GOOGLE RANKS PATIENCE JONATHAN'S 'THERE IS GOD O' AS MOST VIEWED YOUTUBE VIDEO IN NIGERIA

Which Nigerian doesn't remember the very famous, “Dia is God o” video skit by First Lady Patience Jonathan? Google yesterday ranked it as Nigeria's most viewed Youtube video that's non-musical

Google ranked most watched videos in Nigeria in the music, non-music and advert categories and 'Dia is God o' came first in the non-music category. See others in the non-music category below...

2. 'Charlie bit my finger again'
3. Bishop Oyedepo slaps President Jonathan by Sahara tv

Touts vs Okadamen: Reprisal attacks loom in Badagry, as community initiates Oro

Houses set ablaze by okadamen.

Aggrieved commercial motorcyclists at Era area of Badagry, Lagos, have threatened to avenge the killing of their colleagues by motor park touts, otherwise known as agbero, during a fight over collection of levy on Tuesday.

A visit to the community yesterday revealed that one of the deceased commercial motorcyclists, simply identified as Lawal, was allegedly hit with a charm.

Two others, said to have suffered same fate, had reportedly been discharged from the hospital and taken to an undisclosed herbal home for further treatment.

Residents had fled the area. Those that returned and others that stayed back remained indoors, with their children withdrawn from school. Shops and business centres were still under lock and key.

‘Lawal wasn’t working’

Dangote Dumps Mistress For Taking Their Affairs To Social Media

Africas' Richest Man And Billionaire Business Entrepreneur  Alhaji Aliko Dangote has called off his romantic affair with former beauty queen Sylvia Nduka after she leaked details of their passion for each other to the public claiming they planned to bet married.

Africa's richest man Alhaji Dangote and the 2011 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Sylvia Nduka, have been having a romantic affair for the last two years now. Alhaji Dangote has invested heavily on her Hairline Sylvia’s Hair Gallery and the former beauty queen has even converted to Islam, so she shares the same faith as her future husband.

Sylvia, 24, had once said that her husband has to be about 10 or 12 years older than her but was prepared to settle with the 58 year old Dangote, estimated by Forbes Magazine to be worth $18.5bn. However, she went too far by leaking details of their romance to the public, which led Alhaji Dangote to call it off.

Highly conservative Alhaji Dangote warns members of his harem against publicity and was said to be enraged when Sylvia went public with their affair. Love-struck Sylvia who event went as far as adding Alhaji Dangote’s initials to her Instagram page, calling herself Sylvia Nduka AD.

FG MISUNDERSTOOD TRANSITION COMMITTEE’S BRIEF – BUHARI

President- elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday said the Federal Government misunderstood his intention to set up a transition committee and refused to provide the committee with necessary information to operate.
Buhari spoke just as the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress Transition Committee, Ahmed Joda complained that the federal government committee headed by Vice President Namadi Sambo refused to provide them information to work with and therefore had to rely on its own initiative.
Receiving the interim report of the committee at the Defence House, Abuja, the President-elect said he was disappointed that “the incoming government was misunderstood,” adding that “it is not that we are preparing for indictment. “
“What we are trying to get is a starting point, where exactly we are going to start from.”
He continued: “We have seen the debt profile now and the performance of the economy. The question is what can we so about it, especially the urgent ones like social security and lack of fuel in the country and fraud.

Read Why Over 2,000 NIGERIANS SIGN PETITION ASKING VARSITY TO WITHDRAW OKONJI-IWEALA’S HONOURARY DOCTORATE DEGREE

As at press time on Thursday, about 2,047 persons had signed a petition asking Yale University to withdraw the honorary doctorate degree awarded to Nigeria's Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Okonjo-Iweala had been awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters on Monday, May 18, 2015 during Yale's Commencement ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut, alongside eight others.

The petition, which is being hosted on Change.org, the world's largest petition platform, was started by a Nigerian resident in the United States, one Sunday Iwalaiye.

When Ashiwaju.org visited the web page, it was discovered that 453 more petitions were needed to reach 2,500, which will probably prompt the organisation to consider the petition worthy of consideration.

Abacha Loot: Inside the secret deal Jonathan authorized to shield ex-dictator’s family from prosecution

For allegedly helping their father plunder Nigeria of an estimated $5 billion in the 1990s, Mohammed and Abba Abacha, and other relatives of the late dictator, Sani Abacha, have been rewarded by the Nigerian government.
A secret deal between the government and the Abachas, wants the family to return part of the loot, in exchange for perpetual immunity against prosecution.
The deal, kept classified for months, was personally approved by President Goodluck Jonathan in July 2014, and jointly authored by the Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke.
The terms of the agreement, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES in March, have alarmed anti-corruption activists.

PDP Plans To Expel Fani-Kayode

For publicly criticising the leadership of his party and calling on members of the National Working Committee, NWC, to resign following the dismal performance of the party in the last general elections, former Aviation Minister and Director Of Media of the Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, may be expelled from the party.
An indication to this emerged Wednesday when the NWC of the party, after a meeting held in Abuja, asked Osun State chapter of the party to investigate Fani-Kayode’s membership status and determine whether he is a registered and financial member or a usurper.

APC holds two-day retreat for senators-elect

The All Progressives Congress will hold a two-day retreat for all its Senators-elect in Abuja on Friday May 22 and Saturday 23.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the retreat would be held at the Ibeto Hotel in Apo area of the city.
It urged the Senators-elect to arrive at the venue where accommodation arrangement has been made for them, by 6 p.m. on Friday, May 22, as there will be a closed door meeting between all senators-elect and party leaders at 8 p.m. of the same day.
”The two-day retreat is part of efforts being undertaken by the party to ensure that the legislators hit the ground running for the benefit of Nigerians,” APC said.

Read Full Text of BBC Apology To Nigeria On Allege Selling Human Flesh In A Restaurant

The British Broadcasting Cooperation has apologised for wrongly publishing a story about a restaurant in Anambra State, Nigeria, where human flesh is served as meat.

In the report, BBC had said suspicious residents in Anambra told police about rumours that the restaurant was cooking human meat for customers.

It also said when police raided the restaurant, fresh human heads, still bleeding were discovered.

The BBC said the blood found in the restaurant by the police were in the process of being drained into a plastic bag.

House of Reps’ Speakership: Tinubu has no hand in my ambition — Gbajabiamila

One of the leading contenders for the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the soon-to-be inaugurated 8th Assembly, Femi Gbajabiamila, has denied the involvement of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, in his ambition.

Mr. Gbabiamila, who is the current Minority Leader in the House, made the statement Wednesday while addressing members-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja.

“I intend to be speaker not for anybody. Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has no hand in it. Lamido Sanusi left his palace in Kano and pleaded with him to support me. He didn’t get a clear answer. Shortly after that, Senator Lawan Shuaibu went to Tinubu on the same issue. He still did not respond until when few weeks ago Nasir El-Rufai went to meet him, then he said maybe this man has some appeal,” Mr. Gbajabiamila said.