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oduastates:
The first sensible thing he has done . N3000 is not heavy tax . If you cannot pay N3000 tax for owning a shop ,then you should not own one . Rather have 5 tax paying shop than 1000 paying nothing

In Ekiti,rentage of an average shop costs N2,500-N5,000.And you say paying N3,000 as MONTHLY levy is okay? Haba!!!

Things are becoming interesting in Ekiti state.The self acclaimed Senior Advocate Of the Masses has been busy announcing funny,odd and burdensome taxes on the people of Ekiti state for the past few weeks.Take a look
*Each slaughtered cow....N1000:00
*Each shop...3000:00 per month including market women
*Public Primary Schl Pupil...N1000 per head(every term)
*Street Hawkers...N1000per month
*Public Secondary School Students N2,500 per student(every term)
*Private Nursery/Primary Schools...150,000per year

Today..Sept.8th,2015 all mtn,glo,airtel,Dstv dealers offices were all sealed off.They were advised to contact their head office to come and pay special taxes running into millions to ekiti. (This is different from the normal signage/advert levy being paid by each of the dealers)

Source:http://www.today.ng/politics/083011186-fayose-unleashing-tax-burdens-on-poor-ekiti-people-apc/
http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/31/fayose-to-shut-down-banks-over-tax-evasion-imposes-n1000-tax-on-slaughtered-cows/

Femi Aribisala is either blind or simply insane.Buhari's 100days have given hope to an average Nigerian that this country can still be great.In my state you can now walk into any petrol station and buy fuel at the pump price of 87naira. The state governments have their bail out funds.Corrupt people are all sick and silent. The refineries scam is exposed.Our stolen money is likely going to be recovered.International communities are reconsidering doing business with Nigeria.Boko Haram people are begging.Aircrafts are no longer sending dollars to South Africa.Oil cabals are paralysed.
....Haba...Aribisala...u no dey fear God? Even Jonathan himself will accept that Change is here!

A few days before the end of his tenure, former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Bello Adoke, connived to award more than $3 billion in crude oil to a Chinese oil company linked to a controversial businessman, Emeka Offor.

The highly questionable deal was consummated through a judgment handed down by a High Court judge who was also in on the deal, according to a source close to the deal.

In December 2014, Addax Petroleum Development (Nigeria) Limited and Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) Limited, sued the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) seeking a huge financial award in what the company described as miscalculation of oil royalty and taxes, and breach of their 1998 “production sharing” contract with the NNPC in respect of certain oil fields.

The contract covered oil-prospecting licenses (OPL) 98/118 (now Oil Mining Leases 123, 124, 136 and 137).

In an extensive interview with our correspondent, the source claimed that Addax’s lawsuit was at the urging of Mr. Adoke, who should have been protecting the Nigerian public’s interest.

In a letter dated April 2, 2015, Mr. Adoke proposed that President Jonathan approve an out-of-court settlement of the lawsuit, tagged FJC/ABJ/CS/1099/2014 and filed on December 23, 2014. In the letter to President Jonathan, the then Attorney General and Minister of Justice also indicated that he was attaching a letter dated the same day from the legal department of the NNPC.

Mr. Adoke’s letter was fast-tracked in a manner that two legal authorities separately described as “highly unusual” and “unseemly.” On May 25, a mere four days before the end of President Jonathan’s tenure, a Federal High Court judge in Abuja had concluded the terms of the out-of-court settlement. The judge’s “judgment order” excluded the office of the AGF because Mr. Adoke did not send any lawyers to represent the government at the final judgment.

“It’s highly curious that the ‘judgment order” did not list the AGF’s office as a defendant in the lawsuit. Yet, the AGF [Adoke] was the person generating a legal memo to the president [Jonathan] for an out-of-court settlement,” said an Abuja-based lawyer after reviewing the case.

Nonetheless, the judge read out the terms of the agreement and gave an order sealing it, but his judgment order did not include the hidden cost of the judgment.

This act of judicial concealment has baffled the lawyers who looked at the document. SaharaReporters obtained a copy of the hidden terms of agreement that puts the total value of NNPC’s indebtedness to Addax at more than $3 billion—specifically, a whopping $3,491,588,729.64. The judgment debt would be paid to Addax via crude oil lifting that could last for numerous years, an NNPC source disclosed.

Addax Petroleum has claimed that a letter signed by Funsho Kupolokun, who was adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Petroleum, gave the company the right to a production-sharing contract relating to the oil fields named in their original lawsuit.

Addax also claimed that, because of that letter from the presidential adviser, his company spent about $3 billion on the development of the oil fields.

One of the lawyers who reviewed the case for SaharaReporters wondered why it took Addax no earlier than 2014 before they sued the Federal Government for the alleged breach of contract.

Contacted by SaharaReporters to disclose Mr. Offor’s full involvement in the judgement scam, his representatives expressed preference for communication by email.

Hours after we complied, Edwin Ndukwe of the Communications Department of Offor’s Chrome Group sent a response in which he denied that Mr. Offor was the 'outlet' through which Addax facilitated the settlement.

“Sir Emeka had absolutely no hand or control in the proceedings of the court, which led to the outcome you inferred,” he said. “He is not a shareholder and he did not enter into any agreement to influence or sponsor the outcome of the court's decision. Addax Petroleum is gigantic enough to weigh in by itself on any judicial matters bothering on their business conduct in Nigeria.”

He asserted that the Addax/Kaztec business to business relationship began in 2010 when Kaztec was awarded the TB 1921 contract for the installation of subsea pipeline and topsides in OML 123.

“Since then, the relationship grew between the two as evident in the project being duly completed. Kaztec is a wholly 100% owned indigenous EPIC service provider in the oil & gas industry. It has performed very well over the years and have received numerous commendations for their technical competence and their ability to deliver on projects timeously and at significantly reduced cost from not just Addax but other firms.”

We also reached out to NNPC spokesperson, Ohi Alegebe to ask how the NNPC intends to pay the debt as stipulated in the final judgement. He said he needed to reach the Legal Department of the NNPC to find out the details, but did not get back to us at the time of publishing this story.

For their part, Addax offices in Abuja told our reporters that all of the company communication personnel were tied up in a training which involved the Managing Director, Mr. Cor Zegelaar, and cannot respond to our inquiries until next week.

In a recent interview with Premium Times, former President Obasanjo openly accused Mr. Offor of scamming Nigeria out of billions of dollars in the so-called turn-around maintenance of refineries, calling him an ‘amateur’ who knew nothing about maintaining a refinery. He stated that Mr. Offor had infiltrated the police and anti-corruption agencies and NNPC officials to facilitate his scams.

“[We met] refineries that were not working, refineries that were given to an amateur for repairs, for maintenance, what they call turn-around maintenance, to the company of Emeka Offor – Chrome Group,” he said of his government. “Where has Emeka Offor maintained refineries before? Where has he? That’s what we met. So the refineries were not working.”

Reminded by his interviewers that despite that discovery he did not recover any money from Mr. Offor, the former President replied: “What can you recover? A man ‎who was paid upfront? He had people. He got some police…people were there. And like they have said to you now, look, if it works for a week, that’s all you get. And Emeka Offor, after I left he became friends with every government that has come. Now he’s not only into refinery and oil and all that, he’s now also in energy!”

Source:http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/03/how-president-jonathan-agf-adoke-awarded-chinese-oil-company-linked-emeka-offor-3b

Fayose was in a joint recently during working hours drinking Palm wine.Why should he ridicule the people who came late so badly. Actually its good to warn and even punish them.But must YOU PUT THEIR PICTURES ON TWITTER? Will that give you any political mark? What do u expect from kids who are now watching their dad prostrating in the public?

The governor even went ahead to show the video of the ugly event on TV....what a show of shame. Anyway nemesis will soon knock!

Good one..The man once taught me Pharmaceutics in Ife.He is cool headed and hardworking.CONGRATS

Governor Fayose today tweeted that he will forever be grateful to Abacha for creating Ekiti State in 1996!

Sugar is a dangerous poison. Yet it is consumed by almost everyone, on a daily basis, and it does horrible things within the body. It is also something God never intended our physical bodies to have to contend with. The only sugars God designed our physical bodies to ever have to deal with were the natural sugars found in the LIVING, raw fruits and vegetables that He created and placed in the Garden!

Are you aware that a hundred years ago, the average annual intake of refined sugar was approximately 5 pounds per person per year? Today, the average annual intake of refined sugar is around 170 pounds per person per year. That means that if a person is consuming that:, he or she is placing over 50 teaspoons of refined sugar into their physical bodies each and every day of their life.

Thus, a person who lives to the age of 70 will have placed into their body, during their lifetime, some 12,000 pounds of refined sugar.
Let's take a look at what all that sugar is doing within our beautiful, God designed, physical bodies

(1) Refined Sugar Is A Dead Food
Sugar originated in a living plant, which contained its complete complement of enzymes, but, by the time it reaches the refined sugar stage, all LIFE has been destroyed, and it has become a DEAD food. Let's look for a moment at what processors do with the original sugar cane or beet as they turn the living sugars found in the plant, into a refined, DEAD, product.

The following information was taken from a newsletter written by Charlotte Gerson:
"Sugar is a basic element in starchy food; however, processed sugar is a completely different matter. The sugar we purchase in the supermarket for personal consumption is processed sugar. This kind of sugar is heated up in chalk-milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted.

After the process, it becomes alkaloid, destroying all vitamin content.
In the second phase, the sugar is mixed with acid chalk, carbonic gas, sulfur dioxide, and finally with Natrium® sodium bicarbonate. The mixture is cooked and cooled off several times and thereafter crystallized and centrifuged. The dead mass is then treated with strontium hydroxide. Subsequently it arrives at the refinery where it is passed over chalk carbon acid to clean it. Dark coloring is removed by adding sulfuric acid and then it is filtered with bone charcoal. Finally, it is colored with Indathrenblue or the highly toxic Ultramarine. This product's chemical composition is C12H22O11, which you can buy in shops as 'pure cane' sugar."

(2) Refined Sugar Contains No Fiber
Another important thing to understand about refined sugar is that, just like we saw with foods of animal origin, sugar is devoid of all fiber. Let's remember here that God designed our bodies to move food through a very extensive digestive tract through means of fiber, and foods containing no fiber create problems.

(3) Refined Sugar Is Fragmented
Through heating and mechanical and chemical processing, all vitamins, proteins, fats, enzymes – indeed, every single nutrient is removed until nothing but pure white sugar, pure 'naked calories,' pure refined carbohydrate remains. Sixty-four food elements are destroyed in the processing. Fragmented foods set up nutritional imbalances that precipitate health problems galore.

(4) Refined Sugar Is Highly Acidic
Like animal source foods, refined sugar is also 'acid forming.' This means that the body must take vital alkaline minerals, calcium being the most plentiful, from the body's cells to metabolize refined sugar. This high sugar use, along with the consumption of animal products, causes the body to take so much calcium from our bones and teeth that the bones become osteoporotic and the teeth decay.

(5) Refined Sugar Creates Blood Sugar Disorders
One pound of apples contains 263 calories, whereas, one pound of candy has 1800 calories. Refined sugar in junk foods is concentrated far beyond what the human body was designed by God to ever have to process at one time. Thus, somehow the body has to deal with this incredibly large amount of sugar if it is going to survive. The body does deal with it, but in doing so, it often results in physical problems called DIABETES and HYPOGLYCEMIA.

DIABETES -The primary cause of diabetes is the fat contained in animal products, but also, when a diabetic consumes refined sugar, the pancreas has difficulty producing adequate insulin when the blood sugar rises. Concentrated amounts of sugar cause a rapid rise in blood sugar. Chronic intake of sugar eventually exhausts the pancreas as it tries to compensate. Thus, the diabetic is condemned to having to take ever-increasing amounts of insulin to compensate. Diabetes is the 'Number Three Killer Disease," in America, preceded only by cardiovascular related diseases and cancer.

HYPOGLYCEMIA [/b][i][/i]- is the flip side of diabetes. Hypoglycemia occurs when the body still has a fairly strong pancreas. The body overreacts to a concentrated sugar intake and releases too much insulin from the pancreas. Blood sugar levels then plummet far below the normal, stable level. The suffering Hypoglycemic often experiences fatigue, headaches, mental depression, and irritability. Hypoglycemics often deal with symptoms by taking in more refined sugar, catching them in an endless cycle that causes the pancreas to wear out from the constant over stimulation. This often results in Diabetes because now the sufferer cannot produce sufficient insulin for normal metabolic activities.

(6) Refined Sugar Promotes Emotional Instability
After a "sugarholic" has consumed a box of candy or bag of cookies or any large amount of refined sugar, they know how self-abused and depressed they feel. Sadly, studies reveal a strong link between juvenile and adult criminal offenses and sugar addiction. Similar research reveals a link between mental illness and sugar abuse. And hypoglycemic reactions, for the very sensitive consumer, promote extreme irrationality, emotional instability, and oftentimes aggressiveness. Recent studies are revealing that sugar may be as involved in mental illness, divorce, and crime as alcohol has been found to be. Depression is also one of the most rapidly growing problems in our society today, and refined sugar is one of the major contributing factors! ADD and ADHD are running rampant among our children and even some adults! It is a problem doctors are trying to treat with drugs such as Ritalin. Isn't it a sad commentary, that these emotional problems, that were caused by the very toxic and poisonous addictive drug, refined sugar, are then treated with another poison, a doctor prescribed drug! How sad! You mothers who are having a problem with your child's behavior might consider removing all sugar from his or her diet.


(7) Refined Sugar Contributes To Heart Disease
Fat is not the only contributing factor in heart disease. Large amounts of refined sugar cause the insulin in the body to convert blood glucose (sugar) into fatty acids and triglycerides. Those on a high-sugar diet show significantly higher levels of fat in their blood than those who eat no refined sugar. This high fat content in the blood is directly related to the development of plaque build-up within the arteries and ultimately to hardening of the arteries.

Apart from this Magnesium is a necessary ingredient that helps our cardiac functioning.Meanwhile sugar deplete your body of magnesium. In fact for ever molecule if Sugar it takes Fifty Four Molecules of Magnesium to process it!

( Refined Sugar Leads To Addiction And Weight Gain
......

The Following is just a partial list of other health problems related to the intake of refined sugar: acne, addiction to drugs and caffeine, alcoholism, allergies, anxiety, behavior problems, binge eating, bloating, bone loss, Candidiasis, depression, difficulty concentrating, eczema, edema, emotional problems, fatigue, food cravings, hormonal problems, hyperactivity, insomnia, menstrual difficulties, mental illness, mood swings, premature aging, psoriasis, ..

To summarize, refined sugar, and products made with refined sugar, are the second most prevalent cause, or contributing cause, of the physical problems being experienced today. Refined sugar products are all DEAD and FIBERLESS and, are the second most popular of the KILLER foods of our day after animal source foods.
Do you want to stay healthy and live long then quit refined sugar! Good luck!

Source:http://strangenews101..com/2015/08/ten-solid-reasons-why-you-should-run.html

Ng Lai-ying was convicted for using her breast to push against the officer at a chaotic protest in March.
The 30-year-old had earlier accused the cop of groping her – yelling the phrase "indecent assault" when she felt his arm on her chest.
But magistrate Michael Chan claimed she tried to use her "female identity" to harm the cop's reputation.
He said: "If I do not hand down a deterring sentence, the public might mistakenly think it is a trivial matter to assault police officers during protests."
A video from the protest – in Hong Kong on March 1 – shows Lai-ying being dragged away from the crows with a bleeding nose.
It has gone viral, picking up over 500,00 views on Facebook.
Ng Lai-ying was sentenced to for three and a half months behind bars but has been bailed pending an appeal.

In a fate twisting follow up,Hundreds of people - some bra-clad, others waving lingerie - gathered in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against Ng Lai-ying being jailed for assaulting a police officer with her breast.They were all claiming "Breast Is Not A Weapon"

source: http://strangenews101..com/2015/08/busty-woman-jailed-for-assaulting-cop.html

Ng Lai-ying was convicted for using her breast to push against the officer at a chaotic protest in March.
The 30-year-old had earlier accused the cop of groping her – yelling the phrase "indecent assault" when she felt his arm on her chest.
But magistrate Michael Chan claimed she tried to use her "female identity" to harm the cop's reputation.
He said: "If I do not hand down a deterring sentence, the public might mistakenly think it is a trivial matter to assault police officers during protests."
A video from the protest – in Hong Kong on March 1 – shows Lai-ying being dragged away from the crows with a bleeding nose.
It has gone viral, picking up over 500,00 views on Facebook.
Ng Lai-ying was sentenced to for three and a half months behind bars but has been bailed pending an appeal.

In a fate twisting follow up,Hundreds of people - some bra-clad, others waving lingerie - gathered in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against Ng Lai-ying being jailed for assaulting a police officer with her breast.They were all claiming "Breast Is Not A Weapon"

Source:http://strangenews101..com/2015/08/busty-woman-jailed-for-assaulting-cop.html

They are obviously looking at the debt profile of Nigeria...can't you see their facial expressions? Its the soft copy of the transition report!

Its a lie.Police did not rescue anyone.The kidnappers released them after collecting enough money

vimi:
boboyi sef, where the source link? N Uu wan make FP

Wetin concern me wit FP.Front Page go give money?...Mtshew .I interviewed victim's relative you say make I write source...my source na eye witness naw.
Before punch carry the news...its already stale!

The victims of the recent wave of kidnappings have been released.It appears the whole kidnapping were from a single gang!One of the victims said they were all dumped in a bush around Esure Ekiti..a village not too far from Ifaki Ekiti.In narrating their ordeals one of the victim said they have all paid one sum of money or the other and that some of the kidnappers were wearing mobile police uniform.The kidnappers told their victims to tell everyone in town that "we have just started".The released victims include the wife of Dr Adegun,the former CMD of Ekiti State Teaching Hospital,others are one Omisore,an OAU lecturer visiting Ekiti whose driver was killed,Dr.Mrs Alade another lecturer in EKSU,among others.According to the narration of the victims some paid 4million,Others 5million while the adeguns were said to have paid 12millions


Source:Personal Interview with a Victim Relative

Maple:
@ Cirmuell your wise comment does prove that not all here live a life of self denial. How some see this as North vs South or SW issue amazes me. Fayose, the Governor and Commander-In-Agbero of Ekiti State has metamorphose to "Fayose is the man" , Fayose the "saviour" etc. Imagine, a Governor who commanded thugs to blockade the states house of Assembly, and harass and chase away his state legislators from performing their legislative duties.

My question is how come this is happening in Ekiti, Ekiti oo of all places, where such tribal clashes is not known to exist.

Is it a mere coincidence, that this is happening at a time when Fayose's popularity/power is at its lowest? Could this be a diversionary/distraction tactics or a part of a political game in the impeachment saga that's about to engulf him? Talk about perfect timing.

How can many forget so soon of Ekitigate, and how far Fayose is willing to go to stay in power? This guy fought and mudslinged GMB to the extent even FFK say Tufiakwa! , all because of his desperation to avoid the inevitable impeachment that he knows will follow should GMB's APC come to power. Well, he lost that battle already. Time would tell what more cards he is willing to play in order to escape the Inevitable. One of Fayose's associates once said, Fayose is someone that can sacrifice his own mother for his political ambition.

Hmmmmn

The clash between the Hausas and the Yorubas in Ado-Ekiti is getting tougher.Over the night(Thurs/Fri),despite the 6pm to 6am curfew,the hausas invaded the Oja Oba market,in what looks like a reprisal attack, to set some shops on fire.Fayose in a brisk reaction has announced that the Hausa community be relocated to Shasha on the outskirt of the town within 24hrs.As at this afternoon,some Government bus were seen parked in Atikankan area to park the Hausas and enforce the govt. directives.Meanwhile some Hausas were sighted in Ifaki -ekiti travelling out of town probably out of fear.

Source:Eye Witnesses,Ekiti 91.5FM 12noon News

Apple has acquired Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com, The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital reports. Founded in 2005, HopStop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers over 300 cities and that helps people get directions or find nearby subway stations and bus stops. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed as at the time of this publication.

Chinedu Echeruo, formerly an analyst at investment banks and hedge funds founded HopStop in 2005. Echeruo is now Chairman of the Board for HopStop.

HopStop has oft been compared to Israel’s Waze which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion. The move is seen as Apple’s plan to bolster its map offering especially given Google’s recent acquisition of Waze.

A serial entrepreneur, Chinedu Echeruo grew up in Eastern Nigeria and attended Kings College, Lagos. He attended Syracuse University and the Harvard Business School in the United States and founded HopStop.com after working for several years in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, Financing and Private Equity transactions.
He also worked at AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund.

He founded and raised nearly $8 million for his two U.S based internet companies; Hopstop.com andTripology.com. Tripology.com was acquired in 2010 by American travel and navigation information company, Rand McNally. He was named Black Enterprise Magazine’s Small Business Innovator of the year and listed in the magazine’s Top 40 under 40 and is currently a partner and head of the Principal Investing group at Constant Capital, a West Africa based investment bank.

True to form, Echeruo is working on yet another venture but this time, focused on small businesses in Africa. Check out a video of Chinedu Echeruo below at last year’s TedxIkoyi where he talks about his latest project for small businesses in Africa; “crowd sourced business in a box.”

According to him:
“There is no reason why every entrepreneur should have to reinvent the wheel every single time in all the countries in Africa. My idea is to essentially to have one place where a budding entrepreneur can access a template for starting a business, and then customize it to suit their own situation. Essentially a business-in-a-box.”
http://www.informationng.com/2015/05/apple-inc-buys-nigerian-born-chinedu-echeruos-hopstop-com-for-1-billion.html

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Ado Ekiti to prevent the raging fight between transport workers and Hausa traders from spreading to other parts of the state.
The governor, while addressing the Hausa Community in the Atikankan area of Ado Ekiti, said the curfew, starting from 6pm and ending at 6am, would begin today, Thursday, directing security agencies to arrest whoever failed to comply with the order.
The governor, who appealed to the Hausa community to be patient, promised that they would get justice.
He said, “You said you love me, this is the time you have to show this love. I want to plead with you to submit whatever lethal weapon you have in your possession to the police. And if you refuse to do this, whether you are Yoruba or Hausa, the police will arrest you.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us and for the sake of our country, I plead with you to allow peace to reign.”
The state Secretary of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Mr. Akinsola Osundiya, at a briefing with journalists in Ado Ekiti, distanced members of the union from the crisis.
“Our members do not load vehicles in that area, so we were not in anyway involved in the clash with the Hausa traders,” he said.
The Chairman of Hausa Community in Ekiti State, Alhaji Adamu Imam, appealed to the state government for monetary assistance for those whose property were damaged by hoodlums during the crisis.
Imam said the names of the perpetrators of the violent attack had been compiled and would be made available to the governor and security agencies for necessary actions.
However, the Ekiti State Police Command said the number of injured had risen to 24 in the violent clash between Hausa traders and some drivers in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Alberto Adeyemi, on behalf of the Police Commissioner, Mr Etop James, said two of those injured sustained gunshot wounds and were receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
“Nobody died in the incident contrary to reports. Only two persons sustained pellet wounds while 22 others sustained varying degrees of injuries,” he added.

Source:http://www.punchng.com/news/fayose-declares-dusk-to-dawn-curfew-in-ekiti

Chiaka:
Nothing serious! just petty misunderstanding. Everyone should go back to work.

Something that involve human life is not "petty misunderstanding"...NOT WHEN TWO HAUSAS AND ONE IBOMAN are now confirmed dead!

Why the man no go resign.No Federal money again to sponsor party and spoil the elders.Instead of them to stick around and spend their ill-gotten wealth to keep the party alive!

Twistaray:
and no source?

Honestly, nairaland has become a dumping ground for comedy..
Hehehehehehehehehe

What source do you want.I said I am on ground in Ekiti or you want me to go paste the news on one blog first and now come to nairaland to claim that is the source? MTSHWWW
Anyway to satisfy your curiosity,Punch.ng just carried their own version of the news
Check http://www.punchng.com/news/14-killed-in-ekiti-plateau-benue-mayhem/

Source:Eye witnesses,Traders in the market. I am on ground in Ekiti.I personally sent someone to take the pictures

Ekiti is at it again.What started as a clash between the market women and road side hawkers yesterday 19th May is metamorphosing into something bloody.The market women yesterday attacked the road side hawkers and the resulting clash left a lot of people wounded with looting of shops and "road side stands".

In another development a wife of one of the NURTW members was duped of 35,000Naira and assaulted.The drivers retaliated by invading "Atikankan" area destroying properties and beating up the renown 419 boys in the arena.Along the way.according to eye witnesses, some properties belonging to the Hausas were also torched.This obviously drew the ire of the innocent traders and it became a free for all fight.The hausa's shops in Sabo area, opp.Mary Immaculate were looted and burnt. Before long, it suddenly became the Hausas Versus the Yorubas with the Hausas drawing Knives and Cutlasses while the Yorubas were seen carrying bottles and sticks.Three people were rumoured to have been killed.

As at the time of writing this report for nairaland,the security men have arrived in good numbers.The road is deserted,no car or motor cycle can move freely.Pockets of people are however sighted in front of houses far from where the security people are. The main market is deserted,the traders are packing their valuables out of the area because they anticipate a reprisal attack in the night from the Hausas.

Source:Eye witnesses,Traders in the market. I am on ground in Ekiti.I personally sent someone to take the pictures

hmmm