Nassarawa State Governor Rewards Police Officer With House, N1million

Peter Okoye seem to be enjoying the attention from the N300m champagne he got as a gift from luxury designer, Alexander Amusu, but his brother Paul, No.
Few moments after Peter posted a photo of himself with the luxury drink on Wednesday, Paul updated his BB PM, writing – ‘I rather take a pic with a bottle of coke…than that shit!’

Ms Kemi Olunloyo “Financially” Broke and needs your $1 Support?

Here’s what she posted on her Facebook page,
“We are running out of food in Nigeria. The northerners are killing us as we arrive to buy foodstufs. Pls support my rally in Ibadan. I need donations from everyone especially those Nigerians abroad. Pls send ANYTHING even one dollar to Keminications on PayPal. $1 is N150 here and that buys 5 Mr noodles, indomein,oodles of noodles. Help me start my foodbank in Ibadan. 10 of our merchants were shot one by one last week. We have no beans, beef, soy and many things because they grow these in the north. I am literarily eating out of a vegetable garden and thousands of naira in Shoprite.
Help me help Nigerians.
Facebook.com/hiphossipmusicfoundation
Go to paypal now
Acct is Keminications”
We at Nigeriana are very sure Nigerians are not running out of FOOD, if they are one would expect ms Kemi to go through the right means and NOT beg for funds via her Facebook profile.

Meet this Nigerian Girl who makes beats for JAY-Z

Ebony Oshunrinde, a 16-year old Canadian-Nigerian girl, known as WondaGurl, has been listed in the credits for Jay-Zs new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail.

Ebony, who resides in Brampton, southern Ontario, was credited for the track ‘Crown’.

“It’s a really good feeling. I want to show young people that they can do it. Anybody can be successful.

The teenage self-taught producer is reported to have started making her own beats after watching a video showing Jay-Z and mega producer Timbaland working in the studio together on the album.

A year ago, after winning Toronto’s Battle of the Beat Makers competition at only 15, Oshunrinde got serious about her music. She signed on with Black Box, the same label as Classified, and started working in a studio.

The beat that landed on Jay-Z’s album began with a reggae song. Oshunrinde sampled the music and added her own twist using computer software.

“It has a lot of bass and a lot of bounce,” she explained.

She worked on her beat once and sent it to Travis Scott, a young rapper and producer from Houston who met Oshunrinde last year. He happened to be working in the studio with Jay-Z when she sent him her beat.

A few days later, Oshunrinde was at home with her brother and sister when her phone buzzed.

“He texted me and said, ‘I’m about to change your life,” Oshunrinde said.

When Scott told her that her cut made it on to Jay-Z’s album, she thought it was a joke.

Naija again, if she can anybody can.

BREAKING NEWS: Boko haram burn 30 students alive in Potiskum

Islamic extremists killed 29 students and an English teacher Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest.
Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims.
Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest.


“That’s it, I’m taking my other boys out of school,” he told The Associated Press as he wept over the two corpses. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.
“It’s not safe,” he said. “The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers.”
Survivors at the Potiskum General Hospital and its mortuary said gunmen attacked Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m. Saturday. The gunmen are believed to be from the Boko Haram sect whose name means “Westerneducation is sacrilege.”
They killed 29 students and an English teacher Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest according to another teacher, Ibrahim Abdu.
“We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me,” said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.
He put his arm up in defense, and suffered a gunshot that blew off all four fingers on his right hand, the one he uses to write with.
He said the gunmen came armed with jerry cans of fuel that they used to torch the school’s administrative block and one of the hostels.
“They burned the children alive,” he said, the horror showing in his wide eyes.
He and teachers at the morgue said dozens of children from the 1,200-student school escaped into the bush but have not been seen since.
Some bodies are so charred they could not be identified, so many parents do not know if their children survived or died.
Islamic militants from Boko Haram and breakaway groups have killed more than 1,600 civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010, according to an Associated Press count.
Scores of schools have been burned down in the past year in northeast Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency May 14, and deployed thousands of troops to halt the insurgency, acknowledging that militants had taken control of some towns and villages.
The military has claimed success in regaining control of the area — the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe . However, the area covers some 155,000 square kilometers (60,000 square miles) or one-sixth of the sprawling country.
Soldiers say they have killed and arrested hundreds of fighters.
But the crackdown, including attacks with fighter jets and helicopter gunships on militant camps, appears to have driven the extremists into rocky mountains with caves, from which they emerge to attack schools and markets.
The militants have increasingly targeted civilians, including health workers onvaccination campaigns, teachers and government workers.
Farmers have been driven from their land by the extremists and by military roadblocks, raising the specter of a food shortage to add to the woes of a people already hampered by the military’s shutdown of cell phone service and ban on using satellite telephones.
Source: USA Today

Three UNILAG students die while celebrating friend’s engagement

Three UNILAG Undergraduates die

A Unilag student identified as Iyabo recently got engaged and her friends decided to celebrate with her.
The party was held off campus on Sunday 30th of June 2013 , and the students-the bride to be, her cousin Funmilayo Adelowotan, friends Eniola Abiodun and Temiloluwa Osindero -left for the party from a private Hostel (Emerald) located in front of Unilag main gate.
The party went well.
Iyabo’s fiance bade the girls goodbye while his younger brother offered to give the students a lift back to school.
Sadly however, on their way back to school, they were involved in a fatal car accident along the international airport Road in Ikeja, Lagos.
A trailer lost control and hit their car, killing the driver (Iyabo’s fiance younger brother), Funmi Adelowotan ( Iyabo’s cousin) and their friend Eniola Abiodun died on the spot.
The bride-to-be Iyabo and Temiloluwa survived, but were badly injured.
They are currently receiving treatment at LASUTH.
Until her death, Funmilayo Adelowotan was on a First Class CGPA of 4.71, she was fondly called ‘Miss Green’ by students and lecturers in her faculty.
She was a 200Level student of Quantitative surveying(Faculty of Environmental Science).
Eniola Abiodun was a 400 level student of Mass Communications.
See photos below (viewers’ discretion advised)

51 year old pastor and his wife talk dirty as court dissolves marriage

An Orile-Agege Customary Court in Lagos, yesterday, dissolved the 20-year-old marriage of a pastor, who had accused his wife of infidelity and threat to his life.
Pastor Sunday Owonikoko,51, had filed a petition at the court on May 27, saying he could no longer continue with his wife, Bolajoko, 47.
Ruling in the case, court president, Mr Joseph Adewusi, said the marriage has broken down irretrievably.
His words: “Starting from today, you cease to be addressed as husband and wife; you shall go your separate ways and maintain the peace.
“The custody of the under-aged among the children is referred to Ikeja Family Court for final decision, but in the interim, the children should remain with the petitioner.
“The petitioner, Pastor Sunday Owonikoko, should pay a compensation fee of N25,000 to the defendant and also secure accommodation for her.”

My wife still  sees her ex

According to reports the pastor, who lives at 1, Alowole St., Papa Ashafa, Orile-Agege, had told the court that his wife was still seeing her ex-lovers.
“My wife once travelled to Ghana to meet one of her concubines. She did family planning without my consent and she goes out at will.
“She was suspended from the church for six months because she fought all ministers in the church. She then established her church, she fought all the members of the church, and they all left.”
The father of four children, aged between 19 years and 11 years, had also told the court that his wife threatened to destroy him and the church.
“I want the court to dissolve the union and grant me custody of my children,” he had said.
Bolajoko, an evangelist, had, however, denied the allegations in her response.

My husband is  adulterous

She said: “My husband is adulterous. He has slept with almost all the sisters in the church. A mother of seven is presently living with himand he has made the woman an evangelist.“
Bolajoko told the court that her husband had “lost his mind” since he ate vegetable soup in the house of one of the sisters in the church. I don’t love him anymore, I want a divorce.”

Husband,  wife trade blame on  infidelity

Also yesterday, a couple, Muyideen and Simbiat Saula, urged an Ikorodu Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve their marriage, accusing each other of infidelity.
Simbiat, 27, a trader who resides at Fajemisi St., Kokoro Abu, Ikorodu, had earlier told the court that Muyideen beats her regularly, adding that she was tired of his infidelity.
She said: “My husband beats me whenever I make mistakes; he had battered me to the extent that I had two miscarriages.
“He usually beats me to the extent that he would tear my clothes to pieces. I have also heard him receive calls from different women. I am no more interested in the marriage.“
Muyideen, 40, a businessman, in turn accused his wife of receiving strange calls from different men in the midnight.
He said: “My wife receives calls from concubines which her mother knows about. She opened a Facebook account to chat with her concubines; she has also installed a security code on her phone, so that I would not have access to it.
“I am also no more interested in the marriage because her mother came to pack her belongings,“ he said.

Pickpocket: I make N10,000 daily from picking pockets

A 22-year-old man, Terry Umuokoro, who makes a living as a pickpocket, has been arrested by the Apapa Police Division.

 

Also in custody are five others, suspected to have taken part in a robbery operation at Senator Muse Road, Apapa in June 2013.
 

Umuokoro was arrested last week at a hotel along Ojo Road, Ajegunle, Lagos. He had allegedly resided at the hotel for two months.
 

But the suspect denied being part of any robbery operation. Umukoro explained that he was a pickpocket.
 

He said, “I pick pockets for a living, I am not a robber. I started in January 2013 because I had no job after completing my secondary school education.”
 

Explaining how he operates, the suspects said he usually armed himself with a school bag to create the appearance of a university undergraduate.
 

 He said he would then board as many commercial buses as possible, where he would pick the pockets of unsuspecting passengers. His loot included money and phones.
 

He said, “I only steal Nokia phones because you can sell them easily. I steal about three phones daily and have a buyer at Boundary bus stop in Ajegunle. I give him the phones and get paid in return. I make about N10,000 daily.”
 

Due to the success of his trade, Umuokoro allegedly moved out of his family home to the hotel at Ojo road where a room goes at a rate of N5, 000 daily.
 

The other suspects, Desmond Ozore, Solomon Mibien, Nelson Mbabie, Jamiu Adigun and Akeem Apejoye, were initially arrested at the same hotel by the Victoria Garden City Police Post after a Blackberry Bold 5 which was stolen from a resident at Senator Muse road, was found with Ozore’s girlfriend.
 

On June 4 2013, two buildings were robbed on Senator Muse Road and valuables such as BlackBerrys, laptops and money were allegedly taken by the armed robbers.
 

One of the stolen phones was traced to Ozore’s girlfriend who claimed that he had given her the phone.
 

Ozore said, “I am not a robber, none of my friends are. We are all into internet fraud. We stayed in the hotel because we need uninterrupted electricity.
 

“I bought the phone for N26,000 from Mibien. I never knew it was stolen.”
 

Mibien denied being part of the robbery gang and claimed he also bought the phone from another friend who is currently at large.
 

There was no response from the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide. She did not respond to calls or text messages to her phone.

Two Plateau State policemen dismissed for arming criminals

The Plateau State Police Command has dismissed two of its officers over alleged criminal conspiracy, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Olakpe, said.Olapke said in Jos, yesterday, that the duo were arrested and found guilty after investigation.He said: “The two officers were found to be accomplices of some people involved in the production of arms in the state.”He said the officers were also found guilty of supplying illegal arms and ammunition to criminals.

 

He said: “It was revealed during investigation that the two policemen are members of the arms production syndicates and suppliers of ammunition and were apprehended immediately.“In the spirit of the times, ably presented by the Inspector-General of Police, that there will not be any space for irresponsible and criminal elements in the force, the two policemen have been dismissed from the force.“This is to send a note of warning to all policemen. Once they live in glass house, they must not throw stones, and anybody fingered in any criminal activities will not be spared.”According to reports the two sacked policemen were Corporal Joseph Dakup and Constable Dakol Emmanuel. - See more at:

Father Francois Murad, Catholic Priest Beheaded By Jihadist Rebels

A catholic priest, Father Francois Murad has been beheaded by Syrian terrorists in a shocking public execution that was captured on video.
The Vatican confirmed his death on Monday and ather Murad he was taken from the convent for the Custody of the Holy Land, where he was hiding.
Reports have it that the Catholic priest was attacked by militant Syrans linked to a jihadi group called Jabhat al-Nusra.
A recording of the priest’s beheading was posted to the internet on Monday, showing a crowd of spectators that included two other people recording the execution with smartphones. The video showed a man identified as Murad sitting on the grass with his hands tied together. A gathers, shouting at him in Arabic.
After the Catholic priest was beheaded, onlookers moved in close to view the aftermath.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdGvST3v3Zo&bpctr=1372785041

Adenike Ogungbe, CEO of Ewar Make-Over Dies A Day After Delivery

CEO of Ewar Make-Over, Adenike Ogungbe, dies

Renowned Lagos based make-up artist and CEO of Ewar Make-Over, Adenike Ogungbe, has passed away. Nike died this afternoon in a hospital in Abeokuta, Ogun State just a day after giving birth.
She gave birth early Tuesday morning, fell into a coma (she actually never came out of the anesthesia given to her) and died this afternoon. Her baby is fine and healthy. Nike's last Tweet below.
Nike was only 31 and is survived by a husband and her new born baby girl. Truly sad. May her soul rest in peace..Amen.

Cook, Driver Nabbed For Robbery

The anti robbery police team attached to Apapa Police Division led by Ali Mohammed, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, has arrested a cook Paul Menoudji and a driver James Bassey for allegedly masterminding a robbery attack in their masters’ neighbourhood.

Also arrested was an alleged accomplice Temi Timode Kentobah
P.M.NEWS gathered that the robbery attack was carried out at about 12.30 a.m. at Flat B6, located at Flour Mills Senior Staff Quarters, Apapa, Lagos.
Investigations and confessions of Kentobah revealed that the suspects gained entrance to the premises through the backyard. They were said to have climbed into the house through the window.
The suspects were said to have succeeded in carting the laptops and GSM phone of their victims, but were exposed when the baby of the couple they attacked suddenly started crying.
The baby’s cry woke her father up from sleep.
It was learnt that her father carried her and headed to the sitting room, but unknown to him, robbers were operating in his sitting room.
When he got to the sitting room, he was accosted by Kentobah who ordered him to surrender all his money or his baby would be stabbed to death.
This prompted the man (names withheld) to call his wife whom he told to go to the bedroom and bring money for the rampaging thieves.
It was gathered that his wife pretended to be bringing money but passed through the exit door and released their dogs.
The divisional police officer, Apapa Division, CSP Mohammed was also contacted on phone and he sent his men to the scene.
It was gathered that as the robbers made frantic effort to escape from the dogs, Kentobah jumped through the window of the storey building and landed on his waist and could no longer move.
While the police were approaching the house, they saw two of the hoodlums escaping through a valley near the scene.
Kentobah was arrested and handed over to the police.
During interrogation, he confessed that it was his friends Bassey from Akwa Ibom State and Paul Menoudji from Cotonou, Republic of Benin who worked as driver and cook to the neighbours of the victims that invited him to join them in the operation.
He said that he is not an armed robber as they did not plan to harm anybody and were not armed during the operation, adding that the knife recovered from them was picked from the victims’ kitchen.
Meanwhile, Bassey and Menoudji, who were later arrested by the police, have denied the allegation, saying they neither knew Kentobah nor participated in the operation.
CSP Ali Mohammed who said the suspects would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, (SCID),Panti Street, Yaba for further interrogation urged employers of domestic servants, maids and drivers to ensure a proper vetting and investigation of their would-be employes prior to employment.

You Can’t Pardon Bode George, Tinubu Tells Jonathan

]Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State has described as uncalled plans by the President Goodluck Jonathan led-Federal Government to pardon ex-convict and former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George. Tinubu said plans were ongoing by the powers that be in Abuja to pardon the ex-convict if he [...]

US Seeks Nigeria’s Help To Fish Out Jessica Tata

The U.S. Marshals Service, which  is on an aggressive pursuit of Jessica Tata,  a Nigerian lady  charged in a deadly day care fire in Texas,  has sought the assistance of  Nigerian officials to find her, an agency spokesman said weekend. The US authorities believe Jessica Tata, 22, fled to Nigeria two days after a fire erupted at her home day care center in Houston on Feb.
24 children were killed and three others were injured.
Investigators believe the children had been left alone.
“U.S. Marshals investigators are aggressively pursuing this case,” Jeff Carter, the agency’s spokesman in Washington, told The Associated Press. “The U.S. Marshals Service in Washington has been in contact with Nigerian officials, through the appropriate law enforcement and diplomatic channels, to let them know of our interest and solicit their cooperation in locating Jessica Tata.”
Tata has been charged with manslaughter, injury to a child and child abandonment amid accusations she left the youngsters alone while she shopped. Fire investigators said they received a tip that she had relatives in Nigeria and might flee.
Another U.S. Marshals Service spokesman, Alfredo Perez, said earlier Friday that agents were actively looking for Tata but haven’t confirmed her location.
“The bottom line is that we don’t know where she’s at,” Perez said.
Tata’s name appeared on an airline’s passenger manifest for a flight to Nigeria, but the Marshals Service hasn’t confirmed the person who boarded was Tata, he said.
Last week, officials said passenger records reviewed by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agents showed that two days after the fire, Tata flew from Dallas to Atlanta and then to Lagos, Nigeria.
Authorities in Nigeria said they have no record that a woman wanted in Houston flew into the West African nation.
Nigerian Immigration Service spokesman Joachim Olumba said officials checked the logs at each of Nigeria’s international airports for Tata.
“If she came into Nigeria, she likely used another name,” Olumba told the AP.
Olumba said the U.S. has yet to contact his office about Tata.
Repeated efforts to reach Tata’s relatives by phone and in person at their Houston home have been unsuccessful.
The U.S. Marshals Service, which is leading the search for Tata, has put the day care operator on its list of the 15 most wanted fugitives and has offered a reward of up to $25,000. Interpol, the international police agency, has alerted its member countries,
including Nigeria, telling them that Tata is being sought by the United States.
Observers believe that if Tata were in Nigeria, she is most likely to be holed somewhere in oil rich  Rivers State, her home state.

Tinubu to Bode George: you’re suffering from post-prison dementia

Former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu yesterday said freed former Nigerian  Port  Authority (NPA) chair Olabode George is suffering from post-prison and pre-reintegration dementia.
Tinubu, a national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), said if George was not psychologically troubled he would not link him with his travail. 
Tinubu,  said his tenure had ended two years before George was jailed and expresed wonder over  his claim that he was convicted by his  (Tinubu’s) administration.
George had in a newspaper report yesterday alleged that Tinubu sent him to jail.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olakunle Abimbola, Tinubu  advised George to keep a golden silence, adding: “After all as the Yoruba say, if you crave not to be disgraced and you are, you pray for long life so that you can rectify the disgrace.” 
The statement reads: “First, the ludicrousness of Chief Bode George’s claim is self-evident, except of course, the chief suffers from post-prison and pre-reintegration dementia: George was jailed two years ago.  By that time, Asiwaju Tinubu was two clear years out of office.  If that is so – and it is clearly so – how could Chief George claim to have been “convicted by the Lagos State Government headed by Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu?”
“This is indeed a very sorry case.  In Yoruba tradition, and indeed in the tradition of any decent society, you do not kick who is already down.  But what if he who is down viciously kicks you to force just any reaction?  That is what Chief George is doing.  But if he expects Asiwaju Tinubu to gloat over his misfortune, then Chief George has a long time to wait because he will not.
“But the moral in all of this is simple: those who crave to destroy others often end up destroying themselves.  The scandalous statement by Chief George, the indecorous language he deployed (“It was made by Tinubu and his gang”), the ludicrous living in denial (“It is a politically motivated conviction”), not to talk of the claim that Lagos State made a law to entrap erring federal officials, would appear to have issued from bitterness.  For the sake of what is left of the George family name and honour, Chief George should be prevailed upon to let himself go so as to earn a second chance.  He fell into a prison ditch he, from the way he spoke, would have wished others would fall into.  He should learn his lessons and realise that evil thoughts and actions eventually come back to destroy those who harbour or do them.
“Instead of trying to lay ridiculous charges on his perceived enemies, therefore, he should thank God for having saved him from his enemies.  It is his so-called friends he must contend with.  One of them, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, thought nothing of rubbing the face of a fallen George in the mud.  Did Chief George realise how ridiculous he sounded when he said some “cabal” wanted to “create friction between Obasanjo and I”, only to realise that Obasanjo had already gone public with disowning George’s carnival-like reception?
“Another, a nameless collective that simply called themselves “Friends of Olabode George”, launched into a tirade against Justice Joseph Oyewole who tried the case, referring to the judge as one of Bode George’s “persecutors.”  Why a judge doing his work would want to “persecute” a fellow citizen beggars belief.  But it would appear a continuation of the dangerous trend by some elements in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to discredit the judiciary, each time a case goes against them.  With all their wild allegations, they discredit no one but Chief George himself, after all they are an anonymous group hiding behind his face!
“Let those who dearly love Chief George prevail on him to stop these embarrassing tantrums.  Warts and all, he is an elder and, but for his prison stain, something close to an aristocrat in the Nigerian establishment, having been a military governor before.  He was also not your run-of-the-mill naval officer, having earned a degree in engineering before enlisting in the Nigerian Navy, from which he retired as Air Commodore.
“Despite his current misfortune, he owes his country a lot – least of which is public decency.  He can best achieve this by keeping a golden silence.  After all, as the Yoruba say, if you crave not to be disgraced and you are, you pray for long life so that you can rectify the disgrace.  Golden and dignified silence is what Chief George needs, not wild tantrums.”

Activist Adams Unaji “Occupy Nigeria” Is Dead

Nigeria social activists and Pioneer of “Occupy Nigeria” Adams Unaji is died on Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Adams Unaji is Pioneer of “Occupy Nigeria”,who mobilize Nigeria youth to protest against president Gudluck Ebele Jonathan decision to increase the price of petrol from #65 to #140 early last year.Adams Unaji died on Wednesday, July 3, 2013,when waiting for him to go on air at Vision FM in Abuja. Sources at the station said he died of an apparent heart attack, but there is no medical corroboration of the source of death as this report was filed,But eventual died on his way to hospital.
Mr. Unaji is survived by his wife, a son and his mother.

Nigerian Gospel Singer, Tope Alabi Respond To Allegations She Had Sex With Her Pastor

Nigerian gospel singer, Tope Alabi has responded to the allegation by her pastor, Prophet Ajanaku that she had sex with him. She posted the message below on her Facebook page:My Friends, No matter the negative rumor you hear or read,I want you to know it's never true and not inspired by the living Jesus Christ...and I will never compromise my faith in God by the grace of God.God is at work.

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You're A Liar, That’s Not Elshama But Anita—Paul Okoye’s Publicist Rubbishes Blogger's Picture Claim

Few moments ago, a blogger posted on her blog that Paul Okoye of P-Square music group had accepted the baby allegedly bore to him in London few weeks ago by one former beauty queen from Jos, Plateau State named Elshama.Contrary to the report, the publicist of Paul has confirmed to Nigeriafilms.com that the lady in question in the picture holding the baby is actually Anita, not Elshama as reported by the blogger.
According to the publicist, Square Image Associates (SIA), “the lady in the picture holding a baby is Anita, not Elshama.” Anita is Paul’s real babymama, who gave birth to the singer’s first child in early 2013 in America.
The publicist wondered why some bloggers would stoop so low to wrongly inform the general public and their readers. SIA also frowned at the way some people are killing the noble profession of journalism with obviously untrue and unfounded information, which they feed their readers and the general public with.
Few weeks after Anita gave birth to Paul’s first child, a news website reported that Elshama was stranded in a London hospital, where she had gone to give birth to a baby she claimed to be for the sensational singer.
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Funke Akindele Opens Restaurant In Enugu

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Baron | 7/5/2013 3:15:39 PMSmall time u go join those wey dey use pusssy water take cook food 4 there customers infact if i CHEIF AJAAGBA catch u i go expose u and make u try go born pikin 4 dat ur mumu yoruba husband if not u go recieve red card Reply this thread

Nneoma | 7/5/2013 5:04:24 PM | Dis woman is just an all round comedy actor. I cnt wait to watch dis film, with Osufia in it, its gonna be a no-dulling stuff.

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Iyanya Used My Waist Anyhow While "Enjoying" Other Ladies [Yvonne Nelson's VIDEO]

Beautiful Ghanaian/Nollywood actress Yvonne Nelson has finally opened up on how badly Nigerian singer, Iyanya used her waist, like he bragged in a freestyle, and still cheated on her sporadically.

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Amy | 7/5/2013 2:18:34 PMIa m getting tired of repeating one gist into 100 post. tired of inyanya and nelson yvonnne Reply this thread

ify | 7/5/2013 2:56:51 PM | Dat's the problem with girls. Always thinking a relationship is special cos the se.x was great.you broke up with Iyanya, cos his career was going down then and you know it, Now, the boy career is on point and forever stable, Now u love him die. Abeg, no be person be tu face wife? was she not there in Bad n Good? Women sha

IJO YA | 7/5/2013 3:17:03 PM | EVERYTIME WAIST MATTER , NA WAIST I GO CHOP. ABEGI MAKE I HEARD WORD OOOO YVONNE AND INYANYA REST YOUR CASE PLEASE

KK | 7/5/2013 4:06:40 PM | She's sincere, and a superwoman to even talk about it... I could tell but such is life! Yvonne is such a beauty to behold, take it easy girl because shiiit happens and life still go on forever! :) I love powerful women!!!! ;)

Nneoma | 7/5/2013 5:00:21 PM | Pls leave our bros Iyanya alone abeg! Face ur Ghanian men, is not by force to remain in a relationship. Aren't u ashamed of even discoursing this matter all d time? Its high time u move on gurl as its obvious Iyanya has moved on too. Ur beginning to irritate me wit ur childish interviews over this Iyanya mata. His dick must have bn d sweetest u ve eva tasted bcos u cnt seem to forget it in a hurry.

Love Trouble | 7/5/2013 2:22:53 PMNiggä shägged you and he still wanna shäg other whorës, so why you wanna spoil his market by getting him hooked Reply this thread

Baron | 7/5/2013 2:33:00 PMAbeg na by force say make lyanya dey fhuck ur watery and expired pusssy if u dey find person wey go fhuck ur pusssy 4 u jus cum my house i CHEIF AJAAGBA get water bed 4 my house infact if i handle u 4 my water bed i go fhuck ur pusssy sotay ur waist go cum brake infact i get doctorate degree and grammy award 4 fhucking pusssy even sef i dey fhuck 24 girls in one hour so make u 4get about lnyanya cum enter my new BUGATTI car make we go my house or else make u go commit suicide,my guys hon SLEEK N WHO CARES i dey hail una ojiobgiji go soon unblock my name 4 me oo Reply this thread

april | 7/5/2013 2:36:33 PMabeg dis old gist is getin borin..no body truly knws what hapend btwn dem so lets hear somtin new beside is yvone a virgin? Reply this thread

05/07/2013 | 7/5/2013 2:51:44 PMMaybe ds will teach u a lesson n stop datin the so called 'big boys' cos dey v gt nahn 2 offer u n still wnt 2 enjoy their#nt stucked wit u# Reply this thread

sofrey | 7/5/2013 2:54:19 PMYvonne shd move on.she denied one celebrity guy in ghana and the law of karma has visited her.Some women deserve whatever they get.they treat the good guys like trash and when they are treated like trash in return they cry foul.Yvonne make we hear better word.mitchweee. Reply this thread

Harry potter | 7/5/2013 2:57:18 PMnutty celebrities,always talking dirty,they no longer have an atom of respect for the public! Reply this thread

LEGEND | 7/5/2013 3:18:37 PM. Bck 2 d mata, yvonnne painfully skinny ghana dog nelson!y una kenke eaters dey like fhuck 9ja guys? Is it iyanya fault 2 manage dat watery wide smelly ova bleached pussie? Do u xpect dat young dude 2 date a lose anorexia/ hiv bietch? After all d guys nd old men she has bn bc fhuckn eh? Dats is how she throw herself 2 any prick including animals mtcheewwwwww punk. Y is dis low class bietch alwaz forcing her dirty bleached out skin 4 our 9ja musicians? Somtym ago it was ice-prince! He dumped her watery smelly flat shapeless ass! now wot? Go bck 2 ancient Ghana nd gt ur ape men 2 sew up ur expanded pussie nd fhuck it bietch. U shud b ashamed of urself 4 demotn ur cheap silly ass 4 younger artist who aint tinkn of marriage in d nxt 5-7yrs. NTOR#tongue out# Reply this thread

Ebony | 7/5/2013 5:04:52 PM | Oh pls are u a guy or female?why are u swearing ?and what are. Swearing for?iyanya is an uncivilised cow there is no need for guys to be defending him by insulting Yvonne Nielsen ,what happened btw them is nt any bodys business,the guy iyanya is simply an animal that has no respect for women.

stupi-d mumu | 7/5/2013 3:56:47 PMlegend my assss legend in arm rubbing , legend in licking ur moda,s watery p***yyy. stop talking ill abt GHANA. come and see ur useless women herer fuk.king their wide open smell p***yyyy here . the men even don,t pay dem . f**lllllllll legend Reply this thread

Beatz | 7/5/2013 4:32:42 PMThis Iyanya and Yvonne Nelson tori no go ever end. Make you two just get married now, make person fit hear word for una. Reply this thread

Jane-frances | 7/5/2013 4:49:14 PMNawa,enough of Ghana-Naija war on dis site,we are all one,we are all Africans,weda naija men like ghana women or vice-versa it is nt a big deal,it is a matter of what d hrt wants,it is a free world,abeg Iyanya,and Yvonne settle ur case privately and respectably. Reply this thread

evelyn | 7/5/2013 5:12:25 PMWhy don't u go out der nd look 4 a cute guy insted of u wasting ur time with someone dat doesn't hav ur time again, don't u knw dat stars relationship doesn't last? Pls we need a sex story about u nd nt dis robish u post every munite. Reply this thread

Ebony | 7/5/2013 5:13:21 PMI think what iyanya did was out of order,sleeping with a girl and hurting her is one bad thing ,starting to put her down in front of the whole world is another bad thing,he acted like a f**l that jst came out of the village,u had her waist and so?u guys had fun together,no matter what happened. Should respect her and act mature ,u have no right as a man to start castigating a girl u have been with before,surprisingly u guys are supporting him and clapping for him for his s****d,f*****h,uncivilised attitude,u all came out of the same water p***y,was it your dad that dis ironed your mm,most of u talking r*****h here ur mum was even worsted in he days and yet hs nothing to shw or it,so some respect for women guys,and so be assholes ,and dicks is nt funny is simply s****dity and uncivil station in your own paths. Reply this thread

Mariah Carey Strips And Shows Off Sexy Body To Celebrate US Independence Day (PHOTOS)

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Jonathan, PDP chiefs attack Amaechi at Villa meeting

 

WITH its brawling leaders talking tough, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to be far away from the peace it desperately desires.The President warned yesterday that the “new PDP” would not condone indiscipline, after accusing some of its leading lights of fraternising with the opposition.
He said: “In a situation where somebody is in a particular political party but his faith is in another political party… For those who are not holding political offices, yes you can excuse…But if you are holding an elective office, you won’t be in that party and be working for another party. Otherwise, why are you there?”

It was all at a meeting with some PDP leaders from Rivers State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Although, he did not mention his name, it was clear Dr. Jonathan was referring to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, whom he greeted warmly last Saturday at the Port Harcourt Airport – a scene many read as the end of their perceived misunderstanding.
Amaechi is suspended from the party. He got yesterday a condition to return – he should apologise.
The factional chairman of the Rivers State PDP, Prince Felix Obuah, announced the condition while speaking with State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of elders and leaders of the state with the President.
But Rivers State Commissioner for Information Ibim Semenitari told Obuah to refrain from making unguarded statements.
And a Rivers State Senator, Magnus Abe, dismissed the meeting as a one-sided affair. Only one member of the National Assembly from the state attended.
Responding to a question on Amaechi’s threat to leave PDP, Obuah said: “Everybody is entitled to his own opinion. He has been suspended because of anti-party activities. So, I don’t want to refer to Amaechi’s matter because it is with the NWC of the party. So he has all to say with the party and not me. If he wants to remain in the party, he has to show respect. If he wants to leave, I cannot stop him.”
“That is why we are here. In any case, he has gone to court. If he shows remorse and goes to the party and apologises, we will call him back, but if he still remains recalcitrant and refuses to change, we are not begging for everybody to be in PDP. That is the essence of multiple party democracy. If he wants to remain, fine. But if he wants to leave, nobody will stop him. Well, as he leaves, two will come to PDP. That’s a plus for PDP.”
Stressing that there is no crisis in Rivers PDP, Obuah said: “We want to assure the President that there is no crisis in the party. We are committed members of the PDP and we remain committed. We also assured him that whoever that is not disciplined and who is not in support of our programme should be left out. At every point in time, we let people realise that the party is supreme and the President is the leader of the party and we have come to show our commitment and loyalty to him.”
“We have come to solidarise with the President and we want to pledge our support to his government. We support his transformation agenda. We also thank First Lady for her recent visit to the state and the empowerment programme for women in all the local government areas in our state. Ordinary, this is the first time the leadership of the PDP is paying a courtesy visit to the President. We used the opportunity to appreciate him and wish him well.”
According to a copy of the speech read by Obuah at the meeting, he said: “We are pained and our heart bleeds today that the main champion of opposition in the country against Mr. President and indeed the Federal Government of Nigeria is our own son, Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi. This is indeed shameful.”
“We do not know what has come over the young man. Is it that he wants to destabilise the PDP before his eventual movement to his new party, having been handed over the ACN/APC structure in Rivers State? Unfortunately, he has repeatedly rebuffed every effort by us and well-meaning Nigerians to make him show remorse and respect for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
“Mr. President Sir, we sincerely apologise to you and the First Lady on this sad situation. We appeal that as the saying goes, ‘you do not visit the sin of the father on the son’ and implore your Excellency, to remember us in prayers.”
He went on: “To demonstrate that Rivers people are not with Governor Amaechi in this hostile attitude against Mr. President and our great party, we shall continue to support his suspension from the PDP by the National Working Committee, until he retraces his steps from engaging in anti-party activities.”
“Your Excellency, Governor Amaechi is not only showing disrespect to your office, he is also attacking the Nigeria Police, his grouse that the Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu is not doing his bidding as perhaps, some before him did by being used to terrorise innocent Rivers men and women, including his perceived political opponents. Your Excellency, Mr. Mbu is a God-sent Commissioner of Police who has refused to be used to arrest and harass political opponents of Governor Amaechi and charging them to court on trumped-up charges. We are very proud of his impartiality and we join well-meaning Nigerians in Rivers State to celebrate him as a core professional.”
“It is for this reason that our governor has been doing everything, including instigating commission of crimes to ridicule and blackmail the Commissioner of Police. Governor Amaechi desperately wants Mr. Mbu out of Rivers State and has publicly threatened to lead a street protest in Port Harcourt with hired persons and non Nigerians. The idea of the protest, we understand, is to further press for the removal of the patriotic and selfless Commissioner of Police in Rivers State.”
Obuah also thanked President Jonathan for giving many Rivers State indigenes the opportunity to hold federal appointments.
“Finally, as a party, Mr. President, we in Rivers State assure you that we will continue to support you, the Transformation Agenda and all your policies. As our son-in-law, we guarantee that you can go home and sleep with your two eyes closed, believing that at all times, we will massively support and stand with you, come rain come shine.”
Also speaking with State House correspondents, the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike said: “The governor is suspended, so he can’t come. It is only when he comes back to the party, then he will join us. You can see the men of timber and calibre, the leaders of the party. So, it is not a question of what The Nation or The Sun will publish. I am happy that The Nation and Sun reporters are here and I hope they will publish correctly.”
“Tomorrow, you will see on the front page that a faction of the state PDP…; there is nothing like faction in the PDP. This is the chairman of the party; he led the members of his exco; all the party chairmen and other stakeholders are here.”
On the moves to bring back aggrieved members, Wike said: “We cannot shut our doors to anybody. That is why it is politics. If you are willing to come back, you will do so. The chairman of the party has said so but there are rules which we must comply with and if you cannot comply with the rules, you can’t come back. There must be party discipline. If you don’t want to belong to party A, you may go to party B.
“As I have said before, this issue of threatening does not hold water. It even favours us because people will now see who actually controls the votes in Rivers State. We are on ground and we have the grassroots. Money does not solve all problems.”
He, however, maintained that there is no misunderstanding between him and Amaechi, saying:
“There is no misunderstanding. What you should understand is that in every political process, you expect some disagreements. Some people see it as if there is a personal misunderstanding. There is none.”
“One thing you must understand is that Nigerians do not easily accept change and when change comes, it takes some people some time to accept, but it is change that has come to stay. That the governor does not have the party structure does not make him comfortable. So, all that you are seeing is a reaction to that and we believe that you cannot build a party around a personality.”
“The party is meant for the people and the people make the choice and the choice they made, they were denied and people went to court to get their mandate. It is like a tribunal; if you lose election, you go to tribunal and the tribunal will tell you if you won or lost. Then you can go on appeal; that is the way it is. So, there is nothing personal; rather it is a political activity that is going on.”
Denying the reports that he was shunned by the President last week, Wike said: “First of all, there is nothing like face-saving. If Mr President came on Friday and I received him and when he came back on Saturday, I was the one who mobilised the people and Mr President was quite happy. You can see me with Mr President in the pictures.”
“What you saw was a syndicated job. That is why I am saying and I will continue to say that journalists are supposed to report the truth. Some people stay in government house and write a story and send to you and you publish. You could see that they cut my picture just to prove that I was not there or that Mr President was not happy with me.”
“How would I have mobilised the entire people to see Mr President and he will now say Mr President should not see me. In fact, it is a humiliation to the governor; it is as a result of that humiliation that he went to the church the following day to now say I am a betrayer. It was that anger.”
The former Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter Odilli, harped on respect for authority and discipline in the party.
He said: “There is no human problem without a human solution. What is important is for us to recognize that at any point in time respect for authority, respect for the rule of law, discipline is the guiding principle that will make us run whatever system or societies we are running in an orderly, disciplined fashion, in a way that will be inclusive for all stakeholders to contribute maximally to the well being and purpose of the organisation.”
Optimistic that the crisis in the state will soon be a thing of the past, Odili said: “My assurance to you on behalf of the new leadership of the party of the state is that you will see an end to this exchanges that put Rivers State PDP in bad light. The end will be for the family to resolve the matter in a way that will reflect the discipline and the proper organisation of the party.”
On the meeting with Jonathan, he said: “The leadership of the Rivers State PDP came with its executive to meet the leader of the party in the nation. And it was a very cordial meeting and a reunion, if you like, because for quite sometime the party in the state has not interfaced with the leadership at the centre. It was a very warm and cheerful meeting.”
Among those who attended the meeting yesterday were the Acting National Deputy Chairman of PDP and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche, Uche Secondus, Austin Opkara, Senator Lee Maeba, Fred Kpakol, Ama Pepple, and Walter Opuene.

Others are former Transport Minister, Abiye Sekibo, Senator George Sekibo, Sergeant Awuse, Kenneth Kobani, Timothy Nsirim, Doris Fisher, Toru Ofili, Boma Iyaye, Evans Bipi, Hope Ikiriko, Vincent Nemieboka and Elemchukwu Ogbowu.(The Nation)

House of Reps denies knowledge of EFCC, ICPC merger

The House of Representatives, yesterday, dispelled media report on the recently approved merger of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Federal Government.The House said such a merger could not have been sealed without the National Assembly being duly carried along.The merging of the EFCC and the ICPC was part of recommendations made by the Steve Orosanye-led Presidential Committee on Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.
The merger of the two agencies was reported to have received the approval of the Federal Executive Council, and was part of the restructuring in the public service.House Committee Chairman on Anti-Corruption, James Abiodun Faleke, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Lagos State, who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen, stated that since the two agencies were creation of laws passed by the National Assembly, the Federal Government would not effect any merger between them without the consent of the National Assembly.Faleke said the two anti-graft agencies performed different functions as specified by the laws which gave lives to them, dismissing as mere speculations report of their merger.
The ICPC and the EFCC were established in 2000 and 2003 respectively by the Acts of National Assembly.Whereas the ICPC was saddled with the task of investigating cases of corruption within the public sector while making recommendations for prosecution of offenders, the EFCC on the other hand, was charged with the task of investigating financial crimes, such as Advance Fee Fraud (419) and money laundering, although there had been reports that one of the agencies had been interloping in the functions of the other.However, separate sources from both ICPC and EFCC said they were not aware of any plan by the Federal Government to merge their agencies, as they described the report by Orosanye’s committee as mere recommendations.They made clear that there had never been a White Paper published on the merger of the two agencies, stating that for such merger to take place, the government would have consulted with the management of the two agencies.Recently, chairman of ICPC, Barrister Ekpo Nta, affirmed the relevance of his commission in the fight against corruption which, according to him, has been commanding the attention of the international community.
He disclosed that the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC, required that every country had a dedicated anti-corruption agency separate from the police since corruption, as a menace, was getting increasingly pervasive and intrusive across the globe.The ICPC Boss attested that many countries now had anti-corruption agencies, stating that proponents and advocates of a merger of ICPC and other anti corruption agencies with the Nigerian Police might not have been aware of the international desire on the mode of fighting corruption across the globe.

We won’t allow indiscipline in PDP, says Jonathan

We won’t allow indiscipline in PDP, says Jonathan

President Jonathan told the Rivers PDP delegation that indiscipline would no longer be tolerated in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).He said: “Rivers State is a key state to Southeasterners. It is a key state that needs very strong, focused, committed leadership and maximum political unity and stability. Otherwise, anything could happen and affect the whole country.

“For us to have a stable democracy, we have to have a strong political party. And that is why we get worried when we notice some of the indiscipline in some of the political parties. And the new PDP that we are all working together for will no longer tolerate indiscipline.
“All over the world, parties are supposed to build on ideological differences. These may be close. If you look at the classical case of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC) that were created by the military, their ideologies were a little to the right and a little to the left.
“That is the essence of politics. But, in a situation where somebody is in a particular political party but his faith is in another political party… For those who are not holding political offices, yes you can excuse…But if you are holding an elective office, you won’t be in that party and be working for another party. Otherwise, why are you there?”
Jonathan added: “I have listened to the introductions and being a Rivers person, I know key political actors in Rivers State; the who’s who in Rivers State; and they are here. I want to thank you for building this political structure for the state, for the interest of Rivers State and to position Rivers State in the politics of the country.
“To me, I have been working with people of Rivers State for quite some time before I got here. I have had a robust relationship with my brothers and sisters in Rivers State. They are very reliable people who I believe will not speak with both sides of their mouths.”

Amaechi to IG: Redeploy Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu now

GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, threatened to stop funding the police, unless the Inspector General of Police and the Federal Government redeploy the state Police Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mbu to another state.He warned that the continued stay of Mbu was worsening the security situation in the state, particularly, with the recent kidnap of three National Youth Service Corps, NYSC members, adding that he (Mbu) had refused to do the job for which he was posted to the state.
He also accused Mbu of being arrogant and disrespectful to constituted authorities.
“I don’t want a Commissioner of Police that will work for me. I want a Commissioner of Police that will work for the state, the Rivers people. So, it is not only me that you should complain to, talk to Inspector-General of Police and those who transferred the Commissioner of Police that was working in the interest of Rivers people.

Port Harcourt is becoming unsafe, and more NYSC members may be kidnapped, except they remove Joseph Mbu.  It will worsen when we (the state government) stop funding the Police, because we will soon stop funding them.”
Amaechi who spoke when the Chairman of the Governing Board of NYSC, Chief Gordon Bozimo led a delegation to him at Government House, Port Harcourt. He said the state Police Commissioner had long abandoned his constitutional role of securing lives and property in the state.
The governor said the crime situation had risen, noting that as Chief Security Officer of the state, there was no way he could achieve any meaningful result in the fight against crime with Mbu as Commissioner of Police.
Amaechi said that the Police Commissioner was a politician, adding that he attends political meetings with those who allegedly brought him to the state.
The governor said: “The Federal Government should post a new Commissioner of Police to Rivers State.  I have no control over the current Commissioner of Police, Mbu, even though the constitution says so.  He called a press conference, where he said, he does not report to the governor of the state, who is the Chief Security Officer of the state. So, how do I (Amaechi) protect our citizens?” Amaechi queried.
“The Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu is a politician, because he attends political meetings with those who brought him to our state and there is no way you can stop that.  The only way you can stop that is to ask the politicians in Abuja to withdraw their Commissioner of Police and allow us to secure Rivers State.
“My fear is that his stay in Rivers State is intended to kill the conducive business climate in Port Harcourt and the fast growing economy of our state,” Amaechi said.
“We used to have a wonderful security system and Commissioners of Police, who understood their functions and knew what to do.  But since the Police in Abuja, suddenly withdrew the predecessor of this current Commissioner of Police and posted the person called Joseph Mbu, nothing has been working.
“Mbu has been sitting with politicians  and the security system is down and out.  Since he came, we have never had peace. We held security council meetings two or three times. But before Mbu came, we held security meetings two or three times every month. We know where our NYSC members are and we knew the level of security arrangement we put in place to protect them.  We also sent operatives of Department of State Security, DSS to watch over them.
“We have equipment that monitors what happens in the state.  The only way they will not kidnap Corpers is to send Joseph Mbu back to where he came from and post us a Commissioner of Police that will serve the interest of this state.”
Earlier, Chief Bozimo said they were at Government House, to thank the governor for his support for the NYSC scheme, lamenting the recent kidnap of three corps members serving in the state. He appealed to the governor to take steps to guarantee the safety of corps members in the state.

Governor Amaechi Escapes Death As Suspicious Vehicle Rams Into His Convoy

The Rivers State Governor Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi yesterday miraculously escaped unhurt as a suspicious vehicle rammed into his convoy along Igwuruta road on the Governor’s way to the Port Harcourt International Airport.According to eyewitness account, the accident was caused by the intrusion of a Toyota Avensis with registration number AAA 767 AQ that rammed into the Governor’s convoy from the opposite side of the dual carriageway, just after the C4I Security Post along the Port Harcourt International Airport Road.
Fortunately no life was lost and the driver of the vehicle was apprehended and handed over to the police.
Rivers State since the last 3 months have been in the news as political bigwigs in the state outwit themselves in a bid to wrest political power and control the political landscape of the oil rich state. Events reached their climax recently when the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Joseph Mbu openly lambasted the Governor whom he described as a Dictator.
The governor earlier in the day was reported to have demanded the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police whom many believe has pitched tent with Abuja-based politicians who are the governor’s political adversaries. The Police high command, in the meantime has however denied knowledge of any affray between Governor Amaechi and the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu.

No need for Amaechi to leave –PDP

Peoples Democratic Party leadership has asked Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State not to leave the party.

 

It noted that with the ongoing reconciliation in the party, there was no need for any of its aggrieved members to defect to another party.

The party’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Tony Okeke, stated this in Abuja on Monday.

Okeke was responding to a threat by Amaechi that he could defect to another party if the PDP no longer wanted to accommodate him.

 

But Okeke, who spoke to one of our correspondents on Monday, said, “There is no need for him (Amaechi) or anyone to leave the party. The reconciliation efforts going on in the party now are all encompassing and we are very positive and hopeful and because of this, there is no need for anyone to leave the party, not even now or in the future.”

 

The PDP, which suspended Amaechi from the party on May 27, set up a committee to investigate the anti-party activities accusations levelled against him.

 

Meanwhile, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Austin Opara, has dismissed Amaechi’s claim that he made him (Opara) a principal officer of the House of Representatives.

 

Opara, who spoke with journalists in Abuja, also said it was wrong for the governor to tag him a betrayer.
 

He wondered how Amaechi, as the then Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, could have influenced his emergence as a principal officer of the House of Representatives, when he was not even a member of the National Assembly.
 

He said, “The process of electing the presiding officers of the House of Representatives is well known. It is through election on the floor of the House.
 

“Since the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives was zoned to the South-South, I spoke to all the governors from the zone and my state governor. How did Amaechi make me the Deputy Speaker?”
 

Also, a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, has warned that the PDP will lose the 2015 election if it fails to reconcile its aggrieved members and resolve the crisis rocking it.
 

Peterside, who represents Opobo/Nkoro/Andoni Federal Constituency, stated that without reconciling members of the party, it would be difficult for it to win the next general elections in the country.

The lawmaker said the PDP was currently in disarray, adding that any political party in such a situation would not win any election.
 

Peterside, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Downstream, said though Amaechi was still in the PDP, he would not hesitate to leave the party if the governor decides to defect to another party.
 

The lawmaker said, “If you say the PDP in Rivers State is in disarray, are you not sure the party (PDP) in Nigeria is in disarray?”

STF killed more than 100 bandits in Langtang – Commander

The Special Task Force (STF), maintaining the peace in Plateau killed “more than 100’’ of the bandits that attacked Lantang villages last week, according to its Commander, Brig. Gen. Henry Ayoola.
“The latest figure of the attackers that fell to our fire works in the counter gun duel is more than 100. We really devastated them because we circled them up from various angles. They have never been so hit.
“STF troops deployed to Magama had first engaged them before they were later supported by additional troops that came from Shndam,’’ Ayoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Wednesday.

Alleged ThisDay bomber fails to stop trial

 

 

An Abuja Federal High Court on Tuesday held that a suspected Boko Haram member, Mustapha Umar, who was accused of attempting to bomb a plaza housing the offices of some newspapers in Kaduna in April 2012, had a case to answer.

 

The court presided over by Justice Adeniyi Ademola dismissed a no-case submission filed by the accused after the prosecution had concluded calling witnesses against him.

 

Umar’s lawyer, Nureini Sulaiman, had in the application argued that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against his client.

 

But Justice Ademola ruled that the suspect had a case to answer, and ordered him to open his defence.

 

As a result of the development, Umar testified in his own defence, claiming that he was innocent of the one count of terrorism filed against him.

 

He denied the confessional statement he made in a video-evidence tendered by the prosecution and admitted as evidence by the court.

 

Umar said the video, where he admitted the charge, was doctored by his interrogators, who he accused of excluding where he was tortured and compelled to confess to the crime.

 

In the said video, Umar was seen freely answering questions put to him by a police interrogator.

Man, 73, arrested for defiling boy

The Jigawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) yesterday arrested a 73-year-old man, Ibrahim Hassan, while allegedly  defiling a seven year old boy in a bush in Bigidan town of Birnin-Kudud Local Government Area of the state.

 Addressing newsmen, Commandant of NSCDC in the state, Muhammad Gidado, said his men monitored the movement of the suspect for nine days before they caught him in the act, adding that the suspect admitted that he has been sleeping with little boys for some years.

 

The boy, according to the commandant, confessed that this is the fourth time the old man is sleeping with him. Gidado said a medical examination would be conducted to ascertain the condition of the boy.

Female Boko Haram Member Loses Leg To IED She Was Planting

A middle aged woman suspected to be a member of Islamist sect Boko Haram on Sunday had one of her legs shattered while trying to plant an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, on a Baga Road market square in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital

The woman said to be carrying the IED to the area where it would have been planted, but it detonated before she reached her destination.
An eyewitness who identified herself as Abubakar Kundiri said: “We were sitting under this tree with two of my friends when the woman passed by carrying something in her bag that looked like a tin of cowbell milk. Immediately when she reached there, (pointing to the area) she bent over and put the object she was carrying on the ground.
“No sooner had she stood up than we heard a loud sound and her leg was torn into pieces.
“In fact, we were very lucky to be alive as we never knew she was carrying a device which could have exploded and killed all of us,” she stated.
The ‘Civilian JTF’, a group of youths assisting security agents in the offensive against Boko Haram in the state, also arrested two women with AK47 rifles at the Monday Market yesterday, as women’s involvement in the Islamist sect group gets bigger.

Vigilante Burns Down Borno ANPP Chairman's House For Sponsoring Boko Haram

The Borno state Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Alhaji Mala Othman narrowly escaped death, when Volunteer Youth group, popularly known as Civilian JTF stormed his New GRA residence in Maiduguri on Monday and raised it down, alleging that he is one of the sponsors of Boko Haram militants.DailyPost in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital has gathered that as early as 10:30 am, the youth in their hundreds stormed the politician’s house, demanding for his arrest and burnt down his building, chanting Sai mun Kawo Karshensu, meaning (we must bring to an end their activities).
The youth blocked the entire major streets leading to his house to avoid harming innocent people passing through the area. Efforts by the youth to track down the politician proved abortive, as he was later sneaked out of the house by security operatives.
On realizing that the ANPP chairman has been smuggled out, the youth set his house ablaze and proceeded to the house of his boss, the former Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, chanting “Saura Mai Gidan shi” meaning ( His boss’ house is the next), but they were prevented by the security men who manned the gate. The security men also shot sporadically into the air to disperse the rampaging youth.
It would be recalled that the youth have been hunting for the ANPP chairman, Alhaji Mala Othman, alleging that both the Chairman and his boss were responsible for the ongoing crisis in the state.