Eleganza plaza catches fire

Yesterday was a black Sunday for shop owners at Eleganza Plaza in Suru-Alaba Market on Lagos-Badagry Expressway as Property worth millions were destroyed in an inferno that gutted part of the plaza. Also several shops, offices and warehouses were affected.

The fire which cause was yet unknown, started around, 2 a.m. in the morning on Sunday, when the complex was still under lock and lasted for hours.

Power outage at MMIA for several hours yesterday

The Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, was yesterday thrown into darkness for over six hours due to power failure. Passengers arriving and departing the airport were almost suffocated at the immigration areas, the check-in area and the airline counters. Power supply to the airport had been irregular for over a week, while the airport manager, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), seem helpless on the issue. Airline staff, who profiled the passengers, had to switch on their cell phones for them to be able to profile them properly while the immigration officers, security agents, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and men of the Nigerian Customs Services devised a means to fan themselves. However, after several hours of blackout, power supply was restored around 7:10pm. - National Mirror

Power outage at an airport for 6 hours? Where else in the world does this happen?

Funmi Iyanda Returns From Mount Kilimanjaro

Funmi Iyanda joined 32 other Africans to climb Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, as part of an advocacy effort for women’s right on March 5. The project was organized by the Africa UNiTE campaign group as part of a crusade to end violence against women and girls.

The journey ended on Saturday, March 10th and from her tweets, it was extremely hectic. She said she almost died. Big kudos to her for even agreeing to go on this climb...for representing Nigeria. Read her tweets below...

 

Robbers attack commercial bus, rape 18 female passengers

Eighteen women aboard a commuter luxury bus were reportedly raped in the wee hours of Thursday March 8th, by armed bandits few kilometres from Okene, Kogi State. The victims, comprising single and married women, were among passengers in the ill-fated bus with a Lagos registration number XM753 AKD, operated by a popular transport company (name withheld), which was travelling from Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to Abuja, when the incident occurred at about 2.am.


One of the victims, who narrated the episode to Daily Sun, said the journey had been smooth from Port Harcourt till a short distance from Okene, when they ran into an ambush laid by the robbers.

“I was asleep when suddenly, I heard the sound of gunshots. The robbers shot at the driver’s side in a bid to force the vehicle to a halt. It was then I realised that they had barricaded the road with logs of wood. Then, they ordered all of us to disembark and marched us into the bush.

After dispossessing us of our money and other valuable items, then, they raped all the women in the bus, numbering about 18, one after the other. It was a traumatic experience which lasted for about three hours,”, one of the female victims who declined giving her name recounted.

Daily Sun learnt that it was indeed a pathetic scene as some of the female victims who could not conceal their pains wept profusely as they narrated their ordeal when the bus arrived its terminal at the Utako district of Abuja at about 10 am yesterday.

Kogi State police spokesman, ASP Okasanmi Ajayi, however, said the incident was not officially reported at the command. “I have made contacts to the various police divisions, but there is no record of the incident,” he told Daily Sun on phone

Source: Daily Sun

Biography of Aliko Dangote unveiled in the US

The book is titled - Aliko Dangote: The biography of the richest black person in the world. And has been accepted for publication by a publishing company based in New York, USA will be released to the market in June, 2012. This is the first and only biography of this exceptional Nigerian, and African. Written by Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo and Margie Marie Neal.

Continue to read more about the book from the publishers and more about the authors...

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This Mr Ibu eh...lol.

Whitney Houston had just $29k in her bank account?

It has emerged Whitney Houston had just $29k in her bank account while having debts of more than $4m.

The late singer's financial situation was disclosed during her divorce from Bobby Brown in 2007, and it showed how she had managed to blow many of the millions she had earned during her career.

But while the star, who sold more than 170 million albums, had blown vast swathes of her fortune, she still managed to leave assets worth around $6m to her daughter.

The information has emerged from an income and expense declaration filed by the I Will Always Love You star, and according to RadarOnline the documents also revealed that she had a life insurance policy worth only $300k.

The Grammy award winning singer stated she had $40k in cash, $225k in stocks and earned in excess of $1 million for performances.
But it was her real estate situation that truly underlined how she was in a financially precarious situation.
Her assets included one property in New Jersey which was worth $6.5 million, but she also she owed $3.247 million on the estate.
In addition she owned a townhouse in Atlanta, Georgia, where daughter Bobbi Kristina now lives, which was worth $1.244m.
However the property was far from paid off, as she owed $1,046,603 on the home.
The singer's other assets included the life insurance policy, which was worth $312k, and $1.8 million dollars in jewelry and art.

Amazingly her retirement account was worth only $226, however her recording contract is listed as confidential, as it was considered separate property due to a prenuptial agreement she and Brown had.
Bobbi Kristina is Whitney's sole heir, and the pop idol left everything to her.
With a total of $10,242,931 in various assets, and debts totaling $4,294,014, in theory it leaves her with an inheritance of $5,948,917.


Culled from Daily Mail