My Truth and Your View Tv: August 2015

Monday 31 August 2015

Firm seeks govts’ partnership on new building technology

RESOLUTE to make significant impacts in the country, particularly towards reducing the nation’s housing units shortfall, a frontline manufacturer of polyurethane prefabricated buildings in Nigeria, Vitapur Nigeria Limited, has called on both the Federal and state governments to reach a pact with it.
The pact, if eventually evolved, according to the firm, would back the firm’s desire to bridge the country’s estimated 19 million units of house deficit Also, Vitapur, reputed for its dry construction devoid of blocks is willing to partner the built environment professionals to construct mass building at low cost and high speed.
But they are seeking for a right environment and favorably policy from the governments to realize its vision to make appreciable and significant impacts in the nation’s housing industry.

APC national spokesperson, Lai Mohammed this morning on Channels TV said President Buhari never promised to do anything within his 1st 100 days in office.

"Buhari never promised to do anything in 100 days, that's the honest truth. You see, when you are running a campaign, all kinds of literature will emerge from all sorts of groups but I came here and I said there are only just two documents that you can judge a party with. that is the constitution of the party and the manifesto of the party. Those are the only two documents that are registered with INEC you can go to court on or hold a party accountable for" he said

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback shot dead nearly 80 people in separate attacks on three villages in Nigeria’s restive northeast at the weekend, a vigilante and residents said Monday.
Vigilante Babakura Kolo said 68 people were killed in the attack on Baanu village in Borno state late on Friday while residents said another 11 people were shot dead in two other villages on Saturday and Sunday.
“Reports reached us of an attack on Baanu village late Friday where Boko Haram gunmen riding on horses opened fire on the village. Sixty-eight people were killed in the attack,” Kolo told AFP.
He said the gunmen stormed Baanu around 8.30 pm (1930 GMT), shooting sporadically.
Baanu resident Aisami Ari who fled the attack to state capital Maiduguri on Saturday, also confirmed the attack and the death toll.

After several failed attempts, the State government is embarking on structure and master plan for Aba and other city centres. However, experts say NITP members should take the issue of plan preparation and implementation seriously as well as ensure that adequate resources are made available to implement the project
PRESSED to address unplanned urbanization, Abia authorities have commenced the development of master plans in three major city centres – Umuahia, Aba and Ohafia.

Ukrainian protesters clash with police after a vote to give greater powers to the east, outside the Parliament, Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. The Ukrainian parliament has given preliminary approval to a controversial constitutional amendment that would provide greater powers to separatist regions in the east. Hundreds of people gathered in front of the parliament to protest against the amendment. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

At least 90 people mainly police were wounded in fierce clashes outside the Ukrainian parliament on Monday as lawmakers gave initial backing to deeply controversial reforms granting more autonomy to pro-Russian separatists.
A loud blast was heard outside the parliament building in Kiev and vast clouds of black smoke billowed into the air as demonstrators fired off what security forces said were live grenades shortly after MPs backed the first reading of the constitutional amendments.
It was the worst unrest in the capital since a sometimes bloody popular uprising ousted Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanukovych early last year, an event that set in train the separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.

Olamide and Phyno painted Lagos and Enugu city black during the week. The rappers decided to extend the Made of Black campaign to the people by rewarding some amazing individuals, whom they feel embody the Made of Black attitude.

Same Neyo who told the mother of his first two children, Monyetta Shaw, to have her tubes tied because he doesn't want more children, announced on instagram yesterday that he's expecting baby number 3 with popular instagram model Crystal Renay, who he has secretly married.

THE nation’s pioneer anti-corruption agency set up by the Federal authorities to ensure that the actions and behaviour of public officers conform to the highest standards of morality and accountability has come under fire.
The Nigeria Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) filed a lawsuit against the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) recently, accusing it of colluding with public officers to undermine their professional practice.
The institution’s first Vice President, Dr. Bolarinde Patunola-Ajayi told The Guardian that all lines of communication was explored to ensure that public officers adopt a new template for the asset declaration, but all failed. His words: “NIESV tried to dialogue with the bureau for some years, but there was no positive action in this laudable scheme.

Seven communities were on Sunday flooded in Demsa and Numan local government areas of Adamawa, following heavy flow of water from Kiri dam in the state.
Kiri dam is in Guyuk Local Government Area. The dam, from the Gongola River, is about 30 kilometres length and 15 kilometres wide.

ndian-born director Parvez Sharma’s new documentary “A Sinner in Mecca” is a rebuke of Saudi Arabia and its strict Wahhabi form of Islam, but it is also deeply personal — a man trying to reconcile his faith with his sexuality (AFP Photo/)

New York (AFP) – The confession of a Pakistani murderer. Overzealous religious police. An Arab angered after his pregnant wife was molested in the holiest site known to Islam.
A new film made by a gay Muslim pilgrim offers a English-speaking Western audience a warts-and-all view of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in a documentary that has attracted death threats and an online hate campaign.

New York (AFP) – Russian third seed Maria Sharapova withdrew from the US Open on Sunday with a right leg injury, easing the path to a calendar-year Grand Slam for top-ranked Serena Williams.
US Open tournament director David Brewer announced Sharapova’s exit, which allowed qualifying lucky loser Daria Kasatkina of Russia into the draw in Sharapova’s place.

The Notting Hill Carnival, an annual two-day event, Europe’s biggest street party, snakes through the streets on a five-kilometre parade route featuring steel bands and dancers in exotic carnival costumes, watched by crowds of revellers (AFP Photo/Nilas Halle’N)

Young women in reed dance for Swazi king

Swaziland’s police have confirmed that 11 young women and two men died in a road accident at the weekend on their way to an annual ceremony where the king might have chosen one of the women as his wife.
Four trucks transporting scores of young women to the traditional Umhlanga Reed Dance collided on Friday near the town of Matsapha on Swaziland’s major highway, police spokesperson Inspector Phindile Vilakati told Reuters.

Islamist militants in Libya

Reuters – Four Libyan soldiers were killed and six wounded in fresh fighting with Islamist groups in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, medics and military officials said.
Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally recognised government have been fighting Islamist groups in the country’s second-largest city Benghazi since last year, part of a wider struggle since Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011.

Victor Moses have been left out of the squad by Jose Mourinho

Nigerian international and Chelsea winger Victor Moses, 24, will join West Ham on loan before the end of the transfer window. Moses spent last season on loan at Stoke City.
Following their 2-1 loss to Swansea, Manchester United have made a £36.3m bid for Monaco forward Anthony Martial, 19, who is also on Arsenal’s radar. According to RMC Sport in French the English club might land their target before the deadline.

Kanye West said that he is running for president in 2020 during his acceptance speech for the MTV Music Video Award’s lifetime achievement honor.
West made the announcement at the end of a 10-minute-long speech where he discussed visiting the grocery store with his daughter and admitted that he does not understand awards shows.
“And yes, as you probably could’ve guessed in this moment, I’ve decided in 2020 to run for president,” West said, before walking off stage.

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has said that the introduction of Treasury Single Account, TSA, will boost revenue collection against leakages and ensure timely disbursement of funds to beneficiaries of the Federation Accounts among others.
The Accountant General of the Federal, Ahmed Idris, made the disclosure during separate courtesy visits to his office by managements of United Bank for Africa, UBA, Access Bank and Zenith Banks in his office.
He said the TSA is part of the reforms of the government to institutionalize a more effective and transparent management of public finances in the country.

Mrs Cynthia Patrick who was paid N2,500 by a Catholic school in Lagos after she was sacked over extended maternity leave.

Cyriacus Izuekwe
Crisis is brewing in a Lagos Catholic school after a woman who had worked for nine years in the school as teacher was sacked for going on maternity leave and was paid N2,500 (about $12) as her severance benefit in Ejigbo, Lagos state, western Nigeria.

President Goodluck Jonathan

Ministers who served under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, have condemned what they described as concerted effort by the Buhari administration and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to condemn, ridicule and undermine the efforts of that administration, in addition to impugning the integrity of its individual members.

This angel, laying face down, seems to have fallen from the heavens. i wonder if this can be true

“What are Jonathan’s Ministers afraid of?” Presidency asks

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria

The Presidency has asked Ministers who served under former President, Goodluck Jonathan, what they are afraid of in President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to look into how the administration spent the nation’s resources.
In a statement issued on Sunday, senior special assistant to the President on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the Presidency emphasised that there is no witch hunting or malice against anyone in the pursuit of the county’s stolen assets.

According to my sources,Former Governor of Akwa ibom state Gov Akpabio was involved in an accident this morning Monday August 31,2015 at Bolingo Junction Abuja. This happened when his lead convoy car beat the traffic light causing another car to collide right into the car Akpabio was seated in.

He has since been driven to the hospital as he sustained injures and was bleeding. I don't have pictures but this you can take this info to the Bank.

Here is hoping his injuries are not much and that he recovers well.

Nigeria professor wins N58 million jackpot betting on EPL matches

Godwin Ighodalo receiving his prize money
Sports betting has a long history in Nigeria. However, winning jackpots of over N1 million are strange here.
But history was made last week as a Computer Engineering professor from the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, won the humongous amount of N58, 945, 553 with just a N800 total bet on 1960BET.

D’Tigers celebrate their victory

President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates the national men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, on their victory over Angola in yesterday’s final of the FIBA Africa Basketball Championship in Tunisia.
“President Buhari joins other sports-loving Nigerians in applauding D’Tigers’ exhilarating 74-65 victory over their Angolan opponents which also secured Nigeria’s qualification for the men’s basketball event at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro,” a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the President read.

Cynthia shared the photo and wrote "Let’s just be honest! Let’s just be real!". She's since deleted it. Mostly likely from a video shoot? Another photo

These photos were posted by the twitter handle of Ekiti state government. It shows some civil servants who were caught coming late to work by Fayose, who paid an unscheduled visit to the state secretariat, begging him to forgive them for coming late.

Horrific Act,ISIS sets four men ablaze in Iraq

ISIS this weekend released these horrific photos of 4 men they burnt to death in Anbar, Iraq. The photos are quite graphic so be warned. See MORE PHOTOS

On Tuesday, August 25, a Rwandan pastor, Salim Mikdad, conducted what is arguably the largest conversion of Christians to Islam after he successfully got all 480 members of his congregation to switch faiths, Africa Metro reports.

These are blow by blow details of how Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mbuso Mandela, allegedly raped a 15year old girl as contained in a police statement signed by Lieutenant Dithoso Mmako of Hillbrow police's investigating unit.

"The victim, a minor female, was in the company of two friends, also minors, at Mamas Restaurant in Greenside,Johannesburg, where. they attended an arranged event," the statement reads. One of whom introduced himself to the victim as 'Mbuso Mandela'. After a conversation of about five minutes, the three males asked the three females to go with them to another place, but they declined.

I'm saying new man because who else would you let grab your butt like that? Still dressed in her outfit to the VMAs, Blac Chyna shared a photo of a mystery man grabbing butt. Looks like she wants us to know she's taken.

Kanye West triumphs over Donald Trump in new twitter poll

The people have spoken! Lol.. In a new twitter poll where people were asked to choose between Kanye West & Donald Trump as a Presidential candidate for the 2020 election, the rapper beat Trump by thousands of votes.

Pakistan, India disagree over detained Nigerian students' intentions

The Pakistani and Indian High Commissioners to Nigeria have disagreed over reports that the two Nigerian students that were arrested in India are on their way to join the terrorist group, Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.

Man finds cockroach living in his ear - then discovers it had 25 babies

A man who went to the doctors complaining of earache was horrified to discover he had a family of cockroaches living in his ear.
Not only was there a big mummy cockroach taking up residence in his ear canal, but she had spawned 25 little baby roaches.

This is what Femi Fani Kayode thinks of all the political appointments in Nigeria so far. He shared this on his Facebook wall this morning. See below...

Below is a list of all appointees made so far by president Buhari and their states of origin
1. Aide de Camp to president: Lt. Col Abubakar Lawal, [Kano State, North-West]
2. Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the president: Femi Adesina, [Osun State, South-West].
3. Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity: Garba Shehu, [Kano State, North-West].
4. State Chief of Protocol/Special Assistant (Presidential Matters): Lawal Abdullahi Kazaure, [Jigawa State, North-West].

President of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima has expressed his reservations over the recent appointments made by President Buhari. According to him, it appears the appointments are lopsided and that government should be seen as nationalistic not sectionalized

Nigerian Ambassador to the US, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye has died. He died of an undisclosed ailment at a hospital in the US yesterday August 27th. He was planning to hand over to a new ambassador when he suddenly died yesterday. He was 68 years old.

A historian by training, Mr Adefuye hailed from Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun state. He studied at the University of Ibadan where he earned his first degree in 1969 as well as a PhD in history in 1973. May his soul rest in peace. Amen

Man dies of shock after confronting burglars in his home

A man 'died of shock' after confronting a gang of burglars who had just ransacked his home.
John Donoghue, 62, is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed from the trauma of seeing the crooks

He had just returned to home in Country Limerick, when the thieves came "flying out of the house".
It is understood he was so alarmed by the sight he died on the spot.

President Buhari received letters of credence from ambassadors of Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey at State House yesterday August 27th. More photos

Beyoncé showed off these new photos of her on vacation and slayed in all of them. More photos

Twitter user @SMahmoud posted these pics of the new SSA to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives) from his 'gate climbing' days and captioned it:

"Very happy for Hon. Kawu Sumaila, now SSA Nass to the President. He literally fought for this" Lol

Hon. Kawu Sumaila was one the lawmakers who climbed the gates when a combined team of security operatives barricaded the entrance to the main complex of the National Assembly to prevent then Speaker Hon. Aminu Tambuwal from gaining access to the floor of the chamber last year.

Thai woman sentensed to death after being found guilty of trafficking cocaine in her private parts and anus

30- year-old Chonmanee Laphathanawat from Thai province of Rayong was yesterday August 27th sentenced to death by a High Court after finding her guilty of trafficking in 689.10gm of cocaine in 70 capsules hidden in her anus and her private parts.

Laphathanawat, who was detained at the Penang International Airport in Bayan Lepas in February 2013, looked calm but dejected when Judicial Commissioner Nordin Hassan pronounced the verdict. She was charged with committing the offence from about 12.50am on Feb 13 to Feb 16, 2013 at the Penang General Hospital.

In another indication of the worsening migrant crisis in Europe, an abandoned meat truck full of 70 bodies of migrants was found on the side of a highway in eastern Austria on Thursday morning Aug. 27. The truck was found on a motorway near the borders with Slovakia and Hungary by an Austrian patrol with fluids from the decomposing bodies seeping from its back.

Bobby Brown Pictured Looking Sober In Public

Bobby Brown was pictured looking sober in public with his wife months after his daughter Bobbi Kristina passed.
Mr Brown might be mourning his daughter’s death for a long time.

Rihanna is one gorgeous woman and she pretty much stuns in anything.
The 27 year old hit maker looks slightly different from her usual self in the all pink campaign for her new fragrance.

Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole says fear of president Buhari has led to the stability of power supply nationwide. Oshiomole said this at the 27th annual education conference of textile workers in Kaduna yesterday August 25th.

"I understand now that electricity supply is stable. It is just the fear of Buhari that led to the stability of power supply. The streetlights were not functioning but immediately Buhari was inaugurated, the lights came up. There is hope for Nigerians under President Buhari." he said

UNILAG releases post UTME results, says 17,935 were successful

University of Lagos has released results of its 2015 Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). According to a statement signed by the institution’s Deputy Registrar, Information, Mr Olagoke Oke, 17, 935 candidates out of the 31,955 that sat for the entrance examination were successful.

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