After almost 15 years at the saddle, FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, was forced to “resign” Monday by internet hackers who compromised Mr. Blatter’s official Twittel account to announce the decision.

The strings of tweets caused frenzied reaction in the football world, but had no mention on the FIFA website.

Read more: http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/fifa-president-sepp-blatter-forced-to.html

Nigerian President Jonathan was among the first callers to register their heartfelt sympathies with Washington over last week's Boston bomb attacks that killed three. The president's message went Tuesday, a day after the attacks.

Mr. Jonathan expressed deep sorrow with the families who lost loved ones and those wounded and described the attack as “an act of cruelty, an assault on human freedom and a sad day for athletics. Read more ”http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/jonathan-consoled-us-day-after-boston.html

The British police is spending a whopping $4.5 million in nine months ensuring the controversial Wikileaks leader, Julian Assange, does not escape London Ecuadorian embassy where he is holed up.

The cost was as of February 2013.

Mr. Assange, who has published millions if secret U.S. diplomatic cables, is wanted in connection with sex-related charges in Sweden where two women claim he segxwally assaulted them. http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/uk-spends-45-million-watching-wikileaks.html

Residents of Baga town, on a remote tip of Borno state, are dazedly trying to find out what to do, or where to go, days after a brutal confrontation between suspected Boko Haram members and Nigerian security forces left nearly 200 people dead, and 2000 houses razed.

The military has denied the numbers and the federal government is yet to comment of the destruction which happened Friday. http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/borno-communitybaga-in-confusion-after.html

The Central Bank of Nigeria says it is phasing out polymer notes in the next two months, and will replace the notes with second generation smaller denominations in paper.
Tunde Lemo, the Central Bank Deputy Governor, was quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria as saying that the bank will phase the notes out since they fade easily.
The decision will affect N5, N10, N20 and N50.http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/cbn-to-replace-510-20-and-50-naira-by.html

Minister of state for FCT, Jumoke Akinjide, has become the first administration official to formally announce that President Jonathan will run in 2015-an open secret though, but the president has constantly denied.
Well, it is certain the minister’s remark weekend,will stir intense backlash in the days ahead.
Speaking at her Aremo, Ibadan constituency office, where she distributed fertilizers to local farmers, Mr. Akinjide said Mr. Jonathan is the most women-friendly leader in Nigeria’s history, and urged Nigerian women to work to secure a second term for the president. http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/abuja-minister-jumoke-akinjide-is-first.html

The United States on Friday released a damning report (its annual country report on human rights for 2012), indicting the Jonathan administration for doing almost nothing to reduce corruption in Nigeria.

The report noted that in 2012, amongst other things, corruption thrived in all sectors of the government with officials indulging with impunity. The matter, first published Sunday in the media, has set off a firestorm between the Action Congress and the PDP, which the former blames the failure upon.http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/damning-us-report-on-nigeria-corruption.html

“So, is somebody so satanic as to believe that Isa Yuguda has an ambition to become the president of Nigeria? Then that person must be crazy,” the governor said in response to a question about those peddling the stories.Read more: http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/only-satanic-crazy-people-expect-me-for.html

Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, is relieved his second son, Dzhokhar, was captured alive Saturday, and is asking the 19-year old to bare it all to the police and withhold nothing.

Mr. Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News, and maintained his conviction his children were innocent.

"Thank God," Anzor Tsarnaev said, speaking in Russian, thanking ABC News for relaying word that his son, Dzhokhar Tsaraev, 19, was in custody and alive.

http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/tell-police-all-boston-suspects-father.html

Presidential adviser on Niger Delta affairs, Kingsley Kuku, met with ex-fighters and their leaders at the opening of the office of the peace advocacy group’s Peace and Cultural Development Initiative in Bayelsa state on Saturday.

“What happened in Bayelsa concerning 12 policemen was a tip of the iceberg,” Mr. Kuku said. “More will still happen. People are all out to create sense of insecurity, not only in the North, but in the Niger Delta.’’http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/presidency-begins-reaching-out-to-mend.html

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) will henceforth cancel the entire results of candidates who cheat in more than one subject.

The council said in a statement at the end of the council’s 55th Nigeria Examinations Committee meeting, that it had observed the indictment of some candidates for malpractice in more than one subject in the November/December, 2012 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/waec-announces-new-policy-cheats-in-two.html

Ruslan Tsarni tells CNN more about the changing religious outlook of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tsarni noticed changes as far back as 2009. The uncle recalls a phone conversation in which Tsarnaev called him an "infidel." The young man also told his uncle he was not concerned about work or studies because God had a plan for him. Read more: http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-bomb-suspect-called-uncle.html

The second suspect in Monday's Boston bombing has been taken alive into custody, US police sources and media have confirmed.http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/breaking-second-boston-bomb-suspect-is.html

Gani Adams, the eccentric leader of a faction of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, believes he’s the truest of Nigerian, or African, with a bizarre self-professed devotion to the three common religions in Nigeria, namely, Christianity, Islam and Traditionalism.

Pressed in an interview with the Punch about his faith, Mr. Adams retorted:

“I practise the three religions. If you go downstairs now, you will see Muslims holding prayers. Every Thursday in my house, both Muslims and Christians hold special prayers and vigil. The traditionalists too come to hold their own too. I have many prominent sheiks and prophets praying for me.” http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/weird-opc-leader-gani-adams-worships-as.html

Catholic Emeritus Archbishop of Lagos has warned President Goodluck Jonathan to show caution in granting amnesty to a “faceless” violent group like Boko Haram, giving weight to criticisms growing criticisms over a government plan to offer pardon to the group.

``I have continued to ask this question: who are the members of this sect who thrive on human blood? Are they truly Nigerians?,” Mr. Okogie asked.
http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/cardinal-okogie-warns-jonathan-boko.html

The Nigerian Army has stationed a regiment at Ogbakuba community in Ogbaru Local Government Area, where 23 illegal bunkering refineries were uncovered.

The Nigerian Army and Navy joint operation uncovered 23 illegal small “refineries” on the River Niger coastline in Ogbakuba Community.http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/army-stations-regiment-in-anambra.html

In a telephone interview with a television channel, WBZ-TV, Friday, the uncle of Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan Tszarnaev, 26, now dead, and Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, said of his nephews: “They do not deserve to exist on this Earth.”
http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/uncle-of-boston-bombing-suspects-they.html

Prof Akin Osibogun, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), on Thursday advised young girls to refrain from early sex to prevent cervical cancer.

Mr. Osibogun said that early sex could actually double the risk of cancer of the cervix caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is segxwally transmitted and attacks the cervix of a woman.http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/girls-have-early-sex-risk-cancer-luth.html

"When I was pushing for him to become governor in 2007, they said that he could not do anything.

``Today, I am vindicated. Thank you for not disappointing me and Lagosians and for not putting me to shame,’’ he told thousands of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) supporters in Lagos at the party’s convention.http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/tinubu-i-dont-regret-installing-fashola.html

An estimated 1.8 million Nigerian children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS since the first case of the pandemic was identified in the country 27 years ago.

That figure came from the Coordinator of HIV/AIDS in Kwara Ministry of Health, Salimot Lawal.
She said Nigeria remains among the top five countries in the world in terms of HIV/AIDS burden. http://spammer.blogspot.com/2013/04/hivaids-has-left-18-million-nigerian.html