Fani-kayode Has Met Bail Conditions – Aide

Jude Ndukwe, the Special Assistant
on Media to Femi Fani-Kayode, the
detained Director of Media and
Publicity of the 2015 Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP Campaign
Organisation claimed that his
principal has met his bail
conditions as set by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC but the anti-graft agency has
refused to release him. He alleged
that the aim of the agency is to
forcefully extract statements from
the the former minister of
Aviation, that would implicate
former President Goodluck
Jonathan and PDP chieftains.
“It is even more worrisome that the
activities of the anti-graft agency
has reached an all-time low as they
are insisting that the former
Minister of Culture and Tourism
should name publishers, editors,
journalists and bloggers he
allegedly gave money to during the
election campaigns.
“What has journalists who covered
the PDP campaign as much as that
of APC got to do with this? This is
the height of it all!” Ndukwe said.
“The further insistence by EFCC
that Chief Fani-Kayode should
deposit a sum of $1m before he
could be let go shows how
desperate the agency is to keep him
in their custody and deny him his
fundamental rights as guaranteed
under Sections 33,34,35,37 and 41
of the Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria 1999 (As
Amended) and Articles 4, 5, 6 and
12 of the African Charter on
Human and Peoples’ Rights
(Ratification and Enforcement) Act
Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of
Nigeria 1990.
“This further confirms our position
that even though he has met his
bail conditions, the EFCC have no
intention of letting him enjoy his
bail nor do they have any intention
of playing by the rules.
“While we have copiously
acknowledged in the past and still
do that EFCC have a constitutional
and mandatory duty to carry out
their statutory function as
empowered by our laws, it is also
our sincerest belief that these
functions can be carried out within
the ambit of the law and without
being tainted with vendetta,
vindictiveness and politics. These
are what discredit the agency and
cast doubts in the minds of
Nigerians about the sincerity of the
fight against corruption,” Ndukwe
said.

Cristiano Ronaldo Donates His £600,000 Champions League Bonus To Charity

Giving should be a way of life for us;
start when you don’t have much
otherwise it would be difficult for you
even when you have all the money
you’ve been wishing for.
Football star Cristiano Ronaldo has
donated his £600,000 Champions
League win bonus to a UN charity.
His team said he’s also considering
giving more, already in talks with a
few other charities.

Carrick Gets Another ONE As Martial Eyes HUGE Pay Rise At Manchester United

Reports from Old Trafford say that
French international, Anthony
Martial is already agitating for a
new contract with HUGE pay raise
in mind.
According to The Sun UK, the
Frenchman, who scored some big
goals during his first season at
Manchester United and currently
earns £68,000 a week, wants a pay
raise to £100,000 a week.
He has scored 17 times for United,
with many coming from his
unfamiliar position out on the left
and with new manager, Jose
Mourinho already approving
contracts for Marcus Rashford and
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson,
Martial is set to show up at the
boss’ door with a demand to break
the £100,000-a-week barrier.
The tabloid reports that “England
captain Wayne Rooney earns close
to £300,000 a week and midfielder
Bastian Schweinsteiger is not far
behind. Although Martial cannot
command those salaries, he wants a
raise.”
Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho has told
Michael Carrick he wants him to
stay at Manchester United — and
an extension to his contract will be
thrashed out next week.

Brief history of Ruth Elton (Daughter of the great pioneer of the Gospel, S. G Elton)

Mama Ruth Elton (a daughter of the great pioneer of the Gospel - Pastor S. G Elton) arrived in Ilesa, Nigeria in July 1937 at age three as the only daughter of her missionary parents from the Apostolic Church in England, Pastor and Mama S. G Elton. Having been introduced to the Christian faith by her mother at age three, her passion for Lord and for Mission grew as a consequence of the latter rain revival of the early fifties and as enthusiastic assistant to her parents, Pa Sydney and Mama Hannah Elton as they guided and nurtured the Pentecostal revival in Nigeria. Mama Elton's personal missionary work began in 1959 after buying a small car from her earnings as a sewing teacher in the Women Training Centre in Ilesa, and some financial support from abroad. She then proceeded to Igbaruku and went on a missionary tour of Ebira, Okene. Her main focus has been the Ebira peoples in Kogi State where she has done extensive work over many years and has made a great impact on the mission field in Kogi State. Mama Elton has by the Spirit, doggedly weathered opposition of indigenous religions, occultist and even physical violence, to pursue her missionary passion. She has also overcome challenges to her personal health, clubbed unconscious by a thief that stole her car, but miraculously the car was recovered by an alert policeman! Mama Ruth Elton is also involved in training missionaries and sending them to work in rural areas. Sadly, however, at this time there are not many volunteers for missionary work. She is concerned that the Saints are not passionate enough about getting the job of preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom done. Perhaps, it was Mama who first coined the "Churchianity" to describe the situation where many people only go to church to enjoy themselves and are not in any way involved in fulfilling the Great Commission. Mama Ruth is firmly convinced that there is very little time left before the King comes! She is, thus passionate about seeing Christian get out of the old order of religion and becoming more focused on the work of the Kingdom. Mama has been an inspiration to the missionaries and the Kingdom Ministers in Nigeria and abroad. Mama attend Kingdom Gospel Mission Ilesa and she is very much alive, well and strong in the spirit of Christ...

Charlie Boy is a New Man

After all the craze and what have
you, Area fada Charles Oputa aka
Charly Boy is now a new man. He
said he has encountered
“positivity” and he has abandoned
all the razzmatazz associated with
the entertainment industry for the
gospel of our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ.
In a chat with Encomium, Charly
Boy said his encounter with Jesus
was the freakiest moment of his
life:
What have you been up to lately?
I have been up to all sorts. It is
never a dull moment with me. My
whole life is about adding value to
people I am opportuned to meet.
Adding value to my environment
and just finding a way to be useful
not just to myself but my family
and my environment. So, I pretty
much stay busy all the time and if it
is a dull moment, I create things for
me to do.
You have been away from the music
industry for quite some time now,
what has been happening to your
music career?
Defining me just as a musician is
kind of belittling because I do a lot
more than just sing and dance. I
am a lot of things rolled into one. I
keep saying, we are a lot of people
in one body. So, I cut across so
many sections and segments, and
so it is with people I minister to
from the lowest of the lowest to the
highest of the highest.
So, defining me as an artiste is
really too cheap. I am more than all
of that. As a musician which I have
said so many times that I am not
but maybe an entertainer, I am
refreshed because of a sudden
change. I am also feeling that urge
to do a lot of things, music wise and
thank God you will soon start to
hear about it and the news will
soon be in the air. All the young
people that I am collaborating with,
I don’t want to mention names, are
people in vogue. I am doing a few
things with some of them and it is
exciting. For me, it is just to once
again prove myself. I have always
done that. Everything I set my mind
to do, I am just going to be good at
it and move on to other things that
grab my attention.
What should your fans expect from
you very soon?
They should expect pleasant
surprises. They should expect the
unexpected because in the Charly
Boy Show anything can happen.
You’ve been so controversial on social
media lately, what inspired it?
I think a lot, that is my job. I am a
journalist. I talk about all the things
that affect me, that affect my loved
one, things that affect other people.
So, I have always been talking since
I became Charly Boy. I have always
had opinions about somethings
happening. First, I am a journalist
and I keep telling you that before
anything else. So, I write a lot. I am
a social commentator of some sort.
My job is to call the attention to the
things that are awesome and to
react when I see the things that are
not good at all.
Can you tell us about your encounter
with Jesus?
My encounter with Jesus was the
freakiest moment, and if you read
the piece I wrote, it is just saying
that God really wants us to be real
but the Nigeria perception about
Jesus and how it works is just too
Nigerian for my liking. They look at
Jesus/God as babalawo or the
pastors make some sacrifices and
bring some money and goats and
all the problems will disappear. It
doesn’t happen like that and these
days people are not going to church
to nurture their spirituality.
Rather, it is either they are looking
for babies, wife or husband or
promotion. It is all about the wrong
reasons for being a Christian.
So, God was just telling me that in
most of these churches they don’t
have anything to do with Christ or
God. They are there for business. I
was wondering what does Jesus
want from me? Is it for me to
intensify my campaign for the
hopeless, the downtrodden, people
who have been consumed by this
wickedness in the country. There
are a lot of nice people who are
losing their niceties because they
don’t know what else to do. They
are just hopeless.
Hopelessness is hanging over their
head. They are frustrated, confused
and they want to stay good because
they were born good but they are
losing their goodness because of the
battle of survival. Like a young
lady, who has been brought up in a
humble and decent home but
because she is looking for a job that
is not there and her parents cannot
afford to take care of her anymore,
she is industrious and nobody to
help. Finally, she resorts to
prostitution, whereas under normal
circumstances, she wouldn’t go that
direction but it is just out of
desperation. So, those are the souls
I am hoping to capture before they
go completely bad. This is what the
environment has turned out to be.
Can you please tell us the things Jesus
told you to stop doing?
All those contrived stuff that Charly
Boy did and not me as Mr. Oputa,
they have been outgrown. So, I
have left them for other people who
want to continue the madness.
Looking at the rate of marriage
breakup generally in the
entertainment industry, what will you
say about it?
It is an unfortunate thing. I am
saddened about it, especially with
my son, the one in America. He is
39 and there is this Nigerian girl
that he is dating. As I was hoping
he will get married sooner or later
only for him to turn around and
ask me, must he be married, I was
like what are you talking about and
he started telling me that he does
not understand this marriage thing.
Why can’t he just have a contract
with the girl, maybe we stay for
four years, then if we want to
continue they would renew the
contract rather than for better for
worse. That he doesn’t understand
it.
That also gave me a cause of
concern. Marriage is not a bed of
roses. It is for people who have
major respect for each other and
want to stay in a marriage.
Marriage is a lot of work and I still
want all my children to get married
the traditional way, discipline
themselves to maintain that
commitment forever. I discovered
that the average youth marriage,
especially in Nigeria doesn’t last
more than two years. This is crazy
and terrible. I volunteered as usual,
not because I am an expert or
because I came with some
experience, I have been married
before my present one that is
working out. I have been married
thrice before but they didn’t work
out. Now, I think I was immature at
that time but now I am in a better
position to at least talk to younger
people and share my own
experience. Maybe there is
something they can learn from it or
something that I can learn from
what they are going through.
How did you discover the marriage
councellor part of you?
It has always been there but not for
the public. I am a teacher of some
sort. I have been teaching all of my
life, especially as Charly Boy. Many
of these big artistes passed through
the Charly Boy Show. Many of these
young people passed through the
Charly Boy university. I have
mentored thousands and thousands
of people. Because of me and the
way I live my life, they have been
emboldened to chase their own
dreams and never give up.
How have you been able to sustain
your marriage even with the tales of
controversies?
It’s because I really want to stay
married to that person and that
person wants to stay married to
me. So, it has to be two people who
want to stay marred. Controversy
is contrived. Charly Boy is Charly
Boy. Charly Boy doesn’t live in our
house, Charly Boy doesn’t come
home. My children know Charly
Boy but they know Mr. Oputa as
their father. That is the big
difference.
Charly Boy is an image, he is a
character, he is not who I am. I am
Mr. Oputa but yes it is not every
artiste that can strictly define and
separate their image from what
they really are. To some people, it
can get so confusing that they don’t
know if they are really that image
or they are somebody else. I am on
top of my game and that is the
difference between a character, an

image or a personality.

Angolan President Appoints Daughter As State Oil Firm Boss

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos
Santos has named his billionaire
daughter Isabel to head the state oil
firm Sonangol, according to a
government statement published
late Thursday.
He appointed the 43-year-old Isabel
dos Santos chairwoman of a new
board of directors of Sonangol,
after sacking the previous board
last month.
Isabel dos Santos has been ranked
by Forbes magazine as the richest
woman on the continent.
Critics say she amassed her vast
fortunes thanks to the backing of
her father who has ruled Angola
for 35 years.
In a statement Friday Isabel dos
Santos vowed that the new
Sonangol board “will work to
decrease production costs and
optimise resources in order to
increase the international
competitiveness of the Angolan oil
sector”.
The eldest daughter of the Angolan
leader, she is nicknamed the
“Princess” and is ranked Africa’s
eighth wealthiest by Forbes
magazine after building a vast
business empire.
She grew up in London, where she
studied mechanical and electrical
engineering at King’s College. Her
first business venture was a
restaurant, Miami Beach, which she
opened as a 24-year-old in Luanda.
Her wealth is estimated at $3.3
billion.
The mother of three holds a quarter
of the shares in Angola’s mobile
phone company Unitel and a
significant stake of Angola’s Banco
BIC.
She also controls 19 percent of
Portugal’s fourth-biggest bank BPI
and has bought shares in several
Portuguese companies in recent
years, including a cable television
firm.
Isabel dos Santos has recently
spread her banking empire into
neighbouring Namibia, after a
banking licence was approved by
the country’s central bank.
Angola is sub-Saharan Africa’s
second largest oil producer after
Nigeria.
But a global decline in the price of
oil has deprived Angola of vital
resources, prompting the regime of
longtime ruler President Jose
Eduardo dos Santos in April to ask
for financial help from the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).

JAMBITES! GET IN HERE..FG Scraps Post UTME, JAMB Sets Cutoff Mark At 180

The Federal Government has
scrapped the conduct of post
Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examinations (UTME) for
candidates seeking admission into
higher institution across the
country.
Minister of Education, Mallam
Adamu Adamu, said this on
Thursday in Abuja after declaring
open the 2016 Combined Policy
Meeting on Admissions to
Universities, Polytechnics and other
institutions.
Minister Adamu expressed
confidence in the examination
conducted by JAMB and added that
there was no need for other
examination to be conducted by
universities after JAMB.
He said: “As far as I am concerned
the nation has confidence in what
JAMB is doing.
The universities should not be
holding another examination and if
the universities have any complain
against JAMB let them bring it and
then we address it.
“If JAMB is qualified enough to
conduct tests and they have
conducted test then there will be no
need to conduct another test for
students to gain admission.”
The Minister also asked the JAMB to
stop extra charges on several
categories of changes on
admissions such as the change of
course, change of school and
others.
Meanwhile, the JAMB has pegged
the cut – off mark for admission for
2016 at 180.
The 180 benchmark, applies to all
universities and higher institutions
in the country, including
polytechnics, colleges of education,
and others.