*Two suspects nabbed *As Obi warns against playing politics with  flood crisis
 


AWKA – SOME people suspected to be robbers have invaded the Crowder Memorial Primary School, Onitsha, where 950 flood victims are camped and carted away some of the food items and cash donated to them.
 
This came as Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, yesterday warned against playing politics with the human tragedy that had so far trailed the flooding ravaging parts of the country, and warned those involved to desist.
 
The robbery happened as a philanthropist, Mr. Patrick Obianwu, who visited some of the displaced persons weekend, urged Governor Peter Obi to take measures to prevent the outbreak of epidemic in the communities affected by the flood disaster ravaging parts of the state.
 
It was gathered that two of the robbers who went to steal at the Onitsha camp were apprehended, while others escaped.
 
Some of the flood victims, who were cursing the robbery suspects when Vanguard visited the camp, wondered why such an inhuman treatment should be meted out to them, especially at this time.
 
Meanwhile, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has warned that it amounted to the worst form of cynicism for some people to be play politics with human tragedy brought about by the unfortunate flooding ravaging parts of the country.
 
Obi, who spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, was reacting to a statement credited to an official of Campaign for Democracy, CD,  who insinuated that the governor was making showmanship with the flood issue without doing much.[/b]

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/robbers-invade-flood-victims-camp-in-anambra/

Dino Melaye Impregnated Me- Bisi Ibidapo-Obe

Pregnant actress, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe has finally confirmed that former Federal lawmaker; Dino Melaye is the father of the child she is expecting.  Bisi, whose friends besieged her Magodo, Lagos home penultimate Sunday and had a baby shower for her did not only confide in some of her friends  but granted  an interview to E24-7Magazine’s BIODUN KUPOLUYI  during which she  confirmed  the former lawmaker  as the father of the child she’s expecting. She admitted that though her relationship with him was very brief and not planned to bring forth a baby but fate and circumstance proved her wrong.



She also confirmed our story last week that that she met the ex-lawmaker through another actress, Lola Alao. Please click to continue.
” I actually met Dino  through Lola Alao sometime March or early April  and honestly speaking I was in need of help and Lola Alao promised she would introduce me to someone who could help. The person turned out to be Dino.  I actually visited him in Abuja.  He was actually forthcoming and helpful. I was not the only one involved then but he took particular interest in me.  We got to know each other and at a point I was scared because he was all over me. Overtime, he showed me he meant well and we became good friends.

“Somehow, one thing led to the other and we started dating. He appeared nice, loving and showed me a lot of affection. He was quite frequent in my Lagos house. I remember when he came to Lagos for the birthday of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,  I went to pick him from the airport to my house.  We were an item and it was known to a couple of our close friends in the industry.  Shortly after, I travelled to Canada and it was while in Canada with my colleagues, Foluke Daramola and Moji Olaiya, that I felt the symptoms of pregnancy. It started with the usual morning sickness. I could not believe it. It was painful because I could not participate in all the programmes lined up for us in Canada.   I can remember that it was Moji Olaiya that went to buy the pregnancy kit that later confirmed I was pregnant. Immediately, I called Dino in Nigeria and shared the news with him. He was excited about it and he told me he was looking forward to seeing me in Lagos soon. When I returned, he received me with joy and on an occasion he took me to his hometown, Kabba in Kogi State. He told me he wanted to marry me. He was so nice to me.” The romance heightened over time, they became closer than ever but somehow there was a dark cloud lurking in their stars.

“Sometime in  May, I went to London, came back and he called and said again that he actually wanted a big  society wedding for me but since his parents are clerics and the rules and regulation of their church  frowns at pregnant brides he would want me to get rid of the pregnancy. I was shocked. I wept uncontrollably all night. Later, I called him nd told him since that’s his new position, I will advise him to go to his parents with another and marry. I’m not keen about society wedding but love to keep the pregnancy and have my baby. He did not allow me to say my mind when he dropped the phone. I called him severally but he refused to pick my calls. I sent emissaries, friends to him but he refused to listen. His complaint, according to my friends who took the courage to talk him was that I was rude. You can imagine, Dino refused to understand; he failed to know that I’m no longer a baby. This is my joy, joy unspeakable to me, something I have been praying for and he wanted me to be funny with it.  It’s ridiculous.” Since June , Bisi told E24-7 MAGAZINE, Dino, never showed, he never came.

“He stopped picking my calls. But each time I tried to call him with another mobile number,  he would pick the call but as soon as he finds out I’m the one on the phone he will drop it.  I have not wronged Dino, I have only chosen to do what is right to me but he sees it differently.  I’m no longer a kid.  It’s painful that such action is coming   from a man who claims he loves the masses, the oppressed people  of this country and he is oppressing me. My fate is in the hands of God and He will see me through. I have not been working to earn any money but I have found favour before God and a couple of my friends. I know I’m not alone in this. God is with me.”

Asked if Lola Alao had intervened, the Bisi  Omologbalogba fame actress said: “ I spoke with her; I pleaded with her to talk to Dino. I was shocked when she told me that Dino said he was not responsible for the pregnancy. I took her up on this.  I asked her if she believed him. I found it insulting that at my age I wouldn’t know who is responsible for my pregnancy?  But then, I’m not surprised because I have been fed with a lot of information that Lola and Dino are dating now.”

Meanwhile, the baby shower held  penultimate Sunday was an exclusive affair for close family and friends.  Bisi looked awesome and charming as she is expecting her first child. Star actresses,   Faithia  Balogun, Moji Olaiya, Iyabo Ojo,   Foluke Daramola and  Kafila Sogunro were among close  friends that attended the baby shower.   Though close friends said Bisi due to travel to Canada to deliver soon have her fingers crossed for a baby girl, said she will be happy about any sex.  Conspicuously absent was the man alleged to be the baby’s father, ex-federal lawmaker, Dino Melaye. Melaye in an exclusive interview with E24-7 Magazine published penultimate week denied the paternity.

He said it was “Africa Magic’s story” and dismissed the actress’ claim that he is the father of the child she is expecting as” an expression of fiction.”

http://ladunliadi.blogspot.com/2012/10/dino-melaye-impregnated-me-bisi-ibidapo.html

Wahala dey..  

True Confession: I sold my child for N4 million and I want him back now

NOTE: After this confession, I will close this email and you may not be able to reach me through it again.



This is for identity reason, as I have been warned not to disclose this. I also know that NAPTIP or how do they call them, will come after me.

I need to avoid this. I’m not educated, but I have to trust someone to write this piece for me for your newspaper. At least I can read, so I can monitor all the comments that will pour in as a result of my distasteful act.

I’m ready to receive any kind of insult, and possibly commit suicide if…
 
This is not fictitious. I confess with tears streaming from my eyes. Do not pity me. I don’t pity myself. I consider myself a greedy fool who doesn’t even deserve to live for just another day.
 
Permit me to tell you how it all started. I had a child out of wedlock. I couldn’t have taken the child to any particular man because none was going to accept him either.

This is because of the kind of life I have lived as a young girl of 24. Quite frankly, I was a prostitute. I can’t tell who the father of my baby is, even as I make this confession. I decided to keep the child just to avoid all the embarrassment associated with this.
 
I live in the East. It is difficult to survive down here, considering that I also had a baby to care for. My baby was just 9 months when it all happened. I was fed up with life, and I told one of my friends that I was ready to sell my baby to survive so long as I know he would be safe.

She passively laughed at my ignoble assertion. However, two weeks after we discussed, some people called me from the North, that they would like to meet me. I thought they were my usual customers, until I saw two men in my small apartment three days later. T
 
hey said they were informed that I was willing to sell my child. I asked how they got to know, and they showed me their identity cards. They were police officers and had been asked to do the transaction with me on behalf of a man whose identity they kept secret.
 
At first, I was scared. And I told them angrily that I was not that kind of person. They were so persistent that they even showed me the cheque signed by one of the officers. I ordered them out of my room and they left that day.

I thought they would be calling me to bother me, but they didn’t. I was full of regrets. I was caught in between constant thought of the money and the adverse effect of losing my child to a total stranger. Different ideas were circling in my head, until I took one last decision.

I picked up my phone after three days of my meeting with the police officers and I asked them to come down as I had accepted to do the transaction. They had warned me that it won’t be very funny if at the end I still go ahead to treat them the way they were treated the last time they came; but I assured them of my total cooperation.



 
They came again the next day. I was sobbing when they walked in. Yes, I was crying for my child because I knew that after that day, I won’t see him again. They came in a police van, apparently to take my child away with it.

They said the Alhaji who wanted the child was waiting. I asked whether my child was going to be killed. They took pity on me and told me that the man who wanted the child never had a child, and that had occasioned their trip down to the East in search of a child.

They assured me that nothing was going to happen to the child, but that I should take my mind off my baby, as I was never going to see him again. They said that after the payment had been made, the child would cease to be mine.

I wept as I handed over my child to one of them who sat at the back of the van. We drove to one of the banks where the transaction took place. Sincerely, my account was credited and they left. Ten minutes after their departure, I collapsed in the bank premises in tears, leaving many people to wonder what could be wrong with me.

I called them to return my child but they said it was too late.
 
The painful aspect of my trouble is that I didn’t use the money to do any reasonable thing. As I speak to you, my account has gone down, and I can’t really point to any reasonable thing I have done with the money, apart from the car that I bought few months after the incident.

People around me don’t know what happened to my child as I keep telling them that my baby is with my mum in the village.
 
I’m making this confession because I doubt if I may survive this CURSE I have brought upon myself. The last cry of my baby re-echoes each time I’m alone. I hear him cry into the silence of the night when I’m alone in my room.

I have not known peace since I sold my child. I have had accident up to ten times since the fateful day. None of the accidents was unconnected to absence minded.
 
The guilt continues to live in me. Now, I’m contemplating suicide. All I want is your advice as I find very useful comments on this site each time I log in with my phone.

I hardly make comments but I read your confession segment a lot. I always console myself with people who have big problems like me. Please tell me what to do.

I want to get my child back, but I don’t even have a clue on what to do. I don’t even know exactly where my child is now. I think I have been so foolish. Don’t feel any remorse for me. Give me the best advice – exactly what you would tell your sister if she found herself in my shoes.

I am waiting.
 


http://ireporterstv.co/true-confession-i-sold-my-child-for-n4-million-and-i-want-him-back-now/

Trader on revenge mission drugs, robs female victims

Since 2010, a dealer in electronic equipment, Samson Igwe, had preyed on unsuspecting women in Lagos and Port Harcourt. He would lure his victims from his hotel room and drug them with Valium 5 before robbing them of their possessions.
 


Recalling the circumstances that led him to commit crime, Igwe said, “I am an electronics trader based in Accra. I buy electronic goods from Alaba and take them to Accra for sale. That is what I really do for a living. I didn’t start off my life by robbing women; that is not how I make my money. I simply did it for revenge because when I came back to Nigeria in 2010, a lady I had picked up in a club did the same thing to me.
 
“I returned to Nigeria with about $30,000 in cash after living in South Africa for 10 years. I arrived in the country at about 11 pm and after checking into a hotel in Ikeja, I went to a nearby night club to unwind.”
 
There, Igwe, 36, met and chatted up an attractive young woman whom he eventually invited to his hotel room. His new friend accepted. When they got to his hotel room, the pair became lovers, getting intimate. Unknown to him, the woman had applied a drug on her Bosom s that was intended to make her victims sleep off.
 
“Before we got intimate, I suggested that we freshened up in the bathroom, but she refused. To my surprise, about 10 minutes after I sucked her Bosom , I became drowsy and slept off. I didn’t wake up till about 6.30 am the next day. By this time, the lady had left with my money and all my valuables. In order not to arouse suspicion, she had left her handbag behind and had told the hotel security that she was going out to buy toothpaste. That was the last time I saw her. I was so enraged that my life savings had been stolen in one night that I swore to do the same thing to every woman I met in night clubs,” he said.
 
But what started off as one man’s revenge mission eventually attracted three others, who alongside Igwe, decided to form a gang. CRIME DIGEST gathered that the gang had operated  for the past two years.
 
When he was arrested in a hotel at Oregun, Lagos, a few weeks ago, three unconscious women, one of whom had been brought in by another member of the gang, were found in Igwe’s room.
 
Although he started life again in Ghana as an electronics trader, Igwe did not let go of his dream. CRIME DIGEST learnt that each time Igwe came to Nigeria, he would visit night clubs in either Lagos or Port Harcourt. His victims were usually well dressed women who wore expensive jewellery and carried smart phones. After spending lavishly to convince them that he was a ‘big boy,’ Igwe would take his victims to his hotel room where he proceeded to drug them with three tablets of Valium 5.
 
He said, “Before I started doing this, I had asked a pharmacist the number of Valium 5 tablets that was required to make a human being sleep for a few hours at a stretch. He told me three tablets would knock a person out for four hours. I first tried it on myself and found that it worked before I started to use it on my victims.
 
“Whenever I take any girl to my hotel room, I would offer her some wine. In the process of pouring the wine, I would slip the tablets into her glass and after drinking it, the girl would sleep off. While they were asleep, I would take their jewellery and their phones. I admit that I slept with some of these women while they were unconscious but it wasn’t all of them.”
 
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, confirming the arrest said, “Sometime in August, one of Igwe’s accomplices brought in a lady to his room at a hotel in the Oregun area. The lady, on getting to the room, became suspicious when she discovered that two other ladies  seemed to be sleeping in the same room.
 
“While Igwe and his friend went away from the room briefly, this lady put a call through to a sister of hers, describing her location and voicing her fears. It was this victim’s sister who notified the Special Anti-Robbery Squad and a team was dispatched to the hotel.
 
“Upon arrival, the SARS team found Igwe, his accomplices and three unconscious ladies at the said hotel. Those girls did not regain consciousness until after 24 hours. Investigation is on to locate the remaining the two members of the group.”
 
http://www.punchng.com/feature/crime-digest/trader-on-revenge-mission-drugs-robs-female-victims/

Many are still yet to come to terms with untimely demise of University of Abuja student, Sonia Okeke who reportedly died in a mysterious circumstance recently. Sources say the Awka- Anambra State born pretty damsel was one of the campus big babe with connections with the movers and shakers of the nation's seat of power. Sonia is said to be a generous person and even sponsors some ladies through school.



Trouble started shortly after Sonia bought a state of the art wonder-on-wheels for N8 million as people started noticing she was no longer her bubbly self and was growing lean by the day. "It got so bad that she was advised to go to the hospital for check-up, but she refused saying she was fine and just needed some rest.

But it one night, she was coughing badly and was vomiting blood. She was rushed to the hospital but it was too late for the doctors to revive her having waited that long before seeking medical attention," said a source. Now the police are said to be investigating whether there is a sinister move behind her death, and request that her friends should come forward with names of her boy or men friends. May her soul rest in peace.
 
source: Gistxpress.

Nigeria accounts for 25% of global kidnappings – AIO
October 4, 2012 by Nike Popoola, Mauritius

The following report excludes the kidnap cases perpetrated by the same 'industrious' people outside their homeland.

938 persons kidnapped, N1.2 billion ransom paid in 8 months in South East
Reporters365 August 17, 2012

Kidnapping has become the fastest growing business in Nigeria’s south-east with no fewer than 938 prominent sons and daughters of the South East zone are alleged to have been kidnapped between January 2008 and August 2012, a civil society group, Campaign for Democracy (CD), has said.

Police authorities, however, disagreed with the figures, saying it was the figment of the imagination of the group that released the figures.

In a statement signed by Mr Uzor Uzor and Dr Jerry Chukwuokolo, the CD chairman and secretary respectively in the South East, said the kidnapped persons paid ransoms said to be valued at about N1.2 billion during the period.

The statement also said that kidnappers collected substantial amounts from their victims ranging from N5 million to N30 million per individual.

“Anambra State has the highest incidence of kidnapping of 273 persons, especially within the commercial axis of Onitsha and Nnewi. And it is happening at a constant rate for over five years now.

“Imo State with the current up-surge in kidnapping incidence has recorded 265 cases, while its residence is living in heightened fear.

“Abia follows behind with 215 persons so far; although the incidences of kidnapping had continued to reduce for some months now after the death of a notorious kidnapper called Osisikankwu.

“Enugu has recorded 95 cases in the past five years. However, the state has recorded the highest in abduction of government officials.

“Ebonyi is the least of all the five states in the South-east. It has recorded 90 cases so far officially. However, apart from kidnapping the state is laden with communal crisis,’’ it said.

The statement maintained that there was a need to take decisive actions to checkmate the spate of kidnapping in the zone.

“One practical way of doing it is the demolition of established structures or buildings used by kidnappers to advance their operations.

“The governors in the zone must work in synergy to address the issue of security and draft laws that would stiffen the penalties for kidnapping and other related offences,’’ the CD said.

The group gave the South-east governors’ forum till the end of October 2012 to address the up-surge in kidnapping and restore the confidence of foreign investors to the zone,Delta State is not left out of the kidnapping zone.

Contacted, the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, described CD’s figures as a figment of their imagination.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the police was the statutory authority to issue the number of persons kidnapped in an area.

He, however, raised some questions over the CD’s statement: “What is the source of their information? What is the methodology of obtaining the figures? Do the CD work with the kidnappers or did the kidnappers render account to them?’’
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigeria-accounts-for-25-of-global-kidnappings-aio/

Not suprised.. a few months ago a man was caught molesting a goat in Abia..who knows what is next?

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State (fourth right) with others at the flooded area of Osamalla, Anambra State ... on Monday.

More than 76,000 victims of the devastating floods that hit about 200 communities in five local government areas of Anambra State are being evacuated from their homes to relief camps in Onitsha and Nteje.
 


The evacuation came as reports said  two persons, a woman and a boy, died at Ogbaru following the flooding that submerged their homes on Sunday night.
 
Governor Peter Obi led the evacuation exercise on Monday as he abandoned the Independence anniversary parade review in Awka and headed for Ogbaru Local Government Area whose communities are the hardest hit in the flooding.
 
Personnel of the Navy, Army, Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps, the Red Cross Society of Nigeria, the Peace Corps and other voluntary agencies were involved  in the exercise.
 
According to a worker of the state Emergency Management Agency, no community in Ogbaru local government, which lies along the River Niger, is spared in the disaster.
 
He said the flooding  paralysed communication and economic activities in the communities.
 
Meanwhile, many of the victims are being evacuated to the 302 Artillery Regimernt, Onitsha, where the army and other emergency agencies are on hand to resettle them.
 
Other   victims   particularly from Ayamelum, Anambra East and Anambra West local government areas are being moved to Nteje, headquarters of Oyi Local Government Area.
 
But according to the Executive Director of SEMA, Dr. Austin Ijezie, more camps were being opened at the Onitsha South Stadium and other areas to accommodate more victims.
 
He said, “Twelve buses and trucks have just brought in people to Onitsha and many more loads of them are coming. The situation is getting beyond what the state government alone and SEMA can handle. It is an evolving catastrophe.”
 
Ijezie, however, said many of the victims were reluctant to move from their ancestral homes.
 
He said, “Such people are so attached to their homes that they do not want to move.”
 
Senator Andy Uba, representing Anambra South in the National Assembly, visited the victims at their Onitsha and Ogbaru camps.[/b]
 
http://www.punchng.com/news/military-others-evacuate-76000-anambra-flood-victims/