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FIVE POINTS

BACKGROUND
Nnewi, more than any other town in Nigeria has the most number of millionaires per 10 family units. From time immemorial, Nnewi boys become rich so early in life to the bewilderment of natives of other towns and tribes. In ignorance of what drives an Nnewi man, outsiders ascribe this phenomenon as “Ọgwụ Ego” or “Ego Ọbala” meaning “blood money”.



From the foundation of the town, murder or ritual killing known as "igbu ọchụ" is treated as a horrendous abomination.
When an Nnewi man, no matter his standing, is suspected of wilfully killing a fellow human being, he is expected to run away from the town and shall never be allowed to return until 7 years have elapsed. It is called “ịgba ọsọ ọchụ”. This also applies to killings resulting from fights, provocation or even a murder of someone caught atop of the killer’s wife.

If any person is suspected of using juju to kill someone for ritual purposes, the following procedure is followed:
The person is formally confronted with his offence.
2. If he admits, then he is chased out of the town after being stripped naked and taken around the main markets of his village.
3. The funeral rites especially the release of canon shots are performed and the offender is said to have been sent off to the land of the dead while alive, an act known as “ịkwa mmadụ na ndụ”. He will never enter Nnewi town again. The offenders usually die thereafter or become hardened criminals in another town.
4. Should the accused deny the offence, he is taken to a seer or diviner who will either indict or exonerate him. If he is indicted, he will never get home. His house will be set ablaze by the youths and he will be taken round the town naked and be driven out of the town after his funeral has been conducted while he is alive.
5. Alternatively, the accused is asked to swear by a powerful deity. He must choose between swearing by Ogwugwu or Udo. The guilty must die after four market days otherwise the accused is adjudged innocent.
Killing a human being for riches is alien to Nnewi. In fact, people openly ask rich men to account for the sources of their wealth before such men are allowed to execute any public project.

DISCLOSURE
I am an Nnewi prince. I was born in Nnewi and I never left Nnewi until i was done with my Master’s Degree. I went to primary school and secondary school in my village and would always return home during holidays while in the university. I have not applied for and neither has any member of my nuclear family applied or received citizenship of another country. My parents and their own parents hailed from Nnewi hence I am an Original Onye Nnewi (OON).

WHAT DRIVES AN NNEWI MAN
I have tried to highlight below some of the inherent factors that drive a typical Nnewi man.

1. LACK OF ENOUGH FERTILE SOIL
Nnewi has no alluvial soil for bumper harvest of agricultural products. Most agricultural endeavours in Nnewi are at the subsistence level. There are pockets of animal husbandry but not big enough to make one so wealthy hence anyone desirous of wealth has to be innovative.
Also, because necessity is the mother of invention, our people took to trade and have inculcated the acts of trading in the sub-consciousness of their children. It is now etched in the DNA of every child born of Nnewi parents.
An Nnewi man can sell a repackaged devil to an unwary pastor. He can also trade with and make profit from the meanest of the tribes.

2. SWEWED INHERITANCE SHARING FORMULAR IN FAVOUR OF THE FIRST SON
Any Nnewi male child knows that the first son practically inherits the father’s wealth. Other children get a small fraction of the share of first son; that is, if their father shared his wealth before dying, otherwise everybody is at the mercy of the first son.
Nobody questions the first son on how much of his father’s wealth he decides to share or keep for himself. In fact, the first son assumes hundred per cent of the father’s business while his brothers are expected to go find their destiny.
Given this scenario, our boys grow up to know that they are on their own and should work hard to make it in life.



continue reading: at https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/14/nnewi/


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By 3pm later today, the break of a Tanker conveying petroleum Product allegedly failed, and caused death of 53 Persons, and damages to properties, somewhere opposite Toronto Hospital, Upper Iweka Onitsha in Anambra State

Read more at: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/13/black-wenesday-in-onitsha/



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Behold the FIRST NIGERIAN MILLIONAIRE, Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu.


Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE, (1909– September 1966) was a Nigerian business tycoon from the Ojukwu family of Nwakanwa quarters, Obiuno-Umudim, Nnewi. Sir Louis, who was considered the wealthiest person in Nigeria at the time, was Nigeria's first recorded Millionaire; and was the founder of Ojukwu Transport, Ojukwu Stores and Ojukwu Textiles.


At his peak, he was the first and founding President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange as well as President of The African Continental Bank. He was also either Chairman or on the board of directors of some of Nigeria's most profitable companies such as Shell Oil Nigeria Limited, Guinness Nig. Ltd, Nigerian National Shipping Lines, Nigerian Cement Factory, Nigerian Coal Corporation, Costain West Africa Ltd, John Holt, Nigerian Marketing Board amongst others. He won a parliamentary seat during the nation's first republic. He attended a primary school in Asaba and the Hope Waddell Institute. His son Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was a Nigerian military Governor and the President of the secessionist state of Biafra.


Life and career


In 1936, he met Bishop John Cross Anyogu - then a parish priest at Nnewi. Louis was a Roman Catholic.
Ojukwu started his professional career at the Agricultural department before leaving to join John Holt as a tyre sales clerk. He also incorporated a textile company in Onitsha to supplement his income during this period, already exhibiting a little bit of his entrepreneurial spirit. While at John Holt, he noticed the severe strain a lack of adequate transportation had on Eastern textile traders. He later left John Holt to create a transport company to improve the trading environment for Nigerian traders. As a transporter he was a tireless worker and meticulous to detail; he was usually the first to inspect his transport vehicles for oil and leakages. Apart from his work ethic, his success was also oiled by the economic boom after World War II, working with the West African Railway Company and the newly inaugurated produce boards, he provided his fleet for commodity transportation and for other traders use. As a transporter, he had his own transport company (Ojukwu Transport Limited)which was the first major transport company to move the easterners to Lagos from the Asaba end of the Niger river after they might have crossed over from Onitsha on a boat.


During the 1950s, he diversified his interest, bought some industries, invested heavily in the real estate sector and became a director in numerous major corporations including the state-owned Nigerian National Shipping Line. He was a member of the board of Nigerian Coal Corporation, Shell Oil, D'Archy, and African Continental Bank.


During the period of pre-independence and in the First Republic, Ojukwu was an active member and donor to the political party, NCNC. He was a one-time member of the House of Representative. In 1958, he was chairman of the Eastern Region Development Corporation and the Eastern Regional Marketing Board. On May 1, 1953, he was appointed the head of an NCNC peace committee and given the power to choose most of the committee's members. The committee was charged with the responsibility of restoring peace in the regional House of Assembly. His views on policy were a little bit capitalistic and right of Zik's socialist undertones. He was a co-author of a report on the Economic Mission to Europe and North America with Azikiwe, the report recommended the investment of extra funds from the product marketing board in a regional bank and public corporations to stimulate economic development. Ojukwu died in 1966, just a year before the Nigerian civil war. His son Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was the leader of the secessionist state of Biafra.


His wealth in Present-day Nigeria is times two the worth of Dangote. Can we ever get another Sir Louis Ojukwu from Igboland?


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DELTA-  one dead, several others shot Emma Amaize, Jimitota Onoyume, Festus Ahon, Perez Brisibe & Ochuko Akuopha UGHELLI – THE prevailing peace that characterized the governorship and house of assembly elections in Delta State, was marred when unidentified gunmen stormed some polling units and shot persons suspected to be members of a rival political party.


The incidents occurred during the collation of results in some polling units in Ughelli South local government area of the state. One person was reportedly shot dead while scores of others sustained gunshot wounds amidst several others who received various degrees of machete wounds.

Though the identity of the dead could not be ascertained as at press time, the victim was shot dead at Iwhrekan community while others who were equally attacked, were ambushed at Oviri-Olomu and Ovwookpokpo communities.

Confirming the incident, a source at the Ughelli Central hospital, said a gunshot victim was rushed to the hospital alongside several others who received cuts on their bodies. Speaking on the incident, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the area, said all those attacked are members of the All Progressives Congress, APC.


Meanwhile, the PDP Delta Central campaign chairman, Chief Fred Majemite, has described the elections as peaceful amidst massive turnout of voters. Speaking at Ekuigbo town hall where he voted, Majemite said: “What happened in the last election would not happen again

READ MORE: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/09/gunmen-open-fire-polling-unit-delta/

An accident occurred yesterday around 5:20 pm along Ideani Alor road  Nnobi,  as a trailer tank that was conveying kerosine had a brake malfunction and butchered the conductor who was running to escape from the trailer.


An eye witness who was at the scene at the time of the incident, told an  [url]Anaedoonline.com[/url] reporter, that the trailer had a bad break, and was on high speed and didn't see the sharp bending at the expressway,  as a result, it was difficult for the driver to control the already malfunctioning break.

The trailer driver tried to get off the road but could not control the vehicle because he didn't see the sharp bending on time and the trailer had failed break already. Whereas, the victim identified as the conductor of the trailer already noticed the driver has lost control of the vehicle and out of fear jumped down from the vehicle to run for safety.



Unfortunately for the conductor, he ran in the direction of the swerving trailer. Anaedoonline.com gathered that the young man at that time was confused about which direction to take before he was massacred by the trailer.

The man died at the spot and his body ripped in pieces and scattered at the scene of the incident while the trailer moved three poles before it came to a halt in a gutter.



[url]Anaedoonline.com[/url] also gathered that at the time of this report, the victim's name is not yet identified, however, his phone was recovered and some of his contacts were alerted about the incident.

The body parts were still scattered around as of 6:10 pm and the driver of the trailer was


READ MORE: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/08/14909see-the-sharp-bending/



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this is what i keep saying that no matter what how much love we have for people we trust they must betray us just one day

Information reaching Anaedoonline.com is that Chief Dr Cletus Ibeto is currently having an emergency meeting in his house with all the President Generals of all communities across the four quarter villages in Nnewi which includes communities in Otolo, Uruagu, Umudim and Nnewichi with the purpose of asking them to endorse Obinna Ngonadi, the YPP candidate of Nnewi for Anambra State House of Assembly.

Anaedoonline understands that the PG'S are being paid N20,000 each and given a document to sign that they must deliver Obinna Ngonadi across their communities in Nnewi.



The PG'S are mandated to within 48hrs to call for a meeting in their various communities and endorse Obinna Ngonadi against Smart Okafor.

Anaedoonline understands that there are some PG'S who are against this current imposition from a personality like Ibeto and have vowed to work against him.

There is a further plot by Ibeto and his camp to call a "Thank you" meeting on Thursday at the Ifeanyi Ubah stadium with a motive to openly endorse Obinna Ngonadi. The meeting will come as a guise of thanking Nnewi people for voting massively for Chris Azubogu and Ifeanyi Ubah who both were successful in the last election. Thereafter, a subtle way will be provided to endorse Ngonadi.


The full onslaught by Ibeto against the candidacy of Smart has been likened by many as the fight between David and Goliath.

Read more: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/05/ibeto-vs-smart-to-gratifies/

A protest was sparked on Sunday morning by angry villagers in Anam community, Anambra West local government area of the state.

The aggrieved villagers took to the streets to agitate after it was claimed that the king sold community land to the Fulani herdsmen for cattle grazing.
This was said to have resulted in a clash between the youths of the community and the herdsmen.

Last year, the people of Amichi in Nnewi South Local Government Area, Anambra State, decided not to take

Read More At: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/04/local-government-area/



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A day old baby has been found dumped in a waste bin along Orlu Road, Ihiala, Anambra State at the evening hours of Sunday, March 3.

This is happening barely two weeks after a new born baby was found dumped inside a carton in a waste bin at the popular Ibeto Junction in Nnewi.

https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/19/baby-boy/


The perpetrator of the act was not yet known as at the time of filing this report, but an eyewitness, Anderbest Nnanna, told Anaedooline that that the baby was already dead when it was found; adding that it was a baby boy still having its placenta.

She also said that she had contacted the Welfare Department of the Ihiala LGA for necessary action.


READ MORE: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/03/04/dumped-in-a-waste-bin/




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The Returning Officer for Anambra South Senatorial election held on Saturday, February 23, 2019, has said that what was being circulated in the social media and reported in some sections of the media about his announcing the Anambra South Senatorial election under duress was a tissue of lies.

In his letter dated Thursday, February 28, 2018, with the caption, “In the Matter of The Anambra South Constituency Senatorial Election Result Declaration”, copied to the Vice Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; and members of the press, Umenweke, a Professor in the Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University said: “My attention has been drawn to the news being circulated  in the newspaper, social media and particularly, Punch Newspaper of 27th February 2019, captioned “I DECLARED IFEANYI UBAH WINNER TO SAVE MY LIFE’.

“I never at any point said that I announced the result of the Anambra South senatorial election under duress nor in the mode that is implied by the Punch Newspaper captioned as per above. No gun or knife was pointed at me the material time of the election result announcement”.

The Returning Officer said that any person or group, that feels aggrieved about the election should approach the election tribunal as the constitutionally recognized means for any aggrieved party.

Emphasizing on what could be the basis for the report in the Punch Newspaper, he said, “My letter of 25th February 2019, which was a response to a letter dated 23rd February 2019, written by Chief Sir Chris Uba, the PDP candidate is hereby referred to.

“By virtue of my letter of 25th February 2019, I stated that the result of the election in Anambra South senatorial zone was inconclusive to enable me to debrief the 7 local government collation officers on the issues raised in the petition of 23/02/2019. It was also to enable me to investigate the claim contained therein.

“Within this interval, I have made extensive inquiries and investigations from the seven local government collation officers involved and none received any report from any ward in the form of Form EC 40 G. Consequently, none of them generated any Form EC 40 G1. No reports whatsoever were received by the local government collation officer involved in the Anambra South senatorial election. No such report was given to me. In the light of the above. There is no evidence before me to support the clams of the writer of the petition of 23rd February 2019

“By virtue of the foregoing, I hereby re-affirm my declaration that Chief Ifeanyi Ubah, the candidate of YPP, is the winner of the



Read more: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/28/i-never-announced-result-under-duress/




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1. Sen. Bukola Saraki (PDP, Kwara Central).

2. Sen.Godswill Akpabio ( APC, Akwa Ibom South).

3. Sen. Andy Uba ( APC, Anambra South).

4. Sen. George Akume (APC, Benue North).

5. Sen. Victor Umeh (APGA, Anambra Central).

6. Mao Ohuabunwa (PDP, Abia North).

7. Rafiu Ibrahim (PDP, Kwara South).

8. Nazif Gamawa (PDP, Bauchi).

9. Tayo Alasoadura (APC, Ondo Central).

10. Yele Omogunwa (APC, Ondo South).

11. Suleiman Hunkuyi (PDP, Kaduna North).

12. Shittu Ubali (PDP, Jigawa North East).

13. Shehu Sani (PRP, Kaduna Central).

14. Mohammed Hassan (PDP, Yobe South).

15. Binta Masi Garba (APC, Adamawa North).

16. Nelson Effiong, (APC, Akwa Ibom South).

17. Sen. Hamman Isa Misau (PDP, Bauchi Central).

18. Ahmed Ogembe (PDP, Kogi Central).

19. Attai Aidoko (PDP, Kogi East)

20. Barnabas Gemade (SDP, Benue North East).

21. David Umaru (APC Niger East).

22. Monsurat Sunmonu (ADC, Oyo Central).

23. Rilwan Adesoji (ADP, Oyo South).

24. Abiodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti South).

25. Duro Faseyi (PDP, Ekiti North).

*Biggest fresh losers*


• Governor Rochas Okorocha (fate to be decided)

• Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, ( immediate past governor of Delta State lost to

Read more : https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/28/wonders-see-list-of-25-sitting-senators-who-lost-reelection/

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The Returning Officer for   Saturday’s Anambra South senatorial election, Prof Meshach Umenweke,  has written the Independent National Electoral Commission recanting his earlier declaration of the candidate of the  Young Progressives Party, Ifeanyi Ubah,  as the winner of the poll.



In the letter, he claimed the election was inconclusive.

He also said he was forced to declare businessman Ubah the winner to save his life.

Umenweke is of the Department of Public and Private Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.

The  letter dated February 25   and addressed to the Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner   seen  by our correspondent read in part, “That there were skirmishes within the compound of the Nnewi North Local Government  Area (headquarters) where the results were being collated between the police and some thugs who sought to gain entrance to the area of collation. The situation was volatile, intense and charged


https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/27/anambra-south-senatorial/

Anambra- information reaching us at Anaedoonline, the SSA to Obiano on IGR, named Emmanuel Ike Nwaobosi, the son of popular Nwaobosi was among the thugs caught yesterday trying to snatch ballot boxes allegedly for victor Umeh and Ibezi Ifeanyichukwu.

Some brave youths and policemen ran after them.


Read more: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/24/ssa-to-obiano-cut/




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The Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has defeated the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari, respectively at his polling units.



Sowore beats Buhari and Atiku at his RCM PU 005, Ese Odo LGA, Ondo State. He secured a total of 208 as against, APC 82, PDP 11, AA 8

read more: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/23/sowore-wins-buhari-atiku-in-his-polling-unit/



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See breakdown of results

Uruagu ward 2 results Presidential Results

(019)

Pdd 137
Ypp 58
APC 16

(004)
PDP 145
Ypp 41
APC 18

(003)

Apga 15
APC 18
Ypp 127
PDP 256

read more https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/23/muoghalu-loses-at-its-own-polling-centre/

AKAPABIO was losing in his polling unit and ordered security men to scatter everywhere shooting at voters. Many feared dead and injured.

Read more: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/23/breaking-akapabio-ordered-security-to-shot-voters-photos/

Enugu- According to the information reaching us at anaedoonline, an housa ma entered a vehicle in enugu and blow up vehicle killing people in it and him self, we could not count how many that died or affected , you can hear from people talking from the video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHB25gt608
READ MORE: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/23/bomb-scare/

Even in the face of the security challenges in the North East, Catholic faithful among the Nigerian soldiers get solace, grace, strength, and power from the Holy Mass/ Holy Eucharist.

Reverend Father, adorned in army uniform and armed with his rifle, presided over the celebration, where they hand themselves and the security situation in Nigeria over to God.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76ubrx-TTU
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Even in the face of the security challenges in the North East, Catholic faithful among the Nigerian soldiers get solace, grace, strength, and power from the Holy Mass/ Holy Eucharist.

Reverend Father, adorned in army uniform and armed with his rifle, presided over the celebration, where they hand themselves and the security situation in Nigeria over to God.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76ubrx-TTU
READ MORE: https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/21/priest-armed-sambisa-forest/



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according to Anaedooline, soakaway truck collided with a small truck carrying gallons of palm oil. The small truck was then crashed into another big truck conveying varieties of brands of the Nigerian Breweries beer parked by the roadside along the junction.

The driver of the small truck carrying gallons of red oil, who was identified as Ugochukwu from Ndiakwu Otolo Nnewi, with another woman seated at the passenger side, died instantly. Two other students of Nneoma Secondary School, Nnewi, who were crossing the place on foot, were also crushed.

There was mild drama when angry youths stormed the place, set the trucks on fire and catered away with over 100 cartons of beer.
The dead bodies were deposited at the morgue of the Akwudo Hospital; while those that sustained serious injuries were at the intensive care unit of the hospital.

Read more on [url]https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/21/f-two-students-6-others/
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What kind of envyness will cost to take out life


Mennnnnnn

Is only God will know what I will do to the useless animal if this little girl is my child

After a failed attempt by PDP to hold presidential rally in Abuja on Saturday, Feb 9 , the pdp vice presidential candidate , his excellency Mr. peter obi, headed to dei dei market in abuja to speak with traders,

along the line , APC supporter caused confusion and set Obi'sconvoy on fire
Read more. https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/09/peter-obis-convoy-fire/


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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Thursday, agreed to suspend their strike, which has lasted for three months.

This comes after ASUU signed all agreements with the Federal Government, following a conciliatory meeting in Abuja.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, represented the Federal Government, while the lecturers were represented by the union’s president, Biodun Ogunyemi.

According to Ngige, both parties unanimously resolved the eight contentious issues that had prolonged the strike.

Addressing reporters at the end of the meeting, Ogunyemi said: “On Sunday, November 4, 2018, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resumed its strike action, which was conditionally suspended on 14th September 2017.


“The action of 2017 was suspended following the signing of a memorandum of action (MoA) in which the federal government of Nigeria (FGN) promised to address the contentious issues within a timeline that was to end in October 2017.

(ASUU STRIKE CALLED OFF)
“While announcing the suspension of the nationwide action, however, our union made it categorically clear that ASUU will not hesitate to review its position should government renege on the signed Memorandum of Action.

“Predictably, Government implemented the MoA in the breach, thereby forcing ASUU to resume the suspended strike action. Comrades and compatriots, as we have always argued, the last thing ASUU members love doing is to cause disruption in smooth intellectual engagements with colleagues, friends, and students right on our university

campuses. This has nothing to do with the dubious advertorial of non-disruption of the academic calendar by proprietors and administrators of some cash-and-carry universities and other self-styled enemies of ASUU.
READ MORE https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/02/07/academic-staff-union-of-universities/

Chai so the problem has reached this level

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yam legs and baby stealing

An aged woman allegedly stole a newborn baby today, 30th January 2018 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi (NAUTH). The woman was said to have put the baby inside her handbag and proceeded to leave the hospital before she was caught by the hospital security.

The incident prompted the crowd to converge at the hospital gate, it later got to the point the hospital security personnel shut the gates that prevented patients, students, and visitors from gaining entrance.

As at the time of this report, Anaedoonline confirmed she has been handed over to the Nigeria police, Nnewi division.

We reached out to the Anambra state Police PRO and he said he is yet to confirm this incident.
READ MORE HERE https://www.anaedoonline.com/2019/01/30/woman-steals-baby-nnewi/

This modern sex slavery called most beautiful girl contest is alien to our culture and as a matter of urgency be abolished

.what our girls need is scholarship,education and life skills

guys politician knows their self, maybe because they kick her out she decide to expose them

people doing business there are scared