Olokunbola Crowny's Blog: October 2013

Thursday 31 October 2013

White House Christmas selected from a New Jersey farm for the first time

At the White House, it’s going to be a Very Jersey Christmas.
For the first time, the White House Christmas trees have been selected from a New Jersey farm.
Four Douglas firs, between 9 and 10 feet tall, were picked today from Wyckoff’s, a 170-acre farm now being run by the family’s seventh generation in White Township.

The rapper sat down for a lengthy interview with radio personality Ryan Seacrest, and, before you rush to contradict him, consider that this is a man deeply in love speaking. He also happens to have an overinflated ego, so this explains some of the things he said during the chat.

For five years in a row, Iceland has been rated the country with the world's smallest gender gap by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

The Nigeria Police has described the photograph, which showed a senior police officer in the act of fondling the breast of an unknown lady, as fake. It said the picture, which went viral on the Internet, was deliberately fabricated with the aid of Adobe Photoshop technology to mislead the public.

The alleged amorous scene, the police authorities claimed, did not take place and the officer had nothing to do with the woman.

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Iran’s coach Ali Doustimehr on Tuesday cast doubts over the true ages of the Golden Eaglets who defeated the Iranians 4-1 in a round of 16 match held at the Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain.
Dazed with the battering handed his boys by the Coach Manu Garba-tinkered Nigerian side, the Iranian coach, when asked to talk of his assessment of the match,

Okonjo-Iweala

More revelations emerged yesterday during the resumed investigation of the House of Representatives into the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)’s alleged purchase of two BMW cars for the minister of aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) disclosed that the Federal Ministry of Finance directed that a waiver of N10.1 million be granted in the importation of the cars.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote

The President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has been named the most powerful man in Africa and 64th in the world by the Forbes magazine.

Dangote, who Forbes says is by far Africa’s richest man with a net worth of $16.1bn as of March 2013, was ranked ahead of the likes of Fifa President, Sepp Blatter (69); Speaker, United States House of Representatives, John Boehner (66); and Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Mohammed Ibrahim (71).

Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson

Bayelsa State Government on Wednesday demolished a one-storey private building owned by Governor Seriake Dickson because it obstructed the Right-of-Way as well as intruding on the state Capital City Master Plan. .

Police in Brazil have launched a manhunt after the severed head of a former professional footballer was left on the doorstep of his home. The horrified wife of Joao Rodrigo Silva Santos, 35, made the gruesome discovery as she left the house in Rio de Janeiro for work early yesterday morning.

PHCN threaten nationwide blackout

Workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria have threatened to go on strike over the non-payment of severance benefits to about 55 per cent of the workforce.

Over 2,000 workers under the aegis of the National Union of Electrical Employees staged a protest at the Eko and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Companies on Monday in Lagos over the delay in the payment of their severance benefits.

The small class of around ten girls listen attentively as she goes on to stress that they should maintain contact with higher-level customers

A video that appears to show a group of Chinese prostitutes on a crash course on how to use the internet to better peddle their services has gone viral online.

Vladimir Putin - Vladimir Putin tells IOC that gay and lesbian athletes will be welcome at Sochi 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Monday that gay and lesbian athletes and visitors at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will feel at ease despite Russia's new "homosexual propaganda" ban.

Holder Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribery are among the favourites for the 2013 Ballon d'Or, with the 23-man shortlist for the award released by Fifa on Monday.

Stella Oduah

For the second season in a row, the Glo Nigerian Premier League table is the butt of jokes around the football world.

Kano Pillars finished as champions while Shooting stars ended up as the bottom side, and suffering relegation.

Nothing unusual about that. But a look at the numbers from the table is what leads to some very tasty headlines around the world.

Yaya Toure

Manchester City's Yaya Touré will meet the Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb to discuss his experience at CSKA Moscow.

The head of Fifa's anti-racism task force will meet Yaya Touré on Sunday to hear at first hand his experience of being racially abused by CSKA Moscow fans. Jeffrey Webb, a Fifa vice-president, said he had asked to meet the Ivory Coast midfielder at Stamford Bridge after Manchester City's game against Chelsea.

23 years old Georgia man arrested for biting buttocks of female patron.

A Georgia man is jailed on a sexual battery charge after allegedly biting the buttocks of a woman inside an Athens bar, cops report.
David Franklin Cruz, 23, was partying with a friend inside the Nowhere Bar early Thursday when he took a chomp out of another patron’s rear end, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department report.
The 22-year-old victim fingered Cruz when interviewed by officers.

El Clasico: Neymar fired up for Madrid clash

Neymar

Neymar has told compatriot Marcelo that he is confident that he can help Barcelona beat Real Madrid on Saturday as he prepares for his first taste of El Clasico.

MFM demands compensation from Enugu

The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry has demanded an unreserved apology from the Enugu State Government for demolishing its South-East Regional Headquarters One, Enugu.

Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.
At least nine others were wounded in the attack in Giza, officials said.

An intoxicated Floridian who allegedly battered his pregnant girlfriend told police that he was being unfairly arrested since “Obama said cops always listen to women.”

John Henry Shiffner, 18, was collared Saturday evening after he tangled with Lakesha Tolbert, his 30-year-old girlfriend, on a street

in Century, a town in Escambia County.

A 13-year-old boy carrying a replica assault rifle has been shot dead by police in the US state of California, the BBC reports.

Officers in the city of Santa Rosa say they opened fire after the boy refused orders to drop the rifle, which they believed to be real.

Ikeoluwa Olaniyi

When three-year-old Ikeoluwa Olaniyi was playing with her friends in her grandfather’s compound in Ire Akari Estate, Isolo, Lagos, on September 3, 2013, little did she know that death was lurking.

Suicide: 18-year-old gang-rape victim commits suicide

An 18-year-old rape victim, identified as Janet, has committed suicide in the Amarata area of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Sordid details of how job seekers were fleeced by Federal Government agencies were made open at the House of Representatives on Wednesday during a probe into allegation of job racketeering in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

Idimu/Ikotun road

The traditional ruler of Isheri-Olofin, Oba Wahab Balogun, has denied reports that he has been using thugs to harass house owners in the Idimu area of Lagos State.

Balogun, in a statement, said there had not been any case of violence or breakdown of law and order

Two Chinese children were killed and another four injured after a wall at their primary school collapsed, reports said.

The victims, a girl named Wang Yuzhen and a boy named An Zhengguo, both 12,

The Royal Baby Prince George‘s christening took place earlier yesterday (October 23) at the Chapel Royal in

Angela Merkel

The furore over the scale of American mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden shifted to an incendiary new level on Wednesday evening when Angela Merkel of Germany called Barack Obama to

Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr. Umaru Manko

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a 29-year-old Indian national, Singu Amanpreet, from drowning.

Amanpreet was said to be on a Cameroon-bound vessel when he fell off the ship into the water around

MINISTER of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, has taken the lobby to retain her job to Israel, where she plans to see President Goodluck Jonathan.

Bianca Ojukwu

Some members of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s family have alleged that the widow of the deceased, Bianca, is greedy by laying claim to some assets of her late husband.

Onlookers around Marine Bridge.

Commercial activities at Ijora Badia, in the Apapa area of Lagos State, came to a halt on Wednesday when policemen and robbers engaged in a gun duel.

It was learnt that the robbers, who had arrived Marine Bridge on several power bikes,

Rihanna burns all gifts lavished on her by ex Chris Brown

Rihanna burned the gifts to cleanse herself.

Like many a heartbroken girl before her, Rihanna, 25, has taken drastic action to cut her ex out of her life - she's burnt every memento of

Baby Sumayah went for a heart operation in India. Moyo and her Star fm 101.5 Lagos crew asked parliamentarians to lend their financial support to make the operation possible.

A 19-year-old Florida woman was arrested last month for misdemeanor domestic violence after allegedly launching an unprovoked water pistol attack on her boyfriend, police report.
Giovanna Borge told cops that her beau “said something to her that she did not like,” so s

Jared Otieno

By JAMES WANZALA
Decked out in green attire, with a vuvuzela, walkie-talkie and a beret to boot, Jared Otieno, better known as Jaro Soja welcomes me to his house in Kayole estate, Nairobi.

ASUU strike will be over in few months says Wike

The Federal Government, yesterday, assured Nigerian students that the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be over in a few months.

Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Dorothy Gimba

The Oloba of Oba Oke, Oba Dahunsi Iyiola, narrowly escaped death when youths of Oba Ile invaded his palace and razed it down during renewed hostilities between the two communities.

Following the delay caused by a software leak, BlackBerry has officially resumed the release of its BlackBerry Messenger app for Android and iPhones.

Blasphemy: 'Jesus' look alike joins Kanye West on stage during his tour

Kanye has officially kicked off his tour.

Kanye West opened up his Yeezus tour on Saturday night with his greatest hits, large-scale props, and even an appearance by Jesus.

Policeman tortures eight years old daughter over allegation of witchcraft

Goodness

A police sergeant from Ibiaku community, Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ita Ayamba, has allegedly brutalised and abandoned his eight-year-old daughter, Goodness Ayamba over her refusal to confess to witchcraft.

Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike

The World Bank has expressed concern at the growing population of illiterate adults in Nigeria, which has been put at 46 million.

The figure puts Nigeria in the category of 10 countries of the world with more than 10 million illiterate adults whose ages range from 15 years and above.

Baby born with four ears, and no genital dies in Makurdi

A baby born in Makurdi on Thursday with four ear lobes and no genitals has died, a hospital official said.
The baby was delivered by Mrs. Mbanengen Emmanuel at about 5.30pm at Yima Hospital, located in International Market area, a suburb of Makurdi in Benue.

Adeyemi Akintolure

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Adeyemi Akintolure, for parading himself as a medical practitioner without a licence.

Akintolure, who also allegedly defrauded one Joy Umosekhaimhe of N500,000, was said to be in possession of a forged identity card of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

While being chased by a cop, a Connecticut man allegedly threw a parrot at his uniformed pursuer, who was bit on the hand when trying to shield himself from the feathered projectile.

Nigeria move up three places in latest Fifa ranking

The Super Eagles have been rewarded for their victory in Addis Ababa with an upward move in the Fifa rankings released on Thursday.

Martin and Stroble

A couple who allegedly engaged in a series of “lewd, indecent, and obscene” sex acts on a plane bound for Las Vegas are facing federal criminal charges, according to report.

Honorary Degree: APC condemns Mrs. Patience Jonathan’s insensitivity to ASUU strike

Mrs. Patience Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress has said the decision of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to receive a honorary doctorate degree from a South Korean university while Nigerian universities have been shut for months was the height of insensitivity.

Ethiopia coach, Sewnet Bishaw

World football governing body FIFA has responded to Ethiopia Football Federation’s protest letter against the referee’s decision to disallow their goal against Nigeria in a World Cup playoff in Addis Ababa on Sunday, superspot.com reports.

Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed

Some police inspectors and rank and file from the Imo State Police Command have threatened to go on strike over their redeployment to some violence-prone states in the North.

BMW 760 Li High Security

The new-generation BMW 7 Series is making yet another world debut at this year's Geneva Motor Show - this time in the guise of the BMW 760Li High Security. Based on the top-of-the-range 760Li 12-cylinder, this fourth generation of BMW security vehicles complying with bullet-proof standard B6/B7 meets the highest and most demanding security requirements.

The Ministry of Aviation has confirmed that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority bought two bulletproof vehicles worth $1.6m (N255m) for the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.

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