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BREAKING: SSS Parades Boko Haram Spokesperson In Abuja

Nigeria's Secret Police, the State Security Service (SSS) today paraded Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (A.K.A) Usman Al-Zawahiri before journalists in Abuja. The SSS claimed that Sanda was the spokesperson for Boko Haram, the islamic militant group based in Maiduguri, Borno state. However, Sanda claimed that he has been suspended from Boko Haram after the sect accused him of leaking information to the security agencies.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/nigerias-secret-police-parades-boko-haram-spokesperson-abuja?page=1

How long will this continue? Oh Lord, we are at your mercy.

@Poster
Are u trying to rap d Ghana way? Cause can't decipher what this blabbering is all about, truly.

[b]THE Edo State Police Command is investigating the circumstances that led to the death of 17-year-old Godspower Idejerhoyibo, who was abducted, penultimate Friday, while returning from school in Obe community. Police Commissioner David Omojola, who paraded three suspects, Daniel Etido (21), Godday Ogbeiye (25) and Kelvin Ogimwonyi (20), allegedly involved in the abduction of Godspower, explained that Etido, a friend of the deceased’s family, led three others to kidnap their victim.

Omojola said the arrests came about 24 hours after the suspects allegedly committed the crime, but after their victim had died. According to him, “one Godspower Idjerhoyibo was kidnapped by a three-man gang of kidnappers led by Godpower’s close friend, Daniel Etido. “Police immediately swung into action and, on November 12, Daniel Etodo was arrested. Investigation revealed that the victim was returning from school when he was accosted by the friend who had arranged the kidnapping”, the commissioner said.

Etido, who admitted spearheading the crime, told Sunday Vanguard that he and fellow suspects planned on demanding a ransom of N500,000 to release their victim, adding that he recruited his arrested colleagues, one of whom he referred to as a native doctor, to assist in executing the plot. The alleged native doctor among them, Ogbeye, according to Etido, who hails from Akwa-Ibom State, made it possible for the gang to abduct the boy without resorting to the use of arms.

He narrated: “Thursday (penultimate week) we (three) organised to carry the boy for ransom. Eventually when we kidnapped the boy, we kept him in an uncompleted building. One of us (Ogbeye) went to bring food but he delayed and, while I went in search of him, I was accosted and arrested by the police. The native doctor’s charm made it easy for us to catch him without shooting. Honestly, I don’t know why he died but I think it was hunger. I am really sorry and shocked”.

The suspect claimed the victim was tied with ropes. “We used charms to make the kidnapping easy and without having to carry gun… We planned to ask for N500, 000 to release him, but we did not plan to kill him; maybe he died of hunger.” However, Ogiemwonyi and Ogbeye denied taking part in the crime, saying that they were being framed up.[/b]

Patrick, u say?

****opens door gently, glance around and slam door hard, hissing****

Students’ Union Leader Dies In Auto Crash

The President of Students’ Union Government (SUG), Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), Mr. Chidi Uruakpa, has died following an auto crash.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Uruakpa died on Thursday at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), where he was admitted after the motor accident on Tuesday.

The SUG president was said to be travelling in his official bus when the accident occurred along the Isiukwato road and witnesses said that the bus somersaulted several times.

Until his death, Uruakpa was a final year student of Environmental Resource Management of the institution.

NAN reports that this is the second time in three months that two officials of ABSU-SUG are dying.

In August, the treasurer of the students’ body, Mr. Otisi Chukwuemeka lost his life in a motorcycle accident along Okigwe road.

Incidentally, Uruakpa and Otisi were course mates and of the same level.

Mr. Acho Elendu, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, confirmed the death of Urukpa to NAN in a telephone interview.

Elendu said that he was not in a position to give details of the incident as he was out of the state.


http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/11/18/students%E2%80%99-union-leader-dies-in-auto-crash/

A 56-year-old man, John Oromoro, is in police custody for allegedly killing his pastor, Ben Ojinaka. The incident happened on Sunday, September 19th at Jakande Estate, Ajangbadi. Mr Oromoro said the pastor of Jesus Power Ministry, Benjamin Ojinaka, 45, allegedly raped his 15-year-old daughter in July this year. He said he went to confront the pastor on the allegation that it was his daughter that lured him to have sex with him when a fight ensued between them that led to the pastor’s death.

“I be tanker driver,” he said. “The thing wey happen na since more than one month ago. My daughter, wen be the last born of my fourteen children get marine spirit. Pastor Ben come say him fit deliver her. Na me and pastor na we form the church together, so na so pastor come dey carry her go for deliverance.”

Scandal and Death

Mr Oromoro stated that his daughter was eventually delivered of the ‘spirits’ but he noticed she kept going back to church after the deliverance. “Later my daughter come refused to go church; after I ask her many times, she come confessed say pastor Ben rape her for inside my house one day during deliverance,” he said. “I come vex, go meet pastor. Him come tell me make I forgive am say na devil work, I vex but I come forgive pastor.” He said he then heard rumours of the pastor claiming that his daughter lured him to have sex with him. “When I hear say pastor dey tell people say na my daughter rape am, I come go him house on Sunday go ask am say why him dey spoil my daughter name,” he said. “Him tell me to get out from him house , I come vex, we come dey fight. Na so people for the compound come separate us. As pastor dey run go tell police, na so him fall down.”

According to the wife of the deceased, Mr Ojinaka slumped after the fight and was rushed to a private hospital. “As him fall down, we pour water for him body but him no wake up,” said Mrs Ojinaka. “We carry am go private hospital and them refer us to General hospital for Badagry. When the doctor seem am for general hospital, them say pastor don die make we carry am go mortuary.” His corpse was subsequently taken to the mortuary at the General hospital, Isolo, Lagos.

Police officers from the Ilemba Hausa Police Station arrested Mr Oromoro and the case has been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department at Panti, Yaba. Homicide detectives at Panti said investigation into the case has began. Frank Mba, the Lagos Police Command Spokesperson, advised resident to shun violence and embrace peace

By Abiodun Ladepo


(A long read - but worth every second. Patiently read it, pls)

The Boko Haram (BH) claims it is avenging the “extra-judicial” killing of its leader, Muhammed Yusuf, who died at the hands of the Nigerian Police in 2009, during the presidency of the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua – a Northern Muslim. BH waited for Jonathan, a Christian, to become president before taking terror to a new level. It added to its manifesto the annihilation of all Christians in the North; the removal of all churches and all businesses associated with Christians from the North; the introduction of Sharia law throughout the rest of Nigeria (13 Northern states now have Sharia law); the removal of all symbols of Western-styled democracy; and the abolition of Western education altogether.

This manifesto could be dismissed as the wishful thinking of a deranged group, except that members of BH are dead serious (no pun intended) about achieving these goals. They have essentially made Borno and Yobe States ungovernable. They have the presidency on its heels, sweating and fretting; they have the security agencies hobbled and in shambles; they have all Nigerians restive and pensive; and they have the international community paying rapt attention.
To the rest of the civilized world, BH’s activities exemplify the very definition of “Ethnic Cleansing”, genocide or Jihad. It happened in the old Yugoslavia and now there is no more Yugoslavia. It happened in Sudan, and now we have the countries of Sudan and South Sudan. It happened in Germany…the infamous Holocaust…and now we have the new Israel.

It has happened in Nigeria before…this wanton killing, maiming and destruction of properties. Ah, you forgot? You forgot the Northern pogrom of 1966 which was the precursor to our first civil war? I say “first” because I think we are headed for the second one. During the pogrom, hordes of Hausa/Fulani people, like flies, invaded the homes of Igbo people in the North, slitting their throats and clubbing them to death…without provocation, and with utter impunity! I didn’t read this in a history book. I witnessed it with my own eyes as a kid in Zaria. I lost my innocence then. My family was spared because my father had one of those tribal marks native to Ibadan, and he was a devout Muslim.
So, today, suppose a group springs up in Enugu under the aegis of Christianity, with a name like say…Eastern Sons of Christ (ESOC), and begins the killing and maiming of all non-Christians, especially people of Hausa/Fulani extraction, along with some of their Yoruba “collaborators”.

Imagine the ESOC laying explosives in and around businesses, mosques and homes owned by people other than members of the ESOC tribe. Imagine a similar group, under the name of say…Western Sons of Christ (WESOC), stands up its operations in Ibadan, targeting all Hausa/Fulani Muslims, along with their Yoruba “collaborators” (there are many Muslims in the Yoruba kingdom). Imagine yet another group springs up in Port Harcourt, under the name of say…Southern Sons of Christ (SOSOC), killing people of Hausa/Fulani extraction – Muslims, along with their Yoruba “collaborators”.

If the ESOC became a terror group like the Boko Haram (BH) has become, it would be justified. It could claim vengeance for the thousands of Igbo people that were, without provocation, ruthlessly massacred by the Hausa/Fulani during the pogrom. It could further justify its actions by claiming more maltreatment during the ensuing civil war (1967 – 1970), and yet more maltreatment following the so-called “No Victor No Vanquished” truce evident in the continued marginalization of the Igbo in most spheres of influence in Nigeria.
If the WESOC became a terror group like the BH, it could claim that it was tired of being caught between the Hausa/Fulani Vs Igbo (Muslim/Christian) fights.

WESOC could say that it frequently suffered with ESOC each time the Northern Muslims embarked on one of their barbaric extermination missions and that ESOC never gave it enough credit. Instead, ESOC blamed WESOC for not joining in the Biafra cause. (WESOC can’t even claim any monolithic Christian stronghold in its geographical area, and can’t state with any degree of certainty which of the two major religions enjoys a numerical superiority in its communities.) WESOC can further claim that when one of its illustrious sons, a strong Muslim for that matter – MKO Abiola, won the election for President, the Hausa/Fulani Muslims, before morphing into BH, killed him rather than allow him to rule.

And if the SOSOC was to become a terror group exactly like the BH, it could claim that its previous acts of blowing up oil pipelines and kidnapping for ransom did not fully achieve SOSOC’s goal of 50% oil revenue allocation. It could argue that “our oil” was being used to build skyscrapers, mansions and “six-star” hotels in Abuja, Sokoto, Maiduguri and Yola, while “our people” in the Niger-Delta couldn’t fish or farm without fear of pollution. It could argue vengeance for the brazen, state-sponsored killing of one of its illustrious sons – Ken Saro-Wiwa, during the presidency of a Hausa/Fulani man and the desecration of his body by pouring acid on it.

In essence, we could have anarchy all across Nigeria, not just in the Northeastern States and Abuja, and no one would have peace. These groups could all find nebulous excuses to justify unleashing mayhem on the rest of the country like the BH is now doing and we would have our second civil war.
We had the Maitatsine riots of 1980, largely in the same Northeastern area. We have had other similar incidents in the intervening years, all aimed at building a homogenous, Islamic caliphate in Northern Nigeria. The military governments of the day easily put down those riots and attacks. But that was before the advent of the use of explosives as weapons of terror. In 1980, Maitatsine rioters, progenitors of the BH sect, used knives…long knives…to attack Christians. Now they use guns…machine guns…and explosives to mow down innocent, unharmed people. Then they brazenly take onto the internet to claim responsibility for their dastardly acts. And like Al Qaida, they have amorphous, nameless and faceless leadership.

It is clear that since Nigeria’s amalgamation, the Hausa/Fulani Muslims of the North thought of themselves as superior beings, compared to the Christians of the South, and particularly the largely-Christian Igbo people. In fact, if you have the trust and confidence of a Northerner, you will frequently hear him derisively refer to Igbo people as “impure” and “lower-than-dogs”. This may sound like fanning the embers of ethnic crisis here. But I am stating the facts. I know that Igbo people in power today are aware of this, and so are their Yoruba and, of course, their Hausa counterparts. They are just too timid to say it in the open. I am not in power and I am not timid. I grew up in Zaria as a practicing Muslim. I attended Arabic/Islamic evening classes, lived in Kano and Maiduguri and finished my elementary school in Bukuru, near Jos. I also speak Hausa better than I speak English. So, before anybody castigates me as a basher of the North or of Muslims, they better take cognizance of the fact that I had firsthand experience. Notice how no Hausa/Fulani of significant profile, like say…the Sardauna of Sokoto, the Emir of Zaria, the Emir of Gwandu, the Emir of Maiduguri, Ibrahim Babangida, Mohammadu Buhari, Abubakar Atiku, Abubakar Umar, etc…has come out to openly denounce the BH sect. Their quiet acquiescence should not be interpreted as cowardly or coincidental. It is calculated.

The hatred of Igbo people and Christians by the Hausa/Fulani people remain palpable. Northern Muslims just manage to tolerate them. If they thought they could harm a Christian or an Easterner and get away with it, they would do it in a jiffy, without compunction and without remorse. And they would do it in the name of Allah. I have read the Qur’an, to include the Hadiths, and I have not found any portion of it where the Prophet Mohammed (PBOH) enjoined, sanctioned, urged or ordered adherents of Islam to destroy believers of other faiths. Of course, we have ultra-right-wingers in all religions, including Christianity, but none is waging such destructive and bloody war against “non-believers” like our Northern brothers. I think it is even tantamount to heresy referring to them as “brothers” those who have taken self-righteous indignation beyond any scintilla of reason. They are reprobates.

So, if the West, the East and the South conclude that the North has gone beyond redemption, why not grant the North its request? Why not draw a real, physical border with the North and allow it to rule its people like it wishes? By now, we all should know that no attempt at placating the Hausa/Fulani people would prevent them from sliding into their banal recidivism. I have absolutely no problem having to apply for a visa to visit my Alma Mata in Zaria or Bukuru. By their acts, the BH sect has vindicated Odumegwu Ojukwu and proved the venerable Obafemi Awolowo wrong about Biafra. Awolowo fought to “keep Nigeria one” but it is now clear that the task had always been only one-sided. The North obviously did not get that memorandum and so did not share the same objective. We need to quickly adorn the Ikemba of Nnewi with rose-bedecked garlands for being brave and visionary enough, as far back as 1966, to attempt Biafra. Ojukwu, who was humiliated, harangued, vilified and exiled for knowing (that far back) that the North was always going to be implacable, should be celebrated as a hero and rewarded as such before he passes on to the great beyond. And I am not being facetious or sarcastic.

The North now wants its own country – one ruled by Sharia and devoid of any semblance of Western civilization. We should let them have it peacefully. Those who have called for a Sovereign National Conference should redouble their efforts. Nigerians need to talk amongst themselves now so that they can peacefully decide how to coexist. Otherwise, the inevitable combustion will swallow everybody. If you have not been directly (or even remotely) touched by the BH attacks, you may not appreciate the urgency of deciding peacefully the future of Nigeria. If you have never seen a full blown war firsthand, I hope that you and your family continue to be protected from finding out how it feels. It is not a pretty sight.

Interpret plssssssssss

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the interior ministry to start the process of issuing Visas at the nation’s airports to prospective investors and the business communities. Speaking at the just concluded 17th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, President Jonathan said the policy is part of his administration’s effort to remove bottlenecks encountered by investors in the country.

According to him, there was no reason for people who want to invest made to go through rigorous processes of getting Visas into the country. The President also ordered the issuance of at least 10-year Visas to some of the recognized Chief Executives in the oil and telecoms sectors.

He said it didn’t made sense to him if ACEOs of companies like Shell, Agip or MTN that have billion of investments in the country needed to be renewing Visas every two years. He said all these are parts of his agenda to ease investment climate in Nigeria.

“Let me commend the organisers of the Summit for the choice of this year’s Summit theme, which is “Attracting Foreign Direct Investment, through Global Partnerships”. This is quite apt and timely. It is also consistent with the aspirations of the Transformation Agenda and Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020. This also reinforces the need to do all that is necessary to guarantee the security and profitability of foreign investments in our country”.

“We are committed to doing things differently and to fulfilling our role to our citizens and the global community. We have established clear criteria and mechanisms for benchmarking and the setting of performance targets, so we can drive our economy in a positive direction, in line with global best practices.”

http://allafrica.com/stories/201111150887.html

Pls guys, Asaba should not be judged only by viewing it along the Asaba - Benin expressway. Come into the town and see for yourself.
It's a glorified township.

A city like Asaba begging for numerous infrastructure across board was totally neglected and fund channeled to a place like Giddy's.
I trust Giddy's, this matter no go end here, watch,

I hail u bros
Pls how much would it cost me for a 2002 volkswagen Jetta ECU with number 06A 906 032 FR?
Appreciate your prompt response,

I tire ooooo
What happened to the celebrities section?

Seriously forget this Anioma thing, Uduaghan took a very wrong decision concerning Giddy's Place.
The only sin Giddy's committed was supporting Ogboru and DPP. It's quite unfortunate that a place like
Giddy's has been permanently eroded into the history book of Asaba fun centres. Giddy's was a must
visit for anyone coming into Asaba for the first time. I passed through Anwai road and could not believe
my eyes. Soldiers numbering more than 100 plus their Police counterparts barricaded one part of Anwai
road thereby causing untold hardship on motorist. Interbau roundabout was simply impassable between the hours of 7:30 am
and 7:00pm today. They brought in caterpillars and levelled to the ground a land belonging to an opposition member. Even with
C of O, Uduaghan went on with this barbaric act. A land he legitimately acquired during the time of MILAD Kefas,

It's really sad indeed,

I'm hugely surprised nobody mentioned Asaba.
Asaba is nothing to write home about, i mean nothing.

@Brainbox4u
I'm not in Lagos right now, but i could send someone to liase with you in terms of procurement.
How much is it going for? I appreciate your prompt response so far, thanks.

Pls u can reach me on meexteeriox@gmail.com

Plssssssssssss, i'm in dire need of ECU for Volkswagen Jetta 2002 model with number 06A 906 032 FR
Your two numbers has been unreachable since today,

Uduaghan remains till date, the worst that can happen to Deltans.
Commenting about him gives me the creep,

It's funny really, i'm consoling myself with some naija sound right now.
As i passed one FRSC checkpoint, an officer advised i lower d volume a bit,

I'm going real slow that i can fiddle wit my phone, now dis is not funny atall.
Road side Emergency Assistance? In Naija? Pls avail me their number, plssssssssssssss

Thanks ooooooooooooo
Imagine Police still tackling me even in this condition, i shouted the fool off the road

My broda, i googled epc light on jetta. You would not believe the barrage of complaints from VW customers concerning this same issue.
Guess i need a computer scan to determine real fault before anything. Right now though, i'm still rolling without throttle power down a very shady highway.

Tried that, no show. Right now i'm on drive and moving real slowly out of the zone i find myself presently. I can't go higher than 20m/ph

I lost throttle power suddenly on the highway, i managed to park on the side of the road and while checking my dash board
i saw the EPC (Electronic Pedal Control) light was on. Sorry, i was driving a 2002 VW Jetta. The EPC light came on and also the Check Engine light.
The engine starts normally but no throttle power, the rev is as good as dead. Any solution to this pls?

Don't even mention Asaba, it is worse off. Yes, i stay there. Nothing, absolutely nothing to write home about.
The only major road, Nnebisi road is simply impassable attimes, while all the adjoining roads like Jesus Saves, DLA are death traps.
Writing about this is nauseating, with all the money available to Uduaghan, all he does is mark one Birthday party for his family members
or gallivant round the world doing nothing.

Pls send me details of the business to alberto.treasure@yahoo.com