SEC DG Backfires Says House Of Reps Members Demanded N44 Million Bribe

Now this parable seems to be making sense to me. But on the contrary: "What an elder sees when sitting down,a child cannot see even on the highest mountain". Just imagine the money a young man will siphon when on the highest mountain, now compare it to that of the elders? hmmm??? I tire!!!

The embattled SEC boss who has been shown to abuse her office threw mud at the lawmakers grilling her.

Under fire Director General of the Security and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh, fought back fiercely today after being accused by lawmakers for abusing her office and embarking on limitless spending.

Today, Ms. Oteh said the lawmakers are furious at her because she turned down the request of the chairman, House capital market committee, Hernan Hembe, for a N44million tip.

Ms Oteh said the lawmaker first asked for N39 million to defray the cost of the ongoing public hearing, and when she denied, the chairman asked for N5million.

That was in addition to the commission sponsoring a foreign trip for members of the committee, and paying them estacodes.

The hefty accusations have unsettled the mood at the hearing, which is being beamed live on television, and lawmakers are scrambling to play down the concerns

After the allegations were made, Mr. Hembe asked to identify representatives of the EFCC and the ICPC at the hearing, and said he was surrendering himself to their probe over the charges.

Lawmakers discussed informally the possibilities of containing the news, with senior members questioning why the event was screened live in the first instance.

Premium could not ascertain the veracity of Ms. Oteh's allegation against the lawmaker but sources close to her said she arrived the hearing today fuming and threatening that she would unsettle the lawmakers and make them pay dearly for humiliating her Wednesday.

Truth be told, "No God is more demanding than the stomach – which requires a sacrifice every day." But the god that makes billions of misappropriated wealth insufficient??? He must be a bastard!!!

Opinion: Role of Blogging in Journalism

As a blogger and a video reporter I'm constantly confronted with this questions as:
Is Blogging Innovating Journalism? As a Journalist do you blog? Is a blogger a journalist? And is Blogging the future of Journalism?

This however has led to series of research, digging deep to analyze and understand the difference, if there is any between journalism and blogging. And the role it plays in shaping modern journalism.

Journalism plays a vital part in a democratic society. Concepts like blogging and podcasting are presenting new ways of distributing journalism instantly and letting readers interact with the journalistic product.

Innovations are important to society as well. As disruptive as they sometimes may be, innovations provide stability and economic growth in societies. Publishers of traditional media are trying to survive in a new business reality brought about by low-cost distribution through network technologies.

But the traditional publishing business model, with journalism as a value proposition to its readers, is under attack. Will journalism survive? And is blogging a possible remedy?


Reacting to streams of claims from bloggers Jolie O'Dell a writer for VentureBeat in her article said, "I have to apologize on behalf of my entire profession for how you have been treated by a few bloggers, whom I’ll have the tact to not name here. There are bloggers who know and care nothing about real journalism, who see this profession as an opportunity for short-term gain at anyone’s expense, who find no joy in it and who dream only of fame in the now and a lucrative exit thereafter. These people are not journalists; they are self-serving scum. And they’ve royally fucked up how a lot of people see my profession."

According to her it doesn’t really matter what medium you use. You can be a print journalist, a radio journalist, a television journalist, an online journalist — journalism exists in every form of communication. If we were stripped of all media, there would be oral journalism. And as communication continues to evolve to include new forms of media, journalism will evolve along with it.
To her a journalist is not distinguished by the medium of his or her publication.

Although I find her article more of a critic considering the fact that most outstanding journalists and renowned international journalist do blog.

When blogging first became a popular method of content distribution, "Blogging is not Journalism" was likely the most correct view. In today’s blogging atmosphere, where speculation can be erroneously reported as fact, the battle between the old journalism and the new journalism, the wired versus the tired is recurrent. With intense anger directed at bloggers, whom the journalists see as a looming enemy that is trying to corrupt the profession.

Innovation, according to Wikipedia is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society. Innovation refers to the use of a new idea or method.

If civilization brings along with it innovation then journalism is not spared. Journalism 50 years ago was different than it was in the 1700s. The first newspaper was published in Strassburg in 1605 and Journalism 200 years on is gradually shifting from what it used to be with many journalists re-inventing the profession as an instrument of change.

According to Simon Ateba, Senior Correspondent at TheNews Magazine, many African editors who cling to analog ways may soon become irrelevant in the digital era.

According to him, "this is not an African curse that requires a night-long deliverance! It's a factoid! In many newsrooms today, a cornucopia of editors,quite ignorantly, still dismiss Facebook or Twitter as platforms for kids and gossips!Worst, a phalanx of editors still don't know how to use ipad or blackberry gadgets!...

...A horde of others do not know Skype, Flickr or Pinterest! They do not even use Linkedin to connect with like-minded people and journalism groups or discussions! And when they are given blackberry phones, many do not connect them to as many news sources as possible! And as a result, when a story breaks online, they are not aware!" He added.

His argument further emphasize the importance of innovation in journalism.

Although many see blogging as a step along the road to becoming a journalist. With growing trend of enthusiast blogs and bloggers moving up to jobs with much larger news outlets, but the opportunities are endless.


Blogging gives a journalist a platform to communicate his personal opinion/ view to his audience, although only a handful of them actually get paid to do so by their news organizations. With the likes of cnn.com/blog , aljazeera.com/blog and guardian.co.uk/tone/blog on board, the trend is gradually changing.

From an unbiased perspective, you will agree with me that blogging is just a tool, one of many tools particularly suited to journalism because it can help journalists connect and understand their readers better, a tool strong enough to revolutionizing journalism.

Where journalism is a profession blogging is a medium, where a journalist is a trained writer (wordsmith) a blogger can be anyone (doctor, lawyer even a journalist). That means blogging isn’t journalism, but journalists can blog.

With many journalists missing out on a bright future because they can’t imagine a world that is different than the one they know. And the unfortunate reality is that bloggers have taken a flying leap onto a story to get it out there and often times stories without facts and figures.

Now, what do you think?

Martial Arts Training For NYSC Members

Ni Hao, Wuo Jia Chi Josh, Wong sung hao!!!

Don't be surprise when I say, "Chinese is my second language". Born into a family of three, my Dad a Chinese, mum a Japanese my two sisters Koreans while I'm a Nigeria and black for that matter. LMAO!!! Ok, if you buy that then you must be coming from the moon. :D

I be original omo Ibo wey dey speak yoruba pass yoruba people. Mehn! I'm even supposed to be in the movie industry sef.

Ok, enough joke jor...

This is one development that's coming rather late than never. Self defense you'll agree with me should be embedded in the Nigerian educational curricula right from our primary schools not just in the anticipation of being posted to the northern states where we've witnessed crisis but as a culture, a lifestyle.

This is the story:

The 2012 Batch “A” corps members of the NYSC scheme will be trained in martial arts while at the orientation camp.

Announcing this at the NYSC orientation camp in Iseyin, Oyo State, on Thursday, the State Coordinator, Mrs Sekinat Idowu, said the training was for self-defence.

Idowu spoke at the swearing in and official opening of the orientation course for 3,010 corps members posted to Oyo State.

She said the new training schedule was part of the Federal Government’s policies toward ensuring that the scheme became an enduring instrument in the transformation agenda of government.

Idowu also said there would no longer be posting of corps members to banks and other private organisations unless their services fell under the purview of certain critical sectors of the economy.

She listed the sectors as agriculture, education, health and rural infrastructure.

The corps members, made up of 1,512 males and 1,498 females, were sworn in by the state’s Chief Judge, Mrs Badejoko Adeniji. (NAN)

Like my people will say, "Charms do not perform miracles on the shelf; they perform for those who are brave." So, my advice for every Nigerian whether young or old is to learn Martial Art for self defense because you never know???!!!

Check Out The New Nigerian Police Uniform

Sergent!!!

Yes Sir!!!


If the rumor is something to go by then the Nigerian Police Force will be witnessing a turnaround in its outfit really soon. Although not yet confirmed but it's worth activating your gbeborun mode.

Nigerian Police Force Uniform

New Nigerian Police Force Uniform

Like my father will say, "It is when there is a stampede, that a person with big buttocks knows that he carries a load". So, if restructuring the police force from the overflowing reports of bribery and corruption within its system is something to go by then this move is a welcoming development.


ok, please don't ask me, "IF THIS WILL STOP THEM FROM COLLECTING BRIBES? etc... Go ask the new IG that one.

Nigerian Girls Display Boobs

Hmmm...after a long vacation to bahamas (in my dreamz) only for me to return to my long hobby (blogging) to post about boobs. And boobs of different sizes and shapes at that. 

Oya na, who bad pass? Me that I post it or you who clicked to view it? lol.

Our fathers will say, "If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant."

Now I wonder what legacy this kind gurls will leave to the younger generation? If what they're doing is right, obviously it won't demand covering their faces. 

Only if the gurls know that, "He who wishes to swallow the mango seed must know the diameter of his anus" then they'll understand that the stunts that men pull lives with them even beyond the Nollywood movies.


Well, I've said it. Now you decide.