According to a report, Ambrose Ezewani, an ex student of the University of Lagos and former President of the National Association of Delta State students, UNILAG chapter, who blew the lid on a systematic student bursary racketing allegedly spearheaded by the Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta state, Mr Hope Eghagha has been handed over to the Delta state Government
 

Police officers in Sabo Station yesterday afternoon handed him over after the Delta State officials visited to ask for his transfer to Asaba, Delta State where he will be most likely tortured and “tried” for revealing the fraud perpetrated by officials of the state.
Ezeanwani was President of the National Association of Delta State Students Union at the University of Lagos. During his tenure, he revealed that the bursary system was fraught with fraud, which he said was being perpetrated by men in the scholarship board in Delta State. Continue...

Ezeawani alleged that the irregularities surfaced since the current Commissioner for Higher Education in the State, Mr. Hope Eghagha came on board. Mr. Eghagha a former professor at the University of lagos was a former newspaper columnist and critic of the Delta state government before bagging a government appointment a few years ago.

Ezeawani claims that  Eghagha’s office had created a system for students bursary application where non-existing students are awarded bursary by the state.

He said in his investigation, which the UNILAG students’ records office corroborated, the names published as “approved” for bursary awards every year where non-existent in the Institution’s official records.

Ezeawani further stated that his research  discovered that the office of the Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State led by Eghagha had generated about 23,000 fake students and bank accounts and sorts codes throughout institutions across the country to siphon bursary funds while publishing fake names of beneficiaries in the print media every year.

Although few genuine names of students are mixed in the published bursary approval list every year, it is observed that most of the genuine students are shut out of the scheme while non-existing names are paraded.

Ambrose had led series of protest marches calling for investigations into the  scam, however,  the Economic and financial crimes Commission EFCC) to whom he directed his protests did nothing to investigate the fraud.

Last Wednesday on his way to Federal college of education (Technical)  Akoka   some men in mufti pulled up in front of him and attempted forcing him into their car. Ezeawani said he resisted and headed for the police station in Sabo instead. The men followed him and asked the police to hand him over but the police refused. The men apparently sent by the Delta state government then asked that Ezeawani be detained for them to go and prepare documents from Asaba to facilitate his hand over.
He has now been handed over today to policemen from Asaba who are suspected to be doing the bidding of the Delta State officials.
 
Ambrose had before now done an underground investigation over bursary allocations to indigines of the state nationwide and discovered that the Commissioner's office had over the years produced  about 23,000 fake students and bank accounts and sorts codes throughout institutions across the country to siphon bursary funds while publishing fake names of beneficiaries in the print media every year. In UNILAG, the student record office collaborated Ambrose's claim that most of the Delta state students published for bursary allocations were non-existent to the school.
 
Ambrose wrote several petitions to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission but none of his petitions was attended to.
 
Last Wednesday, April 23, while on his way to the Federal College of Technology Akoka, Ambrose was accosted by plain clothed men who demanded he entered their vehicle and follow them which he refused since he did not know who they were. He then decided to walk to the nearest police station within the area there which was the Sabo Police station with those men tailing him. On getting to the police station, he told the police men there what happened and the police men refused to let him go saying whoever wanted him arrested should come with a warrant of arrest and so they kept him in their custody with the men pleading that they do not allow him go as they would soon return with a warrant
 
Two days ago, they got the warrant and Ambrose has been taken to Delta state.

A new born baby abandoned by her mother was recently discovered in a swampy dump-site around Great Aduke School, Victory Estate in Iba area of Lagos. However, the baby finally died after being rejected by two public hospitals.

Vanguard gathered that the baby girl was discovered inside a carton by a young man (names withheld) who had gone to inspect his building site in the estate. According to him:
 “on getting to my site, I started hearing an unusual sound. I kept moving towards the direction of the sound. As I moved closer, I discovered a baby inside a carton soaked in blood, still attached to the placenta. Immediately I saw the baby I raised alarm and
people gathered.  A woman among the crowd carried the baby to her house to clean up while I reported my finding at the police station.”
The delivery
Vanguard reliably gathered that the young mother allegedly took labour inducing drugs to terminate her seven-month-old pregnancy. According to the source, when the pains became unbearable the girl’s friend, in the middle of the night, took her to the house of a nurse on the street, who refused to attend to her.
However, her friend eventually took delivery of the baby at the roadside close to the nurse’s house,” the source said.
Recalling what possibly transpired in the night of the incident, one of the landlords adjacent to the scene of the delivery, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said:
“That night at about 2 am, we couldn’t sleep as we heard voices calling on the nurse that lives in that building. The shout was so intense, disturbing the serenity of the community. It was dark, nobody could come out because of the activities of oil bunkerers.
In the morning, I went outside only to find blood everywhere especially at the scene of the delivery but I was not sure of why there was so much blood everywhere until a man found a new born baby girl dumped at his site.”
According to one of the residents of the area, Iya Abosede:
“The girl is from a good background. Sincerely, I do not know what went wrong. Although she tried as much as she could to hide the pregnancy, the entire community knew she was pregnant outside wedlock. But we didn’t know she was capable of abandoning the baby after birth.”
Moves to save the baby:

Police on patrol from Adolf Police post took the baby to El-Shadai Hospital for first aid.
The doctor at the hospital after administering first aid referred the baby to Igando General Hospital but she was not admitted for lack of bed space.

From there the police took the baby to Isolo General Hospital where she  couldn’t also be admitted for the same reason. At this point the baby needed life support to survive, so the police carried it to Mercy Hospital at Adeniji Adele, where she was finally admitted and placed in the incubator. Unfortunately it was too late and the baby died.

Most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity, according to a report on DailyTrust, have allegedly been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each.

The female students were taken from their hostels at the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok on the night of April 14. About 40 had escaped in the days after the incident, but parents and school authorities said at least 234 of them were yet to be found.

Dr. Pogu Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, told Daily Trust yesterday that latest
information available to them indicates that most of the girls have been taken to the neighboring Cameroon and Chad by their captors.

He said before they were ferried in canoes across the Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants.
He said N2,000 was paid as bride price on each of the girls to the specific Boko Haram members who took them from their school and who had assumed “ownership” of the students.
“They ferried them in canoes to Cameroon and Chad republic after they were wedded off to Boko Haram members who bidded (sic) and paid N2,000 each as dowries on their heads. The dowry was paid to their captors, the very people who abducted them from their school. One of them who married one of the girls took her to a border town close to Cameroon where villagers saw her.”
Following their abduction, the schoolgirls were thought to be first taken to the Boko Haram camps in the notorious Sambisa Forest. Reports later said villagers had seen the girls being conveyed in trucks to other locations.
Bitrus said yesterday:
“So many sources have informed us that the girls have been taken to Cameroon. Many villagers said they saw the girls being transported in trucks and then in canoes. On Sunday they were taken to Dikwa area where they (Boko Haram) have a camp there. From there they took them to Marte, then Monguno before they were finally ferried in canoes. It was yesterday we got this latest report of them being married off to the insurgents by their captors.”
He said sources in Cameroon told them that most of the girls were now being held at “an area where the Boko Haram operates in Cameroon.”
‘Crying day and night’
On whether military authorities were informed about the movements of the girls, Bitrus said:
“The military was alerted on Tuesday about two weeks ago when some villagers saw many of the girls being transported in trucks, some with even their school uniforms. The villagers tried calling the senator representing the zone but they couldn’t get him so they went to Bama barracks where they reported the matter.
At the Bama barracks they were told that they must put it in writing, that that is the military tradition. At that time if the military had intervened they would have stopped them from reaching their destination.
And the fact that for nearly two weeks we have been talking about this and nothing is being done, then there are questions we have to ask. Nobody did anything.”
Bitrus sobbed as he spoke to our reporter yesterday.
“What is happening with the Nigerian nation? I think we demand some answers. Today it is happening to these unfortunate girls from Chibok, tomorrow it may be somewhere else and that is why all Nigerians must rally around us on this. 
If these captors are trying to achieve a political point, I think the best thing is for us to try to make sure that they don’t succeed but from all indications they are succeeding due to inaction of government. It is helping these people in achieving their objectives.”
Earlier yesterday, Bitrus spoke to the BBC Hausa radio saying:
“parents of these girls have been angry that despite the existence of government, there has not been concrete effort from government on the matter. Female parents have been crying day and night, because nobody knows what government is doing about the whole issue. All that we read in the papers is that Nigerian Army have done this or that.”
When contacted over claims that the military was informed of the movement of the schoolgirls, the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, told Daily Trust:

The veteran Nigerian filmmaker, Amaka Igwe is dead. The respected woman was pronounced dead in the early hours of Tuesday, April 29, 2014.

From information gathered by us, Amaka Igwe breathed her last after battling with Asthma attack.

She produced the popular comedy series, ‘Fuji House of Commotion’ and ‘Checkmate’.

Amaka Igwe is survived by her husband, Charles Igwe and children. She was aged 60.

Veteran actress, Clarion Chukwura might be having it all rosy in her endeavours, but might need to watch how she airs her opinion about some certain issues concerning the administration of Nollywood in the country.

The recent statements credited to the actress in various publications about the current administration of the Actors Guild Of Nigeria (AGN) has left the Chairman, Board of Directors of the guild, Prince Ifeanyi Dike, in bitter mood and has rebuked Clarion for that.

According to Ifeanyi, rather than making statements here and there, Clarion should have called Ibinabo Fiberesima to offer her a reasonable advice rather than tongue lashing her.

“Everybody is entitled to any opinion such a person decides to hold at a point in time”. However, I am reacting to Chukwurah’s unilateral decision to attack her junior in the industry without trying to call her to order first physically. Had she taken the pains to do that and she failed to see reason. It wouldn't have been too much if she took her matter to elders like me”, he maintained.

18-year-old Ana Rosa Mora (pictured above) has been arrested for killing her own child because the the new born looked like her ex-boyfriend. Ana wrapped her baby in a bag and left him outside to die because she feared the child looked like her ex-boyfriend and her current boyfriend would leave her.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the teen gave birth last weekend and attended school on Monday after allegedly committing the act and even showed staff members pictures of a newborn girl that she claimed she downloaded from the Internet.

But after employees noticed strange behavior - such as the girl asking if authorities could link her to the child through DNA and lying about the baby's age - they alerted authorities. Continue...



The child had been found by a construction worker a few hours after the child was left outside. The boy was born alive but died of asphyxia and possible exposure, authorities said.

The new mother said her ex-boyfriend was the father and when the child was born she feared her current boyfriend would notice and leave her, the newspaper reported. She was arrested Friday April 25th.

Mora, who was scheduled to graduate from high school in June and attend college in the fall is facing charges of first-degree murder and is now being held on $500,000 bail.

The regal wedding in the North – with multi-city ceremonies spread across a few days, was rich in colour, culture and excitement.

On the meeting, the bride says, “We met at my aunt’s wedding way back in 2005. Well actually we didn’t really meet there, he saw me and later hustled for my number (lol). We later became very good friends and eventually started dating in 2006. We understood one another perfectly.”

Advice from the bride and groom -

“Don’t stress too much about anything, what will be will be.”

Beautiful bride Aisha has been gracious enough to walk us through her ceremonies and attire, so look out for her words.


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This P-Square fight is still being talked about in spite of the fact that all the brothers have reconciled after their alleged fight which nearly tore the group apart! Now their publicist Bayo Adetu is taking a swipe at bloggers, specifically the Blogger who broke the story about the alleged break up. He also goes on to call bloggers stupid while claiming the story about the rift between the Okoye brothers was a publicity stunt they all capitalized on.
Wow! Really? Stupid? Mr.Adetu?!!!
Why don’t we read what he had to say in his “revealing” interview with Icon Weekly after the jump

Greetings, Bayo, we heard that the Okoye brotherS have finally reconciled, can you give us an insight on what really happened?
After a long laugh… My brother, I’m telling you this as a friend, there was no fight at all. The whole thing started after Jude tweeted some days back and bloggers feasted on it and gave it several interpretations which never existed, and that was how we got here.

Are you saying there wasn’t a fight at all, how then did Peter and Paul keep releasing comments through their Facebook accounts?
My guy, I can authoritatively tell you that neither of the P-Square brothers, nor even Jude operate their Facebook accounts anymore. Whatever Facebook posted was from an impersonator, pretending to be anyone of them. P-Sqaure is active on twitter, not on Facebook, so you see, the whole thing was founded on lies.

If what you are saying is true, why did they all tweet a reconciliatory tweet this morning indicating that they have mended fences?
There’s one thing you should know, P-Square are not politicians, neither are they businessmen to be worried about what one useless blogger or the other has to say about them.
In this game, bad publicity is good publicity. When we read those funny posts, we decided to play along with the general public and what they were meant to believe. Thursday, April 24, 2014 was Jude Okoye’s birthday and he also used the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend while we laughed at the stupidity of some Nigerian bloggers. We later decided to further play into their hands by reaching a consensus to tweet what they have termed the ‘reconciliation tweet’. However as a journalist, I am pained that trained journalists allow themselves to be remoted by a mere blogger without any professional training to stall them from investigating serious news material like this. These days, immediately Bloggers post, journalists just go there and copy and paste the story without any checks and balances, it is outrightly wrong, I’m really upset about this.

I have taken my time to explain to you this way because, you are a friend and did not join the bandwagon.
As for those bloggers out there, I allowed them to write whatever they like; after all, they are consuming their Internet data, not mine.

 I wondered if this was a PR stunt from the start! But the stories from “sources” about fighting between the twins, Jude Okoye and one of the wives were too loud  to ignore. If as Mr. Adetu claims it was all a PR stunt and the P-Square camp fed these stories…it says a lot about their characters! I hope it’s not true but if it is, how flipping desperate? You are P-Square for goodness sakes…you don’t stoop that low.
Again we don’t know if there is any truth to these claims…
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After unveiling its first cover with Africa's youngest billionaire, Ashish J. Thakkar, Y! Africa has issued its second cover with Yvonne Nelson; an actor, producer and serial entrepreneur on it. The Ghanaian superstar talks about her work, her businesses, her vision for the creative industry, and where she sees Africa's future. More pictures after the cut.

Oyindamola Johnson, popularly known as Dammy Krane, is not a new name in the entertainment industry as he has been able to carve a niche for himself with his fusion of Fuji with hip-hop. His ability to thrill with his dance steps has also contributed to his quick acceptance by music buffs in Nigeria.

The Hypertek Records artiste, who recently reunited with his mother, has expressed his hatred for tattoo, stating that his body is a temple that should be kept clean.

“When people ask me why I do not have tattoo, I tell them that you cannot scratch a Bentley. I believe my body is the temple of God, a holy place and I have to treat it with respect. I have to keep it clean.”

Dammy Krane added that growing up with his grandmother made him a disciplined and a better person in life.

Los Angeles Clippers players have let Coach Doc Rivers do the talking for them ever since a report surfaced of a recording that allegedly shows the owner of their team making racially insensitive comments. But when they took the court for warmups before Game 4 of their playoff series against Golden State, they made a collective statement without a saying a word reports The Washington Post.

They walked to center court at Oracle Arena in Oakland, removed their shooting shirts, put them in a pile and warmed up for the nationally televised game in inside-out playoff gear with the logo barely visible.



“Our message — it sounds simple — it’s stay together, play ball,” Paul told ABC before the game. “We worked really hard to be where we are. I couldn’t imagine going through anything like this with anybody leading us other than Doc. He’s been amazing and for us, we’ve have to focus on what we’re trying to do.”

Players also wore black armbands. “I knew about it,” Rivers said of the players’ plan. “Didn’t voice my opinion. Wasn’t thrilled about it, to be honest. But if that’s what they want to do, that’s what they want to do.

Racism in football! Will it ever end? Lastnight at the Estadio El Madrigal during Barcelona's match with Villa Real, a racist fan of the opposing team, threw a banana at Dani Alves while he was about to take a corner. To the surprise of many, the Brazilian full-back calmly picked up the banana, peeled and ate it before carrying on with the game.

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Now that was a brilliant response but ermmm, that 'tactic' shouldn't be used often, such items might be laced with poison.lol. Footballers that have been subject to racist attacks include Mario Balotelli, Samuel Eto'o etc.

Women will on Wednesday converge on the nation’s capital, Abuja to stage a one million protest march aimed at pressurising the Federal Government to take urgent actions to secure the release of  over 200 students abducted by insurgents from the Government Secondary School, Chibok.

The women plan was disclosed by Prof. Hauwa Biu on Sunday after an emergency meeting convened by the Borno State Governor’s wife, Hajiya Shettima. The meeting was aimed at seeking the way forward for the release of the schoolgirls.

Biu, who had last week led a coalition of Borno women to a press conference, where they revealed their plan to go into the Sambisa Forest, the stronghold of the Boko Haram insurgents where the girls are believed to be held hostage, to effect their release, said on Sunday that there was a change in plan.

Biu, who informed the meeting,  said that the one million march, tagged, “Free our girls,” would involve women all over the country and called for the mobilisation of Borno women to Abuja for the rally.

“The last time, we were in black but this time around the colour for the Abuja rally is red, so we should all be prepared and mobilised ourselves for the rally,” she added.

Earlier, Nana had while addressing the meeting, called on the wives of the service chiefs to assist in mounting pressures on their husbands to intensify efforts towards rescuing the schoolgirls.

“I want to use this opportunity to appeal to wives of security chiefs at the national and state levels to mount pressures on their husbands to intensify effort to rescue our dear children.

“Let us all put our differences aside irrespective of our faith and ethnic background, let us all join hands together to rescue these girls, I know that we can do it, Almighty Allah is with us, He knows our intention,” Hajia Nana said amidst sob.

She added, “I am sure for now we are not on our own, I am happy to inform you that the wife of the president call me two days ago, I believe that she is also with us, let us all join hand together irrespective of political affiliations.”

Most of the women who spoke at the meeting called on the Federal Government and the security agencies to intensify efforts towards rescuing the kidnapped schoolgirls.

Nigeria’s popular highlife star Chinedu Okoli better known as Flavour, might not have made mistake of running away from home after all; because what he had passion for is actually putting food on his table and enabling him to show care to others.

Flavour speaking about his ordeal to stardom, said that he initially wanted to do hip hop like his partners in the industry, but noticed that he was not accepted, so decided to throw his weight on his root which is sending his message through his local language and as such making him delve into highlife songs.

“When I left Enugu for Lagos, many studio men and music bands turned me down on the grounds that they didn’t understand my type of music. I found out that Lagosians have this type of music that they like. They didn’t like my type of music until later. It was that time we used to go to joints on Saturdays to sing for big men. I caught their attention first before I later switched to highlife. They liked it and even sprayed me money.”

According to Flavour, he stated that he recorded his first track in 2003, but to him, it was not nice, so had to wait for another four years to stage a better come back.

“I recorded my first track in 2003. I listened to it, didn’t like it and I discarded it and took my time. I felt I needed to be patient and not rush to fame. I didn’t want people to reject my song. Then I worked for Four years, after which I went back to music in a very big way in 2007.”

Former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova has died at the age of 45, the club have confirmed, after unsuccessful emergency surgery.

The ex-central midfielder was admitted to hospital following a downturn in his health which required an operation on his stomach on Thursday, with club president Josep Maria Bartomeu confirming the trainer was "fighting" for his life.

However, Vilanova, whose post-playing career has been tragically plagued by cancer, was unable to battle any longer and passed away on Friday afternoon.

Vilanova's public health problems began after he suffered a relapse of parotid gland cancer in 2012 - a year after his original diagnosis - just six months into his tenure as head coach at Camp Nou as Pep Guardiola's successor.

He underwent surgery in December 2012, with Jordi Roura taking his place on the bench while he recovered in New York, before returning in March 2013 to see out the rest of the reason and guide Barca to La Liga victory.

However, his continued health woes saw his unexpectedly step down as coach of the Catalans last summer, with Gerardo Martino taking the reins in his place.

Vilanova has largely - and understandably - been out of the spotlight since he left his position at Camp Nou but rumours of his ill health have sadly been revealed to be true. He is survived by a wife and two children.

Tolerance is very important in relationships and marriage.

But what happens when one partner decides to take charge and abuse the defenseless other?

That’s exactly what Uche Jombo did in her latest movie titled “Folly”. It’s a story of a woman who is married to her loving husband until he goes blind and things suddenly change for the worse after she takes control of his wealth and home.

The movie features a galaxy of stars including Joke Silva, Uche Jombo, Joseph Benjamin, Yvonne Nelson and co.
Yvonne Nelson and Belinda Effah star as Joke Silva’s daughters in the movie which should be interesting.

Check out some pictures from the set below:

These pictures from President Jonathan's daughter's wedding will definitely take your breath away. Faith wedded her boo Godwill Edward traditionally on the 5th of April in Bayelsa, then white wedding on the 12th of April in Abuja.


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One of the sons of former PDP Chairman Bamangar Tukur, Ahmed Tukur, married to his ladylove, Karimot Bamisedun on Saturday 19th 2014 at the banquet hall of Eko Hotel. Congrats to the couple.


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To forestall tragedies at major motor parks in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, the Lagos State Chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is finalising plans to install Circuit Camera Televisions (CCTV) at its motor parks.
According to Chairman of the union, Mr. Tajudeen Agbede, security officers would, in addition be appointed for the parks, while appoint security officers would also be formally trained on best methods to secure the parks.
“The union has agreed to appoint a chief security officer in each of its units across the state to beef up security, so as to prevent such experience in Lagos,” Agbede said in reference to the blast in Nyanya Motor Park on April 14, which resulted in the death of more than 80 people and injuries to at least 124.
“We have agreed to install Circuit Camera Televisions (CCTVs) in every park in the state to ensure that we capture everything that is going on in our parks. We agreed to appoint a chief security officer in all units, who will go for security training at a government appointed centre.”
Agbede added that parks would be fenced with electric wiring, while the Lagos State Security Committee and the NURTW would periodically embark on collaborative visits to the parks to ensure compliance with the plan.
He assured the public that the union would not rest on its oars, and that despite already having metal detectors in place, extra efforts will be made to generally bolster security at the parks and specifically forestall loss of lives and property.
“As we pray for protection against bad incidents every day, we must take action on our part to guard against them,” he said, urging all members of the union to compulsorily comply with the new security directives.

Model Oluchi Onweagba Orlandi & her two boys were shot by famous French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier for the Born Free Africa & Vogue Magazine Campaign. The campaign is an exclusive collaboration between fashion retailer ShopBop, Vogue, and 22 top designers. 100% of the profits from the women’s and children’s collection will go toward Born Free’s mission to eliminate “Mother-to-child” HIV/AIDS transmission of by December 31, 2015.
Other models taking part in this initiative are Liya Kedebe, Gisele Bundchen, Victoria Beckham, Stella McCartney, Donna Karan, Diane Von Furstenberg and many more celebs, models and designers.