Dana crash: “We will fully compensate victims’ families soon” – Usidamen

Dana Group, owners of Dana Airlines have assured the 40 families of the victims of the ill-fated Dana plane crash that they will give out statutory compensation to those properly entitled at the earliest opportunity .

Dana Group’s Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. Tony Usidamen, in a statement entitled “Dana Air Press Statement on Payment of Insurance Benefits to Families” said they should be patient.
The statement reads in part: “The present position is that 80 advance payments of US$30,000 have been processed by virtue of documentation supplied demonstrating familial links and kinship; our insurers are continuing to deal with all other claims in accordance with the applicable law.”
Usidamen while refuting the report that Dana Air and its insurers have refused to pay statutory compensation to families of victims of the crash explained that before the payment, it is necessary for claimants to produce the required Grants of Probate or Letters of Administration.

Two federal hospitals accused of lawyer’s death

The family members of a 37-year-old lawyer, Alex Ofehe, who died at the Federal Staff Hospital in Jabi, Abuja after an unsuccessful operation has accused the two federal hospitals of gross negligence that led to the sudden demise of the lawyer.

Late Alex had complications few days after the surgeries, as he suffered severe pains and a bulging stomach to the extent that he started passing blood as urine and stool.

He was taken back into the theatre to clean the wounds of previous surgeries, however, his family members alleged that the hospital repeated the same surgical procedures on his intestines in “suspicious” circumstances.

Photos From 41st National Day celebration in UAE

41st UAE National Day, at Downtown Dubai. Photo by Chandra Balan

Special UAE National Day tribute from cancer-battling couple celebrating 41st wedding anniversary

There is a special arrangement of the UAE national flag in a villa on Algeria Street, Mirdiff.

It is not merely special because of the size of it, making it visible to planes landing and taking off from the Dubai International Airport.

What is special about the 25-metre long flag is that it is made by a senior Emirati couple - who are both fighting for their lives against cancer with the help of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Britain's Kate and Prince William expecting a baby

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are having a baby, it was announced today.

Catherine. 30, has been taken to King Edward VII Hospital in London with acute morning sickness is expected to stay in hospital for several days.

In a statement on the couple's website, the couple said they were 'delighted with the news'.

The Queen, Prince Philip and other members of the royal family are ‘delighted’.

Prime Minister David Cameron said on Twitter: 'I'm delighted by the news that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a baby.’

Rita Dominic and Benjamin Joseph win Most Stylish award

Before now, not many would have really given Rita Dominic the chance of winning the Most Stylish Actress of the year at the FAB Awards where heavyweights like Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji were also in the run for the same award category. Before yesterday when Rita was announced the winner, Genevieve and Omotola were headlined in the media as the major runners for the award.

Amber Rose she shows off her baby bump at 28 weeks in daring photo

She is in the final trimester of her pregnancy so it is no wonder her bump is rather large.

So large, in fact, that Amber Rose had to explain to her fans that she wasn’t being indecent when she showed off her burgeoning belly on Twitter.

The seven-month pregnant model posted a snap of her huge stomach along with the caption: ‘I swear I have shorts on in this pic but my belly is so big u can't see them Lol’

Anglican Bishop Blasted For Promoting Lesbianism

A Bishop with a leading church has been caught up in a fix as he is being accused of promoting homoséxuality at a mission boarding school.

The issue came to light after the bishop (name withheld for legal reasons), overturned the board's decisions to expel a couple that had been caught red handed practicing lesbianism.

A source who spoke to news crew last week alleged that the Bishop overturned the decision in a bid to save one of the students who is reported to be a child of an Anglican employee (name withheld).

Father told me about love child – Ojukwu’s son

First son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Mr. Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Sunday told that Teny Harman was his late father’s a biological daughter.

Debe, who spoke to our correspondent in Enugu, said there was no reason to question the paternity of Herman, as he (Debe) had always known about her.

He said, “That is his daughter, I knew about her; my father told me himself. The old man told me that Teny Herman was his daughter. I am his biggest and closest confidant; so there were so many things he laid bare to me which he never told others.”

Suspected child kidnappers arrested

The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested two suspected child kidnappers in different parts of Abeokuta.

The two suspects – Ronke Akindele and Life Nwem – were arrested in Eruwon and Idi-Ori areas of the city respectively when they attempted to kidnap their victims in separate incidents.

The state’s NSCDC Acting Commandant, Mr. Dele Adetarami, while parading the suspects, said Akindele attempted to kidnap one-year-old Basit, who was playing in company with his three-year-old brother in front of their house at Eruwon.

Have mercy on us, prisoners beg for parole

Some prisoners serving various prison sentences in Abeokuta, Ogun State, are begging for parole from the government.

The prisoners, who had served between 12 and 19 years, said the parole would enable them to have a second chance in life.

They promised that if the authorities could show them compassion, they would turn over a new leaf, stressing that they had learnt a lot of lessons since their incarceration.

Another Sunday attack: 10 killed as gunmen invade church, construction company in Borno

No fewer than 10 persons were killed on Sunday when unknown gunmen attacked worshippers at a Church and a road construction crew in Chibok town of Borno State, North West Nigeria.

According to a security official, who requested to remain anonymous, the attacks were likely carried out by the radical militant sect, Boko Haram.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made $3.5 billion in November

Google Finance has quoted a closing price for Facebook of 28 on Nov. 30, 2012. Facebook, Inc. is written up as a United States-based company, which operates as a social networking Website. Facebook develops technologies which facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, which is the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. November was a good month for Facebook and Facebook CEOMark Zuckerberg. In an article today, Dec. 2, 2012, Seth Fiegerman has reported for Mashable, November was a good month for Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Nigerian woman, Bunmi Awoniyi named Superior Court judge in US

California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday named four new Superior Court judges for the Central Valley. Among the judicial appointments announced was the appointment of 48-year-old Nigerian woman, Bunmi O. Awoniyi in Elk Grove, California.

According to Centralvalleybusinesstimes, of the four, three replace judges who have retired and the fourth fills a long-standing vacancy.

Indonesian man forms unbreakable bond with a tiger

It is quite common for people to form close and loving friendships with animals.

But it is quite a different matter when that animal is a 27-stone tiger with a fondness for fighting.

Abdullah Sholeh, 31 has formed an unbreakable bond with four-year-old feline Mulan.

He regularly sleeps, plays and fights with the enormous tiger.

The pair spend every day together after Mr Sholeh helped raise her from a three-month-old cub in Malang, Indonesia.

Photos: Launch of Rukky Sanda’s ‘The Search’ and ‘Lovelorn’

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Rukky Sanda......more photos after the cut.

I Went Through Hell in My First Marriage- Mercy Aigbe

Mercy Aigbe narrates how she suffered a lot in the hands of mother-in-law in her first marriage. She shared some of the sad memories in this chat with Showtime Celebrity. Excerpt:

So what were those mistakes you made in the last one that you wouldn’t want to repeat in this one?
It’s not like I’m trying to sound holy but, I didn’t make any mistake. I just feel it was meant to be like that. I had a mother-in-law who didn’t like where I come from. She didn’t like the fact that her son didn’t marry a lady from their village. She made me go through hell. At a point when I couldn’t take it any more, I left the marriage.

Pregnant Woman Left To Die Over Lack of Money

A pregnant Nigerian lady has died because doctors in Port Harcourt insisted hre husband must pay N20,000, less than $150, before she was treated. Her family members are still in shock about her death, such that they are not even thinking of burying her for now.

The 34 year old woman, Ijeoma Umumadumere, nee Ahamefule, was rushed in the morning of 25th November to Garrison Clinic in Port Harcourt, when she complained of a sudden stomach pain and headache, while cooking. Her husband rushed her to the clinic on Udom street in the oil rich city. It was between 9-10 a.m. And she was five-months pregnant.

Governor Okorocha’s ADC knocks policeman unconscious

The Aide-de-Camp to the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, Omo Gabriel, and two other police officers, on Saturday, allegedly beat up a policeman attached the state government house for delaying in opening the gate for the governor’s convoy, the PUNCH newspaper is reporting this morning.

The incident, the paper reported, occurred around 12:30 a.m, when the Governor Okorocha returned from his wife’s birthday party. The attack left the victim unconscious.

Okada rider shot by police recuperates in hospital, narrates ordeal

Mr. Atilola was shot while trying to help an emergency worker.
As he lay on the hospital bed, Adigun Atilola’s bandaged feet are immobile, but lines of pain are etched on his lean face. Two weeks ago, he was moved out of the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit into the Surgical Ward.

Mr. Atilola, a commercial motorcyclist (popularly known as Okada rider), was shot at Ilupeju, Lagos, by a police officer who was enforcing the state government’s restriction on commercial motorcyclists.

The incident, which triggered an outrage, led to youth in the area as well as other commercial motorcyclists setting up bonfires and blocking vehicular traffic for hours.

This week, the 27-year-old is scheduled to have another X-ray on his legs.

My wife made me impotent- Man tells court

A 60-year-old man on Friday shed uncontrollable tears in court praying for the dissolution of his 32-year old marriage.

Mr. Joshua Ajala, a building contractor dragged his 53-year old wife, Dorcas, to an Orile-Agege Grade B Customary Court, Lagos on the grounds of childlessness, witchcraft and abandonment.

The visibly embittered Joshua Ajala narrated to the court how his estranged wife used witchcraft to kill a girl another woman had for him after she couldn’t give him children.
Tearfully narrating his ordeals, Ajala, alleged that three years after their marriage, his wife was not concerned about getting pregnant, as all the efforts by his late mother to get her to take local medication to aid pregnancy proved abortive.

“Ojukwu’s will that was read is fake” – Uche Ezechukwu

Less than 24 hours after it was read in the Enugu High Court in Nigeria’s South-East, the will of late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has been dismissed as strange and unreliable by one of his closest confidants.

The name of Chief Sylvester Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the 56 years old lawyer reported to be Ojukwu’s first son but who has had running battles with other family members since the old man’s death on November 26, 2011, is conspicuously missing from the will. Recognised as Ojukwu’s children in the will are Chukwuemeka Jnr, Mmegha, Okigbo, Ebele, Chineme, Afam, Nwachukwu and one Tenny Haman, who was previously unheard of.

Former Nollywood actor, Richard Mofe-Damijo in N50m embezzlement scandal

One of the pioneers of Nollywood, and now Delta State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Richard Mofe Damijo better known as RMD and the acting General Manager of Delta state’s Tourism Board, Ms. Philo Nkem Ajufo, have been accused of looting N50 million belonging to the ministry.

Dependable sources in the embattled Ministry revealed that a former commissioner in the Ministry had requested for a sum of N50 million to organize the “Delta State Expo 2007.”
However, it was learnt that the state government could not approve the said amount the same year for some reasons.

Priest says Hell is an invention of the church to control people with fear

“I’ve been dating Rita Dominic in my dreams, I can give her twins if she wants” – LKT

In a recent interview, elegant Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic, said she would love to get married soon. Miss Dominic, whose new movie, The meeting, is garnering huge acclaim at the cinemas, also said she was looking forward to having a set of twins.

She must have been unaware of a secret admirer – Olalekan Tunde, better known as LKT – who confessed he has a big crush on the Imo State indigene.

“I’ve been dating Rita in my dreams and I’ve always loved to see her movies. When I read her interview, something in me said I should voice out my admiration and affections for her.

President Jonathan to replace state of origin with citizenship

President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that it is time for Nigeria to ”dismantle the idol of exclusivity” and discard issues that focus on state of origin rather citizens of nation and this change will be carried out with the ongoing review of the nation’s constitution.

Delivering the President’s remark at the 13th Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe lecture which focused on developing ethnic policy for national integration to address the issue of indigenes versus settlers, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Prof Viola Adaku Onwuliri, who represented Dr. Jonathan stated emphatically that “things just have to change.”

Keep seperated and be exploited, Get orgarnized and compel the world to respect you

Keep seperated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get orgarnized and you will compel the world to respect you.
Marcus Garvey.
The greatness of the country will enhance when they TAP into the meniral resources and create manufactering firms to export the products.
Africa is poor because its exploi and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Gold is the symbol of wealth,

Taraba Governor Danbaba Suntai Brain-Damaged, Can't Recognize Visitors

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, who was seriously injured when his plane crashed on October 25 in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, has suffered extensive brain damage and failed to recognize members of a presidential delegation that visited him at a hospital in Hanover, Germany, an authoritative source has told SaharaReporters.

A source close to a senior member of the delegation described the trip to see Mr. Suntai as highly secretive. SaharaReporters learnt that members of the delegation had officially traveled to Vatican City in Rome to witness the consecration of Archbishop John Onaiyekan as a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the ceremony in Italy, the delegation then made a quick detour to Germany to see the injured Mr. Suntai.

Jonathan, Northern governors condole Buhari over daughter’s death

President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has commiserated with the former Head of States, General Buhari (rtd.) over the sudden death of his first daughter, Zulaihatu.

Jonathan in a condolence letter to the Buhari family prayed that God Almighty would comfort him, and grant him and members of his family the fortitude to bear the great loss.

The letter reads: “I write to extend very sincere commiserations to you and your family on the death of your eldest daughter, Zulaihatu yesterday November 29th, 2012.

“I can well imagine the profound pain, sadness and sorrow brought upon you by the tragic loss of a beloved child whom you have nurtured and raised to adulthood.

Obasanjo’s call for revolution

During a recent conference on youth employment in Dakar, Senegal, former President Olusegun Obasanjo shocked his audience by openly calling for a revolution in Nigeria.

Also, it will be recalled that the former President called Nigerians to come out en masse for a Nigerian type “Arab spring (revolution)” during a workshop on economic diversification and revenue generation in December 2011 at the June 12 Cultural Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Obasanjo’s call was hinged on the prevailing high rate of youth unemployment, which he estimated to be about 72 per cent. If the audience in Dakar was shocked, then the residents of Warri in Delta State were utterly astonished when he commented on President Goodluck Jonathan’s handling of the crisis in the North.