According to tweets from the Nigerian Television Authority, it has been reported that 60 girls are missing following an attack by insurgents in the Kummabza village of Damboa Local government in Borno state..It was also reported that 30 people were killed as well as destruction if properties was also witnessed...
Former minister of education and past Boss of NAFDAC whose health has been failing for a while has been flown to India further treatments. Here's what she said in a statement released recently through her media advisor.
"I am touched – indeed, overwhelmed by the
outpouring of love and affection by my fellow
countrymen and women, as well as numerous other
well wishers around the world, many of whom have
not only been praying for me but have also been
mobilising through the various social networks for
God’s healing hands to come upon me. I am
confident that Almighty God will hear our prayers and
grant me quick recovery. I love you all and pray that
Almighty God blesses you all."
She left for India on Sunday, 11th May accompanied with her husband..
We wish her safe recovery..
Chris Nkulor, a nollywood actor gas been confirmed dead. He died as a result if a kidney ailment. Not too long ago, a campaign was made to raise N3 million for treatment at the Obafemi Awolowo University teaching hospital..
What a sad story..
Comedian Bethel aka senator. His beautiful wife, Kemen Jibrin
gave birth to a bouncing baby boy this evening, Easter
Monday, April 21, 2014 at the West Houston Medical
Centre, in Texas, USA. The couple got married in May
19, 2012. Congrats to them!
Leader of the Catholics yesterday took out time to pray for Nigeria..
During the Easter Sunday celebration which saw over 150000 people in attendance, the Pope prayed for Ukraine, solution to the Ebola virus in Africa and an end to terrorism in Nigeria...
The National leader of
the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu will on Wednesday, April 23 be invested as
Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso by the Osun State
government.
Tinubu will also be awarded the D.Sc (Honoris Causa)
in Management Sciences by the institution on the same
day.
The Convocation and Investiture award and lecture will
take place in the SIFAX Lecture Theatre within the
premises of the University in Ogbomoso starting from
11 a.m on Wednesday April 23rd, 2014 as part of
activities marking the 11th special convocation
ceremony of the University.
The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Robert Michael
Franklin, President Emeritus of Morehouse College in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He will speak on “Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education
for Nigeria, Africa and the Diaspora.”
Below is a detailed story of how Bayelsa parent locks up their 16 y.o daughter in a cage for three years due to her convulsive state ....
A regular visitor to the home of Mr Selekeowei
Olokumo, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria’s
South-South region, would probably have noticed a
small make shift building directly opposite his one
bedroom apartment which could easily be mistaken
for a generator cage.
To think it is a place where he stores his old and
worn out property would not be out of place, as it
was haphazardly built with wood and carton on what
could be seen as a semi refuse dump site.
It was a feeling of shock when Channels Television
realised that it was not for keeping his generator or
other items but where his 16-year old daughter,
Blessing Olokumo, had called home for almost three
years.
Blessing is the 6th out of the 16 children of Mr and
Mrs Olokumo; a twin who has no relationship with her
twin sister, not because her twin sister was dead. she
is simply ashamed of being associated with her.
She is not leprous, neither is she affected by any
contagious disease. She is just a child who had
convulsion when she was three years old and was not
properly monitored by the medical doctors, so instead
of outgrowing it as most children of her age would
probably have done, she has since been battling with
the condition.
One would expect her parents to be sympathetic to her
plight and treat her with more care and attention, but
the reverse has been the case, as Blessing is being
treated with utmost disdain by those who are
supposed to love her more.
She has been tagged the evil child, accused of being
responsible for the death of her immediate siblings
who were also twin girls. She has been abandoned by
her parents in a cage for almost three years and left to
God to decide her fate.
Luck smiled on Blessing when members of the Mary
Slessor Twin Foundation, a foundation focused on the
welfare of people of multiple birth heard of her plight
and decided to intervene. She was rescued on January
25, 2014 in a very bad condition and has since been
on admission at the Niger Delta Teaching Hospital,
Okolobiri.
Blessing’s father, a security guard at the Niger Delta
Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri was asked how he could
do such to his flesh and blood. He simply stated
without remorse that he was tired of looking after the
girl.
“Why I kept her in this house is that when she
defecates and urinates, she soils the whole house
when the mother and myself are not around. So there’s
nothing I can do again. I now isolated her from the
apartment I’m living”, he said.
While one may be tempted to call her dad wicked,
heartless and much more, one wonders what words
would be adequate to describe her mother, Mrs Bernice
Olokumo, a petty trader, who accused her daughter of
being responsible for the death of her younger siblings
who were also twin girls.
On her relationship with her daughter, she simply said
she was afraid of her and appeals to the Government
and other people of goodwill to come take Blessing
from them, as they were tired of fending for their own
child.
To ascertain the present condition of Blessing,
Channels Television paid her a visit at the hospital and
met a transformed girl. Gone were the tiny frame, bony
knee and sunken eyes. A cheerful, robust and well fed
child was what she had become, after just three
months of love and care.
On the way forward regarding her medical bills and her
future, efforts to speak with the doctors proved futile,
but the President of the Mary Slessor Twin Foundation,
Mr Ebitei Roberts, spoke.
“What we are working on is that after now when she is
discharged, we want to take her to maybe a motherless
babies’ home or any special school to rehabilitate her.
With the way we are seeing things, if we take her back
to the family, they will take her back to where she was
and we don’t want that to repeat itself because we
have spent money.”
The foundation has since lodged a formal complaint
with the Police and the welfare department of the State
Ministry of Women Affairs. The complaints list criminal
charges of child abduction, inhuman treatment, child
molestation and failure to enrol a child for proper
education...
Extracted from Channels tv
There has been intense heat in the Psquare household. Few days ago, Jude also tweeted 'its over' . There has also been rumours that Peter wants out of psquare and that he's already moved out of the family house at Omole in Lekki..
Here's what a source who knows the whole story said:
“Yes they fought this week. Peter even left a mark on
Paul’s left eye. But the fight wasn’t during rehearsal,
which rehearsal? Peter has refused to do anything P-
Square for weeks now. Forget that he was at his
brother’s wedding, things are not good between them
right now. They were even invited to perform at
president Jonathan’s wedding but they didn’t go.
Peter wants out. He said Paul and Jude are sidelining
him. That if they push out 200 songs, 199 would be
songs Paul did. That people are now calling him a
dancer in P-Square. Peter is really angry. He’s even the
cool and friendly one between the brothers but he is
not himself right now. And then he accused his brother
Jude of disrespecting his wife. Peter and Jude haven’t
spoken in weeks. Peter said Jude has been
disrespecting Lola for years and he was done tolerating
the BS. In fact Peter said that not only is Lola older
than Jude, but that she’s also pregnant and Jude was
upsetting a pregnant woman. If you notice Jude didn’t
attend their wedding last year despite the fact that he
was in Nigeria. Jude asked Peter why he didn’t marry
Lola when their mother was alive. Jude said it’s his
wife that is pushing him and they will need to pray for
him. In fact nobody in the Okoye family likes Lola and
they didn’t support the marriage. The brothers are really
angry at each other. The police is even involved. This
week, either the commissioner of police or someone
from his office visited their house.
The worst part is that they have invited lawyer to come
and share property o. They want to share everything.
The lawyer was at their house I think on Thursday.
Peter said no more P-Square joint ventures. You know
they own everything together, including a house
inOmole, Parkview and Atlanta. Except something is
done fast P-Square is about to be finished. But I know
that people have been intervening and begging them to
reconsider, that they are the biggest musical duo in
Africa. Nobody will benefit if they split. The power
tomake money is in their togetherness.
It is Jude people are begging to keep the brothers
together, but after what he tweeted yesterday, it may
truly be over for P-Square. Jude has really tried for his
brothers, for him to give up may mean it’s over for
them. He practically put his entire life on hold for his
brothers. Even sold his first car to shoot their first
video but all that is about go come to an end like he
tweeted. The only thing that can save the situation is if
by a miracle Jude and Lola settle their differences but I
don’t see that happening...
God help us all oooo...
Following the recently released video where he ( Shekau) claimed responsibility for the Nyaya bombing, he has gone further to say that he is in the state's capital...
“You (Jonathan) should know that we are worshipping
God, that is why we are always victorious in all our
attacks; if you are that wise and knowledgeable, why
is it still very difficult for you to locate where we are up
till date despite the fact that we are within Nigeria.
Look at us, we are right within your city (Abuja), and
you don’t even know how to find us. Let me tell you
now; I am here, very close to you; I dare you to get me,
if you can”, said Shekau.
"One inmate said in passing ‘you a b***h for hitting Rihanna,’” a source close to the situation exclusively reveals to HollywoodLife.com. Chris is doing his best not to listen to the banter, however, it does make him “extremely upset” when he hears such sentiments.
“They be saying other stuff too, like ‘you ain’t no rapper, you’re a whack R&B singer,’” the source continues. “They’re in there trying to break him down.” #sobbing
A 19-yr old teenager named Danny Bowman has been referred to as the world's first self-confessed selfie addict.Reports say that the addiction has almost cost him his life...Danna reportedly spends 10hrs taking 200 selfies each day.
It got so bad that he left school for six months and even lost almost 30 pounds trying to make himsef more "photogenic"... He also spent time trying to get the perfect selfie and when he couldn't, he would almost kill himself...
Luckily for him, he was saved at the nick of time and was referred to London's Maudlay hospital where he has been recuperating..
