Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Ooni of Ife is alive,says Royal Traditional Council
APC will reunite, wounds will heal - National Chairman says
Abuja - The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said the process of healing and reuniting will begin as the party scaled one of its major hurdles.
Odigie-Oyegun said this in a telephone interview with newsmen after news of the majority leader of the House of Representatives broke in Abuja.
He said: ''I want to commend the Speaker and his colleagues for their sense of patriotism.
''It is my hope and expectation that the wounds will now be totally healed that the APC family will now reunite fully as one,'' Odigie-Oyegun said.
He appealed to Nigerians for understanding and apologised for the crisis that delayed the effective take off of activities in the House.
''I have already offered our regrets. This is part of growing, we are new to government and we are a democratic and above all, progressive movement.
''We are in the process of welding all the various tendencies into one and today we have scored one major victory and I can assure the country that the party has began the process of healing all the wounds and becoming one strong force.
''We are moving from being a movement into one strong political party that will back the President for the good of the entire country,'' he said.
As regards the crisis in the Senate he expressed optimism that the crisis in the upper house would be resolved too.
''Senate is a different level and different situation. It is totally different, we have a sore thumb in the form of a PDP Deputy Senate President.
''So I think it is totally different and the approach and the way we are going to handle the situation will be totally different.
''But at the end of the day even the Senate issue will be sorted out too.''
New Movies Coming Out This Week 31st July
I bring you my weekly roundup of new movies out in cinema. This week we have it’s a bit thin on the ground, but we have a couple of Hollywood big hitters, one of which they really shouldn’t have bothered with a little gem of a horror.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION
With the IMF now disbanded and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, a new threat — called the Syndicate — soon emerges. The Syndicate is a network of highly skilled operatives who are dedicated to establishing a new world order via an escalating series of terrorist attacks. Faced with what may be the most impossible mission yet, Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), a disavowed British agent who may or may not be a member of this deadly rogue nation.
Easily Rogue Nation is the best in the franchise to date, with thrilling and explosive action from the very start it certainly doesn’t fail to deliver what it says on the tin. What can you expect? Well very much of the same as the previous films but just a little more pizzazz if that’s even possible. The only downside is its length of over 2 hours long.
See if you liked: Mission Impossible Franchise.
HOT PURSUIT
Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper (Reese Witherspoon) is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva (Sofía Vergara), a wisecracking Colombian beauty, from San Antonio to Dallas so both she and her husband can testify against a drug lord. Plans go awry when Mr. Riva gets ambushed, leaving Daniella a widow. Cooper and her witness must now use their wits to escape from crooked cops and murderous gunmen, while not killing each other in the process.
Hot Pursuit has a super dull script and storyline which just begs for laughs and fails extremely miserably. The chemistry between Witherspoon and Vergara is the only redeeming part of this film and I’m being kind. What possessed Witherspoon and Vergera to do this film? Talk about dying a slow and painful death.
See if you liked: Ride Along, Paul Blart Mall Cop.
CUB
An impressionable youngster (Maurice Luijten) sees and hears things that lead him to believe that his troop leaders’ scary tale about a feral boy is true.
With an extremely convincing performance from the cast, Cub delivers a horror/thriller which for once ventures out of its box and takes a deeper plunge into the psyche of a troubled child. Engaging and entertaining I’m giving this horror a major thumbs up.
Obama hit hard on African leaders who have refused to leave power
While speaking to African leaders at the African Union Headquarters in Ethiopia today July 28th, President Obama asked African leaders to leave office whenever their tenure comes to an end and shaded the heck out of Mugabe and Burundi president. Read what he said about them below...
I am looking forward to life after being president. I wouldn't have such a big security detail all the time. It means I can go take a walk. I can spend time with my family. I can find other ways to serve. I can visit Africa more often. The funny thing is I don't understand why people want to stay so long especially when they have got a lot of money. When a leader tries to change the rules in the middle of the game just to stay in office, it risks instability and strife as we have seen in Burundi. Sometimes you hear a leader say well I am the only person who can hold this nation together. If that's true, then that leader has failed to build their nation. You look at Nelson Mandela. Madiba like George Washington forged a lasting legacy not only because of what they did in office but because they were wiling to leave office, transfer power peacefully. Just as the African Union have condemned coups and illegitimate transfers of power,the AU and other strong voices can also help the people of Africa ensure their leaders abide by term limits under their constitution. Nobody should be president for life" he said.
Buhari still in honeymoon period, change will be seen after 100 days in office – Tinubu
National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has assured that Nigerians will begin to witness the change they voted for after President Muhammadu Buhari reaches 100 days in office.
Tinubu, after a meeting with President Buhari on Tuesday told newsmen that it was better to settle in office before taking some decisions than rushing to act.He said: “May 29 was when this president was sworn in. It is an international norm all over the world, there is a honeymoon period, at least a minimum of 100 days honeymoon. Change is not by magic. It driven by the people, the spirit and the character and the planning.
“We have had so much problem in this country in the past because we ran into policy blind folded without adequate and effective planning, you don’t have results unless you plan well.
“The time it takes you to plan, examine, rejig, re-evaluate is more important than the time you just rush into taking action because you are either being sentimental, being emotional and being driven by other forces that are not expected. It is not fair to jump into those conclusions.
“There must be time to plan, to review and even listen to people. There is a separation between a campaign period, articulating your vision, expressing the promises to Nigerians. There is a time to look at holistically at what you inherited, analysis it, distil and then take action.”
Speaking on why he visited the villa, Tinubu disclosed that the purpose of this visit “is to see my president and our leader. The purpose is to ensure the we are on the right track and coming back from a very successful trip to United States of America.
“As a matter of fact when the National Assembly’s job starts, the job of law making in earnest, the president needs to step in once in a while as he did to let people to understand the import of the expectations of the public and particularly of the international community on various programmes and institutions”.
Source: dailypost
Daughters inherit $20 Million with strings attached
When their father died, Victoria (left) and Marlena Laboz (middle) inherited $20 million - but that money comes with conditions. A Manhattan millionaire left a generous fortune to his daughters in his will, but the money comes with strings.
Maurice Laboz, owner of real estate management firm Regal Real Estate, died earlier this year and left his two daughters, Marlena, 21, and Victoria, 17, $10 million each (his entire estate was worth $37 million). And while the money is supposed to roll in when each girl turns 35, Maurice set up conditions for the payouts to start earlier.
Maurice Laboz, owner of real estate management firm Regal Real Estate, died earlier this year and left his two daughters, Marlena, 21, and Victoria, 17, $10 million each (his entire estate was worth $37 million). And while the money is supposed to roll in when each girl turns 35, Maurice set up conditions for the payouts to start earlier.
For example, Marlena can receive half a million when she gets married, “but only if her husband signs a sworn statement promising to keep his hands off the cash,”.
She’ll also receive a lump sum of $750,000 for graduating from an accredited university, and writing a paragraph about what she intends to do with the money. Both daughters will receive 3 times the income listed on their personal tax returns if they earn a good living by 2020, and if they have kids and don’t work a traditional job, they’ll earn 3 percent of the value of their trust every year.
That is, so long as the child is “born in wedlock.”
Laboz’s will is already being contested by his wife, Ewa, who he was in the process of divorcing and to whom he left nothing. Laboz left the rest of his fortune to charity.
Source: New York Post
Why Detroit has the largest satanist temple chapter in the US
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The group unveiled a nearly 9-foot tall bronze statue of a goat-headed Baphomet in a private ceremony attended by 600 ticket holders, Lucien Graves, co-founder of the national Satanic Temple organization in Boston. The Satanic Temple in Detroit has more than 200 registered members.
"They are so active and well-organized," Graves said. "There's probably been another wave of interest since this event."
The Detroit chapter is the first of the national organization, Graves said. He credits the Detroit chapter's founder Jex Blackmore with the growth of the chapter since it was established there in August 2014.
Blackmore said it is their largest chapter.
"I think the Temple appeals to the radical, politically-charged spirit of the city and many are drawn to us as a force of positive, effective change in this community," Blackmore said.
The statue was originally planned to sit at the Oklahoma state capitol, but the state's supreme court banned all religious displays there, including the Ten Commandments. The statue was created through $28,180 fund-raised by 1,041 people on Indiegogo.com last year. The fundraising page said the statue's purpose was to contrast the Ten Commandments monument that was previously on display.
Graves said there are 20 chapters across the country with about 20,000 members as a whole.
Tickets for Saturday's event were $25 and the location was revealed only to ticket-holders.
According to its mission statement, the national organization, The Satanic Temple, "facilitates the communication and mobilization of politically aware Satanists, secularists, and advocates for individual liberty." Among the causes it supports are gay marriage, reproductive rights and eliminating corporal punishment in schools. The national organization does "not promote a belief in a personal Satan."
"To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions," the FAQ of TheSatanicTemple.com indicates.
Meanwhile, Christians in Detroit protested the event nearby. The event served "as a call-to-arms from which we’ll kick off our largest fight to date in the name of individual rights to free exercise against self-serving theocrats," according to the invitation.
"People are trying to push religious agenda, whether it’s part of the public opinion or not," Greaves said. "Groups will take it as slander against them and it’s just not the case. We don’t really care if they’re offended or not."
Baphomet was chosen for the statue because of the contemporary recognition of it as a satanic figure and it illustrates the “reconciliation of opposites,” Blackmore said.
“The Baphomet is both beast and man, female and male, one hand is pointed toward the sky, the other to the ground,” Blackmore said. “It's representative of the dualities of our nature
Source: ABC News
Palace shut as sympathisers troop to confirm news on Ooni
Following media reports of the passing on of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, sympathisers on Wednesday morning trooped to his palace to confirm the development.
The sympathisers began arriving at the palace as early as 6.3a.m. to ascertain the veracity of the report from palace chiefs, who declined to speak.
They were, however, turned back at the entrance of the palace by palace guards, while the gate was shut.
Many sympathisers, however, gathered in groups a few metres from the palace gate discussing the development in low tones.
When the Private Secretary to the Ooni, Mr Saka Awojoodu, was approached by a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) to react to the development, he simply said: “I have nothing to disclose.’’
Mr Bisi Oduyemi, one of those who was at the palace, said he came to find out whether the news of the monarch’s passing on was true.
“ I am here to find out whether the story of the Ooni’s death was true.
“ I heard the news on radio during the newspaper review this morning but I am here to confirm this from the palace chiefs and unfortunately, they are not forthcoming,’’ Oduyemi said .
Another resident, Mrs Idayat Akinrolu, said she abandoned her house chores to find out the authenticity of the story from the palace.
Meanwhile, the state government and the Osun Council of Traditional Rulers have yet to react to the development.
NAN learnt that both the state government and the traditional council were waiting for official announcement by the palace chiefs .
National News Headlines - 29-7/2015
THE NATION
*Ooni of Ife is dead
*APC, PDP give Buhari nod to go after looters
*Gbajabiamila is House Leader
*Tinubu seeks more time for Buhari
*Army rescues 30 persons from terrorists
*EFCC grills Saraki's wife, PDP BOT's chair for hours
*Senate's search for peace continues as House settles rift
*Saraki to senators: it's time to face legislative duties
*APC senators kick as Akpabio becomes Minority Leader
*Opposition backs President's anti-graft campaign
*Akwa Ibom University matriculates 1,648 students
*Fed Govt moves against rice waiver beneficiaries
*UK, Nigeria push for more investments
*Chinese regulator to buy shares to halt decline
*Unilever increases majority shareholding in Unilever Nigeria
*Alameiyesiegha rallies elders to save Bayelsa PDP
*Aregbesola's critics are ignorant
*APC chieftain backs Ngige for SGF
8th Senate will be more focused ' Saraki
DAILY TIMES
*BREAKING: Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Is Dead
*Troops Repel Boko Haram Attacks on
Army Chief's Village
*SAN pledges support for NGO on building New Northern Nigeria
*Service Chiefs: Buhari Seeks Senate Confirmation
*2011 Polls: INEC Boss Rates Observers Report High
*Femi Gbajabiamila Announced House Majority Leader
*Akpabio Emerges Senate Minority Leader
*APC Backs President Buhari's Probe of Jonathan Administration
VANGUARD
*House Principal Officers: How Buhari got House leader job for Gbajabiamila
*Probe: Buhari should expect similar treatment from his successor 'Okorie
*Ajimobi bars newsmen from Gov's office press centre
*I didn't take N700m bribe, Rivers REC cries out
*Wike pays N712m for stranded Rivers students abroad
*Buhari worried over non-payment of teachers' salaries
*I've learnt my lessons for good ' Alamieyeseigha
*FG spends 2.41b dollars on rice importation since 2012 ' Emefiele
*Oil prices pull back from lows
*Religious bias, nepotism inimical to good governance
*Don't bandy figures without facts, NCC blasts critics
*Prepare for Enyeama's exit, Rufai tells Oliseh
*NFF unfair to Keshi ' Okpalla
*Fifa: Platini to announce presidency bid
Blatter deserves Nobel Prize ' Putin
*Chelsea sell Filipe Luis back to Atletico
*Femi Branch, Lilian Bach, Shan George storm Calabar
*Kollington Ayinla, Salawa Abeni back in each other's arms
*I'm getting married soon-Tonto Dikeh
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