Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Lagos Computer Village Burnt Down
Properties worth billions of Nairawas this evening gutted by fire in Africa’s largest sub Saharan computers and telephone market popularly known as Computer Village in Ikeja Lagos Nigeria at about 6pm.The authorities are yet to ascertain the cause of the fire outbreak, as fire fighters and other emergency relief officials were seen heading towards the market.
There have been pockets of fire incidence within the market in the past arising from electrical faults and negligence of market men and women, Photos below
Monday, 1 February 2016
Newly signed Sony Music act, Davido, has once more acquired a luxurious toy.Lionel Messi plans To Meet The Little Afghan Boy Who Wears Plastic Bag Jersey Of His Name
Barcelona star Lionel Messi is planning to arrange a meeting with the Afghan boy who jump to fame after pictures of him dressed in a striped plastic bag jersey went viral , Kabul’s football federation said Monday, February 1.Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi idolises Messi but a jersey of his favourite player is beyond the means of his poor family in the volatile province of Ghazni near Kabul.
His elder brother Homayoun, 15, made him the blue-and-white-striped plastic shirt with Messi’s named scrawled in marker pen and posted the photos of Murtaza wearing it on Facebook in mid-January.
Jorge Messi, Lionel’s father, told AFP on Saturday that the footballer was aware of the photos that made waves on social media and “wants to do something” for his young fan.
The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) on Monday said Messi was keen to meet Murtaza as soon as possible, though no date or venue has so far been finalised.
“Messi has been in communication with the federation to set up a meeting with the young boy,” AFF spokesman Sayed Ali Kazemi told AFP.
“We are working to see whether Messi will come to Afghanistan or the five-year-old will travel to Spain or they will meet in a third country.”
The Spanish embassy in Kabul told AFP it would do whatever possible to facilitate a meeting in a European destination. Murtaza’s father, a poor farmer in Ghazni’s Jaghori district, said he could not afford to buy him a replica jersey, and that Murtaza only had a punctured ball to play with.
Photos of Murtaza wearing a plastic striped bag with improvised Messi 10 written on it has touched a chord with football fans around the world.
Source: AFP
Anambra Begins Exportation Of Ugu & Bitter Leaves To UK
Anambra has started the exportation of pumpkin leaves (Ugu) and bitter leaves (Onugbu) to the UK.The first set of the exportation was on the 21st of January, 2016 after the Anambra State Ministry of Agriculture successfully assisted some rural farmers to export the first batch of their products.
This was however after the Federal Quarantine Agency paid several visits to the state to inspect and certify the various farms fit for the purpose.
Anambra aims to produce vegetables of high quality without applying fertilizers or any other chemicals, in order to position the State as a top vegetable exporting State.
How Robbers Seized My ATM & Cleaned Out My Account in Lagos – Distraught Woman Recounts
A female school teacher saving for her rent has narrated how some hoodlums in the commercial capital of Nigeria, Lagos hijacked her ATM and withdrew all the money in her bank account.If anyone had told Evi Iwaha when she left home last Friday for a prayer vigil, that she would return home cashless and phoneless, she would most likely have gone for that person’s jugular or labelled him a liar from the pit of hell. But she did run out of luck that fateful Saturday morning on her way back from an all-night prayer at her church Obanikoro, as some fierce-looking men hijacked the bus she was commuting in, took all passengers hostage and proceeded to rob them all of their valuables.
Evi said “It happened a few minutes to 6.00am; I’d boarded a bus supposedly to Oshodi from Obanikoro. No sooner had the bus moved than they sprang into action. The first thing they did was grab my phone; ‘What do you do? Where are you coming from?’ one of them asked. I was hopeful that they’d take pity on me, having told them I was just a primary school teacher. Why bother to ask if it meant nothing to them? After rummaging through my wallet, they found two ATM cards and some cash. The question that followed hit me with a bang. ‘What’s your pin number?’ Instinctively, I hesitated for a while, but a resounding slap on my face soon got me spilling it out. These guys were actually going to do the unimaginable. They were going to clear my account.
“To think that I was about experiencing stories that had seemed far away. I looked up in time to see another member of the gang, sitting in the front seat. They called him officer. I don’t know if he was some military officer or if the name was just a code name. Even though I was still a little dazed from the slap, I couldn’t but notice the gun that hung loosely in the man’s hand, as he spoke to his colleague.
“He quickly handed the ATM cards to another member who played the role of a bus conductor. The driver slowed down at my inquisitor’s command, and the bus conductor jumped off the bus on his way to emptying my accounts. I silently wished I had payed the money into my friend’s account, he had asked me to do so to avoid spending it, since I’m saving towards paying my rent.
“Meanwhile, while we awaited the arrival of the messenger, the bus kept going round and round. In the process, the two women I met on the bus were told to disembark, and two others, a guy and his girlfriend were picked up at the next stop.
“They were lucky, as they didn’t have any ATM card on them. They were ripped of their phones and the only one thousand Naira note the guy had on him. They had also searched the lady who came on at the same time as I did.
Obviously they didn’t get much from her. I was their sacrificial lamb. Soon my phone beeped – an indication that the money had been withdrawn. Then they drove back to the spot where they had dropped off the bus conductor, picked him up and drove off. By all means, it was a smooth operation, and we were home-bound now. I silently prayed that they dropped me off at a safe place.
“All along, I didn’t know where we were because I had been sitting on the floor of the bus. Suddenly, the bus pulled to a stop and we were all told to alight. I discovered that they had dropped us at the toll-gate. My inquisitor who had promised to give me transport money to take me home had either forgotten or couldn’t care less. They zoomed off as soon as we were all out of the bus.
I stood there thinking of how to get to my place in Gbagada, until one good Nigerian who happened to be passing by came to my rescue by giving me N100, my exact fare home.” Evi finished off.
For her it was one incident she had never imagined not to talk of experiencing.
Source:- The Nation
Is This Keke Driver An Inspiration Or A Danger To Road Users? (See Photo)
A lady shared her encounter with this deaf driver and although people are of the opinion that the driver’s actions are meant to be inspiring, others feel that it is very very wrong and this kind of thing can only happen in Nigeria.
Read her narration below and share your thoughts
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