Bomb Found Inside First Bank Branch in Osun State

Tragedy was averted on Tuesday as a security guard attached to a branch of First Bank Plc in Osogbo, Osun State discovered an explosive substance wrapped in a polythene bag inside the banking hall.

Immediately the discovery was made, bank officials and customers were quickly evacuated from the bank.

 

Some customers of the bank said that a senior official announced to them that a substance suspected to be a  bomb had been discovered where it was planted.

Officials of Police Anti-Bomb Squad were later deployed in the bank.

They were said to have detonated the bomb and cordoned off Station Road, where the bank is located.

It was learnt that as soon the information about the bomb spread, many shop owners in the area hurriedly closed their shops, while some left their wares and ran for safety.

However, a few minutes later, the customers were asked to leave because the bank was not ready to resume operations.

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EXCLUSIVE NEWS| Sadiq Abacha’s Open Letter To Wole Soyinka

Sadiq Sani Abacha, son of former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha has penned an open letter to Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, in reaction to a recent statement credited to his late father.

While speaking on Nigeria’s Centenary celebrations and his reasons for rejecting the award, Soyinka said that it was an insult to share an award with the late Abacha.

Wole Soyinka wrote:

Such abandonment of moral rigour comes full circle sooner or later. The survivors of a plague known as Boko Haram, students in a place of enlightenment and moral instruction, are taken to a place of healing dedicated to an individual contagion – a murderer and thief of no redeeming quality known as Sanni Abacha, one whose plunder is still being pursued all over the world and recovered piecemeal by international consortiums – at the behest of this same government which sees fit to place him on the nation’s Roll of Honour! I can think of nothing more grotesque and derisive of the lifetime struggle of several on this list, and their selfless services to humanity. It all fits. In this nation of portent readers, the coincidence should not be too difficult to decipher. I reject my share of this national insult.

Abacha describes Soyinka’s statement as cowardice.

Now here is Sadiq Abacha’s response:

If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three.

1. The law of identity

2. The law of excluded middle

3. The law of non contradiction.

Now let’s look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice.

1.The law of identity

The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn’t seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or not.

However, if you don’t like the facts as they are you are going to have to put up with them, because facts are what they are, if it’s raining on your golf day, get used to it! Because the facts are what they are and are often not what you want them to be, like if the traffic lights turn red when you approach, stop complaining! The law of identity means that you must adapt yourself to the facts and start your work from there, it implies that the facts will not bend to meet your expectations. You must first adapt yourself to what life is and then get to work changing and improving things in your life, be brave to meet reality as it really is and not how you would wish it to be.

2. The law of excluded middle.

The law of excluded middle means that you should give a straight yes or no answer always and there is no middle ground. The law means that there is no kinda yes and kinda no, there is no ‘sort of’ being married because you are either married or you are not, you are either a thief or you are not, you are either on time or not, you are either living in Nigeria or you are not. The law is the idea that you should not try to keep all of your options open by staying in the middle or hedging, when it suits you, like when you accepted an appointment during IBB’s regime as chairman of FRSC. I bet that was a military regime you partook in. Please pick one wife and state your claim 100% to her, pick one idea and go for it 100%! Decide and commit Sir! There you might find great power and self satisfaction in the doctrine of decide and commit. No half way measures, no middle ground, exclude the middle! Here! The law of excluded middle Sir.

3. The law of non contradiction.

The law of non contradiction says don’t contradict yourself simple. If you say you will be there then be there. If you say you will do it then do it. Don’t say or fight for one thing and then do the opposite. Don’t say one thing and then later deny that you said it. Don’t say one thing and then later contradict it. Be consistent in your thoughts and actions. Observing someone who was a socialist in the morning but then became a capitalist in the evening is a textbook on contradiction, these are two polar opposites, such a person is clearly inconsistent and is therefore considered a flip flop, confused, easily led or misled or at best a lunatic who has no clear understanding of the basis of either doctrine.

Apply these three logics to others with consistency and then you can ask for the same or expect the same from others, and then you can also ask for others to deal with facts not fantasy, which is the law of identity. Ask others to make up their mind to decide and commit. The law of excluded middle.Then ask others to follow through on the things that they say they would do. The law of non contradiction.

Sir, I believe brilliance is not perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn’t this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria’s woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a great deal of it unaccounted for. “Oh my God! In the end he turned out to be just the same as everybody else” were my next thoughts. My hopes for you, all ended up in great disappointment.

Here I find myself defending my father 15 years after his death because some of you have no one else to pounce on, or rather, you have chosen a dead person to keep pouncing on over and over again when you have more than an array of contestants.  A coward’s act I believe.  ”A common writer” is what I have heard you being referred to lately, and I believe a mature mind would now agree to such referrals. With all due respect, there is a great challenge that faces the country, we have to put our heads together, rather than clashing, our collective ships must sail in the same direction, let us leave the ghosts of past contention and face the future bravely as one, criticizing the past does not help the present or define a path to the future.

You say, with the weight of your sense of history and the authority you possess on national issues that ” a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife were snuffed out” referring to my late father, you must be growing old, or you would rightly recall that that president elect you refer to did not die while my father was alive. Did you slyly change your facts to fit a history that would better serve your narrative, or are you just plain forgetful? Either way, it shows you are losing your grasp of reality.

Comparing my father’s leadership to Boko Haram’s current reign of terror,  is a rather cheap shot, you are in no position to examine, judge and sentence an entire regime based on the information you think you have, you are privy to almost none of the true facts, what is at your disposal is at best, hearsay, or were you ever minister of defence? did you ever sit in during security meetings, evaluate the facts and subtleties of national security? You remind me of Obama criticizing the Republicans  before he became a sitting president himself, vouching to put an end to all American occupation, this all came to an abrupt end once he had access to the briefs and security issues, economic and political, facing his nation. Surely he did what he could, and history will judge him. To lead is not to be a rock star, and to be a Nobel laureate is not to be a an antagonist of this countries legacy..We are Africa’s leaders, whether we like it or not, we cannot trivialize the centenary celebration, it happens only once, let us come together, if only for this one occasion and agree to disagree.

Open rebellion against the current government at this time, on the manner of the centenary celebrations, for whatever reason, is tactless, it is not about you, it is about our nation, our beloved country. There is a time and place for everything. My late father was a Nigerian, lived in Nigeria and died protecting our interests to the best of his ability, critiquing placing him on the honor roll, along with many deserving dignitaries is your right, you have the right to your own opinions, but you do not have the right to your own facts. Facts stand alone, regardless of who espouses them, let posterity judge, but you are clearly politicizing a dead issue, how could you not be? Having an issue with the naming of a hospital after the late General and leader? really ? Now ?

It almost seems as if you want to turn back the hands of time, what else would you like to undo besides the naming of the hospital, would you like to unmake Bayelsa state, Zamfara state or the others?  What about the advances we made in commerce, reducing the inflation rate, what about security and welfare, how many projects, hospitals and schools were created? inflation went from 54% to 8.5%! my father oversaw an increase in our foreign currency reserves from 494 million dollars in 1993 to 9.6 billion dollars by the middle of 1997, that is unprecedented , 15 years after the PTF the benefits are still being reaped today in Nigeria, What of peace keeping and nation building, not just in West Africa but the entire continent, restoring democracy in Liberia and Sierra Leone, all these under my father’s leadership, are all these not laudable? Or would you like to undo them all. All this on 8$ per barrel of oil! You have to be kidding me.

You are a learned man, you would have to undo all your learning to knowingly wish to undo all these achievements! I will be the first to proclaim that my fathers leadership was not pitch perfect or spot free, that does not exist, maybe in utopia but not here on this earth, so let us keep our discourse set in the sphere of reality please, he deserves the award, and he did not campaign for it, let it go, Sir…and allow Nigeria to at least bask in our survival and endurance in our growing prosperity and development in these trying times. I have been accused of being an optimist, hence, I am optimistic that you will come around and accept that we can all come together and face the future together, forgive each other our wrongs while celebrating our rights, I am still an admirer of your works after all, however, I cannot and will not attempt to answer your every charge, this is not the time or place, this is a time for solidarity, if only you were wise enough to grasp this.

I applaud the patience of President Goodluck Jonathan and his composure and restraint in not having a knee jerk reaction at such a pivotal moment in our nations history, but you would mar the occasion, Sir, in the future, please pick your battles, and do better to safeguard your relevance,  Enough Sir!

Sadiq Abacha.

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the music business in Nigeria is actually not encouraging people with good contents to thrive. Commercial music has carved out a massive niche for random songs done by unrehearsed proficient artistes to become successful. It has now become a norm in Nigeria that if you need to become successful you'll have to be sexually lyrical and verbally impolite; thus making contents tell only one story line which often appear to be void of variation or styles.
Because I know my songs will inevitably have to compete with these ones, I thought not to drown their goodness by singing same genre. Hence why I've chosen a range of genres and created a harmonized assorted hybrid.

Since one can't sing for everyone, It will take only elite people to appreciate these songs as they are my target audience. I see myself as an interesting enlightener and a quality-control entertainer. I will also like to see that people with good contents and original concepts get a platform to propagate their works - I.e. If I become a renown artist.

Art, to me, is an exhibition of demonstrations delivered by the artiste's work that has been injected by a venom of ideologies and creativity. We need to reinstate music back as an art to genuinely enjoy not a toy for commercial gains
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Man Calls Off Wedding After Church Declares His Bride Pregnant

Source- Stelladimokokorkus.com

My neighbor dressed on Saturday 22nd February to attend a wedding where the wife of the Senate President, Helen Mark,was to play hostess. 

 

The bride, Cynthia worked for her and was said to be an orphan thus had become her adopted daughter.

 

Few hours later, my neighbor came back sweating profusely and swearing and cursing loudly, she entered my room and came to give me this 'nollywood' gist. Let me narrate in her own words what transpired after the cut......................................

 

 

 

 We got to the venue of the wedding at about 9am. 2hrs later and neither the bride or the groom came out. After guests started getting impatient, the groom came out, took the microphone and announced to the astonished guests that he was no longer interested in the marriage! 

Turned out that the the Redeemed christian church of God RCCG that was supposed to wed them had conducted a pregnancy test the day before the wedding and the result turned out POSITIVE. 

 Where the story come get K-leg be say the guy had never slept with the girl! 

 

The bride on her own part insisted she was not pregnant and did another pregnancy test in a different hospital which came out negative. The church did a second test with their own doctor and again their own test read POSITIVE! 

Come see drama ooo! Church did several tests, all came out positive, the girl did several other tests in different centers, all came out NEGATIVE.

 To cut a long story short, na there the groom say he no dey marry again hence the announcement in church!

 Bride cry tire, her people curse the groom tire, the guy just siddon inside the car dey chop him rice! And do you know the worst part of the story? The man's people still had the guts to pack the wedding cake, wine and other drinks as well as souvenirs put for their motor wen them wan go and it was not the guy that bought any of those things o! 

Trust naija people naa, guests still get mind siddon chop the buffet that had already been set and some even pack take-away food, drinks and whatever souvenir they could lay hands on, meanwhile they all went back with their gifts oh!

 Even me sef follow collect jotters, mugs and a set of pots! loll. All this time the poor girl still dey cry with wedding dress insisting she wasn't pregnant but who go fight for her? She was only a poor orphan...

P.S: Do you support the groom? If indeed she was pregnant, was that the best action for the guy to have taken - After all the same thing happened to Mary in the bible and Joseph still accepted her!.

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KCee & His Label Are Being Sued For N20 Million By Kevin Lucciano Of QuestionMark Entertainment

PMAN (Performing Musician’s & Artistes of Nigeria) president & QuestionMark Entertainment owner, Kevin Luciano, the label that discovered the likes of Asa & Cobhams has filed a N20m ($117,000) lawsuit against KCEE’s Five Star Music.

This according to NET, who report that the lawsuit was filed against singer Harrysong who is signed to KCee’s Five Star Music for allegedly breaching his contract with QuestionMark, and also against Five Star Music for entering into a new contract with Harry Song despite knowing that he was yet to serve out his contract with his former label.

Harrysong wrote KCEE’s hit song ‘Limpopo’, he is also the man behind the Nelson Mandelatribute song which is said to be the most downloaded caller tune ever with over a million downloads on the day of its release.

A source from Question Mark’s camp told NET that before filing the suit, Luciano had exhausted all efforts to reach an amicable settlement with Harry Song and KCEE’s Five Star Music.

The source went on to say,‘It is because of their nonchalant attitude that we have decided to take the matter to court since they were not ready to sit and talk it out,’ the source, who requested anonymity, said.

Soso Soberekon who is KCee’s manager & executive at Five Star Music has denied receiving a court injunction on the matter.

He said, ‘Kevin has been on this for a while but we are yet to receive any court injunction about this matter,’ 

He did admit that negotiations are currently ongoing to resolve the issue amicably.

We will see how all this plays out…in the meantime I am still waiting on Kcee’s collaboration with Nicki Minaj which he allegedly recorded in Los Angeles a month ago [READ HERE &HERE IF YOU MISSED THAT STORY]

Shocker! Following Several Cheating Scandals, Robin Thicke & Wife Paul Patton End Twenty Year Union!

Call me delusional but I always thought Robin Thicke & Paula Patton would be one of those Hollywood couples that lasted forever, despite rumours of them having an open marriage…I hear they have threesomes & multiple sexcapades.

But I guess after months of cheating scandals Paula Patton has had enough.

The couple who started dating when they were just teenagers, she was 18 and he was 16, today announced their separation in a statement which said

“We will always love each other and be best friends,” the singer and his actress wife tell Us in a statement. “However, we have mutually decided to separate at this time.”

The couple wed in 2005 & had a son, Julian in 2010.

Robin Thicke had the biggest success of his career last year with his hit song “Blurred Lines” & it seems the once lovable R & B  singer became a douche bag as he enjoyed the kind of success he had only ever dreamed of, with pictures of him openly flirting with random chicks popping up online.

There was the picture of him grabbing a socialite’s a$$ after the VMAs in September 2013 with his wife not too far off (see pic above) & another of him kissing some French girl earlier this year (see below). There is only so much a woman can take.