DailyBells Nigeria: 2015-03-15

Friday, March 20, 2015

A must read: How safe is sex in pregnancy?

Often times, the question always arises among couples. Is sex safe during pregnancy?

According to experts, sex should be enjoyed by couples. In fact, there is no reason for them to stop sex even when the woman is pregnant since pregnancy is no sickness. A woman with normal pregnancy may continue to have sex until she goes into labour.

The fear that the fetus (baby) might get hurt during love making should be totally erased, because the amniotic sac which holds the baby and the strong muscles of a pregnant woman protect the baby, while the thick mucous plug which seals the cervix helps guard against infection.

Though sometimes, orgasm, nipple stimulation and the prostaglandins in semen could lead to mild uterine contractions; these are generally temporary and harmless.

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation alleged on Friday that the All Progressives Congress was planning to announce fake presidential election results after the poll next week on Radio Chanji.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who made the allegation at a news conference in Abuja, said available facts before the Federal Government indicated that the APC had a strong link with the broadcasting station.

Fani-Kayode further alleged that the APC would use the radio station being operated from outside Nigeria, to spread dangerous propaganda to cause chaos after the presidential poll next Saturday.

New York based political risk firm, Teneo Intelligence, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, is gaining momentum over President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of next week’s election.

Teneo Intelligence, in a report yesterday,thought Buhari had ”an edge,” but that “a last-minute upset by the incumbent president remained a possibility.”

It said: ”President Goodluck Jonathan is banking on recent reports of the ‘successful’ counterinsurgency offensive against Boko Haram to help turn the tide on his battered reputation.

“However, the momentum of Jonathan’s rival Muhammadu Buhari of the main opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) continues to grow.

Justice Olamide Akinkugbe of a Lagos High Court has fixed April 1 for ruling on the interlocutory application filed by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, against the Africa Independent Television (AIT).

Justice Akinkugbe fixed the date after taking the submissions of the applicants and defendants in the N150 billion suit filed by Asiwaju Tinubu against the AIT.

The trial judge last week granted an interim injunction restraining the AIT from airing the said documentary pending the determination of the interlocutory application.

He has said it and we have to take him for his words. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that he was not desperate to serve.

He stated this yesterday in Abuja at the launch of the book , ‘The People’s Choice’, at the Presidential Villa.

The book which chronicles his life is authored by Rev. Fr. Charles Imokhan.

President Jonathan said: “Sometimes people ask me ‘Mr. President, from what we read and what we see, we see you are still smiling and unruffled.’ Yes, nothing will really ruffle me because I’m willing and ready to serve but I’m not desperate to serve.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation has urged Gen. Mohammad Buhari, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate to clear his health and educational issues before the elections.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the organisation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, made the all at a news conference on Friday in Abuja.

Fani-Kayode said that the issues were critical to enable Nigerians make informed decision on the election coming up on March 28.

Gen. Mohammadu Buhari: promises to restore Naira's glory against dollars

The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to stabilise the exchange rate to boost the nation’s economy if voted into power.

Speaking at a Town Hall meeting with artisans and tradesmen held at the Lagos Television Ground in Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Thursday, Buhari said the devaluation of the naira had greatly affected business activities in the country.

“We will stabilise the exchange rate so that entrepreneurs will have cheaper operating cost. This will afford them the opportunity to purchase raw material for their business easily. We will ensure that they have the ability to build factory, employ youths and others. This is common sense.

Gani Adams, OPC National Leader

The National Coordinator, Oodua Peoples Congress, Chief Gani Adams, has explained the reason his militia group has been openly supporting President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid.

According to Adams, his open support for President Jonathan arises from the fact that aside from the fact that he has promised to implement the recommendations of the National Conference report, either the Presidency’s moves were political or not, he has been able to do what other government had not not done by empowering the group.

OPC members on rampage

This is very serious. Just imagine if men were God. Take a look at this. Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said he can never forgive the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), because of the sins he committed against Yoruba leaders while he was head of state between December 1983 and August 1985.

The 87-year-old, who was a close associate of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, said Buhari locked up all the Yoruba governors after overthrowing the Shehu Shagari government.

Adebanjo said this at a post-National Conference in Lagos titled, ‘Into tomorrow and beyond’ on Thursday.

INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega: Voters can wait for election results at polling booths

The Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega has come out to clear the air on the controversy surrounding the statement credited to the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, warning voters to go back to their homes after casting their votes on election days.

Speaking on a national television station’s programme monitored by The Mega StarNews this morning (Friday), Prof Jega stated categorically that contrary to the IGP purported order, voters who wish to know the results of their polling booth could wait to do so.

N7bn bribe: DSS after my life, says Borno pastor

The Borno State-based pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, who accused the Christian Association of Nigeria of collecting N7bn from President Goodluck Jonathan to campaign against the APC Presidential candidate, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), has raised the alarm that operatives of the Directorate of State Service are after his life.

While maintaining that the christian body collected the said amount, Dikwa said the DSS operatives had forced him to sign a document, which they plan to “show the entire world that President(Jonathan) did not bribe CAN to work against the Presidential candidate of the APC.”

The Buhari Support Organisation has said protests against the use of card readers in the forth coming general elections were aimed at derailing the elections.

Director of Media and Information Technology of the BSO, Dr.Chidia Maduekwe said this in Abuja, on Thursday.

He said the BSO abhors all efforts directed at forcing INEC and most specifically the Chairman, Prof Atahiru Jega to jettison the use of card readers that will ensure transparency of this election.

An Abeokuta, Ogun State Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the detention of one Michael Oyejide, 24, in the Ibara prison for allegedly raping his 18-year-old girlfriend to death.

The Magistrate, Martins Akinyemi, ordered that the accused be remanded in the prison pending legal advice from the state Director of Public Prosecution.

Oyejide, who resides at Ijeja, in Abeokuta, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, rape and murder.

Dozens of Nigerian women who were forced to marry Boko Haram fighters were reportedly slaughtered by their “husbands” before a battle with troops in the northeast town of Bama, multiple witnesses said Thursday.

Five witnesses who recounted the massacres to AFP said the Islamist militants feared they would be killed by advancing soldiers or separated from their wives when they fled the town.

They killed the women to prevent them from subsequently marrying soldiers or other so-called non-believers, they added.

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A suspected drug trafficker who was arrested has said he was not aware that the bag filled with gala, which his friend gave him to assist him take to China, was filled with illicit drugs.

The suspect, Ogbonna Friday Ogbu, 33, a trader in Onitsha Main Market, Anambra State, told narcotic investigators that he was given N100,000 to smuggle the drugs.

L-R: Patience Jonathan and Aishat Buhari

Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, has advised Dame Patience Jonathan, that she needs not fear jail, should her husband be voted President come 28 March, as Nigerians only want a change in the way the country is being governed now.

Patience, the wife President Goodluck Jonathan, has been campaigning that General Buhari will jail his political opponents if elected President in the March 28 election.

Microsoft announces end of Internet Explorer

So we hope you can join us for a minute’s silence, after Microsoft announced that they’ll soon be doing away with the iconic browser in favour of a newer version, which is currently codenamed Project Spartan.

Frustrated users have previously slammed the browser for being slow and bug-prone, and Microsoft once talked of changing the name of the browser to address “negative perceptions that no longer reflect reality.”

Dame Patience Jonathan

Ahead of the general elections, the wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has charged the people of Rivers State not to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari(retd.), to avoid being sent to jail.

Mrs. Jonathan said Buhari would not hesitate to put his perceived enemies in prison if he wins the forthcoming presidential poll, holding on March 28.

Speaking during the Peoples Democratic Party’s women rally in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the President’s wife argued that Buhari was a dictator in the past and would never change.

Gambo Lawan

Few weeks to the governorship election in Borno State, a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to remove Alhaji Mohammed Imam as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed in his judgment on a suit challenging the submission of Iman’s name to the INEC, declared Alhaji Gambo Lawan as the valid governorship candidate of the party in Borno State.

The court held that Lawan had proved to the court that he contested and validly won the party’s primary conducted on December 11, 2014 at Arewa Suites in Abuja.

Embattled former minister of state, Defence and former Lagos state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate on Wednesday was given the State, Foreign Affairs II portfolio along other seven others.

President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the eight new ministers recently confirmed by the Senate before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.

The President thereafter assigned portfolios to them as follows: Senator Patricia Akwashiki (Information); Prof. Nicholas Ada (State, Foreign Affairs I); Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (State, Foreign Affairs II); Col. Augustine Akobundu (retd.) (State, Defence); Mr. Fidelis Nwankwo (State, Health); Mrs. Hauwa Bappa (State, Niger Delta Affairs); Mr. Kenneth Kobani (State, Industry, Trade and Investment); and Senator Joel Ikenya (Labour and Productivity).

Hundreds of women of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State on Wednesday protested against the attack on the convoy of Mr. Aishat Buhari, the wife of the APC presidential candidate. Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.).

They also protested against the alleged attacks on some other women in the state.

At least 6,000 pastors in the Southwest are mobilising for the emergence of Major General Muhammadu Buhari as president and have declared seven days praying and fasting for God to grant him victory at next week’s poll.

The pastors under the aegis of Christians for Governance, Pastors For Change, held a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, where they openly endorsed the candidacy of Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who is a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

The clerics are drawn from various churches, such as the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Catholic, Orthodox, among others.

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has denied knowledge of the groups of politicians who announced their defection to the PDP from the APC.

Some groups, which claimed to be Atiku support groups, had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday.

But in a statement by his media office on Wednesday, the former VP denied any relationship with the groups.

The Flying Eagles will meet the winners of Senegal and Mali second semifinal match in the final match on Sunday Six-time African U20 Championship winners, the Flying Eagles, on Wednesday confirmed their superiority over the Black Satellites of Ghana in the semi final tie at the ongoing Senegal 2015 African Youth Championship.

A hundred of Nigerian whistle-blowing fans where trilled to football spectacle as the Flying Eagles cruised past the Ghanians at Stade LS Senghor, Dakar.

Nigeria’s Usman Sale beat the Ghanians defenders but his attempts at hitting an early goal was curtailed by onrushing Black Satellites’ goalkeeper, Michael Sai, in the fourth minute of the tensioned soaked tie.

Facts have emerged on how Aishat Noble-Mustapha, a female worker with Silverbird Cinemas was allegedly stabbed to her death by her estranged lover at her house in Ogudu GRA, Lagos State.

The 26-year-old lady was formerly in the communications department of the company’s branch on the Victoria Island before she was recently posted to the box office section in the Ikeja Mall.

The Kogi State indigene had reportedly closed from work on Saturday, March 14, around 7.30pm, and got home, when she was murdered.

A source, who pleaded anonymity, said she was stabbed about 11 times in the stomach.

Josephine Ugwu, the airport cleaner who returned a passenger’s luggage containing local and foreign currencies to the tune of N12m has been rewarded with a N7,200 salary increment.

Ugwu, who works for Patovilki Cleaning Services, a concessionaire engaged by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to keep the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos clean, was on a monthly salary of N7,800 before the incident.

The National Diploma graduate of Our Saviour Institute of Science, Agriculture and Technology, Enugu, now enjoys a N7,200 salary increment, bringing her new salary to N15,000.

Glitz, glamour as Nollywood stars dazzle @ the 2015 Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards

The Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, otherwise known as AMVCA 2015 might have come and gone.

But one important thing is that the dust it raised especially in terms of fashion displayed by the movie stars is yet to settle. On the red carpet of the AMVCA, the Nollywood stars did not disappoint their fans as they dressed to kill. The Mega StarNews exclusively brings you happenings at the event.

Enjoy the sizzling way your favorite stars illuminated the night with glitz, glamour, and razzmatazz fashion statement.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega on Monday declared that he has a job to do and will not resign as chairman of the commission.

Jega who disclosed this at a town hall meeting, rejected calls for his resignation by some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying he has no reason to resign.

“There has been speculation about my removal. As far as I’m concerned, I have a job to do and have no reason to resign.”

Some supporters of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC and PDP on Monday morning took to the streets of Lagos, calling on the INEC chairman to resign for allegedly introducing electronic voting card readers.

The Director of Media of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has castigated the All Progressives Congress (APC) for relying on renounced and outdated views on President Goodluck Jonathan to run its newspaper campaign advertorials.

He said in a statement issued in Abuja, that the opposition’s attitude smacked of desperation.

Fani-Kayode said the resort to such “childish and dirty tactics” by the APC would not distract him from his present assignment of selling the candidature of President Jonathan to the electorate and Nigerians.

A man who spent close to $10,000 on flight, accommodation and other expenses to meet a woman he met online attacked her after claiming she didn't look anything like her profile picture.

Left is the woman, 32 year old Xiaojin Tuan and right is the photo she used on her online profile.

The man, 35 year old Huang Mao, said he felt deceived because he thought he was coming to meet the 'goddess' she described herself to be in her WeChat snap.

Facts have emerged on why Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona and other Ijebu monarchs failed to take group photograph with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan when he paid a courtesy visit last Thursday.

Jonathan is the Presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Presidential election coming up in the country on March 28,2015.

A source who was privy to the meeting said the PDP Chairman,Alhaji Adamu Muazu, had annoyed the monarchs and chiefs when he described the Ijebu people as stingy people.

He was angrily corrected by Awujale, who replied him, “we are not stingy, but prudent in our spending.”

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, presided over by Justice Mohammed Idris, has nullified the restriction of movement during the monthly environmental sanitation in the state.

The policy of the Lagos State Government restricts citizens to their homes for three hours between 7am and 10am every last Saturday of the month.

The court held that there is no law in force in Lagos State by which any citizen could be kept indoors, compulsorily.

Late Adekemi Faboro

For the ladies that are always ready to hook up with strangers on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Badoo, WeChat, WatsApps and so on, caution might be the word for them.

This is because, few years after Cynthia Osokogwu, the daughter of a retired military officer, was allegedly lured to Lagos by her Facebook lover, drugged, raped and murdered in Festac Town, another Facebook lover has reportedly died in Lagos.

The latest victim, identfied as Adekemi Faboro, who teaches at a private nursery and primary school, in Ojota, died in Ogba area of Lagos last weekend while on a date with her married Facebook lover, Christopher Ezekiel, for the first time.

At the 2015 AFRICA MAGIC VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS(AMVCAs) held in association with MultiChoice Africa and Amstel Malta, it was a night of blitz as Kunle Afolayan, Rita Dominic, Tunde Babalola, Femi Jacobs others emerge winners.

Hosted by the duo of IK Osakioduwa and Vimbai Mutinhiri at the EKO Expo Centre in Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, 7 March, the third annual AMVCAs ceremony presented 33 coveted gold statuettes in 30 categories, tabulated and verified by auditing firm SizweNtsalubaGobodo and were telecast live to 50 African countries watching on DStv and GOtv on all Africa Magic channels.

The event saw outstanding achievements in African film and TV recognised with awards also presented to CJ Obasi as the TrailBlazer of the Year while the late renowned filmmaker, Amaka Igwe was honoured with the Industry Merit award. The winner of the trailblazer award walked away with a luxurious diamond studded watch, courtesy Chris Aire. The coveted New Era award was given to Ayo Makun for exceptional talent.

Members of the Odua People’s Congress, OPC and the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation went on rampage in Lagos on Monday as they took to major roads in support of the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The OPC members, who gathered at the 7UP/Toll Gate end of the expressway, led other protesters, who were chanting anti-Jega songs, giving reasons why the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, should be sacked before the March 28 elections.

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