Annie Macaulay Pregnant With 2Face Idibia's Baby!

According to a very reliable source, about to wed actress Annie Macaulay is pregnant with R&B icon 2Face Idibia's baby. she is currently in Dubai shopping for her wedding.

Congratulations!!!

We’re merging to save Nigeria –ACN, CPC, ANPP

The three leading opposition political parties, the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, on Tuesday said their plan to merge was to save the country from collapse.

Their leaders spoke in Abuja at the presentation of Manifesto of a Nigerian Opposition Politics, written by a civil rights activist, Mr. Salihu Lukman.

According to the ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, all progressives must unite in order to send the ruling Peoples Democratic Party out of power in 2015.

Why I relocated to Calabar – Shan George

Nollywood actress, Shan George, has relocated to her state, Cross River. But contrary to reports, she says she has not gone in search of greener or saner pastures.

According to the news making the rounds online, George is said to have relocated because Calabar is more peaceful than Lagos. She was quoted as saying, “Calabar is heaven on earth. My hilltop Calabar home is as peaceful as a baby’s sigh.”

Hypertension, now killing young Nigerians – Experts

PUNCH NEWSPAPER: Medical personnel have raised the alarm that young people in their 30s now die daily of hypertension, a disease often described as a silent killer, BUKOLA ADEBAYO writes

Before now, hypertension usually signposted by high blood pressure, was not too common among the young.  But physicians in the nation’s hospitals said that young Nigerians in their 30s and 40s are now becoming the victims of the deadly disease. This, they said, was due to ignorance and poor management of the ailment.

To reduce deaths occasioned by hypertension, experts have called for increased awareness on the prevention and early detection of the disease. Experts claim about 250,000 lives would be saved yearly with early detection of hypertension in Nigeria.

Virginity test: Governor to decide principal’s fate

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, will decide the fate of the Principal, Ajuwon Senior High School, Rev. Olufunke Aladeojobi, and the school nurse, Mrs. M.B. Afolabi, who allegedly conducted virginity tests on pupils of the school.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the three-man review panel of top civil servants set up by the state government to appraise the recommendations made by the panel of inquiry that investigated the incident has submitted its report.

Drama as Obasanjo declines to lay wreath

A mild drama played out during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration in Abeokuta on Tuesday as a former President Olusegun Obasanjo declined Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s request to lay a wreath at the Arcade in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo vehemently resisted the governor’s persuasion to be part of the dignitaries to perform the ceremony.

Intervention funds: FG spends N2trn in two years

The Federal Government, under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, has spent at least N1.732trn on intervention funds in different sectors of the economy, SUNDAY PUNCH investigation has found.

The figure represents the sum of the amounts approved by the Federal Government as intervention funds between 2010, when Jonathan became President and December 2012.

Some of the intervention funds include the N200bn Small and Medium Guarantee Scheme, N200bn Restructuring and Refinancing Facility Scheme and the N300bn Power and Airline Intervention Fund.

Others are the N75bn Grooming Enterprise Leaders Business Intervention Fund, N32bn Entertainment Intervention Fund and N10.71bn Commercial Agriculture Credit Guarantee Scheme to six banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria.