19 year old 400l Law student of University of Benin, Ceasar Augustus Ekeoba, died on May 6th. Doctors said he suffered from Cerebral Abscess which culminated in his death. Until his death, he was class representative, loved by lecturers and adored by students, this is according to his friends. They say Caesar had done UNIBEN Law Faculty proud in many competitions, a master of advocacy and an intellectual. He and some students had just returned from the US where they represented Nigeria at the Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington DC, before he died.
A procession was held for him yesterday at the University Campus. May his soul rest in peace, amen. Continue to see more photos...
Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh woke up this morning with broken heart, over the abducted girls in Borno state. The weeping actress stated, “Each day we wake up with a smile on our face n we mak a post “sayn Gud Mrng” tbh wats gud abt diz mrng wen 234 innocent galz ar been held 4 no reasonz iz goin to skol nw a crime in diz country 9ja??? Gosh frm January to may Nigeria haz lost ova 1000 people in d handz of boko haram Like our 1st lady said “Der is God o” #bringbackourgirls#bringbackourgirls #bringbackourgirls.”
Some of you may have seen this photo and similar ones on several online platforms, claiming its US troops capturing a Boko Haram member....erm, it's false. U.S Pentagon has stated there will be no American troops in Nigeria...at least for now. The team sent are experts to help with communications, logistics, and intelligence. The pic above going viral is French troops in Central African Republic in 2013.
Secondly, you can see in all the pics floating online, from the uniforms, the African soldiers taking notes from American forces are from Uganda and Somalia. Military aid has been in Africa for sometime under AFRICOM to help train our military.
Now to the second issue; are their foreign troops in Nigeria? There are reports this morning that the Special Forces of the US Marines have sited the abducted Chibok Girls in Sambisa Forest...this report is hard to believe because the Pentagon, the UK and France made it clear that they only providing intelligence service (intel & surveillance technology)..for now! so officially there are no foreign troops in Nigeria, except the foreign government is lying to the media about the kind of help they are providing and really sending troops.
The name Abubakar Shekau may sound unfamiliar to those who are new to Nigerian politics, but the head of Boko Haram has been a terrifying fixture in West Africa for nearly half a decade.
A shadowy figure, Shekau has a reputation for cheating death, escaping a mental asylum, and commanding a brutal insurrection against the government.
Shekau made headlines on Tuesday after a video emerged showing him railing against Christians and world leaders, while claiming responsibility for the abduction of more than 300 girls from a school in Northern Nigeria.
The video has given a face to the terrorist group that has become the focus of international outrage, and the target of governments seeking the safe return of the abducted girls.
Shekau took over the leadership of Boko Haram from its founder Mohammed Yusuf, a popular preacher who wanted to install an Islamist state in Nigeria’s northern side. In 2009, growing tensions between Boko Haram forces and Nigerian troops led to a brutal crackdown by the government in which over 1,000 people were killed. In the aftermath, Nigerian police reportedly carried out a series of extra-judicial killings. Mohammed Yusuf was reportedly still in handcuffs when he was shot.
The Emergence Of Shekau
As the Council on Foreign Relations notes, Yusuf’s death caused Boko Haram to splinter and further radicalize, and its members began to carry out a number of suicide bombings and assassinations. Authorities initially thought Shekau had been killed in the crackdown, but the militant soon started to reappear in videos posted on the web.
Around the time of Shekau’s apparent resurrection, Boko Haram began to expand its campaign of terror. No longer just targeting security forces in the north, the International Crisis Group explains, the group now also attacked “security forces, government officials and politicians, Christians, critical Muslim clerics, traditional leaders, the UN presence, bars and schools.”
The violent shift under Shekau, coupled with his Osama bin Laden-esque videos, gave the new leader a notorious and villainous presence, even while facts about the man himself remained sparse.
Little is known about Shekau, and the few details that have been reported have often been clouded by rumors. As Alex Preston notes in British GQ, Shekau is for example rumored to have escaped from a Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital some time in the late nineties. A 2013 BBC profile of Shekau notes that the militant has not been seen in public since his alleged death, while a Nigerian journalist familiar with Shekau claimed the leader hardly talks, though “he is fearless.”
Shekau has been speaking out in many videos released after attacks though, often cutting a swaggering, unhinged figure as he boasts of his exploits. It’s part of a persona that the BBC describes as “part-intellectual, part-gangster,” one that has led him to be “fondly called imam or leader by his followers.” Shekau has styled himself as something of a spiritual leader, one whose legitimacy as commander is also based on his piety. His nickname is reportedly “Darul Tawheed,” which the BBC translates to mean a specialist in a certain orthodox form of Islam.
As for specific biographical information, much remains opaque. The same profile reports that it’s believed Shekau was born in northeast Nigeria, though it’s unclear when, as “some say he is 35 or 36, others that he may be 44.” A basic map of Nigeria. Boko Haram is most active in the northeast.
How Much Power Does He Wield?
Shekau’s hidden location and isolated status has led analysts from ICG to believe that the chief probably has little daily control over cells. Echoing that analysis, the BBC reports that it appears Shekau does not communicate directly with the group’s foot soldiers but wields his power through a few select cell leaders. This type of networked structure, with few points of contact to the highest echelons, can be very hard to track down. It’s notably a similar structure to the one of al-Qaeda, to which Shekau and Boko Haram are believed to have loose ties.
According to a U.S. Homeland Security report from 2013, Shekau has been as quick to violently quell dissent from within Boko Haram as he is from outside the group. The document cites a captured spokesman who relayed a story of how under the command of Shekau, “several of our members who denounced the violent struggle were slaughtered in front of their wives and children.” Furthermore, as Hayes Brown reports in his excellent piece at Think Progress, some experts claim that the Nigerian government’s heavy handedness in combatting Boko Haram has had the opposite of the intended affect. Over the past few years the group has begun to operate with practical impunity in the country’s northern regions and Shekau has remained in power, despite the U.S. having placing a $7 million dollar bounty on Shekau’s head back in 2012.
Abubakar Shekau’s rising profile and new notoriety may be, as Think Progress notes, something that he has aimed for since his takeover of the group, but as the world increasingly demands action it may also be his undoing. PHOTOS: Sugar Mummy Begs Rough Guy Over Her Nud3 Pix
This is one of the more unusual tourist attractions we've seen — a house that was built completely upside down in Affoldern, Germany.
Reuters has photos of the house, which took six weeks to build and cost about 200,000 euros ($277,000 US). General view of the 'Crazy House' (pictured above), which is completely built upside-down, in the village of Affoldern near the Edersee lake, May 7, 2014.
Upside-down houses have been constructed all over the world — they can also been found in China, Russia, and Austria.
The inverted furnishings can be extremely disorienting.
Check out more photos below..
A car is seen through the living room window of the 'Crazy House.' Visitors walk in the bedroom inside the 'Crazy House.' Dutch tourists Rosanna (R) and Nova pose for a photograph inside the bedroom of the 'Crazy House.' General view of the bathroom inside the 'Crazy House.' Visitors walk past the fully equipped dining table inside the 'Crazy House.'
Most times, a prophet is not respected in his domain. A man who believed Soul E as a true Prophet called him and poured out his heart to him over his predicament. Prophet Soul E prayed for him, here is the result!
A 28-year old man, Nicholas Inyang, has been remanded in prison custody by an Oshodi Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, for allegedly battering his wife, Imaobong, over her denying him sex.
The suspect was arrested and charged to court with assault and negligence under the Criminal Code after the case was reported to the police at Makinde Division of the state.
Imaobong told the court that because she denied her husband sex, he assaulted her and she had to be taken for medical treatment in the hospital.
According to her, she and Nicholas have been living as husband and wife though they've not formalised the union which has produced two children. She said he had refused to pay her bride price rather he was planning to impregnate her again which she was not in support of.
She also claimed that Nicholas had stopped providing for the upkeep of the family.
Responding to her allegations, Nicholas said he'd not gone to pay her bride price because he couldn't afford it but he insisted she was his wife as they have been living together as a couple for many years, therefore she had no right to deny him sex.
Nicholas pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
Presiding over the matter, Magistrate, Mr A.A. Fashola, granted the suspect bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case till May 13.
He was, however, remanded in prison custody pending when he would fulfill his bail conditions.
Famous Nigerian singer, Eniola Akinbo, popularly known as Niyola, has likened President Goodluck Jonathan to the animal leader in the novel Animal Farm.
The EME Records singer made this comparison while expressing her displeasure with the leadership style of President Jonathan especially on his handling of the missing school girls in Chibok, Borno State.
The Love To Love You crooner, who is fondly called the first lady of EME Records, likens the situation in the country to George Orwell's legendary novel, Animal Farm. * Niyola slams President Jonathan on her twitter handle
A novel where animals, led by some pigs, chased away the human minders of the farm, took over the helms of affair and turned round to inflict untold hardship on other animals, killing some, maiming others and generally making life difficult for their subjects.
While tweeting on her Twitter handle, Niyola also describes the president as a Zoologist, blaming him for the troubles the country is going through presently.
Below is aquote of her tweets:
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Our problems are deeper and greater than we even imagine. At this point, we don't know who to trust! God help Nigeria
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"@OsaGz: Nigeria reminds me of 'Animal Farm' and we conveniently have a Zoologist as a leader."
Controversial ex-lawmaker, Dino Melaye who made headlines for beating his estranged wife, Tokunbo, as well threatening her with a gun is back in the news. The former Kogi State House of Reps member has joined those making 'fun' of the first lady, Patience Jonathan and her husband, President Jonathan. Dino took to his twitter handle to post a photo of himself rocking a T-shirt with the inscription, “There is God o !” as well as other comments made by the president himself during his recent media chat. The 'there is God o' went viral after the Patience broke down in tears during a meeting she summoned over the missing Chibok girls and Nigerians decided to put their sense of humour and creativity into play as they started making hilarious memes and T-shirts to mimic her speech.
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Otunba Dino Melaye @dino_melaye Deris God oooo 1:33 PM - 8 May 2014
2 people have been confirmed dead after a building under construction collapsed early this morning around 7 in Akure, Ondo State. Reports say the building which was to be used as a boarding house for a private school, came crumbling down as workers on the site arrived to begin the day's job. Two teenagers died in the incident while two others sustained injuries and have been rushed to the hospital for medical attention
Residents in the area say the area is a swampy one and it could be that the foundation of the building was not well done and this led to its collapse. Continue...
Speaking on the incident to Sahara Reporters, Ondo state Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Bade Omoloja said, "This is a total calamity due to the loss of life. This building had no approval to begin with because our men at the task force unit of the ministry have been here on two different occasions to stop work. Obviously, very poor quality of work was carried out at the site. There are so many building outside here that doesn't have approvals." he said
Men of the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Red Cross Society of Nigeria, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), State Security Services (SS) and other rescue agencies were all at the site to help with the rescue.
Cristiano Ronaldo and the super cute three-year-old were spotted in matching hats and shades as they watched the tennis at the Madrid Open on Thursday. There was no sign of Ronaldo's girlfriend Irina Shayk on the day, so the youngster got his father all to himself. Nice One!!!
Onoriode Esiri aka Dr Sid in an interview with Punch today to promote his new album revealed that the house he recently built and currently lives in was bought on mortgage and he is not ashamed to say it. He says its a N110million house and he pays his mortgage monthly "I put a mortgage payment plan in place, based on the savings I had made four years before I started a career in music. I am still paying for the house. And by the grace of God, I will get a second one soon. I pay close to N1m a month and sometimes, more. I am going to do this for the next 25 years and I am not ashamed to say it,” he said. Continue.. In the interview he praised Wande Coal for leaving Mavin Records but expressed his distatste at the habit of some artists leaving a record label and later talking bad about the label. "I am happy and honoured to be signed onto Mavin Records. I have a lot of respect for Wande Coal. He made a brave move and I wish him all the best. But I will not support anyone bad mouthing the label. With regards to Mavin Records deal, Don Jazzy has given me the opportunity to leave whenever I want to, but I won’t leave and start saying something else.” With his wedding taking place in July, Dr Sid talked about his fiancee, Simisola Osomo "She understands what she is getting into. My female fans respect me and I also feel my relationship inspires them in different ways. So I guess that from lust and attraction it has moved to admiration,”
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