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Day 1 at the on going National Conference where Criticals issues are been deliberate on how our beloved country can be move forward and the people they selected are there sleeping while the future of my country is at stake after collecting the sum of 12m as accommodation allawance. God help the youth of this country.

P resident Goodluck Jonathan has directed that three employment slots be reserved for the families of those who died during the stampede that occurred during the recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigerian Immigration Service on Saturday nationwide . Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting which was devoted to the incident.  He said one of the three beneficiaries must be a lady. Jonathan also directed that all those who sustained injuries and are currently hospitalised be given automatic employment in the service.  While ordering that the ill-fated exercise be cancelled, the President set up a committee led by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, to conduct a fresh exercise. The committee has the Comptroller-General of NIS as well as representatives of the Inspector-General of Police and the heads of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defen...

Kirstine on her wedding night  & ex Neil & new gf celebrate  Here is the scenario, imagine you left your ex and on the day you were getting married to another man/woman ,you heard that ex won 108 million pounds that very day..Lol Kirstine Hamilton's romantic honeymoon in Mexico was rudely interrupted by the news that her former partner, & father of her only child Neil Trotter, had scooped £108million on the lottery & had suddenly become one of the richest men in Britain  But the very new Mrs Hamilton showed no bitterness .Instead, she sent him a joking text message: ‘That’s just typical of you, Trotter.’  Mr Trotter who was a mechanic closed down his garage for good the day he heard the news, said that he planned to use his fortune to buy country mansions, sports  cars and designer handbags for his new girlfriend.  When asked if he would be buying his ex-girlfriend a house – and explained that she and her husband were rich enou...

not the main crash scene A multiple crash on the Potiskum-Maiduguri highway, involving three vehicles, Monday, killed 35 people, including 19 church members on their way back from Lagos, where they attended a religious meeting.

The 33yr old singer showed off her hourglass bikini body in a patterned strapless bikini as she soaked up the sunshine in Malibu, California. She shared the photos on her instagram page...

A bank worker who married to conceal his homosexuality strangled his wife a few months later with a metal vacuum pipe, a court heard yesterday. Jasvir Ram Ginday throttled Varkha Rani and tried to destroy her remains in an incinerator after going through with the arranged marriage to please his parents. The couple tied the knot in a lavish ceremony in India last March – even though Ginday, 30, had confided in a friend years earlier that he was attracted to men, the jury were told. Continue...

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria and chairman of the conference, retired Justice Idris Kutigi BARELY 24 hours after inauguration, Punch reported that the National Conference on Tuesday  adjourned sitting by one week in order for its secretariat to formulate the ground rules that would guide debates. The chairman of the conference, retired Justice Idris Kutigi, adjourned sitting after the Secretary, Mrs. Valerie Azinge, told delegates that the rules would be ready by Thursday. In the interim, however, delegates had been handed copies of reports of past conferences to study.  

A former corps member, Emmanuel Unogu, has been offered  N100,000 by the National Youth Service Corps for the loss of his right leg during the service year. Unogu, who served with the Urueffong/Oruka Local Government, Akwa Ibom State in 2008, was involved in an auto accident, which later led to the loss of his leg. PUNCH Metro  had reported on April 18, 2013 that Unogu was involved in the accident while on his way to Oron on October 26, 2008.  Although the state’s NYSC authorities were said to have been aware of the accident, Unogu allegedly did not receive proper medical attention.

The Federal Government may have concluded plans to stop subsidising the consumption of petroleum products in the country, especially petrol and kerosene following increasingly dwindling revenue. According to Punchng , the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, gave the clearest hint yet of the planned removal of subsidies on both products by the Federal Government on Tuesday at the ongoing Nigerian Oil and Gas Conference in Abuja.   She said that the subsidies being paid to the marketers by the Federal Government on imported Premium Motor Spirit and kerosene were no longer sustainable, prompting analysts to say the days of the petrol and kerosene subsidy regime might soon be over.  

Just minutes after tourist Zoran Tomic, 23, was snapped by his twin brother in front of an impressive view of the ancient city of Bolzano,  he fell to his death on the rocks 30 metres below having nodded off and rolled over the edge. According to reports, after the picture was taken he was taken by the sight and decided to stay back and enjoy the tranquility while his friends moved on .However, his body was later found by a walker at the foot of the wall who initially thought he was asleep Officials said he had died instantly upon hitting the rocks below and suspect that he'd fallen asleep on top of the wall and then tumbled off. Tomic had moved to Italy and toured Bolzano and the surrounding area with his brother, as they'd heard there were good football teams there and were keen on joining one.

Property worth millions of naira were, Tuesday, destroyed when fire consumed the main auditorium of Christ Embassy Church, located on Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos. When Vanguard visited the scene, it was gathered that the fire started at 6.30pm from an apartment which housed about 14 power generating sets. It was further learnt that the fire started as a result of power surge from one of the generating sets.   Sources said that immediately the church members noticed the fire, they tried putting it off with their in-house extinguishers. However, the fire escalated and spread to the church main auditorium. The church management declined speaking on the incident.  

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ONITSHA  —  Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, has faulted the nomination of Senator Ike Nwachukwu as leader of  Ndigbo  delegates at  the on-going national conference. In a press statement to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State, shortly after its one-day national convention, yesterday, the group said it was rejecting Nwachukwu’s nomination for failing  Ndigbo  in the past.   In the statement jointly signed by Augustine Chukwudum, President and Chinedu Onyebuchi, Secretary-General, NUF said it is only worthy Igbo sons and daughters who had proven themselves through positive contributions to  Ndigbo  that should be saddled with the responsibility of representing  Ndigbo .

Greed and things of the flesh are really controlling some men who call themselves pastors: The Pastor of Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly, Okota, Lagos, Pastor Ikechukwu Ezeiru, has been charged in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court with fraud. He was arraigned on Tuesday for allegedly defrauding a member of his church, Ifeanyi Ohazurume, of N7m. The police said Pastor Ezeiru collected the money with the claim that he wanted to help Ifeanyi purchase fake auction goods from the Nigerian Customs Service. He didn’t return the money or the goods. He started "playing" the guy around. It was learnt that the pastor claimed to have given the money to his wife. He wife too claimed she passed the money to someone else....

An Ogun State Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Owode Egba, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area, has remanded Pastor Samuel Daniel of the Apostolic Church in prison for using a machete on his wife. He was arraigned on a two-count charge of assault and providing false information, which is punishable under Sections 338 and 192 criminal code Vol 1 law of Ogun State, 2006. The pastor, who operates with an Apostolic Church in Ode Remo area of the state, went to his wife’s place of work at Itori area of Owode-Egba on December 10, 2013 and used the machete on her for allegedly abandoning church programmes. After his eyes cleared, he took his wife to the hospital and reported the case at Owode-Egba Police Station, but lied to the police that some unknown men attacked his wife...