₦airaland Forum

Two wealthy Nigerians who battered a fellow student with a shisha pipe in an argument over who had the richest father have been spared jail.

Elvis Ilonze, 20, who has had his Mercedes car covered in fur, attacked his childhood friend Prince Nnaji in the flat they shared in Brighton, East Sussex.

Mr Nnaji tried to escape from the flat but Ilonze, along with his friend Daniel Oluyemi chased after him and beat him with a wine bottle on April 7 last year at about 10pm.

While inside the flat Louanna Rayawa, Mr Nnaji's girlfriend, tried to stop the attack, but was pushed to the ground by Elvis Ilonze.

The pair also assaulted law student Chiedozie Dibiagwu, 23, who was sitting on a chair nearby and witnessed Mr Nnaji being assaulted.

Nnaji and Ilonze had known each other from Nigeria, but when Nnaji dared to suggest that he had the richer father Ilonze decided to 'teach him a lesson'.

Ilonze and Oluyemi, 24, both pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning grevious bodily harm and were spared jail at the Old Bailey.

Ishilove:
Receiving. We are women and we both know the kind of activities that go on down there. I think it's unclean for anyone to stick his mouth down there and lap up things

Sunnymatey:
The pple here are not security conscious, hw can they allowed some1 dress like this unchecked b4 entering public places.

IamaNigerianGuy:
Let me offer another angle. Nigerians did what was necessary in 2015. We did our part, played our role, made the hard decisions and followed through. Buhari did not uphold his end of the bargain. It is the leaders that have failed the people.

GavelSlam:
Our foreign debt is always valued in the more stable currency of dollars, the currency in which it was incurred.

I don't expect you to know that being a blockhead.
The total debt was 63 billion dollars.

You and Jonathan are thieves.

grandstar:
Angola's economy has been badly managed from time immemorial especially with socialist spirit.

It was made was by the endemic corruption and looting by the previous government which had been in power for over 30years.

For such a badly run economy to have its currency just worsen past the naira in the depth of its exposes the depth of Buharis economic mismanagement. The Naira shouldn't have lost more than 30% of its value if the economy were left in the hands of experts.

Instead, he with his lamentable understanding of economics imposed economic hubris on the country throwing it into a recession, the first in about 30years.

niyisky:
So convenient to single out Angola. Why did you overlook Rusia who are next to Nigeria? Its their economy also badly managed? Truth is...Buhari met a battered economy and a dwindling oil fortune.

tetula123:
Mind you, I am not saying the girl wasn't harassed but with the rate at which ladies claim one form of abuse or the other when ever it involves men(which sometimes are lies) , I am always skeptical about stories like this.

olujastro:
I was hoping someone would reply you but no one did.
At the first bolded, yet no one can answer the question, why was our foreign reserve reducing instead of going up when oil prices were rocket high at over $100 under Jonathan, the looter-in-chief?
At the second bolded, you are equally being ignorant if not worse. It's called foreign reserves not local reserves, which means it's denominated in foreign currency (mainly USD) and not naira. Meaning the amount in the reserve has nothing to do with the prevailing exchange rate. Even if exchange rates go up, people adjust to the new rate and pass on the difference to the consumers which leads to inflation. People don't stop importing except the government doesn't give out fx anymore.
Like I said, your ignorance is far worse than the average Nigerian. Venezuela is down to its last $10b of foreign reserve and as a result its currency is almost useless with concurrent hyperinflation. Before 2014, $1 = 10 vef. Now $1 = 205,000 vef. Venezuelans have been running to neighbouring Colombia and other neighbours to avoid starvation because the government can no longer import basic foods and medicines since 2015.
Foreign investors do not bring foreign currency into a country that has low reserves because of fear that they can't repatriate their money when they want to.

PS: Nigeria would have been heading to a refuse dump of economic crisis like venezuela if Jonathan had continued beyond 2015 as he added nothing to us but looted virtually everything in sight. Those who know know. Buhari's emergence put a major halt against our then impending economic crisis that all economists (including Okonjo, Sanusi and Soludo) had been warning us about if oil prices crash.

June 9, 2013 1:32 pm by Benedict Mander in Caracas

Hyperinflation is looming in Venezuela, with prices suffering their highest monthly rise on record in May, while the economy slides into recession and the popularity of Nicolas Maduro, the new president, wanes.

Minister of Finance Chief FS Okotie-Eboh responded to charges of accumulation of wealth by government officers by quoting from the Bible, “To those that have, more shall be given. From those that do not have, shall be taken even the little they have.”

Irukkanews:
It is indeed, I wonder what evidence they have because it all looks like a set up

PAGAN9JA:
Useless country. I wish I was never born here.

Special Thanks to Nairaland as well for promoting animal killings on daily basis on fp.

A nation with people that reason like animals. Can't expect anything better.

Less than 40 elephants left in all Southern Nigeria. pitiful.

ysteph:
i honestly thought the story of the snake and the N36m was fake o.
So it is real?
This is a wake up call man....before this Country will collapse....!

Donpresh95:
What's wrong with Africa sef. The other foolish pastor or prophet proudly came out braggingly to tell us that he cursed her to death. Now another Fake friend is talking nonesense. Please have some sympathy for once at least for people in pain

ItsMeAboki:
This is the kind of crisis the Buhari administration has averted and saved us from experiencing but many here are too dumb and blinded with hatred to appreciate PMB's effort - makes me wonder how foolish and what they'd be saying now had GEJ's squandermanic and lootocratic continued in power.

Freetech:
Bad news for wailers whose anthem is recession. their hero is a PhD shoeless kainkain man from Otuoke without academic publication, their lord is unemployable hunchback halfcast and their mentir is every looter.

Don't quote me Please ease, just look for nearby transformer if rat poison is not available and end your life.