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Johndoe100: [size=16pt]Where is KOBOJUNKIE? the silly girl should bring her under utilized kitty (I hope she has one[/size] [size=16pt]) and read this.[/size]

Adufetohposh: Too bad most of us dnt understand d op. Well, I personally ll change mai line once am married coz av been using dis same like 4 d past 8yrs, definitely there re some calls I ll not want 2 entertain once am married. Dnt get it twisted, its nt dat am avoiding some Ex's calls alone, there re some friends I ll like 2 cut off completely once mai status changes.... Mai oppinion anyway

shadrach77: can someone explain this to me - bolt's record of 9:58 was set at the last olympics so how can they call his 9:62 as the new olympic record - if it's the new olympic record, then what was the former olympic record?

Don Ewexco: wht makes police escort to be involved?
that means our security agents are not as innocent as they appears

Kobojunkie: You be mor0n?

iv4fb: @ billyonnaire,

The guy at first said he don't even know her, then he agreed he know her, then that it was 5m, ehat gave u the impression that the relationship talk isn't one of his lies too?

The woman claim she drag her husband into this, if they had any affair, only a very mischievous woman will put her husband in the know

BigBenoski: abia is next. I'm beginning to think there's hope for nigerians afterall. . .if only we can fight, like edolites, and imolites before them.

7 years after crash in Lisa: BELLVIEW WAS BOMBED–Red Cross Chief
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Sun News Publishing Ohiku By: FELIX ASIMOLE
Date: Sun, 07/01/2012 - 00:08
Seven years after the crash of Bellview Boeing 737 flight 210 plane at Lisa, Ogun State, in which 117 persons died, it has been revealed that the aircraft was bombed. The Abuja-bound aircraft that took off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on October 22, 2005, crashed few minutes after it was airborne

A top official of the Red Cross, Professor Charles Ohiku, made the startling revelation in an exclusive interview with Sunday Sun in Lagos. Prof Ohiku, who led the Red Cross rescue team at the crash scene, said that unlike the recent Dana plane crash, no human skull was found at the scene of the Bellview crash because it was blown up.
“I headed the rescue team at the Bellview plane crash site at Lisa, Ogun State. That plane was blown. That is why the probe report can never come out till tomorrow. “That plane didn’t just drop from the sky. By the time we got there the following morning, we could not find even one human head.

“You know, at the Dana plane crash site some incomplete human bodies and heads were recovered from the crash site. But in the case of Bellview crash there was no single head or a skull. Quote me. “I was there as a representative of the Nigerian Red Cross, and I can tell you categorically that no single skull was seen or picked up in a crash of that magnitude and the number of passengers involved.

“How can anyone explain the fact that with 117 passengers and crew members in the plane no single head or skull was found during rescue operation, even though there was no survivor?” Asked why anyone would bomb the plane at that time when there was no Boko Haram or any other serious security threat to the country, Prof Ohiku said some people might have felt that somebody in that plane, who was considered too close to the President at that time, was being groomed to take over from him.

He recalled that Dr Iyabo Obasanjo, who was then Commissioner for Health in Ogun State, gave his team a note to the General Hospital and, “then we packed them (mangled bodies) in a case, the one they use in packing corpses.” The Red Cross chief was emphatic that there was no single head, “even as strong as the skull is,” when his team got to the scene.

“My parents had been at Lisa 10 years before that crash, so immediately the plane crashed I was one of those who got there first in the morning. And many people didn’t know where Lisa was before the crash that brought the quiet village to limelight.”

He continued: “Why have they not released the black box findings? They will not do so even till tomorrow. And you all know the personalities in that plane. One of them was Waziri Mohammed, chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) then. Majority of the people on that plane came from Ota Farm to board the plane. They came from Ota Farm to Lagos to board that plane at Ikeja Airport, and the plane landed at Lisa, Ogun State, imagine that.

“The general rumour at that time, mark my word, was that Obasanjo was preparing that very man, the NRC chairman, for the presidency. We found legs, hands and some other human parts, but no head. I would like somebody to explain how that came about,” Prof Ohiku said.

Among those who died in the crash were Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), chairman of the defunct People’s Bank, Mrs Maria Sokenu; and the Post Master-General of the Federation, Alhaji Abubakar Argungu.

Also on the list of casualties were the Personal Assistant to the Post Master-General, Mr S. Eneware; chairman of Nigerian States and Local Government SMEs, Mr J. Agharitte; and Mr L. Adele, a South African television producer.

• Motorists, Road Users Fear ‘Hard Times’

THE Federal Government may have indefinitely suspended the proposed repair work earlier scheduled to begin on the Third Mainland Bridge today, thus putting the controversy with the Lagos State officials over the matter to an abrupt but temporary end.

Lagos Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Charles Nseobong Akpabio, yesterday disclosed in an interview with The Guardian that the postponement was intended to put more measures in place.

Akpabio said there would be an all-stakeholders’ meeting later in the week to discuss a new take-off date.

But, when The Guardian contacted the Lagos State Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, he simply said he would not comment on the matter.

Akpabio urged all motorists in the Lagos metropolis to go about their activities and wait for further information on the bridge repair.

The FRSC had explained that traffic information would be communicated from time to time via Radio, Television, Newspapers and social media network.

The repairs on the all-important Third Mainland Bridge was earlier scheduled to commence today and to end on November 6, 2012.

The commission added that as the lead agency in traffic management in Nigeria, it had concluded plans to coordinate the various traffic agencies involved in the exercise.

He noted that Section 15 of the FRSC Act 2007 clearly stipulated that the operation of the Corps should cover all public roads, adding that the Corps statutory responsibility is to control and enforce traffic regulations on public roads “as we did during the 2008 maintenance work on the Third Mainland Bridge.”

But motorists yesterday decried what they referred to as “impending dreaded bad days for users of the Third Mainland Bridge.” A senior banker, Mr. Sunday Omoyiola said it would be “stress time for motorists and others working on the Island, as “no employer or manager would take any excuse simply because they are repairing the Third Mainland Bridge.”

According to Mr. Omoyiola, those that have businesses on the Island “will come back late and wake up very early to get to work.” Time is money and since you will waste a lot of time on the road, you there is huge economic loss,” he said.

Mr. Eugene Iyamah, Managing Director of Choice Ltd, a Lagos-based consultancy outfit, said although the measures being taken by the FRSC and other traffic agents would mitigate the negative impact motorists could face, they (the motorists) are bound to experience hard times once again.

On how he plans to adapt to the changes, Iyamah said, as a self-employed user of the route, he would simply adjust his time to avoid the “rush hour,” especially as maintaining the regular schedule would see one “ramming” into the “chaotic period.”

The retired banker, however, noted that the repair of the bridge is in the best interest of Nigerians given the strategic and socio-economic relevance of the bridge.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State had, last week, expressed concerns over unilateral declaration of closure of the bridge by the FRSC, contending that the control of traffic by the FRSC is only restricted to trunk roads.

“A trunk road by definition is a road that connects two states like Lagos Ibadan Expressway, that’s where the FRSC should be not within the territory of the municipality of a state but having said that, it is that encroachment of responsibility that might be responsible for the inadequate information,” Fashola explained.

However, speaking during a joint press conference in Alausa, State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, his counterpart in Transport, Opeifa and Information and Strategy, Adeyemi Ibirogba, explained that there would be no closure, as earlier feared by residents, but diversion of traffic on the bridge.

Diversion on the bridge was to occur between 12 midnight and 12:00 noon.

In the morning, between 00:00am and 12:00noon, traffic will be diverted for those coming from Lagos Island to the mainland –– at Adeniji Adele, motorists are expected to divert to carter bridge and thereafter proceed to Iddo where the redistribution will take place –– while inward Lagos Island traffic diversion will commence from 12noon from Anthony-Oworonshoki inter change.

Demdem: Please kindly confirm to me that this is whats going on in the retardeen's brain before i comment on this stupidiity.
By the way, are u ready to sacrifice ur entire household who are innocent for the unity of this country?

Ganys: Guy, why should you allow sentiment to becloud your real brain. You wana tell me Jonathan is not wicked. Were you in Mars or Pluto when Jonathan Removed Fuel subsidy shockingly, if that is not wickedness, Then i need a better defination from you. An average Niger Deltan is a Criminal. Mark my word

hildaa: Hello Doctor, i am 41 years old, do i have any chances of becoming pregnant? cos i have tried for the past 1 year, to no avail. meanwhile i am still ovulating perfectly, please i need your help and any drug prescription that can help me to conceive, thanks.

ubaida: HI Doc,
Am very impressed with the job u r doing.
Pls i have a major problem and its really disturbing me .The issue is dat my menstral period have not been stable since 2009, but afta some consultation it becam stable, also gone for hormonal profile assay an the result say that i have hyperproctemia and i noticed that milkly liquid come out of my breast.
I have taken bromocriptine and combined OCP (Contraspectives)for 6mths during dis period it was stable but wen i stopped taken it, i have not seen my menstral period. But i alway feel pains in my lower abdomen which used to happen when am expecting my period(wen it was stable).

Pls i need help

Nellyd: This is an educating forum. Thanx to all d doctors in d house for the numerous directives. My own problem is dat,i'm so worried cos i wz confirmed pregnant yesterdy. I had a cs last yr Dec cos of high bp,i lost d baby and wz told to wait 4 upto a yr b4 taking in again. I really dont want to go thru cs again. Pls,what do i do? Thnks for ur anticipated response.

Obiagu1: Nawa for this country. If this ugly trend of renaming already established universities after some politicians is not stopped, believe me every university in Nigeria will soon be bearing someone's name; very pathetic. By the way, who gave him the authority to rename the university, even if he is the president and the university a federal university, without consultation with interested parties that include the university management, faculties, students and alumni? This is silly and should be reversed!

There's a new university in Ekiti, if MKO deserves a university after his name, that could be named after him. Leave established universities along!