Igboland To Get Islamic University

Igboland To Get Islamic University To Be Located In Afikpo, Ebonyi State.- Sheikh Daud Nwagui, Brainchild Behind The Proposed Islamic University.

•Boasts the best Islamic secondary school in Nigeria:

Unknown to most people in religiously divided Nigeria, the best Islamic secondary school in the country is not located in the Muslim-dominated North but in the largely Christian South-East, specifically in Afikpo, Ebonyi State.

Now there are plans to turn the school, known as Islamic Centre, Afikpo, into an Islamic University. This was disclosed by Sheikh Daud Nwagui, the Headmaster of the primary section of the school, who told the Daily Trust newspaper: “We hope to turn the school into a university, that is a university of Islamic studies. There is no school like this in the whole of the South-East.”

The hilly Afikpo town boasts the highest number of Igbo Muslims in the South-East, followed by the university town of Nsukka in neighbouring Enugu State. The Islamic Centre, Afikpo, was founded by Sheikh Ibrahim Okpani Nwagui, the father of the present headmaster, who brought Islam to Afikpo in 1958.

According to Sheikh Daud Nwagui, his late father embraced Islam in Senegal and promptly introduced the religion to his people when he returned to Nigeria in 1958.

“From that time a lot of people in the vicinity were turning to Islam. He was a very sincere person, and he was like this till his very last days. He was the founder of the Islamic Centre, Afikpo,” he said, adding: “This centre was set up in 1965 to propagate Islam generally. This is the best Islamic secondary school in the nation, and students come from all over the country, including Abuja.”

The Islamic Centre, Afikpo, has a primary and a secondary section. There are 450 pupils in the primary section, while the secondary section has some 500 pupils. Students write the NECO and SSCE examinations, just like other students in Nigerian secondary schools. The school has three boarding houses. A computer laboratory is under construction at the school.

Sheikh Daud Nwagui told Daily Trust that there is a special focus on Arabic as a language, on Islamic studies, physics, English Language, Biology, Chemistry, English Literature, Mathematics and Igbo. This, he explained, assists in producing a crop of rounded pupils.

The headmaster disclosed that graduates of the school have risen to prominent positions in the society. Many, he said, have done well in the areas of medicine, some are in the armed forces, also in engineering, and many have risen to become Chief Imams in many states of the federation.

Some graduates, Sheikh Daud Nwagui disclosed, are outside the country and doing very well in places such as Pakistan and India.
On challenges which the school has faced over the years, Sheikh Nwagui said that some form of challenge has come from those he described as ‘religious fanatics in the neighbourhood’ but quickly added: “But from the government of the state we are covered. The government gives us a lot of support.”

News Express

PHOTOS: Check Out Jim Iyke & Nadia Buari Partying Hard

BFF's Jim Iyke and Nadia Buari have been in the news for some time now, from their tour round the world to their engagement which was said to be fake.

As season 2 of Jim Iyke‘s reality TV show “Jim Iyke Unscripted,” wraps up, the couple are already geared up for season 3.
Jim and Nadia recently shot the teaser for the 3rd season and in it, we see the Nollywood actor and the Ghanaian beauty partying hard, flying in private jets and attending events together.
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                                             Nadia Buari and Jim Iyke coming from a plane

Recall that Jim Iyke proposed to Nadia Buari with a 6 carat diamond ring in season 2 and news of their engagement went viral after it was aired on March 20
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                                                 Nadia Buari and Jim Iyke party hard

Despite claims by Jim and Nadia that they are just best friends, they have both continued to spend quality time together and they have been spotted on romantic dates. Jim Iyke even took her on a world tour for her birthday.

We wish them well!
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A MUST READ: Why Your Phones Batteries Can Explode In Your Pocket

Smartphone users have been warned by experts to live with the possibility that their phones could explode – on the charger, next to their beds or even in their pockets – at any time without warning.

It could be recalled that on Tuesday, 16-year-old Ina-Chérie Vermaak from Wonderboom South in Pretoria, South Africa was traumatised by the explosion of her Blackberry’s battery in her school bag as she was walking to class.
Her school uniform was burnt and she was enveloped in a cloud of white smoke. Telecommunication engineering experts have shed some light on why this happened and what can be done to prevent a battery exploding.
 
According to a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s department of electrical, electronic and computer engineering, Jacques van Wyk, there was no way to prevent a possible explosion.
“It does not happen very often that a cellphone’s battery explodes but there is a chance that it could happen,” he said.
It is also not only cellphone batteries that can explode. Van Wyk said an explosion could occur because of a short circuit in the battery.
A short circuit could be more likely if the cellphone’s battery was left to run to below 10 percent. Manufacturers and service providers advise users not to let the battery get too flat before charging it.
 
However, charging can also lead to the battery overheating and thus exploding. “It is just one of those things and you cannot prevent the possibility that this could happen,” said Van Wyk.
Dr Linoh Magagula of the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Electrical Engineering said it “is rare for a cellphone to just explode” while it is lying somewhere.
He said it was more likely a phone would explode when it was left to charge for extended periods in a poorly ventilated area.
“If one is charging the cellphone, make sure it is charged in a properly ventilated area to prevent the battery from overheating,” he said.
He also said if the battery in Vermaak’s cellphone was not the original, the cells in the battery could have overheated.
“The cells could have been poorly insulated and if one cell overheats, the neighbouring cells will also heat up until the battery explodes. Magagula added that one could not rule out that the battery could have been faulty.
“If is was a factory fault, there is nothing one can do to prevent something like this happening,” said Magagula.
He said when a battery was replaced, the user should ensure it was an original battery.
 How To Prevent Your Phone Battery To Explode:
Use only the manufacturer’s original battery or well-known replacement brands, rather than cheap substitutes.
Do not leave your device in hot areas, especially if it’s charging. That only worsens overheating problems.
If your phone is charging or you are using functions that cause it to heat up, make sure you are using it in a ventilated area.
Charging your battery at 50 percent is a good thing, to prevent it from running too low.
Leave your device off charge overnight and plug it in when you get up. (Naij)
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Man Holds Daughter Hostage, Rapes Her Repeatedly

A 53-year-old Argentine man has been arrested by the police for allegedly fathering five children with his own daughter who he captive inside their Mendoza home since childhood.

The unnamed man who is a blacksmith is being accused of repeatedly raping his daughter who is now 31-year-old and also threatening his entire family including their children, aged two to 13, to silence them.
He was arrested and taken into custody after the husband of another one of his older daughters contacted police.
He told the police that the victim had no boyfriend and it was her father who had sexually abused her and impregnated her.
According to Manuel Ontiveros, from the Mendoza police sex crime unit, "the man sometimes passed his daughter off as his wife, when he was asked by neighbours or people outside of the family."
A police source added that the man had been arrested previously for abusing one of his other daughters, who left home after the incident. But he was not jailed, he was rather given a suspended sentence as it was not rape.
Authorities are now investigating whether the girl's mother, who left the family home six years ago, was complicit in her former husband's sexual abuse on the daughter.
Local media say the case resembles that of Australian monster, Fritzl  who had seven children with the daughter he kept locked in a basement for 24 years.
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Please Support Victims of NyaNya Bombing with Team Member

Everyone was shocked this Monday when a bomb went off at Nyanya motor park. Now the shock is over, it’s time for us to rally to action.

Member Feese, survivor of the Boko Haram attack on the United Nations building in Abuja in 2011, is spearheading this mission to help, with her advocacy group - Team Member.

“A lot of the victims were breadwinners, trying to get to work in the morning. We want to help the families who will be going through hell now, with a lot of uncertainty about the future. We’ll be visiting Maitama Hospital at Noon, this Friday with support. We need as much help as we can get. Here’s how to get involved:

1. Food items will be distributed to the families. Any items can be dropped off at the reception of Lake Chad Hotel, Maitama: http://goo.gl/maps/3qCQA

2. Money will used to provide immediate and longer term support to the families. Donations can be

A. Brought to the hospital on the day,
B. Paid into our founders account: GTB – Member Feese – 0106226156

3. We have T-shirts for sale @ N2,000 a piece. These can be paid for as above, or purchased from Lake Chad Hotel. If you’re outside Abuja, we can keep the paid for tee shirt for you, till further notice.

4. Blood is still needed. Donations can be made at the hospital.

For more info, please call

Mo: (+234) 903 904 7613
Nonso: (+234) 806 125 7047
Member: (+234) 803 686 4526″

We encourage you to give if you can, however, please ensure you perform independent verification prior to donating any funds. (BN)

STAR ACTOR REGRETS MARRYING WIFE – ‘You must not tell anybody that I am your husband’

This, no doubt, sounds crazy. But guess what? It’s nothing but the truth, like they say in the law court. One of the dashing and dazzling actors who is making serious waves in Nollywood at the moment, YES INTERNATIONAL! gathered, is not proud of his wife. And because of that, he has warned the woman who has given him about two children never to tell anyone that he is her husband.

The reason for his weird action is because he feels the woman does not befit him. The star actor, very handsome and currently rolling in money and picking awards here and abroad, married the woman, who is older than him, when he had nothing and was struggling to be somebody in life. But now that the Almighty God has blessed him, he is no longer proud of her, even though both of them still live under one roof. We gathered that in spite of being regularly invited to some of the biggest events in the country, not even for once has he attended any with the woman, an action she is no longer finding funny.

The situation became so bad recently that the woman had to cry out to one of her friends who shared the ‘info’ with us. The woman, by the way, besides being older than the actor, is also not particularly good looking. She was occupying a lucrative position and rolling in serious money when the actor who was then jobless decided to pitch his tent with her. But now he’s trying to ‘unpitch’ it – even though their union was consummated in one of the popular Pentecostal churches with headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos.

The actor is dark skinned, dresses well and of average height. The 2nd alphabet begins his first name. He has anchored a couple of prominent programmes and has always operated ‘codedly’. Yet to be encircled by a scandal, this raging issue may ultimately dent his Mr. Clean image. Except he does something fast and also finds a way to pacify his hurting wife and mother of his children.

-YES International!

Surgeon Accidentally Removes Woman's Ovary Instead Of Appendix

Another case of terrible medical error dating back to October 2011 has been recently made public in England.

A 32-year-old pregnant woman was taken to Queen's Hospital outside of London to have her appendix removed but instead of this doctors took out her ovary.
Victim of the medical mix-up Maria De Jesus, who was 21 weeks pregnant with her 4th child, died 3 weeks later.
Now two doctors are in court in connection with the case: a trainee surgeon Dr. Yahya Al-Abed and the supervising surgeon Dr. Babatunde Coker (who was supposed to follow the surgery).
While the trainee doctor was removing what he thought was the appendix, the supervising doctor was reportedly having his lunch. Coker was never summoned, nor was he aware the surgery was taking place...
Until the mistake was uncovered in November, when the woman returned to the hospital suffering from severe pain.
It was another doctor who diagnosed her with appendicitis, again. She underwent surgery the next day.
However, De Jesus died on the OR table having earlier delivered a stillborn boy.
Cause of death: multiple organ failure due to septicemia.
Local media report that the hearing is likely to last a month. (Naij)
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Banky W In Scammer's Net, Warns Fans

Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) Records boss, Bankole Wellington, better known as Banky W, may not be having things rosy at the moment because some impersonators have decided to make things difficult for him by trying to stain his reputation.

The singer has come out to warn his fans to be careful of someone who has opened a fake account on Facebook, using his name to demand the sum of N10,000 to have up and coming singers perform at a concert.

Below is what Banky W posted on his Instagram page on Tuesday.
 

Bovi & Daughter Look so Adorable in New Photos

 

Daddy Bovi just shared these on his Instagram page

Man Goes on Rampage, Beheads Cousins, Injures Two Others in Akwa Ibom State (Photo)

A 35-year old man, Mr. Uwem Job, on Wednesday, beheaded two of his cousins, Mr. Akaninyene Job, 45; and Ezekiel Job, 36 in Ikot Nkim, Ibesikpo/Asutan Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. While his two other cousins – Itoro Job and Ekemini Job – narrowly escaped death as Uwem’s machete missed their throats, but cut through their hands.

According to Akaninyene’s younger brother, Mr. Ekemini Job, around 8.10am that fateful day, Uwem came to their house and told Akaninyene to come with him, saying that he had something to show him (Akaninyene).

He stated that as Akaninyene opened the curtain to see what Uwem had for him, he (Uwem) hit Akaninyene on the neck with a machete and severed his head from the body.
Ekemini said:

Uwem came to our house around 8am and asked Akaninyene to open the door and collect something he brought for him. Uwem had a 25-litre keg of fuel in his hand and had hid a machete that he brought with him. 

People who saw Uwem thought the keg contained palm wine. As my brother opened the curtain to see Uwem, he  quickly brought out his machete and severed Akaninyene’s head from his body.”

An elder sister to Akaninyene, Mrs. Christian Ekong, said they were at the backyard when the shouts from Ekemini caught their attention.

“Ekemini saw Uwem killing Akaninyene and raised the alarm. As we rushed to the scene of the killing, I saw Uwem spilling the fuel on the flour. He then struck a match.  

I raised the alarm, alerting everybody in the house to run. If not for the quick intervention of the youth of the area, the entire house would have been burnt down,” Ekong said.

Ezekiel was said to have been killed few minutes after Akaninyene had been beheaded. The distance between where Akaninyene lived and that of Ezekiel was said to be about 20 metres.
An eyewitness, Okon Eyo, told Punch's correspondent that Ezekiel was just waking up when Uwem called at his home and beheaded him.
He said:

 “We heard shouts from Akaninyene compound, but we did not know what had happened. The next moment, we saw Uwem go straight into Ezekiel room, which was next to his (Uwem) and severe Ezekiel’s head. 

Before we knew what had happened, Uwem had fled. We will apprehend him. We believe he is hiding around this area.”

When Punch's correspondent visited the area, both bodies were laid in front of their houses.
Akaninyene’s younger sister, Mrs. Comfort Okon, told him that the killer of her brother and Ezekiel came back from Lagos about two weeks ago.

“There had never been any quarrel in the family. When my mother was buried on February 22, all the family members, including Uwem, were there. They were the ones who perfected all the burial arrangement, I don’t know why this has happened,” she said.

Bodies of the deceased, Akaninyene and Ezekiel, were later taken to the mortuary in a police van.
Efforts to reach the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Etim Dickson, to confirm the story failed as he did not answer calls to his telephone or respond to text messages sent to the phone.