Etche, Obio/Akpor LGA Presents Budget...Says Maintenance On Infrastructures Have Laded It With Overhead Cost

Gov Amaechi

Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Council, Hon. Timothy E. Nsirim, has announced a budget of six billion, three hundred and ten million, nine hundred and thirty eight thousand, five hundred and forty three naira, ninety nine kobo (N6,310,938,543.99),  for the 2013 fiscal year.

The budget tagged ‘Budget of fulfilment’ was presented to the legislative House of the Council at Rumuodamaya, the council’s headquarter, on Wednesday, 6th March, 2013.

Asked of where the money would be generate from, Nsirim said that the council they are expected to source the money from Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), statutory allocation from the federation account, Value Added Tax (VAT), excess crude account, budget augmentation and allocation from the State account.

“The council would source the money from our IGR, statutory allocation, VAT, excess crude oil, budget augmentation and the allocation we get from the state account,” he said. Click on read more to continue reading...

Are you Omotola Jalade's Fan on Facebook? Read this

Omotola Jalade Ekehinde has announced to its fan's that she would be deleting her Facebook account on Tuesday next week being 12th of March. She said it was due to fraudulence that people have used to extort money from her fans on her behalf.
She however said that she regrets deleting it but that she has no choice.
Here is what she posted on her facebook page:

''Hi friends , it hurts me so much that I can't communicate with you as much as I love to on this page.

I will be closing this page down on the 12th of march 2013 due to too many fraudulent activities on my fans and maintaining only www.facebook.com/Realomosexy for updates and www.twitter.com/Realomosexy to respond properly to you. Pls follow any of these two of your choice.

Thanks for understanding.''

I suggest you make the proper move by following her on twitter or on her second facebook page as she mentioned above.

Loving Mercy Johnson's Post Pregnancy Looks

She gave birth to little Purity on the eve of the New year and has not returned back to the country since.
There have been speculations that she would not get back to her former shape before the pregnancy took place. But Mercy has proven that she is bent on regaining her figure '8' back to the delight of her fans.
The picture above shows her efforts so far.
Meanwhile, she is set to come into town anytime from now.

TIMARIV Boss Dismisses Petition Against The Agency, Calls For Help With Payment Of Staff Salaries

Nelson Jaja

By Dan Metong-Joseph

An appeal has gone to the Rivers State Government to take over the payment of salaries of staff of the State Transport Management Authority (TIMARIV), to cushion the effort of the agency in beefing up traffic control measures in the state.

State Comptroller General of TIMARIV, Mr. Nelson Jaja, who made the entreaty, said the agency would not go back on its frontal traffic control mechanisms to get rid of traffic bottlenecks in the state, stressing that the agency which is the enforcement unit of the Ministry of Transport, was discussing with the state government to take over the payment of salaries of its staff to reduce the financial burden of the agency in order to enable it function effectively.

Mr. Jaja said the idea to handover salaries of staff of the TIMARIV to its mother Ministry of Transport, is intended to ensure better welfare for staff as well as repositioning the agency for higher productivity. According to him, available fund for the agency would be able to attend to the multifarious needs of the agency, including motivating workers to drastically check the flagrant abuse of traffic laws in the state.

“I am concerned about staff salaries in order to avoid incidents of corruption because, if the people don’t have money, incidents of corruption may rise. Traffic offenders who are meant to pay fines to government will end up in the staff’s pocket, just to feed himself since he is not being paid his salary regularly.

I am begging the state authorities to take over the monthly salaries, like other civil servants, so that every month their salaries would be settled also. I’ve begged the Commissioner for Transport, we made representation to the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning and Finance respectively, they are looking into it. Click on read more below to continue reading

Genevieve Makes Chidi Mokeme 'Go GizGiz'

Chidi and Genevieve

The statement above was not made by me but by the handsome Will Smith of Nigeria himself, Chidi Mokeme. The recently married Nollywood actor and anchor of Gulder Ultimate Search, Chidi, while at Abuja for the party President Jonathan hosted for Nollywood on Sunday tweeted this pic on how Genenvieve Nnaji makes him feel with these words - "now, this picture puts a spark in my day! gizgiz feelings. Africa's finest Genevieve Nnaji."
Okay, whatever gizgiz means, i want to believe that it meant that it makes him feel good. I don't blame him at all, Genevieve is just lovable.

Dangote and Adenuga Makes Forbes List of Richest People in the World

Dangote and Adenuga

Two Nigerian Business Giants, Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group of Companies and Mike Adenuga of Globacom Telecommunications, have been listed among the richest men in the world with Dangote moving up to 43rd position from 76th last year and Adenuga moving in at 267th position.

The list contained 1,500 names and these two men made it. It shows that Nigeria has got something indeed.
Dangote's net worth is $16.1 billion with that of Adenuga at $4.7 billion.
Carlos Slim of Mexican telecommunication is first on the list. Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporation comes in second and Amancio Ortega of Spanish retailer Zara, is 3rd on the list.

Actress Ayo Adesanya Says Removing Her Tattoo is More Painful than When she Put It On

Beautiful and bulky eyed actress, Ayo Adesanya, says she regrets having a tattoo on her arm or any part of her body after realising that it was actually a sin against God to have one on.

She had the tattoo when she was head over heels in love with Goriola; inscribing his alias on her arm.
Ayo who had been separated from her husband and father to her only child said it is actually more painful to remove a tattoo than having one.

Recounting her ordeal at removing it, she said, “I recently had a surgery, it’s fading off gradually but it’s so painful. It gets swollen and too painful. It was painful when I first did it but removing it now is more painful. I’m supposed to go for another surgery soon,” Ayo said.

While people are wondering if she decided to remove the tattoo because she was no longer with Goriola, she said it was not so. She rather said that she made the decision after visiting a pastor of a church.

“I actually went to a church to pray and they gave me a Bible verse (Leviticus 19 vs 28). I never knew it was against Christianity until the Pastor opened a passage that I should read, and that was how I knew. It’s actually so beautiful when you have tattoos but immediately I knew it was a sin then, I made up my mind to clean it.”

Is it worth it to go through having a tattoo when you would eventually come to hate it?

Actress Benita Nzeribe Lands Multi Million Naira Ambassadorship Deal

Benita Nzeribe, Nollywood actress has not been in the movies recently for reasons not known to us yet, but one thing that we do know is that she has landed ambassadorship that is said to be in millions of Nigerian naira.
She has been made an ambassador for Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) as a result of her good name in the Movie industry, according to what a representative of NANA said.

Amaechi Gives Ogu/Bolo Council N100m Grant, Promises ONELGA Continued Effort At Securing Lives And Properties

Amaechi (centre) with his Deputy, Engr. Tele Ikuru(left) and Chairman of Ogu/Bolo LGA, Maureen Tamuno at the Town hall meeting

Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi gave a grant of One Hundred Million Naira to Ogu/Bolo Local Government Council to augment steps taken by the council on developmental projects, including the linking of Bolo Town to the national grid aimed at boosting social and economic activities in the area.

Amaechi made the announcement recently while having his ‘Meet the People’ tour of local governments at the Town Hall located at the Headquarter of the LGA.

Addressing the people of the LG, the Governor said, “Your chairman has done well in the area of power, so we will support her with a N100 million grant, because the Ogu/Bolo council has taken on the rural electrification project which is also our priority project in the area of power. It is your entitlement, we hold the money for Rivers people and before June this year, we will bring out the money and mobilize contractors to site.” Click on read more below to continue reading...

Do You Like Genevieve Nnaji's New Hair Look?

Here's a breath of fresh air from her beautiful but common long hairstyle(Left) to something new and Chicky (Right). Which do you prefer?

Lovely, Van Vicker Releases New Pictures of His Family

He is called Ramsey Nouah of Ghana, and he's got beautiful family that he's not ashamed to display anytime, any day.
Here is a new picture that Ghanaian actor, Van Vicker released of him and the people that matters most in his life.
They are so cute and one thing again, he did it on time which is a good thing. Single guys that are still wasting time take note.

‘Forgive past hurt and carry out your duties’- Gov. Amaechi Advices New High Court Judge

Gov. Amaechi congratulating Justice Benson

Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has advised the newly sworn in High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Owajima Benson, to forget what happened in the past on the delay in endorsing him as the High Court Judge.

Amaechi said this on Friday, 1st March, after swearing in Benson at Government House, Port Harcourt.

“Please while I congratulate you for being sworn-in as a Judge of the Rivers State High Court, I still plead with you in the name of Christ you and I worship that you should divorce the pain. When I came back to Rivers State I was full of pain, but I remembered and kept it away from governance. You must forgive everybody and govern the state in a manner that is pleasing to God,” the Governor said. click on read more below to continue reading...

Rivers Assembly Receives R/S Internal Revenue Monitoring Agency Bill 2013

Speaker, RSHA

Rivers State Internal Revenue Monitoring Agency bill 2013 sponsored by Hon. Michael O. Chinda, member representing Obio/Akpor Constituency II at the State House of Assembly has been presented to the House.

Hon. Chinda said that the objective of the Agency as contained in the bill would be to ensure that all funds generated from the State Government by Ministries, Departments and Agencies are paid into the Government’s account.

He explained that the passage and implementation of the bill will help to check illegal diversion of State funds by public officers, to expose leakages in the internally generated revenue with a view to block them and promote Fiscal discipline, transparency and adherence to standard practice in the financial transaction of the State.

He said that the governing board shall be made up of nine members : Executive Chairman, one representative each from  of Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant-General and Board of Internal Revenue not below the rank of Assistant Director, and five other members of the public who must be experts in Taxation, Accounting, Economics and Statistics.

Hon. Chinda stressed that one of the most important function of the Agency if established would be to maintain and update records of monthly remittance to Government’s account by MDAs. Click on read more to continue reading...

Wow! Genevieve and Omotola Now Friends after Years of Disaffection

Omotola and Genevieve

What you are seeing above is a source of joy to me.
These two Nollywood actresses have been at silent cold war with each other with Omotola not hiding the fact that she isn't a friend to Genevieve and so on.
Genevieve had since they fell apart as friends never attended Omotola's paties nor invited Omotola to hers.
The picture above was taken last week during Omotola's 35th birthday. Genny honouring the invitation is an indication that things are getting better between them.

They cut cake together, were around each other most of the time, and of course, took pictures together.
This is indeed a welcomed development. click on read more below to see another picture

Some Nollywood AGN Members Pays Condolence Visit to Late Justus Esiri's Family

Ibinabo presenting bouquet to Justus's wife

Genevieve Nnaji with president of Actors Guide of Nigeria (AGN), Ibinabo Fiberesima,  with few other members  payed condolence visit to the family of one of Nigerian's finest actor, Late  Justus Esiri. More pictures when you click on read more below