Nigerian Youths Unite with a Common Future #hatsforward

We share a common ground. United in diversity; unique in culture. We are Nigeria. West of Africa: the Giant of Africa. We are diverse in ethnicity; dynamic in style. Call it fila, fedora, gele, abetiaja or the red fez. One hat steeped in culture unites Nigerians in diversity and pride. 

The style of a hat says a lot about a man and his heritage; and like they say, a man’s heritage is his pride. He may doff it to show respect, it may stand tall to show achievement or tipped to the side to show his style. Regardless of the shape or size, a hat is always worn with honour.

Despite the differences in hats and style, young Nigerians are united by a common future as they go #hatsforward to the polls this month. #hatsforward is a groundbreaking online experiential campaign mobilizing youths in Nigeria to vote. Not just a hashtag, #hatsforward is an immersive drive to make the opinion of Nigerian youths count and shape the future with their votes.

Buhari's wife claps back at Mama Peace, says don't be afraid of jail

Remember when First Lady Patience Jonathan, while campaigning, told the crowd that voting for APC means voting to go to prison as the APC presidential candidate was planning to jail political opponent if he wins the election and she can't be visiting her husband in prison? Well, Buhari's wife subtly clapped back at the First Lady during a women's rally in Edo State today.

According to Vanguard, Mrs Buhari addressed this, saying people shouldn't be afraid, that they were only interested in change. She also addressed the notion that her husband is a religious fanatic.

Each zone of the country has its peculiar problem. For me in this zone, girl-child trafficking should be considered one of our problems, though I know there is unemployment. Unemployment is the major factor that contributes to brain drain and also the girl-child trafficking. General Muhammadu Buhari is a leader who led Nigeria some decades ago and he is coming back now to sanitise the system.. For those that are campaigning, saying that he is coming to jail Nigerians, I don’t know what their fear is. But they shouldn’t be afraid, because we are all yearning for change.
The insecurity in the country, the very poor healthcare system, lack of education and other basic necessities that people are lacking I believe Nigerians need somebody like General Muhammadu Buhari now. Already, they have painted him black, using religion. I’m happy today that Nigerians realize that they use religion as a cover to loot Nigeria. Any politician who talks to you about religion is a liar, he only wants to loot the treasury and the little resources you ought to enjoy. So say no politics merging it with religion to deceive the people. I’m here today to let Edo women know that when my husband is elected into office as President, all these will be history. The insecurity, the girl-child trafficking, suffering of the widows in the South East will come to an end. There must be a cultural design that can accommodate the widow. A design that would make the girl-child comfortable wherever she is in this country. She doesn’t have to leave her country to go and prostitute elsewhere, it’s not her portion. Her portion is to have a highly standard and moral society for her to live in. Get married, have children, train them and also mould them to become the future leaders. We are here today to also let you know that the collection of your PVCs is important and don’t ever sell it. It’s like selling your future. If you sell it for N5,000, you won’t see N5,000 again until after four years which will be bad. Get your PVC, vote for APC, vote for freedom, vote for a new Nigeria with good security, good education, good healthcare, good roads and all the basic necessities.”

China just became the world's third largest arms exporter

According to the statistics released today by the research organisation in Sweden,China just surpassed Germany in becoming the world's third best largest arms exporter though the United States and Russia remain the dominant sellers of weapons throughout the world. 
   During the year 2010--2014,Stockholm International Peace Institute said China surpassed Germany with just approximately five per cent of total exports for that period.Although its share of overall sales remained small,sipri said ''China exports increased by 143 per cent in 2010 to 2014,compared with the prev 5yrs period''.
  Arms exports by the United States increased by 23 per cent over the prev 5yrs;Russia exports also increased by 37 percent...But after global arms sales fell over most of the 1980s and 1990s,they have increased in recent years,with the 2010--2014 vol 16 per cent higher than that of the previous 5yrs,according to the report


                                      

Reportedly 15yr old missing girl found

The 15 year old girl, Paulina Ojeka Ogwuledwu, who went missing in Ogba on January 14th (Read here) has been found. According to the girl's uncle, Pastor Akinlade, she returned home on Friday January 30th with the intent of parking her things to go live with a man she'd met at a bus park.

When interrogated, Paulina said she'd gone to live with him in his house in Ishaga Lagos after she ran away from home. She's currently undergoing rehabilitation...see the small sha

Photos of Gov fayose mother

OMG!!!..what a beauty carried alone by gov fayose mother with her elegant look.More pics of her beauty taken during a wedding ceremony below

Massive queue for kerosene after it goes from N130 to N50 per litre

                            KEROSENE ISSUES

Here are exclusive pictures of massive queue at NNPC filling station on Kudirat Abiola way, Oregun Lagos. Kerosene is now selling at N50.00 per litre from N130.00.

Photos: Tiger Woods replaces tooth that got knocked out

Golf legend Tiger Woods has replaced the tooth that got knocked out by a cameramen when he was in Italy last week to celebrate his girlfriend's Lindsey Vonn breaking World Cup ski record (pictured right). Tiger showed off his complete teeth while chatting with the media during a practice round at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona on yesterday Jan. 27th. (left)

Sold by their own families for £50k: Tanzania's albinos hacked apart by witchdoctors who believe their body parts 'bring luck'

Tanzania has the highest number of killings and attacks of albinos in Africa and trade in body parts of the special people is driven by belief that they bring luck and wealth.

From UK Daily Mail 

Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people. It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth, or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole body.

People with albinism are regularly attacked by people who chop their limbs off - an act which either leaves them severely mutilated, or dead.  

Albinism, a hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes, affects one Tanzanian in 1,400, often as a result of inbreeding in remote and rural communities, experts say. In the West, it affects just one person in 20,000.

Since people began collecting records of the attacks, there have been 74 killings and 59 survivors of attacks. Even the dead are not safe: 16 graves have been robbed.

And these are only the recorded cases. 

The most recent case saw four-year-old Pendo Emmanuelle Nundi abducted from her home in December.

8 burnt to death in Ogbomosho, Oyo state

Eight persons were burnt to death after a diesel tanker commuting along the Ogbomosho road in Oyo collided with three vehicles at about 11am today January 27th. According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the tanker lost control of his tanker and crashed into the other vehicles. There was an explosion and 8 occupants from the three vehicles were burnt beyond recognition.

Graphic pics: Student's head cut open during clash between APC and PDP members in Ekiti state

A student of the Ekiti state University suffered severe cut on his head during a clash between the APC and the PDP in the state on Saturday January 24th. While the APC allege that the clash broke out after the National Vice-President, External, National Association of Nigerian Students, Tosin Ogunkuade was arrested by the state police for speaking during its presidential campaign, the state Governor in his defence said the people arrested were thugs of the APC who wanted to cause trouble in the state. The youngman with the cut is currently receiving medical attention. The pic is bad.

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Dear LIB readers: My husband cheated just two days after our wedding

From a female LIB reader

I got married on December 18th and I found out just yesterday that my husband had sex with another woman on December 20th. We didn't go for our honeymoon until the 22nd and I can't believe he was telling me he loved me and laying with me when he cheated just two days after our wedding. Just two days! He couldn't even give me two months, two days. How do I deal with this? I've moved out of our room and now staying at a spare room. I spoke to my mum about it and she said I should forgive him. Is this what I am going to face forever?

"We (the govt) don't have the media behind us - Doyin Okupe

While speaking as a guest on a current affairs programme on STV this afternoon, Presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe said the present government doesn't not have the backing of the media. Okupe stated this while responding to a question on why the president's media team focus more on talking about the opposition than the achievements of the government such as the 50% reduction in maternal mortality rate in Nigeria now. I watch the programme myself and below is what he said;

"That is not correct. This government has built 38 dams. I did a programme called four impactful years. They were shown on television. We are not deceiving people. If I tell you we have 24 airport in Nigeria, are they not verifiable? I can tell you all the airports have been remodeled. Fact. Go to anywhere. Wherever you want to go. They have been remodeled. If I tell you that the Benin-ore road used to be a death trap. People used to spend 24 hours on the road, today day spend three hours. If I tell you the Lagos-Ibadan express road was built in 1976  or something like that and from that time or more than 30 years nobody did anything. It is ...If people deliberately refuse to see and the media find a way to underplay the achievements, we will keep trying, we will keep trying. Our God will justify us. We don't have the media behind us but we have God behind us"he said.

Asked how the media can be captured by the opposition when they are the ones in government, Okupe said

"Its not like the opposition took over the media. The elements within the opposition and the sentiments concerning the opposition had dominated the media prior to this event of Jonathan coming into power. Tell me which media organization in Nigeria where you can say that the government owns. Government doesn't own any media. but the opposition has tremendous influence in the media. Its unarguable. I don't want to go beyond that" he said

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Annie Idibia opens on her life with 2face, says she wouldn't want her daughter to marry a man who has kids with other women

Annie Idibia, who covers the latest issue of Motherhood In-Style opened up about her life and marriage with 2face Idibia, his other children and her difficult pregnancies.

On being 2face Idibia's wife: "I’m married to Innocent, one of the most amazing men in the world. I want to believe our marriage is almost like every other marriage. He’s a good dad, great husband, a wonderful son-in-law, and he’s all that I thought he would be as a husband and more.

On the low points of their relationship: I think it would be the first time I heard that other people were having his baby, the second should be when we both sat down and agreed to end the relationship. We realized it couldn’t work and decided to break up. That was after I had Isabella.

On the high points of their relationship: His proposal was a high point; the way he went about it was special. And my wedding! I didn’t think we were going to end up together, and that’s the honest truth.

On his kids: I wish I was the mother of all his kids; the seven of them. But they are my kids; I just wish I was their biological mum. They’re awesome; you can’t help but love them. Everything else has made everything better.

On dealing with his other children: I won’t say it’s easy. I mean, you have kids with people, are you going to be their enemy? You have to have at least some civil relationship with them; you have to be very civil but God has been very faithful, and it’s still God all the way because it’s really not easy. I do not regret being with my husband but I would not want my daughter to be married to a man that has kids with other women, naturally. You know, it doesn’t make me love him less or feel like I don’t want to be here, I’m happy that I’m here, I don’t love him less, but I would not wish that for my daughter because even if the man is in, how about the other parties involved? But then, like I said, it’s key to be civil.

On her difficult pregnancies: I had CS for both kids. With Isabel it was good, it Olivia it was horrible. I was sick all through my second pregnancy, and it was difficult. With Isabel, it was easy.

Photos: GEJ receives farm tools as gift from Gbong Gwom of Jos

The Gbong Gwom of Jos presented farm tools to President Jonathan at his palace this evening after the president's election campaign in Plateau state.

Photos: GEJ meets with Dangote, Otedola, other businessmen in Lagos

Pres. Jonathan yesterday met with some Nigerian business men & women, including Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Tony Elumelu, former governor Peter Obi in Lagos.

The Church of England consecrates its first woman as a bishop

More than two decades after the Church of England allowed women to become priests, Anglicans have consecrated their first woman bishop. Her name is Libby Lane and she was consecrated today Jan. 26th. Women clergy pictured above taking pics at the ceremony at York Minster in York, northern England. (Photo credit - Reuters)

Buhari meets with EU election monitoring team (photos)

Members of the European Union election monitoring team met with the presidential candidate of the APC, Gen. Buhari earlier today, over next month's general election. The members, led by Mr Santiago, said 90 members of their team are expected in Nigeria during the elections.

The team however stated that because of the security challenges in the north, they will not be heading there for any monitoring exercise.

Tech Pundits Honor Cutting-Edge LG Innovation & design, confirm brand’s position as global technology leader

LG Electronics (LG) won an unprecedented 41 awards at the 2015 International CES®, led by LG’s show-stopping G Flex2 smartphone, stunning flat and curved 4K OLED TVs and revolutionary TWIN™ Wash System with mini washer. LG earned accolades from Engadget, USA Today/Reviewed.com and Digital Trends, among many others, as well as 10 CES Innovation Awards from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® across multiple home entertainment, home appliance and mobile device categories. CEA also named LG the 4K Ultra HD Partner of International CES 2015.

Commenting on the achievement, Managing Director, LG Electronics West Africa operations, Mr. Seonghak Kim said: “We are extremely proud to be receiving these awards; it is feels great to realize that consumers appreciate what we put into our products. These 41 awards are a confirmation of our commitment to delighting consumers worldwide. For us at LG Electronics, this is a worthy recognition for our continuous hard work as well as Research and Development in our quest to satisfy consumers- meeting their peculiar needs and demands. With LG being the only company to effectively offer consumers the full gamut of choice across all forms of large-screen TV technology – that includes LCD(LED backlight), OLED, 4K Ultra HD, Curved, and most recently 4K OLED, consumers have come to expect leading edge offerings from the brand. LG still uses LCD for many mobile devices including G3 and tablets, increasingly, we are seeing the company’s use of Plastic OLED for mobile devices. P-OLED screens, which are used in G-Flex smartphones, are thinner and lighter than OLED screens built using glass; they are far less complex in design, and are more eco-friendly. The plastic cover is also considerably tougher than glass, and won’t shatter in the event of a sharp impact. “At the heart of all of our products is our promise of delivering innovation for a better life,” said William Cho, president and CEO, LG Electronics USA. “That promise is the foundation of scores of new LG products unveiled during a remarkable week in Las Vegas. This recognition validates our commitment to excellence, and inspires us to continue raising the standard for innovation in 2015 and beyond.” Awards earned by LG at CES 2015 include: Engadget Best of CES 2015 • Best TV Product: LG Art Slim 4K OLED USA Today/Reviewed.com CES 2015 Editors’ Choice Winners • LG 65EF9800 Flat 4K OLED TV • LG G Flex2 Curved Smartphone • LG TWIN Wash System Digital Trends Top Tech of CES 2015 Awards • Best Home Video: LG EF9500 Flat 4K OLED • Best Mobile: LG G Flex2 TechRadar CES 2015 Staff Picks • Best in Show: LG 77EG9900 4K Flexible OLED TV • Best TV: LG EF9500 4K OLED TV with webOS 2.0 • Best Smartphone: LG G Flex2 Techlicious 2015 CES Top Picks • LG TWIN Wash System PCMag Best of CES 2015 • Best Phone: LG G Flex2 • Best Digital Home Gadget: LG Twin Wash • Best HDTV: LG 55EF9500 HD Guru CES 2015 Top Picks • Best OLED TV • Best Blu-Ray Player • Best Sound Bar Tech Times 2015 CES Best of Innovation Honorees • Audio: LG Music Flow Wi-Fi Series • Television: LG “Color Prime” 4K Ultra HD TV series with Wide Color LED and Quantum Dot technology Men’s Journal Best of CES 2015 • LG Twin Wash System • LG 55EG9600 55-inch 4K OLED TV • LG G Flex2 • LG Music Flow Sound System Better Homes and Gardens Editors’ Choice Innovation 2015 • LG EcoHybrid Dryer • LG G3 Smartphone TechnoBuffalo Best of CES 2015 Readers Choice Award • LG G Flex2 GottaBeMobile Excellence Awards CES 2015 • LG G Flex2 Laptop Top Picks CES 2015 • LG G Flex2 Android Central 2015 CES Top Pick • LG G Flex2 Android Authority Top Picks CES 2015 • LG G Flex2 Ubergizmo Best of CES 2015 • LG G Flex2 Expert Reviews CES Top Picks 2015 • LG G Flex2 Consumer Electronics Association 2015 CES Innovation Awards: • LG 21:9 IPS Curved UltraWide Multi-Monitor • LG Flexible Ultra HD 4K OLED TV • LG 55-inch ULTRA HD OLED TV with Floating Stand Design • LG 65-inch Floating Slim CURVED 4K OLED TV • LG 65-inch IPS Art Slim Color Prime Quantum Dot 4K ULTRA HD TV • LG EcoHybrid Dryer with Heat Pump Technology • LG Four-Door French-Door Refrigerator with Double Door-in-Door • LG Side-by-Side Refrigerator with Door-in-Door • LG Smart HOM-BOT Square Robotic Vacuum • LG G3 Smartphone Over the past 10 years, LG has been honored with more than 150 CES Innovation Awards, including 10 awarded in four categories in 2015. For the third year in a row, LG’s OLED TVs and premium G Series smartphones have earned CES Innovation Awards. LG has been able to keep abreast of changing technologies. From CRT to OLED technologies, it has always been at the forefront of innovation among manufacturers. Recently introduced products include the LG G3 smartphone, LG X-BOOM Pro Hi-Fi System, LG OLED TV, LG Gen Cool Air Conditioner- which is capable of cooling even when operated with small capacity generators; as well as the LG Evercool Refrigerator –a unique LG patented technology that offers cooling retention up to 7 hours in the refrigerator and 10 hours in the freezer portion to keep food fresh and healthy even in the face of power outage.