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1  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Dora Akunyili’s Husband: ‘My wife risked everything to be at the National Confer on: 9-04-2014 02:31 PM
Dora Akunyili’s Husband: ‘My wife risked everything to be at the National Conference’

Since the news of her strange ailment broke out,  Prof Dora Akunyili’s husband, Dr Chike Akunyili has been off the social media; he however took to his facebook page a while ago to thank fans for their support for his fast recuperating wife…
His message below:
“May the good LORD bless all of you that have prayed and still pray for my unique and lovely wife DORA. She is a noted personality and risked everything for the love of our dear country NIGERIA. I thank God that I was present when she made that very singular speech. It resonated in the corners of the Confab and instantly touched many hearts. The illness has not blunted her childlike frankness in our blessed 36 years of marriage.

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2  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Rasaq Okoya's daughter to wed Alao-Akala's son on Easter sunday on: 9-04-2014 01:41 PM

Hadiza Okoya, daughter of business mogul Chief Rasaq Okoya will wed her boo, Olamiju Akala, the first son of former Governor of Oyo state, Adebayo Alao Akala on Easter Sunday, April 20th.
 
The Nikkai (Islamic wedding) and court wedding will take place inside the Okoya expansive estate, in Lekki, Lagos. The couple had their introduction on January 12th.
 
Hadiza is the only child of a union between Chief Okoya and his former Liberian wife, while Olamiju on the other hand is the first son of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala.

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3  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Spot the difference: Jonathan vs Atiku wedding on: 9-04-2014 01:35 PM

Found this on today's Vanguard newspaper page 41, sponsored by 'Youth Movement for Transparent Leadership'. So apparently the group is comparing President Jonathan's daughter's wedding to Atiku's son's wedding, implying Atiku's was extravagant...oh really? Lol.

Make una leave matter abeg, that it happened in Bayelsa doesn't mean plenty money wasn't spent...
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4  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: Nigerian Medical Doctor Shot Dead By Her Husband In The USA on: 6-04-2014 01:11 PM
Quote from: Drfattah on  6-04-2014 01:10 PM
Lately, there has been a growing trend of Nigerian women killed by their husbands in the USA, and the consistency of these reports is nothing short of alarming.
The most recent one is that of a doctor identified asIsioma Ebegbodi, whose life was cut short in a crazy fit of anger by her violent husband.
Tall,elegant and brilliant Isioma Ebegbodi was murdered in cold blood by her Nigerian husband in Texas state of America on Saturday March 22, 2014.
She attended Queen’s CollegeYaba Lagos and later proceeded to University of Lagos to study Medicine..
She was until her gruesome murder a medical resident physician at Marshfield clinic in Texas.
What really went wrong between a 36 year old wife and her 63 year old husband?Was she suffering in silence until the tragedy happened?So many questions with limited answers.Her husband, a 63-year-old Nigerian man was later charged with murder after he confessed to the shooting her around 3 a.m on Saturday March 22,2014 in west Harris County, Texas USA.
Martin Ebegbodi went to a neighbor’s house and asked him to call police after getting into a fight and then shooting his wife, 36-year-old Isioma Ebegbodi nee Unokanjo.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the house in the 19700 block of Youpon Leaf Way and arrested Ebegbodi.
Martin Ebegbodi and Isioma J Unokanjo were married on February 11, 2005 in Harris County, Texas with Marriage certificate number 018430.
The deceased was born in 1978 in Nigeria per Second news gathered that the marriage has witnessed several storms.
In 2008 the Ebegbodi filed a law suit against the secretary of health and human services in a vaccine injury act supposedly against their son, NDIDICHUKWU MAXIMILLIAN EBEGBODI.
In recent times reports of Nigerian men killing their wives has increased in the United States. Few weeks ago a 33 year old Babatope Owoseni was arrested in East Orange, New Jersey in connection with the death of his wife who was nine months pregnant at the time of her death.26 year old Fatoumata Owoseni was found unresponsive at the 39 South Munn Avenue apartment she shared with Babatope.
The police have not released information on how he allegedly killed her.
Babatope has been charged with her murder and is being held without bail at the Essex County Corrections Facility.
This cancer of wife killing by Nigerian husbands is fast spreading, and the Nigerian society is getting numb and used to it, as one of the social maladies of our times.
A heinous act, which hitherto would be very abominable that people are shocked to their bone marrows, is today seen with minimal indifference.
Few years ago, another Nigerian Mr. Kelechi Charles Emeruwa, 41, from Old Umuahia, Abia State, was charged with, and convicted of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife, 36-year-old Registered Nurse, Chidiebere Omenihu Ochulo. Kelechi had finally lost it and stabbed his wife, with her own kitchen knife, so many times that the fountains of blood left on Julius Caesar paled in comparison, until she gave up the ghost.
Chidiebere had just returned from her father’s funeral in Nigeria. Kelechi had protested vehemently to what he described as a lavish burial, of course, she wouldn’t hear any of it after-all she made the money. She had the misfortune of returning to an angry, frustrated maniacal husband who took her kitchen knife to her and carved her up.It was on New Year’s Day, in her townhouse in the 4200 block of Dunwood Terrace, in the Silver Springsuburb of Burtonsville in Montgomery County, Maryland. Recently In Tennessee, a Nigerian man after taking it for so long, lost his cool and shot his Registered Nurse wife as well as his hitherto mother in-law to death with a shot gun.
According to the account this RN wife was married from Nigeria a pauper and brought to the United States by this man, who trained her in school as a registered nurse. Soon after her qualification, the demon in her was let loose and it became one torment after another, with one police call after another followed by sleep-over in police cells and it went on and on ad infinitum. After a protracted battle with the authorities at the wife’s instigation, this man lost his almost nearly paid-off home to his wife, including the custody of his three kids by her. He sees these kids just periodically according to court’s order and at the discretionary behest of the wife who sometimes comes to the appointed custody visitation ground at a time of her choosing;just to punish and suffer this man. He could not take it any longer and now the rest is history with two women shot dead and the killer in death row awaiting the electric chair.
Not too long ago, also, in Euless, a suburb of Dallas, another frustrated Nigerian husband, 45-year old Johnny Omorogieva from Edo State, Nigeria murdered his RN wife, Mrs. Isatu Omorogieva, 35, also of Edo State by savagely striking her on the head numerous times with a hammer in the full view of their 7-year old screaming daughter.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma a yet to be fully authenticated report has it that another Nigerian man recently bludgeoned his RN wife to death while she was fast asleep;
following a traumatic life which she has subjected him to since turning into the majority bread winner of the family following her graduating from a nursing program.
Another Nigerian nut-case, Mr. John Onwuka, 49, from Akwete community of Ohafia BendeLocal GovernmentArea of Abia State was charged with one count each of homicide and use of a knife in the commission of a felony. He stabbed his RN wife of twenty five years, Mrs Gloria Uchechi Anya Onwuka age 42, fourteen times in her bedroom while she was getting ready to go to work. She was a nurse manager.
Mr. John Onwuka committed this crime on the night of Saturday August 19, 2006 at the home of his wife in Estate Drive, Farmington, Hampton, Virginia with her children watching him act out his gory insanity.
“Yes I have killed the woman that messed my life up! A woman that had destroyed me. I am at Shalom West, my name is Michael and small yours”. With those words – a 911 call placed to the authorities. Fifty year old Mr. Michael Collins Iheme of HennepinMinnesota placed the call above few minutes after shooting his twenty eight year old wife, Mrs. Anthonia Eberechi iheme, the mother of his 4 year old boy and 3 year old girl, to death.With all these reported cases, one cannot help but wonder what exactly is going on and the reason for the recent increase of these brutal murders.
Gbemisola Boyede,former schoolmate to Isioma wrote this tribute for her on Facebook. Read below:
Here I am just as I was breathing the sigh of relief that justice was done in the case of Titi Arowolo murdered by her husband in a grotesque act in their own home here in Nigeria.
And watching with bated breath the ongoing trial of Oscar Pistorius who shot dead his girlfriend in his luxury house in Pretoria on Valentine dayI got the rudest shock of my life that a colleague, friend, former classmate in medical school was shot dead at 3am on Saturday in Texas, United States by her own husband! This is too close home for comfort!Someone tell me what’s going on?Why are people who professed to love forever and who vowed before God and man pulling the trigger to abruptly cut short the lives they are to protect?How do we explain this to the innocent children who are going to be deprived for life of parental love and care? Mum is dead but dad isn’t available because he’s serving terms for killing mum?How? How?? HowPlease if you’re in an abusive relationship riddled with domestic violence, this is the time to get out!Please stop keeping the front of happiness when you’re dying inside!


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5  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Nigerian Medical Doctor Shot Dead By Her Husband In The USA on: 6-04-2014 01:10 PM
Lately, there has been a growing trend of Nigerian women killed by their husbands in the USA, and the consistency of these reports is nothing short of alarming.
The most recent one is that of a doctor identified asIsioma Ebegbodi, whose life was cut short in a crazy fit of anger by her violent husband.
Tall,elegant and brilliant Isioma Ebegbodi was murdered in cold blood by her Nigerian husband in Texas state of America on Saturday March 22, 2014.
She attended Queen’s CollegeYaba Lagos and later proceeded to University of Lagos to study Medicine..
She was until her gruesome murder a medical resident physician at Marshfield clinic in Texas.
What really went wrong between a 36 year old wife and her 63 year old husband?Was she suffering in silence until the tragedy happened?So many questions with limited answers.Her husband, a 63-year-old Nigerian man was later charged with murder after he confessed to the shooting her around 3 a.m on Saturday March 22,2014 in west Harris County, Texas USA.
Martin Ebegbodi went to a neighbor’s house and asked him to call police after getting into a fight and then shooting his wife, 36-year-old Isioma Ebegbodi nee Unokanjo.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the house in the 19700 block of Youpon Leaf Way and arrested Ebegbodi.
Martin Ebegbodi and Isioma J Unokanjo were married on February 11, 2005 in Harris County, Texas with Marriage certificate number 018430.
The deceased was born in 1978 in Nigeria per Second news gathered that the marriage has witnessed several storms.
In 2008 the Ebegbodi filed a law suit against the secretary of health and human services in a vaccine injury act supposedly against their son, NDIDICHUKWU MAXIMILLIAN EBEGBODI.
In recent times reports of Nigerian men killing their wives has increased in the United States. Few weeks ago a 33 year old Babatope Owoseni was arrested in East Orange, New Jersey in connection with the death of his wife who was nine months pregnant at the time of her death.26 year old Fatoumata Owoseni was found unresponsive at the 39 South Munn Avenue apartment she shared with Babatope.
The police have not released information on how he allegedly killed her.
Babatope has been charged with her murder and is being held without bail at the Essex County Corrections Facility.
This cancer of wife killing by Nigerian husbands is fast spreading, and the Nigerian society is getting numb and used to it, as one of the social maladies of our times.
A heinous act, which hitherto would be very abominable that people are shocked to their bone marrows, is today seen with minimal indifference.
Few years ago, another Nigerian Mr. Kelechi Charles Emeruwa, 41, from Old Umuahia, Abia State, was charged with, and convicted of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife, 36-year-old Registered Nurse, Chidiebere Omenihu Ochulo. Kelechi had finally lost it and stabbed his wife, with her own kitchen knife, so many times that the fountains of blood left on Julius Caesar paled in comparison, until she gave up the ghost.
Chidiebere had just returned from her father’s funeral in Nigeria. Kelechi had protested vehemently to what he described as a lavish burial, of course, she wouldn’t hear any of it after-all she made the money. She had the misfortune of returning to an angry, frustrated maniacal husband who took her kitchen knife to her and carved her up.It was on New Year’s Day, in her townhouse in the 4200 block of Dunwood Terrace, in the Silver Springsuburb of Burtonsville in Montgomery County, Maryland. Recently In Tennessee, a Nigerian man after taking it for so long, lost his cool and shot his Registered Nurse wife as well as his hitherto mother in-law to death with a shot gun.
According to the account this RN wife was married from Nigeria a pauper and brought to the United States by this man, who trained her in school as a registered nurse. Soon after her qualification, the demon in her was let loose and it became one torment after another, with one police call after another followed by sleep-over in police cells and it went on and on ad infinitum. After a protracted battle with the authorities at the wife’s instigation, this man lost his almost nearly paid-off home to his wife, including the custody of his three kids by her. He sees these kids just periodically according to court’s order and at the discretionary behest of the wife who sometimes comes to the appointed custody visitation ground at a time of her choosing;just to punish and suffer this man. He could not take it any longer and now the rest is history with two women shot dead and the killer in death row awaiting the electric chair.
Not too long ago, also, in Euless, a suburb of Dallas, another frustrated Nigerian husband, 45-year old Johnny Omorogieva from Edo State, Nigeria murdered his RN wife, Mrs. Isatu Omorogieva, 35, also of Edo State by savagely striking her on the head numerous times with a hammer in the full view of their 7-year old screaming daughter.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma a yet to be fully authenticated report has it that another Nigerian man recently bludgeoned his RN wife to death while she was fast asleep;
following a traumatic life which she has subjected him to since turning into the majority bread winner of the family following her graduating from a nursing program.
Another Nigerian nut-case, Mr. John Onwuka, 49, from Akwete community of Ohafia BendeLocal GovernmentArea of Abia State was charged with one count each of homicide and use of a knife in the commission of a felony. He stabbed his RN wife of twenty five years, Mrs Gloria Uchechi Anya Onwuka age 42, fourteen times in her bedroom while she was getting ready to go to work. She was a nurse manager.
Mr. John Onwuka committed this crime on the night of Saturday August 19, 2006 at the home of his wife in Estate Drive, Farmington, Hampton, Virginia with her children watching him act out his gory insanity.
“Yes I have killed the woman that messed my life up! A woman that had destroyed me. I am at Shalom West, my name is Michael and small yours”. With those words – a 911 call placed to the authorities. Fifty year old Mr. Michael Collins Iheme of HennepinMinnesota placed the call above few minutes after shooting his twenty eight year old wife, Mrs. Anthonia Eberechi iheme, the mother of his 4 year old boy and 3 year old girl, to death.With all these reported cases, one cannot help but wonder what exactly is going on and the reason for the recent increase of these brutal murders.
Gbemisola Boyede,former schoolmate to Isioma wrote this tribute for her on Facebook. Read below:
Here I am just as I was breathing the sigh of relief that justice was done in the case of Titi Arowolo murdered by her husband in a grotesque act in their own home here in Nigeria.
And watching with bated breath the ongoing trial of Oscar Pistorius who shot dead his girlfriend in his luxury house in Pretoria on Valentine dayI got the rudest shock of my life that a colleague, friend, former classmate in medical school was shot dead at 3am on Saturday in Texas, United States by her own husband! This is too close home for comfort!Someone tell me what’s going on?Why are people who professed to love forever and who vowed before God and man pulling the trigger to abruptly cut short the lives they are to protect?How do we explain this to the innocent children who are going to be deprived for life of parental love and care? Mum is dead but dad isn’t available because he’s serving terms for killing mum?How? How?? HowPlease if you’re in an abusive relationship riddled with domestic violence, this is the time to get out!Please stop keeping the front of happiness when you’re dying inside!


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6  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Check out Hafiz Oyetoro ' Saka ' And His Family (photos) on: 6-04-2014 11:49 AM
happy family

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7  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: What wrong with this picture? ( if basketmouth was a old woman edition on: 5-04-2014 12:11 PM
Quote from: Drfattah on  5-04-2014 12:09 PM
comedian basketmouth share this picture on his facebook fans page...  and caption it wth If I was an old woman.....

Lolzz


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8  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / What wrong with this picture? ( if basketmouth was a old woman edition on: 5-04-2014 12:09 PM
comedian basketmouth share this picture on his facebook fans page...  and caption it wth If I was an old woman.....

Lolzz


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9  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Singer Omawumi finds new love on: 5-04-2014 07:04 AM
Omawumi

Omawumi is not a bad singer.

She didn’t win the Nigerian Idols competition many years ago, but the young lady grew to become one of the respected ladies of songs in Nigeria.

Now that she has stamped her feet in the music industry, Omawumi has decided to diversify.

The young lady has found a new love in agriculture.

But then, she insists she was actually born into a home of farmers claiming her father had a farm in their home town in Warri. Currently working on  ONE.org’s theme song project‘Cocoa na Chocolate’,the singer said she joined the campaign for agriculture to be revived in Africa because it used to be the continent’s source of income before the discovery of oil.“I have always been into agriculture; my father has a 25-hectare land in Ubeji, in the outskirts of Warri.

While I grew up, I used to go to the farm and we used to process cassava.

I can make garri;I mean uprooting the cassava, the whole process of extraction and frying it.

I can do it effortlessly same thing with fufu and tapioca.

I am actively involved in agriculture because I grew in the farm.

“Everything we use is actually from agriculture especially most of the make-up women use.

I am a part of the project because I believe we need to be actively involved in agriculture, especially the youths.

They see agriculture as something that is ‘uncool’ meanwhile it could create employment for a lot of them.

I wonder why someone would rather go to a supermarket to buy chicken at a price you could use to buy some chicks, rare them and after a while, you have lots of chicken for your consumption,” she said.

Speaking on her new album that is still in the pipeline, she said it would be a 10-track album and would be unique and different because it would be more of acoustics.

“I am working on my next album which would be a live album.

I have one song with Phyno and it is wonderful. I want to produce a 10 track album that even when you listen to in the next 10 years you would love it. I would use live acoustics so you can get a feel of the real music as opposed to using technology all the way.

I did not start performing with live band but music is something people want to enjoy raw, if someone is playing a guitar for example, people want to hear and have a feel of the guitar.

It makes music more enjoyable as opposed to asking a disc jockey to play your songs while you mime to it. However, I do not blame anybody who does not subscribe to playing with live band, different strokes for different folks,”

Omawumi said.


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10  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: Atiku Abubakar's son, Abba, set to wed his American fiancee on: 4-04-2014 02:37 PM
Quote from: Drfattah on  4-04-2014 02:29 PM
Abba Atiku Abubakar, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, is set to walk down the aisle with his American fiancee tomorrow April 5th. The wedding will hold in Dubai and is expected to be a private affair on request of the girl's family while a more elaborate reception will hold in Nigeria later. Abba (pictured middle) met his fiancee when he went to study in America. Congrats to them.


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11  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Atiku Abubakar's son, Abba, set to wed his American fiancee on: 4-04-2014 02:29 PM

Abba Atiku Abubakar, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, is set to walk down the aisle with his American fiancee tomorrow April 5th. The wedding will hold in Dubai and is expected to be a private affair on request of the girl's family while a more elaborate reception will hold in Nigeria later. Abba (pictured middle) met his fiancee when he went to study in America. Congrats to them.


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12  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / BIZARRE: Man beheads father, eats his neck in Ebonyi on: 4-04-2014 05:48 AM


THE Ebonyi State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a 30-year-old Nwode Chukwudi Awam, for beheading his father, Michael Awam, 56, and eating the victim’s neck at Egwudinagu Obegu village in Ebonyi Local Government Area of the state.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Chris Anyanwu, said: “The Ebonyi State Command has arrested Nwode Chukwudi, 30, who hails from Egwudinagu Obegu village in Ebonyi Local Government Area for beheading his biological father.“The remains of the victim were deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital, FETHA, mortuary for autopsy.

“When the police went for him, he was waving the machete which he used to cut his father’s head and threatening to kill anybody that gets close to him.

He was overpowered all the same. ‘He ate the neck’

“He was seen eating the entire stub of the neck.

So when you look at the exhibit, the head doesn’t have the neck even though he did the beheading from the base of the shoulder.

You will not see the part of the body that is supposed to be the neck; he ate it up.

“We can say that it is not unconnected with ritual because it does appear that he may have been asked to do such a thing.

“But as I said, he is still undergoing investigation and if the suspect yields, we will discover the real reason behind the dastardly act,” Anyanwu added.

I heard a voice, says suspect The suspect, who was seen intermittently smiling and looking suspiciously calm, said he carried out the act after he heard a voice which told him to go to his village and kill his father.

His uncle, Mr. Joseph Nwite, said that the suspect had been away from home for over six years, adding “he just came back from Imo State and killed his father.”

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13  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Boat accident: Pregnant women, engaged couple among victims on: 4-04-2014 05:45 AM

Majidun Jetty. Inset: Victims.
No fewer than eight people have been confirmed dead, while 12 others were rescued in the boat accident involving a boat belonging to Bell Marine Services.
Among the dead were two pregnant women, a couple said to be preparing for their wedding next weekend and a 13-year-old girl.
The boat was said to have taken the passengers from their places of work at 5.34pm around Ebute Ero on the Lagos Island, en route the Majidun, Ikorodu area of Lagos State on Wednesday.
The boat was said to have capsized at the Oworonsoki area, due to overloading and speeding.
Our correspondent, who visited the Majidun jetty of the Bell Marine Services, saw relatives of the late intending couple.An uncle of the groom, Isaac Akere, who identified himself as Mr. Ajibola Akere, said, “He and his fiancée were preparing for their wedding next weekend.
I just sent him N40, 000 only few days ago as my contribution to the wedding.
“We have been to the mortuary where we saw the corpse of his fiancee, but we have not seen his own body.
We need to recover his corpse, so we will know what next to do.”
Our correspondent saw a white Toyota Corolla, with registration number, Lagos APP 259 CN, at the jetty.
The late Isaac was said to have parked it there before taking the boat in the morning.
A survivor, who identified herself as Mrs. Abimbola Bunmi, a shop keeper, said she was in the waters for over 30 minutes before she was rescued by a fisherman.
She said although she may have survived the accident, she had lost all her livelihood and had nowhere to go.
She said, “There were 25 of us in that boat.
We took off around 5.34pm. The boat was overloaded and I complained to the boat captain but he would not listen.
“Again, he started speeding and we all raised the alarm that he should reduce his speed.
He didn’t listen. What happened later was that the boat broke in the middle and capsized.
“After 30 minutes in the water, a fisherman came and helped me out.
But where will I go? I had N350, 000 on me.
Though I am alive, I am ruined.”
It was learnt that some of the passengers had life jackets on, but they reportedly sank into the water and drowned.
Our correspondent gathered that the Bell Marine Services could not provide the list of passengers on board because there was no manifest.
It was learnt that passengers usually pay a fare of N500 to travel on the water from Ikorodu to the Lagos Island, and find it convenient doing so due to the heavy traffic on the Ikorodu Road.
At the Ikorodu General Hospital where the bodies of the eight victims were said to have been deposited, our correspondent met the Managing Director of the hospital, Dr. Mobolaji Olukoya.
He said, “The victims were brought in two batches. First was a pregnant woman who was brought in around 6am.
Her husband was in shock. He didn’t believe that she was dead and he was praying.
It was around 10am that he finally received the news that she was dead.
In actual fact, she was brought in dead.”
He said seven other victims, comprising six women and a man, were also brought in dead on arrival.
Our correspondent learnt from one of the security men at the morgue that there was another pregnant woman in the morgue apart from the first woman the managing director identified.
Many family members of victims were at the Ikorodu General Hospital morgue to collect the remains of their relatives.
One of them, Babatunde Ogunsiji, said his brother, Adewale, was also on the boat.
Thirty five-year Adewale, who was married with a child, was said to be coming from work when he joined the boat.
The Lagos State Waterways Authority said immediately the incident happened, its men responded to a distress call from one of the witnesses.
A statement by the Managing Director, LASWA, Mr. Olayinka Marinho reads in part, “Investigations revealed that the boat, which departed from the Ebute-Ero jetty of the Lagos Island at about 5:30pm for the Majidun Jetty in Ikorodu hit a large object under the water in the course of the voyage.
The impact damaged the hull of the boat and resulted into a high inflow of water, causing the boat to sink.
“The swift response of the LASWA rescue team to the scene of the mishap made it possible to rescue 13 passengers alive.
The team also recovered six bodies trapped in the sunken vessel from the depth of the lagoon and immediately rushed them to the Ikorodu General Hospital where they were confirmed dead.
A pregnant woman who was one of the 13 passengers rescued on board the boat eventually died at the General Hospital on arrival increasing the total number of deaths recorded to seven.
The Search and Rescue mission also recovered some items belonging to the victims.”
The spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency, South West Zone, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, said rescue operation was ongoing to recover the bodies of other missing passengers.
Farinloye said, “As of last night, we learnt that eight died, 12 were alive and six were missing.
Unfortunately, the operator of the boat, Mr. Ben Kalejaiye, said nobody was missing. But as we were about to close down the search, somebody turned up that his relative was missing, meaning that the search continues.”
The Managing Director of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said, “From investigations, we learnt that those who had their life jackets on were afraid. Instead of jumping into the water, they didn’t and that was how they sank.”


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14  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Nneka gets love proposal on Nigerian Idol show on: 4-04-2014 05:42 AM

The power of an awesome voice, good looks and a red rose to complement cannot be overlooked. And that almost got Nigerian Germany-based singer, Nneka in a twist when one of the contestants at the ongoing Nigerian Idol reality show surprised her with a love proposal
Xolani, the contestant from Calabar presented the petite damsel with a red rose after going on his knees, during his performance of ‘Lady in Red’ by Chris de Burgh.
After recovering from the moment Nneka said, “Awesome charisma, you were very in tune with the lyrics and you have a charming look and personality, but I just need you to be careful, so you don’t lose yourself in the show.”
Nneka Egbuna is one of the three judges, including Dede Mabiaku and Darey Art-Alade at the Nigerian Idol season four.

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15  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Amazing Photos - Meet Unrelated Strangers Who Look Like Twins on: 3-04-2014 01:14 PM
Imagine walking up the street and meeting a stranger who is totally not related to you but looks exactly like you. Check out this series of portraits by photographer Francois Brunelle entitled 'I'm Not A Lookalike'. They all feature two unrelated strangers who look like twins.

The 62-year-old Montreal-based photographer has spent the last 12 years scouring the world for complete
strangers who look alarmingly similar, according to Rex USA.
Brunelle told Rex USA he was inspired by 2 things. First he used to see look-alikes all over since a very long time. Second, his own likeness with TV character Mr Bean."

Have you ever met or heard of someone that could pass as your twin?

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16  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Bizarre-Man buried alive seconds after showing a family the ‘perfect burial plot on: 3-04-2014 12:24 PM
Bizarre-Man buried alive seconds after showing a family the ‘perfect burial plot’for their relative's grave(Pictured)
In a bizarre twist of fate, a feng shui master(above) was buried alive in a landslide at a Chinese cemetery seconds after showing a family a 'perfect burial plot' for their relative's grave.
The family of recently deceased De Meng, 75, had invited master Zheng Guoqiang, to visit the cemetery to see which plot of land could be regarded as 'good land' for a family grave where De Meng could be buried.After surveying the site he took the six members of the man's family to a place where he announced the vibrations and location was perfect for the grave.

According to the one person who survived, seconds later there was a landslide which buried all seven people, leaving six of them dead
Zheng Guoqiang was regarded as one of the most famous feng shui experts in Hong Kong and was frequently asked about his opinion.

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17  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Man bolts after girlfriend fell down a well while they were having se^x on: 3-04-2014 12:20 PM

A man bolted after his girlfriend fell in a well while they had sex on top near a Spanish park. The 21-year-old was making love with her partner when the cover of the waterwheel well shaft came loose, sending her plummeting 15m into the water below.But rather than trying to rescue her, he pulled up his trousers in a panic and fled the scene.The half-naked woman was  rescued by firefighters

Emergency services later received an anonymous phone call which was believed to have been made by him.
He was not found at the scene when they arrived
The woman, who was suffering from shock and hypothermia, was pulled from the water by firefighters and taken to hospital, She was soaking wet and was wearing no underwear....
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18  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / What Is Wrong With This Photo? [Who is deceiving who? Edition] on: 3-04-2014 08:44 AM
Who is deceiving who? Lols


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19  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / 7 commercial sex workers arraigned over assault on: 3-04-2014 08:39 AM

The Police, yesterday, arraigned seven commercial sex workers in a Makurdi Magistrate’s Court for beating and stabbing an Abuja-based businessman.
The suspects are Blessing Victor, Martha Joseph, Sonia Okafor, Esther Sunday, Grace John, Angela Aja and Princess Ojo, all of Express Hotel, Makurdi.
They are charged with criminal conspiracy, force, causing hurt and theft.
The prosecution, Inspector Terzungwe Kajo, told the court that Gabriel Oforma of Plot 24, Gwarimpa Estate, Phase 1, Abuja, lodged the matter at the ‘B’ Division Police Station on March 20.He said that the accused persons and some men, currently at large, beat up Oforma, stabbed him and stole his Nokia Lumia cell phone and N34,000 cash when he went to visit a friend at Wukari Street, Wurukum, Makurdi.
Kajo added that other things stolen from the complainant were his travelling bag, containing clothes and his national identity card.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 97, 265, 246 and 287 of the Penal Code.
If convicted, they are liable to eight years each in prison with an option of fine.
After the charges were read to them, the suspects all pleaded not guilty.
In her defence, the first accused person, Blessing Victor, told the court that she did not steal anything from the complainant.
She said: “My only sin is that I charged the complainant N3,000 to have segxwal intercourse with me for the whole night.
“After we did it, he refused to pay me and when I complained he said I stole his money.”
The Magistrate, Mrs Lillian Terseer-Tsumba, granted bail to the accused persons in the sum of N10,000 each and one surety each in like sum.
She adjourned the matter until May 7.

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20  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: Police blame mother, lover for toddler’s severed joystick on: 3-04-2014 06:16 AM
Quote from: Drfattah on  3-04-2014 06:15 AM
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a married woman, Abidemi Akintoye, and one of her lovers, identified only as Fatai, over the injury inflicted on Abidemi’s one-year-old son, Basheeru.
According to Police authorities, Abidemi, who is an alleged nymphomaniac, had left her three children at home to have se^x with Fatai in an uncompleted building on Lamidi Ariyo Street, Okota, when someone severed the little boy’s joystick.
A policeman attached to the Okota Police Division said, “Abidemi is a very loose woman.
She sleeps with many men in the area, including relatives, despite the fact that she is married with three children.
“Abidemi sells onions and pepper and also sells food for a living.
We learnt that on March 23, 2014, one Fatai, who is also Abidemi’s husband’s friend, gave Abidemi’s husband, Ibrahim, N300 to give to Abidemi to help him cook some food.“Abidemi then sent someone to take the plate of food to Fatai who lives a few houses away.
“In the evening, when Abidemi had put her children to sleep, she went to Fatai’s house under the pretext of going to collect her plate, but in the process, they had a few rounds of se^x in an uncompleted building. As that was happening, someone entered into Abidemi’s house and cut off her little son’s joystick.”
PUNCH Metrolearnt that Abidemi was arrested for negligence, while Fatai was arrested for conspiracy. “We know that neither Abidemi nor Fatai cut off Basheeru’s joystick, but we believe that Fatai, having lured Abidemi away from her children, sent someone to cut her son’s joystick for ritual purpose.
Anyway, investigations are ongoing,” a police source said. Abidemi, who spoke to our correspondent amid tears, confessed that she had a segxwal problem.
She, however, said she had no hand in the case and urged the police to let her go.
“When I returned from Fatai’s place, I saw neighbours around my house.
That was when I discovered what had happened. I had no hand in this. “I have disgraced myself, but it is not entirely my fault.
I lost my virginity at the age of 10 after an okada rider (commercial motorcyclist) molested me.
I have been loose since then. I got married to my husband at the age of 16 and I am just 20-years-old, but I have three children,” she said.
When asked if her husband was aware of her philandering, she said he was not aware because he hardly slept at home.
“My husband is a security guard and he works at a hotel so he hardly sleeps at home.
He hardly gives me money.
Even though my boyfriend, Fatai, is a commercial tricyclist, he gives me N1, 000 or N1, 500 sometimes,” she said.
A neighbour, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, said when the incident occurred, they immediately rushed the child to a nearby hospital.
The neighbour said they were all aware of Abidemi’s ways and were surprised that her husband claimed not to be aware.
PUNCH Metrolearnt that due to the severity of the injury, Basheeru had been transferred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.
“The child will undergo reconstructive surgery.
Fortunately, only half of the joystick was cut off,” a nurse in the emergency ward said.
When contacted on the telephone, Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, said the matter was under investigation at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.


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