Prince George's Cute Picture!

Photo Speak: Prince George of Cambridge ...

Isn't he just too cute....

Photos From Around Lagos!

Current state of a 'supposed' drainage by the Oshodi BRT  park at Ilaje bus stop, Ajah - Lagos, is this an abandoned projects or what?

Long Queue Returns To Gas Stations As Fuel Scarcity Lingers!

Long queue returns to gas stations around as fuel scarcity lingers...

Pictures as seen around Lagos - Nigeria, on Saturday, April 16th.

Ohio Teenager Might Spend 40 - Years In Prison For Live-Streaming 'Friend's Rape!

An 18-year-old woman from Ohio, United States, might spend the next 40 years of her life in prison if convicted of charges of sexual battery, rape, kidnapping, and pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor for allegedly broadcasting the teen’s assault brought against her by a Grand Jury. 

The teenager, identified as Marina Alexeevna Lonina and the 17-year-old victim were in Raymond Boyd Gates’s home on February 27, when Gates, 29, began forcing himself upon the minor, to which Lonina allegedly used the Periscope app to post the attack online. Lonina also photographed the victim nude the night before the alleged sexual assault.

Lonina and Gates face up to 40 years in prison if convicted.

CNN Obtains "Proof Of Life" Video Of Chibok Girls!

Information reaching us revealed that CNN obtained a "proof of life" video of some of the kidnapped Chibok School Girls sent to negotiators by the Boko haram terrorist sect. 

The video had reportedly been seen by negotiators and some members of the Nigerian government.

74 Years Later, Remains Of U.S Airmen Found In Indian Jungle To Be Flown Home!

Remains of one or two U.S airmen who went missing in the 1940s World War Two missions will finally be returning home. 

According to report, the American airmen, eight in number, were among Allied pilots who flew risky routes over the world's highest mountains to deliver supplies from Indian airfields to Chinese forces from 1942. 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which deals with US soldiers missing in action, sent a team to Arunachal Pradesh state, northeastern India, in September 2015, to try to find wreckage of a B-24 Liberator plane downed in 1944 with eight men on board. The DPAA team painstakingly sifted through soil around the plane's wreckage in an effort to find the airmen's remains, they spent eight hours a day carrying out detailed searches on a steep slope, often roped together. The search was frustrated as they were stopped by the risk of landslides. 

At the end, their efforts paid off as the team reportedly found what is believed to be the remain of two of the eight airmen  in the mountainous jungles. 

The remain has be flown to Hawaii for DNA testing, before being flown home to their families in the U.S.

2016 Budget, Lagos-Calabar Rail Project Brouhaha - Ministry Of Budget And National Planning Clears The Air!

Following the controversy surrounding the 2016 budget and the Lagos-Calabar Rail Project, Nigerian MINISTRY OF BUDGET AND NATIONAL PLANNING recently released a press statement to clear the air.

The Press Statement below: 

"In view of the recent controversies surrounding the 2016 budget, it has become necessary to state the following so as to set the facts straight:

The details of the 2016 budget were received by the President on Thursday, April 7, 2016.

Immediately this was received the President, desirous of signing the document into law as soon as possible, directed that copies should be made available to Heads of the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government.

Ministers were asked to go through the details and give their reactions as it affects their respective Ministries so as to guide the President and enable him sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

That process is still on-going and no statement has been issued by the Executive on the matter, apart from the one by the Honourable Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohamnmed, to confirm that details of the budget are being examined. No final decision has been taken by the President and no other statement whatsoever has been issued on the matter.

With reference to the specific issue of the Calabar – Lagos rail project, we will like to state that the two railway projects, Lagos – Kano and the Calabar – Lagos, are very important projects of the present administration; and it was always the intention of the Executive to have both projects reflected in the budget submitted to the National Assembly.

However, it will be recalled that the Budget Office made a number of errors in the initial proposals of a number of ministries. These errors were all corrected by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning and the corrected versions were submitted to the relevant committees of the National Assembly. This included that of the Ministry of Transportation.

The amended Ministry of Transportation budget was accepted by the relevant committees and that was the version defended by the Minister of Transportation and his team.

It must be emphasized that the two rail projects are part of those for which the President is currently negotiating funding with the Chinese government.

The N60b provided in the budget for the Lagos – Kano and Calabar – Lagos rail lines, respectively, is counterpart funding, to support the Chinese financing for the projects.

These projects are part of the Strategic Implementation Plan of the government which was disclosed by the Minister of Budget and National Planning at the National Economic Council Retreat in March 2016, in the presence of state governors. They were also mentioned by the Vice President last week in Lagos at The Nation Newspaper’s First National Economic Forum.

It is hoped that with this clarification, the raging controversy over the Calabar – Lagos rail project will be put to rest.

Signed:

Akpandem James

Media Adviser to the Honourable Minister".