Photo: Enugu State Police nabs six notorious bandits terrorizing residents

Photo: Enugu State Police nabs six notorious bandits terrorizing residents

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested six notorious bandits that had been terrorising residents of the state.

According to a statement by the command's spokesperson, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, following a tip-off from some members of the public, its operatives in Adani Division in the early hours of Saturday, September 10th, nabbed six notorious armed bandits that have been terrorising the lives of the innocent citizens of Opanda,Nimbo and Adani Axis of Uzouwani local Government Area of Enugu state and its environs

Lady Gaga Drops New Single ‘Perfect Illusion’(@ladygaga)

Lady Gaga Drops New Single ‘Perfect Illusion’(@ladygaga)

Lady Gaga releases a new single ''Perfect Illusion''

The track is a collaboration with super producers Mark Ronson, Bloodpop and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.

It’s Gaga’s first new music since 2013’s Artpop, but mother monster has been keeping busy. She dropped the duets album Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennett in 2014, picked up a Golden Globe for her acting on American Horror Story: Hotel and earned an Oscar nomination for “Til It Happens to You,” her contribution to The Hunting Ground soundtrack. Along the way, Gaga also paid tribute to David Bowie at the GRAMMYs and performed the national anthem at this year’s Super Bowl

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$1 Million In Grants To Support Digital Media And Civic Participation In Africa (See how to apply here)

$1 Million In Grants To Support Digital Media And Civic Participation In Africa (See how to apply here)

The Director of Code for Africa, Justin Arenstein, announced that $1 million in grants has been made available for “a combination of seed funding, technology support, and expert mentorship” to media pioneers on the African continent.

The initiative, innovateAFRICA, is managed by Code for Africa and is desires to support “project proposals that focus on strengthening audience engagement with African civic media” as well as “digital news distribution and initiatives that explore new revenue models for African storytelling.”

Mr. Arenstein said “African media are experimenting with digital journalism, but the steadily worsening market situation facing mainstream media often has a chilling influence on the really big ideas. innovateAFRICA is meant to help newsrooms leapfrog obstacles, by giving the types of support that neither media companies nor traditional donors can provide themselves.”

The initiative plans to provide grants ranging from $12,500 to $100,000 for projects which could “strengthen and transform laboratories across the continent.”

The deadline for applying is December 1st, 2016.

The full statement and application process can be found below:



Call for Entries: $1 Million innovateAFRICA Fund For Digital Media

The new innovateAFRICA Fund is offering media pioneers on the continent $1 million in support for leapfrog technologies or digital innovation.

The support programme offers a combination of seed funding, technology support and expert mentorship. It is open to both mainstream media organisations and individual innovators.

Project proposals that focus on strengthening audience engagement with African civic media are of particular interest, along with improved models for digital news distribution, and initiatives that explore new revenue models for African storytelling.

“African media are experimenting with digital journalism, but the steadily worsening market situation facing mainstream media often has a chilling influence on the really big ideas. innovateAFRICA is meant to help newsrooms leapfrog obstacles, by giving the types of support that neither media companies nor traditional donors can provide themselves,” says Code for Africa (CfAfrica)director, Justin Arenstein.

CfAfrica manages innovateAFRICA, as part of the International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) data journalism initiative in Africa. Arenstein is an ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow.

innovateAFRICA will provide grants from $12,500 to $100,000 for projects judged to have the best chance to strengthen and transform African news media. Grantees will also receive technical advice from civic technology laboratories across the continent, along with startup support and one­on­one mentoring from the world’s top media experts.

Projects can range from new ‘digitally native’ journalism start­ups, to ideas for improving the reach and impact of legacy media operations. Projects that tackle journalism’s changing role as a civic watchdog will receive special attention.

“Citizens need reliable and actionable information to make informed decisions. A strong media remains amongst the most effective ways for giving citizens both information and a voice, and we are therefore keen to help journalists be as digitally savvy as possible,” explains Arenstein.

The deadline for applications is 01 December 2016.

innovateAFRICA runs alongside a $500,000 companion fund, impactAFRICA, which makes story grants of up to $20,000 for journalists to get out into the field for pioneering digital reporting projects. impactAFRICA launched in February 2016, and is currently offering its second round of grants for investigative data­driven journalism stories.

Both initiatives have partnered with CFI, the French agency for media cooperation, to boost involvement of digital pioneers across Francophone Africa through a series of digital journalism and civic technology workshops. Participants at the events, including similar d|bootcamps hosted byHacks/Hackers in Anglophone Africa, receive help to build project teams and to develop project ideas. Both organisations will continue to offer assistance in the run­up to the submission deadline.

innovateAFRICA’s partners include Omidyar Network, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the CFI, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), the Global Editors’ Network (GEN) and the World Bank.

“Through all of ICFJ’s work in Africa, we are constantly encountering visionaries with great ideas for how digital innovation in media can improve societies,” says ICFJ President Joyce Barnathan. “This contest will provide funding, tech support and mentoring to turn their ideas into action.”



HOW TO APPLY:

Entries must be submitted to the innovateAFRICA website by midnight (Central African Time) on December 01, 2016.



WHO CAN APPLY:

Proposals may be submitted by digital news pioneers from anywhere in the world, but entries must have an African media partner who will help co­develop and test the innovation and who will deploy the project for African audiences.



PROJECTS OF GREATEST INTEREST:

Citizens need reliable, actionable information to make informed decisions. Africa’s watchdog media remains amongst the most effective civic ‘infomediaries’ for giving citizens both information and a voice.

innovateAFRICA is therefore seeking new ways to create, discuss and share news and make quality journalism sustainable. This could include new revenue or production models, new ways to gather, produce or distribute news. Ideas that can be scaled up across the continent or replicated elsewhere are of particular interest. Preference will be given to ideas that solve bottlenecks facing Africa’s media.



THE JUDGING PROCESS:

Winning projects will be selected by an international jury of digital journalism and civic technology experts, following public voting and shortlisting by a team of technology and digital engagement experts.



FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

A detailed set of responses to Frequently Asked Questions can be found here.



THE PARTNERS:

Code for Africa (CfAfrica):

Code for Africa is the custodian of innovateAFRICA and is the continent’s largest independent digital journalism and civic technology initiative. It operates as a federation of autonomous country­based digital innovation organisations that support ‘citizen labs’ in five countries and major projects in a further 15 countries. CfAfrica runs Africa’s OpenGov Fellowships and also embeds innovation fellows into newsrooms and social justice organisations to help liberate data of public interest, or to build tools that help empower citizens. In addition to fellowships and tech labs, CfAfrica runs the $1 million per year innovateAFRICA fund and the $500,000 per year impactAFRICA fund, which both award seed grants to civic pioneers for experiments with everything from camera drones and environmental sensors, to encryption for whistleblowers and data­driven semantic analysis tools for investigative watchdogs. CfAfrica also curates continental resources such as the africanSPENDING portal of budget transparency resources, the openAFRICA data portal, the sourceAFRICAdocument repository and the connectedAFRICA transparency toolkit for tracking the often hidden social networks and economic interests in politics. CfAfrica is an initiative of the ICFJ.

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ):

The International Center for Journalists is at the forefront of the news revolution. Its programs empower journalists and engage citizens with new technologies and best practices. ICFJ’s networks of reporters and media entrepreneurs are transforming the field. It believes that better journalism leads to better lives.

CFI (agence française de cooperation medias):

CFI is the media cooperation agency of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, and is responsible for coordinating and implementing French aid policy for promoting and enhancing the media in developing countries. CFI works alongside players operating in the media industry (TV, radio, written press, social media), whether state­owned or privately owned, in order to strengthen the modernisation and democratisation procedures that France so avidly supports. CFI is currently involved in around thirty projects that fall within four major programmes: media and pluralism, media and enterprise, media and development, and media and human resources.

SIGNS THAT YOUR FRIEND MIGHT BE YOUR FUTURE PARTNER

SIGNS THAT YOUR FRIEND MIGHT BE YOUR FUTURE PARTNER

Discovering your lifetime spouse

–Knowing who you are with your friend

– Finding love close to you
SIGNS THAT YOUR FRIEND MIGHT BE YOUR FUTURE PARTNER.
Friendship, hall marks every relationship that has ever existed and that would ever be. However, there are certain traits to look out for in whosoever might be close to possessing all of the qualities that you have got on your checklist for a spouse.

Lets try and consider some signs that your friend is likely to be your spouse.

HE/SHE COMMUNICATES WITH YOU EFFECTIVELY

He/ She is willing to tell you all about his/her experiences, past,present and future plans- even the ugly ones. They are ready to tell you about their families and ask about yours too, also, their escapades.

HE/SHE IS SOMEONE YOU CAN TRUST
You can be rest assured that you’ve found your person when you don’t feel any uneasiness with him/her hanging out with friends

 HE/SHE IS ALWAYS THERE FOR YO
There are times when we don’t feel our best and we need shoulders to lean on for support. If he/she is always there to offer his or her shoulders for support, then they might just be the right person for you.

HE/ SHE WILL NEVER MAKE YOU FEEL LESS LOVED

Your person will never let you feel less loved for more than a minute because he will be there to lift your confidence and help you brighten up.

News: Facebook Launches New Disaster Management App

News: Facebook Launches New Disaster Management App

– Facebook launches safety check
– Plans to connect people even through disaster

With the constant launch of attacks and disasters happening worldwide, which gives rise to fear on the safety of family members and friends Facebook has launched the Safety Check to help confirm if your family members or friends are safe if where they stay has been hit by a disaster .

The Safety Check helps Connect with friends and loved ones during a disaster. According to Marks statement on the launch of the safety check he said “Connecting with people is always valuable, but these are the moments when it matters most.

Safety Check is our way of helping our community during natural disasters and gives you an easy and simple way to say you’re safe and check on all your friends and family in one place.

He feature allows people to notify their friends if they are in the affected area and mark themselves as safe.

A click or tap on the “I’m Safe” button lets friends and loved ones know straight away. Users can also check to see whether their friends are safe too.

A spokesperson also added: “Last month, we began testing features that allow people to both initiate and share Safety Check on Facebook,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement…We hope the people in the area find the tool a helpful way to let their friends and family know they are OK…”

The feature was activated in early June after the deadly attack on a Florida night club that claimed the lives of 49 people.

Gossip: Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, spotted alongside his commissioners, eating in a local kitchen

Gossip: Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, spotted alongside his commissioners, eating in a local kitchen

Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, alongside his commissioners, seen eating at a community kitchen

NDDC Faults Gov. Wikes' Claim On Road Projects

NDDC Faults Gov. Wikes' Claim On Road Projects

Mrs Ibim Semenitari, acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has called on the public to disregard a statement credited to Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike over some road projects.

Semenitari made the call in a statement issued by Bekee Anyalewechi, her Special Assistant on Media, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Port Harcourt.

The statement said that Wike was wrong by his claim that NDDC was not the financier of the construction of Igwuruta-Chokocho-Okehia and Oil Mill-Igbo-Etche-Chokocho road projects in Etche LGA of the state.


“Ibim Semenitari debunks claims made by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers that NDDC is not involved in the recovery of dilapidated road infrastructure in Etche local government area of the state.

“Wike is not only playing to the gallery, he is also hiding the fact of his failure to tackle the bigger challenge of insecurity plaguing the state.

“As an interventionist agency, NDDC stepped in to recover the roads between Igwuruta and Umuechem, as well as internal roads in the community and the Oil Mill-Igbo-Etche-Chokocho road.

“NDDC, working under the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, stepped in to arrest the deterioration of the roads to boost economic activities and give residents a lease of life,” the statement said.

It added that checks could be made to verify Semenitari’s claim through a visit to the area to confirm the veracity of NDDC scope and quality of intervention on the roads.

It said the Oil Mill-Igbo-Etche-Chokocho road was critical because it connected Port Harcourt with agriculture and other economic produce spots in Etche.

“The public is assured that we will not relent on our efforts to complete those projects despite attempts to possibly stall their early completion,” the statement said.

It said that the commission was not interested in bickering with Wike, but was only interested in pursuing human and infrastructural development of the Niger Delta region.

The statement urged Wike to focus more of his attention to current insecurity in the state rather than engaging the commission “in a speech contest.’’

Mark Zuckerberg Holds Closed Door Meeting With Nigeria President

Mark Zuckerberg Holds Closed Door Meeting With Nigeria President

The founder and Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has held a closed-door meeting with the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Zuckerberg was seen going into the Presidential Villa at about 12 noon and left before 1.00 pm. details of the meeting were not disclosed to journalists.

It is not clear what the focus of the meeting was, but Mr Zuckerberg had said he was in Nigeria on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa to meet with developers, partners and explore Nigeria’s movie industry.

At the meeting with the Nigerian President, Mr Zuckerberg also presented a Facebook drone prototype to President Buhari.

After the meeting with the President, Mr Zuckerberg headed for the Presidential Banquet Hall to participate in the Aso Villa Demo Day, a programme where 30 Nigerian aspiring tech entrepreneurs are expected to showcase their I.T. skills.

The Facebook founder is said to have flown back into the country from Kenya early on Friday for the meeting.

He had arrived Nigeria on Tuesday and met with aspiring Tech Entrepreneurs and other young Nigerians in Lagos for two days, and shared his thoughts on how Nigeria and Africa can key into the technological revolution that is  re-defining human activities across the world.

RAPE: Man tears up 2 year olds' baby private part, “I Didn’t Put My Manhood in Her. I Only Fingered Her '' @sosoconnctblog

RAPE: Man tears up 2 year olds' baby private part, “I Didn’t Put My Manhood in Her. I Only Fingered Her '' @sosoconnctblog

LAGOS—Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, are battling to save the life of a two-year-old girl, who was raped by a 28-year-old tailor, called Itua, in Oshodi area of Lagos. Itua… It’s Devil’s handwork Mother of the baby, Mrs. Ajibade, was reportedly going out with the baby, but left her to urinate behind their 1, Masako Street residence, only to return to find that her daughter had vanished.

 The suspect, a tailor whose shop was located opposite Ajibade’s home denied seeing the baby, when asked. However, the toddler’s mother told our source:

 “My baby later came to me crying, pointing at her private part and, at the same time, calling ‘Itua,’ ‘Itua’. “I checked her private part and discovered that her pant was blood-stained. When I asked Itua what he did to my daughter, he said nothing. He admitted that my daughter came to meet him in his shop, but that he drove her out to go and meet me.  

 “At that point, I started shouting at the top of my voice, until people gathered. A mob gathered and apprehended him.”

 When Sosoconnect visited the area yesterday, the suspect’s shop was under lock and key. Other apprentice were said to have fled for fear of being arrested. A resident, who simply gave his name as Matthew, said: “This is not the first time. He has been caught several times, but would beg to be freed. This is the first time he has been taken to the police. Policemen from Akinpelu Division took him away.” ‘I only fingered her’ During interrogation, Itua, an Esan man, from Edo State, said:

 “I didn’t put my manhood in her. I only fingered her. It was the devil’s handwork.” The Child Protection Network Coordinator, Mirabel Centre, at LASUTH, Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile, described the incident as the worst case ever received at the centre. 

 He said: “The girl was in a pool of blood, with her private part very expanded. It is not easy patching her up. The girl is still there receiving treatment.” Relatives of the suspect appealed to the family of the baby to withdraw the case from the police station, but Vanguard gathered that the Centre refused, saying rape was a case against the government and justice must be done.

Fleeing driver kills man after bashing his tricycle

Fleeing driver kills man after bashing his tricycle

Tragedy struck on Wednesday at the Secretariat end of CMD Road, Ikosi Ketu, Lagos, after a tricycle rider, Christian Ugochukwu, was crushed to death by a truck.

According to our source,  the truck driver, John Monday, had bashed the victim’s tricycle earlier on Shangisha Road and refused to stop.

The victim was reported to have parked his tricycle and chased the truck.


He reportedly caught up with it at the Secretariat bus stop and hung to its side door.

The driver reportedly flung the door open and Ugochukwu fell.

He was subsequently crushed to death by the truck’s back tyres.

A witness, who did not identify himself, said the incident happened around 1.30pm.



He said, “Christian (Ugochukwu) plied the Shangisha route and he was in his tricycle when the passing truck bashed it.

“The truck driver continued his movement as if nothing happened. He also didn’t heed the cry of the man to pull over. So, Christian started chasing the truck, caught up with it and hanged to its door.

“He had a stick in his hand and he used it to threaten the driver that he would hit him if he didn’t stop.

“The driver suddenly opened the door and he fell. The back tyres climbed on him and he died. It was a bad sight.”

It was learnt that immediately the incident happened, the driver sped off.

Another witness said a crowd mobilised and chased the truck driver, adding that he was caught at a filling station in the Otedola Bridge area.

A police source said the driver and his conductor were rescued by policemen from the Isheri division, joined by officers of the Metro Patrol and Safer Highway.

“The driver said he drove to the filling station to escape being lynched by the mob, who had petrol to pour on him.

“He was rescued alive and taken to the station along with the man’s corpse. The corpse was later deposited in the Iyana Isolo General Hospital morgue,” he added.

Our correspondent was told that Ugochukwu’s wife had just been delivered of a baby on the morning of the incident.

He was said to be looking for money for hospital bill when tragedy struck.

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect would be charged to court at the end of investigations.

She said, “The suspect is in our custody and he is assisting with investigations. Meanwhile, the victim’s corpse has been deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.”

Bags of Cocaine Worth $56 Million Are Found at Coca-Cola Factory in France

Bags of Cocaine Worth $56 Million Are Found at Coca-Cola Factory in France

Uncovering a drug-smuggling operation with a French connection, workers at a Coca-Cola factory in southern France this week found a huge cache of cocaine worth approximately $56 million in a shipment of orange juice concentrate, according to news reports.

The factory, which is in the town of Signes, near the Mediterranean coast, produces concentrates for various drinks. A spokesman for Coca-Cola France said that employees notified the police and that the authorities had started an investigation, The Associated Press reported.

The drug was hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate


and amounted to 370 kilograms, making it one of the largest such discoveries on French soil, the BBC reported. The shipment arrived in a container from South America.

The prosecutor of Toulon, Xavier Tarabeux, called the find “a very bad surprise” and said it had a street value of 50 million euros, or about $56 million.

Employees at the plant have been ruled out as being involved, a Coca-Cola official said. “The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are in no way involved,” Jean-Denis Malgras, the company’s regional president, told the news website Var-Matin.

Coca leaves were reportedly used in the original Coca-Cola drink in the 19th century, although the company has said cocaine has never been an “added ingredient,” The A.P. said.

Sexual Assault : Bricklayer Assaults Sex Worker In Lagos

Sexual Assault : Bricklayer Assaults Sex Worker In Lagos

Lagos—A 39-year-old bricklayer, who allegedly threw a sex worker inside a gutter after raping her, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos. The bricklayer, Richard Edet, is facing a two-count charge of stealing and rape preferred against him by the police. 

The prosecutor, Corporal Friday Mameh, told the court that the defendant, sometimes in June, committed the alleged offence when he met the complainant, one Gloria Obihor, at a party where he told her that he works with Mobil. He said that the defendant unlawfully assaulted the complainant sexually. According to Mameh, “the defendant and the complainant met again in August at 1004 Estate in Victoria Island and then headed for a bar. 

They took a taxi and the defendant pointed at a house and said that was his residence. “After they left the bar, the defendant raped the victim, threw her inside a gutter and stole her property and money. She shouted for help, but nobody was around to help her.” The properties that were stolen by the defendant are Samsung X6 phone, valued at N92,000; Malado wristwatch, valued N40,000; perfume valued at N16,000 and a cash sum of N13,000. 

The complainant saw him at Oniru Beach and raised alarm. But he escaped, only to be caught at Oniru Estate, after he was hit by a vehicle while trying to escape again. According to him, the offence is punishable under Sections 285 and 259 of the criminal law of Lagos State, 2011. However, the defendant pleaded innocence to the two-count charge preferred against him. Magistrate Patrick Adekomaiya granted him bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum, who must be employed in a limited liability company, be tax payers and their addresses verified. The case was then adjourned till September 23.

Ex-husband Demand Sons' Corpse From Sen. Stella Oduah

Ex-husband Demand Sons' Corpse From Sen. Stella Oduah

Ex-husband of Senator Stella Oduah,  Lt. Col. Satchie Emmanuel Etoromi (Rtd.), has urged the ex-aviation minister to return his late son to him now in Warri,  Delta State for burial.
 Sen. Stella Oduah Chief Etoromi speaking to newsmen in Warri shortly after sending a powerful delegation to the Igwe of Akili Ozizor, Ogbaru in Anambra State, royal majesty, Igwe D. O. Oduah, expressed sadness over the death of his son and how he was treated by the senator.

 In his letter to the royal father titled, “Appeal To Intercede To Ensure Senator Stella Adaeze Oduah Brings My Son,  Maxwell Chinedu Obiechina Wereyesigha Toritseju Etoromi To Me In Warri For Burial,” the Etoromi said he read about the death of his 28 years old son in the newspapers without being informed by his ex-wife.

 The letter reads,  “His Royal Highness Igwe Oduah 1, betrothed Stella Oduah to me on 18th November 1984 in Akili Ozizor. We married on the 16th of December 1984 in His Highness`s Palace in Akili Ozizor. After the payment of dowry and exchange of gifts, we were taken to Nde-Mili where we performed the final rites. “I am surprised to see in the internet stories that my son MAXWELL OMABUWA TEMISAREN OBIECHINA WEREYESIGHA TORITSEJU CHINEDU ETOROMI who Stella delivered for us on 14th March 1988 at 05.00 hour in St Mary`s Hospital Ugboroke Warri is dead. “Up till now Stella has not told me my son died in her custody. There is rumour that my son will be buried in Akili Ozizor. THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL. My son must be brought to me in Warri for internment. 
Stella Oduah’s son, Maxwell Etoromi The letter which was copied to  Most Reverend Valerian Okeke, The Arch-Bishop of Onitsha, and the Parish Priest, Father, Donald Uzoh of Sacred Heart Parish,  added that “Stella should also bring back EYITUOYO FELIX KENNETH ORITSETIMEYIN IKECHUKWU ETOROMI who was delivered on 1st August 1989 at 0 5.30 hour in St Mary`s Hospital Ugboroke Warri whom she took away from our home over twenty years ago.” Chief Etoromi explained to the monarch that the stories needed not be told now,  but his grief at Omabuwa`s transition was too much to bear, hence he is is reacting this way. It would be recalled that Akili Ozizor,the quiet country home of Nigeria’s former Aviation minister and presently the Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial Zone,Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, on Monday witnessed an unusual heavy vehicular and human movement when sympathisers,friends and dignitaries from across Anambra state rallied for vigil mass for the peaceful repose of the soul of late master Maxwell Chinedu, son of Senator Oduah who died last Friday at the age of 28. 

The Archbishop of Onitsha and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev Valerian Okeke presided over the mass with other four priests concelebrating. The Archbishop condoled with the entire family and described the death of Chinedu as a big trial moment for the family and urged them not to mourn as people without faith. According to the Archbishop,it is not the age one lived that matters but what one achieved in his life time. In his homily,the Episcopal Vicar of Dunukofia Region,Onitsha Archdiocese,Very Rev Fr Theophilus Odukwe likened the death of Chinedu to that of the Biblical John the Baptist whose life was cut short at a young age,a situation which he said faith had ordained. 
Fr Odukwe pointed out that in many cases and particularly in history,many achievers in history concluded their earthly journeys early in life adding that God in his infinite wisdom called the late Chinedu home after concluding his earthly assignment. He drew analogy on the vanity of life when he pointed out that neither wealth,power or money can give life but that God almighty gives life and takes as he wishes. One of those who arrived early for the mass are the former Secretary to the Federal Government,Chief Anyim Pius Anyim,Anambra State PDP chairman,Chief Ken Emeakayi,former Onitsha South Local government Chairman,Chief Ejidike, the Chief of Staff,Princess Stella Oduah Foundation,Princess Nwaka Ononuju,Director of Stella Oduah Campaign Organisation,Chief Pandola Okwuosa,and many others

Disappointingly Annular Eclipse Not Sighted In Nigeria

Disappointingly Annular Eclipse Not Sighted In Nigeria

According to the NASDRA, the annular eclipse to be experienced today 1st September, 2016 and people are gathered here in the Obasanjo Space Center where NASDRA Headquarter is cited Abuja with their EU certified Eclipse glasses on, to visibly watch the eclipse as it appears.

Disappointingly, the cloud covers the space and people were all left with dismay as the cloud refused to vanish till the time supposedly predicted to witness as expired.

Reports came that in Zamfara and Lagos State, are witnessing the annular eclipse and we are expecting more reports across the country.