LAGOS—A 50-year-old grandmother escaped death by the whiskers yesterday, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, after she was attacked by a mob that thought she stole a day-old baby.
The woman, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, was reportedly seen cuddling the day-old-baby whom she wrapped in a cloth.
Some curious persons were said to have raised alarm that she kidnapped the baby which made the mob surround her.
She reportedly tried in vain to explain that the baby was her grand-child and that the mother was still recuperating in the hospital, as the mob descended on her.
An eyewitness, who identified herself as Ubani Amara, said: “When they asked her at first where she got the baby from, she ignored the question.
“That gave room for suspicion that she could have kidnapped the baby because of the spate of kidnappings in Lagos. Again, she looked  too old to give birth.
“A man among the crowd was the first to hit her, followed by slaps. That was when she said the baby belongs to her daughter. Nobody believed the claim because they expected to see the mother with her.
“The mob even tried to take the baby from her but the woman held tight to him, causing the baby to start bleeding from the cord.”
The swift  arrival of policemen from Ajegunle division saved the woman from being lynched.
Preliminary investigation, according to sources at the division, revealed that the child was indeed the woman’s grandchild.
Sources disclosed that the medical  doctor at an undisclosed private hospital around Aiyetoro where the grandmother claimed her child was, was  invited to ascertain the claim.
According to the source, “when the doctor arrived, he confirmed  that  the biological mother was still in the hospital, explaining she developed some complications after birth.  The doctor said she also could not Bosom  feed the baby and advised  the grandmother  to take the baby home in order to give him proper bath and water, while the mother was being treated.
“The doctor said the baby was delivered around 8.45 a.m. and that any attempt by his mother to Bosom  feed him could lead to her death because she has lost so much blood and was weak and pale.”

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested Osun state born 51 year old Odeyemi Ademola Ayodeji for being in possession of 3.870kg of suspected Methamphetamine worth over N2.4 million.

Odeyemi, who hid the illegal substance inside a white transparent polythene inside his luggage containing soup ingredients(crayfish, melon) was arrested during the outward screening of passengers on a Kenyan Airways flight at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport.

When he was arrested, Odeyemi said he was neck deep in debt which forced him to venture into this illegal business and said that he had tried it before
"I am owing people. I couldn’t sleep because of debts. I have two wives. But the first one left to live with her parents because of  my condition. I would have made a profit of $15,000 (N2.4 million) had I succeeded in selling the drug in Nairobi. I intended paying my debts and start a business with the money realized.” he said
Describing the illegal drug, NDLEA  Airport Commander, Hamza Umar said
“Methamphetamine often called ice or meth is a crystal-like powdered substance that sometimes comes in large rock-like chunks. It is odourless, bitter and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.”

A tale of history that needed reminding is how I would summarise  former U.S. ambassador Dan Simpson’s contribution on the tact to pursue in getting back the kidnapped Chibok girls.

The horrible drama of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, a violent Islamist group in northern Nigeria, hits me particularly hard because I lived in rural Nigeria for two years, as a just-out-of-college schoolteacher in the early 1960s, right after Nigerian independence from the United Kingdom, Dan narrated.

(He continued…) It was a different place. I drove all over the country in a Volkswagen beetle, finding a place to stay in each town where I stopped, with no advance reservations. There were always young British or American teachers in the schools. The reason was the precipitous departure of the British colonial officers at independence, leaving the Nigerians with insufficient teachers of their own, needing to fill the positions temporarily with foreigners.

There were a few schools like Chibok, where the girls were abducted, although at that point, particularly in the north of Nigeria, predominantly Muslim, there were many more boys’ schools than girls’ schools, reflecting the Nigerians’ priorities.

There were no military roadblocks. One saw no serious weapons at all, although men did hunt game with muskets, what people called “bush rifles.” For those who know Nigeria only more recently the idea of circulating freely and never feeling threatened is unknown.

But, to put the current situation into context, it is necessary to review some of Nigeria’s more violent history, before and after the time I was there.

First of all, get rid of any gooey ideas about the “civilizing” role of British colonial rule. It lasted from 1900 to 1960. To secure control over Nigeria, the British had to fight, particularly in the north, the military forces of what was left of a number of kingdoms. They were not that easy to defeat, although, in the end, local forces were no match for European troops and weaponry.

In the place where I taught, Benin City, the British had not been able to assert control until 1897,within the living memory of some of the Edo (Bini) people who lived and had ruled there, the remnants of the Benin Kingdom. British forces arrived in Benin to find human sacrifices hung on crosses along the road, to deter their entry. My household staff and the non-Edo-speaking students at the school were firmly persuaded that the Binis were night-raiding homicidal cannibals; they would not venture off campus at night.

The Bini king (the oba), Akenzua II, was an apparently mild-mannered man who wanted to review his sons’ report cards with me over a game of pool, although I also attended a tribute ceremony over which he presided during which various sub-chiefs brought him living animal sacrifices whose throats were cut on the spot and whose blood was then smeared on his forehead in a cross.

In the category of other intra-Nigerian violence, five years after independence came a military coup d’etat, and then, in 1967, a three-year civil war, the Biafra war of attempted secession, which claimed as many as 3 million victims. It was based not only on tribe, the Igbos against the rest, but also to some degree on religion. The Igbos were mostly Catholic, those opposing them were Protestant or Muslim for the most part. Forced conversion, as with the Chibok girls, is not new.

The Biafra war was ferocious, including blockades, attempts at starvation and scorched-earth practices. In the end, the Biafran secessionists, despite help from surprising sources, including the Catholic Church, lost. At that point, the Lagos-based victors got smart. They sought reconciliation with the former Biafrans, not revenge.

That particular action can serve as the best hope that Nigeria can somehow get past this awful Chibok kidnapping without dividing the country into unbridgeable north-south, Christian-Muslim schisms.

What happened to Nigeria between 1960 and 2014 to make the current situation possible? It could be equally fair to ask what has happened to the world in the past 50 years to make possible the Abu Ghraibs, Syrias, Ukraines, Sandy Hooks, Somalias and South Sudans?

One answer is the proliferation of guns. People now kill each other daily with weapons that were not generally available 50 years ago. The parents of my students in Benin in 1961 were farmers and fishermen, scmolesting together enough shillings to pay their sons’ school fees each term only with difficulty. Now, given the fact that the region is the oil-rich Niger River delta, many of them no doubt own automatic weapons. They steal oil from pipelines, at great danger to themselves. The fish have been killed by petroleum runoff. Nobody is going to try to make a living there these days through small farming.

A second answer, particularly relevant to Nigeria, is that respect for the authority of central and state governments has dropped steadily to near-zero. People still seek public offices because they provide golden opportunities to steal, but everyone knows that and respect for the offices and office-holders no longer exists. In other words, goodbye to self-imposed law and order.

On the one hand, ordinary Nigerians, particularly women, are incensed to the level of fury at the central government’s inaction in the face of the Chibok kidnappings. They find the flaccidity of President Goodluck Jonathan, a Southeastern Christian, enraging. They know the story of the Nigerian military, whose leaders pocket their $5 billion-per-year budget and which itself is divided between Muslims and Christians, Northerners and Southerners, but they don’t forgive them for the loss of their daughters.

The United States should help if it can. At the same time, there is among Nigerians a tendency to try to pass off problems to foreigners if they can, thus avoiding taking responsibility for solutions themselves. As much as we want to help — and we cannot do otherwise as human beings — Nigerians must accept responsibility for what is happening and take appropriate action, as they did during and after the Biafran war, for the Chibok girls’ fate. Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, is a Nigerian, just as Goodluck Jonathan is

A 22-year-old single mother, identified as Chinelo Ituma has been arrested by the police in Enugu State for allegedly trading off her new born baby.
We gathered that Chinelo, an indigene of Ebonyi State, residing at New Artisan Market Enugu sold the baby girl for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand naira.

In a statement issued by the spokesman of the Enugu State Police Command, Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, he said the command has “commenced a full scale investigation into the alleged incident of human trafficking/selling of baby.“The mother of the three months baby girl, a 22 year old woman identified as one Chinelo Ituma from Mgbo Town in Ebonyi State but residing at New Artisan Market Enugu, sold the child to one Maria Asomba from Ubahu Okija in Anambra State, who lives in Asaba”.

He added that “before then, one Esther Obi from Nise in Awka South, residing at woliwo in Onitsha had earlier collected the sum of four hundred and thirty thousand naira from one Nkechi Uzochukwu from Ezegbogu Aboh Mbaise as payment for the same baby”.

We learnt that Uzochukwu opted for buying a child after 10 years of childless marriage.

Amaraizu further stated that “the baby girl was eventually bought from Chinelo Ituma, who gave birth out of wedlock and who also claimed that she cannot handle the child’s upbringing.

“She eventually sold the baby girl to Maria, who resold the child to Nkechi Uzochukwu.


All the suspects are now helping the police in their investigations as the baby girl has also been recovered by the operatives.

Nigeria is ready to talk to Islamist militants Boko Haram for the release of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, a minister has told the BBC.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said on Monday that captured girls who have not converted to Islam can be swapped for jailed fighters.

Special Duties Minister Tanimu Turaki said that if Shekau was sincere, he should send representatives for talks.

The girls were abducted last month from a school in north-eastern Nigeria.

A video emerged on Monday showing about 130 of the girls reciting Koranic verses.

Mr Turaki - who is chairman of a committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to find ways of reconciling with Boko Haram - said that Mr Shekau should send people he trusts to meet the standing committee on reconciliation.

CNN this afternoon reports that not all the girls that were seen in the new video just released by the leader of Boko Haram sect, were all abducted from Chibok last month. According to them, no parents have come forward to claim any of the girls abducted from the school raid, but instead relatives have said they have identified their relations (girls) who have been missing for close to two years now.

Borno State Governor also says they are currently investigating the video to know how genuine it is.

Michael Jackson is long gone but he is being sued once again for segxwal molestation. So that you understand, since Jackson is dead, it is his Estate that the man is suing, for what he claims Michael Jackson did to him…
According to the man suing, the singer segxwally abused him from the time he was 10 until he was around 15 … this according to a new report.
This latest claim was added on to the lawsuit filed by Wade Robson last year, reports  The Daily Beast. The filing is sealed, but the site reports the claims are being made by James Safechuck, who appeared as a child alongside Jackson in the below 1987 commercial for Pepsi.
Though Safechuck has always denied being segxwally molested by Jackson, he has had a change of heart—let’s say so, and has decided to come forward after Robson made his claims public.

Wizkid and Tiwa Savage now have more reasons to smile.
The two Pespsi ambassadors have just had their endorsement deals with the global beverage company renewed for another 5 years.
Tiwa & Wiz signed on as Pepsi ambassadors two years ago. The multi million Naira deal was initially for a year, but got extended for another year last year (2013). Pepsi took a chance of signing Tiwa back when she hadn’t even released and album, making her the first female act to represent the global brand in Nigeria.
The deal was negotiated by Paul Okoye of Upfront & Personal and he revealed the news of the contract extension saying, “Best ambassadors by far. Another 5 years Deal for Pepsi. Amen Tiwa and wizzzzzzz.

An official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr. Saliu Mutiu, has been dismissed and arraigned before a Lagos court in western Nigeria, for allegedly receiving N1,000 bribe from a motorist.
The 34-year old Mutiu was arraigned before Oshodi Magistrates’ Court on a three-count charge of conspiracy to wit, impersonation  and extorting  money from motorists.
The Level 4 officer  was sacked after the LASTMA  management  received several reports about  Mutiu’s  illegal collection of bribes from motorists.
Subsequently, the management of LASTMA tried him and found him guilty and dismissed him from service.
After he was sacked, Mutiu continued extorting money from motorists.
He reportedly met his waterloo when he paraded himself as a LASTMA official and collected a bribe of N1,000 from a motorist, Muritala Hakeem, for committing an undisclosed traffic offence.
The matter was reported to the police attached to Mosafejo, Oshodi, and he was arrested while wearing LASTMA uniform.
 When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty.
The presiding Magistrate, Mr. A. A. Fashola granted him bail in the sum of 100,000 naira with two sureties in like sum.
He was remanded in Kirikiri Prison pending when he will meet his bail conditions.
The matter was adjourned till 16 July, 2014.

 Torch carrying popular 90s singer Zaaki Azzay has remarried two years after his first wife & mother of his three children, Hadiza Yadoo, left her marriage claiming domestic violence.

Zaaki quietly married his new wife, 24 year old Hembadoon Ugema  at the bride's family home in Ushongo in Makurdi, Benue state this past Saturday May 10th.

According to people in the know, Zaaki's new wife is kinda related to his ex-wife. Hembadoon's mum is married to Hadiza's father's younger brother (Hadiza's uncle) and this family drama forced the girl's family to suspend the wedding, which was supposed to hold in April, until it was resolved. Congrats to them

The pic above showing rapper Phyno and good friend Kcee talking closely at the MAMA nominees party in Lagos went viral yesterday. Fans went crazy with the photo saying that the two men were kissing but Phyno says its the camera angle. Come on, if they wanted to kiss, will it be in public?
check out Phyno's reaction to the picture below.....

Rochelle Bathew, 22, had never been happy with her natural 32B-sized frame, and, after Bosom feeding her two children, she hated herself even more - saying her 'saggy and lifeless' Bosom s made her 'depressed'.

So the mother-of-two told her fiance Ryan she would not walk down the aisle until he paid for her to have surgery.  She said:
 'I’d always hated my small "oranges", but after I had my two children, they were saggy and lifeless, they looked like a Cocker Spaniel’s ears. It made me feel depressed when I saw other girls with big "oranges", they always seemed happy and confident.
'Ryan turned to me one day and said, "if we’re going to get married soon then you’ll need to get a "orange" job." 'I knew he loved me as I was but equally he wanted to see me happy.' 'Ryan paid for my surgery, it was my wedding gift, they cost him £3950.  
He wanted me to look my best just as much as I did. In December 2013 my dream came true - I went from a deflated, uneven 32B to a 30FF.'
Eventually, the teacher handed over £4,000 for the full-time mother to increase her Bosom s to a 30FF.
That is the before and after picture above.

There are reports that a lion escaped from the Nekede Zoo in Owerri, the Imo State capital last night. The State's local radio station Orient FM made the broadcast. It is said the police command and the management of the zoo are doing their best to track down the lion as the public is also advised to be on the lookout and be safety conscious. A resident says she took her child to school only to be told no school cos of the lion's cage break

ENUGU—A Professor of Criminology, Femi Odekunle, has warned that the country may face widespread public disorder, chaos or a semblance of undeclared civil war if the forthcoming general election in the country lacks credibility and acceptability among Nigerians.
Odekunle, who was a guest lecturer at the ‘2014 Feast of Barracuda’ of the National Association of Seadogs (Pirates Confraternity) Enugu Zone, weekend took a critical look at the possible scenarios of the 2015 election from the most optimistic to the most pessimistic position.
He identified the major threats to the 2015 elections as lack of leadership ethos by the irresponsible political class, corruption before, during and after elections, partisanship of operatives of the electoral body among others, saying he envisaged a situation where elections do not hold at all.
He would not also rule out a situation where elections hold with minimal violence and/or rigging and qualifies as ‘relatively/grudgingly’ credible/acceptable election.
“There is also a possibility where elections hold but excludes the North Eastern states and therefore considered inconclusive but situation saved by some contraption designed by the so called elder statesmen,” he said.
According to the don, the most critical situation would be where elections hold but are actually or allegedly massively rigged resulting in post election violence on a scale that makes the 2011 violence a child’s play and/or resulting in blockage or sabotage of oil and gas facilities leading to widespread disorder or even a semblance of war.
Odekunle, who spoke on the topic ‘Security and Political Temperature of Nigeria: Implications for 2015 General Elections called for a committed presidential leadership with the political will to do what is right and for deliberate re-education of the political class, INEC, the police and other security agents on the importance of free, fair and credible elections to the survival of the polity.

A mother of an abducted Nigerian schoolgirl has identified her daughter in the video posted by Islamist rebels, Boko Haram, yesterday that showed dozens of girls in captivity, a school leader said on Tuesday.

Reuters reports that the mother watched the video on television on Monday evening and spotted her daughter among the girls sitting on the ground and wearing veils, said Dumoma Mpur, parent-teachers association chairman at Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria.

Yep!! Solange (Beyonce's sister deleted Beyoncé from her life when she cleaned up her Instagram account by deleting all Beyoncé's pictures save for the one above.

The United States was Monday flying “manned” missions over Nigeria to track down more than 200 abducted schoolgirls as experts pored over a new video seeking clues to where they are being held.
“We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government’s permission,” a senior administration official said, asking not to be named.
It was not immediately clear what kinds of aircraft were being deployed, nor where they had come from.
But a new video released by the Boko Haram group purportedly showing about 130 of the girls was being carefully studied by American experts in the hope it might yield vital clues as to where they are being held.
“Our intelligence experts are combing through every detail of the video for clues that might help ongoing efforts to secure the release of the girls,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said earlier Monday.
“We have no reason to question its authenticity,” she added of the video.
In the video, the Islamic militant group’s leader Abubakar Shekau said the girls may be released once Nigeria frees all the Boko Haram prisoners it has in custody.
But that proposal has been rejected by the Nigerian government, and Psaki recalled that the US policy is also “to deny kidnappers the benefits of their criminal acts, including ransoms or concessions.”
A 30-strong US team arrived on the ground last week in Nigeria to help growing efforts to find the girls aged between 16 to 18, snatched from their boarding school in the northeast of the country on April 14.
The White House said the team included five State Department officials, two strategic communications experts, a civilian security expert and a regional medical support officer.
Also on the manifest are 10 Defense Department planners already in Nigeria, seven extra military advisors from US Africa Command and four FBI officials expert in hostage negotiations.
“We are talking about helping the Nigerian government search an area that is roughly the size of New England,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, referring to the region in the US northeast.
“So this is no small task. But we are certainly bringing resources to bear in our effort to assist the government.”
Psaki stressed the Nigerian authorities were “in the lead” during the investigation.
The girls’ plight has triggered a storm of outrage across the United States, and First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday for the first time delivered her husband’s weekly address to the nation to say they were both “outraged and heartbroken” by the kidnapping.
“This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education — grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls,” she said.

Star Lager, popularly known as the people’s beer has announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind sports platform called Star Football. The unveiling event was held at BeerHugz Cafe, Ikeja yesterday Monday May 12 2014, it was witnessed by the crème of the entertainment and sports industry. Also, at the event, Football legends and ex-eagles captains, Kanu Nwankwo and Jay Jay Okocha were unveiled as ambassadors for Star Football.

A woman has given a new meaning to the phrase 'hair raising' thanks to her ability to hang from the ceiling by only her hair! Anastasia IV, real name Joanna Sawicka, is the only person in the UK to practice the ancient art of hair hanging and makes a living from her strong locks.

She even holds the Guinness world record for lifting the heaviest weight with her hair but needs 2 bottles a day of conditioner to keep her super-strong barnet in tip-top condition. Anastasia's hair is also insured for £1m - about N250million!

It is sad that some pastors are finding it hard to flee from temptation these days. As you read this, Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested Pastor Johnson Uneabunso of Truth and Salvation Ministry located in Iwollo, Enugu State for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 12-year-old girl.

This is according to a statement by the command’s public relations officer, Ebere Amaraizu who said the pastor is also a landlord in the area. He disclosed that the arrest of the cleric followed a...

Complaint by one Cynthia Odii of Anike Iwollo that the pastor who is her landlord had carnal knowledge of her daughter last week. He stated that the command had commenced investigation into the incident and the pastor had already given valuable information.

The police statement said: “Following an outcry and a complaint by a woman identified as one Cynthia Odii of Anike Iwollo in Ezeagu local government on the alleged incident of unlawful carnal knowledge of her 12-year-old girl on May 7, 2014 at about 8am by her landlord identified as Pastor Johnson Uneabunso of Truth and salvation Ministry. Full scale investigation has commenced with the state criminal and investigations department Enugu and the pastor is helping the police in their investigation.”