Lovely!! Aneke twins share adorable photos to mark birthday

Nollywood twins, Chidinma and Chidiebere Aneke are a year older today, 6th August and they shared lovely photos to celebrate it.

General overseer allegedly raped a 7-year-old member

Delta State Police Command, Asaba, on Thursday arrested the General Overseer of a church (name withheld) for allegedly raping a seven-year-old daughter of his member.

Pubic Relations Officer of the command, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, disclosed that the suspect’s church was along Ibusa Road, Koka, Asaba.

Kalu said the cleric lured the girl into the church office to ‘pray’ for her but committed the act.

The victim, however, divulged what had happened to her parents.

The couple immediately rushed their daughter to the Federal Medical Centre in Asaba,

Hospital report, the spokesman said, showed the girl had been raped. Bruises were also discovered in her private parts.

Kalu added that on investigation, the suspect confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court.

Winner of the voice Nigeria gets an SUV worth....

The winner of the first ever edition of The Voice Nigeria, Arese Emokpae, has been presented with an SUV valued at seven million naira by Africa Magic. The presentation which followed a press conference at the Wheatbaker Hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos, was done with Airtel Nigeria and Coca Cola, respective lead and associate sponsors, and also saw Arese receiving her four day, all-expense paid ticket to Abu Dhabi courtesy Etihad Airways.

Originally launched in 2010, The Voice has won audiences in the US, Australia, South Africa and the UK, where renowned artistes have occupied the show’s famous red chairs as coaches. The recently concluded first season of The Voice Nigeria employed the same format including a panel of four respected coaches, Waje, 2baba, Patoranking and Timi Dakolo.

Speaking at the press conference, the Director, M-Net West Africa, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, said: “We are extremely delighted with the success of The Voice Nigeria. It’s the first ever season and we are thrilled with the outcome. For three months, Nigerians and indeed the rest of the continent were treated to the best entertainment on television with our amazing coaches and contestants putting their best feet forward. Today we celebrate Arese who is undoubtedly a deserving winner and in the same vein thank our sponsors whose support made the show possible.”

The Voice Nigeria which began on the 10th of April with 48 contestants ran for three months and featured all the excitement of blind auditions, contestant battles and the intrigue of the live shows and public voting. At the end of the nail biting season, stage actress Arese Emokpae emerged as the first ever winner of show after an exciting live finale on the 31st of July, 2016.

Mr. Enitan Denloye, the Vice President, Brands and Advertising for Airtel Nigeria, said: “As Nigeria’s smartphone network, Airtel is always excited to enter partnerships that connect the Nigerian youth to their dreams. The Voice Nigeria presented an amazing opportunity to do this and we were more than excited to come on board as lead sponsors.  The sponsorship of The Voice Nigeria is yet another example of Airtel’s commitment to empowering young, talented Nigerians like Arese, a deserving winner who embodies the spirit of youth, passion, skill and perseverance.”

Arese Emokpae, whilst expressing her delight at winning, also thanked Africa Magic and the show’s sponsors, even as she saluted the uniqueness of The Voice format.

“The show is a cut above other singing reality shows. From the moment we started we knew we were on a different journey and the attention to detail, mentorship by the coaches and the incredible training sessions are unparalleled. At the end of the show I can confidently say that all the contestants showed incredible growth personally and professionally and we are all grateful for the experience, the exposure and the platform,” she added.

Also speaking at the press conference, Mr. Dozie Okafor, the Media Manager, Coca Cola Nigeria praised the production values of the show and the mass following the first season garnered over its three month run. Speaking further, Mr. Okafor hinted at deeper partnerships between Coca-Cola and the Voice contestants from season one, and for future editions of the show.

Buhari - fulfilling my campaign promises will not be easy

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday reiterated his resolve towards fulfilling his campaign promises to Nigerian.
Speaking at the Graduation Ceremony of Course 24 of the National Defence College, Abuja, the President noted that though it will not be easy, he is determined to live up to his promises.

According to the President, he and members of his team were trusting in God to deliver good governance through hard work and sound vision.

He said, “Let me assure you all that this administration is committed to bequeathing to this nation, a new orientation in leadership that will be service-driven and committed to the realisation of its promises to the electorates.

“We are however not under any illusions that this task is an easy one.

“But we have put our trust in God knowing that with hard work and sound vision, we will triumph.”

The President has recently come under heavy criticism following the current harsh economic reality in the country. The recent and most shocking of the criticism was the one by his supporter in the 2015 election, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, who said that Nigerians’ high hope of Buhari had been dashed as a result of the current situation.

Source : Daily Post Nigeria

Why Samson Siasia’s worrisome defence can’t be fixed

Samson Siasia's is not known for putting together great defences; scoring won't be a problem for this side but poor defensive structure.

It is unusual to score five goals in a game and still struggle to win it, but that was the case of the Samson Siasia led Nigeria U-23 side. I would however first commend the team for a job well done. If you are reading this you already know about the flight delays that made the Dream Team VI players and officials arrive Manaus just few hours before the game against Japan.

Failure of the fund transfer system of the Nigerian Sports Ministry along with other issues-which include the players refusing to board a plane because it was too small-meant that the Dream Team VI had to do majority of their preparations aboard a 32-seater Delta plane.

From a video shared on Twitter by the Media Officer of the team, Timi Ebikagboro the players can be seen stretching their legs and discussing match tactics aboard the plane to Manaus, Brazil. This was necessary because with just less than seven hours to rest and prepare for the game after arriving, every moment mattered.

 These strenuous circumstances make it very hard to criticise the players and coaches after grabbing all the three points from the game against Japan. One thing that is troubling I and millions of fans in the country is how poor our defence was during the game.

 The midfielder had the composure and the ball-passing abilities needed to steady the game and launch an attack while the forward line had the pace, power and skills to trouble any defence.

The defence however was a different story. There was no communication between defenders, the defensive midfield was too far away from the back four. The centre-back pairing of William Troost-Ekong and Seth Muenfuah was also a disaster. Troost-Eko was often left on his own to deal with situations-using Japan’s second goal as an example.  Our goalkeeper Emmanuel Daniel also looked out of place and short of confidence.

All these problems are fixable; the only problem here now lies with the man in charge, Siasia.

The Bayelsa-State born coach is not known for putting together great defences. Siasia believes in the maxim ‘best form of defense is attack’. While this is encouraging and exciting, it leaves you very open against top oppositions.

Siasia loves playing with flying full backs and just one defensive midfielder with the other two in his 4-3-3 formation also barging forward to join the attacks.  This system hurts when an opposition counters you, then the team is only left with just the centre-backs and the defensive midfielder to defend.

It was however great to see Siasia make some effective changes in the game. Taking out Usman Muhammed andImoh Ezekiel for  Kingsley Madu and Ndifreke Udorespectively were tactically astute.

With any Siasia team, scoring is not a problem; always conceding is usually the worry. The worrisome defence can’t be fixed by Siasia but outscoring every opponent can deliver Football Gold for Nigeria again.

Wife of US president sends loving message to her husband as he turned 55 yesterday

US president Barack Obama received a heart warming message from his wife, Michelle Obama  as he turned 55 yesterday....she took to her twiitter account and wrote
'55 years young and that smile still gets me every single day. Happy birthday,  Barack.  I love you'

Rapist marries victim to avoid going to jail

A Malaysian man who raped a 14-year-old girl avoided being thrown in jail after he married the young victim, sparking calls from angry activists for legal reforms on Thursday.

A court in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo island ruled last week there was “no necessity to proceed further with this case” following evidence that the two were married, the Borneo Post news website reported.

The victim, now 15, was allegedly raped twice by Ahmad Syukri Yusuf, in his twenties, last year. Rape in Malaysia carries a penalty of up to 30 years in prison and whipping.

Activists say such cases are not uncommon in the conservative Muslim-majority country, where sometimes victims’ families would rather a girl marry her rapist instead of her name being tarnished in court.

But this loophole in the system can give the wrong signal to others that there are no serious consequences for rape, they say.

“Over the years we have handled many such cases where the man marries the victim and then divorces her and pays some money to her family,” Aegile Fernandez of Tenaganita, an NGO in Malaysia, told AFP.

“A rape is a rape. There needs to be better education on this,” she added, calling the case an “injustice”.

In 2013, a man who raped a 12-year-old girl avoided prison after he married her, provoking an outcry among rights groups. However, the following year a high court sentenced the father-of-four to 12 years in jail.

Opposition politician Teo Nie Ching also criticised the latest court ruling.

“This is not the first time that a rapist [has been] allowed to marry his underage victim, and this is surely not going to be the last,” she was quoted as saying by the Malaysiakini news website.

Child marriages are not uncommon in the Southeast Asian country.

Girls below the age of 16 must obtain the permission of Islamic courts — who regulate civil matters for Muslims — but activists say such permission is too readily granted.

Hoax Warning Claims 'Bompie' Brand Frozen Juice Has Killed 180 People

Just got this...Please don't buy or drink any plastic frozen juice called "Bompie". Custom says it was shipped into Nigeria from Liberia where it has killed 180 people.  It is said to contain a poisonous chemical....please share.

Uti Nwachukwu is another year old today

Happy birthday Uti!
This is what he said
' Another year added to my life and all i can say is thank you Lord,
On this special birthday,  i am extremely grateful for the special grace and favour God keeps blessing me with....there are people who have not even started living their lives and here I am healthy, happy, joyful and not lacking any need. Only baba God can do this....

What E.A Adeboye said about bearded pastors

ON BEARDED PASTORS

The holiness preacher took a swipe at some of his pastors who wear beards like members of the Islamic State (ISIS).

“I don’t believe in the Theory of Evolution. That something came out of the ocean, became like a lizard, after sometime the lizard took to the trees and became a monkey and the monkey became a gorilla and the gorilla became a man!

“Let’s assume it’s true. It is not a man that became a gorilla. So when I suddenly see a man who used to look like me – clean shaved, nice face, suddenly begin to look like a gorilla, I shake my head.

“In Open Heaven recently, we discussed that God set aside Levites  and asked Moses to tell them to shave themselves. But today, even pastors now wear ugly hair and call it identity. They now look like representatives of ISIS.

“You’re not representatives of the youth. Youths do things to get attention. Many youths don’t know where they are going. They take consolation in the constancy of their fathers.

“But if Daddy does not know where he is going. It is stupidity to call what is fashion now what was used in the 60s.

“The youths don’t respect elders that look like them. They wonder if the elders know their age.

“You are supposed to be the guiding light. I don’t want my pastors to look like people coming from the training camp of Al-Qaeda.

“God who made me your father didn’t make mistakes.”

Two doctors arrested for forgetting towel inside a patient after surgical operation

Two doctors working with a private hospital in Lagos have been arrested by the police for allegedly forgetting a towel inside a patient after surgical operation.
The duo, Dr Taiwo Shogunle, 53 and Dr. Adeleke Olusegun, 43 of St. Raphael Divine Mercy Specialist Hospital at Ijede, Ikorodu, Lagos State have been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for allegedly causing the death of their patient, Omojola Bamgboye during surgical operation.

The doctors were arrested by operatives of the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos. After investigation by Inspector Monday Omoigui and his team, the doctors were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a one count charge of felony, to wit, murder.
Police prosecutor, Supol Eshiet Eshiet told the court in charge No L/28/2016 that the accused persons committed the offence between 18 and 19 December, 2015 at St. Raphael Divine Mercy Specialist Hospital, Ijede, Ikorodu, Lagos.

Eshiet told the court presided by Magistrate A.T. Omoyele that the doctors unlawfully killed the man during surgical operation by negligently abandoning a foreign body, towel, in his abdomen.
He said the offence the offence is punishable under section 222(2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused persons denied the allegations in the open court and the magistrate admitted them to bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
Omoyele directed the prosecutor to duplicate the case file and forward it to the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, for advice.
She adjourned the case till 9 September, 2016 for mention.

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Primary school with one teacher and one headmaster

Community Primary School, Akpugoeze in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, this may be the dawn of a new beginning.
For many years, the pupils had known only their headmaster and  one other teacher as the only ones teaching in the school.
But recently, the natives of Ofemmiri community, Akpugoeze, rose up to say the situation was no longer acceptable to them.
It was their home-coming and general meeting where they placed on the front burner issues relating to the problems of primary schools in the community.
In his welcome address at the meeting, the President General of Ofemmiri Community Development Union, Mr Livinus Onuigwe, a quantity surveyor, reminded the community leaders that they had relied on self-help efforts to move their community forward in the past, saying that it was through such self-help efforts that an illustrious son of the community single-handedly built a shopping centre for the community.
Emphasizing the importance of the meeting, the president general recalled that indigent students from the community got scholarship awards from another illustrious son whom he noted was also providing the villagers with free medical services.
At the end of the day, the schools received the desired attention as the community leaders who have returned for the meeting both from home and abroad visited the Community Primary School Ofemmiri where they lamented the dearth of teachers and quickly recruited four volunteer teachers to complement  the two that were on ground.
Onuigwe, who briefed newsmen at the end of this years’ meeting, explained that the yearly meeting was compulsory for every adult in the community.
“It is often used as a forum to discuss the development of the community in terms of education, health, security, rural roads and streets, youth development, sports, culture, assistance to widows and the less privileged in the community, among others.
“Every year we try to do one thing or the other to develop our community. For this year, we discovered that the Community Primary School, Akpugoeze had only two teachers, the headmaster and one other.
“What the community did was to look for volunteer teachers some of them who were retired, but still very active. Also some of our illustrious sons volunteered to be paying their salaries just to ensure that the school is functional and provides good and quality education to our people,” he said.
He disclosed that they also donated computers to the schools as they discovered that some of the pupils in the village do not know what a computer looks like.
“We also employed the services of some youth corps members to teach them computer.  It is the same situation with other neighbouring schools like the Central School Akpugoeze, the story is the same either two or three teachers. We have Community Primary School, Eziogwu, it’s the same thing. Personally, I made attempts to see the headmaster at Community Primary School Akpugoeze, but it was not possible; you hardly see the headmaster. He is always going for one programme or the other, one training or the other; it was pathetic as little children roamed around aimlessly during school hours,” he said.
Onuigwe said that they believed that if basic training was “lost at this initial stage it will be disastrous in the development of these children,” saying that was why they decided to engage teachers and pay them.
“For this year, we employed about four teachers which is not even enough for the entire primary one to primary six.
“Also, we were able to energize the community by purchasing and installing a brand new transformer to replace our old and vandalized transformer, which has kept the community in darkness for some time now.  We bought a new transformer for ourselves; we didn’t have to wait for the government; it’s our contribution to the development of our community and the state at large.
“We also organized a lecture on youth development because we believe that the youth must be empowered; they must be thought what to do. They are not just the future leaders; they are also the leaders of today. So, we started from the beginning to catch them young, teaching and showing them the right way to go; all in a deliberate attempt to mould them to what they should  be.

Photos: IMSU student shot dead

A fresh graduate of Imo state university was shot dead earlier on today. Information reaching me was that he was shot at the campus front gate. No information on who he is or who shot him.

17m ransom demanded by UBTH nurses abductors

The gunmen who abducted two nurses of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Edo State, have demanded the payment of N17m for the release of the victims.
The nurses, identified as Osemelu Lydia and Ovbiosu Bose, had last Wednesday been kidnapped at Oluku in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
They were said to have been on their way home, after picking up their children from school, when they were forcefully taken away in a vehicle to an unknown destination.
It was, however, gathered that the abductors had contacted the relatives of the victims and demanded the sum of N15m for the release of one of the nurses and two million naira for the other.

But the ‎UBTH branch Chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Austin Osigbeme, ‎told our correspondent on Tuesday that the kidnappers later reduced the ransom.
‎Osigbeme also noted that the fami‎lies of the two nurses had been in pain since they were kidnapped a week ago.
He said, “They have not released them; they are asking for ransom. They started with N15,000 and two million naira but have started beating it down‎ to one million. 

“But these are poor people that have no money to pay and that is why we are having that delay.

“They (families) have been apprehensive and having feelings of uncertainty, not sure of what is happening to their wives and sisters.”

The leadership of NANNM had earlier vowed to embark on an indefinite strike to protest the incessant abduction of its members and demand the release of the two nurses.
But Osigbeme said that the proposed strike had been shelved because

“we will not allow people to force us to behave in the way that they want us to behave.”

“We decided to call off the strike and see what happens this week. We are praying,” he added.

Help save Actor Leo Mezie

Please Nigerians, lets help save this humble man.

Van Vicker wishes he is 40 years old

Van Vicker clocks 39 years today
This is what he said

' they say life begins at 40, i wish i was turning 40 and i want to begin life, lol. 39yrs today tho, i  am blessed. ...and he grew in wisdom ans statue.  Many times i get poetic but this time i am keeping it simple...i am beginning to see life  with my third eye...I thank you all for the love,  the hate and the support.  All worked out for my good.. my story is still in progress. God is on my side and that same God bless you'.

Photo from Archbishop Margaret Idahosa 73rd birthday

That cake looks so inviting...yum!
Picture taken together with her son, Bishop Feb Idahosa and daughter, freda Idahosa  Ajayi  and son-in-law Reverend Wale Ajayi and some others.