The late Meni, younger brother of President Goodluck Jonathan was on
Saturday laid to rest in the absence of northern governors who preferred
to attend the wedding ceremonies of Vice-President Namadi Sambo’s
daughters in Kaduna.
Also, no South-West governor attended the funeral of Meni which was
held at the St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Otuoke in Ogbia Local
Government Area, Bayelsa State.
Jonathan, who was in a pensive mood, said his brother, 47, who passed on in Abuja on November 20, suffered cardiac arrest.
Jonathan, accompanied by his wife, Patience, his mother, Eunice, his
children, wives and children of the late Meni, said there were no signs
of death when the late Meni accompanied him to Abuja after his private
visit to his hometown.
He said, “What worries me is that he died suddenly. He came to my
house. Nobody carried him. We discussed but he was a bit frail. I asked
him to follow us so that he could do medical check-up. He drove down to
Yenagoa to board the chopper to Abuja. He got to Abuja that Saturday and
he was admitted in the hospital.
“The following Monday, his breathing changed. I decided to make an
arrangement to let him get treatment outside. Unfortunately, he had a
cardiac arrest at the State House clinic.
“We were making arrangements to move him to the National Hospital. It
is a very sad thing. He has been covering the home front for us. He was
a very humble person. He was a reliable and trustworthy person that you
can ask to handle things for you.”
The President said he was surprised at the crowd and personalities who turned up for the burial.
He said, “In some traditions, I’m not supposed to be in the church.
There is a tradition that you don’t bury your younger ones. Luckily for
this community, we don’t have too many of these cultural and traditional
things.
“I know that people will surely die but I believe that people should
live to an age. It is quite sad that Nigerians are pulled to the
community to bury my younger brother. He was very young. God knows
best. It is not how long you stay on earth but the little impact you
make that matters.”
Our correspondent observed that while government contractors,
business moguls, actors, Peoples Democratic Party top shots and members
of Jonathan’s cabinet flooded the state for the burial, northern and
south-western governors stayed away.
The northern governors were said to have attended the wedding
ceremonies of Sambo’s daughters which coincided with the funeral
service.
It was not clear why South-western governors were not at the
programme, but the condolence message of the Governor of Ogun State, Mr,
Ibukunle Amosun, was published in the programme.
YNaija.com
Saturday, 8 December 2012
I will send rich people to jail – Oshiomhole
by Hauwa Gambo
Trust former comrade, Adams Oshiomhole to talk tough – only worry for the people concerned this time is, he also acts tough.
Yesterday, the Edo governor signed the Edo Property Tax Bill into law, complete with a warning to the state’s rich that they will be sent to jail if they do not comply.
He also tackled concerns that the law would worsen the poverty in the state – making it clear this is focused on wealth redistribution.
“The rich will prefer that taxation be abolished because they have enough money even to build private homes, private roads, and buy private jets and so on,” he said “But I am not apologetic that this government is determined to tax the rich and the very rich so that we can provide for the poorest of the poor. Every enlightened rich man will appreciate that it is in his own interest that government provides for the poor.
“So when people say that this law is targeted at some persons, I say yes. The law is targeted at those who are taxable, those who have property and that includes myself. I need to pay tax so that when I am not in government, government will have the resources to provide those things that they need to provide for Edo to make progress. I am very appreciative for the support which I have continued to enjoy from the people of Edo and I promise I will never abuse that trust.
“The outcome of the last election has humbled me and I am committed to give my all. No body is above the law. I have the duty to remind those who feel they are above the law, they are not. If the governor is not above the law no one is. Government must protect the weak, we must be just. This government will not victimize any body even under provocation, but no one will be too big to be dealt with if he violates the law.”
YNaija.com
Nigerian accent is the 5th sexiest in the world
In
the unending pursuit of love, or its less eternal surrogate, the right
accent can be as attractive as bright eyes, a beaming smile and a
parabolic backside.For world travelers, a far-flung tongue promises the unknown, confirms the known and dispels the thought-we-knew.
Does our highly scientific survey exclude your favorite accent? Vote on our Facebook poll.
But no accent is sexy when it’s strong enough to crush a beer can. Which means not all accents are created equal.
It’s estimated that there are nearly 7,000 languages on earth. That’s nearly 7,000 different ways to traipse clumsily through the English language — or to sex it up like a Justin Timberlake song wrapped in chocolate cleavage.
Which begs our list of the world’s sexiest brogues. Some of you may have a legitimate case for inclusion in the top twelve. Others — we’re looking at you, Vietgermans — do not.
Our also-rans included Putonghua (especially when Taiwanese women speak it in gentle tones), Australian (as appealing as warm Foster’s to some, tantalizingly exotic to others) and Japanese (the language of repressed salarymen is also strangely designed for pillow talk).
Because when it comes to accents, there are no absolutes. Except that Bronx English is absolutely horrible.
12. Argentine
The bad news: she finds your bad breath and dirty elbows repulsive. The good news: it sounded totally hot when she told you.
Famous tongues: Fernando Lamas, Gabriela Sabatini
A historical refuge for Spaniards, Italians and Germans, the hyper-libidinous South Ameripean melting pot of Argentina has cultivated a proud, pouty tone. With its own pronunciation of Spanish letters (“ll” sounds like “shh”) and its own words (“you” is “vos”), this is a dialect that’s hard to get. (Or at least plays that way.)
Sounds like: A tightly tuned guitar of G-strings strummed by a lamb shank
11. Thai
He not only floats like a butterfly, he speaks like one, too.
Famous tongues: Tony Jaa, Tata Young
With five tones comprising their native speech, the traffickers of this often fragile accent turn any language into a song of seduction. Thai is largely monosyllabic, so multi-beat foreign words get extra emphases right up until the last letter, which is often left off, leaving the listener wanting more. (Or at least asking “Huh?” lustfully.)
Sounds like: R-rated karaoke
10. Trinidadian
If their accents don’t seduce you, their mon bosoms will.
Famous tongues: Nikki Minaj, Billy Ocean
For fetishists of oddball sexuality, the Caribbean island of Trinidad offers an undulating, melodic gumbo of pan-African, French, Spanish, Creole and Hindi dialects that, when adapted for English, is sex on a pogo stick.
Sounds like: A rubber life raft bobbing on a sea of steel drums
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9. Brazilian Portuguese
She screams, she scores!
Famous tongues: Alice Braga, Anderson Silva
Perhaps owing to its freedom from French influence, the Brazilian Portuguese accent has a more colorful, puerile flair than its coarser European counterpart. The resulting yowl of drawn-out vowels reveals a flirty freedom of spirit that sounds like a permanent vacation.
Sounds like: The near, then far, then near again hum of a low-wattage vacuum cleaner that runs on dance sweat
8. U.S. Southern
Y’all, we love it when y’all call us y’all. Especially when y’all are wearing orange chaps.
Famous tongues: Matthew McConaughy, Britney Spears
There’s nothing sexy about being in a hurry, and you could clock the growth rate of grass with the honeyed drawl — less Tea Party, more “True Blood” — of a Southern beau or belle.
Sounds like: Molasses taking a smoking break
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7. Oxford British
“Down to your last pair of socks then, what?”
Famous tongues: Hugh Laurie, Sienna Miller
Authoritative. Upright. Erudite. Scholarly. Few accents promise the upward nobility of the Queen’s English. It’s a take on the language that sets hearts devoted to James Bond and Hermione Granger aflutter. And, should the speaker fail to slake your most wanton desires, eh, at least you’ll learn something.
Sounds like: A crisply ironed shirt playing a harp
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6. Irish
Just lay off the leprechaun jokes and you’ll be fine.
Famous tongues: Colin Farrell, Andrea Corr
Valued slightly more in men than in women, the Irish brogue is a lilting, lyrical articulation that’s charming, if not exotic. Fluid and uplifting, it can swing from vulnerable to threatening over the course of a sentence, restoring your faith in the world again … right before it stabs you with a broken bottle top.
Sounds like: A marauding pixie
5. Nigerian
Some Nigerians are actually worth giving your bank account information to.
Famous tongues: King Sunny Adé, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde
Dignified, with just a hint of willful naiveté, the deep, rich “oh’s” and “eh’s” of Naija bend the English language without breaking it, arousing tremors in places other languages can’t reach. Kinda makes the occasional phone scam worth the swindle.
Sounds like: The THX intro with teeth
4. Czech
Smoky eyes? Czech. Intrguing history? Czech. Meat-flavored accent? Czech.
Famous tongues: Petra Nemcova, Jaromír Jágr
Like Russian, without the nettlesome history of brutal, iron-fisted despotism, Czech is a smoky, full-bodied vocal style that goes well with most meats. Murky and mysterious, the Bohemian tone is equal parts carnal desire and carnival roustabout.
Sounds like: Count Dracula, secret agent
3. Spanish
“¿Número tres? ¿Qué clase de idiota eres?” Ah, no one rejects us so hotly.
Famous tongues: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz
Sensual and beckoning, but with the passion to unleash hell kept just barely restrained, Castilian is like a dialectic Hoover Dam. But then there’s the lisp. Tender, vulnerable and cute as a baby’s hangnail — no one owns the “th” sound formed by tongue and teeth like those who speak the language of Cervantes.
Sounds Like: An outboard motor on Lake Paella
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2. French
Even when they pout it sounds good.
Famous tongues: Sophie Marceau, Jean Reno
The demotion of this perennial prizewinner of global brogues to second place may illustrate the declining sexuality of Old World petulance. Still, the come-hither condescension and fiery disinterest of the French tongue remains paradoxically Intimate.
Sounds like: A 30-year-old teenager
1. Italian
Even when bathing in a fountain, a romance language is a romance language.
Famous tongues: Monica Bellucci, Alessandro Del Piero
Raw, unfiltered and as grabby to ears as its president is to rears, the Italian accent is a vowelgasm that reflects the spectrum of Italic experience: the fire of its bellicose beginnings … the romance of the Renaissance … the dysfunction of anything resembling a government since Caesar. Insatiable, predatory and possessive, this is sex as a second language.
Sounds like: A Ferrari saxophone
First published August 2011, updated November 2012
DailyPost
I Don’t Live Off Church Members’ Tithes, Offerings Or Contributions – Bishop Oyedepo
The faith preacher reportedly reacted to the allegations at the Church’s ongoing annual spiritual retreat tagged ‘Shiloh.’ He said,”The last time Church paid my salary was December 1987, nobody heared it, not even the Ministers in the church until 1997 and church members didn’t hear this until 2007.
“In January of 1988 my wife asked me of money for feeding and I told her I had give my salary to God, and that was the last time she ever had to ask for feeding till date”
speaking further, the Bishop reiterated that the prestigious Covenant University Ota, was built without a donation from Church members either in form of tithes, offerings or contributions. In his words, “Covenant university was built within 7 months without any collection of any one naira tithes and offerings or donation of any kind from anywhere”
InformationNigeria.org
How a Robbery Gang Uses Sleeping Drugs on Unsuspecting Passengers on Commercial Buses
For
those who accept water or other food items offered by unknown
passengers in commercial vehicles, you must be careful as there are
robbery gangs that now make use of this opportunity to rob unsuspecting
passengers.This has been discovered after the arrest of five members of a notorious robbery gang by operatives of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command. The gang specialized in drugging unsuspecting passengers in commercial buses before dispossessing them of their valuables. Unlike their other partners who use their vehicles to perpetrate the heinous crime, the arrested suspects, as gathered, would board commercial buses and position themselves strategically to actualize their devilish act.
The way they operate includes trailing their targets either from the bank, or public places, right into a commercial bus. According Crime Guard, seven members of the gang would board same bus with their target while another would pose as a sachet water hawker. Unknown to their target the sachet water have all been sedated. One of them would then pretend to buy a sachet water from their gang (hawker), offering N20 note, only to be told there is no N10 note for his balance.
Pretending to be nice, the buyer would take another sachet of water and offer to their target, with the explanation that he did not want his money to be left with the hawker. And immediately their target drinks the water, he would fall asleep and in the process, have his valuables dispossessed of.
The gang however met its waterloo after a failed attempt to sedate one of its victims in Ikeja area of the state recently. Consequently, three members of the gang were apprehended. A Police source at SARS said “We have been on their trail for two weeks now. We got information that the same gang had robbed someone on his way from Ikeja to Yaba and the case was reported at Sabo police station. Driver of that bus and his conductor were initially accused of conniving with the robbers but after proper investigation, they were released with stern instructions to be on the look-out for members of the gang.
“Unfortunately for the gang, they boarded the same bus last week Tuesday and the bus conductor who was vigilant noticed them and raised alarm. They were about seven but three of them were arrested while four others escaped. But during interrogation those arrested provided information that aided the arrest of two others. We are currently making effort to apprehend the gang leader who is currently at large,” he explained.
InformationNigeria.org
Nurse who handled Kate Middleton prank call commits suicide
Kate Middleton
The nurse “was recently the victim of a hoax call,” King Edward VII Hospital said in a media statement.
The DJs impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles in the prank call, in which some details of the Duchess of Cambridge’s condition and care were given.
The nurse who died was the person who first took the hoax call and transferred it through to Catherine’s ward, the hospital’s public relations company said.
The hospital named her as Jacintha Saldanha and said she had worked there for more than four years as an “excellent nurse,” who was well respected by co-workers.
The hospital “had been supporting her throughout this difficult time,” the statement said.
The Duchess of Cambridge was discharged from the hospital Thursday after treatment for acute morning sickness.
A St. James’s Palace spokesman said: “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jacintha Saldanha.
“Their Royal Highnesses were looked after so wonderfully well at all times by everybody at King Edward VII Hospital, and their thoughts and prayers are with Jacintha Saldanha’s family, friends and colleagues at this very sad time.”
Separately, a palace spokesman told CNN: “At no point did the palace complain to the hospital about the incident. On the contrary, we offered our full and heartfelt support to the nurses involved and hospital staff at all times.”
The hospital’s chief executive, John Lofthouse, said, “Everyone is shocked by the loss of a much loved and valued colleague.”
London’s Metropolitan Police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. (4:35 a.m. ET) on Friday that a woman was found unconscious. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are treating the death as “unexplained,” they said.
Audio of the call posted online suggested a woman spoke briefly to the DJs, who host a show for the 2Day FM radio station in Sydney, before the call was put through to the ward early Tuesday morning.
The hospital said Wednesday that it deeply regretted the call had been put through.
Read more: Radio DJs pretend to be queen, make prank call to Catherine’s hospital
The radio show apologized for the call Wednesday, saying it “was done with light-hearted intentions.”
Its two DJs, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, continued to tweet about the call on Thursday and earlier Friday, promising “more on the #royalprank.” By Friday evening, a spokeswoman for the station told CNN in a statement that the pair will “not return to the show until further notice out of respect for what can only be described as a tragedy.” She said Greig and Christian were “deeply shocked” by the incident.
The Twitter accounts for the pair were taken down.
Talking about the call on air Thursday, Greig said: “They were the world’s worst accents ever. We were sure 100 people at least before us would’ve tried the same thing. … We were expecting to be hung up on — we didn’t even know what to say when we got through.”
Angry comments have been posted on the 2Day FM Facebook page since the news of the nurse’s death broke.
“This death is on your conscience,” reads one post. Another says, “Blood on your hands.”
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