ABDULKARIM MUSA'S BLOG: September 2014

30/09/2014

$9.3m arms deal: Oritsejafor opens up

KADUNA —President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday for the first time spoke on the controversial $9.3m cash allegedly smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli using his private jet. The money which has been confiscated by a South African court was meant for the purchase of arms for the Nigerian Intelligence Services. This is just as the #BringBackOurGirls# campaign group, has said it will soon drag the CAN president and the Federal Government to court over the money.

Following the use of his aircraft to convey the money which was not declared in South Africa until immigration officials discovered it, the CAN president was linked to the arms deal with critics condemning his role in the arms deal.

Explaining his own side of the story yesterday, at an emergency meeting of the expanded National Executive Council, NEC, of CAN in Abuja, Pastor Oritsejafor denied any involvement or knowledge of the deal to buy arms in South Africa, noting that enemies of Christians were fuelling the division of CAN.

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Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, vacated the orders made by his brother judge, Justice Okon Abang, appointing Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, through its counsel, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, receiver/manager over the assets of Bi-Courtney Limited, operators of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Terminal 2, Ikeja, Lagos.

The order sparked off a bitter exchange between Dr. Olisa Agbakoba and Dr. Olawale Babalakin outside the court.

The other orders vacated by the court include those also appointing Dr. Agbakoba as receiver/manager over assets of Chartered Investment Limited, Resort International Limited, Roygate Properties Limited;

The order restraining some commercial banks in the country from allowing these companies to operate bank accounts held with the banks in whatever form or description pending determination of the substantive action;

The late Tijani Hashim

A top member of Kano Emirate and close associate of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Alhaji Tijani Hashim is dead. Hashim, who is Galadiman Kano, died in Abuja last night and will be buried in Kano today at 2pm according to family sources. He was among heirs to the Kano throne that contested for the stool after the death of Emir Ado Bayero.

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Jonathan Should Learn From History, Forget 2nd Term, Cardinal Okojie Warns Again

Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie

Former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, has again advised President Goodluck Jonathan to forget about a second term in office because he does not deserve it.

Speaking with SaharaReporters late yesterday from Nigeria, the retired cardinal, a founding member and former leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), recalled a conversation he had with Mr. Jonathan while he was still deputy. According to him, when the president asked him for prayers, he had insisted that Mr. Jonathan should first specify his prayer intentions. He said the president seemed at first shocked, but reluctantly revealed that he intended to run for office again.

Disclosing that the encounter happened in the presence of four other people, Cardinal Okojie said he told Jonathan that he could win but would not govern peacefully.

Saheed Osupa reportedly bought a large parcel of land which he gifted to each of his band members who have been with him throughout his sojourn in music. According to City People, the four acre of land which is located in Ota, Ogun state was shared among the members last month. That's so nice of him!

There Is Really Nothing To Be Celebrated On Independence Day - Tinubu

Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said Nigeria has achieved little or nothing in this present administration, so there shouldn’t be any elaborate celebration to say the least tomorrow. Here is a press statement released yesterday by him as Nigeria gets set to celebrate her 54th independence. It’s a long read tho, but as usual you know where he is coming from and going to. Continue after the cut.

“We commemorate this Independence Day because the nation has survived despite its many challenges. We dare not celebrate because the nation has not flourished as it should. 54 years our national trek began with hope and promise, peace and unity.

“Today, the nation staggers beneath the weight of trouble stacked upon problem multiplied by hardship. Peace and unity seem to have yielded the moment to violence and discord. We exist as a political unit on a map but we do not prosper as brothers and sisters in one nation, under one flag and pursuant to one accord. We have lost our road and now seem to be on the road of the lost. I am proud to be a Nigerian and would not attach my life to any other nation but genuine patriotism should not induce blindness. We are burdened by too many resolvable challenges that remain unresolved,” he said.

Tony Tetuila had received a huge backlash after campaign posters of him proudly rocking his blonde hair were released.
In an interview with Tribune,

Boko Haram men in the early hours of yesterday September 29th launched an attack in Kubi and Watu villages in Michika LGA of Adamawa state, killing scores and burning over 500 houses.

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9ice showed off his new-born daughter, Michelle Abolanle Akande, on his instagram page today. He welcomed the beautiful girl with his girlfriend, Sukanmi Ajala, last week.
SO CUTE!!!

Another church building collapses in Edo state (PICTURED)

Barely a week after a building belonging to Christ Chosen Church of God collapsed in Edo state killing three people, another church building has collapsed in the state.

A building belonging to Liberty Power Bible Church a.k.a Power Palace at Asoro Slope, off Ekenwan Road in Benin city, Edo state, collapsed yesterday September 28th.

According to reports, the incident happened shortly after members of the church left the building after the close of service. No life was lost.

The Osolo of Isolo, Oba Kabiru Adelaja Agbabiaka recently had his 10thyear coronation anniversary and his three wives were the cynosure of all eyes. Beautiful women!

Anita Oyakhilome’s name and picture removed from ‘Rhapsody of Realities’ devotional

In the midst of Pastor Chris and Anita Oyakhilome‘s divorce saga, yet another controversy has emerged.

Anita Oyakhilome’s name has been excluded from the newly released October-2014 edition of Rhapsody of Realities, Christ Embassy’s monthly devotional, which she usually co-author. Her name and photo are completely missing from the front and back cover of the latest edition.

The devotional, which was started many years ago by the now estranged couple, usually had both their pictures and writings in the pages.

Also, the back cover of the magazine which usually had a picture of the couple now has only Pastor Chris on it.

After seven years in prison, 26-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man she claims was trying to rape her will be hanged tomorrow morning.

According to Amnesty International, Iranian authorities confirmed that Reyhaneh Jabbari will be hanged .

Jabbari’s mother said today in a Facebook post that prison authorities told her she would have to go to the facility to 'collect the body' tomorrow.

A married Premier League footballer who already has three children by his wife and mistress has just taken a second bride in his native Cote'Ivoire.

Cheick Tiote, 28, who earns £45,000 a week playing for Newcastle United, reportedly wed Laeticia Doukrou in a traditional ceremony earlier this month, saying taking another wife was 'nothing unusual' given he is a Muslim.

Cancer victim 'came back to life' in her grave

The sounds were reportedly heard by the passers-byshortly after the last relatives of the deceased had left fer funeral

Visitors to a cemetry in Greece claim they heard a woman shouting from inside her coffin and dug her up, only for her to die for a second time.

By Rory Mulholland, Paris10:06PM BST 26 Sep 2014

Shocked visitors to a Greek cemetery were left horrified when they heard banging and muffled calls for help coming from the grave of a woman who just been buried.

Police said a cemetery worker and two people visitors heard a woman’s voice from inside the 49-year-old cancer patient’s grave on Thursday.

The sounds were reportedly heard by the passers-by shortly after the last relatives of the deceased had left her funeral in the northern town of Peraia.

They are believed to have dug up the grave to try to save her, but by the time they got her out of the ground she had suffocated inside the coffin, according to Greek media.

A doctor summoned to the cemetery pronounced her dead, but dismissed claims that she had revived and had called for help.

Out Going Lagos Police PRO (Ngozi Braide) Ask For Forgiveness

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The Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Ngozi Conchita Braide, on Friday announced her redeployment by the command "for greater assignment", expressing her gratitude to all who made her job easy even as she begged those whom she may have offended.

In a ‘thank you’ letter made available to journalists, Braide who is the first female Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the Command said that her junior colleague, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr. Kenneth Nwosu, will immediately take over as the image-maker of the Command.

She urged all journalists to give Nwosu, “the same level of cooperation you gave to me.”

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"What is the man (Oritsejafor) looking for? If you call yourself a man of God, then you should rely on God. Why should he be jumping up and down? But because he was not elected, not chosen by God, that is what is happening.

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A 19-year-old Abel (surname withheld) recently promoted to SS 3 in one of the secondary schools in Asaba, Delta State has allegedly put his mother in the family way after he had a carnal knowledge with her few months ago.
Reports said that the boy, popularly called Ekenem, was said to have consulted a native doctor, who allegedly prepared a love charm for him to use on his mother and one of the matrons in the college where he is a boarding student.Although sources said the act committed by the boy still remains a misery to those in the know, but the father of the boy, a Port Harcourt based businessman was said to have reported the matter to the police.

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Nigerian Singer-turned politician Abolore Akande has replied his former wife, Tony Payne who recently called him a failed singer.

In a recent chat with 9ice, he said his estranged wife is nothing more than his baby mama.

Read the short interview excerpts below:

Interviewer: Who is Tony Payne to you?

9ice: She’s nothing more than we have kid for each other.

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Too Bad! Insurance guru and vice chairman/CEO of IGI, Remi Olowude passed away in the early hours of today Sunday September 28th in a hospital in the US. Mr Olowude had been ill for a while before he died.
May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

27/09/2014

Dirty tricks petrol stations, attendants use to cheat customers [Must Read]

Culled Via punchng......

Mrs. Bisola Ayeni, a businesswoman in her early 40s confidently left her house at Egbeda (Lagos) with an almost empty tank heading for Ikeja. The red light of the fuel indicator was blinking nonstop but Ayeni knew the quantity of fuel in her tank would take her to the next available filling station where she had hoped to fill up her tank.

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Find the EFCC press release below...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, September 26, 2014 arraigned Dandeson Ebosele Ibhonitie, 26, (a.k.a Dandy James, Connor Mead and Barrister Louis Harpoch and Ohiwerei Charity, 31, before Justice E. F. Ikponmwen of Edo State High Court, Benin-City on a 3- count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.

Ibhonitie and Charity allegedly belong to the group of fraudsters using the internet to defraud unsuspecting victims.

One Mrs. Bethelyn Falade, 27, who resides on Church Street, Powerline, in the Ijaiye-Ojokoro area of Lagos, has been arrested and is currently facing charges for assaulting and torturing her housemaid, Chinecherem Sunday with hot water.
Mrs Falade allegedly carried out the act as punishment for her stubbornness.
Trouble began when Falade enquired of her missing laptop which the housemaid said was taken by her brother-in-law, identified simply as Lekan, while she was not around.

The Synagogue Church has denied online reports that the collapsed 6-storey building was at one time sealed by the Lagos state government and a contravention notice served on the church. Below is a statement they posted on their Facebook page...

This is an official communication from The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations regarding some stories currently being reported in the media about the recent incident that happened in The SCOAN.

Our attention has been drawn to a publication in the Vanguard Newspaper of 26th September 2014 titled, ‘Synagogue: We Sealed Off Building Before Collapse – LSBCA’.

In the article, the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mrs Abimbola Animashahun Odunayo was quoted as saying that the agency had sealed off the building before it collapsed and that the church ignored the warnings of the agency to stop construction. The story was initially published by online media portal News24.

"I left my marriage because it was full of lies' - Uche Ogbodo opens up

Actress Uche Ogbodo's marriage ended a few months after it was contracted..while she was pregnant. Speaking to Vanguard about it, Uche said her marriage ended because it was full of lies.
"My marriage was full of lies. I cannot tell you in detail what those lies were, if that’s what you’re trying to make me do but it was based on lies. It’s a pity it didn’t work out. I didn’t go into the marriage to crash it. I wanted a family; I wanted a loving home and a loving husband. That was why I went into it in the first place but as nature would have it, I didn’t get any of those. I still thank God my head is intact."
Was it really a marriage?
It was a marriage but we didn’t do any wedding. We didn’t do any court marriage or church wedding. We did nothing. We didn’t even do traditional marriage but in my culture, there are many processes to getting married and I did a few of those, so you can say I was married. In Igbo land, there are rites you adhere to before you can say this is my wife and I did a couple of them.

Why did you do the rites in secret?
You cannot do rites openly; it’s just a family thing, family members only. It’s not a traditional wedding. If I had done traditional wedding, I would definitely invite people. If I had done a white wedding, I would have invited people. If I had done a court marriage, I would still have invited people but it was just rites. I didn’t do anything the public needed to know, so you can’t say I did any marriage in secret.

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Floyd Mayweather who is the World's Higest paid athlete said "Help me out with a caption"..For someone who is worth $295 million,this is a drop in the ocean...

Photo : Mayhem in Ekiti over assassination of NURTW chairman

Mayhem in Ekiti

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Thugs are said to be causing rampage in Ekiti after the assassination of former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Ekiti State, Mr. Omolafe Aderiye .

They are said to be rampaging APC offices including the party's state secretariat .The outgoing governor Kayode Fayemi's situation office has also been reportedly burnt .

REVEALED: Comedian Basketmouth Has A Daughter With ANOTHER WOMAN

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Basketmouth has two kids, a boy and a girl, with his wife Elsie. What most of you do not know is that he has another daughter with an ex. Basketmouth talks about his love child for the first time in this exclusive interview. Find it below…

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The 80 year old Nobel laureate is currently in Nairobi Kenya for the StoryMOja festival where he runs into a life sized puppet of himself.

He looked absolutely shocked and amused to see a doll that resembled him, most especially his signature white hair in a foreign country.

See more funny photos.

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I called this shocking news because just recently she shared wedding photos and gushed about him. Anyway, after one year of marital bliss, Amber Rose has filed for divorce from rapper Wiz Khalifa. Find the report from TMZ below...

Amber Rose has filed for divorce from husband-of-1-year Wiz Khalifa ... and she's gunning for full custody of their kid.
In the divorce docs -- obtained by TMZ -- Amber says they split on Monday and cites irreconcilable differences.

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An Investigative journalist and author, Jacques Pauw, has described the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and "Prophet" TB Joshua as one of Africa's most influential men, who tried to bribe him during an interview.

According to Pauw, author of Profit of Doom, an expose on Joshua's church, the preacher once tried to bribe his entire television crew after he accompanied the late Blue Bulls lock Wium Basson to Lagos for healing. Basson died in April 2001 aged 25 and here's Pauw's story.

Ruben Kruger, a veteran of 36 tests in the green and gold, returned after a week in Nigeria and declared that a Pentecostal preacher he called the Prophet had healed his brain cancer. Temitope Balogun “TB” Joshua prayed for him in the Synagogue Church of All Nations compound while thousands of people sang, danced and wailed, Kruger said.

The Nigerian military on today has issued an official confirmation to reports that Abubakar Shekau, the eccentric leader of Boko Haram has being killed. Officially, the military insists the real Mr. Shekau was killed by soldiers more than a year ago, but that his character had been assumed by another leader of the deadly group.

The impersonator is the man who appeared in several Boko Haram propaganda videos, claiming he is Mr. Shekau, the military said.

See pictures below:

Known as ‘SexyLeeLee’ to her friends, Lilian is a model, actor, presenter, and tax collector! She entered Big Brother Hotshots for ‘the platform it provides and the publicity that comes with it,and the money’. She’s not willing to sell herself short to win the grand prize. If she does win, she’ll invest in her talk show, which is about ‘helping upcoming talents’ and get herself a house.

A girl believed to be one of the missing Chibok girls in Boko Haram’s captivity has been found close to the village of Kwarihi near Mubi in Borno State, where she was abandoned.

She was said to have been thrown out of a moving Volkswagen Golf car into a bush where she wandered for two days before been seen. This was disclosed yesterday, September 24, by Hosea Tsambido, the Chairman of the Chibok community while speaking at the gathering of the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners in Abuja.

According to him, the girl who looked like she was mentally unstable gave her name as Susanna Ishaya. She was picked up at Kwarihi village and handed over to one of the Chibok parents who took her to the hospital after which she would be properly questioned.

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A Chinese national, who was a government consultant in the country, has been kidnapped by gunmen, from his residence in Kogi state, on Tuesday, 23 September.

Kogi police spokesperson, Elvis Aguebor confirmed the abduction saying, “The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday when armed men stormed the official residential quarters of the Kogi State Water Corporation and abducted a Chinese national.”

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These days you don't know what to believe and what not to believe when it comes to what's really happening in the fight against Boko Haram in the North...too many conflicting stories....but this is supposed to be a pic of the fake Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau,

The leadership of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has accused the President of Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, of smearing the image of the body, saying it was wrong for his private plane to be associated with the controversial arms deal in South Africa.The Bishops said military aircrafts could have been conveniently used for that purpose.

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The management of Egypt Air, which was accused of maltreatment and wrongful deportation of a Nigerian medical student, Joshua Kunle Abdul-Azeez, studying in Ukraine and tearing his Nigerian international passport has admitted making a mistake and offered to compensate the student.

This followed an intervention by the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora. Having received a complaint filed against Egypt Air, the committee, led by Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa yesterday met with representatives of the Airline on circumstances surrounding the alleged negligence, harassment and deportation of the complainant back to Nigeria aboard Egypt Air.

Algerian Militants behead French Hostage in support of ISIS

After promising to kill him if France didn't stop bombing ISIS in Iraq, Herve Gourdel, 55,who was captured by Islamist group Jund al-Khilifa on Sunday has been beheaded- just one day after he arrived in the country on holiday.

In a video posted on YouTube that showed the white-haired, bespectacled Gourdel surrounded by masked men holding Kalashnikov rifles, the group had threatened to kill their hostage by the end of the night if Paris did not stop air strikes in Iraq, where ISIS controls large areas.

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By Evelyn Usman & Esther Onyegbula

A 55-year-old man alleged to be the leader of a robbery gang that specialises in attacking vehicles conveying goods to other states of the federation, yesterday, told a crowd at the Lagos State Police Command that he has used proceeds from robbery to build two houses.

white bearded suspect, a father of two, identified as Jude Dike, who was paraded alongside six other suspected members of the gang, disclosed that he started robbery three years ago.

However, himself and other suspected members of his gang were arrested last Saturday, by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, around Ebutte Metta area of Lagos.

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Ado Ekiti—The police in Ekiti State have charged six persons suspected to have disrupted the court on Monday in Ado Ekiti before a magistrate’s court in the state capital.

The accused persons, according to Police Prosecutor, Corporal Oriyomi Akinwale are Raji Wasiu, 23; Ayo Ogunlana, 28; Fasusi George, 38; Arogbuwa Diya, 35; Adewumi Gbenga, 30 and Adewumi Kehinde, 44.

He said the accused committed the offence on September 22 at about noon, at High Court 6, in Ado-Ekiti.

Oriyomi said the accused obstructed the course of justice and caused disturbance in the course of judicial proceedings.

He added that they intentionally disrespected Justice Isaac Ogunyemi during his judicial proceedings, saying that they also damaged the entrance to the courtroom.

The prosecutor claimed that the offence contravened Section 133,451,126(1) of the Criminal Code,Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.

The political tension which engulfed Rivers State is rebuilding as the state Commissioner of Police, Dan Bature, yesterday led Justice Daisy Okocha, who was appointed administrative judge by the National Judicial Council (NJC) into the court premises in Port Harcourt to preside over a meeting of judges.

The court premises had been sealed by members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) when they embarked on an indefinite strike following conflicting directives from the state government and NJC over who should be the chief judge of the state.

Yesterday, about 20 heavily armed policemen who arrived in three operational Toyota Hilux Vans broke the main gate of the state high court at about 10.30a.m. to lead Okocha into the premises of the court.

The gates of the court had been locked since June 10 when the judiciary workers went on strike.

THISDAY gathered that Okocha arrived the court at about 9.30a.m. but could not go in because the chain with which the gates were normally locked had been further reinforced.

The main gate, according to a source, had been welded to prevent entry.

She was said to have driven to the headquarters of the state Police Command, along Moscow Road, to inform the Commissioner of Police.

Government House Director of Finance Killed and Buried Inside his Friend's Bedroom in Kebbi

What a terrible act! Kebbi State Government House’s director of finance, Alhaji Yahaya Saidu has been killed and buried by people suspected to be his business associates at Kwanawa area of Sokoto metropolis.

Briefing newsmen at the Police Command Headquarters, the PPRO, El-Mustapha Sani, a DSP, said sad the incident happened on the 15th of September but they got the report on the 18th and effected arrest on the 19th of September, 2014. The finance director was said to have been called for a meeting by his agent, Bello Ubandawaki who resides in Kwanawa area of Sokoto metropolis on the 15th.

Angered by the recent killings of over 50 persons in their villages, hundreds of half-nude women yesterday protested before the convoy of Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero in Sanga local government of Kaduna State, accusing the state government of neglecting to protect their lives and properties.

The half-nude women, dressed in black attire, booed and threw objects at the long convoy of the governor in Fadan Karshi, Sanga local government area.

Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanisu visits Asiwaju Bola Tinubu

APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, welcomed the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi Lamido II, to his residence at Bourdillon, Ikoyi. Lagos, on Sunday, alongside the Oba Of Lagos, His Royal Majesty, Oba Rilwan Akinolu I. Check out another pic below:

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