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Obama Congratulates Jonathan

Posted by 9jabook.com on April 20, 2011 at 8:24pm

The United States has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan for winning Saturday’s presidential election, saying the election represents “a positive new beginning for Nigeria”.

President Obama

A statement issued late on Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton wished Jonathan well “in meeting the many challenges facing Nigeria” and in providing good governance.

“On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I applaud the people of Nigeria for their enthusiastic and orderly participation in the April 16th presidential election.

“This historic event marks a dramatic shift from decades of failed elections and a substantial improvement over the 2007 presidential election,” she said.

The U.S. also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), its Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega, government agencies and civil society for their strong collaboration and dedication to democracy.

“They provided a real opportunity for the Nigerian people “to select their most senior leaders and will position Nigeria to build its democracy through strong governance, transparent institutions, and economic development,” Clinton said in the statement.

The U.S. government, however, noted that while the presidential election was a success for the people of Nigeria, “it was far from perfect,” and urged INEC to transparently review and take appropriate and transparent actions on all allegations of election malpractice.

It nevertheless added that “the United States condemns the acts of violence related to elections and we call upon all candidates, political parties, and supporters to respect the results of the election and channel any grievances or challenges peacefully through established administrative organs for legal redress.

“The international community will closely watch the upcoming gubernatorial elections and we call on all Nigerian stakeholders to support a credible and peaceful electoral process”.

Kumuyi Cancels Easter Retreat of Deeper Life over post-election violence in North.

Posted by 9jabook.com on April 20, 2011 at 8:16pm

Pastor William Kumuyi, General Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry has cancelled the annual Easter Retreat of the church over post-election violence in Northern Nigeria.

Pastor Kumuyi

Kumuyi cancelled the annual Easter Retreat of the church, the first time in over 30 years because he wanted all members of the church to partake in the event.

While the post-election violence in the north had raised apprehension, many members of the church would be deprived the opportunity to take part in the Retreat.

At the church’s website, it was boldly written that the Easter Retreat had been postponed indefinitely.

Over 200, 000 members of the Deeper Life Bible Church from Nigeria and overseas usually attend the retreat annually. Members of the church prefer to go for the event rather than stay at home to feast on Easter day.

The Easter Retreat was scheduled to begin tomorrow and end on Sunday. Members of the church have expressed disappointment over the postponement of the event as they wanted to spend time with God during the Easter period.

But Kumuyi did not want to leave anything to chance and wants to prevent members of the Deeper Life living in the north from being killed by rampaging extremists who had so far killed scores of people, burnt churches and other properties.

The Church’s Secretary, Pastor Livinus Nnadozie told P.M.NEWS on phone yesterday that the church decided to suspend the Retreat because of the spate of violence in Northern Nigeria.

He said there was no way the church could hold the retreat only in Lagos, since worshippers nationwide and worldwide attend it.

Nnadozie added that the church could decide to hold the retreat if the violence in the north was brought under control, saying that the church was still watching to see how things.

However, P.M.NEWS had gathered from sources in Kaduna State that some Deeper Life members were allegedly killed at Kawo, Rigasa and Hayan Banki areas of the state but the names of the victims could not be ascertained because of the 24 hours curfew placed in the state.

Some Deeper Life Church leaders in Kaduna State said they were not aware of such killings.

A source in Kaduna also said a Deeper Life Bible Church at Hayan Banki was burnt while other Deeper Life churches in other areas were also set ablaze. Other churches were said to be set ablaze too by the Muslim extremists.

Many Deeper Life Church members and their leaders were also displaced as a result of the riot, sources in Kaduna have said.

It was also gathered that the rioters were about to burn the Deeper Life Camp Ground at Marabarido area before soldiers intervened.

Several Christians in Kaduna State were said to be living in fear and had been keeping vigil all night to avoid being killed, a source in Kaduna State was quoted.

Victor Babatunde, a Masters Degree student at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria said they have been indoors since the crisis started as curfew had been placed in the state, which made it difficult for people to move around.

A source said a pastor in Kaduna lost five of his children to the crisis, but it was not certain the denomination of the pastor could not be ascertained

In Jigawa State, a Youth Corps Member, Chinelo, who was formerly living in Oshodi, Lagos State was said to have been killed with her brother on their way to a Deeper Life Bible Church service by rioters.

Meanwhile, former Governor of Sokoto State, Dr. Attahiru Bafarawa has condemned the wanton killings and burning of properties in the north, saying that the orgies of violence must stop now.

Bafarawa, in a statement said “my senior brother, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, my brothers Gov. Ibrahim Shekaru and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu are men of honour, integrity and peace. This violence cannot be their legacy. The violence must stop now.

“This election was not perfect. From the party primaries, registration and election proper, there were problems. However, we must commend Prof. Attahiru Jega and his team in INEC. They made the best out of a flawed system.

“Violence will not correct the failings in our electoral system and the failures of government. Our country is better served where we employ legal and constitutional means to express our disagreements.”

According to him, the resort to violence was not only archaic, it dehumanises the people, stressing that “this is not the dream our fathers had for us. Certainly, it is not Allah’s wish that we kill, burn, and main each other anytime we have a minor disagreement. Let our ideas fight, not our base instincts.”

Bishop "Tunde Bakare" : Why are Christians being killed because of an issue which is purely political

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 8:09pm

Note:Bishop Tunde bakareis not Pastor Tunde bakare of CPC VP...they are not the same persons. Please take note. Also note that what Bishop Tunde said is the real fact...cant you see the number of xtians being killed and churches burnt,

Lecturers, students, others killed in Kaduna

The violence that broke out in Kaduna metropolis and Zaria on Monday has spread to Kafanchan and Zonkwa in the southern part of the state.

On Tuesday in Samaru, Hayin Dogo area of Zaria near the Basawa Army Barracks, eyewitnesses alleged that soldiers killed about 10 persons suspected to have killed some lecturers and students at the Kaduna State Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria on Monday.
Christians in Zaria were said to have complained of being trapped in the violence and unable to run for safety due to the curfew imposed by the state government to curtail the violence.
They also complained of lack of access to food and water.
Many residents of the state capital were caught unawares by the violence and left without money and foodstuffs at home while those who have the cash also found it difficult to buy foodstuffs as markets in the state remained closed.
Reacting to the orgy of violence and killings, the Federal Government on Tuesday deployed about 200 additional riot policemen in Kaduna to quell the violence in the state.
Trucks conveying hundreds of anti- riot policemen were seen at the Presidential Lounge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, at about 4.30pm on Tuesday.
The policemen, who were initially scheduled to take a special flight to Kaduna, later went through the Nigeria Air Force hanger, where they boarded two Hercules C130 military aircraft expected to convey them to Kaduna.
In Sabo area, a suburb of Kaduna, traders who attempted to sell their wares in front of the market were chased away by security agents to prevent further looting of the shops by criminals.
Chairman of the state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Tunde Bakare, told our correspondent on the phone that more than 10 churches were set ablaze in Zaria while several people were killed by the rioters in the town.
Bakare listed most of the churches burnt in the town to include those in the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic quarters as well as those located within the Samaru and Kongo campus of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
The PFN boss added that in spite of the 24-hour curfew imposed by the state government, the hoodlums armed with knives, sticks, bows and arrows moved about, especially around 10.00 pm and 2.00am from house to house attacking people and burning their homes.
He claimed that apparently because the security agents were not given orders to shoot, the hoodlums ignored them, adding that the most challenging period for the residents was during the night when the rioters normally regrouped to unleash terror.
Bakare said that it was unfortunate that the security operatives found it difficult to contain the hoodlums.
He said, "When the police chased them, they will regroup later. The security agents have done well, but it appears they have not been given decisive instructions to deal with them."
"The boys were engaging the police; their time for attack is in the night between 11:00pm and 2:00 am. They will be chanting Sai Buhari. Because of the curfew our people find it difficult to run to safe zones. The curfew is already taking its toll on the people as they have no food nor water and they cannot go out to get these basic needs.
"Why is the church being asked to pay for this matter which is a political issue? Why are Christians being killed because of an issue which is purely political? Why are Christians being made a scapegoat over a political matter?
"Right now we are under siege and our churches are being burnt and our people are being killed. We called on government to take adequate steps to halt this massacre of Christians" Bakare said
In Kafanchan and Zonkwa in the southern part of the state, heavy fighting broke out between Christians and Muslims at about 8pm on Monday night. The fighting did not subside until about noon on Tuesday with some of the residents alleging that those involved in the fight may have been brought into the area from elsewhere.
"I saw the body of a man beheaded after he was killed by these men. They are using grenade launchers, and the guns they are firing are not mere AK47s", a resident who pleaded anonymity said.
It was gathered that the Police in Kafanchan could not contain the situation as youths from surrounding villages teamed up and entered the town around midnight to take on the alleged CPC armed men.
The youths reportedly used bows and arrows, cutlasses and sticks to slow the advances of the attackers in some areas but many churches and homes of Christians were complete razed.
Our correspondent gathered that in Kagoro, Afana, Kurdan and Garage a detachment of Special Task Force unit from Jos moved into the towns to restore order.
Eye witnesses in Zonkwa said that Fajumali Hotel was set ablaze by the rioters, resulting in a reprisal attack and burning of the houses of suspected CPC supporters. Unspecified number of mosques were also razed in the Christian-dominated town.
The Emir of Jema'a, Alhaji Isa Muhammadu told the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that even though there were security agents in the area, they were so overwhelmed and could not do much to restore order to the town.
The Emir lamented that the security personnel were incapacitated, adding that those unleashing terror were so much that even if they were blocked from one end of the town, they would regroup and start attacking from the other end.

John Fashanu weds Adaeze Igwe's mum Joseph Yobo's Mother In Law

Posted by cozzy webtatafo on April 20, 2011 at 8:00pm

Ex-soccer star, John Fashanu has taken another plunge into matrimony. The choice of the former footballer turned businessman this time around is Mrs Abigail Igwe, a legal practitioner and mother of ex-beauty queen, Adaeze Igwe. Sources reveal thet the two legally married at an Abuja marriage registry not too long ago after dating quietly for a while. Sources disclosed that they made the decision to be husband and wife with their children consenting to the move.

Fashanu, 48, has two children from former wife, Congolese beauty queen Melissa Mapsi and another from a previous relationship. While Abigail Igwe, 44, has four children from her first marriage which ended in a divorce 9years ago.

Sexual harassment: The Nig.erian woman's nightmare

Posted by 9jabook.com webmadam on April 20, 2011 at 7:57pm

Women are always beautiful -Ville Valo (Finnish Singer) The evergreen words of the Finnish singer, Ville Valo, that "Women are always beautiful" encapsulate the beautiful nature of women.

Indeed, the Nigerian woman is intricately beautiful and should be cherished like a fragile vessel of very high value. Any wonder why various literary pieces, music and movies extol the virtues of womanhood?

Sadly, women have not always been so favoured especially in Nigeria given the high incidence of sexual harassment in the society. Like a flea, it has sucked deep into what remains of the Nigerian fluid. Indeed, the very endemic nature of this scourge threatens to wipe off any vestige of our moral fibre as Nigerians.

The Nigerian story merely echoes an historical trend. From Adam, who openly blamed his wife for his sin of disobedience to God to the married man who batters a woman, gender-based violence has festered in the country. A number of men either verbally or by actions subscribe to Aristotle's view that a woman is an unfinished man or therefore stands on a lower plane of development.

What really is sexual harassment? Why does the cancer keep spreading? What effects can a single act of harassment have on the Nigerian woman? Is there anything the society at large can do to save the womenfolk and, most importantly, what can women personally do to reduce the risk of harassment?

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines sexual harassment as, "The making of unwanted and offensive sexual advances or sexually offensive remarks or acts, especially by one in supervisory position or when acquiescence to such behaviour is a condition of continued employment, promotion, or satisfactory evaluation."

Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia, defines the practice as "intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favours." It adds that such behaviour may range from seemingly mild transgressions and annoyances to actual sexual abuse or sexual assault. The above definitions are by no means exhaustive as various forms of unacceptable sexual behaviour are daily birthed. These range from outright coercion or rape to subtler yet repulsive action, unwelcome touches, lewd remarks and lascivious stares.

In recent times, a growing number of women have entered the job market and this to some unscrupulous men means more sexual preys to descend on. Considering the very real fact that jobs are hard to come by, many women would rather endure a daily torture than opt out of a job where a supervisor or employer haunts them sexually.

Others suffer in silence because of the fear of stigmatisation, lack of awareness of legal rights and in extreme cases, actual rejection by family members and community. Others also fear that little will be accomplished by reporting as those who are supposed to protect often turn out to be the perpetrators of heinous crimes. For example, in November 2006, Kolawole Olaniyan of the Amnesty International, noted that, "The harsh reality is that if you are a woman or a girl in Nigeria who has suffered the terrible experience of being raped, your suffering is likely to be met with intimidation by the police, indifference from the state and the knowledge that the perpetrator is unlikely to ever face justice."

Recently, The Punch's editorial of April 15, 2011 carried the unsavoury story of a monarch who allegedly raped a youth corps member in Osun State. Commendably, in this case though, the "victim" spoke up. Examples abound why many would rather swear the oath of silence. For example, in 2005 the CLEEN Foundation (a Nigerian NGO) reported that only 18.1 per cent of rape cases were reported to the police. That represents less than one in every five cases. Any wonder why the practice continues unabated.

Some however claim that sexual harassment is not as serious as some women make it appear, especially if rape is not involved. Others go to the extent of alluding that women actually feel flattered by the attention they receive. But experts have proven that the messy practice is meant not to attract women but to coerce them; therefore it is an expression of power. This crude force often has far-reaching consequences.

Resultant effects may include feelings of guilt, low self-worth, depression, disgust and anger. One victim recalls in the Awake! magazine of May 22, 1996 that, "The situation destroyed me. I lost my trust, my confidence, my self-respect, and my career aspirations. My personality drastically changed. I had been happy-go-lucky. I became bitter, withdrawn, and ashamed."

The effect of sexual harassment can be so traumatic. In fact, child psychologists have warned that without proper counselling, children who have been raped may suffer lifelong trauma and deep emotional scars which may fester and led to clinically depressed and socially unstable adults.

Considering the socio-economic and moral contributions of women to the society, one Nigerian child/woman raped of innocence is one too many. All considered, one wonders if any solution is in sight.

It has been proved that laws alone cannot curb the menace. There are a number of legal instruments in Nigeria which prescribe punitive measures to perpetrators yet we continue to read of the practice time and again. Just passing laws without tackling the root of the problem may just as well be treating the symptoms so long as people have the will and capacity to abuse sexually.

Experts also recommend targeting attitudes and thinking patterns as part of measures aimed at mitigating incidence of sexual harassment in the society. This is because attitudes guide behaviour. People need to look up to God for divine guidance and learn his ways, and then immorality will become repulsive to them. Here lies the task of religious education.

While hoping that government will put in place measures to curb the practice and devise ways to enforce them, the Nigerian woman can also undertake to, among others, learn the ethics of proper decorum so as not to send out the wrong signals while dressing and grooming must be modest and in good taste.

In cases of attempted rape, the victims should scream as her voice may be her only portent weapon. Essentially, parents should maintain open communication with their children in schools. Youngsters should be taught to reject outright any one who tries to touch their private parts.

It is instructive that, while the wave of election weeps across the country, this portent weapon is daily wielded at the Nigerian woman. One only wonders if the unfortunate story of the youth corps member in Osun State will see the light of day. Since Nigeria is a signatory to many international legal instruments that outlaw violence against women, it is hoped that the government will fulfil its international obligations to enforce its policies.

- Ubek, a company executive, wrote from 359 Agege Motor Rd, Illupeju, Lagos vide: nj_duchess2000@yahoo.com

Corpses litter Kaduna, Kano roads after post poll riots

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 7:55pm

KADUNA-BURNT corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above the city where rioting broke out again, Tuesday, among opposition supporters who were angered by the announcement that President Goodluck Jonathan had won the election.
On the outskirts of the city, burnt out minibuses and cars littered the highways, and at least six charred bodies could be seen. Skull caps and sandals were strewn nearby, left behind by those who frantically fled amid the chaos.

Security agencies and aid groups have hesitated to release tolls following the riots across the northern states for fear of inciting reprisal attacks, but the National Emergency Management Agency confirmed there had been fatalities. The Nigerian Red Cross said, yesterday, that nearly 400 people had been wounded.
President Jonathan said yesterday after INEC chairman formally presented poll returns to him in Abuja: "We use this opportunity to plead with all our political leaders and religious leaders to condemn the acts so that our country will not witness such again. Nobody wants to invest in a place … (where) people fight, kill and destroy."
He also suspended his interior minister, Capt. Iheanacho, yesterday, citing "a number of lapses in the political leadership of the ministry."
On Monday, supporters of CPC candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, had set fire to homes of ruling party members in several areas across the north. Police said an angry mob also engineered a prison break.
In Kano, Rev. Lado Abdu said three churches had been set ablaze by angry demonstrators. An armed mob at a bus station also threatened another evangelical pastor before a Muslim man nearby spirited him to safety.
Rev. Habila Sunday said in Hausa language: "What brought together religion and politics? I want to know why when politics happens they burn churches?"
Thousands have been killed in religious violence in the past decade, but the roots of the sectarian conflict are often embedded in struggles for political and economic dominance.
Kano mosque burnt
Meanwhile, youths burnt a mosque in Kano early yesterday after rioting that followed presidential elections, prompting Muslims to destroy shops in response, residents said.
Kano police spokesman, Magaji Majia, confirmed "reports of an incident in Tudun Wada neighbourhood, but the situation has been contained." He said he was on his way to meet with local traditional chiefs and the imam in the area, adding that the city was now enforcing a 24-hour curfew.
A resident, Ya'u Mohammed said the youths who had taken refuge in a police barracks the previous day left and crossed into a Muslim area of the city, where the mosque and two trucks were set alight, adding: "Muslim youths in the area were attracted by the smoke coming from the mosque and trucks. In retaliation, the Muslim youths vandalised and looted dozens of corner shops attached to the barracks largely owned by Christians.”
Source: AFP.

Ogun commissioner beats up Judo coach

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 7:47pm

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For requesting for the autonomy of the Ogun State Sports Council, a judo coach, Olakunle Ogidan, yesterday suffered a broken neck and shoulder, after he was allegedly beaten on the orders of the state’s sports commissioner, Bukola Olopade. The coach who was later rushed to the State Hospital, Abeokuta after his plight in the hands of Olopade, said he was lured into a meeting at the commissioner’s office at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta, where he was later dealt with.
Ogidan alleged that his ‘sin’ was requesting the commissioner at a meeting on Monday with labour leaders, to give autonomy to the Sports Council, which has been under the Ministry of Sports and Youth, supervised by Olopade.
“But to my surprise, yesterday morning (Tuesday), around a few minutes to 10, he (Olopade) called me and said I should come to his office immediately for a meeting that he wanted to see me,” Ogidan said.
Ogidan further narrated how on getting to the venue, he, along with a few of his colleagues who had accompanied him to the venue, were ushered into an office situated within the stadium.
“On getting to the office, we met some people there including some journalists. Ejiro Omonode of AIT was there, Kunle Oluwusi was there, Biodun Alabi of GTV was equally there,” he recalled.
“The commissioner now confronted me with a text message that was sent to the governor talking about autonomy and said it must have emanated from me. I tried to defend myself by telling him that I have already said what I wanted to say to the governor and I don’t need to send any text message.
“Moreover, there was no name on it that indicated that I was the one that sent it,” Ogidan explained.”
According to Ogidan, Olopade got furious and even threatened to kill him before attacking him in the company of a handful of thugs stationed around the stadium.
‘He hit me on the neck violently, I fell to the floor and I felt a sharp pain in my neck. I told him he had injured me. I stood up and he hit me again in that particular place over and over again,” Ogidan said.
Olopade, however denied beating or instructing any of his aides to beat the coach, but argued that contrary to the claim, it was the coach who was rude to him.
“The coach came for a meeting in my office. 35 people were present during the meeting, including Kashimawo Laloko, Ejiro Omonode, Kunle Oluwusi and other people,” he explained.
“During the discussion, the man became unruly to me and all the people present condemned his disrespectful act. He was castigated and was asked to leave the venue of the meeting. He was not beaten in any way or form,” Olopade said.
“I am surprised that some persons wants to make political capital out of the matter that has been settled. Today, in the presence of Comrade Seyi Adebanjo, the leader of TUC in Ogun, the matter was amicably resolved and the man apologized for his misbehaviour. I want to repeat, the man was not beaten in any way or form,” the commissioner concluded.

Police nab pastors for duping church member

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 7:44pm

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a prophetess and her husband for allegedly defrauding a member of their congregation.
The suspects, Ngozi and Emmanuel Okoli, were arrested on April 18 by officers of the Ejigbo Police Station following allegations by a widow, Theresa Onuoha, that the prophetess and her husband allegedly hypnotized her and collected her family inheritance.
The suspects are the founder of God Covenant Ministry, alias City of Deliverance, located at 3 Brethren Avenue, Iyana-Ejigbo, a suburb of Lagos. Mrs Onuoha said the couple hypnotized her with a concoction that made her lose her senses in 2009.
Her story
“I met prophetess and her husband in 2009, through one Emmanuel Nonso Eke,” said Mrs Onuoha. “I was having serials of trouble in my home after my husband died fifteen years ago. The prophetess and her husband interviewed me [and] I told them that since my husband died it is one problem or the other, that my husband was an occult member, and since he died in a mysterious circumstance, strange and evil things stated happening to me and my husband’s family were fighting me.”
The prophetess gave me a concoction and asked me to drink it for seven days and I should fast and pray, [and] since then I did not get myself again. The prophetess told me, during a deliverance session that lasted for three months, that God revealed to her that I should surrender all the property of my late husband to God, that those things belonged to [the] occult and until I surrender them to God, I will not have rest and peace of mind. So that was how the prophetess and her husband came to my house, and under their spell, they packed all the property in my house down to my rug, settee, ten boxes containing clothes, shoes, and other belongings, including my Mercedes Benz car to their house.”
Mrs Onouha said she subsequently moved out of husband’s house and sold her land, allegedly under the instruction of the suspects. “I went to the village to sell my husband’s land, because the prophetess gave me an account number to pay N1.8million proceeds from the land into their Oceanic Bank account,” she said. “But when I told my elder sister about everything, she gave me a hot slap which jolted me to my sense. Immediately I got myself back and I went to demand for my property from the prophetess and her husband, but the prophetess said I cannot get them back. That I have sowed them to God, so that was how I reported to the police.”
Their story
Mr and Mrs Okoli, however, denied the allegation, saying that they are being persecuted. “We prayed for this woman for three months and she willingly on her own surrendered her property to God,” said Mrs Okoli. “She gave us the car to use; and as priests of God, we are entitled to use what is given to God. We have laboured with her and have delivered her from occultism powers. So if this is the way we are been persecuted, then we accept our cross as ministers of God. But God will judge everything.”
The police spokesperson, Samuel Jinadu, said the police recovered Mrs Onuoha’s property form the suspects’ apartment. “The case is under investigation and the suspects will be charged to court for alleged fraud,” he said.

Okotie: Presidential election was a sham,

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 7:36pm

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The national chairman and presidential candidate of Fresh Democratic Party, Chris Okotie, has condemned the presidential election held last Saturday, describing it as a sham and calling for an interim government.

At a press conference held at the party's secretariat in Lagos yesterday, Mr Okotie said that his party had rejected the announced result because the Peoples Democratic Party had rigged the election in a disguised manner so that it looked free and fair.
He said the PDP had "scientifically and meticulously created a facade of free and fair election", adding that the only way forward for Nigeria is an interim government.
"A government that would be made up of people who have not been politically involved; men and women of calibre and timbre; people who have a Pan-Nigeria philosophy," he said.
Mr Okotie, however, condemned the violence in the North attributing it to the PDP and the current administration. He appealed to the protesters to "embrace dialogue".
Speaking further about the crisis, he said the people in the North should not expect the government to come to their aid in terms of the crisis saying "our friends in the North should not depend on government, because they (government) have shown inability to handle the situation", adding "at best there would be a curfew and that is it".
Mr Okotie said he was not in concord with those who claim the elections were free and fair, saying "If PDP won, Nigeria has lost; if PDP won, we have lost; if PDP won our children have lost".
He said the PDP is not a popular political party and cannot take Nigerian anywhere, considering that it is a largely corrupt party. "PHCN accounts have not been audited, roads are still death traps and our people have been polarised and balkanised like never before," he added.
The pastor cum politician said that when the elections failed earlier, he had every reason to believe that INEC was using delay tactics to give the PDP ample time to devise means of rigging

Court rejects Mohammed Abacha as Kano governorship candidate

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 7:31pm

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Th e f i s s u r e s i n t h e C o n g re s s f o r Progressive Change deepened yesterday when the Court of Appeal in Abuja reversed the judgment of a Federal High Court and ruled that Lawal Jafar Isa, and not Mohammed Abacha, was the party's governorship candidate for Kano State.

The court also declared that Aminu Bello Masari, the former House of Representatives speaker, was the party's governorship candidate in Katsina State, and not Yakubu Garba Lado whose name was submitted to the Independent National E l e c t o r a l C o m m i s s i o n (INEC).
These are examples of the internal contradictions within the CPC whose unifying factor remains its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. Jimi Bada, who read the lead judgment, said that the party's primary election in Kano State was inconclusive and only the party could forward the governorship candidate's name to INEC.

Conflicting results
Mr Abacha, the son of the former military ruler, had gone to the Federal High Court, claiming that he won the primary election in the state but that the party had failed to send his name to theelectoral commission. In an originating summons filed by his lawyer, Abdullahi Haruna, Mr Abacha asked the court to declare that INEC should not recognise any other governorship candidate from the CPC. He claimed that after the primary election conducted on January 12, he scored the highest number of votes: 144,066.
He claimed that Lawal Jafar Isa scored 78,671 votes, Rufai Sani Hanga got 45,618 votes; Awalu Anwar got 30,410; and Magaji Abdullahi got 5,795. INEC, through its counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, in a counter affidavit, said that in compliance with the Electoral Act, the CPC invited the electoral commission to supervise and monitor its primary election into various offices in preparation for this month's election. Mr Awomolo said that INEC responded to the request by sending its personnel to supervise the exercise in Kano State.
He said that, according to INEC's records, Mr Isa scored 78,671 votes; Rufai Sani Hanga, 45,618 votes; Awalu Anwar, 30,410; Magaji Abdullahi, 5,795; and Mr Abacha scored 144,066. He added that none of the other candidates had instituted any suit to challenge the result of the primaries, neither did they serve any process challenging the qualification of MrAbacha.

Masari wins also
The court, in a unanimous judgment, upheld Mr Masari's appeal against the decision of a Federal High Court Abuja which ruled that Mr Lado was the authentic CPC governorship candidate for Katsina State.
The judge said that the lower court erred when it failed to consider the affidavit and documentary evidence of the CPC and the fact that the Board of Trustees of the party had the final say on who the candidate of the party was in any election.
The court further held that the Katsina State chairman of the party who forwarded the name of Mr Lado and 46 other candidates of the party to INEC had no such power. Mr Lado had gone to the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking an order to restrain INEC from accepting Mr Masari, claiming that he had won the primary election and should have been presented instead of Mr Masari.

Gay revision of the Bible to go on sale!

Posted by Dan WebNutritionist/Motivator on April 20, 2011 at 2:05pm

Move over Adam and Eve. Here comes Adam and Steve, as well as Samantha and Delilah. A newly revised gay-friendly Bible is set to go on sale in the next few weeks. Reaction to the announcement has been met with venom from conservative Christian groups.

Pink Cross Publishing, the same company that published a gay-friendly version of the Koran, stated that they were adding the finishing touches to the newly revised Bible. Mary and Joseph will be replaced by Mary and Josephine, a lesbian couple unable to have children the conventional way, hence the virgin birth of Jesus. All of Jesus’ disciples will be gay except for Judas. In the new Bible, all of the disciples will pair off after the Last Supper with the exception of Judas. Satan will also be straight. The new gay-friendly Bible has yet to be named.

Westboro Baptist Church has promised to picket Pink Cross Publishing and any store selling the new Bible. In response, members of the gay community have stated that they will purchase the new Bible to support Pink Cross Publishing.

A companion workbook for children will also be available for use in Sunday schools. With input from newly defrocked priests, a Catholic version of the gay-friendly Bible will be published by year end.

April 21, 2010 by Dead Serious News

Hundreds arrested after deadly riots in the North. At least 80 dead . REUTERS

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 5:10am

Police in northern Nigeria have arrested hundreds of people after deadly protests in opposition strongholds in the mostly Muslim north following President Goodluck Jonathan's election victory. At least 80 people have been killed in major cities alone, hundreds injured and thousands displaced by the violence after Jonathan won Saturday's vote. His rival, northerner and ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, says the result was rigged. Those perceived to be supporters of the ruling party have been stabbed, hacked and shot to death by angry youths since Jonathan, a Christian southerner, defeated Buhari. Churches, mosques, homes and shops have been set ablaze. The morgue at the Bara Dikko hospital in the city of Kaduna was overflowing. It had 20 bodies in its cold chambers. The charred remains of at least another 20 lay on the floor. Kaduna's deputy police commissioner, Nwodibo Ekechukwu, said hundreds of people had been arrested. "We're talking of over 400 suspects. They are in police custody. They were arrested for various acts of mischief, criminality and homicide," he said. Police further north in Kano, the region's most populous city, said at least 50 people were arrested there. Health workers collected blackened corpses in the streets of Kaduna on Tuesday, one of them apparently "necklaced" with a flaming tyre. A mosque was still burning, and the remains of tyres and barricades littered the streets. Possible election delay Ekechukwu said the security situation was gradually improving and that a 24-hour curfew was being reviewed on a daily basis. Soldiers manned checkpoints every few hundred metres in parts of the city. But there was also unrest in smaller towns where the military presence was not so heavy. The burned out shells of trucks and cars lay along the 200 km (120 mile) stretch of road between Kano and Kaduna, a Reuters witness said. Police in Bauchi state said four members of the National Youth Corps, which helped run elections, and two policemen were killed in an attack on Tuesday while the head of the local Christian association said 10 of its members were killed. Homes belonging to members of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices and police stations have been among the main targets. Africa's most populous nation is supposed to complete its cycle of elections with governorship votes in its 36 states on April 26, but diplomats question whether that will be possible in large parts of the north. "It's hard to see how INEC will be able to hold credible elections in states where there is an undeclared state of emergency, which is certainly the case in Kaduna," said one Western diplomat who has been observing the polls. "INEC urgently needs to engage all stakeholders -- including security agencies and political parties -- on the necessity of a partial postponement in some northern states." The electoral commission said no decision had yet been made about a possible delay. "There has been no talk to that effect but the security situation is being appraised," INEC spokesman Kayode Idowu said. REUTERS

“Cancel Presidential Polls”- Buhari….. Accept Result, Observers Advise Him

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 20, 2011 at 2:12am

Just as President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed readiness to unite the country as he received his certificate of return Tuesday, presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the nullification of

the election due irregularities in 22 states of the federation including Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo; Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi states.

Others include Ekiti, Ogun, Osun, Lagos, Sokoto, Kaduna, Jigawa, Gombe, Yobe, Zamfara, Adamawa, Nasarawa states and FCT.

Buhari alleged that the computers used in compiling the votes were programmed to rig the election in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

In a petition submitted by his party to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Buhari further sought an investigation into how a software was installed in the computers with the aim of assisting Jonathan to victory in the election.

President Jonathan, who received his certificate of return with his running mate and current Vice President, Namadi Sambo, between 4.40 and 4.45pm had condemned the recent crisis adding that he was prepared to run an all-inclusive government.

But the petition signed by the CPC’s National Chairman, Prince Tony Momoh, and National Secretary, Engr. Buba Galadima, equally accused the PDP of intimidating voters and that result from the south-south and south-east should be cancelled.

According to the petitioner, "We (CPC) are also disagreeing with results from Sokoto, Adamawa, Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Jigawa among others.

"All results must be subjected to forensic analysis before it is announced. If it is announced without forensic analysis, we will not accept it."

The petition read further: “Our attention has been drawn by our State collation officers, polling agents, and election supervisors in the states of the South-South and South-East and some other states that the presidential elections held on April 16, 2011 in Nigeria were conducted in substantial non-compliance with the principles of the Electoral Act with the effect that the results handed down were substantially affected by massive irregularities that include the following:

1.Members of the public in the areas mentioned were at most polling stations intimidated and driven away from the polling units with the effect that the ballot papers in ballot boxes were printed and stuffed in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

2.Opposition voters were directly and indirectly kept away from polling units through threats of force, violence and death in consequence of which they were disenfranchised.

3.There was clear absence of accreditation of voters in most of the polling units and the regulated procedure for the conduct of the purported election was as a result violently breached to the advantage of PDP.

4.There is strong suspicion, supported by reasonable grounds, that the Excel computer application installed in the computers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, across the nation was deliberately designed to short change the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. This can be attested to by the unfolding situation of Katsina and Kano where the manual calculation of the results reveal that our Party was short changed by hundreds of thousands of votes when the results were manually reviewed.

The party therefore asked the INEC chairman to:

1.Order the respective Chief Electoral Commissioners and such other custodians of all

presidential election documents including statement of results, ballot papers and voters registers which are returned to the Commission by the Returning Officers to produce them to be analysed in line with our allegation on multiple and alien voting by voters not registered at the polling units.

2.Investigate the allegation of manipulation of Excel Application Programme installed in the field computers of INEC deliberately designed to favour PDP and short change CPC.

3. Order for the cancellation of the results handed down from the South_South and South East in the event the investigation revealed the alleged breaches.

4. Order for concurrent manual recalculation of the result across the country alongside the Excel Application calculation.

The petitioner further said: “We, therefore, appeal that you demand the ballot papers and result sheets as collated from these zones and states for scrutiny in the interest of peace, prosperity, free, fair and credible elections. We recall that on Sunday April 17, because of reports we received, we issued a press statement that we would accept only collated results from polling stations."

Observers, who monitored the elections have however called on Buhari to accept what they described as one of the freest and fairest elections the country has ever had.

The entire observers, under a coalition, Project 2011 Swift Count, urged the Buhari and other candidates in the election to accept the results as declared by INEC without problems.

Speaking on behalf of the coalition, its First Vice-President, Mr. Dafe Akpedeye, said the exercise was transparent and credible.

According to him, “INEC has conducted the collation of presidential results in a very open manner. Official results by states have immediately been posted on the internet for anyone to see.

"In order to ensure even greater transparency and accountability Project 2011 Swift Count calls upon INEC to also post polling unit level results on its website."

North & South by Sanusi Lamido CBN Gov's Response To Sir Olaniwun Ajayi's Book very interesting

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 19, 2011 at 9:07pm

A refreshing perspective - Interesting read!!!

Please if you write a silly book, don't invite Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to make a presentation. ,

I guess Olaniwun Ajayi has learnt from this. Sanusi faults Olaniwun Ajayi on Northern domination.

The Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi at the Muson Centre in Lagos .

The book titled: " Nigeria , Africa 's failed asset?" attracted many important dignitaries, intellectuals and some governors. The argument by discussants centered on whether or not the colonial masters laid the foundation for the problems Nigeria is currently facing.

Many argued that the British loved the North and that was why it gave more than 50 percent of the National Assembly seats to the North at independence.

Sanusi, however, stole the show when he spoke. His speech was anchored on the plank that the British and Nigerian rulers are responsible for the state of the situation Nigeria finds itself today.

Below is his unedited speech.

"Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation.

"My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language.

"Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regard himself as bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other.

"The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now
said it was a Muslim North.

"The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours.

Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in
the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders.

You talk about Babangida and the economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?

"We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urobo land, that there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urobo people support her?

"We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not. "The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal.

Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister from every state.

"So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria . The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South.

The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi talked about few numbers of graduates in the North (two at independence) . What he did not say was that there was a documented policy of the British when they came that the Northerner should not be educated. It was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate the Northerner you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them. It was documented. And you say they love us (North).

"I have spent the better part of my life to fight and Dr. (Reuben) Abati knows me. Yes, my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in the pro-democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano ? Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?

"There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Fulani people, good Nigerians and there are bad people everywhere. That is the truth. "Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most populous country
in the world. We have all the resources that make it easy to make one united great Nigeria . It is better if we are united than to divide it.

"Every time you talk about division, when you restructure, do you know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say Agbor, you don't have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed as a political entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting the Urobos. Isn't that what was happening? Now they have become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be, if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our resources.

"There is no country in the world where resources are found in everybody's hamlet. But people have leaders and they said if you have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this country have a good nature.

"So, why don't you talk about; we don't have infrastructure, we don't have education, we don't have health. We are still talking about Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is anybody saying there is no poverty among the Fulani?", he said.

This is a great message to our generation.

Are we truly ready to develop and unite Nigeria?

Teen gets Bail for pure water attack,Car crashes in pepper soup joint,"Ibru" stalks Rio Ferdinand

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Susan Ibru convicted of Stalking Rio Ferdinand Man the United Defender. We have no idea if she is related to the Ibrus !

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 19, 2011 at 8:07pm

Rio Ferdinand stalker convicted of harassment
Susanne Ibru made three visits to Manchester United player's Cheshire home, twice disturbing him and his wife at night

A stalker who repeatedly turned up at the home of the Manchester United and England footballer Rio Ferdinand has been convicted of harassment.
Susanne Ibru, 38, twice disturbed the player and his wife Rebecca as they slept at their home in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, claiming she needed to speak to him.
She was convicted at Macclesfield magistrates court in her absence. Ibru, who conducted her own defence, left court after being told that Ferdinand's wife Rebecca, 30, had been excused from giving evidence after the birth of their third child at the weekend. Earlier, Ibru had questioned Ferdinand in the witness box, telling him as he left the court: "I'll see you soon, bye." photo 2: rio ferdiandn far right in soccer argument
A warrant was issued for Ibru by the district judge, Nicholas

Sanders, who asked for her to be brought back before him for sentencing. He said it was "quite clear" that the prosecution case against her had been proved.
Ferdinand, 32, said he was left "angry and upset" by Ibru repeatedly turning up at his home uninvited. Ibru, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, visited his home three times between February and June last year, despite being warned to stay away.
Ian Davies, prosecuting, said that Ibru woke the couple early on 21 February by pressing the intercom buzzer at the entrance gate. Ferdinand went to a bathroom window and saw a figure wearing a hooded top. He shouted down to see who it was. She looked up, and he saw it was Ibru. Asked by Davies how he felt, Ferdinand said: "At first I was angry and upset but then disturbed, really, because I have got a young family and this was not the time or the place to be coming to speak to me."
The player called the club's security staff, who contacted the police, and then watched on his CCTV as Ibru walked away and was stopped by officers at the end of the road. Ibru returned on 16 June. Ferdinand said he saw her on the road opposite his house as he arrived home at about 8pm.
He said he had no idea why she wanted to speak to him. Ibru was given a formal police warning to leave the couple alone. Her third visit came early on 18 June, when she was arrested.

Man pours acid on wife .... picture advisory please

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 19, 2011 at 7:56pm

Man arraigned for pouring acid on wife
Kunle Falayi

A suspect, Samson Igbinomewahin, 47, was on Monday arraigned at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos, for allegedly pouring acid on his wife, Mrs. Susan Jeremiah, 31.

Mrs. Susan Jeremiah

Jeremiah, a corporal in the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Ikoyi, Lagos, was brought to court with one side of her body disfigured by the acid attack.
Igbinomewahin was charged with attempted murder. The charge sheet read in part that Igbinomewahin "on the 9th of March, 2011, at block 8, room 31, Obalende Police Barrack, Lagos...did unlawfully attempt to kill Susan Jeremiah by pouring acid substance on her body and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 320 (1) of the Criminal Code Cap 17 Vol. II Laws of Lagos State 2003."
The Magistrate, Mrs. Helen Omisore, had earlier asked Igbinomewahin if he wanted to be tried at either the magistrate or higher court before his plea was taken.
The suspect, who chose to be tried in the magistrate court, thereafter pleaded not guilty.
Igbinomewahin's lawyer, Mr. Olatunde Kolawole, urged the court to grant him bail, saying the issue was "a domestic accident." Besides, he told the court that the suspect had been in custody for more than a month.
At this point, Igbinomewahin interrupted the court proceeding by telling his lawyer that he had been detained for more than two months.
The magistrate shouted the suspect down and asked the court orderly to stand beside him in order to prevent further interruption.
But the victim's lawyer, Mr. Lucky Oizimende , objected the bail application. He told the court that Jeremiah was still in intensive care, adding that, "what would stop him from going back to kill her?"
PUNCH METRO gathered that Igbinomewahin and his wife, whom he married in 2009, had been having running battles on his insistence that his wife should finance his proposed trip to Malaysia.
As part of the plan, our correspondent gathered that the suspect asked his wife to sell off her landed property and use the proceeds to facilitate his supposed trip.
Igbinomewahin was said to have promised his wife that she would join him when he settled down in Malaysia. PUNCH METRO, however, learnt that Jeremiah was skeptical about this arrangement.
Before the incident, our correspondent learnt that Jeremiah had already filed for divorce and the matter was still pending in another court.
As a result of the pending suit, the couple no longer live together. But the marriage is blessed with a child.
Police investigation revealed that on the fateful day, the suspect allegedly visited his estranged wife and brought a polythene bag into her apartment at police barracks, Obalende, and told his wife that it contained their baby's food. It was learnt that when Jeremiah saw the content, she became suspicious and fled.
Igbinomewahin allegedly ran after her and poured the content in the polythene bag on her through the window.
The magistrate however adjourned ruling on the bail application till April 29, 2011, and ordered the suspect to be remanded in Ikoyi Prisons.

Teenager gets Bail for Satchet water"assasination attempt" on Obasanjo & Ohakim after 18 days in jail

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 19, 2011 at 7:35pm

After 18 days of detention at the Owerri Prison, Precious Efurueze, the 13-year-old boy accused of attempting to kill former president Olusegun Obasanjo and the governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, by pelting their campaign convoy with sachet water, has finally regained freedom. Master Efurueze and 18 other accused persons were granted bail by an Imo State High Court yesterday after two earlier appearances in court. Nelson Ezerioha, the defence counsel, told the court yesterday that most of the principles favouring the granting of bail to an accused are in favour of the applicants.
However, when Mr. Ezerioha explained that the charges are politically motivated, the judge reprimanded him and asked him to stick to the facts of the case and desist from whipping up political sentiments.

In her argument, the prosecution counsel, Nnenna Lelenwa, argued that the accused persons might jump bail due to the severity of the punishment attached to the crime they were accused of, if found guilty. However, when the presiding judge, who is also the Chief Justice of the state, Benjamin Njemanze, asked Mrs. Lelenwa how granting the applicant’s bail would affect the case of the prosecution, she was unable to give any reason.
The presiding judge also faulted the second count of the charge brought against the defendants, which among other things, stated that the applicants “unlawfully attempted to kill the governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim.” The judge ruled this charge failed to show how the applicant intended to do so.
In his ruling, Mr. Njemanze reiterated the argument of the applicant counsel that the offences are bailable, while stating that bail admitted to an accused is a basic right. He further explained that bail is not to be withheld merely as punishment.
He, therefore, granted each of the defendants bail in the sum of N200,000.00 and a surety with like sum. He explained that the surety most be a resident of Imo State.
Intrigue-plagued
The case has been plagued by political intrigues since its initial hearing at a Chief Magistrate Court in Owerri.
Vitoria Isiguzo, the presiding magistrate who is also the wife to the special senior adviser to the deputy governor of Imo State on special duties, Chibututu Isiguzo, had denied the applicants bail, citing the severity of the charges against them.
After the applicants filed a fresh application for bail at the state High Court, the initial judge the case was assigned to, Ngozi Opkara, withdrew, saying he was threatened by unknown persons that he and members of his family would be abducted if he granted bail to the suspects.

Car crashes into pepper soup joint

Posted by 9jabook.com on April 19, 2011 at 7:34pm

Some customers at a local delicacy (pepper soup) joint in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital narrowly escaped death, when a driver lost control and drove into where they were relaxing.

When NEXT visited the scene yesterday, the car was still stuck inside the building which is located beside the road, with the structure completely damaged. Some of the lucky customers who escaped from the rubbles of the damaged building told NEXT that they were full of gratitude to God for saving their lives.

“It was like a child’s play when the car was coming towards us. We quickly realised that there was danger ahead, in view of the fact that the driver lost control. And I want to believe God was on our side; we all escape unhurt.” One of the lucky customers said.

The owner of the outfit could not speak to journalists on the accident.

Police deploy officers to Calabar Hausa community

Posted by Paul "EFCC" Hawk Adams on April 19, 2011 at 7:11pm

The Cross River State police command has deployed a team of anti-riot police men to Bogobiri, an area in Calabar populated by northerners, mainly Hausa Fulani. An armoured tank has been stationed in the area.

Another team of policemen has also been dispatched to Nasarawa Bacoco which is about 14 kilometers from Bogobiri. The policemen are expected to ensure that no harm is done to residents of the areas. Bacoco is a cattle market community, where pastoral traders from the North unload their trucks of cows and goats for sale.

Report of protests in some states in the North has generated panic among the residents from the North, as they fear reprisal attacks if the attack on churches and Christians in the North continued.

Though Calabar is always aloof when it comes to ethnic-religious clashes in the country, northerners in the city are not taking chances as they fear the unknown considering conflicting reports from the North on the extent of destruction and number of people killed.

Fear grips northern residents

Previous riots in the north against Christians had no repercussion on Moslems in Calabar, a situation which over the years has been pushing Hausa and Fulani business men and cattle farmers residing in nearby states like Akwa Ibom and Abia to Cross River State for solace.

But when news of the current violent protest in the North broke out yesterday, the atmosphere in Bogobiri and Nasarawa Bacoco changed to that of anxiety as residents were seen gathered in groups discussing in hushed tones the protest back home and whether it has spread to any state in the South and if the uprising would get to Calabar.

At Bogobiri, all the Hausa people seen were glued to their radio sets listening to either BBC Hausa Service or Radio Nigeria Kaduna Hausa Service for up date on the clashes. None was ready to speak on the situation including Sariki Lawal, leader of Hausa community in Calabar when approached by NEXT. Consequently, the groups have been finding it difficult to venture out of their domain. Whenever they do, they do so in groups and not far into the city centre for fear of the unknown.

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