The Return Of Frank Donga -Watch the Interview – “Vacancy”

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COUNTDOWN:Olamide Reveals “Street OT” Album Art + Release Date

                             
YBNL General, Olamide is set to release his latest album, Street OT on 14-11-14; his 4th studio album in as many years. Talk about consistency.
View the official artwork below. I’m guessing the official tracklisting comes next.

Breaking News: PopularBlog Site "LINDA IKEJI BLOG" Removed

Prone to the hacking synerio going on with Linda Ikeja Blog-site, the blogging site noticed this afternoon displayed ''blog has been removed', could this be as a result of the so-called hacker or just internet restructuring. Oye Olorun...

OMOLAYOLE, ADETU, OTHERS SET SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS PANACEA FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

                                 
Social entrepreneurship has been identified as a veritable initiative to building community, self-reliance as well as creating vehicle for organizations to meet their needs in a financially sustainable way. This was a major discourse at the 30th edition of the Omolayole management lecture series organized by ‎Alumni of the International Association of Students in Economics and Commercial Sciences, AIESEC.

Speaking at the event, MD/CEO of Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr. Seni Adetu who was the guest speaker in his key note address said, “social enterprises help create a vibrant and diverse economy with more opportunities for people of all abilities and backgrounds. All nations must be able to work with social enterprises through private investors to address the social, environmental, cultural and economic challenges no government can solve alone”

Adetu made insightful note of several incidents that have helped him in his career panning from changing the look and feel of his brands to creating enormous results for the organization. He further explained, “the essence of social entrepreneurship has unfortunately largely been misunderstood in the past. At its heart it is an approach to social and environmental problems, which combines innovation and opportunity just the way any entrepreneur would. The difference is that the primary purpose is not profit maximization for shareholders but using revenues generated to drive transformational social change. Put very simply, I see it as what you get when you combine Richard Branson and Mother Teresa.”

“However, I realized that to drive change in the nation, the key is to educate future business leaders, and which informed my coming here today. Everyone must stand up to contribute to making Nigeria a better place which is not an exclusive right of the government but everybody, hence the need for us to take social entrepreneurship serious.” He added.

Also addressing the participants, President, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, Mr. Larry Ettah who chaired the occasion, stated that the theme of this year’s lecture is apt and timely as it has become nationally imperative to address unemployment and it is necessary to proffer pragmatic approach to resolve the issue. He added that NECA has been championing enhancement of resources and sustainable national development as its contribution towards addressing the unemployment in the country.

Ettah explained the real reason why his organization is hosting this year’s lecture “It is expected that entrepreneurship will contribute to growth and employment creation in advanced, emerging and least developed economies alike. This is a reasonable expectation, one that is supported by recent findings of historians, economists and management scientists. And it is only great to associate with initiative like this that will catapult the fortune of our dear nation particularly in job creation”

Dr. Michael Omolayole in whose honour the lecture series was instituted stated that this years’ lecture series is significant as was the first time all the lectures in the series would be compiled in a book and launched. “I feel so fulfilled that this book could see the light of the day and we are being able to place it on Jumia book store for everyone that may want to access the book”

“In this book, the importance of innovative, high-growth entrepreneurship is emphasized and the important role of the state to support entrepreneurs (differently through different phases of development) is discussed. The book also argues for the need for entrepreneurial solutions to intricate global challenges, such as climate change, migration, and terrorism” He submitted.

Omolayole hinted further that “with too many entrepreneurs, levels of aspirations in a country may rise – it is well-known that with increasing material wealth (or opportunities) people’s aspirations increase.”

AISEC Alumni Nigeria for several decades has played a leading role in defining the province's field of social enterprise as a tool to build community and self-reliance. Social Enterprises — businesses operated by non-profit organizations for the dual purpose of generating income and achieving social, economic, or environmental goals — can be a creative vehicle for organizations to meet community needs in a financially sustainable way

Pistorius brother was suspected of wiping phone data after killing

                           
Police suspected the brother of Oscar Pistorius of wiping data from the Olympian’s phone in the days after he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a South African radio station claimed on Thursday.
Investigators believed Carl Pistorius synchronised his computer with his brother’s iPhone, wiping out the entire call history and all WhatsApp messages, according to an investigation by Eyewitness News (EWN).
Police “considered charging him with defeating the ends of justice but ultimately declined to proceed with a case against him,” EWN said.
It also revealed that Oscar Pistorius spoke to an ex-girlfriend, Jenna Edkins, just minutes before he came home to Steenkamp on the fateful night of February 14, 2013.
Edkins, who dated the runner on and off for several years, was stored in his phone under the pseudonym “Babyshoes”.
The call was never raised during the trial, but EWN reported that both the prosecution and Pistorius’s lawyers knew about it, and that Edkins was prepared to testify in the runner’s defence if the phone call was used.
Pistorius is due back in court on October 13 to be sentenced after the judge ruled last month he was guilty of culpable homicide, but not murder.
The new revelations are included in a book on the trial by two EWN reporters released on Thursday.
It says police sought assistance from Apple in the United States to gather information on Carl Pistorius’s actions.
In a statement on Wednesday night, the Pistorius family reacted in advance to the EWN article.
“We are not sure of the allegations which are to be made or the source of such allegations, but we are not aware of any deletions having been affected by Oscar or effected on his instructions that could be relevant to this trial or could have impacted on this trial,” the statement said.
Pistorius, a 29-year-old double amputee, admitted to firing through a locked toilet door and killing is model girlfriend on Valentine’s Day 2013.
He said he thought he was shooting at an intruder and that Steenkamp was safely in bed.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau emerges, dismisses claims of his death

                                   
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns.
“Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath,” Shekau said, adding that his group was “running our… Islamic caliphate” and administering strict sharia punishments.
Nigeria’s military said last week that Shekau was dead and that a man who had been posing as the group’s leader in the videos had been killed after fighting with troops in the far northeast.
Security analysts and the United States questioned the credibility of the military’s claim.
The new 36-minute video showed Shekau, in combat fatigues and black rubber boots, standing on the back of a pick-up truck and firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air.

Standing in front of three camouflaged vans and flanked by four heavily armed, masked fighters, he then speaks for 16 minutes in Arabic and the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria.
There was no indication of where or when the video was shot.
The heavily bearded Shekau, who appeared to be the same as those in previous clips, said the military’s claim that he was dead was propaganda.
“Nothing will kill me until my days are over… I’m still alive. Some people asked you if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah,” he said, apparently reading from a script.
“It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I’m an Islamic student.
“I’m the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt… I’m not dead,” he added, apparently referring to the destruction of the group’s mosque in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, in 2009.
There have been two previous claims by Nigeria’s security forces that Shekau was dead — once in 2009 during unrest in Maiduguri — and again in 2013.
Following each previous claim Boko Haram has issued denials in video messages.
Elsewhere in the new video, the militant leader said the group had implemented strict Islamic law in the towns that it had captured in recent weeks.
“We are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the Koran… We now practise the injunctions of the Koran in the land of Allah,” he said.
The group also claimed to have shot down a Nigerian air force jet that went missing nearly three weeks ago.
An air force spokesman said the jet was missing.
“For any group to claim they shot it down is mere propaganda and rubbish,” Air Commodore Dele Alonge told AFP.

Peter Okoye of P-Square Falls Off Stage during Beat 99.9 Triple 9 Concert

                              
Peter Okoye, one half of ‘Pop duo, Psquare’, fell off stage while performing at the recently held Triple 9 Concert.
Psquare were the final performers at the music concert which held at the Landmark Event Centre, on September 30, 2014.
The Pop duo were performing ‘Bring it on’, a song off their new album ‘Double Trouble’ when Peter Okoye apparently stepped too close to the centre edge of the five-foot elevated stage and fell off.


He had this to say to fans via Instagram – “What defines us is how well we rise after falling… I’m human,I’m not perfect. But I’m thankful. I knw I will be fine b4 my next concert dis weekend in Congo Lubumbashi,Dubai …… Thanks peeps”
                                   

How 'Evil' caretalker unleashed dogs on kindergarten pupil

                                        
When Mrs. Helen Ibraham left her children in their three bedroom apartment on Thursday, 25th September, 2014, little did she knew that danger was lurking in the corner. If she had any premonition that the giant dogs kept in the compound will be let loose to feed on his children, perhaps, she would have locked up her three lovely kids in the apartment before going to the nearby store where she had gone to buy some biscuit for the trio.
Perhaps, she could alternatively had given up going on the errand and stay home with them and make do with other food items she had at home.

But as faith will have it, no sooner had she left the house than the children came downstairs to play. According to their father, Abraham Odia, the three children aged between 4 and 12 years, the children routinely come down to play with other children in the evenings  when there was no light.

Thus, when they came down that evening to play, it was nothing they had not done before. Nevertheless, on this particular occasion, as  they came down to ride their bicycle, they were accosted by three giant dogs kept by the landlord’s brother, one Stanley Jegede said  to be the care taker of house 35, Adegboyega Street, Akesan, Igando where the victims parent reside.

Stanly allegedly let the dogs loose on the three children as they played.

One of the children, four year- old Omoniho Isaac Abraham narrowly escaped death but he was badly battered by the dogs.

Omoniho is currently receiving treatment at the intensive care section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital LASUTH, Ikeja, Lagos.

The two elder brothers to the victim ages between 7 and 12 years were also injured as they jumped from upstairs to evade the attacking dogs.

Daily Independent investigation revealed that Jegede and his two dogs had been arrested and detained at Igando Police Station.

Narrating the incident to Daily Independent at the LASUTH premises on Monday, Abraham, said that his wife went to buy something for the children, and that shortly after she left, the children came down stairs with their bicycle to play as he live upstairs.

But unknown to them, the giant dogs belonging to the Landlord’s brother were on loose.

“Immediately they came down, two of the dogs chased them. The third dog was chained. They ran back up stairs, but the dog chased after them. Three of them ran up, but the dogs still attacked them forcing the other two who were 12 and 7 years old to jump down leaving their younger one who could not jump. They sustained fracture injury on the legs. The dogs pounced on the boy, tore his skull and battered his face”.

According to him, sympathizers who were helpless had to call in the police.

He said that even with that no one could go in for fear of attack by the dogs, until his wife rushed back after she received a distress call.

“No no body could go in including the police, she had to summon courage and defied the dogs’ barking and threat to go in and saw her son in the pool of his own blood, carried him and rushed out of the house. She was then accompanied by the police to Igando general hospital from where they were referred to LASUTH. He and his two brothers were admitted at the emergency word of LASUTH and later moved to the Pathology burns and surgical ward.

Abraham said he will wait for his children to recover before deciding on his next line of action.

“You can see now, I dont go anywhere again, I sleep in the hospital here. The child cannot do without seeing me and at every point in time my attention is needed by the hospital authority for one thing or the other”, the Edo State born automobile engineer lamented.

According to him, he parked into the house about 3years and 4months as a yearly tenant paying N200,000 rent per annum.

He added that the man had kept only one giant dog which has known everybody in the compound but suddenly about three weeks ago, he went ahead and brought two more giant dogs.

He said the dogs have been harassing everybody in the compound. “Few days before this incident, a lady tenant was coming out from her flat downstairs but the dogs chased her back. She had to run upstairs and closed the doors behind the dogs. Just three days before the incident, my wife advised the man to buy a padlock and lock the dogs inside their cage so that they would not injure somebody but he dismissed the advice saying there was no problem.

“When the dogs were feeding on my son, people were afraid to go near until a neighbour, medical doctor who is a lecturer at LASU alerted the police. Seven police men responded but like other sympathizers, they could not go in to rescue the child for fear of dog attack,” he narrated.

The attack has left the victims who just completed his nursery education and waiting to continue his education at Focaland Montessori Private School when schools resume in pain.

The mother of the kids narrated how she was alerted. “I was called on phone where I went to buy some things for the children that my children were in danger; I rushed down, saw people gathered. I asked what was happening; they said the dogs were inside with my baby that they have called the police. We were waiting for the police, people even prevented me from going inside as somebody who was even living in another house close to ours chained out gate and did not allow sympathizers in claiming the wild dogs will attack them.

At a stage, one of the sympathizers said look at one of the dogs coming out with blood in its mouth. At that point, I had no choice than to force my way inside the building. Two of the dogs charged at me, I shouted at them, one ran away, but one was following me. I ignored it and went straight to the dining area, saw my child lying in the pool of blood, I picked him, he was crying mummy give me water. I took him outside even as the dogs were still barking at me.”

Further investigation revealed that as all these were happening, the Landlord’s brother was nowhere to be found. Further investigation revealed that when the police called him on his mobile phone, he told them he was away to his family house in Ajegunle, Apapa.

He was then ordered to report to the Igando Police Station, when he arrived, he was told to go and bring his dogs where he was detained along with the dogs.