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The Evolution Album: Abuja release party is today Saturday June 21

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 05:26 AM PDT

One of Africa's freshest hit making music labels, Made Men Music Group, released the first official group album titled, 'The Evolution'. 

After a successful Listening party in Lagos 28th of May. The same train moves to Abuja The Federal Capital Territory  "Club Cubana" Located at  Plot 130, Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, FCT. The 21st June 2014, 10pmPrompt. Live performance from Iyanya, Emma Nyra, Tekno, Selebobo, Baci and friends. Free Album for all at the gate.

Photo: Groom ties the knot with groom wearing a train on his Tuxedo

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 03:43 AM PDT

Comedy! Wetin person no go see? Lol. A groom marrying another groom at a wedding in the US added a train to his white and aqua blue wedding tuxedo. To what? Show that he's the bottom in the relationship? The pic was posted to the Facebook page of one of the guests at the wedding.

Parkwest Executive Cabs

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:47 AM PDT

At Parkwest, we take pride in delivering service excellence and first class customers service all at very affordable rates. Our fleet includes a wide range of modern fully air conditioned vehicles available to suit the various of customers. See contact details on the flier...

Ritualists invade Ebonyi state; Mother loses 2 children in one night

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:49 AM PDT

A shrine where ritual killings allegedly takes place has been discovered in the Ishiagu community in Ivo LGA of Ebonyi State. In the shrine, human parts sell for between N500,000 and N1million. Scary stuff! Read the full report from Saturday Sun below...
It was gathered that when the nefarious activities going on in the shrine were ex­posed, youths of the community went wild and destroyed the shrine as well as the prop­erty of the Chief priest and two suspected agents (names withheld by us) from Ngwog­wo community. Among the items recovered from the shrine is a picture of the Chief priest holding something that looks like a human hand as well as a register said to be containing the names of the people who had been killed by the evil men and those yet to be killed.


And to prevent the situation from getting out of hand, the police stormed the commu­nity and arrested some people.

When the reporter went to Ishiagu on May 7, there was apprehension in the air. Apparently gripped by fear, the villagers kept sealed lips. Even the traditional ruler, HRH Eze Lawrence O. Chukwu, Ibina 1 of Okue autonomous community, an old fel­low, claimed that he had not been properly briefed on the matter.

However, the body language of the people spoke volumes. They appeared to be living in palpable fear. For instance, an indigene of the community, Mr Charles (surname with­held) who was supposed to be our contact person chickened out when the reporter ar­rived Ishiagu. In fact, in Ishiagu, the fear of ritualists is the beginning of wisdom. Or so it seems.

And this is coming not long after sus­pected ritualists invaded the community and stole nine children. Mrs Nnenna Emmanuel Okonkwo, a mother of six, whose two chil­dren were stolen in one night told the report­er: "As I was sleeping, I was woken up at 4am when I heard the sound of my door be­ing broken. I began to shout inside my room, 'who is that? Who is that? Who is that?' Then some men broke down the door and pointed their light at my face. They started dragging my eight-month old son with me and I called out to my mother-in-law in the next room, telling her that some people had broken into my room to take away my baby. As I was struggling with them, they gave me dirty slaps on either side of the cheek. The impact of the slaps as my eyes were covered with blood. As they were taking my child away, my husband's younger sister blocked them outside. So, they kicked her with their boots and she fell, hitting her waist on the ground.

"Then, they went to the other room where my mother-in-law and my daughter were sleeping and broke down the door as well. They entered the room and took away my daughter, aged three years and seven months who was sleeping with her grandmother. My mother in-law shouted that they can shoot her but leave her grand children, but they refused. They carried the two children into the vehicle they parked outside. Before our neighbours could come out, they had zoomed off. Since then, we have not set eyes on the children. My mother in-law said she could not live with what happened; that it was better for her to die. And she died two weeks later."

In a related development, a six-man gang which specialised in the sale of human parts for ritual purposes in Nkwerre, Imo State was recently smashed by the local vigilance group. It was gathered that when members of the gang were arrested, they confessed that they had been kidnapping their victims at various locations in the state. They also volunteered that they use the vital organs of their victims for rituals even as some were harvested and sold to people who needed them to transplant failed organs.

Confessing to the crime, they explained that the prices for their 'goods' were not fixed. According to them, they sold the parts between N500,000 and N1million, depend­ing on what was in demand.
The gory act assumed a life of its own when the men took members of the local vigilance group and policemen to their abat­toir in a forest in Umugara village, Nkwerre where the decomposing corpses of some of their victims, mostly women and children were found.

In Ibiasoegbe in Oru West LGA of Imo State, a 66 year-old woman identified as Mrs. Josephine Okorie was gruesomely mur­dered in her farm recently.

Few days after Mrs. Okorie, who was a church warden at St. Paul's Curch, Ibi­asoegbe was killed, the people of Umuakaje Umuseke, Okwudor community in Njaba LGA was thrown into mourning and con­fusion following the killing of one of their daughters, 28 year-old Mrs. Chikodi Nzer­em. Her three-month old baby boy was also stolen by the cradle snatchers who cut off her head.

A source said: "Apparently, the ritualists wanted to go away with their victim's decap­itated head but when they heard the voice of another woman, who was coming along the bush path, they escaped, abandoning both the head and the body. The woman raised the alarm and other farmers came but the evil people had escaped."

In the same vein, Mrs Chikodi Nzerem, a widow and nursing mother of a four month-old baby boy, was murdered in her father's house in Okwudor in Njaba LGA of Imo State. Her baby was also stolen.

Family sources alleged that the mother of three was sent to the great beyond by her boyfriend who had pestered her for marriage without success since her husband died about two years ago. "I believe she was killed be­cause she refused to hand over the child to her boyfriend and no one knows what has become of the tot. Perhaps, it has been used for ritual," said Chikodi's sibling.

Indeed, investigation revealed that ritual­ists are on the prowl looking for people to devour. Hence the rate of ritual attacks and killings have increased considerably in re­cent times. It is the same story everywhere, as no part of the country is being marginal­ised on this score.

On March 1, Mrs Zainab Mohammed was brutally raped at Kukshi village, Dass LGA of Bauchi by three men who also plucked her eyes with a knife for ritual.

The victim, a 30-year old mother of four who is physically challenged, said: "They held my neck and I almost died. They twist­ed my hands, they opened my two and took turns to rape me. I was fainting. Then they brought an object – I don't know whether it was a knife or not and they started removing my left eye. I screamed and tried to struggle but they removed my left eye. They started removing the other eye and I screamed loud­er."

It was learnt that the evil men took the woman's eye to a native doctor who alleg­edly offered them N1million.

In May, a 54-year old grandmother, Suku­ratu Salami and three others including a cemetery guard were paraded at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja for trading in human parts such as skulls, bones, liver and intestines.

Salami, a mother of three children whose ages are 30, 27 and 23 years respectively, explained that she was tempted to go into the weird business by the irresistible offer from a voodoo practitioner. "A herbalist ap­proached me last and asked for human parts. When he told how much they buy parts, I was tempted. I approached one Tantoloun, who works in a grave yard. He sold a skull for N10,000 and I sold it in turn for N20,000. Greed made me to continue un­til I was arrested. I bought pieces of bones N2,000, liver and intestines for N1,000 each and resell for N5,000 or more depending on the buyer's bargaining power." ­

It could, indeed, be said that ritualists are running riot in the South West.

In March, a man was caught in Ibadan, Oyo State with three human tongues. The incident occurred three days after the shock­ing discovery of the horror forest at Soka area of Ibadan where scores of skulls, hu­man skeletons, mutilated and decomposing bodies were found.

In April, an eight-year old girl identified as Amarachi missed death by the whiskers as a mobile policeman, Gbuchenge Augus­tine with Force Number 400823 allegedly wanted to use her for rituals.
Amarachi was found under the police­man's bed in his one-room apartment at Olu­fowobi Street, Ikosi-Ketu, Lagos with her mouth gagged and her hands and legs tied.

Amarachi's father, Mr Patrick Abakwan, said that before his daughter was rescued, "the man had twisted her neck and used an object to break her skull thinking she would die in the process but God saved her."

Also in April, a storey-building that al­legedly served as the operational base of ritualists was uncovered in Akinremi Estate in Adigbe area of Ogun State. Discovered at the den were suspected human blood in a calabash, a coffin, human effigy, a live scor­pion and personal effects believed to belong to victims who might have been wasted.

The discovery came barely 24 hours after a similar scene was discovered in Egbado village in Ewekoro LGA of the state.

Horror of immense proportion played out in Egwudinage Obegu village in Ebonyi State recently when a 30-year old man sim­ply identified as Chukwudi allegedly killed and beheaded his 56-year old father, Mi­chael. After severing the head of his father, Chukwudi drank his blood and ate up his neck.
Maintaining that Chukwudi's action might not be unconnected with ritual killing, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Chris Anyanwu disclosed: "He (Chuk­wudi) was arrested on April 1, 2014 and before he was arrested, he was running and waving his machete which he used to cut his father's head and threatened to kill anybody who moved close to him. Meanwhile he was overpowered and arrested but was caught eating the part of the severed head, after he ate-up the entire neck of the severed head. I think it is not unconnected with ritual kill­ing because it does appear he may have been asked to do such a thing."

On June 10, a young boy hawking belts on Alhaji Jamiu Sulaimon Street in Itele, Ota area of Ogun State escaped death by the skin of his teeth as he was almost killed by sus­pected ritualists who lured him into a house on the pretext that they wanted to patronise him.

It was learnt that the boy was hawking with his friend when he was called into the compound. But when the boy did not come out after about 30 minutes, his friend raised the alarm. And when the police stormed the house, an attempt had been made to slaugh­ter him, as there was a big gash on his neck. One of his eyes was oozing blood, perhaps an attempt was made to pluck it.

The Ogun State PPRO, Mr Muyiwa Ade­jobi said: "Our men from the Itele Division moved in as soon as they got a report about the house suspected to be used by kidnap­pers and succeeded in rescuing the boy alive even though he was in bad shape."

Recently, a heap of over 20 human skulls, skeletons and decomposing bodies were un­covered at Kilometre 15 on the Aba/Azumi­ni Highway, otherwise known as 'No man's land' after Akpaa village in Obingwa LGA of Abia State. There, victims are butchered and their vital organs removed. One of the vic­tims was identified as 26-year old Onyekachi Chukwu, who hailed from Ahaba Imenyi in Isuikwuato LGA of Abia State.

A source attributed the upsurge of ritual killings to forthcoming election and the get-rich-quick syndrome. "As we approach the election year, many desperate politicians will go to any length in order to win election. They will engage the services of native doc­tors who may request for human body parts to do the medicine. And because the end jus­tifies the means for them, they will engage thugs to kidnap and kill people whose body parts will be removed and forwarded to the native doctors who requested for them.

"Again, the get-rich-quick bug seems to have bitten more people nowadays. And such desperados are ready to do anything, in­cluding harvesting human organs for money rituals," the source said.
Culled from Sunday Sun

Hottie of the day: Joe Udeoji

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:30 AM PDT

Joe Udeoji is a Nigerian-born US-based commercial model who recently became the face of an athletic clothing line called Strive Harder. He is also into fitness and lives in LA. See more photos of him after the cut...



Dear LIB readers: Is it okay for a woman to invite her ex-lovers to her wedding?

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:06 AM PDT

Question from a male LIB reader...
A girl who was a bit promiscuous back in university days invited some of her ex-lovers to her wedding who I am aware of. She's doing good for herself in Chevron and her husband works in Mobil. I saw at least four guys she'd been with in the past at the wedding (including myself) and I wondered why she would do that.
I know I wouldn't want that, allow my fiancee's ex-lovers to attend my wedding but I see women think differently about matters like this. It will be nice to know what people think

Behind the scene pics: Seyi Shay ft Patoranking & Shaydee - Murda

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 01:42 AM PDT

JM Films releases some Behind-The-Scene pictures from Seyi Shay's trending new video Murda ft. Patoranking & Shaydee. The video was shot in Lagos, directed by Meji Alabi for JM Films. See more photos after the cut...




Incase you missed it, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpO9iZ-lyOI
Follow: @iamseyishay | www.iamseyishay.com

Pics: See the faces & names of some of the kidnapped Chibok girls

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 01:30 AM PDT

Here are the faces and names of some of the school girls kidnapped on April 14th in the Chibok community in Borno state by Boko Haram men. Photos released by ThisDay Newspaper.

UN Special Envoy for Global Education, and former UK Prime Minister, who was in Nigeria this week shares his experience. Find the article he wrote about the Chibok girls below..
"I was shown these pictures after visiting Nigeria this week. I met the leader of the community council in Chibok, the town from which the girls were abducted.
Slowly and with tears in his eyes, he flicked through a file in which he had recorded the names and photographs of the girls. Continue...
Not even the police and Army have managed to compile such detail he has amassed from talking to the parents of the kidnapped teenagers.
The file has 185 pages — one for every girl. Each page has a photograph, and beside each passport-sized picture some stark facts — the girl's name, her school grade and the date of abduction. For the other 19 abducted girls, he has yet to locate photographs. He will.
The community leader and the girls' families have given permission for their names and photographs to be put into the public domain so the world is reminded of the missing girls. He is being helped to publicize this by Arise TV chief Nduka Obaigbena.
There is also a file on the 53 girls who escaped by running for their lives from their Boko Haram kidnappers.
I have spoken to three who fled. All want to be doctors and work as medical helpers in their communities. But for now, their lives are on hold.
They are unable to finish their exams, unable to find a safe place to study near home and are still in fear of another attack from Boko Haram. They have lost a year of their schooling and they are traumatised by the kidnapping of their friends.
For a teenage girl, eight weeks in captivity could have life-time consequences — and for their families it is torture. The idea that your daughter should go to school one day and never return is every parent's nightmare. Not to know whether they have been molested, trafficked or are even alive is a living hell.
These girls were abducted for the sole reason that their captors believe that girls have no right to an education.

Yet this civil rights struggle is being fought out, brutally and — for most of the time — shamefully unobserved.

On one side, terrorists, murderers, rapists and cowards, hell-bent on acts of depravity. On the other, defiant, relentless, brave-beyond-comprehension young girl-heroes and boy-heroes desperately fighting for a future but, sadly, in a world largely oblivious to their plight.

In Britain and in the United States, we do find out. We do learn about abuse and horror from across the globe and we do react. But it's often too late, and then, inevitably, it's always too little. We should not fail young people, but it seems like we always do.

But we can't forget. We owe them. We can't give up because they won't have given up.

Pics: Meet Queen Dakoru, Miss Tourism Nigeria (South-South) 2014

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 01:04 AM PDT

22 year old Dakoru Williams who hails from Ido, in the Kalabari kingdom of Rivers state represented Rivers State at the Miss Tourism Nigeria 2014 and was crowned Miss Tourism South-South.

The 5 '10' model is currently a student of the University of Port-Harcourt studying Economics. See more photos of the beauty after the cut...


Brand new music from Blackoblaze - Olowo

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 01:03 AM PDT

Fast rising Afro-pop star Blackoblaze is releasing two new singles titled Olowo and Dancia, Blacko Blaze is currently signed to international Canadian-based entertainment company Microbell Media Group (MMG) and has so much props in the Canadian music industry.  

He has worked with great artist in the Nigerian music industry such as as legendary King Sunny Ade, Sir Shina Peters I.D Cabasa and a diverse range of artists around the world.
 
For Bookings and management contact dbranche13@gmail.com or 07064349589

'On-air-personalities, you have finally killed radio' - Etcetera writes

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 12:43 AM PDT

Hmmm, this Etcetera and some of his controversial topics. I can't shout! Lol. Now he's talking about some OAPs with fake accents who do nothing but glorify celebs & chase stardom. His article below
Radio is in a period where only the 'blings' and 'blingers' are getting all the attention. This must be the worst time to listen to radio in Nigeria. Consider some of the on-air-personalities, all they do is talk about what their favourite celebrities are wearing.
How easily manipulated and distracted can they be? A fake accent has never been more glorified than today.
With on-air-personalities chasing celebrity status themselves, radio listeners are never going to get any unbiased assessment of issues. Continue...
The few independent thinkers amongst them who provide this unbiased assessment are being mocked and called boring people. How do you listen to an OAP on radio who only talks about cars, money and women for hours?

It is becoming a consensus on the streets that naija radio stations are becoming more boring with each passing day.

And I find it really sickening hearing the cry from radio station owners about how more and more people are turning to Alaba mix and blogs for their music these days. Even the local tea sellers on the street prefer their MP3 compilation of songs than listening to any FM station. Most songs played on the radio today do not excite listeners.

No one turns on the radio anymore hoping to hear great songs he heard some days before.
People love moods, melodies and lyrics that mean something and you can't get those on radio anymore.

Nigerian on-air-personalities have become so lazy for their own good. They don't go in search of new sound anymore. All they do now is sit and wait for songs to be brought to them, subjecting their listeners to the same old songs played over and over.

Yes we know that the radio industry is run by corporate sponsors who play it safe so as not to offend the listeners. However, what they have ended up doing is offending tasteful listeners.

Most artistes on the radio have better songs on their album but radio stations decide what is "radio friendly" and keep serving the same song over and over because it works for them.
Few days ago, while returning to the mainland with a friend, we heard one of the new naija dance songs playing on the radio.

My friend turned and said to me, "The music just keeps getting worse and worse, doesn't it?"
I totally agreed. I understand enough about music to know that if a song receives a lot of spins on the radio, it becomes boring.

This makes me wonder most times why a lot of great naija songs we hear on the streets on a daily basis are not getting played on the radio. Listeners are really getting fed up with the repetitive songs played on the radio these days.

The playlist of most OAPs has become so predictable that someone told me the sequence of songs to expect on the drive on one of our popular radio stations. The songs were played exactly as predicted.
Though, radio has always played crappy songs, the problem is today's songs smell the same across the stations. What we are mostly fed with are mostly noisy songs with over-processed vocals. Greed has permeated every aspect of radio. Now, it is just about looking to latch on to mega bucks and in turn promote the same tried-and-trusted mediocrity.

And the more mediocre the song, the better and the more guaranteed return for the OAP.
Some music stakeholders I spoke with are of the opinion that the lack of musical imagination in Nigeria is solely the fault of the homogenised mainstream radio stations.

I feel sad for the so many gifted unknown artistes out there who are writing and making great music, but our radio stations are too busy to care about them. It's like the radio stations are bent on moulding us all into some kind of morphed audio mind, jammed into an external cycle of repetition. I am also an OAP and I truly don't know how to talk about this with being perceived as sounding biased.

It saddens my heart seeing that the talented young artistes put so much effort into making quality songs only to struggle through all the crap we are fed with everyday on the radio. I guess they just have to look for other ways of channelling their good stuff to those who appreciate it. It is really becoming more difficult to find a radio station that won't bend to popular demand, money or play the music for any other reason than what it truly is. I used to enjoy listening to the radio so much a few years back but can't tell now whether I am just growing older or today's music is sounding worse. The problem is that most OAPs hold themselves in one single genre. To be honest, some on-air-personalities need to stop forcing everyone to live in their own world.

Get off your weird accent swing and give other songs a chance and stop repeating the same songs all the time. In conclusion, if today's Nigerian music is a mess, artistes are not totally to blame.
The radio stations and OAPs are equally culpable. We may not necessarily need to demand more from the popular artistes.

There is still plenty of good music being made everyday by not so popular artistes. The problem is the radio stations will only play the songs that fits into their very narrow parameters. Even if an artiste creates a brilliant album with emotion and depth, they can only get airplay with only the so-called "radio friendly" single. We need to demand more from radio. Thanks to Alaba market DJ mixes, Nigerians can always find new artistes and music they like

Wizkid shares another pic with Chris Brown

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 12:25 AM PDT

The two music stars who seem to have struck up a friendship after meeting and performing on stage together in December 2012 in Nigeria, pictured at a hotel in LA yesterday. Chris was there with his manager and Akon's younger brother, Bu Thiam. See another photo after the cut...



Show Your Support for Our Darling Super Eagles Today

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 12:05 AM PDT

Our boys are traning hard ahead of tonight's game and your support is what they need now. Some of you tweeted and posted some comments during the Super Eagles game against Iran but that's past. As we all look forward to this decisive game today, what advice do you guys have for coach Keshi ahead of tonight's game? What do you guys think the score board will read after this game?...
 



Drop your goodwill comment for the Super Eagles and hopefully we will come out victorious. All the best to the them!

Update on the felon whose mugshot caused a storm online

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 05:36 PM PDT

More details has emerged on the 30 year old felon whose mugshot won the hearts of thousands of women around the world after it was posted on Facebook. He is gorgeous but behind those ice-blue eyes is a much less attractive story of gangs, grand theft and forgery. UK Daily Mail reports below...
Jeremy Meeks' handsome photograph made social media swoon when the Stockton Police Department shared it on its Facebook page on Wednesday - sparking thousands of shares, 'likes', memes and very suggestive propositions.
But the married 30-year-old dad, who was arrested on five weapons charges and one gang charge when cops allegedly found a pistol in his trunk, has a much less desirable rap sheet, it has emerged.
For a decade, he has been in and out of courtrooms in California and Washington for crimes including resisting arrest, faking his identity and grand theft, for which he served two years. Continue...
He also bears gang tattoos, including a teardrop beneath his eye - often to symbolize a gang killing - and the word 'Crip' on his forearm, suggesting his link to the notoriously dangerous Crips gang.

In a statement released on Friday, Stockton police said he was part of the Northside Gangster Crips.

He appeared briefly at an arraignment in Stockton on Friday wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and handcuffs and only spoke to confirm that he wanted a court appointed lawyer. His bail was set at $1m and he is due to appear again June 27th. 


In their statement, cops explained that he was stopped after he was seen leaving a home where a search warrant was about to be executed and, after carrying out a search on his car, cops found a 9mm round of ammunition and a small amount of 'what is believed to be' marijuana in his passenger compartment.

Inside the trunk, cops also allegedly found an unregistered and loaded Springfield Armory .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun along with two extended magazines for the firearm.

Stockton police explained that the documented gang member has a felony conviction and a two year state prison sentence from a 2002 conviction for grand theft from a person in Solano County.
But records show that was just the start of his trouble with the law.

In April 2005, Meeks was charged with identity theft in the second degree and resisting arrest in Spokane County, Washington, although the second charge was later dismissed.


According to the investigating officer, Meeks was spotted picking up a package of pellets at the Sporting Goods Department of the General Store and leaving the store without paying.

When he was pursued he threatened the store security officer saying he would 'f*** you all up... mess you up' as well as threatening to 'kick your ass' until he was sprayed with pepper spray and arrested.
Meeks initially tried to pass himself off as his brother, Emery Meeks (pictured above with him), who already had an outstanding arrest warrant. It was only the following evening after he had been booked into Spokane County Jail that his true identity became known and he was charged with Forgery and Identity Theft.
At the time there was also an outstanding warrant for his arrest in California. He plead guilty in October 2007 and was sentenced to 71 days and ordered to pay $800 in fines and fees.
In 2007, he was charged with negligent driving and driving without a license, although this second charge was later dropped and he was fined just $252.

Speaking to News10 from behind glass in Stockton this week, he told News 10 that he also served nine years for grand theft, although records were not immediately available. 

Records from April this year also reveal that he was arrested for resisting a peace officer or EMT in San Joaquin County - throwing doubt on his claims that he is now staying out of trouble.

Public Information Officer Joseph Silva called Meeks 'one of the most violent criminals in the Stockton area'.

'It's been a long term investigation over many weeks and Mr Meek's gang was identified as the most violent and active gang in the area,' he told MailOnline. 'Two of his charges are gang related.'


A tattoo running along Meeks' right forearm shows the word 'Crips' - the name of a notorious U.S. gang known to be involved in murders and drug dealings, although there is no suggestion that Meeks has been involved in any such crime.

Silva declined to provide further details about the activity he had been involved with.

Despite this extensive rap sheet and his part in local gangs, Meeks and his family still insist that he is not involved in criminal activity.

Doshaney Lewis, 22, the girlfriend of Terry Joe Bailey, who was arrested at the same time as Meeks, said that the pair were no longer involved in the Crips.


'I cannot deny they were members and they call each other brothers but they have given all that up,' she told MailOnline. 'This has all been ridiculous. People think this is funny but the families are hurting.'

Miss Lewis, who is unemployed and eight months pregnant with Terry's child, said they carried the guns for protection like many Americans. They were on their way to the warehouse where they workwhen they were arrested, she said.

And speaking out from jail, Meeks insisted his gang days were behind him.

'I appreciate [the attention] but I just want them to know that this is really not me,' he told News 10 from behind glass. 'I'm not some kingpin.'

He would not reveal the meaning of the teardrop tattoo beneath his left eye - which is sometimes a gang sign for carrying out a murder or relating to time spent locked up - but simply said he has done some things in the past he'd rather forget.

The ink sometimes represents hardship in life, while other reports say the outline of a tear is worn when the person has lost someone close to them - and then filled in when they get revenge.

Meeks added that he learned of his new-found fame when he spoke with his wife. They have been married for four years and have one child, a three-year-old son, together.


Speaking to MailOnline, relatives also insisted that he left the gang life more than seven years ago, found God and settled down with his wife, child and a job.

His niece, who lives in Florida, said that her uncle is 'amused that he is famous off his looks'.
'He is a loving father, husband, brother, and uncle,' she said. 'He has a past and because of it he is being stereotyped. We wish all the judgement would stop... He just wants to get home to his family.'
She admitted that he had been involved with gangs when he lived in Washington but gave up the 'gang life' more than seven years ago.

'He gave his heart to God, that is why he changed,' she said. 

Afterwards, he got married and had a child. Of his wife, the niece added: 'She just wants everything to go back to normal.'

She said she was uncertain if the gun in the car was his - 'but I assure you IF it was his he wasn't using it for terrorism or anything remotely close', she insisted.
His sister (pictured above with him) added to TMZ that he had the gun for protection.

His mother, Katherine Angier (pictured above with him), has also insisted that her son is innocent and has even set up a GoFundMe page to raise $25,000 to get him a fair trial.

Angier apparently has been in trouble with the law for offenses including drugs, aiding and abetting a criminal, trading property for welfare checks and battery, according to records.
'He has a job and he was on his way to work, with no gang affiliations as per two of the charges,' she wrote on the fundraising page.

'He has old tattoos... which causes him to be stereotyped. He's my son and he is so sweet. Please help him to get a fair trial or else he'll be railroaded.'

So far her fundraising page has raised less than $500 - and her son seems to be getting more propositions than cash.

'Hit me up when u get out daddy, I got a list of naughty things I wanna do to you,' one donor wrote


The sordid suggestions also continue to appear on the Stockton police's Facebook page, where the felon's photo was liked more 20,000 times in less than 24 hours.
'What is he guilty of?! First Degree Sexiness?!' wrote fan Ashley Pruitt Carden, while Rhonda Cee, quipped: 'He'll probably be on next years prison calendar...Mr....EVERY MONTH!'

And many agreed Meeks had missed his calling.
'He needs to be a model,' wrote Bettina Jones. 'I would buy whatever he's selling!'

Meeks was charged with illegally possessing firearms and ammo, carrying a loaded firearm in public and criminal street gang activity.

Three other men, Terry Bailey, 22, Juzri Coleman,18, and Joelin Coleman, 44, were also arrested on felony weapons charges.
 

The repeat offender is being held on $900,000 bail, but perhaps not for long. There's talk amongst the commenters of raising the funds to set him free.

And there's been all sorts of memes using his mugshot


Dear LIB readers; please answer this question...

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 04:36 PM PDT

Question from a LIB reader. Find it below...
Please help me sort out this problem. In a family where the husband earns N150,000 every month, and the wife earns N750,000 every month and they both work in the same company, and their kids are lacking parental care, love and discipline, who between them should resign and stay home to take care of the kids?

Meet UNIUYO's youngest graduating medical doctor. Graduates @21

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:53 PM PDT

 
21 year old Idongesit Eseneyen is the youngest graduating medical doctor and best graduating doctor in Pharmacology at the University of Uyo. Ido pictured above at her school's Sponsio Academica / Physician's oath taking of the graduating medical students held on 13th June.

Ido, who she gained admission to study medicine at UNIUYO at the age of 15, said she's trilled to be the best graduating student and is looking forward to serving humanity.
"The award for best graduating doctor in Pharmacology came as a surprise, I wasn't expecting it but I am happy. I got inspired to study medicine when I was very little due to my frequent visits to the hospital because my mum is a nurse, and also because of the desire I have to make a difference in people's lives. I look forward to serving humanity"
Beauty and brains. Kudos to her! See more photos after the cut...

 



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The Bank Abuja hots up this weekend with Denrele & Dr Sid's party

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:59 PM PDT

The FCT has been experiencing an overdose of leisure and delight. In this reign of class, uniqueness and finesse, hitting every corner nationally. The Bank Abuja, this Saturday plays host to Denrele (His birthday), Dr Sid & Friends and "A" Class Models of The Ambassador Of Peace.

If there has ever been a good enough reason to rave, this should be number one on everybody's list, the Premium Banking Saturday. Continue...
 

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Ladies and gentlemen, would you rock the C-string? (see photos) Lol

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:51 PM PDT

Sometimes you feel you've seen it all and then bam!! you're hit you with something else! Lol. So there's a new panty - for women and erh...some special men - called C-string, that makes the G-string look quite decent (see it above). The C-string is for those who don't want panty lines but also don't want to go out naked. The C-string stays in place thanks to a wire that goes between the butt cheeks. And yes, there's a male version. See how it's worn by men and women after the cut...lol




 

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