Sad News: Actress Bisi Komolafe is Dead!!!!! *sobs*

News reaching us this morning reveals that Nollywood Actress Bisi Komolafe known for her talent in Mostly Yoruba movies is dead.

We don't know the cause behind her death yet. I received some messages that She lost her pregnancy about 2 weeks ago, Hospitalized in UCH for complications arising and died this morning.

I still don't want to believe... *sobs*

RIP talented Bisi Komolafe.

Bigtimi.

Davido and Manager Asa Asika Part Ways.

At the time I learnt about this break up, the first thing I checked actually was their twitter bios and YES, there is a change.

Though still awaiting official press release from the management on what really caused the breakup, but I heard that there was.cash mismanagement from the side of the manager and also that the young and rising star Davido needs a more matured manager.

*sigh*

That's all I have for now. Don't thank me yet till I get more info.

Bigtimi.

Journalist killed by Hit and Run Driver.

PORT HARCOURT—A journalist, Mr. Edward Alyemen, has been killed by a hit and run driver in Elelenwo area of Rivers State.

In a statement, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Chairman of the state council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Mr. Opaka Dokubo, called on the state Police Command to track down the driver for prosecution.

According to the statement, the late journalist, who was the state correspondent of Banner News, a provincial newspaper in the state, died at a hospital, weekend, where he was rushed to after the vehicle knocked him down.

Dokubo said the driver of the vehicle fled after the accident and appealed to the state Police command to help arrest the driver. He also appealed to Rivers State Traffic Management Authority, TIMARIV and Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to come up with effective measures to check reckless driving in the state.

79 Persons have been prosecuted by a Mobile Court in Bomadi.

THE mobile sanitation court in Bomadi presided over by chief magistrate John Ezewonali, has prosecuted 79 persons for flouting sanitation orders during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Delta State.

The defaulters comprising business men and women were apprehended by officials of the environmental sanitation for disobeying the sanitation orders and were subsequently taken to the mobile court for prosecution.

While 55 persons paid fine of varying amounts depending on the degree of offence committed, 20 persons were set free, three persons were put in police custody on the orders of the court for fighting officials of the sanitation, just as one person escaped.

Meanwhile the transition committee chairman of Bomadi Local Government Area, Mr. Collins Olorogun, has said that the mobile sanitation court has been given the necessary support to deal with anyone found violating the sanitation orders.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State Presents N151bn Budget for 2013.

Akure — GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday presented the 2013 appropriation bill estimate of N151bn to the state House of Assembly for approval.

This year's appropriation bill, N6bn lower than that of last year, is meant for further consolidation of the gains of the last four years.

The 2013 estimate, according to Mimiko, has N73.35bn as recurrent expenditure, while it has N77.65bn earmarked for capital expenditure.

The capital expenditure was said to be inclusive of the N10.24bn set aside for the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC).

The bill is expected to be financed with N43bn from statutory allocation, Internally Generated Revenue N12bn, Value Added Tax (VAT) N10 billion, rolled over fund N7bn, bond N23bn, while N6bn would be sourced from grant and credit from development partners.

Mimiko said that other sources of fund for the budget include N10bn from excess crude account, Education Trust Fund N2bn, loans/leases N15bn, sundry income/divestment N1bn while N2bn is expected as refund from Federal Government on repairs of federal roads.

The sectoral allocation of the budget showed that N23.093bn was allocated to economic; social services got N24.042bn while environment and regional development will gulp N10.515bn.

The governor said completion of the on-going projects across the state would be given priority as the sum of N10bn had been earmarked for the completion of road projects in 2013.

Further breakdown of the estimate showed that the education sector had the highest allocation of N10.523 bn, followed by road construction and maintenance which had N10.25bn, while health services had N6.932bn.

Housing and environment had N6.687bn, social and community development 5.659bn, the agriculture sector had N3.281 billion and general administration gulped N4.621bn.

The governor also said a total of N2.23bn was earmarked for various activities of the House of Assembly, while the judiciary was allocated N1.16bn.

Great News: Lagos State government donates N4.5m to complete actress, Ngozi Nwosu's treatment fee.

Lagos State government today gave actress
Ngozi Nwosu N4.5million to help with the
treatment she needs urgently. The actress has
been battling with a kidney and heart-related
ailment for a while now and needed N6million
for treatment abroad. She raised N2million from
well meaning Nigerians a few weeks back and
needed N4million extra.

Gov.Fashola signs N499.105bn 2013 budget into law

LAGOS—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday signed the 2013 appropriation bill of N499.105 billion into law, just as he charged Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to strengthen their Internal Generated Revenue, IGR strategies.

The budget figure which showed an increase of N1.828 billion from the amount presented by Fashola to the State House of Assembly on October 31th, 2012.

It will be recalled that the governor presented a budget proposal of N497.277 billion to the State House of Assembly for the 2013 fiscal year.

Fashola who gave his assent to the budget tagged '`Budget of Poverty Eradication and Economic Growth, " at the State House, Alausa, Ikeja, added that the budget could only be achieved when the state government earns the required revenue within the fiscal year.

According to him, "It is not how quickly the budget is passed or assented to that matters, but what is important to this administration is how rigorously the budget is implemented for the development of the state, especially to improve the standard of living of residents of Lagos state."

"And all these cannot be achieved without the energy and commitment of the men and women in the State Civil Service. So it is time for the civil servants to lace up their shoes and set for work."

Fashola emphasised that the budget would commence operation immediately after the New Year holiday.