Suspect Sani Shu’aibu Teidi, one of the suspects standing trial before the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the massive looting of the pension treasury, has alleged that he and other accomplices paid the Senator Aloysius Etuk-led Senate Committee a N3bn bribe in dollars.

The bribe, it was alleged, was to stall the prosecution of the accused persons.

The bribe scandal took another dimension following the mentioning of the name of the immediate past chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, who allegedly working with the mindset that the Senate Committee would make good its promise of stalling the case of the accused persons, also got a property located at Parakou Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, as bribe.

The principal suspect further alleged that the Senator Aloysius Etuk-led committee failed to fulfil an earlier promise of helping to stall their prosecution after collecting the N3bn contributory bribe.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the allegations are already causing ripples within the Senate committee.

A source close to the principal accused, Dr. Teidi, said that the cause of the disaffection within the Senate committee was borne out of the discovery that, out of the N3bn obtained as bribe from the six accused, Senator Etuk attempted to outsmart his colleagues by declaring only N500million, a paltry one-sixth of the actual bribe he allegedly collected and also participated in the sharing.

The source added that Dr. Teidi and other accomplices paid the Sen. Etuk-led committee the N3bn bribe in dollars after Teidi was coerced into giving details of his assets/ properties, with the promise to soften the severity of his offence, after which he was asked to give out 50 per cent to them.

An obviously angry Dr. Teidi “felt betrayed by the Senate committee leadership’s greed and inability to properly handle our (the accused persons’) matter before” it, our source added, and he therefore resolved to make public all information on the botched agreement.

“In fact, the N3bn bribe offered the senate committee was contributed by all the accused persons, each with the amount of N500million. The committee made us believe that when we give the money being demanded, it will give us a safe landing, thereby escaping prosecution, but, to our greatest dismay, they only succeeded in cutting their own share,” the source quoted Dr. Teidi.

According to the source who pleaded anonymity, trouble started when the deputy chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya got wind of the exact sum offered by the accused from an independent source, who is also his kinsman, a former director of the Police Pension Board and incidentally a relation of one of the accused standing trial before the Abuja Court and confronted Senator Etuk with his find

In 2008, members of Folarin Coker’s family, a former aide to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, were thrown into disarray when his little daughter was kidnapped and flown to Ghana by a man who was apparently employed into the Coker’s home as a driver. The man, identified as Emmanuel Nwangwu, who worked barely one month before absconding with the little girl, didn’t show any signs that may have attracted the attention of his employees to his evil intention. On the day he left, he craftly deceived a female house help working for the couple who normally accompany him to the school to pick the girl by sending her to a departmental store along Awolowo Way, Ikoyi to buy some drugs.

However, as soon as the girl left, he smartly ferried the child to Mile 2 area of Lagos State and through the aid of his fiancee, Patricia Abena, they boarded a cab that took them straight to Ghana. On arriving Ghana, Nwangwu placed a call to Mr. Coker’s wife, Folake and broke news of the abduction and location of her child and also warned that they shouldn’t get the police involved.

The fear-stricken woman was said to have pleaded that the kidnappers should not harm her little child assuring that she will heed to their instructions. She also offered to pay any amount to get her back safe and healthy. Following this development, N22 million ransom was later paid and the Cokers reunited with their daughter in a hotel room in Ghana.

Meanwhile, the Cokers weren’t the only family who fell victim to Nwangwu’s exploits. In 2009, two other families, Mr. Afam Edozie, a resident of Banana Island ended up paying N21m as ransom before their girl-child was released to him and one Mrs. Folusho Odegbaide, of Magodo area of the state who paid N2.5 m suffered the same fate.

In the case of Afam Edozie, there was an ugly twist to the kidnap saga after the Police in Ghana ended up releasing Nwangwu’s wife, Patricia, after she was arrested while trying to withdraw the N12m ransom they demanded. Crime Guard learnt that after kidnapping Mr. Edozie’s daughter and demanding for a ransom, Nwangwu and his wife became apprehensive when they noticed that the Edozie’s contacted both the police at Interpol, Alagbon, Lagos and their Ghanaian counterparts.

Both security agencies perfected plans to arrest Nwangwu and his wife when they attempted to withdraw the ransom money and also rescue the kidnapped child. But the reverse was the case as the Ghanaian police took the ransom from Patricia who they intercepted after she withdrew the money from the bank and set her free without informing Mr. Edozie and the Nigeria Interpol who were waiting for a good news.

Later on, Nwangwu placed a call to Mr. Edozie informing him of their losses to the Ghanaian police and then threatened that his child would be killed if he does not pay another N12 m. Mr. Edozie was said to have pleaded that they should accept N9m which he later paid and his child was released to him.

Crime Gurad further gathered that news of the Ghanaian police shameful act soon infuriated the Ghanaian police high command who arrested and tried eight police officers who took part in the ransom theft and later dismissed them from the Ghana Police Service. The Ghanaian police didn’t stop at that in trying to redeem their image, they quickly declared Nwangwu and his wife, Patricia, the most wanted criminal in Ghana. Their pictures were published and announced in almost all the media outlets in that country.

However, before these steps were taken, Nwangwu and his wife had spirited themselves away from Ghana before the authorities could lay hands on them. Crime Guard learnt that the couple were smuggled into Ivory Coast where they spent some few nights before flying into Sierra -Leone where they spent a year and half before relocating to Benin Republic where they set up a new base.

From Benin Republic, the couple returned to Lagos again, using the same modus operandi. His wife secured a nanny job at one Mrs.Odegbaide’s home just as in the Edozie’s home. She worked barely for one month before disappearing with their little daughter. They took her to Benin Republic and then contacted Mrs.Odegbaide demanding N20 m as ransom. She pleaded that she had no such money but begged that they accept N2.5m which she later paid before re-uniting with her daughter.

Crime Guard was reliably informed that the Cokers who vowed that the kidnappers of their daughter in 2008 and who also swindled them of large sum of money must be brought to book did not relent in fighting for justice. They reliably kept on fighting and pressurizing the police to track down Nwangwu and his wife.

According to a police source who pleaded anonymity, “that man was undeterred. He didn’t go to bed like others did. He kept on pressurizing us. He was highly ready to provide mobility for us whenever we pick up a lead on the man and his wife. First, he was working with the police at Ikoyi Division but they were finding it difficult analyzing some of the lead they got on the suspects. Then, they transferred the case to the special anti-robbery squad, SARS, Ikeja, where the officer in charge, SP. Abba Kyari, mandated his crack team to trail and apprehend the suspects.”

Incidentally, few months after Nwangwu and his wife received the N2.5m ransome from Mrs.Odegbaide, they decided to relocate to Lagos as they always did, but on arrival, they realized that the state was too hot for them as security agents from various quarters were on their trail.

By then, policemen from Force Criminal Investigations Department, Alagbon, Zone 2 Command, Onikan, several police divisions in the state, the State Security Service, SSS, and SARS, Ikeja, were frantically searching for them as news of their ejection from Ghana filtered in.

After spending few days in Lagos, the couple ran to Abuja with the aim of starting from there and using Benin Republic as their base. This time around, Nwangwu, wasn’t as lucky as he used to be in getting employment. He was posted to the home of a retired army Brigadier General and on arriving there, he discovered that the General wasn’t as rich as he anticipated and that his youngest child was over 17 years and too old to be kidnapped.

He made several efforts to see that he gets redeployed but the agency where he got the job persuaded him to stay at least for one month. While he was waiting, the long arm of the law caught up with him as policemen from SARS who were on his trail for long tracked him down at the home of the General and they apprehended him and his wife.

When the suspects were brought before Crime Guard, at SARS in Ikeja, the 39-year-old man, who wore the demeanor of a defeated man pleaded in a remorseful tone “ please tell them not to kill me. I admit I have done wrong and I have brought pain to many families but I want to live and pay for my crime. I heard several scarring stories about SARS but I never knew I was going to be brought here some day. I need a time in court to beg every family I have offended for forgiveness.”

Narrating his exploits, he stated: “Kidnapping wasn’t the only crime I committed. It all started in the year 2000 when I fled my home town in Opi, Nsukka Local Government of Enugu State to Lagos after stabbing my fiancee when she decided not to marry me again .

“I got a job as a security guard in a company at Apapa and I worked less than one month before stealing over N750,000 from the company. I fled to Ghana with the money and bought a vehicle I used for taxi and I spent the rest. In 2005, I returned to Lagos when I felt the case may have died down. Since I am a good driver, I started looking for driving jobs. I applied through an employment agency and when they asked me to get a guarantor, I took the forms they gave me, bought two different colored pen and filled it with fake names, addresses and phone numbers.

“I would then go to a photo studio and ask the operator to get me samples of their passport photographs, then I would steal two from it and use them on the guarantor form. This was the trick I used in all the employment agencies and none of them bothered to verify.

The first job I got with it was at Jonbulls Ikoyi and I was driving the CEO of the company but one day, we were going to his office and my boss said he wanted to visit a friend. The moment he went in, I swiftly took the sum N350,000 he had in the car and ran away to Ghana.

“I returned after some months and avoided Ikoyi where the office is situated. I got a new driving job the same way I got the other one in Victoria Island. I can’t really remember the name of the company or the owner of the money. There, I also took N600,000 and ran to Ghana. But in 2008, I came to Lagos again, used same method, got a new job as a driver at the home of one Mrs. Folake.

“My target was solely for money when I got there but all of a sudden, I discovered that I was going to spend so much time in that house before I would lay my hands on any money. So, I decided to kidnap their child. I also realized that this family is very rich and they love their little daughter so much.

“I took her to Ghana from where I demanded a ransom of only N20million. But the little girl’s father opted to pay N22 million. The moment I got this money, I ventured into extravagant spending. I bought a house in Ghana, bought over five exotic cars, and a truck. I started attending several social functions and people were hailing the way I was spending money. I also spent over N2m on orphanages and local primary schools in Ghana . The Deputy Nigeria Ambassador to Ghana, and other prominent Nigerians were also in attendance at the handing over ceremony of my donations.

“My extravagance soon attracted armed robbers to my home and later the police came in over illegal possession of fire arms. Then, I wasted all the money I got from the Coker’s and I became broke. I couldn’t live up to the standard of my social life. I sold off all my vehicles and my house in paying off debts.

“Then, I returned to Nigeria to hunt for more victims. But after two successful trips and one that almost got me into police net, I was apprehended with my wife. I am happy I have been arrested. Life on the run is never so interesting. If I don’t get killed one day, I might be a free man again and visit my family in the village.” he pleaded.

As you read this story, a French show promoter is biting his fingers and regretting. Reason, he was swindled off $100, 000 USD (N15 million) by a fake P-Square’s manager. According to sources, the road to ‘magahood’ began late last year when the French promoter, eager to bring the singing sensation to France had gone to, of all places, Facebook and Twitter to launch a search for P-Square.

His search led him to phony Facebook and Twitter IDs purportedly belonging to the manager of the twins in France. Sources say the ID belonged to an Igbo guy, who claimed he had acquired the franchise to manage P-Square in France for two years.

While we are not sure whether it was ‘juju’ or sheer brain he used, what we are sure of is that the Frenchman, believing he was talking with the right person transferred a whopping $100, 000 USD into the account of the fake P-Square’s manager.

However, it soon dawned on him that he had been swindled after the fake P-Square’s manager stopped taking his calls and so he raised the alarm but it was too late, the account into which the money was wired had been cleaned out and the fake manager had popped into the blue. Reacting to the story, an ex-PMAN president, who did not want his name in print, had lamented thus: “This is tragic! The fault lies with the artistes who wouldn’t join a union. If there is a real union, things like this would not happen because the union would be the first port of call for any show promoter from any part of the world wanting to do business with Nigerian artistes.

“This kind of stuff happens all the time. It has happened to D’banj and a number of other artistes and I believe it’s their fault.”

Meanwhile, we hear that the French show promoter is leaving no stone unturned in fishing out the culprit and is currently making efforts to reach out to security agencies in the country. Off the Stage will keep you posted as events unfold. DAILYSUN

An officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Elizabeth Akande, has become the recipient of close to N8 million from multiple sources for rejecting a bribe.

The officer, who was stationed in Ibadan, Oyo state, refused to accept a bribe of N500,000 from a politican to help influence results during the 2011 gubernatorial election in Oyo State

While confirming the report, NSCDC’s Head of Public Relations, Emmanuel Okeh said “there was an allegation of bribery where the officials working in that particular polling booth were to be given money to allow electoral fraudsters to perpetuate their evils. Se was offered the sum of N500,000 but she rejected it”.

Mr. Okeh added that because she rejected the money “she was attacked, beaten, had her handset stolen and hospitalized. They believed that because she
rejected the money, she could expose them”.


Soon after the elections, news of officer Akande’s heroic action spread like a wild fire and organizations took turns to reward her patriotic act.

The Corps’ Head of Public Relations said she was rewarded with a new blackberry mobile phone by a telecom service provider after they heard her story.

“The Corps honoured her, the Sun Newspaper honoured her, the State government and others also honoured her”, Mr. Okeh revealed.

He pointed out that the combined sum of all the money given to her stands at about N8 million.


Mr. Okeh called on other Nigerians to always do right as there are gains for being patriotic.

He noted that the story of officer Akande shows that there are bigger benefits for shunning corrupt practices.

“There is nothing as good as having a good name…”, Mr. Okeh maintained.

PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa apologized Thursday for a mass deportation of Nigerians, trying to contain a diplomatic spat that has again focused attention on its sometimes strained relations with the rest of the continent.

“We wish to humbly apologize to them, and we have,” South Africa’s deputy foreign minister, Ibrahim Ibrahim, told reporters. “We are apologizing because we deported a number of people who should not have been deported.”

Two diplomats from the Nigerian High Commission who accompanied Ibrahim to the news conference at South Africa’s foreign ministry refused to comment beyond a joint statement that described tit-for-tat deportations. The two countries say the incidents will not affect their relations.

On March 2, South Africa deported 125 Nigerians who, according to airport health authorities, carried fraudulent yellow fever cards. Since then, authorities in Lagos, raising health concerns, have deported South Africans.

Nigerian government officials said they deported 42 South Africans on a flight Wednesday into Lagos. The officials said South Africa deported five Nigerians the same day.

Ibrahim said South African airport authorities did not properly check to determine whether the cards were authentic. He said South Africa was considering reopening a health clinic at the airport to ensure such deportations are not repeated.

South Africa and Nigeria are allies, but also sometimes rivals for influence in Africa.

Nigeria Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru, speaking to his National Assembly on Tuesday, linked the deportations to what he called the “xenophobia” faced by Nigerian immigrants living in South Africa who fear police who arrest them without cause.

Ibrahim rejected Ashiru’s charge.

“We are not a xenophobic country,” Ibrahim said Thursday.

But in 2008, South Africa saw a wave of violence against foreigners from elsewhere in Africa that left scores dead. Most of the attacks occurred in squatter camps, where South Africans and foreigners — both camps impoverished — compete for housing and jobs.

South Africa has the continent’s most successful economy, and that draws immigrants from further north. But the wealth is far from equally distributed, creating volatility.

South Africans have economic might and, because they are celebrated for peacefully toppling apartheid, international diplomatic stature. South African periodically question whether that makes them arrogant, or results in their being seen as arrogant, when they meet other Africans. They also say the long years of isolation under apartheid left ignorance on both sides.

The diplomatic face-off between the Federal Government of Nigeria and South Africa following the deportation from South Africa of 125 Nigerians, including a Senator has now taken another turn. The face-off has caused issues for South African owned companies in Nigeria, and Nigerians with business and personal ties with South Africa. Last Friday, 125 Nigerians who travelled to South Africa aboard Arik Air and South African Airlines flights were deported on arrival in Johannesburg allegedly because they were carrying fake yellow fever vaccine cards. This action which was described as a “harsh and unfriendly treatment” by most Nigerians has sparked off some retaliatory actions by Nigerian government. In apparent retaliation to the treatment, 28 South Africans who arrived Nigeria on Monday night were deported back to South Africa and the Federal Government has threatened to go tough on South African companies operating in Nigeria.
The ongoing Arise Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos has also been distrupted as SA designers scheduled to show are caught up in the diplomatic row.



Yesterday, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Olugbenga Ashiru, who is also the former High Commissioner to South Africa said the South Africans were deported from Lagos because of irregular travel documents, adding that this was only the beginnng of retaliatory moves. He said this while addressig the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, noting that the Federal Government would soon sanction South African firms for bringing half-baked graduates to occupy positions that could be occupied by Nigerians. He added that Nigeria has asked the South African government to apologise and pay compensation to the affected travellers and Arik Air.

Also in response to the deportation, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday that none of the deported Nigerians is in possession of fake yellow fever cards as alleged by the South African authorities. Classification by the World Health Organisation indicates that Nigeria is one of the 44 countries with a risk of exposure to the yellow fever virus. However, the Health Minister added that the last confirmed case of yellow fever in Nigeria was in 1995 and that Nigeria is not at risk of a yellow fever outbreak. According to him, the Port Health Services of the Ministry issue Yellow Fever cards and vaccines at all local and international airports, land borders and sea ports in the country. The vaccine is given free but  fee of N500 is charged for the card.

He called on South Africa to stop politicizing health issues, saying that so far, no country, individual or group has made any report to the Ministry on the possession of fake yellow fever card by any Nigerian. He noted that the entry visas were given to the travellers after the presentation of their valid yellow fever cards, therefore it was wrong for South Africa to say they were in posession of fake yellow fever cards after they had been issued valid visas. The action by the South African immigration towards Nigerian travellers he said, was an embarrasment and was against the IHR 2005 Article 32.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, also condemned the deportation which she termed as “illegal”, saying it was done in an “inhuman manner”. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday  Dabiri-Erewa described the act as “continuous unwarranted hostilities against Nigerians by the South Africa government’’. She lamented that the 125 Nigerians, including women and children, were delayed for 24 hours without water and food in an inhuman condition and then bundled back to Nigeria. She added that Nigerians do not ask South Africans to fill Yellow Fever Cards when coming in to Nigeria even though passengers must have passed through this process while applying for the visa in the Embassy. Mrs Dabiri-Erewa also said that Nigerians, including women and children joined in the fight against apartheid in South Africa and it was an unfair and unAfrican way to pay Nigerians back for their kind gesture.

The Senate Committee in response to Mr Ashiru’s presentation, told him to go and close the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa and close the South African Embassy in Nigeria adding that any of their companies handling projects in Nigeria should be stopped.

Nigeria and South Africa are Africa’s economic giants and as this face-off deepens, there are worries over the survival and operations of South African companies in Nigeria.  

The biggest mobile telecommunication company in Nigeria is MTN, a South African company. Stanbic-IBTC Bank, supermarket chain Shoprite, Multichoice DSTV are some major South African companies in Nigeria whose stakes in Nigeria could be threatened if a quick resolve is not brought to the face-off. Also, there are a good number of Nigerians studying, working or living in South Africa and vice-versa, whose activities could be hampered if a resolve doesn’t happen soon.

1) For all we talk about how hot guys are. We mostly care about there personality. Though a hot body is a plus

2) We are just as shy as you are about relationships

3) Many of us don't let you see us cry, unless we want you to comfort us

4) We like dropping small flirts, to see if you are interested. But we will later deny it or make it into a joke

5) Most of us prefer to be call beautiful than hot or sexy. But not all of us

6) We only wear mini skirts, tank tops and skimpy cloths for you (unless it's REALLY REALLY hot outside). So if you don't like what we wear say something likely look really nice today, but you know...I think I like you in jeans better'

7) We travel in groups for one of two reasons 1) because we want to share some form of gossip with each other or get advice on something 2) B/c we don't want to get caught by ourselves with you because we won't know what to say and are afraid we'll make a fool of ourselves

MOST girls spend about 15% of the time thinking about specific guys, 20% thinking of guys in general, 25% thinking of how to get guys to notice us and what to say when we do, 30% of the time TALKING about guys (even if someone else isn't listening), and 10% of the time doing something else

9) Girls automatically assume that all guys are ***** and only want to get into our pants until you prove otherwise (and even then some small part of us still thinks that)

10) Most girls are under the impression that guys only want skinny 'hot' girls

11) Most girls enjoy being paraded around once in awhile in front of your friends. We enjoy having you show us off to your friends, kind of like, 'Hey, look at my hot ass girlfriend! Aren't you jealous?" But we don't enjoy being nothing but a trophy girl

12) Nicknames like "Babe, or darling" are safe to call just about any girl. But beware of "Princess or Angel". Some girls will take offense to this thinking you are calling them to innocent or incapable of taking care of themselves.

13) Speaking of nicknames, almost every girl has ONE nickname that they just love to be called

14) Most girls will drop lots of hints to tell you that they like you, but won't come right out and say" I like you" or "I love you". If you think they like you, there is a good chance they do.

15) Scenario time! -You like a girl named Ashley, Ashley has a friend named Brenda. Brenda comes up you in the hall and asks "Do you like Ashley?"

More often than not in this scenario Ashley asked Brenda to ask you because she is to shy to ask you herself. And even if she didn't the first thing Brenda is going to do with your answer is tell Ashley. Now you are thinking "WHAT!? NO!! DON"T TELL HER THAT!!!" but in reality, this is a good thing. Because there is a good chance she already likes you. And if she doesn't, she will now be looking at you in a different way, and let me tell you. It's a lot easier to fall for a guy if you already know they like you. So its safe. So go ahead and tell Brenda that you like Ashley. Take a chance.

16) Girls hate it when guys say perverted things.

17) Girls love to feel special, even though they might not show it

18) Girls talk about everything with their girl friends. So unless you tell us not to tell them about something, they WILL know about it within 3 days. And if you are the girl's boyfriend, that means, you're possibly 90% of their conversation. And believe me, trash talking takes up most of it, unless you're a Greek god, which you're not...

19) Girls hate guys with bad hygiene.

20) Girls love it when a guy pulls them close by the waist

21) Most girls like a guy that will willing dance with them, even if he doesn't know how

22) Usually, when a girl is sarcastically mean to you, it means they're attracted to you, but are afraid that they'll be showing too much

23) A kiss on the hand with the right timing can be a REAL TURN-ON

24) Some girls can think about their crushes for 18+ hours straight. No exaggeration

25) When a guy says something really sentimental, girls will remember it forever

26) Girls get embarrassed easily, even if guys don't know what the hell just happened.

27) Girls daydream about their crushes ALL the time. They just don't show it.

28) When a girl is upset and wants you to listen, she wants you to listen. She doesn't need you to fix it or tell her how to. She just wants you to listen.

29) When a girl is crying, she feels a lot safer if you pull her close and tell her that everything is going to be all right. And more likely than not, it will endear them to you more than anything else.

30) Girls love it when guys say their name

31) Girls love confidence

32) When a girl cooks for you, you know you mean a lot to her

33) Girls hate it when other girls flirt. Yet they flirt themselves too. Ah, the beauty of irony

34) We don't enjoy talking dirty to you as much as you enjoy listening.

35) Saying something sweet might get you off the hook; doing something sweet will always get you off the hook.

36) Size does matter, but only to hoes; not girls that want relationships.

37) No matter what you say, your ex-girlfriend is a hoe to us. Not because we don't like your taste in women, because believe me WE do! its just that...we don't want to have to wonder if she is better than us. And if she is a hoe, we are better. So it makes things simple for us.

38) We are self-conscious by nature; we can't help it. But we CAN try and hide it.
39) Even if you think it is cool to burp, fart, or emit other strange gases from your body, it is not. Though we sometimes will tell you it is.

40) As far as you are concerned, we are beautiful at all times, and don't tell us different, unless you make it sound like a compliment (even if it isn't) Like, "You were really pretty yesterday when you wore -insert clothing/accessory here-, I think you should wear that more often"

41) Whatever you do, don't just show up at our house unexpected or at least without ringing the door bell...we run around in our underwear just like you do. And no matter how much you would like to see that, we will likely never talk to you again

42) DON'T CHEAT ON US. It may seem foolproof, but girls tell each other everything about everything. Trust me, they WILL find out and you will be dirt.

43) We want you to beware of every male relative and all guy friends. All of them would kick your ass at the drop of a hat, and a lot of them wouldn't even wait for the damn hat. We just don't want you to be too obvious.

44) We enjoy being kissed by you in front of your friends. It makes us feel like you care a lot about us.

45) You don't have PMS; so don't act like you know what it's like. Don't try to understand...believe me you never will.

46) Violent statements like "If that guy keeps looking at you, I'm going to tear his head off" are appealing

47) We don't want you to say you love us if you don't mean it

48) We love it when you make eye contact with us while we talk.

49) Most girls are afraid of losing our independence to guys (for some unknown reason)

50) If you ask a girl out directly, more likely than not, she will say yes to you. Even if she only has lukewarm feelings for you, because it will give her the chance to get to know you better and get to like you even more.

51) Most girls love it when guys ask them for advice.

52) Girls like it when you tell us what you are thinking, even if you don't understand it yourself

53) After you've been dating for a while, realize that we really have started to trust you. When you have a girlfriend who truly trusts you, you have a lot more responsibility, privilege and control than you would think. Be careful with it, most guys would kill for that kind of power, and it can be lost in a nanosecond

54) There is nothing wrong with being attentive and sensitive. However, this behavior can be carried too far. You don't have to hang on our every word or give in to our every whim. The thrill of the chase doesn't end after the first successful pick-up line. If you don't present us with some minor challenges, we're likely to get bored, or worse, feel that you're creepy and obsessive.

55) Variety is the spice of life. There are patterns underlying what your woman says she likes and doesn't like. It would benefit you far more to try and discern the nature of these than to repeat everything she admits to enjoying until she no longer does

56) Most men think the chase ends once they have us, but truly it has only just began.You must work even harder to keep us then you do you earn us. We not some trophy you can earn,put on a shelf and admire. You have to care for us like the living human beings we are.(see 54)

57)WHEN WE SAY NO ITS NO, SO STOP ASKING!!!

58)If someone flirts with you, its a complement. If you're not interested, accept it but dont flirt back.

59)The woman in your life needs to hear how you feel about her, and often. Tell her now

60)All women are complicated, and it is doubtful any man will ever fully be able to understand us. But we know that, so its going to be ok.

1. Guys hate sluts.

2. "Hey, are you busy?" or "Are you doing something?" - two phrases guys open with to stop from stammering on the phone.

3. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.

4. Before they call, guys try to plan out a little about what they're gonna say so there aren't awkward pauses, but once he's on the phone he forgets it all and makes it up as he goes.

5. Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.

6. Guys will do anything just to get you to notice him.





7. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend or ex love-interest. Unless they're goin for the let-her-complain-to-you-and-then-have-her-realize-how-wonderful-and-nice-you-are method.

8. A guy who likes you wants to be the only guy you talk to.

9. Boyfriends need to be reassured often that they're still loved.

10. Don't talk about your guy friends to your boyfriend.

11. Guys get jealous easily.

12. Guys are more emotional than they'd like people to think.

13. Giving a guy a hanging message like "You know what?!..uh...never
mind.." would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking. And he'll assume he did something wrong and he'll obsess about it trying to figure it out.

14. Guys are good flatterers when courting but they usually stammer when they talk to a girl they really like.

15. Guys hate asking parents for money to buy girls presents. So they come up with ideas like saving their lunch money for a week. But it never works because guys are always hungry so they end up asking the parents for money anyway.

16. Girls are guys' weaknesses.

17. Guys are very open about themselves.



18. It's good to test a guy first before you trust him. But don't let him wait too long.

19. Your best friend, whom your boyfriend seeks help from about his problems with you may end up being admired by your boyfriend.

20. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don't need to give advice.

21. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.

22. Guys love you more than you love them if they are serious in your relationships.

23. Guys will brag about anything.

24. Guys use words like hot or cute to describe girls. We rarely use beautiful. If a guy uses that, he likes you.

25. Guys think WAY too much. One small thing a girl does, even if she doesn't notice it can make the guy think about it for hours, trying to figure out what it meant.

26. Guys seek for advice from girls not other guys. Because most guys think alike, so if 1 guy's confused, then we're all confused.

27. Any guy could write out a rulebook or advice book for flirting, but no guy can write out a book about relationships.

28. Try to be as straightforward as possible.

29. A guy has to experience rejection, because if he's too-good-never-been-busted, never been in love and hurt, he won't be mature and grown up.

30. If the guy does something stupid in front of the girl, he will think about it for the next couple days or until the next time he spends time with the girl.

31. No matter how much guys talk about asses and boobs, personality is key.

32. Guys learn from experience not from the romance books that girls read and take as their basis of experience.

33. Guys worry about the thin line between being compassionate and being whipped.

34. If a guy looks unusually calm and laid back, he's probably faking it and is spazzing inside.

35. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl, he really is. Guys rarely say that.

36. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me."

37. Guys don't really have final decisions.

38. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him. It doesn't happen that often, so when it does, you know something's up.

39. If your best guy friend seems to avoid you or is never around when you're with your boyfriend, he's probably jealous and likes you.

40. When a guy looks at you for longer than a second, he's definitely thinking something.

41. Guys like femininity not feebleness.

42. Guys don't like girls who punch harder than they do.

43. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.

44. Don't be a snob. Guys can be intimidated and give up easily.

45. Everything in moderation. Put on makeup, wear perfume. Just not too much.

46. Guys talk about girls more than girls talk about guys.

47. Guys hate rejection, but they hate being led on even more.

48. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions and are MAD confusing but somehow are drawn even more to them.

49. A guy would give his left nut to be able to read a girl's mind for a day.

50. No guy can handle all his problems by his own. He's just too stubborn to admit it.

Armed robbers in Lagos State went desperate in the early hours of  Wednesday, as they held residents of Sebotimo Street, Mangoro, Agege Local Government Area of the state hostage and forced those without cash to issue cheques.

The robbers, mainly teenagers, went away with huge sum of money, handsets and other valuables. Other victims were even asked to go to ATM spot to withdraw sum money.

The robbers, according to a victim, who is a photo-journalist with one of the major dallies, stormed the area at about 2 a.m, ransacked almost every building in the street and subjected them to harrowing experience at gun point.

One of the victims (names withheld) told Vanguard that they made frantic phone calls to the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad special number, 767, but there was no immediate response.

“It was after the robbers left that the policemen came blaring sirens,” he said, adding: “The robbers were armed with shotguns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons.”

The criminals, he explained, were young men between the ages of 17 and 20, adding that they invaded the area when there was no public power supply.

He said: “When they came into my house, they pointed a gun at me, demanding money. When I told them that I had none and that I am a poor messenger in my office, who will not be paid until end of the month, they forced me to write a cheque.

I started by writing cheque for N30,000 but they asked me to make it N40,000, which they collected and left. In the process of writing the cheque I made several errors as a result of the tension.”

The robbers later escaped through a canal.

So amazing my brother.

Umuahia—Abia State Police Command has launched an investigation into how a day-old baby boy got missing from a private hospital, Analechi Hospital, located at 5 Ngbaronye/Udi Street, Amuzuku, Umuahia, Abia State.

The police said yesterday that all the staff of the hospital were being interrogated on the matter, even as it ponders on the where- abouts of the missing baby.

Accounts from the hospital said the incident, which took place last Friday threw the hospital into confusion as patients and visitors as well as passers-bye attracted to the place by the alarm raised by the mother of the missing baby converged to confirm the ugly story.

Mother of the stolen baby, Mrs. Uchemma Augustine, 30, was said to have gone to have her bath only to return and find that her baby had been stolen.

An account of the incident given by some nurses in the hospital which sounded very vague, had it that an unidentified woman, who allegedly claimed to be a sister of the baby’s mother, came to the hospital as early as 6.30am to visit her and the baby and allegedly made away with the baby.

However, Mrs. Uchemma, who hails from Isiugwu-Ohafia but married to Mr. Augustine, a native of Umuovom-Nkata Ibeku in Umuahia North council area, was said to have denied that the stranger was her sister.

The proprietor of the hospital, Dr. Kalu Ibe, was said to have reported the incident himself to the Umuahia Central Police Station.

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the incident, saying investigation was still going.

He said: “All the staff of the hospital are facing interrogation but no clue yet as to the whereabouts of the missing baby.”

 

Tragedy struck, Saturday, at the Nigerian Navy Base, Ojo, Lagos State, when a Naval officer stabbed his girl friend to death.

The officer, identified simply as Harry, was said to have engaged his girl friend, Itoya, who also is a naval personnel, in a fight over claims of infidelity.

Vanguard gathered that the deceased officer who hails from Edo State, met her untimely death, when her boyfriend who had just returned from a Joint Task Force mission in Jos, Plateau State, attacked her in their apartment, while she was sleeping and stabbed her severally while he also stabbed himself. Neighbours who heard screams from the apartment rushed in only to find Itoya lying in a pool of blood.

She was rushed to a naval hospital in the base, but she died on the way to the hospital.

Sources at the Ojo Naval Base told Vanguard that Harry, who sustained some injuries during the scuffle, has also been placed under arrest at the Naval hospital Ojo.

Efforts by Vanguard, to get comments from Harry, proved abortive as security at the naval hospital was tight, but a hospital source, who craved for anonymity told vanguard that Harry regret his action and blamed it on the devil.

Why lazy to read or did you read without underatanding? Read the whole post again and you will understand better.

A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 (N24,000) a month for the last two or three years, a discovery indicative of the widespread corruption starving the oil-rich West African nation of much needed funds, authorities said Friday.

The baby was one of many so-called “ghost workers” found to be getting salaries without performing a job, said Garba Gajam, the attorney general of Zamfara state located in Nigeria’s arid and impoverished northwest.

The employee was listed as being 1-month-old in government records, but Gajam said the child’s father actually started collecting the salary before the baby was born. Records also show that the baby has a diploma.

Zamfara state has asked government workers to present their letters of employment and qualifications in a verification exercise meant to reverse a trend that has government workers giving fictitious jobs to family members to boost their pay checks.

“It’s at the local government level that this is most rampant,” said Gajam. “Leaving the local government with nothing to execute projects.”

The local government is responsible for maintaining roads, disposing of garbage and providing public transportation. But diversions of funds, such as to “ghost workers,” means the majority of Nigerians are left with virtually no services from their government.

Offenders in Zamfara state will have to refund all the money collected over the years and will also most likely be prosecuted, said Gajam.

But analysts say the trend cuts across the country.

“There is no state in Nigeria that doesn’t have ghost workers,” says Thompson Ayodele, director of Initiative for Public Policy Analysis in Lagos. “In this case, at least the baby is alive, what about the thousands of ghost workers who don’t even exist?”

“Ghost workers” collect salaries and eventually qualify for pensions as well. The money is actually paid into the accounts of the people who created the identities.

“(Government workers) even continue collecting the pensions of dead people,” says Ayodele who authored a book on the issue.

Eight people are standing trial at the moment for diverting pension funds using “nonexistent” persons, said Femi Babafemi, spokesman for Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

“Meanwhile, the real pensioners who earned these funds were left unattended to,” he said.

But the girls are not museum Ajanni,why him go carry dem go hotel to only look them eye over night and say good bye in the morning,think am now,if it makes sense to you?

The KUNTANASE police have mounted a search for the arrest of Bright Appiah, a primary three teacher of Konkoma D/A primary, for his alleged role in the death of an SHS three Business student, Theresa Boakye.

Appiah reportedly impregnated the girl and later administered a substance believed to be a herbal concoction to terminate the pregnancy, resulting in her premature death.

Theresa Boakye, 19, was a native of Asisiriwa, a farming community in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti region, and a student of Beposo SHS in the same district.

According to reports, the suspect asked her to terminate the pregnancy so that she could continue her education but luck eluded the two when she passed away on October 24, 2011 after bleeding profusely.

Daily Guide gathered that the deceased was four months pregnant when she attempted to commit the abortion. It was also learnt from the deceased’s uncle, Kwame Owusu, that she failed to disclose who was responsible for the pregnancy until when she was about to die.

Daily Guide also learnt that the deceased moved from her apartment and went to stay with the suspect in his room where some of her personal belongings were found by her relations.

When contacted, the Kuntanase District Police Commander, ASP Edward Osei, confirmed the story and said the deceased’s uncle had lodged a complaint at the station.

According to him, the deceased complained of severe abdominal pains and started bleeding profusely from her private parts and was admitted to the Kuntanase General Hospital for treatment.

At the hospital, it was established that when the deceased was interrogated by a medical staff, she confessed that the suspect administered a traditional medicine to her to terminate the pregnancy.

It was however alleged that the deceased was referred to the Pramso St. Michael’s Hospital because the doctors and nurses were on strike at Kuntanase General Hospital at the time but died soon after. Meanwhile, Theresa’s body is still being kept at the Pramso St. Michael Hospital while the police are making efforts to arrest the run-away lover man.

 

It is one sight that will surely shock many people. After all, it’s not everyday that four ladies are str*pped Un-clad and forced to walk Un-clad in the streets. For suspecting some four girls of pilfering the sum of N9, 000 from him after a night of fun at a hotel in Akure, the Ondo State capital, a man allegedly took the law into his hands and subjected his erst-while friends to a bizarre and humiliating treatment.

The man, said to be a popular figure in the Ondo State capital, was said to have ordered his associates to str*p the gals Un-clad. According to one of the girls, he then forced them to walk round the hotel premises and the adjoining street right in their birthday suits! The incident allegedly took place in Akure on Friday, October 21.

Already, one of the girls has dispatched a petition to the state Commissioner of Police, asking him to investigate the incident and bring the suspect to book.
Efforts by our correspondent to get the man’s reaction were unsuccessful, as his lines were unreachable. But one of his associates, who refused to mention his name, said the girls deserved whatever punishment they got. “They are thieves and they should be dealt with,” he asserted.
It was learnt that the man had retired to the hotel in company with the girls after spending some hours at a night club in the city. The man and the four girls slept in the same room in the hotel.
Our reporter gathered that early the following morning, he raised the alarm that one of the girls had stolen N9, 000 from him, a development that led to a thorough search of all the girls.
Apparently not satisfied that the money was not found on any of the girls, the man reportedly called some other men into the room. As soon as they arrived, they allegedly set to work. They were said to have beat the girls, stri*ped them Un-clad and ordered them to walk Un-clad within and outside the hotel.
The man and his lieutenants, after the humiliation, reportedly threatened to further deal with the girls if the incident was reported to security operatives.

A petition written by one of the victims, Miss Dayo Richard, to the police commissioner, was entitled Complaint of assault, inhuman and degrading treatment done to me by one Mr. Ade Fayeun (aka Ade Basket). Copies of the document were made available to journalists.
The petition reads in part:
“I write to lodge the complaint against one Mr. Ade Fayeun, popularly called Ade Basket, on the assault, inhuman and degrading treatment done to my person.
“On Friday, 21st of October, 2011, I and one other lady friend were at the Plaza Motel Akure in company with other friends. Mr. Ade Fayeun and other friends of his were at the motel too on that fateful day.
“At about quarter after one, we left the venue of the event for the room where about five of us slept, including Mr. Ade Fayeun. The following morning, at about 9am, Mr. Fayeun raised the alarm that he couldn’t find his N9, 000 and that everybody in the room must be searched. Gender differences notwithstanding, he forcefully searched us all and nothing was found on me.
“Not satisfied with the result, he called his boys on phone and when his boys arrived the scene, they held us down, beat us and inflicted injury on me.
“Mr. Fayeun later tore our clothes and stri*ped us Un-clad in the glare of the public. After that, he, in company with his boys (sic) forced us out of the motel premises and made us to walk Un-clad in the street that morning.
“Mr. Fayeun went ahead to post the Un-clad picture he took while at the premises of the motel on the internet. Friends and family members who saw the picture on the net have called me on several occasions.
“This assault, inhuman and degrading treatment has done irreparable damage to us and my person in particular.
“I hereby call on the Nigeria Police to help bring Mr. Ade Fayeun to book as poor citizens like us must not be allowed to suffer undignified and inhuman treatment in the hands of an individual who by status is a citizen like myself.
“Though he boasted that he enjoys official protection from the political class, I believe the police will rise up to the matter and ensure that justice is done on the matter.”

Police Public Relations Officer in Ondo State, Mr. Adeniran Aremu, a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) confirmed that the command had received Miss Dayo Richard’s petition. He said the command was already investigating the matter.

A final year student of Electronics and computer engineering at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri has developed a
software geared towards reducing infant mortality in developing countries. The App which he calls the i propose(i-Solutions), detects pathologies in newly born babies from the cry sound they produce using neural networks.

He has enrolled in an innovative competition organized by an international body CRDF for Asia, middle east and Africa. The name of the competition is Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GISTech). Contestants are to create a 2 minute video presentation of how they can solve a world problem using Sci and Tech.

The thing is that all competition entries (videos) are to be voted for by public on you tube and only those with the highest votes qualify to the next round.

I watched the video and I was once again proud to be a Nigerian! Let's vote for this Lad! He's our very own representing Nigeria on the Global Stage! For once let's be renowned for something good other than 419!

Vote for him here: http://youtu.be/sRE0bgAvP_o

A Same-sex Church of England priest has announced plans to "marry" his Nigerian male model boyfriend, who is 40 years his junior.
 
The pair are due to marry on Oct 9 at the register office in Devizes before holding a service at St John the Baptist Church Photo: SWNSBy Richard Savill
7:34PM BST 20 Aug 2010
The Rev Colin Coward, 64, a priest at St John the Baptist church in Devizes, Wilts, is to enter into a civil partnership with his boyfriend Bobby Egbele, 25.

The union has caused a stir among Christians because the couple plan a carefully-worded "blessing" service in church after the ceremony.

Mr Coward has also declined to confirm that he will remain celibate following the union, which is a requirement the Church of England asks of its ordained Same-sex clergy.

Mr Coward, who lives with his boyfriend in Marston, near Devizes, said he hoped his union would set a “visible example” to other homosegxwals within the church.

He said: “My goal is for everyone within the church to feel comfortable with the situation because at the moment the majorityof man-lover Christians marry secretly.
“It is a taboo subject but the church is now under huge pressure to change its stance and that pressure will only increase in the future.

“Clearly the blessing is going to be quite a sensitive issue. I know that many people will see it and view it with horror.

“But we are both deeply committed Christians so it would be unthinkable for me not to do it in church and not to do it with the congregation and with all of our friends.

“I hope my wedding will inspire others and set a visible example to the church that we are not afraid.”

Mr Coward discovered he was Same-sex when a teenager and he was ordained as a priest in 1978 after giving up his job as an architect.

He openly declared his homosegxwality in 1991 before setting up the international man-lover and lady-loving-lady campaign group Changing Attitudes in 1995.

Mr Coward met his boyfriend in 2007 at a Christian conference in Togo, West Africa, and the pair were engaged last year.

Mr Egbele, a fashion designer, whose full name is Bobby Ikekhuame Egbele, grew up in Nigeria and runs an online clothing shop Bobafrique, where he models the clothes.

The pair are due to have a civil partnership ceremony on Oct 9 at the register office in Devizes before holding a service at St John the Baptist Church.

However, the service will be a communion Eucharist rather then a blessing, which is forbidden for Same-sex couples.

Mr Coward said: ''Churches are not supposed to bless civil partnerships. It can bless almost anything else; animals, bombs, battleships, armies going to war but man-lover couples? No.

“So our church blessing has to be carefully-worded in so far as it does not use the word blessing in the context of the two of us in relationship.''

The Bishop of Ramsbury, Rt Rev Stephen David Conway, could ask Mr Coward to remain celibate, a request he plans to refuse.

Under Church of England laws sex is only permitted for married couples and same-sex civil partnerships are not officially regarded as marriage.

Mr Coward said: ''I have big doubts whether he will ask me that because it's a very intrusive question. It's a ridiculous situation and a real mess.

“What we're allowed to do, as a man-lover couple, is what this all about and certainly those in ordained ministry are not supposed to be segxwally active.

“But in practice, some bishops absolutely will give their approval knowing that a couple is in a civil partnership and that they are sharing the same bed, and will encourage them to do that.''

Mr Coward said Mr Egbele was on a two year visitor visa until July next year. The couple have applied to the UK Border Agency for permission to have a civil partnership. That gives Mr Egbele rights of residency. In four years time, Mr Coward said Mr Egbele would be entitled to apply for British Citizenship.

A spokesman for the Diocese of Salisbury confirmed it has permitted allowed the service but described it as ''separate'' from the civil ceremony.

He said: ''A Eucharistic service celebrating friendship is what has been sanctioned in this case. This is entirely separate from any civil partnership ceremony.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7956186/Same-sex-priest-to-marry-Nigerian-male-model.html

According to news from grapevine, Federal Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison- Madueke just acquired a 'wondrous home abroad'.

The purchase tagged 'an architectural master piece' by those in the know is said to be located on all of 12 plots of lands.

The buy is said to be located in Vienna, Austria.

We gathered that she shelled out about $25M for the house.

Her husband is said to recently staged a get together for friends at the place.

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/14424/4/petroleum-minister-diezani-allison-madueke-acquire.html

http://news1.ghananation.com/nollywood/230813-petroleum-minister-diezani-allison-madueke-acquires-25-m-house-in-vienna-austria.html

http://www.ghanamma.com/2011/11/petroleum-minister-diezani-allison-madueke-acquires-25-m-house-in-viennaaustria/