Provide condoms or face closure, commissioner tells hoteliers

 Culled from Vanguardngr
Makurdi – Mrs Comfort Ajene, the Benue Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, has warned hoteliers in the state to provide condoms for guests or risk closure.

Ajene gave the directive on Thursday in Makurdi at an AIDS sensitisation programme organised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in collaboration with the Benue State Aids Control Agency (BENSACA).

Abdulmutallab Sentenced to Life in Prison

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DETROIT (AFP) – The Nigerian “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a packed airliner on Christmas Day 2009 must spend the rest of his life behind bars, a US judge ruled Thursday.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25, pleaded guilty in October to eight charges, including the attempted murder of 289 people on board Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

Dressed in a white skull cap and loose white t-shirt, Abdulmutallab showed no emotion as Judge Nancy Edmunds handed down the maximum sentences for each count.

Bomb Planted In Children Playground In Kaduna

A time bomb was alleged planted at Mounted Troop in Kabala Doki Police Barracks, yesterday, where children were planning innocently with the disguised object.
The Kids were cleared from the playground when the object was identified as a possible bomb.

An eyewitness said that "the children were unconsciously playing with the bomb and nothing happened to them, before it was discovered that the object was an explosive with a timer on it."

The anti-bomb squad arrived on time to destroy the bomb.

Can you imagine such height of wickedness by Boko Haram?

Revert to N65 per litre Senate tells Jonathan - Vanguardngr

The Senate, yesterday, joined the House of Representatives in asking President Goodluck Jonathan to revert fuel pump price to N65 per litre. In a closed door session, the senators urged the Senate President, Senator David Mark to convey the message of the upper chamber to President Jonathan within 24 hours.

This came as the nationwide protest called by the organised labour against the removal of subsidy on petrol which commenced on Monday was hijacked on its second day by hoodlums in Ogun, Kaduna, Oyo and Edo states even as the Nigeria Labour Congress vowed that the protests will continue indefinitely until the Federal Government reverts the pump price of petrol to N65.

Nigerian-Lebanese Girl Arraigned and Arrested over Forged Travel Documents

Desperate to leave the shores of Nigeria, a 24 –year- old Lebanese-Nigerian, Mariam Morris went ahead and procured forged travel documents. But that act has landed her into trouble, as she has ended up in police net and finally, in court. The long arm o f the law caught up with her when she went to the Canadian Embassy to apply for visa.

She was nabbed by detectives attached the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) Ikoyi, Lagos, after they got a tip-off from officials of the Canadian Embassy.
The mulatto was alleged to have two International passports and other forged documents in her possession.

Showbiz Personality, Frank Nero, Dies at 29

TV presenter and popular showbiz personality, Frank Nero, has passed away. The 29yr old, who showed no sign of any illness, slumped and died two days Jan 2nd while at a relative's burial ceremony at his hometown in Bauchi. His cause of death is still unknown. May his soul rest in peace...amen.

Just slumped and died? God help us.

Cecelia Ibru's Name Removed from Nigerian Institute of Bankers

The executives of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria met today and decided that the former CEO of Oceanic Bank is no longer worthy of being a member of the association. Her name has been removed from the register of the association. She now ceases to be a member of the Nigerian Banking Profession.

Too harsh or well deserved?