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Mourinho interested in Man Utd job – Sneijder

Posted by Choochoo Sports Book on August 3, 2010 at 9:53am

Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder is adamant former boss Jose Mourinho will manage Manchester United in the future.

The 26-year-old Dutch star won Serie A, the Champions League and the Coppa Italia with the Nerazzurri under the stewardship of Mourinho last term, but the Portuguese tactician has now moved on to Real Madrid.

Sneijder is convinced he will take over at Old Trafford when Sir Alex Ferguson retires and also believes he could be offered the England job at some point..

”English football excites him more than any other football in Europe and I don‘t think it‘s a question of if he returns to the Premier League but when,” he told the News of the World.

”I think it‘s written for him to take over Manchester United in a few years. One great manager will retire and another one will take over.

”But if he was offered the England job alongside the Manchester United one in a few years I am sure he would take it. He likes the daily interaction with players too much to take on an international job alone.

”Jose and I became good friends at Inter and, from conversations we had, I know he thinks he could really do something with the England players.

”When he takes the United job, the English FA must offer him the national post as well, and from conversations we have had I think he would take it, in fact I know he would.”

Sneijder believes Mourinho would be able to handle both jobs at the same time, and that he would not see the England post as a part-time role.

”We are talking about the best coach in the world, and it has been done before successfully,” he added.

”His other job would be in the Premier League, so he would be working with and watching the relevant England players every week, it would be perfect for him.

”With Jose, success always follows him but it‘s not always because he has the best players, it‘s because he makes you believe you are the best players.

”The confidence and belief he gives you is amazing, and when he is at a club it is his players and staff against the rest of the world.

”With the quality of players England have, a coach like Jose would surely make them favourites.”

Fake policemen rob motorists with fake guns

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on August 3, 2010 at 9:52am

When next you are flagged down at a checkpoint by policemen, especially at lonely spots between the hours of 9pm and 5am, you need to be careful and more vigilant as the men in black may not be genuine policemen.

A gang of armed robbers arrested by the police in Lagos State on their way from a successful operation at a spot in Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State, told PUNCH METRO that what one needed to rob successfully along the route were confidence, torch and black clothes that look like police uniform.

The quartet of Anayo Nwaga, Christian Obika, Johnson Onie and Chukwudi Nwankwo, were arrested by policemen attached to Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Government.

The Lagos State police spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba, who spoke with our correspondent, said what attracted the policemen to the suspects when they were stopped at a checkpoint was a big wound on the arm of one of them.

Mba said, “Further search into the bus they were driving revealed a number of telephone sets, which obviously were not their own because they were packed in a bag. There was also a large amount of money on them among other things. The policemen became suspicious and decided to take the suspects with them.

“It was not long before one of them broke down and confessed to the policemen how they robbed unsuspecting motorists at a spot at Ijebu Ode, pretending to be policemen.”

Obika, who divulged the information that put other suspects in trouble, said he was reluctant to join the gang because of the risks involved.

“But I have to do the job because I need the money. For instance now, my father has just died and I need a lot of money for the burial,” he said.

Obika said they usually selected a lonely spot on the expressway. According to him, “We are usually in colour clothes and we drive to the place like any other drivers. We usually operate around Ijebu Ode because there are so many lonely spots there.,

“Once we select our spot, we change into black clothes and cut some sticks from the nearby bush. We will wrap these sticks with black celotape and in darkness, it will look like gun. We will them mount a road block and we will start flashing oncoming vehicles with our torch. Once the driver slows down, we quickly assess the occupants and once we suspect that they might have things in their vehicles, we will stop them and rob them. Some of us will point the stick at them, making it look as if we will shoot them if they don‘t cooperate. But we have never killed or injured anybody during operation.”

Chukwudi also said the aim of the gang was not to injure people but to get money from them “in order to survive and we don‘t even do it everyday.”

But Mba said the police would need to conclude their investigation before arraigning the suspects in court.

He said, “However, the confession of these men has brought to the mind the need to be careful when driving. If people stop you on the highway, be sure that they are policemen before you stop.

“And if the journey is not absolutely necessary in the night, why not make it in the day time? The police will not however stop at ridding the society of bad elements like these suspects.”

Controversy in killing of woman by hit-and-run driver

Posted by 9jabook.com webmadam on August 3, 2010 at 9:41am

The cause of the death of a BRT passenger, Ms. Ifeanyi Dennis, who was allegedly killed by a commercial bus driver being pursued by men of the Lagos State Transport Management Agency on Thursday, is still generating controversy...

While a witness, Mr. Adetiba Joseph, told PUNCH METRO that Ifeanyi was killed by a fleeing bus driver, who was being pursued by the LASTMA men, the agency denied any complicity in the death of the 42 year-old woman.

But Joseph, who insisted that the victim was knocked down by the fleeing driver, added that Ifeanyi died on the spot before medication could be administered to her.

According to him, the death sparked off a spontaneous reaction from members of the public including commercial motorcyclists, popularly called okada riders, who allegedly pursued LASTMA officials at the scene.

Joseph said the officials later reinforced, stormed the scene and confiscated 15 motorcycles, while the motorcyclists ran away.

Joseph said, “Around 1pm, LASTMA people were pursuing one danfo motor. The danfo driver wanted to escape from LASTMA at the service lane when the officials blocked the road with their rake-like equipment. The vehicle crossed to BRT side and knocked down one of the two women that were standing at the BRT tarmac.

“We carried her to the other side of the road. We took her to a nearby hospital but before we could reach there, she was already dead. When the emergency response operation came after being phoned, they discovered that she was already dead.

“Later, people pursued LASTMA officials standing there. Afterwards the officials came and impounded 15 motorcycles from the other side.”

The Pastor of Living Covenant Christian Assembly, Onigbongbo, Maryland, Pastor Timmy Amode, where the deceased worshipped, said although he was not there at the time of the accident, information available to him corroborated Joseph‘s account.

He, however, said he witnessed when LASTMA officials came and confiscated the motorcycles.

Amode said, “She was at the BRT stand to catch a vehicle. How the bus got there and knocked her down, we do not know. Every attempt to talk to LASTMA officials there soon after was unsuccessful as regards what happened.

“When we were still at the hospital, LASTMA people came in five vehicles and cordoned off the entire area and took away some motorcycles. I do not know if they made any arrest but I am a witness at this point.”

But the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, on Sunday said LASTMA was not in any way responsible for Ifeanyi’s death.

He said the woman had had the accident before the attention of his officials at Maryland was drawn to the scene.

According to him, the officials quickly informed the appropriate rescue and accident management unit, who raced to the scene, adding that the cordoning off of the road was to aid the evacuation and possible treatment of the woman. ,

Opeifa said, “Our record has it that there was an incident around Channels Television at Maryland. The attention of LASTMA was drawn to a woman that was killed by a hit-and-run-driver.

“We called Lagos Ambulance Emergency Response and the Ministry of Heath. “The health officials promptly came to the scene, but before they could reach there, she had already died. As soon as we got there, LASTMA stopped traffic.

“In the process of managing the traffic, the public including, okada riders, who had developed sympathy for the deceased, spoiled for a fight for not allowing traffic to continue.

“They started attacking LASTMA officials. Police came in and dispersed them and the okada riders.”

The younger brother to the deceased, Mr. Onyeka Dennis, advised the Lagos State Government to reform LASTMA to curb their alleged excesses.

He added that people should show more attention and concern for others especially accident victims and people in need.

The Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Mr. Frank Mba, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, said he was not aware of the incident.

Retired General Kills Kidnapper in Abia Ambush Driver in Critical condition

Posted by 9jabook.com webmadam on August 3, 2010 at 9:30am

A gang of kidnappers received a huge shock as their target, who turned out to be an Army general shot and killed one of them near Aba in Abia State.

J.O.J Okoloagu, a retired general was ambushed by a gang of armed kidnappers at the Alaoji area of Aba on his way to Port Harcourt in the company of his orderly and the driver.

Mr Okoloagu narrated his ordeal at a hospital where he is receiving treatment for gunshot wounds he sustained during the attack. He said the kidnappers blocked his vehicle and started firing into the air while one of them demobilised his vehicle by blasting the four tyres. One of the kidnappers then tried to drag him out of his car not knowing that he was a soldier.

“He thought I was a civilian and immediately he let his hands off the trigger, I pumped the whole six rounds into his chest,” he said.

Mr Okoloagu said, in retaliation, the kidnappers shot and wounded him along with his orderly - the orderly was shot in the hand. But sensing that their mission had been jeopardised with one of them down, Mr Okoloagu said they fled, after commandeering a vehicle with which they took their slain colleague away..

He added that he managed to escape into the bush with his orderly in the confusion that followed but regretted that his driver was critically wounded and is now in coma at a hospital.

Mr Okoloagu also called on the federal government to get soldiers involved in efforts aimed at checking the insecurity by rehabilitating abandoned army barracks in the South-East zone. When contacted, Ali Okechukwu, the Abia State Police command Public Relations Officer said he can not immediately confirm the incident.

Try us In Naija: Chinese Drug Suspects scared of Death Penalty in China

Posted by 9jabook.com webmadam on August 3, 2010 at 3:53am

The two Chinese citizens arrested in connection with unlawful importation of 450.4 kilogrammes of cocaine to Nigeria have begged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to try them in Nigeria as they may face death penalty in China if deported, a source told P.M.NEWS this morning.

Photo: Mr Wang & Mr Fong

Reacting, NDLEA Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, said this morning that the two Chinese citizens and their Nigerian clearing agent will all be prosecuted in Nigeria.

The suspects include Richard Wang, 62, an importer of textiles and shopping bags and Chiusen Fong, 54, a timber merchant as well as a Nigerian Alhaji Inua Mohammed, 56, who is a clearing agent.

NDLEA’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said in a statement this morning that the decision to arraign the suspects in the country have kept the Chinese in high spirits since the law in China stipulates capital punishment for drug trafficking.

The NDLEA boss said the agency is not considering extradition for now, adding that the suspects will be charged to court in Nigeria as soon as investigation was completed.

Meanwhile, more revelations have emerged about the consignment that was filled with drug. The clearing agent told NDLEA investigators that he was contacted by Richard Wang to clear the container and take it to Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, South West Nigeria.

He said: “I am a clearing agent. Richard Wang came to me to clear a container. He told me the container had cigarettes and gave me 3 million naira for the clearance”.

However, Fong, in his statement, told investigators that he gave Wang N5 million to clear the container. When Wang was arrested, he said that he was working for Chiusen Fong who lives in Kano. That was how they were all nabbed.

The seizure of 450.400kg of cocaine imported from Chile at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos, agency sources revealed, was masterminded by an international drug syndicate that smuggles cocaine from South American countries to West Africa.

The anti-drug agency had kept tab on the consignment which originated from Chile and passed through Peru, Bolivia and Antwerp to Tin Can Island Port (TCIP).

According to Giade, “the drug was neatly concealed in customised floor wood inside a container which was cleared and taken to a private warehouse at Iganmu, Lagos”.

In June 2006, 14.2 metric tons of similar substance was intercepted at the same port

3 Different Ways To Stay Longer With Your Partner ...

Posted by Israel Dagunduro on August 3, 2010 at 3:29am

There are many times I have searched ways to stay with my partner longer before ejaculation and when I finally got the
informations, I was bombarded with different ways on how I am going to
prolong my time with my partner before I ejaculate into her.

I'mglad to say that today things are very different for me and I can now
last as long as I want. I have done this by focusing on what worked for
me when I was searching for an answer to premature ejaculation, and I
now want to share part of what I have found with you.

1) Howbadly do you want to make it perfect?This first question you should ask
yourself if you are trying to last longer in bed. Allot of premature
ejaculators suffer with this problem of perfectionism when it comes to
sex, and the result is that it can cause so much stress and anxiety
that it makes the premature ejaculation problem worse.

2) Mixingup the positionsLearning to last longer in bed can be really helped by
working on different position changes during sex. When you can change
position you provide less stimulation for the penis during the break,
and this can really help you slow the urge to ejaculate and help you
last longer in bed.

3) Give yourself a break

If you arewondering how to last longer in bed, one of the best things that you
can do is to break up your sex sessions into different segments. When
you feel you are about to climax doesn't be afraid to stop things and
wait for the urge to calm down again. You can even practise this by
getting aroused with your partner and letting the arousal level calm
down again. By breaking up sex like this you will start to train your
body to last longer in bed.

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MY NAME IS NIGERIA

Posted by 9jabook.com on August 3, 2010 at 12:04am

Allow me to re-introduce myself

My name is Nigeria !

I need Re-Building and not Re-Branding..

I am Nigeria !! . I am divided into 36 unequal states, plus my capital territory, christened ABUJA . I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of water, but I cannot feed myself. So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion to import milk. I produce rice, but don't eat it. I have 60 million cattle but no milk. I have the capacity to feed the whole of Africa but I import most food instead.
I am hungry, please help and re-build me.

I drive the latest car in the world but have no roads neither can I boast of manufacturing a bicycle's tyre. I lose family and friends everyday on my roads for which funds have been allocated to build and rehabilitate but the fund has been looted. I lose my young, my old, and my most brainy and productive people to the potholes, craters and crevasses they travel on everyday.
I am in permanent mourning, please re-build me..

My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof. I take lecture notes through the window and live with 15 others in a single room. All my professors have gone abroad, some of the rest are awaiting visas. Those that remain, depends on money raked from the sales of hand-outs to students. My students receive lectures for a maximum of 3 months in a year due to lecturers' strike or students' boycott of lectures because of lack of better condition of service and deplorable condition on campus. That explains why I have university graduates, who are semi- illiterates.
I want a future, please re-build me.

Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no power. So my wife gives birth by candle light and surgery is performed by quacks. All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are also waiting to go. I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before me.
I am hopeless, hapless and helpless, please re-build me.

I wanted change so I stood all day long to cast my vote. But even before I could vote, the results had been announced. When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets. My rulers are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors. I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy.
I have no verve, no vote, no voice, please re-build me.

I have over 50 million youths with no jobs, no present and no future. So my sons in the North have become street urchins and his brothers in the South have become militants. My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and his cousins drown in the waters of the Mediterranean . My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt , while her sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam .
I am inconsolable, please re-build me.

My people cannot sleep at night and cannot relax by day. They cannot use ATM machines, nor use cheques. My children sleep through the staccato of AK 47's, see through the mist of tear gas, while we all inhale Carbon Monoxide, poisonous CO-2 from popular 'I big pass my neighbour' (portable generators) and 'Okada' (motorbike taxis)

The leaders have looted everything on ground and below. They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private jets (28 of which were bought in the last 12 months). They have stolen the future of generations yet unborn and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of hunger.
I want justice, please re-build me.

I can produce anything, but import everything. So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa; my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland; my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy; my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia; my biscuit is made in Indonesia; my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France.
My taste is far-flung and foreign. I no longer cook at home but take pride in eating at take-away outlets fashioned after the Western style of living.

Anything made in my land is inferior; I prefer those made in England , America or Europe . To crown it all, items made in my land but specifically sent abroad with made in England labels are bought back from 'Oyinbo' land at 5 times the original price it would have gone for had it been sold as home made, please re-build me.

My people are cancerous from the greed of their friends who bleach palm oil with chemicals; my children died because they drank 'My Pikin' with NAFDAC numbers; my poor die because kerosene explodes in their faces; my land is dead because all the trees have been cut down; flood kills my people yearly because the drainage is clogged; my fish are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers; my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done. My livelihood is in jeopardy, and I am in the uttermost depths of despondence,
please re-build me.

I have genuine leather but choose to eat it.. So I spend a billion dollars to import fake leather. I have four (4) refineries, but prefer to import fuel, so I waste more billions to import petrol. I have no security in my country, but would rather send troops to keep the peace in another man's land. I have 160 dams, but cannot get water to drink, so I buy 'pure' water that broils my inwards. I have a million children waiting to enter universities, but my ivory dungeons can only take a tenth (10 %). I have no power (electricity) , but choose to flare gas, and vote billion of dollars every year to generate electricity but not a single watt has come from it. So, my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at the glare of naked flares.
I have no direction, please re-build me.

My people pray to God every morning and every night, but commit every crime known to man because re-branded identities will never alter the tunes of inbred rhythms. Just as the drums of heritage heralds the frenzied jingles, remember - the Nigerian soul can only be Nigerian - fighting free from the cold embrace of a government that has no spring, no sense, no shame. So we watch the possessed, frenzied dance, drenched in silent tears as freedom is locked up in democracy's empty cellars.
I need guidance, please re-build me.

But then, why can I not simply be me, without being re-branded?
Or does my complexion cloud the colour of my character?
Does my location limit the lengths of my liberty? Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul?
Does my mien maim the mine of my mind? And is this life worth re-branding?
Is it re-branding that I need or complete re-building?

Others blame my calamities on the colonial master that has left my shore some 49 years ago. Without deceiving myself, I know I have problems, who will deliver me?
May be what I need is to be re-born, Christians call it being born-again.
Turning to a higher authority or changing direction. I mean to sincerely own up and turn to the man up-stairs, may be, just maybe solution will come from there.
To re-build a wobbling structure, there is need for dismantling of existing one (remember, if the foundation can be destroyed, what can the righteous do?)..

Shall I then consider the idea muted by some of my own who have fled abroad?
Some call for 'Separation for Co-operation' , others call for true Federalism - while others are yet asking for the return to Parliamentary system.

Which way do I go? on October 1, 2010, I will celebrate my 50th birth day.
I do not want to enter my golden age without direction,

... so, please, help me God. Re-mould and Re-Build me

Bill Cosby I am not Dead as Internet Rumours circulate in other words "him dey kampe !"

Posted by NollywoodMohits on August 2, 2010 at 10:02pm

In other words "him dey kampe !"

'To the people behind the foolishness, I'm not sure you see how upsetting this is,' says the representative of the 'Cosby Show' star.

Legendary comedian Bill Cosby has urged online hoaxers to stop reporting his death - because his friends always fall for the sick rumors. Reports surfaced online this week alleging "The Cosby Show" star had passed away.

Cosby's rep moved quickly to dismiss the rumors, stating: "Mr. Cosby is alive and well." The death reports came just months after similar rumors emerged in February - and Cosby, 73, is calling on the pranksters to stop the erroneous jokes for the sake of his loved ones.

In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "Again, I'm rebuttaling (sic) rumors about my demise. Emotional friends have called about this misinformation. To the people behind the foolishness, I'm not sure you see how upsetting this is."

Zach Braff, Johnny Depp and Kanye West have all been targeted in similar death claims by online jokers.

Notes:Cosby's son Ennis was shot dead while changing a flat tire on the side of the Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on January 16, 1997.

Mariam Abacha My Husband was a good man .Widow Preaches Forgiveness. Will Nigerians Forgive Her?

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on August 2, 2010 at 9:44pm

Mariam Abacha Preaches Forgiveness. Will Nigerians Forgive Her?

Ever since she lost her husband, Gen. Sani Abacha in 1998, Hajia Mariam Abacha has led a quiet life, unfazed by the avalanche of public criticisms of the tenure of the former military head of state, who presided over one of the most turbulent times in Nigeria’s political history.

After performing one of the unenviable tasks of evacuating her family out of the seat of power on the death of their bread winner, and the spirited battle she waged to save her son, Mohammed, from Obasanjo’s vengeful mission, the matriarch of the Abacha family has simply returned to Kano and settled to a quiet life after power.

Nigerians caught a glance of Hajia Mariam Abacha in May when she joined the other first ladies to condole Turai Yar’ Adua who faced a similar fate of taking her husband home, after his fruitless struggle to stay alive. Sunday, July 4, 2010 was therefore a moment to remember as Hajia Abacha and her family received a gathering of Christians from southern Kaduna, who live in Kano and came to offer their support as well as campaign for the success of Mohammed Abacha in the forth coming governorship contest.

The former first lady, who spoke in Hausa language, told the crowd that she was not surprised by the close relationship her family had maintained with the Christian community, adding that the Abacha family had over the years savoured the relationship of other Nigerians irrespective of the “ethno religious divide.” She said the head of her domestic staff is a Christian who enjoys freedom of worship in a Muslim family. She said apart from learning from Christians on her staff the teachings and values of the Christian faith, they are regarded as relations and members of the extended family. “You are my relations, the head of my domestic staff is a Christian from Kaduna, we allow freedom of worship and from him we have come to learn a lot on Christians values”, Mrs. Abacha stressed.

Mariam Abacha stated that his late husband’s belief in the unity of the country was evident in his appointment of Christian military officers as governors in the Muslim dominated northern states, and the appointment of Muslim officers as governors in the Christian populated south.

She told the gathering how General Abacha influenced the stay of execution of death sentence passed by a tribunal on the former Rivers State governor, Major General Zamani Lekwot and his kinsmen over the Zango Kataf crisis in 1992.

Seven members of the Kataf ethnic group, including Lekwot, had been sentenced to death for murder in connection with religious riots in northern Nigeria, leaving them with no right of appeal against the convictions.

Mariam Abacha explained that the gesture by the late general was propelled by his ‘humane spirit of forgiveness’..

The former first lady stated that the late head of state supported the unity of Nigeria especially the cordial relationship between the Christian Kataf and their Muslim brothers who had for years lived peacefully together.

‘We voted for Nigerian unity, one people one nation, these what my late spouse lived and died for, and we are promoting the legacy for its attendant benefits in a multicultural society’, Mrs. Abacha stressed.

In a speech earlier, leader of the southern Kaduna people resident in Kano, Mr. Ayuba Dangana, described the late General Abacha ‘as a friend and a relation’ whose administration elevated the people to the forefront of Kaduna politics.

IBB:Jonathan Can Contest On One Condition

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on August 2, 2010 at 9:31pm

Former military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan can only contest the forthcoming presidential elections on the condition that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) constitution is changed.

The former military ruler, who spoke exclusively to Sunday Trust in his Hilltop residence, Minna explained that even though the Constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria allows Jonathan to contest, the ruling party’s constitution has already zoned the presidency to the North.

General Babangida declared that though the Nigerian constitution allows Jonathan to contest “it will be preposterous to say that he shouldn’t. But the party he belongs to has set a rule which govern its conduct. And that party said this is the way we wanted it. And if people say he must, then they have the problem to resolve with the party.”

Contrary to claims that it was a gentleman’s agreement, the military president said that it was the party’s provision. He said that any attempt to drag Jonathan into the contest can only be done with the amendment of the PDP’s constitution..

Section 7(2)(c) of the PDP constitution states that “In pursuance of the principle of equity, justice and fairness, the party shall adhere to the policy of rotation and zoning of Party and public elective offices and it shall be enforced by the appropriate executive committee at all levels.”

Babangida said that the zoning principle was brought about by the PDP not only to capture power but also to also to allay the dominant fears of marginalisation. “It was done in such a way that every Nigerian: majority, minority, Muslim, Christians and even non-believers came together and agreed that if we win elections we would share offices. You remember the Tony Anenih letter? That letter said it all. You will find out that the distribution of power was based on the zones.”

He said that it would be awkward to argue that the late Abubakar Rimi contested against Obasanjo, “I read those who argued that Rimi contested against Obasanjo, Gemade contested against Obasanjo and Okorocha contested against Yar’adua. I think that is the most idiotic reasoning I have ever known in life. This is because the party made a decision that the president is coming from the South-West. Whether they contested or didn’t contest, the candidate that was recognised by the party was the one that would pick the ticket,” Babangida said.

Analysis by Mike Ansy

The problem with vague and ambigous laws is that they usually don't mean much and their interpretation is based on who you ask.

The reason Jonathan Goodluck will not get PDP nomination will not be because of some ridiculous section 7 of PDP constitution but because the man Jonathan is no leader. He is an uninspiring, reclusive character and has not really demonstrated that he has any clue about what his job involves and the nation has no belief in his abilities.

Section 7of PDP constitution on zoning does not mean anything. It has not been implemented before because the law as a written law in PDP constitution only came into existence while Yar'adua was President and Ogbulafor was PDP Chairman. Hence in essence section 7 has not faced any General Election Cycle. I don't even know if PDP has had a convention yet to ratify that law yet (will need to confirm the status of that) and if that is the case its legitimacy even within the PDP may still be in question.

If However it has been ratified as a PDP law, AGF Mohamed Adoke can take PDP to court for having a law tramples on the fundamental rights of Nigerians and runs contrary to the Nigerian constitution and hence void. The Nigerian constitution allow all Nigerian Nationals over the age of 40 and resident in Nigerian the right to contest for the office of President. That right can not be zoned by the PDP to certain section of the country at certain times. And we all know that if any law is inconsistent with Nigerian constitution, according to section 1 of the Nigerian constitution, the provisions of the Nigerian constitution takes Supremacy.

Secondly, section 7 of the PDP constitution on zoning is vague. It does not have time frames nor dates showing that the PDP candidate for 2011 can not come from the South. All it talks about is "Rotation and Zoning". Well power has already rotated from OBJ (SW) to Yar'adua(NW) to now Jonathan (SS); and Jonathan has also appointed Namadi Sambo and that fulfills the spirit of zoning. So section 7 of PDP is being respected and does not preclude Jonathan from running even under PDP laws. But like I said in my previous point, if it does preclude Jonathan from running because of where he comes from then that will be an illegitimate law.

Thirdly, IBB suggesting that Rimi Vs OBJ or Gemade vs OBJ or Okorocha vs Yar'adua is an idiotic refernce; is simply being ridiculous by making that point. What does IBB mean when he says no matter the contestants only the party recognised candidate will win ( paraphrasing). Is he confirming that PDP has simply been zoning rigging and results in the last 3 PDP primaries? such that the Presidential primaries we have had in the past are all confirmed charades. If that is what he wants to say then he should say that clearer, but to bully the C-in-C of a country out of a Presidential race based of some weak and illegitimate law will simply not work.

I personally think IBB has capacity to pick the PDP ticket over Jonathan. He should contest and make his case to the Party delegates and win the PDP Presidential Primaries fairly if he can. But to think that he can in his usual self use some weak law to outsmart Jonathan and the rest of the country is simply not so the kind of IBB anyone wants to see in 2010 (a leopard never looses it spots).

Finally I severally asked for zoning to be written into the Nigerian Constitution as a law to be respected by all parties if we believe there is no other way to do politics. Unfortunately electoral reform through NASS has come and gone and nobody did that, they prefered to maintain a status quo that only thrive on who can con or outsmart the other region. I say if Zoning is not written in the Nigerian constitution let everybody forget. Let all who want to contest, contest.

Now that IBB is begining to play the legal card. Jonathan should immediately secretly sponsor legal action against the PDP asking the courts to interprete whether the Party has the right to implement such a law that excludes some Nigerians at certain times from taking part in the democratic process.

New states may emerge October Ist as Govt plans to create more during Celebrations

Posted by 9jabook.com on August 2, 2010 at 9:19pm

BARRING any last minute change by the authorities, new states may be announced on October 1, to coincide with the 50th independence anniversary of the country.

A source told the Nigerian Tribune in Lagos, at the weekend, that the thinking in official quarters was to make it a special gift for the agitators for new states on the historic date.

The source hinted that the plan was for President Goodluck Jonathan to announce the new states in his national broadcast to mark the independence anniversary.

But the source was silent on the level of collaboration of the presidency with the National Assembly, which had received hordes of memoranda for new states.

There was also no clue on the number of states that might be created, though the authorities had said the whole exercise would be based on merit.

About 25 requests for new states had been tabled before the National Assembly by various groups to replace the existing 36 state structure.

Some of the proposed states include Lagoon state from Lagos; Oke-Ogun from Oyo; Oduduwa from Osun and Savannah from Borno.

It will be recalled that the Senate President, David Mark, recently promised the creation of new states in line with the yearnings of the people.

Nigerians in India Accused of Cannibalism beaten up by angry locals in Ambedkar Nagar.Clifford Orji again ?

Posted by Jane Okinedo on August 2, 2010 at 8:30pm

NEW DELHI: What seems to be a serious misunderstanding between locals and a group of Nigerians living in Ambedkar Colony in Chhatarpur turned ugly with cops registering a case of kidnapping against the latter under Section 366 of IPC within 24 hours. However, the south district police chose to file a case under this section even as locals claim the accused were allegedly trying to kidnap a boy. Legal experts said the section is applied only when the victim is a girl.

Obioro (34) and his Nigerian friends are angry with Delhi Police as they didnt reach in time to protect them from the angry mob on Friday night. But the allegation against their community that they eat children has hurt them the most.

We dont eat children. One has to be insane to say something like this, said Francis, a Nigerian national, who stays in the building where the incident took place.Photo Clifford Orji

Francis and his friends said that when the incident took place the entire lane was blocked. We couldnt escape. The mob vandalised my house and destroyed everything I had. The Indian government should do something about it.

Locals, however, said Fridays attack did not take place because of their colour, but because Obioro and his friends tried to kidnap 8-year-old Adkil, who managed to escape. People here were just trying to protect the child. We would have done the same thing if an Indian was involved, said Mohd Vakil, a local resident.

Obioro fractured his left leg as he jumped from the 2nd floor of the building and was beaten up by the mob. He underwent a surgery at AIIMS trauma centre and doctors say his condition is stable.

I've often heard nigerians accuse Igbos of Cannibalism , citing the madman Clifford Orji who happens to be an Igboman.
Did he commit his crime because he was Igbo or because he was posessed of the devil ?

Secondly why did his accomplice in his human eating, a Yoruba man get less notoreity than him.Is it the same calculated attempts by the Nigerian media to paint the Igbo man as evil?

P.M. News (Lagos)
Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later.

By Gabriel Orok, Nkiru Nwokediuko, John Odiboh
Lagos

Crowds still gathered this morning at Toyota bus stop, Oshodi Isolo expressway, the former kitchen of the Lagos cannibal, Clifford Orji. The cannibal was arrested Wednesday by the police after the cries of Awawu, a gaunt and shackled woman from Agege gave him away.

Clifford and his accomplice, Tahiru have been singing to the police in Lagos on why they had been killing fellow human beings for dinner. People always suspected that Clifford Orji was queerly different.

He used to sell razor blades at the bustling Oshodi market several years ago. Then he shifted his abode to a self-created grotto under the highway bridge in Isolo, where he advertised himself as a "native doctor Chinneyelu".

Occasionally, he violently pursued stray-walkers to his "sanctuary" during day time. In the dead of the night he usually blanketed the air around him with the meat-like odour from his special barbecue.

People merely suspected that this barbecue- loving recluse was not normal; that he was possibly mad. But no one was prepared for the horrendous discovery of last Wednesday: that Orji was also a cannibal - a man eater! The discovery sent shock waves throughout the sprawling metropolis of seven million people, drawing hundreds of people to the under-the-bridge abode of Orji, where he also kept a well-kitted kitchen to prepare cooked and roasted human flesh! How long the afro-haired man from Enugu State has been feeding on human flesh in Lagos is unknown.

How many people he has slaughtered for dinner is also unknown, as Orji has not revealed much during police interrogations and even the parade before klieglights and journalists in Lagos Thursday. A shrill cry of a famished and emaciated lady, waiting to be slaughtered, was what gave up Orji Wednesday.

The noise attracted passersby who not only discovered the woman but also stumbled on a phalanx of human parts in Orji's make-shift home. Human bones, skulls, legs, hands, freshly cooked soup with human meat, were discovered.

The uproar triggered by this shock discovery was said to have attracted men of the Operation Sweep. Surrounded, Orji attempted to escape.

But the police quickly arrested him and took him to the Makinde Police Station in Oshodi, nearby. The lady being dressed for slaughtering, and who Orji had turned into a sex-slave for several days, was freed and taken to the hospital in Ikeja.

The arrest of another person, said to be Orji's accomplice in the human-flesh eating business introduced a new dimension to the tragedy. Police have since found that Orji and his friend were not just human eaters, they were also human spare-parts sellers, as money, cheques were said to have been recovered at the make-shift home at the popular Toyota Bus Stop on the Oshodi-Isolo Expressway.

Were Orji and his accomplice mad? Some people interviewed at the scene of the tragedy believed they are sane. Some did not.

"What evidence do you have to claim that he's mad," said Chuks Igbokwe who spoke with the National Concord. "As far as I am concerned, he might be one of these Otokoto ritual murderers who trade in human parts. If he is mad, why should he kill and eat his victims?" People who frequently passed by Orji's make-shift home of horror recounted incidents when they were chased by the iron-rod wielding Orji; incidents when his potential victims escaped by the whiskers; incidents when the smell of his human barbecue pervaded the environment.

"Any time wey I pass here, I go see the man eating meat . . . I no know say na person im de chop," Okechukwu, a motor spare parts dealer told The Guardian Wednesday.

The controversy about Orji's mental state will linger for some time. Up till this morning, Lagosians continued to troop to Orji's former home as news of Orji's cannibalism spread.

On Thursday, Orji and his accomplice were paraded to newsmen by the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Sunday Aghedo. The journalists who crowded the premises of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS of the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, covered their noses with handkerchief while interviewing Orji who claimed to be a native of Enugu State.

Besides Orji was a middle-aged man, unidentified by the police, and who was bleeding on his nose and mouth. Mr. Sunday Aghedo, the state commissioner of police, described the two men as human eaters.

On display beside them were roasted parts of human beings - heads, leg, hand and the abdomen. One severed head wore a permed hair of a lady identified as "Eno", a trader from Akwa Ibom.

Aghedo continued: "These are the men who were arrested yesterday by members of the Operation Sweep. They were arrested with human parts in their enclave at the local airport area and taken to Makinde Police Station. They are now answering questions on homicide at the State Crime Intelligence Department (SCID)". When it was his turn to speak, Orji confessed to the media men: "We are human meat eaters. We have killed over three people, especially young girls who hawk wares. We always lured them to our enclave under the pretext that we wanted to purchase their wares. Once they are in our net, we pounced on them and killed them for eatable meat. My colleagues is the human hunter while I am the butcher. We usually go for girls with permed hair."

"Why, have you taken to human eating; is it because you cannot afford animal meat?, "a journalist asked Orji. Orji replied: "We have been eating human meat for the past seven years before coming to Lagos. It is our culture to eat human meat".

"If you are a free man today will you still be eating human meat?" Orji was asked again.

"Yes, to me there is no difference between human and goat meat," Orji replied. The lack of remorse by the cannibals is making the police doubt the mental state of the men.

"They may be victims of psychic and spiritual problems. Before prosecution, we have to send them to psychiatric home for medical examination. Who knows, they maybe mentally sick".

Mr. Aghedo said. Cannibalism is a taboo in Lagos, but in some parts of Nigeria, especially, in the south east states of Cross River and Calabar, human meat eating is not strange.

There were reports of food vendors selling human meat as animal meat to unsuspecting hungry travellers.

Inside the Cannibal's Kitchen

1. Rusty frying pans

2. Bucket

3. Bowl containing human bones

4. Grill on another metal bowl

5. Firewood

6. Human parts: roasted limbs, palms, wrists, ankles, feet, thigh, skulls.

7. Rice, yam, gari, pepper, and oil

8. Soup pot with human meat.

9. A gaunt lady waiting to be slaughtered

10. Cutlasses, knives.

11. Cellular phone

12. Money estimated to be N500,000

Garden of Eden:What really happened .

Posted by frank adeche Mr Netchurch on August 1, 2010 at 9:29pm

Garden of Eden

Obasanjo, IBB in secret meeting

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on August 1, 2010 at 8:53pm

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), met in Abuja on Thursday over the 2011 presidential election.

The meeting, which took place at the Wuse 11 residence of Babangida, was held behind closed doors.

Sources close to the meeting, however, told our correspondent on Friday that Obasanjo asked Babangida to drop his presidential ambition in the interest of the nation and to prevail on some northern governors who on Tuesday voted to support zoning at their meeting held in Kaduna to change their stance..

Although Babangida was said to have been non-committal on Obasanjo’s request that he should drop his presidential ambition, he was said to have told his guest that it would be difficult for him to convince all the states in the north to jettison zoning.

It was also learnt that as a follow up to the meeting, Obasanjo agreed to meet with key northern traditional rulers on the need to prevail on their subjects to forget zoning for now ”in the interest of the nation.”

A source, who did not want to be named because the discussions at the meeting were not meant for public knowledge, said, ”The meeting was held at Wuse 11, and it was between the two former presidents, Obasanjo and IBB (as Babangida is popularly called).

”The aim of the meeting was to ask IBB to drop his presidential ambition as Obasanjo was said to have explained that the ambition was not in the interest of the nation.

”Not only that, the two statesmen, especially Obasanjo, were said to have opined that the resolutions of the northern governors were not in the interest of the nation, and that the two of them must find a remarkable solution to the logjam.”

Our correspondent also learnt that before the meeting, Obasanjo had met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa where the two leaders appraised the impact of the resolutions of the northern governors on the President‘s ambition.

It was at this meeting that the idea of Obasanjo meeting with Babangida was said to have been muted.

Although details of Jonathan’s and Obasanjo’s analyses of the northern governors‘ resolutions when the two met were sketchy at press time, the President was said to have agreed that there was a need for what the source called ”extensive consultation with stakeholders from the north.”

This, it was gathered, might delay until a later date in August Jonathan’s public declaration of his decision to contest for the presidency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The 19 northern states on Tuesday openly disagreed over the adoption of the zoning formula of the PDP for the 2011 presidential election.

At the meeting of the governors held in Kaduna, 10 states voted for zoning while seven states voted against it.

The states that declared support for zoning were Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Gombe, Jigawa, Niger, Kwara, Borno and Kano. Two of these states, namely Borno and Kano, are being governed by the All Nigerian Peoples Party.

The governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shakarau, had before now campaigned against zoning, just as he is campaigning to be the ANPP presidential candidate.

However, seven of the northern states voted against zoning, stressing that merit was the only way to move the country forward.

The states are Benue, Kogi, Plateau, Kaduna, Adamawa, Taraba and Nasarawa.

Yobe State reportedly abstained from voting, while Bauchi was not represented because of the death of the Emir of Bauchi.

Nevertheless, the position of the Bauchi governor, Alhaji Isa Yuguda, is well known as he has been canvassing for the dumping of zoning openly.

Celebrity News: Kajola Sci Fi movie premiers with Special Effects

Posted by NollywoodMohits on August 1, 2010 at 8:09pm

Kajola Premiers in Abuja

The much publicized Nigerian’s first science fiction movie premiered at the Silverbird Cinema in Abuja over the weekend. The premier which started at about 6pm was hosted by actor Francis Duru and witnessed appearance of the major cast and crew members of the movie including lead actors Desmond Elliot, Adonijah Owiriwa, and Keira Hewatch. Also present at the premier were notable celebrities from the Nigerian mainstream entertainment world including the Rooftop MCs; Idol West Africa winner, Timi Dakolo; Ace Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic; Nigezie music presenter, Andre Blaze; and erstwhile Kush rapper Emem Ema. Blaze who obviously couldn’t hide his excitement before the movie screened said after: “Before watching, I had an impression about this movie, but now that has changed totally; overall I am really impressed.” Kajola, a movie with a reported N180 Million budget is produced by Adonijah Owiriwa for Adonis Production and is written and directed by Niyi Akinmolayan for Anthill Multimedia. The movie is woven around how a heroic person, through a rebellious action, thwarts the plan of some elite from eliminating a community of lower strata..

see trailer at bottom.

Chuddy K performs acapela at company launch

‘Slow Slow’ singer Chuddy K wowed fans with his vocal prowess as he gave a captivating, no beat assisted, performance alongside the one called Shalom at the A&R and the Lot Services company launch. The launch was held on Saturday 31 July 2010 at the Best Western Hotel Ahmodu Bello way Victoria Island. The launch also witnessed a solo performance from saxophonist, Femi and a brief fashion show parading the Night Night (evening wears) and Who’s the Boss (corporate collections) of Doyin Kafidipe’s Kafidipe Creations. A&R and The Lot Services provide talent management services amongst its other entertainment wheeled services and is founded by Wummie Benjamin.

Omotola’s shoots new video

Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, was in South Africa a few weeks ago (during the World Cup) where she shot the second video off her sophomore album which is tentatively titled ‘Me, Myself and Eyes.’ The video is for the song ‘Missing U’ and was shot by Nigerian music video director, Bobby Boulders. ‘Missing U’ is an emotional song and tells the story of a partner who disappeared without any explanation. Omotola’s “runaway love” was played by South African male model Chris Du Plessis, who recently won the Heat Magazine “Six Pack of 2010″ Award! Omotola will host selected guests and friend to an exclusive album listening party on the 24th of September 2010 while on the 26th of September at Fantasy Land in Lagos, a special listening party will be take place for Omotola fans. She will also be flagging off her ‘Give and Let Get project, a charity project which will provide platform where her friends and fans can donate gifts which will be distributed to various orphanages.

Jeta Amata’s new movie

Award winning director, Jeta Amata, is preparing to come out with his most recent job, the first musical film produced by Keke Bongos called INALE. The movie is a story of enchantment and intrigue, a legend of bravery and valour. Its theme revolves around the test of true love, and restoration of peace between warring communities. The lead actress of the movie, Inale, played by Caroline Chikezie, is the beautiful daughter of the great King Oche of the Idoma people in Idomaland, Nigeria. Her beloved Odeh, played by Hakeem Kae-Kazim, must win their customary wrestling tournament to take Inale’s hand in marriage. The villagers had gathered for the big ceremony only to find a stranger in their midst, that challenges not only the tradition of the village law, but the strength of Odeh and Inale’s true love. The sound track of the movie featured original songs performed by Bongos Ikwue, along with special appearances from Ini Edo, Keppy Ekpenyoung, and Dede Mabiaku.

Robbery suspect offers villagers N1.8m to evade arrest

Posted by 9jabook.com on August 1, 2010 at 7:59pm

Another member of the heavily armed robbery gang which plan to storm Abeokuta last

Tuesday has been arrested despite offering a sum of N1.8million to the villagers where he took refuge following injuries he sustained during gun duel with police authorities. Next authoritatively gathered that the 20-year -old suspect, Onyeka Ani, was apprehended at the weekend in Mawuko village, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State by the villagers while he was trying to bolt away after spending days in the bush. Luck ran against the suspect, who emerged from the bush with gunshot wound while trying to escape to neigbouring Lagos State. Unknown to him, a radio announcement by the police intimating villagers of the escape of some criminals from the scene of the gun duel had being aired. The villagers, sighting him soaked in blood, suspected him to be member of the scattered robbery gang, as earlier announced by the police command in Abeokuta. He was subsequently apprehended. Realizing that nemesis had caught up with him, the suspect, a native of

Apkugo, in Nkanu Local Government Area of Enugu State, reportedly profusely begged the villagers, to spare him, with an offer to provide them the sum of N1.8million..

The suspect, according one of the villagers, appealed to the them to allow him call somebody in Lagos who will arrange the money to effect his release. The unimpressed villagers turned down the offer and swiftly contacted the police. He was thereafter handed over to the police authorities and as at the time of this report, he is in police custody at Eleweran and being interrogated alongside other two suspects earlier arrested. The public relations officer of the police command, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed the arrest and expressed appreciation to the villagers for their support for the police in nabbing the suspect. Mr Adejobi called for more cooperation from the members of the public, particularly on providing police information on crimes and criminals. “Such information will be treated in confidence,” he said.

Falconets are First Runner up in U20 Final loss to Germany

Posted by Choochoo Sports Book on August 1, 2010 at 7:55pm

Unheralded when they left the country three weeks ago, players of the U-20 women’s team which represented Nigeria in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Germany will return to a hero’s welcome despite losing the final game to the host team. After blazing the trail to become the first African team to play in the finals, the team, coached by Adat Egan, fell 2-0 to Germany in the final game largely due to tactical errors and a penchant for failing to convert their chances.

Germany’s tactic was quite simple; lob the ball to their attackers and wait for the knock down and it worked perfectly as the first goal came through that route. The tournament’s adidas Golden Ball (best player)and Golden Boot winner( highest goals scorer), Alexandra Popp flicked on a header to Dzsenifer Marozsan, who took a touch and passed back to Popp who guided a close range finish beyond the grasp of Alaba Jonathan, in goal for the Falconets. That was the first chance that the German girls got and they took it. The Nigerian women fought back through efforts from Ebere Orji in the 26th minute which Almuth Schult had to parry away from the tight angle from which the shot was struck.

Another combination between Desire Oparanozie and Helen Ukaonu, the left back, gave Oparanozie a good chance but her curling shot from the edge of the box narrowly missed the goal.

Making us proud

His efforts not withstanding, coach Egan needs to explain why he started Gloria Ofoegbu, a player who had not tasted action throughout the tournament, in place of the accomplished Amarachi Okoronkwo; and why he waited until the 57th minute before replacing Ofoegbu. The only explanation that will make any sense would be if Okoronkwo was carrying an injury. Ebere Orji, expected to carry Nigeria’s attacking hopes could not do much as she was moved from her favourite left flank to the middle and that may have disrupted the chemistry of the team.

The killer blow came in added time through an own goal. After an error from Okoronkwo gifted the hosts a corner kick, and two more such kicks later, Kulig took a powerful shot that came off the post and hit Osinachi Ohale on the side before crossing the line. It was game over for the Falconets.

The defeat can be blamed on the paucity of goals as Nigeria went into the final with possibly the least goals ever scored to qualify for that level, scoring six goals and conceding five in the tourney.

Godday Esezobor, Chairman of Female Football Club Owners Association and proprietor of Makbet Queens, a women’s football club based in Lagos, said the Falconets have done Nigeria proud, although coach Egan was wrong to have gambled on Ofoegbu:

“The ladies have made all of us proud. They should hold their heads high. However, mention must be made of the decision to bring in Ofoegbu in place of Okoronkwo who played in virtually all the matches. In women’s football you don’t take that kind of risk. Normally, what happens is that barring injuries and things like expulsion, you finish a tournament with the same team you started it with. This is because the players would have struck a rhythm, which new injections to the squad would disrupt,” Esezobor said.

But that is not taking anything away from this team, which literally sneaked out of the country, were abandoned by the leader of the Nigerian delegation, and got paid peanuts compared to the millions lavished on our men.

Most commentators agree that the Falconets have made Nigerians proud. Their countrymen all over the world will justifiably praise their achievement.

Popping into history

Germany’s Alexandra Popp worked her way into the history books by scoring 10 goals in six matches. In the same vein, she was crowned the best player of the championship. Germany also became the first team that will host and win the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.

For the Falconets, it was a record setting tournament. When they beat defending champions, the United States of America in the quarter-final, they became the first African women football team at any level, to qualify for the semi-final of any FIFA Women’s World Cup. Playing in the final had raised the bar even further, and has also helped in redeeming Nigeria’s poor image in football after the debacle in South Africa.

World’s largest cake to be unveiled in Naija in October Ist Celebrations

Posted by 9jabook.com webmadam on August 1, 2010 at 7:53pm

Nigeria is expected to make history on October 1, when its caterers build and unveil the world’s largest cake. The 65,000kg cake, will be unveiled at the National Stadium, Abuja, is expected to beat the current Guinness World Records.

By midnight, October 1, a select group of Nigerian caterers and bakers will begin work on a 65ton cake. By noon, the fruit cake, decorated in green and white colours will be unveiled by President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr. Jonathan will cut the 6ft high cake and Nigerians will have the opportunity to have a share of the ‘national cake’ literally..

The cake, which will be 100ft long and 6ft high, will require the services of at least 2000 persons, and is expected to beat the records of the current world’s largest cake, a 58ton cake which was baked in 1989.

One meal one nation

The organiser of the World’s largest cake project, Victor Oluwafemi, says he has tagged the project, ‘one meal one nation’, in line with the philosophy behind the project.

“The project is a private endeavour which myself and my team thought of. We wanted to do something significant for the 50th anniversary project. We wanted something that would give every Nigerian an opportunity to partake in the celebrations. We knew that the average Nigerian would not have the opportunity to eat the cake that will be presented in the villa,” Mr. Oluwafemi said to NEXT in Abuja.

Mr. Oluwafemi’s team of three spoke enthusiastically of the measures that they are taking to ensure that the cake gets to as many Nigerians as possible. First, every state in the country will receive one ton of the cake and the small team also expects that every tribe in the country will be represented in the Abuja Stadium on October 1, and will have the opportunity to have a bite of the cake.

“This project is supposed to turn the national cake that we always talk about to reality. It will give Nigerians an actual cake to feed on,” Paul Sambo, the team’s head of Strategic business said.

Likening the project to the national pride that comes from winning a football match, the team says that the project was designed to boost the emotions of Nigerians despite the current national challenges.

“This project does not gainsay the fact that the nation has problems up till today. But we need inspiration in order to move forward as a nation. This project was designed with a leadership bias, a leader inspires his people no matter what and that is what we hope to do,” Joseph Yakwo, the third member and the operations officer of the project said.

Making the records book

If the team’s cake must to enter the Guinness World Records, Mr. Oluwafemi and his team will have to start and finish the cake within 24 hours; the team plans to do so in 8.

“We are going to bake the cake in about 8 hours. The cake is going to be baked, cooled and iced on the same day,” Mr. Yakwo said.

The team says that it has been in touch with the officials of the Guinness World Records and that a Guinness adjudicator will arrive from New York to inspect the project from start to finish.

True Life Story: From Death Row to Life Pastor Tb Joshua rehabilitates International Armed Robber.

Posted by frank adeche Mr Netchurch on August 1, 2010 at 6:03am

Condemned to die, destined to live -- all the way from death-row

IHECHUKWU NJOKU

ONE by one they led them out. Faces covered in black. Handcuffed. Their last seconds of life. Last moments of reflection. The last breath of this world. No time to even say goodbye. One by one their names were called. The other five had already gone - gone for ever - gone to the gallows. A cold sweat broke out on his brow. He was next in line. This was it. The end. The grand finale. The next few seconds would be the last he would ever spend in life...

Following Chuk’s arrival in the church straight from prison, he remained there for almost two months for a period of rehabilitation and reformation, receiving the message of salvation and learning about the ways of God. He was then given N120, 000, three bags of rice and a Holy Bible to start his life afresh.

The tale of Chuks Olisemeka is block-buster material. It could well pass for a best-selling fiction thriller. But this is no fiction. It’s the real story of a young man who came from condemnation to salvation, in both the literal and spiritual sense. The story of a man who came face to face with death in a way few people could ever imagine. The story of redemption amidst retribution.

From a humble home in Delta to wild parties in Lagos, dangerous dealings in cannabis in Tunisia and gun-training for armed robbery in the Saharan desert, from a condemned cell in Tunis’ maximum security prison to a Nigerian church he had never heard of before, here is Chuks’ incredible journey, in his own words:

“My name is Chuks Olisemeka and I come from Delta State. When my mother was pregnant with me, she separated from my father. Later in 1991, my mother died of sickness. From there my grandmother took care of me. I never knew my father and hardly knew my mum, Mrs Josephine. In the year 2000 after finishing secondary school, I came to Lagos. I didn’t know anybody in Lagos. What made me come is that some friends came from Lagos every December with flashy flashy things, spending money. When I asked them, they said they went to Victoria Island. One day I just decided by myself to come to Lagos, though I didn’t know anyone there and had no money. I was only 20. Some people dropped me in Ojota. At that time I still smoked so I bought a cigar and began smoking. I saw one guy like me who now bought a cigarette. We got talking and he now asked me some questions. When I introduced myself to him, the guy said he would help me for accommodation. We bought Indian hemp together and he then took me to his house.

“Every night we went to the clubs and enjoyed ourselves. I was helping in his brother’s electronics business in Alaba. One day we met some guys who came from Tunisia. Those guys gave us the guidelines about Tunisia that time, but we never said we wanted to travel as we were enjoying in Lagos. Some months later, my close friend Chima suggested we both go to Tunisia and I agreed. We went by road through the desert. We entered from Libya, through Tripoli. Those guys we met gave us the address of their place in Tunisia. We met some guys there and a Nigerian guy now introduced us to one man who was dealing in drugs. He had some boys working for him. Every night he would give you 200 or 300 grams and you would go to the club and hawk drugs. Cocaine. At the end of the day he would give you $300. From there he introduced us to the business. We were moving with guys who were into it before and from there we got our own customers.

“After about eight months in the business, I met Jack, an Italian man. Every time the man would normally come to me and buy drugs; he would buy in quantity. He was a big man, and always came with his boys. My friend called me and said let us travel to Morocco and from there to Spain. But already that Jack said he would introduce me to his business, so I was not interested in going to Spain. After about two weeks, Jack introduced me to his business – robbery business.

“I didn’t know how to shoot a gun, so every morning he took me to the desert with some guys and taught me how to use a gun. We started going on operations. We go with information. Some people will come from Europe and land in Tunisia, and stay in a hotel – so the manager of the hotel would give us information, and we would go there and rob. After robbing, he would give me $5000. It was not only in Tunisia we robbed, but also in Libya – because they share a border together. We were based in Tunis. On one operation in a company, we got $800,000 – so Jack now gave me $20,000. I know tomorrow I would see more money, so I would go to the clubs, gamble, buy expensive wears and move with high-class babes. Then something happened in 2004.

“This hotel manager now brought information that one woman came from Holland who brought big money for a contract, and the woman lodged in his hotel. Our boss called us and said we should go to this hotel. We reached there around 10am. We were five – four boys and one Algerian girl. We met the woman and collected the money. Two of our members were down and three went up – it was a five storey building. On the way down, we just heard guns from nowhere. Two of our members were shot. They died there instantly. They now shot the girl, but we didn’t know the place where the bullets were coming from. We used one woman as a human shield to cover us saying – if you shoot again, we will shoot her - and we now managed to drag ourselves out and enter our car. As we started the engine, they started shooting again. We saw almost five jeeps pursuing us, police vehicles – blowing sirens. We got to a bend at the traffic lights. We were supposed to wait but because of the pressure, we moved on. One lorry coming from the other side collided full-on with our vehicle. It somersaulted. That is why I have these scars. At that time, I never knew that my friend who was driving was already dead.

“The policemen came, and rushed me to hospital. I was in serious pain – blood covered everywhere and I couldn’t even open my eyes. The following day, they put POP all over me. Three men came and started interviewing me, and I opened up for them. They wrote everything down. The following day, they took me to our building – Jack was no more there, because he heard the information. They searched everywhere. They saw some drugs and carried them, including three vehicles. They padlocked the building, and took me back to hospital.

“The following day, they took me to court. I still had POP all over, and they had to carry me. When I reached court, the magistrate looked at my condition and said they should carry me back to hospital. I spent seven months in hospital. After seven months they took me back to court, and tried the case. After that, they took me to prison. From prison, I still went to the court. In August 2007 my final judgement came. After the judgement, they sentenced me to death by hanging. I had already given my life to Christ in prison. This guy Mr Charles normally shared the Word of God with me. But after the sentence they didn’t take me back to the same prison again. They took me to another prison where they put those who are condemned to death. We were five inside the prison room. I started praying there.

“On 15th August, I dreamt and saw myself in this big church with someone saying, ‘Welcome to Synagogue Church, Emmanuel!’ When I woke up, I didn’t understand the dream. I’d never heard of Synagogue Church before. On 19th August, some men came with a lady. They started calling names. When they had called the name, they would put a mask to cover the person and handcuff him. They now carried him outside to be hanged. I had already said today is the day I would die, but I still had this hope that God would do a miracle. When it got to my turn, the woman asked – ‘Where is this boy’s paper?’ They started searching and finally said they could not see it. So she said they should go and find my case file, that if they didn’t find the case file, they should not take me anywhere. The men carried the other five for hanging. Only me was left in that place. A week, two weeks, a month went by and nobody talked to me. It was only me in the cell. Some men now came and took me back to the other prison.

“It was 2008, February. One day the warden called me and said they wanted to hand me over to the Nigerian embassy to send me back to my country. I saw about three men, wearing suits who asked me for my name. They now signed all these documents and told me to carry my load. They took me to the airport and one man followed me down to Nigeria. After about three hours, we arrived. They now handed me over to some men who ushered me inside a motor. A few hours later, I saw myself in Ikoyi prison. They searched me and then took me to the prison cell. I was still praying to God.

“Another year passed in prison. It was July 2009 and I dreamed again – Welcome to Synagogue Church – Emmanuel! It was exactly the same dream I had seen in the prison in Tunisia. But this time, I saw rain fall on me as I entered inside the church, and I rejoiced with people inside. But I never knew the place. I had never heard of Prophet T.B. Joshua. Two weeks later, one of the wardens called me. He said they brought some papers yesterday and that I didn’t have a case to answer, that I should be released. I was just surprised, shocked. He gave me one paper, and told me I should carry my load. I didn’t have anything to carry.

“As I left the gate, I asked God: where shall I go? Direct me – I don’t know where to go. Rain was falling and suddenly that dream came to me - welcome to Synagogue Church – Emmanuel. I asked the warden – where is Synagogue? He said it’s far, in Ikotun. I asked where is Ikotun. God has directed me there. He looked at me and asked if I had money. The man gave me N500 and told me how to get to the church. It was a Friday..

“I finally found the church. I met one man and asked him – how can I see the pastor here? He looked at me and asked where I was from. I told him from a very far place. He said I should come back to church early on Sunday. I was still wearing the clothes I had in prison. It was Sunday. As I entered the church that morning, I recognised it from the dream. Everything was the same as I had seen it in that dream. I prayed that God should direct the man of God to where I am. God finally directed him to me in the second service. After prophesying to about four people, he touched me and said you are a murderer – and not in this country but another country. I had never met him before, but he knew me. He prayed and I found myself down on the floor. As he touched me, I believed all my problems had gone. That day I became a new person in life. The church now took care of me, gave me new clothes and a place to stay. God is really using that man (T.B. Joshua). Nobody in Nigeria can do that thing - you don’t know a person before and after praying for you – he puts you in his house, gives you money for clothes and feeding and treats you as one of his own. He is a real man of God.

“There are many things people can learn from me. God created everybody for a purpose. Instead of pursuing fast money which makes you go into crime in which you may die or find yourself in prison, you should follow Christ. Those who travel outside Nigeria and don’t know where they are going to or anybody there, there is no way they will not take to crime when they get there. It’s either you take to robbery or drug business or go into 419 – and after everything you will find yourself in bigger trouble.

“I regret a lot, because I wasted so many years in prison. If not the flashy things of this life, I would not go into all of that crime. If I had calmed down and given my life to Christ that time, by now I am supposed to know where I am going in life. But now - if God could give me another chance, I will worship Him, praise Him all my days. I believe God really has something for me in this life. He has a purpose for my living.

Following Chuk’s arrival in the church straight from prison, he remained there for almost two months for a period of rehabilitation and reformation, receiving the message of salvation and learning about the ways of God. He was then given N120, 000, three bags of rice and a Holy Bible to start his life afresh.

Naija teenagers missing in South Africa

Posted by 9jabook.com on August 1, 2010 at 5:52am

Two Nigerian brothers, Chukwuemeka Emenike, 17, and Chibyele Emenike, 16, have been reported missing after leaving their Brakpan home to enrol at Mondeor High School in Johannesburg, South Africa, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.
The South African Press Agency reports that they left their house on Monday morning with money to enrol at the school for the 2011 session.

SAPA quotes Warrant Officer Lunga Mahonga as saying that they were pupils at Mondeor High School until the end of last year, when they went for a trip to Australia. The pair arrived back in South Africa last week.

Staff at the high school did not see the brothers on Monday and could not confirm whether they received enrolment forms..

The school's Principal Vangelia Nicolaou, who confirmed that they were originally from Nigeria, told SAPA, "The brothers were very nice boys. We can't understand how something like this could have happened."

Chukwuemeka was last seen wearing blue jeans, a pair of blue canvas shoes and a hooded jacket while Chibyele was in a pair of black skinny jeans, a dark blue jacket and red striped shoes.

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