Senate in rowdy session over Obanikoro’s screening

                                                             Musiliu Obanikoro

The Senate had a rowdy executive session for about two hours on Wednesday as a result of attempt by Senate President, David Mark, to convince his colleagues to give Musiliu Obanikoro an easy passage, in accordance to the tradition of the upper chamber in the screening of former senators nominated for appointment as ministers.

The Senate had over the years adopted the “take a bow” treatment for nominee ex-senators. Obanikoro was a member of the upper federal legislative chamber between 2003 and 2007 on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy. His name is among the eight new ministerial nominees before the Senate for consideration.

Members of the opposition All Progressives Congress in the Senate had, last week, vowed to oppose the confirmation of Obanikoro.

APC, Fayose in war of words over Jega

              APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed and Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday engaged in a war of words over the fate of Prof. Attahiru Jega as the chairman of the the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Fayose began the verbal onslaught when he described the claim by the APC   of a plot by the Presidency to fire Jega, as a “mere comedy.”

The governor, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, advised the opposition party to stop acting as if Nigeria belonged to it.

“President Goodluck Jonathan can sack Jega if he wishes and if he does, heavens will not fall,” Fayose boasted, alleging that the APC had, by its actions, shown that it had a pact with the INEC chairman.

Bobbi Kristina was abusing heroin, cocaine and other drugs

                                                                       Bobbi Kristina Brown

Bobbi Kristina Brown, like her doomed mom Whitney Houston, was using drugs before she was found unconscious in a bathtub, according to People magazine.

The 21-year-old daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown was regularly taking heroin, cocaine and Xanax in the months before she was rushed to a Georgia hospital on Jan. 31, the magazine reported.

Xanax was one of the drugs found in Houston’s system after she drowned in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel on Feb. 11, 2012.

Your body doesn’t need all that sugar

Recently, someone posted on her Facebook wall a claim that she had taken 1,000 bottles of a popular soft drink in order to have her name inscribed on the bottle.

Many people who visited her wall swallowed this claim, which turned out to be a ruse.

But the fact that anyone could believe that claim proves one thing: the average person is ignorant of the effects of sugar in the body!

Sugar is sweet, no doubt; yet, researchers say its consumption is fraught with health problems.

Sugar is colourless or white when pure, and brown when less refined. It is obtained commercially from sugarcane or sugar beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms.

The day Love died in Nigeria

                                                                        Dr. Biodun Ogungbo

A little boy came home from school one day and asked, “Dad, what can you tell me about politics? I have to learn about it for school tomorrow.”

The father thought hard and said, “Okay son, the best way I could describe politics is to use an analogy. Let us assume that I am capitalism because I am the breadwinner. Your mother will be government because she controls everything. Our maid will be the working class because she works for us. You will be the people because you answer to us; and your baby brother will be the future. Does that help?”