N400 ‘won’ N7,560,040.82million from Surebet247

Top Nigerian bookmaker posted around
N7,560,040.82 million in operating losses as they
had one of the worst weekends since the new
season starts on a single ticket following a
string of unexpected draw ( X ) outcome results.
A host of online/retail punters were left laughing
all the way to the bank after 8 League sides all
drew their weekend’s matches, causing a great
deal of rich accumulators winning.
This has seen bettors, land payouts well in
excess of 23 million naira for very low stakes,
causing Surebet247 bookmaker to call the
previous weekend one of the worst seen in the
new EPL season,” spokesman Ahmed Jokotoye
said.
This just goes to show that online/retail punters
can beat bookmakers in their own game, and
even if these kind of weekends do not happen
too often, it is certainly good to know that even
betting on football favourites can see you turn a
nice profit especially when you bet with a
company who has a BIG POCKET FOR WINNINGS
like SUREBET247.

Panic in Liberian villages as two Ebola victims 'rise from the dead'

There's currently panic, fear and confusion in
two villages in Nimba County in Liberia after
reports that two female Ebola victims have risen
from the dead.
According to local reports, 44 year old Dorris
Quoi who lived in Hope Village Community and a
67 year old woman identified as Ma Kebeh, died
of the Ebola virus and were about to be taken for
burial when they resurrected and are now
walking among the living.
According to reports in a local newspaper, New
Dawn, Ma Kebeh had been indoors for two nights
without food and medication before her death,
while Dorris had suffered for several weeks
before she died alone in her family home. This is
the first report of dead Ebola victims
resurrecting. Despite some people's reservations
about the story being true, it hasn't stopped
them from panicking

Ja Rule endorses Bovi Man on Fire. Friday, Oct. 3rd at Eko Hotel

Flytime Promotions, Rhythm 93.7fm, Brownhill
and Kountry Kulture presents Bovi - Man on Fire.
The first Bovi Man on Fire was held last year at
Eko Hotel to a sold out audience.
This year, Flytime is spicing it up a bit by adding
R&B artist Ashanti and Hip Hop Legend Jarule to
perform at the show. Patoranking would be
performing alongside these 2 artists.
Basketmouth would also be Hosting this event.
Bovi, Man on Fire is taking place Friday October
3rd at the Eko Convention Centre.
Tickets N5k and N25k for VIP.
For Tables, Call: 08174565603
Tickets available online
at naijaticketshop.com and QuickTeller.com .
Tickets also available at Silverbird Cinemas in VI
and Ikeja, Eko Hotel and Ozone Cinemas
Bovi man on fire is proudly sponsored by
Diamond bank, Arik Air, QuickTeller and Etisalat

EFCC arraigns fishermen for fishing in unauthorized waters

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) yesterday September 24th arraigned six
fishermen Adekunle Oshingbosi; Momodu
Ibrahim; Idowu Tuesday; Togbosi Christian;
Benjamin Eyinle; Anthony Medoho, and their
company, Oshine Resources Ventures Limited
before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for
allegedly fishing in unauthorized waters.
According to the EFCC, the men were arrested on
March 27th by officers of the Nigerian Navy for
fishing in Nigerian territorial waters without
getting authorized approval thereby violating
Sections 1(1)(2) of the Seas Fishery Act Cap S4,
2004.
When the 2 count charge of conspiracy and
stealing was read to the men, they pleaded not
guilty and applied for bail through their counsel.
The presiding Judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba
granted them bail in the sum of N10 million each
with one surety in like sum each, who is to
produce two recent passport photographs. They
were remanded at the Ikoyi prisons pending
when they meet their bail conditions.

Senate approves GEJ's $1billion loan to fight Boko Haram

The Senate has approved the $1billion (N165bn)
loan requested by President Jonathan in July to
help in the fight against terrorism and tackle
insecurity in the country. The loan would be used
for the purchase of military equipment and the
training of military personnel.
The loan approved will be in addition to the
N968.127bn voted for Defence in the 2014
budget by the federal government.

Father Quits $2 Trillion Firm After 10-Year Daughter Notes That He Missed 22 Landmark Events In Her Life

A top international financier quit his job running a
$2 trillion investment fund after his daughter
wrote him a note complaining he had missed her
first day of school, her Halloween parade and her
first game of soccer.
Mohamed El-Erian's daughter wrote him a note
complaining that he had missed out on 22
landmarks in her life because he was too busy at
work.
The California based investment guru resigned
from Pimco, who have more than $2 trillion
invested, after his daughter sent him a note
outlining 22 milestones he had missed from her
life.
After receiving the letter from the 10-year-old, El-
Erian handed in his notice which was a shock to
the investment world.
In an interview with Worth , El-Erian explained his
decision.
He said, 'About a year ago, I asked my daughter
several times to do something—brush her teeth, I
think it was—with no success. I reminded her that
it was not so long ago that she would have
immediately responded, and I wouldn’t have had
to ask her multiple times; she would have known
from my tone of voice that I was serious.
'She asked me to wait a minute, went to her
room and came back with a piece of paper. It
was a list that she had compiled of her important
events and activities that I had missed due to
work commitments.Talk about a wake-up call.
'The list contained 22 items, from her first day at
school and first soccer match of the season to a
parent-teacher meeting and a Halloween parade.
And the school year wasn’t yet over.I felt awful
and got defensive: I had a good excuse for each
missed event! Travel, important meetings, an
urgent phone call, sudden to-do.
'But it dawned on me that I was missing an
infinitely more important point. As much as I
could rationalize it—as I had rationalized it—my
work-life balance had gotten way out of whack,
and the imbalance was hurting my very special
relationship with my daughter. I was not making
nearly enough time for her.'
El-Erian said he was spending far too much time
away from his home while working for PIMCO.
Since resigning, he said he and his wife take
turns in waking up their daughter, preparing her
breakfast and bringing her to school.
He said he is also planning a holiday just for the
pair of them.
El-Erian said instead of one, full-time position, he
has taken a 'portfolio' of part-time roles which
require far less travelling and allow him greater
flexibility.
He said that he even now had time to pick up his
daughter from school.
Speaking to Bloomberg after his resignation, El-
Erian said, ' I've gone through a transition after
14 great years with Pimco and I've put together a
portfolio of part-time activities that I'm really
excited about. I'm also really excited to spend
more time with my family and my daughter.'
He later told Reuters, 'If I had known that there
would be this media circus, I would've done a lot
of things differently.
'Was there a way of not going 100 miles an hour
and maybe going 50 miles an hour? To be
perfectly honest, I didn't explore that option. I
never explored.'
El-Erian said wanting to spend more time with
his family is a cliche but he decided that his need
to be a good father was greater than his desire to
be a good investor.'
He decided that he had to readjust his work-life
balance in May 2013 after receiving the note from
his daughter.
In an interview with Reuters, El-Erian refused to
comment on his former boss Bill Gross, only
describing the 70-year-old as brilliant.
Since leaving Pimco, El-Erian has become the
chief economic adviser at Allianz where he
spends 50 per cent of his time.

2 UNILORIN Students Land Bank Of America Jobs After Internship

While many Nigerian students are languishing in
the faltering Nigerian education system and
graduates are scouring the labour markets, two
students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN)
have been given permanent employment by the
the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, London.
The students, Abeeb Adebayo and Ajoke
Ogunshola, had undergone a nine-week
internship training programme with the Bank, one
of the world’s top financial institutions, Unilorin
Bulletin reports..
Both in their final year, Adebayo is an Accounting
student while Ogunsola is a student in the
Department of Counsellor Education.
As 'Campus Ambassadors' They had been
selected for the 2014 summer undergraduate
internship programme.
It was not an easy path to success, Ongunsola
told Unilorin Bulletin.
“In my intern class, we were close to 200 from
different continents of the world; Nigeria and
Ghana represented Africa," she said
"Students were selected from the best five
universities in each of these countries in order to
meet the standard.”
She added that UNILORIN played a big role in
making her what she is.
" I think if I have not been in this kind of
environment, I might not have been able to do
so well because the challenges came and we are
able to deal with it and above all, the University
of Ilorin has a disciplined environment.
Her fellow ex-intern, Adebayo said the experience
would last him a lifetime.
“I gained a lot of experience that I wouldn’t have
learnt in the four walls of the classroom; an
experience that would last me a lifetime.
This news will do a lot to support UNILORIN's
case that it is the best University in Nigeria.
This point was noted by the Dean of Student
Affairs, Prof. Abayomi Omotesho.
“I think they have portrayed the University well
that they can compete with their peers anywhere;
for them to have gone from this relatively
backward background –talking about the
infrastructure in the country, and to have
performed so well," Omotesho said.
"They have placed the name of the University on
the world map, I am sure Merrill Lynch will be
very willing in the future to take more interns
from the University.”
According to the 2014 UNIVERSITY WEB
RANKINGS » for Africa released by International
Colleges and Universities (ICU) UNILORIN was
20th in Africa bust number 1 in Nigeria.
The internship programme targets
undergraduates with a Flair for Finance,
regardless of the courses they are currently
studying.

My Lagos Story! Story Of A Jos Boy In Lagos: Night Bus Experience

Jesu! AH! Driver easy ooo, You wan kill us abi?
Wetin dey worry this driver sef? Passengers
yelling on top of their voices as the luxurious bus
driver speed away into the night till the break of
dawn.
On the 13 September, 2014, I traveled down to
Kaduna State, Nigeria for my friend Akumy, since
he was passing out from the Nigerian Defence
Academy, Kaduna. I decided to use the luxurious
bus transport system for the first time in my life
and I sure had a crazy experience as I journeyed
through the night back to Lagos.
Take off time was set for 7:30pm but we left the
park some few minutes past 9pm because the
workers wanted to get extra passengers in the
bus. Aside the 60 seated passengers, the workers
wanted to fit in some other passengers who paid
less than the fixed fare to sit on the aisle as
“attachments”.
I boarded the popular “young shall grow” motors
with the knowledge of how amazing their
“luxurious” buses were, when my older siblings
patronized them back in those days. About
20mins into the journey, the gears (shift) failed
to engage, which made the driver request for a
replacement bus that the passengers could board
in to. After agreeing to transfer ourselves and
our luggage's was when we realized the bus
looked and sounded older than 20 years. The
body was refurbished and repainted to make it
look recent, but the interior? na...na...na...na it
couldn't hide its age.
The engine sound was loud and smokey, the
interior was so old, my seat could not be relaxed,
the arm rest was broken and the seat was
smelling. Yes! I almost forgot, we had 2 of
somethings that looked like a televisions but it
was a 13inch screen in a box. Unfortunately, it
wasn't turned on, so I couldn't tell if it was
black and white or colored.
The scariest part of the journey was when our
driver attempted to over-take a fuel tanker but
instead, the bus skied out of the road twice; first
was to the shoulder and then at second attempt
to over take, the driver had to apply the
Automatic Breaking System (ABS) to break the
top speed the bus was into and then, into the
thick bush beside the road somewhere between
Ibadan and Lagos. Which was because the
tanker driver swapped into our lane in order to
hinder the bus driver from overtaking. Instantly,
there were screams of prayers and insults flying
above the seats to God and d driver
simultaneously from the passengers.
A few kilometers ahead , just after successfully
halting the huge bus (which I appreciate the
driver for), a small Opel car that looked like a
taxi ran into the front tire of the bus. At impact,
he damaged the headlamps and radiator
instantly, while the bus was trying to make a U-
turn in front of Nigerian Brewery factory, Ibadan ,
Oyo State. Our bus driver drove away after the
hit, which, aroused anger from the ''agbero's''
who witnessed the incident. They came on a
bike, halted our bus and made it reverse back to
the its terminal. After waiting for about
30minutes for the case to be settled, we took off
once again and at about 10:30am we finally
arrived at the bus stop in Ojota, Lagos State,
Nigeria.
Well, If everything happened as planned, we
should have arrived at the early hours of the
morning. Hence I resolved never to try that
again.
I guess you might say my experience wasn't as
bad as yours. Well, feel free to share with me on
your own night journey experience.

Atiku Declares Presidential Ambition

The 2015 presidential race has begun as former
Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has become the
first candidate to officially declare his interest in
becoming Nigeria’s next president.
Atiku declared his ambition today, September 24,
2014 at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in
Abuja.
He reportedly said:
"We need a strong, dynamic, decisive, competent
and visionary leadership that can halt the current
drift of the ship of state, fight corruption, create
jobs, rebuild our infrastructure, provide social
services and tackle insecurity in a decisive,
robust multi-pronged way. This is the change
we want and deserve and this is the change the
APC is primed to offer. "
The former VP also promised that he would
create a Nigeria for all which would include
young people in the decision making process.
Atiku will be contesting on the platform of the
All Progressives Congress (APC)

O.B.O Reconciles With Video Director Sesan Ogunro

Rave artist of the moment Davido has reconciled
with music video director Sesan Ogunro after a
major fall out last year.
HKN artist Davido released one of the hottest
tracks last year ' Skelewu ' and due to the great
feedback from fans he went ahead to make a
video. Davido hired top video director Sesan
Ogunro to make it happen however Omo Baba
Olowo aka Davido was disappointed at the poor
result and fired Sesan.
He went on ahead to hire Sesan's protege, Moe
Musa to direct the second skelewu video » and
since then both Davido and Sesan have been
publicly known to be an bad terms.
All the buzz concerning the rift disappeared
when a photo surfaced of Davido and Sesan in
the same video.
Sesan confirmed that he will be shooting two of
the ' Skelewu ' singers newest videos in New York
City, thereby confirming that whatever the beef
was is now water under the bridge.

Muslim Youths Beat Up Principal, Teachers, Students To Pulp Over No-Hijab Policy

The new education policy in Osun State
claimed its first casualty on Monday as fierce-
looking Muslim youths invaded the Baptist
High School, Ejigbo, and beat up the students
and teachers.
The principal of the school, Mr. Layi Oguntola,
was thoroughly beaten and injured. Oguntola,
as of the time of this report, was said to be
receiving treatment at the Baptist Medical
Centre, Ejigbo.
The attackers said they came because the
school authorities stopped some Muslim pupils
from wearing the hijab.
The hijab is a scarf that covers the head and
chest, specially worn by a Muslim female.
Our correspondent learnt that the attackers
stormed the school while the students were
already seated in their classrooms.
They were said to have headed straight for the
Principal’s Office and asked Oguntola to
apologise for sending the hijab-wearing
students away from school but the principal
refused to do so.
There have been protests when the Governor
Rauf Aregbesola administration recently
introduced a new education policy, which
entails merger and reclassification of schools in
the state.
The Baptist conference specifically said it
would not allow hijab-wearing students in its
schools.
On Monday, the attacked students and
teachers were said to have run for refuge at
the palace of the Ogiyan of Ejigbo, Oba
Omowonuola Oyesosin. The monarch was also
said to have been instrumental to the rescue
of the wounded principal from the attackers,
made up of mostly youths.
The attack forced the Baptist High School and
other schools in the town to close abruptly for
the day as police were deployed in the town to
forestall reprisal.
Some Muslim students of the school were said
to have been turned back last week for
wearing hijab on their uniforms and their
parents were said to have reported the case to
members of an Islamic sect in the town.
Tension started building in the town following
the attack and the speculations that the
attackers were also planning to set ablaze the
United Baptist Church, close to the school.
Some Christian youths were also said to have
mobilised to defend the church.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state,
Mrs. Folasade Odoro, when contacted, said she
would find out the details of the incident and
get back to our correspondent.
Commissioner for Information, Mr. Sunday
Akere, confirmed the incident, which he
described as an unfortunate one.
He appealed to the people of the state to shun
violence, saying the state government in
collaboration with security agencies would
investigate and get to the root of the matter.
He said, “It is unfortunate that this happened
at a time when we are already achieving peace
in the area of schools reclassification.
“We are calling on all religious leaders and
stakeholders to refrain from taking steps which
could lead to the breakdown of law and order

Synagogue: Why We Haven't Held Anyone Accountable - Lagos Govt

In light of allegations by some especially
journalist Nicolas Ibekwe ,that Lagos State
governor is conniving with TB Joshua and not
holding him accountable, the state government
held a press conference to explain their
stance.Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba and the Special
Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr. Hakeem
Bello, appealed to the media for
understanding . They said
“We are all aware that the Federal Government
has set up a committee, what we are saying is
that in order for us not to pre-empt that
committee and hold anyone responsible the
best thing is for us to put this conference on
hold.Agencies of government are working
together so that at the end of the day we will
have a comprehensive report. Before that is
out, it will not be right for us to tell you the
situation.We know that time is of essence here
and I believe the committee will work within
the shortest time possible. For all your
questions and concerns, I believe the
comprehensive report will be exhaustive”