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Photo: Omotola's daughter Meraiah graduates from secondary school

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 01:10 PM PDT

Omotola's second daughter, Meraiah recently graduated from secondary school. The proud mother shared the photo on instagram and wrote "Congrats Meraiah!!! So proud of you. Off you go too child. #beautynbrains #knorrambassador #stronggirl ". Congrats to her

Photos: 17 year old boy allegedly rapes 5 year old girl in Anambra

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 01:05 PM PDT

The 17 year old boy pictured above tied up has been arrested after allegedly raping a 5 year old girl at Okpoko area in Onitsha, Anambra state yesterday July 11th. Residents say the young man who lives next door to the victim, raped her after asking her to help him to buy moi-moi.

When the little girl entered his house, he covered her mouth and raped her...



The little girls scream attracted a neighbour who quickly alerted others around and they apprehended him. He denied raping the girl but on examination, the girl showed she was actually penetrated. The young man is now in police custody.

Photos: Tragic accident in Awka, Anambra kills man, wife & their 2 children

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 01:17 PM PDT

Tragedy struck today when a trailer fell on a car carrying a family of six near Finotel Agu-Awka Junction, along Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, Awka, killing three, including both parents and a son. Their 4-month old baby and two other little ones survived and are in the hospital.

Governor Obiano and wife, Osodieme went to Regina Caeli Hospital to see the survivors of the ghastly accident. See more photos after the cut...

Photos: Man who disguised as female arrested near suicide attack in Chad

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 08:37 AM PDT

This man who disguised as a woman was arrested near the market where Boko Haram suicide bomber struck in N'djamena the Chadian capital killing a total of 14 people yesterday July 11th. There has been an increase in number of male suicide bombers who disguise as females in the West African region.

Ex beauty queen, Anita Uwagbale-Iseghohi shares family pic

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 08:35 AM PDT

Ex-beauty queen Anita Uwagbale-Isegholi shared this photo of her husband and their two children on her instagram page. She wrote "My Everything"

Photos from Nuella and Tchidi Chikere's baby dedication

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 08:35 AM PDT

Actress Nuella Njubigbo and her movie producer hubby Tchidi Chikere dedicated their baby girl Testimony today July 12th. Actors Olu Jacob and Joke Silva as well as singer J Martins were at the dedication. More photos after the cut..

GenocideInPictures: Evidence of alledged massacre of Northern minorities (very graphic)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 06:54 AM PDT

A twitter handle called @MinorityNigeria is posting #Genocide Pictures to draw attention to the massacre of minorities in Plateau, Nassarawa and Benue States by herdsmen. The photos are horrific! See them after the cut...

Photo: Lifeless body is lying along Iyana Oworo Lagos

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 06:59 AM PDT

A lifeless body is lying along Iyana-Oworo road in Lagos. The attention of the relevant agency is needed.

Photos: Ghastly accident on 3rd mainland bridge

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 06:57 AM PDT

A ghastly accident involving a commercial bus occurred this morning July 12th on 3rd Mainland Bridge. Eyewitnesses say the bus was in top speed when it suddenly flipped and somersaulted. More photos from the scene after the cut...

Meet the black woman raised to believe she was white (photos)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 05:59 AM PDT

"Throughout my life, people have asked me why I look the way I do," says Lacey Schwartz. "I would tell them that my parents were white, which was true. I wasn't pretending to be something I wasn't. I grew up being told, and believing, that I was the nice, white, Jewish daughter of two nice, white, Jewish parents."

But Schwartz, a 38-year-old film-maker, has brown skin, curly hair and full lips. It was only when she was 18 that her mother admitted the truth: that she had had an affair with a friend and former colleague who was black. And that, in all likelihood, he was Lacey's biological father.

 

The revelation not only shook her relationship with her mother to the core, but also led Schwartz to question everything she had believed about who she was, and eventually inspired her to make a documentary about the experience, called Little White Lie.

"I started out wanting to make a film about being black and Jewish, because I was really struggling with my dual identity," she says. "But I was living in a racial closet at the time that was all about my family secret. So I decided to use the film as a way to fully uncover the secret."

When we meet, last month's reports about Rachel Dolezal, the American civil rights campaigner who made headlines around the world by claiming that, despite being white, she "identifies as black", are still to break. But Schwartz tells me she believes that racial identity is "fluid and contextual".

"I think it can change depending on where you are and who you're around," she says. The film shows Schwartz and two black female friends discussing the "one drop rule": the idea that if a person has even the smallest amount of black heritage, they are black. "Being bi-racial, mixed race, is a category of being black, not a category of being white," Schwartz believes. "It's an inclusive thing."

We meet in New York's SoHo on a sunny afternoon. Having spent most of her adult life in the city, Schwartz now lives in New Jersey with her lawyer husband, Antonio Delgado, and their 18-month-old twins.

Schwartz describes her own childhood, in the countryside near Woodstock in upstate New York, as "solid, comfortable, loving". Her father, Robert, was an accountant, and her mother, Peggy, owned a wine shop.

Although Lacey was an only child, she was close to her numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. "I came from a long line of New York Jews, the great-granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants," she says. "We went to the synagogue, bar mitzvahs, Hebrew school. My family knew who they were, and they defined who I was."

Leafy, middle-class Woodstock was a liberal town but it was also very white. Schwartz has a vivid memory of being five and a little blond boy in her all-white kindergarten class asking her to show him the colour of her gums. "It was the first time I remember feeling different," she recalls. "I already knew I didn't look like the other kids at school, but it was embarrassing to be singled out, and it made me feel ugly."

Afterwards, Schwartz asked her parents why she looked different, and her father showed her a picture of his great-grandfather, a brooding, Moorish-looking Sicilian, and told her that she must take after him.

And that, she says, simply became the accepted story. "You know how things are within families," she shrugs. "You know what you know, and you reinforce that truth all the time. If you looked too closely at it, it didn't make any sense. So we didn't look at it."

But others sometimes took a peek; new friends would often ask if she was adopted, while established friends silently accepted the story they'd been told. One old friend admits she "knew Lacey looked black, but that she wasn't".

A family friend refers to the issue as "the 600lb gorilla in the room", which would occasionally beat its chest. Aged 11, Schwartz wrote in her diary that she wished she had lighter skin, and that she hated her curly hair.

When she was 13, a member of the synagogue told her that it was "so nice to have an Ethiopian Jew in our presence". And at high school, "The black kids would stare at me and ask, 'What are you?' I'd tell them I was white. But I was in denial too; I had my blinkers on."

In Lacey's mid-teens, Robert and Peggy's marriage began to unravel.

"Their divorce was really hard; it completely shook my world," Schwartz says. She believes that her mother's affair was a factor in the break-up – although as she discovered while making the film, it wasn't something her parents had ever openly discussed.

Her father, she later found out, suspected that something had happened but had only said so once, telling Peggy they should "put it behind them and move on" – he preferred to keep his blinkers on, too.
"I don't think affairs are necessarily the cause of break-ups, they're usually symptoms," says Schwartz. "Relationships are complicated – why did my mother have an affair in the first place?"

Their divorce had a major impact on her. "My family had been this bubble, this supposedly perfect unit, so there was no incentive for me to question it. But when my parents split up, it made me question everything: who I was, what I had come from, who my parents were."
She knew she wasn't adopted: there were photographs of her mother pregnant and stories about her birth. "There are only so many other options. I definitely started questioning my paternity," she says. She began to feel that there was something major her parents weren't telling her, but had no idea how to talk to them about it.

When, at 16, she started dating her high-school boyfriend Matt, who was himself mixed race. People would ask if they were brother and sister, fuelling her doubts about her parents' story.

"Matt would sit me down with my family photo albums and be like, 'Let's talk about it,'" she recalls. "I told him my parents were splitting up, that I couldn't deal with it just now. I think, deep down, I knew that there was a truth I wanted to find, but I wasn't admitting it to myself."

For Schwartz, the first big turning point was when she applied to Georgetown University in Washington, DC. On her application form, she left every box in the "ethnicity" section unchecked. "I'd only ever considered myself Caucasian; now, I wasn't entirely sure any more. I didn't know what to say, so I simply left it blank."

However, she had submitted a photograph as part of the application, and on the basis of that, was admitted as a black student. It was an administrative "error" that Schwartz decided to run with. "The moment that Georgetown said, 'You're black,' they gave me the permission to start entertaining the idea of it myself," she says.

Read the rest here

Dear LIB readers; My wife's neighbour is planning to attack her

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 05:53 AM PDT

From a male LIB reader
My wife got a shop in Ikorodu to sell wines last year. The woman next to her has fought everyone along the street and now she's about to pick on my wife. Anytime I go to pick my wife up, I hear her singing war songs. She has an accomplice. I can't bear coming back from work and seeing my wife battered. What do I do?

Tupac Shakur's former group member dies

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 05:46 AM PDT

Hussein Fatal was a member of The Outlawz, formerly known as Outlaw Immortalz and Dramacydal, an American hip hop group founded by Tupac Shakur in late 1995 after his release from prison.

He was killed yesterday July 11th in a car accident. He was 38. Details surrounding the fatal car crash have yet to emerge. His sudden death has been confirmed by fellow group members EDI & Napoleon via their social media accounts.

Must read for Parents - Summer lessons at your home this holiday

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 04:05 AM PDT

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"

Summer holidays are awesome for kids but they pose a terrible danger called learning loss. Kids go on holiday; watch tv, sleep and play all day. They forget up to 2 months of what they have already learnt; spelling of words, how to read and write, how to solve maths problems. As a parent how do you keep your child at his best throughout the holiday while still letting them play, relax and have fun? Get your child to learn at home with Prepclass!



Prepclass is the most reputable tutoring academic outfit in Lagos. We assign our experienced tutors to homes based on the needs of the child and the results the parent wants to achieve.
This holiday Prepclass is engaging kids in exciting classes such as general academics studies, computer / ICT training, special maths classes and special English classes (reading, writing and speaking). Call us on 01-2913970 to set your child ahead of his peers.

The best part of our program is that your child learns at the comfort of your home (no need to drop them or pick them from school, no school bus required), the tutor gives your child 100% attention (which they don't get in school) and can quickly identify and address topics your child is yet to master. Also the tutor only comes a few hours a day (morning, afternoon or early evening) so your child still has a lot of time to play, relax and be happy.

If you are a parent looking to engage your child during this holiday, we will assign one of ourtrained specialist tutorsto teach your childrenwhatever you want them to learn. Prepclass provides guaranteed security for your child and your home, guaranteed satisfaction, and monthly reports to help you track your child's progress.

Don't wait a second longer as we currently have a discount offer available until July18th2015. Get your kid's engaged this holiday. Click here toget a lesson teacher within a week. 

Prepclass is a registered company in Nigeria, Our office is at No 1 Zansi close, Onike Lagos, parents can come visit us whenever they want to, our phone number is 01-2913970 or you can have a chat with us whenever you visit our site, we have a consultant waiting online to offer free consultation from 10 – 6pm Monday to Friday and 12pm - 4pm on Saturdays.

Veteran Nollywood actor, Sir Ozor Akubueze has died

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:58 AM PDT

Veteran Nollywood actor Sir Ozor Akubueze died in Enugu on Friday July 10 after a longtime battle with pancreas disease. He was in his 70s. He featured in several Nollywood movies that were shot in Enugu. May his soul rest in peace..amen.

Teenager who was raped in Abia state commits suicide (see her pic)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:54 AM PDT

This 14 year old girl named Chiawolam Comfort Umeh (pictured above) committed suicide on July 7th after she was gruesomely gang-raped by 3 men on June 28th at Iyienyi Village, near Okwoyi Community, in Isieke, Ibeku, in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State. Chiawolam was a virgin before she was defiled by the vile men. Read the full report after the cut.

Culled from Sun News online

Chiawolam, who was among students who sat for the Junior Secondary School education (JSS) examination recently from Isieke Model Community High School, was reported to have dashed into the bush at the back of the family house with her mother's head tie, climbed on top of a guava tree and hung herself two days after she was raped by the three beastly boys. The rape incident happened on Sunday, June 28, 2015, while she hung herself on Tuesday morning, July 7, 2015.

Chiawolam's father, Mr Umeh said that early in the morning that Tuesday, her mother called her to find out how she was raped and she complained that she was having pains all over her body. The mother told her to endure till they come back from the police station that morning, but unknown to them, the deceased had another plan.
"She took her jacket and what we later discovered was a scarf and left, warning that nobody should mention her name. We thought she was going to the toilet," the distraught father said.
The members of Umeh family, who are natives of Amaeke Abam in Ohafia LGA, have been residing in Inyienyi village, where they acquired land and built a house.
A family source disclosed that Comfort had told her mother earlier that she would not be able to stay alive to behold the faces of those who defiled her, but the mother did not understand what she meant.
It was her deafening cry while struggling between life and death on top of the tree that drew people's attention to the bush. They then rushed to the scene to discover that her tongue had already protruded out of her mouth showing that she had given up the ghost.
Comfort's mother, Mrs Ekenna Umeh, a prophetess who runs a prayer ministry in her home said that the deceased would have clocked 15 years in October this year.
She said that her daughter did not like having any affair with boys as she swore that she would keep her virginity for her husband. She was said to have told her mother that she would complete her studies and start working before considering marrying. The deceased mother alleged that one Ndubuisi had been disturbing her daughter since they moved to the area in 2013, and had in her presence threatened to deal with her if she refused his amorous overtures.
Her words: "In my presence, I had asked my daughter and she told me that relationship is not her prob¬lem now until she is through with her education.
She hardly collects gifts from boys nor accepts free rides when coming back from school."
Chiawolam was said to have gone to see her sister in a nearby village. On her way from the visit, the three boys allegedly abducted and took her into a nearby forest, where they have a cult house and shrine.
Explaining further, the mother told Sunday Sun "While this was going on, my daughter told me that she was still shouting, but nobody could come to her rescue. She said that immediately they got into the forest, near Inyienyi stream, one of the boys named Ndubuisi brought out a dagger and threatened to kill her if she refused to submit herself to them. Eventually, they over-pow¬ered her, tore off her skirt, blouse, pants, brassier and forcefully raped her in turns. She said that when they were doing all those things to her, she passed out, only to wake and see herself in the pool of her own blood.
It became difficult for her to stand up and walk out of the forest, as her head was turning and every area of her abdomen and private region was paining her. She said that she looked at herself to discover that blood filled the whole place like where a goat was slaughtered for sacrifice."
Mrs, Umeh said she never imagined that her daughter would take her life. She called on the police and all relevant authorities to give her justice and ensure that her daughter did not die in vain by making those who pushed her to suicide pay for their sins.
The Police Public Relations Officer for Abia State, Mr Ezekiel Udeviotu, who confirmed the incident described it as unfortunate, stating that the police was doing all within its powers to arrest the culprits, who were said to have fled the community.
Source: Sun

See what a man wore to church today (photos)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:43 AM PDT

Seen as he left Our Lady Queen of Nigeria, Pro-Cathedral in Abuja this morning. A white shirt with an inscription on the back that says 'Doggy Style'. Is that an offensive t.shirt to wear to church?

Church in Jos rocked by explosion this morning

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:34 AM PDT

The Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) church in Tudunwa, Angwan yashi, near the Federal Secretariat in Jos, was rocked by explosions this morning. Details are still sketchy but witnesses say they expect high casualty as worshipers were at the church for the Sunday service when a bomb went off. Details later.

Photos: Pregnant Kim & Kanye step out for lunch & some shopping

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:27 AM PDT

Kanye blessed the world with his rare smile as he stepped out with his pregnant wife Kim Kardashian in Malibu yesterday for some shopping before a lunch date at a sushi restaurant. Kim, who is said to be four months along - squeezed her growing bump into a tight halter dress. More pics after the cut...

Nigerian & Tanzanian students of Nairobi school fight over Kenyan girls (photos)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 03:11 AM PDT

So, is this what they sent you Nigerian students to go and do in Kenya...fight over girls? A group of Nigerian and Tanzanian boys who are students of a private university in Kenya clashed on Friday July 10th at Roysambu area in Nairobi.

According to local reports, the students had been drinking together at a bar called Shisha bar when they began arguing over Kenyan girls who they met at the bar. As the girls made to leave with the Tanzanian boys, the Nigerian students refused to let them go...allegedly. But the Tanzanian boys managed to flee the scene with the girls only for the Nigerians to pursue them in their car to the boys flat near the bar...allegedly. Continue...

Realising that the Nigerians students were catching up with them, the Tanzanian students abandoned their car - a Subaru - and fled to their flat - only for the Nigerians to smash the abandoned car ...allegedly...while shouting obscenities at the same time. They fled the scene after causing damage.

Supposedly, this is the car the Nigerian students destroyed...


Photo credit: Nairobi News...

Deplorable state of social welfare office in Ibadan, Oyo state (photos)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 02:56 AM PDT

A LIB reader who visited the place sent in the photos and wrote;
I write to you with a heavy heart. Social welfare generally is meant to remedy the ills of the society. Hence, it engages in different services such as;  child welfare services including adoption, solving post/pre marital crisis, rehabilitation and reformation of delinquent & mal-adapted youths, Providing care, protection for the disabled, destitute etc but one would ordinary think that an agency that does this much for the society deserves a lot in return. But reverse is the case in Oyo state as it looks do not fit all any of these welfare functions."
I got a letter from them, I decided to pay them a visit (as a professional counselor) what I saw was indeed an eyesore (ranging from dilapidated building, inaccessible road, Zero publicity, lowly motivated staff, etc.) The most surprising aspect is that people visit this office regularly, and its a pity that the government doesn't see it fit to give this agency a face lift, despite the revenue it generates for the state. That is why I took it upon myself to take some pictures that can buttress my concern.

All these beauties you see...were once men. Choi! (photo)

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 02:37 AM PDT

Popular transgender Shauna Brooks (second from left) and Sidney Starr (next to Shauna) and their transgender friends at 'Love & Hip Hop New York' star Yandi Smith's party in New York last night.

Men need to start asking some serious questions before they get with a woman these day. Like 'before I get naked, were you born a man or a woman?' Lol. It's hard to tell these days...

Why Pay-TV subscription keeps running when you're not watching

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 02:27 AM PDT

You wish, very earnestly, that your pay-TV subscription would not run while you are not watching. You are not alone. Almost every pay-TV subscriber would want it that way. That would make us use our subscription in a way similar to how we use the airtime on our phones when we are on the pay-as-you-go platform. 

It would be terrific to subscribe for one month and have the subscription stretched over three or four months by being billed only when we watch.

If we do not watch for a cumulative of 10 days in a month, perhaps because we leave for work very early to return very late, attend many social engagements or travel out of town, we would have gained 10 days in the next month because we would not have been billed for the time we were not watching.

In very simple terms, you would want to be billed only when you watch-for an hour, two hours or more.It is just terrific. No other way to describe it. But it is an eminently unrealisable wish. It is also technologically unworkable.First and foremost, the technology used in satellite television broadcast is one that works by the satellite feeding the decoder with signals that are converted into the audio-visual content on your screen. The technology is not such that the decoder sends feedback to the satellite, making the communication a one-way affair. It is called satellite downlink (DL). It strictly sends the link from the satellite to the ground station.
 With the way it works, the television service provider has no way of knowing whether or not you are watching and what you are watching.
 This means that in the event of a protracted power outage or long absence from home, the pay-TV provider cannot and will not know if you are watching. It is a situation imposed by technology, nothing else.Apart from the technological impracticability of having your subscription frozen while not watching, pay-TV providers are also restrained by contractual obligations to content owners.
 Permission for content distribution (pay-TV companies are usually distributors) are only granted after certain contractual agreements have been reached. Television content is sold and bought as an aggregate and contracts for such usually specify that it be broadcast over a monthly cycle. This condition makes it impossible for a distributor (pay-TV company) to distribute content on any basis other than what the contract stipulates. The alternative, albeit injurious, is litigation and/or  a ruptured relationship with the content owner.
 Even the freezing of subscription was a technological possibility, what about its business viability? A distributor has made full payment for a certain content, say a movie, which it hopes to sell for a profit. A subscriber watches for 30minutes, decides to visit a friend or there is power outage. Would the pay-TV company get a refund from the content owner, which must have been fully paid, on the excuse that power outage or some other situation forced the subscriber to discontinue watching? Of course, not. When we pay to watch a movie at a cinema, we do not get refunded if we find it uninteresting or we are distracted after 40 minutes. Same goes for a football match that goes against our team after 20 minutes. Can we leave the arena, stop by the ticket office and ask for a part refund?
 Contracts are contracts and must be honoured. Monthly or weekly Blackberry and internet contracts do not extend beyond the period for which they are valid whether or not we use them. We do not get refunds for not using or carry a subscription over. That is the way it goes

EFCC says 2 key witnesses in Nyako suit have died mysteriously

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 02:22 AM PDT

EFCC disclosed that 2 of its crucial witnesses in the N29billion fraud case against former Adamawa state governor Murtala Nyako, his son Abdulazis and other associates, have died mysteriously. The anti-graft agency told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday July 10th that the mysteriously deaths of the 2 men have put fear in other witnesses who are now refusing to cooperate with them for fear of the unknown. EFCC begged the court to remand Nyako and his co-accused as it would be dangerous to allow them go on bail & also so witnesses could come forward & testify against them
"Two of our crucial witnesses, Ma'aji Mohammed Iro and Abdulmalik Dalhatu have died in mysterious circumstances and this has instilled fear in other prospective witnesses in the case" EFCC told the court
Ma'aji Mohammad Iro was a Regional Manager with Zenith Bank, who was in charge of Adamawa State Govt's accounts with the bank and allegedly assisted the former governor in the looting spree.

Amaechi, Bakare, others on Buhari's 18-man delegation to the US

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 01:59 AM PDT

Former Rivers state governor Rotimi Amaechi, and former VP candidate to Buhari, Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly and 16 others are said to be among those Pres. Buhari plans to take with him on his 3-day visit to the US on July 20.

According to Sahara Reporters, others are; Oyo state governor Abiola Ajimobi, Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and two others. The delegation will also include top aides, political associates of the President, former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Adamu, top civil servants, representatives from the Office of the National Security Adviser, and reps from economic policy and foreign affairs think tanks.

President Buhari reportedly refused to meet with Bukola Saraki

Posted: 12 Jul 2015 01:59 AM PDT

According to a report by Punch, Pres. Buhari has resisted new moves by Saraki to meet with him because he's still upset over what Saraki did during the National Assembly elections...
An official in the Presidency said the President and the Senate President had only met once since the latter's emergence as the leader of the senate. The official said all efforts by Saraki to have another meeting with the president, after the party's National Executive Council meeting two Fridays ago, have proved abortive.
The reliable source said that Saraki had at different times reached out to people to help him persuade Buhari to grant him audience.
"The truth is that the President is still displeased with what transpired in the National Assembly, especially the Senate. Their encounter during the APC National Executive Council meeting, when they shook hands, was the first meeting between President Buhari and Saraki since he emerged as the President of the Senate.
"We are aware that Saraki has been going about begging people to assist him to plead with the President to meet with him. That was one of the reasons why he visited former President Obasanjo.
"I can tell you that the President is very pained by what happened. He felt that since he had been transparent with the party, everybody should play that way. But since Saraki took that path, the President was and he is still pained. Let us just hope that at the end of it all, they will be able to put the matter behind them." the source said
Source: Punch

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