Alessandra Ambrosio, Cristiano Ronaldo: Model and Footballer front sexy for GQ cover

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Alessandra Ambrosio and Cristiano Ronaldo stripped off to grace the cover of GQ's latest body issue. 

  Alessandra Ambrosio and Cristiano Ronaldo
(dailymail)

The super model and famous footballer where photographed all cozy and excited by each other side, the 34-years-old Alessandra wraps her arm around Cristiano's ripped shoulders while suggestively pulling down on his silver chain.

While Cristiano show off super washboard abs as he flexes his bulging muscles wearing nothing but a pair of tiny red swimming trunks. 

The photoshoot was shot sometime in October last year and both celebs pulled the magazine cover serving so much hotness in just one photo.

Danny Welbeck: Injured Arsenal striker set to return

Arsene Wenger has revealed that he is expecting Danny Welbeck back in action soon and rules out any move for a striker

 

Arsenal striker, Danny Welbeck  is just two weeks away from returning from a long term injury according to Gunners boss Arsene Wenger.

The 24-year-old Welbeck underwent surgery on his left knee last year after struggling to progress in his rehabilitation following an injury.

  (Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

The former Manchester United striker has not played since damaging the knee after coming on as a late substitute in a 0-0 draw with Chelsea on April 26.

Many have urged Wenger to bring in a striker in the January transfer window to aid their Premier League title pursuit, but the Arsenal manager has revealed that Welbeck is coming back soon.

“I would prefer to have the players back from injuries,” Wenger said.

“Welbeck is two to three weeks away and I am confident I will not find a better player than Welbeck on the market.”

Wenger could have fit-again Alexis Sanchez for Arsenal’s trip to Stoke City on Sunday but the manage ris concerned about the way he uses the forward.

  Alexis Sanchez pulls his hamstring
(Kevin Quigley/Daily Mail)

“Sanchez has two decisive days. Today and tomorrow. He’s fit,” Wenger said.

“Do we take a gamble or not on his injury?”

New signing Mohamed Elneny is eligible to play in the game after his move from Basel.

  Mohamed Elneny is available for selection against Stoke City (Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

“He’s a defensive midfielder who can contribute in an area where we are short,” added Wenger.

“He is also a promising player who has already adapted to Europe, he is not straight from Egypt to England — he has played three years in Switzerland.

“I expect him to develop into a very strong player because he has both sides of the game, he can defend and he can attack and that's the way we want to play in midfield.

“He is available for selection, I haven’t decided yet. I have to see how everyone has recovered. Apparently we have no injuries from the Liverpool game, so he is a possibility to be in the squad for Sunday.”

Chelsea coach, Guus Hiddink admits relegation fears

Chelsea coach Guus Hiddink admits relegation is realistic and called on his players to step up

  Guus Hiddink says relegation for Chelsea is realistic (Chelsea FC/Press Association Images)

Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink has admitted that they are currently in the relegation battles.

The current Premier League have lost nine games out of 21 and currently sit in 14th position just six points above the relegation zone and 12 points off fourth place.

Hiddink says relegation is realistic and called on his players to step up.

  Hiddink has called on his players to step up (Reuters)

“It's a very realistic view,” Chelsea interim boss said.

“Twelve points to fourth, that's Tottenham.

“We all like to look up to the top of the table but don't be unrealistic when you're six points off the relegation line. That's also a fact.

“We must work hard and be very concentrated and step up. That's why it was a pity about the 86th minute equaliser we conceded against West Brom.

“When I arrived, we started one point off the relegation line and now we have more room to breathe.

“We have two difficult games coming up. Everton, a very good away record, and then Arsenal. If you don't gather points, you don't know what the others do.”

Three Winners Split $1.586B Powerball Jackpot

Record sales drove up the largest jackpot in US history to a whopping $1.586 billion as people dreaming of riches flocked across state lines and international borders to buy tickets. / AFP / MARK RALSTON

Three winners from California, Tennessee and Florida will split Wednesday night’s $1.586 billion Powerball prize. Each winner will get $528.8 million if taken in annual payments for 30 years, or a one-time payment of $327.8 million. 

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An additional 26,110,643 players won prizes totaling more than $273.9 million.
The jackpot will be reset to $40 million.
The first announced winner, in Chino Hills, Calif., bought the ticket at a 7-11, the owner of which will receive a $1 million retailer bonus check Thursday at 11 a.m. PST. People swarmed the store Wednesday night to get a picture of the owner.

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The winning numbers were 4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and Powerball of 10.

Social media is buzzing with rumors of the identity of the California winner, but those reports are fake, lottery officials said.

How you can make money from your website by Taiwo Ogunlade

Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade

 

For a website to make money, it needs to sell something. Right? Well, yes and no. Your website can sell a product or service, and it can also sell the opportunity for another business to connect with the visitors who browse it.

Just like a billboard on a busy road, your website is in a prime position to reach passers-by. In this case, it could be used by businesses to showcase their brands.

Think about how news sites make money. The more traffic they have, the more ads they get, and the more money they make. It is not just media organisations or major brands that take advantage of this business model. Many small business owners and hobbyists are capitalising on the opportunity.

Anyone with a website can start making money by signing up on Google’s AdSense, which places text or image ads on a site and then pays the site’s owner each time someone clicks on the ads. These Ads are matched to each site’s content, so that browsers who are already interested in topics related to the product or service can be reached.

Everyday Nigerians who have signed up websites to pursue hobbies or share their passions with others are now finding new unexpected new career path through AdSense. I recently heard of a lady who started her website to share news and ideas about craft projects. In a short period of time, she found that her posts were shared by many others, who were interested in her posts and could not just ignore them.

Her husband suggested that she should consider signing up for Google’s AdSense of making money from her site’s loyal audience. While she never intended to generate revenue from her site, she now makes $500 per week from AdSense to support her regular incomes.

Every time someone clicks on one of the ads on her website, she makes money. The more people visit the site, the higher more clicks the ads get. That translates to more money for her.

Other business-savvy entrepreneurs have built their entire businesses on this model. Peter Fiasco, a 30-year-old Melbourne entrepreneur who quit his paid job to pursue a personal business, unveiled a global employment classified site called jobsearchusa.org from his lounge room. Traffic to Peter’s website boomed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Now, jobsearchusa.org attracts some 10,000 unique visitors each day. One year after first opening his site to AdSense, Peter is getting an annual turnover in the realm of $1m.

As a website owner, this means you don’t have to worry about visitors being shown irrelevant ads. If your website is all about pet-care then AdSense or any other online advertising service you choose will place an ad for pet accommodation services.

Likewise, if your website focuses on healthy eating recipes, then an ad for personal training would be appropriate to show someone who is searching your site for helpful tips to lose weight. The ad is targeted to the content which the user is already reading, so it is unobtrusive, informative and relevant.

Website owners still have control over the type of ads which appear. This is particularly useful to make sure that Ads work with your site’s aesthetics. The types of restrictions you can place on advs include being able to choose text ads or image ads or both, the colours of the ads, the design template and even the position of the ads on your website. In addition to ensuring the ads suit your site design, experimenting with changes in the colours and placement of ads can drastically impact the revenue which the ads generate.

The beauty is that the better your website is, the more money you’re likely to make. Advertisers tend to pay more to advertise on sites with lots of ‘eyeballs’ and to capture the attention of a niche audience which is highly-engaged in a particular topic.

Think about your own browsing behaviour. If you don’t bookmark your favourite sites, you’ll most certainly visit the same ones regularly; whether it’s your local tv guide or a weather forecasting service. This kind of loyalty and engagement with a particular area of interest means that website owners with highly-focused content also have a strong proposition for advertisers.

So whether you’re a serious business or a hobbyist who wouldn’t mind making some extra money on the side, online advertising services are clever ways of connecting your website’s audience with interested advertisers.

Lassa fever: Benue Reps disagree over rat delicacy

Members of the House of Representatives from Benue State on Wednesday disagreed among themselves on whether to eat rats or not. The rodent, which lives in both bushes and human homes, is a delicacy widely consumed in Benue State, particularly among the Tiv tribe.
The rat is also one of the known carriers of the deadly Lassa fever virus, which has claimed 41 lives in its resurgence in Nigeria.
But, on Wednesday, as the House debated a motion calling on the Federal Government to urgently contain the spread of the virus, lawmakers from Benue State got into an argument over the consumption of rats.
The motion on the virus was originally sponsored by a member from Imo State, Mr. Chike Okafor.
Okafor only urged the House to intervene by advising relevant government health agencies to contain the spread of the virus. But Mr. Hassan Saleh, from the Idoma tribe of Benue State stirred the disagreement when he called for a total ban on the eating of rats.
“People should stop eating rats; the disease is dangerous,” said Saleh, representing Ogbadibo/Ado/Okpokwu Federal Constituency.
“We have lost lives and the fear is that this is more than when the Ebola Virus was here. So, people should stop eating rats.”
In response, his Tiv brothers, the Chairman, House Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Herman Hembe; and the Chairman, House Committee Rules and Business, Mr. Oker Jev, immediately opposed his suggestion by urging the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, to call Saleh to order.
The two chorused that stopping the eating of rats could not be the solution.
Hembe, who represents Konshisha Federal Constituency, raised his hand several times, shaking his head in disagreement while insisting that he must speak to counter Saleh’s suggestion.
He eventually jumped up to speak without being recognised, but the speaker politely turned him down, saying he would not allow the chamber to be turned into a rats affair, amid a thunderous laughter on the floor.
Saleh thereafter left his seat to confer with Hembe and Jev on their seats. The three lawmakers later shook hands and resumed their legislative work.

Jonathan gave me N400m, Metuh opens up

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh

Detained National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, has said he is cooperating with the Economic and Financial Crime Commission.
The PDP chieftain said he had volunteered statements to the anti-graft agency in which he explained his role in the alleged arms scandal money.
Metuh, in a statement by his Special Assistant Mr. Richard Ihediwa, in Abuja on Tuesday, said it was not true that he had refused to answer questions put forward to him by the EFCC investigators.

He said it was true that former President Goodluck Jonathan gave him N400m for a job which he refused to disclose.
Metuh had claimed earlier that he executed a project for the President, but refused to state the amount he was paid for the unknown job.
In the statement by Ihediwa, Metuh who has been in detention since Tuesday last week, still refused to disclose the job he executed for the former President that fetched him the huge sum.
He said he would only disclose the job he did for the former President in court.
Ihediwa said, “This office wishes to state categorically that Chief Metuh has fully cooperated with investigators within his constitutionally guaranteed rights.
“In exercise of his rights, he has since given his statement to the EFCC wherein he submitted that he received the sum of N400m from the former President for an assignment, which he executed to the satisfaction of the former President.
“In further exercise of his rights, Metuh has also indicated his readiness to make public the nature of this assignment, but only in an open court in line with the laws of the land, and where his statement would not be distorted by anybody.
“Metuh, therefore, believes that his continued incarceration and failure to charge him to court are deliberately intended to prevent him from telling his own story in the open court for all Nigerians to know.”
He said that contrary to the impression that the issue of N400m was a product of investigation, it was actually a product of Metuh’s voluntary statement.

FG confirms outbreak of Lasser fever in Abuja

The Federal Governmrnt has announced the outbreak of Lasser fever in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, with the death of the patient at the National Hospital Abuja.
The latest death from Lassa fever brings the total number of deaths to 43 in the country from 10 states.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has visited National Hospital where he called on health workers at all levels “to be more vigilant and look out for patients with symptoms of Lassa fever.”

A statement on Wednesday night by the Director of Press and Public Relations in the Federal Ministry of Health, Mrs. Boade Akinola, said Adewole directed that “all primary and secondary contacts of the victim should be tracked.
These include the staff of the private hospital in Kubwa where the deceased was first managed for one week, until he became unconscious, before referral to the National Hospital.
He also advised that family members should report at the nearest hospital if anyone has fever for more than two days
The Minister, however called on the residents of Abuja not to panic but to “maintain high level vigilance and present themselves for test if they feel unhealthy or they feel symptoms of Lassa fever”, which includes high fever, stooling, tiredness and vomiting adding that self-medication should be avoided at this period.
The Medical Director of the National Hospital, Dr. Jafaru Momoh, who briefed the Minister during his visit, said that the patient was brought in unconscious from a private hospital in Kubwa where he was admitted for eight days.
The newly married 33- year-old lived in Jos, but came to see a family member in Kubwa because of his illness.
Lassa fever is an acute febrile illness, with bleeding and death in severe cases, caused by the Lassa fever virus with an incubation period of six-21 days.
About 80 per cent of human infections are asymptomatic. The remaining cases have severe multi-system disease, where the virus affects several organs in the body, such as the liver, spleen and kidneys.
The onset of the disease is usually gradual, starting with fever, general weakness, and malaise followed by headache, sore throat, muscle pain, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, and bleeding from mouth, nose, vagina or gastrointestinal tract, and low blood pressure.
The reservoir or host of the Lassa virus is the “multimammate rat” called Mastomys natalensis which has many breasts and lives in the bush and peri-residential areas.
The Federal had earmarked the sum of N140m as funds to tackle the outbreak of Lasser fever in the country.

Naira depreciates as dollar appreciates by 2 at parallel market

The Naira on Monday depreciated by 2 per cent against the dollar at the parallel market. The naira shed N5 to exchange at N280 to the dollar, as against N275 it traded on Saturday.
The Naira firmed against the dollar on Saturday by 1.1 per cent when it exchanged for N275 to the dollar, in contrast to N277 it traded on Friday. It, however, closed at N197 to the dollar at the official interbank window.
Traders at the Foreign Exchange market said that in spite of the sale of foreign exchange to about 1,650 operators of Bureau de Change last week, the value of the naira continued to fall.
Prof. Sharafadeen Tella of the Department of Economics, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun, urged the apex bank to continue to tighten its foreign exchange policy. Tella said this was necessary in view of a call by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a flexible policy.

Suicide Bomb Near Polio Center in Pakistan Kills at Least 16

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Security officials examining the site of a suicide bombing outside a polio vaccination center in Quetta, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Credit Banaras Khan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 16 people were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing outside a polio vaccination center in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials and witnesses said.

Thirteen of the victims were police officers, said Syed Imtiaz Shah, a senior official with the Quetta police. He said the officers were there to guard polio workers, who are often targeted by Islamist militants in Pakistan.

The attack came on the third day of a vaccination campaign in the province of Baluchistan, of which Quetta is the capital. The bomber, who was also killed, walked up to police officers and detonated what Mr. Shah said amounted to more than 20 pounds of explosives.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Muhammad Khurrasani, claimed responsibility for the attack on the militants’ behalf. Two civilians and a paramilitary police officer were also killed, and 10 police officers and nine civilians were wounded.

Hard-line Islamists in Pakistan have long opposed polio vaccination campaigns, saying that polio workers are Western spies and that such campaigns are part of a conspiracy to leave Muslims infertile. Resistance to such campaigns increased after 2011, when it emerged that the C.I.A. had used a vaccination drive as cover in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Baluchistan, a restive province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, has been racked by separatist and sectarian violence for years. “Such a cowardly act could not deter our resolve of eliminating terrorism from the region,” the province’s home minister, Sarfraz Bugti, said by telephone, referring to the attack.

Father Mbaka Identifies Key Suspects in Plot to Kill Buhari

Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Nigeria led by Rev. Fr. Camillus Ejike Mbaka has identified those criticising the prophecy on a plot to assassinate President Muhammadu Buhari as the key suspects.
The ministry’s Media Chief, Mr Ike Maximus Ugwuoke who described the critics as “democratic miscreants” insist that they should be held responsible if anything happens to the President.
Ugwuoke said “Are they guilty or privy to the plot which the man of God had exposed? The laborious manner with which they attacked the prophetic message in an attempt to filibuster and water it down betrays their innocence on this issue and this should make them prime suspects in the list of the nation’s intelligence security surveillance.
“Section 38(1) respects universal right to freedom of religion and to manifest and propagate same either or in community with others in public or private just as it guarantees freedom of expression in Section 39.
“If the Constitution which gave every citizen of this country the right to worship did not prohibit him from declaring the message he receives from the God he worships, we then wonder why a priest of God and a citizen of this country should be threatened for exercising his constitutional right.
“A situation where the fundamental human rights which is the tenet of the ideals of democracy is bastardised by an acclaimed human rights group that is meant to protect same is indeed worrisome and makes mockery of the nomenclature.”
A human rights group had threatened to drag Fr Mbaka to the Pope, if the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria failed to reproof him and stop him from actively associating with politician.
The ministry called on the human rights group to “withdraw that threat forthwith or face the legal consequence. We know of the utterances by many leaders of different churches at the beginning of this year who in exercise of their religious freedom predicted so many things such as plane crash, bank robbery, bank collapse, natural disasters etc, no one threatened to sanction them. The question is; why should Fr Mbaka’s prophecy always attract venomous criticism by some Nigerian, especially by the so-called Christians who will never talk about the manifest miracles of God through him and his consummate charitable life?
“Was the fulfillment of his prophecy of President Buhari’s victory last year which earned him and the ministry the highest media attack ever not yet enough lesson to Nigerians that Fr Mbaka is indeed a prophet of God and a gift to this nation?
“Last year when Fr Mbaka prophesied the defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan, many Christian including notable clergymen branded him a false prophet and clamoured for his sanction. Now that the prophecy came true with Buhari’s victory, why shouldn’t the acclaimed sanctions be meted to those clergies whom the manifestation of Fr Mbaka’s prophecy has proved to be the real false prophets?
“No one seems to think about this. It is unfortunate that some men of God and so-called Christians either for lack of prayer points or out of chronic envy and jealously now make ‘Fr Mbaka’ the topic for exhortation in their gatherings. This also explains why the recent speculations on his transfer has taken the place of sermon in some churches and even made national news headline even when there is no official communication of such.
“We love our president and his life means much to us, especially at this point of the nations’ history when he is fighting the most dread wars in the world, the hydra-headed war against corruption and insurgency.
“Besides Fr Mbaka’s prophecy of the plans of the enemies against him, no good thinking citizen of this country would believe that the victims of Mr President’s war against corruption would be smiling at him. That is why we should not relent in praying for Mr President and will never spare any one or group of persons that may want to distract Fr Mbaka and his commitment to the spiritual welfare of this nation.”

2016 budget intact, not missing – N’Assembly

The National Assembly yesterday debunked speculations that the 2016 budget was missing, and assured that the Senate and the House of Representatives are in the process of making copies of the money Bill available for the 109 senators and 360 members of the House.
The lawmakers added that they are determined to pass the bill as soon as possible.
Describing the speculations of a missing budget as laughable, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Abdullahi Sabi, said the contents of the 2016 budget were carefully drafted to enhance and drive the change agenda of the present administration.
He added that the senators were eager to pass the budget so that implementation would commence immediately so as to deliver the dividends of democracy to the electorate.
The Senate spokesman said, “There is no such thing; it is laughable for anybody to insinuate that the 2016 budget is missing; it is the figment of the imagination of those carrying such rumour.
“We, as a Senate, are presently concentrating on making copies of the budget available to every senator. We are getting ready to commence deliberations on the budget and we are enthusiastic and looking forward to a quick passage so that the president would commence implementation in such a way that the electorate would begin to reap the dividends and benefits of democracy.

“So it is not true that the budget is missing; it is a rumour. We deal with facts here and the fact is that no budget is missing,” Senator Sabi declared.
President Muhammadu Buhari had submitted the 2016 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly on 22nd December, 2015.
Shortly after the presentation, the National Assembly proceeded on a three- week end of the year and Christmas break.
There were speculations yesterday that the 2016 budget was missing within the National Assembly.
In a related development, the leadership of the House has denied story of 2016 budget theft from the National Assembly doing the rounds, saying that original copy of the Appropriation Bill as presented to NASS was intact and with the management of the Assembly. The House also said that the reproduced copies of the budget will be distributed to members today ahead of the consideration of the estimates at the various committee levels beginning next week.

The spokesman of the House, Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas, who spoke last night through his deputy, Hon. Jonathan Gaza Gbefwi, said the rumour of budget theft or missing was unthinkable, wondering why it was fabricated in the first place.
“The budget is intact and, in fact, they even plan to begin to distribute copies to members tomorrow (today) to begin to analyse; so wherever that (rumour) is coming from, I don’t know. So, it’s all a lie,” he said.
Another source in the House said that the rumour of budget theft may not be unconnected with the alleged plans by the Presidency to retrieve the document in order make some corrections.
The source added that all the allegations remain ‘in the realm of rumour.’

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Switzerland to return $300m looted funds to FG

President Muhammadu Buhari

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has assured Nigerians that negotiations are ongoing with a number of countries on the modalities for the repatriation of some looted funds stashed abroad.

The minister stated that the Federal Government had been in touch with Switzerland, which he said, had earlier repatriated $700m to Nigeria. He noted that another $300m that was recovered would soon be repatriated to Nigeria.

Speaking in an interview with journalists in Abuja, Onyeama stated that the Federal Government was in discussion with the United Kingdom, the United States, among other foreign governments around the world, on how all looted funds could be recovered.

He said, “We are in touch with Switzerland; they have recently recovered quite a significant amount of money and I met last week with Swiss representatives to work out the modality for the repatriation of the funds.

“The Swiss government has already repatriated over $700m from (the late Gen. Sani) Abacha loot and that agreement has been reached on how the money would be applied.

“They have also now recovered in the same context another $300m of which there is ongoing discussion to have that repatriated as well. There are discussions with other countries; United Kingdom for instance, as you all know, is one of the countries we are discussing with on how to recover looted funds.

The minister explained that the goodwill generated by President Muhammadu Buhari’s visits to the US and other countries had helped in getting various nations to cooperate with Nigeria on the loot recovery drive.

Source: PUNCH.

Nwobodo joined APC through the window –Okechukwu

Jim Nwobodo

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, on Monday said the party should screen politicians that wished to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC before granting them membership.

Okechukwu said this while reacting to the defection of a former Minister of Information and ex-governor of the old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo, from the PDP to the APC last Friday.

Nwobodo was a senator and presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP.

Expressing reservations about Nwobodo’s defection to the APC, Okechukwu noted that the elder statesman was linked to the arms deal scandal, involving the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).

Okechukwu, who pointed out that he was not opposed to new members joining the APC, said, “Political parties are like churches and mosques; they have open entry.

“However, there is the need to sieve the defectors.

“Is it not a paradox that those who are fingered in the Dasukigate scandal, people who rigged and mangled the 2015 general elections, are today wearing the badge of virtue and principle?”

Okechukwu added that some members of the APC in Enugu State, who were not happy with Nwobodo’s defection, were not worried about positions as insinuated by the former governor.

“We are not talking of position but pollution of our great party. He (Nwobodo) should first cleanse himself of the Dasukigate scandal.

“Don’t forget that the first cardinal programme of the APC is war against corruption; it is there in our manifesto,” he said.

Okechukwu alleged that Nwobodo used part of the money received from Dasuki to rig the 2015 elections in favour of the PDP in Enugu State.

He said Nwobodo entered the APC through the “window.”

According to him, Nwobodo has yet to register as an APC member at his ward.

“My take on his defection into our great party through the window is same with those who classified him as a fugitive of justice, given his involvement in the Dasukigate scandal.

“My investigation showed that up till date, he hasn’t registered in his ward; he was smuggled in by his allies and soul mates in our party, who connived with them in utilising the money from Dasukigate to allocate 14,175 votes to President (Muhammadu) Buhari, less than three per cent of the over 15,000,000 votes garnered by Mr President,” Okechukwu said.

He dismissed reports that the leadership of the APC in Enugu State had vowed to punish all those who opposed Nwobodo’s membership.

He accused the leadership of the APC in the state of deliberately turning the party into an arm of the PDP.

“Which leadership? Maybe those who not only squandered our campaign funds, but albeit are daily ignobly busy converting the APC Enugu State into a department of the PDP?

“Their imagination is that the recruitment of our elder brother and others will shield them from investigations,” Okechukwu said.

He accused Nwobodo of abandoning the principles which made him popular in the past.

Okechukwu added, “To be candid, Chief Nwobodo used to be our model: a principled politician and a Zikist. But in more than a decade, he has shed his principle and kind of descended into the arena.”

  

Source: PUNCH.

Headies Boss Ayo Animashaun Confirms Both Don Jazzy and Olamide have apologized to him

Executive producer of The Headies Awards and founder of Hip Tv, Ayo Animashaun while speaking recently about the controversy that played out at this year’s Headies confirmed that both Olamide and Don Jazzy have called him to apologize for their behaviour at the show.
“Olamide is like a son to me. What he did was to the Headies and not to me but he has apologised to me personally. He knows the right thing to do because The Headies is a platform that has celebrated a lot of artistes including him. He and Don Jazzy apologised to me the next day. As the executive producer of the award, I do not act unilaterally, I have a board and we have a disciplinary team and very soon, they will come up with a statement on how to handle the whole issue. We would make it public.”

Mental Empowerment for Prosperity by Stanley Chuck

Based on Bishop Abioye's Message

Stanley Chuck

Covenant is unique and important to God. God does not break his covenant (Ps 89:34). That is to say He respects the covenant and keeps it. He holds in high esteem the covenant.

            It takes power to get wealth and it is God who gives power to get wealth. For He says, I am the Lord your God who gives you power to get wealth. One of the characteristics of divine prosperity and covenant wealth is that it is sweat-free.

            The covenant teaches us to labour. But labour is limited, so the kind of covenant I speak of is not the one you can labour because it is the blessing of favour that makes you outstanding. The children of Israel laboured for four hundred and thirty years in Egypt yet they were poor. It was until favour came that their labour was transformed. Labour was converted into favour. A young lady came to town with less than a thousand naira and her talent and faith in God. She presented a CD documentary to an organisation that turned her into a millionaire. So don’t joke with God nor doubt the testimonies he gives to people. It doesn’t take God time.

            The first step to breaking the barriers of poverty is by your vision. Vision means seeing beyond the immediate. See beyond where you are; see beyond the economy of your nation. To have a vision is to bring the future to the present; to see beyond the environment you are. Vision usually motivates you. It breaks the barriers of poverty. It changes the way you think. It makes you stop thinking like a beggar, but like someone who knows where he’s going to. God calls Abraham the father of nation and he refused to take gift from Abimalek. He said; I am a father even to you Abimalek. So always think of the future.

            As a business man, you don’t try to cheat your partner. As a worker, don’t change figures in your office in order to get rich. See yourself, always, as a dignified Christian. You are too big for the bribes you take and the cheatings you do for the sake of getting wealth. It is the spirit of poverty that makes people cheat in offices and in government. He begins to ask what he will eat when he retires. That is because he lacks vision.

            It is how we think that results to the spirit of begging for aid as a nation. I’ve never supported debt cancellation because I believe that a man should pay if he owes. The nation of Israel in 1995 owed a foreign debt of 20.8 billion USD, but by 2002 they cleared their debt. They believe they are lenders and not borrowers.

            Prosperity is a natural sequence to mental activity. Mental activity is the root of actual productivity. When you are sound mentally, you become practically productive. Realise that God never made a rich or a poor person. He made all equally naked – a common factor in creation. The difference between the rich and the poor is the choices they made after a while. Poverty and prosperity is a choice.

            There is something that makes the difference and it was found in Adam. When he was naked, nobody taught him to cover. It was his brain at work. Your gain is determined by your brain. Put your brain to work if you want to see gain in life. Poor minds beget poor pockets. Rich mind will always create wealth. Riches begin in the mind. You can’t have a rich mind and live in a poor house. The poverty of your environment is as a result of the poverty of your mind.

            Nigeria suffers from poverty not because there are no enough resources. There is virtually no state in this country that does not have unique natural resources. There is enough in every state to gather great resources to build the economy of the nation. The first capital that is needed is the human capital – human resources and not natural resources. You may not have hands but your rich mind can work things out for you. I’ve seen a man on a first class flight that had no hands. So it not your physical hand but your mind.

            God believes so much in man and has invested in him. I love the saying of Bishop Oyedepo that the reason God gave you brain is that you can give Him rest. When your brain is at work, your prayer is reduced. Sometimes we pray over the things we can do. Some of the things you pray to get, someone else is using his brain to get it. God created man and entrusted so much abilities in him. That was why he gave Adam the privilege to name the animals. The truth is that many of us may wait endlessly for God. Proverb 22:2 is a proof that God made both the rich and the poor equally. He has put enough in you to make you stop lining up for jobs. Men and nations are rated according to their brain power and not natural resources.

            Things stop working for you when you stop using your brain. Take for instance the lives of Joseph and Daniel. They were in situations where things seemed to stop working for them, but their brains never stopped working.

            Don’t put your brain in chain even when there are chains in your hand. If you’re confined in a room, don’t confine your brain as well. God gave you brain to be able to travel mentally; it says, deep calleth deep. There is no farther place in life than in your mind. You can make the farthest journey with your brain at work. The deeper you think, the more resources you gather. Your brain is the unlimited destination, and you can’t finish harnessing the resources in it. The oil of a nation may dry up, but ideas of the brain of men can never dry up. Your greatest associate is inside your head. Joseph was put in a prison but his brain became his associate and he kept working with it. Your mental capacity has a way of enhancing your confidence.

            How to access your mental empowerment

PPray and think: pray to God for help but open your eyes to see the environment.

A man should not sleep all night. Day unto day speaketh, but night unto night showeth forth knowledge – Psalm 19:2. Those who sleep all night will fail all day. Daniel’s vision was revealed to him at night. Most times God shows us what to do during the day at night.