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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adamu Mu’azu, has ruled out a landslide victory for the party in the forthcoming general elections. The PDP has formed the federal government as well as most of the state governments since the return of democracy in Nigeria 16 years ago, following its victory in the 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections. President Goodluck Jonathan is the PDP candidate in the March 28 presidential poll. In a statement on Thursday, Mr. Mu’azu said he did not foresee a landslide victory for his party in the coming elections billed for March 28 and April 11. He however said he was confident the party will win the elections. According to him, “Our major concern in the Peoples Democratic Party is not to allow the country to be hijacked by desperadoes masquerading as purveyors of good governance, who promise heaven and earth to the people without any intention of fulfilling their election promises in the name of change. “While I ...

The University of Port Harcourt has declined a Freedom of Information, FOI, request for the doctorate degree records of President Goodluck Jonathan. In a response to the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, a Rivers State-based civil society organization, the university said a request for President Jonathan’s academic records did not fall within the provisions of the FOI law. “The Management of the University has carefully considered your request vis-a-vis the FOI Act,” the university stated in their letter dated 26th February, 2015, and signed by Eric Loveday Osuo Abonemi, the institution’s Legal Officer. “It is my instructions to inform you that your request does not come within the relevant provisions of the FOI Act for its practicability or for the University to provide such details as requested. “Details of the Ph.D Degree of President Goodluck Jonathan in the University of Port Harcourt cannot therefore be made available to you.” The Institute of...

A 9-year-old girl, Nicole Benson, who is a pupil of Greensprings School Lekki campus, has officially donated her lunch money to the Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Nicole made the donation of about N6,000 during the at a Town Hall meeting with Nigerian women on Thursday in Lagos, while she also read the  letter she wrote a month ago to the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential campaign team. See photos from Nicole’s presentation to Buhari:

One Michael Oyejide, who resides at Ijeja, in Abeokuta has been arrested and locked up in jail for allegedly raping to death his 18-year-old girlfriend. The 24 year old was found guilty after facing three counts of conspiracy, rape and murder, today in an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court. The Magistrate, Mr Martins Akinyemi, ordered that the accused be remanded in prison pending legal advice from the state Director of Public Prosecution. The Prosecutor, Cpl. Moshood Hammed, told the court that the accused and one other at large, committed the offence on January 8 at about 11:41p.m. at Ijeja in Abeokuta.Hammed said the accused and his accomplice had raped the girl after a party to celebrate his birthday. Hammed said, “At about 8.00p.m., Oyejide, aka MI, celebrated his birthday at Adigbe and some ladies were invited. “Later in the night, the accused and one other got the victim, who is also a friend drunk. The accused and his friend took the victim to his ...

Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, the pastor who accused the Christian Association of Nigeria of collecting N7bn bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan, says his life is in danger. The Borno-based pastor had alleged that CAN received the money from the president to campaign against the APC Presidential candidate, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.). In a statement released in Kaduna on Thursday, March 19, Musa-Dikwa said the Directorate of State Service (DSS) are after his life. He disclosed that he was forced to sign a document, which the DSS operatives planned to “show the entire world that President(Jonathan) did not bribe CAN to work against the Presidential candidate of the APC.” He said: “They forced me to sign and promised to link me up with the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for us to ‘settle’.” The cleric said: “The DSS invited me to their office in Abuja. They wanted to know who gave me the information that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan and I told them. They said all ...

Lacey, who this week showed off her curvaceous body in a tiny bikini, said: 'I feel really good but I still think I need to lose more weight. I want to go down to a size 3 or even a 0.  'I want to have the most extreme body in the world, I want to be a walking cartoon character. But I know I have to be careful.' Lacey had previously been turned down for more surgery by a doctor who told her that she would ruin her body if she made her breasts any larger. However, she vowed to carry on until she found someone who would do the operation for her.  Lacey has previously said: 'My world rotates around my boobs. I don't get high when I have surgery. But I do get a little thrill out of thinking I’m going to wake up looking different.'

Newly single Karrueche Tran was spotted at the beach in Cancun, Mexico yesterday with her bff Christina Milian. The girls, who are on holiday with other female friends, put their hot bikini bodies on display.  

Cheating in schools is a huge problem in India but the malpractice took a different, sad turn this week in Bihar city when parents of 10th-grade students climbed the wall of a school building and perched from windows of classrooms as they handed cheat sheets to children writing the tests inside. Photographs and videos showing parents, friends and others scaling the school wall - Spiderman-style - went viral in India today. The video also shows police officers standing nearby watching helplessly. Under Bihar’s anti-cheating law, dozens of 12th  grade students were expelled and their parents detained last month in cases of cheating in tests. But that hasn't stopped the parents. Sad!

According to a report posted on Facebook, which am yet to verify, the source gave an account of how this couple nearly met their untimely death yesterday at Emekuku, am still wondering if this is true, because in this political period oppositions can frame up a story. Read the report below. This is the couple that nearly met their untimely death yesterday at Emekuku when Gov. Rochas Okorocha personally supervised their beating for allegedly refusing to give way for his Convoy. He said,'Gov. Okorocha came out from his car and asked them to beat me and my wife. I asked him, "His Excellency why are you here and they are hitting my wife with AK 27". We are returning from Obowo to Owerri. The Governor said I deserve the beating because I was drunk and i said i was not. He asked me to open my mouth and he put his nose in my mouth and said 'hmmm! you are drunk'. I said it's not possible sir. He ordered his security men to urinate into my mouth...

Article written by Charly Boy. Read below Since the past two weeks my phone has been ringing off the hook. My associates and friends are shocked at what was purported as a MuhammaduBuhari'sendorsement  by The Brand, Charly Boy. Haba, who dash them? Looking at the campaign so far, I am so pained and ashamed of how low we have sunk. It's no more about the issues that threaten the future of our youths and our country but the obnoxious, petty, childish mudslinging of the parties trying to outdo themselves. Kai! In the article that I personally posted on my Facebook, I talked about a benevolent dictator, one who would come and kick some ass of all the people responsible for our pitiful situation  because quite frankly, we the followers are weak with fear and guilty of inaction. Even though I’m aware of Buhari's antecedents, I don't believe he can pull this off. Obviously I believe that age will lead him to compromise on many fronts and that'...

5 months after her sister Osiyo Agama was kidnapped, the younger brother of Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Alison-Madueke, Joseph Agama has also been kidnapped. He was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Bayelsa state today. Confirming his kidnap, the spokesperson to the Bayelsa state Police command, Asinim Butswat said the incident happened at about 12.30am today. The kidnappers rode in a speedboat and stormed Yenaka Community, a coastal settlement in Yenagoa LGA at about 12.30am and forcefully abducted Mr Agama. The family is yet to hear from the kidnapper

The man without a shoe but now he wears virtually over 10 shoes in a day, never knew he will go thid far in life. Credit to @ Delemomoduovation

It is absolutely certain that most Igbo campaigners for outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan are so thoughtless that they have lost all forms of self-dignity. When a serious issue is raised about, for instance, the utter deception of Ndigbo by Jonathan through statements like that he would go into exile if by 2015 the 2nd Niger Bridge, they enthusiastically resort to uncultured utterances like “you are an idiot”, “you are a buffoon”, etc. These are utterances, which do not depict good breeding. Nor do they address the critical issues raised. People of other ethnic groups paid heavily to defend Jonathan in the social media do not display the kind of uncultured behavior, which defines the conduct of these Igbo folks who probably receive far less than their counterparts from other parts of Nigeria in compensation for their role as rabie- infested attack dogs. in the last few days, these attack dogs have been abusing Fr Ejike Mbaka for alleging that the president and h...

Hundreds of suspected Boko Haram insurgents invaded Fuyi, Fatakol and other communities bordering Cameroon, Kala Balge and Gamboru Ngala local government areas of Borno state living dozens of people dead, houses destroyed after looting property including live stocks. Sources and witnesses have said. Kala Balge and Gamboru Ngala are located south east of Maiduguri, the state capital which remained under the control of insurgents, until recently when Chadian troops dislodged them from their hideouts, but sources said, after retaking some of these communities, the troops advanced towards Dikwa town and continued their mission with none of Nigerian troops stationed in the captured communities if Gamboru Ngala. The incident according to reliable source occurred at about 7am on Thursday when the insurgents in a coordinated attacks on the communities slaughtered over 13 people in Fuyi village near Gamboru Ngala, a border town with Cameroon Republic. Sources reveal...

Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has replied the wife President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan who has been campaigning that General Buhari will jail his political opponents if elected President in the March 28 election, saying Patience Jonathan needs not fear as Nigerians only want a change in the way Nigeria is being run presently. Speaking at a mega rally where she interacted with Women in Edo State Thursday, Hajia Buhari said the PDP’s attempt to paint her husband black with the tar of religion is a desperate attempt to hoodwink the people, saying only those who want to loot the treasury campaign with religion which is at variance with politics. She said: “Each zone of the country has its peculiar problems. For me in this zone, girl-child trafficking should be considered one of our problems, though I know there is unemployment. Unemployment is the ma...