Mikel was awarded with a suprise "Nollywood gift" for breaking his premier laegue scoring jinx of eight years. In a typical Nollywood style, Tonto Dikeh is given to Mikel as bride for the effort. (See picture below)
21/09/2013
20/09/2013
HOW TO REPLACE YOUR LOST OR DAMAGED VOTERS CARDS - INEC
A valid voters register with each voter having a voters card is a must to ensure that elections are free and fair. A person must possess a voters card in order to be accredited and allowed to vote during an election.
The card identifies the voter. Thus the voters name can be checked easily by the Presiding Officer or his Assistant. It is therefore important that a person keeps his voters card safely, to prevent loss or damage. However, if a person losses his card or if it is damaged, the Independent National Electoral Commission can replace them.
The procedure for replacement of lost or damaged voters cards is as follows:- -
1.The voter shall apply in person to the Electoral Officer or any other officer duly authorized for that purpose by the Resident Electoral Commissioner.
2.The application shall be at least 30 days before an election
3.The applicant shall state the circumstances of the loss or damage
4.The, he shall be issued with another copy of his original voters card.
5.The word “DUPLICATE” will be marked or printed on it clearly.
The date of issue will also be printed on the new voters card.
-INEC
Ekiti 2014: Thugs, Police Disrupt Opeyemi Bamidele's Campaign
Commercial and vehicular activities were paralysed in some parts of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Thursday as some hoodlums suspected to be members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria and National Union of Road Transport Workers, took to the street apparently to foil a campaign rally organised by a member of the House of Representatives, Opeyemi Bamidele. Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1 at the National Assembly, was to formally declare his governorship ambition in the state on Thursday.
The hoodlums, who took to the streets as early as 7am, barricaded the Ajebandele Road, Ajilosun area up to Okeyinmi junction in Ado-Ekiti. The group, led by RTEAN state Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Olabiwonu, brandished dangerous weapons such as guns, cutlasses and clubs. They drove dangerously around the town in a convoy in a manner that traumatized the people and intimidated other road users.
A detachment of the Police from the Ekiti State Police Command later dispersed Bamidele’s supporters from the venue of the rally. The heavily armed and stern looking policemen used tear gas on Bamidele supporters and also arrested some of them. Majority of those who were arrested wore vests with inscriptions such as ‘Ekiti Bibire Coalition’ and ‘MOB’ which are the political acronyms of Bamidele’s campaign slogan.
The anti-riot policemen reportedly fired live bullets into the air, thereby causing confusion with many people scampering to safety and leaving many people injured. Some of those who sustained injuries were reportedly rushed to a private hospital at Basiri area of Ado Ekiti. Investigation showed that Bamidele arrived at Ado-Ekiti enroute Akure at about 12:37pm in a long convoy and was received by a large crowd of supporters at Mobil area, Ajilosun. The procession was initially peaceful with Bamidele moving in a long convoy and responding to cheers from his supporters. Heavily armed policemen in patrol vans later dispersed the crowd. Bamidele’s governorship declaration was scheduled to take off at Ajilosun and terminate at his Bibire campaign headquarters. Operatives of the State Security Service, the anti-riot policemen and soldiers were drafted to some flashpoints within the state capital.
In his reaction, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Victor Babayemi, said the drivers had earlier struck in the morning. He said, “The police must be proactive to prevent breakdown of law and order.” On the rally, he said, “Bamidele sought a permit from the police to hold a meeting with his supporters and party members and we wrote a letter to him that in-as-much as we were giving him support and the security he needed to hold the meeting, we referred him to Section 99 of the Electoral Act 2011 as amended. “That particular section of the law says that no political party should start campaign 90 days before an election. “Therefore, we told him to do whatever he wanted to do within the confines of his secretariat. But to our surprise it was not actually a meeting but a campaign and the crowd spilled over to the road.
They carried placards and campaign posters in the form of a procession. “He started campaigning for the governorship office that had not been declared vacant by the Independent National Electoral Commission. “We are duty-bound as law enforcement agents to disperse that crowd. That assembly was a clear violation of the Constitution.” Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has described the incident as unfortunate and disappointing. The state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, said, “The violence that erupted today is unwarranted, condemnable and unfortunate. This is a sign of what we would likely experience in 2014. The PDP has been crying and calling the attention of the public to the fact that the politics in Ekiti has become violent under the present government.”
Culled From:Punchng
Here Comes The New Blackberry Z30
19/09/2013
NCC Ban Wizkid's "The Matter"
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has placed a banned on Wizkid's Song "The matter" featuring Maleek Barry. Also banned is Phynno's "Man Of The Year"
The songs were banned due to its "raw content"
Nigerian Girl Win "Muslim Miss World" Contest
A Nigerian, Obabiyi Aisha Ajibola, tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a world beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in the Indonesian capital Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss World contest that has sparked hardline anger.
The 20 finalists, who were all required to wear headscarves, put on a glittering show for the final of Muslimah World, strolling up and down a catwalk in elaborately embroidered dresses and stilettos. But the contestants from six countries were covered from head to foot, and as well as beauty they were judged on how well they recited Koranic verses and their views on Islam in the modern world.
After a show in front of an audience of mainly religious scholars and devout Muslims, a panel of judges picked Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola from Nigeria as the winner While the event in a Jakarta shopping mall paled in comparison to Miss World on the resort island of Bali, in which scores of contestants are competing, Ajibola was nevertheless overwhelmed. Upon hearing her name, the 21-year-old, a student of the University of Lagos, knelt down and prayed, then wept as she recited a Koranic verse. She said it was “thanks to almighty Allah” that she had won the contest.
She received 25 million rupiah ($2,200) and trips to Mecca and India as prizes. Ajibola told AFP before the final that the event “was not really about competition”. “We’re just trying to show the world that Islam is beautiful,” she said. Organisers said the pageant challenged the idea of beauty put forward by the British-run Miss World pageant, and also showed that opposition to the event could be expressed non-violently.
Eka Shanti, who founded the pageant three years ago after losing her job as a TV news anchor for refusing to remove her headscarf, bills the contest as “Islam’s answer to Miss World”. “This year we deliberately held our event just before the Miss World final to show that there are alternative role models for Muslim women,” she told AFP. “But it’s about more than Miss World.
Muslim women are increasingly working in the entertainment industry in a sexually explicit way, and they become role models, which is a concern.” Hosted by Dewi Sandra, an Indonesian actress and pop star who recently hung up her racy dresses for a headscarf, the pageant featured both Muslim and pop music performances, including one about modesty, a trait the judges sought in the winner.
The pageant, which also featured bright Indonesian Islamic designer wear, is a starkly different way of protesting Miss World than the approach taken by Islamic radicals. Snowballing protest movement Thousands have taken to the streets in Indonesia in recent weeks to protest Miss World, denouncing the contest as “pornography” and burning effigies of the organisers. Despite a pledge by Miss World organisers to drop the famous bikini round, radical anger was not appeased and the protest movement snowballed. The government eventually bowed to pressure and ordered the whole pageant be moved to the Hindu-majority island of Bali, where it opened on September 8.
Later rounds and the September 28 final were to be held in and around Jakarta, where there is considerable hardline influence. But there are still fears that extremists may target the event — the US, British and Australian embassies in Jakarta have warned their nationals in recent days of the potential for radical attacks.
More than 500 contestants competed in online rounds to get to the Muslimah World final in Indonesia, one of which involved the contenders comparing stories of how they came to wear the headscarf. The contest was first held in 2011 under a different name and was only open to Indonesians, Shanti said, but after the media began comparing it to Miss World, it was rebranded as a Muslim alternative to the world-famous pageant.
Because of its popularity, organisers accepted foreign contestants this year for the first time, with Iran, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Nigeria and Indonesia represented.
Culled From:PM NEWS
18/09/2013
See UEFA Champions League Results And Fixtures
This year's UEFA Champions League resumed last night, as expected it wasnt short of its glamour as most of the best teams in Europe were able to hold thier ground. Hostilities continues later today. (See Fixture list below)
Manchester United 4 - 2 Bayer Leverkusen
Real Sociedad 0 - 2 Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Copenhagen 1 - 1 Juventus
Galatasaray 1 - 6 Real Madrid
Benfica 2 - 0 Anderlecht
Olympiakos 1 - 4 Paris Saint-Germain
Bayern Munich 3 - 0 CSKA Moscow
Viktoria Plzen 0 - 3 Manchester City
Matches to be played today at 7:45pm are:
Chelsea vs FC Basel.
Schalke 04 vs Steaua Bucuresti
Marseille vs Arsenal
Napoli vs Borussia Dortmund
AC Milan vs Celtic
Barcelona vs Ajax Amsterdam
Atletico Madrid vs Zenit St Petersburg
Austria Vienna vs FC Porto
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