Aiteo: No Report Has Ever Indicted Us

Aiteo Energy Resources Limited has refuted a news story that it was indicted by a report of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on crude oil swaps during the company’s presentation to the Joint House Committee on Petroleum Upstream and Downstream and Justice on Wednesday.

In a statement issued Thursday by the company’s Deputy Managing Director, Mr. Francis Peters, Aiteo said no report had ever indicted it in its history, adding it had always been found above board by any panel of the federal government or report.

Peters said: “We reject in its entirety our company being referred to as 'indicted' in the said article. In her history, Aiteo has always been found above board by any panel or report.

“Despite the intensity of the probe by the Hon. Farouk Lawan Committee on Subsidy and the Aig-Imokhuede Committee, we were never indicted by anyone of them. We see this as a deliberate attempt to smear the good image of our company.

Nollywood Actress Nuella Set To Wed Chikere

After barefaced lies and many denials, Nollywood actress, Nuella Njubigbo has confirmed her long-rumoured relationship with movie director/actor, Tchidi Chikere.

In a statement made available to P.M.NEWS by Nuella’s PR reps, BigSam Media, on Thursday, the actress did not only confirm her illicit affair with Tchidi, but announced that they will soon be getting married.

“Let me start by confirming some of the rumours you may have heard. Yes, the traditional marriage rites between Tchidi Chikere and I will be performed soon. This was not the way we imagined or planned it, but as they say, nobody has a crystal ball to tell where or who we end up with. Life is a dice,” Nuella said in the statement.

When news broke in 2012 of the crack in Tchidi’s 9-year old marriage, all fingers were pointed at Nuella. Many even cursed her that she broke another woman’s marriage. But in a chat withP.M.NEWS then, Nuella denied dating Tchidi whom she described as ‘a senior colleague and friend’.

“I was surprised seeing a lot of false write-ups on me, putting my name in what I knew nothing about. Tchidi is just my senior colleague that I respect and work with,” Nuella had said then.

Lessons on Twerking? US college to offer class on Miley Cyrus

New York: Singer Miley Cyrus, known for her crazy stage antics, has hit a good note with a New York-based Skidmore College, which is now set to offer a class on the pop star.

The course, called 'The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media', will be available at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs here this summer, reports aceshowbiz.com.

"Unfortunately, the way we talk about female pop stars and female bodies, class matters, gender matters, sexuality and sexual performance matters, but race matters a lot (too) and the way we talk about white pop stars is quite different than how we talk about the bodies of women of colour," professor Carolyn Chernoff said of the class, reports ABC News.

"(Cyrus) complicates representations of the female body in pop culture in some ways that are good, bad, and ugly," she added.

The Saratogian newspaper additionally reported that there would be no twerking - a dance move popularised by Cyrus, during the course.

"Sorry, dudes, but this is sociology. Learn to twerk on your own time," said Chernoff.

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Only Registered Members Will Be Considered, Says APC

Bauchi chapter of All Progressive Congress, (APC)  said on Friday that only registered members of the party would be considered as delegates and contestants during its forthcoming congresses, scheduled for April.

Dr Danjuma Dabo, State Chairman of the party, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi.

Dabo said that membership registers in the wards, would be used to determine who would participate in the congress.

According to him, many people have already indicated interest to serve as officials of the party at the ward, local government and the state levels.

He also said that the party was meeting with the aspirants individually, to notify them of the basic requirements for the polls.

“According to our guidelines, we are going to use the membership registers in all the wards to determine who is eligible to contest.

Kate Bush tickets sell out in under fifteen minutes

Singer says she is 'completely overwhelmed' by the response to her first shows in 35 years

Tickets for Kate Bush's forthcoming tour have sold out in less than 15 minutes.

The singer, who added a further seven shows to her residency at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith this week, will now be playing 22 gigs in all.

Bush, who has not played live in 35 years, said: “I’m completely overwhelmed by the response to the shows. Thank you so much to everyone. Looking forward to seeing you all later this year.”

Atletico Madrid youth side fined €10,000 following racist chants

Uefa has also issued a partial stadium closure after crowd trouble in the recent meeting with Manchester City, while Napoli and Porto have also been punished for fan unrest

Atletico Madrid's youth side have been fined €10,000 and hit with a partial stadium ban following racist abuse in a recent match with Manchester City.

Uefa launched an investigation after City's 1-0 win in the Youth League round-of-16 meeting on February 26 was marred by alleged racist remarks directed at Devante Cole, the son of former Manchester United and England striker Andrew Cole.

Europe's governing body has since decided there are grounds to take action against the Spanish club's youth sector, prompting the decision to issue a fine and order a section of the ground to be closed for the next home match in the competition, as confirmed on their official website.

I was okay kissing in front of my father, says Varun Dhawan

Actor Varun Dhawan has five kissing scenes in his forthcoming film 'Main Tera Hero', directed by his father David Dhawan. The young actor finds nothing wrong in locking lips onscreen "in the 21st century".

In the promos of the film, the 'Student Of The Year' fame actor can be seen locking lips with his co-star Ileana D'Cruz.

"I was okay kissing in front of my father," Varun told reporters here Thursday at the cover launch of Stardust magazine, featuring him with his second co-star in the film, Nargis Fakhri.

"It's an important part of the climax. There are five kisses in the film," he added.

The 26-year-old does further said that "it's high time" people stop creating hype over a kiss in a film.

"I think in today's age, in the 21st century, it's fine. What's the big deal in it," he asked.

"It is just a kiss. It is just an expression of love that the two characters are feeling at that time," he added.

The film is slated to release April 4.

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Super Eagles: Just how good were Nigeria in 1994?

The Super Eagles generation of the mid-90s are generally considered as the finest collection of players ever assembled in the green of Nigeria; but are they as good as we remember?

It enables us to remember incidents in the past with longing. Most of the time, however, it is simply a refusal to acknowledge the rapid passage of time, or the reality of present events.

It is a widely held view, for example, that defending was much better back in the 70s and 80s. While this may be true, it does not take into account the increased (almost chaotic) pace of the modern game, and the onus on modern defenders to adapt to this as well as changes in the offside rule and quality of the actual footballers themselves. 

Nigeria remembers with fondness the golden generation of 1994, helmed by Dutch coach Clemens Westerhof, which brought the country its finest hour on the world stage. They played with a swagger that was uncommon among African sides, especially considering the manner in which Senegal and Ghana would achieve acclaim in later World Cups. 

Tragedy: Corporal kills self, wife, six others in Ogun

Yesterday was bad in Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital,where a Police Corporal, Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi, intentionally shot dead his wife, Corporal Oluwatosin Faremi, and six others.

Corporal Sunkanmi critically injured three people before killing himself with own riffle.

Instead of returning his official AK – 47 riffle to the police armoury after a night shift, it was learnt that went home with it yesterday around 7:05am and shot his wife, who was about to leave for work.

The late Faremi was attached to Obantoko Divisional Police Headquarters.

Ogunbiyi spared his two children, who were dressed for school, and went to the front of their compound, where he shot a commercial motorcyclist simply identified as Kunle, who was there to pick up Ogunbiyi’s wife and children.

Gunmen attack Two human rights lawyers in Delta

Legal practitioners in Delta state have been thrown into mourning following the gruesome assassination of two lawyers on Thursday.

Renowned lawyer and human rights activist Mr Horrace Egbon Dafiogho and his junior colleague, identified as Sam Ekwajor, were shot dead along Ughelli – Ozoro road on Thursday.

It was gathered that the duo were on their way to Ozoro, where they are defending suspects in a high profile kidnap case involving a prominent politician in the state, when they were killed.

Although the circumstance surrounding the killing was yet unclear, it was gathered that the incident has led to shock and panic among legal practitioners in the state.

Governor Fayemi flags off second term bid campaign

Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterdaybegan his campaign for a second term in office with a charge to the people of the state to protect their votes from being stolen by election riggers and vote robbers.

Fayemi, at a rally held at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, also pledged to work harder to better the lives of Ekiti people and ensure a better transformation of the state if re-elected in the June 21 governorship election. He said that he has faithfully implemented his eightpoint agenda and fulfilled all the promises contained in his inaugural address when he was sworn into office on October 16, 2010.

OSUN 2014: OKE BEGS OLASUNKANMI, OMISORE, ADELEKE TO STEP DOWN •AS OMISORE, ADELEKE PROMISE TO WIN BACK OSUN FOR PDP

As the preparations for the gubernatorial election scheduled for August 9, in Osun State hot up, one of the aspirants under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Wole Oke, on Wednesday, pleaded with other three leading contenders in the party to step down from the race and endorse him as the PDP’s flag bearer, for the party to defeat the incumbent, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, at the poll.

Those that Honourable Oke, a two term Chairman of the House of Representatives on Defence in the 5th and 6th National Assembly, wanted to step down for him are Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, a former Minister of Youths Development; Senator Isiaka Adeleke, first Executive Governor of the State and Senator Iyiola Omisore, a former Deputy Governor in the state.
He spoke with newsmen shortly after he submitted his nomination form for the governorship race at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja.

Platini eyes FIFA presidency

UEFA president Michel Platini said Thursday he would decide later in the year whether to seek the presidency of the FIFA world federation.

Platini, 58, told the European federation’s congress in Astana he would hold talks with individual member countries in the coming months before deciding his future plans.

FIFA and UEFA are to hold leadership elections in 2015. Current FIFA president Sepp Blatter, 78, has not formally announced whether he will stand again but has said he will do so if asked by member nations.

Referring to the elections, Platini said “as these concern you first and foremost, we will discuss them all together at (executive) meetings after the summer.

“I will be there to listen to you, as usual, and we can then take decisions together, as we always do.”

Blatter is expected to announce his decision at the FIFA Congress in Rio de Janeiro in June just ahead of the start of the World Cup finals.

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Boko Haram kills 1,000 People This Year, says NEMA

More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in three states in north-eastern Nigeria worst hit by the Boko Haram violence, according to the country’s main relief organisation.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) figures are the starkest indication yet of the increase in bloodshed in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe that have caused growing concern.

NEMA said in a presentation in Abuja on Tuesday that people living in the states were “caught up in an intensifying conflict”, which has been raging since 2009.

“The human toll: more than 1,000 people dead and 249, 446 displaced between January to March 2014. One in five of the total population are not living in their own homes,” it added.

Violence has increased in northeastern Nigeria since the new year, including a high-profile attack on a boarding school in Yobe, which saw dozens of students slaughtered in their beds

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FRSC Can’t Impound Vehicles With Old Number Plates – Court

Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court Lagos yesterday declared that the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) had no legal authority to impose new number plates on motorists in the country.

The judge also held that the ongoing exercise by the FRSC to replace the old number plate with a new one is illegal and unconstitutional because there is no law empowering it to carry out the exercise.

Justice Tsoho made the declaration yesterday while delivering judgment in a suit filed by a Lagos lawyer, Emmanuel Ofoegbu, against the FRSC.

Ofoegbu, in the suit, had challenged the power of the commission to impound vehicles of motorists who failed to acquire the new numbers, arguing that there is no law validly made in accordance with the constitution prohibiting the use of the old number plate.

Severe weather stops air search for missing Malaysian jet

Bad weather has halted an air search for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet presumed crashed in the southern Indian Ocean today, frustrating hopes of finding what new satellite images showed could be a large debris field.

An international search team of 11 military and civilian aircraft, and five ships had been heading to an area where more than 100 objects that could be from the Boeing 777 had been identified by French satellite pictures earlier this week.

Missing Malaysian plane: Police quiz families of pilot, co-pilots

The families of the pilot and co-pilots of a missing Malaysian jetliner were among more than 100 people interviewed by investigators, seeking clues about the disappearance.

A senior Malaysian official said this on Monday.

“We can confirm that the police have interviewed more than a hundred people, including families of both the pilot and co-pilot,’’ Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

Investigators intensified their focus on passengers and crew of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 after Prime Minister Najib Razak said the disappearance of the plane appeared to be a “deliberate” act.

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slamic Cleric docked over alleged defilement of 12-yr-old girl

An 32-year-old Islamic cleric, Kazeem Jimoh, on Monday appeared before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, charged with the alleged defilement of a 12-year-old girl.

Jimoh, whose address was not given, is facing a one-count charge of rape.

The prosecutor, Insp. Peter Molokwu, told the court that the cleric committed the offence on March 18 at 8.00 p.m. in an uncompleted building opposite Community Primary School, Iloye in Ota.

Molokwu said that the accused lured the girl into the building and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her.

He said that police investigation revealed that the cleric had previously engaged in the act with the girl.