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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Robbers Shot Man Death 3 Days To His Wedding


 His friends sent in the sad news! May his soul rest in peace, amen.

This young man was murdered by armed robbers on his way to Abuja on Monday April 27th, just three days to his traditional wedding and five days to his white wedding which was supposed to be 2nd of May.
 
May God grant his would be wife and his loved ones the fortitude to bear the loss.
...And may his gentle soul rest in peace.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Photos: 2face Idibia Celebrates His Daughter as She Turns 9

2face Idibia Celebrates His First Kid as She Turns 9eh2

2face Idibia‘s first daughter, Ehi Idibia is a year older today, April 28, 2015.
2face’s first babymama, Pero Adeniyi is the mother of Ehi and they are both based in US.

The singer took to Instagram to show love to his daughter.

Another photo below;
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Tragedy: Two Children Found Dead in Deep Freezer In Delta State

Confusion and sadness reigned in Owa Alero, Ika North-east local government area of Delta State, last Thursday, when the family of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Oseni discovered the corpses of two of their children, David Oseni, 6, and Shedrack, 4, inside their parents’ deep-freezer, purportedly used for their ‘iced block’ business.


According to reports, the children were found frozen, definitely had been there for some time. All efforts to revive them proved abortive, as they were confirmed dead from hypothermia, Leadership
reports.

The Osenis, natives of Etsako, Edo State, have been living in Owa Alero, the ancestral home of the mother.

Neighbours revealed that the parents had locked the children indoors and went to conduct their daily businesses after they returned from their holiday classes, only to discover the tragedy upon their return.

The father, Oseni,  said he had taken the generator for repairs and, upon returning, powered it on to confirm its state, before loading it for the next day’s business.

“After 25 minutes, I lifted the top to check if the freezer was working properly, only to behold the lifeless bodies of David and Shedrack in the freezer. I raised the alarm, calling the public to the scene. 
The children were immediately rushed to a private hospital where they were both confirmed dead by the doctor on duty. The police at the Divisional Office, Owa Oyibu, were contacted and investigations are on to unravel the mystery behind the tragedy,” Oseni said. 

Amber Rose and Machine Gun Kelly Dating!

Ever since Amber Rose filed for divorce from Wiz Khalifa last year, she's been linked to a wide variety of rebound dudes.

Amber spent a lot of time with Gene Simmons' son Nick right after her split from Wiz, and she briefly dated French Montana's brother shortly thereafter.

Both of those moves were pretty unexpected, but now Ms. Rose is throwing us her biggest curveball yet by getting all loved-up with up-and-coming rapper Machine Gun Kelly.
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Even if you're not familiar with Kelly's music, you may know him from his bizarre fashion choices. He recently rocked some sort of open toga thing that showed off his heavily-tatted torso (above) at the MTV Movie Awards.

In a sense, Amber's attraction to MGK makes perfect sense. Like Wiz, he's a heavily-inked rapper/professional pothead. The two MCs even collaborated on Kelly's single "Mind of a Stoner."

Considering Amber is still in love with Wiz (by her own admission), it makes sense that she'd fall for his Caucasian doppelganger.

However, we can't help but feel that Amber is repeating the same mistake that burned her so recently.

After Wiz was caught cheating on her, Rose blamed the infidelity on his youth and the fact that he was caught up in the lifestyle of a hip hop star.

So...she decided to get involved with an even younger rapper?!

Granted, the Guns and Roses relationship hasn't been confirmed yet, but TMZ reports that Kelly was just spotted picking Amber up at the airport, and we all know it doesn't get any more serious than that.

Crime: Teenager Rapes a Two-year-old Girl in Lagos

A two-year-old toddler has been raped by one Azeez Ganiyu, after she was abducted from her residence on Giwa Street, Ijora Badia, Lagos State.


The incident happened on April 16 at about 10am after the victim’s mother left her in a room with a neighbour to buy food at a nearby shop.

According to PUNCH Metro, 16-year-old Ganiyu abducted the girl when she walked outside to play with other children. He reportedly took her to an uncompleted building, said to be a few kilometers
away from the victim parents’ house, and raped her.

Precious’ mother and neighbours were thrown into confusion when they did not see the girl in the surroundings. After minutes of fruitless search, it was learnt that the mother suddenly heard a baby screaming and traced the voice to the uncompleted building, where she allegedly met Ganiyu committing the crime.

Precious was taken to a hospital where it was medically confirmed that she had been raped. And the suspect, who also resides in the community, was later arrested by the police at the Ijora Badia Police Division.

The police subsequently arraigned Ganiyu before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court on one count of rape. The charge read:

“That you, Azeez Abdulganiyu (16), on April 16, 2015, at about 10am on Giwa Street, Ijora Badia, Lagos in the Apapa Magisterial District, did unlawfully have carnal knowledge of a two-year-old girl.”
The police prosecutor, Inspector Olusoji Ojaokomo, told the court that the offence contravened provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty before the presiding magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya.

The magistrate ordered that the defendant’s case file be transferred to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions for legal advice, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum. And adjourned till May 5, 2015.

Era Of Trekking: Man Rides Bicycle from Kaduna to Lagos to Thank Yorubas For Their Support On Buhari Victory



A 35-year-old Kaduna-born cyclist and supporter of the president-elect, Mohammed Kabiru Jafaru, yesterday embarked on a journey to meet with the vice president-elect in Lagos State.

Mohammed, a resident of Hayin Malam Bello in Rigasa district of Igabi local government area of Kaduna State, took off on his journey to Lagos at exactly 6: 35am at the palace of Sarkin Hayin Malam Bello, Alhaji Kabiru Isa Gangarida.

Speaking to newsmen before embarking on the journey, Mohammed said:

“I have decided to embark on this journey to Lagos because I want to go and thank Yoruba people for their immense support and contributions that led to the victory of General Muhammadu Buhari during the March 28 presidential election. 
The decision to undertake the journey came to my mind after analysing the votes cast for Buhari by the Yoruba people and after I discussed my intention with my immediate family and friends, they encouraged me to go on the journey.”
Mohammed, a father of four who lives at Goro road in Hayin Malam Bello, further said:
“I have never been to Lagos before; this is my first time and only God knows how many days I will spend before reaching Lagos”.
Asked whether he has any fear about the journey, Mohammed said:
“I don’t have any fear because I believe in God that nothing will happen to me on the road; all I want is people’s prayers so that I will reach Lagos safely.”
Also speaking, an APC chieftain in the state, Hon. Kailani Mohammed, said Mohammed Kabiru will be received by the vice president-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and other prominent members of the APC in Lagos on his arrival, and wished Mohammed a safe trip.

Precious Nwaigwe, The 15-Year-Old Schoolgirl Kidnapped For About a Year Narrates Her Journey to Libya

Precious Nwaigwe, the 15-year-old schoolgirl, who was kidnapped in the Ajah area of Lagos State about a year ago, has said she was made to work for $6,000 the Libyan pimp paid to buy her.

She added that after paying the money, she was again used as collateral for a 500 Libyan dinars (N50,000) loan.

She also stated that her abductors conducted pregnancy tests on her three different times, which were negative.
The schoolgirl, who was released on Friday, spoke to Punch Metro on Monday in Ikeja, Lagos.
She said she saw more than 1,000 Nigerian girls, who were also forced to work for the money paid by the pimps to the human traffickers.
Our correspondent had reported how the victim was kidnapped in May, 2014 while returning to her school, Ikenne Community College, Ikenne, Ogun State.
Her parents were said to have been contacted by the kidnappers in the Niger Republic, about two months after, demanding $100,000 (N19.9m) as a ransom.
Policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad went to different parts of the country to arrest suspects.
A principal suspect and cousin of the victim, Kelvin Okito, was said to have eventually made a call to his accomplices in Libya, asking them to free the victim.
She returned to Lagos on Friday.
Precious said she would never forgive her cousin for betraying her trust.
She said she was actually abducted in Ode Remo, Ogun State after she stumbled on some cultists en route to her school in Ikenne.
She said, “When I left Sangotedo Park in Ajah for school, I was the only one in the vehicle, so the driver dropped me off at Ibeju Lekki.
“I got another vehicle from there, which took me to Ode Remo around 9pm. I could not find a cab that would take me to Ikenne where my school is. I did not know they were having a festival that day and people had been asked to stay indoors.
“I trekked for about two hours until I stumbled on some people who were talking. I discovered they were cultists and they accused me of eavesdropping. They added that I knew their secrets. The ladies among them descended on me.
“After the ladies were done beating me, they asked the men in the group to take turns to rape me.”
She said she faintly heard a man in the group protesting the decision.
She said the man, who she later identified as Seun, took her to Ojota in Lagos.
She said Seun took care of her for two weeks, while she recuperated from her injuries.
Precious added, “One day, he said he wanted to help me to get eyedrop because my eyes were swollen. I begged him to allow me to follow him, at least to see the sun.
“He obliged me and while we were going, my slippers cut and I went back into the house to pick another one. I was on my way when I saw Kelvin (Okito) my maternal cousin.”
The Ohaozara, Ebonyi State indigene, said she narrated her ordeal to Okito, thinking that he would rescue her.
Punch Metro learnt that Okito, however, took her to the Alaba area of Lagos and connived with his friend, John, to sell the 15-year-old to John’s elder brother, identified as Nzube Chukwu.
Chukwu was said to be based in Libya.
She explained that Okito deceived her that he had discussed with her mother to take her to Libya where she would continue her education.
She said, “He said he had called my mum and told her he was taking me on a journey to Libya. I pleaded with him to allow me talk to her, but he said my mum was happy that I was going to Libya, where I would continue my education.”
She said together with some other migrants, they spent four days on the road before reaching Agadez in the Niger Republic.
She said at that point, her co-travellers told her that it was a journey of life and death.
She said, “We spent four days on our journey to Agadez in the Niger Republic. The other people with me said it was a journey of life and death. I managed to get a phone, called my mum and asked her for money so I could return to Nigeria.
“They discovered the phone that I used to call my mum and they seized it. I was made to stay indoors in Agadez for three weeks.”
She said they later started the journey to Libya and spent seven days in the desert, adding that some people died on the way.
“We got to Bra in Libya seven days after. I met the wife of the man (Chukwu) and she asked me if I had been told what I was there for. I said, ‘Yes, to continue my school.’
“I was taken to a place where there were so many girls wearing only pants and bras. I told them to wear their clothes. But they laughed at me and said, ‘this one is a JJC (naive)’,” she added.
Precious said the woman told her she had bought her and she must work to pay back the money.
Punch Metro learnt that the woman told her she would pay $6,000, including transport, accommodation and feeding costs.
She said when she did not cooperate, she was beaten up.
“Every night, they would torture me with cigarette stubs. They locked me up in a room and beat me up,” she added.
Our correspondent learnt that the practice in the area was that every day’s job was documented in a notebook.
At the end of the month, the total money made by each of the girls would be tabulated and divided into two.
The money would then be shared ─ one part for accommodation and feeding, and the other for transport cost incurred while travelling down to Libya.
Precious said she had pleaded with a man that had indicated interest to sleep with her on a night, to allow her make a call with his phone.
She said she called Okito and told him she was suffering, begging him to talk to the woman to allow her go.
Okito was said to have assured the 15-year-old that he would do something.
She said, “But I paid the money back on my own. The man (Chukwu), who sold me to the woman, then came back and started making trouble again.”
It was learnt that Chukwu later used the victim to borrow 500 dinars (about N50,000).
She said she was relocated to another part of the town, Baladia.
Precious said she was accused of sleeping with Chukwu and was subjected to three pregnancy tests, which were negative.
While working to raise the 500 dinars, she said she met a Nigerian named Soni (Sunday).
The two were said to have become friends.
Punch Metro was told that policemen at the SCID and SARS, in the course of investigations, arrested John and Okito in Lagos.
John’s brother, Chukwu, was said to have threatened Precious that she would not be allowed to return to Nigeria until the police in Nigeria released John.
However, Soni helped the victim to pay the money and insisted that the victim was no longer in captivity and Chukwu could not decide her fate.
Punch Metro learnt that Soni, who worked as a tiles contractor in Libya, arranged Precious’ transport to Lagos.
She told our correspondent that while preparing to return home, the pimp in Libya urged her to recruit girls from Lagos.
She said, “She told me that now that I have seen how she worked and made her money, she would want me to join the business.
“There were more than 1,000 Nigerian girls who had been recruited to work in Libya.
“I was lucky to have survived and returned home safely.”
She said when she arrived in Lagos, she contacted a relative in the Okota area of the state, who took her to her parents.
“I can never forgive my cousin who did this to me.
“I trusted him and he decided to sell me for money,” she said.
Our correspondent learnt that the victim would not return to her school in Ikenne.
Her father, Okoro, said he was happy that his daughter returned home alive.
He said, “There were four people involved in this sad tale and they were my town’s people.
“I spent more than N3m to get my daughter back. I was close to selling my house.”
Her mother, Blessing, commended police, The PUNCH and other Nigerians for their support.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, said the suspects would soon be taken to court.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Photos & Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia For Drug-Related Offences

Here are the photos and profiles of the 4 Nigerians who are to be executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking.

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50 year old Martin Anderson (above) was arrested in Jakarta in 2003 on a charge of possessing about 1.8 ounces of heroin and was accused of being part of a local drug ring.

He had traveled to Indonesia on a fake Ghanaian passport and has been incorrectly identified as Ghanaian.
He was sentenced to death in 2004. According to his lawyer, Kusmanto, who like many Indonesians uses one name, Mr. Anderson was shot in the leg during his arrest — a method the Indonesian police are sometimes known to use when apprehending a suspect — and remains bothered by the wound to this day.
He has been in poor spirits since being transferred to Nusakambangan Island for execution, Mr. Kusmanto said.

Mr. Anderson has filed for a judicial review of his conviction and death sentence with the Supreme Court, but his lawyer said he feared the court would not consider the appeal until after he is executed. Such appeals can take six months to be heard, Mr. Kusmanto said. “Obviously we hope it’s sooner.”

Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 47, Nigeria – Smuggling Heroin
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Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise’s story, as his wife tells it, is similar to those of other Nigerians on Indonesia’s death row for drug trafficking. Unemployed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, he was lured to Pakistan by fellow Nigerians on the promise of a job with good wages.
But once in Pakistan, instead of a job, he got an offer to swallow some capsules – filled with goat horn powder, his wife, Fatimah Farwin, says he was told – and fly to Indonesia.

“They said they didn’t want to pay tax on it,” Ms. Fatimah said. “When he arrived at the airport in Jakarta, the police saw him – I don’t know how – they caught him and X-rayed him, and they found it and it was drugs.”

Arrested in 2001, Mr. Nwolise was convicted the following year of bringing 2.6 pounds of heroin into the country, and was sentenced to death.

During his trial, according to Ms. Fatimah, Mr. Nwolise had no translator, and his Indonesian lawyer could barely communicate with him. She said that a judge, through an intermediary, offered to sentence him to prison rather than death if he paid a bribe of 200 million rupiah, worth about $22,000 at the time.
“But he was just a poor courier. He didn’t have any money,” Ms. Fatimah said.

Ms. Fatimah, who is Indonesian, met Mr. Nwolise in prison in 2007, when she was accompanying a friend who was visiting another inmate. The two married later that year; they have since had two children, now 5 and 3, but she has not brought them to see him since they were infants. She has told them that their father is working in an office in another country.

In January, the Indonesian police accused Mr. Nwolise of running a drug syndicate from prison. No charges were brought, but Ms. Fatimah, who says emphatically that her husband is innocent of the accusation, believes it resulted in his being placed in the group of inmates now facing imminent execution.

“Some woman on the outside blamed him,” Ms. Fatimah said, referring to a police informant, “but when they came to his cell, they never found anything – never, never, never. He never had a trial and next thing, they wanted to execute him.”

Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, 50, Nigeria – Smuggling Heroin
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Jamiu Owolabi Abashin was living on the streets of Bangkok in 1998 when a fellow African living there took pity on him and brought him home. Shortly thereafter, according to Mr. Abashin, his new friend asked whether he wanted a quick-paying job, in which he would get $400 for bringing a package of clothing to the friend’s wife in Surabaya, Indonesia, where she sold used shirts and pants.

Mr. Abashin readily agreed, but soon wished he hadn’t: The package contained nearly 12 pounds of heroin, and he was arrested after landing at Surabaya’s airport. Mr. Abashin, who was traveling on a false Spanish passport, contended he was duped.

He was convicted in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison, which was reduced to 20 years on appeal. State prosecutors challenged the sentence reduction before the Indonesian Supreme Court, which in 2006 sentenced Mr. Abashin to death.

In a request for presidential clemency in 2008, he admitted knowingly smuggling the drugs. The request was denied in January.

The Indonesian government refers to him as Raheem Agbaje Salami, the name on the fake Spanish passport he was using when he was arrested.

Ursa Supit, an Indonesian legal activist who is advocating on Mr. Abashin’s behalf, says that because he had no money, he was assigned a state lawyer for his trial and had no legal counsel when he appealed to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Abashin, who now has a lawyer, is challenging Mr. Joko’s rejection of his clemency request.
“He has been inside now for 17 years, and he has never broken a rule inside,” Ms. Supit said. “And now they are going to execute him. He’s never had money for lawyers. It’s not fair.”

Okwudili Oyatanze, 41, Nigeria – Smuggling heroin
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The YouTube clip shows what seems to be a typical Sunday religious service at a small church. A young African man, accompanied by an Asian guitarist, sings a heartfelt gospel song as the audience sings along.

But the camera does not show the security guards, iron bars and barbed wire fences that would have indicated this was no ordinary place.

The singer, Okwudili Oyatanze, was giving his regular performance at a penitentiary outside the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

Known in Indonesia’s penal system as “The Death Row Gospel Singer,” Mr. Oyatanze, 41, was arrested in 2001 while trying to smuggle 5.5 pounds of heroin through Jakarta’s international airport, in his stomach, after arriving on a flight from Pakistan. He was convicted the following year and sentenced to death.

Mr. Oyatanze has made the most of his incarceration, writing more than 70 songs and recording multiple albums behind bars. He has performed with prison guards as well as fellow inmates.
In the video, shot in 2008, Mr. Oyatanze sang his song “God You Know,” which was also the name of an album he released that year.

“He has turned his life around in jail,” said the Rev. Charles Burrows, a Catholic priest from Ireland who now lives in Indonesia and is offering religious counseling to Mr. Oyatanze as he awaits his execution.
Raised in outheastern Nigeria, Mr. Oyatanze started a garment business in 1999, traveling to Indonesia to buy clothing and resell it in Nigeria. The business collapsed, and Mr. Oyatanze, heavily in debt, traveled to Pakistan to try to revive it, at the suggestion of a fellow Nigerian living there.

The plan involved swallowing capsules of heroin before boarding a flight to Jakarta. “There was a chance to earn some easy money, so he became a courier,” Mr. Burrows said.

Kim Kardashian Shows 100% Support For Bruce Jenner on His Sex Change

Speaking to Matt Lauer on The Today Show this morning, Kim said she isn't vain.

She then got down to a slightly more important topic: how is she reacting to the Bruce Jenner sex change and the bombshell interview Jenner gave Diane Sawyer on Friday night?

"I’m really happy for him that he is living his life the way he wants to live it,” the 34-year-old said of her stepfather. “And that he has found inner peace and just pure happiness. That’s what life is about.
Kim Kardashian
In his revealing chat with Sawyer, Jenner said Kanye's wife was the first family member to know about his sexual identity crisis - and also that she has handled it better than anyone.

“I don’t know what life would be like if you always felt like you weren’t yourself,” Kim added. “As long as he is happy, and he wants to live his life, however he wants to live it, that just makes me happy. And I support him 100 percent."

But Kardashian admitted there's clearly been an adjustment period for the family, saying they have spoken to GLAAD and sat down for therapy sessions.

She also says Bruce is trying to make it as easy as possible for all his loved ones.

"Bruce wants us to feel as comfortable as possible and take everything at our own pace, and we love him for that, and we respect him for that," Kim said.

"Until that transition is done, we've learned that you do refer to him as him. He's been really, really good at explaining everything to us, even though it's really new.

"These have been newer feelings - not newer feelings for him, but for us to digest. He's done a really good job of walking us through it."

Family members, meanwhile, aren't the only ones reacting in a positive way to Jenner's revealing Q&A.
On Saturday night, Demi Lovato dedicated a rendition of the track "Warrior" to Bruce, referring to him as a "hero" and saying he's gonna help save so many lives.

Chinese Firm Caught Manufacturing Poisonous Condoms For Kenya

Kenya is currently dealing with many issues and here is just something else to think about. The Chinese police have raided several factories producing condoms with substandard material and poisonous heavy metals bound for Kenya.

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According to Kenya Today, several provinces in China, including Shanghai, Guangdong and Shaanxi, have seen the fake condoms circulating.

The concern now for other African countries that are still fighting the war against HIV/AIDS is how many other factories are involved and how many of these fake branded condoms are in circulation.

Click on the image to read the full Kenya Today report.

Simon Ekpa arrested in Finland over alleged 'terrorism activities'

Simon Ekpa, a Finnish-Nigerian has been arrested in Finland alongside four other individuals for alleged terror-related offenses.  Ekpa is a...