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CHILTON — The Fond du Lac man whose penis was glued to his body by a woman seeking revenge for his philandering has filed a civil lawsuit against her seeking money.

Donessa T. Davis, 38, filed the lawsuit against Therese A. Ziemann in Calumet County in late July.

An attorney for the 49-year-old Menasha woman filed a motion earlier this month asking for the case to be dismissed.

Calumet County prosecutors said Ziemann lured Davis to a Stockbridge motel on July 30, 2009. After tying him to the bed under the pretense of sex, Ziemann called three other women to the room. The women berated Davis before Ziemann struck him and glued his penis to his body, the criminal complaints say.

All four women eventually were placed on probation. None of them were given a jail sentence.

Davis, who doesn’t have an attorney in the civil matter, is asking for monetary damages for medical expenses.

The civil complaint also cites injuries including pain, defamation, emotional stress, anxiety, embarrassment and loss of enjoyment of life.

Ziemann’s criminal conduct was a substantial factor in producing those injuries, the complaint says.

Robert Bellin, attorney for Ziemann, moved for dismissal without having filed an answer to the allegations.

The complaint doesn’t allege any facts from which a court could grant Davis a judgment, Bellin wrote.

“The plaintiff should be required to at least provide the minimal facts and allegations necessary to support the elements of some claim,” he wrote.

In regard to medical expenses, any third parties that would have paid in whole or in part weren’t joined to the lawsuit as required by state law, Bellin argued.

Judge Donald Poppy will decide on whether the case has merit to proceed during an Oct. 15 hearing.

Davis asked to be compensated for expenses and awarded money as punishment for Ziemann’s conduct.

While Davis doesn’t specify how much he’s seeking, the complaint says it’s more than $5,000.

Shocked father Stephen Forse spotted the mouse in a loaf he was using to make sandwiches for his children.

Mr Forse bought the bread from Tesco Online and had already used some of it when he noticed "a dark-coloured object embedded in the corner of three or four slices".

The 41-year-old father from Kidlington in Oxfordshire first thought it was a section of unmixed dough but quickly realised his mistake.

"As I looked closer, I saw that the object had fur on it," he said.

The situation was made even worse when an environmental health officer, who had called to gather evidence, found that the mouse was without a tail.

"Her comments made me feel ill once again as there was no indication as to where the tail was," said Mr Forse.

"Had it fallen off prior to the bread being wrapped or had any of my family eaten it with another slice of bread on a previous day?"

Manufacturer Premier Foods was fined £5,500 and ordered to pay £11,109.47 in costs at Oxford Crown Court for failing to maintain acceptable standards at their site in Mitcham, south London.

A spokesman for Premier Foods said: "We apologise profusely for the distress caused as a result of this isolated incident."

Seven former U.S. Air Force personnel gathered in Washington Monday to recount UFO sightings over nuclear weapons facilities in decades past – accounts that a UFO researcher says show extraterrestrial beings are interested in the world’s nuclear arms race and may be sending humans a message.

At a news conference at the National Press Club, the six former officers and one ex-enlisted man recalled either personal sightings or reports from subordinates and others of UFOs hovering over nuclear missile silos or nuclear weapons storage areas in the 1960s, '70s and '80s..

Three of the former Air Force officers – though they hadn’t seen the UFOs themselves - told reporters that UFOs hovering over silos around Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967 appeared to have temporarily deactivated some of the nuclear missiles.

Much of the testimony already has appeared in books, websites and elsewhere. But UFO researcher and author Robert Hastings, who organized the news conference, said the time has come for the U.S. government to acknowledge the UFO visits.

“I believe - these gentlemen believe - that this planet is being visited by beings from another world, who for whatever reason have taken an interest in the nuclear arms race which began at the end of World War II,” said Hastings, who added that more than 120 former military personnel have told him about UFOs visiting nuclear sites.

“Regarding the missile shutdown incidents, my opinion … is that whoever are aboard these craft are sending a signal to both Washington and Moscow, among others, that we are playing with fire – that the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons potentially threatens the human race and the integrity of the planetary environment,” he said.

Former Air Force Capt. Robert Salas – who has written a book about the Montana incidents – said he was underground when a UFO hovered over his missile silo in March 1967, and therefore couldn’t see it. He said one of his guards above ground told him a red, glowing object about 30 feet in diameter was hovering just above the front gate of the facility, in an isolated area far from Malmstrom.

“And just as I [called my commander], our missiles began going into what’s called a no-go condition, or unlaunchable. Essentially, they were disabled while this object was still hovering over out site,” Salas said.

Salas and others said the military urged them at the time not to talk about the incidents.

Retired Col. Charles Halt recalled seeing UFOs over the woods near Royal Air Force Stations Bentwaters and Woodbridge in eastern England in December 1980. He and security personnel were investigating reports of strange lights just outside one of the bases.

“All through the forest was a bright glowing object,” he said Monday. “The best way I can describe it, it looked like an eye – with bright red, with a dark center. It appeared to be winking. It was shedding something like molten metal, was dripping off it.

“It silently moved through the trees, avoiding any contact, it bobbed up and down, and at one point it actually approached us. We tried to get closer. It receded out into the field, beyond the forest, and silently exploded into five white objects – gone. So we went out into the field looking for any evidence, because something had been apparently falling off it – and we find nothing,” he said.

He recalled subsequently seeing other objects in the sky, including one that stopped about 3,000 feet overhead and “sent down a concentrated beam at our feet.” No one was harmed.

“The best way I can equate it is sort of a laser beam. We stood there in awe. Was this a warning? Was this an attempt to communicate? Was this a weapon? Or just a probe?” he said.

At about the same time, he was hearing radio reports from base personnel that beams from some of the objects were “falling into or near the weapons storage area.”

In a staff meeting later, a general decided “it happened off base, so it’s a British affair,” Halt recalled. “In other words, they were loathe to get involved.”

The Air Force investigated UFOs from 1948 to 1969 under a program eventually called Project Blue Book. The service, on its website, says the project concluded that “no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.” It also says there has been "no evidence that sightings categorized as 'unidentified' are extraterrestrial vehicles."

Salas said the UFO phenomenon “is real, not imaginary.”

“There is current excessive secrecy in our government surrounding this phenomenon,” he said.

A reporter asked how many of the former military personnel subscribed to Hastings’ theory that the message of extraterrestrials is that humans should get rid of nuclear weapons, and how many of them believed that we should get rid of nukes. Of the seven, it appeared that only Salas raised his hand.

Fifteen students of Abayi International School, Aba, were on Monday morning abducted in their school bus in Abia State.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the driver of the bus had picked the children at designated points and was on the way to school when the suspected kidnappers struck. NAN learnt that a Toyota Camry saloon car blocked the bus and the occupants, and men brandishing guns alighted and ordered it to stop.

"As the driver came down, the hoodlums collected his cell phone and ordered him to lie face down while they drove off with the pupils towards Etche in Rivers (State)," an eyewitness told NAN.
Most of the abducted students are said to be mostly nursery and primary school pupils.

Geoffrey Ogbonna, the Abia State Police Command spokesperson, told NAN that he was yet to get any report on the incidence as at press time..
The kidnappers are said to be demanding N20 million as ransom.

The Abia State Government, last week, gave kidnappers in the State two weeks ultimatum to surrender their weapons and be rehabilitated by in an amnesty programme.

(CNN) -- A 19-year-old Nigerian undergraduate student has signed a two-novel deal with the British publisher Faber, making her its youngest ever woman author.

Chibundu Onuzo, a history student at King's College London, will have her first novel, "The Spider King's Daughter," published next year..

"I wrote the book in my last year at school," Onuzo told CNN. "I've been writing since I was 10, but this was the first novel I finished, so it was very liberating to be able to write 'The End.'"

Onuzo, who moved to England to go to school five years ago, found an agent before she had even finished writing, and sealed the book deal on her first meeting with a publisher

Her editor at Faber, Sarah Savitt, describes Onuzo as a "very talented writer at the beginning of an exciting writing career."

Onuzo is the latest of a new generation of talented young Nigerian writers -- many of them female -- who have made their mark in the literary world in the past few years.

They include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction for "Half of A Yellow Sun;" and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, published her first novel, "I Do Not Come To You By Chance," last year, which has also garnered several awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Nigeria has a rich literary tradition spanning the 50 years since its independence, including one Nobel Prize for Literature, one Man Booker Prize winner, one Man Booker International Prize, one Orange Prize winner, and three winners of the Caine Prize for African Writing, which is often described as the "African Booker."

It is an impressive haul, even for Africa's most populous country with a population of 150 million, but according to those in the know, it is just the beginning.

Publishers and writers say there is an explosion of young Nigerian writers about to gain even more international recognition.

Jeremy Weate, a British man who set up Cassava Republic publishing company in Abuja in 2007 with his Nigerian wife Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, said: "This is a very exciting time and the best of Nigerian writing is still ahead.

"There is some awareness overseas of Nigerian authors and an increasing number of Nigerians winning awards, but we believe this is just the beginning.

"There is still a huge amount of undiscovered and up-and-coming talent in Nigeria."

Among the new wave of literary talent are Chika Unigwe, an Afro-Belgian author who writes in both Dutch and English published her first English novel "On Black Sisters' Street" in the UK last year. It was described by Alistair Campbell, press secretary to the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on Twitter as the "best novel so far read this summer."

Habila, who won the Caine Prize for his novel "Waiting for an Angel," told CNN: "My generation has been very fortunate. The return to democracy in [in Nigeria] the last 10 or 12 years has brought people more freedom to express themselves and to travel, and opportunities for publishing and writing workshops that have encouraged creativity. There was active suppression of these things until the late 1990s.

"There are going to be even more brilliant young writers coming through in the next few years. Whenever I go home I see the incredible enthusiasm and hunger of young writers. They have seen us succeed, so they know it's possible."

Unigwe, too, is optimistic about the future.

She told CNN: "For a long time we thought the western market was closed to African writers, so it was a huge thrill when we started to see them being published.

"I get lots of emails from young writers who want to get published and there's some really amazing stuff coming out. It gives me a lot of hope for the next few years."

Most successful writers have moved away from Nigeria, some leaving when they were very young. If writers of Nigerian parentage, born elsewhere, were counted the list of success stories would be even longer.

Lizzy Attree, expert in African literature and consultant to the Caine Prize for African Literature, said: "Nigeria has a rich literary tradition and at certain points it has come particularly to the world's attention.

"The first wave was in the 1960s after independence with writers like Chinua Achebe, and then a new wave has emerged in the last few years with the likes of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Some second and third generation Nigerians in the West have also made links back home and brought their stories to a younger generation."

Or, as Onuzo puts it simply: "There's something in the water in Nigeria. I guess we just have a lot of interesting stories to tell."

A WOMAN in Lagos has shown two bag snatchers the stuff she is made of, during an encounter at Isheri-Olowora area of the state.

Even though Miss. Patience Friday knew she had just N500 and a handset in the handbag, she had fought furiously like a lioness, defending her cub, to keep possession of it.

When the criminals saw how she fought tooth and nail to keep the handbag, they quickly changed their minds about snatching the bag. They decided the bag was not worth the trouble. But as they had made up their minds to leave, the lady had also made up her mind to teach them a lesson.

She dragged one of the suspects off their motorcycle. Then she screamed, kicked and scratched until help came. One of the men escaped, while the one dragged down by Miss Friday was arrested. Detectives later used the arrested suspect, to catch the one that fled.

They were identified as Akinsola Oladipupo, 25, and Abiodun Hassan,29. They were accused of using motorbike, to snatch handbags.

Police spokesman, Frank Mba, said the suspects used to mount motorbike in the early hours and target females that were going to work or returning from night shifts.

He added: “These suspects were allegedly involved in series of attacks on females. They target females, snatch their handbags while on motorbikes and rode off. Generally, among members of the criminal world, children and women are regarded as vulnerable. These criminals believe that women or children can be attacked with no resistance. But the recent encounter with a female victim is what actually led them into police net. Our determination to keep the state crime free remain irrevocable particularly as we are now in the ‘ember months.’We continue to engage in our aggressive patrol, aggressive crime fighting to make the state a peaceful one.”

The Nigerian Compass gathered that the suspects were arrested during their operation at Olowora Akere junction.

Oladipupo who claimed to be married with three wives, said he was a bricklayer.

According to him, he did not know what compelled him to take to handbag snatching.

He said: “Ah, I’m finished today! I don’t know what led me into this mess. I used to work as a bricklayer before, but money was not forthcoming in the work. The money I was earning from the bricklayer work, could not cater for me and my family.”

When asked how he and his partner had been operating, he said: “After targeting a female victim we wanted to attack, we’ll snatch her bag and ride off immediately!”

Explaining how they were arrested, Oladipupo said: “When we saw her, the time was about 5:30 a.m. We had already passed her, but rode back again. I targeted her bag and attempted to forcefully snatch it from her. But she refused to let go. I fell off the motorbike, while she continued to hold onto the bag. She fell down, while I fell on her. She held me tight and started calling for help. Some men in the area came around. They rescued her and started beating me mercilessly.”

Oladipupo told the Nigerian Compass that until his arrest, he had never been involved in any crime, adding: “But on that fateful day, immediately I woke up, the evil thought came into mind. I told my friend (Hassan) that has a motorcycle about the idea that had been running through my mind. He agreed to work with me.’’

Narrating his own side of the story, Hassan said he committed the crime because of the desperate need for money, to offset a debt.

He complained that he bought a motorbike from a man, Akeem, on hire purchase and had not finished paying for it, when it was stolen.

“After a few months of working with the motorcycle, which I collected on hire purchase, I fell sick. Since I was sick, I could not work and the motorbike was just there. I gave the motorcycle to one of my friends to use it.

Few days later, he came to tell me that the motorcycle had been stolen. I felt so bad, especially when I remembered that I had not finished paying Akeem.

“I tried to explain my predicament to Akeem, but he refused to understand. He took me to the police station, where I was asked to write an undertaken on how I was going to pay back the money within a specific time. It was the ultimatum given to me that prompted me to commit the crime. I have nobody to help me. Life can be tough when you don’t have a helper!”

Elojo Adams, one of those attacked on that day, said: “I was attacked around 6:30a.m, when I was on my way to buy Goods at Cotonou. The two men, on motorbike, suddenly stopped beside me. They initially pretended as if they wanted to ask me for direction, then one of them said: ‘Your life or your money,’ they snatched my bag and rode away. My handbag contained my phone, and N120,000, which I was going to use to buy Goods at Cotonou.

“I went to the house of my friend who gave me the money on loan, to explain the latest problem but she was not at home.

“When I got home, my brother called me that the people who snatched my bag had been arrested and were then at Isheri Police Station. When I got to the station, it was only my phone that I saw with them. When asked about the money inside the bag they said they didn’t see anything inside the bags.’’

By Yomi Ajiboye

A cobbler has been held by Anti-robbery policemen in Ogun, over the alleged possession of five locally made shot guns, with three life cartridges kept inside radio speakers in his house at Itunla, Shagamu, in the state.

Mr. Dimeji Kushimo, 32, is however claiming that he did not know anything about how the weapons got into his room and hid in the speakers of his radio. He had however fingered his friend, Ojo, whom he claimed had been squatting with him for some time, as the likely owner of the guns.

The guns were said to have been found after Kushimo’s landlord issued him a quit notice. On the day that Kushimo wanted to move, he had come with a van and some men who would assist him to move his furniture. One of the men noticed the guns and alerted the vigilance group in the area.

Kushimo, a father of three, told the Nigerian Compass that he was arrested by vigilance group for a crime he did not commit. According to him, it was this group that later handed him over to the police.

The suspect said: “I am a shoemaker. I have been learning shoemaking for the past four years. After I finished learning the trade and it was time to mark my freedom, there was no money. I went to Ogijo in Ikorodu, in search of a job. But when I got there, there was no work; I decided to work as a conductor. After a while, I left the conductor work to become a member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). My work is to issue tickets to commercial bus drivers.”

He explained that after working with NURTW and making a little money, he went to Shagamu and rented an apartment.

Kushimo later met Ojo, while working as a ticket officer. A friendship soon blossomed. As the friendship continued to grow, Ojo told Kushimo that he had accommodation problem. Without giving the matter a second thought, Kushimo told his friend to move in with him.

He said: “I must tell you the truth, I liked Ojo. He is my friend at the Motor Park, in Ikorodu. I like him because, whenever I am in need of girls, he used to supply me with girls. Sometimes the girls would be many, that I had had to choose. I allowed him to live in my apartment free of charge. I only go home during the weekends, which was why I handed him the key to my room.”

Kushimo may like Ojo, but his neighbours did not. They complained bitterly to the landlord, claiming that Ojo used to bring too many girls to the compound and played loud music, thus disturbing the peace of the neighbours.

“I was summoned by the landlord over the disturbance of my friend. The landlord asked me to vacate the apartment,” said Kushimo. “I pleaded with the landlord to pardon me because I had no other place to go. But the man still maintained that I should move out. I decided to take my belongings to my mother’s house. The truth was that I did not have enough money to rent another apartment.”

Immediately he made up his mind to move out, Kushimo went to Shagamu. He went to the house on that fateful day to pack his belongings, but the neighbours insisted that he should not yet move his furniture until the landlord comes. Kushimo did not see the sense in waiting and started arguing with them.

While the altercation was going on, some of the neighbours who allegedly had been suspecting Kushimo of nefarious activities went to call a vigilance group in the area. They wanted the group to check Kushimo’s property.”

In the process, the weapons stashed in the speaker were found and the suspect was promptly arrested by the vigilante and handed over to the Police.

“While packing my belongings out of my room, I saw the five locally made pistols. They were stashed in my radio speakers. I immediately attempted to rush back into the room to drop the speaker, but the driver of the van that came with me, to move my things, had already seen them. He asked me if I was moving them to my new apartment. He was the one that made the vigilance group to know that those guns were there! He caused my arrest.

“I swear to God, I did not know anything about those guns! I strongly believe they belong to Ojo. I have told the police this. I don’t even know where Ojo lives. I only know that he squatted with me. Police have tried to call his phone number, but it was not going. Ojo has simply disappeared. My mother is sad over my situation and I’m not happy about it myself, but what can I do?”

The Police spokesman, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, claimed that Kushimo has a gang, which would soon be smashed.

According to him, as soon as they were arrested, they would all be charged to court.

Given what a bathroom is used for, most people sensibly try to keep it clean.

Alas, disinfecting your toilet bowl may well lull you into a false sense of how germ free your home really is.

We've compiled a list of places and things that are really quite dirty and potentially unsafe.

Toothbrush

If you flush the toilet without putting the lid down, the water particles are sprayed up to a distance of six feet, landing on your sink and toothbrush. Close the lid before you flush, and disinfect the taps, the flush handle and door handles often.

Kitchen sink

Your kitchen sink contains 100,000 times more germs than your bathroom. Sponges are a trap for germs and can carry bacteria such as e. coli and salmonella. Your chopping board, brace yourself, has about twice as much faecal bacteria than your average toilet seat.

Wash your sponges in the dishwasher and replace them often. Use separate chopping boards for meat, fish and vegetables, and wash and disinfect them closely after each use.

Computer keyboard

Why fret about the cleanliness of your office bathroom when your computer keyboard carries a year's worth of nose pickings and breadcrumbs? More importantly, your qwerty carries all sorts of bugs that cause food poisoning.

Flip your keyboard over, shake hard, and then wipe the surface with antibacterial solution. And don't forget your computer mouse.

Mobile phone

Your mobile is delightfully small and versatile, which is precisely why it tends to carry 18 times more potentially harmful germs than your average toilet's flush handle. Indeed, your phone could be carrying staph bacteria, which can cause everything from skin infections to meningitis.

The same goes for your house and office phones.

Turn the device off and wipe it with a antibacterial towelette. Repeat often.

Your laundry

You might feel that the laundry you've just done is truly clean - think again. Research has found that intestinal viruses like hepatitis A and e.coli can be transferred between clothes during a wash.

Use bleach where possible, and wash fabrics at the highest possible temperature. If you have a dryer, use it at the highest setting allowed to kill the remaining germs.

TV remote

It is one of the most used and least cleaned items in your home, and it is also one of the top places to transmit infections. In your hotel room, it is most likely the dirtiest surface there.

Sanitize it with antibacterial wipes.

Your bed

Your bed is rife with bacteria, dust mites and viruses.

Change your bedding weekly and wash it and dry it at high temperatures, using bleach if you can.

You should have your pillows and duvets professionally cleaned and replace your mattress every few years.

Your pet

There is nothing like unconditional affection given by your pet - including the campylobacter bacteria, which is carried by up to half of dogs and cats, and can give you food poisoning.

Treat your pet with affection, then wash your hands.

Wider world

Money, supermarket trolleys, elevator buttons, petrol pump nozzles, salad bars, public bathrooms, hotel rooms, candy bowls, your gym, sliced fruit in your cocktail... you name it, and it will be carrying many germs, some of them quite nasty.

Use common sense, as that may give you some protection against the rich tapestry of germ life.

• Wash your hands often with soap and hot water. Dry them afterward.

• Avoid, where possible, touching surfaces that are handled by the general public, such as bathroom door handles. You may wash you hands, but others don't.

• Do not handle food unless you've washed your hands.

• Avoid touching your face, including your nose and eyes, unless you have just washed your hands.

• Stay away from people who are obviously sick.

The millionaire owner of the UK Segway company has died after apparently riding one of his company's motorised scooters off cliffs and into a river.

Jimi Heselden, 62, crashed into the River Wharfe while riding the vehicle round his estate in Thorp Arch, Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Sunday.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. The scooter was found in the water.

Mr Heselden, who founded Leeds-based company Hesco Bastion, acquired the Segway operation in 2010.

A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police confirmed Mr Heselden's identity.

She said: "Police were called at 1140 yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above."

She said a "Segway type" vehicle had been recovered.

Mr Heselden grew up in the Halton Moor area of Leeds, leaving school at 15 and working down local pits.

He worked as a miner before losing his job in a wave of redundancies in the 1980s.

His engineering business went from strength-to-strength and he had a fortune reported to be £166m, making him one of the top 400 richest people on the UK.

The tycoon was well known for his donations to charity, giving more than £20m to good causes.

Earlier this month he donated £10m to the Leeds Community Foundation..

A spokesperson for Hesco Bastion said: "It is with great sadness that we have to confirm that Jimi Heselden OBE, has died in a tragic accident near his home in West Yorkshire."

The spokesperson added: "Jimi is perhaps best known for his charity work with Help for Heroes and the Leeds Community Foundation.

"A £10m gift to the foundation earlier this month saw his lifetime charitable donations top £23m.

"Our thoughts go out to his family and many friends, who have asked for privacy at this time."

China Exim Bank and Government of Ghana signed a $10.4 billion concessionary loan for the development of a railway system from Kumasito Paga, Ghana’s Eastern Corridor roads network and other sectors of theeconomy.

Four billion dollars would go into the railways system, six billion dollars for ancillary energy infrastructure, education and sanitationamong others, and 400 million for the Eastern Corridor roads.

The President of China Exim Bank, Mr Li Rougu, signed for the Bank while Mr Fiifi Kwetey, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning,Mr Joe Gidisu, Minister for Transportation and Mr Dan Markin, Chairmanof the Ghana Railways Development Board, signed for Ghana..

The signing took place in Beijing, China, on the sidelines of the third of the five-day state visit of Ghana’s President John Evans AttaMills to China..

The loan, which would be payable in 20 years, would start rolling next year after approval by both Cabinet and Parliament of Ghana.

The facility is the second to be announced as a result of President Mills’ visit to China after an earlier one of more than three billiondollars from the China Development Bank for the development of Ghana’senergy sector and its ancillliaries.

The total facility so far clinched amounts close to 14 billion dollars, including a-$260 million package for expansion works projectand 150 million for Ghana’s e-governance project and a grant of 100million yuans.

The execution of the road and railways project is expected to open up the eastern, middle and the northern parts of Ghana for accelerateddevelopment.

The imitative also seeks to promote the exploitation of mineral deposits and the execution of the Savanna Accelerated DevelopmentProject meant to open up the Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regionstowards poverty reduction..

Source: GNA

Nigeria’s Federal Government is facing a serious cash squeeze that is hindering its capacity to deliver on a panoply of promises, including bankrolling a credible general election, P.M.NEWS can authoritatively disclose today.

Prof. AttahiuruJeda, INEC chairman

With external debt cruising close to $30 billion and domestic debt above N2.5 trillion and 2010 deficit budget projected above N1.52 trillion, the nation is literally broke.

Presidency officials, used to the profligacy of the past years, are finding it difficult to come to terms with this scary reality, but the season of denial may soon be over.

P.M.NEWS learnt that the nearly bankrupt country is finding it difficult to provide the N87.5 billion required by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct the 2011 elections.

So far, government has only been able to provide N18 billion of the entire money requested by the Prof. Attahiru Jega led INEC, despite President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to the Federal Finance Ministry.

The unavailability of the rest of the money is the major reason that has made INEC to plead for more time to conduct a credible poll. It hitherto fixed January for the election but now wants the polls scheduled for between March and April. This request will entail the amendments of both the constitution and the electoral act.

To conduct the election, INEC needs a credible electoral register and believes the inherited register from the Maurice Iwu INEC was largely irredeemable, as borne out by the farce recorded, bye-poll after bye-poll.

INEC is expected to award the contracts for the supply of Direct Data Capture machines to vendor companies any time from now, more than 4 weeks after it shortlisted the companies to supply them.

“The problem INEC is facing, why it has been stalling signing the contracts, is that it is not sure when it will get the rest of the money,” said a very close source in the Federal Ministry of Finance.

P.M.NEWS sources said part of the indications of government’s dire financial straits is also demonstrated in its reluctance to pay federal workers a new wage, despite President Goodluck Jonathan’s promise to workers on May Day.

“Government just doesn’t have the money to bankroll all these expenses,” said our source.

Yesterday, Minister of Labour, Chief Emeka Wogu said government would pay the new minimum wage of N17,000 effective from the end of September. But our sources said, if government is able to muster the resources to do so, it will only be compounding its chronic financial problems.

P.M.NEWS learnt that among the financial heartaches of government is the huge debt of $6 billion owed its joint venture partners in the oil production sector. The unpaid debt has stalled fresh injection of funds in the sector, in turn hamstringing Nigeria’s capacity to produce up to 4 million barrels of oil a day, at a time it could swell its purse from the high prices that crude oil enjoys internationally.

Despite the financial problems threatening the elections, President Jonathan and his team have pledged to make 29 May 2011 handover date a reality.

Damilola Agbajor, 19 years old, from Delta State, won the 2010 edition of miss Nigeria, yesterday in Abuja.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor,Nike Oshinowo-Soleye, Crowning her.

Twenty young beautiful girls from different State where paraded at this year Miss Nigeria Competition. Erica Okuneye,24yrs, 1^st runner-up, Miss Lagos and Obori Edenkwo, 25yrs, 2^nd runner-up, Miss Cross- River.

The Competition did not show case swimwear segment. The outstanding young ladies where said to be judged on poise, intelligence, cultural values as well as beauty.

First Miss Nigeria pageant was held in 1957, producing Grace Tinke Oyelude as the first Miss Nigeria. 36^th Miss Nigeria has since emerged up till 2004.

According to Chief Adenike Oshinowo-Soleye, the executive producer of the new Miss Nigeria Competition;” will once again showcase positive attributes of the Nigerian woman- elegance, poise, talent, intelligence as well as beauty. Miss Nigeria historically has been a role model to the Nigerian society at large and a spokesperson for national volunteerism and charity, while using her title to educate millions of Nigerians on issues of importance to herself and the society”.

Present at the event, are Mrs Josephine Anineh, minister for women affair, Alhaji Sadiq Mohammed, minister for Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Otunba Rusewe, Danladi Bako and other important persons in the Country.

Miss Nigeria 2010 Edition

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Author: pmnews Date: Sep 26th, 2010. | Category: Multimedia, Photo News. | Follow comments: RSS 2.0. | You can leave a response below. |

Section of the 20 Finalists.

1st Runner-up, miss Nigeria 2010, Erica Okuneye.

2nd Runner-up, Miss Nigeria 2010, Obori Edenkwo.

Chief Adenike Oshinowo-Soleye, Executive Producer, Miss Nigeria.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor, Miss Delta.

L-R Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor, Miss Delta,2ND Runner-up, Obori Edenkwo and 1st Runner-Up, Erica Okuneye.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor, Miss Delta,(M) 2nd Runner-up, Obori Edenkwo(R) and 1st Runner-Up, Erica Okuneye(L).

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor,Nike Oshinowo-Soleye, presenting her gift.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor,Nike Oshinowo-Soleye, Crowning her.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor, Miss Delta.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor, Miss Delta.

Winner, Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor, Miss Delta.

Photos by Femi Ipaye, TheNEWS/Abuja

By Femi Ipaye.

Tragedy struck at Ejigbo area of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Lagos State, South West Nigeria, when a 54-year old man identified as Baba Agba was stabbed to death by his son simply known as Odeku.

The son was alleged to have used a pair of scissors to stab his father on the chest during a scuffle between the duo and the father bled to death. The suspect has since fled while the police are looking for him.

The incident happened at 25 Ona Omabaike Street, Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria where the late Baba Agba lived with his family.

The incident has thrown the residents into mourning. They expressed their shock over the incident when P.M.NEWS visited the house.

Some of the residents who spoke to our reporter said that they knew that Odeku was stubborn but did not know that he could engage his father in a scuffle that resulted in his death.

On the day of the incident, it was learnt that they had a disagreement and exchanged blows and in the process, Odeku reportedly reached for a pair of scissors and stabbed his father who died on the way to the hospital.

Meanwhile, his body has been deposited at the Isolo General Hospital mortuary while his family await the autopsy before his burial in Ikale area of Ondo State.

—Cyrciacus Izuekwe