Tuesday, 1 October 2013
THE TRUTH ABOUT JIM IYKE'S DELIVERANCE....read this and stop procastinating ( read plus the authentic VIDEO)
As The SCOAN’s Wise Men moved through the congregation in prayer, the lightning of God located Iyke and he was no longer able to control himself. Lunging towards one of the Wise Man as if to attack him:
An evil spirit that had been tormenting the life of Jim Iyke manifested! The congregation in the auditorium and the overflow congregations shouted in surprise as they began to witness the deliverance of a man they were all too familiar with.
The evil spirit that had tormented the life of Jim Iyke for so many years confessed that it was the cause of his setback and disappointment. It confessed that it was the reason he could never marry, stating that it would not allow him to love anyone. It continued confessing that Iyke was the biggest and that it was only God’s grace that had kept him. As the evil spirit inside him struggled to attack the Wise Man, the supremacy of the Holy Spirit continued to overpower it.
The deliverance continued but the battle was not against flesh and blood; it was against the spiritual entities that had been causing crisis in his life, family, health, career and future.
To the jubilation of the congregation, the name of Jesus Christ prevailed over the evil spirit and Iyke received his freedom. Overwhelmed with what had just happened, Iyke immediately knelt in God’s presence, appreciating His Creator for his miraculous deliverance. Hallelujah!
Jim Iyke, born James Ikechukwu Esomugha, is currently one of the highest paid actors in the Nigerian movie industry and cultivated the name “Nollywood bad boy” for himself. As one of the most successful actors, he has starred in over 150 films to date. He has launched his own film production unit, “Untamed Productions” and his own music label, “Untamed Records” with his very own album, “Who Am I?”
He is also founder of “Jim Iyke Foundation”, contributing funds to children of the less privileged and children with physical challenges.
Among his movie awards are: The Teenage Choice Award; Best Actor In Nigerian Entertainment Award; African Achievement Award; Best Actor of the Year (Mode Men Award 2010); Sexiest Man In Nigeria 2008, Best African Actor (NET Awards).
The humility demonstrated by Jim Iyke in submitting himself to the power of God should prompt others in his industry to make the same life-saving choice.
It is therefore shocking that an urgly froggish looking segun arinze would be so venomous with pride to call that an "embarassment to Nollywood". he should come out of his failiures and stop challenging the wrath of God with his whims and caprices. That also takes me to the guy who goes by the name: charles novia, who sees comic relief in everyone's situation, you are a lesser man than you think you are so take a deep breath and stop being a bloated idiot with your ego syndrome,
An evil spirit that had been tormenting the life of Jim Iyke manifested! The congregation in the auditorium and the overflow congregations shouted in surprise as they began to witness the deliverance of a man they were all too familiar with.
The evil spirit that had tormented the life of Jim Iyke for so many years confessed that it was the cause of his setback and disappointment. It confessed that it was the reason he could never marry, stating that it would not allow him to love anyone. It continued confessing that Iyke was the biggest and that it was only God’s grace that had kept him. As the evil spirit inside him struggled to attack the Wise Man, the supremacy of the Holy Spirit continued to overpower it.
The deliverance continued but the battle was not against flesh and blood; it was against the spiritual entities that had been causing crisis in his life, family, health, career and future.
To the jubilation of the congregation, the name of Jesus Christ prevailed over the evil spirit and Iyke received his freedom. Overwhelmed with what had just happened, Iyke immediately knelt in God’s presence, appreciating His Creator for his miraculous deliverance. Hallelujah!
Jim Iyke, born James Ikechukwu Esomugha, is currently one of the highest paid actors in the Nigerian movie industry and cultivated the name “Nollywood bad boy” for himself. As one of the most successful actors, he has starred in over 150 films to date. He has launched his own film production unit, “Untamed Productions” and his own music label, “Untamed Records” with his very own album, “Who Am I?”
He is also founder of “Jim Iyke Foundation”, contributing funds to children of the less privileged and children with physical challenges.
Among his movie awards are: The Teenage Choice Award; Best Actor In Nigerian Entertainment Award; African Achievement Award; Best Actor of the Year (Mode Men Award 2010); Sexiest Man In Nigeria 2008, Best African Actor (NET Awards).
The humility demonstrated by Jim Iyke in submitting himself to the power of God should prompt others in his industry to make the same life-saving choice.
It is therefore shocking that an urgly froggish looking segun arinze would be so venomous with pride to call that an "embarassment to Nollywood". he should come out of his failiures and stop challenging the wrath of God with his whims and caprices. That also takes me to the guy who goes by the name: charles novia, who sees comic relief in everyone's situation, you are a lesser man than you think you are so take a deep breath and stop being a bloated idiot with your ego syndrome,
Friday, 20 September 2013
BOKO HARAM..............which way forward
Now I feel this is the time that I, as a Nigerian should ditch my silence and air my views on the Boko Haram's saga that has ravaged Nigeria to bits. The truth must be told, The Nigeria army has lost the battle and the government as confused as it has always been, without direction and conviction to lead nor acceptance to be led, is a total collection of a group of ineptitudes, savagely corrupt individuals, economic vampires and grossly directionless morons.
What you are about to read here are my personal views which by right and the tenets of the freedom of speech , am entitled to. and I therefore crave the indulgence of all who would read this essay to digest it
succinctly before jumping into conclusion
The Boko Haram hoodlums as they re tagged are Nigerians irrespective of our views on their modus operandi. It is a group that had come to put on limelight as well as world awareness , the decadence in the entity called Nigeria and her corrupt hegemony.
A country as vast as Nigeria, richly blessed with all natural and human resources, but yet an average Nigerian lives in abject poverty
Government in Nigeria has become a work-force industry for those opportuned, its a lee-way ladder to wealth and immunity. An industry where money is made quickly and effortlessly as long as you are in the good books of the psychophants, who dictate, moderate and decide the fate of millions of Nigerians. They decapitate the economy and loot with ease
Nigeria , remains the only country in the world where a man goes into a political office as a pauper and retires as a billionaire and yet nobody questions the source of his sudden wealth , this automatically elevates him into the role of a king maker, godfather and sponsor of his cell who in turn make returns by looting the treasury to grease his palms, all at the detriment of "suffering and smiling Nigerians".
let's not loose focus here, remember our topic is BOKO HARAM. much as i sympathise with their original manifestos,: To fight against deprivation? to make Nigeria ungovernable till issues concerning poverty are addressed? to create panic until the problem of inequality gains attention? well all these were laudable but the deviation from these, are what triggered the ignition my anger as to whether these people ain't confused themselves because they have now made the victims, their culprits
Who are the culprits here please: innocent poor Nigerians?the law abiding man on the street struggling for his daily bread? market women struggling to take food back home to cater for their hungry families?mosques and churches where people go to worship and have a one on one communion with God?
these are my concerns 'cause they have lost focus,:
All Nigerians will queue up to join Boko Haram were it the opposite. were they going after all the corrupt politicians, thieves in agbada and caftans, those who have milked the country dry. All those who killed Ken Saro Wiwa for fighting for his people, all those who masterminded the death of
Dele Giwa for exposing corruption. Those who have seen Nigeria as their private company. All those who have always recycled from one corrupt administration to another. All those who have shelved military uniforms for agbada. all the old wines in new bottles. Government that is purposeless, directionless, focus-less and yet have praise singers that are most probably singing their odes, 'cause soon and very soon, there will be a change, and that change will sweep them all into oblivion. every corrupt one that has made Nigerians suffer, will b drilled and made to weep for his or her sins. remember the JJ Rawlings' days? well history is about to repeat itself and for those who re neophytes in African history, all Ghanain corrupt politician were all made to cough out all they stole from the national coffers and then summarily executed. same fate awaits them all in high places theta have ruined Nigeria for decades. THEY KNOW THEMSELVES
You know dogs that are destined to get lost are always deaf to the hunters' whistle.. we all will take turns to lynch them 'cause as usual, they will all run abroad with their families to enjoy their loot, hmmmmm wao!!!!! I've got bad news for them: The western world is no haven for that anymore.
So please BOKO HARAM, go after the TARGETS and leave innocent, suffering, struggling Nigerians alone
as an addendum to this write-up, I will also advise the corrupt Nigeria officials and the rotten police force to leave young boys and girls who have no other means of livelihood alone. Had we a responsible govt that has foresight, perhaps Nigeria would have been a better place for all. No young and meaningful Nigerian would have compromised dignity and resort to scam. Graduates with certs but no hope for jobs. the most viable industries in Nigeria today are bakeries of private universities turning out graduates while those public one for the commoners are shut down with impunity and lack of concern
Closing questions: why would one politician amass billions when an average Nigerian doesn't have a Naira for the next meal? why does Nigeria , the supposedly economic basket of West African sub-region wallow in ignorance and ego, with promises of unabated power supply since the era of Obasanjo, but till date all we hear is an elevation of the rationing in the 21st century? when our neighbours with resouces not comparable to Lagos state alone, are able to generate a non-stop power supply to its people? wanna know? go to Ghana,( hmmmm charlie, akwabaa) little republic of benin,( waoo cotonou imports) Togo (eyadema country) and cameroun (they collected bakassi pennisula from shameless naija and yet they say we re the giants of Africa) that's an assertion only in Nigeria, (whispers) please dont let jayzee hear that(jacob zuma). . my keyboard begs for a rest please. .............to be continued
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Why President Jonathan should remain ‘clueless’! By Azuka Onwuka
It is no longer news that the first international flight landed over a week ago in Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu amidst jubilation. Many people have wondered why anybody would celebrate such a paedestrian thing as the commencement of international flights in an airport in the 21st century, especially in a country where the first international flight took place in July 1925 in Kano.
In marketing, it is said that perception is reality. In a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria, where there is so much inter-ethnic suspicion and distrust, this saying is even truer, because it is easy to interpret actions based on who is doing what.
For a part of the country that fought and lost a bitter war that cost so much, the South-East is always predictably touchy concerning issues that it interprets as a national conspiracy to always marginalise it. Every part of Nigeria complains of marginalisation, but because of the Biafran War, the Igbo usually feel that any neglect meted out to them is still a continuation of that war against them. You can blame them for always ‘whining,’ but the truth is that war injuries heal but their scarsusually don’t disappear easily. So you have to sometimes put yourself in their shoes, even if momentarily, to understand where they are coming from.
How do you explain to them that many years after Lagos and Abuja plus Kano, Port Harcourt (and Calabar) were made international airports, that it was just coincidental that Enugu was not made an international airport as well, even though it was the former capital of the former Eastern Nigeria?
How do you convince them that after over 40 years of managing the single-carriage way Niger Bridge in Onitsha, which makes travelling home nightmarish at their happiest time of the year (Christmas), that it was not intentional that it has been left like that by successive administrations, whether civilian and military? It is worse that this is a bridgethat is just about one-kilometre long. Yet they have watched as many longer bridges were built across the nation, including the 11.8-kilometre Third Mainland Bridge, built over the Lagos lagoon in 1990 by the General Ibrahim Babangida military junta.
How do you convince them that it was coincidental that after being the first to produce a major general and indigenous head of the army on February 9, 1965, none of them could become the chief of army staff for over 44 years in a country that they call their own? The fear was that they would execute a coup if given that post. So, since President Jonathan made Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika the Chief of Army Staff, how many coups has he executed with Vice-Admiral Dele Ezeoba and other General Officers Commanding of Igbo stock?
As an aside, there is another sore thumb that has existed since 1996. The South-East is the only zone with 5 states. Other zones have 6 each, while the North-West has 7. It will be difficult to remedy this, given how cumbersome it is to amend the Constitution, as well as the political considerations that come into play with such ventures, whereby every area wants its own state to be created first. But there are some inequalities that should not be allowed to last for one day in a delicate country like ours, to avoid arming people with reasons to say that they are being victimised or marginalised.
It simply shows a lack of human management skills in our leaders. Our leaders are most times too thoughtless and inconsiderate to do simple things that will reassure the different segments of the nation that they are not being marginalised on purpose.
The more you give people reasons to complain, the more they blow things out of proportion. It happened in the Niger Delta where the region that produces the wealth of the nation complained for decades of neglect and even witnessed their leaders hanged by the government, yet they were ignored. They had to be listened to only when they took up arms and sabotaged oil production.
That is why I admire the political shrewdness of Bola Ahmed Tinubu who did not wait for the Igbo to start agitating for a political place in Lagos, where they have a high population and investment, before he appointed Mr. Ben Akabueze as a commissioner in January 2007, and Governor Babatunde Fashola has re-appointed him twice. Some may see such actions as tokenism, but they help in no small way to douse ill feelings. A wise leader is proactive, not reactive.
For example, the policy of this administration to establish a federal university in each of the six zones of the federation was a good idea. Some may complain that there is no need for that since those in existence have not been given proper attention. But how do you explain to a state in Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with it not having a federal university when some states have two federal tertiary institutions?
That was the reason the June 12 political crisis that raged between 1993 and 1998 was such a touchy issue. With the perception that there was a calculated plan to keep the South away from Nigeria’s presidency, it was difficult to prove, especially to the South-West, that it was a coincidence that their kinsman, Chief MKO Abiola, was denied an election that he clearly won.
How can one explain to a state like Bayelsa – an oil-producing state – that it was all right for it not to be connected to the national grid until the late 2000s? Some things just don’t make sense.
It is a malady that permeates our lives, including our towns, religious groups, and other organisations. Short-sighted local champions assume they are wise by ensuring that certain basic things or key offices do not get to certain areas for decades. Those who suffer such neglect or denial may keep quiet. But that does not mean that they are happy with the situation. If and when they come to the conclusion that there is a calculated effort to marginalise them, they usually rebel against that, causing those in charge to try to douse the tension by hurriedly making concessions.
However, it is not as if this administration is giving the South-East any preferential treatment. It is just that I have decided to focus on the South-East. The revived railway serves the interest of the North and South-West more. The resuscitation of agriculture and special attention toAlmajiri education benefit the North than other parts. The road that leads to the busiest ports of the country – the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway – which was neglected for decades is being constructed and it is in Lagos. The busiest road in Nigeria – the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway – is about to be constructed, and it is in the South-West. The Benin-Shagamu Expressway that has been revamped is in the South-South and South-West.
If the people in authority are truly wise, they will not need to wait for any grumbling before ensuring that certain benefits and privileges get to all areas, no matter the quantity. It is better when the complaint is: “It is not enough” than “We have not got any at all.” When your complaint is that what you have received is not enough, you may be called a greedy person; but when it is that you have not received anything at all, you will be seen as a victim that has every right to protest.
The truth is that it does not take too much to make all parts of Nigeria have a sense of belonging. Once they continue to see some actions persistently taken that are not in their favour, they easily put two and two together and call such whatever they like. And you cannot blame them for reading any meaning into such actions.
Unfortunately for many of our past leaders, they have allowed a President many call “clueless” to do simple, commonsensical and “clueful” things that make him worm his way into the hearts of the South-East. I don’t know what others can do between now and 2015 to convince the South-East not to vote massively for this clueless man, if he decides to contest.
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Wedding of the century coming up, NAIJA
Must have taken the photographer hours to come up with this best shot. nice smiles and cool snap. Money they say "answereth" all things. JEEEEEZ. well, different strokes they say, for different folks. monkey no fine but him mama like am. Wish this couple all the luck 'cause they 'll need so much of it.. My attention got drawn to this couple based on all the comments bestowed on them on bbm and other social networks and i have decided to create time and space for them here as a glowing tribute to love? money? or sheer greed? well i ll leave readers with the verdict. here are some of the comments a la bbm: " who re these people?the man na obasanjo brother?" "chei money good ooooo, dis na beauty and the beast" "God of Isreal how did she get into this" "e be like say dis woman wan just mock this man" " kai!!!!! see d power of ego?" "i hail oooo broda, na d best tin u do so cos if not the offsprings names for be atutubobo, makanaki, kambiokakamaru, i beg brov, i gree ur style but u for just try smile small to cover up"
"I trust my sis, i beg go for the wallet and skip comments" "go for the bucks, afterall handsome bobo no go give u money" "chai naija babes e go hard me to kiss this one oooo" " hmmmmmmm, dem no need to invite people or fotographers cos even this one will make headlines on CNN"
WELL WE WISH THE COUPLE GOODLUCK. its her choice oooo. who no like am make e go hug transformer
"I trust my sis, i beg go for the wallet and skip comments" "go for the bucks, afterall handsome bobo no go give u money" "chai naija babes e go hard me to kiss this one oooo" " hmmmmmmm, dem no need to invite people or fotographers cos even this one will make headlines on CNN"
WELL WE WISH THE COUPLE GOODLUCK. its her choice oooo. who no like am make e go hug transformer
Monday, 22 July 2013
Student Rescued From The Hands Of ‘One-chance’ Syndicate
A student identified as Oke was at the weekend rescued from the hands of a dreaded one-chance syndicate at Farmers’ market junction, Maitama, Abuja.
Oke, according to a police source, boarded a Wuse bound vehicle from Mpape junction and was able to challenge the suspects on sighting a traffic warden.
The source further revealed that the student met passengers already seated in the painted Nissan Sunny vehicle.
According to our informant, the back seat was said to be uncomfortable for him and he was advised to join the other passenger in the front seat, but his bag made it difficult for the driver to drive and the driver offered to place it in the trunk.
The source stated that immediately the student gave his bag to the driver, he discovered that the bag was being opened and he tried to turn back and look at what was happening but his vision was blocked so that he could not see what was happening behind.
This action made the student to be suspicious and he resisted when the driver told him to drop at Maitama junction that he would not want to go any further because of VIO.
When a traffic warden stopped the car at farmers’ market junction, the student struggled with the driver, who later parked the vehicle. The attention of the policemen was drawn to the scene and immediately the driver and his gang were arrested.
FCT Police Spokesperson, Deputy Superintendent Hyelhira Altine Daniel confirmed the story.
“When he grabbed the steering and started shouting around farmers’ market junction Maitama, our officers instantly arrested the five ‘One Chance’ robbers, who had already robbed the student," she said.
She said investigation into the matter is still on going to identify their various networks.
Akwa Ibom ‘child-witches’ still endangered
Mercy Frank,12 years old, bathed with raw acid by her mother after a church prophetess declared her a witch. "Every Akwa Ibom child will be completely protected by this law we are signing today, and this is a commitment we would protect with all the might of the legal instruments at our disposal. We have come to make a law to protect everything we cherish and value….”
Those were the words from Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio shortly after signing the Child Rights Bill into Law on December 5, 2008.
The law became necessary after many parents and guardians in the state subjected their children/wards to inhuman treatments after branding them “witches” and “wizards”.
The events leading to the passage of the law are still fresh in the memories of many as the state was subjected to global odium by a report on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on alleged child-witches and inhuman treatments meted to them by their parents and communities.
A self-styled cleric, Bishop Sunday William, declared in the report that 2.3 million witches and wizards existed in the state – most of them, according to him, are children.
Williams also claimed that he helped parents kill about 110 “child-witches” for as much as N400,000 per ‘witch’.
The BBC documentary on the activities of his church went viral on the internet. It angered Akpabio that a ‘Bishop’ would declare that 2.3 million witches existed in a state of less than 4 million people; leaving just 1.7 million of the population witch-free.
The governor immediately ordered the Bishop’s arrest. The Bishop was later paraded at the State Police Headquarters, where he told reporters he did not kill the children as alleged, but merely destroyed spirits of witchcraft in them.
“I started destroying the spirits of witchcraft from people since 2007. I only destroyed the spirits out of the people up to 110 but not killing the main people.
“You can see behind me some of the children whom I have destroyed the spirit of witches out of them.”
Akpabio dismissed the 2.3 million witches claim. The governor, who spoke at a ceremony organised by Inoyo Toro Foundation in honour of Science, Mathematics and English language teachers in Uyo, said some of the children had confessed to being witches and wizards when they were tortured by their parents and church leaders.
Akpabio said: “If you put a nail on my head and ask me to agree that I am a wizard, I would do that to save myself from torture. That is how these children are tortured to accept that they are witches and their parents would gladly throw them out of the house.
“We will not only destroy such churches, but also get their pastors prosecuted and jailed to set example for others because some churches are deceiving people.”
While the number of such persons prosecuted since the enactment of the law remains unknown, cases of maltreatment and abuse continue to increase daily in the state.
Commissioner of Police Umar Gwadabe said the command was grappling with the rising tide of violence against persons accused of witchcraft.
His words: “On several occasions, our men were called upon to rescue vulnerable persons, such as women, children and the elderly who are falsely accused of being witches, and who are being subjected to untold acts of torture and brutality by some criminal elements.
“A case in point is the rescue of two male children aged nine (9) and six (6) years Mmenyene and Samuel who were branded as wizards in a village called Ikot Obio Asanga. They were rescued in a toilet having been locked up for 14 days without food and water.
“This followed a so-called prophesy that the children were wizards and responsible for the misfortune that had befallen the family. Those involved, the father and a prophetess had been picked up and charged to court.”
One of such unlucky victim was 12-year-old Mercy Frank, whose mother bathed her with acid because a prophet claimed she was possessed by witchcraft.
When our reporter met Mercy at the Children Ward of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), she was sitting alone and begging for food.
Mercy, before the acid bath, attended Atabong Primary School in Oron. The acid bath affected her breasts, mouth and other parts of her body.
Narrating her sad story, she said: “I am from Atabong village in Oron Local Government Area. I am the second child in the family of four children. My mother poured acid solution on my body that is why my mouth and my body are like these.
“One of our neighbours told my mother that I was a witch but I told her that I was not a witch. She took me to Apostolic Church in Atabong, Oron and the pastor told her that I was a witch. When the pastor asked me if I was a witch, I told him I was not a witch.
“The pastor prayed and told my mother that I was a witch then we went back home after the prayer. When we got home that night, my mother canned me seriously. Other neighbours begged her to let me be but she refused.
“Later at midnight, my mother took me to a deep forest and poured acid solution on me and dropped me by the roadside and left.”
She said security agents brought her to the hospital after seeing her in pains and crying by the roadside.
Mercy was lucky to survive the attack.
Effiong Lawson was not. He was recently beheaded, allegedly by his stepfather, Felix Lawson, 43, who accused him of being a wizard. Sources said Lawson accused the child of being responsible for the fate of his wretched and poverty-stricken family.
Eyewitness said the incident occurred while the suspect was enjoying his meal after returning from work on the fateful day.
His hungry step-son reportedly sneaked into the backyard and whispered to his younger sister to bring him leftover food to stop his hunger.
But the enraged stepfather, who heard and recognised his voice, went for his machete and attacked the child.
Two friends of the late Effiong’s who accompanied him to the house, sensing the danger from the stepfather, took to their heels but the late Effiong was not as lucky. He was overpowered and beheaded by the irate father.
Our investigations revealed that these and other incidents occurred despite the Child Rights Law.
Observers say the state government needs to exercise its judicial power and make the law function effectively by ensuring that perpetrators, like Effiong, are punished by the court to serve as deterrent to others.
Source – The Nation
Student stabbed to death
Tragedy struck at 13 Amphibious Brigade, Eburutu Barracks, Ikot Ansa in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State recently when the Labour Prefect of Army Day Secondary School, Boniface Odinakachukwu, 19, was stabbed to death for confiscating fellow student’s sandals.
Investigations revealed that Boniface, an SSS II student and an indigene of Onicha-Igboeze Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, met his untimely death penultimate week when his fellow SS II student, one Francis (surname withheld), allegedly hired a colleague, Godwin (surname also withheld), 20, to assist him in beating up the Prefect for daring to accost him (Francis) for improper dressing in school.
The late Boniface, it was learnt, was a stickler for discipline and therefore, ensured that students complied with the mode of dressing within the school premises.
And in carrying out his official functions, the Prefect had accosted Godwin, queried him on why he should fly his shirt’s collar and adorning a pair of sandals during school hours and as a punishment, the late Boniface allegedly confiscated the sandals and handed over to one of the school masters, hoping to return them to him the following day as has always been the practice.
Francis, sources said, did not raise any eyebrow as he walked quietly to his class without showing any sign that he was annoyed or out to do anything funny over the seizure of his sandals.
But trouble started, when after school had closed at 3:00 pm, Francis and a few of the students alleged to be cultists including Godwin, a school drop-out, were unknowingly trailing him and subsequently attacked and killed him in the process.
An eyewitness said: “As we were going home after school hours, we noticed some funny movements by senior students as they clustered and were pointing at our Labour Prefect, accusing him of always embarrassing the students who don’t dress properly.
“The group of students numbering about five accosted Boniface finally and asked him why did he embarrass the big boy, Francis and before he could utter a word, a fight ensued. At that time, Godwin just stepped forward, removed a dagger from his pocket and stabbed the Labour Prefect on the chest and he slumped and died instantly.”
On discovering that Boniface was dead, the boys fled, but were later arrested by the soldiers and handed over to the police.
Godwin, who hailed from Akwa Ibom State, is cooling off at the Diamond Hill state police command headquarters, Calabar where is being investigated by the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).
Police sources informed that Godwin had confessed that he was hired by his friend, Francis, to assist, asked him to recover a pair of sandals which Boniface had seized from him for allegedly dressing improperly.
The accused disclosed that Francis spotted the Labour Prefect for him from a distance and pointed at him and they went after him in a group.
Besides, Godwin who is a drop-out from Government Technical School Ikot Nsa, Calabar, had admitted that he got hold of the Labour Prefect from the back, and later stabbed him on the chest, saying he didn’t intend to kill him.
Francis was also said to have admitted that both of them laid ambush for the late Boniface at the school gate, waiting for the closing hour so that they could the deal with him. He said that it was not their intention to kill him, but to just harass him and collect the sandals.
Francis and Godwin, who are said to be close friends and live in the same block at Eburutu Barracks, would soon be charged to court as they have already admitted to killing the prefect.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Hogan Bassey, confirmed the incident to reporters in Calabar.
Reacting to Boniface’s death, his elder brother, Ikemefuna, said: “I don’t know why a fellow student should organize people to kill my younger brother just like that. It is very painful and a big loss to our family and we would not allow our brother’s killers to go free.
“What will I tell my parents that I took my brother from home alive and bubbling and now taking him home in a coffin? Why should it be so?”
Ikemefuna, who trades on GSM accessories, said: “Justice must be done by ensuring that those students are also killed so that others will learn from there. We will not accept any move to scuttle the prosecution of this matter because I have informed my community here in Calabar and Ebonyi. We will soon write to our state government to come to our aid so that this type of thing will not happen to our people again.”
He said, however, that once the police are through with the autopsy, they would write officially so that the body can be released for burial in his hometown.
Also speaking, the Ebonyi Development Association, Calabar branch’s spokesman, Chief Ogbonnaya Oka, said the community would soon decide on how to go about the killing of one of their sons.
Oka, who appealed to all Ebonyians to remain calm amid any provocation, said, “we will soon make our representations to Governor Liyel Imoke to ensure that we are given protection because Ebonyi people contribute positively to the economic development of the state,” adding that they would assist the police in the prosecution of the accused.
The Sun
JONATHAN COMMISSIONS 200-UNIT POLICE HOUSING ESTATE IN LAGOS
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday commissioned a multi-million naira police housing estate in Idimu, Alimisho Local Government Area of Lagos State. The estate, named “Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Police Housing Estate,” comprises 200 units of 3-bedroom flats. The estate was built under a Public-Private Partnership, PPP, scheme being financed by Aso Housing and Loans and developed by Remax developers.
Speaking during the commissioning ceremony, the president said this was the first time in Nigeria’s history that the Nigerian Police would achieve such a laudable venture. He also emphasised that the federal government is committed to improving the standard of living of all police officers in the country, irrespective of their rank or status.
He said the PPP initiative was the only way the government could achieve many of its goals in providing the much needed infrastructural amenities.
The President commended the leadership of the Nigerian Police for “taking the initiative to develop an estate for its members. Not only is this commendable, it is remarkable because it goes a long way in complementing the efforts of the Federal Government in providing low cost housing for the citizenry.”
“This government places huge emphasis on housing, because the housing sector has the potential of increasing the productivity of every person. A viable housing sector creates jobs and enhances employment opportunities,” the president said.
He also noted that one of the ways in which government was aiming at improving the standard of living of police officers in the country was embarking on massive transformation of all barracks in the country.
“This will cost the government a lot of money to achieve, but at the end it will be worth it,” he said.
Mr. Jonathan thanked the police boss and his management team for naming the estate after him, but however noted that it would have been better for him to be receiving such honours after leaving office.
Earlier in his remarks, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, disclosed that the housing units, which would be made available for different cadres of police officers was completed over a period of eight months.
Though he did not disclose the cost of building the estate, he declared that each flat would be given out to interested police officers at N8 million adding that each buyer would be expected to repay through a mortgage scheme made available by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN).
He pointed out that similar estates were currently being built in other parts of the country including Abuja, Kaduna and Kano.
Admitting that lack of housing is one of the challenges faced by police officers and their families all over the country, Mr. Abubakar urged the FG to help construct more barracks across the country and help rehabilitate the existing ones.
“It is only with the aggression of the Federal Government that acute housing shortage of the police can be tackled,” he stated.
Also speaking, Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb Olubolade, commended the efforts of the President and IGP, adding that men and officers of the force will continue to be loyal to the administration of President Jonathan.
Why Jonathan and His Wife Are After Me ––Governor Amaechi Bares It All
Amaechi, in an interview he granted the Financial Times of London, added that the President and his wife, Patience, were bent on removing him from office.
He traced his travails to the fear in the Presidency that whoever was in charge of Nigeria Governor’s Forum had the capacity to influence the presidential election in 2015.
The governor said, “There is this fear in the Presidential Villa that whoever chairs the Governors’ Forum will influence the presidential election,” Amaechi told FT in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
In a report posted by FT on Sunday, he alleged that “What has happened has been engineered to the point where the President and his wife are trying to remove me from office.”
“We are seeing an absence of law and order that can breed anarchy. It seems those at Federal Government level are not interested in democracy, but impunity and authoritarianism. The President needs to check this,” the governor added.
Amaechi also told the FT that he had not decided on his plans for 2015. He said that efforts by some in the PDP leadership to claim that he had lost the governors’ forum vote, despite him obtaining 19 votes to his challenger’s (Jonah Jang of Plateau State) 16, was a concerning sign ahead of 2015.
“If they can accept 16 over 19, people should be worried,” he said.
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Shocking Confession:’I Slept With My Mother To Become Mystical’ (A Must Read)
It was a beautiful Saturday morning, I was garbed in a pair of jeans, on a pair of Timberland boots, a military sweat shirt, and my JackMoody denim jacket.
I had been attacked by men of the underworld the night before whilst we were on production, at the office. So I slung my black Ted Baker satchel across my right shoulder, armed with my camera, my midget, and some other small gizmos.
I was more determined, to embark on this adventure, than ever before…
I was headed for the ancient city of brown roofs, Ibadan where a one-time Nigeria’s most notorious and dreaded bandit that ever lived SHINA RAMBO mounted the pulpit to preach!!! What an irony you would say.
I was headed for the ancient city of brown roofs, Ibadan where a one-time Nigeria’s most notorious and dreaded bandit that ever lived SHINA RAMBO mounted the pulpit to preach!!! What an irony you would say.
Now Mathew Oluwanifemi, Shina Rambo was a name that sent shivers down the spine of people who lived in the South West of Nigeria and even outside Nigeria, like Benin Republic and neighborhood, in the 1990’s. He was a hardened criminal, a terror and killer, one whom men of the security agencies will never forget in a haste!
A man mountain, towering about 6ft 5inch, well built, dark skinned and sweltering eyes, he carried out his operations, like a movie, in the broad day light, with sophisticated weapons, and bullet belts and explosives strapped roundabout him! He specialized in robbing exotic cars on highways and banks. Nothing could stop him, not even security operatives, he was totally invincible. He was Shina Rambo!
He was born in the year 1958 to a military man who was a bad egg in the service. His father was from Abeokuta in Ogun state, but his mother was a native of Sabongida–Ora in Edo state. His father had over 18 wives, as was the norm for soldiers to impregnate virtually every woman they met where they were posted to.
His father used his military influence to rob innocent citizens, and always brought huge amount of money home. This used to entice little Shina. He recalls, “I remembered when I was about 7 years old, my father came home with a lot of money, foreign currencies, with blood on it, and they were using something like a woman’s scarf to wipe it, then I asked him, is this an animal’s blood, or human blood? But he wouldn’t answer me, they were just drinking, smoking, and merry making.”
Shina was already indoctrinated into the underworld by his father at a tender age of 7 without him knowing it, as he would sit in front of his son, to dismantle and assemble all sorts of weapons and then polishing them in preparation for an operation. This went on for so long till one day, little Shina, entered into his father’s room while he had stepped into the toilet, and saw a dismembered gun on the floor. He sat down in front of it, and bit by bit, he had assembled it effortlessly in no time at all. His father came out of the toilet, and saw his son, with a loaded gun in his hands. Shina flashed back and said, “That day my father was so disappointed, that he wanted to kill me, he grabbed the gun from my hand and shot straight at me, but I miraculously escaped out of the room.
Then he waited for me to be less alert at night he came to my room with a machete and tried to behead me, but once again, I escaped, but the machete caught my left leg. (rolled up his trouser to show us the large scar, that made everyone sighed in pity). It cut me so deep I thought I was never going to walk again. That day I knew I had graduated, all that was left was to pull the trigger, and I was so eager.
Shina Rambo became so notorious in no time, and was hell bent on succeeding in his career as an armed robber, that he went through any length to secure spiritual powers for fortification. To the extent of pounding over 27 live new born babies in the mortar with a pestle, cutting off about 100 human tongues and cooking them to eat, visiting the spiritual river called river of life in Ogoja, Cross Rivers State, living in an Iroko tree for days, and sleeping in the cemetery.
He was given a spiritual wife who always followed him for any operation, she dressed like an Alhaja, people thought she was human, but she was a spirit, that was why they never saw her face. He said she was his personal driver, that she could drive from Nigeria to Cotonou, in the speed of light. Hear him. ”I was involved in so many rituals, that I can’t start naming them now, I was so powerful, I went underground, inside trees that looked like a city, a lot of beautiful houses inside the tree, I had my own too, I went into a river called River of life in Ogoja, where a lot of politicians and wealthy men used to come, I had several personalities, I could change my form whenever I wanted to, that’s why the police were busy killing innocent people, and thought they were killing Shina Rambo.
The 9 herbalists that gave me that power, I became stronger than them, one day I went to their shrines, and killed all of them, so that they don’t reveal my secrets. I had too many powers; my spiritual wife could drive any car in this world or out of it, no police vehicle, or anyone for that matter, could ever chase and catch me during an operation. She was out of this world, and when she had completed her operation, they took her away from me. I could give anything to get powers, and the elders knew, so they also gave me anything I wanted.
I once beheaded hundred men, and gave them the heads fresh, they were so happy with me that they made me invincible. No matter the kind of bullet you shot at me, it was just like pure water on my body. I could give anything to get power, but of all the things I did to get power, the one that still breaks my heart the most, is sleeping with my mother. My father is dead now, but my mother is still alive, and she lives with me she is 85 years old, whenever I set my eyes on her, I just start crying. I can`t bear it…
Shina Rambo was a raging terror, he was infallibly dangerous, the police dreaded him, both in Nigeria, and Benin Republic, his place of interest for business. He would go to police stations, in broad daylight and kill every policeman there, drive to check points and open fire on every policeman on duty, he didn’t like the police at all, and was never afraid of them, he operated in broad day light armed to the teeth looking like Johny Rambo, in the popular Sylvester Stalone movie, “First Blood”.
He once robbed 40 exotic cars in one day and drove all of them in a convoy, from Lagos to Cotonou, unstopped. He was powerful; he was wealthy, and impenetrable. He was a tin god, apparently belched from the very arroyo hell, we all dreaded him. He had a wife and three children, but he lost all of them in one day during a bloody police raid whilst he was away on operation. His wife was his stabilizing factor his life changed afterwards. He says “my wife was everything to me, I was forbidden by the elders to sleep with any other woman apart from her, I could gather about 50 women around me in a hotel, and they will just be playing with me, we would smoke, drink, and sniff cocaine, I will give them money but I will never sleep with them. I will go back home to my wife and sleep with her. That was why the police never caught me.
She knew my job, she knew what I was, I never left them alone at night, I operated in the day time and go back home to my family at night. I had everything, I was very wealthy, I once spent 50 million naira in a day. I did it a lot, there was one day that we were coming from an operation and it seemed as if my powers were going to fail me, the police and the army were almost closing in on us, so we had to drive into a crowd and threw millions of naira in the air, there was commotion, everybody was busy picking naira notes even the police, until we escaped. I was too rich, but anything the devil gives you never lasts, he will collect more from you, it’s only the devil that will give you Fila, (cap) and ask for Iro and Buba.(wrapper and top). I lost everything, all the money, my family; I was so powerful the police couldn’t catch me but I lost it all.
I had to surrender myself to the police, and I was arrested and jailed for 11 years. When I was serving my jail term in Agodi prisons, Ibadan, Prophet T.O Obadare came visiting, and having been encouraged several times by the Christian brothers and sisters in the prison to give my life to Christ, he prayed for me and converted me, and changed my name to Oluwanifemi, and it was so miraculous, the next day I woke up and started speaking in tongues. It was during the time of President Olusegun Obasanjo, that we were granted freedom.
At this point, I was glued to my seat, the revival where Shina Rambo gave this exclusive confession was on an open ground revival in the ancient city of Ibadan, right in front of me, on stage, was Evangelist Mathew Oluwanifemi, the once feared Shina Rambo, clad in a loose fitting shirt, black pants and a pair of leather sandals with a black Holy Bible in his hands, gigantic dark skinned and bald headed, still had those fiery looks, and stealth movement.
I was more transfixed than focused, God is indeed awesome, he picked the offering basket raised it to the congregation prayed and asked who had anything to give to God, at first I was reluctant, my mind was occupied and out of an innate compulsion, sheer curiosity I stood up, dipped my hand in my pocket walked towards him briskly and calculatedly brought out my offering, dropped it into the basket, and looked deep into his eyes, I had too many things to ask him, there were too many questions unanswered. He looked back at me, and spoke in Yoruba, saying God bless you my brother; we know your type when we see them.
The congregation broke into a mild giggle, as all eyes were on me as I went back to my seat, with a lot of things on my mind, and the red light on my midget still blinking, in the breast pocket of my jacket…..
[To be continued]
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