General Buharai's adopted son arrested for alleged N20million fraud

Not funny this . If this is true then let the investigation start.
Mohammed Buhari, an adopted son of former Military Head of State and APC Chieftain Mohammdu Buhari has being arrested by men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly defrauding a businesswoman, Mrs Florence Nwokocha, to the tune of N20million, Sahara Reporters reports.

According to SR, Mohammed, who was introduced to Mrs Nwokocha through his account officer at Ecobank, had promised Mrs Nwokocha 10% of annual profit from a supposed oil deal which she was made to invest N20m into. But after receiving her money, Muhammed reportedly disappeared.
When he was eventually arrested by the EFCC, Muhammed claimed he ran into trouble after losing bank guarantee which he secured from another new generation bank. He is currently in the custody of the EFCC for further questioning.

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Fire Guts CBN office in Lagos

Fire guts CBN office

The recent reports of fire incidents in Nigeria has called for an immediate action to forestall future occurences as the most powerful bank in Nigeria was not spared in the sad news.
Though investigation is yet to be concluded, let's hope the findings is not concluded as an act of arson.

There was fire yesterday at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Lagos complex.

Report reaching us has it that there was dusk fire outbreak that  affected the administrative offices on the third floor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos.

In the course of battling the fire, on the third floor, a fire service official collapsed, no thanks to suffocation.

According to National Emergency Management Agency’s (NEMA) Southwest spokesman, Ibrahim Farinloye, the yet-to-be identified fireman was rescued and rushed to the hospital.

Farinloye said nobody died, adding that the Lagos State Fire Service personnel were on ground on time to contain the situation.

Lagos fire service Director, Rasaq Fadipe, said his men were clamping down the offices and breaking the windows and doors to check for any small fire that might not have been put off.

In a statement last night by Isaac Okorofor, the CBN said: 

”The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wishes to inform its stakeholders and the general public that a fire incident occurred at its Lagos Branch Office at about 5:30 this evening (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)"

The fire, which occurred on the first floor of the building, has been put out by a combined team of fighters from the CBN and other institutions.

“We wish to assure our numerous stakeholders that the records of the Bank are intact, as the Bank has an effective backup of all its records, as part of our disaster recovery infrastructure”

However, two photojournalists with the National Mirror Newspapers, Yinka Adeparusi and Samuel Adetimehin, were yesterday brutalised and had their cameras vandalised and confiscated by men of the Nigeria Police Force at the scene of the fire.

Both photo journalists were ordered to surrender their cameras and were beaten.

Adeparusi was later whisked to the Area ‘A’ Police Station where he was detained before he was released later.

Adetimehin, who was the first to be attacked was left to writhe in pain after he had received punches from the policemen.

The two photographers have been placed under medical care.

Let's see how the Nigerian police reacts to this, was the fire scene barricaded.

Fire Razes Lagos Market

Some sad news but real.

Traders at the popular Iponri Shopping Complex in the Surulere area of Lagos State had gone home after Tuesday’s sales in anticipation of another prosperous market day.

However, they had barely gone to bed when they were jolted with a shocker: The goods they left in their shops were up in flames. The cost for accident remains costlier than accident prevention.

Seventeen shops filled with goods were consumed by the fire, which reportedly started around 11.18pm, destroying goods worth millions of naira before officials of the Lagos State Fire Service (LSFS) arrived to put it out.

The LSFS’ Director, Mr Rasak Fadipe, who said the tragedy was caused by an electrical surge, added that the losses could have been more but for the intervention his men. “We battled the inferno when it was still raging. Officers at the Sari-Iganmu Fire Service Station were quickly mobilised and they came with their service tanker containing 10,000 litres of water to quell the raging inferno,” he said.

He said the intensity of the fire prompted him to mobilise more men from Ilupeju and Onikan service stations, who promptly came with 10,000 litres of water each, for the rescue efforts.

Most of the items burnt in the affected shops, he added, included power-generating sets, different types of textile materials and plastic materials, among others.

Fadipe noted that some of the electric cables in the market were ruptured, adding that he had warned the traders to get a good technician to adjust them.

The General Manager, Lagos State Management Authority (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said no life was lost in the incident.

It was a moving tale of agonies when the site was visited.
Most of the victims were too embittered to talk on the incident. Shell-shocked, many simply beheld the charred remains of their wares in hopelessness.

A trader, who was identified as Mama Sikira, living a stone’s throw to the market, said: “I heard people shouting fire …fire … and running towards the market in utter confusion. And because of various interventions, the fire was put out around 9am this morning (yesterday).

Mrs Mary Ulo, a victim, said sobbing: “I sell foreign household/gift items; I just took delivery of some goods as did many other traders in this complex. Now, everything is gone. Over 17 shops were damaged, while stationery items, kitchen utensils, fabrics worth millions of naira went with this disaster.”

The Iyaloja General of the state, Chief (Mrs) Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, was visibly moved by the victims’ ill-fate. She said she would ensure that a good policy insurance is put in place and also talk to the government to look into the situation. “Only God knows how it happened; so, no human should be held responsible. This shouldn’t restrict daily activities in the market,” she added.

But what about the integrity of the electrical connection in the market?

If shabby electrical connections were carried out in the market, can't the authorities put a stop to that.

Lionel Messi Multi-million dollars car

  

Check out Lionel Messi’s Amazing Car

Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale

The Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale has a top speed of 187mph and a 0-60mph speed of only 4.5 seconds, so it is safe to say that Messi’s car is almost as fast as he is.

It has a typical layout of a high-performance sports car and possesses a 4.6 litre V8 engine.

Prices are usually in excess of £100,000.

For a famous footballer, that would account to perhaps a week’s wages, but an average person would need to work for a long time to be able to afford it.

An Oil firm "Masters Energy" targets 42,000 jobs for Nigerians in 2014

There's good news for Nigerians who are prepared for opportunities.

The President of Masters Energy Group, a conglomerate, with over 25 subsidiaries, Mr. Uchechukwu Ogah has stated that his group of companies target to have 42,000 persons in their workforce by 2014.

Speaking recently in Lagos when he received “BusinessWorld Newspaper Man of the Year 2013” award, Ogah said his belief in the Nigerian economy informed his decision to build Masters Energy City worth several billions of naira in Port Harcourt, Rivers State “when most companies were running away from the Niger Delta region because of security challenges.”

He said the 158,000metric tonne-capacity petroleum products storage facility had helped to ensure availability and affordability of petroleum products in the south-south; south-east and north-east geopolitical zones.

Ogah said this single investment had provided direct employment of over 600 and over 4,000 indirect jobs for the people of Niger Delta region, as part of his own contribution to the Federal Government’s rehabilitation programme in the oil-rich region.

According to him, the Masters Energy City also hosts a fabrication yard worth over N10billion, for the construction of equipment used in the oil and gas industry, as well as other sectors of the economy.

He said the fabrication yard had constructed two barges of 1,000metric tone-capacity each, while the construction of three new barges was ongoing.

The Masters Energy boss said work was also ongoing on the multi-billion Masters Energy integrated industrial complex in Isikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State.

Ogah further stated that the project would boost the economy of the state by attracting investments to the city.

He noted that seven companies comprising fertilizer plant, plastic plant, lubricant plants that produce engine oil, grease, hydraulic, transmission oil, and gear, noodles plant, and steel plant, all of which are at over 70 per cent completion were already springing up within his company’s industrial city in Abia State.

Ogah said he never knew his modest contribution in job creation and entrepreneurial growth in the country would merit any recognition, adding that he never solicited for or paid for any of the numerous awards he had received.

“I just kept doing what I have been doing because I thought it is a normal way of life. I don’t expect any recognition because what I am doing is part of me. I have to do those things that are necessary,” he said.

In his remark, the Chairman of the Occasion and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Ernest Ebi stated that Ogah had impacted positively to the economy of Nigeria and to the lives of her citizens.

“He is a quintessential gentleman, who has canvassed the banking world, and now, in the oil and gas; a man I will describe as a great entrepreneur and a great philanthropist,” he said.

“The award you are receiving tonight from BusinessWorld goes with a lot of responsibilities.

Key points;

First, you must continue to build on your achievements and there are more to come.

You must be a perfect role model for the youths. This country is in short supply of role models,” he added.

The Guest Speaker and Director General of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Mr. John Isemede said the country needed to partner with a great entrepreneur like Uche Ogah to ensure that food is on the table of Nigerians.

He said in the next 15 years, Nigeria would move from her current position of the 8th most populous country in the world to the fourth position.

“What are they going to eat as a nation? Where are they going to work?

This is where we are going to join hands and work with Uche Ogah to put food on our table; to create jobs, and not to look for foreign experts, who will come and take our resources away,” he said.

 

Source: This Day

Fire guts St.Nicholas Hospital Lagos

Fear gripped workers and patients of a prestigious St. Nicholas Hospital, located at 57 Campbell Street, Lagos Island, on Sunday when fire broke out in a room on the 9th floor of the health institution, causing confusion and  displacing over 40 patients on admission.

The fire lasted for over an hour, and  was reported to have started from an electrical fault.

The firemen reported that the fire did not spread to the medical wards.

Confirming the fire disaster, the Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, said the fire service was prompt in responding to the fire outbreak even as he expressed relief that no life was lost in the incident.

He said, “We got a distress call around 6.07pm that there was a fire outbreak at the St. Nicholas Hospital and on getting there, we observed that smoke was billowing from a legal office on the 9th floor''

Meanwhile, the fire chief described the use of Personal protective equipment by his men;

''The smoke was so thick that we had to use breathing apparatus to access the place'' he said.

“Fortunately, the hospital had firefighting equipment and water pump outlet so we deployed two trucks from Sari Iganmu and Onikan with 10,000 litres of water. We were able to put out the fire by 7.15pm”.

This calls for routine maintenance of building and the facilities in them including electrical components of buildings.

I killed him: A True Life Story (Diary of a pretty Nigerian lady)

Everyday I wake up with this guilt. Not because I did it but because I failed to care.... to listen to my inner mind the guilt the hurt the pains!

Continued the subbing young beautiful woman, chichi is a pretty lady in her 20's, she could pass for the most beautiful girl in Nigeria but beneath the cute young lady heart lies a burden only she and God can unearth. 

As I watch her speak I cried deep in me but I always have to hide emotions while at work, chichi explains with the kind of honesty I can only in a good peeacher the burden of guilt she have to live with.

She speaks " while growing up was so cruel because parental upbringing was tough and life turned out to be that of the proverbial SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST,  mum was dead , dad was alive but just alive if you know what I mean"

The reporter cuts in : Can we get to the point where you said you killed him?

Chichi: I was born into a family of 5 being the last hild.  Emeka was my elder brother. I loved him like a brother, he was like a father to me.

Reporter: How then was he like a father? Your dad was alive !

Chichi: He ensured I lacked nothing , more caring than my father was , so I decided to assume he was my father. Until he died in the cold hands of dead I could have stopped.

Reporter: How?

Chichi: See my family was poor, my dad was uncaring as he wasn't fulfilling his parental responsibilities.  So we grew up looking out for ourselves.

Reporter:  so what did you do that makes you feel you killed your elder?

To be continued ... watch this space

Breaking News: First flying car announced

Maybe the solution to road traffic issues  in major cities have finally arrived but what of air traffic?

The first flying cars are set to go on sale to the public as early as 2015.

Terrafugia has announced its Transition design, which is part sedan, part private jet with two seats, four wheels and wings that fold up so it can be driven like a car, will be on sale in less than two years.

 The Massachusetts-based firm has also unveiled plans for a TF-X model that will be small enough to fit in a garage, and won’t need a runway to take off.

Granted, it probably won’t see a lot of public use, as Terrafugia founder and CEO Carl Dietrich sees the vehicle as an optimal option for private pilots in small airports without land transportation. But that doesn’t mean we won’t see them in the fifteenth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise.

A Rotax 912 ULS aircraft engine can switch from operating the rear-mounted propeller to powering the rear wheels. As a car, it can reach a cruising speed of 65 mph, and its air-cruising speed would be around 100 mph. As far as cost goes, the preliminary pricing is set at $279,000. That probably means that the first people to use them recreationally will be rappers and athletes.

This sounds great and all, but somebody wake me up when they release a hoverboard. Or a hover-couch, actually. I need to travel in comfort. Check out a few more concept illustrations below, and get to work designing flying plug-in outlets.

 Would you buy one?

Nigerian President: Orders release of 165 Bokk Haram Suspects

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the release of 167 people who were arrested during a military campaign to end an Islamist insurgency in the northeast, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.

Mr. Jonathan is struggling to end an insurgency by the group Boko Haram. He intensified a military campaign against the insurgents in May last year but also has said that he wants to pursue peaceful avenues for reconciliation.

Western governments have called for an improvement in Nigeria’s human rights record and more transparency over the treatment of detainees. Human rights groups accuse Nigeria of detaining suspects without formal charges and carrying out extrajudicial killings and torture. The army denies those allegations.

Lady goes naked: Fashion or What?

This lady has decided to set her own Crazy Fashion statement. 
What do you think?

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Millionaire offers £250k reward to catch tthieves who attcked him in home and stole gold



Mr Cropper, who lives alone, was tied up when four masked raiders, armed with crowbars, burst into his £750,000 home in the Lancashire village of Samlesbury.

A millionaire who founded an e-cig company is offering a reward to catch thieves who attacked him in his home and doused him in bleach, before fleeing with his car and gold bars

A multi-millionaire who launched the Totally Wicked e-cig company has offered a reward of at least £250,000 for help to catch raiders who attacked him at his home, dousing him with bleach and leaving him unable to walk.

Jason Cropper said he'll add an extra £5,000 every week until he gets information leading to the conviction of gang members who made off in his Range Rover with gold bars and other valuables.


The 48-year-old is so determined to catch the thieves he has also hired a private investigator to help track them down.

"To me, the money is irrelevant," he said. "It is nice to have, but is not particularly important. What is important is that the people are caught."

Mr Cropper, who lives alone, was tied up when four masked raiders, armed with crowbars, burst into his £750,000 home in the Lancashire village of Samlesbury.

The raid took place last August as he let his cat out at the large four-bedroom stone property, which has several garden areas, a two-acre paddock and a guest suite in an adjacent barn.

He suffered head injuries and could not walk properly for a week after being hit and dragged along the ground.

He said he believed the group thought he had £4million of gold in his house, which he had recently bought.

After dousing him with bleach and covering his head with a towel, the attackers made off with his £60,000 Range Rover.

Inside it were two gold bars worth around £50,000, plus three watches and £70,000 in cash from his home. The car was later found burnt out.

Mr Cropper founded the e-cig company Totally Wicked in Blackburn, Lancashire, in 2008, built it into a global empire, and stood down as chief executive last June.

He quit after he declined to retract comments he made in contoversial emails about e-cig icensing to a member of European Parliament and an official from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Mr Cropper said the reward was higher than the value of the items taken, but he was more concerned about catching those responsible.

He said: "I am hoping the reward will just give us one piece of factual evidence.

"Maybe somebody has bought one of the watches or been offered one of the gold bars. I need this strong bit of evidence."

He added that he believed the gang, which was made up of four people, had at least two accomplices and that he was willing to offer £25,000 for information that led to each of their arrests.

That figure will also increase by £2,500 each week until their conviction.

Mr Cropper said he believed that one of the attackers had a Liverpool accent and that other gang members could be from Accrington and Blackburn.

He added he thought the robbers were known to him because of how well they knew his house.

A police investigation was launched, but Mr Cropper has now hired a private investigator to look into the incident.

Since the attack he has spent around £20,000 on advanced security, including 10 cameras, lights, 8ft fencing, a monitored alarm system and a guard dog.

Mr Cropper said he had felt scared and paranoid to be in his home since the robbery.

He said: "It is a personal thing. I am not going to be a victim and I am not going to allow anybody to walk all over me.

"I do not care if I have to sell the house. These people will be found."

A spokesman for Lancashire Police said officers had been made aware of the reward.

He said: "An investigation is ongoing and police are obviously treating the robbery very seriously.

"We are doing everything we can to try and trace the offenders.

"I would appeal for any witnesses to come forward."

Anybody with information is asked to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

2Face Idibia and Annie: The Idibia welcomes a baby

Shortly after one of the most popular wedding of our time. THE Idibia is happy on the safe arrival of their adorable baby.

Singer 2face Idibia and Annie Idibia welcomed their second child together on Friday January 3rd 2014.
The new baby was born a few hours ago in a hospital in Atlanta, USA, where Mrs Idibia has been for a couple of months.
Mother and child are fine.
The new baby joins her big sister, 5-year-old Isabella.
A big congratulations to 2Baba's family.