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Africa’s Richest Woman, Famfa Oil chairman, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija revealed during an inspirational speech that she never went to a university, saying one does not need a university education to make it in life. The speech was given to students of the University of Lagos during the 2014 UN International Youths Day in Lagos. Read the speech down below: “I come from Ikorodu, Lagos state. I am married to a dashing young lawyer of 70 years of age and we have four grown up gentlemen and grandchildren. It has not been a rag to riches fairytale. It has not been an overnight phenomenon like some cases which you find here and there all over the world. For as long as I can remember, I had always wanted my own business. Hard work…am trying to tell you how I got to where I am if you want those billions. Hard work, diligence, persistence…days where you nearly gave up but I chose not to give up.” “It would have been easy to compromise but I chose not to and I...

The dissolution of the marriage between Christ Embassy Church founder, Pastor Christian Oyakhilome, and his wife, Rev. Anita Odegwa Oyakhilome, has entered the final phase, naijasteer can report. The wife is seeking divorce on the grounds of “unreasonable behaviour” and “adultery”. She outlined several allegations against the pastor which naijasteer cannot publish for legal reasons. The divorce case, with Suit No FD14D01650, was filed on April 9, 2014 at Divorce Section A, Central Family Court, First Avenue House, High Holborn, London, UK, on Anita’s behalf by Attwaters Jameson Hill Solicitors, a full-service law firm with expertise in commercial law and a strong consumer focus in family, wills and estate, personal injury law and medical negligence. Efforts to reconcile the popular couple, whose church is one of the biggest denominations in Nigeria and has branches all over world, have failed. They have two teenage daughters, Sharon and Charlyn. Oyakh...

Nigeria has joined a small group of nations including Qatar, South Africa, Malaysia and Australia that operate hi-tech Gas to Liquid ( GTL ) plants, as the Chevron owned Escravos GTL has produced its first liquids, after being behind schedule for several years. The plant would allow Nigeria to perform a leading role in an advanced sector of the energy and fuel market. “We recently achieved a major milestone at our Escravos gas to liquids plant with the production of GTL diesel and naphtha. We anticipate continued ramp-up in first product lifting later this year,” said George Kirkland, Vice Chairman and Executive VicenPresident-Upstream and Gas, at Chevron Corp., during the company’s Q2 Earnings conference call. Chevron partnered with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to build the GTL plant designed to convert 325 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, into 33,000 barrels of liquids—principally synthetic diesel. When completed, the pla...

POLICE in Ogun State are investigating the suicide of a middle aged man who hanged himself after being defrauded by his lover who took off after fleecing him of millions of naira. According to the police, the man identified as Samsideen Akinwunmi, committed suicide in Abeokuta after being duped by his concubine. Mr Akinwunmi, a carpenter, was said to have been found dead after allegedly hanging himself on a ceiling fan in his room on Aboaba Street, Itori-Odo in Abeokuta. Neighbours said that they saw Mr Akinwunmi at about 2.45 pm on Saturday when he sent all his children on errands before killing himself. Before hanging himself, the deceased left a suicide note, explaining why he took his own life. He indicated that his estranged lover had duped him of millions of naira and that he had to kill himself. Chief Omolaso Ojedele, a community leader and the Alapinni of Egbaland, said it was a tragedy. Police have since taken Mr Akinwunmi's corpse away to the morgue and investigations...

Nigeria has successfully reduced the number of Ebola cases in the country to one, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said. As of Tuesday, only one Ebola patient remained in isolation in Nigeria, down from the 13 cases the country confirmed since the outbreak of the virus in July, Mr. Chukwu said at a press conference. The deadly virus was first brought to Nigeria 38 days ago by a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer later died, but after health workers who treated him had contracted the virus. Mr. Chukwu said so far Nigeria has had 13 cases including the index case. Five of those infected died, while seven have successfully recovered and were discharged. Two of the nurses who managed Mr. Sawyer were discharged Monday at the isolation centre in Lago, Mr. Chukwu said. He said Nigeria has been able to curtail Ebola in the country. All the 129 people who were under surveillance have completed the 21day observation incubation period and only one person was fo...

THE Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde has unequivocally stated that beginning from 2015, any student or candidate who was not computer (ICT) literate would have no business with JAMB conducted examinations even as he declared, “we are not going to compromise on that”. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Mr. Paul Mumeh, the JAM Registrar said it was for that reason that JAMB embarked on the establishment of Computer Based Centres across the country preparatory for all its examinations. He stressed that examination was central to education and must be taken seriously at all levels. Also speaking Senator Mark said he was committed to the development of education, adding, “because I believe that a well educated citizenry would be an asset to the nation. “Besides being the foundation for any development, education liberates the people and curbs all forms anti social behaviors. ...

The Enugu State House of Assembly has horrendously removed the state’s Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi, from office. The Assembly voted Tuesday morning to sack Mr. Onyebuchi from office. Sunday Onyebuchi Details of the impeachment session is still sketchy, but the deputy governor’s removal is believed to have been masterminded by Governor Sullivan Chime. The Assembly accused Mr. Onyebuchi of operating a commercial poultry at his official residence and of disobeying Governor Chime, charges that, under the law, do no qualify as impeachment offences. The impeached deputy governor had told the impeachment panel set up by the state’s chief judge that Mr. Chime also operated piggery farms at the Government House. Giving evidence before the panel last Wednesday, Mr. Onyebuchi said the governor’s poultry was hurriedly evacuated shortly after the panel commenced sitting. Mr. Onyebuchi revealed that the state government had budgeted for the maintenance of the poult...

2face has lost his dad, Micheal idibia to cancer. He had been undergoing treatments for prostrate cancer for a while but sadly, didn’t survive it. He reportedly passed on today at an undisclosed hospital. May his gentle soul rest in peace, Amen!

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Our attention in Naija Steer has been drawn to the abominable story of horrendous impregnation of a 12-year old Nigerian girl. The police had arrested the family of the lady and the family of the man, (who is 20 years old ) the man himself had ran away. The 12 year - old girl is in Primary 3 .The scan was done and a doctor told us that she is about 7 months pregnant. He thinks there could be a problem with the legs of the child, but he wasn ’t sure. We took the little girl to Amecet , gave her food and one of the staff has spend some time with her this afternoon . To see if she knows what ’s going on. She is really a child and is even happy that she gets a baby. It will be a big problem, she is too small for a natural birth, it probably should be a caesarian. She played Memory with the other children and I could cry, to see her sitting there with that big belly, this will be really a child with a child. And while she should be able to play and have fun, she is getting a baby. Some ...

The Controversial Born Again Gospel Singer Maheeda is at it again, she said that Manhood is not my problem and I can get it any how and any time I want it, as far there is condom, Sleeping With Different Manhood Is My Hubby although the sweetest one holds me down. Do you all really think she’s alright or she’s just obsessed about Manhood?

The Senate committee chairman on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Sen. Smart Adeyemi, yesterday threw a jab at the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC) predicting that most of their leaders, including Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu and incumbent governor of Kano will defect to PDP after APC presidential convention. Smart Adeyemi, who represents Kogi West on the floor of the Senate, stated this when he paid a solidarity visit to the national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Adamu Mu’azu. Sen. Smart said “ I have a vision that people like Buhari, Kwankwaso, Tinubu will come back to PDP after the opposition’s convention. People are calling for President Jonathan to declare for 2015 and I ask where are his opponents. PDP should not bother about Jonathan’s declaration, he is already crusing to victory.” While he pleaded with the PDP national chairman to accommodate the APC chieftains when they defect, Sen. ...

The United States of America on Thursday in Abuja donated High-tech bomb detector robots to the Nigeria Police Force. In a statement, the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said the U.S. Ambassador, James Entwistle, while visiting the Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, presented the robots. Mr. Mba said the ambassador congratulated the police chief on his appointment and said the U.S. will continue to render relevant supports to the Force in the areas of training and security cooperation. Mr. Mba said Mr. Entwistle thanked Mr. Abba for the high level of cooperation between the Nigerian Police and the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria. Mr. Mba said the partnership between the police and the U.S. will improve. The IGP said he was committed to reforming the Force and to repositioning the police for better service delivery. He also promised that the newly donated equipment would be put to effective use.

A 19 year old welder apprentice was caught yesterday August 19th after having sex with a chicken at the Continental area of Akure, the Ondo state capital. According to reports by Vanguard, the boy was discovered to have committed the act after the owner of the chicken, Mrs Stella Akintola, who is the boy’s neighbor and reared chickens in the compound, heard her chickens making noise inside their pen and decided to go and find out why they were restless. When she got to her hen pen, the young man surfaced from a corner and said he had stomach upset and was on his way out of the compound toilet. Mrs Akintola not suspecting anything then moved to use the compound toilet where she discovered one of her chickens lying dead in the toilet. When she tried to raise an alarm, the young man quickly appealed to her not to shout confessing that he was responsible for the chickens death and promised to replace the dead chicken. However when she examined the chicken with some of her neighb...

Despite the Government’s often-touted intention to increase production to 4 million barrels per day, Nigeria’s crude oil output in Q1 of 2014 recorded a drop in production over the corresponding period in 2013, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Production in Q1 of 2014 was 2.26 million barrels per day (bpd) a drop of 30,000 barrels compared to the 2.29 million bpd it achieved in the same period in 2013. The picture has improved from the end of last year, however, when production had dropped to 1.87 million bpd. As a result, the Bureau said, the growth rate of real GDP was recorded at 6.21% in Q1 2014, higher than 4.45% recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2013.

PRESS STATEMENT The Honourable Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu regrets to announce the death, this evening, of one of the primary contacts of the index Ebola Virus Disease case, the most senior doctor who participated in the management of the patient, a female consultant physician. With this unfortunate development the total number of Ebola Virus related deaths in Nigeria now stands at five. The other two patients currently under treatment in the isolation wards are stable and are being taken care of. Dan Nwomeh, Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Minister

Nigerian federal government headed by Mr. Johnathan has unequivocally tightened security around one of Nigeria’s leading opposition figures and former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, after a failed bid to kill him last month. Buhari, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who has been in the presidential race since 2003, escaped death by a whisker when a suspected Boko Haram member who tried to break into his convoy in Kaduna while he was on his way to Daura, his hometown in Katsina State, detonated his bomb- laden vehicle that destroyed cars in the convoy. While Buhari, who was riding in an armoured sport- utility vehicle (SUV) escaped without any injury, some of his security aides sustained varying degree of injuries. The incident, which President Goodluck Jonathan said would have plunged Nigeria into turmoil if Buhari had been killed, has necessitated the review of security around the APC chief. When New Telegraph sighted Buhari, who was in New...

A Nigerian medical doctor who contracted deadly Ebola virus from Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer during initial treatment of the Liberian has been discharged from the Center for Infectious Disease Control at Yaba Lagos after recovering from the disease. Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh was hospitalized after showing symptoms of Ebola infection few days after Mr. Sawyer died at her hospital in Lagos. Dr. Adadevoh was endocrinologist at the First Consultant Hospital in Lagos who treated Mr. Sawyerbas he was rushed from the airport in Lagos to her hospital. Dr. Adadevoh plight had led to a petition by colleagues and well-wishers urging President Barack Obama to release Zmapp for her treatment. Dr. Adadevoh (Nee Cardoso) was discharged from the hospital yesterday after fully recovering from the disease according to doctors at the facility.

FORMER Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has left the All Progressives Congress (APC) and joined the People's Democratic Party (PDP) making him the frontrunner in the forthcoming Adamawa State governorship elections. Between 2003 and 2007, Mallam Ribadu, 53, served as EFCC chairman, during which he enjoyed a lot of success combating corruption in Nigeria. In 2011, he ran for the presidency of Nigeria on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, which later metamorphosised into the APC after merging with several other parties. Mallam Ribadu had been strongly tipped as an APC presidential candidate for 2015 but in a shock move, he appears to have dumped the party for the ruling PDP. In Mallam Ribadu's native Adamawa State, a governorship election is due soon following the impeachment of Governor Murtala Nyako and his deputy. With Mallam Ribadu now in the PDP, he has automatically become the favourite to clinch the party's gub...

Moves by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to pressurize the federal government to withdraw the circular suspending residency training programme have crumbled as officials at the Federal Ministry of Health were adamant on reversing the suspension. The suspension of the residency training programme indirectly means the sack of about 16 000 medical doctors, leaving behind 3000 medical consultants and higher ranking medical personnel to cater for medical services around the country. The government also lampooned the medical doctors for embarking on protest and demonstration in Abuja, calling their actions as hypocritical. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Linus Awute, stated this Saturday in an interview with journalists in Abuja. Awute observed that though the doctors claimed to be on strike, some were working on the field. He blamed the doctors for the decision by the federal government to suspend residency...

Nigeria and Africa’s richest man, and head of the Dangote group Aliko Dangote has given N150million to Nigeria in efforts to curb the ebola virus and take it out of the nation. The Billionaire Business Mogul spoke through His companies Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Adhiambo Odaga at a press briefing at the health ministry, at Abuja on Monday. She said: “After bilateral discussion with the honourable minister and his team, Dangote foundation has funded the establishment of the Ebola emergency operation in Lagos, that is being done through grant from the foundation of just a little over N150 million”. “The strategy that our chairman is deploying is the strategy to respond and to commend government for the effort, and to show that all Nigerians are concerned. We will continue to discuss with the ministry about what additional support can be offered. “And we also have been approached by several parties who are interested in partnering with the government, and we would continue that dis...

In a letter dated June 20, 2014, the Kaduna State Executive council had accused Mr. Danfulani, who holds a PhD, of using social media to denigrate Governor Yero who also doubles as the University Visitor. In the letter, the council informed the lecturer that it could not tolerate his criticism of Mr. Yero, describing the act as a breach of the university’s condition of service and section 20: 4 of the institution’s law. In a counter move, Mr. Danfulani filed a lawsuit against the university at the National Judicial Court. His lawsuit seeks a perpetual injunction restraining the university council from taking any measure against him. The lawsuit further disclosed that the lecturer needed the court’s injunction as a relief against his likely termination of appointment and other forms of intimidation and harassment by the university. According to Mr. Danfulani, the lawsuit was in the interest of justice and to ensure that his fundamental human rights and freedom of expression as pro...

His Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan, has ordered the sack of all resident doctors in Nigerian hospitals. The sack was contained in a directive by Mr. Jonathan to the Federal Ministry of Health to suspend all residency training programme for Nigerian doctors. The directive was stated in an internal memo dated August 13 and signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, L.N. Awute, to federal hospitals. Mr. Awute said the president’s directive was given following an appraisal of the challenges facing the health sector. “Mr. President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR has suspended the Residency Training Programme for Doctors in Nigeria indefinitely for the purposes of appraising the challenges facing the health sector,” Mr. Awute said. He said the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has also directed that “letters of termination of residency training” be issued to all affected resident doctors in hospitals immediately. The memo asked the managem...