Why NSA, Army Chief must take the blame and resign

The embarrassing bomb explosion at the highest level of the military yesterday left many to wonder how did the suicide bombers managed to penetrate such a highly secured place at a time billions of naira is being spent on security in an effort to contain the Boko Haram insurgency. Yesterday’s attack on a military church in Jaji is coming barely 48 hours after the JTF in Borno promises to pay N50 million to anybody with useful information that will lead to the capture of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and his other top commanders. The JTF’s indiscriminate arrest in Maiduguri did not stop the violent attacks that affect mostly the poor people leaving GRA areas highly secured in most instances.

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8 Year-old "AMARA" Wins Artel’s NGT N10m star prize

Dancing sensation Amarachi Uyanne has won the N10 million grand prize of the Nigeria’s Got Talent Season One reality show sponsored by  Airtel Nigeria. She won through a public voting process  managed by Forbes Limited.

Amarachi, who was unveiled at the weekend at the grand finale of the reality show in Lagos, beat top contender, Violinist Godwin Ogechukwu and eight other finalists to get the winner-takes-it-all prize. The eight years-old primary five pupil from Igbodo in Delta State is now the youngest non-inheritor millionaire in Nigeria having broken the previous record set by Solomon Ebuka Nwanke Ubani who became a millionaire at age 20.

Amarachi emerged from a cast of ten finalists, reduced to six, then four and finally three based on votes cast by viewers. Voting ended on Friday, December 7, 2012.
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Rajan Swaroop  assisted by the CEO of Rapid Blue Format and Optima Media Group, Mr. Rotimi Pedro presented the winning cheque of N10million to Amarachi, with her mother in tow.
Rajan Swaroop said at the event that Airtel Nigeria is committed to creating platforms that would help to discover and nurture talented Nigerians to stardom just as he expressed satisfaction over the organisation of the NGT.
An elated Amarachi after receiving her cheque, said she would use part of the money to support orphans and to pursue her ambition of becoming a medical doctor.
“I am happy that I won. At first I was afraid and thought I would lose, but thank God I won in the end. I want to help orphans with the money, and also for the education of my two siblings as well as mine,” Amarachi said.

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