Friday 6 February 2015

51-Year-Old Nigerian Bought as a Toy By a Rich White Kid





The Toy, a popular 80s movie, was about a spoiled rich white kid who buys a black man (played by Richard Pryor). Now there is a real life story: Wallace Turnquist purchased Ezekiel Akpu-nku from Nigeria as a playmate and servant for this 13-year-old son, Skyler.



“Last year I took Sky on a hunting safari to Africa and he was delighted by the African people,” Wallace Turnquist told WSB-TV. “How funny they were, how they were always smiling and so eager to please. At first he just wanted to take one, but I told him kidnapping was illegal. So instead, I bought him one.”







Since slavery and human trafficking are illegal, Turnquist gave Ezekiel a five year employment contract that pays $1,000 per year plus room/board, one day off per month and unlimited snacks. Ezekiel’s contract states that he must do whatever Skyler tells him to do so long as it is not illegal.



“This one time I made him stand on one foot for the entire day ,” Skyler Turnquist said. “I also made him eat a spider. He does whatever I say. He’s the best toy ever .”



“I’m very happy to be Skyler’s toy , ” Akpu-nku said. “In Africa I was starving, here, in the land of opportunity, my belly never goes hungry.”



Turnquist said Skyler already wants another “African toy” but his father has said no this time.

“I don’t want Sky getting spoiled. If I buy him another African, he’ll just want more. I think owning one African is enough




EPL Club Liverpool Agree Record-Breaking Kit Deal With New Balance.

Liverpool have sealed the biggest kit supplier deal in the club’s history with American sportswear manufacturer New Balance.



The Reds had in 2012 signed a six-year deal worth £25m a season with Warrior Sports, whose parent company is New Balance.



The Anfield outfit’s kits will be made by New Balance from next season onwards in a deal which reportedly could worth as much as £300m in estimate.




Alberto Moreno Displaying His Warrior Sports Crested Chelsea Upon Joining the Reds in February 2014. Image: Liverpool via Getty.



“We are thrilled to announce this partnership with one of the world’s leading sportswear brands, which is a record-breaking deal for the club”, Liverpool’s chief commercial officer Billy Hogan said.



“Like Liverpool FC, New Balance has over 100 years of heritage and a global footprint and they have a presence in many countries across the world, which will all feature LFC kit.”


Man City Forfeit Stevan Jovetic For Wilfred Bony In Champions League Squad.

Manchester City have replaced striker, Stevan Jovetic with winter signing, Wilfried Bony in their Champions League squad.



City secured the services of the Cote d’Ivoire international from Swansea last month for £25m.



His arrival meant City had one more foreign player in their squad than they are permitted to register for European competition.



Manager Manuel Pellegrini will now have to continue the knockout phase of Europe’s elite club competition with the trio of Bony, Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko.




Wilfried Bony Replaces Stevan Jovetic in Manchester City’s Champions League Squad. Image: Getty.



European football’s governing body, Uefa, published City’s revised squad on Thursday without Jovetic’s name. The 25-year-old has scored just 11 goals since his £22m move from Fiorentina in 2013.



City are restricted to naming only 16 foreign players in their squad rather than the usual 17 with their squad capped at 21, as punishment for breaching Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.



The Premier League champions face Barcelona in the last 16 of the competition, beginning with the Baulgranas’ visit to the Etihad Stadium on 24 February. The return leg is billed for the Camp Nou three weeks later.


First Chad, Now Niger Will Send Troops To Help Nigeria Fight Boko Haram Sect.




Chadian troops are in Nigeria and are already helping the country reclaim territories lost to Boko Haram. But another neighbour, Niger Republic will send troops to the country, as part of the multi-national battle against the terrorists, after scores of people were killed in a fresh onslaught by the Islamist fighters in a key border town.



Intervention from Niger would open a new northern front in the increasingly regional fight against the Islamist insurgents who killed over a hundred people, including 19 soldiers, on Wednesday in a rampage in the Cameroonian town of Fotokol on Nigeria’s border.



“They (Boko Haram) attacked and burnt three mosques in the attack,” Mele Mohammed, a Fotokol community leader, told AFP. “In the mosque, in the Tashangalau area, they killed 31 people who were praying.”



“Our consolation is that our attackers also suffered heavy casualties, especially when the fighter jets bombed them as they fled,” he said.



A Nigerien government source said the country’s parliament will on Monday, vote on sending its troops to Nigeria to fight the militants.



“Niger is indeed going to send troops to Nigeria as part of the struggle against Boko Haram,” the source told AFP.



Only a stream, theKomadougou Yobe, separates Niger and Nigeria. It will even be easier for the troops to enter now that the water level has dropped.



Apart from the Nigerien soldiers that will join over 2,000 of their counterparts from Chad, African Union leaders have also backed plans for about 7,500 troops to take on the extremists, who are in control of vast swathes of northeast Nigeria.



Ahead of the deployment of the troops, African and Western experts met in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital city, on Thursday, to devise the combat strategy against the Islamist militants.



The three-day summit “amounts to a crucial, determining and decisive step in the war that the international community has decided to intensify against Boko Haram,” Cameroon’s Defence Minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o said.



Nigeria has reacted defensively to the presence of foreign troops on its soil.



“Nigeria’s territorial integrity remains intact,” defence spokesman Chris Olukolade insisted, claiming that national forces had “planned and are driving the present onslaught against terrorists from all fronts in Nigeria, not the Chadian forces”.



Boko Haram began its campaign of violence in Nigeria in 2009.


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Obanikoro disclaims audio recording on Ekiti elections, threatens to sue Sahara Reporters


Press statement from Musiliu Obanikoro's office...read below.


Our attention has been drawn to an audio recording released on Thursday by Sahara Reporters, an online news website. In the audio recording, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro is presented as having a conversation alongside current Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Senator Iyiola Omisore amongst other names purportedly identified by Sahara Reporters as participants in the said meeting. Continue...


But these are the facts:

1. That Senator Obanikoro wishes to state categorically and emphatically that you will never find him anywhere in the world talking about rigging an election in favour of anyone. The context of the conversation being reported by Sahara Reporters has been deliberately concocted, manipulated and misrepresented to achieve a predetermined narrative. Nowhere in the purported recording did Senator Obanikoro mention directly or indirectly a plan to rig the Ekiti State elections as the Sahara Reporters narrative suggests.

2. That Senator Obanikoro’s team was approached by an agent of Sahara Reporters to pay for the doctored recording. Senator Obanikoro’s refusal to be blackmailed led to Sahara Reporters going ahead to publish the said recording.

3. That it is an open knowledge that Sahara Reporters is a paid mouthpiece of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and as such cannot be taken seriously and credibly.

4. That the eventual timing of the release of the doctored audio coming on the eve of the ruling of the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal makes it even more sinister. For all intents and purposes, it is a failed attempt to compromise the outcome of the Tribunal ruling and set the tone for public sympathy in the event of an unfavorable ruling.

5. Old habits die hard. The APC is known for its manipulative antics in the manufacturing of forged certificates, hacking, propaganda and now the doctoring of audio recordings.

6. That Dr. Kayode Fayemi and the APC have failed to explain how their gross unpopularity led to the loss of their wards and local governments to PDP’s Ayodele Fayose.

7. That there was a Tribunal set up for the Ekiti Election. Why was this audio recording not presented to that Tribunal? Having lost an election woefully and at the Election Petitions Tribunal, this is nothing short of a lame after-thought and a futile attempt to pervert the minds of unsuspecting Nigerians against the PDP in the coming general elections.

8. That the role the Nigerian Army played in safeguarding the elections in Ekiti and Osun States remains commendable, to general acclaim, locally and internationally.

9. The APC and their cronies are the ones known for anti-democratic tendencies. Where was Sahara Reporters when free and fair local government elections were annulled by the APC in Lagos State?

10. That beyond this statement, Senator Obanikoro will not dignify the immoral construct of the APC through its hired media platforms with any further response. Senator Obanikoro refuses to be distracted by the failed antics of the APC and is focusing on the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

11. That Senator Obanikoro is initiating legal action against Sahara Reporters in New York and Nigeria for defamation of character.



Signed

Ohimai Godwin Amaize

Special Adviser on Media Strategy to Senator Musiliu Obanikoro


Don’t Vote For Pres. Jonathan, He Has Been A Total Failure – Wole Soyinka Speaks.




Soyinka on Thursday declared that no one should vote for President Goodluck Jonathan, as his leadership has been a complete failure, according to Sahara Reporters.



He reportedly made this declaration at the 2015 edition of Vision of the Child (VOTC) event in Lagos, a yearly programme inaugurated in 2012.



Soyinka said to the students present:

“I will not vote and I will not encourage ‎anyone to vote for the continuation of this government, simply because your colleagues numbering over two hundred were kidnapped.



And the government of this nation failed to show leadership.‎



So anyone who says after that event that I will vote or cast my vote or encourage anyone to vote for this regime must be living in Sambisa forest…



There has been a failure of leadership.



Our children whom you represent today have been betrayed…



After that dereliction of duty, after that failure of leadership, after that betrayal for our future, for anyone to think or to put words in my mouth suggesting that I will vote or encourage anyone to vote for this regime is a travesty of intelligence.”



The 2015 edition of Vision of the Child event was themed “The Road to Sambisa.”


He Lost His Career Because Of Trust

Signature is a powerful tool in decision making. It is an identity and signifies approval by the owner. It is worth protecting and jealously guided. Do not compromise your signature or sign- on.



Let us learn from Smith.



Smith visited a friend in Jalingo, the Capital of Taraba State. It was 2 weeks to his National Youth Service Corps Pass Out Parade. He saw a Punch Newspaper and flipped through it. A major Oil and Gas company wanted to change her Core Application and the CEO explained the process of transition in the newspaper. Smith had knowledge of the Application and decided to write about it. He submitted his CV with the write- up to the Head, Human Resources of the company.



Smith was scheduled for aptitude test by the Oil and Gas Company on a Friday. He prepared for the test as if his whole life depended on it. On the Friday morning, he woke up with a very serious headache but managed to get to the company. There were 15 people for the test. The Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) explained to them the pattern of the questions and the policy of 60% as a pass mark. They started the test. It was a paper based test. The test result was out after 45minutes. Smith scored 56%.It was below the 60% pass mark policy. The headache became severe. He became dizzy so he decided to wait at the reception for a moment. He fell into deep sleep. The HRBP tapped him on the shoulder. Where are others? She asked. I do not know, Smith responded. The company is starting a new subsidiary and required immediate deployment of new staff, are you interested? She said .I did not meet 60% pass mark, Smith answered. We will work it out. Report here tomorrow morning. She enthused. Smith became strong again. Headache was gone.



Smith was posted to Finance Department (Account Payable), though, he studied Statistics. He was to report to Collins, the unit head. Collins was transferred from a subsidiary to oversee account payable Unit. Collins was fun to be with. Hard working, always working late and most times work on weekends. Smith’s table was beside Collins’. Collins enquired from Smith about his family, school and other private life including the church he attended. Smith discovered they attended the same denomination. Their relationship became deeper.



The company had deployed Oracle. All transactions were concluded on the computer system. All document processed carried the processor’s name, e- signature and user id. So, all transactions and documents can be traced to the initiator or authoriser.



Smith learnt very fast on the job. He simplified the processes. He reduced the suppliers’ waiting time including foreign vendors; when documents were processed before the due date, he sent mail to vendors for follow up. He became the man of the people. The company closes by 5 pm and over time including weekends attracted extra bucks. Smith joined the crew; he worked late and sometimes, worked on weekends.

He noticed that Collins hid some documents in cabinets far away from their tables. Payments were being delayed to vendors. The vendors lobbied to get paid and if for any reason a manager or vendor raised query on any file, Collins would instruct Smith not to talk.



Smith got to the office on a Monday morning, his table had been moved to the extreme, very far away from Collins’. He never mind, at least it did not affect his work; and more so, that he was independent except for authorisation and this was done electronically.

Smith initiated a payment of N800, 000,000 plus to a vendor in India. The vendor called the group head, finance that the money was processed twice. The investigation started. The first document initiated by Smith carried his name, user id, and e-signature. The document for the second payment only carried his name. No user id and e-signature. The head of operations and some other top management staff vouched for Smith’s integrity and claimed it was an error. Smith was pardoned.



Smith was to process a document sent from the company’s branch in Port Harcourt. The percentage for processing the document was 6% but the document submitted to him for payment carried 15%.He approached Collins for clarification. Collins said the company had changed it to 15%.Collins collected the document and signed off with a red pen. Smith initiated the transaction on the system. The money was paid.

At about 10 am the following morning, the group heads- finance, human resources, marketing and operations came into Smith’s office. They came with the print out copy of the transaction. They asked who processed the payment, he admitted he did. He showed them the hard copy signed by Collins.



The human resources department set up disciplinary committee (DC) and sent invitation to Smith and Collins separately. Collins attended the DC and denied he had knowledge of the payment. Smith attended the DC and presented the document signed by Collins. The DC invited both Smith and Collins.



Smith was rest assured that Collins attended the same denomination with him and that he would prove he was innocent. Unfortunately, Collins denied Smith. Collins said he did not sign any document. He demanded that he signs his signature on a paper. Collins signature was different from the one he signed with the red pen. He only signed his initial which could be easily forged by anyone. The signature on his identity card also confirmed this. Heaven was let loosed!



The ability of the Head of Operations to prove Smith’s innocence proved abortive. Smith was asked to resign. He did resign. That marked the end of Smith’s career in the company.



After about a year, the truth was revealed. Collins initiated a payment that went bad. It was discovered that Collins had been working with a “CABAL” that comprised top management staff. They saw Smith as a threat, he was gullible and he became the victim.



The Bottom-Line



 Team building is a good thing, but check the trust level day in day out.



 Never disclose your sign- on to anyone. Guide your password very well



 Check all documents very well before attesting your signature.



 Let change in organisation’s policy be communicated to you via mail or standard means of communication adopted by the organisation.

 Read, understand and learn to apply your organisation’s policy.



 Understand your line of communication.



 Clearly define and understand your processes.



 Check the conformity of signature signed by your colleagues or supervisors before relying on them



Ask questions or seek help outside your confined unit if need be-



 Never ignore any grapevine .Vet it and choose that which is applicable. People who Collins had worked with in the past had try to warn Smith but he thought it was grapevine.



 Know the red flag of your work or processes and act fast against such occurrence. Never mind to whistle blow when need arises.









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Women: Protect Your PVC So It Won't Be Used By Boko Haram

Female Boko Haram Bombers Plan To Bomb Polling Centers – FG



The federal government on Thursday revealed plans by female suicide bombers to hijack voter cards of female electorate, so as to access polling stations to detonate explosives.



The Coordinator of the National Information Centre (NIC) and Director General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omeri, disclosed this at the centre in Abuja.



Omeri, who called for the consciousness of eligible voters, particularly female electorate to safeguard their voters’ cards, said recent intelligence reports indicated that unscrupulous Nigerians had perfected plans to surreptitiously acquire the voters’ cards.



“Recent intelligence reports indicated that unscrupulous Nigerians have perfected plan to surreptitiously collect, buy, or steal Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) of female voters, handover same to female suicide bombers and create access for them into polling centers where they will detonate bombs and kill unsuspecting voters.



“By this information, therefore, Nigerians, especially female voters are warned to remain vigilant and also guard and preserve their PVCs,” Omeri said.



He also stated that there were ongoing operations in the Sambisa forest and its environs, to dislodge insurgents from their hideouts.



Meanwhile, details merged yesterday that about 7,500 troops have been deployed by the African Union (AU) to combat Boko Haram insurgency, as Nigerian government said the troops were mainly mobilised from member nations of Lake Chad Basin Development Commission (LCBC).



Member countries include; Cameroun, Republic of Chad, Republic of Niger, Nigeria, Algeria, Central African Republic, Libya, and Sudan.



He also stated that a tactical meeting on the modus operandi of the force was ongoing in Cameroun.



Omeri said the Chadian Chief of Defense Staff was in Nigeria to consolidate on modalities of trans-border operations with his Nigerian counterpart, Air Chief Marshall, Alex Badeh.



“The 7,500 AU-backed multinational force is to be composed mainly in the Lake Chad Basin Commission areas. The modalities of the operation of this force are being worked out at a tactical meeting which started today in the Republic of Cameroun,” he said.





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Download VIDEO: Naeto C - Helele ft. Flavour

Following up the release of videos for What You Want Feat. Boj & Ajebutter 22 & China Feat. Phyno. Cerious Music presents to you the visuals to the E-Kelly produced track, Helele Feat. Flavour. The video was shot by Fiendish productions who have been resposnsible for other Naeto C videos like Kini Big Deal & Tony Montana (Remix) Feat. D’Banj. Helele was shot in Cape Town, South Africa and goes live on all platforms tonight! Super C’s third album is almost ready and will be out in a couple of months!



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SIP DJ Joins “57” Continues



See who is partying with Club DJ Prince on his home coming to “57” this Saturday 7th of February 2015 Club 57 is situated at 57 Awolowo Road, SW Ikoyi Lagos. For reservation call 09091001000 Don’t miss out. More pics after the cut...












Policemen In Delta Assault Taxi Driver Over N100 Bribe [See Photo]




A taxi driver was forced out of his vehicle and beaten on Thursday by policemen allegedly over his refusal to part way with N100 bribe.



The incident reportedly happened around Orpiah, Close to Delta State University.



Eyewitnesses say it’s starting to become a usual occur. rence for policemen in the area to assault ‘stubborn’ drivers.



“It happens all the time and there is no one to report to because the inspector in charge of Orpiah is involved too. He and his boys have been assaulting taxi drivers on this axis,” another taxi driver told reporters.


Miracle Babies!!! Touching Story Of Barren African-American Mother Who Gave Birth To Twin Girls When There Was No Hope. (Must Read)




This amazing story of Alaina Mayes has gone viral and we just had to share.



Read the story as told by IDoWeddings below:

‘Based on all of your responses we decided to carry on with twins. Here’s the beautiful story of @amayes hers is a story of faith and restoration. After surgery and 3 failed IUI’s she embarked on adopting a set of twin girls upon their birth, but unfortunately they passed a couple of days after they were born. Then, again she was approached about adopting a 10 month old little one who she ultimately chose not to continue the process after an unfortunate court appearance in April.



Then…

In May, yes the very next month, she found out she was pregnant and expecting! No fertility treatments, no alternative medicine assistance…. just God working and blessing in an unimaginable way.



And, then….

At her first appointment in June, she found out she was expecting TWINS! She’s now a joyful mother to twin girls. Hope you are all inspired. May God give you more than your heart desires and may all that’s been lost be restored to you in double portions.’



You can follow Alaina’s journey along with her husband and twins on her blog – unashamedgrowth.com



See more cute photos of Alaina and her twins:







Alaina posted on Instagram two days ago an inspiring message:

God settles barren women in homes as happy mothers of children {Psalm 113:9} & I’m proof of that. I desperately love being a mama.



I’ll forever be so grateful that He allowed me to naturally become pregnant with my own children when I was told it would never happen. Then blessed to spend my days with two healthy, growing babies daily. So grateful.




Photo Credit: Instagram



Source- BellaNaija


Canadian Rapper, Drake Has A Hot New Hot Girlfriend. (See Photos)




Canadian rapper, Drake has a hot new girlfriend in his house and its not even his label mate, Nicki Minaj whom they have both shared some sort of chemistry together.



The rapper is hooked up with beautiful model, Iesha Marie.



The couple’s little secret spilled after the girl’s bathroom selfie landed on Instagram this week.



Funny enough she was in the same bathroom as the one in Drake’s house.



How do we know? Drake had also taken a selfie in that same bathroom.



MediaTakeOut reveals that Iesha Marie has links with Chris Brown, Future, Trey Songz and The Dream… plus to many athletes.




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President Goodluck Jonathan Has Only Spent 4 Years,11months

There has been some misconception about how long President Goodluck Jonathan has been heading this country. The lie being peddled is that he has spent 6 years;late President Musa Yardua died in May5, 2010;but President acted from Feburary10,2010 until he fully assumed the Presidency on May 6,2010...

So mathematicians should help me do the needful...............

Our Rail lines are working; roads wearing new look, farmers smiling to banks......Add your own.........


More Than 300 Foreign Journalists Apply To Cover Feb. Elections.




A total of 300 applications have been received by the country from foreign journalists who wish to secure visa and come to cover the forthcoming general election, a development that shows how interested the world is, in Nigeria’s forthcoming elections.



To this end, the Federal Government, Thursday, described as false, media reports claiming that it was denying accreditation to foreign journalists to come into the country for the coverage of the election.



In line with the mandate of the Federal Ministry of Information to create media access to report on the activities of the Federal Government, the government confirmed it had so far processed 300 applications from foreign journalists to secure visa and come into the country for the elections.



Hundreds of other applications received by the ministry were being processed at the moment.



“Those who could not secure their visas from Nigerian embassies abroad probably did not follow the due process to secure the accreditation,” a statement by the ministry said.



“The Federal Ministry of Information, therefore, appeals to foreign journalists wishing to come into the country to cover the elections to follow the due process in securing the accreditation, including the presentation of official correspondence from their organisations.



“They can equally apply online using the following email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..”>epd@ nigeria.gov.ng.



“The general public are hereby advised to disregard the report as false and mischievous.”


UAE Introduces Strict Age Restrictions For Nigerians Travelling To Dubai

Is this what we have been reduced to?



UAE VISA AGE RESTRICTION FOR NIGERIAN NATIONALS



FEBRUARY 4, 2015



Please be informed that the UAE immigrations has placed an age restriction on the below nationals:



For Nigerians, please note the following:



*Single Ladies / Men travelling alone should be 40 years old and above.



*Married women travelling with children should be above 40 years old.



*Ladies / Men who are less than 40 years old will be allowed to travel if accompanied by someone who is above 40 and bears the same surname with them.



All visa applications are subject to approval. Once applied, full charges are applicable.



*In order to clear a file from the system, a cancellation charge of AED 110will be applicable should a request be rejected by the immigration department.



*For Moroccans, Algerians, Libyans, Mauritanians and Tunisians nationality, minimum age requirement is 40 to apply the visa.



*For the rest of the nationalities, minimum age requirement to apply the visa is 21 years old for men and 23 years old for women

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nominated For Grammy Award With Beyonce

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, critically acclaimed Nigerian novelist and award-winning author of Americanah ​ has been nominated for a Grammy award for her feminist-inspired collaboration with American entertainer Beyonce, on her 2013 track "Flawless."





Following her TEDx talk on why “We Should All Be Feminists,” Beyonce incorporated the writer’s essay into her single, which further brought more life to her craft.



Adichie, whose work has been translated into thirty languages, has also appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope.



Adichie​ has also received several awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2008.



This nomination for “Album of the Year” with her fellow feminist is just yet another achievement for the writer.





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Soldiers Kill Boko Haram Commander, Recover Lost Weapons

The troops of the Multi National Joint Task Force may have killed a very high ranking member of the Boko Haram sect in the ongoing military operation in the North-East.



It was learnt that the insurgent’s commander whose identity was not revealed was killed in one of the joint raids carried out by Nigerian troops and their counterparts from Chad, Niger and Cameroon.



It was stated that the late commander was one of the top officers to the founder of the Boko Haram sect, Muhammad Yusuf.



The Boko Haram commander was said to have been killed during the battle of Malamfatori



Nigeria’s neighbouring countries are deploying a total of 3,600 troops to the Multi National Joint Task Force to aid the nation’s current onslaught against Boko Haram.



Out of the figure, Chad contributes the largest figure of 2,500 troops while Niger and Cameroon contribute 700 and 400 troops respectively.



It was stated that the insurgent’s top commander was killed in an air raid by helicopter gunships of the Nigerian Air Force involved in the combined operation with ground forces during the fight to reclaim some border towns from the insurgents.



Some of the towns liberated by the soldiers of the Multi National Joint Task Force from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon are Gamboru-Ngala, Malamfatori, Abadam, Kirawa and Ashigashiya and Michika.



It was learnt that troops had encircled Gwoza, and were moving against the town which was captured and made part of a caliphate announced by the insurgents last year.



An intelligence personnel said on Thursday that the Nigerian Army also made a big break in the battle against the insurgents by recovering some of the most lethal weapons captured by the Boko Haram fighters when they took over the Baga base of the task force.



The recovered equipment included “a Battle Armoured Tank equipped with comprehensive protective system and maximum firing distance and accuracy with anti-aircraft rotating mount; its fire accuracy is attained by range-finder, ballistic computer with a thermal barrel sleeve.”



Also in the list of the captured items are armoured personnel vehicles, artillery guns, arms and ammunition, and Hilux vehicles.



Our correspondent could not get the Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, to comment on the development as calls to his mobile telephone line could not connect.



Meanwhile, Boko Haram fighters have shot or burned to death about 90 civilians and wounded 500 in the ongoing fighting in a Cameroonian border town near Nigeria, officials in Cameroon said on Thursday.





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Tension High In Osun As Tribunal Gives Verdict Today

Most schools clossed, markets shut, people in mute as no one could say exactly what the judgement would be at the osun election petition tribunal today as vadict will be given. Here in Osogbo, though everywhere is calm but the PDP supporters are very hopeful of rejoicing after today's judgement. Reports also show that a lot of ceremonial dresses "aso ebi" are in stock for the celebration. To the APC supporters i contacted, he said "nothing dey happen" but God knows which side will rejoice after the judgement.

My Osun residents, let's keep our friends, living outside the state of Virtue updated by posting updates here. "Osun a dara o"







Osun tribunal judgment underway



The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Osogbo over matters arising from Osun State governorship election held on August 9th 2014, has begun delivering its final judgment.

The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Elizabeth Ikpejime and other members of the panel filed into the courtroom at High Court premises, Osogbo at exactly 9am and started reading the judgment which is almost going to two hours as of the time of filing this report.

The judgment is most likely going to be unanimous as the chairman said ” this is our judgment” when she started.

The petitioner, Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party and the first respondent, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress were absent at the court but they were represented by leaders of their respective parties.

Security was beefed up around the court premises as security agents manned every available space at the venue of the judgment.

Lawyers, journalists and few politicians who were allowed inside the court room were thoroughly frisked by operatives of the Department of State Security and policemen.

The court room was also combed by members of the Explosive Ordinance Department.





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How Nigerian musician Spydaman lost his father to electrocution


His publicist Obaji Akpet tells what happened from Calabar...read below...

The day was meant to be the best for popular Nigerian reggae dance hall singer, Omin Churchill Nyong popularly known in the Nigerian musical scene as Spydaman, as he went about his usual music recording business for the day in Lagos. Just when he is about to step into the studio Spydaman received a call that he still finds hard to recover from till now. His father, Chief Churchill Nyong was dead to electrocution.



According to the story, the reggae dance hall crooner’s father was in his Calabar residence when an electric pole with a powered high tension cable fell across his roof and began to spark flames. Afraid of what more can engulf from the sparks emanating from the electric, Spydaman’s father hurriedly reached out for the cut-out on the electric meter board to pull it out in order to avoid a worst case scenario when he terribly met the fate of electrocution that eventually led to his demise. Spydaman was never going to see his beloved father again. At the moment the popular reggae dance hall rave is already being seen in Calabar for about a month now as burial arrangement, set to hold later in this month of February, is currently ongoing. Spydaman’s father, until his demise was aged 60 and survived by 2 children with Spydaman being the first and only male child. Spydaman remains one of Nigeria’s foremost musician who has continued to calve a niche in his genre of music called reggae dance hall; popular among his songs include ‘Dance Hall’; ‘Tido’; ‘Egwu’ featuring Timaya; ‘Prayer’ featuring Terry G; ‘Mai Oh Mai’ featuring Ice Prince and YQ; among others.​




Between Tayo Faniran's manager and luxury designer, Malivelihood


So if you all remember, last year luxury designer Michael Awujoola of Malivelihood flaunted this 24 Carat Gold plated iphone6, claiming it was designed specially for BBA 9 runner up, Tayo Faniran. Well, it looks like Tayo is yet to receive the phone and his business manager, model- Tarmar Awobutu took to twitter to let people know and directly ask Malivelihood for the phone. See that after the cut..