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An 18-year-old girl, Chinyere Onorfue, was found in a hotel room in Benin City, capital of Edo state, dead

Chinyere who allegedly checked into the hotel, with one Emmanuel Ajayi, on 19 August, was discovered dead in the room at about 8 pm of the same date, with her throat slashed.

Investigations by operatives of the Edo state police command led to the arrest of Emmanuel Ajayi and another suspect who were allegedly found in the hotel room, with the girl’s mobile phone in their possession. They were paraded before journalists in Benin.

Also paraded by the state commissioner of police, Foluso Adebanjo, were 20 suspects who allegedly gang raped their victims at different locations in Benin.

Amongst them were Emmanuel Okoro, Lucky Ighodaro, Moses Israel and Osakpamwan Ameye, who allegedly dragged their 20-year-old victim (names withheld) into an uncompleted building at Evboutubu area of Benin at about 10 pm and gange-raped her.

In yet another incident, Sunday Erico andOsifo Okumabo along with four others now at large, allegedly forced their 17-year-old victim into the back of their compound where they serially raped her.

Mr. Adebanjo disclosed to journalists that 44 suspected criminals were arrested bythe police in the state over alleged involvement in various criminal activities in the past few weeks, 26 of whom were paraded.

The police commissioner further disclosed that 10 of the suspects were already being prosecuted, including one James Farmer who was alleged to have been part of a gang that kidnapped a politician in the state along Emaking Junction, Irrua, Edo state where they allegedly attacked two prison officers and shot one dead while they went away with their rifle.
He called on residents in the state to be very cautious as the yuletide draws near and report suspicious persons and activities to the police.

“The war against crime and criminality is being waged relentlessly here in Edo state and I want to let the members of the public know that this is the ember months and everybody has to be security conscious. This is the time criminals want to reap where they did not sow. The people must be security conscious, they should know their neighbourhood very well and promptly report suspicious movements.

“We will continue to do our best but we want to cooperation of members of the pubic because we can’t do it alone, we need the collaboration of everybody in Edo state to fight crime and criminality in the state. As you can see, there have not been any case of kidnapping in the past one week plus, we want to sustain and we can only do with the cooperation of the members of the public,” Adebanjo said.

He noted that the recent stakeholders meeting the command organised few days ago was already yielding results as “people are calling us, giving us information. It is always good to work with the public, the police is part of the public and the public is part of the police.”


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The crime rate in Edo State is getting out of hand, hope Comrade Governor will step up more and nip it in the bud asap.

My first encounter with 'Uncle Yinka' was 2002, when he anchored a TV show for one of the popular Breweries Company, it was a five aside football normally played in in LTV 8 studio. For you to qualify, you have to be 18 years and above, we were being given 300 Naira at the end of each show.

Then, I was not even up to 18 years, but I usually enter with 'ruggedy' kinda way and I'll pocket my 300 'box' at end of each lucky show I was not detected as an under age . The memory still linger on, he was a gentle man to the core (and that voice, na die ). I have so many fond memory of him as a football commentator and other news he anchored.

Continue to rest in peace sir.

How time flies, just like yesterday that we lost Uncle Yinka to the cold hand of death. Below is a tribute to him by his son.


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By Dr. Olamide Craig


23rd of September 2008. 9 am. I was in theatre assisting the caesarean section delivery of a patient at the National Hospital in Abuja when I heard the news. I always thought it paradoxical that I was helping to bring forth a life just at about the same time the life of the one who brought me forth was slipping away. The consultant informed me that I had a visitor and instructed me to scrub out. As I walked out of theatre into the hallway, still wearing my surgical mask I saw my Aunt. She didn’t have to say a word; I saw it in her eyes. My father had passed on.

Yinka Craig was a talker.

As far back as I can remember, people always seemed to want to hear him speak. And so whether it was his jocular football or boxing commentary, his humorous insights on ”Newsline’ and AM Express’ or his hard-line style of interview on Presidential media chats, Yinka Craig was the quintessential broadcaster.

I remember my siblings and I would huddle in front of our old Panasonic television on Sunday nights (the only time we were allowed to overstay our bed time) and watch him and Patrick Oke anchor Newsline. At that time, Newsline was a cultural adventure into the wonderfully diverse country that is Nigeria. He and his team would travel the length and breadth of the states to unearth fascinating stories of bravery and friendship and courage that inspired millions of families scattered across the nation. It didn’t matter who you were or where you were from; at 9 o’clock on Sundays you sat by your telly, or your neighbours’ telly and watched Yinka on Newsline!

I remember his coverage of the Argungu fishing festival in the late 80’s and how my adolescent eyes watched in fascination as literally hundreds of thousands of barely clothed men rushed into the muddy waters of the river to catch enormous fish with their bare hands. He was right there in the water too, trousers rolled up, microphone in hand, gesticulating in the direction of the action and running a commentary that painted vivid pictures of what transpired beneath those murky waters, giving a front seat view of one of Nigeria’s most spectacular events.

Such were the power of my father’s words.
Those who knew him spoke of him glowingly and one of the terms frequently used to describe him was ‘encyclopedic’. He read wide and had an insatiable hunger to know more, do more, and be more! He had his hands in many pies as well and somehow excelled at all. To name a few, he was an avid Aviator and had his own personal flight simulator, he was fascinated by Astronomy and knew as much about galaxies and constellations as an average college professor and he was also a prolific Musician and played the Piano, Guitar, Violin, Clarinet and Saxophone. It still puzzles me how one person could know so much detail about so many things. Nothing seemed beyond his grasp.

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Despite his very public persona however, Yinka was actually a very private person. As much as he loved to work an audience, he also enjoyed the closeness of small gatherings with friends and family and was known to entertain his guests with rambunctious jokes and impromptu guitar renditions. He was a loving father and a devoted husband and others have described him as a true friend, a supportive boss, a generous benefactor, and a detribalized Nigerian.

Yinka Craig was indeed a remarkable man.

Today, five years later, I remember a colossus who in my mind stands shoulder to shoulder with other screen legends as David Frost, David Attenborough and Larry King; I remember a man whose charisma, kindness, generosity, simplicity and intelligence were of great renown; I remember a broadcaster whose novel ideas created some of the best television our country has ever seen. Today I remember my father.

On behalf of my family, I would like to ask that you please join us as we remember Yinka Craig and look back at his life and his over thirty five years of broadcast excellence. How do you remember him? What were your favourite shows?
Do you remember any iconic moments from NTA Sports, Newsline, Morning Ride, Daybreak, AM Express, or the Presidential media chats? Do you have any pictures or videos to share? Please leave your comments and thoughts on the Yinka Craig facebook page or tweet at us with the hash tag #YinkaCraig.

Thank you very much for your support and God bless you
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David Olamide Craig is a Physician, Pastor, Photographer, Poet and Playwright. He graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Ibadan and holds a Masters in Occupational Health from the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham. He is passionate about healthy living and sustainable energy. When he is not seeing patients, Dr. Craig spends his time stretched out on his favourite couch, reading books, magazines, and blogs. Catch him on www.ijgb.com.ng and follow him on Twitter @RevDrCraig


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I thought he would have buried his head in shame by now, still spewing nonsense as usual.

Idi Amin: Why has this man continued to be a clown since he came out of prison Mr. Man, I'm eating here, and if pepper enter my throat, be ready to go back to your apartment in kiri kiri

Some people said you bought the aso ebi that your supporters wore to court during proceedings?

One, they brought Bode George to the enemy’s court, it’s like grabbing an Arab and taking him to an Israeli court – he’s dead on arrival. That was what they did but they forgot that this is my state. They created the political scenario. My wife too is a politician and there are some other women who would come. They had their natural dresses. If they claimed people wore ankara, so what? I would now go and organise it?

When the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo appeared in court, on the day of judgment, as young people, we trooped there. We wanted to see our Baba. It has been and it would always be. Didn’t you see Mandela trial? Would they ever be watching a political trial and believe that everybody would just stay home? So what was their headache? If the women were wearing ankara, did the ankara disturb the court proceedings? Is solidarity support now an offence? I don’t see the relationship.

Did you enjoy special privileges in prison?

What privileges? There are different blocks and I still feel sorry for those boys, the overcrowding. Those who are awaiting trial are more than the inmates. If they are able to hasten all these court processes, that will help all the boys. I commend the current Chief Judge of Lagos , the first thing she did when she was appointed was to decongest the prison because it’s inhuman. Where you should not have more than 30 persons, you have about 500. So, what are the privileges? Of course, the food there is very bad, they allow your family to bring food for you, but whoever brings the food will taste it. So what privileges?

What about prison uniform, did you wear one?

Prison uniform? Who wears them these days? At least there was code of ethics; you are not going to wear your Sunday dress there.

They have to clear all those cases awaiting trial; they are more- like 70 per cent. The prisons are filled with persons awaiting trial. Why? What is the gain? There is capacity for everything. If you’re overcrowded, there is problem, you start living like rats. Rather than a deliberate punishment, they can reform them. That is what prisons are supposed to be.

How did you explain your troubles to your family while it lasted?

My fear first of all was my mum and my sister did a marvellous job. Thank God my father is late; I don’t know how he would have taken it. But my mother is pretty old, about 90 years. I was always travelling so they told her that I had travelled, until the day before I was released, when they told her that I was coming back. Until she got to church and saw me; that was when my sister now told her. And you see, it’s not new in the family, she came from the Herbert Macaulay stock, and Papa Macaulay went to jail several times fighting for Nigeria. So she knew that once you’re in politics, these were the fallouts and so she understood. Then, she heard on the radio one day and the people were now quoting Baba (Obasanjo) to say we were celebrating criminality. And you know, when they translate that in Yoruba, it could be weightier. She called me and asked, is it true he said you’re a criminal? But I said no, Mummy, it’s not true. I asked her, am I a criminal? I heard that one journalist asked Baba about the fallout between me and him, they said Baba just lost his anger on him.

Whatever it is, I am here and I am home. And I pray that God will give me more good health and I’m going to put all my thoughts in my memoirs. This is for one major reason, that the up and coming Nigerians would read them and learn from the experience of the old people. I’m going to be 70 in another one and a half years. My mission now, having had this experience, having seen our people, is to mould them together, to forget about personal ambition. Let our nation be united for the cause of our people.

All this pettiness, in-fighting are absolutely unnecessary. If there had been no struggle or fight between Baba Awolowo and (Ladoke) Akintola, the South West would have gone far ahead today economically. That fight tore us to the ground. The petty fighting is gradually raging now in the South West PDP. The general one is not a problem.

Are you friends with Obasanjo now?

How can you say I and somebody older than me are friends? Baba will always be my Baba. Of course, I was angry and I’d tell you. I worked with him like a soldier should work with his boss; your loyalty should be more than 100 in minimum. I never asked for anything, never. That is the soldier in me, let it come from your boss, Baba is still alive, you can ask him. Just do your work.

And on the day when the zoning thing had been concluded and that it was going to the South East, we thought the zoning for the chairmanship of the party would come to the South West. When Baba said Bode was not going, that the chairmanship of the party was going to the South East, so be it, I said ‘as your lord pleases sir.’ I still went ahead and fought for Baba, defended him when people were going against him. When we were having the Board of Trustees Chairmanship thing, I was still the deputy national chairman, I stood my ground there that day, I said ‘no’, so what was it? But rumours, but I didn’t believe any rumours. Yes, we disagreed on certain things but it was not a fundamental thing. I knew Baba because Stella (his late wife) and I grew up together in Lagos , we were age group. My first wife, Feyi, at that time, we were very friendly with Baba. It was a reporter that came and said that Baba said this. We were planning to have a thank-you visit with 20 local government chairmen from Oni of Ife’s palace, greeting people and ending up in Baba’s house. When I heard it, I said, no, it’s not true. The reporter said he was waiting for my reaction. He brought a press statement. It hit me like a bullet. I turned my chair around, but I said you know, I don’t believe that Baba said it and if he said it, I’ve left him to God and his conscience. That was all I said. It wasn’t a fundamental thing, it was like, from my experience and age, I was abandoned. That’s how I felt, because I did not commit any crime.

So how is your relationship with Obasanjo now?

No problem. Like I said, in the interest of this nation, in the larger interest of the Yoruba people and in the interest of our party, I have swallowed my anger and my pride. Who am I? Yes you can be annoyed but no matter the annoyance, it must not last more than 24 hours. So I thought what was I angry for? Here I am; they pulled me up in spite of the efforts of those who wanted to sink me. The more gold spends time in the heat, the better the experience. All I know is, I will not steal government money because no matter how long, nemesis will catch up. If it doesn’t catch up now, it will catch up with your children. God will revisit it. I’m not a poor man and I’m not a rich man. I’m not a contractor and I don’t have the patience to go and sit in front of someone’s office waiting for contract. Amassing wealth, building mansions, go round Ikoyi here, all those tall buildings, nobody is inside. If they had set up businesses to employ or give scholarships to people to encourage them, those generations will continue to bless them.

How do you hope to rebuild your reputation?

I don’t believe I lost anything. The convoluted conspirators played their role but they didn’t hit me one second. From my background and my family background, it didn’t make a damn difference to me, I must tell you that. If you fall, get up and go and God said you will have obstacles. These jokers cannot pull me down.

I told you, when I came out, what they wanted to do was bury me alive. But the people said ‘no.’ They say ex-convict, fine, they say that. Anywhere you will invite men to come and talk, I will say my own and that they can’t take away from me. Even that is an added value because as a person who has gone to prison and come back, out there, you are on a higher pedestal. I see life better. The one who has seen the top of the mountain and been to the bottom of the valley is wiser. People seek you for support because they see you as a leader.

Would you compare Obasanjo’s government with that of President Jonathan?

Well, I didn’t serve in government, I was in the party and I can talk on both. At the time Baba came, the international community was getting tired of military administration, so Baba was a midwife to see this country is back on democratic tenets. We should be able to do this and achieve that and he was able to do that. They wrote for the forgiveness of our debt, that’s why we had enough money to do so many things. Nobody, no individual can finish every job. No nation finishes the job. The roads were bad, education, health, everywhere was bad, etc, where were we? Obasanjo came up and said look, we have to get back. By the end of 2002 to 2003 for the second term, this same crisis started. Because Baba said he would face the management of the polity and the international communities to bring it up because of his international connection and that Atiku should face the politicians, then 22 governors came up and looked Baba in the eye and said, baba you’re not marketable. I’m not joking, I was there. I looked at them and thought, what,this is an insult. That was the beginning of the crisis. That was worse than this. Time that should have been spent to make the system work was spent on the struggle.

He tried his best, particularly in telecommunications. He did all he could. Of course, eight years was more than enough by law, he should go and he left. We tried to stabilise the PDP. Then, Umaru Yar’Adua came, very intelligent and committed. I worked closely with him but because he wasn’t feeling too good, some hawks went into him and took charge and almost derailed all the things he wanted to do. President Goodluck Jonathan came, a selfless man. His humility is beyond my comprehension and people are taking that for granted. His government has done so much. For the first time, the Federal Government bond is being listed on the New York Stock Exchange and we say we are not moving. I’m not saying we are there but it’s a positive beginning.

An average man on the street still complains of suffering everyday?

When will people never suffer? It’s not Jonathan who is responsible; this is the crux of the matter. I am ready for this debate with anybody from any other party. Every 30 days, the Federal Government distributes money from the treasury for state and local government allocation, and no local government gets less than N100m a month. Now, what’s their input? The closest government to the people is the local government but what are they doing? What have they brought to the people? It’s a three-tier government, what is the local government man doing? They have their role by constitution.

Did PDP have a hand in Bola Ige’s death?

PDP? Why would PDP want to kill Bola Ige? He was working for us in our government. He thought that the Afenifere people would automatically give him a ticket as presidential candidate for AD, he was disappointed. Baba pulled him back and said ‘come and work for this country’, and he accepted. He wasn’t a threat to PDP. I was the vice chairman of the South West then, they had the Yoruba Council of Elders and I related with them. I went to his house for advice many times in Ibadan . And the Osun crisis, I wasn’t part of any Osun thing. I was there the day we went to Oni’s palace, I was there live.

We were there, some boys just came and the security fired some rounds to scare the boys away and one of them had grabbed Chief Bola Ige’s cap. We looked for him, but first of all, what we did was to secure him and get him inside. Then one fellow was killed thereafter in Ife . I called Baba up and he said he was coming by the weekend. By the time he came, they had killed Bola Ige. It was more of an Osun crisis. The same thing happened here, Funsho Williams was murdered. The police bungled the investigation. They even arrested the boy who had Funsho’s cell phone, but what happened? But his blood is still raging. I saw his body in his house, why? They think it’s over, why? What did he do to them?

What do you think about the PDP crisis?

For the umpteenth time, big man, big problem in the local parlance.

PDP is the only party from the swampy forest of the south to the savannah region in the north. I’ve campaigned snaking through this country and there is no hamlet you don’t find PDP. When it was established, conservatives, liberals came together as individuals and not as tribes. It was Chief Bola Ige who wrote our constitution and also designed our flag. He sat and worked with Ekwueme, Ciroma and others at the time, progressives working together that established PDP.

I see Nigeria in our meetings, we will have this kind of crisis, they are not fundamental crises, because it is when they become fundamental that they are irretrievable. Politics is the management of the resources of a nation for the betterment of the people. Politricks is the management of the resources for the individual pockets. It’s normal and natural to be ambitious but the corporate interest of Nigeria is more important than anyone.

How do you feel losing election intermittently in your ward since 1999?

I don’t know where you got that from but I wasn’t the one campaigning, I don’t live there. Only on election, I just go back to help the people who are campaigning. Even if they win or lose,that is not a measure of your political worth. The kind of politics I have played, I’m not the one actually contesting. If I was the one contesting, it would have been a different thing.


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Chief Bode George, former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party – South and convicted chairman of Nigeria Port Authority, tells GBENRO ADEOYE why he will keep on fighting until he shakes off the ex-convict tag

Are you a thief?

I can refer you to the judgment because it’s already in the public view. At least, the judge was honest enough to say ‘no kobo was missing’. It was the greatest convoluted conspiracy that I have ever seen in my life. But you know, as a Christian, if you have belief in God and your faith is very strong, you don’t get shaken.

First of all, if we split contract, it would be for whose benefit? I’m not a contractor; the company did not belong to anybody on the board, so in whose interest? Two, nobody brought a contractor, whether they executed the job, whether they were paid the money, we just finished and the rest was left to the management. Whether they even awarded the contract, I didn’t know. I’ve been keeping quiet but the public must know this and those that have been writing ex-convict think they are abusing me, but they are raining curses on themselves and their families and it will happen. In the name Jesus, all who are convolutedly involved, it will happen to them.

People think that Bode George stole money; whoever is putting it down is raining curses on himself, anytime he writes that. Let him go and find out exactly what happened.

The debt portfolio of Lagos is unimaginable. God will not forgive these people. While Lagos is getting broke, Bola Tinubu is getting richer. I went to his village in Iragbiji where he hailed from, he said he went to Children’s Home School and Government College Ibadan, I asked my junior friends who went to GCI, Ibadan, none of them knew him. What’s his real name? Is his name Bola? What is his family name? The chief of staff to (Rauf) Aregbesola is his blood brother. He also has an older brother who retired from the Federal Ministry of Foreign affairs.

When his real mother died, he didn’t go to Osun. I went to the Oba of Iragbiji, I said we were going to ship him back home. That was at the peak of the campaign. They told me the primary school he attended, no secondary school, no-nothing. Suddenly he came back and said he had a CPA, that’s the equivalent of ACCA. He didn’t even have an APC, he’s a jiver.

Is your state pardon justifiable?

I haven’t been given any pardon, we served the term and we’re still in court. I’m still an ex-convict, but we will fight it. My family has decided we will fight it. Justice Salami was involved when we thought we would get justice. We went to the Court of Appeal in Lagos, they presented the case. During the course of discussion, Keyamo was saying we should have raised the issue of fiat before and they gave a ruling during that trial that you can raise the fiat issue even at the Supreme court. But when it got to the final judgment, they reversed themselves.

How do you feel when people refer to you as an ex-convict?

Laughable, when God gives somebody talents and you exhibit that talent with humility in the belief that you’re doing His work- not your work- no matter all the firing from sidewalks, it won’t affect you.

Why are you still in politics despite the stain on your reputation in the public eye?

There is no law that forbids me from exercising my voice and my rights, and vox populi, vox dei- the voice of the people is the voice of God. Throughout the 18 months I was in Kirikiri (prison), the whole place turned into a Mecca because the people knew that it was a convoluted conspiracy. Everywhere I went in the South West, people would say, ‘oga come and do this, come and do that.’ Should I fold my hands? I believe in the awesomeness of the Almighty God, He never told us that we would not have problems and failures but when you crumble and don’t stand up, then you have failed. Any man who has achieved greatness in life and says that his way was a freeway all the way, is a liar.

I was reading the latest book of Mandela- ‘Conversations with Myself.’ The opening paragraph states that the prison cell is the best place for you to discover yourself, because there, no distractions. You will see yourself in true perspective, what you have done, what you haven’t done, where you have been fair, where you were not, where you have deceived yourself, you will see yourself in totality, and then the choice is yours. Even if you committed an offence and beg for forgiveness, he’s always there.

And the day I left, that can never be wiped away from my memory. The night before, all the security agencies in Lagos- Director of SSS, Commissioner of Police came and said they wanted me. Mustapha was there and he said ‘oga, don’t follow them, remember this was how they bundled me one night here’, because the whole place was dark.

They came to my room and said I could go home, I said ‘in this night, so that they would say Bode was escaping and I would be shot in the back.’ It was around 9 in the night; I said ‘no’, I would wait till tomorrow morning. And at the cathedral, the provost had to stop the service for some time because people kept coming in. We thought it would be a one hour service but it went on for about four hours.

Who arranged for the church service?

I asked for it from the prison, I was going straight to the church.

Why was that?

If you remember those who served prison terms that were political, many of them didn’t come out. I never went for any medical treatment throughout the period; I never went outside that gate. The day they let me out was the first day I set my foot outside the prison gate since I got in. You say I shouldn’t be thankful to God. My wife was shot. They shot at her car while I was in the prison. She didn’t do anything throughout that period. Every blessed day, including Saturday and Sunday, she was there. And my friends, they were there everyday, the bullet went through the door and got stuck because the person was on a motorcycle, so he couldn’t aim well. The car is still there.

For you to survive the place, having been at the level which you came and survived, where else would you go, to go and socialise? What are you socialising? My church was coming to give me communion in the prison. You must have God on your side to survive it, because before you know it, the devil will swing your mind and you would set yourself into depression. As a general, you just work out your programme quickly and adapt.

How did you feel when the pastor said ‘go and sin no more’?

That young boy that said it, he had leanings with the opposition. He was in Form Four when I was Governor of Ondo State. I was livid but I was in church. This young man would not derail my thanksgiving to God Almighty; the crowd was unprecedented. Sin against who? I went the following morning to challenge the provost; they said ‘no, that’s not what he meant.’ I said ‘you don’t know this boy, he is an apologist to Bola Tinubu and co.’ another bishop came to church and said he was shocked when he watched it. He said that man should go on the altar and ask for forgiveness from God because he does not know who Bode George was. When I came, they invited me into the vestry, and asked ‘why did you decide to come to church?’ I said where else do you think I would go? Go to Okija shrine? I was healthy, even those who saw me thought I didn’t go to prison.’ So when this young man was talking garbage there, you know, you can’t respond there. I went to the provost; this was an anomaly, a misnomer, absolute rubbish, I didn’t come here for this boy, of course, nemesis caught up with him too. They’ve taken him out to a smaller church, that’s where he deserves and the bishop that came said he watched the programme on the TV and was very angry.

Was he transferred because of what he said or for something else he did?

I don’t know but it must not be unconnected. Aje ke lana, omo ku leni tani o mo pe aje to ke lana lo pa omo to ku leni? (The witch cried yesterday and the child dies today, who does not know that the witch that cried yesterday killed the child today). Let me just stop it there. It wasn’t our archbishop but another that came and said you don’t know who Chief Bode George is, for you to say what you said.

Did you have a hand in his demotion?

No, one thing I don’t do is get involved in church politics. The one we do outside is already there. Why would I be? Everybody saw it live when he was talking the garbage.

Do you think that the fanfare that greeted your release from prison was worth it?

It was spontaneous. Who could have asked those people to come, who could have organised it? I was shell-shocked myself. From 5am, people came from all over this country. Even deputy governors were struggling with the people outside there. If I had organised all that from inside prison, then I must be so popular. I remember when former President Olusegun Obasanjo himself came; he couldn’t even get to the church with his car. He got out of his car and trekked to the church. My aged mother came because my sister said I was going to come back. From where? She didn’t know.

You said you were not guilty, so how did you take the comment by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, when he described the fanfare as a celebration of criminality?

That’s true, Baba (Obasanjo) said that we were celebrating criminality and I was shocked. I was really very shocked. How could I have organised rally from prison to the church, to gain what? I was the director-general of the national campaign that brought late President Yar’Adua and Jonathan on board, would I now say that I wanted to test my popularity? The popularity started from the very day we were convicted. From the first day, people were trooping in there. So on that final day, people came to rejoice, to say thank God, you’re alive, you haven’t lost your memory, you haven’t had a stroke.

I wish am 18 and I can vote

My bad, I am also the only invincible being on planet earth

ayobase: I still don't fear u, cos u exist not!

Seems like I don't know anyone here so let me introduce myself...

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HOBBIES:

a. Collecting teeth from live lion

b. Catching bullets with bare hands

c. Jogging up & down mount Everest

d. Bathing in an acid pool

MY RECORDS:

Fought with a Dinosaur and broke its neck, skinned a crocodile alive!
Held my breathe under water for 2months, 3weeks, 6hrs, 51mins, 45seconds, (the list is too long)

GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS:
Went to heaven to charge phone, Fluent in 10,598 languages, 1st man to land on the sun

SILLY THING I'VE DONE:

Ate a bowl of plastic fruit on thanksgiving day

EMBARRASSING MOMENT:

Couldn't kill 100 elephants with a single punch, only 99 died instantly and the last one is now
a slowpoke.

PROUDEST MOMENTS:

1. When a cobra died after biting me

2. Roasted a dragon at my backyard with a lighter

SOMETHING ABOUT ME:

I really don't like to show off...

Has anyone ever achieved half of what have done so far, tell me about yourself, so I'll be able to buckle up

Thanks.

Nice gesture!

No story telling, Big Boss. Wish you guys the best against Ethiopia.

TEAM BRAZIL 2014

Good for you.

If you didn't sell it, who knows, it might probably have sold you off to the labour market

gmyguy: eh ya dionne warwick...well atimes, being broke too, u can remain at the bottom if you don't watch ur habits, like how i was wasting money repairing my old jetta, till i had the wisdom to sell it...and be emancipated

Happy birthday 2Baba

But she has always been with him through the thick and thin, she's been loyal and loving to him; Kudos to her.

Btw, happy birthday 2Baba.

Serendipity: I have always liked her approach. She seems to have those wifely, feminine and alluring qualities that make a woman irresistible.
=
But then again, the 64 million dollar question is ''could she have remained with 2face if there was no dough?. This is coupled with the fact that 2face was beleaguered because of his escapades and flings with women over the years (an epithet most women will baulk at about their man)
=
She might say yes to this question and spew the love him so much crap.
But money and fame can make a woman to stay put even without her knowing it, the influence of the money---- on the avowed love---- being subliminal.

Ok, lovely all the same.

Tolexander: no be poem o. Na ile ife anthem o!

Sanandreas is jobless.

sanandreas: fashola is working.

Me likey, nice poem.

Tolexander: Ife ooye ejigiri
e ji giri ke gbe ife ga
olori aye, ife ooye
e mura lati tesiwaju
oranfe onile ina
ooduwa aweriri jagun
okan lerinwo irunmole
e gbe fe leke ota gbogbo

Ile ife ni orirun aye
ilu asa o, ilu esin
gbogbo yoruba e ka refe
ka wa lo wo oun adayeba tojoju
ile oodua, ife lowa
opa oranyan ile ife ni
odi moremi, ile ife ni
ara e ka re ife orirun aye

Detective El Guapo, you can report yourself to CIA

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Psycho isnt the word, lets say i've got some telepathic tendencies that pushes me to see beyond ur widest imagination.

I pay a big attention to that smallest detail u'd overlook, now tell me, is it still worth it chasing Kennedy's killer? [/color]

I know you must be a Swan tonite, up Gunners

mukina2: great block davis

liverpool chance wasted

Some people will walk alone tonite

Why do you think it can't happen in Naija, just because we don't keep record of events?

xynerise: Such coincidences cant happen in Naija movies

Hehehe, you're really a 'psycho' for even contemplating that his wife had a hand in his assassination

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Speaking of Kennedy's assasination, why would my 'psychic' mind keep telling me that the wife might know a thing about the attack? [/color]

Great thread, but the two Governors are doing great works, if others could imitate the good job they are doing; the better for the masses,
especially Fashola, Eko shall be great again.

Rocktation:

How have you been, madam Rock?

Check this out, this penalty is the last kick of the match and the only opportunty to avoid defeat in the hand of Torino


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MJR8BOjTk

He's a wizard

Anthony Hopkins’ Copy Of A Book Turns Out To Be The Author’s Own Lost Version – The Girl From Petrovka


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The title I’ve given this entry doesn’t do justice to how insane it actually is, so in the words of a Samuel L. Jackson character: “Hold on to your butts.” Okay, so if you’ve seen the movie The Girl From Petrovka, you’ll know that Anthony Hopkins is in it, doing some acting, long before he was a big star. It’s not a very good movie, by the way, and this story is far more interesting as a result. Anyway, as most actors do when they sign on to star in a movie based on a book, Hopkins sought out a copy of the original novel, written by George Feifer.

To Hopkins’ dismay, though, he couldn’t find a copy of the book anywhere. Walking through London later, he noticed an abandoned book on a park bench. Of the all books in the entire world that this man could have found right when he needed it, what might that book have been? Yep: The Girl From Petrovka. This, of course, would have been a great place to end a story of such sublime coincidence, but it’s not even over yet. Two years later, the actor met George Feifer during filming, who admitted that he didn’t have a copy of his own book.

You know where this is going, right? Feifer described his copy of Petrovka, which he admitted had been personally annotated, and mentioned that he once lent it to a friend who lost in in London. Hopkins brought out his copy and (presumably) deadpanned: “Is this the copy you’re looking for, George?” Yep: it was the same freakin’ copy. No word as to whether or not Anthony Hopkins gave George Feifer his book back, though: I’d imagine both men were too stunned at that point to say anything. Like you are right now.

Brandon Lee’s Death Is Predicted By His Father’s Last Movie – Game Of Death/The Crow


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Everybody knows that kung-fu legend Bruce Lee died during the making of his last movie, Game of Death, and if you didn’t know that… well, you do now. Left with a half-finished flick and hankering for the profits, the movie’s producers opted not to throw it out (which would have been far easier), but to try and mould it into something resembling a finished product, which they kind of achieved using stand-ins and, uh, including footage of Bruce Lee whilst he was dead and lying in his coffin. Seriously. The ’70s was a different time.

Game of Death, by the way, is based around a storyline that has Bruce Lee playing an actor in a movie (see, they had their own version of “meta” back then, too). The climatic scene in the movie comes when Lee’s character is shot using a prop gun that actually turns out to be loaded. Where have you heard something like that before, you say? Well, whilst shooting The Crow, Lee’s son, Brandon, was accidentally killed when a prop gun mistakenly fired. Now, that’s pretty weird, don’t you think? How many other movies do you know that involve a storyline about a prop gun misfiring? “None,” is the answer. A truly bizarre coincidence, if ever there was one.

A Crashed Private Jet Originally Hired By The Crew Resulted In A Horrific Coincidence – The Omen


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Making movies about things like evil spirits and the devil is a good way to get people to say that your movie is “cursed,” especially if something bad happens whilst you’re making that movie – you know, things like the deaths of most of your cast members in the aftermath (Poltergeist), or the entire crew ending up with cancer (The Conqueror). The Omen, of course, is one of those movies believed to have been “cursed,” and – going by one blood-curdling coincidence - it’s not hard to see why people think so.

This particular coincidence is really, really, horrible, so stop reading now if you dislike true stories about entire families being wiped out by strange accidents. During the filming of the movie, the crew hired a private jet for transportation purposes, though the company needed it at the time and offered them a discount if they waited a few days. They agreed, though later that day the private jet they were supposed to fly on crashed onto a road and into a couple of cars – everybody involved was killed. The eerie part? The pilot’s wife and child just happened to be inside one of those cars. Incalculably slim odds, and yet… here we are. Damien, you [expletive].

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Robert DeNiro’s Future Oscar Wins Are Foreshadowed In The Orange Scene – The Godfather


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This one is about as coincidental as coincidences get, but it’s interesting to note that – during a scene in The Godfather – both of Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning roles are foreshadowed in one key moment. If you know a bit about the movies, you’ll also know that De Niro won an Oscar for playing a younger version of Marlon Brando’s Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, and another for playing boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. It was a good time for the actor, who has made far too many movies with Ben Stiller since.

So check out this scene in the original Godfather movie, where Vito Corleone (played by Brando here) can be seen standing adjacent to a poster advertising an upcoming fight for who else but Jake LaMotta? The most mind-blowing part of all this, though, is that Robert De Niro later recalled that he saw this scene and decided then that he would “one day inhabit both of those characters on the big screen.” Nah, I totally made that part up, but it’s still pretty cool, huh? You’re still angry that I added that extra bit on, aren’t you? I don’t know what came over me.

#5 Jim Caviezel Was Struck By Lightning Filming The Sermon On The Mount – The Passion Of The Christ


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Whether you’d call this a coincidence or you’d label it as one extremely apt freak occurrence, you have to admit that it’s pretty nuts. Even if you’re not at all religiously-inclined and you think that the universe is just one of many alien-owned marbles like at the end of Men In Black, there’s something inherently spooky about the actor playing Jesus getting struck by lighting whilst filming Mel Gibson’s incredibly controversial picture. I mean, what are the odds of that? 1 in 280,000, apparently.

Yes, poor old Jim Caviezel was struck by lighting during the infamous “Sermon of the Mount” sequence. Though this can, of course, only be put down to an unlikely coincidence that just happened to feel relevant, there’s no denying that the subject material associated with the movie’s production makes this an intriguing slice of trivia. Luckily, Caviezel wasn’t hurt too badly, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he suddenly started thinking: “What have I done?” Perhaps God just preferred Willem Dafoe in the role.




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#4 Jackie Chan Was Supposed To Shoot A Movie At The World Trade Center On 9/11 (About Terrorists) – Nosebleed

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It’s strange how close we can come to our own deaths without really even realising it, but the story which surrounds martial arts icon Jackie Chan and the shooting of a cancelled movie called Nosebleed happens to be one of those bizarre cases where you realise exactly how lucky you’ve been. According to the legend himself, he was scheduled to shoot a scene inside the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, but decided not to because he wasn’t happy with the script, and pursued another project.

What’s even more mind-blowing, though? This movie was rumoured to have been about terrorists who try to blow up the World Trade Center, amongst other iconic buildings and monuments in New York City. And the scene that Chan would have been filming at the time? Well, he would have been strapped to the side of one the towers, given that his character was supposed to have been a freakin’ window washer.

Talking about the incident, Chan himself is quoted in the Chinese press as having said: “Filming was scheduled to have taken place at 7:00 am last Tuesday morning (September 11th), and as I had to be at the top of one of the towers for one of the scenes, I would probably have died if the shooting went ahead as planned.” Totally insane, right? The movie he opted to make instead, by the way, was The Tuxedo. Ultimately, we’ll excuse the fact that such a movie exists if it meant that Jackie Chan managed to avoid death.

I'll say, lucky him

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