That guy is ugly and looks like someone with multiple demons inside him. His tatoos are awful and his dreads is dreadful. Dats what alcohol does. Beverly, u mess up o.

Thank God for her.

Too bad. Means NDLEA can detain people and force them to purge even when its unnecessary and get away with it.

dddaaayyyooo: What of a child Born with Blackberry on his Hand, what will Yoruba Call him? Please tell me I Beg of U

Aberry.

My experience in the hands of kidnappers – victim

April 26, 2013 | 8:15 pm
Special Report

By Ayo Onikoyi
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 started like any other day for Alero Collins, a single career woman of 28 years old. She woke up in the morning around 6am and headed to her place of work in Victoria Island from her humble abode in Oworonshoki.

At work, nothing was out of place, it was just another working day, one she begins around 8am in the morning to usually 8pm in the evening. As a housekeeper in a posh hotel, everyday life isn’t about much excitement, more often than not, the day is usually dreary room calls of cleaning.



Perhaps, if she had known what laid ahead in store for her that fateful Wednesday she would have elected to skip the day and have it off even if it means losing the day’s pay which amounts to paltry one thousand naira only.

Her monthly salary is just thirty thousand naira and going by the fact that she works thirty days a month, apart from one day off she gets on weekly basis, her daily wage comes to a thousand naira per day. In fact, Alero decided to take that job to support herself because she has nobody to support her. Her parents have long been dead. Her older siblings could hardly support themselves and family, let alone adding another mouth to feed. How she could turn out to be a target for kidnappers is a question Alero has been asking herself.

After the close of work on that fateful Wednesday at around 8pm in the night she made for Ahmadu Bello Way to get a bus to Obalende where she would then join another bus to take her to Oworonshoki but on getting to the nearest bus stop on Ahmadu Bello Way close to Tiamiyu Savage Street she met a long line of commuters waiting at the bus stop. This, according to her made her called her Boyfriend, John, who also works close to her office to come and pick her with his car. John responded pronto, to pick her in his Camry car, and as lovers usually do, he did not drive off directly out of the island they made for Musa Yar’’Adua street where they parked to have a gist.

“In less than thirty minutes two guys came out of nowhere and surrounded us. One came to my side and the other went to John’s side. They asked us to come down and go to the back of the car and when I tried to challenge them they both produced one gun each and bundled me and John to the floor of the back seat. The moment we entered the back seat another one joined them and took the wheel of the car. One stayed in the front with the driver and one sat at the back with his gun over our heads. Then I heard them shouting to somebody to move. I later learned it was their own car and it was following us.

As they started driving they immediately asked for our phones. I gave them my Blackberry phone and they asked for my password and I gave it to them. We kept driving for sometime and I think they stopped somewhere at a Filling Station to buy fuel and went on again. The one at the back with us kept threatening us that he would blow off our heads if we tried to raise our heads or hands as John was trying to. At a point he banged the gun on his head, warning him he would shoot him and throw him out of the car

Suddenly, they stopped again and the car skidded like they were trying to overtake somebody. One in the front got out and I heard gunshots. Moment later, another victim was brought in to join us. He was a middle-aged man who later told me he was coming from his office in Ikeja with his driver when they rounded them up. He said the driver got away while they picked him. He was picked around Maryland. While me and John remained on the floor of the car’s back seat the man was allowed to seat at the back but then another man joined us at the back, making it two men who now flanked the man, and they asked the man to close his eyes or they would kill him” she narrated.

Alero said they drove on for a very long time. Even though she could not make out where they were at any point in time she felt they passed many checkpoints and she was sure they stopped again to buy fuel on two or three more occasions. According to her, the car eventually stopped at a spot too dark to recognise or described and it was at that point they decided to blindfold them.

“ For me, they didn’t blindfold me. One of them only used his hands to cover my face and asked me not to open them. For John and the other man, they tore off John’s shirt and used it to blindfold them. They took the belt of my high-waist skirt to tie them. Then, they took us into what looked like a room. The moment my body touched the wall of the room I knew we were in an uncompleted building because the wall wasn’t even plastered. Later that night one of them brought a cloth to tie around my eyes” she said

All along, while they were driving them to their hideout Alero’s mind was in a turmoil because she didn’t know whether they have been abducted by ritualists or kidnappers. She could not fathom why, all she knew and felt was a cold sickening feeling building up inside her. A cold feeling of fear that soon developed into fever and morbid fear. But she was not to wait too long before she got the verdict of their abductors and when she did she knew she was in a very serious trouble.

According to her, she said one of them came back to the room and announced point blank to them that they have been kidnapped and that they would collect 30 million naira ransom on their heads each. She said he told them to think of who to call to come and pay the money or they would all be killed.

“I knew I have nobody who could even raise one hundred thousand in my family and I told them I have nobody who could raise such money. The man who I later recognise as their leader told me it was a simple thing, that what they would do is to sell me in spare parts. He said they have specialists who would come and cut out my liver, my kidney, my heart and other parts and they would send it to Malaysia for sale.

Then another one came in again and told the leader he found the picture of a woman who married a White man on my phone. The leader asked me to give them her number whether she would bail me out. When they called her they said she didn’t respond positively and they started beating me with chains. They also asked the other two, John and the man to call somebody who could come and pay their ransoms. When John suggested he could raise two hundred thousand naira for them they beat him mercilessly, saying did he think they risked their lives for two hundred thousand naira” she said.

They were left alone that night to think up names that could come to their rescue. Alero said sleep could not come because they were bound and gagged. The room in which they were kept was in pitch darkness. All her thoughts that they were being held in some lonely spot in a faraway bush were soon discounted when she heard the dawn call-to-prayer from a mosque. As she was not aware of time that gave her the idea of the time. Later, she said she heard noises of school children, playing and shouting somewhere not too far off. At the same time she heard someone hawking palm oil. All along the noises of vehicles zooming by was always in the background to give an impression they were held in a booming community not too far away from an express road.

“ To confirm my suspicion that we were in a populated area, some guys called on them that morning, saying they were Omo Onile (landowners) that the guys who held us should settle them. They were speaking in Yoruba, saying ‘Omo Igbo ma gbe yen wa’. We were hearing what they were saying from where we were until they took them away from within our earshot

After they took the Yoruba boys who came to collect their entitlement away they came back to us and asked if we had made up our minds. Later, which would be around two because the mosque caller had called again, they asked us to make up our minds who would die first and they started beating us again. It was at this point the man with us asked them to call his wife. When they called his wife while beating the man in the background for the wife to hear the woman eventually agreed to raise N1.5 million naira and they agreed to have the money dropped at an AP Filling Station. They told her if she brings anybody or police they would kill her husband.

It was after the deal was struck with the man’s wife that one of them attempted to rape me by taking me into another room. He was just about undressing me when the ‘Capo’, the leader of the gang, as they called him came in and got really mad. He asked me if he had already raped me and I told him he was about to but he didn’t believe me. He said they have a covenant not to rape their victims that he felt something has spoilt in their charms that was why he came in. He then started abusing me that we, women are evil and bad, that his man raped me and I didn’t want to tell him. All along, the man stood by the side and the only thing I could hear him saying was ‘’Apia Capo’’

By the evening of that Thursday when some of them have gone to pick the money some of them stayed with us with the one accused of raping me. When it was very dark and they hadn’t returned one of them asked the man to give him his wife number and he called her to make sure the money has been dropped. Then he told the man not to tell others when they returned that he too had called the wife. The one who tried to rape then told me not worry that they would release all of us as soon as they have the N1.5 million naira.

They later returned and we could hear them from another location in the building how they were haggling and arguing over the money. The leader then came and asked us for the first time what we wanted to eat. He said we should name anything we wanted. They were already drinking and John asked for a bottle of Star beer and cigarette. Again, I noticed the beer they brought was very chilled.

They released us late Friday night and took us in another car. Though I could only identified them by their voices I realised the people that picked us were different from the people that took us away to be released. They drove us to a bush and left us there. It was from there that we found our way. They had already given us N500 naira each for transport. As we came out of the bush we notice a church with light not far away from us and we trekked to the church.

The name of the church was ‘Celestial Church of Christ, Solution Ground. We found some people there and we told them of our predicament. From them we learnt we were in Epe and they took us to the opposite side of the road where we took a bus to Ajah. Then it was early morning. From Ajah everybody went their separate ways.

Me and John incidented the case at Bar Beach Police Station. John was particularly worried because of his car even after the gang has assured him he would find his car. The police took up the case and asked us to come back next day. However, I could not make it because immediately I got home I fell very ill and since then I have not been to the Police Station and I have not heard from the Police either”.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/my-experience-in-the-hands-of-kidnappers-victim/

Guy, the questions you asked are absolutely unnecessary. You sound like a smart dude. Relocation is not a joke no matter the direction (home to abroad or abroad back home). You know exactly what to do. Come home alone, get your business or work going. By the time you stay around for six months, I am very sure u ll make up your mind even b4 6 months elapse.

Nigeria is actually better than 13 yrs ago. It depends on which part you fall. For those living in the north, gboko haram has made it worse than 13 yrs ago, for those in govt qtrs, those in the oil and gas sector and those that work out oil subsidy, now is better than 13 yrs ago. So bro, the ball is in your court, decide for yourself.

yuzedo: Yes it is true. My letter reads thus:

Dear Polycarp Sweetus Jnr,

Congrats on this appointment as the Oga at the middle of NIMC. Your salary is N1,000,000,000 a month, and you are entitled to 6-month leave, twice a year.

You also have one official Prado jeep from Gov. Akpabio and a sports-car from David Mark. Official duplex (with sweet calabar housegeh, big brezz, big nyash, slim waist, ice-cream thighs) and can resume whenever you feel like.

If you accept the terms of this offer, please sign here and here. Thank you for choosing our organisation.

Signed, Topmost OGA of NIMC.

Should i accept? I already have job somewhere with these conditions except sweet housegeh. Pls advice.

Renew your mind bro.

Reference: For the umpteenth time I say, Nigeria does not and cannot have a viable airline industry. Whatever you see flying is not and cannot be legit business but the plaything of billionaire rogues and their government and foreign collaborators. Our economy cannot support viable aviation the way it currently runs.

Aero can no longer support itself and its operations. This became obvious 3-4 years ago. The easy way out for them which was proposed was to explore the option of meger with other airlines. But trust 9ja business, the won't even consider that option. Let see how they ll manage it. I think NCAA should step up supervision and monitoring of AERO operations to avoid short cuts to aircraft maintenance.

Habaaa.. The thing dey news na. AIT dey show am each time a winner emerges. I beg talk the thing u know.

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- The magistrate appointed to decide whether Oscar Pistorius will receive bail said Friday that he sees "improbabilities" in both the state and defense cases, but he found no evidence that the Olympic sprinter accused of killing his girlfriend is a flight risk.

Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair has not yet delivered his decision on Pistorius' request to get out of jail after nearly two hours discussing the background of the case and South African law.

The four-day bail hearing is nearing its end and has been remarkable for not only its length but its allegations of miscues by a lead police investigator who himself faces attempted murder charges.

Read more: What's life like in a South African prison?

Pistorius is accused of premeditated murder in the February 14 shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp, 29. Authorities and Pistorius' team agree that he killed Steenkamp, but Pistorius says he mistook her for an intruder.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the judge in final arguments before a packed Pretoria courtroom that Pistorius doesn't deserve bail.

"He must realize that long-term imprisonment is almost guaranteed. He might think he'll be acquitted."

The prosecution had several notable missteps during the bail hearing, including the removal of the lead investigator, who had earlier acknowledged under questioning from defense attorney Barry Roux that police could have contaminated the crime scene and had failed to properly catalog evidence.

The South African Police Service pulled the investigator, Hilton Botha, from the case Thursday after prosecutors reinstated seven counts of attempted murder charges against him. Botha is accused of opening fire on a minibus full of people while allegedly drunk in 2011.

Read more: Nike's bullet ad with Pistorius backfires

Prosecutors allege that Pistorius, 26, killed his girlfriend after a heated argument in the early morning hours of Valentine's Day.

The sprinter, however, says he thought an intruder was hiding in a toilet room inside the bathroom of his Pretoria home. He says he fired into the room in a fit of terror before realizing Steenkamp was inside.

In full: Pistorius' affidavit to court

Prosecution plea

Nair questioned Nel over the prosecution's assertion that Pistorius was a flight risk.

What kind of life would he lead if he were to flee? the judge asked.

A life of freedom, the prosecutor said.

Ducking and diving every day with those prosthesis? Nair asked.

A life not in prison, Nel said.

The prosecutor implored the judge to deny Pistorius' bail request, saying courts cannot favor the famous or the disabled.

"We all know that a lot of important people were granted bail and they stayed in the country," Nel told the magistrate. "But lots of very important people have escaped."



Covering the Oscar Pistorius case

Pistorius back in court; investigator out

Judge, not jury, decides Pistorius case

Take a virtual look at Pistorius' defense Nel pointed to the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex assault allegations.

Assange's face was well-known, the prosecutor said, but "it didn't stop him fleeing arrest."

Roux said the track star needs regular medical treatment for his stumps and his prostheses require routine maintenance.

"Mr. Pistorius cannot go unnoticed through an airport due to his legs," he told the judge.

Pistorius, eyes red, appeared emotional and drained.

At one point, he sat with his eyes closed and shoulders shaking as tears rolled down his face. At other times, he stared straight ahead.

In arguments wrapping up during Thursday's session, the prosecutor said Pistorius' defense team has failed to explain why investigators found two cell phones and the gun believed to have been used in the shooting in front of the shower.

That goes to the prosecution claim that Steenkamp didn't merely get up to relieve herself in the middle of the night, but in fact had locked herself in the bathroom with her cell phone to protect herself from Pistorius.

Earlier in the hearing, Nel argued that evidence showed Pistorius intentionally targeted Steenkamp. Ballistic evidence showed he had to aim at the toilet to hit her, Nel said, and how the bullets traveled through the door suggested he was standing on his prosthetic legs, not his stumps as he claimed.

Pistorius said in his statement that when he shot through the door, he was feeling vulnerable to an intruder because he was not wearing his legs and had limited mobility.

Defense argument

During the bail hearing, being held in a dark, stuffy Pretoria courtroom, Roux hammered away at the credibility of Botha and the entire police investigation. He argued Thursday that the state's case had suffered a "monumental collapse."

He said police had missed a bullet where Steenkamp was shot and may have contaminated the crime scene by failing to wear protective foot covers.



Pistorius' friend: Oscar is innocent

Friend: Reeva was a very happy person Botha said investigators didn't wear the booties because they'd run out.

Under questioning from Roux, Botha said police didn't have evidence to specifically contradict Pistorius' story.

Then, Botha was gone.

Officials in the case learned Thursday of the charges against Botha, and the South African Police Service moved quickly to take him off the investigation.

While police Commissioner Riah Phiyega praised Botha's work on the case, she removed him in favor of the department's most senior detective.

Accusations against the investigator would be little more than a "speed bump" in the Pistorius case, Bulelwa Makeke, the spokeswoman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, said before Botha was removed.

"Blade Runner"

Pistorius made history last year as the first disabled athlete to compete in the able-bodied London Games. A few weeks after the Olympics, he smashed a record to win the men's 400-meter in the 2012 Paralympic Games.

When Pistorius was 11 months old, his legs were amputated below the knees because he was missing the fibulae.

He runs on special carbon fiber blades, earning the nickname "Blade Runner."

The case has roiled South Africa, where Pistorius is considered a national hero.

Following his arrest on Valentine's Day, Pistorius put his career on hold and pulled out of future races. Sponsors Nike and Oakley suspended their contracts with the runner.

SOURCE:http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/22/world/africa/south-africa-pistorius-case/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Cool, but......

Sprumbaba: Apart from estate fees., there are estate rules that you must abide with. No twin duplex, no BQ for 450sqm , low fence. I think 500,000 naira for electricity connection fee, and so on. Notwithstanding. I have been considering Beechwood and This estate in Arepo. Will surely buy one.

Big Boy

kemifemi: @ mod,
I don't know why you decided to hide my post.
I am not saying the Lawyer is a scammer, I just think people should know the facts, terms and conditions before investing. But since u don hide am, no problem.
FYI, I have worked with that company before so I know what am saying.

If u like hide this one again, na u sabi.

I agree with you. Can we have the estimate of service charge to be paid monthly. Some estates in lekki pay as high as 750k per annum.

This deal is a good one for that axis, however, what these guys won't tell you is the service charge you will pay in perpetuity once you move to the estate. I will appreciate if thhe can give us an estimate of the monthly service charge..

I hope those girls won't inherit this.

it can work. as long as it gets to the desired reader.

It is well with Lagos state.

She is just there. Nothing serious.

Obafemi Martins is dating Mario Balotelli's elder sister, Abigail Barwuash and Mario is said not to be particularly happy about their relationship. But in a recent interview with Goal.com, Obafemi dismissed insinuations that Mario was not happy that he's dating Abigail
“Mario is my boy. The respect is there because I used to play at Inter, in the youth team with him.

He’s giving me my respect and I’m doing same. People are putting it in the news that he’s upset, of course he’s glad.
“He’s glad that Obafemi Martins is dating his sister. But if he gets jealous then it means he doesn’t want his sister to grow. But it’s not like that. The boy is not a bad boy.
He also said he and Abigail haven't discussed marriage yet.
“The relationship is true but getting married or not, we haven’t discussed anything like that. She’s upstairs and we’re happy together.
Abigail, 24, told the The Sun in an interview in April that she couldn’t date a footballer: “Mario wouldn’t let me anyway. He knows only too well what they are like. They are surrounded by women. Girls throw themselves at them.”

Source:http://lindaikeji..com/2012/12/mario-balotelli-is-glad-that-i-am.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&m=1

Too too bad. It is well with them.

Okiki_Oluwa: What? £205million. Football is now mad money.
Who's gonna buy Cristiano Ronaldo for €1billion?

Who else. The Russians of course.

An unnamed Russian club triggered Lionel Messi's automatic release clause with a staggering €250m (£205m) bid for the Barcelona star, a report claims.

..Spanish sports daily El Mundo Deportivo reports that the club agreed to pay more than double the world record transfer fee, and offered the Argentine a €30m (£24.6m) annual pay packet after tax.

Once that sum was offered Barcelona were contractually obliged to accept it - but from that point it was up to the player whether he was interested in leaving the club.

The bid came during Messi's recent contract negotiations with Barcelona.

However, the 25-year-old rejected the move and signed a two-year extension with Barça that ties him to the Camp Nou until 2018.

Although the club was not named it is likely to have been Anzhi Makachkala, who are owned by billionaire Suleyman Kerimov.

In 2011 Anzhi signed former Barça striker Samuel Eto'o, making him the highest-paid player in world football.

El Mundo Deportivo said Messi rejected the Russian move because of his desire to continue winning titles at Barcelona.

He scored a record 91 goals in 2012 and is expected to win his fourth consecutive Ballon d'Or.

Neither is Messi short of cash - in March it was revealed he earns £27m per year, topping up his £13m salary with sponsorships and endorsements.

Every player in Spanish football must have a minimum fee release clause in their contract. Cristiano Ronaldo's is the highest, standing at €1bn (£800m)

Source:http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/la-liga-russian-side-offered-205m-messi-101522470.html

ademlabi:
750k for Golf 4, 1.3m for 03/04 Corollaa, 1.1m for 2000 Camry.


You got mail.

How much can I get a golf 3 (automatic gear, factory fitted a/c) with correct Naija customs paper for?

pinky21: I don't ve a car

Pele........

Lexusgs430: But one is specially formulated to care for clothing fabric, while the other is also formulated to care for cookery products and the other is also specially formulated to care for car paint works, metal etc etc etc
Why don't you use soap to brush your teeth? @ least they both lather!!!

I Love your analysis. Very logical.

pastormustwacc:
Now what in heaven does that mean? Pride? Is that a fruit of the holy spirit? Better give your life to christ so that you can be saved.

I agree with u. She has no clue why she is in the catholic church. She feels its a status thing. Remember her in your prayers I beg.

drumma:
america does not joke with their site updates.... Im just thinking there's no relevance to the early october thing they said. Whoever has not registered for 2014 just because of this 2013 pending thing should just forget it and make hay while the sun shines.... Nov 3 is fast approaching

I think that is the best. Moreso, no crime in registering even if you end up winning.

Adegokenath: GUYS MAKE SURE U RE-CHECK TOMORROW I THINK THE ARE YET TO UPDATE THE SITE

I just checked the dv website to see if i was selected. All i got was that i shuold check back in October 2012. I think the best is to get selected at the first draw in May. Let me go and register for the 2014 draws. So painful.

One thing has been achieved here. All those that read this now know about Oxygen and wande. Simple. But, I once met wande somewhere in a train in munich. He told me about his project exactly the way the poster narrated it. He is intelligent and strong willed. I believe youths can learn from him. His determination to succeed. You can imagine the persecusions he faced for dropping out of school in 1998 back then when he could not have imagined that he would start up. Let's drop the figures. Thumbs up wande.

ochallo:

so what are you going to do if they tell you they have a double engine failure? Shout innit?

Don't mind her. She is just ignorant of things around.

Josh316:

God bless you! its rare to see Nigerians like you that argue factually and not with sentiments. most of the airlines we crowd ourselves into have suffered more crashes than Dana and Nigerians still fly them. Many wont even know that Air France has even worse safety records regarding crashes than even Aero contractors... its a fact!

Don't compare air france to aero. They aint same in terms of flight operations and distance covereed.

Roland17: Sterling is giving us a run for our money ooo, this boy na hot wire oo

Am worried for Liverpool this season.