ADIEU MAMA : [PHOTOS]: Ini Edo buries mother-in-law

 


Ini Edo on Saturday April 27th buried her mother-in-law, Mrs Erofoh Ehiagwina, in Irrua in Edo state. Mrs Ehiagwina died February this year. The actress’ US based husband returned home to give his late mum a befitting burial…
 

UNREPENTANT CHILD MOLESTER : Why I Maltreated My Son – Prophet Elikanah Ajibade (PHOTO)

A cleric, Prophet Elikanah Ajibade, who was charged to court on Tuesday and was remanded in prison, for alleged physical abuse of his son for attending a church service against his instruction, has denied reports that he asked the boy to roll on hot coal ashes.The boy who is now in the care of JWC staff, reportedly left home for the new year eve service on Monday, December 31, 2012, in a church which was not his father’s. The father, a Cherubim and Seraphim prophet at Okinni, a town in Egbedore Local Government area of Osun State, had earlier told his son who is his late wife’s third son not to go to any other church for the service to usher in a new year.
It was gathered that Prophet Ajibade, in annoyance, went to the church, rudely interrupted the service and brought David out, lashing him with strokes of cane. Despite efforts and pleas by members of the church, Salvation Army Church, Okinni, to rescue the hapless boy,  the father continued his lashing.
Narrating his ordeal, David disclosed that his maltreatment in the hands of his father, stepmother and stepbrother, began with the demise of his biological mother. “When we got home, my dad, his wife and her son descended on me. They tied my hands with a rope and started beating me mercilessly”.
With tears streaming down his cheeks, David Ajibade said, “after beating me, my stepmother locked my me and my father inside and took the key away. Then my dad continued to beat me and when he was tired, he ordered that I should be rolling on hot ashes”.
But Prophet Ajibade would justify his inhuman treatment of his own son claiming he was fond of running away from home for years. He said, “he used to run away for weeks and would come back himself.On his last deed which got me angry, he ran away for one week”.
informationng.com gathered that the father had never reported his son as missing to the police thus rendering his excuse untenable. The father further stated that he decided to punish the boy because of the tension and anxiety he went through and the problems he encountered while looking for the boy but denied his son’s claim that he asked him to roll on hot ashes.
Confirming the arraignment in court, the Police Public Relations Officer in Osun State, Mrs Folasade Odoro, said that the operatives of JWC were administering proper care and medical treatment on the boy in their custody.

BAGA ON MY MIND, A SELF INFLICTED TRAGEDY : Jonathan Receives Preliminary Reports On Baga From Defence HQ And NEMA

PRESIDENT GOODLCK JONATHAN (R) RECEIVING THE REPORT ON THE MATTER OF BAGA KILLING FROM THE CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF, VICE-ADMIRAL OLA IBRAHIM AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA ABUJA. APRIL 30, 2013
 
President Goodluck Jonathan has received the preliminary reports of the investigations carried out by the Military High Command, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development into the military assault on Baga, a town in Borno State.

The military had last week engaged the Boko Haram in a deadly gun battle that left the entire town in ruins and dozens dead.

A Tuesday statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati said President Jonathan commended the military, NEMA and the Ministry for their swift response to his order to immediately investigate the incident.

 The full text of the statement reads,

 “President Goodluck Jonathan has commended the Military High Command, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development for their swift response to his order for immediate action to investigate the incident in Baga, Borno state, assist and rehabilitate the victims, and make all necessary findings available to the government.

President Jonathan gave the commendation after receiving preliminary reports of the investigations carried out by the Military High Command and NEMA into the incident.

President Jonathan also welcomed the plan by the National Human Rights Commission to carry out independent investigations. .

Thanking the Military High Command and NEMA for the reports, President Jonathan said that investigations must continue, and assured them of his fullest support. He further reiterated his earlier position that where any kind of misconduct is established, the Federal Government will not hesitate in ensuring that due sanctions are enforced and that justice is done. 

The President said that what happened in Baga, was most regrettable and unfortunate. He reaffirmed his full commitment to doing all within the powers of the Federal Government to speedily end the intolerable threats to national security which have necessitated such confrontations.

President Jonathan will continue to work with the Borno state Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima whom he conferred with last week, to ensure that the people of Baga receive every possible relief and support to facilitate their speedy rehabilitation.

In its preliminary report to the President, the Defence Headquarters stated as follows:

(a)  That the military team involved in the confrontation with Boko Haram elements was the Multinational Joint Task Force. The MNJTF’s initial mandate was to conduct military operations in the Lake Chad Region and to facilitate free movement of the member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission across their common border.  The mandate was expanded in April 2012 to include the fight against terrorists. The Task Force’s activities are therefore legal and needs to be sustained.

(b)  That whereas media reports averred that the incident of the alleged confrontation between the MNJTF and the Boko Haram Terrorists occurred on April 19, 2013; the incident actually occurred on Tuesday, April 16.

(c) On April 17, MNJTF troops carried out mop up operations at the scene of the attack and recovered the following items abandoned by the fleeing Boko Haram terrorists: rocket-propelled grenade launchers, rocket-propelled grenade bombs, AK 47 rifles, assorted ammunition, several improvised explosive devices and damaged Land Cruiser jeeps.

(d) That whereas it was  alleged that 185 people were killed by the soldiers of the MNJTF in Baga, Borno state; the assessment team received a briefing from the Commander of the MNJTF on April 24, 2013, during which he stated that 30 terrorists were killed in action. However, six bodies were recovered in Lake Chad about 3 km away from the action spot.

(e) Furthermore, some locals were asked if they could take the assessment team to the mass graves where 185 people were allegedly buried, but the people denied knowledge of such graves. The Chairman of Kukawa LGA was approached on the same issue, he also did not know of such graves.

(f) The Chairman had earlier informed the team that Muslims do not bury more than one body in a grave.

(g) The media also announced that about 3, 000 houses were burnt. However on the spot assessment revealed that though some houses were burnt, but they were certainly not up to the number quoted. It is pertinent to note that the houses in question are mostly thatched roof houses that could easily catch fire. It is on record that the terrorists employ the tactics of arson wherever they attack.

(h) There was also the allegation that aid workers were denied access to Baga. This is incorrect as the Red Cross and NEMA officials were already in the town before the Defence Headquarters team arrived. The officials of the two organizations interviewed by the team confirmed that no one prevented them from moving into Baga.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in response to the President’s directive, sent a team to Baga to pave way for immediate humanitarian relief. It reported as follows:

(a) That the agency identified and set up an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Baga where 642 persons were registered as at April 25, 2013. More people who had earlier fled the community are returning due to improved security and the establishment of various IDPs by the Agency.

(b) To provide immediate succor to the affected persons, the agency distributed relief materials.

(c)  That the 185 deaths being speculated in the media cannot be substantiated.

(d) The NEMA team visited the two graveyards in the town, and could only identify in both places, a total of 32 fresh graves.

(e) That a number of buildings and business premises were destroyed in the affected area, but the total number of houses in the town is far less than 1,000.

(f) That there is a lot of misinformation being peddled about the situation in Baga.


Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
April 30, 2013.”

FUEL SUBSIDY SCAM REVISITED : EFCC arrests Ifeanyi Ubah over alleged N43.291b fuel subsidy scam ... THE NATION

Three suspects to face trial for N1.4b fuel subsidy scam
 
For seven hours yesterday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) grilled the Chairman of Capital Oil, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, over alleged N43.291billion fuel subsidy fraud.
He was still undergoing interrogation as of press time.
Ubah was arrested by the operatives of the commission early yesterday.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “His company was implicated in the scandal by the Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede-led 15-man presidential panel, which re-investigated the fuel subsidy bazaar.
“We had earlier invited Ubah for interrogation but when he did not honour the invitation, we decided to arrest him.
“If nothing is found against him or his company, we will set him free. But if he has a case to answer, we will charge him to court.”
Ubah was still undergoing investigation as of 5.05pm.
EFCC spokeman Wilson Uwujaren confirmed Ubah’s arrest. The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police had in October last year arrested Ubah on a similar allegation.
Based on SFU’s application, a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, remanded the Managing Director, Capital Oil and Gas in custody of Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Lagos over the alleged scam. Also charged and remanded with Ubah were Head of Trading, Nsikan Usoro, 35, Depot Manager, Godfrey Okorie, 41, General Manager, Chibuzor Ogbuokiri, 48; and Orji Anayo, 46, Executive Director (Operations).
The case later went to a Federal High Court where Ubah was cleared of indictment by the Aig-Imoukhuede Committee. The coast is now clear for the EFCC to arraign three suspects for alleged N1.4billion fuel subsidy scam.
Justice Olusumbo Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Jabi yesterday gave the EFCC the go-ahead to prosecute Helyn Aninye, Chizobam Ben-Okafor and Pon-Specialised Services Limited.
Uwujaren said: “The judge struck out their (the accused persons’) application asking the court to decline granting the EFCC leave to arraign them for fraud, forgery and conspiracy to obtain the sum of N1.413,507,951.50 from the Federal Government of Nigeria by false pretence as subsidy under the Petroleum Support Fund.
“Justice Goodluck, in her ruling, affirmed that at this stage, there is no requirement to consider facts before the court; what is needed is to determine if a prima facie case against the accused persons is established. “I am of the view that the proof of evidence suggests elements of forgery and obtaining by false pretences and I, therefore, overrule the objection of the accused persons and hereby grant leave to prosecution to prefer charge against them.”
“The accused persons were said to have “on or about 3rd day of March, 2011 at Abuja within the Jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with intent to defraud, conspired to obtain money under false pretence from the Federal Government of Nigeria under the Petroleum Support Fund”.
“The offence, according to the charge sheet, is contrary to Section 8(a) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act No 14 of 2006.
“They were to be arraigned on November 26, 2012 but this was scuttled as their counsel, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), who challenged the application of the prosecution seeking the leave of the court to prefer charges against the accused persons.
“He argued that the proof of evidence did not disclose any offence against the suspects and urged the court to refuse the application.
“But, prosecution counsel, Steve Odiase, told the court that the proof of evidence supports the 18-count charge.
“The case has been adjourned to May 30, 2013 for arraignment and June 11 and 12, 2013 for trial.”

WEDDING BELLS : Wedding Pictures: Pastor Sign Fireman gets married (PHOTO GALLERY)

Pastor Sign Fireman who is known for his style of publicity using hot girls in Lagos, has finally walked down the aisle.

He got married  over the weekend to his 22 year old sweetheart.

See pictures below:

SCANDALOUS SCANDAL (Concluding Part) : Disgraced At Wedding To His Mistress: Actor Solomon Akiyesi tells his story (A MUST READ)

•I loved Ezinne, my first wife, but she was deceitful, greedy
• If I hadn’t left Lillian, my second wife, I would have committed suicide
• Uloma gives me true love, inner joy
On Saturday, April 13, Nigerians were shocked when the supposed wedding of Nollywood actor, Mr. Solomon Akiyesi, to Ms Uloma Agwu, turned into a major scandal in Lagos.
The ‘wedding’, which was taking place at the Overcomer’s World Outreach in Aguda, Surulere, was truncated when Solomon’s authentic wife, Lillian, stormed the church with some family members, creating a scene and accusing the groom-to-be of abandoning her at home in Port Harcourt while he was busy, plotting an illegal wedding in Lagos.
It took the intervention of policemen to restore sanity. The wedding was eventually cancelled by the General Overseer of the Overcomers Church World Outreach, Bishop N.E. Moses.
Since then, many Nigerians have taken to the social media, raining unprintable invectives on the Nollywood actor, who was said to have been married twice before his latest failed attempt. In a chat with Daily Sun, Solomon tells his own story, explaining why he decided to take the actions that he took, concerning his marital life. Excerpts: Over the last one week, hell has been let loose on me.
I’ve not only suffered verbal attacks, but also vituperations and near fisticuffs, all because of another futile attempt of mine at my journey towards achieving that which I honestly and passionately desire – a peaceful home and family. Social network sites and blogs have been awash with how I left Lilian, my “pregnant” wife, to marry Uloma, my Lagos “mistress” whom they also claimed was pregnant for me. Nothing can be farther from the truth.
Only a mad or cursed man would simply leave his pregnant wife and elope with another one. And lest I forget, I urge you, as you read this, to have an open mind to listen to that which is true instead of taking sides and jumping into wicked conclusions with its attendant wicked insults and uncouth commentaries about how Solomon is running his life and how he is not. I’m not asking for pity or trying to buy anybody’s love at this time.
This is my life. If at my age I don’t know what I want, then I may just remain the dumb ass that I’ve been called over and over again. I don’t think I need anyone to give me any lecturing on how I should exercise my privileges.
For the record, I never planned on marrying more than one wife. And unlike the serial husband I’ve been labelled, I had dreamt and planned a lovely home and family.
And my quest for this dates back to 2003 after I had moved into Port Harcourt. I soon settled down with Ezinne, my university days girlfriend, whom I ran into in Port Harcourt during her National Youth Service. As fate had it, we couldn’t help reliving old times and one thing led to another. One fateful, rainy Thursday evening in October, 2002, Ezinne came to inform me that she was pregnant.
It was as far as I was concerned, a devastating blow to the new life I was living; rap music, cars, money and women. So, I told her the pregnancy was unacceptable to me. Besides, I only just started working and needed stability. But months later, Ezinne was to inform me that she was carrying a baby girl.
And knowing my attachment to baby girls and not wanting to ever have a baby outside wedlock, I repented and changed my thuggish ways and asked her to marry me, more so that I was mature enough in every ramification. Or so I thought.
And so, sometime in April, 2003, I hired a hall and invited a pastor to come officiate at my marriage with Ezinne and bless our rings. All done, we went home and started as husband and wife. God, the creator, knew how glad I was and looked forward to a happy home. However, five days after that marriage, I called my new wife on my way from work to ask what was up for dinner and she told me she had been in the hospital.
I rushed to the hospital and was told by Ezinne that she lost the baby. I got her discharged and took her home. But I was completely broken at the loss of a baby I had expected so much. Four days later, I asked my wife if she actually saw the dead baby. She responded by saying the doctor brought it but she gave instruction for it to be buried because she could not behold the sight. Instinctively, I called the doctor – both to thank him and to confirm because he wasn’t around when I went to pick her home. After thanking the doctor, I asked of the sex of my dead baby.
The doctor didn’t talk for like six seconds. I asked him the same question again and he said he’s been restless in his spirit and that he could no longer keep the fact that there was no baby inside Ezinne and that nothing like miscarriage happened in his hospital. I challenged him again and asked if he was not the same person, who confirmed her pregnant and that Ezinne had been attending antenatal in his hospital.
He responded that he had not set his eyes on Ezinne since October of the previous year. Meanwhile, Ezinne had always taken money from me for antenatal and had even shopped for the baby! It then became clear to me that this was a fluke all together.
Sadly enough, Ezinne denied any wrongdoing. For three years, I exposed opportunities for Ezinne to simply tell me the truth but she never took advantage of any of the opportunities. Alas! She was not pregnant. I decided to investigate myself and took her for HSG where it was discovered that there were no fallopian tubes in her and that there was evidence of previous surgery of the uterus. I independently probed further and found out with evidence that Ezinne had a life-threatening abortion in 1992 that resulted in the rupture and subsequent removal of her womb and tubes.
My biggest pain was not what I found out but the fact that Ezinne hid all this from me all these years and was still being economical with the truth even when confronted with hard evidence! In frustration, I moved out of the house but not before taking her to her mum in search of the truth.
Even the mum corroborated what Ezinne gave as excuse for the scar that runs from her navel down to her pubic region, i.e. she was operated upon due to menstrual irregularities. I then decided to stay out for good. While I was out, my relationship with Lillian whom I had known years earlier grew.
I was always going to see her in Enugu. I then got me another apartment and Lillian came around quite often too. Gradually Lillian grew from that little girl I was merely helping in her schooling, into a mature, witty and intelligent young woman. So, having taken my people to Ezinne’s place for the dissolution of the marriage – since we did only traditional marriage – I proposed to Lillian.
And, in 2007, we proceeded to the registry for marriage. And that was the day her father started troubling me. He insisted Lillian was not supposed to go home with me. For two years, he cut communication with me. Shortly after the marriage, my businesses ran into a crises and my entire life nose-dived.
There was tremendous loss in my finances. In my travail, Lillian’s father went to the police and told them to deal seriously with me because I was an “irresponsible son-in-law”. When the challenges kept mounting and seeing my life was at risk after I was badly shot, I left town to sojourn elsewhere. In 2010, I gradually re-emerged and we started finding our footing again.
Even though I tried to settle down again, I found that the centre could no longer hold, as Lillian had metamorphosed into a nag and had acquired a fire tongue with which she talked me down and reigned curses on me at any little provocation. There was no week we didn’t have a major fight, whether I was home or not.
At some point, she became religious. And having found her way into Winners Chapel, she suggested to me one day that it was necessary we took our marriage to God since we hadn’t a proper wedding. She said her church pastors were willing to help in blessing our marriage so there could be a turnaround. To this, I obliged. She said she would love for us to wear wedding costumes for the purpose of photographs. To this I also consented. And so, to Winners Chapel we went and were blessed and certificated.
But it was as if that blessing was what someone was waiting for before they would blow the whistle that would usher me into the hall of pain. Lillian became insatiable.
You would see tiny ingredients of marriage only when I could ensure her comfort. Once Lillian’s comfort was compromised, she would lampoon me and tell me my life history in graphic details and lecture me on what Mr. A and B have done for their wives that I’m not able to do.
It’s even worse when I try to remind her of the recent past that I laboured tenaciously to keep her happy. Once she told me that there was nothing I had done in the past that anybody couldn’t have done. Imagine sacrificing all you’ve got, including almost your life, for someone who would tell you it’s no big deal and that any other person could have done what you did. And then, suddenly, she wanted me to quit my acting career or she would divorce me. My phones were always her best companions at night. If she was not reading my texts, she was in my facebook or BBM.
I had no peace. My best moment was whenever I had to leave home for work. And after work I never wanted to go back home. On a trip back home sometime ago, I was praying that my aircraft should crash and I die instead of going home. Even when I was driving home, I was under strong temptation to ram into oncoming vehicles instead of going home.
It was either that a long list of demand would be waiting for me or an equally longer list of questions about whom I had been online with and whom I had been calling and not calling.
Then on the side was a supposed father-in-law, who claimed he regretted the marriage because he wasn’t getting anything from it and that I only came to destroy the love that existed in their family before the marriage. So, my joy knew no bounds when Lillian told me last year that she was pregnant. For me, it was a good thing. Maybe the baby would take her attention away from me at last. Then the heat started again. I must provide N2 million for her to deliver her baby, even though she knows my income and its source. When her pressure got to a head and to avoid the same road I travelled with Ezinne, I took Lillian to a gynaecologist. A scan was run on her and the result was declared before the two of us that she was not pregnant.
This was after she told me that she had done an independent scan and that she was carrying triplets! Even with the medical confirmation, Lillian never stopped her push for N2 million and money for baby shopping. I ended up suffering a partial stroke in January. Yet she would wake me up at 2am to ask me of my plans to raise N2 million for her, even while I was bedridden with stroke.
I knew then that I was going to die in that marriage and had to do something about it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is about my life. If what greeted the Internet and press was that I died, trying to please Lillian and my marriage, people would still insult me and ask why I didn’t take a walk. And taking a walk I tried to do but I did not do it right.
I tried to skip due process to avoid hurting anyone. More so, I did not have the political and emotional will to ask for divorce. Pray, people, divorce is not like going to a grocery store where you go to pay your money and come back with a bag full. What would have been my ground for divorce? I should also confess that I could not find an answer to what would happen to Lillian if I asked her to go because I was more than a husband to her.
So, I foot-dragged to the point of taking the easy way out. And the easy way is not usually the best way as I found out on Saturday, April 13.
Uloma did not just jump into the picture to “snatch” Solomon from Lillian. Uloma has been my friend since 2006. We met again in 2009 at the peak of my business crisis and have been seeing each other afterwards. Candidly, I was swept away by the love, understanding and the peaceful disposition Uloma proffered even as a friend, far from the opposites I was getting back home. The way Uloma treated me was the exact desires any man longed for in a wife. So, I was always running to her whenever Lillian lit her fires.
So, I asked myself why I couldn’t marry her. Far from the evil rumour that I wanted to marry Uloma because of her money, I wanted to marry Uloma to fill a vacuum in her life and make her happy and fulfilled because this woman with a heart of gold who has impacted many lives deserved to be happy.
If that was what I could ever do to plant some comfort in her life. If there was going to be any immediate gain for me, it would have been peace of mind and its attendant long life, not her money or any physical or material gains. I’m not a lazy man.
Apart from being an actor, I have been in business for almost fifteen years. Years back, when I poured millions of naira on exotic cars and a posh house in Port Harcourt, Uloma was a seventy thousand naira recovery staff in Sterling Bank. Today, even if Uloma gave me all her salary from where she presently works, it won’t be enough to put Internet credit in my tablets and phones. Someone even posted that I said I would have ‘hammered’ if I had married Uloma.
What could I possibly gain? Uloma wasn’t frustrated to the point of desperation to pay a man to marry her. There was no award for anyone who married her. She does not own an estate or anything willed to her by anyone that I was running after. Uloma is not the daughter of any rich man or top politician. She’s as much a hustler as I am.
Ok, yes, sincerely, maybe I actually would have ‘hammered’ long life, happiness, inner joy, a sense of being loved and long life. I also would have ‘hammered’ having her sisters as my sisters because they love me like their own brother – a far cry from what my own people give me.
If I had married Uloma, I know I would have had a good burial whenever I died because I’ve always been scared that at my level of loneliness, whenever I die, my corpse would probably have decomposed before my people would find me. I beg to be loved and appreciated. Nobody to call my own.
No one ever cared about me. I have always been alone and hardworking too. From way back, my joys, my sorrows I have always swallowed alone. But Uloma was the only person who truly listened to my heart and understood where I was coming from. So to say any of my failed marriages was for money is simply stupid and unreasonable. The first car Ezinne ever drove and financing for her first attempt at business all came from me.
Lillian was not born with a silver spoon. Her father is only a retired naval officer and the last time I checked he had no wealth ascribed to his name. On her 18th birthday, I bought Lillian an exotic Corolla car. At 300 level in school, I gave her a Mercedes Benz.
Then she graduated with an LS400 Lexus. This is apart from a lush apartment and school bills that God used me to help her take care of. So, who amongst these would I have married for money? Uloma stood out because she’s shared my pain even when it was because of me and that explains why it was a difficult task telling her Lillian was still in my tracks.
I couldn’t have deliberately gone out of my way to hurt Uloma, because that will be simply committing suicide. Hurting Uloma is like waging war against a nation. Is it her legion of admirers I will have to contend with or her nation of die-hard lovers who will be tumbling over each other to get a pound of flesh?
I wouldn’t give hurt for the love and hope Uloma and her family gave me. Unfortunately the same scandals I thought I was preventing by not doing what everyone is saying I would have done is now the same thing staring me in the face, and everyone is worse hurt.
And above all, my own life is now seriously at risk because I feared hurting anyone. I ask all concerned to please sheathe their swords of anger and find it in their hearts to forgive me. I will make restitution as much as the mercy of God permits me. It’s never too late to begin again as far as God keeps us all alive.
I’m a man on a mission for a peaceful marriage, a good home and family life. I guess my desperation took good reasoning off me. Again, I am humbly and truly sorry. I thank my friends who have stood by me through this trial. Your comforting words are like lights on my dark path.
And for the judgmental few, I urge you; work with the truth while the Almighty fixes that which went wrong in my life.
Culled from the sun

SCANDALOUS SCANDAL : How Ex Gov Akala Snatched His SSG, Layiwola Olakojo’s Wife, Relocates Her To America ... Daily Star

A big drama is playing out in the Oyo political circle which involves former associates and friends; ex-Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and the Secretary to The State Government (SSG), during the last administration, Chief Layiwola Olakojo.
Chief Olakojo is regarded as one of the most experienced politicians in the State who enjoys a considerable followership in the state’s political set-up and has participated in different governments both as the SSG to ex-Governor Ladoja and later Chief Bayo Alao-Akala.
During the high point of Governor Akala’s administration, Chief Olakojo who was in his late 70′s did the unusual and married a very young beautiful wife who was in her early 20s. They had a big wedding ceremony which was attended by all the political bigwigs in the State then.
However, the robust relationship being enjoyed by Chief Olakojo and ex-Governor Akala ended when the Governor was being hounded by the EFCC and arrested his SSG, Chief Olakojo. It was revealed that the old man who couldn’t endure the hard measure and feared what would become of his political life squealed on some activities of his boss, and that spelt long years of rift between the two politicians.
Recently the former SSG’s marriage to his youngest wife was rocked with a big crisis that led to the wife moving all her things out of his house.
Sources revealed that Chief Olakojo now lives alone in his country home in Oyo town. It was revealed that ex-Governor Akala was the mastermind of the break-up in Chief Olakojo’s marriage. Those in the know claimed that the ex-Governor has been in close contacts with Oyin during his days as a Governor when the wife used to visit him and report Chief Olakojo’s frugality and she gets cash gifts from the Governor.
First Weekly Magazine learnt that Akala pampered Olakojo’s wife so much that the beautiful lady couldn’t resist the advances the former governor eventually made. The source informed us that Akala and the woman began to have sexual relationship on a regular basis.
It was also revealed that during one of their secret rendezvous, Akala convinced her to move out from her matrimonial home. The source revealed that the young woman who already had a child for Chief Olakojo left her husband’s home with the child and Akala relocated her to America where she now lives.
“It was so funny the way Oyin left Chief Olakojo. She had earlier told Chief she wanted to travel to America, but Chief asked her to wait for some days, that he wanted to do some things in India. He promised to take Oyin to America when he comes back from India. Chief traveled to India, but unknown to him Oyin has her own plans,” an insider said.
The source revealed that Oyin, through the help of Akala perfected all her traveling papers, while the husband was in India.
“She went into Chief’s room, took 20,000 dollars out of the 100,000 dollars she saw and the funny aspect was that it was the day Chief Olakojo landed at the airport that Oyin also boarded a United States bound flight. They were probably at the airport at the same time. While the husband was at the arrival lounge, the wife was at the departure,” the source added.,
The recent development was said to have sparked off a new row between the two politicians, as Olakojo has been reporting the matter to all the influential people in the state. Chief Olakojo was said to have threatened to end Chief Akala’s political career and his recent activities has pointed to that direction.
The former SSG has been at the forefront of the move to reconcile ex-Governor Ladoja with other PDP chieftains and he has been engaging in different activities that exhibit his agony, and hatred towards his ex boss.
Culled from First Weekly Magazine

LATEST MOVIE OUT OF TB JOSHUAWOOD : Watch The Video Of Nollywood Actress, Camila Mberekpe Confessing To Witchcraft

In a very shocking turn of events, Nollywood actress Camila Mberekpe, confessed to been possessed in real life yesterday 28th April 2013, at the Synagogue Church of all Nations.
The news have no doubt gone viral and and a lot of people are certainly curious about the circumstances of the confession.
Below is the video if Camila Mberekpe confessing on Emmanuel TV. The video is 4 hours long, but her confession starts at 2:55:40 so you can skip to that part.

ROFO ROFO FIGHT : Actress Foluke Daramola set to drag Bukola Fasuyi to court for libel

 

 

Actress Foluke Daramola has concluded plans on suing her friend/journalist Bukola Fasuyi to court for defamation of character.
You will recall that Bukola had claimed in an interview that she introduced Foluke to her new husband, Kayode Salako, and that Foluke had used juju to charm Kayode and break his home.
Even though Foluke chose to keep mum on the allegation, the publication did not go down well with her.
Sources close to Foluke claim that, she and some family members have contacted their lawyer to sue Bukola for character assassination.
Meanwhile, Bukola appears not to be bothered about the lawsuit.
She told an Encomium reporter that she still feels bad for introducing Foluke to Kayode because the introduction was for Foluke to get financial help from Kayode and not to take him from his wife.
“I’m not bothered about a lawsuit though Kayode has sent a threat message to me that we would meet in court. I’m more bothered about Kayode’s wife. I hope she forgives me” She said.

WOMEN! STOP BEATING MEN ... Woman takes out boyfriend’s teeth with slap in Lagos

In a domestic violence case brought before a Lagos court, a man has turned out to be the victim after his partner confessed to have taken out his teeth with a slap.
Abiodun Olajide, 30, also pleaded guilty to inflicting wounds on Augustine Olukukoyi during a fight at their home in Somolu, Lagos State.
The count charge sheet read:
‘That you, Abiodun Olajide, female, on April 18, 2013, at about 8.30 hours at Oguntolu Street, Somolu, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District did inflict wound on one Augustine Olukukoyi, male, by slapping him, as a result removed two teeth and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 244(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011’.
According to reports, the case which was adjourned until April 29 for judgment at Court 4, Yaba, was cancelled because the magistrate was said to be ill.

STARTLING REVELATION : “Mike Adenuga Prevented OBJ From Hanging Me” ... IBB

Though the war of words between two former Nigerian presidents; Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida might have ceased, memories of the “Fool at 70” statements made by the two septuagenarian leaders continue to linger and there are indications that another battle might commence soon.
As one of Nigeria’s richest businessmen, Otunba Mike Adenuga Jr. celebrated his 60^th birthday; General Babangida took time to pass a message across. The message came in form of an advertorial in which he eulogized the Globacom boss for his loyalty. In the advert, placed in one of the national dailies, signed by the   former military president, it was stated that Adenuga prevented IBB from being nailed by a certain regime he nurtured.Babangida and Adenuga have a friendship that started decades back. Adenuga is seen as a businessman who often dares to do what others would not.



His business also blossomed during IBB’s 8-year rule, for instance, his Consolidated Oil got oil prospecting licenses during that time and it was around that time too that he struck oil. The “Gold Digger’s Place”, Otunba Mike Adenuga’s GRA home in Ibadan hosted IBB a couple of times, while he was Nigeria’s number one citizen leading to speculations that the Ijebu-born Otunba is holding some investments in trust for IBB.
Analysts have also opined that after the dark cloud that hovered over Nigeria’s political climate after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections, Generals Babangida, Danjuma, Abdulsalami Abubakar and Aliyu Gusau were the ones who convinced Obasanjo to run for presidency, having put him on the agenda ever before he was released from prison. Back in 1998, Obasanjo had said he didn’t think he was the “Messiah” Nigerians were waiting for. He did not give any indication that he would run for office. A visit by the self-styled “Evil Genius” however changed the political calculation as Obasanjo changed gear and moved swiftly into the political field. To many, IBB was simply making it easy to stage a comeback to the presidential villa, having “stepped aside” in August 1993.
The birthday message signed by General Babangida reads “Mike, truly you epitomize hard-work, perseverance, doggedness, humility, diligence and patriotism. The fact that you treasure the virtue of true friendship and loyalty to any cause you believe in gives you the cutting edge. I am eternally grateful for all the troubles you had to go through because of me in the hands of a regime that tried to derail our friendship and relationship.
Even when you came under severe pressure by that same regime which I helped to nurture, to blackmail me in order to hang me, you remained eternally loyal and steadfast. Only a businessman of character, sound upbringing and virtue could choose friendship instead of his economic empire. Only a man of delectable poise, with an open mind and fear of God would choose to sustain an age-long relationship instead of sacrificing same at the altar of avarice, greed and economic interest.
Such tribulations are prices we have to pay for true friendship. Your ability to remain focused in the face of pressure coupled with your capacity to identify and nurture talents is the reason why you are MIKE ADENUGA. There can never be another Mike Adenuga of your orientation.”

LOVE GONE SOUR : Homosexual stabs partner to death, police arrest neighbours

The apartment where Ohamara was stabbed.

The Lagos State Police Command has started investigation into the murder of a banker, Adindu Ohamara, who was stabbed to death by his suspected homosexual lover in Akoka, Bariga Local Council Development Area  of Lagos State.

It was gathered that Ohamara lived in a three-bedroom flat with his elder sister, Flora and one Collins, an undergraduate of the University of Lagos.

According to residents, the banker  was stabbed repeatedly at his residence located at 26 Obayan Street.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Ohamara, who was believed to be a homosexual, was fond of bringing different men, who were also believed to be into same sex relationship, to his home.

It was learnt that trouble started  when he (Ohamara) decided to get married due to pressure from his family.

A resident, who craved anonymity, said after the banker  had his wedding introduction, a man, believed to be  also  a gay came to fight him.

He said, “A few weeks ago, Ohamara did his wedding introduction and shortly after that, one man came to the compound to fight him.There was a lot of noise over the issue and even neighbours had to come to settle the matter.

“The unidentified man complained that he had been jilted and threatened to deal with Ohamara before he left in anger.”

Our correspondent learnt that on April 9, 2013,  the banker returned home with a  man, who   allegedly stabbed  him at midnight  and left.

According to police sources, hours before the incident, Collins went to Oharama’s room where he met the stranger sitting on Oharama’s bed, discussing with him.

A domestic worker in  the house, who craved anonymity, said he saw the suspect fleeing with a laptop at midnight.

He said, “It was a Friday evening. Ohamara came home with the man and they went inside. I went to sleep but at midnight, I saw the man carrying a laptop and then he opened the gate and left. He did not run so I was not suspicious.

“Around 4am, Collins and Flora started shouting for help. A neighbour came to help them and they took him  into his Toyota Camry   and drove to a hospital.”

It was learnt that Ohamara was taken to Jonken Hospital from where he was referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi Araba where he was confirmed dead.

The matter, it was learnt, was reported at the  Sabo Police Division but was later referred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.

Our correspondent, who visited the house on Monday, learnt that the police later arrested all the adult occupants of the building, including the security guard identified only as Kazeem.

The policemen allegedly demanded N350,000 from each of the detained persons before they could be  released.

The landlord of the property, Yemi Oketola, said the deceased had issued him two post-dated cheques as payment for his rent.

Oketola  on  hearing of the arrest  of his other tenants,  visited the SCID and appealed to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Damilola Adegbuyi, for their   release.

He said, “I do not live in the house but immediately I got wind of the incident, I went to the SCID and I met with the DCP in charge. I complained that a neighbour, who took Ohamara to the hospital  ,was  arrested. The DCP promised that my tenants would be released.

“When I went to see the Investigating Police Officer, he informed me that the cost of bailing each person was N350, 000. I called the DCP and he was very angry when he heard about the demand. He said he would make sure that the tenants were released.”

When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the murder.

Braide however said she could not confirm if the deceased was a homosexual or not.

She said, “According to information I got at the SCID Homicide unit, there are only two suspects in custody, the deceased’s sister (Flora) and the UNILAG student (Collins). I am not aware of any other arrests.

“Also, I am not aware of any N350, 000 bail because bail is free. Investigations are ongoing and we will get to the bottom of it.”

DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS : Man Jailed 45 years For Stealing Nigerian Governor Aregbesola’s Phone ... (Is Justice Talba there?) ... PUNCH Newspaper

For stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a 31-year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year imprisonment by an Osogbo High Court.
Ighodalo stole the phone from the pocket of Aregbesola on November 27, 2010, when the governor was being inaugurated at Government Technical College, Osogbo.
Justice Oyejide Falola, who heard the case, found Ighodalo guilty on six counts, which included conspiracy, stealing and fraud.
He was sentenced to 10-year imprisonment for the first three counts and five years for each of the last three which included impersonation, obtaining property by falsehood and collusion.
Falola, who ruled that Ighodalo deserved the jail term, held that the convict used the phone to obtain N500, 000 from the Owa of Ilesa, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran, while he obtained N200, 000 from Mr Shengen Rahman, an associate of the governor.
The jail term, which Falola pronounced will run concurrently, means that Ighodalo will spend the next 10 years behind bars.
Assistant principal state counsel, Mr Biodun Badiora, told the court that the convict had served six-year imprisonment in Ikoyi prison custody in connection with a murder case in 2005.
Counsel to Ighodalo, Mr. Ameachi Ngwu, prayed the court to commit him to community service, stressing that the convict should not be incarcerated but rather be placed where people could see him as a convict.

NIGERIANS ON THE MARCH AGAIN : Senate Proposes 6-Year Single Term For President, Govs

In an arrangement that may put a stop to the 2015 ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Senate Committee on the Review of the Constitution has recommended non-renewable single six year tenure for the office of President, Vice-President, governors and their deputies.
The Senate panel’s recommendation also disqualifies Jonathan and incumbent governors from benefitting from the new arrangement if the recommendation becomes law.
Members of the committee, who held a three-day working retreat which ended in Lagos on Sunday, arrived at the decision after a heated debate.
A National Assembly member who was privy to the recommendation confided in one of our correspondents that, “We thought hard before arriving at this decision. We considered the current heating up of the polity by those interested in running for office in 2015.
“We also looked at what normally happens each time we are about to enter into an election year.
“If the recommendation scales through, none of the current office holders from the President down will benefit from it.
“It is couched in such a way that if someone is elected as Vice-President for instance and he becomes President for the reason of the removal from office of the President, either through ill health, impeachment or death, he can only serve out the term of the President even if it is just one month.
“He or she, as the case may be, will be ineligible to present himself for election as President in subsequent elections; the same applies to the office of the governor and deputy governor.”
The source revealed further that the committee also recommended autonomy for local government administrations and if the recommendation scales through the legislative process, local government councils will collect their monthly allocations from the federation account.
“There is a caveat. Only local government councils with elected council chairmen and properly constituted councils will receive such payments,” the source added.
There is however fear that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the Presidency will oppose these recommendations.
Jonathan had in the past expressed his preference for a seven-year single tenure for elective officers.
This he justified during his first media chat on assumption of office.
He had said, “The issue is that in Africa, elections create social unrest and we need to manage this. In a situation where you elect a governor and that governor has not sat down, another election is around the corner.
“Every four years you conduct elections, you create so much tension in the political environment. As we are talking, some people are busy holding meetings for the 2015 elections.
“It creates series of confusion in the political environment. I am not saying that single tenure, alone, will bring one hundred per cent stability.
“There is no political system that is one hundred per cent stable, you must have some tension. That was why I came up with that.”
The President had also on November 17, 2011 empanelled the Justice Alfa Belgore-led committee, officially designated as Committee to Review Outstanding Issues from Recent Constitutional Conferences.
The committee was mandated to identify gaps in the current constitution and propose amendments as adopted by previous constitutional conferences.
The committee was, however, limited in scope as it was only required to making suggestions on issues adopted by consensus by the previous constitutional conferences.
The Belgore panel did not delve into the issue of tenure as earlier proposed by the President.
Public opinion weighed heavily against the item following fears that the President was interested in tenure elongation.
When asked to confirm the Senate committee recommendation, the Clerk of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Mr. Innocent Mebiri, did not deny the development but said details would be made available to the Senate at plenary.
“Don’t bother yourself, when it gets to the Senate at plenary, you will know whether it is true or not,” he told one of our correspondents.
The report of the People’s Public Sessions conducted on the constitution by the House of Representatives indicated that Nigerians massively supported autonomy for local government councils.
More than 90 per cent of voters in the 360 federal constituencies where the sessions were held supported abolition of State/Local Government Joint Account in order to grant financial independence to the councils.
But, they opposed a single term of five, six or seven years for the President, state governors and other political office holders.
Rather, they voted in support of retaining the present two terms of four years each.
The public sessions were held on November 10, 2012.
The results of the sessions will be incorporated into bills on constitution amendment to be passed by the House.

THE GAINS OF CORRUPTION, THE SHAME OF A NATION : PHOTONEWS: The State Of $470 Million Abuja CCTV Cameras & Solar Panel Backups 6 Months After Installation ... SAHARA REPORTERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These photos were taken 6-months after a Chinese firm, ZTE Corporation, reportedly completed the installation of Close Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
The contract was awarded to the Chinese company for $470 million and under the Umaru Yar'adua regime. The contract amount was reportedly increased by President Goodluck Jonathan.
However, a few months later the cameras and the solar panels installed to back them up  have fallen apart.

AND THE BEAT GOES ON : Patience Jonathan, Ailing Again, Dropped From State Visit Delegation To Namibia And South Africa

Nigerian first lady, Patience Jonathan

By SaharaReporters, New York

Nigeria's First lady's Patience Faka Jonathan, has deteriorated again, becoming so critical that she has been from a proposed official visit to Namibia and South Africa to be embarked upon by her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan.
Sources in Aso Rock said Mr. Jonathan will fly out for the four-day junket to the two Southern African countries on May 5, and return to Abuja on the 10th.
Medical sources stated that Mrs. Jonathan remained unwell after returning from Germany about three weeks ago.  She had stated that her trip, which started on March 17 from Paris took her through Italy to Germany where she claimed she tendered to her foster mother, "Mama Sisi."
Since returning from that trip, the First Lady has remained under medical observation at the presidential villa.
Her latest trip to Germany is the third medical trip since her prolonged trip last year where she spent several months in a Wiesbaden hospital, although she denied those details upon her return.
In a thanksgiving service in February, she confessed her travails, including nine surgeries within one month, and declaring she had died but was saved by God.
The presidency has refused to disclose the exact nature of her ailment, but medical sources say she is suffering from a deadly ailment that may be manageable.

BAGA ON MY MIND ... A SELF INFLICTED TRAGEDY : Boko Haram Militants Showing Off Weapons "Captured" From An Army Barack Raid ... WATCH VIDEO HERE

Islamist militants of the dreaded Boko Haram sect display weapons they purportedly captured from the Monguno Barack after they carried out a raid. The militants spoke in Hausa language.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=El-O37TNIm4

LOOK WHO'S TALKING : PDP Suspends Rivers Speaker, 26 Assembly Members, Orders Gov. Amaechi To Explain Jet Ownership .... PM News, Lagos

Gov. Rotimi Amaechi

The political conflict within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Nigeria’s oil rich Rivers state took a new turn today with the suspension of the speaker of the state assembly and 26 other members.
The disputed chairman of the party, Mr Felix Obuah accused the 27 members of the House elected on the party platform for insubordination.
Obuah announced the suspension to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, saying the members did not comply with the party’s directive on dissolution of Obio/Akpor Local Government Council. On April 22, the assembly suspended the Obio/Akpor Council chairman, his deputy and the 17 councillors for alleged reckless spending of public funds.
President Goodluck Jonathan and Gov Amaechi
The assembly said that the allegations were made by the Obio/Akpor stakeholders from the 17 wards of the local government area.
It explained that the petition was weighty and required a thorough investigation which would require the suspension of the accused for proper investigation to take place. The assembly said that the suspension was pending the outcome of the investigation.
The party chairman said that the party issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the assembly to rescind the order on dissolution of the Obio/Akpor council but “it was flagrantly disobeyed.’’
Obuah said: “the party hereby suspended all the 27 members of the House of Assembly that carried out such action while their matter is referred to Disciplinary Committee for further action.’’
On the grounding of the Rivers Government aircraft, the chairman said that the party “views with grave concern the unfolding facts surrounding the ownership of the purported aircraft“.
Obuah said that the party would not fold its arms and allow “monumental“ fraud to be perpetrated in the state.
He alleged that from the records available and statements credited to the Acting Director General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the aircraft was not bought by the government.
Obuah said the records showed that the Aircraft Bombardier BD 700, Global Express aircraft with registration No. 5N5N65 RS, was owned by Utah Limited States of America.
He said that the aircraft registration showed that it was owned by Bank of Utah Trustee of Salt Lake City, Utah Limited States of America.
The chairman said that the aircraft was operated illegally as its clearance approval expired on April 2 and had since been operating in violation of the rules of civil aviation authorities.
“It is unacceptable and embarrassing to our great party that public funds are hopelessly mismanaged; as a result these questions must be answered by the Rivers State Government.
“Where is the aircraft, purportedly bought with the Rivers State funds and tax payers’ money?
“Where have the billions of naira taken from the coffers of the Rivers State Government gone to and for what purpose was it appropriated and where is it diverted?“ Obuah asked.
He said the state government should give a copious explanation concerning the funds spent on the aircraft or face disciplinary action from the party.
Obuah said that the PDP government led by President Goodluck Jonathan had zero tolerance for corruption and that the state PDP would also not condone such .
He, however, directed all party members in the state to be totally loyal to the new state executive council and warned that the party would not hesitate to deal with deviants.
Obuah warned members of the party to refrain from making unsavory and unguarded utterances that were inimical to peace and development in the party.

LIVE PERFORMANCE : Nollywood Actress Camilla Mberekpe Confesses To Being A Witch On TB Joshua's TV (SEE PHOTOS HERE)

Nollywood veteran actress, Camilla Mberekpe, popularly known as Mama Eko, was at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, on Sunday to seek deliverance from a demon that has possessed and tormented her for many years.
As the face of the light-skinned actress was beamed on television screens in Prophet T.B. Joshua’s church, many worshippers stood in awe and screamed: “Jesus, an actress too!”
Prophet T.B. Joshua, who did not seem to know the actress, was a bit confused and did not understand why the sudden noise in the church as he stood before her.
“I don’t know you,” he said as he laid hands on her. He asked her to wait behind for the exorcism in the night.
The church and deliverance service was broadcast live to millions of viewers on Emmanuel Television, the Synagogue Church’s cable network aired on several continents.
Later in the night, one of the wise men in Synagogue church began to exorcise the demons from the actress and in the process, she began to talk, although the exorcist later said it was the demon in her talking through her.
She began to confess that her mission is to destroy a very good actress who prays and worships God a lot.
“I don’t want her to go up. She’s a very good actress. I want to destroy her,” she said in a bizarre and demonic tone.
“I destroyed her marriage because she refused to worship me. I hate it when she prays. She is a prayer warrior,” she said.
As hands were laid on the actress and the demon was ordered in the name of Jesus to leave her body, she fell to the ground.
Her scarf fell off her hair and she began to roll on the floor, screaming and apparently resisting the power of God.
The scene appeared bizarre to many worshippers and could shock millions of viewers not used to occultic or spiritual warfare.
At a time, it seemed as if the actress, who has acted in more than 38 home video movies, including many roles as wicked mother and step-mother, was in a Nollywood scene and acting.
The expression on her face appeared funny, serious and dangerous.
Ngozi Mberekpe is a very versatile actress who speaks English and French fluently as well as her Igbo native language.
She has been in Nollywood since the early days of the industry and she is often cast as  mother or wicked step-mother.
Another plus for Camilla is the fact that she is also fluent in French, as demonstrated in the movie “Bonjour”.
She has featured in numerous roles in movies such as Tea or Coffee, Holy Anger, Illegal Brother, Sins Of the Heart and  Beloved among others.
The deliverance session was so striking that the four buses purchased by Synagogue Church to cater for the elderly in their church, which was introduced yesterday, received little attention after the service as many people kept talking about the Nollywood actress.
The four buses, T.B. Joshua said, would convey the elderly to church on Sunday and take them back home after the service.
“If you want to reach old age, you must care for the elderly,” T.B. Joshua said in her sermon, adding that many have abandoned their aged parents and grandparents in villages and are enjoying life alone in Lagos.


 

 

SO IT HAS COME TO THIS? : Governor Akapbio Wants Senator He Rigged Into Office Dead- PREMIUM TIMES

Governor Godswill Akpabio

 

By Premium Times

The battle for 2015 in Akwa Ibom has assumed a deadly dimension. An Akwa Ibom state senator, Aloysius Eyok, has accused the state governor, Godswill Akpabio, of threatening to assassinate him within a week for daring to insist on retaining his senatorial seat which Mr. Akpabio has declared interest for in 2015.
The senator said at a news briefing weekend that Mr. Akpabio has unleashed his “hit squad” on him, with threatening text messages advising him to renounce his ambition for another term, or be targeted in seven days.
“I want the governor to tell Nigerians and the international community if there is anything wrong in any man aspiring to contest for an office,” Mr. Etok asked.
“Is that enough for the governor to instruct the council chairmen to say that if I don’t withdraw from the contest, that they will recall me? He asked the state of assembly to pass resolution that they will recall me, to the extent that members of the house of assembly came on television to insult and malign me.”
“Not only that, the governor has now loosen his hit squad, including what I have on this phone some text messages that if I don’t retract the statement that I will contest election, after seven days, I will see what they will do.”
He said the governor also instructed “different groups that if I don’t retract the statement within seven days, I will either be dead to stop me or alive to retract the statement.”
Mr. Akpabio dismissed the allegations as “paranoid, deceitful, baseless and mere hallucinations that serves no purpose whatsoever.”
A statement by the state commissioner for information, Anieka Umanah, said Mr. Akpabio is a “God fearing and peace loving man, and has never and will never contemplate evil against anyone let alone, his brother and friend, Senator Aloysius Etok”.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Akpabio has no hit squad and has never been after the life of any citizen of the state,”Mr. Umanah said.
Mr. Etok came to limelight weeks ago after the embattled governor openly confessed to rigging party polls to allow Mr. Etok emerge as the winner for the senatorial seat, sparking national outrage.
Mr. Etok denied the claim, and said he emerged through a transparent process. In subsequent media interviews, Mr. Akpabio, claimed he was misquoted and that the media frenzy over the story, first published by PREMIUM TIMES, was politically motivated.
The governor later declared his interest to assume a senatorial seat after his term in 2015, a seat currently occupied by Mr. Etok, in what appears to be the actual motive for his video declaration.
Mr. Etok said while the controversy over the claimed rigging had been resolved, the governor repeatedly told fellow senators that they were his future colleagues; and on one occasion, he mockingly said Mr. Etok will serve as his campaign manager to the senate.
The senator said he only responded at an interview recently by saying the governor never consulted him on his ambition, and that he will never relinquish same.
“The producer then asked what I want to do now that the governor wants to take my position. I told him that the governor has not consulted me,” he said referring to an interview he granted in Akwa Ibom state. “However, if am sitting on a seat and somebody is coming to remove me without consultation, I will hold on to the seat even if the seat want to break.”
Since making the comments, a faction of the state House of Assembly passed a resolution deriding Mr. Etok, and warning him that only an Akpabio candidature to the senate will be supported tin 2015.
“I want the Nigerian public to say which of these statement was an insult to the governor that he and his people said I have dared the governor for saying I will contest election.”
“That if what happened during my second term struggle that as soon as they knew I was going to contest, my wife was kidnapped. After the release of my wife, my mother in law was kidnapped.
“When she was released, she died because of the torture she received in the hands of the kidnappers. As a result of that my father in law died out the heart break. Therefore, I also want Nigerians to ask Governor Akpabio what I have done to him. I have not done anything to him. I want all of you, like I am going to send a petition to the President, to ask Governor Akpabio to let me be. That his hit squad which he has resurrected should let me live. If anything happens to me, I want the world to know that Governor Akpabio is after my life.”
Editor’s note: The original story has been updated to reflect the Akwa Ibom state government’s response.

"MY STORY" ... BY GOV AMAECHI : Amaechi: The Grounding of My Aircraft .... Iyofor: Premeditated actions of NAMA

His words: “We had set out from Abuja in the morning of Friday April 26, 2013 to Imo State to attend the funeral rites of the younger sister of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Emeka Ihedioha. Our plane, a Bombardier jet owned by the Rivers State Government, landed at the airport in Owerri. It was in Owerri that the pilot of our plane was first tipped off that there was a plot to ground our plane in Owerri that Friday.

'Fortunately for us, we took off from Owerri airport and arrived at Akure airport en-route to Ekiti for the burial of the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State Mrs. Funmilayo Olayinka without any incident. On the flight to Akure was the Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal who we met in Imo State and was also heading to Ekiti for the burial of Mrs Olayinka. Also on the flight were the Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Director-General Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Asishana Bayo Okauru, Kalabari prince and politician Prince Tonye Princewill, some aides of the Governor and me.

'Once our party left the Akure airport for Ekiti, our pilot went to the airport offices to make statutory airport payments and fees, file his flight plan and declare his manifest. After filing his fight plan and declaring his manifest, our pilot was told to go and see the Controller. The Controller bluntly told him that the Rivers Government plane would not be allowed to leave the airport. In other words, the plane had been grounded! He said that the plane should have been grounded in Owerri.

The Controller on duty at the airport in Akure mentioned some vague issues relating to the customs papers of the plane, which has been flying in Nigeria for many months? That didn’t make any sense to the pilot. He enquired on whose orders the plane was being grounded, he was told that it was the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA). And that he should reach the NAMA MD.

By the time our party, which now included four House of Representatives members- Mohammed Sani Idris Kutigi, Daniel Rayeineju, Idris Ahmed Wase and Ifedayo Abegunde- returned to the Akure airport, there was confusion everywhere. Speaker Tambuwal, the members and Governor Amaechi and his team, were all stranded at the airport. The plane that brought Speaker Tambuwal and Governor Amaechi to Akure could not leave Akure airport. Calls were being made as these two democratically elected leaders, furious and perplexed, tried to fathom what could have caused this monumental embarrassment to them and their offices.

'After trying fruitlessly for some time to get the plane released, Speaker Tambuwal then offered to fly Governor Amaechi to Port Harcourt with the plane(another small aircraft) that brought the other four Honourable members to Akure. To accommodate Governor Amaechi in the small aircraft, one of the House of Representatives members offered his seat to the Governor .

'The pilot of the Rivers State Government plane was already locking up the aircraft for us to leave for Lagos by road when a call eventually came through that the plane could now leave. The Controller received a directive to allow the plane fly out of Akure. The decision to let us go, we later learnt, was due to the pressure brought on the aviation authorities by Speaker Tambuwal.

'It is indeed most shameful and ludicrous that NAMA and the Aviation authorities are now saying that they grounded the Rivers State Government plane because the pilot did not file a flight plan and declare a manifest. That’s a blatant lie. A big fat one at that. The pilot filed the flight plan and manifest, and paid all the statutory airport fees and charges shortly after the plane arrived at the Akure airport in the afternoon. If the pilot filed a flight plan and manifest at the airports in Abuja and Owerri, where he flew from same day, why won’t he then do the same in Akure? It is instructive to note that all through the traumatic time we spent in Akure, no official of the airport or aviation staff came to tell Governor Amaechi that we were grounded because our pilot “refused to file a flight plan and manifest.” All they kept saying was that they were just obeying directives, it was beyond them and we should call Abuja. Speaker Tambuwal and the other four members of the House of Representatives are living witnesses to that charade.

NAMA and the aviation authorities should explain to Nigerians why an aircraft owned by a State government, that flew the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and a democratically elected Governor of a State who also the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, would be grounded at an airport for no just cause? “ Iyofor, contacted last night to react to the no fly order said there was nothing new to say for now. Mr. Iyofor is the Chief Press Secretary of the Rivers State Governor

ON THAT STELLA DAMASUS MARRIAGE : Actress Doris Simeon speaks on Daniel Ademinokan’s secret wedding to Stella Damasus ... By Stella Dimokokorkus

Beautiful Actress Doris Simeon is currently the centre of attention as her ex hubby Daniel Ademinokan has supposedly married another controversial Actress Stella Damasus.
In a recent interview with Popular celebrity blogger, Stella Dimokokorkus, Doris reacted indifferently to the  whole issue.
Here’s Stella Dimokokorkus’ account:
“I decided to call Doris today to hear what she can tell me as regards everything that has happened. Doris told me in a voice which sounded full of pain that at this time she just wants to concentrate on her work and forget about what has happened because ”It has already happened…….”
She kept saying ”No comment”……The fifth..
Doris stood her ground on not wanting to talk or exchange words with anyone and I respect her stand.
I told her ”Doris,you have a lot of support right now,why don’t you talk,your fans want to know so much….”
Doris begged for privacy at this time and I understood and let her be.
Doris Simeon has a son with ex hubby Daniel and I guess she is trying to keep it clean for her son’s sake.
When Doris and Daniel were married, I used to tell Daniel they were the best couple in town,their love was so plain to see.I don’t know what went wrong.I don’t know how or when Stella Damasus came into the picture and I am yet to confirm that they have indeed Married.
I don’t know how or when Stella and Daniel met and started dating but I still think Doris needs to paint the real picture of what happened to help others going through similar situation and too embarrassed to talk out……those too ashamed to let anyone know.”
Oh well!

A NATION UNDER SEIGE OFFERING AMNESTY TO TERRORISTS : Bomb Explosions And Intense Gunfight Between Boko Haram and Nigerian Troops in Jigawa State Sunday Nigth into Monday Morning.

Residents  of Ringim township in Jigawa State said they have experienced intense gun fight between suspected members of Boko Haram and Nigerian troops after some 30 bombs were exploded by militants that invaded the town.
A security source told SaharaReporters that several militants invaded the township with bombs and rocket propelled grenades. The attack in Jigawa marks further escalation and expansion of the sects armed insurrection in northern parts of Nigeria.
A caller said the gunfight has continued into the night

By SaharaReporters 

NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS JENNIFER ELIOGU SPEAKS ABOUT HER MARRIAGE : Why I left my husband in Switzerland – actress Jennifer Eliogu

Jennifer Eliogu is one of the growing numbers of Nollywood stars who are engaged in inter-continental marriages.
In a recent interview, she reveals;
“As I told you – my husband is based in Switzerland, and after some years there, we reached the painful but practical decision that I should move back to Nigeria to continue my career in acting. I do not have problems with an inter-continental marriage, but in my own case, I did not want to be a full time house wife.
“My husband is very comfortable with my decision, and it has not affected our marriage in any way. Yes, as with most marriages, we have had our fair share of challenges, but overall, my husband is the best man I could ever aspire to have and seven years after we got married, the flame of passion remains the same.”
On the rumour that her marriage has crashed, she looked bewildered and replied,“It is not true. We are still married, but I have already told you we have challenges and we are working around those challenges.”

BAGA ON MY MIND: A SELF INFLICTED TRAGEDY ... What we saw in Baga, by military team (THE TRUTH AT LAST)

The military mission sent to Baga, the border town 180 kilometres north of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has discovered that the fundamentalist Boko Haram sect has an operational base in the town.

The team may turn in its report today.

Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Ibrahim Ola Sa’ad is billed to receive the report from the team, led by the Chief of Training and Operations, Defence Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. Lawrence Ngubane.

Besides the confirmation of a “well-established” Boko Haram base, the team also uncovered nine fresh graves, contrary to the 228 graves counted by Senator Maina Maaji, who is representing Borno North Senatorial District.

The submission of the report is without prejudice to other security reports or any other report on the massacre in Baga.

But it was gathered that the military high command has decided that the troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) will remain in Baga to ward off insurgency in the area.

A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “When we got to Baga, we interacted with the Local Government Chairman for Kukawa Local Government Area, Alhaji Kone, the District Head of Baga, Alhaji Babagana Zanna, aid workers and residents.

“The first thing we discovered was that Boko Haram has a well-established military base in Baga, and they have been in total control of the place. There was no corner in the town that we did not visit.

“In fact, when the sect clashed with the MNTF troops, they set a part of the base on fire. We were still able to recover some arms and ammunition from the place.

“This discovery has proven assumptions wrong that Baga is not a terrorist enclave. It is no doubt a fishing town but with a heavy presence of insurgents.

“Boko Haram has taken over the town in such manner that most of the locals were afraid to talk because of reprisals from the sect. They said each time they got information and leaked it, Boko Haram would deal with them.

“So, Baga is an entrenched base for Boko Haram. It is more like an entry point to Northern part for the insurgents.”

Asked about the conflicting figures on the death toll, the source said: “When we met with the local government chairman, he said he was not in town when the incident took place. The district head also told us that he had not been briefed.

“The team also moved round for two days and discovered only ‘nine’ fresh graves. Up till now, no mass grave was sighted.

“At a point, the team asked the locals if there was any mass grave; they said it is rare for Muslims to have mass graves as they do not like to lump corpses together.

“We want those who have counted 185 or 238 graves to also come up with empirical evidence of such. We went round, filmed the town and took photographs.

“At the end, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces will have all reports, whether from the military or civilians and do analysis to draw a conclusion. The state government also has its own report.

“The fact-finding team may submit its report to the CDS on Monday (today) in line with the scope of its assignment.

“What is painful is that the situation in Baga was not the way it is painted before the international community.”

On the likelihood of the MJTF troops pulling out of Baga, the highly-placed source said: “The troops will remain in the town unless we want the sect to overrun Borno State.”