced also twice said a beauty pageant will
take place in his church next Sunday to select
the most beautiful woman in his church.
He also said his yearly “Grace programme”
where he makes donations to charity
organisations will also take place next Sunday.
The once rock star turned celebrity preacher
and politician has been controversial for years.
He once said it was the devil who told him for
the first time that he was going to be a
preacher.
He also said Nigeria’s famous preacher Prophet
T.B. Joshua is the son of the devil and his
followers will go straight to hell.
In recent years, he has been saying that God
has anointed him to be Nigeria’s president.
That prophecy has not come to pass in two
presidential elections that he participated in.