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netotse:
you didn't know before? thats y she's been trying to rack up so many posts

Racking up so many posts to become a mod?
You're ridiculous, Show proof and make sense next time before spreading blasphemy.

MrCrackles:
Grammar. . .  
Are you Honourable Obahiagbon in disguise
Have you been sleeping with the dictionary again?

bookface:
^^ The kind that put dimwitts in their place. . .doesn't tolerate stupidity

Then you shouldn't be crying for your username to be unbanned, lol.

Nigerian leaders and their hypocrisy, whenever the fall sick, they run straight to England or the United States for treatment. . .
But they're always trying to convince Nigerians to come home and be patriotic. . .
Load of Bull****.

SEFAGO:
^ thats not mama-gee. Dont let any of these 419 gals fool you 

Can you stop now. . .Have you seen me in person?

That man is a beast who deserves to be out of earth.

That punk should be a given a life sentence, 4 years is not enough.

FL Gators:
Oh gosh, this is funny and very s[i]tu[/i]pid.

If you stealing ppl's identity, why would you buy cars in their name for your used car business. Id[i]io[/i]ta!!!

Supposed to keep the shiiiiiit on the low

Dude should be a nominee in the World's Dumbest Criminal, lol.

Bunch of money hungry dimwitts, I laugh as I watch them lose their dignity.

The guy is dead, there's no way he would escape execution coming from a Country like Nigeria. . .Poor fella.

A 60-year-old woman, Evelyn Udofia, has made a passionate appeal to the Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, Senate President, David Mark and the Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, to halt plans to kill her son by hanging, saying he is not an armed robber.

She lamented that her son, Emeka Udofia, who was condemned to death on February 25, 2010, by High Court 4, Owerri, Imo State, presided over by Justice Pascal Nnadi, after spending eleven years in prison, was among others, a victim of abject poverty.

“If I had given a certain police officer (name withheld by us) who was investigating the case at one point the N50, 000, he asked me to pay for the release of my son, he wouldn’t have been condemned to death. I didn’t have such amount of money to offer,” she told Daily Sun in a recent interview.
Emeka’s travails started on March 1, 1999, when some robbers allegedly invaded the premises of Anyiam-Osigwe in Ukwuinyi village in Nkwerre, Imo State, and robbed one Chukwuma Anyiam-Osigwe of N40, 000 and five pump action guns, valued at N70, 000.

The robbers were said to have struck during a celebration in the compound.
According to the heart-broken mother, four days after the robbery, some policemen started picking some youths, especially, those who were always going to Anyiam-Osigwe’s family in search of menial jobs, as there were said to be construction works going in the compound at that period. She said her son happened to be one of the youths who were going there in search of menial job.

“He was sleeping in the house when some policemen came looking for him, alleging that he was among the boys that came to rob in Anyaim-Osigwe’s compound four days ago.” Madam Udofia alleged that the policemen arrested about 50 youths from the community and the number later pruned down to eight, after the released ones allegedly paid N50, 000, each.

Among those arrested were, twin brothers, Peter and Paul Umelo. Peter later died in prison. Other suspects are Chima Obi Uzoma, Onyebuchi Nwosu, Ugochukwu Chigbu, Ikechukwu Nwosu and Sunday Uzoukwu.
“Eight of them whose parents could not afford to pay N50, 000 were charged with robbery. Some of them were said to be under-aged. “They purposely delayed the trial for them to reach adult stage, at least, 18 years. No exhibits were found on my son,” she said amid sobs.
How did her son’s name make the list of the armed robbers? Mrs. Udofia gave an insight: “My son had a misunderstanding with a member of Anyiam-Osigwe’s family, and he vowed to implicate him in the robbery, and he did.”

She explained that after the boastful Anyiam-Osigwe realised the consequences of his action, he visited Emeka in prison to beg for forgiveness. Emeka was not the only one in the family arrested by the police in connection with the robbery. His sister, Chinyere, was also arrested and detained for a month and two weeks before she was released. There was no charge against her. Her only offence, Daily Sun learnt, was that she went to confront the person who implicated her brother.

“I sold my freezer, my domestic animals and other things before my daughter was released from detention,” she told Daily Sun. After the arrest of the eight youths, all from Umuoforola Nkwerre, the same place with Anyiam-Osigwes, police allegedly wrote a statement and forced them to sign it. One of them, Ikechukwu Nwosu, who was said to be 14 years at the time of his arrest and in primary school when the robbery occurred, was said to have confessed that police wrote the statement and included Emeka’s name and pointed a gun on his (Ikechukwu’s) head while in handcuff and asked him to sign.

He said they never read to him what they wrote before they forced him to sign. Even, the fact that he told the police that he only knew Emeka while in prison could not make them (police) to exclude his (Emeka’s) name from the statement purportedly written by him. Ikechukwu, who was said to be among those discharged by the court, was said to have confessed and explained that police forced him to implicate the four condemned youths. They are Uzoma, Emeka, Onyebuchi and Ugochukwu.

The discharged ones are, Paul, twin brother to the late Peter, Ikechukwu and Sunday. “I suspect that they discharged Paul to compensate the family for the dead Peter. The family refused to go and carry Peter’s corpse, Mrs. Udofia further said. Daily Sun gathered that in the charge No. HON.2C/2001 which started in the High Court of Nkwerre, the names of the following people were mentioned as witnesses. They are Inspector Adamu of State C.I.D, Owerri, Sergeant A. Okon of State C.I.D. Owerri, Anthony Anyiam-Osigwe of Ukwuenyi Umuofotola, Nkwerre, E.O. Anyiam-Osigwe, Charles Anyiam-Osigwe, Peace Anyiam-Fiberisma and Chukwuma Anyiam-Osigwe.

Others are Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, Mrs. Ijeoma Anyiam-Osigwe, Samuel Utoh, Josephine Obanye, Maria Ogbolu and Stephen Nneji (Assistant Superintendent of Police) attached to Nkwerre police station.
Adamu was said to have later refused to come to court as a witness because of his “personal conviction.” It was also gathered that apart from Okon, other witnesses stopped coming to court, while a former commissioner in Imo State, who hails from Owerri, represented Anyiam-Osigwe’s family in court. The case was later transferred from Nkwerre to Owerri High Court, where the judgment was finally given this year after eleven years.

Mrs. Udofia said: “Out of the 11 witnesses, only two came to court to testify. Why did they transfer the case to Owerri and not the jurisdiction, where the crime was allegedly committed? They just wanted to use their connection to pervert justice.”

She explained that when her son was charged with robbery, she had no money to hire a lawyer to defend him. It was one lawyer, Idiwugo Nwosu, who, on compassionate grounds, represented her son for the 11 years the case lasted, free of charge. Barrister Nwosu has even indicated his interest to pursue the case to the Appeal Court. “I’m calling on Governor Ohakim, the Senate President, the Speaker of House of Representatives, human rights activists and wellmeaning Nigerians, to intervene and save my son from being killed. He is not an armed robber,” she groaned.

Nwosu, who later spoke to Daily Sun said he was shocked at the judgment of Owerri High Court. He wondered why the judge could base his verdict on a statement written on behalf of Ikechukwu Nwosu by the Investigating Police Officers. According to him, Ikechukwu was in Primary four when the robbery occurred and did not know the contents of what the IPOs wrote. He disclosed that when he grew up in the prison and was shown the statement he purportedly wrote and signed, he disowned it outrightly.

“We expected the judge to say that what the police did was wrong. Instead, he hinged his judgment on the document, which the police concorted, to implicate others and asked Ikechukwu to sign. He condemned four of them and released Ikechukwu, who allegedly claimed that all of them were robbers.”

Speaking on the transfer of the case from Nkwerre to Owerri, Nwosu explained that there is only one High Court in Imo State, adding that there are Divisional High Courts. He disclosed that the Divisional High Courts try cases of violent crimes, including armed robbery, except for, “a very strong reason.”
“What bothered us was why the matter was transferred from where it originated. The reason they gave was that it would prevent the accused persons from escaping from the Black Maria, any time they were being taken to the court. We started to smell a rat when the case was transferred to Owerri,” Nwosu said.

Daily Sun gathered that when the suspects were transferred to Owerri prison, it was not all the time that they went to court in Black Maria. They sometimes trekked to court in leg chains and handcuffs. “They treated the case as if the suspects committed an offence that is higher than armed robbery. They wanted to humiliate them at all costs,” he further said.

He cited an instance where the Investigating Police Officers handcuffed Emeka and drove him to Ngwa, in Abia State, where they consulted a herbalist to find out if he (Emeka) took part in the robbery. The herbalist was said to have exonerated him but the police still held him. “Many youths were arrested by the police and the ones whose parents were able to pay N50, 000 were released,” he alleged.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/crimewatch/2010/mar/11/crimewatch-11-03-2010-001.htm

When you are in a lucrative business and you realize that you are getting the crumbs, anybody that is serious-minded will think of getting the meat rather than settling for the bone. In the film making business, I realized that the major challenge is distribution and I asked myself, if I remain an actor, would it get me to the Promised Land? I have always said that we have the capacity to enjoy what Bollywood and Hollywood are enjoying. But unfortunately our marketing is at best exploitative and poor. So I’m trying to set up something that will change the Nollywood landscape and it is all about distribution for now. But having said that, I’m always an actor and will remain an actor. As a matter of fact, I have a movie that will come out very soon and it’s called True color. So my fans have something to look out for.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/explore/2010/mar/14/explore-14-03-2010-001.htm

I don't see anything contradicting, they're saying two different things.

As ShowBizNow exclusively reported that contestants threatened to pull out of GUS celebrity edition because Genevieve emerged the host, three of the original contestants billed for the show eventually pulled out.
Star actor, Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic and ex-beauty queen, Omowunmi pulled out. A source said one of the contestants pulled out on medical grounds as her doctor did not certify her fit for participation.

“The doctor was not privy to the activities they would be doing as the contestants were not told. If they had asked for medical report before the contract was signed we would have known what to do. She pulled out because her doctor did not certify her fit”. However, people on the side of NBL, Bate and Cosse, the company in charge of the event insist that some of the contestants started raising questions immediately they got wind of the fact that Genevieve would be the host of the reality TV show.

Ramsey was said to have pulled out of the show as he got wind of the fact that Genny was hosting it due to the fact that he and Genny do not enjoy the best of relationship. Ramsey who was once very close to Genny fell apart with her when he called the actress and told her that colleagues in the industry said she is too proud. He consequently advised her to stop giving diva-attitude to fellow actresses as it won’t help her career. We learnt that one thing led to another, the two argued, exchanged hot words on phone and consequently fell apart. However, a source insisted there is more to the feud. The source said it was a romantic affair gone sour that actually caused the fight and that the exchange of words on phone was as a result of a feud they both had before Ramsey placed a call to her using the industry complaint against her as excuse.

From that time on Ramsey and Genevieve have not been on talking terms, and Ramsey is not hiding it.
When we spoke to Genny on how she felt that some of her peers pulled out of the reality show, she said, she was not disappointed but surprised. “I am not disappointed but surprised that they did what they did” she said. When pressed further to elaborate she said she won’t speak more on the matter.

But Ope Banwo, the CEO of the company that manages Genevieve said Rita and the rest that pulled out should be sued for breach of contract if they pulled out because Genevieve was chosen as host. If it is true they signed a contract to appear at a show, I don’t think it will be right for them to pull out simply because they don’t like the hostess. And I think that’s part of the problem we seem to have in this country where artistes don’t seem to respect contracts. If you are a professional and you signed a contract then you honor it .

It doesn’t matter who they bring. It will be different if when you negotiated the contract you reserved the right to have a say on who the hostess is going to be. That did not happen because I know that was not in the contract, I have some starson the show. I think this is wrong except of course there are other reasons why she withdrew. If the third party did not breach their side of the contract which to the best of my knowledge didn’t happen , then it would have been wrong for any professional not just Rita now, to pull-out because from what we are hearing they do not like the person that was chosen as hostess for them. But of course we do not know the full story, so I cannot speak for her or the other side. If she pulled out because of the hostess, then it will be wrong .

It is unprofessional and I think it’s the problem in the industry where people sign contracts and they just feel they can walk away from it because they don’t like something. Once you have signed you are stuck. That’s the way it works in the US and that is what they do in any other country. They will be sued for that, you don’t sign a contract and walk away because you don’t like something. You should think of all of that before you sign and once you have signed you are bound, even if you don’t like some of the issues that came up after. We are not babies here , we are professionals and when you sign a contract you need to honor your contract. I think somebody should start holding stars accountable for their contracts.

That is why the industry is not developing, that is why foreigners are afraid of signing Nigerian artistes-on because they don’t know what they are going to get. So I am very passionate about this, a contract is a contract. But when we sign contracts we should honour them and those who do not should be made to face the law. What I’m saying here is that if a professional signs a contract and without the consent of the other party, he walks away from it, an example should be made of him and this is what I’m advising the organizers to do. When you make an example of one, they will learn to honour contracts. There is too much of it in Nollywood and I think they should be sued by the organizers. I will like to be quoted on that. I think they should be sued by the organizers because it costs them money and they have to do a last minute run around to get them replaced. They didn’t get the kind of people they thought they would get.

When we explained that some pulled out on medical grounds, Ope dismissed the talk as cheap. “Well you can read between the lines yourself, at least my artistes that were there all went through the medical test and I was even there when they evaluated two of my artistes. It was nothing invasive. They just checked their blood pressure to ensure they were fit to go into that kind of event. So you cannot pull out when they have not told you you’re not medically fit. After all they said they were going to get them insurance and do you know an insurance company that will insure people without testing them?

The contract says they will be given a comprehensive insurance policy for the duration of the event, so if the insurance company now says they want to do testing to be able to insure them I think as a professional you should not have a problem with that, and nobody else had that problem except those people. It will be different if after they tested them and they said they were not fit. Then, that is a ground under which they can pull out; but that is not what happened here, they were never tested from what I know”, he said.

Mildred Okwo, Rita Dominic’s Manager also had some comments on the issue:
Sam, I don’t understand the need for people to grandstand when there is absolutely no reason to. Our country has become a place where people cheaply market themselves on the pages of a newspaper as opposed to gathering facts and advancing proper solutions for real problems based on those facts.

Rita Dominic did pull out of Celebrity GUS but not before we explained the reasons to those with whom she had a contract . We took out time to explain to the head of the brand and the COO of Bate Cosse why she had to pull out. She pulled out for unavoidable reasons. To the best of my knowledge, they accepted my explanation and aside from those two gentlemen, every other person is speculating for their own ulterior motives and we will not dignify them with a response. It is unprofessional for any person to make sweeping statements when they are not privy to both sides of the story.

A close source to the Chief Operating Officer of Bate Cosse, the agency that handled the reality show, told us that one of the contestants pulled out of the show on medical grounds, but denied that Ramsey, Rita or Omowunmi pulled out because of Genevieve. “We spoke to over 20 celebrities, and some said yes, some said no. Some people who indicated interest earlier later pulled out because of the scope of the programme. That can’t be said to mean pulling out” the source disclosed.

One way or the other, GUS Celebrity edition is generating so much interest that the viewers cannot wait to start watching by end of March or early next month.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/showpiece/2010/mar/14/showpiece-14-03-2010-001.htm

^^What has that got to do with this heart bleeding topic?

I love them both, I can't afford to lose any.

Their stories are like lines from a horror movie. They bring tears to eyes, leave your heart bleeding. They are tales of sorrow by the widows of the last sectarian killings, tales of how their children and husbands were butchered in their in Dogo Nahawa, a village near Jos. With pain dripping from the dirge they sang, the bereaved women virtually brought the National Assembly to its knees as people shed uncontrollable tears. The gate of the complex had been flung open to hundreds of women protesting last week’s genocide in the Plateau state capital.

The atmosphere in front of the National Assembly building popularly known as White House was somber, as the shrill voices of women clad in black, with green leaves on their heads pierced through the early morning weather with melodious but sorrowful songs.

They were the voices of the women from Plateau State who had come to National Assembly to protest the dawn massacre on March 7 of women and children in Dogo Nahawa a remote area in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
As they sang, displaying gory pictures of slaughtered women and children, tears flowed freely from eyes of both the protesters, the on- lookers and even female security agents sent to ensure orderliness of the protest. Journalists were not left out. They forgot for a while their midgets and notepads.
Like a sore thumb in the midst of the women numbering over 600 stood this woman of about five feet tall who was dressed in green and black instead of the complete back that others wore.
She just stood there neither crying nor singing, but sweating heavily when Sunday Sun approached her to know why she was not dressed in full black like others and why she was not singing too.
She muttered in a low voice that her name was Priscilla Sunday and counted seven of her fingers. One of the women apparently watching over her whispered that Priscilla lost seven children in addition to other relations in the massacre.

Spurred to share her experience in the pogrom, the 35-year-old Priscilla said that it was in her presence that some of her children were slaughtered by the rampaging Fulani herdsmen, who invaded her home in the early morning of the black Sunday. By the time the herdsmen retreated to their evil holes and the dust cleared, she lamented that seven of her children had been wasted.

“ I cannot describe what I saw with my eyes. My children’s heads were cut open with cutlass, their brains spilled on the ground and arrows cutting through their bodies. Why, what have we done?” She asked and burst into tears.
To her, the security agents in Plateau State had failed the people they were sent to protect. She was so bitter about it that she suggested that all soldiers, all policemen should leave Plateau because according to her, their presence had not done the people of the state any good.

She also suggested that since the security agents could no longer guarantee their safety, they should leave and allow the warring factions to confront each other in a fight, which according to her, would determine who remains in Jos. “Let us fight so that which ever side wins would remain in Jos. I want to avenge the death of my children”, she declared.

Narrating how the villagers were caught napping by the invaders, she said, “We were sleeping when suddenly we were woken up by sounds of gun shots and people shouting. We did not even know where they came from. These men trooped into our houses and started attacking us with dangerous weapons like guns, cutlasses and clubs.
“It was unfortunate that the children could not run as fast as the elders. Even toddlers were not spared. What is all this about? I watched them kill my seven children and others within the compound and there was nothing I or any other person could do.“ As these things were happening, no security agent was in sight. Neither policemen nor soldiers came to our rescue.

We are asking government for adequate security so that we can live peacefully in Plateau. However, if they can no longer guarantee our safety, security agents should give way and allow us to fight so that who ever wins should stay in Jos. If they defeat us, let them remain in Jos and if we defeat them, they should be prepared to also leave Jos.
“ As it is now, we do not see any reason why any security agent should remain in Jos. If they cannot assist us, they should leave. We are not going to fight them with dangerous weapons like gun, cutlasses, clubs or charms. God that we serve will definitely fight for us.

“We know that God is seeing all that we are doing. If they say they do not want us in Jos, where do they want us to go? I know that if we engage them in an open fight, our God will give us victory over them,” she stated.
Another Victim, Mrs. Debora Lanbe Danjuma, 27, recounted her experience thus:
“I am a mother of a four-year-old who was hacked to death in my presence for reasons I don’t know. As you can see, I am seven-months pregnant.

On that fateful Sunday, we were on our way to the Church with my son and my late husband. We were in front of our house and I remember I forgot my handset and my husband went back inside to bring it. Suddenly we heard our neighbour shout. We saw a young man running towards us with wound shouting Madam, Madam run they are coming. I could not move fast with the pregnancy and drag the boy along. I was trying to run when one of them just came and collected the boy from me. Before I knew what was happening, before my own eyes I watched them slaughter my son.

“As my husband was coming out to join us, somebody just shot him in the head and spilled his blood and brain on me. This is how I became a widow.” she managed to narrate before tears started to roll out from her cheeks.
On how she managed to escape from the marauders, she said she would be lying if she said she knew how she escaped.
“Only God can explain how I escaped. God can explain how I was not killed. The truth is that I don’t know how I managed to escape, if I tell you how I escaped, I would be lying,” Deborah confessed.
Mrs. Lare Onu, who led the widows to the National Assembly captured the mood of the women and other victims of the last violence in Jos in her speech to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, after he personally came out to welcome and identify with the mourners.

“We are here this morning because of what is happening in Plateau state. Innocent villagers were killed with children that were one month and two months old. They were all slaughtered like animals. Some of these villagers do not even know where Jos is. So why are you killing them? They went to the remotest area of Jos to kill people.
“The question is what were the security men doing. The solders were there, they were called and they did not come. This thing started around 10’o clock and they did not come until 5 in the morning. The Federal Government, the state government and the elders in Plateau have not told the truth about what is happening in Jos.
“We are talking about indigenes or no indigenes here, let us leave religion out of it. Are there not Yorubas and Igbos in Plateau, why are they not fighting, why is it only the Hausa people that are fighting?

“What we know is that there are people behind these things and they are not telling us the truth. The problem is that when our people want to retaliate, they will say stop. We are saying enough, enough and enough of these things”.
The full message of Bankole was delivered by the House Leader, Tunde Akogun, who assured them that government will surely put an end to incessant killings in Jos or anywhere in the country.

Hon Bitrus Kase representing Jos South federal constituency in the House admonished the wounded women not to contemplate a reprisal, but allow God to fight for them. He urged them to fast and pray for God to rise on their behalf.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/mar/14/national-14-03-2010-001.htm

chamotex:
This is a [i]f[/i]ucking joke right? 
I'm seriously ashamed of some people here . . . and this is one of the reason why I really dont like to post or get into any form of discussion with some of the peeps on this section.

Like WTF?
Has it gotten to this?

Going to the point of attcking someone personally . . . . I'm saying it again WTF?  Are you for real?
You can get into as many debates as you like on this forum and fight your corner about who you prefer, whether Rugged or Mode, but to actually go to the extent of going to the person's profile and attck them is just plain stupidity and uncalled for.

Are they paying you or you cant live without them?
I'm sorry Javalove but you are wrong for this . . . . there was no need for it.

Is this a moderator using that offensive word in the forum?

sweetpie23:
sure you can have a crush on them both. but can you have them both? that is up to them

Marrying a Virgin man?
That would be ridiculous.

It has absolutely nothing to do with my real life personality. . .

Another stereotyping, daft thread!

I smell corruption awaiting Nigerians. . .

[quote author=~Sissy~ link=topic=11643.msg5693585#msg5693585 date=1268623066]wondering why she called it "daft thread"and still purposely replied it twice. shouldnt "smart" people know when/how not to reply to"daft" threads

mama-gee u r confusing me oo [/quote]Are you going to eat your heart out cause I replied two times to this daft thread. . .
Shouldn't you be jubilating that I replied to this terrible thread twice, please let me read better thing.

^^How do you know it's not for money, that's the question.