This is EMMANUEL EGBI'S BLOG: 2015-12-20

Saturday 26 December 2015

ARTIFICIAL VIRGINITY TO THE RESCUE AS COMPANY PRODUCES HYMEN FOR WOMEN, MEN BEWARE!

In what would be seeming victory for the ladies, a German company is offering a plan B for those who have lost their virginity and can't have it back as in plan A, that is naturally as from birth. The company, VirginiaCare says it has created an artificial intact hymen which can be used ‎without a painful or costly surgery and does the job perfectly well. The woman is only required to insert the artificial hymen inside her private part about 30 minutes before intercourse when she is expected to prove her virginity and case closed, verdict? ... she is a virgin again.

ONAZI AND FRIENDS WAITING FOR AKARA

Nigerian international, Ogenyi Onazi who is presently in Jos, Nigeria for his holidays from the Serie A league break decided to go back to his roots as he went on the streets in search of the local beans delicacy Akara in reminisce of his growing up which he did in Jos before moving to Lagos and eventually overseas.

The new movie on the block "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" continues to create new records, this time reaching sales of $49.3 million on Christmas Day in North America, this is the highest total sale ever on Christmas day in the movie industry as reported on Saturday.

JOSEPH TAME IN THE CHRISTMAS TREE COSTUME

Christmas is a period of love and there are various ways of love being expressed and in Tokyo; a British man is showing love in his own way by spreading fun.

The man, Joseph Tame, dresses up as a Christmas tree, with lights and decorations and goes round the streets of Tokyo especially where there are no lights and Christmas decorations as according to him he wants the residents in such areas to have a feel of what obtains in the areas of Tokyo which are well lit up and decorated for the Christmas.

Patrick Olayele Akinkuotu, and his company, Longterm Global Capital Limited and 2 other co-plaintiffs have been awarded a N4.5 billion compensation by the Federal High Court, Lagos. Mr. Akinkuotu is also a former Group Managing Director of Afribank Nigeria Plc.

The court’s judgement was in respect of a 2012 suit filed by Akinkuotu and his company against Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and the second defendant, Starcomms which alleged that the plaintiff was misled by Stanbic IBTC to buy Starcom shares through misrepresentation of facts and the presentation of false documents.

Justice John Tsoho reading the judgment on behalf of the panel also ruled that Stanbic IBTC and Starcomms Plc would continue to pay the plaintiffs an annual interest of 10 per cent on the judgment sum until it was finally paid off. The judgment also ordered that the 100 million units of Starcomm shares sold to the plaintiffs in the transaction in question were improper, invalid, null and void and therefore set aside. The sale of the shares was through a private placement in 2008.

THE TWO SUSPECTS

Report have it that the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Ogun State, Nigeria have arrested two suspected drug peddlers who attempted to sell 295 bags of cannabis estimated at N35m.

The suspects, Ihenacho Chinweuba, 27 and 33-year-old Uche Enuosa, who were nabbed on Monday while transporting the narcotic to parts of the Ogun and Lagos states for sale when the NDLEA arrested them in the Ijebu Igbo area with a truck loaded with bags of the drug which were covered with cartons of biscuits to

SEGUN ODEGBAMI

Nigeria’s one time national team player and renown sports personality, Segun Odegbami, otherwise known as “Mathematical Odegbami” who played in the Green Eagles, the country’s senior team in the years past has come out to state that he had warned the world about ythe presidency of Sepp Blatter at the world football governing body FIFA as early as in the beginning of this year.

BREAKING NEWS: FG REMOVES FUEL SUBSIDY, REDUCES PETROL TO N85 PER LITRE FROM JAN 1

FUEL PUMP

The Federal Government would on January 1 next year reduce the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to N85 per litre.

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu broke the news to journalists in the Port Hacourt Refinery Company (PHRC), where he spent Christmas inspecting the plant.

Asked when would the Federal Government release the new price temperate of the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulation Agency (PPPRA), he said that he approved the new price for the agency on Thursday.

Pressed to reveal when the new price will become effective, Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said “like I said, we have done a modulation calculation and it is showing us below N87. I imagine that if PPPRA publishes it today, it will become effective immediately. But the 1st of January that is when we are looking at.”

CASE OF POLYGAMY AN OLD ONE!

Information has it that the attempt by one Mr. Ikechukwu Nwoha to contract a second marriage with another lady was thwarted by his wife who stormed the Christ the King Parish, Enugu venue of the marriage ceremony with their children where she was heard shouting in the church “I will not agreeooo. He must kill me first before this wedding. He must kill me and all my children. He came and married me in my father’s place. Now, he wants to abandon me and my children and wed another woman in this church. Where is Fr. Mbaka? Fr. Mbaka comeoo! I know you are a man of God. I know that you don’t support evil. Come and see this man doing evil in your church. Come and seeooo. Whoever will support my husband in this will never see anything good…”

ASTRONAUT TIM PEAKE

A British astronaut Major Tim Peake onboard the International Space Station created quite an experience for a lady on earth when he dialed his home but mistakenly called a wrong number with the greeting “Hello, is this planet Earth?”

The astronaut, Peake had arrived the space station on December 15 for a six month’s stint, for the carrying out of scientific experiments and he, desirous of speaking with his family made the call and found out shortly that he was on to a wrong number.

Nigeria’s National Assembly office catches fire

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN SESSION

The political landscape in Rivers State is likely to be infused with a national flavor as its parliament gets set to have its function taken over by the National Assembly. This follows the rulings of the Court of Appeal in respect of matters from the Rivers State House of Assembly Election Tribunal. The Appeal court delivering its judgments in Abuja ordered a rerun in 22 of the 32 state constituencies which are represented by members in the Rivers State House of Assembly. The result of these judgments means that the Rivers State House of Assembly is left with only 10 members.

NIGERIA: GAS PLANT EXPLOSION KILLS OVER 100 PEOPLE IN ANAMBRA STATE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS

A worker holds out the ball with the top prize of €4m during the Spanish Christmas lottery draw, known “The Fat One”. (Francisco Seco, AP)

BALL FOR TOP PRIZE OF 4 MILLION EUROS

This year’s Christmas is made for 35 African migrants, among them at least one saved from drowning after the capsize of an overcrowded wooden boat, as they were among the winners of the top prize in Spain's Christmas lottery. This information was released by the owner of the lottery agency that sold more than 1 000 tickets that won $438 000 each. One of the winners was Ngame, a Senegalese who spoke of the rescue of him and his wife by the Spanish coast guard when he travelled with 65 others from the western coast of Africa to Spain’s Canary Island in 2007.

GOVERNOR FAYOSE IN ACTION

The governor of Ekiti state in his usual manner of reaching out to the common man has given out bags of rice to the people of his state to enable them celebrate the 2015 Christmas.

The new electricity tariff regime approved over the weekend by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has removed fixed charges for all classes of electricity consumers. Henceforth, from the next billing period, distribution companies will no longer charge their customers monthly fixed charges. Fixed charge is that component of the tariff that commits electricity consumers to paying an approved amount of money not minding whether electricity is consumed during the billing period.

Under the new tariff regime, electricity consumers will now only pay for what they consume from month to month. According to the Chairman/CEO of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, "This is good news for electricity consumers who have long asked for a more just and fair pricing of electricity. The regulatory commission had promised to address all the complaints against fixed charges through a regulatory process that promotes investments in the electricity industry without unfairly burdening electricity consumers. This is in line with NERC's mandate to be fair in all its regulatory interventions".

GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has survived formidable challenges to his position into the new year, with the rulings by the Court of appeal today, upholding his election on 11 April.

It was a perfect Christmas gift for the governor as the court dismissed the challenges by Chief Great Ogboru of Labour Party and Olorogun O’tega Emerhor of the All Progressives Congress.

NIGERIA: CALABAR CARNIVAL 2015 CULTURAL DAY HOLDS, BAUCHI STATE WINS N5 MILLION (SEE PICTURES INSIDE)

It was another unique day in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria as the Cultural Day was held on December 22, 2015. The day is an occasion where all the local government areas of the state send their cultural troupes to display their local dances for the entertainment of viewers who have among them visitors from within the country and outside.

This year's edition was the first for the new administration in the state and had in attendance the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade and his deputy, Prof. Iwara Esu. Also not left out were other members of the state executive council and ofcourse the general public, who all had an entertaining time as the ongoing activities lead up to the grand event, the 2015 Calabar Carnival otherwise known as the biggest street party in Africa.

The cultural display went through its usual about 3 kilometer route with stops at the different adjudication points where each group performs before the judges and is given a score for their display. The event took off at the Millennium Park in Calabar and ended about five hours later.

There were also some dances from communities outside the state and Bauchi state, one of these states won the event carting home N5 million.

See some pictures of this year's event below:

COSON

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 was a remarkable day for members of the Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON as they unanimously approved the distribution of a record 140 million Naira in copyright royalties. This would be paid to members and affiliates on a proposal made by the Board of the society which collects royalties for the use of musical works and sound recordings in Nigeria.

The society’s Extra-Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) which held at the Oranmiyan Hall, Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja was the occasion for the approval and true to their words a number of members of COSON who were at the venue confirmed that they received alerts from their banks confirming the payment of their royalties not long after the approval was given.

GEORGE PICKERING III

Doctors at the Tomball Regional Medical Centre in Houston, Texas, USA got an experience of a lifetime when the father of a supposedly brain dead man threatened to shoot them if they turned off a life support machine sustaining him.

The patient’s father, George Pickering II now released after a discharge of charges, did not accept their report that his son George III, 27, would not regain consciousness after suffering a stroke and he held off the police and staff of the hospital from turning off the machine in a three hour standoff armed with a gun.

KANYE WEST AT HIS AMERICAN IDOL AUDITION

The American Idol talent show, a competition which has brought to limelight many stars since its inception is coming to an end. On January 6, 2016 the 15^th and final season of the show commences and not only America but the whole world would have its sights fixed on it. This is a show that has produced winners like Kelly Clarkson, Kevin Skinner, Michael Grimm, Carrie Underwood and also produced stars like Jennifer Hudson and Adam Lambert who were not winners on the show but became winners in the show business.

Well it is expected that this stars and many more would be part of the final season in one way or the other. One of those already confirmed to be part of the 2016 season is music star Kanye West whose wife Kim Kardashian has come out on Twitter to say this. She also went on to reveal that Kanye auditioned on the show in San Francisco, USA as a contestant and when he did, the show’s judges did not take him seriously and maybe neither did he.

NIGERIA TO SCRAP NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION'S GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR'S POST

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NNPC GMD DR. EMMANUEL IBE KACHIKWU

The office of the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to be crapped, Peoples Daily can authoritatively report.

A top source who gave the indication said the scrapping of the NNPC GMD office which will take effect as the New Year opens is part of ongoing measures to unbundle the corporation to make its operations more effective and result oriented.

The competent source said functions of the office of the GMD will accordingly be handed over to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Engr Ibe Kachikwu who in turn reports to President Muhammadu Buhari who doubles as the Petroleum Minister.

SAMBO DASUKI

Overwhelmed by the recent turn of events around him , the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (Rtd), has opened up on how he facilitated the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate President Muhammadu Buhari. at the May 28 presidential polls against that of his then boss former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
“I gave my best for this transition, which led to the victory of the opposition over the ruling party”, Dasuki said.

ANNIE IDIBIA

Saturday, December would remain indelible in the mind of a group of ophans as they got to spend time with Nollywood Actress Annie Idibia who is also the wife of music superstar Tuface of the You Are My African Queen fame.

Annie Idibia says she honored an invitation to spend some time with the children and remains grateful for the opportunity the interaction offered her to appreciate more the little things in life. The Nollywood star took to her Instagram handle to express her feelings with a mind touching message:

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LIST OF THE WORLD'S MOST GENEROUS COUNTRIES

The recent list of the world's most generous countries released by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), an international charity registered in the United Kingdom which has offices in nine countries covering six continents has named the United States of America and Myanmar as the most generous countries worldwide in a study covering 135 countries.

MR. NNAMDI KANU IN COURT

The Federal Government of Nigeria received an adverse reaction from the trial judge in the on-going treason trial against the leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu when it filed fresh six-count charges against him, as Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the federal High Court said he would not be hearing the case. The judge stated this after Mr. Kanu objected to the case, saying his decisions would be disobeyed by the federal government as it had repeatedly done to previous court rulings.

NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT BUHARI PRESENTS 2016 BUDGET TO PARLIAMENT; IMPLEMENTATION TO BE ON BORROWED FUNDS DUE TO LOW OIL PRICE

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI BEFORE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari today, December 22^nd, presented the 2016 national budget to the joint session of the Nigerian Parliament (Senate and House of Representatives).

The budget which amounts to N6.07 trillion (15% higher than 2015 budget) is the first budget since his inauguration as president. The budget which as usual is based mostly on oil revenue put a benchmark of $38 per barrel and a production estimated at 2.2 million barrels each day for 2016.

FOUNDER SAMUEL JOHNS

Founder of Forget Me Not Ak, Samuel Johns introduces himself as a simple man who just wants to give back. He says there are many ordinary people who are capable of making a powerful impact in this world, he holds himself as an example, having been a carpenter.

Johns, an Alaskan, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, says in the winter, the temperatures in parts of Alaska can easily drop to minus 20 or lower and the resultant cold coupled with darkness and serious snowing can be deadly for the homeless person. Johns is aware of all the dangers lurking out there as he has seen most of it firsthand happening to so many and feeling a burden he decided to take action on his feelings.

He says that motivated him to start ForgetMeNotAK.org, a Facebook group page which helps to get the homeless reconnected with their families. The initiative six months after its creation garnered over 16,500 members building a network of people who aim to do good things for those who need assistance.

AL SHABAB

It is said no true love can anyone show than to offer their life in order to save another’s. Well, this was shown practically in Mandera, Kenya when a group of militants from the Al-Shabab group attacked a bus carrying passengers of both the Muslim and Christian faith from Nairobi to Mandera. According to reports, the Muslims on board defied an order from the Islamists that they separate from the Christians for easy identification. The Muslims rather told the terrorists “to kill them together or leave them alone.”

THREE CRUSHED TO DEATH BY TRAIN IN ILORIN, NIGERIA

TRAIN CRASH, NOT ACTUAL

Yesterday, Sunday, December 20, was a sad day in Ilorin, Kwara state of Nigeria as 3 persons lost their lives in the afternoon when their car was crushed by a moving train.

Reports have it that the victims, two young men and a lady were inside a Toyota Camry car with all the four windows wound up when the train said to coming from the northern part of Nigeria to Offa ran into the car crushing the occupants to their untimely deaths.

NIGERIA'S FEDERAL EXECUTIVE MEETING; PICTURES OF TODAY'S MEETING HOSTED BY PRES. MOHAMMADU BUHARI

The Federal Executive Council of Nigeria which draws its membership from the ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria today had its meeting today, Monday 21, with President Muhammadu Buhari hosting them.

The meeting was to among other things consider the budget to be presented by the President to the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 23rd.

See pictures of the meeting below:

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MISS UNIVERSE 2015

The Miss Universe 2015 pageant which held yesterday, Sunday, December 20, at The Axis at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada ended on a massively confused state. The controversy which is coming at the end of the pageant would certainly linger not only in the minds of the contestants but also that of viewers who tuned in from across the universe and the reason is generating mixed reaction from different people.

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PLATINI AND BLATTER

The torrent of troubles for FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA head Michel Platini continues unabated as the two received a ban from football activities for the next eight years handed out by the Ethics Committee of the international football governing body. The both were fined $80,000 and $40,000 respectively for a breach in an alleged $2 million “disloyal payment” made to Platini in 2011 for his service as technical adviser to Blatter in 1998 to 2002, which was viewed as an “abusive execution” of FIFA’s position.

TEEN ALLEGEDLY MADE $150,000 HACKING AN AIRLINE WEBSITE (HERE’S HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T GET SCAMMED)

BEWARE!!!

It seems like 2015 has been the year of hacked airlines. Earlier this year 1,400 planes were grounded in Warsaw after hackers attacked the computers of LOT Polish Airlines. And United was allegedly attacked by Chinese hackers back in August, though the carrier wouldn’t confirm it. Now, a 19-year-old man in China allegedly stole 1.1 million Yuan (about $150,000) by hacking into an unnamed airline’s website, the People’s Daily reports.

According to Yahoo Travel, the teen stole booking details for 1.6 million ticket orders. He then defrauded money from hundreds of customers by texting them that their flights had been canceled. He asked people to re-book flights and pocketed the “change fees.”

READ BELOW AN INTERVIEW OF OF THE VICTIM, IGBOBI BEAUTY UZEZI

Warri Reporter, EGUFE YAFUGORHI, met the victim at an agreed venue and reports his encounter with Igbobi Beauty Uzezi, an Air Police of the Nigerian Air-force, NAF, with Personal Service Number, NAF10/25157F.

Uzezi, who hails from Bayelsa state, revealed that an Air-force officer (names withheld) drugged, raped and infected her with a Sexually Transmitted Diseases, STD, and the said officer detained and tortured her through proxies for daring to expose him and finally got her dismissed from the Airforce.

The air-force officers she complained to and sought help before the hammer fell on her, queried why she chose to make trouble with the officer, pointing out that she was not the only female personnel to pass through the ordeal.

They detained her in a cell with a mad woman, chained her to the bed in the hospital, locked for several days without food to force her to forgo justice. She refused to surrender and was court marshaled after she threatened to shoot one of the air-force officers used to intimidate her, who allegedly wanted to disarm her.

... at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Airport Uses Ladder to Board Passengers

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It has been reported that Senator Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Aviation, has directed that the use of a ladder instead of the proper staircase by passengers to disembark from an Aero Contractors aircraft after its Abuja to Bauchi flight on Saturday should be investigated.

In making the order, the Minister stated that the act of the airline contravenes the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations, NCARs, and International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, Standards and Recommended Practices, SARPS., which provide for safety of flight operations.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS VISITS THE WHITE HOUSE

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the film heralding the return of the ever popular movie of the action genre, Star Wars with a duration of a little over 2 hours and made on a budget of about $2 million which opened at the US movie theaters on Friday, December 18th and has been reported to have broken the opening day records grossing over $250 million so far ($50 million in advance ticket sales). The Star Wars franchise has fans all over the world and you can imagine what sales would still bring.

The film which stars at least 3 Africans; John Boyega (Nigeria) - Finn, Lupita Nyong'o (Kenya) - Maz Kanata and Tosin Cole (Nigeria) - Lieutenant Bastian has as its theme a fight of good vs evil, the battle by the new faction, the First Order, to rule the Galaxy, through a plan of destroying all those who oppose them.

Well all said, the film practically paid a visit to the White House to see the Obamas and you can see some of the pictures of the visit below:

... Star Wars: The Force Awakens later today at the White House Family

... Star Wars: The Force Awakens later today at the White House Family

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EPA KENYA AIR FRANCE BOMB SCARE WAR ACTS OF TERROR KEN

AIR FRANCE PLANE

An Air France Boeing 777 plane on flight 463, which took off from Mauritius on Saturday, December 19th at about 9pm headed for Paris, France made an emergency landing in Kenya early this Sunday morning, December 20th after it was discovered that a an object suspected to be a bomb was in its lavatory.

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READ BELOW AN INTERVIEW OF OF THE VICTIM, IGBOBI BEAUTY UZEZI

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