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FG spends N9bn annually on 10-aircraft presidential fleet

INFORMATION obtained from government aviation agencies and airline operators has revealed that President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration spends an estimated N9.08bn annually on the Presidential Air Fleet.

PAF has the third largest fleet of aircraft in the country. According to findings, the PAF contains a total of 10 aircraft, coming closely behind Aerocontractors Airlines, which has a total of 14 aircraft.
Arik Air, the largest commercial airline in the country, has a fleet of 23 aircraft.

Figures obtained from the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority revealed that N9.08bn is spent to maintain the 10 presidential jets every year.

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The PAF include two Falcon 7X jets, two Falcon 900 jets, Gulfstream 550, one Boeing 737 BBJ (Nigerian Air Force 001 or Eagle One), and Gulfstream IVSP. Others are one Gulfstream V, Cessna Citation 2 aircraft and Hawker Siddley 125-800 jet. Cost of running fleet According to a former Minister of Information, Professor, Dora Akunyili, each of the two Falcon 7X jets purchased in 2010 cost $51.1m, while the Gulfstream 550 costs $53.3m.

The factory price of other aircraft in the fleet could not be easily obtained online. However, airline CEOs put the average price of Falcon 900 at $35m, Gulfstream IVSP as $40m, Gulfstream V at $45m, Boeing 737 BBJ at $58m, Cessna Citation is $7m and Hawker Siddley 125-800 at $15m. This brings a combined estimated value of Nigeria’s PAF to $390.5m (N60.53bn). According to airline chief executives and industry experts, airlines spend between 15 and 20 per cent of the cost of an aircraft on its operation yearly. They say that averagely, a little less than one-fifth of the cost of the plane is spent every year on insurance, flight and cabin crew, maintenance, fuelling, catering and training. Going by the fact that at least 15 per cent of this amount is spent annually on operating the PAF, it means about $58.57m (N9.08bn ) is spent annually on running the planes .

Nigeria happens to be one of few countries of the world with a large PAF. Other countries’ fleets Most major countries in Europe and Asia maintain mostly two aircraft in their Presidential Air Fleet, according to Wikipedia. According to the website, Japan maintains only two Boeing 747-400 planes in its Presidential Air Fleet. The two aircraft, mostly for the Prime Minister, the Emperor, Empress and other members of the Imperial Family, is operated by the Japan Air Self-Defence Force. The aircraft were constructed at the Boeing factory at the same time as the United States’ Air Force One. Both Japanese aircraft were delivered in 1990.

Wikipedia also confirms that the Netherlands government operates only two aircraft, one Fokker 70 and one Gulfstream IV, as a means of transport for the Dutch Royal family and government officials, such as the prime minister and other ministers. They are also used also to attend international conferences, and also for private trips by the Queen and the Prince of Orange. For long haul trips the Royal Dutch Airline is used. Often the upper deck of a Boeing 747 is used.

The Queen of England and Prime Minister David Cameron often go on British Airways chartered flights for long trips. UK’s Cameron was recently criticised by the UK media for chartering a foreign plane instead of the British’s. According to Wikipedia, The Royal Squadron of the Royal Air Force maintains a fleet of Agusta A109 helicopters, BAE-125 mid-sized business jet and BAE-146 regional airliner to support short travel by the Royal Family, the Prime Minister and senior members of the British Government. Countries like Ghana, Algeria and a host of others in Europe maintain only one aircraft in their PAF.

Why I packed out -Dejo Richards' estranged wife, Lamide, reveals

Some days back Dejo Richard's maariage fell apart own story,  his enstranged wife tells it all. According to City People magazine:

I met Dejo on Facebook in 2009. In 2010 we became very close and started talking on the phone. I didn't know anything about him and in 2010 I was in Nigeria on holiday but we didn't get to meet. While in Nigeria I got to hear he was married to Monalisa Chinda. When I got back to the US I did Google his name and I saw the whole story about his marriage. At that point we were already very close and used to talk a lot. Due to the fact that we were very close, I asked him about what I read about him on the internet and he confessed that he was married and didn't talk about it because we didn't have the chance to talk. I asked him what he did wrong and why he was so violent to his wife. All these questions I asked because we were already very close and he started explaining how he met the lady in London and brought her back to Nigeria to become an actress. He stated that things started going wrong when she became a Globalcom ambassador and she started misbehaving. Infact he told me he was not legally married but they work together.

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I started by advising him on why a man should be very patient with his wife. He told me everything I considered the truth. You know we are all humans and deserve a second chance. We started liking each other and he asked me out. When we met he proposed to marry me. Don't forget that he was very nice, caring and portrayed the image of a God fearing man. Because I felt he didn't lie about his previous marriage and I was in love with him so I accepted to marry him. On January 22, 2011, we got married. He proposed to me in August 2010 and that was when he started confessing his financial challenges but promised all will be sorted out before the wedding.

Few weeks later, he told me he had car issues and needed to sell his car to buy another one. He said he needed money to balance payment for the new car and also he needed money to pay his rent. If you know him well, you will understand what I mean by him having way with words. Since I was coming to Nigeria and he didn't have money for his car and complete his house rent. I helped him out! I will not disclose the amount but enough money to help him with his car and house rent. When we were courting he told me he doesn't drink and smoke and that he was a man of God but things changed when I got married to him.

One day I caught him drinking in the house and I was surprised. He said he was drinking because he was depressed. Somehow we started having arguments and when we do, he would hit the wall so hard and anything in his way in a very violent way. He was no longer a gentleman. I was in Nigeria for 3months, I went back to the US and started filing for his papers so he could come and join me. He told me he didn't have money for his passport and I told him I will take care of it. I sent him a document to sign but he never did, things became worse because we were not even talking on the phone anymore. One day my dad said he had money and wanted to do some business like he wouldn't mind buying iPad and send to Nigeria to sell as long as he makes profit.

Somehow he and my dad got talking, so my dad started sending him iPads to sell. After weeks of expecting the returns, my dad would call him and he would not pick his call and one day I was forced to call him and ask what was going on. He lied that the person he gave the iPads to at computer village had not given him the money. We had a long break and were not communicating. I forgot to mention that when I got back to the US in march, in April I sent him another house rent and was sending him money for upkeep. I tried again to make it work and he said he would change and be a better person, he didn't change though and was not really keeping in touch.

Those were hard times because all I ever asked of him is just to communicate and give attention. Instead he would avoid my calls or shout at me.

Dr Frabz robbed:Loses laptops,car window smashed

He was robbed at his Leki Phase 1 home today. He lost 2 laptops and got his windscreen smashed.

11-year-old boy suffered agonising burns to his legs when a BlackBerry mobile exploded and set fire to his bed.

Kian McCreath, of Holbrooks, Coventry, woke up screaming with melted plastic stuck to his legs after his brother’s phone burst into flames in their shared bedroom.
The schoolboy's mother Sarah, 39, doused the burning duvet and mattress and put her son into the bath before he was taken to University Hospital.
Dangerous phone: Kian McCreath, with the twisted remains of the phone woke up screaming in a burning bed and was left with painful injuries

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Frantic: Kian's terrified mother Sarah put out the flames, lifted her son out of the bed and put him in the bath Kian’s family are now demanding BlackBerry’s popular Curve 9320 mobile phone be recalled from shops. The phone, which belonged to Kian’s brother, Mason, was bought as a present for his 13th birthday a fortnight earlier. Ms McCreath said she had placed the phone on Kian's bed after finding it on the landing charging last Sunday.

 'It was about 2.30am and I couldn’t sleep so I came downstairs,' she said. 'As I left my room and noticed Mason’s phone on charge on the landing. 'I know the phone has an alarm he uses, so I unplugged it and plonked it on Kian’s bed. 'Dangerous': The boys' father wants to see every BlackBerry Curve 9320 recalled 'I thought nothing of it, made a cup of tea then I heard a really loud "pop" sound. Kian started screaming at the top of his voice, shouting "my bed’s on fire!" 'It was just horrific.' The boys' father Pete had bought the mobile phone for Mason from a Vodafone shop in Birmingham.

The carpenter has kept the charred remains and has spoken to Research in Motion - manufacturers who produce Blackberry phones - about his concerns. 'If Sarah hadn’t acted so quickly that room could have gone up in flames within minutes,' said Mr McCreath. 'It was just lucky she got there so quickly. Red raw: The 11-year-old had to be taken to hospital for treatment - and his parents say they are horrified at the thought of how much worse this could have been 'It was so close. I’m shaking just talking about it. If had been any worse I could have my sons in boxes right now. 'Kian has burns to his lower legs where it exploded. It’s left them mentally scarred. Kian won’t even go back into his bedroom.' Mason has been offered a replacement phone by Vodafone, but Mr McCreath said he wants the model recalled because of the risk to his son's classmates at Cardinal Newman School and children across the country. 'That phone is dangerous and it needs to be tested,' he said. 'A lot of the kids are raving about that Blackberry phone right now. Concerning: Vodaphone have provided a replacement mobile and the manufacturers are 'investigating the matter'.

The Blackberry burst into flames just minutes after being dropped on to Kian's bed 'My main concern now is the safety of other kids.' Ms McCreath, an admin assistant, added: 'The whole thing was absolutely terrifying. The whole of his mattress and about a third of his quilt has been burnt away. 'I keep thinking what would have happened if I had been in bed and the phone had set alight on the landing. I worry that the house could have burnt down.'

A spokesman from RIM said: 'We take claims of this nature very seriously and are investigating this matter as a priority.' A spokeswoman for Vodaphone said the company was trying to get in touch with the McCreaths so the burned phone can be returned and examined.

The Olsen Twins Selling $55,000 Handbag

Starting December 12, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are releasing a new line- Row,which will go online.

The bags, created by artist Damien Hirst, are covered in prescription pills and made from black patent leather Nile crodocile skin. Only 12 of each bag will be made.

No place on the directorship or trusteeship for Bianca Ojukwu

A Director of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited has said the wife of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, has no place on the directorship or trusteeship of the company.

Director, Mr. Ifeukwu Ojukwu, said on Monday that since OTL was owned by the late Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the late Biafran warlord could not dictate who the trustees or directors of the company should be.

Ojukwu, who was the Ikemba of Nnewi, had directed, in his Will, that Bianca, should replace him as a trustee of OTL.

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Ifeukwu said, “Bianca is neither a trustee member nor a Director of OTL and it is good to note that OTL is a different property from the things the late Ikemba Ojukwu had and the directorship cannot be transferred through a Will.” The clarification by Ifeukwu, who is based in Boston, United States, came as counsel for the late Ikemba, Chief Emeka Onyemelukwe, insisted that the Will read last Friday at the Enugu State High Court Registrar was authentic and sacrosanct. Onyemelukwe, who was reacting to a claim by Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. that the Will was manipulated, said the Will was registered in the Enugu High Court on July 9, 2005, while the codicil, which was to give details and correct any mistakes in the Will, was dated December 16, 2009. Onyemelukwe, who tendered documents at a press conference in Enugu to back his argument, stated that he had been close to the late Ojukwu since his return from exile in Cote d’Ivoire in 1982.

 He said all Ojukwu’s legal papers were still with him, including those of properties and chattels willed to Emeka Jnr, who claimed he did not know him as his father’s lawyer or friend. Meanwhile, Ojukwu Jnr. has taken over his father’s residence in Nnewi, “according to the Igbo tradition that the first son would inherit his father’s house and compound on the event of his death.” Ojukwu (Jnr.) said even if the Will had not covered the Nnewi residence, it was traditionally statutory that the first son inherits his father’s house. He also said other contents of the Will could be constested in court.


 (Punch)

Rob Kardashian &his Ex Rita Ora twitter fight- She cheated on me with different 20 men

                                                  Rita

                                                    Rob tweeted this yesterday to her

                               and here is Rita Ora's reply

St James's Palace has announced that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first child.

 

A spokesman said the duchess, who is thought to be less than 12 weeks pregnant, has been admitted to a London hospital with acute morning sickness and is likely to stay for several days.

Who rocked it more -Yvonne Nelson or Kim Kardashian

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Winners of FAB award Most Stylish goes to!!!

Rita Dominic and Benjamin Joseph just in case you are wondering how Rita out shone Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji, Nse Ikpe-Etim, and  Benjamin -Beverly Naya and Ramsey Nouah, Mike Ezuruonye, Gideon Okeke, and Chris Attoh,it was by online voting

Check out the Tonto Dikeh & Terry G collaboration

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Bacchus Nite Club shuts down

On Saturday Louis Priddy had a farewell party after 11years of running the business, she said  it was rigorous  running the club-customers debt and all, and also the effect of her father’s death.

Taraba Governor Danbaba Suntai Brain-Damaged, Can't Recognize Visitors

Source say members of the delegation were shocked to see Mr. Suntai in a vegetative state. “His condition was so bad that they could not publicly disclose his condition after they returned to Nigeria,”

Since Mr. Suntai’s airlift to Germany, officials of the Taraba State government have engaged in propaganda, claiming that the governor was making remarkable recovery. But sources say, including an official of the state government, admitted that Mr. Suntai’s mental faculty had deteriorated since the accident and that his memory was virtually impaired.

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Policeman beaten to pulp by Gov Rochas Okorocha’s ADC

Reports have emerged suggesting that the Aide-de-Camp to the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Omo Gabriel, along with two other police officers on Saturday, allegedly beat up a policeman attached to the state government house for his delay in opening the gate for the governor’s convoy, leaving him unconscious.
The mobile policeman, Corporal Itere Ewedor, was said to have been on duty in his place of assignment around noon, when Okorocha returned from the birthday party of his wife on the same day.
A friend to the assaulted officer, Mr. David Edhie, confirmed the story to journalists, as the victim was said to be resting at the time.

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According to Edhie, “When the governor’s convoy got to the gate, the men of the civil defence corps and members of the Imo orientation corps, who were supposed to open the gate, were not around. So, there was a delay. Then my friend went to open the gate. “When the convoy drove in, the ADC and some other police officers came down and asked him why he delayed. They wanted to collect his gun, but he refused. So, they started beating him.

 They beat him until he became unconscious, with bruises all over his face and parts of his body.” He further revealed that the ADC took Ewedor, in his unconscious state, to Shell Camp Police Station and requested that he be detained. In his words, “The police officers at the station refused. They said they could not detain someone that was dying. Then Gabriel made arrangements for Ewedor to be taken to the Federal Medical Centre Owerri, where he was admitted. After sometime, he regained consciousness.” Ewedor was eventually discharged from the hospital around 5pm on Saturday, allegedly by Gabriel, because journalists were trooping to the hospital to confirm the sotry. Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Information and Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr. Chinedu Offor, denied the report, saying that nothing of such happened.

When contacted, Offor denied the incident, saying , “The ADC to Governor Okorocha is a true professional, there is no way he could have descended so low to physically assault somebody. In order not to scare people away, we use men of the civil defence corps at the gate. We don’t use policemen at the gates of the government house. “So, if anybody says a policeman was beaten up for refusing to open the gate, it is false. I was at the government house around 12:30am. Such a thing never happened.”

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Bishop David Oyedepo has been asked to pay N2 billion

                                                

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The General Overseer of Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has been asked to pay N2 billion within 14 days as general damages or face legal action, for the death of three-year-old Imienfan Omokaro who got drowned at Kingdom Heritage Model School operated by Winners Chapel in Benin.

A letter written by Omokaro’s Counsel, Prince Peter E. Uwadiae-Igbinigie and, dated November 28, 2012 and made available to journalists in Benin, explained that the amount was “for the callous and senseless killing of our client’s daughter, Miss Imienfan Omokaro.” Besides, Mr. Omokaro’s lawyers want Kingdom Heritage Model School to tender unreserved apology in three national newspapers, warning that if the demands were not met within 14 days, “we have the irrevocable instructions of our client to commence legal action against the school (Kingdom Heritage Model School) and Church (Winners Chapel) without any further correspondence from this Chambers.” Imienfan Omokaro, a KG I pupil of Kingdom Heritage Model School, was said to have drowned in a drum of water in a toilet in the school on November 1, 2012.

 Also, teachers of the school allegedly did not inform her mother when she came to pick her from school on that fateful day until late in the evening. The school authorities and Winners Chapel had reportedly kept the girl for more than an hour, praying for her before finally taking her to Irowa Hospital in Benin, where she was confirmed dead. The girl had died before being brought to hospital, doctors said.

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Rhianna's die hard fans

                                              Whatever she does seems to go very well with them

Winners of Miss ECOWAS 2012

                                                         
Miss ECOWAS 2012  which took place on the 1^st of Dec at Ivoire hotel in Abidjan,gave these ladies a life time opportunity: Our very own Joyce Ngozi Chidebe took the third position, Jirzah Ellen Evora of Cape Verde was first runner-up, while  Mariam Diallo  of Guinea won.

Ojukwu’s Will tears family apart

Widow of late Biaf-ran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odu-megwu Ojukwu, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, and her children were said to have been more favoured than their other relations in the sharing of their father’s property as Ojukwu’s Will was read at the Enugu High Court yesterday.

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The Will which was expected to have brought peace to the family now wrangling over who should control the assets left behind by the late Ikemba Nnewi since his demise on November 26, last year, has however been rejected by some of the beneficiaries through Emeka Ojukwu jnr. In rejecting the Will which was read at the High Court by the Chief Registrar, Enugu Judiciary and Probate, Mr Dennis Ekoh, Ojukwu jnr called it a ruse.

They accused Bianca and her lawyer of allegedly causing trouble with the issue. ’’What I have to say about the Will is my position on it. It is Bianca and the lawyer that are doing what they are doing. We are waiting for the Will to be read; then I can make a statement on it. For the Will to be read, all of us, my brothers and all the beneficiaries would have to be present. And if the Will does not reflect the wish of my father, which we all know, we shall go to court,’’ he said. Earlier, Bianca and her two sons had dragged Ojukwu’s brothers before the Lagos High Court over the control of Ojukwu Transport Limited’s, OTL’s, property situated at No. 29 Queen’s Drive, Ikoyi,Lagos, where Ojukwu once resided. The Will which was read by Mr. Ekoh also threw up some surprises when an ‘unknown’ name Tenny Harman was mentioned as number one among the late Ojukwu’s children.

There were to be more shockers as the name of Sylvester Ojukwu popularly called “Dede” was conspicuously omitted from the list endorsed by Ojukwu himself as his children just as Emeka Ojukwu (Jnr) only got a property in Umudim Nnewi, Ojukwu’s hometown as his entitlement. After appointing Bianca, the late Igwe of Oraukwu, Emeka Ojukwu and James Chukwuneme as trustees and executors of the will the names of the children were next; and the late Ikemba stated that only the eight listed and no other person should be regarded as his children.

The eight children listed are Tenny Harman, Emeka Ojukwu, Mmegha, Okigbo, Ebele, Chineme, Afam, and Nwachukwu. Bianca who arrived the Enugu High Court premises in a black Prado Jeep at about 8:30 could not hide her surprise when the strange name of Tenny was mentioned among Ojukwu’s children as she started whispering with family members in the registrar’s office with her. Apart from Bianca, other family members who were in court to listen to the Chief Registrar included Mr. Mike Ezemba and Mr Val Nwosu; Ojukwu’s first cousin. They however declined comments on the matter as they left in different vehicles that brought them to the court premises. Bianca, who is currently Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain would be all smiles later as the will awarded her Ojukwu’s Enugu mansion ‘Casabianca’ located at No: 7 Forest Crescent GRA, which the late Ikemba Nnewi had named after her. She is to also replace Ojukwu on the board of the Ojukwu Transport Limited, OTL, or appoint a representative in the management board. Bianca heaved a sigh of relief as the Will clearly gave her a stake in the controversial O TL.

The company was founded by Ojukwu’s father, Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu who died in 1966, but left several assets behind for his children especially inLagosunder the OTL. Ojukwu transferred his interest in the company to his widow and children in the Will which reads inter alia, “Bianca and her children should take over my place at my transport…she may also wish to appoint somebody to represent her at the board…” Bianca also got two properties located at plot 20 Jabi Abuja, with Certificate of Occupancy number 4405, as well as another property located at Kuje,Abuja. The late Eze-Igbo also willed all his personal effects, monies and cars for Bianca and her children’s upkeep. He also allotted to Bianca two hectares of land at Umuezeani Umudim Nnewi, ‘’If she does not remarry.’’ Ojukwu’s strange daughter Tenny, who was said to be unknown to members of the family before now, was allotted Jubilee Hotels,Zaria; but when the will was read it was observed that the hotel had been sold thus she would receive the proceeds from the sale.

 For the former Commissioner inAnambraState, Emeka Ojukwu, who was generally regarded as Ojukwu’s first son, it was not a fair deal as he got only a house in Umudim Nnewi. Ojukwu further willed a hectare of land each to all his daughters but directed that his Nnewi property is “to remain a binding legacy to us for generations to come.“

(Vanguard)

UNIBEN's Winfrey Okolo wins Miss University Nigeria beauty pageant

Okolo emerged the winner out of the 48 other contestants in Abuja on Friday night.
The beauty queen received a star prize of a Nissan Sony car and one million naira.

In an interview after her installation, Okolo said that the event marked her first participation at a beauty contest, thanking God for enabling her to excel at the competition.
According report,the new beauty queen would be Nigeria’s student ambassador to the United Nations (UN), engaged to carry out charity assignments. She would also represent Nigeria at the Miss University Africa pageant involving 53 countries in South Africa and the Miss United Nations pageant in New York next year.

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