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NEW YEAR WISH: GOD, PLEASE I NEED A WIFE -OSITA IHEME (PAWPAW)

With his screen twin brother, Chinedu Ikedieze (Aki) already married and expecting a first child with Nneoma, his darling wife, Osita Iheme famously known as Pawpaw is quietly crying and eagerly searching for a wife and soul mate this New Year.
And to prove how serious his search for a life partner is, the Nollywood phenomenon has taken his case to God in supplications.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with EE, the Imo State-born entertainer who was raised in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, disclosed that he would like to settle down this year with his missing rib.

STELLA DIMOKO KORKUS RESPONDS TO NUELLA NJUBIGBO'S PRESS STATEMENT

Was expecting this and it's here! Haha! Find the response from entertainment journalist, Stella Dimoko Korkus to Nuella's press statement below...

Dear Nuella,

I saw the press release and I am still laughing...laughing because you did the right thing by standing up to defend yourself but you used the wrong words and you focused on the wrong topic. I was not the only blog who broke that story, in fact I was the second person who broke the story and the other blog has other details you might also choose to respond to..check www.bononline.tv

The story there is as follows: ''When you see Nuella Njubigbo ride in her Toyota Highlander, please know that it is Rivers state tax payers money moving in action as it was a gift from Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi for all the love she has been showering on him since they met coincidentally through a desperate businessman looking from patronage from the Governor.

THE LATE GOV YAKOWA’S ONLY BROTHER DIES AT 51

The only surviving male child in the late Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa’s family is dead.

Adamu Yakowa who was ill died yesterday in General Hospital Kafanchan, Kaduna State at the age of 51. His death came less than a month after the death of his elder brother, Governor Yakowa in a Naval chopper crash in Nenge village, Bayelsa State.

“Adamu, a retired Vehicle Inspection Officer [VIO], fell sick the same week his brother, Yakowa died.  The late Adamu was a gentleman and peace loving.

“He left behind his wife and five children,” a close member of the family, Engr. Micheal Dos said.

30 DIE IN PIPELINE FIRE

Disaster struck early yesterday morning at Arepo Village, Owode in Ogun State when a fire outbreak roasted no fewer than 30 suspected vandals allegedly siphoning petroleum products from a ruptured Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline. Sunday Sun learnt that the fire which started at about 2am was sparked off by vandals who were arguing over who is eligible to fetch from the ruptured pipeline.

It was in the heat of the argument that one of them accidentally released a bullet that led to several explosions. However, operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit, Force Headquarters Annex, Lagos, who were on patrol rushed to the scene to avert further disaster. Sunday Sun learnt that it was in the process that they arrested a medical doctor, Dr Adegboyega (first name withheld by us) and one of the survivors Sunday Reuben on their way to the hospital.

SSS ARRESTS BOKO HARAM MEMBER IN EX-REP’S HOUSE

The State Security Service (SSS) has arrested a Boko Haram member, Hassan Pagi Bukar, at the residence of a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tijani Umara Kumalia.

Bukar is suspected of visiting Abuja to wreak some havoc. The ex-lawmaker was interrogated by the SSS on Friday.

He denied having any link with Boko Haram.

Investigation revealed that the suspect,who has been on the wanted list of security agencies,was arrested at the residence of the ex-lawmaker in Gwarinpa District of Abuja following a tip-off by some people.

PDP CRISES: JONATHAN SLAMS TUKUR, NYAKO

•Forbids chairman, governor’s sons from contesting 2016 governorship

The crises in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new dimension at the weekend with President Goodluck Jonathan wielding the big stick.

In the aftermath of the power tussle between the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako, President Goodluck has now forbidden their sons, Awwal Tukur and Abdul-Aziz Nyako from contesting the 2016 governorship election in the state.

SAMBO, OBASANJO’S SECRET PACT EXPOSED

The political woes of President Goodluck Jonathan continues unabated, with some of his closest associates and trusted allies now alleged to be pulling the rock off his feet, as far as the 2015 Presidential elections is concerned.

Jonathan’s Vice, Mohammed Namadi Sambo, is believed to be working assiduously against his boss to ensure that power does not only return to the North, but in a way that he (Sambo) plays an influential role in the next administration.

Our source said that the Vice-President has been working secretly with the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, towards scuttling Jonathan’s second term ambition in 2015.

After the death and burial of the former Kaduna State governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, who died in a helicopter crash along aside the former National Security Adviser (NSA), General Andrew Owoeye Azazi in Bayelsa State on December 15, 2012, Obasanjo visited the mourning state to commiserate with the people of Kaduna.

N15M HIDDEN UNDER CAR SEATS

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted over N15 million cash hidden under the seats and footmats of a car with three nationals of Niger Republic. The Nigeriens were nabbed while entering the country. Apparently aware that the trunk of the car would be searched at the various checkpoints, the smart Nigeriens neatly stashed the cash where security agents hardly check.

Comptroller of Customs in-charge of Katsina/Kaduna Area Command, Yusuf Umar, who paraded the suspects identified as Abdulrasheed Usman (22), his brother Salisu (21), and Bishir Abdullahi (30), before newsmen in Katsina at the weekend, confirmed that nothing was found in the boot of the suspects’ car, a Honda Academy, with Nigerian registration number, ABUJA ABJ 602 AE, when they were intercepted at Makera checkpoint on Jibia –Katsina road. Mr. Umar stated that the suspects, who could be financial agents of a Bureau De Change operator, took a bush path into Nigeria to evade scanning machines of the Customs Service at Jibia international border.

LIBEL: PRESIDENCY BEGS BUHARI

The presidency has convinced former head of state General Muhammadu Buhari to settle out of court the libel suit he had initiated against the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Dr Reuben Abati.

Abati had on page 51 of the April 22, 2011, edition of The Guardian newspaper, written an opinion article entitled “For the attention of General Buhari”. In it, he claimed that Buhari made an inciting statement which led to the post-election violence that rocked some parts of the north.

The former presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), however, regarded the publication as defamatory, intended to lower his integrity and to bring him into public ridicule. Buhari consequently dragged Abati and The Guardian to court via suit no. ID/837/2011 and demanded N1billion damages from them.

LUCKY IGBINEDION BARRED FROM ENTERING US

The US Department of State may have barred the former governor of Edo state, Mr. Lucky Igbinedion from, entering the United States of America because of money laundering. 

According to an onliine portal, Sahara Reporters, the American consular authorities had written to Igbinedion to tell him that he was no longer welcome in the US.

Source indicated that the former governor, who has been convicted for corrupt practices shortly after  his governorship term, had multiple entry visas to the US and  has received a letter that notified him of the revocation of his visa.

Igbinedion was a two-term governor in Edo State where he looted the treasury mindlessly, according to documents gathered by the EFCC.

NEUROLOGIST ALARMED OVER RISE IN CASES OF STROKE, ADVOCATES EARLY DIAGNOSIS

A CONSULTANT neurologist, Dr. Francis Ojini, has expressed concern over increase in incidences of stroke among middle-aged and young people in the society.

Ojini told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Saturday in Lagos that though there are no available statistics of cases, the increasing number of young people with hypertension is worrisome.

He said that stroke, which used to be seen as an illness common to the elderly, is currently afflicting the young.

“Many of our hypertensive patients now are the young and middle-aged, and there are other risk factors that can cause hypertension in the young. Change to a western diet has given rise to increase in the prevalence of diabetes; so, these too, will act as risk factors for stroke in the young.

THE GREAT LOSS: A SISTER’S TRIBUTE TO HER LATE BROTHER

Ojia Adamolekun is the only sister the Ademolekun brothers had. Her younger brother, Irawo, was murdered in traffic on Friday while her elder brother, Imole, died nine years ago in a car accident.

This was her tribute to Imole on her blog, Sweetness.blogspot.com, on March 3, 2010:

“Affliction shall not rise a second time,” says the Lord.

It was about 6am on May 16, 2004. My phone was ringing so loud I had to get up; it was my mum and I was wondering why she was calling me that early. I picked up my phone and said, “Good morning mum.” She replied in a troubled tone and said, “Good morning baby, sorry I had to wake you up but this is really important and I want you to listen carefully.”

I sat up immediately and I said, “Mummy is there a problem? Is everything alright?”

“I just had a terrible dream about your brothers, that one of them had a bandage around his head and his right thigh,” she said.

DOCTOR, 27, MURDERED IN LAGOS TRAFFIC

A gunman operating on a motorcycle on Friday shot and killed a 27-year-old medical doctor, Irawo Adamolekun, at the Anthony Village end of Ikorodu Road, Lagos.

Irawo, who was driving in a black Sephia II Kia saloon car with Lagos number plate GP 388 AAA was shot at about 3:15pm in front of the traffic warden spot linking Access Road to Ikorodu Road.

It was learnt that the Ondo State indigene who had just left Osuntuyi Medical Centre, Obanikoro, where he works, was shot after he declined to part with valuables when the gunman attempted to rob him in traffic.

Eyewitnesses said the gunman who was wearing a three-quarter length short, shot the deceased at close range, mounted a waiting motorcycle on the other side of the road and fled the scene.

REVEALED: 2ND TERM GOVS BEHIND PDP CRISIS

GOVERNORS on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose tenure will expire by 2015, have been linked to the unfolding crisis rocking the party.

Investigations by Sunday Tribune revealed that the fear of the unkown among this class of governors is responsible for, first, the uprising against the national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, with calls already inundating the Presidency for his replacement and, second, the inability to elect a successor to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who resigned as chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT).

BEHOLD! ALHAJI WHO SELLS STOLEN GOODS FOR ROBBERS

IBRAHIM Animasaun is very popular at Beere area of Ibadan. He sells video cassettes, handset casings  and phone accessories in his shop. He is well known as an Alhaji and has two silver teeth to confirm his pilgrimage to Mecca in the past.

 However, his other side that was unknown to many people, except members of his caucus, was that he wined and dined with wanted criminals, while he was also a receiver of stolen items like phones, laptops and jewellery from a car-snatching syndicate. Not only that, his home at Alekuso area was alleged to be the take-off point whenever the gang working for Alhaji Biggie, a car dealer based in Abuja, wanted to go on operation.

WHY FG CANNOT EDUCATE ALL NIGERIANS — VP

Vice President Muhammad Namadi Sambo yesterday said government alone cannot ensure education for all Nigerians because the sector is capital intensive.

Sambo made this known in Zaria at the 20th Anniversary and Annual General Meeting of the Zaria Education Development Association (ZEDA), which took place at the Kongo Conference Hotel, Zaria.

The Vice President, who was represented by Kaduna State Governor Muktar Ramalan Yero, said for Nigeria to record meaningful progress in the education sector, all hands must be on deck.