Odi Massacre: How FG Killed Old Men, Women –Jonathan

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 Says no militant died in the military action

By RAZAQ BAMIDELE, NDUBUISI ORJI, CHINELO OBOGO, SAM OTTI (Lagos) and JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE (Abuja)

Several years after the bombardment of Odi Community in Bayelsa State by the military, President Goodluck Jonathan said it did not succeed in curbing militancy in Niger Delta.

Jonathan said rather, it worsened militancy in the region and attracted international outcry against the Federal Government.

Jonathan, who disclosed this yesterday during a presidential media chat in Abuja, also said it was too early for him to declare whether or not he will contest the 2015 election. He said if the military action in Odi had stopped militancy, there would have not been any need for the amnesty programme for militants in the Niger Delta initiated by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Two Drug Traffickers To Spend 14 Years In Prison

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Abuja

Vanguard

By Daniel Eteghe

Two drug traffickers arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, will spend the next 14 years in prison.

The convicts, Mbechi Obiageli Susan, 38, and Obiora Boniface Okechukwu, 36, according to Justice Chukwu Evoh of the Federal High Court, Abuja, will spend seven years each in prison over unlawful importation of narcotics. Justice Evoh, in his ruling, said both convicts will serve the prison term for pleading guilty to unlawful importation of narcotics without wasting the time of the court.

He held that the convicts had shown sufficient remorse and that the court expected them to turn a new leaf and contribute to the development of the country after completing their jail terms.

Susan,with Nigerian international passport number A00288396, had claimed she was three months pregnant when stopped for routine search on her way from Sao-Paulo, Brazil. She warned that scanning machine could harm her unborn baby. However, when placed under observation, she excreted 51 pellets of cocaine weighing 900 grammes.

She hails from Oduma village in Enugu State. Okechukwu arrived from Brazil and was arrested for ingesting 91 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.6kg.

Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, asked others to learn from the convicts experience.

“Drug trafficking kills dreams. It is expected that others outside that are contemplating drug trafficking will learn from this sentence and shun the criminal act”, he stated.

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Video: A Lad Uses Trash Materials To Invent Power-Generator, Radio Transmitter, Others

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15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the nickname, DJ Focus.

Couple Who Made Millions Of Naira From Kidnapping, Arrested In Lagos

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When the management of Blueprint Business Technology, an ICT solution company, secured the service of Victor Sunday as an automobile engineer some years back, it didn’t occur to them that he was up to something more sinister than they could ever imagine.

The 34-year-old man, in connivance with his wife, Eno, and a friend, Idom Essong, staged and kidnapped one of the company’s directors simply identified as Adebayo, squeezing a ransom of N36 million from his family.

Ini Edo Denies Getting N600m From Gov Akpabio To Build Film School

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“As a rule, I don’t reply every talk or report about me, but these recent ones are crazy and baseless. I don’t know where they got their information that my state governor offered me N600m to build an art or film academy in Uyo.This is just another work of mischief makers, who keep troubling celebrities. To put the records straight, my state governor has not offered me such money to build a film academy in Uyo as was falsely reported." - Ini Edo Ehiagwina

Jackie Appiah Divorces Her Husband After 3 Years Of Marriage

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For many Ghanaians, this week is such a horrible one, reading all sorts of sad news everywhere. For Nollywood industry, NSB reported the death of Nollywood Veteran Pete Eneh but for Ghollywood industry, it’s reported by a reliable source that the Ghanaian female movie star, Jackie Appiah marriage has definitely ended.  This must be terrible news for the top award winning movie star fans. The actress has one lovely son out of the estrange marriage

Photo Of A 11-Year-Old Boy With A Rare Swollen Hand Disease

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This is Vhuhwavho Ravhuhali who unfortunatelynever lived a normal life,with his right hand getting swollen by the day and always in pain. For 10 years poor Vhu, aged 13, has watched his arm become more and more swollen and elongated until today it hangs painfully by his side. He dreams of becoming a doctor.

Exposing MTN’s Corporate Ultimate Wonder Promo SCAM – Facts

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Barely few days after the NCC placed a ban on promos by telecom networks, MTN Nigeria was quick to announce the winner of their Ultimate Wonder Promo which saw one miss Ebube Essien-Garricks emerging as the winner of the promo as reported by Punch. Facebook says Ebube doesn’t exist, but she’s got a fanPage to celebrate her victory.

Reno Omokri And Mallam El Rufai

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Reno is special assistant on new media to President Jonathan

Aluu4: Lloyd Toku Michael Buried

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One of the Aluu4 murder victims, Lloyd Toku Michael, was buried yesterday in Port Harcourt. Llyod and three of his friends were brutally killed by a mob in Aluu community, Port Harccourt on Friday 5th of October after someone raised a false alarm calling them thieves.


Their killers are in police custody and will appear in court again sometime in December.

Paschal Eronmose Wins Gulder Ultimate Search Season 9

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Against all odds, hurdles, rigorous training and days of sleeping in the rain, Paschal Eronmose beat the other contestants to become the Ultimate Man in this year’s edition of Gulder Ultimate Search, GUS. Paschal almost lost his chance to Onyinye Udodi, who lost the prize by whisker, having been in line to becoming the first ever Ultimate Woman. But she made history; for the first time in the history of GUS, a female was the first runner-up.

Don't Dare Nigerians, Another Fuel Hike Will Collapse Your Govt.- NNLC Warns GEJ

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The Nigeria Labour Congress has warned the Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government against any surreptitious move to increase the price of petroleum products in the country. NLC President, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar, warned in a statement on Friday that any increase in the price of fuel would lead to a crisis as the congress would call out Nigerians to resist it. He warned that any increase in the prices of petroleum products would culminate in a crisis that would surpass the last January anti-fuel price hike demonstration.

71-Year-Old Kogi State Pensioner Threatens Suicide Over Unpaid Benefits

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A 71-year-old man, Dr. John Oshagbemi, who claimed to be a former Director in the Kogi State Ministry of Education, has threatened to commit suicide over the refusal of the state government to pay him his retirement after disengaging from the service in 2005. Oshagbemi, who claimed he was a director in examination department of the ministry before retirement having put in the mandatory 35 years alleged that he was paid N100, 000 out of N3 million owed him by the state government as his entitlement.

Keri Hilson Arrives In Nigeria And The First Thing She Asks For Is Jollof Rice

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Grammy award winning artiste, Keri Hilson has arrived in Nigeria. She flew into the country at about 5:20pm (Nigerian time). In her entourage, about 15, were her bodyguards, aides, back-up dancers and singers. She is Abuja as a guest star for the Face of Sofa (with Keri Hilson in concert) event, holding this weekend at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. 

Cutest Couple Dance At A Lagos Wedding

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They may not be professional dancers but the newly wedded Anifowoshes, on their big day, left no one in doubt that their wedding day means a great deal to them as the young couple rocked the dance floor in riveting steps. The Anifowoshe’s wedding raised the bar for nuptials with the groom giving a thrilling group dance with an all male dance group, dancing to J-Martins’ Fine-Fine loving. The amazing dance routine had one of the dancers, jump over the very elated bride, after she joined the group dance.

Nigerian First Lady Patience Jonathan Still Sick

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Despite her return to Nigeria in pomp and circumstance about one month ago, First Lady Patience Jonathan is still sick, SaharaReporters sources say. Saharareporters learned that shortly after the public relations exercise that attended her return, she retired into a medically-induced bed rest that has her kept her away from the public, unable to attend to official duties. 

Felicia Adu, 25, Wins The Miss Big World Nigeria Pageant

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Olufemi Adu With First Runner Up Emmanuella Egoigbo(r) 

& 2nd Runner Up Chinaza Chimalu (l)

The Miss Big World Nigeria pageant took place last Saturday November 10th at the prestigious Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Abuja with Olufemi Adu Felicia, 25, a graduate of mass communication (pictured above left) crowned winner.

WAEC Withholds 101,398 Results For Malpractices

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LAGOS—West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has said that 101,398 candidates who sat for the 2012 May/June West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, will have their results  withheld for alleged involvement in examination malpractice.

“Jesus And Mary Told Me To Kill Him” – Woman Who Stabbed Husband To Death

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A woman who allegedly stabbed her husband said she did it after, “Jesus and Mary told me to kill him because he is Satan’s spawn!” according to a police report. Police in South Carolina released new details from the Nov. 9 attack, which landed 36-year-old Tammi Estep behind bars and her husband in the hospital, The Smoking Gun reports.

60 Nigerians Deported From UK Over Marriage, Visa Scams

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At least 60 Nigerians in the United Kingdom have been deported because of various criminal offences. Some of the deportees had contravened immigration offences, while some were deported for their involvement in crimes such as molest, stealing, smoking and selling of hard drugs. Others used fake visa or engaged in fake marriages. Some of the deportees said at the airport that they had lived in the UK for long but could not get residence permit.