President Jonathan earns N43m as salary in 3 years,paid N6.2m as Tax

For presiding over the affairs of Nigeria as its president in the last three years, President Goodluck Jonathan has pocketed N43, 230, 871.44  million as salary. In the same vein, he had within the last three years,paid N6.2 million as tax to the country. Vanguard reports that ,Details of the president’s tax payment also showed that the president did not earn any other income besides his fixed income as president of the country in that period. There were no indications of income from stocks or other businesses that the president could have had.

Despite earning a regular service of N14, 410, 290.48 in each of the three years, the president tax liabilities however increased in 2012 and 2013 to N2, 510, 775. 77 up from the N1, 242, 670.21 paid in 2011.

APC Prof.Osibanjo---"Olamide is an impressive young man"

So Vice Presidential candidate of the APC, prof.Yemi Osibanjo attended Olamide's OLIC concert on Sunday. He met with the rap star and took to Facebook to praise him. He said

I met the popular recording artist Olamide. Impressive young man. We are richly blessed with talented and energetic individuals who have a lot to offer the nation. Everyone should get involved in transforming our country. It is achievable,’

she is full of surprises!!! Maheeda confirms she has stopped bleaching ...

this is her new year resolution vibe..Good for her

Update on missing AirAsia Flight, Plane door,emergency slide spotted in search

A plane door and emergency slide, believed to be debris from missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, have reportedly been spotted by search teams. Reports from crews suggest as many as 10 items may have been located - including what might be a life raft, life jackets and long orange tubes.  According to AFP, Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto announced on Tuesday in Surabaya searchers may have found the site where the flight is believed to have downed. 

Displaying photos of 10 large objects and a number of smaller white-coloured, still unidentified objects, Mr Agus said the items were seen about 10km from the location where the aircraft was last logged on radar. He said there was confidence that the location of the aircraft had now been found.There were no immediate reports of any survivors, although the reference to a life raft might raise hopes that people had survived the crash.

Buhari speaks on why he did not submit his Certificates To INEC

Former head of state and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has explained why he did not submit his certificates and credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying that the documents are with the military.

Leadership ng reports that,this came to light yesterday during a visit by journalists to the headquarters of INEC in Abuja where it was revealed that Buhari’s academic qualifications were not on display, unlike those of other presidential candidates including that of his main rival, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 22-year-old for allegedly killing his father,

22-yr old dropout arrested for killing dad in Lagos. Our correspondent learnt that Oluwaropo, who is the fifth child and only son of the family, had had clashes with his parents in the past over financial issues.

According to the police, Oluwaropo, a suspected cultist, was rusticated from a university in Ondo State, a few years ago for some cult-related offences.
Punch Metro gathered that 75-year-old Moses, a retired mechanical engineer, was stabbed to death in the neck with a pair of scissors.

The Tifases, who hail from Imesi Ile, Osun State, were living in an apartment in Block 285, Jakande Estate, Mile 2, Lagos.

Desperate father uses daughter as collateral for N600,000 loan

In the dusty village of Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem, Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, Edet Okon sat down in front of St. Mark Primary School. Sitting cross-legged on the concrete floor on one of the blocks of classrooms he now calls his home, the 40-year-old father of three leaned forward to exchange pleasantries with this correspondent.

Okon’s immediate family members and 963 other households had fled their ancestral homes in Efut Obot Ikot in the ceded Bakassi Peninsula in March 2013.

The fisherman lost his first daughter, Blessing, to the cold hands of death in September 2013, after battling with blood cancer for five months.But Okon’s agony did not end with Blessing’s death. Indeed, he now lives in the pool of the anguish of a man who has to practically sell his child into slavery. To raise funds for the series of medical tests, drugs, feeding and hospital bills incurred by Blessing, he opted to secure loans from someone to save her dying daughter.