Lady Gaga Shows Stretch Marks On Her Bréasts and Panties (PHOTOS)

Could it be that this lady enjoys exposing her body or can we just conclude that she doesn’t like clothes?

She wore this to promote her new video in New York.

No Renegotiation On ASUU’s Paltry N87bn, National Assembly Spent N1tn In 8 Years – APC

The Federal Government should honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in order to end the ongoing strike that has paralyzed academic activities in government-owned universities, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.

The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that no government can afford to play with education, because it is the path to national
development.

According to the party, ASUU was not making any fresh demands beyond the agreement it reached with the government in 2009, adding: “Agreements are meant to be honoured, and breaching them comes with some consequences.”

APC said the industrial action by the university lecturers which has kept students in public universities at home for many weeks is a further blow to the country’s education system which has deteriorated so much that no Nigerian university is currently listed in the top 100 universities in the world and only a few Nigerian universities have made the top 100 in Africa.

“The 87 billion naira that ASUU is demanding represents earned allowances hence cannot be renegotiated. In any case, this amount pales into insignificance when placed side by side with the 1 trillion naira that has been spent on federal legislators in the past 8 years; or the frivolity involved in a government minister travelling to China to negotiate a $1 billion loan in a chartered jet (with its attendant costs) and with a retinue of staffers who earned generous estacode in hard currency.

“It is an indication of the kind of priority that this Federal Government attaches to education that while it has refused to meet its own side of an agreement it reached with ASUU since 2009, it could pay out 3 trillion naira in non-existent fuel subsidies to fat cats, spend 10 billion naira annually to maintain the jets in the presidential fleet and do little or nothing to prevent the stealing of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day, which translates to $120 million in a month, money that surely ends up in some people’s pockets!

“What we are saying is that if the Federal Government would reduce its profligacy and cut waste, there will be enough money to pay teachers in public universities, as well as fund research and upgrade infrastructure in such institutions. Hungry teachers can neither teach well nor carry out research. And poorly-taught students can neither excel nor propel their nation to great
heights,” the statement said.

The party also registered its disgust at the demonstrated nonchalance of those who should be working round the clock to resolve the crisis, especially the Minister of State for Education Nyeson Wike, who the party said has enough time on his hands “to be launching vigilance groups and dancing ‘palongo’ around town when the nation’s public universities are shut and students are languishing. This is shameful and totally unacceptable.”

“We are not surprised because most government officials have sent their children and wards to foreign universities, hence do not give a damn if the children of others are in school or not.

“Education is the key to national development. This is why UNESCO has recommended an allocation of at least 26% of national budgets to that critical sector. Therefore, talking about national growth and development without adequately funding education is a pipe dream!” APC said.

Okada Rider Allegedly Shot Dead For Resisting Policemen

A Policeman attached to Ikorodu Police Division in Lagos State, yesterday, allegedly shot a commercial motorcycle (okada) rider to death, leading to pandemonium around Ojubode area where the incident happened as other okada riders took to the streets to protest the killing. Commuters and residents scampered for safety as the protest heated up; shops and offices were also shut for hours by owners for fear of the situation getting more awry than it already was.

An eye witnesses said the motorcyclist identified simply as Haruna, met his untimely death when the Policemen stormed the area to impound his motorcycle but the deceased refused arrest on the ground that the Policemen visited last weekend asking him to part with an undisclosed amount of money.

To his surprise, the same Policemen came back yesterday to impound the motorcycle and out of annoyance, Haruna refused to release the motorcycle to them, and started struggling with one of the Policemen.

Reports say one of the Policemen fired a shot at him, which led to his death.

The corpse was later removed by the Policemen to an unknown destination while scores of motorcyclists were said to have gathered at the palace of the Oba of Ikorodu to protest the killing.

Chairman, Motorcyclists Association of Lagos State, MOALS, Ikorodu zone popularly called ‘Jendor’, who spoke to Vanguard described the incident as barbaric and therefore called on government to bring the perpetrators to book.

“As you can see, we are very busy now, you can hear a lot of noise from our members. This is too much for us to bear,” he said.

Amaechi Commissions $4.5m Aleto-Eleme Water Scheme Project

Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers, on Tuesday inaugurated a 4.5 million Dollars (N720 m) Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) sponsored water scheme project at Aleto-Eleme

Amaechi said at the inauguration in Aleto-Eleme, in Eleme local government that the project would supply portable drinking water to about 40, 000 people in five communities in the area.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project is in-line with the recommendation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report on the area.

The Report stated that oil spills had contaminated both surface and ground water at levels more than 900 times above the World Health Organisation (WHO) prescribed safety limit.

It recommended that the Nigerian authorities compel multinational oil companies operating in the area to clean up the pollution caused by decades of oil exploration in the area.

Amaechi said that SPDC provided about 4.5 million dollars for the project while the state government executed it.

He explained that SPDC was not responsible for the oil pollution in Aleto-Eleme but agreed to fund the project as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.

“To an Eleme man; there is no difference between SPDC and NNPC and so for me as a Governor of Rivers state I get very worried that we are losing people every day because of the (crude) oil that they are collecting.

“Companies are collecting our oil; companies are collecting our money and our people are dying. We need to get water first to Eleme, and then we go to Khana, Tai, Okirika and Oyibo.

“The water scheme will feed about 40, 000 Eleme people. I have directed the Commissioner for Water Resources to expand the Eleme water scheme so that it can reach the remaining communities that don’t have; no politics about that.

“The council chairman and His Royal Majesty (of Eleme) will arrange to set up a community-based team and their responsibility is to ensure that they manage the funding (for maintenance) and the water.”

Amaechi thanked SPDC for its initial approach of “trucking of portable water to some local communities” before the completion of the water scheme.

In his response, Managing Director of SPDC, Mr Mutiu Sunmonu, who was represented by SPDC Director for Business and Government Relations unit, Mr. Jimmy Ahmed said the project which started in Aug. 2012, was aimed to address potable water challenges faced by some communities.

He said the project was executed through a public-private partnership which involved SPDC providing the funds and technical expertise, while the state government provided infrastructure, supervision and management.

The paramount ruler of the area, Chief Samuel Oluka Ejire expressed optimism that the water scheme would reduce mortality rate caused by polluted water.

He said the project meant that “both SPDC and the government have partly elongated our lives and for which we are happy and excited”. (NAN)

20-year-old Sentenced To Three Months Community Service For Stealing A Blackberry Phone

An Oshodi Magistrates’ court in Lagos has sentenced 20-year-old Samuel Emmanuel to three months community service after he pleaded guilty to stealing a Blackberry mobile phone valued at N21,000.

The Magistrate, Mr Akeem Fashola, ruled: “You (Emmanuel) are hereby sentenced to three months community service without an option of fine since you have pleaded guilty to the charge.”

Fashola said the accused should serve the punishment within Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area.

Police prosecutor, Cpl. Kehinde Olatunde, had earlier told the court that the accused committed the offence on August 9 at Odalume Street, Sogunle.

Olatunde said the accused stole the phone belonging to Dolapo Audu, where he was charging it.

“Audu was charging his phone at a viewing centre when the accused, who came pretending he wanted to play games, stole it.

“When the accused was arrested the following day, he confessed that he had sold the phone to someone in Ikeja Computer Village for N10,000.”

Olatunde said the offence contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

FG Bans Sale Of Drugs In Open Market

The Federal Government, yesterday, announced that from June 30, 2014, drugs would no longer be sold in the open market in Nigeria, declaring an emergency in drug distribution system in the country to address the chaotic situation.

Consequently, the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has introduced State and Mega Drug Distribution Centres, SMDDCs, to tackle challenges posed by the present drug distribution system in the country.

Speaking at a stakeholders’ sensitisation meeting, ahead of the commissioning of Megacentre pharmaceuticals Limited, Onitsha, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the uncoordinated drug distribution in Nigeria had posed a big challenge to the pharmaceutical sector. He said fake, adulterated and sub-standard drugs in circulation constituted a threat to the healthcare delivery system.

Represented by the Director, National Drug Policy Programme, Mrs. Joyce Ugwu, Chukwu traced the present uncoordinated drug distribution in the country to import liberalisation in the early 80’s which allowed all manners of people to import drugs into the country.

Lamenting that Nigeria was still faced with challenges of illegal open drug markets, he announced that the present States’ Central Medical Stores, CMSs, could be used as the take-off hubs for the newly introduced State Drug Distribution Centres, SDDCs.

He said: “The main attraction of the new National Drug Distribution Guidelines is that drugs will no longer be sold in open market with effect from June 30, 2014, as manufacturers and importers will channel drugs to only SDDCs, MDDCs and other channels in the provisions of the guidelines, while defaulters will face varying degrees of sanctions. Healthcare facilities at all levels, including private facilities, are guided by the guidelines in their drug procurement activities in order to avoid the current practice that is lacking in professionalism.

Corroborating, the Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, said: “We have not really had an effective way of sanitizing drug distribution in Nigeria and that remains a major challenge. While the new guideline provides a distribution channel which would help identify sources of drugs at every level of healthcare and create orderliness in drug distribution system, this move will ameliorate the chaotic nature in the present drug distribution system which encourages sales and distribution of sub standard medicines in open drug market among genuine brands.”

Chinese Man Pays Fine In Coins — 18 Bank Workers Count Money Whole Day

China — Bank workers in Kunming, Yunnan province in Southwest China, spent eight hours counting 5,000 yuan (N131,017) in one jiao (0.1 yuan) coins thanks to a Chinese man who paid an assault fine with some serious spite. 

Last year, a woman with the surname Wu was eating at a noodle shop where she and her husband reportedly got into an altercation with the owner.

The argument turned physical, with Wu suffering a brain contusion and her husband leaving with three broken ribs.
A court awarded Wu damages. After paying her the bulk of the 68,000 yuan ($11,000, or N1,781,825) fine, the noodle restaurant owner gave the remaining 10,000 yuan ($1,600, or N262,033) in eight large bags of coins.
Wu deposited half of the change, which took 18 peeved bank workers all day. Though this means that Wu is still chilling with a few hundred thousand Naira in Chinese coins.