Friday, 28 February 2014

Boozing K.P Boateng picture sparks doctor’s resignation

Boozing K.P Boateng picture sparks doctor’s resignation
A German Football Association’s (DFB) anti-doping doctor has resigned after a picture of Schalke’s Kevin-Prince Boateng drinking beer and smoking while being tested for drugs appeared in a newspaper.
Boateng was injured in Wednesday’s 6-1 last 16, first-leg drubbing by Real Madrid — the heaviest home defeat suffered by a German team in Champions League history.
It capped an unfortunate few days for the Ghana midfielder after the picture appeared in German daily Bild earlier this week.
A Bild reader had submitted the shot showing Boateng, still in his Schalke kit, blowing cigarette smoke and holding a half-drunk bottle of beer.
The assistant of the doctor in charge is said to have taken the picture while Boateng was being drugs tested by the DFB after Schalke’s 2-1 win at Bayer Leverkusen a fortnight ago. Leverkusen denied any responsibility as the picture was taken in a DFB-controlled area of their BayArena stadium.
“The DFB has looked into the case immediately and thoroughly,” the DFB’s media director Ralf Koettker told SID, an AFP subsidiary.
“In a telephone conversation with Dr. Rainer Koch (a DFB vice-president in charge of anti-doping) the doping control doctor admitted the wrong doing of his assistant.
“He asked the anti-doping commission chairman to release him from his duties.”
On Tuesday, Schalke’s director of sport Horst Heldt had threatened legal action over the picture.
“This was taken in the player’s privacy. We will fight with all means available and make an example of whoever did this,” said Heldt.

President Jonathan’s Uncle Kidnappers Demand N500 Million Ransom To Release Him


The kidnappers of Chief Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year old uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded a N500m ransom. A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money. And that the kidnappers had also warned against the involvement of security operatives in the matter.
Tension and panic set in when the kidnappers failed to establish any contact with the family of their victim three days after he was abducted. That development was said to have rattled the Presidency, which reportedly ordered a massive deployment of security in Otuoke, the hometown of the Jonathans, and the Niger Delta creeks. Eventually, the kidnappers contacted the family four days after and demanded a whopping sum of N500m.
It is believed that the family of the victim has begun negotiations with the hoodlums, the source said.
[Sahara Reporter]

Rihanna bares her bare breasts in see-through top (see photos)


Rihanna but why? The singer bared her bare boobs in a sheer black top with nothing on underneath as she attended Balmain's Paris Fashion Week after-show party yesterday night. See the pics after the cut...but if you're viewing from the office, biko ji wa yo...(sofry sofry). It's quite x-rated..:-)



Yobe School Killing: Survivor Recounts Gory Ordeal



One of the surviving students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State, Nigeria, has given his account of how the attack on his school was carried out.
Speaking to Channels Television on the hospital bed, through the pains of a gunshot that ripped his arm and exposed his intestine, he recounted his ordeal in the hands of the gunmen who attacked their school.
In a vivid emotional account, the school boy narrated how he was shot by the group and then he struggled into a nearby bush before he was eventually rescued and rushed to the hospital.
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect attacked and killed students of the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi in Yobe State, north-east Nigeria in the early hours of Tuesday and also burnt down the school.
Earlier reports had said that the students were attacked in their hostels and slain by the hoodlums instead of the usual gun to avoid the attention of security men within town.
The Federal Government College Buni Yadi is a co-educational institution located some 55 kilometres south of Damaturu the Yobe State capital, and the attack is the fourth recorded on schools in Yobe since the commencement of the insurgency, as GSS Damaturu, GSS Mamudo and College of Agriculture, Gujba were attacked in 2013.




Courtsey: Channels News

PHOTO: Abuja Church Gives Members $100 Each For Attending Sunday Service

A church in Abuja gave her members $100 each (N16,000) for attending the church’s Sunday service a fortnight ago. The envelopes were shared while members were saying their closing prayers/grace. Whats your take on this...............

Lady Accuses FRSC Officer Of Beating Her Colleague Because He Refused To Give Them Bribe

According to the lady who was at the scene of the incidence, the federal road safety operative proceeded to manhandle her colleague after he refused to accent to the bribery request made by the road safety officers: See Pictures Below




This happened yesterday in Akure.
See more of the tweets and pictures Ms Ojo yesterday shared after the cut





Monday, 24 February 2014

27-year-old Guard rapes woman while returning from Night vigil

A security man, Kelly Ochuko, has been accused of raping a 24-year-old lady, Tivere, while she was returning from a vigil at the Synagogue Church of All Nation.

The police said the incident happened around 2am on Mutiatu Street, Ikotun, Lagos State.

It was learnt that the victim had travelled to Lagos from Sapele, Delta State, to participate in the Pastor Temitope Joshua’s midnight programme.

Around 2am, she had left for her lodgings when  Ochukwo allegedly accosted her.

The security man, who was employed by the Igando Landlord’s Association to guard the area, reportedly threatened to harm the victim with a cutlass.

She reportedly yielded and followed him into an uncompleted building where the act took place.

After having carnal knowledge of the 24-year-old, Ochuko was said to have pleaded with her to marry him, and exchanged phone numbers with her that night.

After being freed, the victim approached some policemen she saw at a junction and narrated her ordeal to them.

The policemen were said to have plotted with Tivere to call Ochukwo to see her off to the park where she would board a bus back to Sapele.

The unsuspecting Ochukwo was said to have come out to see off his ‘lover’, only to be arrested by the police.

He was arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State on two counts of rape.

The charge reads, “That you, Kelly Ochuko, on February 3, 2014 at about 2am, on 5, Mutiatu Street, Ikotun Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District, did forcefully have sexual intercourse with one Tivere, aged 24 years without her consent….”

“That you did threaten one Tivere with a cutlass while trying to have forceful carnal knowledge of her without her consent….”

The police prosecutor, Corporal Cyriacus Osuji, said the offence was punishable under sections 258(1), 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.

Ochuko pleaded not guilty to the charge and elected summary trial.

The magistrate, Ms Y.B Badejo-Okusanya, admitted him to bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.

“The sureties must be resident in Lagos, gainfully employed and must present two years tax clearance. The addresses and means of livelihood of the sureties must also be verified,” she added.

The matter was adjourned till March 4, 2014

Australian TV star commits suicide after receiving abuse on Twitter

Australian TV star and former model Charlotte Dawson killed herself after receiving abuse from vicious trolls on
Twitter just hours before she died. (left is the last pic of her which she posted on her Instagram page on Friday, a day
before she killed herself) Famed for TV shows such as 'Australia's Next Top Model, the New Zealand-born star, 47, had a history of depression.
She was found dead in her Sydney apartment yesterday morning February 22nd. Police said there were no
suspicious circumstances. She had taken prescription tablets with wine and tweeted: 'you win' in a suicide note
to her cyber tormentors. In 2012, she was admitted to a Sydney hospital after a suicide attempt following an ongoing tirade of abuse on Twitter.
She later made fighting bullying her personal mission, waging an anti-bullying media campaign on television and radio and in newspapers and magazines as well as her
beloved Twitter. Her efforts and high public profile on the issue were
recognised by the National Rugby League, a major Australian football association, which last year made her
an anti-bullying ambassador. Dawson revealed in her 2012 autobiography 'Air Kiss & Tell' that she was frequently visited by the 'depression bogeyman'.
She had long graced the pages of women's gossip magazines and scenes in reality TV shows. Her modeling
career had taken her to Italy, Britain and Germany during the 1980s. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key tweeted he was
'shocked and saddened' by the news of her death. The Sun-Herald newspaper in Sydney reported Sunday that her body was found only minutes before her luxury waterside apartment was due to be sold at auction.
Culled UK Daily Mail


Posted via Blogaway

INSANE! Men Caught On Surveillance Camera Having Sex With Cows


A farmer in Herkimer County, N.Y. couldn’t figure out why his cows seemed more anxious than usual. When they weren’t producing as much milk as usual, he set up a surveillance camera.
What he saw shocked him: two men were rolling in the hay with his livestock. The farmer contacted authorities who conducted their own investigation.

As a result, Michael Jones, 35, and Reid Fontaine, 31, were arrested for misdemeanor sexual misconduct, UticaOD.com reported.
Authorities said Fontaine attempted to have sex with several cows while Fontaine filmed the encounters. The two were released on an appearance ticket.
The suspects will not be the first men accused of having sex with cows. In 2008, Brazilian cleaner Getulino Ferreira Paraizo was accused of having sex with 400 cows. He said he preferred the more tranquil animals.

It has also been discovered through study that men who have had sex with animals were twice as likely to develop penile cancer as those who stick with their own kind.

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Meet Antony Goldman: The Merchant Feeding Fat on Nigeria’s Woes By Temisan Odion

These days, it pays to be an analyst; it pays even more when you are seen as an authority on a newsy country like Nigeria which is more projected by the international media for its negatives than its positives. That is the story of  , a Briton who has built his brand, career and businesses around jabbing hot knives into the heart of the entity called Nigeria; aided, of course, by local traitors in high places.

 The Washington Post calls Goldman an “independent risk-analysis consultant based in London.” On BBC, he is described as “Africa Analyst, Clearwater Research Services.” Financial Times regards him as “analyst at ProMedia Consulting.” On the site of The Economics, he is “consultant.” To Bloomberg, he is “London based adviser specializing in West Africa oil states.” On some other websites, he is “Nigeria Expert and Head, PM Consulting”; “West Africa Analyst, PM Consulting”; “Africa Analyst, Clearwater Research Inc”; “African Oil Analyst, Clearwater Research Inc”; “Analyst of Oil and Gas Development”; “Partner, Hemp Global Solutions Ltd.”

antony-goldmanSo many titles assigned to a single man. And as many sites he is regarded as something, are as many outlets he is feeding damning information about the Nigerian government and people. He sees no cause for cheer in the Nigeria project; and why should he? After all, he is only friend to Nigerians who are enemies of Nigeria, the accidental public servants of this world. He gets his briefs from these individuals, feeds the western media or syndicate them himself, and such publications are tweeted back home by his devious suppliers to agitate the Nigerian people and instigate them against the government.

The striking feature of Mr. Goldman’s brand of reportage/discourse is his penchant for feeding fat on Nigeria’s challenges, with unbridled enthusiasm for updating the international media with negative developments in Nigeria in the guise of commentaries. Where Nigeria is concerned, his commentaries are doom and gloom. One seldom sees any optimism in his submissions about the Nigerian people and government. Underlining his damaging agenda is the fact that his companies consult with not a few disgruntled Nigerian politicians, who are his reliable resources for damning scoops and data, which form the bulk of information he trumpets abroad.

 

Media Commentaries

Dating back to June 11, 1999, while interviewed by the BBC on his view about Nigeria’s new democracy, he grandiloquently declared that Rtd General Obasanjo would not make much difference in the fight against the monster of corruption in Nigeria compared to previous military regimes. He strongly, and falsely, affirmed to the BBC that the army remains the one, enduring political institution in Nigeria that can stage a comeback anytime soon. It is over 14 years now; Goldman’s assertion is yet to come to reality.

 

In his commentary in the May 2011 edition of The Economics, he arrogantly describes Nigerian politics as “…one big bun-fight over oil money.”

 

Even his summation that “Nigeria, for all its difficulties, offers quite a bit” has gone down as one of the most famous quotes on the country and its people. Imagine the absurdity of such statement; saying a nation of over 160 million people offers “quite a bit” of hope? A nation rich in human and mineral resources offers quite a bit of hope? A nation widely tipped to overtake South Africa as the biggest economy in Africa offers quite a bit of hope? A nation now esteemed as the new investment destination in Africa offers quite a bit of hope? That is the wisdom of Goldman’s postulation.

 

Recently, while lending his voice to a Reuters’ piece on Nigeria’s era of baby boom, Antony Goldman authoritatively predicts big doom and catastrophe for Nigeria in the coming 20 years.

 

The only positive commentary of Goldman about Nigeria seen online is on account of a special project packaged by a leading Nigerian bank seeking to win the accounts of foreign investors who are coming to Nigeria. In that piece, which was obviously sponsored by the bank, he paints a rosy picture of Nigeria, saying that the country continues to confound its critics (obviously referring to his surprised self and his treacherous Nigerian allies) with an economy that posts handsome growth and a football team that can deliver satisfying results.

Antony Goldman was part of the contributors to the book, Transatlantic Tensions: The United States, Europe, and Problem Countries, edited by Richard Haass; published in 1999. In the book, Goldman titled his piece on my country, Nigeria: Many Problem, Few Solutions.

 

The blurb of the book reads, “The book examines the ‘problem’ countries of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Nigeria. In each case, leading American and European experts offer separate chapters explaining sources of US and European differences, consequences for policies designed to influence problem states, and prospects for bridging translantic policy rifts.”

 

Expectedly, Goldman’s contribution is laced with his trademark negativity and pessimism about the Nigerian nation.

 

Neo-Colonialist Traits

From the foregoing, it is clear that Antony Goldman is a sworn imperialist whose only joy is to rubbish the progress of Nigeria and portray it as a no-do-gooder among the comity of nations. His submissions are only softened when he is contracted by a Nigerian concern to package a PR job, since he is regarded as an authority on Nigeria.

 

Now, I urge you not to take my words alone on this fellow. Please go online and search ‘Antony Goldman.’ You will be amazed at how much hatred he spills from his posh London office about Nigeria, rolling out damning analyses about the country as he is being fed by his Nigerian cronies who have held public offices at some point and/or are hungrily yearning for power now. These betrayers who would stop at nothing to vilify the sitting government or its officials, as well as paint a horrible picture about the Nigerian situation so that it looks as if it is the battleground of Armageddon itself, are his reliable sources.

 

I am not saying that Nigeria is free of challenges. But there are so many positives about this country and its people that the world outside needs to know. Every day, positive things happen in Nigeria and to Nigerians. Thousands of Nigerians are in the news for cheery reasons, whilst not discountenancing the bad ones. Nigeria is a nation of good people and great possibilities. People like Antony Goldman and his aggrieved public servants/politicians cannot make us believe otherwise. They should not just focus on our sore points; they should also let the world know about our strengths and positives. Nigerians are peace-loving people. We affirm our individual and collective goodness as well as the greatness of our nation.

 

Goldman must stop his imperialist obsession for broadcasting everything negative about Nigeria as well as his patronage of disgruntled politicians and angry accidental public servants who supply him the negatives and tweet the outputs of his damnation to us.

Written by: Issachar Odion is a post-graduate student in one of the federal universities in Nigeria.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Watch video: Nigeria’s snake market


snake market
The Nigerian TV programme, BattaBox headed down to a local snake market.
While most people are rightly scared of snakes and their poisonous venom – for Nigerians and African Food – they can make a tasty dish.
“They sell snakes here!” explains Odunayo, the BattaBox presenter. “Nigerians – we sabi chop things o!”
Enormous bags of hundreds of different shapes, lengths and sizes of snakes – and customers (mostly women who own restaurants) all rush to the bags and grab as many as they can as fast as they can – before they are sold out. The Snake market is just outside of Lagos in Badagry.
“They bring the snakes from the Republic of Benin,” says Bati who has been selling it in the Badagry market (near Nigeria’s border with Benin) for many years now. And customers come from across South-West Nigeria like Ondo and Oyo state to buy.
“People really love snake! They come from far and wide to eat!” says one young woman is buying a large bag, full of snakes – “We buy from here and then use it to cook as Pepper Soup… its tastes to delicious and sweet – it tastes like fish.”One large snake can cost up to 1400 Naira ($9) and the small snake can cost as little as 500 Naira ($3). Eating snake is popularly thought of as good for the body – “if you eat snake, you will get more strength and look more healthy,” Odunayo explains.
However, a recent study found that the snake population is crashing in Nigeria.
The causes are not known and similar severe declines in populations were found in the UK, France and Italy… but eating snakes in such numbers surely cannot help. And such declines, say environmentalists, has a massive ecological impact with considerable biodiversity loss.
But Odunayo buys her own snake to take home for her own favorite African food – pepper soup.









Photo: Level 300 Nigerian Student Murdered On University of Cape Coast Campus in Ghana



A level 300 student of the University of Cape Coast, Mr. Godwin Awogbo, was today found dead on campus.
Pictures available depicts that of a lifeless body, whose intestines were found gushing out from his lower abdomen.
The gruesome act is reported to have taken place on Wednesday nightwhen Peacefmonline.com contacted an eyewitness to narrate the story.
lev300
“He was a Nigerian and was studying Social Science and according to his roommate, he tried calling his mobile phone when he realized that he had stayed out for long. Unfortunately, he never connected to him and it was just this morning that he says he received messages from friends informing him about the lifeless body they had found”, the eyewitness said.
Circumstances leading to the death of the late Awogbo could not be established and the police have been invited to take over the case after the body was discovered close to the Brown Palace hostel.

Thursday, 20 February 2014

At Last, Jonathan Summons NNPC Heads over Missing Billions

The heat is coming from all fronts, hence President Goodluck Jonathan and his agents now want Nigerians to see them as working and doing something to resolved the revelations by CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido that the country’s $ 20billion has find its way into the pockets of powerful men and woman in power.

Consequently, President Jonathan met top officials of NNPC on Thursday in closed-door meeting inside one of the very private office in the Presidential Villa, far from the access of journalists.

Aso Rock sources say the meeting was also attended by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Ex-Governor Ahmed Makarfi, who is currently on top of the investigation against the NNPC and the Presidency’s involvement in the missing $ 20billion.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was available. The NNPC delegation was led by its Group Managing Director, Mr. Andrew Yakubu.

A credible source told OluFamous.Com that it is becoming obvious that the Presidency may not be able to give a good account for the money and they have decided to apply “dialogue” and talk to the Senate President, David Mark, to tell Senator Makarfi to take things easy.

This is why the committee shifted it’s next sitting to March, 2014, to create opportunity for the secret moves to “dialogue and settle the matter”. The only stumbling block was Mallam Sanusi Lamido and now that he has been sidelined, they can achieve their aim and cover up the fraud.

Boy stabs his dad to death at cyber cafe after he confronts him over playing violent video games

A 14 year old Chinese boy has been arrested after stabbing his own father to death at a cyber cafe after the father confronted him over playing video games instead of going to school and doing his homework.

Daily Mail reports that the boy's father had gone to fetch the boy from the internet cafe, but when the boy refused to return home the pair argued and the boy allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed his father. His mother, Hua Mai, blamed violent games for her husband's death, and said that the teenager had become 'addicted' to gaming. Continue...



She said that her son was a regular visitor to the internet cafe in Loudi in south China's Hunan province, and that his school work had started to suffer as he was missing classes and not doing his homework.

'When my husband spotted that he had once again skipped his studies to go with his friends and play video games, my husband Lu had gone to get the boy,' she said.


However, the teenager refused to go home and is alleged to have pulled out a knife and attacked his father before running away, leaving the fatally injured man to bleed to death on the floor outside the internet cafe.
 Police later found the boy at another internet cafe.

He was arrested, while officers have ordered that every internet cafe in the surrounding area be closed while an investigation into the incident, and which games the boy was playing is carried out.

Police said the boy was being kept in a psychiatric institute while tests were being carried out
Culled from Daily Mail UK

Church Members Donates 200 New Prado Jeeps To Bishop Oyedepo Worth N2.1 Billion


Enconium Weekly reports that 59 year old clergy, who will turn 60 on September 27, Bishop David Oyedepo, told his ardent congregation that he needed 200 new Prado jeeps for ministerial purpose. It was gathered that the exact reasons for the need were undisclosed, but it might not be unconnected to the fact that it is for use in some of their branches manned by his ordained Pastors scattered across the country.

Inquiries further revealed that a brand new Prado jeep goes for about N10.6 million thus, the estimated cost of 200 Prado jeeps comes to N2.1 billion. It is revealed that it was an individual contribution by wealthy members who voluntarily donated the jeeps. Even though the place of purchase cannot be easily determined nor the identity of the donors revealed, it is gathered that the jeeps are tucked away inside Cannanland at Otta, Ogun State.

It would be recalled that Enconium revealed in January 2013 that during Winners Chapel Cross-Over Service on Tuesday January 1, 2013, in Canaanland, Ota, Ogun state, worshipers made donations of over 700 exotic cars to the church. People who felt they had been richly blessed in 2012 came to the Cross-Over Service with different donations. Most significant was the number of exotic brand new cars and SUVs that flooded Canaanland. The people who donated them dropped the keys and documents of the cars during offering. The church auctioned the cars at very cheap prizes to its members. Some cars were sold for as low as N300,000.


Source: Enconium Weekly

Breaking News: Sanusi Returns To Nigeria, Passport Seized By SSS, Replies the Presidency,“You Can Suspend An Individual, But You Can’t Suspend The Truth”; Vows to Challenge Suspension in Court

 

The Ousted CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi returned to Nigeria after attending an ECOWAS meeting in the Niger Republic. He was attending the meeting when he heard of his suspension. Upon arrival at the Lagos international airport, he was briefly detained by the Nigerian State Security Services and had his passport seized. However the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Lamido Sanusi, says he intends to challenge the legality of his suspension from office, to establish whether President Goodluck Jonathan has the legal authority to take such decision.
“It has never been my desire to hold on to a job. However, I believe if the CBN governor cannot be removed from office, then he cannot be suspended. He can be queried, but the exercise of the arbitrary decision to remove him must be challenged,” he said.
Mr. Sanusi was speaking to the cable news network, CNBC Africa, from Niamey, the Nigerien capital, shortly after news broke that he had been suspended from office by the Presidency.
The former governor, who was in Niamey to attend the ongoing conference of the West African currency zone with other governors of the Central Banks in West African, said he had to hurriedly leave venue of the meeting shortly after the Nigerian Ambassador to Niger confirmed to him the directive by the presidency to inform him of the suspension.
Though he said he was not bothered about the suspension as an individual, as he was proud about his achievements and legacies, Mr. Sanusi said his plan to challenge the action bordered on the need to protect the independence of the CBN as an institution.
“There is the view by some people on whether the president has the authority to remove or suspend the Central Bank governor, or whether the action is not illegal. I am not interested.
“As an individual, I was invited to serve my country, and I have always known that at any point the government feels it is time to go, I will go. But, in terms of the institution, it would be helpful to establish the principle by the court, and I think that is the step I intend to take,” Mr. Sanusi said.
Inspite of his decision to challenge the decision in court “to establish once and for all if the President has the powers to do what he has done,” Mr. Sanusi said he has resolved not to return to the job, as it was never his desire to hold on to any office.