ABDULKARIM MUSA'S BLOG: February 2014

26/02/2014

Jonathan Goofed on Borno, Says APC

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• Come and see us, Borno students tell president

Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Michael Olugbode
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has deplored President Goodluck Jonathan’s remarks against the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, during his media chat on Monday night, calling it unwarranted, unpresidential and petty.

APC’s position over the president’s comment came just as the former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in his reaction yesterday accused the federal government of chasing shadows rather than tackling the security menace squarely.

Nigerian man who stabbed his wife while she slept jailed for 12 years

A Nigerian businessman has been jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty of stabbing his wife as she slept in their home. Oluwabusayo Abegunde, 38, (pictured above) stabbed his wife repeatedly with a kitchen knife after he went through her phone and discovered she was seeing someone else.

Esther Abegunde, 33, told her husband of ten years that their marriage was over and moved into a spare room on February 16th 2013. Abegunde attacked her with the knife after he discovered why she wanted to leave him. Oluwabusayo stabbed Esther in the chest, arm, and punctured her left lung, according to the Manchester Evening News. Continue...

Defence Hqs

• Jonathan condemns killings, Atiku weeps

The outlawed Boko Haram sect, whose members have been on the rampage in Borno and Adamawa States for over a month, spread its campaign of terror to neighbouring Yobe State Monday night where it killed 43 secondary school students in a Federal Government College.

Expectedly, the latest slaying of innocent citizens, especially pupils, has elicited reactions, with President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar condemning in the strongest possible terms the killings in the secondary school.

Warrant Officer Unaji Benjamin Enejor, has been alleged to have inflicted serious injury on the right eye of Police Inspector Emmanuel Nbillah with his car key at Kirikiri area of Lagos state.
This happened during a mild argument that ensued after the naval officer rammed his car into the Police officer’s wife’s store.

The naval officer, attached to Armed Forces Resettlement Centre, Oshodi, with service number M4351, was reportedly driving his Honda Shuttle car with number plate LSR 34 CE along Akere Street in Kirikiri when it veered off the road and rammed into a restaurant belonging to the wife of the policeman, attached to the State Criminal Investigations Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

In this Interview with theNetng, Maheeda opens up on growing up ,having a baby at 17 and being an orphan.
On sex
A lot… I’m addicted to sex, and I have to have sex everyday.At least
once everyday, and if there’s no guy around me, I’ll help myself by masturbating. I have a lot of sextoys; in fact, I’m a regular customer. It’s like food to me, and you have to eat. It is very healthy and it gives you the right curves and my body is used to it.

Yes! Sometimes I just squirt, like when am having sex, and because I am used to it and my body needs it.
On her recent trip to Europe.

Femi Kuti, son of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in a chat wiyh PMNews has said the family would not accept any centenary award in their father's honour.
While stating that the family has not been officially informed about any centenary award for Fela, Femi noted that the Federal Government should first apologise for killing his grandmother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and burning of Kalakuta Republic.

“We have not heard such but I can speak for myself, FG should first apologise for the killing of our grandmother and the burning of Kalakuta,” he said.

When the internet first came to the continent of African society, most people were very pleased with it because it reduced stress of communication. It served many people for chatting, sending mails and even business. As the time passed many ladies discovered that they could use the internet to find a chat friend or a life partner. Some girls have greatly benefited just by using the internet to find their dream marriages or relationships. Others have fallen into traps in the West and wish they would never have known what the internet was. This is the case of one Cameroonian, Elvire Axelle Tchamakoua.

SEE HOW IT ALL HAPPENED….

Federal government increases passport fee by 50%

The Federal Government has increased passport fee by 50%. According to a circular signed by the Deputy Comptroller in charge of Operations/Passport and released a few days ago titled 'Passport Reforms', applicants will now pay N15,000 instead of N10,000. (It was officially N10,000 but we all know how much we really paid...lol) Also applicants for change of data will pay now N30,000.

Nigerians In Spain Condemn Spanish Police Shooting Of African Immigrants On The High Sea

It was a day that has generated global uproar when on Thursday the 6th of February 2014, the Spanish local border police opened fire on some 200 sub-Sahara African immigrants who were calling for rescue as they were attempting to cross the high sea from Morocco into the Spanish border town of Ceuta. So far, reports show that not less than 14 bodies have been recovered from the water and each of them with bullet wounds.

Describing the action as grave ‘inhumanity’, the Northern Observatory for Human Rights condemned the shooting as an action that ‘‘violates the international conventions on human rights".

Gabriella is not a Nigerian, but she shared her story 10hours ago online to inform other women about her ordeal in the hands of her boyfriend and it has been going viral. #How sad!

''This might be a little graphic but I just want to let everyone know that I am okay. I am a survivor of domestic violence with a boy I dated for 8 months. I really thought everything was fine but he constantly questioned me about cheating and flirting. Non sense. I never looked at someone the way he looked at me. Thought I loved this boy. How can someone that 'loves' me do this to me? The scars on my chest are way worse and extend down to my right nipple, completely scarred. The skin on my shoulder has been completely skinned. Continue after the cut...

WICKEDNESS! University Ibadan Student R*ped And Killed In Her Home! [PHOTOS]

Photo: Taiwo Omolara Shittu raped and killed in own home

A student of University of Ibadan was raped and killed in on February 19th 2014 in a home she shares with her sister at Opeyemi street, Gbagi in Ibadan.
27-year-old Taiwo Omolara Shittu, a 500 level student of the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management was found dead lying lifeless in a pool of blood at about 5:30 p. m that day.
Her sister returned from work to meet her dead with her pants down to her ankle and machete wounds in her head.

Nigerian Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transsexual & Inter-sex in Diaspora held a rally yesterday, Thursday, 20th February, 2014 outside Nigerian High Commission, London, to protest the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to them, they had to come together to say No to this atrocious law and its blatant violation of their human rights. They also delivered a protest letter to the Nigerian High Commissioner. In the spirit of Love
that February is famous for, they hosted a kissing spree outside the embassy as they said Yes to Love and No to Hate.
Defending their right against people who use the bible to judge them, the coordinator of the protest Davis Mac-Iyalla said:
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Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, Friday, directed the re-opening of the Lagos State University, LASU, from Monday February 24. This he said he did in the best interest of the students.
Authorities of the school had earlier in the month ordered the closure of the institution following violent protest by irate students over closure of school’s portal to registration. Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed during the protest.

A female lawyer based in Calabar Cross River State, Florence Ujinka, was picked up and interrogated by the police for torturing her 13 year old househelp, Chidera Asonye Nathaniel. Florence is reported to have used an old fan belt to inflict marks on young Chidera.

The woman was reported to the police by a Child Rights Group called Basic Rights Counsel Initiative in Calabar, who revealed that since the woman and her husband brought Chidera from Anambra state to Calabar in 2012 to serve as their househelp, Mrs Ujinka had repeatedly subjected the young boy to torture and inhuman treatment.

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This is Mercy Jonson...in her bed room

RELATIONSHIPS: 6 things to do when you’re not his type

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Sometimes, ladies, we just have to face the facts – that we can flirt and smile and bat our eyelashes all we want, but the reality is that sometimes, no matter how perfect and pretty you are (and you totally are!) you might simply not be the girl that your perfect man is looking for.

So what is a girl to do when you realize that the handsome stud of a guy you’ve been drooling over (see: obsessing) for the last six months, who you totallythought was into you, really just…well, wasn’t?

1. Be honest with yourself
Lying to yourself has never gotten anyone anywhere, trust us. It’s better to just accept the plain hard facts and move on. Overthinking it and trying to convince yourself that “maybe, just maybe…” won’t work. Give up the dream, girl.

ASABA — A 65-year-old man has been arrested in Asaba, Delta State along with his three sons for robbery. Also arrested were three other robbery suspects, who were dislodged from an uncompleted building allegedly provided by the father of three.

State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Celestina Kalu, who paraded the suspects at the Police ‘B’ Division, Asaba, weekend, said: “We are taking the fight to their (criminal) hideouts, so there is no hiding place for criminal elements. Wherever they are we will smoke them out.”

Sanusi explodes says Jonathan’s aides fraudulent, unfit

Jonathan in Imo—From left: Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha; Senate President, Sen. David Mark; Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and President Goodluck Jonathan ,on arrival for the Pdp sensitization rally at the Imo State Airport on Saturday. Photo: State House.

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In an interview with AFP in Lagos, Sanusi said many of the people advising Jonathan are sycophants who do not speak frankly about the extent of corruption in government.

He said: “When you sit with President Jonathan himself, he appears a nice, simple person, who is trying his best to do his best. However, his greatest failing obviously is that he is surrounded by people who are extremely incompetent, who are extremely fraudulent and whom he trusts.”

THE Nigeria Labour Congress; the nation’s oldest central labour centre, is being bogged down by fraud and failure of leadership. For the first time in the history of the 36-year-old NLC, the Congress was shut down throughout last week. Reason, both elected and appointed officials were in Dubai for a retreat. For one week, the NLC was without a President and a general secretary.

A total of 22 officials who are all members of the National Administrative Council (NAC) led by NLC president, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar were in Dubai. The NLC officials left Lagos on Sunday, February 16 on a United Emirate flight from Lagos and were due to return on Saturday, February 22nd.
NLC is not known to have any alliance with trade unions in the United Arab Emirate.

2015: Permanent voters’ card ready – INEC

INEC officials at work:... premium on insurance covers for senior and ad hoc staff have not been paid to the firms.

LAGOS — SPURRED by the catalogue of criticisms trailing its 2015 elections time table, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday revealed that permanent voters’ cards for 2015 general elections are ready and it would begin the distribution of same for Osun and Ekiti gubernatorial elections from February 25.

The commission explained the reasons the 2015 elections would be staggered and not held in one day as earlier agreed with the political parties. The commission also answered some of the questions that trailed the faulty conduct of elections in the past and the efforts it is making to ensure hitch free elections.

18 killed in Adamawa, Benue separate attacks

Eighteen people were killed in Adamawa and Benue states yesterday in separate attacks by Boko Haram insurgents and Fulani herdsmen. No fewer than seven persons were confirmed dead yesterday morning, following a renewed attack and sacking of the home town of the paramount ruler of Tiv nation, Tor Tiv Dr. Alred Akawe Torkula, by suspected Fulani herdsmen, in Guma local government area of Benue state.

Vanguard gathered that Fulani mercenaries numbering about 200 invaded the densely populated Angyom, Tse-Usenda and Tse-Torkula the ancestral home of the paramount ruler, killing anything on sight and burning down houses, huts and farmland.

Boko Haram: Our hands are tied — Presidency

ABUJA—THE Presidency explained, yesterday, why the nation’s security forces have found it difficult to completely flush out from their hideouts, members of the Boko Haram sect, who have massacred innocent people and massively destroyed property in the North Eastern part of the country. It admitted that the situation was a complex one.

It said the security forces were constrained by international conventions which prevent them from pursuing terrorists to foreign countries, while the civilian settlements are also co-located within the vicinity of the insurgents’ hideouts, making selective engagement tenuous and difficult.

115 years for N8.9m fraud? Choi. Well, thankfully it will run concurrently. See the EFCC press release below: A Lagos High court sitting in Igbosere, presided over by Justice Adebisi Akinlade on Monday February 17, 2014 sentenced Jamiu Seun Odunayo (pictured above), a former banker, to One Hundred and Fifteen Years (115) imprisonment with no option of fine over an offense which borders on fraud, stealing, and obtaining money by false pretense.

The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on 39-count amended charge for fraudulently obtaining money by false pretences, stealing and suppression of funds to the tune of Eight Million Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Naira, (N8, 829,650) belonging to a customer and diverted it for personal use.

A 25-year old woman in a remote village of Yolde Pate in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa has been delivered of a sizable stone. Madam Amina Bello of Unguwar Jalo village, narrated her story at the opening ceremony of Vesico vaginal fistula (VVF) free medical treatment at the Yola Specialist Hospital.
Bello, who was also a VVF patient, told the gathering that after four years pregnancy, she was delivered of a sizable stone last year.

“I was carrying a pregnancy for four years, which I bitterly suffered because of the heavy weight of what was contained in the stomach. “It was last year around June, I started feeling labour and I was in that condition for three days and finally I was delivered of a stone,’’ Bello said.

The 79 legislators, who sued the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and leaders of the National Assembly over threats to declare their seats vacant, justified their decision to defect from the party yesterday.

The lawmakers – 22 PDP Senators and 57 members of the House of Representatives, including those who have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) – argued that Senate President David Mark and House Speaker Aminu Tambuwal could not declare their seats vacant.

They contended before the Federal High Court, Abuja that Mark and Tambuwal cannot rely on the provisions of sections 68(1)(g) and 68(2) of the Constitution in declaring their seats vacant because there is division in the PDP and a faction of the party has merged with other parties.

They argued that the two conditions precedent for lawful defection, as provided in the Constitution – division and merger – had occurred to warrant their defection.

Woma Slumps And Die In Market After Quarrel

There was commotion monday at the popular Bisi Market in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, when a 56-year-old woman and a petty trader, Mrs. Bosede Ajayi, suddenly slumped and died after engaging in a hot argument with another trader, Mrs. Aminat Raheem, over ownership of a space to display their wares in the market.

The incident was said to have occurred Monday morning when the women were preparing to display their wares in the market in readiness for the business of the day.

Warm Welcome to OBJ at Port Harcourt, as His Two-Day Visit to Rivers Starts

Ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo received a rousing welcome on February 17, 2014, Monday, when he landed at Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State.

He arrived at about 11.05 a.m. in a private jet for a two-day visit. As previously reported, its main aim is to commission some projects executed by the Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and his administration.

Governor Amaechi, his wife Judith, Senators and members of the state executive council welcomed OBJ personally.

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This is madness and the culprit must be brought to justice. Abia State Governor T. A Orji’s son allegedly ordered the killing of his aide in a political gathering in the state on Saturday February 15th 2014.

CKN Nigeria reports today:

Son to Governor T.A Orji of Abia State, Chinedu Orji aka “IKUKU” yesterday displayed another level of his usual unruly and criminal behavior at the Okpara square, Umauhia, venue of the official declaration of his father’s senatorial ambition ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Church security guards Gang-raped Girl In Anambra

This is Mr Eric (33), who lives at Jejelaiye Street in Olodi Apapa, Lagos state. He woke to the bright Friday, Valentine day morning, strong and smart to see Bolanle his heartthrob for a pre-planned early day Valentine date. Unknown to him, Bolanle his girl who also live around Wilmar Crescent in Olodi Apapa, Lagos, was double dating. Eric according one of his friends borrowed money to buy Valentine gift to his girlfriend.

She admits she has a few practical problems doing every day tasks, including fitting herself through doorways at home and buckling her seatbelt.Bootylicious Sarah Massey claims to have one the world’s biggest butts – measuring a whopping 7ft wide.

The mum-of-two, from Chicago in America, wears size 10XL trousers and once even cracked a toilet bowl by sitting on it.Sarah, who at 32 stone gets about £750 disability benefit each month due to limited mobility, even struggles to pass through some doorways.

This is bravery!!! A photo of a chest cancer survivor’s tattooed chest has been shared by hundreds of thousands of social network users since its emergence.

*Killer cop, Corporal Valentine Ofuamaka, being led by prison official into the blackmaria after being arraigned at the Edo state Magistrate Court in Benin city

Tragedy struck last Saturday along the Ikpoba Hill river, along the Benin Agbor road when a police officer identified as Corporal Valentine Ofuamaka, attached to the Mopol 5, Benin City with force number 364780, shot dead a 35 year old Odion Egbon, a truck driver.

The incident caused pandemonium as tanker drivers blocked the entire road searching for the killer cop. However, the Edo state Police Commissioner averted what could have resulted to a bloody clash between the police and tanker drivers when CP Folunso Adebanjo stormed the scene and appealed to the tanker drivers and the families of the deceased to be calm while the police search for the suspect.

Following the tension, the Edo state Police Command issued a statement saying that the runaway police officer is attached to the Police Special Protection Unit and not the Edo State Police Command. CP Adebanjo however vowed that the suspect will be arrested. However the family of the deceased continued their protest in Benin City and that attracted the attention of Governor Adams Oshiomhole who invited the family to Government House.

A plane with 18 people on board has gone missing in western Nepal.

Contact with the Nepal Airlines plane was lost a few minutes after it took off from the town of Pokhara, bound for Jumla, around 360km (220 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, officials said.

Fifteen passengers - reportedly including a child- and three crew members were on board the aircraft.

Critics say that many passenger aircraft in Nepal are often poorly maintained.

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Oba Akiolu barred from Lagos function! This is nothing but an insult. The security guards at he event must be banned from getting any patronage in Lagos again. This is thee height of overzealousness, nobody can try that with the Sultan in the North. Continue reading the full episode after the cut:

"12 Years A Slave" has been hailed by many as one of the best movies of the year.

(CNN) -- Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o has become a new critics' darling after her breakout role in last year's hit movie "12 Years A Slave."

Since then, the award ceremonies and opportunities to dazzle photographers have been plentiful for Nyong'o, whose mesmerizing performance as Patsey earned her numerous accolades and recognition, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Though all this attention is new to Nyong'o, who was born in Mexico to Kenyan parents, the young actress seems to enjoy all the hype around her. But there is much more to her story than how she captivates the cameras on the red carpet. Click for more pics

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