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We are waiting for the DNA test.

[size=15pt]Mystery as Nigerian couple gives birth to white baby in UK[/size]

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Ben & Angela Ihegboro with baby Nmachi

LONDON—A BLACKcouple, Ben and Angela Ihegboro, has amazed genetics experts, as their newly born baby, Nmanchi, is a white, blue-eyed blonde. The couple, of Woolwich, south London, have two other children: four-year-old, Chisom, and sister, Dumebi, 2. According to a report in the Sun of London, Ben, 44, a railway customer services adviser, said: he and his wife just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages – not saying anything.parents with newborn Nmachi with other children; Dumebi and Chisom He said: “In“The first thing I said was ‘What the flip?’, he recalled. Ben added later that: “Of course, she’s mine. My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”
Nmachi, whose name means “Beauty of God” in Nigerian parlance, was born at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, where doctors there told them she is not an albino.


Ben, who went to Britain with Angela five years ago and works with South Eastern trains said: “She doesn’t look like an albino child anyway – not like the ones I’ve seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby.” He went on: “My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine.” Angela, 35, declared that Nmachi’s colour doesn’t matter. “She’s a miracle baby. But still, what on earth happened here?  However, the child has baffled the genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela has any mixed-race family history. We don’t know of any white ancestry. We wondered if it was a genetic twist. But even then, what’s with the long curly blonde hair?”
DNA test to verify paternity Chisom, the couple’s four-year-old son, was quoted as remarking: “We are a black family. Suddenly we have a white sister.” Ben also noted “We are baffled too and want to know what happened, but we understand life is very strange.”


It was not immediately made clear whether or not a DNA test was done to verify her paternity.  Often described as a “fingerprint,” DNA is more comparable to a “body print” inclusive of internal workings and future traits and is often almost 100 percent exact. However, Prof. Bryan Sykes, Head of Human Genetics at Oxford University and Britain’s leading expert, called the birth “extraordinary” He said: “In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child – and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents. This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing.” Sykes said both parents would have needed “some form of white ancestry” for a pale version of their genes to be passed on. He added: “The hair is extremely unusual.
Even many blonde children don’t have blonde hair like this at birth.” The expert said some unknown mutation was the most likely explanation. “The rules of genetics are complex and we still don’t understand what happens in many cases.” Genetic mutation Other experts, however, propose that some form of unknown racial or genetic mutation was the most likely explanation for Nmachi’s colour.


A genetic expert, Dr. Rick Kittles who runs a  genetic tracing company, African Ancestry Inc., described “race” as white or black, and more of a social concept than a real biological concept.” In his words: “Race is based on two things: skin colour and ancestry. You can’t really (see) somebody’s ancestry, but you can tell their skin colour.” According to him, while physical features are determined by a small number of genes, genes do not determine race specifically. Kittles feels strongly that race and ethnicity are separate. He argues that genes determining physical features do not determine internal makeup or predisposition to certain diseases. Kittles who had always been interested in genetics in African populations started working on collecting data many years ago and his from studies determined that three out of 10 African men had European genetic heritages. Up to 85 percent of Kittles’ African Ancestry’s clients are an exact match with ethnic groups in the database. The other 15 percent are closely related.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/07/20/mystery-as-nigerian-couple-give-birth-to-white-baby-in-uk/

Wow! this is an eye opener.

All Igbo on the forum should shut up and bury their head in shame, your royal fathers are criminals

[size=15pt]Shame ! Shame !Shame! on Igbo royal fathers . Ewu[/size]

Igbo traditional rulers are doing the kidnapping, they should all be sent to jail

Those Yoruba Journalists are criminals too

This is absolutely pathetic, nothing Igbo people wont do for money. Can you imagine Traditional rulers, not one , not two , three , four , five ( I have only five fingers) involved in kidnapping. Wonder shall never end. If Igbo traditional rulers can descend so low and be involved in kidnapping, then Igbo society has lost it conscience and become morally bankrupt. All igbos on the forum should bury there head in shame.
Tufiakwa


fu mkpisi aka ruta mmanu, o zue mkpisi aka nile

[size=15pt]Monarch Sacked As Journalists Are Freed[/size]

•‘How N5,000 recharge cards saved us •‘We thought we were going to die’
By Our Correspondents, 07.19.2010
Kidnap Saga

Following the ongoing crackdown on those behind kidnappings in  Abia, particularly the recent kidnap of four journalists in the area, the state government has come down hard on traditional rulers alleged to be involved in abductions and other criminal activities.

Yesterday, the government arrested the traditional ruler of Amauba-Ime Oboro Autonomous Community in Ikwuano Local Government Area of the state, Eze Vincent Okezie Uche, who is said to have already been charged to court “for sponsoring kidnapping and armed robbery.”
A special announcement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Theodore Orji, Mr. Kingsley Emereuwa, said the royal father was also dethroned.

The government also suspended three traditional rulers namely Eze Okechukwu Atulobi of Osusu Abala Autonomous Community, Eze Nwabiaraije Eneogwe of Abayi Autonomous Community and Eze S. Onwukwe of Abala Ibeme Autonomous Comm-unity, all in Obingwa Local government of the state.
The four journalists and their driver kidnapped by gunmen in the state regained their freedom early yesterday after one week in captivity.

The journalists, abducted on their way from the National Executive Council (INEC) meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, at Obi Ngwa in Abia State, are Chairman of the Lagos State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Wahab Oba, Secretary of Zone G Adolphus Okoronkwo, Acting Secretary of Lagos NUJ Sylva Okereke, Lagos-based journalist Sola Oyeyipo and their driver Azeez Abdulrauf.

Oba relived their experience in the hand of the abductors, saying they saw death coming.
Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan has commended the police on the release of the journalists but called for the arrest of all the kidnappers “by all means possible.”

The Abia State government said the decision to suspend the three royal fathers followed security reports of their involvement in sponsoring kidnapping and armed robbery in the state, for which they are currently under investigation.
The government assured the entire citizenry that it “will not stop at anything to eradicate the shameful menace of kidnapping and armed robbery in the state as any person/s suspected to be behind this ugly vocation, no matter how highly placed will be summarily dealt with.”

idiot

By virtue of the way Nigeria is structured, the Nigeria president is one of the most powerful president in the world. He controls everything and everybody. The national assembly is just a rubber stamp assembly , while state governors are mere puppets. No state can survive on its own, therefore the governors rush to Abuja every month to lobby for handouts, that's were the presidency exert its power.

No sitting Nigerian president has ever lost an election, and if Jonathan decide to run, his likely to follow the normal convention. Its not the northern Governors who decide Nigerian election, its INEC. OBJ 8 years shows how powerful the president can be, virtually OBJ does whatever he likes.

If the supreme court can validate Yaradua's election; which both INEC and Yaradua said the election was flawed: therefore, if Jonathan decide to run, his home and dry.

Nigeria police 'routinely kill, rape and torture'

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By Caroline Duffield
BBC News, Lagos
The study details cases of extrajudicial killings and sexual abuse
Nigeria's police force carry out extrajudicial killings, torture in custody, and sexual assault against women, according to a study by a civil liberties group.

The report claims that police openly parade suspects for the media, before executing them without trial.

The Open Society Justice Initiative's study is the latest of a number of reports to severely criticise Nigeria's police for brutality and corruption.

The authorities have so far made no comment on the report.

'Fringe benefit'
The group observed officers and suspects at 400 different police stations over two years.

They say Nigeria's police, in effect, get away with murder.

"Police in Nigeria commit extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, and extortion with relative impunity," the report says.

"Nigeria Police Force personnel routinely carry out summary executions of persons accused or suspected of crime.


"[The police] rely on torture as a principal means of investigation; commit rape of both sexes, with a particular focus on sex workers; and engage in extortion at nearly every opportunity."

The study details cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

It also describes prostitutes being arrested and raped.

One policeman is quoted saying: "This is one of the fringe benefits attached to night patrol."

Sex workers on the streets of Lagos told the BBC that the group's report was accurate.

"They pick us, some of them beat us, they will go to third mainland bridge, they will beat us, rape us, They will make love with us without a condom," said one sex worker.

"Sometimes they will search us and steal our money, and then drop us and run away."

Other sex workers describe being attacked by men in police uniform - who appear to come from outside their local area.

There are also accounts of women being forced to use sex to barter their way out of police custody.

In a country where bribes guarantee safety, those who cannot pay are at high risk.

A culture of police impunity is widely criticised - officers are almost never prosecuted for violent crimes.

Several panels on police reform have been set up in recent years and they have made detailed recommendations for improvement, but little has changed.

A review of the Police Act began in 2004, but the draft bill has been pending since 2006.

Nowadays, the police use a slogan to try to soften their image: "Police is your friend."

But few Nigerians believe it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10124812.stm

All have sin and come short of glory of God

[size=15pt]Nigeria police stations are torture chambers[/size],
says report

FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010 00:00 BY FRANCIS OBINOR NEWS - NATIONAL
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WHENEVER any Nigeria policeman mention “bush meat or rams” in a police station, he is referring to suspects marked for extra-judicial killing, a report has said.
The report jointly produced by the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative and the Network of Police Reform in Nigeria also described police stations in the country as “torture chambers.”
It accused the Nigeria police of routinely carrying out extra-judicial killings of suspects, torture or rape while in detention.
The report added that the pattern emerging from the study “is that the police are more likely to commit crimes than prevent them.”
International rights bodies have consistently accused the Nigeria police of killing and abusing suspects with impunity. But Police authorities have rejected the claims.
President Goodluck Jonathan has however said the police must be given “new impetus to perform their duties, even while respecting human rights of Nigerians.”
According to the report released on Wednesday, which was made available to The Guardian, the police, it said “routinely carry out summary executions of persons accused or suspected of crime and rely on torture as the main method of investigation with every major police station equipped with a “torture chamber.”
The report titled “Criminal force: torture, abuse and extra-judicial killings by the Nigeria Police Force' said rape of arrested females, especially sex workers, has become customary in what one policeman said were “fringe benefits attached to night patrol.”
Also, some female former detainees reported having pepper applied to their genitals while being held by police.
According to the report, establishing numbers of suspects executed is “a hopeless task” as “there are simply too many, scattered over too large a geographic area.”
The report said “hundreds of Nigerians are murdered each year” by the police, stressing that people accused of armed robbery stand a higher chance of being executed while in police custody while those marked for extra-judicial execution are dubbed “rams” or “bush meat.”
Police “commit summary executions, participate in large scale killings and undertake mass burials in shallow graves,” it added.
It continued: “It's almost as if suspected armed robbers in Nigeria are exempted from the constitutional guarantees of life and due process, including the presumption of innocence.
“Beatings, clubbing of soles of the feet, burning of suspects with hot irons or cigarettes, banging their heads against walls and tearing off finger nails are just some of the torture methods regularly applied, the report said.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/

Thank God for the good news

[size=15pt]Nigerian students in UK varsities are exceptional’
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By Motunrayo Aboderin
Tuesday, 18 May 2010


The International officer, University of Wales, Newport, Mr. Glynn James, has said that Nigerian students in the institution have put Nigeria on a positive platform with their brilliance.


James said Nigerian students perform exceptionally well in the UK, and that the university in particular does not have problems with the Nigerian students.


While presenting a scholarship award to one of the winners of the university’s essay competition at the British Council, James added that the university was proud to have an excellent partnership with Nigeria.


The undergraduate, Oluwatosin Ilesanmi, received a 50 per cent reduction in tuition for her foundational year and a subsequent 50 per cent reduction per annum till she completes her degree.


During the event, University of Keele also awarded the 2nd winner of the essay competition, Tolulope Olumoyin a 50 per cent reduction in tuition to undergo a pre- master‘s programme in Information Technology at the university.


The Regional Manager, Study Group, Mrs. Yetunde Pereira, said that both candidates had to pass through a rigorous screening test by a group of consultants before they were chosen. ”The applicants which were 200 in total had to write an essay of about 1,200 words titled, “Why I would like to study in Britain”. Apart from the essay, there were also a series of interviews conducted on each applicant. We wanted to really know that whoever won the competition deserved to win.


”The main purpose of the scholarship is to prepare them to go into the corporate environment.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201005180105282

@ poster
You are right, most Yoruba films are nothing more than a cheap advert for babalawo, Thanks to Yoruba movies producers, babalawo would always be in business

Say the truth, and let the devil be ashame

My brother dont be shock, when Yaradua and Jonathan were picked, some people too were shocked.
This is Nigeria , always expect the unexpected

Some bunch of Igbos are confused and hallucinating from acute hangover as a result of Biafran war. They talk about biafra in present tense, existing only in Utopia. They blame others for their problems , while the true enemy is within.

Ojukwu taught the Igbos the art of deception: that its okay to betray your people and be a leader. At the last minute when he was needed most , he ran away.

No Igbo man is prepared to sacrifice his life for his people.

They lack the inner spirit and self fortitude and pay the ultimate sacrifice for a course. You hardly find Igbos in Nigeria at the forefront of progressive struggle, rather they always align with reactionary forces.

Wake up to reality, Ojukwu killed biafra a long time ago.

[size=15pt]What Prophets Said About Yar’Adua[/size]

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Written by Ebenezer Adurokiya
The death of President Umaru Yar’Adua on Wednesday might not have come as a surprise, given the fact that many prognostications about his eventual demise had flooded news-stands several times before now.

Yar’Adua had not come into the eye of the storm until he became the president of Nigeria in 2007, amid fears that he might not survive his first tenure as a result of the terminal disease he was believed to be suffering from.

Predictions about Yar’Adua’s death could be said to have two dimensions. While some implied he would not die come what may, others believed that his death was a matter of time as he was only living on borrowed time.

On his own part, Primate Theophilus Olabayo of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh based in Maryland, Lagos, confidently noted that Yar"Adua, the man who was then making frantic efforts to worm himself into the hearts of many Nigerians, considering the controversy that shrouded his presidency, had no later than June or July of 2008 to leave the presidential stool for a God's own replacement.

When Yar'dua had to tarry more than usual in Germany, there were fears in the air as to whether the man would come back or not. The president was back that year but died 22 months and six days after, against the prediction of Olabayo.

Nigerians from all walks of life had been admonished right from the outset of Yar’Adua’s ascension to the presidency by respected men of God to pray for the then president. One of such was Pastor E.A. Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church of God who, in his prophecy for Nigeria in January 2008, just barely a year after the president’s assumption of office, strongly enjoined members of the church and, indeed, all Nigerians to pray for President Yar’Adua. Before the end of that year, the president had been in and out of both German and Saudi hospitals in search of medical explanation and solution to his health.

Whether Nigerians prayed or not, one fact remained that things never went well for the frail-looking president.

In his prophecy for the nation in 2009, Adeboye, yet again, gave another marching order that Nigerians should intensify prayers for the president. In his usual economy of words, the man of God did not actually lay bare what his crystal ball was showing to Nigerians; he simply said,” intensify prayers for the president.” To the discerning minds and followers of his manner of presentation, Adeboye often prefers to speak in parables. For instance, in June 1998 National Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp, just before sharing the grace, in his characteristic manner, the man of God asked the faithful to greet themselves “Happy New Year” in mid-year. And as people were still wondering what it meant, the then maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha, who was holding the nation by the jugular, suddenly slumped and died three days after the event.

Warning over Yar’Adua’s death did not abate from the General Overseer of RCCG in 2009 as he specially asked the faithful to fast and pray for seven days, not only for Nigeria, but for the ailing president. In fact, all the church ministers were asked to go on a dry fast for five days which was obeyed.

Little wonder when President Yar’Adua was ferried out to Saudi Arabia in November last year and there was panic over the uncertainty of his health, Adeboye, during the Holy Ghost Congress last December, frowned at why Nigerians were taken aback over the deteriorating health situation of the president having refused to hearken to God’s warning that the ailing president should be interceded for in prayers.

The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Pastor Temitope Joshua, during the Sunday service of 29th November, though did not predict Yar’Adua’s death, called on members of his church to pray for him vigorously. He charged them to pray for the body and soul of the president the following Thursday and fast for him on Friday, adding that “I have nothing more to say than that.”

However, founder of Inri Evangelical Church and president, Inri Widows Foundation, Lagos, Primate Elijah Ayodele, had a contrary prophecy concerning Yar’Adua.

The cleric, who is noted for blaring his predictions to all with no restriction, early on December 2009, said: “God in His infinite mercies has had compassion on the president and reversed his death, just as he did to King Hezekiah of old in the Bible.”

He said Yar’Adua would not die as God had looked into the petitions of Nigerians and answered their prayers for taking it upon themselves to seek the Lord’s face on behalf of the president.

Explaining why God decided to revert the death of the president, Ayodele added: “Besides, God reversed Yar’Adua’s death because his death would cause military coup and would take the country backwards. That is one big reason the Lord decided to reverse his death.”

He added that “God would make Yar’Adua to bounce back and function effectively as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Several other predictions were made even by politicians and other religious stakeholders who kept encouraging Nigerians to keep faith in the possibility of the return of Yar’Adua.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/1007-what-prophets-said-about-yaradua.html

mai suya

''Daddy, how come I can't find Biafra on the map? Is it a country, town, village?''

Its in the memory of some people who are hallucinating, specsaver cant help you.

Eziachi

There was an Odua son that contested as an independent candidate in Erith/Thamesmead,. A nice chap, he did sought my help because I knew him when he worked in my NHS attached hospital as a physiologist graduate from a Bulgarian University. I told him not to run as an MP but to run in future as a councillor in the Greenwich council, he has more chance, but he was confidence enough ignore my advise, but I heard he got only 400+ votes. If he wins, I will identify him as an Odua son and be chuffed for him altogether, that is my way.

Your prolong service for the NHS must have affected your ability to distinguish reality from dream, probably a virus that eat deep into the victim memory is the cause. Wake up, this is the new millennium, we are not in the late sisties.

Not now, he has always been a Biafran, his father just like myself, arrived Britain as Biafra refugees without Nigerian passport, never had one and so does our offsprings.

Biafra is a dream, lot of your folks have woke up to reality of Nigeria. Its like you are still dreaming . Even your coward Ojukwu , has woke up to reality and since contested for Nigerian president

So a Biafran son of Igbo extraction won the election

You are confused just like your self proclaim leader Ojukwu, who constantly hold nocturnal meetings with massob and turn around to back IBB for president. You cant eat your cake and have it. A Nigerian of Igbo extraction won

Why do you think that the occupiers of Biafra locked up Ralph Uwazuruike and many other for months and years without charge?

Uwazuruike is a fraudulent lawyer who align himself with that bald headed coward called Ojukwu to corner the security vote of eastern state. Massob is just a project design to siphon monthly allocations of eastern states.  The guy should be locked up, is a criminal

Dr Hale should relocate to Nigeria and become a pastor, his prediction was perfect.
Shame on all the magomago primate.

Lets call a spade a spade, the guy is a failure. Apart from the amnesty for the oil militant, nothing else. None of the 7 point agenda was achieved, nor close to being achieved

By Dec 2009, the external reserves was empty and Nigeria was back in debt. The bank reform embark by Sanusi was damaging the economy, banks were not giving credits, and more companies relocate abroad. Everybody was doing what he likes , with Turai in total control, it was a shamble.