A lecturer in the Department of Business Management, University of Calabar, Mr. Okon Effiong Ekpenyong, has lost four teeth after he was allegedly brutalised by some officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Cross River State command, for traffic offence.

Narrating his ordeal to , he said his vehicle developed a minor fault on Bassey Oqua Street in Calabar, near the NIS headquarters. He said after fixing it, he was leaving the area when the officials accosted and assaulted him, saying he made a U-turn at an unauthorised point
"After the car developed a fault, I called some people to help push it off the road and I went home to get my two sons to buy fuel in a jerry can because I suspected it might be petrol since the gauge was faulty.I tried to start the car after refueling, but it did not start. We had to push it down the Bassey Oqua Street, which is close to the NIS residential quarters.Immediately the car started, two NIS officials flagged me down; I obeyed. They said I had just made a U-turn at an unauthorised point and they concluded that I was a Boko Haram suspect, adding that they would not waste time in dealing with me.Immediately, about 10 other officials joined them, they forced me out of the car and started hitting me with gun butts and other weapons. I passed out in the process.”
Ekpenyong said before he became unconscious, he was able to identify four persons – a deputy comptroller, a chief superintendent and a male and female junior officials.

He said when he later regained consciousness in a cell, a senior NIS official, who identified himself as the provost, pleaded with him and released him to take care of himself in a hospital.The lecturer said he proceeded to the Airport Police Division in Calabar to report the incident from where he was taken to the Police Clinic for medical attention.

A report, which was issued by an investigating police officer, Edwin Jenuwa, confirmed that Ekpenyong was taken to the clinic at about 6pm with fresh blood stains after suffering assault and grievous harm.

Two sisters — Ruth and Tinuola Olaniyi — were on Thursday charged before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly showing the Nood film footage of two lovers.
Ruth, 19, and Ola, 24, who live at No. 46, Adebara St., Oworonshoki, Lagos, are being tried for indecent practice, unlawful video recording, fraud and breach of peace.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Uche Simon told the court that the accused committed the offences on 4 April at No. 37, Access Road, Oworonshoki at 4.00 p.m.
Simon alleged that the accused recorded the complainant (names withheld) while making love to her boyfriend.
“The accused also took Nood pictures of the complainant with their phones and started sharing the pictures.
“They also conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace by taking the Nood pictures of the complainant to sell.”
The prosecutor said the accused, who were friends of the complainant, fell out following a misunderstanding.
According to Simon, the offences contravene the provisions of Sections 134, 136,166 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
 It was reported that the accused, if convicted, may be sentenced to a minimum of three years imprisonment each.
The duo pleaded not guilty.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Omolade Awope, admitted them to a bail of N50, 000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, Joke Silva, Iretiola Doyle, Bimbo Akintola, and several other actresses, staged the play, Hear Word, at Mushin Market in Lagos on Wednesday.
The market show attracted a large audience, and the actresses did not interrupt their performance, despite the fact that it began to rain. Hear Word is a play, which explores the challenges everyday Nigerian women face. It will be staged at the MUSON Center in Lagos on May 23, 2014. It is being directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa.

This is sad news for the many ladies trying to get Wizkid to put a ring on it: the Pop star says he won’t be tying the knot any time soon. While chatting with fans on Twitter during an MTV Base tweet chat, Wizzy when asked by a fan if he was or would get married soon responded in the negative.
‘no plans for marriage‘, he replied on the micro-blogging platform.

The quest for power among members of the Okada Riders Association of Aratunmi Motorcycle Park in New Iba site Ojo LGA of Lagos state has led to the death of 20 year old Wasiu Jimoh.
 
According to a Punch report, trouble started when a faction of the association went into the motor park around 8.30pm and attacked another faction called O-Yes which the late Jimoh belonged to, with the intention of wrestling the chairmanship position from them. During the fight, Jimoh was attacked with a machete and sticks and left to die. He later died in the hospital.
 
The Ojo Police command was immediately notified and arrests were made.
Three suspects, Bashiru Monsuru (20) who is alleged to be the chief engineer of the attack, Ibrahim Gufaru (30) and Orji Francis (20) have been arrested and arraigned before the Ebute Meta Magistrates Courts for misdemeanor. Monsuru was charged with murder for spearheading the attack.
 
The three accused have each been granted bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum but Monsuru the mastermind of the attack was remanded in prison according to Magistrate Y.B. Badejo-Okusanya who presided over his case. Further hearing on the case comes up June 25th 2014.

"We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death," the judge told the woman.
Western embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion.
Local media report the sentence would not be carried out for two years after she has given birth.



“I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy”Meriam Yehya Ibrahim. IshagSudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.The judge also sentenced her to 100 lashes after convicting her of adultery - because her marriage to a Christian man was not valid under Islamic law.Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about 30 minutes, AFP reports.Then she calmly told the judge: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."Amnesty International said the woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.In court, the judge addressed her by her Muslim name, Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah.She was convicted of adultery on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under Islamic law, as practised in Sudan, Amnesty said.She was arrested and charged with adultery in August 2013 and the court added the charge of apostasy in February 2014 when she said she was a Christian and not a Muslim, the group said.Amnesty said she should be released immediately.She is said to be eight months' pregnant.

His contraption is still a prototype and not suitable for everyday use yet (The battery requires about 4-5 hours to charge and is so heavy that he had to modify the suspensions to bear the weight of the battery) but it has already brought a new, possible solution to the major problem with electric cars–charging the battery. Solar powered electric cars aren’t new, but adding a wind-turbine to augment the solar charger when the car is in motion is something I personally haven’t come across as an idea before. It in theory, would make it possible to drive and charge at night when there is no sunlight.

Segun, who finishes his exams tomorrow, isn’t deterred by his main challenges which he states are finding the appropriate materials for his car, and people who tell him he is wasting his time building it and plans to keep improving the car till it is “Nigeria’s future car”

"Today, I am 33 years old. And it is not because a fool called me an old man that you must believe it. And you may have noticed that the old man was better than the youngsters. Some believe I am going to retire in the United States or in the Middle East, but I have regained the joy of the Champions League and I am going to carry on playing in the Champions League.

He continued, "Where? I am not going to tell you. But I am going to carry on playing because physically and mentally I feel great. So I am going to go to this World Cup and to the next one when I will be 37. Some did it at 42, so I can still play in two more World Cups."

Do you think Africa can have their say at the World Cup in Brazil?

I hope so. Because people think Africa are just there for the show. And it is because football leaders don’t respect us that our opponents don’t respect us. But look at the main European clubs, where a lot of Africans are shining! Take Manchester City as an example, and look at the goals scored by Yaya Touré. If it was Messi, we will be talking about it for three years.

Côte d’Ivoire are the best African side today. They are above the rest on paper, but they must win. Africa must fight to get as far as possible and why not win the World Cup. People will say I am crazy, but if I am not crazy why would I go to Brazil? For holidays?

How do you feel about this World Cup which could well be your last one, and what is your future at Chelsea?

Thanks for informing me that it will be my last World Cup. Today, I am 33 years old. And it is not because a fool called me an old man that you must believe it. And you may have noticed that the old man was better than the youngsters.

Some believe I am going to retire in the United States or in the Middle East, but I have regained the joy of the Champions League and I am going to carry on playing in the Champions League. Where? I am not going to tell you. But I am going to carry on playing because physically and mentally I feel great.

So I am going to go to this World Cup and to the next one when I will be 37. Some did it at 42, so I can still play in two more World Cups.

Do you fear Brazil?

I have never been afraid. If you are scared, don’t become a football player. But you need to have respect for your opponents. It will be eleven men against eleven men. It is true, Cameroon lost to Brazil in 1994, but I was part of the team which defeated Brazil at the Confederations Cup, and I scored a great goal to Dida in the 88th minute. And then we beat them again at the Olympics. It tells you that football is not an exact science.

It is going to be difficult, for sure, but in football everything is possible. I have a lot of respect for all those great players, but I am not afraid. We will have our chances, and we need to take them.

The FRSC in Ogun  said three persons were killed while three others sustained injuries in an accident that occurred on the Papa-Ilaro road  on Wednesday.
The FRSC Unit Commander in Ogun, Mr Fatai Bakare, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sango-Ota, Ogun,   that the accident occurred at about 5.45 a.m.
Bakare said the accident involved an articulated vehicle with registration number XB 641 BBR belonging to Dangote Group and a Volkswagen bus.
He said the occupants of the bus were family members and friends  heading to Lagos State from Ilaro.
Bakare, who  attributed the cause of the auto crash to over-speeding and careless driving, said  the driver of the articulated vehicle lost control and  collided with the bus.
He said that three of the occupants in the bus who were male died instantly while three others were injured.
“ The corpses of the victims had been deposited at the morgue of the General Hospital in Ifo while the injured persons are also receiving treatment at the hospital,’’  he said.

IMO State Police Command has arrested its personnel for extorting money from motorists on the highway.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, came on the heels of raging complaints from motorists over the level of extortion being experienced in the state since the command reintroduced stop and search operation.
“The command has received a number of complaints from motorists that the stop and search operation had turned to extortion centres. I must also confirm that the special team set up by the Commissioner of Police to monitor what our men do on the road, arrested some policemen for varying offences,” Enwerem said.
While noting that those picked up by the CP’s special team were currently explaining their acts to the Command, the PPRO also appealed to motorists to report all acts of extortion to his office for commensurate action.
“The rules governing stop and search operations are very clear and any policeman who goes out to do what he likes on the road is definitely on his own,” Enwerem warned.
Some motorists who spoke to us in Owerri, expressed serious concern that most of the policemen on the roads were no longer interested in truly finding out the identities of the passengers or the goods being ferried by vehicles.
Their anger boiled over as soldiers who station themselves close to Capitol Hotel, along Owerri-Okigwe highway, have joined the team of extortionists on Imo roads.
 Investigations also revealed that at the World Bank Housing Estate, Owerri, the policemen extort money from motorists who avoid the bad spots close to Ideal Hotel roundabout.

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, has sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, three Indian nationals, over their involvement in illegal oil theft on the waterways of Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The three convicts are Sahleh Kumar Singh, (Captain of the vessel), Chadrashekar Sharma and Ajay Bhatiya, owner of the vessel MT Akshay, still at large.
The convicts were arrested by men of the Nigerian Navy aboard a ship MT Akshay formerly known as Wine Trader owned by Krishna Shipping Inc, Mainstream Charlestown Nevis and operated by Veesham Shipping Inc., a tanker crew of 10 Indians and two Nigerians and 157,822 litres of product suspected to be stolen crude oil.
The tanker was also alleged not to have been listed in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Tanker Nomination Schedule and did not have Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Bunkering Permit nor the Joint Task Force, JFT, Operation Pulo Shield certificate of registration for vessels engaged in the movement of crude oil.
The convicted Indians, who were among 12 suspected oil thieves, including eight other Indians, one Ghanaian and a Nigerian arrested aboard MT Akshay were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
According to EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr.Wilson Uwajeren, the Indian nationals were arraigned on a two-count charge on January 22, 2013 before Justice Lambo Akanbi.
Justice Akanbi, in his judgment, found the first two accused persons alongside the owner of the vessel (who is still at large) guilty on count one which borders on conspiracy, and convicted them accordingly.
The other accused persons Dharmaraj Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Nimesh Kodi Parambil, Ashraf Ali, Sanjeev Kumar, Sarbjot Singh, Arvind Kumar Bhardwaj, Gagan Kumar, Dele Johnson Olayemi and Benneth Egbegi, were discharged and acquitted on the two counts preferred against them by the EFCC.
However, the court was silent on the vessel, and it’s content.

LOKOJA —Six women were, yesterday, arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court over their alleged involvement in the kidnap of two children of Kogi State House of Assembly Speaker, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal.
The accused persons include Bilikis Lawal, Raliat Musa, Rabiyat Mohammed, Zainab Ismaila, Aminat Ibrahim and Nafisat Abdullahi.
They were charged with criminal conspiracy and kidnapping contrary to Section 97 of the Penal Code Law and Sections 3(a) and 7(a) of the Kogi State Kidnapping, Thuggery and other Related Offences (Prohibition) Law 2010.
The prosecution led by Mohammed Abaji told the court that a gang of four persons armed with sophisticated weapons invaded the residence of the Speaker on April 15, 2014, and kidnapped two of his sons, Hafiz
Lawal, 3, and Ogirima Lawal, 6. The two children are yet to be recovered.
He said the abductors forcefully took the children away in their mother’s car, a dark-blue Toyota Yaris with number plate, Lagos AKD 224 AY, and latter demanded N200 million ransom for the release of the children using the hand set and telephone number of the first accused, Mrs Bilikisu Wahab.
He further said investigation carried out by security agencies led to the arrest of five other suspects, even as some other suspects were still at large.
Lead counsel to the accused persons, Miss Safiya Abdullahi, orally applied for bail of her clients but Abaji opposed the application, asking the court to take cognizance of the severity of the offence.
In her ruling, the Chief Magistrate, Alhassan Hussain refused to grant the accused persons bail, saying: “These offences are by no means weighty, pandemic and on a steady rise of late. I refuse this application and it is hereby refused.”
Hussain, therefore, ordered that the accused be remanded in the Department of State Services, DSS, detention facility in Lokoja and adjourned the case to June 4.

The abs on this lady will definitely make you look again, guys! 2 times former 'African Women Footballer of the Year' 27 year old Cynthia Uwak was born in Akwa Ibom State and she currently plays for PK-35 Vantaa in the Women's League in Finland. She's been flaunting her abs on the internet and it's something you just have to see!


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We has learnt that soldiers from the newly formed 7th Division of the Nigerian Army today mutinied in their barracks against Major General Abubakar Mohammed, their General Officer Commanding. Two soldiers who spoke to our correspondent revealed that numerous soldiers shot sporadically into the air at Maimalari Barracks, which is also home to the Artillery Corps, the Ordinance, as well as army signals in Maiduguri.   

The 7th Division was formed only recently as a unit devoted to fighting the war against Boko Haram. General Mohammed was appointed as the GOC in February 2014.

One of the sources revealed that the situation was extremely tense, adding that the GOC escaped by the whiskers as the mutiny by angry soldiers could have degenerated into a personal attack on him.
 
Our sources said the soldiers became enraged when they saw the bodies of their colleagues ambushed by Boko Haram terrorists in Chibok, a town in Borno State that has spurred global protests over the abductions of schoolgirls by members of the extremist Islamist sect.

The restive soldiers complained that their superior have not provided them with adequate weaponry with which to fight the war against the better-armed Boko Haram militants.

“We the soldiers don’t have the kind of arms and ammunition that [Boko Haram] fighters have. So everyday, they kill our men anyhow, but it is never published in the media,” said one source. The other source also complained that the commanding officers “are too busy ‘eating’ money. And they do not pay our allowances on time. And once [a soldier dies], nobody knows what happens to his allowances again.”

The two soldiers also disclosed that the mutinying soldiers were fed up that their military commanders have not devised a troop rotation system to ensure that those in combat can get some rest before being redeployed to continue the bloody and frustrating war with Boko Haram insurgents.
 
Residents who live near the barracks also told our local correspondent that they heard the sound of sporadic exchange of gunfire. “We thought that may be Boko Haram was attacking and the army was trying to push them back,” one resident said.

We could not immediately confirm the whereabouts of the GOC or reports of injuries in the barracks.

Recently, KCEE denied ever being married to his estranged wife Ijeoma Cynthia Okonkwo (nee Oduah),  The pop singer claimed that photos published on wedding photo-website, namywedding.com were taken from a movie he acted in alongside Ijeoma in 2010. Going by the singer’s explanation, the ‘movie’ features his parents, brothers and sisters along with a host of celebrities including Iyanya, Mercy Johnson, Ejike Asiegbu, Nonso Diobi, Mike Ezuruonye, Mr Ibu, Chidenu ‘Aki’ Ikedezie, Emeka Enyiocha, Mr Raw and his former band mate Presh. What a cast! Sadly, KCEE says he’s forgotten the name of the movie… we would have loved to order a copy from our vendor.


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Late Funmi Martins’ daughter, Mide has reunited with her husband, popular Nolly wood actor and producer, Afeez Owo.
Recall that the celebrity couple parted ways over alleged infidelity months ago.
Report says Afeez had always been suspicious of his wife’s movement and whenever he confronted her, her responses weren’t pleasing to his ear, hence the separation.
Another report claimed that the couple settled their differences amicably and are back together for the “sake of their kids”.

About 108 riverine communities in Ilaje local government area of Ondo State have sent a “save our soul” petition to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Management Agency (NMAMA) over the activities of Shell Petroleum Development Company in their areas.

The communities alleged that they have been battling with strange ailments since Bonga Oil spillage, owned by Shell occurred in December 2011, on one of the oil facilities located off-shore of five Niger Delta states, which Ondo was among.

This was contained in the petition signed by its Chairman, Prince Kumoye Fadiya, Vice-Chairman, Ilurimi Orimisan and Secretary, Sehinde Akinbami, which a copy was made available to DailyPost in Akure, the Ondo State capital today.
They lamented that despite the assurance from the Oil Company that the oil spillage would cause no harm on the residents, their people are now dying on a daily basis.

The petition reads, “It is part of the admission of Shell that, her Company deployed ships and air plane to spray dispersant on the oil spilled with a view to sinking the oil into the bottom of the sea.

“Though Shell claimed that the spill did not get to the shoreline of the coastal villages, but we want to state that dispersants and other chemicals used were sprayed on dispensed from the plane before the chemical gets to the oil on the sea which dispersant were carried by air, which no doubt, affected the vegetation and people living along to coastal villages.

“We are by this petition informing your agency/office that after the said spill and the attempted remedial measure put in place to sink the said spilled oil, strange ailments and other diseases have surfaced in the coastal communities which are strange to us. This strange ailment is prevalent among children to the effect that when they fall sick. It becomes very difficult and impossible for the Health Centres in the villages to treat them and are, therefore, referred to Specialist or General Hospital, several kilometres away at either Igbokoda or Okitipupa.

“The most unfortunate thing is that most of these children died before getting to the Hospital and the lucky ones among them, when tested suddenly develop shortage of blood, cough and other ailments which are strange to us.

“We have been hearing from media report of communities in Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa, protesting and making representatives to the House of Representatives over the Bong Oil spill but in our own case, we have reported to Ondo State Ministry of Environment but nobody seem to listen to us”

The communities are demanding for compensation from the Oil company and relief materials for their people.

Popular Actress and former lawmaker, Dino Melaye’s baby mama, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe, has denied the viral reports claiming she runs an adult store in which sex toys and related accessories are sold.

Addressing us on Tuesday, the Actress said “I don’t run any sex shop and I do not know where that report is emanating from. However, I am about to open a lingerie shop for men, women and children. A section of the shop will stock sex toys for sale in the Magodo area of Lagos on Sunday.”

Explaining why she chose to delve into such a controversial line of business, she said “The demand for sex toys is high, especially around Magodo. More so, women have started paying special attention to their bodies and this has prompted my decision to take this route. I need to earn a daily income and I intend to sell the toys wholesale and not to retailers.


“The sex toys are not exposed in the open. So customers have no reason to be ashamed or afraid to make purchases. The toys are kept in a remote section of my store. Their privacy is protected and many people who are interested in these toys want to remain unnamed which I respect a lot.” she explained.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday said that 250 prisoners in Kaduna and Ikoyi Prisons in Lagos would sit for the test and over 616,000 candidates would sit for the 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Computer-Based Test (CBT).
A statement in Lagos by the board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, said that arrangements had been concluded for the smooth conduct of the examination, scheduled for May 17 to May 31.
According to the statement, the CBT is to hold in over 163 centres in Nigeria and abroad.
It urged candidates to prepare for the examination, noting that the CBT was the best platform for candidates to articulate their educational pursuits.
The statement said that the CBT mode would reduce result black-out or incomplete results, examination malpractices and also enhance prompt release of scores.
It advised candidates to reprint their e-slips in the event they missed or misplaced their schedules.
The statement said that the board would commence full-blown CBT in 2015 UTME, adding that the exercise would help to sanitise the education sector.
The CBT, which was introduced in 2012, had its maiden edition in 2013.

Mother of young African entertainer, Oziomachukwu Favour Mojekwu, popularly known as Ozzy Bosco Wonderkid, Chief Elizabeth Nonye Mojekwu, in a recent interview, said her son, while growing up, could dance to the sound of an airplane.

According to Mojekwu, she noticed the talent in her son at three months, but did not ascertain its magnitude.

She added that they noticed that there was something special about him when it comes to dancing and singing. “Then, when an aeroplane passes, while in the sitting room relaxing, he (Ozzy Bosco) would start dancing to the sound of the airplane. If you dropped something on the floor, he would begin to follow the sound pattern of the object. We noticed the ‘swag.’”

Ozzy Bosco has featured the likes of Terry G, Lambogini, Olamide, Flavour Nabania, M.I, Tee Mac and Midnight Crew.

The wonderkid has won 16 awards so far, and recently, he was given a chieftancy title called ‘Omenawata Igbo.’

Ozzy Bosco, at seven, has done 128 properly recorded awesome stage performances; and this does not include all the minor entertainment events he has done for friends and schoolmates on their birthdays. As a result of this, the kid singer is on the verge of putting his name in the Guinness Book of World Records as a child who is a part-time entertainer, and has done 12 performances in two years and four months.