Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Happy Birthday Okay Bakassi

                                         congratulations!

China protests killing of chinese citizen in Nigeria


The Chinese was shot dead by a stray bullet at a construction site around Lagos Street in Maiduguri at about 1p.m, while trying to avoid an unidentified gunfight, according to Hong Lei,the country’s foreign ministry
The incident came barely three weeks after a Chinese cook working with a construction company and a Nigerian employed by the Chinese firm were killed in Maiduguri.

Motorcyclist sells nurse to ritual killers for N10,000

According to Punch:
A commercial motorcyclist, identified simply as Ifeanyi, has been arrested for allegedly handing over a nurse, Mrs. Helen Ilonge, to ritual killers after collecting N10, 000.
Ilonge had on Tuesday last week took Ifeanyi’s motorcycle on her way to Igoli along the Ogoja-Ikom Highway in Ogoja LGA.

Ilonge, the coordinator of Primary Health Care in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State, was coming from a programme at the Assemblies of God Church, Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, and had alighted from a vehicle at Okpongrinya junction before taking the bike.

It was gathered that Ilonge (51) was beheaded while her other vital reproductive parts such as breast and vagina were removed for ritual purposes.


Ilonge’s neighbour, Mrs. Theresa Idagwu, on Sunday said, “Ifeanyi took the lady from Okpogrinya Junction on the pretence that he was taking her to the village, which is 10 minutes drive from the point. But along the way, he stopped and handed her over to kidnappers at Ukpe.

Meanwhile, the woman had called her daughter, Victoria, around 9pm that she had taken a bike at Okpogrinya Junction on her way to Igoli. She said when she gets to her destination; she would call again so that Victoria would boil water for her to take her bath. That was Ilonge’s last call.” Repeated calls made to the woman’s line, according to Idagwu, indicated that it was switched off. She said Ilonge’s family became worried when the woman did not return home. “We went everywhere- police stations, hospitals and even her friends in Igoli, thinking that may be an accident had occurred along the road but we got nothing,” Idagwu added.

 Two days later, Idagwu said someone called Victoria on her phone and informed her that her mother had been kidnapped. The caller demanded a ransom of N50, 000 to be remitted in form of recharge cards. She said, “Since her daughter could not raise the money, she rushed to the Bekwarra LGA headquarters where the head of administration, Mr. Bisong Bogbo, and the chairman, Mr. Linus Edeh, provided the money with which she bought recharge cards and sent to the caller. “The voice claimed that he needed the recharge cards so he could sell and run away from his master who is a ritual killer.

He claimed that he had been serving his master for a long time and wanted to run away. He said once he gets the cards, he will break the door where the nurse is being kept and release her.” The LGA’s head of administration, Bogbo, confirmed that the cards were sent to the kidnapper through Victoria’s telephone. He said immediately the alleged kidnapper confirmed receipt of the cards; he switched off his telephone. Luck, however, ran out of Ifeanyi.

Policemen tracked his telephone line and discovered that he called Victoria from Abuochiche. Further investigations, it was gathered, showed that Ifeanyi had been selling the cards in the village immediately he got them. When he was arrested, Bogbo told our correspondent that Ifeanyi led the police to one of the ritual killers identified simply as Elvis. Elvis, according to Bogbo, confessed that the nurse had already been killed and some of her vital organs removed before Ifeanyi asked for the recharge cards.

 Elvis also said the remains of the woman were buried in a swamp. At the council headquarters, one of the late nurse’s colleagues, Mr. Gabriel Ogar, said she was probably the kindest woman he ever worked with.


Boko Haram plans to launch attacks on Sallah day

According to the release, “information available to the JTF indicates that the Boko Haram terrorists are planning massive attacks on military and civilian targets in Borno State before, during and after the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir period.

“Subsequently, the terrorist group has invited foreign mercenaries to assist them in launching the attacks.”


Minister of Interior, Abba Moro called on Nigerians to imbibe and emulate the worthy tenets of Islam, as practised by Prophet Muhammad, while he enjoined citizens to use the occasion to pray for peace and prosperity of the nation.

The Federal Government has declared Thursday and Friday as public holidays to mark the 2012 Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, made the announcement in a statement by the permanent secretary in the ministry, Daniel Nwaobia, in Abuja.


 Nigerian Tribune

Toke Makinwa Launches Personal Blog

Lately most of the celebs have joined the blogging  world ,Nigeria’s most liked on-air sensations and presently a co-host for Flytime TV’s new talk show, 3LiveChicks has just launched hers. Click  here for more.

Jay-Z& beyonce attempt to patent their baby name ‘ Blue Ivy failed’

 After the birth of their daughter in January, they attempted to trademark the name, reportedly to launch a line of baby products.

Unfortunately for the couple, Blue Ivy Events beat them to the it- owner Veronica Alexandra won the case earlier this month and trademark protection for the name “Blue Ivy,” meaning the Carters have no legal rights to sole use of the name. Blue Ivy Events has been operating since 2009.

Armed robbers invade fuel station on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, kill four people

A gang of armed robbers on Sunday night killed two policemen and two others in a deadly attack around World Oil Filling Station at Ibafo, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Witnesses said the robbers, numbering about 15, came in jeeps. On arrival, one of them shot a plain-clothed policeman straightaway.

The gunmen it was learnt engaged some policemen and vigilance group members at the filling station in a gun duel, shooting sporadically in a bid to crush the resistance and scare away people.


As a result, bullets flew round, hitting an unspecified number of people. Bizarrely, no reinforcement came from Ibafo Police Station, located less than a kilometre away from the scene.

 Presently, the walls of the deserted filling station were riddled with bullet holes as hundreds of spent bullet littered the environment; an evidence of a horrific battle.

A few weeks ago, robbers attacked Jimken Filling Station, a few metres away from this latest attack site, killing a customer.

Extracted from DailyPost


 Apart from the rate of robbery operations increasing nationwide in the past few months has anarchy gradually taking over?

Monday, 22 October 2012

Nigerian Football club players, Sunshine stars trapped in Egypt

The domestic league was suspended after a February 1 soccer stadium disaster in which 74 people were killed.

The latest postponement was announced last week by the Egyptian Football Association, the second delay to the new season which should have started in September.



Witnesses said the players and their supporters had marched to the Egyptian presidential palace, to press their demand for resumption of the league; before heading to a nearby hotel where the visiting Nigerian team was staying, Reuters reports.

They clashed with Al Ahly fans who arrived at the scene in an effort to make sure the Nigerian players could make it to the ground, witnesses said, for fear that Al Ahly would be automatically disqualified. The protesters and fans scuffled and threw rocks before the clashes abated, and the Nigerian side left for the match, the second leg of the African Champions League semi-final.

The hard core Ahli fans, or “ultras”, involved in Sunday’s trouble are the same group that has been demanding the postponement of the domestic league, until they see justice has been served over the February stadium disaster in Port Said. Many of the dead were Ahly fans who had travelled to Port Said for the away match against Al Masry.

The government was blamed for failing to send enough police to the game, many fans believing the trouble was sparked by hired thugs.

Al Ahli is record winners of the African Champions League

Dana Air Wins Best Domestic Carrier Award For 2011

According to FAAN’s Regional General Manager, Mr. Chris Bature, while the airline was chosen for its good customer relations and prompt payment of dues, Lufthansa Airlines was also selected as the best international carrier for the same period.

The Dana plane crash killed the entire 153 passengers and crew members on board, in addition to other victims in the residential area where the doomed plane slammed into.

Various buildings were also destroyed. The Federal Government promptly seized its license, but restored it 93 days after the crash, provoking outrage across the country. Speaking at the occasion, Bature stated that the airline was selected because of its outstanding performance.

 His words: “Mode of selection includes passenger capacity, frequency of the landing and take-off, their response to payment of bills. Among the domestic carriers, they were the best. They had the best volume, they were punctual in their operations.” Reacting to a question on the timing of the award, Bature explained that the award would have taken place earlier in the year.

He also observed that the reward came after the operator’s license had been restored. “In all fairness, they did their best and we need to recognise that and encourage them to get back to their feet,” he added. Dana’s Station Manager at the Abuja airport, Mr. Kayode Adeniran, stated that the airline’s commitment to best customer service and timely departure earned it the award.

He said: “We have this policy in our company that we must not delay passengers and we introduced another type of system. If your flight is delayed by 40 minutes, we give refreshments to all passengers that already had their boarding passes. So people were so impressed by our service.” However, he lamented over the loss of lives occasioned by the crash, stressing that the operator visited and commiserated with the families of the deceased.

 To prevent a recurrence, the station manager revealed that the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has embarked on an investigation to ascertain when the airline would be allowed to commence operations. He said the airline has commenced demonstration flights as stipulated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

He also said that the operation would run until NCAA certifies the carrier fit to resume full operations.

Culled from Guardian

Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg & Countess Stephanie de Lannoy’s Wedding

The European Royal Wedding of 2012! The Diamonds, Tiara, Flowers & an Oh So Stunning Elie Saab Couture Wedding Dress
The grand wedding took place on the 19th and 20th of October 2012.

Just days before their wedding, the royal couple gave their first official interview and the bride said “I remember the day I met Guillaume I told a friend I had found an exceptional man with whom I shared many things in common….I really didn’t think such a man could exist. So of course I believe in Prince Charming…Not only do I believe in it – I also think I found it.“



What's wrong with these pictures?


People scooping petrol from fallen tank,can you see the mobile policeman?


Chioma Ajunwa tells how she got her miracle babies


 'I was married for many years and when the child was not forthcoming, I was worried all the time, because I know that if you don't have a child, your marriage will not be that strong. In Igboland there's a saying that, 'a woman that does not have a child, her seat is kept outside. That was bothering me, though as a believer I wasn't that desperate over it. I wouldn't have a devilish child. I strongly believed in God that at His appointed time, it will come because I know he never fails. I did not ever entertain the thought that I could be barren. As a pastor, my husband was always consoling me, telling me to leave everything to God. In my mind I said 'I hear. Tomorrow you will go and marry another person, thank you very much!' When I was pregnant I asked God for so many things; the number one thing was that if this should become a reality, I promised God I will return the children to Him and I will give a giant offering. To God be the Glory, it came to pass. My babies are two boys and a girl; Joshua, Caleb and Rose.' Chioma Ajunwa. -Sunday Express

6 Dead, 60 Hospitalised After Eating Poisoned Meat In a Funeral ceremony

Six people have been reported dead and over 60 hospitalized in Amegu village, Ede-Oballa in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State following an alleged poisoning of pork meat they took at a funeral ceremony.

According to reports from Ede-Oballa, more than 60 guests developed severe stomach problems after the funereal ceremony, prompting their immediate hospitalization. Investigation by Sunday Sun showed that all the popular hospitals in the university town of Nsukka including the Catholic Mission- owned Bishop Shanahan have been flooded with the victims who were said to be in critical conditions.

A woman was said to be the first casualty of the meat poisoning followed by three girls while it was feared that two others who are not natives of the community also died.


It was gathered that a pig farmer who sold the infected animal to a woman (name withheld) who hosted the funeral, was in police net. Hospital sources expressed apprehension over the survival of the victims, saying they ought to have been rushed to the hospital same night.

“In a situation like this, victims should be rushed to the hospital promptly for early stomach wash”, said a hospital source. The source however said frantic efforts are being made to save the lives of the victims Another reliable source suspected that guests at the funeral might have been served the meat of a dead pig injected by a veterinary doctor. The source said the owner of the pig (name withheld) had lied to the woman that the pig fell into a ditch.

Apparently due to the intimidating size of the pig and its relative cheapness, the woman quickly entered a bargain and bought the meat not knowing it was sick and had been treated recently by a veterinary doctor who also advised that in the event of its death, the animal should be buried. A source quoted the doctor who has been quizzed by the police as saying that he advised the pig farmer to bury the animal if it died within three weeks of the injection.

The tragic incident has caused tension in Nsukka zone where pigs are used at funeral ceremonies as an imperative and status symbol. It was gathered that since the incident, guests at burial ceremonies in the area have been avoiding pork.

This has created problems for pig farmers who have lost patronage due to the tragedy.

SSS summons Senator Zanna over Boko Haram commander

The State Security Service has summoned a serving Senator, Ahmed Zanna, over his alleged involvement with the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The summons is in connection with the arrest last week of a suspected member of the group, Shuaibu Bama, in a house believed to be the senator’s.

The Joint Task Force had arrested Bama in the building along Damboa Road in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, last Friday after soldiers stormed the House.
The JTF had claimed that Bama was one of the commanders of the sect, who had been under watch.
Zanna, who represents Borno-Central Senatorial District, confirmed the summons to newsmen on Sunday.

He admitted being aware of a text message from the Director-General of the SSS, Mr. Ekpenyong Ita, inviting him to the SSS headquarters on Monday (today).

Zanna stated that since the incident occurred he had not been contacted by security agencies until Sunday.
“Since my house was searched and the JTF made the announcement, I have not been contacted by security agencies.




“But it was only this morning (Sunday), I saw a text that the SSS DG will want to see me on Monday. I will honour the invitation”, he said. The senator denied that Bama had any links with the sect, though he admitted that he was his sister’s son. He described Bama as a “drug addict”, who frequently threatened to kill members of his family.

He claimed that due to his behaviour, he had to send him out of his house, but could not explain how he found his way back to his house last week. The senator also claimed that Bama was arrested in the house of a former governor of the state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, contrary to the report by the JTF. When asked why the JTF linked Bama with him instead of Sheriff, the senator responded that it was a frame-up to pay him back for constantly attacking the JTF in the media.

 He said, “Contrary to the claim of the JTF, the boy was arrested in Rabi Street, off Damboa Road. And the house belongs to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. “Before, the house belonged to one Abba Mala, a Cameroonian. And later he sold it to the late Tijjani Banki and Sheriff bought from Tijjani Banki. “I reacted because they said they arrested the boy in the house of a serving Senator along Damboa Road and I am the one living along Damboa road. “I really do not understand why they did all this.

I am confused. If they want to frame me up, they have failed in that one because they did not get that boy in my house. “I have nothing to do with it. Let them go and ask the person where the boy was staying. So, they should not have mentioned my house. “Yes, he is my sister’s son.

As for his behaviour, he is a drug addict. He beats up my children, he abuses my friends. “He came to my house, so I sent him away.

That was about almost a year ago. And for whatever reason I don’t know, he came to my house last week and I told my wife that he should leave the house.”

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Kano Releases N1.7Billion For Sallah Rams

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bonus was introduced by the Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso administration to assist civil servants in the state.

A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Finance, Alhaji Garba Inusa, said that the money had been released to ministries, departments and agencies for onward disbursement.

According to the statement, N520 million will be disbursed to the state civil servants, while local governments and the State Primary Education Board will disburse N410 million and N847 million respectively to their staff.

Kim Kardashian turns 32 today

The model, actress, entrepreneur and socialite is 32 today, do you think she will could be getting engaged for the third time, as Ryan Seacrest -her reality show producer on the reality Tv show, had spilled earlier?

Pres.Goodluck Jonathan congratulates Gov Mimiko


Few mins after Segun Mimiko won,the president called him,to congratulate him for winning;his re-election as the Gov. of  Ondo State.

Full List of Winners -Headies 2012


Best RnB Singer - May D - Soundtrack
Best Pop Single - Iyanya - Kukere
Best Rap Single - Angeli -Vector ft 9ice
Best RnB/Pop Album - P Square
Best Street Hop - Chuddy K
Best RnB Pop Album - P-Square
Best Rap Album - Ice Prince - E.L.I


Best Vocal Performance (Male) - Wande Coal - Private Trips

 Best Vocal Performance (Female) - Tiwa Savage - Love Me Love Me Love Me

Best Collaboration - Sound Sultan ft Excel and Flavour - Orobo

Revelation of the Year - Wizkid
Recording of the Year - Brymo - Ara

Producer of the Year - TY Mix - Super C Season (Naeto C)

Lyricist on the Roll - Vector - Angeli

Next Rated - Davido

 African Artist of the Year - Sarkodie (Ghana) Azonto

 Artiste of the Year - Wizkid

 Album of the Year - Psquare - The Invasion

Best Music Video (Director) - Jude Okoye - Chop My Money

 Song of the Year - D'banj - Oliver Twist

 Headies Hall of Fame - Femi Kuti


Fabrice Muamba Marries Today

The retired 24 yr old footballer whose life is a testimony after his heart stopped for nearly 80 minutes during a match against Tottenham Hotspur in March where he suffered a cardiac arrest.

Muamba will wed Shauna Magunda- the mother of his three year-old son, Joshua Jeremiah at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire.
today, Fabrice Muamba is said to be in high spirits and eagerly anticipating a new status as a married man. He said via Twitter yesterday: “One more day to go now.”


Bishop Oyedepo's Winners' Chapel Accused Of Exploiting British Worshippers

According to Daily Mail, a Uk Based online News Source. A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return.
Followers are ferried in double-decker shuttle buses to the church, handed slips inviting them to make debit card payments, and are even told obeying the ministry’s teachings will make them immune from illness.
Today’s Mail on Sunday revelations about the Winners’ Chapel movement have prompted the Charity Commission to review the charitable status  of the church – one of the fastest-growing in the UK.
Winners’ Chapel is part of a worldwide empire of evangelical ministries run by Nigeria’s wealthiest preacher David Oyedepo, who has an estimated £93 million fortune, a fleet of private jets and a Rolls-Royce Phantom.


Dubbed ‘The Pastorpreneur’, he was accused earlier this year of slapping the face of a young woman he said was a witch. The assault case was struck out but is being appealed. Branches of the church have sprung up in major UK cities in a huge recruitment drive centred on Mr Oyedepo’s ‘prosperity gospel’. This claims that congregants who make regular donations and pay tithes – a ten per cent levy on their income – will be rewarded financially by God.

 Followers are urged to target vulnerable people such as the lonely, the sick, the homeless and the suicidal as potential candidates for conversion. Last night, Labour MP Paul Flynn said Winners’ Chapel was cynically exploiting supporters.

‘They [Winners’ Chapel] are making clearly spurious claims and it seems to be a cynical exploitation of the gullible,’ he said. Referring to the slapping incident, Mr Flynn added: ‘What is also alarming is the reported violence and the lack of respect for the status of women.

It’s taking us back to a previous age of ignorance and prejudice that we all thought the church had escaped.’ This newspaper’s investigation can further disclose: Congregants are handed a payment slip requesting payments using cheque, cash or debit card when they enter London’s Winners’ Chapel. Donations to the ministry in England almost doubled from £2.21 million to £4.37 million between 2006 and 2010. Mr Oyedepo’s superchurch in Nigeria received £794,000 or 73 per cent of the charitable donations paid out by the British Winners’ Chapel between 2007 and 2010.

This was despite claims in Africa that he is enriching himself at the expense of his devotees. The registered charity has spent £6.81 million on evangelism and ‘praise, worship and fellowship’. The church’s ‘Joseph Squad’ preaches in British prisons and has a weekly broadcast named ‘Liberation Hour’ on satellite and cable TV here. In the past three years, Winners’ Chapel churches have been established in Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Bradford, adding to those in London, Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow. An undercover Mail on Sunday reporter attended Sunday services at Winners’ Chapel’s ‘London HQ’ in Dartford, Kent, which attracts 1,000 congregants – chiefly African and Caribbean immigrants.

It is run like ‘a business conference’ by Mr Oyedepo’s son, David Oyedepo Jnr. Packed buses deliver singing worshippers from South-East London, Essex and Kent to the huge auditorium. The reporter saw a payment slip being given to every person entering the church encouraging them to donate money by cheque or cash or to fill in a form with their debit card details.

The slip said tithes should be paid separately using a ‘Kingdom Investment Booklet’ and the reporter was informed that payments could also be made by phone. A pastor told the worshippers: ‘You shall be financially promoted after this service in Jesus’s name if you are ready to honour the Lord therefore with all your givings, your tithes, your offerings, your Kingdom investment, your sacrifices.’

 Congregants were told to fill in their slips and hold them above their heads while the donations were blessed A jet belong to Bishop Oyedepo The service was interspersed with testimonies. ‘I received a bill from the bank that I didn’t understand, so I prayed,’ said one congregant. ‘A few days later, the bank wrote to apologise for their mistake – Hallelujah!’ ‘Hallelujah,’ the audience shouted back. Congregants were told they could gain favour by persuading others to follow Mr Oyedepo’s teachings.

His son said: ‘Look around you. Someone is sick and already wishing he or she were dead, that is a fruit ripe to harvest. Someone is confounded and considering suicide as an option, that is another fruit that is ripe to harvest. ‘Someone else is lonely and wondering if there is any future for him, that is another fruit ripe to harvest. ‘Also there are many men and women, young and old that are homeless, these are fruits ripe to harvest.’


The reporter was taken, with 20 other new recruits, to a room where preachers gave sermons claiming acceptance of the Lord would prevent them ever being ill or suffering misfortune. The Mail on Sunday has seen video footage of Mr Oyedepo striking a woman across the face and condemning her to hell after she said she was a ‘witch for Jesus’. He attacked her in a Winners’ Chapel superchurch, believed to be in Nigeria, in front of worshippers.

A separate video shows him saying: ‘I slapped a witch here last year!’ In May, he was sued for £800,000 over the alleged assault. The case was struck out – a decision which is now reported to have been appealed. The Winners’ Chapel movement, also known as the Living Faith Church, has hundreds of churches in Nigeria and across Africa, the Middle East, the UK and the US. Mr Oyedepo has received fierce criticism in Africa.

 One Nigerian journalist accused him of ‘leading a growing list of pastorpreneurs – church founders exploiting the passion and emotion that Christianity commands to feather their nests’. Catholic Cardinal Anthony Okogie criticised such preachers for placing materialism above Jesus’s message. He reportedly said: ‘They have been skinning the flock, taking out of the milk of the flock.’ Among Mr Oyedepo’s fleet of aircraft are said to be a Gulfstream 1 and Gulfstream 4 private jets. It is also claimed he and his wife, Faith, travel in expensive Jeeps flanked by convoys of siren-blaring vehicles.

 He is the senior pastor of Faith Tabernacle, a 50,000-seat auditorium in Lagos reputed to be the largest church in the world, and runs a publishing company that distributes books carrying his message across the world. His other business interests span manufacturing, petrol stations, bakeries, water purification factories, recruitment, a university, restaurants, supermarkets and real estate. The latest addition is a commercial airline named Dominion Airlines.

 A Charity Commission spokesman said: ‘The Charity Commission is currently assessing what, if any, regulatory role there is to play with regard to the complaints made against the World Mission Agency. It is important to clarify that this does not constitute an investigation at this stage.’ Winners’ Chapel administrator Tunde Disu declined to comment.