Thursday, 25 June 2015
Check out the pics of Nollywood Actress, Queen Nwokoye as her hair was shaved for Oshimiri
Meet the Celebrity who keeps her Armpit bushy
Prophet T.B Joshua shares throw back pics when he was 17, 20 and 25 years old.
Wow, Grace 
Life is in stages...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Davido's latest music video hits over 1million views in days. Davido reacted
Something big has come to Isoko. find out
Vote Joy Ubeku - Fashion Icon Contest
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Introducing: Stories Behind the Scence
Skyward Magazine has introduced 'Stories Behind The Scene'. Various things happen in the cause of shooting a movie. Various activities are involved during a movie shoot. Skyward magazine will be uncovering stories behind different movies, including the behaviour of the actors, director, d.o.p etc. Interviews will be conducted as well. Pictures shall be there to back them up. We know you will find this new development interesting.
Saturday, 20 June 2015
You won't believe what this Monkey did during an explosion in China
Miss Isoko 2014/15 stuns in new pictures
Friday, 19 June 2015
Don Jazzy wants to be a transgender?
See how Davido is begging for vote in MAMA awards 2015
Popular Nollywood Actor, Ken Eric shares pix of upcoming movie with Mercy Johnson
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Gun men killed an Anglican pastor and a 9 years old in Rivers State
Unknown gunmen on Thursday morning killed an Anglican pastor, Rev. Ibiene Jamabo and a nine year-old boy, identified as Nimela, at Wakama community in Ogu/Bolo local government area of Rivers State.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the slain Jamabo is the head of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) in the community, while the nine year-old child is the son of the member representing Wakama community in the Ogu/Bolo Legislative Assembly.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmad Muhammad, who confirmed the killing of the two persons, said the Command has drafted policemen into the community to maintain peace.
Narrating the incident to newsmen at Ogu, headquarters of Ogu/Bolo local government area, leader of Wakama community, John Jonathan said, “What I saw is that very early this morning (Thursday) Kpogo people came into our community and killed one of the Anglican pastor, and one of our sons in our community.
We are still looking for six members of our community.”
Jonathan attributed the killing to a boundary dispute between Wakama and its neighbor, Kpogo community in Tai local government area of the state, and appealed to Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike to intervene in the boundary dispute and ensure an end to the hostility.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmad Muhammad, who confirmed the killing of the two persons, said the Command has drafted policemen into the community to maintain peace.
Narrating the incident to newsmen at Ogu, headquarters of Ogu/Bolo local government area, leader of Wakama community, John Jonathan said, “What I saw is that very early this morning (Thursday) Kpogo people came into our community and killed one of the Anglican pastor, and one of our sons in our community.
We are still looking for six members of our community.”
Jonathan attributed the killing to a boundary dispute between Wakama and its neighbor, Kpogo community in Tai local government area of the state, and appealed to Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike to intervene in the boundary dispute and ensure an end to the hostility.
Dangote to buy Arsenal FC soon
Africa's Richest man, Aliko Dangote says he will soon buy Arsenal Football club once he completes the refinery that he is building in Lagos. He said this to BBC Hausa on Tuesday June 16th
“When we get this refinery on track, I will have enough time and enough resources to pay what they are asking for. There were a couple of us who were rushing to buy, and we thought with the prices then, the people who were interested in selling were trying to go for a kill. We backtracked, because we were very busy doing other things, especially our industrialization.”he said
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Download: New Music: Solidstar - In my head
See what this pastor did to this lady during deliverance
Jackie Chan is not dead. His death is a rumour
But here comes the truth. JACKIE CHAN IS NOT DEAD. He is healthy and we are expecting a movie from him soon. Over the years, there has been always one rumour or the other about the death of Jackie Chan.
The Karate Kid actor took to his official Facebook account to prove that he is still alive and kicking.
"I was shocked by two news reports when I got off the plane. First of all, don't worry! I'm still alive. Second, don't believe the scam on Weibo using my name about the Red Pockets," he wrote. "This is my official Facebook page and I only have 1 official Weibo page. Love you all!"
Open letter to President Mohammed Buhari by Warri Billionaire, Chief Ayiri Emami
Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On The Need To Investigate “The Fraudulent Allocation Of Oil Mining Leases, OML, Deliberate Exclusion Of Indigenous Rights To Preemption And/ Or First Refusal And Breach Of Open As Well As Competitive Bidding Practice In OML 4, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 42 Respectively”
Your Excellency, the inaction of the 7th National Assembly on the aforestated subject matter in petition dated April 23, 2013, the worsening economic situation in the Niger Delta, nay Delta State vis-a-vis the integrity driven policy of your administration, backed by the boisterous 8th National Assembly dominated by the All Progressives Congress, APC, have made it extremely necessary to draw your attention to the apparent illegality ignored by the previous administration.
Sir, you will recall the frustration Nigerians went through recently during the industrial action embarked upon by NUPENG and PENGASSAN across the country as a result of the formal controversial sale of Shell Petroleum Development Company’s stakes in OML 42 to Neconde Energy Limited, owned by Anambra State born Ernest Azudialu. The painful truth is that the whole mess would have been avoided if the previous administration, particularly the 7th National Assembly had investigated the petition instituted by key stakeholders’ cutting across Itsekiri, Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko and Ndokwa in Delta State Oil Producing Communities. But they declined our request for reasons not clear till date and the controversial oil blocs sale was swept under the carpet.
To refresh our memory, despite the fact that the last administration ordered that the Oil Mining Leases, OML 4, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 42 be thrown open for bidding by interested companies, the relevant authorities, especially the Federal Ministry of Petroleum flagrantly disobeyed the directive and surreptitiously granted the leases to non-indigenes against the Local Content Act or rights of preemption and /or first refusal by people of the host communities, who had the financial/technical capability to acquire them.
Your Excellency, apart from the fact that Mr. Jide Omokore Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited neither tendered nor bid for the bloc, the company only paid upfront cash payment of little more than $ 50 million initial entrance fee, for a lease that should ordinarily cost no less than $ 800 million.
It must be noted that the aforesaid awards aside violating Nigeria’s Public Procurement Act, also violates industry guidelines, which demands that allocation of oil blocs and the award of service contracts shall be based on an open competitive bidding process to allow every investor, indigenous or foreign, equal opportunity to explore and develop Nigeria’s Petroleum Resources.
Interestingly, in September, 2010, the then Minister of Petroleum entered into a service contract with Seplat Energy International Limited, through its Nigerian subsidiary, Mr. Kolawole Aluko’s Septa Energy Nigeria Limited in respect of OML 4, 38 and 41. Curiously the Septa Energy’s Managing Director, Mr. Kolawole Aluko is a Director in VistaJet.
Sir, in the light of all the above, I on behalf of the Oil Producing Communities of Delta State seek begging answers to the following:
a. Why did NNPC transfer its stakes in the OMLs to NPDC (a subsidiary) contrary to the Privatization Policy of Government?
b. Why did NPDC transfer the stakes granted to it by NNPC in the OMLs to another set of companies without open bidding process?
c. Can SPDC sell its stakes in the OMLs without recourse to the Petroleum Act?
d. Why did the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deiziani Allison-Madueke enter into secretive Oil Blocs Operatorship Contract without regard for the open and competitive bid practice mandated by the Public Procurement Act?
e. Why did the immediate past Minister of Petroleum furtively approve Oil blocs’ rights to companies without due process?
f. What is the yardstick for regulating the discretional allocation of Nigeria’s National Oil and Gas assets?
g. How does these ridiculous undervalued secretive allocations of Nigeria’s most lucrative Oil and Gas assets support or strengthen Nigeria’s economic and political integrity?
h. Why were companies which have interests in each other, such as, Seven Energy, Septa Energy, Seplat Energy and Atlantic Energy favoured so much in the award of rights in OML 4, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 42, and why did the former Minister of Petroleum violate industry guidelines and the Procurement Act to favour these companies?
i. How many companies did the former Minister of Petroleum approve Strategic Alliance Agreements with NPDC to develop OPLs and OMLs?
Mr. President, permit me to use this opportunity to request that you detail credible Nigerians in your administration to visit infrastructural facilities divested by SPDC to NPDC in Warri, Delta State to enable you have a clear understanding of the monumental decay and waste of the multi billion naira edifices hitherto used as corporate offices by SPDC. It may interest you to know that the massive infrastructures surprisingly abandoned by NPDC in Warri include Ultra Modern Office Complex, Airstrip, Well Equipped Hospital, Standard School, Housing Estate, Sporting Facilities and a host of other valuable capital projects.
One therefore wonders the rationale behind NPDC abandoning the multi billion naira up-to-date infrastructures inherited from SPDC in Warri, Delta State to embark on similar project in neighbouring Benin City, Edo State, at a time when Our Nation’s economy is going through a hard time and the divested OMLs is in Delta State. Sir, the action of those at the helm of affairs in NPDC seems to suggest selfish or pecuniary motive contrary to your administration’s zero tolerance for corruption and wastage. It must be noted that the decision of NPDC officials to embark on this wasteful voyage is capable of worsening the unemployment rate, crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism not just in Delta State, but the entire length and breadth of the Niger Delta.
Mr. President, I am prepared to provide more information on the in-activities of the said companies who were allocated the running of the OMLs in various Delta communities, as the said companies do not have the manpower or technical knowhow to operate, let alone utilize the huge infrastructures wallowing away in Warri, Delta State.
Sir, I sincerely look forward to your honest and prompt attention to the illegality/injustice meted out to people of the oil producing communities in Delta State with a view to rewriting the wrong and putting a stop to the wasteful as well as unnecessary duplication of multi billion naira infrastructural projects.
Thanks in anticipation.
Chief Ayirimi Emami
Ajuwaoyiboyanmi A.K.A Akulagba of Warri
Cc:
The Senate President
Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Ministry of Petroleum
The National Security Adviser
Your Excellency, the inaction of the 7th National Assembly on the aforestated subject matter in petition dated April 23, 2013, the worsening economic situation in the Niger Delta, nay Delta State vis-a-vis the integrity driven policy of your administration, backed by the boisterous 8th National Assembly dominated by the All Progressives Congress, APC, have made it extremely necessary to draw your attention to the apparent illegality ignored by the previous administration.
Sir, you will recall the frustration Nigerians went through recently during the industrial action embarked upon by NUPENG and PENGASSAN across the country as a result of the formal controversial sale of Shell Petroleum Development Company’s stakes in OML 42 to Neconde Energy Limited, owned by Anambra State born Ernest Azudialu. The painful truth is that the whole mess would have been avoided if the previous administration, particularly the 7th National Assembly had investigated the petition instituted by key stakeholders’ cutting across Itsekiri, Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko and Ndokwa in Delta State Oil Producing Communities. But they declined our request for reasons not clear till date and the controversial oil blocs sale was swept under the carpet.
To refresh our memory, despite the fact that the last administration ordered that the Oil Mining Leases, OML 4, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 42 be thrown open for bidding by interested companies, the relevant authorities, especially the Federal Ministry of Petroleum flagrantly disobeyed the directive and surreptitiously granted the leases to non-indigenes against the Local Content Act or rights of preemption and /or first refusal by people of the host communities, who had the financial/technical capability to acquire them.
Your Excellency, apart from the fact that Mr. Jide Omokore Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited neither tendered nor bid for the bloc, the company only paid upfront cash payment of little more than $ 50 million initial entrance fee, for a lease that should ordinarily cost no less than $ 800 million.
It must be noted that the aforesaid awards aside violating Nigeria’s Public Procurement Act, also violates industry guidelines, which demands that allocation of oil blocs and the award of service contracts shall be based on an open competitive bidding process to allow every investor, indigenous or foreign, equal opportunity to explore and develop Nigeria’s Petroleum Resources.
Interestingly, in September, 2010, the then Minister of Petroleum entered into a service contract with Seplat Energy International Limited, through its Nigerian subsidiary, Mr. Kolawole Aluko’s Septa Energy Nigeria Limited in respect of OML 4, 38 and 41. Curiously the Septa Energy’s Managing Director, Mr. Kolawole Aluko is a Director in VistaJet.
Sir, in the light of all the above, I on behalf of the Oil Producing Communities of Delta State seek begging answers to the following:
a. Why did NNPC transfer its stakes in the OMLs to NPDC (a subsidiary) contrary to the Privatization Policy of Government?
b. Why did NPDC transfer the stakes granted to it by NNPC in the OMLs to another set of companies without open bidding process?
c. Can SPDC sell its stakes in the OMLs without recourse to the Petroleum Act?
d. Why did the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deiziani Allison-Madueke enter into secretive Oil Blocs Operatorship Contract without regard for the open and competitive bid practice mandated by the Public Procurement Act?
e. Why did the immediate past Minister of Petroleum furtively approve Oil blocs’ rights to companies without due process?
f. What is the yardstick for regulating the discretional allocation of Nigeria’s National Oil and Gas assets?
g. How does these ridiculous undervalued secretive allocations of Nigeria’s most lucrative Oil and Gas assets support or strengthen Nigeria’s economic and political integrity?
h. Why were companies which have interests in each other, such as, Seven Energy, Septa Energy, Seplat Energy and Atlantic Energy favoured so much in the award of rights in OML 4, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 42, and why did the former Minister of Petroleum violate industry guidelines and the Procurement Act to favour these companies?
i. How many companies did the former Minister of Petroleum approve Strategic Alliance Agreements with NPDC to develop OPLs and OMLs?
Mr. President, permit me to use this opportunity to request that you detail credible Nigerians in your administration to visit infrastructural facilities divested by SPDC to NPDC in Warri, Delta State to enable you have a clear understanding of the monumental decay and waste of the multi billion naira edifices hitherto used as corporate offices by SPDC. It may interest you to know that the massive infrastructures surprisingly abandoned by NPDC in Warri include Ultra Modern Office Complex, Airstrip, Well Equipped Hospital, Standard School, Housing Estate, Sporting Facilities and a host of other valuable capital projects.
One therefore wonders the rationale behind NPDC abandoning the multi billion naira up-to-date infrastructures inherited from SPDC in Warri, Delta State to embark on similar project in neighbouring Benin City, Edo State, at a time when Our Nation’s economy is going through a hard time and the divested OMLs is in Delta State. Sir, the action of those at the helm of affairs in NPDC seems to suggest selfish or pecuniary motive contrary to your administration’s zero tolerance for corruption and wastage. It must be noted that the decision of NPDC officials to embark on this wasteful voyage is capable of worsening the unemployment rate, crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism not just in Delta State, but the entire length and breadth of the Niger Delta.
Mr. President, I am prepared to provide more information on the in-activities of the said companies who were allocated the running of the OMLs in various Delta communities, as the said companies do not have the manpower or technical knowhow to operate, let alone utilize the huge infrastructures wallowing away in Warri, Delta State.
Sir, I sincerely look forward to your honest and prompt attention to the illegality/injustice meted out to people of the oil producing communities in Delta State with a view to rewriting the wrong and putting a stop to the wasteful as well as unnecessary duplication of multi billion naira infrastructural projects.
Thanks in anticipation.
Chief Ayirimi Emami
Ajuwaoyiboyanmi A.K.A Akulagba of Warri
Cc:
The Senate President
Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Ministry of Petroleum
The National Security Adviser
Milley Cyrus launches Instagram portrait series to support transgender people
There is currently an awareness for the transgender community and Milley Cyrus partnered with Instagram to promote the trans community.
The singer wrote on her instagram,
"I'm launching #InstaPride today, in partnership with @Instagram, to share stories of transgender and gender expansive people from around the country. Over the next 2 weeks, you'll meet them and the people in their lives who support them, as we highlight their stories of resilience"
Is this fashion or madness?
New music: Runo Reuben - Onome.
The song portrays a situation whereby two lovers cannot do without each other. click the Download and you won't regret it.
A dying 11 years old boy donated his organs to keep others alive
The story below is according to a Journalist
"There is one story everyone in the newsroom is talking about tonight.
It’s this picture from China.
The body on the gurney in the middle of the picture is 11 year old Liang Yaoyi.
And you’ll understand why all those doctors are bowing in honor of him in a moment.
First the back story.
Liang wanted to be a doctor when he grew up.
Unfortunately that dream will never come true.
He died last Friday from a brain tumor.
But what’s so remarkable is what he said to his parents before he died. He told them if he didn’t survive, he wanted to donate his organs so that others could live.
He said:
"There are many people doing great things in the world. They are great, and I want to be a great kid too."
All of which brings me back to this picture.
As Liang's body was being wheeled into surgery to remove his organs, the doctors all bowed and formed a sort of honor guard to show their respect.
Can you imagine how scary it must be for an 11 year old to know he’s dying. And yet at the same time he was thinking about how he could help others.
That is just remarkable.
I can only hope that I'm half as brave as him, when I die.
And if I was there watching his body being taken away, I would be bowing as well."
It’s this picture from China.
The body on the gurney in the middle of the picture is 11 year old Liang Yaoyi.
And you’ll understand why all those doctors are bowing in honor of him in a moment.
First the back story.
Liang wanted to be a doctor when he grew up.
Unfortunately that dream will never come true.
He died last Friday from a brain tumor.
But what’s so remarkable is what he said to his parents before he died. He told them if he didn’t survive, he wanted to donate his organs so that others could live.
He said:
"There are many people doing great things in the world. They are great, and I want to be a great kid too."
All of which brings me back to this picture.
As Liang's body was being wheeled into surgery to remove his organs, the doctors all bowed and formed a sort of honor guard to show their respect.
Can you imagine how scary it must be for an 11 year old to know he’s dying. And yet at the same time he was thinking about how he could help others.
That is just remarkable.
I can only hope that I'm half as brave as him, when I die.
And if I was there watching his body being taken away, I would be bowing as well."
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