Saturday, February 8, 2014

2women jailed for trafficking &making children beg with fake wounds

Two women have been arrested and jailed for trafficking children and making them beg on the streets of Lagos with fake wounds.

PM News reports
The Family Court 1 in Yaba Magistracy has jailed two women for trafficking and using children to beg for alms in Victoria Island area of Lagos.
The women, Amarachi Eke from Imo State and Chioma Eze from Awka in Anambra State, were arraigned at the court on Wednesday on a two-count charge of using underaged children to beg for alms. And they pleaded guilty to the charges.
Magistrate Y.O. Aje-Afunwa sentenced them to two months imprisonment each; one month for each count charge and they are also to pay a fine of N5,000. The jail terms will run concurrently..continue

Pres. Jonathan appoints new Special Advisers & Chief Executives for NTA, FRCN, NAN & SURE-P

State House Release below...
In furtherance of efforts to continually strengthen his administration on all fronts, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the following appointments to fill existing vacancies:
1.    Gen. Martin Luther Agwai    –    Chairman of SURE-P
2.    Mrs. Tanwa Olusi                   -        Deputy Chairman of SURE-P
3.    Mrs. Fidelia Njeze                  -        Special Adviser (NEPAD)
4.    Senator Suleiman M. Ajadi   -        Special Adviser (NASS)
5.     Mr. Sola Omole                      -        DG, NTA
6.    Alhaji Ladan Salihu                -        DG, FRCN
7.     Mr. Ima Niboro                     -        MD, News Agency of Nigeria
Gen. Martin Agwai (rtd.) was until now the Deputy Chairman and Acting Chairman of SURE-P while Mrs. Njeze is the current Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland.
All the appointments are with immediate effect.

SSS releases Asari Dokubo

The President of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo has been released by the Department of State Security Services, SSS, hours after he was picked up for repeatedly making inciting comments. His personal assistant (Media) and younger brother, Rex Asari, confirmed his release to the media.

Bianca Ojukwu becomes APGA national leader

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday February 6th adopted Bianca Ojukwu, wife of the party's late National Leader, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, as the party’s National Leader.

This was made known by the party's leader, Chief Maxi Okwu at a National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting in Abuja yesterday.
"The National Executive Committee, NEC, of our great party reconfirms and further resolves the earlier decision taken on  February 16, 2013 and on March 22, 2013, at the one year anniversary of the demise of our late leader and icon, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. That he remains our symbol and leader the fact of his transit to glory notwithstanding. His wife and next of kin, Iyom Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu is hereby adopted as the living embodiment of his ideals. She shall in his stead be acknowledged as Leader. She is aware of the existing situation and she gave her consent, and we adopted her. We still respect Governor Peter Obi as one of our leaders, and he is also aware of this development.” Chief Okwu said

Eddie Murphy's daughters strip down for racy lingerie shoot

Eddie Murphy's two grown up daughters, Bria Murphy, 24 (left) and and sister Shayne, 19, (right) stripped down for a racy lingerie shoot and shared the photos on instagram. The two girls are taking after their mother, Nicole Murphy, who was a top model back in the day. See more pics after the cut..

Wife logs on to FB to discover her husband had married another woman

A bigamist was caught by his wife after she saw a photograph of him grinning with his new Gambian teenage bride on Facebook.

Nicolette Smith was further devastated when she noticed Stephen Smith, 52, had married Awa Jobarteh, 19, (pictured above) at the same African register office they tied the knot at 7 years earlier.

Ms Smith then called the police, but incredibly her cheating former partner has avoided jail and claimed he was the victim. Continue...


The factory worker had been abandoned by his new young bride two days after arriving back in the UK, and she has never been traced.

Nicolette (pictured above right) met her husband in 2001, after his first divorce, but has been left in financial ruin after their marriage breakdown.

She was declared bankrupt when Smith failed to pay the mortgage and is still waiting for her husband to sign divorce papers, Teesside Crown Court was told...continue

This Pastor Takes Money To Check If Your Name Is In The Book Of Life (PICTURED)

The controversial Kenyan pastor,  Bishop Thomas Wahome (pictured below) collects money to check if your name is in the ‘book of life’.

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It is said that Wahome owns the Helicopter of Christ ministries and the Kenyan media describe the “Man of God” and his church as “just out of this world” as he is “known to craft very bizarre ways of conning his flocks”.
Two years ago the cleric was charging KSh 1,200 (N 2,300) to anyone who wanted to touch his garment referring to the woman who touched Jesus’ clothes in the book of Mark. He claimed that people who touched his clothes were immediately cured from any disease.
Fresh reports indicate that pastor Wahome can “Check whether your name is the book of life”.
He is believed to check it for KSh 1,500 (N2,900) and actually ask God whether you are among those people who will go to heaven.
Source: Metronaija

Nigerians Protest ‘Crazy Bills’, Poor Power Supply

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A cross-section of Nigerians on Friday appealed to the nation’s electricity generation and distribution companies to make energy consumption people-friendly.
They said that their expectations after the unbundling of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have been dashed following the subsisting “crazy bills and the fixed rate billing of electricity.”
They made their appeals in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during the National Conscience Party (NCP’s) rally/protest against the management of electricity providers in Lagos.
Mr Friday Arinze, who resides at Iyana-Ipaja, decried the what he termed the exorbitant bills of the new energy providers.continue after the cut.....

Tania And Wizkid Share Intimate Photos

The longtime lovers shared photos from inside their bedroom on their instagram pages.
The pics show Wizkid lying in bed while Tania’s well manicured nails covers his mouth in one pic and holds his hands in another.
Wizkid also shared a pic of what his bedroom looks like. Really nice.

Graphic photos: Soldier pictured stabbing man to death in front of a crowd

A group of soldiers in the Central African Republic lynched a man they suspected was a rebel minutes after hearing the new president's promise to restore security at a ceremony to reinstate the divided country's armed forces.

About 20 uniformed soldiers accused a member of the crowd of having belonged to Seleka - the mostly Muslim rebel group that seized power in a coup last March, before stabbing him repeatedly until he was dead.

A soldier stamped on the lifeless body, which was then dragged nearly naked through the streets as residents looked on and took photographs. Continue...

BACK IN THE DAY: Check Out Fela Anikulapo-Kuti With His Wives (PHOTOS)

Check out some amazing photos of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti with some of his wives in their home in the 80s .

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The Afrobeat legend  who was also a human rights activist was born on the 15th October 1938 in Abeokuta, Ogun state to Feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement, Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and Minister, First President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Reverend Isreal Oludotun Ransome-Kuti.
Fela married twenty-seven women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers.
The Afrobeat maestro despite his parent sending him to London to study medicine chose instead to study music at the Trinity College of Music.
He passed on the 2nd August 1997...see more pics after the cut...

14 year old boy locked up in Iyaganku cell in Ibadan

I got an email from a WCB reader who claims he was recently locked up at a police station called Iyaganku Police Station in Ibadan. While there, he says he saw two boys less than 16 years old who have been locked up there for a few years. I decided to share his mail here just in case. See it below

Hotel Selling Cooked Human Meat Found In Onitsha, 11 Arrested With Human Heads

According to Osun Defender, Onitsha police arrested 11 people after they discovered 2 fresh human heads in a hotel (name withheld) very close to the popular Ose-Okwodu market in Anambra state on Thursday.
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2 AK47 rifles and other weapons were also discovered in the hotel.
The arrest followed tip-offs from area residents on Thursday morning.
The hotel owner, 6 women and 4 men were arrested.
After police got access to the hotel, they made a startling discovery of two human heads wrapped in a cellophane bag, two AK47 rifles, two army caps, 40 rounds of live ammunition and so many cell phones.
“Each time I came to market, because the hotel is very close to the market, I always noticed funny movements in and out of the hotel; dirty people with dirty characters always come into the hotel.
So, I was not surprised when the police made this discovery in the early hours of yesterday,” said a vegetable seller in the area.
A Pastor who was among the people who tipped off the police on Thursday said: “I went to the hotel early this year, after eating, I was told that a lump of meat was being sold at N700, I was surprised.
So I did not know it was human meat that I ate at such expensive price

Press release: Juwon Lawal confirms split from actress Uche Iwuji

In November 2013 we all heard that actress Uche Iwuji's marriage to businessman Juwon Lawal had crashed a year after the two tied the knot and just a few months after they welcomed a son. Uche took to twitter to deny it. Her husband, Juwon, also denied it.

Well, it seems they've decided to come clean. Juwon just released a press statement via his publicist announcing the end of his marriage to Uche. Find it below...

Handsome actor Michael Ealy says his wife isn't his type

Handsome Hollywood actor Michael Ealy, 40, married Khatira Rafiqzada, 32 (pictured above with him) in October 2012 after dating her for four years. But now he says she's not his type..

When asked to advise other men looking to settle down, Michael told Rolling Out magazine...
While, I don’t consider myself a person that should write a book, or give advice on relationships, what I will share is my personal perspective.continue after the cut.....

Photos from Media Ladies Night Out

Every once in a while, some Nigerian female media personalities find time to hang out and have fun together. They did it again last night. Toolz, Toke Makinwa, Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi, Fade Ogunro Tosyn Bucknor and singer Tiwa Savage all hung out at last night's Media Ladies Night Out. More pics when you continue...