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The desire to appear infallible is what makes people push others to a clumsy corner of blame and condemnation. Two consenting adults in love should know better than spending their whole life trying to figure out who is right and who is wrong; there seems to be an unending battle ensuing in this regard. Blaming others for a mishap is a short route of escape for the feeble minded. The ‘proud’ is also flabbergasted by the fact that he/she has just made a mistake and thus would want to push it to others. They are too ‘important’ or ‘brilliant’ to make mistake and ever too ‘big’ to say ‘sorry’ to anyone around so they do all within their power to apportion the blame to the next available space.

Nigerian Tribune • Fayemi’s second term, a disservice to Ekiti workers - Bamidele He has lost touch with reality - Fayemi • ASUU beams searchlight on members • Varsity professors warn of brain drain in Nigeria nuclear sector •Want Jonathan’s urgent intervention • Omisore rejects calls for the postponement of Osun PDP gubernatorial primary • Fayose remains our candidate - PDP •Disowns consensus •Arise to broker peace • Insecurity: Over 700 Imams meet in Niger • Gov aspirant, Seyi Makinde, inaugurates campaign team • Yoruba people must remain united - Ashaye • 2015: APC is a failure —PDP •Says opposition party not on ground • Sack Alison-Madueke, Moro in 14 days else... •N/Delta youths tell Jonathan • Doctors, Ekiti govt set for showdown over tax

According to a report by Sahara Reporters, a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, today nullified the collection of any toll or tariff on the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge. Ruling on the suit, which was filed by human rights lawyer, Ebun Adegboruwa, presiding judge, Justice Saidu, J. held that the power of control over all navigable waterways in Nigeria resides in the Federal Government, and not any state government. He held that from all the documents made available to the court, the only justification for the toll fee on the bridge by Lagos State is the private partnership law. However, he noted that the law could not apply to the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge since it was built with the money of the Lagos State Government, without the involvement of any private partnership. “Thus, since there is no law supporting the toll fee, it is illegal and should be stopped forthwith”, Justice Saidu said.

Punch • Diezani’s jet scandal: Reps panel under pressure, uncovers third aircraft • FG seeks Abacha $550m loot from US • Immigration stampede: FG sets up fresh recruitment committee • Sultan to Jonathan: Confab composition unfair to Muslims • Court declares new number plates illegal • Defection: PDP opposes Saraki, others’ request for adjournment • Salvador knocks Bakare, Falana for rejecting confab allowance • Taraba: Late ex-SSG’s family rejects state burial • PPA blasts Jonathan for immigration tragedy • Fire: ‘No serious damage to CBN office’ • I’ll spend one term if elected Ekiti gov –Bamidele • Soldiers destroy B’Haram explosive-laden cars • Massacre: Tiv threaten reprisal • 2015: Group urges Jonathan to sack Wike • Amuneke begins screening for Eaglets • Messi would make Bayern unbeatable —Maradona • Manu names Iheanacho, Success for Flying Eagles • No superstar in Eagles, says Keshi • Community battles agents over property demolition • NDLEA arrests two with cocaine, diazepam i...

Punch • Intercontinental Bank: Shareholders sue Sanusi for N10bn • Five policemen, 32 others killed in Borno, Benue attacks • Confab: Delegates fail to agree on voting pattern • Diezani jet scandal: Reps uncover second aircraft • Sambo convenes economic council meeting, six months after • I am fit for confab – Akunyili • Ekiti: PDP aspirants reject Fayose, seek consensus candidate • Northern govs set agenda for delegates • Thugs torch Ekiti PDP secretariat • Court stops EFCC, others from arresting Olotu • Osun PDP elders picked me for gov – Adeleke • Confab: SSANU demands national labour policy • New CBN gov, A’Court president face Senate today • Fire guts CBN office in Lagos • Delegates reject conference plan to revoke media accreditation • UNIOSUN engages OPC to protect students from rapists • Elections: CBN to withdraw N360bn from banks • Refineries likely for privatisation this year —NCP • Jonathan didn’t say NNPC withheld $10bn —Presidency

Punch • Intercontinental Bank: Shareholders sue Sanusi for N10bn • Five policemen, 32 others killed in Borno, Benue attacks • Confab: Delegates fail to agree on voting pattern • Diezani jet scandal: Reps uncover second aircraft • Sambo convenes economic council meeting, six months after • I am fit for confab – Akunyili • Ekiti: PDP aspirants reject Fayose, seek consensus candidate • Northern govs set agenda for delegates • Thugs torch Ekiti PDP secretariat • Court stops EFCC, others from arresting Olotu • Osun PDP elders picked me for gov – Adeleke • Confab: SSANU demands national labour policy • New CBN gov, A’Court president face Senate today • Fire guts CBN office in Lagos • Delegates reject conference plan to revoke media accreditation • UNIOSUN engages OPC to protect students from rapists • Elections: CBN to withdraw N360bn from banks • Refineries likely for privatisation this year —NCP • Jonathan didn’t say NNPC withheld $10bn —Presidency

Punch • Intercontinental Bank: Shareholders sue Sanusi for N10bn • Five policemen, 32 others killed in Borno, Benue attacks • Confab: Delegates fail to agree on voting pattern • Diezani jet scandal: Reps uncover second aircraft • Sambo convenes economic council meeting, six months after • I am fit for confab – Akunyili • Ekiti: PDP aspirants reject Fayose, seek consensus candidate • Northern govs set agenda for delegates • Thugs torch Ekiti PDP secretariat • Court stops EFCC, others from arresting Olotu • Osun PDP elders picked me for gov – Adeleke • Confab: SSANU demands national labour policy • New CBN gov, A’Court president face Senate today • Fire guts CBN office in Lagos • Delegates reject conference plan to revoke media accreditation • UNIOSUN engages OPC to protect students from rapists • Elections: CBN to withdraw N360bn from banks • Refineries likely for privatisation this year —NCP • Jonathan didn’t say NNPC withheld $10bn —Presidency

Weezy breaks down his new position in rap during CRWN interview with Elliott Wilson. Lil Wayne's thoughts on being the "Best Rapper Alive" ha ve changed since he first made the proclamation back in 2005. The YMCMB head honcho still believes in the strength of his talent and has the record sales to back it up, but these days his focus is directed towards cultivating the acts on his roster, he said, during a SXSW edition of journalist Elliott Wilson's  CRWN   interview series last Friday (March 17).

The leader of a military coup that plunged Mali into chaos two years ago and allowed Islamists to seize its desert north has started a hunger strike to protest against the conditions of his detention, legal and military sources said on Thursday. General Amadou Sanogo was arrested and charged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers loyal to toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure. Authorities have discovered 30 bodies, some of them in military uniforms, in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati, just outside the capital Bamako.

Former VP Atiku Abubakar says he is the highest employer of labour by any single private investor in Nigeria. He stated this in a series of tweets yesterday using the hash tag #LetsTalkJobs. He also stated his efforts in driving policies that brought about the development of the telecoms sector in Nigeria where a large number of youths now work. See the tweets below

We are excited to announce to you that Wazobia FM On air personality,  Akatakpo Anthony popularly called Diplomatic  Akas Baba who was abducted   from his residence  in Port - Harcourt last Thursday, 13th of March, has been released by his abductors  and reunited with his family in the early hours of this morning  . His wife confirmed his release.

Vanguard • Jonathan challenges court's jurisdiction to reverse Sanusi's   suspension • IMMIGRATION tragedy: Dead candidates get 3 job slots each • Nigeria’s oil industry at risk over high cost - IOCs • Jonathan orders cancellation of Immigration recruitment • Alamieyeseigha’s loot: Court summons EFCC, Lamorde • U17 World Cup: Nigeria beat Colombia, book quarter final ticket • Of Civil Conduct, High Office • Ekiti 2014: Fayemi picks nomination form • Recruitment tragedy: ‘NIS is liable’ • Nigeria’s oil industry at risk over high cost – IOCs • Budget defence: CBN overshot its 2013 estimates by N326bn • Amadu: Beating Iran vital at WC • DEATH AT NIS APTITUDE TEST: Educationists make case for unemployed youths • Defection: Court gives ‘rebel’ govs 7 days to respond to PDP’s motion • No jamboree in Brazil World Cup, House Committee warns NFF • Our Boko Haram hell — Rep Terab

One of the deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu has spoken for the first time on the suspension of Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by President Goodluck Jonathan, blaming Sanusi for overstepping his bounds. Moghalu spoke with London’s Independent Newspaper on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum in Geneva. The Independent quoted him as saying: “The lesson that can be drawn from it is the limits of central bank independence… There is a very thin line between central bank independence and… political posturing.” In support of President Jonathan’s government, he said: “The president of Nigeria and the government of Nigeria have never in my knowledge interfered with the function of the central bank. And therefore I think we need to give them credit for respecting [its] independence.”

I can’t believe my eyes!!! Do you think that should be coming out from a public figure who is mean’t to be representing the people? Abike verbally attacked the student after he inquired about her  political party , All progressives Congress (APC) and mocked her for taking a stand against the federal government on the Nigerian  Immigration Service  stampede when she is actually part of the Government. Read  tweet  between Hon. Abike Dabiri and a student of Covenant University below:

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that three employment slots be reserved for the families of those who died during the stampede that occurred during the recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigerian Immigration Service on Saturday nationwide. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting which was devoted to the incident. He said one of the three beneficiaries must be a lady. Jonathan also directed that all those who sustained injuries and are currently hospitalised be given automatic employment in the service. While ordering that the ill-fated exercise be cancelled, the President set up a committee led by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, to conduct a fresh exercise. The committee has the Comptroller-General of NIS as well as representatives of the Inspector-General of Police and the heads of the Nigerian Security and Civil De...

The Federal Government has announced the cancellation of all ongoing recruitment exercise by its ministries, departments, and agencies, MDAs. The government, however, said the military and the police were exempted from the directive. The cancellation comes five days after about 20 people died during a recruitment exercise by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS. The government also condoled with the family of the victims of the NIS tragedy. Already, the Nigeria Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has commenced investigations into the NIS recruitment tragedy where stampede in various venues across the country led to the death of the job seekers on Saturday. There have been widespread calls by Nigerians for the removal of both the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro and The Comptroller-General of Immigration, David Parradang, from office. More details later…

The Welshman has been rewarded with an £85,000-a-week deal and the Spain star has extended his stay until 2017, while the teenager has signed his first professional contract Aaron Ramsey and Santi Cazorla and teenage sensation Gedion Zelal em have given Arsenal a triple boost by signing new contracts, Goal understands. Ramsey has penned a new £85,000-a-week deal that lifts him into the second tier of earners at Emirates Stadium, alongside fellow British stars Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott. Ramsey's current deal runs until 2018 and is worth £60,000-a-week. Cazorla has committed to a contract that extends his agreement with the club by a year until 2017 and increases his wages to £80,000-a-week. The two established stars have been joined by highly rated rookie Zelalem, who has signed his first professional contract. The midfielder, 17, has already made his first-team debut and is regarded by staff as a future Arsenal regular.

The suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has issued a statement responding to allegations of financial recklessness leveled against him by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria and the Nigerian presidency. In the lengthy statement distributed to the media early this morning, Mr. Sanusi denied any wrongdoing, saying  he had already sent a detailed response to the presidency. Read his full press statement below.

Punch • Tension in Kaduna as death toll hits 114 • PDP owes me, says Atiku • Delegates converge on Abuja as national confab begins • Sanusi to Jonathan: Allegations against me baseless • Bakare says he won’t receive allowance • NLC opposes calls for subsidy removal • CBN under Sanusi gave APC N1bn – PDP • Vote for credible candidates – Kumuyi • Immigration tragedy: Families demand release of corpses • ‘Nwabueze missed a great opportunity’ • Court commences hearing on suit against confab Tuesday • Fresh search for a new Nigeria begins • Osun delegate claims ignorance of Yoruba agenda • I have great hope in confab – Osoba • Brazil 2014 watch: Mba, Osaze score again • Liverpool beat United at Old Trafford • 403 activists sign petition for NIS boss’ sacking • Of surveillance, Internet and www at 25

Prophet TB Joshua has said the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 which left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on Saturday, and has been declared missing is deep down in the sea. The prophet said all the 239 people on board and crew members are a ll dead. Here is how he made the revelation; ''The plane concerned is deep inside the sea. Some of the particles will be seen on the surface of the sea any moment from now. May their souls rest in peace; we pray the Lord gives the family and loved ones the strength to bear the loss. Our prayer and love are always with them, the nation of Malaysia and other countries that had passengers on this flight''. But United State counter-terrorism officials are not in agreement with TB Joshua on this one. They suspect it is possible the plane was intentionally hijacked and a secret technology has proved to them that the plane still flew in the air for more than four hours after it was declared missing.

Punch • We won’t repeal anti-gay law, FG tells UN • State finance commissioners call for fuel subsidy removal • Gunmen kill 69 in Katsina • Reps uncover fresh missing N35bn • Kidnappers fed me with garri and oil – Jonathan’s uncle • We won’t repeal anti-gay law, FG tells UN • Killers after me —Omisore • Soldiers fighting B’Haram not getting adequate welfare – Tambuwal • Jonathan has repositioned education in Nigeria, says Wike • Jonathan assures corps members of safety • 30 million Nigerians without electricity —FG • Nigerians are no longer safe –ACF • ‘PDP’ll compensate aggrieved members’ • Violence again mars voter registration in Osun • Politics not about insults –Jonathan • Ekiti: APC knocks INEC for poor voter registration

As the  controversy  continues over whether or not singer B. Howard is the biological son of  Michael Jackson , Konvict Muzik head honcho  Akon  took a moment to weigh in. The Senegalese singer, who collaborated with the King of Pop on the song "Hold My Hand," has also worked with Howard as both a musician and an executive, and said he's always noticed a striking resemblance between the two. "I've known B. for such a long time, and there's always been this thing about how similar his mannerisms are and how close he resembles Michael Jackson," Akon told  BET.com . "From the speaking to everything, there was always that question there."

An  estate agent , Otunba Kehinde Adeosun, has been battered by angry youths in Abule -Egba area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, for allegedly storming the area with thugs to remove the roofs, doors and  windows  of their houses.   The victim who is nursing a broken skull is receiving treatment at a  hospital . The suspected thugs also vandalised the house of a local chief who had fled the area to avoid being attacked.  P.m News  gathered that youths in the community mobilized and went to the agent’s house to attack him and his son. The clash followed a land dispute which had lingered for many years in the area  but was recently resolved by a Supreme Court judgement, affirming the Iyorun Family of Awori Abule-Egba as the rightful owner of the controversial land.

Prolific music producer Babatunde Okungbowa aka OJB who is currently working on his album which is expected to drop in June has set up a kidney related foundation that would focus on helping kidney patients in the country. OJB who is still recuperating from a Kidney transplant he had last year in India spoke with Encomium magazine about the Foundation "It  would be called OJB Foundation. We are trying to set up one or more dialysis centers which patients will use at highly affordable cost. To this end we are discussing with partners who would make this happen. We are about to start the programme. We don't just want to be begging for funds. We have to look for a sustainable format. So we want to start a Save 20 campaign. From there, we move on with the support of the private sector, Government and Non Governmental Organizations, NGO" OJB said.

Popular Wazobia FM Port Harcourt On-Air-Personality, Anthony Akatakpo, popularly known as Akas Baba was shot in the leg and kidnapped from his home in Rumuekini this morning around 2 by unknown gunmen.   READ MORE:  http://news.naij.com/61645.html Singer Djinee, who is a friend and currently resides in Port Harcourt, confirmed the news and said the gunmen took him away in a Mistsubishi Endeavor SUV after shooting him in the leg. One of his colleagues told me that Akas Baba's wife, Candy Akatakpo has already been contacted by the kidnappers, asking for N10million for his release...but I can't confirm that. Anyone with any useful information should contact the nearest Police stations or send sms to 08099930063 or WazobiaFM studio sms portal at 32355.

Racheal Dilly, 48 year old mother of three who got diagnosed with HIV in 2004 said prior to her diagnosis had thought HIV/AIDS only affected Africans because she didn't know any white person who had the disease at the time. Speaking with hosts of ITV Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, yesterday, Racheal Dilly said she got infected after she dated a man she met online and had unprotected sex with him. She said she started falling ill when they ended their relationship and she was asked to go do HIV test after all other test conducted read negative. "I just didn't know anything about it. I just thought you got it in Africa. I didn't know a white person had ever got it". Dilly said to her amazed hosts yesterday. How ignorant!

Following the increase in rape cases being reported in the country, The Nigerian Police Force on Tuesday March 11th through its Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Abayomi Shogunle, took to Twitter to caution men and women...

The police have rescued Nengote Nitabai, an uncle to President Goodluck Jonathan, kidnapped on Sunday, Feb. 23, Bayelsa Commissioner of Police, Hilary Okpara, has said. The Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, Hilary Okpara, who also confirmed the development in a telephone chat on Thursday, said the septuagenarian was freed in Odioma community, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa. Mr. Nitabai, 70, a community leader in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa, was on February 23 abducted by gunmen and taken to unknown destination. Mr. Okpara had dispelled rumours that the septuagenarian had died in the hands of his abductors; and assured that the police was closing in on the hoodlums.

Punch • Violence as voter registration begins in Osun • National confab lacks legitimacy —Northern elders • Controversy surrounds Gusau’s purported resignation • Suswam, cause of our clashes with Tiv – Herdsmen • Missing funds: Jonathan approves forensic audit of NNPC • Libya ex-PM leaves country despite ban • Gaza militants fire rocket barrage at Israel • G7 warns Russia on ‘annexing’ Crimea • PDP slams Amaechi’s good governance conference • Ijaw youths fault Bugaje’s claim on N’Delta oil • Judge’s absence stalls Sanusi’s suit against Jonathan • Defecting senators await court verdict • UN rights chief visits Nigeria over anti-gay law • ‘Insurgency in the North’ll end soon’ • US urges politicians to shun electoral violence

Petrol scarcity continues in some parts of the country with filling stations in Jos and its environs shut down on Tuesday for lack of supply. Only the NNPC mega filling station on Murtala Muhammed Way, Jos, dispensed the product to consumers at the official pump price of N97 per litre, NAN reported. The scarcity has jacked up black market prices to between N130 and N150 a litre. The continued scarcity and the hardship Nigerians still face in getting fuel made the leading opposition party, the APC to accuse the PDP-led Federal Government of acting out a clandestine script to increase fuel prices through the back door. The APC contended that the nation-wide fuel scarcity may have been induced to make higher fuel prices a fait accompli for Nigerians.

Malaysian Police have released images of the two men who boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines flight with stolen passports but say one of the men, 19-year-old Iranian Pouria Nur Mohammad Mehrdad, (pictured left) is known to them and they do not think he is a terrorist.  The police say the teenager is an Iranian asylum seeker on his way to Germany Malaysian police say the identity of the other man is still under investigation and no longer strongly believes that the missing plane was attacked by terrorists. They say are now looking into four main areas: sabotage, hijacking or psychological problems among either the crew or the passengers.

T HE  29-year-old businesswoman, Olanike Olaiya, who was allegedly raped by popular  Fuji  musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, also known as  Obesere , has called on police authorities not to allow the matter to be swept under the carpet so that she will not die.  According to her, Obesere’s insertion of his ring in her private part, leading to bleeding and pain, may not be unconnected with ritual activities. The graduate of Ibadan Polytechnic also said she was not impressed by the way the case was being handled at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos. She accused the Investigating Police Officer, simply known as Jacob, of wanting to frustrate the investigation in favour of Obesere.