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Reps deny 56% budget implementation, claims only 34% so far

The House of Representatives has described as untrue claims by the federal government that it has implemented 56 percent of the 2012 budget.
At a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, the Spokesman of the House of Representatives Zakari Mohammed stated that only implemented 34 percent of the budget has been implemented.
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday via the Minister of Finance confirmed that the implementation of the 2012 budget has reached 56% from 39% as at the end of May.
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala further revealed that the 56% represents N324 billion of the N404 billion so far released.
Reacting to the planned impeachment threats by the lower legislative chamber to President Jonathan if the budget implementation is not at 100% before September, the former World Bank Manager stated that “there is nowhere in the world where budget is implemented 100% by September” insisting that from her experience the least any country has done is 80%.
Mr Mohammed at the press conference also noted that contrary to claims by the Minister of Finance, the introduction of constituency projects by the National Assembly is not the reason for the slow pace of the implementation of the budget.
He also said the House was not going back on its resolution to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan if he failed to achieve 100 per cent implementation of the budget by September.
The minister’s claim came as part of government’s responses to the threat to commence impeachment proceedings against Jonathan.
Mohammed noted that by the finance minister’s statement, only N324bn of the N404bn released so far for capital project had been cash-backed in July. He said, “This was the grouse of the House. We are in the seventh month, going to the eighth month of the year; out of N1.5tn, you have cash-backed only N324bn. That is not good enough; that is the point that is being made. The budget performance is not encouraging.”
“It is not true that the Executive arm has implemented as at today 56 per cent of the 2012 budget as widely reported. “In truth, about 34 per cent of the budget has been implemented. What the minister admitted to, as can be confirmed from her own words, is that, at best government has implemented 56 per cent of the N404bn released to MDAs.
The House of Representatives had two weeks ago, threatened to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan over the failure to implement the budget.

UPDATE: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson: Not Speaking!

Robert Pattinson has moved out of the home he shared with Kristen Stewart, that much we already knew.
But a fresh report suggests these stars are not utilizing Skype or sending texts or even dropping any direct Facebook messages: Stewart and Pattinson are not speaking at the moment, People sources say.

The impasse, of course, is a result of Stewart's admitted affair with Rupert Sanders.

Pattinson has not issued any statements on the embarrassing, hurtful matter, but insiders claim he's appalled that Kristen took the scandal public and is in hiding, trying to figure out his next step.

But the star will need to come out relatively soon, and he'll need to appear alongside Stewart when he does so: Pattinson and his Twilight costar are scheduled to present together September 6 at the MTV Video Music Awards.

 

19 Million Nigerians affected with Hepatitis

As Nigeria joins the world to mark this year’s World Hepatitis Day on Saturday July 28, 2012, experts have said that hepatitis B alone affects about 19 million Nigerians.
The experts, who made the revelation in Lagos on Friday 27 July 2012 during a symposium on hepatitis B organized by the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in collaboration with the Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of Nigeria (SGHIN) called for collaboration to raise awareness on the disease, which they said is more infectious and common than the human immunodeficiency virus infection / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS).
NIMR Director-General, Prof. Innocent Ujah, said although the disease is deadly, it is largely unknown by Nigerians. He put the global rate of hepatitis B and C  at about  490 million, adding that HIV and the disease “are two enemies” that should  not be allowed to mix.

Robert Pattinson moves out of home he shared with Kirsten Stewart

According to People magazine, the Twilight star has temporarily moved out of the LA home he shared with Kristen following reports she cheated on him with married director, Rupert Sanders.

Robert is said to be devastated and angry...and ‘couldn’t believe what he was hearing’ when Kristen told him the fling was just a ‘one off.’ Kristen is begging for another chance, Robert is undecided.

Mariah Carey Poses for First American Idol Promotional Photo

Mariah Carey is on board as one of the new American Idol judges. For a cool $18 million per year.
And just days after this announcement was made official, Fox came out with the first promotional picture of its new panelist. She doesn't exactly look thrilled to have the gig, does she?

Still, no one can debate Carey's credentials. She has sold over 200 million records worldwide and is responsible for more number-one singes than any solo artist in history.

Domestic Staff kills employer's and drown 12 year old son in bath of boiling water in South Africa

3 Domestic Staff has been charged to court for brutally killing their employer and family in South Africa

The Family

According to Mailonline, A 12-year-old boy was drowned in a bath of boiling water by robbers who raped his mother before killing both his parents in a violent house robbery.

Three men broke into the family's home in Walkerville, Johannesburg, where they assaulted and shot dead Tony Viana, 53, and brutally raped and killed his wife, Geraldine. They then tied up and gagged the sobbing boy, Amaro, and pushed him into a bath of boiling hot water to drown him, 'because he would be able to identify them'.

The family’s gardener, Patrick Petrus Radebe, 24, their domestic servant’s son, Sipho Mbele, 21, pleaded guilty to three charges of murder and one charge of rape each, reported Sowetan Live.

"David Motaung, 20, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to robbery charges they then left the South African court and walked back their cells laughing" according to Beeld newspaper.

The family dog was killed by having his stomach cut open.

Brothers Caught with Their Dead Brother's Body Parts In Festac

The entire FESTAC town in Lagos was thrown into pandemonium yesterday evening as a decomposing body of a man was discovered inside a duplex on B Close, House 6 of 3rd Avenue. The decomposing body, it was gathered, was that of the younger sibling of two brothers allegedly living together in the duplex which was left for them by their deceased parents.

LADY GAGA!!!

Meanwhile Gaga is continuing on her quest for world domination by landing her silver screen debut role.
The singer has been cast in Machete Kills, the sequel to Robert Rodriquez film Machete
The excited 26-year-old tweeted: 'Yes its true, I will be making my debut as an actress ln the amazing MACHETE KILLS BY @RODRIGUEZ IM (sic) SO EXCITED!!! AH! Filming was insane.'
She delivered her message after the filmmaker broke the news: 'I just finished working with @LadyGaga on @MacheteKills , she kicked SO MUCH ASS! Holy Smokes. Blown away!'

Dark Knight Rising Shooting: Update

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According to a new report on wednesday, HollywoodGossip report that "James Holmes actually alerted a psychologist at the University of Colorado of his plans to commit mass murder... only the recipient never opened the package in question.

Fox News says the Colorado shooting suspect mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to the school's mail room, which is where police and FBI agent found it this week.

“There were drawings of what he was going to do in it - drawings and illustrations of the massacre," an insider with knowledge told Fox, adding that the photos drawn in a spiral-bound notebook’s pages depict a gun-wielding stick figure opening fire on other stick figures.

The package has reportedly been sitting in the mailroom since July 12 and was never delivered to the professor to whom it was addressed. It is now in the hands of the FBI.

It's unclear if the recipient ever had any contact with Holmes, but he or she treats patients at a psychiatry outpatient facility on campus. Holmes was a student at the school’s neuroscience doctoral program until a few weeks ago."

SO WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE LIKE THIS IN NIGERIA

Kristen Stewart Cheats on Robert Pattinson With Director Rupert Sanders

Acording to US weekly, On July 17 in L.A., the 26-year-old actor's girlfriend and Twilight costar, Kristen Stewart, 22, was caught by photographers in a series of steamy rendezvous with her Snow White and the Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders, 41. The new issue of US weekly has the exclusive pictures

 

Don Jazzy's Extended Family

Intresting, right?

Uche Jombos wedding pictures: Exclusive to wow magazine

P-Square's mum to be buried August 2nd

The body of the mother of multiple award-winning singers, P-Square, Mrs. Josephine Okoye, 62, which is currently in a Lagos private mortuary, will be laid to rest in her husband’s house at Ifite-Dunu, Akwa Village, Anambra State on Thursday, 2 August, 2012.

Before the burial, there will be a lying-in-state at her Umunachi, Umudioka Village, Anambra State and a church service at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, before the proper burial at Ifite-Dunu, which will also be the venue of the reception.
Late Mrs Okoye is survived by her husband, Mr. Moses Okoye and eight children namely Christopher, Henry, Jude, Lilian, Tony, Peter, Paul and Mary.