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Am doing just fine dear, yeah long time.

Igbo ekele mu unu, nke onye chiri ya zaa. Ka Chukwu Obioma gozie umu afo Igbo nile. Nke anyi ga eri kpo anyi iru, mana Chukwu gbochie nke ga eri anyi

The only way is just to get her laid. Punto

Ofcourse, that could be the only viable option

How are you doing Nayah love?

^^^You dont have to be scared sweerie, but dont also sweep it under the carpets

^^^You might just be right

This is a very serious issue and should be threated as one, like someone earlier said "dont underrate a man in love". You might have to start by changing your fone numbers and any other means he could use to get in touch with you. Secondly, dont let him know when you are in relationship with me, cos you might not be able to contain his wahala. And lastly, try and talk to someone and dont just bottle it up

Rochas and Chime top my list

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Katsina, on Wednesday, nullified the election of two senators and eight House of Representatives members, all of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)in the state.

The affected senators are Abdu Umar Yandoma and Ahmed Sani Stores, representing Daura and Katsina senatorial districts in the state.

The eight House of Representatives members include Abdu Dankama (Jibia/Kaita); Murtala Isa (Faskari/Sabuwa/Kankara); Musa Salisu (Kankia/Kusada/Ngawa) and Aminu Ashiru (Mani/Bindawa).

Others are Muntari Dandutse (Funtua/Dandume); Umar Adamu Katsayal (Daura/Mai’adua/Sandamu); Mohammed Tukur (Katsina central), and Tasi’u Doguru (Mashi/Dutsi).

Giving its judgment, the chairman of the tribunal, Justice S. A. Akintaiye and Justice Halim Saleeman ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh elections within 90 days in the affected constituencies.

According to the tribunal, all the contestants were not qualified to contest based on the judgment of the Court of Appeal which set aside the January 15, 2011 CPC primary elections, which recognised them as party flag-bearers.

The tribunal stated that, it relied on section 141 of the Electoral Act 2011 as amended and section 135 of the 1999 Constitution that a candidate shall only contest election under the banner of a political party, to annul the election of the affected CPC candidates.



http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/28909-tribunal-annuls-election-of-2-senators-8-reps-from-buharis-party

A Nigerian-born doctor and ordained pastor, Rev. Christine Daniel, who has been convicted by a US court for peddling snake oil treatment to dying cancer patients, mail and wire fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering, faces up to 150 years imprisonment when her sentence is pronounced in December.

For years, the Nigerian pastor preached the love of Jesus. Practiced medicine for the poor. And promised a sure-cure for terminal cancer patients.

But Rev. Christine Daniel, the founder of Sonrise Medical Clinic in Mission Hills, was a fraud. She was convicted by a federal jury this week of peddling snake oil treatments to dying patients across the nation.

“This is the most egregious fraud case I’ve seen,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph O. Johns, prosecutor in the case. “The defendant used her victims’ religion to blind them to logic, to overcome their common sense. And to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a bogus cancer cure.”

Daniel, 57, of Northridge, was found guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles of 11 counts of mail and wire fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering.

Her sentence will be pronounced December 5 and she faces up to 150 years in prison and a fine of $5.5 million.

Her trial, which began in March, included the tear-filled testimony of dozens of relatives of terminal patients who had died while taking Daniel’s product.

“In addition to giving them false hope and stealing their money, she also stole their time,” said Johns, chief of the environmental crimes section.

She also failed to report $1.3 million on her corporate tax returns from 2002 to 2004.

Daniel is an ordained Pentecostal minister who got her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

For decades she ran medical clinics for the poor, in the San Fernando Valley and downtown, and worked in hospital emergency rooms.

She was also devoted to regular missions overseas.

“If I can just help somebody - one person,” she told the Daily News in 1995. “I just want to make an impact on one person’s life. Just show them love. Just let them know you care.”

A receptionist at her Sunrise clinic on Tuesday said she was too busy with patients to come to the phone. She did not return a request for comment.

Prosecutors said Daniel had used her status as a minister to create trust within the evangelical Christian community.

At her clinic and via the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daniel promised cures for illnesses from Alzheimer’s disease to terminal cancer.

Her secret: remedies like “C-Extract” created from herbs gathered around the world, then blended for each individual patient.

But a chemical analysis by prosecutors found such ingredients as beef extract flavoring and sunscreen preservative, none of which could cure disease.

The cost of such nostrums ranged from $4,270 a week to between $120,000 and $150,000 for a six-month treatment, prosecutors said.

“They were encouraged to fly to Mission Hills. Stay in a flea-ridden motel. And spend the last few months of their lives drinking a foul concoction , that tasted like sewage water,” Johns said.

Daniel and her employees induced 55 victims to send roughly $1 million to the Sonrise clinic, most of whom died within three to six months after the bogus cure.

One of them was 33-year-old Paula Middlebrooks, a married mother of two from Smiths, Ala.

Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, she contacted the Sunrise clinic after her dentist told her his wife had taken the cure - and would soon come home cancer free.

After visiting the clinic, Daniel told the devout Baptist that chemotherapy wouldn’t help.

The doctor said she’d need her herbal treatment to shrink the tumors and kill her cancer cells.

Family members said they had bake sales, yard sales and sold everything they had to pay up to $100,000 for bogus treatments. Middlebrooks’ sister, Tammie Fleming, even quit her job to work in Chatsworth to be with Paula.

For nearly six months, Middlebrooks drank the herbal treatments daily while joining Daniel for Sunday services.

“It literally looked like mud,” said Fleming, 45, of Raeford, N.C., of Daniel’s herbal brew. “It was horrible. We were told it would work, that my sister would be cancer-free.”

While in church one day, she complained to the physician-minister of intense and enduring pain.

“She said, `The pain is all in your head,”’ Fleming recalled, adding that each patient was told to pay up at the clinic each Monday, or be turned down for further treatments.

In 2002, Daniel pronounced Paula Middlebrooks cancer free at a party held for clinic patients. By then, the cancer had in fact spread from her breasts to her bones and brain.

“She brainwashed them. She brainwashed us all,” Fleming said. “She sent my sister home cancer free on March 15, 2002. On April 10, Paula passed away.”

Another of her victims, Margaret Antwi, who traveled from Africa, was diagnosed with melanoma in 2003. Her daughter, Christiana Kwakye, was channel surfing one night after spending hours by her mother’s hospital bed when she came across a testimonial about Daniel’s treatment.

Kwakye, 41, of Minneapolis, cobbled together money with her four siblings and paid about $3,500 for a shipment sent from Daniel’s offices. Antwi drank the brown liquid and soon after Kwakye called a number and prayed with a woman on the other line.

“At that stage you do anything,” Kwakye said, trying to explain why they entrusted Daniel. “I should have known better. My mental state wasn’t clear at that time.”

Antwi’s family bought another round of medicine that cost about $5,000 after Daniel bumped them up to a higher concentration that would be more effective. Antwi died a couple of weeks later at age 62. She had been hopeful Daniel’s treatment would work as promised, Kwakye said.

“I struggle with the fact that she (Daniel) wasn’t true,” she said. “Being a doctor, they do no harm. Why would she do that?”

Other patients traveled to California and stayed at local motels while they were being treated, court documents show.

Prosecutors said Daniel even fleeced other clergy. In late 2003, George McKinney, who founded St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church of God in Christ in San Diego, agreed to have his wife, Jean, treated by Daniel. The couple moved into their son’s home in Los Angeles, and Jean McKinney took an herbal mixture three to four times a day for her terminal colon cancer.

Daniel also used a heat machine that was supposed to reduce the tumour, authorities said. The couple paid Daniel more than $100,000. Jean McKinney died in June 2004.




http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/21269-us-court-convicts-nigerian-pastor-for-cheating-dying-cancer-patients.html

With the sustained bomb and gun attacks by the Boko Haram sect in the Northern part of country and the inability of the security agencies to contain the menace, most Nigerians seem ready to welcome any move that could ensure a cessation of activities of the sect. Thus, despite the controversy over its timing and appropriateness, many Nigerians had hoped that the visit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the family of Yusuf Mohammed, the late leader of the sect, would lead to an end of its murderous campaign. During the unannounced trip to Maiduguri on 15 September, Obasanjo met with some family members of the late Yusuf, led by his brother-in-law, Babakura Fugu. Though Obasanjo said the visit was a private one, many construed it as an attempt to open dialogue between the government and the group, which has claimed responsibility for most of the bomb attacks in some parts of the North, including the one on UN House, Abuja, which killed 23 people.

Yusuf was killed in police custody in 2009, after he was captured by soldiers sent to quell an uprising by the members of the sect in Maiduguri. Yusuf’s father-in-law, Alhaji Babakura Fugu Mohammed, was also shot dead by the police within the same period. Though the group has been in existence in the Northern part of the country since about 2005, it remained way below the radar of the general public until Yusuf and his father-in-law were killed.

The sect continues to cite the extra-judicial killing of its leaders as part of the reasons it has been waging war against the state. The group has also said part of its mission is to ensure stricter enforcement of Islamic law, the Sharia, in Northern states.

Obasanjo was persuaded by a group of Nigerians, that included Shehu Sani, a Kaduna-based civil rights campaigner and author. According to Sani, the group considered a few other names before settling for Obasanjo. Two of the names considered were Muhammadu Buhari, former military head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, and former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida.

They were, however, dropped because of the frostiness of their relationship with the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Sani told TheNEWS that Obasanjo was chosen for three main reasons. “One, during his tenure as president–he could have made many mistakes–we discovered his government didn’t arrest, persecute or launch a war against Boko Haram members. We also thought that he has the ears of President Goodluck Jonathan and the government…He comes from the Southern part of the country and the possibility of him being complicit with the group is virtually non-existent,” Sani said.

When Obasanjo’s name was proposed, disclosed Sani, Boko Haram leaders asked for one week to mull over the proposal, which they later accepted. They, however, requested that security personnel be kept away from the meeting.

At the meeting, which Sani attended, Obasanjo spoke in Hausa, which surprised their hosts, and also rejected the plush seat he was offered, electing to sit on the carpet with his hosts.

The meeting began with a prayer, after which Obasanjo asked them the cause of their anger and if, as a family, they could find a way to end their violent campaign. The former president also said he was worried about the violence and how the group is regularly linked with such. “He explained that the country is in serious danger of disintergration on account of the activities of the group. Their women were there. They sat on the left side of the room, while the men sat on the right,” Sani said.

A member of the family, who is thought to be their imam, was the first to respond. He told Obasanjo that the family and the sect have been victims of injustice, beginning with the killing of Yusuf, Fugu’s father and Buji Foi, a commissioner for Religious Affairs in Borno State.

The elderly man said the crisis was sparked by members of the Joint Task Force, who shot at Boko Haram members on a funeral procession for a member, who had died of natural causes, in 2009. The task force, he said, had taken exception to Boko Haram members’ failure to wear helmets while riding motorcycles.

The family member added that the killing of their members was followed by Yusuf being declared wanted by the police, his eventual arrest by soldiers, who turned him over to the police in whose custody he was killed.

Obasanjo, recalled Sani, expressed shock that it was a disagreement over the wearing of helmets that ignited a crisis that has taken the complexion of a huge insurrection. After the imam, some other members of the family spoke and Obasanjo asked them to give their names. The women then spoke before Fugu got up to speak.

He told Obasanjo that the group wrote three letters to the government of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, asking that the 2009 killings be investigated. The request, Fugu said, was rejected. Obasanjo asked for copies of the letters and if he could go with them. He was obliged. Fugu added that they also petitioned the government on the killing of their members. That petition was also ignored. And when they went to court, added Fugu, they got a ruling that a sum of N100 million be paid to them, which the government appealed. Fugu also complained about arrests and detention of their members by the police. Someone then stood up and said the picture painted by Fugu showed that they have been victims of injustice, which has provoked the violent reaction against the state.

Obasanjo said the violence is creating instability in the country and he wanted them to tell him what he can do to bring about peace.

Fugu replied that the justice they want is for the government to understand that injustice has been done to them and that the families of those killed and arrested are suffering. Fugu also demanded that the court ruling be obeyed by the government. He offered to take Obasanjo around Maiduguri to see their schools and mosques that were unjustly demolished. They wanted Obasanjo to tell the government to rebuild the damaged schools and mosques. Obasanjo then asked what guarantee they could give if their requests were met. But they said the government should accept their requests first. “We have told him our predicament, especially the destruction of our family house, and also the need for the state government to abide by the court order which ruled that a compensation of N100 million be paid for the extrajudicial killing of our father; and also to tell the security agencies to stop harassing and intimidating our family members over issues related to Boko Haram,” Fugu, who tried to dissociate Yusuf’s family from the sect’s recent activities, told journalists.

Why Fugu was eventually shot and killed still remains unknown. But there are speculations that some members of the sect thought he had given too much away. “The gunman pulled a Kalashnikov rifle from inside the folds of his traditional robes and shot Fugu to death. No one else was wounded in the attack and the gunman apparently walked away,” Simeon Midenda, Borno State Commissioner of Police, said of the incident.

A faction of Boko Haram initially told a foreign radio station that it was responsible for the killing. But a more popular faction of the group denied being responsible for the assassination, claiming that it would not do anything to hurt the interest of the sect or the family of its late leader. “We did not kill Baba Kura Fugu and we did not claim responsibility for his killing as reported by the BBC and other international media,” Abu Qaqa, a spokesperson for the faction, told journalists in Maiduguri.

However, it was gathered that security agencies believed that Fugu was killed by Mamman Nur faction of the deadly sect, using one Ustaz Mote. This was further given credence by the State Security Service, SSS, renewal of its wanted notice on Nur, with additional offer of N25 million bounty for information that can lead to his arrest the same day Fugu was assassinated. The SSS declared Nur wanted a few days after the bomb attack on UN House in Abuja, accusing the suspect, who it claimed recently returned from Somalia, of masterminding the attack. It was also gathered that Fugu may have been killed because the Nur faction feared he may collaborate with the Federal Government in its investigations of the activities of the sect.

Analysts believe that the killing of Fugu has confirmed speculations that there are different factions of the sect. But the Borno Elders and Leaders of Thought, BELT, a group of mostly retired, but eminent indigenes of the state, believes that the sect has indicated its readiness to dialogue with the Federal Government as a prelude to ending its vicious campaign. BELT argued that Fugu’s assassination should not put an end to initiatives that can lead to peace in Borno State, where the sect is most active.

In a letter to President Jonathan last Monday, BELT said: “We wish to remind you of our earlier call for the initiation of dialogue with members of Jama’atul Ahlil Sunnah lil Da’awal Wal Jihad (Boko Haram). Of recent, we have noticed the sustained desire of the sect through media reports of their willingness to talk with governments (federal and state). ”

But BELT’s optimism is under threat by the fact of Fugu’s assassination just 72 hours after receiving Obasanjo. Now, it will be difficult to find a new initiator for another parley, even in the unlikely event of the government accepting their recommendations.

Sani, the facilitator of Obasanjo’s visit, told journalists in Kaduna last week that he is receiving death threats from some members of the group. Instructively, even BELT failed to mention any link with the group or even put themselves forward as willing to lead the process in their letter. Indeed, it was reported during the week that the eight-man fact finding panel set up by President Jonathan and headed by Ambassador Umar Galtimari is now finding it difficult to carry out its assignment because not many people are enthusiastic about appearing before it.

Also, not many Nigerians buy the idea of negotiating with the group, which has repeatedly said its aim is to destabilise the government as a precursor to a wholesale enforcement of Sharia at least across the Northern states. The sect has not shown any remorse and has, instead, threatened more attacks. For example, the group recently boasted that it has links with al-Qeada and has affirmed that some of its members have recieved bomb-making training in Somalia. The group claimed that it has over 100 members eager to carry out suicide attacks at any location in Nigeria. A member of the group told THE PUNCH last week that some members of Boko Haram served in the Mauritanian Army and acquired knowledge in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices there. “You do not play ‘statesman’ over the mangled bodies of victims, least of all where their violators insist on the righteousness of their very conduct,” Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, said in response to Obasanjo’s visit to the group.

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly last Wednesday, President Jonathan also said Nigeria will not be intimidated by activities of the terrorists. “For us in Nigeria, terrorist acts, rather than intimidate, will only help us to strengthen our resolve to develop appropriate national strategies and collaborate even more closely with the international community in the fight against the menace,” said the President who also commiserated with the global body over the bomb attack on its building in Nigeria. Before the attack on the UN House, Boko Haram had also carried out a suicide attack on the Police Headquarters in Abuja, where it premiered its ability to carry out such attacks on 16 June. Hafiz Ringim, the Inspector-General of Police, who the group later claimed was the target of the attack, narrowly escaped being killed. A dozen visitors to the Police Headquarters were not so lucky.

Prior to the attack on the Police Headquarters, the group had attempted to bomb the Borno State Police Command during a recruitment exercise, but was prevented by an eagle-eyed officer, who shot and killed the driver of the vehicle even after he had successfully slammed the gate.

In Maiduguri, bomb and gun attacks at specific targets and law enforcement personnel was almost a daily affair until very recently. Boko Haram members have also been active in Niger, Bauchi and Kaduna states. The group has also been indicted for robbery as well as assault on police stations, where arms and ammunition were stolen.

The SSS claimed it is already recording successes in bringing members of the group to book over their nefarious activities. The intelligence agency has already taken some members of the group arrested over the bombing of the UN House and the bomb attacks in Suleja, Niger State, to court. What is, however, clear is that for now, the sect seems to be winning.



http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/09/26/what-boko-haram-leaders-told-obasanjo/

Being single is not a crime thou

Some couples still call themselves some pet names, but its rare especially when the love is not there anymore or has drastically reduced. People fail to spark up the romance in their marriage when the kids start coming.

[quote author=Shy-One link=topic=769409.msg9239882#msg9239882 date=1317245552]She is cheating - Darling?

I call my guy baby and babe. That is what I call him - I NEVER USE THAT TERM WITH ANYONE - EVER. And I never will and if I do - it is because we are personally involved.

Darling? Who talks like that?

The model "Iman" called everyone "Dahhhhhling" for effect.

That is not what it sounds like from the "poster's description"

And then for there to be silence - makes it certain to me that the woman, "figured out she had made a mistake" - she then couldn't "own her mistake" and she quickly got off the phone and did not call back "probably from embarrassment and fear"

If she wasn't cheating or creeping - she would have immediately on the phone laughed and corrected herself by explaining her usage of that word to her guy. But her actions of hanging up and not calling - are clear signs that "she ain't right"[/quote]+1. Thats my baby

I hope thats gonna be Kalou's last game in Chelsea

Bosingwa should be substituted immediately and also Malouda. I think we need Meireles to come in and Anelka. Mikel is also d weak link in the midfield. Average performance so far.

Confirmed 3points already for Chelsea. Commonnnnnnnn you bluesss!!!!!

Very true, though women are more careful while cheating, but any sign should never be ignored cos it must def show in the way she displays her affections towards you. If she starts displaying so much unusual affections too, hey bro watch it!!!

What a beautiful Igbo gal

Ogugua you should apply for the next one, trust me you gonna win

^^^Lets see how it goes first, thou i have earlier given my blessings

Yeah sure, sharp sharp

So far so good, lets see what happens tomorrow

bhusayor:
Someone needs to get across to REALITY! He has to wake up now before I lose interest!

Be patient, he will soon be here, just wait a while  

I give my blessings

Its not advisable to discuss your relationship with a third party whosoever, I believe that any issue can be sorted out among two couples that are tolerant, understanding and ready to compromise

And here she comes, thank God i dont have your number.

RESIDENTS of Alajiki Street, Apata Area in Ibadan, Oyo State, were thrown into confusion and sorrow on Thursday when the body of a 10-year-old primary six pupil, Segun Omotayo, was found hanging in a room inside a dilapidated building beside his parents’ residence.

According to information gathered, Segun, who was a pupil of a primary school at Apata, returned from school that afternoon and thereafter went to the neighbourhood with his friends to watch home video after taking his lunch.

He reportedly came back home and went inside the dilapidated building which once served as home to his family before it was vacated when a part of it collapsed during a heavy rain and part of the roof also got blown off.

Segun’s mother, Mrs Omotayo, who had converted part of the dilapidated building to a poultry and also had a grinding machine in front of it, started looking for Segun around 7.30 p.m. with the intention of giving him some chores to do.

When she checked their apartment and did not see him, the woman decided to check the abandoned building, where the family still had some of their belongings in a room.

Her search eventually led her to the room where she found Segun’s body dangling from the ceiling while the chair he climbed to commit the act was found lying on its side.

The woman raised the alarm and neighbours trooped out to behold the shocking sight.

The matter was reported at Apata police station on Friday morning and the Divisional Police Officer, SP Ganiyu Ali dispatched some detectives to the scene.

The corpse was brought down from the ceiling while its photographs were taken.

The boy did not leave any suicide note but some people suspected that the boy must have been on an adventure as a result of the scenes he might have watched from the film he went to watch with friends.

However, a police source said a foul play was being suspected as a blood stain was found on the deceased’s chest.

The police image maker in Oyo State, ASP Femi Okanlawon confirmed the story, saying the boy’s parents and some witnesses had been invited by the police to help in the investigations towards unravelling the cause of the deceased’s action.



http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/news/5166-10-year-old-boy-commits-suicide