3-year-old Girl Celebrated for Settling Kingship Tussle

Three year old Mma Abumi  Edet, pictured below, is currently the toast of her community.  Cos according to Punch, her people, the people of Mbarakom community in Akampkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State believe  this “mysterious’’ child, who they also believe is their reincarnated queen  that died in 1980, has not only  helped  in resolving an age-long monarchical struggle in their community, but put an end to a catalogue of evils that had befallen them for over a decade.
The new monarch of the community, Sylvester Etim Eta-Agbor, told Saturday PUNCH that living things like snail, periwinkle, which were common sights in the community had vanished because of the evil things that were going on in the community. That after the demise of  its king,  Effiong Nyong, in 1997 they had been entangled in controversies which led to the coronation of his successor (name withheld) who was  dethroned after Mma-Abumi allegedly revealed  that he was not the right person for the throne. Hence they would forever be grateful to Mma-Abumi, adding that it would take full responsibility for her education to any level and in any institution of her choice.
On how Mma Abumi suddenly became a star in the community, her  father,  Mr. Ekpe Edet, told Punch's correspondent that his daughter  had on January 13, 2014 told him that the problems confronting the community were as a result of a wrong choice of monarch, that she knew the solution to the myriad of problems that had bedevilled the community.
“It was difficult for me to believe her  because I ran away from that village many years ago and she didn’t even know the village. I was initially confused because she had never visited the village and I had never mentioned the name of the community to her before,’’ Edet explained.
Narrating how he succumbed to his daughter’s pressure, Edet, who is a carpenter in Oban, a distant community within the same Akamkpa LGA, said he had  to break his vow  of not visiting Mbarakom after a series of instructions  from his daughter on the need to intervene in the community kingship tussle.
“She had warned that the community was having problems because of the wrong choice of monarch and ordered that a new monarch be crowned,” he said.He  further said, “I had a vision before and after Mma-Abumi was born in 2010 to go home and make peace with my people but I ignored it. Years later I didn’t obey the instruction that came in form of a vision until she was three years old and  I became seriously tormented spiritually. On January 13, while our family fasting was ongoing, we were returning home from the church when my daughter suddenly insisted that we shouldn’t go back to the house but should rather proceed to Mbarakom, otherwise she would die. She immediately fell on the main road and did not allow anyone to touch her that was why we went to Mbarakom.
To cut a long story short, after so many prayers and revelations in Mbarakom, she instructed that a royal cloth be sown for the new monarch.”
He said  that since the time  he got the true identity of his daughter, he had stopped flogging her.
“She once told me, ‘Don’t you know I’m a queen, I don’t want you to be flogging me or treating me badly.’ Before then, anytime I beat her, she would run out of the house to a lonely and quite place and  cried  and each time she cried she cried like an adult,” he said.
Her mother, Mrs. Maria Edet, said apart from having strange experiences when she was carrying the pregnancy of Mma-Abumi, the little girl had soon after she started talking as a one-year-old child, been telling her things she (the mother) could not comprehend.
“She told us that she was a great woman in Mbarakom. She also told us that her staff and the stone she usually placed her legs on to take her bath were still in her house in Mbarakom. For some time my husband and I were disobedient to her instructions but because of what started happening we were forced to take a trip to the community and all the things she mentioned were confirmed,” she said.
The community said the fact that  Mma-Abumi’s directive on the installation of a new monarch was right was confirmed by  the killing of a python that had attempted to swallow a goat by a middle-aged man, Stanley Okpu, after the new monarch was installed. The killing of a python  whenever a new monarch is named, according to the traditional belief of the community, is an indication  that the right  monarch has been installed.
Okpu told Saturday PUNCH that he had gone to the farm with his grandson who later called his attention to the scene of a python that had just started swallowing a goat.
“I was in the farm with my grandson and while I was busy tilling the ground, he called my attention to a snake some distance away trying to swallow a goat. I immediately went to the scene with my cutlass and killed the python with four strikes at different spots,” he said.The news filtered through to the village and with the help of other villagers the dead snake was taken to the monarch’s palace amid jubilation.
The traditional ruler of Mbarakom explained that in the community’s tradition, such killing was significant as it indicated that his coronation was genuine.He said:
“This is a sign for us to know if I am the true king because after crowning a new ruler this kind of thing must happen. Before now the community was in total chaos and God in His own way sent this girl to come and show the people the truth. This Mma-Abumi was a queen who now reincarnated into the family of one of her grandchildren  who resides in Oban. When she came here with her parents, she took us to where she was buried. As of today, there is no building there because the house then was a mud-house which had collapsed. The piece of land is now full of thick grass. We are aware that she died in 1980.”
On the killing of the python, the new Mbarakom monarch explained:
“In our tradition the killing of the python, especially after crowning a new king, indicates that the true king has emerged. For some time now, living things like snail, periwinkle, which were common sights in the community had vanished because of the evil things that were going on but after I was crowned things have become normal again.”
 

Woman Killed Her Newborn Baby Because He Resembled Her Ex-Boyfriend

In fear of being dumped by her man a young American mother allegedly killed her newborn baby, whose real father was her ex-boyfriend.

According to Chicago Tribune, 18-year-old Ana Rosa Mora delivered the baby boy on Saturday morning, put him in a plastic shop bag and left it outside the house.
A passer-by discovered the infant and immediately called the police. However, the baby was already dead.

On Monday she reportedly came to school and when asked by school staff members about the child she showed them the photo of a baby taken from the Internet, as it was later discovered. Afterwards, when some school representative congratulated her and asked her how old her child was, the teen answered "6 months old" in front of those who knew she was lying.
Others became suspicion]us when she brought the dead baby found near her house and asked school officials whether the police were authorized to take DNA from those who live in her house in order to set the identity of the mother.
After the arrest the suspect confessed to the crime saying that the child was born alive. Medical examination showed that the baby boy died of asphyxia and possible exposure.
Reasoning her act, Mora reportedly told the police that the baby looked like his real father, her ex-boyfriend. Scared that her current partner would reveal the truth and leave her, Mora killed her own newborn child.
The troubled mother is being held on $500,000 bail.

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AGN BoT Chairman, Prince Ifeanyi Dike Blasts Clarion Chukwura

Veteran actress, Clarion Chukwura might be having it all rosy in her endeavours, but might need to watch how she airs her opinion about some certain issues concerning the administration of Nollywood in the country.

The recent statements credited to the actress in various publications about the current administration of the Actors Guild Of Nigeria (AGN) has left the Chairman, Board of Directors of the guild, Prince Ifeanyi Dike, in bitter mood and has rebuked Clarion for that.

According to Ifeanyi, rather than making statements here and there, Clarion should have called Ibinabo Fiberesima to offer her a reasonable advice rather than tongue lashing her.

“Everybody is entitled to any opinion such a person decides to hold at a point in time”. However, I am reacting to Chukwurah’s unilateral decision to attack her junior in the industry without trying to call her to order first physically. Had she taken the pains to do that and she failed to see reason. It wouldn't have been too much if she took her matter to elders like me”, he maintained. ( Nigeriafilms.com)

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Jude Okoye's Fiancee, Ify, Gushes about her Diamond Engagement Ring on Instagram

Awww! the ring is so beautiful...... big congrats to her jare.

Experts say Tiwa Savage's wedding gown was a No, No!

While everyone else was admiring Tiwa Savage's cinderella-like wedding gown yesterday, some experts were busy analyzing the gown.

Here's how the Style Experts report it:

She must have spent a fortune, wasted days and hours for fitting and amendments, but the expert jury we put together to access the wedding dress has given velvety voiced Savage a hard knock!

For the untrained eye the dress looks sensational, and that includes this reporter who described it as amazingly beautiful, but the Vera Wang dress according to our team did not do justice to her size or her shape!

We are told that the ball, strapless gown could have been perfect if Tiwa Savage was  a fuller figure woman but for her shape it was off the mark. In fact, one of the experts said jocularly that except she had become pregnant over night; it was not appropriate. “The gown looked over-sized at first glance and that is not a good sign at all”.

“Tiwa is svelte, with an hour-glass shape to die for, did you notice that with the dress? If you didn’t then that dress did not pass the first test of fitting. Maybe the gown minus the frills would have worked better” one of our experts noted.

But Tiwa got excellent marks for her make-up which was described as flawless. Her make make-up handled by Joyce Jacobs, took care to work around her cheek bones and was perfect. Same high marks went for her hair done by Debola Falana. And her veil too was given thumps up.

We gathered that the celebration was in three parts. The first part was the wedding proper where the couple were formally joined as one flesh and one blood. This was held in an open plan area that was decorated slightly and guests were seated church-style facing the couple.

Thereafter, the reception was held at the Armani Hotel.  The after wedding party was also held at the hotel and it rolled till the wee hours of this morning.

Photo of the day! Don Jazzy weds Rihanna...lol

"I call him Ibrahim" Wizkid's mum grants her very first interview with the media

Aww, how sweet!
So Dailypost caught up with Wizkid's mum at a wedding ceremony  held at Church of The Pentecost Hall, Festac Town, Lagos on Saturday, and she excitedly talked about her superstar son!

Mother of sensational artiste, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, Mrs Jane Dolapo,  attributed her son’s success to God. The proud mum said she praises God on a daily basis for her son’s remarkable career.

“I’m so glad that he is my son, and that I’m his mother. I give God all the glory. God has kept him for us and He will continue to.”

Advising aspiring musicians, she urged them to “put God first, work hard and be good to others.”
Asked whether she calls her son Wizkid, the superstar’s funky mother laughed, then responded, “Well, right from when he was small, I call him ‘IB-boy’. You know his real name is Ibrahim, so we formed ‘IB’ from it.” she said

Vatican Declares Popes John Paul II And John XXIII Saints

Pope Francis has declared two of his predecessors, John Paul II and John XXIII, saints of the Roman Catholic church.

During the official proclamation at about 10.15am today, Pope Francis paid tribute to "two men of courage" who he said had "co-operated with the Holy Spirit in renewing and updating the church". He said:

"We declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II to be saints and we enrol them among the saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole church. They were priests, bishops and popes of the 20th century. They lived through the tragic events of that century, but they were not overwhelmed by them.

John XXIII, he said, was a pastor to the church, "a servant leader" who had called the Second Vatican Council. John Paul II, meanwhile, was "the pope of the family". Pope Francis said he hoped the two new saints would intercede with God "so that … [the church] may be open to the Holy Spirit in pastoral service to the family".

Carrying flags, backpacks and rolled foam mattresses, over 500,000 pilgrims from all over the world had flocked into Vatican City overnight to attend the unprecedented double-canonisation mass in St Peter's Square.

Only God Could Have Done This! "A mad man showed me my wealth"

What a big God! What a mighty God our God is. A fool will say there is no God. He looks around and all over the place and does not or can not see what God is doing. What l am today was made possible by the Lord God who made the heavens and the earth. I never imagined l could make it in life the way things turned out to be. 

I desired to make it in life through 'the works of my hands' and the grace of God. But the latter became the major aspect,  while the work of my hands was just an addendum (would l be correct to use this word).

My testimony had been shared with a special class of people some times ago. I always look for a forum like this to tell the people who are hopeless.  If you, reading this piece, has never seen or felt the move of God in your life, l want to tell you there is nothing, l say nothing God cannot do. 

I finished my education to an appreciable level. I applied for work unending. There was no one to give me a push in life. There was one thing l never failed to do, that is crying to God to help me in life. I would tell Him it was only Him that could help.

All around me, l would hear 'Think and get started' l thought and thought yet l could not bring myself up to do anything. But praise to the living God who rules in the affairs of His people. Where l could not help myself, God rose for me. 

I was in a place of worship one fateful day, when the guest speaker that day - a man of God, gave me hope.  

He pointed at me and said that 'by this time next week, you would change your position. You would be in the class of the millionaires'. 

Lol, I just said Amen in the faith but I wondered  how  possible that would be.

Anyway, I received the message as mere declaration.

This happened 7 years ago and l am sharing it with you today to tell you to depend on God totally whatever success you are making now.  We need HIM.

On the fifth day of the prophesy, God used a mad Man for me.

There was this mad man that normally passed by our street, I would buy a small loaf of bread for him or throw N50 at him, praying along side my giving that no power would turn me or my people to such state he was.  

This man was seriously mad. Everybody around our street knew him. Sometimes he would be stark naked walking around talking to only - God knows where. 

Mark my word, he was not like today's mad men with whom you will find expensive hand sets etc.  

So on this fateful day, the mad man spoke to me after I gave him some money, he said 'follow me, l want to show you something'. 

Of course, curiosity took the better part of me. I followed him at a distance; he got to the dunghill around our house- about eight or so houses to ours, and told me to go and carry one salt sack hidden under debris. 

I was initially reluctant, may be it was a setup. But he said 'Go, take it. l want to show you kindness as you have been to me. Some people were fleeing and dropped this. They may come back later in the night to take it. Money is there'. 

His speech was not normal. With fear l moved to the place, picked a plank to hit and feel the 'thing'. People were moving on the UN-tarred road by it. 

l pretended as if l was one of those who go about picking things on the refuse hills. And true, it was money, real money! 

The mad man had seen it while picking junks on that hill. But God put me on his mind to go and invite me to the place. I felt like taking it to the Police but l had a rethink. How would they know the owner? Would it not be descended upon and 'gulped'? 

I came home, separated the whole lot-a million naira and opened four accounts to lodge the money. It must not sleep with me. Until l know what become of the aftermath. I wanted to know or hear of a hue or cry about it. 

For two or so weeks after, nothing happened. l remembered the message 'this time next week....'. God raised me up from that. l went into the business and God has been helping me, giving me ideas to expand. 

I have never shown my face in giving the testimony in order not to get undue attention. I only told my Pastor and decided there and then with him not to mention my name whenever he wanted to use my case to tell people that God can do anything and can use anything to bring about His work to perfection. 

God is the Almighty! Only Him could have done it. Note, the guest pastor that prophesied to me was not in the same town as l was then. If God could pick me out of the crowd and change my story, my destiny is in His hand, SO IS YOURS.