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Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers on Thursday said that the state government would cooperate with the Police to restore law and order and urged the force to be non partisan. Amaechi spoke in Port Harcourt when the new Commissioner of Police deployed to the state, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, paid him a visit. The governor urged the new police commissioner to work toward restoring effective policing in the state. “We are willing to cooperate with the police to restore law and order. ‘’The only thing we need is for the police to have the courage to restore law and order. ‘’The police must do whatever it takes to restore law and order; the Rivers State Government will assist the Nigerian Police in any form that they require,” he said. Amaechi urged Ogunsakin to be neutral when handling issues in the state. He said: “Don’t support PDP, and don’t also support APC; just support Rivers people. “Any order that is illegal from the Rivers State Government, please, don’t obe...

Ice Prince commends Clarence Peter for jacking video Don’t call my daughters sexy – says Omotola Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has warned Nigerian bloggers not to refer to her daughters as sexy, threatening to bring erring bloggers to book. The blogosphere on Tuesday got fired up with pictures of Omotola’s second daughter, Meraiah, with some blogs calling the teenager “hot” and “sexy.” Omotola took to her Facebook page to express her displeasure. “Thank you to everyone who wished Meraiah a happy birthday. However, going to a 14 year old’s “private” online account to post her pictures for public viewing is totally Inappropriate. Her father and I are horrified as parents and guardian that a minor’s picture can be paraded online as hot” ,”sexy” etc…” she wrote. She also acknowledged the misguided good intentions behind the posts but stated that a line must be drawn “in a world full of pedophiles and sickos.” “Any child under 18 should be protected by u...

A passing out parade was held for Mr. Ihejirika The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, has blamed Nigeria’s porous borders as one of the reasons for the insurgency in the North-East. The Nigerian military is battling the outlawed Boko Haram in the north eastern part of the country. Mr. Ihejirika, a Lieutenant General, said this during his Valedictory Speech at a parade in his honour to mark his exit from the Nigerian Army. He was removed as Army Chief by President Goodluck Jonathan in January, during a purge that affected other service chiefs. “We must realise that the world is passing through an increasingly volatile and uncertain 21st century and our situation in Nigeria had been made complex by regional and transnational threat,” he said. “This is further accelerated by information technology, desertification, international migration across the borders, and competition for scarce resources, weapon proliferation and several unresolved ethno-rel...

Sixty two percent of adults say they celebrate Valentine’s Day, both single and coupled adults. The holiday comes with added stress if you are single and want to live up to the hype of romance and love. Suggestion for you single moms, don’t allow yourself to be victimized by on over-commercialized “holiday.” As an aside, did you know that 50% of women surveyed would leave their boyfriends if they didn’t get them anything for Valentine’s Day? At first I thought that shallow but then I remembered the Valentine card my ex gave me when we were dating. “Happy ‘VD’ Day” should have sent a loud and clear message about what direction that relationship needed to take. We live and learn! Make it a great day and do so without inventing a Valentine or, sending yourself flowers from your faux love. Seriously!! Source

The governor of the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno has called for more troops to be deployed to combat Boko Haram Islamist militants. Kashim Shettima was speaking during a visit to the town of Konduga, where 39 died in an attack on Tuesday. A mosque and more than 1,000 homes were also razed to the ground, residents said. Boko Haram has been conducting a four-year campaign of violence to push for Islamic rule in northern Nigeria. Last May, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno and the neighbouring states of Adamawa and Yobe in a bid to stop their insurgency. But the BBC’s Will Ross in Nigeria says the military is once again facing criticism for not doing more to protect the people of the north-east and failing to detect and attack another convoy of Boko Haram militants. ‘Better motivated’ An eyewitness in Konduga, about 35km (22 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, said the militants arrived in many vehicles, planted a bl...

Jang says Nigeria’s problems caused by his generation The Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, has said that the next president of Nigeria after Goodluck Jonathan should come from the Middle Belt states. Mr. Jang said this in an address at a one day consultative forum with likely delegates from the North Central that would represent the region at the proposed National Conference. Mr. Jang lamented that the middle belt had suffered neglect by past administrations due to lack of unity among citizens of the zone. “If we unite God will anoint, the next president after Jonathan from the middle belt, so (we) must prepare to produce the next president after Jonathan,” he said. Mr. Jang blamed the current challenges facing the zone as well as the entire country on an older living generation that held leadership positions both in the states and at national level. “We of the older generation might not have done well, but for the fact that we are on our way out with one leg ...

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday in Abuja called for independent forensic audit to resolve the puzzle over unremitted funds to the CBN. Okonjo-Iweala made the call at the Senate Committee on Finance hearing on the alleged missing 20 billion dollars. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Deizani Alison-Madueke, was also at the hearing. Also at the hearing were NNPC Group Managing Director, Mr Andrew Yakubu, and CBN Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi. “Let us now focus on the original 10.8 billion dollars which was the shortfall we had as at July 2013. “Another reconciliation meeting was held at which NNPC presented data of how they utilised the balance of 10. 8 billion. “This includes amount withheld for subsidy 8. 76 billion dollars, holding cost of strategic reserve 0. 4599 billion and pipeline crude oil and product losses of 0. 761 billion. “There was also pipeline management at the ...

New Manchester United signing Juan Mata, has insisted that he is happy to play anywhere for the team and is happy that he left Chelsea in January. The Spanish midfielder has only won one game since he moved to Old Trafford, for a club record £37.1 million and has been deployed in various roles already. David Moyes has started him on either flank and behind a main striker, but the 25-year-old is not complaining. “Throughout my career I have played on the left, on the right and just behind the striker,” he told reporters. “I don’t mind playing anywhere the manager tells me. I am happy at the club, very happy. “I am enjoying my football, I am getting minutes on the pitch, I am in a very, very big club and I hope we finish the season well. “David de Gea has helped me settle, the same with Chicharito, [Antonio] Valencia, and Rafael, they all speak Spanish but everyone there has helped me. “People like [Ryan] Giggs have been here for many years and there’s [Way...

Despite Android holding the majority of the mobile market share, enterprise users are overwhelmingly comprised of iOS devices. A report by Good Technology, which is a company that provides secure usage software for enterprise users, revealed the numbers. iOS activations made up 73 percent of total device activations in Q4, up from 72 percent in Q3 and 69 percent in Q2 of 2013. Android activations decreased one percentage point quarter over quarter and came in at 26 percent of total device activations. The number of iPhones activated came in at 54%, with iPads comprising 19% of activated devices. Compared to the number of Android Tablets activated, which was just 8.6%, iOS is looking pretty dominant. However, Good’s reports should be taken with a grain of salt. Their studies don’t include Blackberry devices, which are still very much in use in the corporate world. Also excluded from Good’s findings are users who use Google apps, so that leaves out a potentially significant...

Musa Yahaya, hailed as the Nigerian Neymar, is inching closer to completing his move to English Premier League campaigners, Tottenham Hotspur. Allnigeriasoccer.com understands that the Mutunchi Academy ace will arrive London, England on Saturday, February 15 to append his signature to a preliminary contract if he passes a routine medical. The 16 – year – old will be accompanied on the trip by his father, one of his agents, Mohammed Babawo and Auwal Yusuf, the coach of the nursery team which has been nurturing him since childhood. All members of the entourage have been issued visas to the United Kingdom. Because Yahaya is still a minor, he can not sign a professional contract .However, there is a four – year deal waiting for him to sign when he clocks 18. Tottenham Hotspur beat Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam in the race for the signature of the highly rated starlet, who netted four times at the Fifa Under 17 World Cup. Source

Students of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUGIPO), Ondo State have asked the state Governor, Olusegun Mimiko to intervene in the ongoing squabble between students of the institution and the school management. The management has threatened that any student who has not paid his or her school fees would be stopped from writing the institution’s first semester examination which begins next week Monday. The students, who have already pleaded with Mimiko to help intervene in the matter, are expected to pay N58,000 for indigenes and non-indigenes, N65,000. Also, freshers, particularly those in HND will cough out N80,000 (Indigene), while non-indigene will pay N95,000. In a “save our future” letter, signed by 50 students, who begged that their names should not be mentioned in print, they said their parents had tried all means to raise the money but could not. Majority of the aggrieved students who are in ND two and HND two have begged the governor to consider their future, saying...