Gang feud leaves Nigerian teenager Kazeem Kolawole &two others sentenced to life in prison for paralyzing 5year-old girl in London

How do you console a family especially a mother who is left battling debt and  suffered insomnia and depression when she learnt that her daughter who was happily playing on the street has been shot and left  paralyzed? I bet you there are no words.

The shooting, on March 29, 2011 was captured on the store’s CCTV camera and showed the emotional moments. Roshan Selvakumar, 35, was shot in the face and still has bullet fragments lodged in his skull, Thusha Kamaleswaran  were innocent victims of the gang feud. It all went down last year, a for a gang shooting in South London, Thusha was playing in her aunt’s food and wine store in Stockwell, when she was accidentally shot in the chest during the shootout and hitting another innocent bystander, Roshan Selvakumar in the attack which left him with a bullet fragments in his skull and Thusha paralysed.

 
Kolawole was an accomplice to ring leader Nathaniel Grant, 21 who actually carried out the shooting and ‘sidekick’ Anthony McCalla, 20. The trio from the Organised Criminals gang, cycled to the store intending to kill rival gangster Roshaun Bryan of rival gang ‘All Bout Money’.
The three were found guilty in an Old Bailey Court last month of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl and Selvakumar, plus the attempted murder of Bryan. Judge Martin Stephens QC said none of them had shown a “shred of remorse” since the trial began.

I’m impressed even the Police officers were so moved by the family’s plight that they have already raised £125,000 to go towards her care.

Basketmouth in the music industry?

A clip of Basketmouth freestyling with DJ Jimmy Jatt on the wheels of steel…..

Do you like what you just watched?

Tupac Amaru Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world.

Some say Tupac is still alive,he didn’t die even when he was shot four times…..hmmm! Really?

A hologram of Tupac  Shakur was  formed at Cochealla festival, which took place on Sunday night, had other hip-hop artistes that performed at the show include Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996, he was rushed to the University Medical Center, where he died six days later.

Mamman Keita in prison for over 10 years without trial

Unbelievable but true.

An Ikeja High court on Wednesday ruled that it was wrong for the Lagos state government to have detained a Nigerien, Mamman Keita in prison for over 10 years without trial and that the government must pay a compensation of N7 million to the detainee.

The presiding judge, of the case between the detainee and the state government, Justice Habeeb Abiru gave this ruling in response to an application the Lagos state Attorney General, Ade Ipaye had filed asking the court for a stay of execution its earlier judgement on the case.

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Justice Abiru had in an earlier judgment delivered on December 16, 2011, ordered the Lagos state Attorney General to pay the sum of N7 million to Mr Keita to compensate him for his continuous detention in prison for over 10 years without trial.
The court had held that Mr Keita’s detention without proper arraignment and trial in court was a violation of his fundamental human rights as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He had also ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar and Mr Ipaye to tender an apology to the 43-years old ram seller for detaining him unjustly for murder.
The judge while dismissing the application held that it lacked merit because Mr Keita was unjustly detained for over 10 years and deserved the compensation. The court also faulted Mr Ipaye’s claim that Mr Keita was remanded in prison by the Police without forwarding the case to the office of the Attorney General.
The judge added that both the Police and the Attorney General was responsible for ensuring that people were given justice, which was denied Keita in this case. “The criminal justice administration law was proposed by the ministry of justice and we have a duty to uphold its provisions”, Justice Abiru said. Mr Ipaye had filed an appeal at the Appeal Court, Lagos against the judgment and had asked the High Court to stay execution of its judgment pending the determination of the appeal.

In the application filed on his behalf by Olabisi Ogungbesan, Director, Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions, the Lagos state Attorney General had faulted Justice Abiru’s judgment which necessitated the appeal. The Mr Ipaye had argued that the issues raised in the grounds of appeal are obscure and clearly touches on the powers of the Attorney General and the police under the relevant laws of the land.

He had claimed that the judgment debt, if granted would be paid from the taxes paid by Lagosians which would impose an increased burden on the state government. Mr Keita’s lawyer, Ahmed Adetola-Kazeem had urged the court to dismiss the application, arguing that it lacks merit and would deprive his client the fruits of litigation. The matter was adjourned to May 2 for hearing of the garnishee application filed by Mr Adetola-Kazeem.

Nigerian President is listed among 100 most influential people in the world,2012

Are  you surprised?

TIME Magazine, a US Weekly News magazine today released its annual list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ for the year 2012.

Making this list is Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan.
According to TIME,“they are the people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world.”

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The citation on Jonathan was written by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia: Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan exemplifies the African political renaissance at a time when the people of the continent are starting to reap the fruit of their resources and their hard work. President Jonathan, 54, possesses the qualities needed at this moment of great challenges, having come to power at a crucial moment in the history of Nigeria.

The country has grown out of its past of corruption, mismanagement and brutality, but the foundation of good governance is still fragile. In two short years, President Jonathan has shown the same dexterity he demonstrated as governor of Bayelsa, the same ability to find the remedies to the many complexities of running a nascent democracy. He has spearheaded the fight against corruption and turned Nigeria into an example of good governance. He has also made a significant impact on consolidating peace and security in West Africa. From the onset of our own crisis, Liberia has benefitted from the support of Nigeria.

President Jonathan not only upheld the trend but added to it. With leaders like President Jonathan, Africa is sure to move toward prosperity, freedom and dignity for all of its people. The list also contains names like United States of America President Barack Obama; U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, American Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and American billionaire Warren Buffett. Singers Adele and Rihanna, footballer Lionel Messi and the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire and founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely also made the list. There are 38 women on the 2012 list, more than any other year.

The list was chosen by through voting by TIME readers from around the world. Here’s a look at the names that feature in the TIME 100 list:
• Jeremy Lin- Basketball Player, America
• Christian Marclay- Visual artist and composer, Swiss-America
• Viola Davis- Actress, America
• Salman Khan- Educator, America
 • Tim Tebow- Football quarterback, American
• EL James- Author, America
 • Louis CK- Comedian, Mexican-American
• Rihanna- Recording artist, actress, US
• Marco Rubio- United States Senator from Florida
• Ali Ferzat- Cartoonist, Syria
• René Redzepi- chef, Denmark
• Kristen Wiig- Television actress, comedian, America
 • Anthony Kennedy- Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
• Novak Djokovic- Tennis player, Serbia and Montenegro
• Ben Rattray- Founder, Change.org, US
• Jessica Chastain- Actress, America
• Yani Tseng- Golfer- Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Raphael Saadiq- Singer- America • Elinor Ostrom- Economist, US
• Samira Ibrahim- Plaintiff, Egypt
 • Jose Andres- Chef, Spanish • Ann Patchett- Writer, America
• Dulce Matuz- President, Arizona Dream Act Coalition
• Henrik Scharfe- Professor, Director, Centre for Computer-mediated Epistemology, Denmark
• Freeman Hrabowski- Educator, America
• Maryam Durani- Member, Kandahar Provincial Council, Afghanistan
• Manal al-Sharif- Women’s rights activist and computer security consultant, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
• Anjali Gopalan- Advocate, India
• Rached Ghannouchi- Tunisian Islamist politician and co-founder, The Ennahda Movement
• Barbara Van Dahlen- Founder and President, Give an Hour, US
• Ron Fouchier- Scientist, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
• Donald Sadoway- John F Elliott Professor, Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
• Hans Rosling- Statistician, Sweden
• Asghar Farhadi- Filmmaker, Iran • Sarah Burton- Fashion Designer, UK
• Anonymous- Self described hacktivist group, Voluntary association, Global
• Pete Cashmore- Social News Guru,Scotland
• Cami Anderson- Superintendent,Newark schools
• Ali Babacan and Ahmet Davutoglu- Neo-Ottomans
• Ai-jen Poo- Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, US
• Marc Andreessen- Kingmaker, America
• Preet Bharara- Prosecutor, America
• Robert Grant- AIDS Researcher, San Francisco
• Andrew Lo- Harris & Harris Group Professor Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy- Pakistani-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker
• Alexei Navalny- Russian lawyer, politician, and political and financial activist
• Ray Dalio- American businessman and founder of Bridgewater Associates
 • Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani- Prime Minister of Qatar
• Chelsea Handler- American stand-up comedian, actress, best-selling author, and producer
• Harvey Weinstein- American film producer and movie studio chairman
• Chen Lihua- Chairperson, Fu Wah International, China
 • Warren Buffett- Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
• Alice Walton- Heiress, Walton family fortune
• Harold Hamm- CEO, Continental Resources
• Sheryl Sandberg- COO, Facebook
• Sara Blakely- Founder of Spanx, and world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, US
• Eike Batista- President, EBX Group, Brazil
• Tim Cook- CEO, Apple, US
• Daniel Ek- CEO and Founder, Spotify, Sweden
 • Virginia Rometty- CEO, IBM, US
• Barack Obama- President, USA
• Goodluck Jonathan- President of Nigeria
• Xi Jinping- First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China
• Fatou Bensouda- Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Gambia
 • Christine Lagarde- MD, IMF, France
• Mario Draghi- President, European Central Bank, Italy
.U Thein Sein- President of Burma
• Ayatullah Ali Khamenei- Supreme Leader of Iran
• Mitt Romney- Candidate, 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination
• Juan Manuel Santos- President of Colombia
• Timothy Dolan- American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Portia Simpson Miller- Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Mario Monti- Prime Minister of Italy
 • Wang Yang- Secretary, Guangdong Committee of the Communist Party of China
 • Maria das Gracas Silva Foster- CEO of Petrobras, Brazil
• Andrew Cuomo- Governor of New York, US
• Iftikhar Chaudhry- Chief Justice of Pakistan • Mamata Banerjee- Chief Minister Of Indian state of West Bengal
• Walter Isaacson- President and CEO, Aspen Institute, US
• Ron Paul- Member of the US House of Representatives
• Benjamin Netanyahu- Prime Minister of Israel
• Dilma Rousseff- President of Brazil
• Erik Martin- Founder and editor, Muschelhaufen
• Cecile Richards- Democratic Party activist, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America • Angela Merkel- Chancellor of Germany
• Lionel Messi- Footballer and Captain of Argentinian national team
• Tilda Swinton- British actress • Hillary Clinton- United States Secretary of State
• Catherine- Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa Middleton, her sister
• Adele- Recording artist and songwriter, UK
• Matt Lauer, TV journalist, Host, NBC’s The Today Show
• Oscar Pistorius- sprint runner, South Africa
• Claire Danes- American television, stage and film actress
• Stephen Colbert- American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, actor; Host, Comedy
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Okeoghene who got help from Delta state governor and some good Nigerians

What an emotional video.

This has been on tv,newpapers,twitter and facebook. Okeoghene Ighiwotho  diabetic patient  who needed N5million for surgery.He lost his toes and was bedridden for six years,maggot coming out from his legs…..someone who is living? his sister had to abandoned her business to take care of him.

The good news is he's currently in India to get the surgery he needs to be well again and it's mostly thanks to all the governor of delta state and every Nigerian that donated for this to happen.

May we all continue to pray for him that the surgery will be a success in Jesus Name,Amen.

Kim Kardashian Reveals Plans to Run for Mayor

Is it ever going to happen? Or it’s one of those jokes?

Really? Kim to run for  the city of Glendale, California. In a bonus clip for "Khloe & Lamar," the 31-year-old reality star tells her younger sister that she's considering a run to govern the Los Angeles suburb, which boasts the largest population of Armenians outside of the Euroasian country. "I'm gonna run for the mayor of Glendale, but it's gonna be in like five years," says Kim.
Hmmmm! I knew she was ambitious but not in politics.
 

Area boys get training school in Lagos

Do you remember when I posted this?http://xpressurselfshow.blogspot.com/2012/03/task-force-in-lagos-arrests-86-persons.html.
It seems our governor reads our blog O! especially on the question raised on craftsmanship.

Most drop out in united state (abroad) they‘ve got a vocation because the economy of the united state (abroad) embraced them.
So much can be done in this country that will eradicate poverty: to start with Government should pump money into the economy; Check mate so many fraud in major sector of the economy (oil& power sectors),billions of dollars oil marketer are owing should be returned.
This sounds really nice to the ears,will the government be able to complete what they started with these area boys?

A vocational center, Lagos State School Leavers Modern Apprenticeship, has been inaugurated by the Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola for street urchins, popularly known as Area boys in a bid to get them off the streets.

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The center which was inaugurated on Tuesday is expected to not only provide a base for young school leavers to acquire vocational skills but also provide a base for the urchins to be trained without fee. At the inauguration of the center, Mr Fashola noted that most of the urchins dropped out of school and did not have good parental care.

According to him, the situation the urchins found themselves forced them into taking drugs and other vices, adding that “these youth if trained could be very useful members of the society. That is why we feel it is imperative to train these miscreants.” He explained that this scheme and amongst many others are responsible for the fall in crime in the state. “This is what we have been doing to secure the state from crime. Before 2001, you could not walk on the streets of Lagos without being molested by these miscreants.

 We have about 17 other skill acquisition centers to arrest the situation and prevent crimes.” he said Well done governor Babtunde Fashola, hope all the governors in Nigeria will emulate this.

Xpressurselfshow is really proud of our Lagos state governor.

Can you buy love? Saudi woman will pay SR5 million to find Mr. Right

Does money really answer all things? Including true love?

The Saudi woman put the attractive advertisement in the local magazine, Roa, calling on all marriage-ready applicants to write in via email or fax. The announcement neither mentioned the woman’s name, age or whereabouts and the millions do come with strings attached.
She will only reveal the conditions in person, however, the ad explains.
“Applicants should provide their contact number so the woman will contact them in case she agrees on the marriage,” the magazine said.

These days the things we hear......

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It quoted the woman as saying: “It does not matter whether the new husband is attracted to my money as the most important thing is that he must appreciate marriage life and marital duties…I am even ready to accept a Misyar marriage [a contractual marriage in which the couple may continue to live separately and meet to satisfy marital duties when they please] and pay him SRfive million at once…he will live with me in my villa and must accept all my conditions which I will reveal to him later.”

 According to the magazine the woman is divorced, said to have parted ways with her first husband because he was “greedy and wanted only money”. “I made the wrong choice first time….I want to make the right choice now…my main obsession now is to marry…I am desperate to marry,” the woman said.

Oh! well you know what they say about desperation, this is a classic case.

Goodnews-Fabrice Muamba discharged from hospital

Hope you all remember his story:http://xpressurselfshow.blogspot.com/2012/03/emotional-day-for-bolton-wanderers-v.html

Fabrice Muamba has paid tribute to the doctors who saved his life after being discharged from hospital on Monday afternoon.

Hermès bags from private collection- you like?

Two patent Constance bags, £1,500 to £2,000

orange togo leather Kelly, 2005, £2,000 to £3,000

Mid-green ostrich Kelly, 1995, £4,000 to £6,000,

Grey lizard Kelly, £2,000 to £3,000

patent crocodile Kelly,£4,000 to £6,000

Today - James Ibori Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison in UK Court

The former governor of Delta state has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption and money laundering charges at the Southwark Crown Court 9 in London.His sentence was announced at about 3.20pm today by Judge Anthony Pitts.

Earlier on, his lawyers had tried to make a case for a lenient sentencing.  His lawyer, Nicholas Pernell blamed Badrash Gohil and former Akwa Ibom state governor, Victor Attah, for the V-Mobile scam saying they were the architects of the fraud. He further credited his client with every development in Nigeria, and especially in Delta state, from the banking reforms, to peace in the Niger Delta, education, and building of low-cost housing. Also in his defence, he stated that his client, James Ibori, played a part in supporting British industry even before he became governor. As evidence, he cited a letter from British Airways, thanking Ibori for restoring direct flights between Nigeria and Britain.

 Do you think that if he had not pleaded guilty the years would have been more than 13years?

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Mr. Pernell, in his conclusion, asked the Judge to consider the pressure that his client has been under since investigatons began in 2005, and also the accused’s children who now have both their parents in custody before passing his sentence.

 Also in his defence, veteran sportsman, John Fashanu, made an appearance in the court today. He testified saying the former governor achieved a lot in sports, and was instrumental to the end of militancy in the state. He told the court that Ibori built nine mini-sports stadia and three Olympic-sized stadia in Delta state and also built the first shooting range in Nigeria.

The court went for a recess at about 12.30pm and reconvened at 2.25pm after which his sentence was read. James Ibori had earlier pleaded guilty to a number of corruption and money laundering charges against him put at about $250million before Judge Pitts. This includes the V-Mobile and Bombardaire scams which amounted to $50million. Ibori and Victor Attah, former Akwa Ibom state governor also formed a phantom company called ADF to siphon US$37.5million from Delta and Akwa Ibom states’ shares in V-Mobile.

He was accused of embezzling these funds during his tenure as governor and using most of them to live a lavish lifestyle and acquire property and assets around the world. Judge Pitts said that the sentencing will not be the end of the matter as his property will also be confiscated.

 News Source: Daily Times