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- "I never used drugs, what happened is home trouble" - Majek Fashek
- Charly Boy's father Justice Oputa passes on at 89
- CAN releases 180 names of abducted Chibok schoolgirls
- Video: Dubai police is helping my son's killer cover up his crime - Aisha Falode
- Singer "Xcellente" releases new promotional photos
- Tiwa Savage also replies Etcetera
- Teebillz replies Etcetera on his article on female celebs & 2nd-hand husbands
- The President I want' - By Chimamanda Adichie
- 'How we jumped out of Boko Haram truck' - girls who escaped speak
- FFK accuses some 'key individuals' of sponsoring Boko Haram in new article
- Funturf partner for Ogun State Zamba Park
- Nigerian student wins $350,000 Bill Gates Millennium scholarship
- Four killed in well trying to retrieve bucket in Cross Rivers State
- He may look like a 'street dude', but this Nigerian student has a 5.0 GPA
- Photos: Singer Kween gives husband Pontiac sports car as birthday present
- Basketmouth Uncensored. June 29th. Eko Hotel, Lagos
- Photo: Witch allegedly found in a compound in Uyo
- FG blocks Sanusi from travelling abroad; seizes his passport again
- BBA Housemate Elikem proposes to Pokello on stage at the Ghana Music Awards
- Liber T. presents Godfather directed video 'Gan Gan'
- Mercy Johnson writes on missing school girls
- Nigerian doctor killed by husband in the US has been laid to rest
- Photos: #BringBackOurGirls protests hold in Newyork and D.C
- Twin bomb explosion rock Kenya
- Photos: Genevieve Nnaji celebrates birthday with friends
| "I never used drugs, what happened is home trouble" - Majek Fashek Posted: 04 May 2014 12:53 PM PDT    He also said his problem is spiritual. Majek said he's currently working on an album which would be released sometime in June |
| Charly Boy's father Justice Oputa passes on at 89 Posted: 04 May 2014 01:37 PM PDT   |
| CAN releases 180 names of abducted Chibok schoolgirls Posted: 04 May 2014 12:16 PM PDT  According to a report by Vanguard, CAN is also asking for N50m damage as trauma compensation for the girls, plus overseas University on Government scholarship for each girl from the federal govt. A statement signed by the Christian body gave reason for the attack on Chibok girls' high school. "Chibok is 90% Christians. Majority of the girls abducted are Christian! Why did Boko Haram visit Chibok Local Government? Why didn't they visit so many other Local Government Girls Secondary Schools in Borno State?"See the names of 180 abducted girls as released by CAN after the cut... The names as released by CAN. 1 Deborah Abge Chrstian 2. Awa Abge " 3. Hauwa Yirma " 4. Asabe Manu " 5. Mwa Malam pogu " 6. Patiant Dzakwa " 7. Saraya Mal. Stover " 8. Mary Dauda " 9. Gloria Mainta " 10.Hanatu Ishaku " 11. Gloria Dama " 12. Tabitha Pogu " 13. Maifa Dama " 14. Ruth kollo " 15. Esther Usman " 16 Awa James 17 Anthonia Yahonna 18 Kume Mutah 19 Aisha Ezekial " 20 Nguba Buba " 21 Kwanta Simon. 22 Kummai Aboku. 23 Esther Markus 24 Hana Stephen. 25. Rifkatu Amos 26 Rebecca Mallum 27.Blessing Abana. 28. Ladi Wadai 29. Tabitha Hyelampa. 30 Ruth Ngladar . 31 Safiya Abdu . 32 Na'omi Yahonna. 33 Solomi Titus . 34Rhoda John 35 Rebecca Kabu 36. Christy Yahi. 37. Rebecca Luka. 38. Laraba John 39 Saratu Markus. 40. Mary Usman. 41 Debora Yahonna. 42.Naomi Zakaria 43 Hanatu Musa 44. Hauwa Tella 45.Juliana Yakubu. 46. Suzana Yakubu 47.Saraya Paul. 48. Jummai Paul 49. Mary Sule 50. Jummai John. 51.Yanke Shittima. 52. Muli Waligam . 53. Fatima Tabji. 54. Eli Joseph. 55.Saratu Emmanuel. 56. Deborah Peter. 57.Rahila Bitrus. 58. Luggwa Sanda. 59. Kauna Lalai. 60. Lydia Emmar. 61.Laraba Maman. 62.Hauwa Isuwa. 63. Confort Habila. 64. Hauwa Abdu. 65. Hauwa Balti. 66.Yana Joshua. 67.Laraba Paul. 68.Saraya Amos. 69. Glory Yaga. 70. Na'omi Bitrus. 71. Godiya Bitrus. 72. Awa Bitrus. 73. Na'omi Luka. 74. Maryamu Lawan. 75. Tabitha Silas. 76. Mary Yahona. 77. Ladi Joel. 78. Rejoice Sanki. 79. Luggwa Samuel. 80.Comfort Amos. 81. Saraya Samuel. 82. Sicker Abdul. 83.Talata Daniel. 84. Rejoice Musa. 85Deborah Abari. 86. Salomi Pogu. 87.Mary Amor. 88. Ruth Joshua. 89Esther John. 90. Esther Ayuba. 91. Maryamu Yakubu. 91. Zara Ishaku. 93. Maryamu Wavi 94. Lydia Habila. 95. Laraba Yahonna. 96. Na'omi Bitrus. 97.Rahila Yahanna. 98. Ruth Lawan. 99. Ladi Paul. 100 Mary Paul. 101. Esther Joshua. 102. Helen Musa. 103. Margret Watsai. 104. Deborah Jafaru. 105. Filo Dauda. 106. Febi Haruna. 107.Ruth Ishaku. 108.Racheal Nkeki. 109. Rifkatu Soloman. 110.Mairama yahaya. 111.Saratu Dauda. 112.Jinkai Yama. 113.Margret Shettima. 114.Yana yidau. 115. Grace Paul. 116. Amina Ali. 117. Palmata Musa 118. Awagana Musa 119. Pindar Nuhu 120.Yana Pogu. 121. Saraya Musa 122. Hauwa Joseph. 123. Hauwa kwakwi. 125. Hauwa Musa. 126. Maryamu Musa. 127. Maimuna Usman. 128. Rebeca Joseph. 129.Liyatu Habitu. 130. Rifkatu Yakubu. 131. Naomi Philimon. 132.Deborah Abbas. 133. Ladi Ibrahim. 134. Asabe Ali 135. Maryamu Bulama. 136.Ruth Amos. 137.Mary Ali 138. Abigail Bukar 139 Deborah Amos 140. Saraya Yanga 141. Kauna Luka 142. Christiana Bitrus 143.Yana Bukar 144. Hauwa peter 145.Hadiza Yakubu. 146.Lydia Simon 147. Ruth Bitrus . 148.Mary Yakubu 149.Lugwa Mutah. 150 Muwa Daniel. 151 Hanatu Nuhu 152. Monica Enoch. 153. Margret Yama. 154.Docas yakubu. 155. Rhoda peter 156. Rifkatu Galang 157. Saratu Ayuba. 158. Naomi Adamu. 159. Hauwa Ishaya 160. Rahap Ibrahim 162. Deborah Soloman. 163Hauwa Mutah 164. Hauwa Takai. 165. Serah Samuel. Below are the Muslim Girls. 166. Aishatu Musa. 167. Aishatu Grema. 168. Hauwa Nkeki 169. Hamsatu Abubakar 170.Mairama Abubakar. 171 Hauwa Wule 172. Ihyi Abdu 173. Hasana Adamu. 174. Rakiya Kwamtah 175 Halima Gamba. 176. Aisha Lawan . 177. Kabu Malla 178. Yayi Abana. 179. Falta Lawan. 180. Kwadugu Manu. |
| Video: Dubai police is helping my son's killer cover up his crime - Aisha Falode Posted: 04 May 2014 12:03 PM PDT   According to her, Fezal a Saudi Arabian is responsible for her son's death and up till now, her son has not gotten justice. She said Fezal's father is a rich man who has a lot of investment in Dubai and the police there are doing everything to cover him up. Watch the video after the cut... |
| Singer "Xcellente" releases new promotional photos Posted: 04 May 2014 11:12 AM PDT      Check out the video of his hit single Jalaa ft Solidstar below.. |
| Tiwa Savage also replies Etcetera Posted: 04 May 2014 06:49 AM PDT |
| Teebillz replies Etcetera on his article on female celebs & 2nd-hand husbands Posted: 04 May 2014 07:02 AM PDT     |
| The President I want' - By Chimamanda Adichie Posted: 04 May 2014 06:52 AM PDT 
My uncle's return illustrates a feeling shared by many Nigerians about Boko Haram: a lack of hope, a lack of confidence in our leadership. We are experiencing what is, apart from the Biafran war, the most violent period in our nation's existence. Like many Nigerians, I am distressed about the students murdered in their school, about the people whose bodies were spattered in Nyanya, about the girls abducted in Chibok. I am furious that politicians are politicizing what should be a collective Nigerian mourning, a shared Nigerian sadness. And I find our president's actions and non-actions unbelievably surreal. I do not want a president who, weeks after girls are abducted from a school and days after brave Nigerians have taken to the streets to protest the abductions, merely announces a fact-finding committee to find the girls. I want President Jonathan to be consumed, utterly consumed, by the state of insecurity in Nigeria. I want him to make security a priority, and make it seem like a priority. I want a president consumed by the urgency of now, who rejects the false idea of keeping up appearances while the country is mired in terror and uncertainty. I want President Jonathan to know – and let Nigerians know that he knows – that we are not made safer by soldiers checking the boots of cars, that to shut down Abuja in order to hold a World Economic Forum is proof of just how deeply insecure the country is. We have a big problem, and I want the president to act as if we do. I want the president to slice through the muddle of bureaucracy, the morass of 'how things are done,' because Boko Haram is unusual and the response to it cannot be business as usual. I want President Jonathan to communicate with the Nigerian people, to realize that leadership has a strong psychological component: in the face of silence or incoherence, people lose faith. I want him to humanize the lost and the missing, to insist that their individual stories be told, to show that every Nigerian life is precious in the eyes of the Nigerian state. I want the president to seek new ideas, to act, make decisions, publish the security budget spending, offer incentives, sack people. I want the president to be angrily heartbroken about the murder of so many, to lie sleepless in bed thinking of yet what else can be done, to support and equip the armed forces and the police, but also to insist on humaneness in the midst of terror. I want the president to be equally enraged by soldiers who commit murder, by policemen who beat bomb survivors and mourners. I want the president to stop issuing limp, belated announcements through public officials, to insist on a televised apology from whoever is responsible for lying to Nigerians about the girls having been rescued. I want President Jonathan to ignore his opponents, to remember that it is the nature of politics, to refuse to respond with defensiveness or guardedness, and to remember that Nigerians are understandably cynical about their government. I want President Jonathan to seek glory and a place in history, instead of longevity in office. I want him to put aside the forthcoming 2015 elections, and focus today on being the kind of leader Nigeria has never had. I do not care where the president of Nigeria comes from. Even those Nigerians who focus on 'where the president is from' will be won over if they are confronted with good leadership that makes all Nigerians feel included. I have always wanted, as my president, a man or a woman who is intelligent and honest and bold, who is surrounded by truth-telling, competent advisers, whose policies are people-centered, and who wants to lead, who wants to be president, but does not need to – or have to- be president at all costs. President Jonathan may not fit that bill, but he can approximate it: by being the leader Nigerians desperately need now. By Chimamanda Adichie |
| 'How we jumped out of Boko Haram truck' - girls who escaped speak Posted: 04 May 2014 05:39 AM PDT  What is your name? Sawok: My name is Amina Sawok. Walse: My name is Thabita Walse. Can you describe the attack on your school? Sawok: We were in the hostel. One of the men dressed in military camouflage asked us where our dining hall was. From our hostels, they took us to the dining hall and from there, we were moved into the waiting vehicles and they headed towards Damboa town. The incident happened around 11pm. Walse: It is a long story. They came to our school and deceived us into believing they were soldiers. They were dressed in military uniform and made us believe they were about rescuing us only for us to later find out that they were insurgents. When we discovered, it was already too late and there was little we could do. Continue... At what point did you know they were not real soldiers but insurgents? Sawok: They were shouting and rude. That was when it became clear to us that they were insurgents, then they started shooting and set our school on fire. They even shot the security men guarding the school. How did you escape? Sawok: I jumped out of the vehicle that looked like a truck. Walse: Our vehicle developed a problem and they were forced to stop. I took the opportunity with some girls to run into a dark bush. What gave you the courage to jump out of the vehicle? Sawok: I have heard a lot about Boko Haram, the bad things they do and how they have killed many people in the state. I was afraid and I became desperate. I felt getting to their camp could be dangerous for me and it would be better if I escaped. That gave me the courage to jump out. I believed that I would only get injured since it was dark and they may not know how to look for me in the bush. Did all the girls that escaped plan it? Sawok: No, I believe the same thing was running through our minds. Immediately one of us jumped out, the rest of us just started following her. Do you have any injury? Sawok: No, I am very fine. How do you feel about the others that were not able to escape? Sawok: I would have loved all of us to escape. I can't celebrate my escape because some of my friends and classmates are still in the hands of the insurgents and I don't know what they are facing. It is my prayer that they should be freed. Walse: I have no problem, I am okay and very strong physically. The only problem I have is that some of my friends are still held hostage by terrorists. |
| FFK accuses some 'key individuals' of sponsoring Boko Haram in new article Posted: 04 May 2014 05:31 AM PDT   "My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed. At the last count the number of those killed is no less than 39 despite attempts by the international and local media to play the number of casualties down. This damning display of primordial and pure savagery by Boko Haram comes barely two weeks after over 100 innocent people, including women and children, were killed by another bomb, on the same spot and by the same people. This is surely too much for us to bear. Worst still the country, and indeed the international community, is still grappling with the Chibok affair in which no less than 234 young school girls were abducted from their schools and turned into sex slaves by Boko Haram. At this juncture one is compelled to ask the following question: how much more can we take before the centre fails to hold and everything falls apart? How much more can we take before some madman in uniform gets up, takes advantage of the situation, does the unacceptable and unthinkable, seizes the broadcasting stations and subjects us to a familiar yet unwelcome early morning speech which is preceded by ''fellow Nigerians'' and which ends with the announcement of a ''dawn to dusk curfew''? May God forbid that this should ever happen in our country again as it would be a tragedy of monuemental proportions and it would set us back by at least 50 years. Worst still Nigeria may not even survive it and it may well result in another civil war. I have no doubt that despite our monuemental security challenges, the preservation of our fast-evolving democratic culture and structures remains the only way forward and that we must do all that we can to protect this dispensation. The best that we can do is to continue to speak out, to protest, to write, to demonstrate, to create awareness, to march, to pray and to demand that our Government and security forces do a better job by fighting Boko Haram with an equal and commiserate amount of viciousness and savagery that the islamist terrorists are fighting us. I feel a deep sense of outrage and shame and I utterly deplore the fact that the Federal Government has once again failed to protect the lives of the Nigerian people. Yet it is not just the Federal Government that has failed but all the the governments at all levels, including our State Governors and Local Government Area Chairmen. As a matter of fact every single one of us that is in the ruling class of this country or that is a member of it's political elite has failed woefully. We must all carry a share of the blame in varying degrees. Every single one of us has a little blood on our hands as a consequence of our sheer indifference to the collective plight of our people and our inability to act at the appropiate time when we saw all this coming. I hereby join millions of Nigerians in condemning this latest beastly attack on Nyanya and I have nothing but contempt and disgust for the Haramites and those that secretly support them. May God deliver our country from the grip of these Boko demons that feed fat on human flesh and blood and that seek to terrorise us into submission and may the souls of those that have been killed rest in peace. Yet let us get past the rather obvious and simplistic statements and submissions and let us look at this whole matter from a deeper perspective and in a more refreshing, meaningful and holistic manner. Let us stop merely scratching at the surface and let us get to the root of the problem. It is time for us to get real and to speak some hard truths. Consider the following. When some people are so hell bent on taking power that they begin to bomb their citizens in order to achieve it one has to begin to question the continued viability of our much flaunted unity. When some people believe that it is their right to rule in perpetuity and that if they do not get their way they must make the country ungovernable and kill as many people as possible, one must decide whether or not we are really one nation. When some people are prepared to use religion as a political tool, shed as much innocent blood as possible and pervert the very tenets of the faith that they claim to espouse, one must decide whether those of us that do not share their world view are prepared to remain in the same cage as those that are clearly nothing but ravenous beasts. There is far more to the Boko Haram phenomenon than meets the eye and Nigerians just don't get it yet. They are not prepared to hear the truth let alone accept it and, sadly, perhaps they never will. This is a nation that has an identity crisis and that still does not want to accept the fact that it is at war with itself. They do not want to accept the ugly fact that there are some key individuals, who some of them still literally worship and rever, that are the ones actually encouraging, fuelling and funding Boko Haram and that are waging war against our people. They do not want to accept that there is an international dimension to this matter which is beyond their knowledge, understanding or comprehension. May God open their eyes and help them to recognise what they are up against before it is too late. Until that happens and each and every Nigerian is prepared to take up arms against Boko Haram and those that are secretly behind it our people will continue to be terrorised, slaughtered, abducted and enslaved. And whether anyone likes to accept it or not there are quite a number of people who fall into the category of Boko Haram sympathisers even though they remain in the shadows. For example there is a very combative, visible and vocal individual from the north-western part of our country who has been accused of covertly funding and supporting the islamist cause and terrorism for many years. That same individual was described to the FBI as a ''trusted mentor'' by Umar Faruk Mutallab, the Nigerian ''underwear bomber'', who attempted to blow up a plane filled with passengers as it was about to land in the United States of America a few years ago. Again that same individual has been accused of having a hand in one of the most heinous and brutal sectarian murders in the history of our country when a young man by the name of Gideon Akaluka, from Benue state, was cold-bloodedly beheaded by a rampaging mob in Kano for supposedly ''desecrating the koran''. Akaluka's severed head was paraded on a long pole all over the streets of the city before a cheering and roaring crowd for many hours and the whole gory event was actually video-taped by the perpetrators themselves. Such barbarity has rarely been seen in the history of our country. Yet this individual has not been brought to justice or even questioned about these matters. Is it any wonder that Boko Haram appears to be going from strength to strength? The truth is that they have many friends in high places and President Goodluck Jonathan himself once alluded to this. Another individual, who was a former Head of State, was quoted as saying the following in 2001- ''I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria. God-willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the sharia in the country. Muslims should vote at the next Presidential election only for someone who will defend their faith''. This former Head of State may not have any link with today's terrorism or Boko Haram but has the words that he uttered on sharia in 2001 not made matters worse? Were the seeds of Boko Haram not planted at that time by such comments and such contributions? Yet another former Head of State did not help matters when he treated what he described as ''political sharia'' with kid gloves when he was in power. He failed to deal decisively with it at the time and he said that it would eventually ''fizzle out''. This did not happen and today we are witnessing the results of his complacence and his inability to crush the beast at an early stage before it grew fangs. Now that vampiric beast is biting us with those fangs day and night and it is eating our flesh and drinkng our blood. For those that fail to see the nexus between political sharia and Boko Haram and that fail to appreciate the connection between the two permit me to put the following questions. Was the movement for political sharia not the precursor to Boko Haram? When you tolerate a monster and give room for extreme philosophies to take root are you not asking for trouble? When you give an inch will the beast not take a mile? When you compromise on fundamental issues such as the secularity of the state and allow islamist ideology to flourish in the name of political expediency and compromise are you not asking for trouble? When you run away from fighting a righteous war that must be fought sooner or later are you not postponing it for another day? Over ten years later we are reaping the consequences and rewards of our cowardice, indifference and indolence when faced with political sharia. The truth is that all our leaders have failed to solve this problem over the years and their lack of firm resolve to do so has simply caused it to spread and to become more virulent. Worst still some have completely capitulated and bowed in shame and helplessness before the evil scourge. As a glaring example of this, just a few months ago, an elder statesman that was at the time no less a personality than the National Chairman of the ruling party described the Haramites of Boko as ''freedom fighters''. Is there anything more shameful than that? I really do wonder whose freedom they seek to secure and who they are fighting for? Is it the freedom to kill our people and to abduct and enslave our children? Such sentiments and expressions of sympathy for the enemies of our people are a national disgrace and those that express them ought to be called out and held to account. Sadly the next few months and years are very bleak for our nation. As a matter of fact we may not even have a nation left in the next few months and years if things continue this way. I just hope and pray that we all appreciate the fact that we are in for the long haul and that whether we like it or not Boko Haram is here to stay. It is either that we succumb to them, accept their demands, bow to them and allow them to change our way of life or we fight them into the ground, eliminate every single one of them, flush them out, burn the Sambisi forest to the ground, avenge our people, preserve our way of life and restore our self-respect and dignity. It is either that we accept their evil, conceede to the establishment of a Taliban-style islamic fundamentalist state in the whole of our country and espouse it wholeheartedly or we fight a brutal, bloody, long and righteous war to preserve the unity of our nation, to protect the secularity of our state and to enthrone righteousness and justice. The choice is ours. The Haramites of Boko have already made their choice and they made it long ago. And that choice is to subject the Nigerian people to terror, murder, humiliation, carnage and bondage and bring us to servitude and to our knees. They will continue to effect this satanic agenda unless and until we get off our knees, stand up like men and say ''enough is enough''. They will continue to do so unless and until we are ready to say that Nigeria is worth dying for and that we are ready to fight back . May God deliver Nigeria. |
| Funturf partner for Ogun State Zamba Park Posted: 04 May 2014 05:30 AM PDT  As the football season approaches, Ogun State Govt has gone into partnership with Funturf International to bring live experience from Brazil to soccer loving indigenes & residents of the state. The first of its kind project is an initiative of the Dr Lanre Tejuosho led Ministry of Sports which is scheduled to hold for 30 days in three locations namely Sagamu, Ijebu ode and the capital city of Abeokuta. Continue...  According to Olumide Mabawonku, CEO, Funturf International, the project is scheduled to hold throughout the month of June. Explaining more, he revealed that Funturf International together with other technical partners including top shot logistic company Kal Productions and foremost PR company MH Media will beam live football experience from giant screens. "Funturf International is pleased to work with Ogun State Sports Ministry under the visionary leadership of Honourable Lanre Tejuosho. We are excited to work the hardworking team from Ogun State Ministry of Sport. We are bringing a unique experience that combines football and entertainment," Mabawonku added. The 30 days event will also feature world class performances from major Nigerian artist as well as major suprises.  |
| Nigerian student wins $350,000 Bill Gates Millennium scholarship Posted: 04 May 2014 05:15 AM PDT  Aside from winning the Gates scholarship, she has won other awards including, Most Outstanding Science Student, Hubert Flowers High School, Maryland; Winner, Prince George's Community Church's 8th Annual African American History Essay Contest; 3rd place winner, Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education Essay Contest 2014; and Maryland Representative at the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Parade. Very inspiring. Congrats to her. |
| Four killed in well trying to retrieve bucket in Cross Rivers State Posted: 04 May 2014 05:10 AM PDT  According to a Vanguard report, the first person to enter the well was John Ushie, who lived in the compound. While preparing to go to work that day, he went to the well in the compound to fetch water but the bucket he was using to draw water fell in the well. He thought it was a good idea to try to retrieve the bucket but ended up drowning when he jumped into the well. His brother, Boniface, who was not around when the incident occurred, rushed home and jumped into the well to rescue his brother but also downed in the process. When Boniface didn't come out, another neighbor jumped in to try to rescue the two brothers and he too drowned. When the landlord of the house, Eyung Ebam, saw what had happened, he too jumped into the well to rescue the drowned men and...yes, he also drowned. Sounds like something from 'Tales By Moonlight' but apparently this really happened. Continue... From Vanguard "It was at this point that nobody was willing to get into the well and the National Drug Law Enforcement, NDLEA, officials who were mounting a road block close to the house called the Fire Service and they arrived soon ", an eye witness told Sunday Vanguard. The eye witness explained that when the Fire Service men arrived, one of them jumped into the well with a rope with which he tied the landlord who was the last person to drown in order to pull him out. "He tied the rope around his chest region and gradually his colleagues dragged him out but when he got close to the point they wanted to grab him and pull him out, the rope slipped and he went down again hitting the others inside which may have eventually killed everyone inside," the neighbour said. The four bodies were pulled out by the Fire Service men and taken to County Hospital, Ikom Four Corners and the victims confirmed dead by Dr. Ukwam, the medical doctor, there. An official of the Cross River State Fire Service, Ikom, Mt Linus Ework, said he got a distress call at about 7 am and he and his men rushed to the scene to rescue the victims but "it was unfortunate that it was a little too late as three of them were pulled out dead". |
| He may look like a 'street dude', but this Nigerian student has a 5.0 GPA Posted: 04 May 2014 04:41 AM PDT   The Oakland teen, who is a senior at Technical High School, has a 5.0 GPA, scored a 2100 on his SATs and has been accepted into Yale, Brown and Columbia. Tunde was recently on the Ellen Degeneres show were he announced he has decided to attend Yale. The talk show host invited Tunde to her show after hearing about the many obstacles he had to face to get to where he is today. Ellen wanted to do something for him that he'll never forget. Continue..  "I didn't even know you could get a 5.0 GPA ... Have you always been a good student?" Ellen asked Tunde. "Yeah, I guess it started when I was young - just got on like a good path, when I got home from school after practice and sports, always right to homework," Tunde said. Ellen presented Tunde with a check for $12,000 to help with tuition....  "I asked him about his SAT score months back. "Oh I got it back...I have a 2100" he said and I'm like, "Wow! When were you going to tell me?"  You can read more about Tunde on BET and UK Daily Mail |
| Photos: Singer Kween gives husband Pontiac sports car as birthday present Posted: 04 May 2014 04:16 AM PDT     |
| Basketmouth Uncensored. June 29th. Eko Hotel, Lagos Posted: 04 May 2014 03:54 AM PDT After a very successful tour that hit Port Harcourt, Aberdeen, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Johannesburg and Accra, Ghana. Basketmouth is set to host his long anticipated one man stand up comedy concert in Lagos on the 29th of June 2014 at Eko Hotel, comedians like Salvador from Uganda, Buchi and Bovi will be opening the show, while Tu Face, wizkid, Davido and many more will also perform. Above is the video to the full documentary of the UK tour. |
| Photo: Witch allegedly found in a compound in Uyo Posted: 04 May 2014 04:13 AM PDT   At about 1:30am, the caretaker in my compound screamed for help and we went out only to see an old witch in their kitchen sweeping the floor when all the doors of the kitchen had been locked the night before. She appeared in there obviously. They quickly tied her up with rope and put her in the middle of the compound. When they started flogging her with broom, she started screaming and confessed. She said they were many but they left her behind and begged us not to kill her. When they asked her who sent her, she refused to talk. From 1.30am to 5am, she refused to talk. They wanted to burn her alive but the landlord would not allow it. The woman lived not so far from our compound so they took her to her house where she lives with her son who is not doing well in life. You will find attached pictures and a video...I have the video but don't know how to attach to blogger. Anyway, I'm thinking if she lives around the area, she probably went to the house to steal or something? Or some of u think she's really a witch? |
| FG blocks Sanusi from travelling abroad; seizes his passport again Posted: 04 May 2014 03:20 AM PDT  Premium Times reports. Nigeria's secret police, the Department of State Services, SSS, on Saturday night blocked the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, from boarding a Turkish airline flight for a planned trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj, a witness and a spokesperson for Mr. Sanusi have told Premium Times. Operatives of the SSS based at the Aminu Kano International Airport also seized Mr. Sanusi's passport and told him they would not allow him to travel abroad unless they received clearance from their Abuja headquarters.The SSS' action however appears a contravention of the April 3 judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which restrained the agency and the Nigeria Police from arresting or harassing the CBN Governor or seizing his passport. A spokesperson for Mr. Sanusi, Muyiwa Adekeye, told Premium Times Saturday night that the governor had arrived the Kano airport for the 11: 10p.m. Turkish Airlines flight to Turkey where he would have connected another flight to Saudi Arabia. But after the CBN governor had been checked in by the airline and was about to complete immigration formalities, his passport was confiscated by the SSS operatives at the immigration cubicle and told he could not travel. "The SSS officials were shown the certified true copies of the court order which barred them from harassing or arresting him," Mr. Adekeye said. "But the officers said they have no choice in the matter and that they were only acting on instruction from above that they should not allow the governor to travel." Mr. Adekeye said when Mr. Sanusi insisted on reading the court order to the operatives, the officers simply disappeared with his passport and failed to return. The development caused confusion at the airport and delayed the Turkish Airline flight. Mr. Sanusi's luggage was however later unloaded to allow the flight proceed on its journey without the embattled CBN Governor. Contacted for comments Saturday night, the spokesperson for the SSS, Marilyn Ogar, said she was not aware of the matter. "I don't know about that please," Ms. Ogar told Premium Times on telephone. |
| BBA Housemate Elikem proposes to Pokello on stage at the Ghana Music Awards Posted: 04 May 2014 03:13 AM PDT     Elikem, who is Ghanaian and Pokello who is from Zimbabwe met and started dating during the 8th season of Big Brother Africa...and continued their romance after their eviction. Congrats to them...   |
| Liber T. presents Godfather directed video 'Gan Gan' Posted: 04 May 2014 02:42 AM PDT Emeka Victor Ikoku a.k.a Liber.T is the second son of renowned business guru and owner of one of Nigeria's foremost record labels, Myke Records, Mike Ikoku. The singer, whose music has a mixture of R& B, Hip-Hop and Afrobeat styles, has strong passion for music. Listen up as he presents the video to his previously released single Gan Gan which was directed by Godfather Productions. Enjoy. DOWNLOAD "LIBER.T - GAN GAN" VIDEO https://app.box.com/s/ DOWNLOAD/LISTEN TO "LIBER.T - GAN GAN" AUDIO https://soundcloud.com/ FOR BOOKINGS, PRESS, FEATURE INQUIRIES Email: applauseafricamedia30@gmail. Telephone: 08147180087 |
| Mercy Johnson writes on missing school girls Posted: 03 May 2014 05:34 PM PDT  
All well-meaning Nigerians must come together and help these mothers who have been in pain for more than two weeks and make the memory a reality — the reality of seeing their children again. Let us not for once think that the evil-doers who turn the realities of these mothers to memories cannot do the same to us if they have the opportunities. This is not a war against select group of people; it is a war against all well-meaning mothers in Nigeria as injustice to one is injustice to all. Let the mothers rise, the men who love them should stand by their right hand and the children who adore them on their left and do all we can in our spheres of influence to ensure that the children come back home safe so that the mothers can smile again. Can you pray? Increase the tempo of your prayers. Can you fast? Add extra days to it. If what you can do is protest, please do; perhaps you are a soldier and can go to the war front please do not sit still. You are a politician or a voice that Boko Haram can listen to, please speak. We need the girls back!!! They are innocent, they have their future ahead of them, please do not cut it short. I dare say some of them will end up being the solution we desire to restore the lost and battered glory of this nation. Please don't kill or damage the future all in the name of militancy. I appeal to the soldiers and other security operatives, don't be demoralised, please fight hard, fight more and fight on. Do not let this evil people for once think that they can get away with this. If they ever get away with this, let me assure you that we won't all be able to sleep with our eyes closed and that includes you, your wives and children. If an Emir can be killed in his palace, who is safe in his or her home? Nobody! I appeal to the political class and those in power, do not think that any right-thinking Nigerian would allow that this matter be swept under the carpet, this isn't one of the matters we would keep mum about. We will continue talking, praying, protesting until you make the matter your matter. If your child were one of the children that was abducted, we would probably have heard of the end of the matter. Let's not fold our arms and let evil reign. Nigeria shall be great, only if we do the right thing and the right thing at this moment is to bring our girls back and alive. |
| Nigerian doctor killed by husband in the US has been laid to rest Posted: 03 May 2014 05:18 PM PDT   Dr Isioma Awele Ebegbodi was buried yesterday May 3rd in the US. Pictured right are her children, who are now staying with family members, because their mother is dead and their father is in prison. Too sad! |
| Photos: #BringBackOurGirls protests hold in Newyork and D.C Posted: 04 May 2014 02:23 AM PDT             Pics from the D.C protest below...   |
| Twin bomb explosion rock Kenya Posted: 03 May 2014 04:57 PM PDT  According to a Sky News report, one blast happened at a busy bus station in Mwembe Tayari, near the city centre, when grenades were thrown into a crowded minibus killing at least three people, and wounding seven others. The other explosion occurred at a well-known beach resort hotel, the Reef Hotel, in the Nyali area of the city, although no casualties are reported in that explosion. A bag was said to have been dropped by the entrance of the hotel which was later discovered to contain the explosive. In Sept. 2013, Kenya suffered a devastating terrorist attack in which a shopping mall was attacked in a 4 day siege killing at least 67people. |
| Photos: Genevieve Nnaji celebrates birthday with friends Posted: 03 May 2014 04:44 PM PDT |
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