Welcome To ConfamAmebor Blog: June 2013

Sunday 30 June 2013

Ice Prince wins ‘Best African Act’ at 2013 BET Awards

Rapper Ice Prince beat 2face Idibia, Toya
Delazy from South Africa, Donald from
South Africa, R2Bees from Ghana
and Radio and Weasel from Uganda to
win the 2013 Best African Act at the BET
Awards this evening. Big congrats to him.

Photos from Emma Nyra's Kereshere video shoot

Video shot last week in London. More
photos after the cut...

Pius Ewherido is dead

SENATOR Pius Ewherido is dead he died of
stroke, Sunday evening in Abuja.
Pius Ewherido, was a member of the
Nigeria House of Representatives between
May 1999 and May 2007. He was elected
Senator for Delta Central in the April 2011
national elections, running on the
Democratic People’s Party (DPP) platform.
Born on May 4, 1963 in Ughelli. He
attended Notre Dame College, Ozoro and
Urhobo College, Effuruin, Delta State. He
went on to the University of Ife where he
studied Philosophy. After his National
Youth Service, Ewherido became a
businessman in Warri. He also studied Law
at the University of Benin and was later
called to the Bar.

Ewherido joined the United Nigerian
Congress Party (UNCP) during the
NigerianThirdRepublic. After the transition
to democracy was aborted by SaniAbacha,
he left politics and returned to business. In
1998 he joined the (PDP) and in April 1999
he was elected to represent the Ughelli
South constituency election in the Delta
State House of Assembly.
He was appointed Deputy Speaker of the
House when it convened in June 1999.
From 15 May 2000 until 20 March 2001 he
was leader of the Assembly. Ewherido was
re-elected in April 2003, and was Deputy
Speaker of the Assembly from May 2003
until May 2007.

More details soon.

2 Pakistani girls shot dead for making a video of themselves dancing in the rain

Two teenage sisters, 16 year old Noor
Basra and 15 year old Noor Sheza (both
pictured above) were shot dead at their
home in the town of Chilas, in Pakistan
after a video showing the two girls
laughing and dancing in the rain was
circulated via mobile phones.
Apparently dancing with your sibling in
the rain and filming it is a crime
punishable by death in the Northern
region of Gilgit. The video caused an
outrage in the town and a few days later,
five men invaded the girls home and shot
them dead - for - wait for it - 'tarnishing
their family's name'. Their mother was
also shot dead.
The girls' step-brother, a man named
Khutore, is being accused of arranging
their murder because he allegedly wanted
to 'restore the family's honour'. The
sisters' other brother filed a case against
him and the four other alleged
accomplices who are now on the run. The
police are investigating the case

Adamawa Govt imposes N5,000 fine on stray animals

Girei (Adamawa) – The Adamawa
Government on Sunday expressed concerns
about the continuous presence of stray
animals in Yola and environs.
The Commissioner for Environment, Mrs
Arziki Sawa, made this known during a
sensitisation tour in Girei Local Government
Area of the state.
Sawa said government had imposed N5,
000 fine on owners of any animal found
straying on major streets.
She said the measure was part of
government’s efforts toward enforcing
sanitation laws in the state.
The commissioner said that government
was sending environment officers as part of
its stray animal control policy to put an end
to the problem.
“The state government has directed the
environmental task force to prosecute
residences, who do not keep their
surroundings clean,’’ she said.
She urged residents of the state to join
hands with the ministry to rid the state of
stray animals.
Sawa also urged the local government
chairmen to constitute sanitation
committees in each of the ward to monitor
and supervise the weekly sanitation
exercise in their respective areas.
According to her, the ministry has created
dump sites within and outside the state
capital for easy evacuation of the refuse by
the sanitation officials. (NAN)

I Will Die A Happy Man — Chief Tony Anenih

Chairman Board of Trustees of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony
Anenih, on Saturday urged parents to
give proper education to their children,
no matter what it costs.

Speaking at the convocation ceremony of
300 students of the Pace Setters Schools,
Abuja, Anenih said he would die a happy
man having struggled to give his children
good education.
The school is owned by former Edo PDP
governorship aspirant, Kenneth
Imasuagbon.
Anenih said, "The best thing you can leave
for your son and daughter is good
education. It doesn't matter where you are
coming from. You may be a cleaner, a
wine tapper but please give your children
good education.
"If I die tomorrow, I will go happily
because I struggled to educate my
children."
Also at the event, the publisher of Ovation
Magazine and former Presidential
Candidate of the National Conscience
Party, Dele Momodu, said the crisis
rocking the Nigeria Governors' Forum was
dangerous for the country.
He said, "It is not good to annul elections.
We annulled an election in 1993, 20 years
after we are annulling an election that
took place between 35 people in one small
room. It tells us that there are dangers
ahead."
Momodu, who noted that education
liberates the mind, said he would continue
to struggle for the liberation of the
country from the hands of the few milking
it.
He said, "Nigeria can do a lot better. We
can't abandon politics in the hands of a
few and then complain. I have not been in
power yet, but we will continue to do it
and encourage others to join hands to
liberate the country from all the socio-
political problems confronting the
country."

Lesbians Approach Me All The Time - Nigerian Singer

Up-coming female artiste, Nene
Johnson has expressed her sadness at
the fact that people think she is a
Lesbian.

She has said that the impression people
have about her being a lesbian gives her
headache.
According to the Abia State-born singer
"some people think that I am not straight
(sex orientation) and I always tell them
that I am very straight." She added that. "I
get approached (by lesbians) all the time. I
just try to be friendly and displace them."
Telling us about how she handles the
stubborn ones, the actress said, "I just
stubbornly tell them that I am not into it."
Nene Johnson recently released her single
entitled; 'Tonight'. The song is gradually
gaining favourable airplays. She also
recently changed her stage name from NEJ
to Nene Johnson, which she says is now
paying off.

Governor Amosun promises workers Civil Service estates, car loans

The Ogun state government led by
Governor Ibikunle Amosun has announced
that civil servants in the state will now have
new welfare packages, including civil service
estates and car loans, which his
administration is already putting together.
The announcement was made by the
Commissioner for Commerce and Industry,
Bimbo Ashiru, at the 2013 Civil Service Day
celebration which held in Abeokuta, the
state capital.
At the public lecture, titled; Enhancing
Accountability, Transparency and Integrity,
government workers were charged to
cultivate the right mental attitudes towards
value and ethics in the discharge of
government policies and programmes in
order to bring to fruition the hopes and
aspirations of the state founding fathers.
The event provided the much
needed avenue to review the
journey so far and the challenge
for the future. Speakers at the event
reiterated that the civil service was the
engine room for the effective
implementation of government policies and
programmes.
They said the sector, as the intermediary
between the people and government at all
levels, must discharge its responsibilities
with integrity. Stating that it must remain
transparent and accountable. Resource
persons at the occasion were
Commissioner for Finance, Kemi Adeosun
and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of
Information, Fatai Opebiyi.
The Governor called on civil servants to
cooperate and be dedicated in order to
ensure the success of the restructuring
agenda of his administration.

Anambra 2014: Ifeanyi Ubah joins Labour Party

After a long wait and much expectation,
Nigeria’s business mogul, Ifeanyi Ubah has
finally joined the Labour Party ahead of the
2014 governorship polls in Anambra state.
The Capital Oil and Gas boss went to his
Obiokpuno, Otolo Nnewi ward where the
chairman of the ward, Mr Amobi
Nkerimonye. Got him registered, while the
secretary of the ward, Mr Emeka Adirika
had issued him the LP membership card.
Speaking at the state secretariat of the
party after performing the same ceremony
at Nnewi North Local Government chapter
of the party, Ubah stated,” I thank you all,
my brothers. Today, I want to tell you that I
have joined the Labour Party. I came into
Labour Party so that we can join hands to
reform Anambra state”.
Ubah said he decided to pitch his
tent with the LP after due
consultations with churches,
families, elders and stakeholders in the
state who endorsed his choice for the
party.
He said “ I have made consultations before
I decided to join the Labour Party.
After the consultations, I came to the
conclusion that the only party that has
human being as its symbol was the LP,
while others have been represented by
inanimate objects”
.
He said his campaign organization and
other members of the LP would hold 14
days prayer to ask God for forgiveness for
having allowed a party with a cock symbol
to govern the state.
Earlier, the state chairman of the party, Mr
Samuel Orargbulam thanked Ubah for
joining the party, saying that they had been
praying for a credible, suitable, qualified
and acceptable aspirant like him to join the
party.
He said that with Ubah, accepting to
contest under the party platform, the party
would sweep the governorship polls come
2014 and take Anambra to greater heights.

Nigeria needs N600 billion annually for roads – Minister of Works

Nigeria’s Minister of Works, Mike
Onolememen says the country needs about
N600 billion to build 14,000km of roads
annually if it is to meet the Vision 20:20:20
goals.
The Minister, who stated this during a one-
day public lecture organised by the
Association of Professional Women
Engineers in Abuja, said there was need to
increase the network of roads in the
country.
He said, “for Nigeria to move towards a
sustainable economy commensurate with
Vision 20:2020, there is the need to
increase the total road network from the
current 200,000km to 300,000km by 2020
and the paved network also needs to be
increased from the current 65,000km to
over 200,000km by the year 2020”.
Onolememen noted that the
situation would require the
construction or paving of an
average of 14,000km of roads every year at
the cost of N600 billion per year.
The point has been made several times
that Nigeria cannot overcome its road
infrastructure development challenges
unless necessary reforms are embarked
upon to reposition the road sector to meet
up up with the developed world.
“The Vision 20:2020 requires that Nigeria
attains a GDP of at least, 900 billion dollars
by the year 2020 and GDP per capital of at
least 4, 000 dollars; experience has shown
that there is a direct link between economic
growth, the size and condition of road
networks.
“Thus, for every one dollar spent on road
maintenance, there is a corresponding
increase in the nation’s GDP. The nexus
between road development and economic
growth made it imperative for the
improvement of road network in new ways”,
he stated.

Three hour blackout at airport rectified – FAAN

Abuja – The Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN) says it has rectified the
electrical problem responsible for Friday’s
three-hour power outage at the Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) in
Abuja.
Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, FAAN’s Head of
Communications at the airport, disclosed
this on Saturday in Abuja while speaking
with journalists on the incident.
There was a power interruption at the
airport between midnight on Friday and 3
a.m on Saturday.
The FAAN official who said power was
restored in full afterwards said the incident
was as a result of maintenance work.
“The power interruption was due to an
electrical maintenance work the authority
(FAAN) carried out at the airport,’’ she said.
Yakubu however said the power
interruption was not an incident which
disrupted operations at the airport.
“We had earlier informed members of the
public about the maintenance FAAN was
about to carry out. However, we are still
sorry for the inconveniences,’’ she said.
The FAAN official said the maintenance
work was to ensure all facilities at the
airport were in good shape for better
service delivery.
“The system maintenance of the high
voltage side of the Terminal Building Power
Transformer at the airport was carried out
and it is functioning well now,” she said.
(NAN)

Steve Forbes Arrives Nigeria for EbonyLife TV launch (Photos)

Steve Forbes arrived Nigeria yesterday
evening for the launch of EbonyLife TV on
DSTV happening today; the 30th of June.
The Editor-in-Chief of business magazine
Forbes magazine as well as president and
chief executive officer of its publisher,
Forbes, Inc. was received with excitement
by Mo Abudu and other members of the
EbonyLife TV crew at the Eko Hotel.
Mr. Steve Forbes is the Keynote Speaker
at the launch of Mo Abudu's TV Network
- EbonyLife TV tonight. The channel which
can be found on DSTV; Channel 165 is set
to change everything you think you know
about Africa.

Former Super Eagles midfielder, Thompson Oliha dies at 44

Former Super Eagles player, Thompson
Oliha, has passed on. The midfielder,
who was among the 1994 victorious
Super Eagles' squad that won the Nations
cup in Tunisia, died today Sunday, June
30 at 4.05 am at the Yusjib industrial
medicare hospital, Ilorin, Kwara
State, Super Sport reports.
Confirming his death in Ilorin, Doctor
Yusuf Addulraheem told Super Sport that
Oliha was brought to the hospital at the
time when there was nothing he could do
to resuscitate him.
“I feel so sad to confirm to you that
Thompson Oliha is dead and by the
time his wife brought him here, the
body was completely lifeless. His
wife Irish Oliha told me that he
slumped in the toilet before
rushing him to hospital and there
was nothing we could do to save
him,”
Until his death, Oliha was the head coach
of the Kwara Football Academy (KFA) in
Ilorin, Kwara State. He was 44 years old.
May his soul rest in peace...Amen.

Jay-Z Releases Lyrics To "BBC," Featuring Nas, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Swizz Beatz, Pharrell & Timbaland

Jay-Z continues to tease out portions of the lyrics to his upcoming album, Magna Carta Holy Grail.

Jay has shed some light on what has immediately become one of the album's most anticipated tracks: "BBC," featuring Nas, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland.

Hov was photographed in the studio weeks ago with Timberlake, Nas, and Timbaland, working on what would now appear to be this track.

Prior lyrics released include "Oceans," featuring Frank Ocean, "Heaven," and the Justin Timberlake-assisted "Holy Grail." The album will consist of 15 tracks.

Magna Carta Holy Grail will be released on July 4. It is the product of a collaboration with technology company Samsung, who will offer up to one million free copies of the album for users of its smartphones, three days before the album's release.

SCARY! Vera, Tai Solarin student, discovered big ants in her vagina after se*x with Yahoo boy

It was a tale of remorse as Vera, 21, a student of Tai Solarin University of Education, narrated her near-death ordeal in the hands of her boyfriend, "Jide" who is a cyber crime expert. She had been showered with gifts without measure until the day of reckoning came by. In her words, "We then had sex and immediately he jumped up and said he had something to do for his father. He dressed up quickly and dropped some money on the bed and left. I immediately went to the bathroom to clean up, as soon as I removed the condom; I saw worms and big black ants inside it. I screamed and ran out, but he had driven out of the compound. If I had not used the female condom, all those worms were meant to enter inside me and kill me as part of the money ritual process." To ladies in the same pathway, remember the age-long saying: all that glitters is not gold. There is no free lunch in Freetown;

I’ll marry my husband again and again –Mercy Johnson

Mercy Johnson is a well known Nollywood
star in Nigeria, nay Africa. After taking a
break from the klieg lights to get married
and have her baby, she’s now ready for a
new project – the Mercy Johnson
Foundation.

But when asked about her husband this was what she had to say.

" He’s the
best thing that happened to me. People
usually say men are not reliable, in the
case of my husband he’s a blessing. It’s
obvious we are his priority.

If this is what it feels to
be married, I want to marry my husband
again and again"...

Commission: Reports Nigerian Troops Kill Civilians

Nigeria's National Human Rights
Commission said Sunday it has credible
reports security forces are killing, torturing,
illegally detaining and raping civilians in a
fight to halt an Islamic uprising in
northeast Nigeria that has killed nearly
2,000 people since 2010.

A report by the commission said troops
retaliating against civilians have torched
homes and tried to hide evidence of gross
violations by disposing of bodies.
In the most egregious case, where troops
went on a rampage in several villages after
a soldier was killed in mid-April in the
fishing village of Baga, it quoted police as
saying soldiers "started shooting
indiscriminately at anybody in sight
including domestic animals.
This reaction
resulted to loss of lives and massive
destruction of properties."
The military said 36 people were killed,
most of them extremist fighters. Witnesses
told the AP at the time that some 187
civilians were killed.

The commission said the killings also came
after militants had ransacked an armory,
with subsequent reports indicating the
extremists enjoyed an increase in the
caliber and quantity of weapons and "had
become both more organized and
emboldened by their apparent successes
despite the enhanced security presence."

That contradicted military reports that they
have taken control of the region in a
military emergency covering thee states and
one-sixth of the sprawling country. Instead,
they appear to have pushed the fighters
into rocky mountains with caves where it is
more difficult to flush them out. The
extremists regularly attack towns and
villages.

The commission, a government body,
issued an interim report saying it would
finalize it when its investigators are able to
visit the area where soldiers have cut
mobile phone and Internet connections.
A
state of emergency was declared May 14
when the government said extremists from
the Boko Haram terrorist group had taken
control of some towns and villages.
The insurgency poses the biggest threat in
years to security in Nigeria, Africa's most
populous nation of 160 million and the
continent's biggest oil producer.
Communities trapped between the Islamic
militants and the security forces "reportedly
live in desperate fear and destitution," the
commission said.

It warned of an imminent public health
emergency and food shortages because
farmers have been forced from their fields.

Food prices have nearly trebled, the
commission said, with a 50-kilogram (110-
pound) sack of rice selling for up to 18,000
naira ($112.50) from 7,000 naira ($44).

Some medical experts from the region have
reported a notable upsurge in sudden
deaths, heart attacks and aneurysms, it
said.

Northeast Nigeria already presents "the
worst statistics of human development in
Nigeria generally," it said.
Maternal mortality rates were three times
the national average of 545 deaths for every
100,000 live births, and reports reaching
the commission suggest the emergency has
even more mothers dying in childbirth.

Northeast Nigeria is the poorest region in
the country, with government statistics
indicating 75 percent of the population
lives from hand to mouth on less than $1 a
day.

The commission's interim findings
corroborated AP reports from the region.

Militants who began by targeting
government personnel and health workers
— they preach that Western religion and
medicine are forbidden — are increasingly
targeting civilians in attacks on schools and
vaccination campaigns.

"The Commission equally received several
credibly attested allegations of gross
violations by officials of the JTF (joint task
force of police and military), including
allegations of summary executions, torture,
arbitrary detention amounting to
internment and outrages against the dignity
of civilians, as well as rape," the rights
commission said.

"In particular, we have received persistent
and credibly attested allegations of
indiscriminate disposal of dead human
remains by personnel of both the JTF and
the Borno State Environmental Protection
Agency."

The military and presidential spokesmen
did not respond to requests for comment.

Photos from Toolz' pre- birthday surprise dinner

Her boo Captain Tunde Demuren
(pictured), Banky W, Tiwa Savage and
fiance Teebillz, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu and a
few other friends were at the intimate
dinner last night. Toolz' birthday is
actually July 6th but her friends decided
to surprise her a week early..:-). More
photos when you continue...

Photographer Sues 2Face, Annie Macaulay For N120M Over Wedding Pictures

Popular photographer and CEO,Papilonmexy studios, Emeka Okolo has filed a N120 million lawsuit against Tuface,his wife, Annie Idibia and their manager,Anthonio Anifite over photographs allegedly taken at the traditional wedding of the musician and his wife in Akwa Ibom State. Okolo claims that he was contacted by tuface's wife through a woman,Ms Chineze Anyaene to take pictures at the traditional wedding held in Eket, Akwa Ibom state in March, 2013. Okolo came to the event to take pictures but was surprised when annie Idibia called him and demanded that he submit the high resolution photos he had taken immediately to her,without payment. In his suit, Okolo demands N100 million in general damages and N20million in exemplary damages.Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed October 16, 2013 for the commencement of trial. Tuface and annie have already been given Writ of summons.

Saturday 29 June 2013

Chinese lovers fall to their deaths while making love by window

This is a bizarre story but according to
The Sun UK , it really happened in the city
of Wuhan in China
A couple are believed to have fallen
to their deaths when a window they
were having sex against gave way.
The horrific accident allegedly
happened in China when the glass
pane shattered.
The tragic man and woman are
then understood to have hurtled to
their deaths. Eyewitnesses said the
couple both fell to the ground as
they clinched on to each other.
A source in China said: “With the
two of them holding each other
tight, they fell out of the building”.
Shocking photos in China appear to
show the couple on the ground
under sheets. Blood is splattered
near their bodies on the pavement.
Medical staff and what appear to
be police officers can also be seen
examining the scene. The man and
woman are thought to have fallen
out of an apartment in the city of
Wuhan, central China.

Tragic!!

Ice Prince photo'd with Marques houston and Wale at BET pre-party

Ice Prince pictured with rapper Wale and
singer/actor Marques Houston at a pre-
party for the BET 2013 Awards taking
place in Los Angeles tomorrow.

Munachi Talks About Love & Relationship With Peter Okoye (P- Square)

In an interview with VangardNGR, the ex-
beauty queen, Munachi, when she was
asked about her love life and her
relationship with Peter Okoye of P-Square.

What’s your opinion about love?
Love is life. It’s the most beautiful thing to
happen to anybody.

Do you believe in love at first sight?
Yes, it could happen. It is possible.

Is this what happened between you and
Peter Okoye (PSquare) love at first
sight?
Look, I know Lola Omotayo very well. I have
known her for years and we are really
close. All those things you heard or read
about us are not true. Peter Okoye and I
are friends. I know his family well. I was
just invited to be in his video (Ifunanya)
and that was it. Nothing more than that. I
know how Peter and Lola love each other
and I respect their love. I could never do
that to them. I could never bring myself to
do anything to hurt them.

Africa’s future is in young hands, says Obama

SOWETO – US President Barack Obama told
Africa’s youth Saturday that the future of
the continent was in their hands and urged
them to use Nelson Mandela as a model
for political leadership.
Obama got a rowdy welcome as he used a
town hall style meeting in South Africa to
announce a new fellowship that will initially
take 500 young African leaders to the
United States every year for academic and
leadership training.
As Obama spoke at a university in the
sprawling township of Soweto where
opposition to apartheid sprung into life,
police nearby fired stun grenades to
disperse hundreds of people critical of his
anti-terror policies.
The US leader, on the second leg of an
African tour, spoke at a University of
Johannesburg not far from the simple
homes in Soweto where Mandela, now 94
and in a critical condition in hospital, spent
several years of his life.
“The future of this continent is in your
hands,” Obama said.
He urged young people in Soweto and
those watching the town hall meeting in
Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda to take
inspiration from Mandela’s refusal to be
cowed by 27 years in jail.
“Think about 27 years in prison. Think
about hardships and the struggles and
being away from family and friends,”
Obama said.
“There were dark moments that tested his
faith in humanity, but he refused to give
up.
“In your lives there will be times to test
your faith.”
Obama was greeted with wild enthusiasm
by the crowd in Soweto, who sang South
African protest songs before he arrived and
chanted his “Yes We Can” campaign slogan
when he took the stage.
However, protesters set fire to US flags and
portraits of Obama and at least three bangs
from stun grenades were heard as armed
police tried to move demonstrators away
from the university.
“The message is clear. We want him to
honour the promises he made when he
became president, including things like the
closing of Guantanamo Bay,” 30-year-old
Firoz Osman told AFP.(AFP)

Three corp members kidnapped in Rivers

PORT HARCOURT: THREE corps members
have been kidnapped at the Corpers’ lodge
in Ogonokom Community Secondary
school, Abua/Odua local government area.
The state Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Angela Agabe confirmed the
development. Sunday Vanguard gathered
that those kidnapped were two males and
one female corps members.
Sources around the Corpers’lodge told the
Sunday Vanguard that the kidnappers
stormed the lodge at about 12 midnight
yesterday, adding that they shot
sporadically to scare the neighbourhood.
As press time, Sunday Vanguard learnt
that no contact had been established with
relatives and colleagues of the kidnapped
Corps members for ransom. The state DSP
Agabe said that the Police was on top of
the situation, stressing that efforts were on
to secure the release of the hostages, a
development community sources
corroborated when they spoke to the
Sunday Vanguard.
Abduction of Corps members is not a
strange incident in the state as they had
been kidnapped about four times in the
last three years.
A source at the National Youth Service Corp
secretariat said Corps members at
Ogonokom community had been relocated
temporarily to a nearby community for
safety. “They might go back to Ogonokom
community when their security is assured”,
the source said.

Prostitutes beat, injure security men in Akure

SOME prostitutes Saturday beat security
personnel attached to the Ondo State Task
Force on Environment during the monthly
environmental sanitation exercise in Akure,
the state capital.
Their uniforms were torn into shreds while
they sustained injuries due to the beating
they received when they tried to enforce
the environmental laws where their brothel
was located. The Commissioner for
Environment, Chief Sola Ebiseeni, led the
task force across the Akure metropolis to
ensure compliance with the environmental
exercise.
During the exercise, which also took the
task force to some towns and villages,
some people violating environmental laws
were arrested.
However, when the team of the task force
personnel got to the hotel, located at Oke
Padre, off Lao Street, Akure, they met the
prostitutes with their clients drinking
alcohol and dancing.
Efforts of the security personnel to make
them observe the environment exercise
were rebuffed.
The prostitutes prevented their clients from
being arrested.
The prostitutes and clients thereafter
descended on the Civil Defence and security
officials attached to the task force and beat
them mercilessly while they resisted arrest.

Mike Adenuga Is Already Preparing For Death, Pays whooping N200 million For Burial Spot In A Cemetry

I was as confused as you are when I heard this too. Billionaire businessman and Globalcom owner, Chief Mike Adenuga reportedly paid a whopping sum of 200million naira to secure a space for his burial spot in a cemetery.

The cemetery is at the Vaults and Garden, an ultra modern cemetery in Ikoyi, Lagos, situated beside Federal Radio Corporation Of Nigeria.

The cemetery which was opened in October 30th, 2006 by former Lagos state governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has a spot for the rich and another spot for the "super" rich.

A space for the rich costs from N750,000 and above, while that of the "super" rich costs from N40million and above. There you will enjoy a lush lawn, a balcony, beautiful gate, garden, more space, and all that..

It was also reported that the billionaire's sister, Mrs Esther Osunade, who died in 2009 was buried at the few most expensive spot beside Gboyega, son of another super rich man.

Some people just don't know what to do with money......

SCANDAL - Omotola paid for her ‘Time magazine honour' ??

On April 23, Omotola Jalade- Ekeinde was honoured by the prestigious TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Needless to say, the world congratulated her on the amazing accomplishment.

When news of the honour broke, Michael Djaba, Chief Creative officer of Oh TV said, “Omotola epitomizes the 21st century African woman and after producing her successful reality show, Omotola: The Real Me, we congratulate her for the recognition as one of the most influential people in the world.”

Just two months down the line, however, what was believed to be a meritorious achievement might soon turn into a scandal, if the buzz coming from the grapevine is anything to go by.

A salacious report making the rounds says the top Nollywood actress actually bought her presence on the list with the princely sum of $1m, more than N150m.

The allegation says the deal was brokered by Omotola’s American agents to boost her reality show, The Real Me.

She was allegedly advised by her American agents to cough up the astronomical sum in order to break into the American film/TV industry, which they reportedly said would be easier done if she had the Time list as her selling point.

After her appearance on the list, she has featured in an American TV production, Hit The Floor, alongside big-time Black American stars Akon and Kimberly Elise.

The questions being asked out there are: Is it indeed true that the delectable actress bought her way into world reckoning?

Could she really have paid the whopping sum of one hundred and fifty million dollars for the honour? Omotola did not pick her phone when this reporter called her to get her reaction to the rumour, neither did she react to text messages on the issue. So far, officials of TIME Magazine have not responded to the email sent to them on the rumour.

Women turn Butchers in Lagos

Chorister Love; Two Choristers Cut Younger Member’s Face With Blade Over Affair With Choir Master.

LAGOS-Two women, Temitope Abigeal and Temitope Remi, have been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ebute Meta on a three count of conspiracy, assault and grievous harm. Abigeal (26) and Remi (28), choristers at a Cherubim and Seraphim church at Ebute Meta, were alleged to have assaulted Hannah Okurabe (18) with razor blades at Abule Nla junction, a few metres away from the church.

The incident was said to be the result of an earlier fight over the church’s choirmaster,Joseph Unuigbe, a father of two. Joseph Unuigbe is married to a lady who is also a member of the same church.

Hannah is presently receiving treatment at the Lagos Island General Hospital, while Abigeal and Remi have been remanded in Kirikiri until they meet their bail terms Two women, Temitope Abigeal and Temitope Remi, have been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ebute Meta on a three count of conspiracy, assault and grievous harm. Abigeal (26) and Remi (28), choristers at a Cherubim and Seraphim church at Ebute Meta, were alleged to have assaulted Hannah Okurabe (18) with razor blades at Abule Nla junction, a few metres away from the church.The incident was said to be the result of an earlier fight over the church’s choirmaster,Joseph Unuigbe, a father of two. Joseph Unuigbe is married to a lady who is also a member of the same church.

Hannah is presently receiving treatment at the Lagos Island General Hospital, while Abigeal and Remi have been remanded in Kirikiri until they meet their bail terms -

Man with biggest testicles

The extraordinary story of 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Wesley Warren Jnr, a man who lives with a rare medical condition so severe that he can't wear trousers, walk normally, go to work, drive a car, have sex, or even sit down without the help of a milk crate.

His story highlights the failings of the American healthcare system, which has arguably some of the best doctors in the world, but only for those who can afford them.

While the medical professionals are unsure what caused Wesley's condition, for him it all started one night in late 2008. Wesley accidentally knocked his testicles while turning over in bed, causing a sharp shooting pain, and the tissues around his testicles began to swell. They've been growing bigger ever since.

In a case reminiscent of the tragic 19th-century 'Elephant Man', doctors refer to his mysterious condition as scrotal elephantiasis or scrotal lymphedema, characterised by excess watery fluid collecting in tissues of the body. Things have got so bad that Wesley can't lead anything resembling a normal life.

What did Senator Ngige go to Okija shrine to Find

Former

Anambra State governor, now a senator representing Anambra Central, Dr Chris Ngige, recently at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, spoke to some journalists including Politics Editor, Daniel Kanu, on some issues concerning his controversial tenure, President Olusegun Obasanjo’s moves against him and the dreaded Okija shrine among others:

Your election as Anambra State governor in 2003 was controversial. What were the hurdles you crossed before getting into office?

First, I replaced the then incumbent governor, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, who my party, People Democratic Party (PDP), had adjudged not to have done well and, therefore, decided that in order not to lose the state, they had to get a replacement. I was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party at the time and the party took a decision to draft me to fly its flag. I wanted to go to the Senate and I had already won my primary nomination for the Senate. It was from then the hiccup started. Then when I went into the election, I had problems with some party members; Mbadinugu’s supporters did not vote for me. They moved into the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and they opposed me in the general elections. And because he did not perform very well, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), a new party then in the East, became very strong in Anambra State with the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, as the arrowhead and the people were also involved emotionally. But when I came out, the equation changed and the people of the state were caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. We had the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pronounced me winner and I was sworn in. Right from when I was sworn in, there were problems with those who assisted me to get my nomination in the PDP and who were the engine house of my campaign organisation. By that, I mean the Ubas and from there, one thing led to the other. They wanted the deputy governor to take over from me. Perhaps, based on ignorance, they didn’t do that legally. They used unorthodox means not known to law by forcibly removing me and taking a letter to the House of Assembly that I had resigned, whereas that was not the situation. You can see that I went through a rough road and when I tried to assert myself, the then Federal Government supported those people because they were “friends of the Presidency.” And in order to actualise the mandate given to me by our people, I had to fight back. I had to resist and fight all through the rough terrain, to make sure I delivered democracy dividends to my people. I had to pay salaries and allowances that were owed and I had to pay them off as a government. I needed to also construct roads for the people because when I came, there were no roads. That was the situation but more challenging was the fact that the government owed workers, pensioners, contractors, and various financial houses a whopping N35billion before I came. I had to do a gradual settling of these debts by paying gradually and, of course, I returned the people’s confidence in government. I started paying salaries as and when due, I paid pension; I paid the 142 per cent rise in pension. As a matter of fact, after Rivers State, mine was the only government in Nigeria that paid it, followed by Lagos State. While on the seat, I had to contend with insurgency and rough tackles from my erstwhile supporters and we had to fight it out. It was a clear choice for me to make. It was either I aligned with people of Anambra State or give them whatever they (erstwhile supporters) wanted from the state treasury. They wanted N3billion every year and of course, I didn’t have it and I knew I was in for trouble. I decided to slug it out with them. At that period, I received calls from friends, family members and even some governors that nobody fights the Federal Government and wins, not to talk of the one led by President Olusegun Obasanjo, an Army General but I told them I was not afraid of death.

Who wrote your purported letter of resignation to the House of Assembly on July 10, 2003?

I don’t know who did it. But you know, in this country, such things are very easy to do. What gave out that letter was the way it was written. It was not with the current letterhead of my office. When I came into office, I changed the letterhead but that particular letter was written with the old letterhead paper. Of course, my signature, in these days of forgery, people can get near your signature. They got near my signature but it wasn’t quite my signature. It didn’t bother me to investigate it but I got a copy of the letter after the coup or illegal removal failed. I tried to send it for forensic analysis while I was in government but it was overtaken by the fact that I left government much earlier, following the Court of Appeal decision on March 15, that upheld the tribunal’s verdict that Peter Obi was the elected governor.

Your election victory was nullified in 2005 by a tribunal led by Justice Nabaruma. You appealed to the Court of Appeal and lost. Do you still agree that you did not win the election fairly?

(Cuts in) It wasn’t nullified. I don’t agree with the court verdict. The court judgment was political; it was politically given. The tribunal in its final judgment said I obtained some illicit, dirty votes; if you want to call it rigged votes, they counted those votes and subtracted them from my total votes declared by the INEC. With that declaration, they said I had 260 something thousand votes as legal votes. Then they said Obi also had illegal and rigged votes; they went on to count his illegal votes and his valid votes and then subtracted his illegal votes from the legal votes. They said his valid votes were 300 and something thousand and declared him winner. I am not a judge, but I know that in law, especially law of equity, he who comes to equity, must do so with clean hands. If you have rigged to get some votes and, according to them, my party, PDP, and myself rigged; APGA and Obi also rigged, therefore, he (Obi) did not come to equity with clean hands to petition. The logical thing and the highest penalty that should have been meted out to me was the cancellation of the results and a rerun but they pronounced him winner. We appealed based on this and not even that alone, there was at a time a subsisting Supreme Court judgment in the case of Onoh vs. Nwobodo said it was not the job of courts to count votes. It is not their job. Therefore, if there is substantial compliance by a winner, you leave him as winner. If there is no substantial compliance by the winner, you nullify the election but you don’t start counting votes. They went ahead and ignored that Supreme Court’s pronouncement. The Supreme Court is the highest authority in terms of judicial pronouncements. That was when the nullification of governors’ elections started and the Court of Appeal, instead of upholding our grounds, was also intimidated by then President Obasanjo. We had it on good authority that some members of that panel were intimidated and they had to accede to Justice Nabaruma’s judgment. Even Justice Nabaruma’s panel was unduly influenced by Obasanjo. A top crime czar of the regime came from Abuja to Awka and held a meeting with Nabaruma and co before the judgment. I had not talked about it, but for the first time last month, I did. Why I did that was because Governor Obi is almost finishing his tenure and I don’t want him to gloat and say he is an angel. No! That judgment is there. He also had tainted votes. If I had said it earlier than now, people would have said Ngige is behaving like the woman in the Bible who was quarrelling over a baby with another woman. They came to King Solomon and one said: “Divide the baby that is alive into two and give me half and give the other one half.” I am not that kind of person. I kept off from making any allusion to that judgment till now. I am saying it now loud and clear that that judgment was flawed, it is not right. That judgment became an albatross because after Ngige and Obi, all the courts in Nigeria started counting votes and removing governors. I was the first governor to be removed by the courts, not through impeachment in the history of Nigeria. That induced a lot of instability in the system. Some corrupt judges have now taken over and they are counting votes for everybody. That is what has infected and killed the judiciary today. After elections are conducted by INEC in the fields, you go back to the courts for another round of fresh elections.

It was widely believed that the conflict between you and your godfathers forced you out of the PDP. Can you still recollect what transpired then?

I told you that the powers that be had the backing of the presidency. At one point, they put together a panel called Oyinlola panel and said it was a reconciliation committee. The then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, forced Chief Audu Ogbeh out. Ogbeh was then the national chairman of the party but he said that as the chairman, he would not stand by and let a governor of his party be persecuted for nothing. Ogbeh stood his grounds and when the persecution was getting too much, he wrote a letter to Obasanjo and told him that he could not fold his arms and allow a situation where there was an attempt to assassinate a sitting governor, who is a PDP member. Obasanjo replied him and he (Ogbeh) said Obasanjo said I did not win the election. As a matter of fact, one of my friends, an ex-governor called me and said I will lose the case in the election courts because Obasanjo had made everybody believe that I didn’t win the election. First, the bias came from the ex-President and second, from my party. Third, President Obasanjo told the nation that I came to his house to confess that I didn’t win the election. That is a very big lie; I never did that but he said it to blackmail me and so the judges found their hands tied and to compound matters, he used the power of coercion to beat them into line. So, when Ogbeh refused to join in the persecution, he went and brought in Ahmadu Ali to replace him as national chairman. When Ali came, he did what they called re-registration of members of the PDP and before that, they instituted what they called a reconciliation committee in Anambra and one of the first major jobs was that they asked Sam Egwu, who was in charge of that reconciliation committee, to write that I should be suspended as one of the solutions to the problem. Of course, Sam Egwu, as a South-East governor refused to do so. He surrendered the chairmanship of that committee; they reconstituted it and put Gov. Oyinlola there as chairman. You had the troika Generals of General Olusegun Obasanjo, Oyinlola and Ahmadu Ali, and the next thing they said was that in the interest of peace in the party, they had suspended me from the party. I was a sitting governor and they also suspended Chris Ubah. Chris Ubah had no status in the party, he was just a member at the ward level of the party. But they brought his matter to the national level and suspended the two of us. They refused to register me again and eventually expelled me. I accepted the expulsion and started functioning. Even with that, they asked INEC to declare the seat of the governor of Anambra State vacant. They said that, in conformity with Section 131 or so of the Constitution, that I had no party. But good counsel prevailed and the then chairman of INEC, the late Dr. Abel Guobadia, refused to do that and they had problems with him for refusing to do their bidding. As a result, they allowed him to do only one term. The old man didn’t mind, he did his term and went away. That was what transpired till I and other progressive governors like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Segun Osoba, Niyi Adebayo, Tom Ikimi, Audu Ogbeh, Lucky Igbinedion, George Akume, DSP Alamieyesiagha, etc. got together and formed the Action Congress (AC) with, of course, Atiku Abubakar, who was also the next in line to be persecuted. There were some governors on the sidelines supporting Obasanjo at the time, like the then chairman of the Governors Forum and they said I shouldn’t have reneged on an agreement I went into with the people. But they forgot that an agreement that was false and forged ab-initio is no agreement and is not binding at all. We are still meeting in the political war front and will continue to have unfinished battle. We must always meet somewhere.

You were widely criticised for being at the dreaded Okija shrine. Were you in search of political power at all cost?

I have not been desperate for power. I have given you the history of my journey. Perhaps, I did not add that if you go and look at my track record, I was a federal civil servant and I was trained as a medical doctor. First of all, a good medical doctor is a very patient person. He must be patient to take your history as you walk in as a patient. The doctor should obtain 90 per cent of his diagnosis from history taking; conservatively call it 70 per cent, then the others through physical examination and then tests. I am a well-trained doctor, I was trained when medicine was well taught and I am patient. I worked in the Ministry of Health. I practised in the clinic for 15 years before moving into administration. I did administration for five years before I left the service. I am not a hustler for power and more importantly, I started from the primaries of my party. I was a foundation member of the PDP, I was nominated to be a minister by Dr. Alex Ekwueme but Obasanjo refused because they fought a bitter primary in Jos and I was in Ekwueme’s camp. So I was blacklisted. I was the assistant national secretary of the party before I came back to contest the primaries for Senate in 2002/2003. Then, I was begged by Chief Audu Ogbeh and others in the NWC. Even the Ubas came to beg me as a last resort. Before then, members of Better Anambra Movement led by Ben Akabueze, Ben Okoye and Ausbeth Ajagu from Lagos had screened people and rated me first from their interview and CV evaluation. That they were my benefactors was because it was when they were begging me that I caved in to run. I gave conditions for going to run and the major condition was that I should be able to run the place unfettered and give good governance to my people in Anambra State. They were the people who breached the agreement by asking me to sign money for them; by asking me to allow them to appoint all the commissioners, special assistants, aide de camp, chief security officer and personal assistant. We had no such agreement. They breached that agreement, so I said okay, if you breach the agreement, then there is no agreement anymore. On the way, they noticed some resentment from me that showed that I was no longer happy with the journey. They said they needed loyalty. So, one of them suggested it (Okija) and they now formed themselves into a cabal. One night they said, “If you don’t go with us to Okija shrine, we will shoot (you).” It’s only a living general that can tell the history of a war. If I was shot dead, the story could have been distorted. I have to be alive to be telling you this story. I asked them, “What should I do?” They said: “Let us go to Okija shrine and I said okay, let’s go.” I took my Bible with me and followed them. When we got there, I noticed they didn’t have guns; then I said I wasn’t going in. One of them said he could swear for me, I said go ahead, so he did it for me. But I did not believe in what they were doing because I am a staunch Catholic. I am a knight of the Catholic Church; so I never listened to what they were saying. They were just fooling themselves.

Anambra governorship election is about seven months from today and you have not declared. Why or is it that you are not interested?

Well, I am at the final stage of consultation and do not also forget that I am one of the promoters of the new party, All Progressives Congress (APC). I am also a member of the merger committee. It is also important that I factor in the issue of the vehicle that I will use if I decide to run. I will make my decision open very soon.

How would you react to the comment that ACN is a South West (Yoruba) Party and cannot win election in Anambra State?

Well, nothing can be farther from the truth rather than this assertion. Some people are just using such as propaganda but the Igbo are wiser than that.

From your experience as governor and now a senator, which of the two responsibilities do you find more challenging?

Both of them are different arms of the government and as chief executive in the executive branch, you are the summation of all government departments, you co-ordinate them, you are head of policy and plans, you are head of research and you are head of executive of that particular branch of government. To some extent, you are quite busy but being in the legislature is another kettle of fish. You make laws and this making of laws entails the making of new laws and the amendment of existing ones that you deem not to be making government function the way it should. We also do appropriation, which is part of law making. For me, the legislative aspect of the business is more demanding

What did Senator Ngige go to Okija shrine to Find.