Surprisingly, less than half of the estimated crowd showed up at Wizkid Live Abuja Invasion held last night.
Those who went to the performance were shocked with the number of people present at the quietly publicized concert with Wizkid the headliner with guest appearances from label mates Skales, Niyola, Shaydee.
The show was meant to kick off at 5 pm but was found empty as at 9:30 pm Nigerian time.
Photos to prove below
According to the reports, a student of the University of Abuja tried to kill herself because of the effects of the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike.
Jane Okora sent her two younger brothers out of the house on an errand.
When one of the brothers returned just after 15 minutes, he found Jane lying on the floor with a rope tied around her neck.
The boy raised the alarm attracting people to the house. When the neighbors came to help they discovered that Jane was still alive.
Jane's mother said that all Jane was complaining about was how the ASUU strike was inconveniencing her as she felt that she should have finished with her studies already and begun to take care of her family but her life was put on hold because of the strike.
Attempts to speak with Jane turned unsuccessful, as she couldn't respond to questions. The only thing she kept murmuring was "It was a better option".
Olamide must be having the biggest grove of his life,combining overseas shows and local show.
He has shown us he is actually from the street carrying his hood boys along.......baddestguyeverliveth from maleysia to nigeria
A British scientific expedition to a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea has discovered a new species of giant rat.
The Bosavi woolly rat is the size of a small domestic cat, weighing about 1.5 kilograms and measuring 82 centimetres in length from its nose to its tail.
It was discovered in the crater formed by the extinct volcano, Mount Bosavi.
Experts say the rat is the same as those found in any city’s sewers, only bigger.
Gordon Buchanan set up the infra-red camera which provided the first images of the animal.
“This is the biggest true rat in the world – unbelievable,” he said.
“It’s actually so big it doesn’t look like a rat … it just is incredible. This is a really significant find for the expedition.”
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A 16-year-old mother of two, Ebere Ogu, has allegedly stabbed his 35-year-old husband, Patrick, to death in Akure, the Ondo State capital, during a fight, and has fled with her children.
Detectives from the criminal Investigation Division of the state Police Command are presently looking for her. Vanguard gathered that the crime was committed last Thursday at their number 70 Ijapo extension residence in Akure at 5a.m. Chinedu, a native of ImoState was a staff of Owena River Basin Authority, Alagbaka in Akure.
A co-tenant, who gave his name as Kelechi, said: “Ebere and Patrick frequently engage in fights but on Thursday, October 17, at 5a.m., the couple began to fight.
“Most times they engage in such fights, I go there to settle it. But on this fateful morning, when I got into their room I saw Ebere holding a knife against her husband so I pleaded with her to drop the knife and pleaded with Patrick not to beat his wife.
“At the first attempt I succeeded in separating them. So Ebere dropped the knife. But as soon as Patrick saw that his wife had dropped the knife, he seized the opportunity to pounce on her and gave her another beating.
How He Died
“I told Patrick to stop, but I noticed that when he tried to move away he slumped and that was when I screamed for help and called other members of the house.
“When we entered the apartment we realised that Patrick was already on the floor. So people began to urge
Ebere to lift her husband up. She eventually did and we saw that the father of two was already bleeding.
“We were all shocked and most of the people took to their heels. Ebere escaped with her two kids to an unknown destination.”
Police image-maker, Wole Ogodo, confirmed the ugly incident.
Ogodo said: “One Mr. Tuyi, who is the landlord of the house the couple lived in, reported the incident to the Police Station on Thursday 17, at 6.45a.m.
Ogodo said that policemen are searching for the suspected killer, while the corpse of the deceased had been deposited at the Akure State Specialist Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Vanguard
Well as for me i think its praiz...... What are your views guys?
Okon goes to the altar...:-). Comic actor Ime Bishop Umoh married his boo Idara Saviour yesterday Saturday October 19th in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. Congrats to them. See more photos after the cut..
Ace footballer Obafemi Martins has welcomed his third child from his third baby mama. Abigail Barwuah, the older sister of Italian footballer Mario Balotelli gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday October 16th in Italy.
25 year old Abigail, who has been dating Obafemi since 2012, lost the first pregnancy we all reported last year. She was about four months pregnant when she was in Nigeria with Obafemi in December 2012 but lost the baby and got pregnant again almost immediately.
The never-before-married Obafemi has a son with an African chick he dated in Italy many years ago, he also has a 3 and a half year old son
with a white chick he dated while playing in the UK and now a son with Abigail. Father of all nation. Hehe. Congrats to Abigail and Obafemi!
For all the fans of Jeta and Mbong Amata, I am about to break your hearts. The prolific movie director and his beautiful actress wife of five years Mbong Amata, 28, have separated. They have actually been separated for about a year now but y'all are just hearing about it. And from what I gathered Jeta and Mbong didn't fight, they just decided to let each other go.
Jeta met Mbong when she was only 16 years old in Calabar in 2001 during a movie audition. He waited for her to mature and they started dating when she turned 18 two years later. In 2008, they welcomed a daughter, that same year, Jeta married Mbong. They later moved from their base in Abuja to Los Angeles so Jeta could work on his movie projects.
Continue to read why they broke up...so heartbreaking for such a young couple and maybe there's a lesson to be learnt here...
Here's what I heard happened between them. Mbong met Jeta when she was so young, married him and became a mother in her early twenties. She is a former beauty queen (Miss Akwa Ibom 2003) and her dream was to be an actress. Jeta didn't mind his wife being an actress but he didn't want her featuring in Nollywood movies, so he restricted her. Mbong, some of you may have noticed, only featured in Jeta's movies. And because she met Jeta so young, Mbong didn't get a chance to date other men, never partied and until they separated, never earned a living on her own. She relied on Jeta for everything.
When they moved to the US, it became a little worse for Mbong. She became lonely and instead of being the star actress she's always dreamed of, she became a housewife, caring for Jeta and their five year old daughter. Mbong became resentful and left Jeta in 2011 and returned to Nigeria. Jeta went after her and they reconciled after Jeta promised to give her a bit more space to pursue her dreams.
Jeta tried to live up to his promise, but as an African man, just couldn't compromise much and so last year Mbong wanted out of the marriage and Jeta let her go. Mbong and Jeta have been living separately in Los Angeles for about a year now. When I asked if there was any hope for reconciliation, my source told me 'it's only a matter of time before they file for divorce. They have moved on and the love is no longer there. Mbong is very happy now that she can do whatever she wants without a husband to stop her or tell her what she can or can't do"
I've known Jeta Amata for a long time, since the 90's in fact and so before writing this I reached out to him to get his own side of the story, and because we are friends, Jeta opened up to me.
He confirmed that they have indeed separated & partly blamed himself for the break up. He told me;
"Mbong is an amazing mother, an incredible wife...all the time we were together she would never let any other person cook my food...she was faithful and good to me and gave me the best gift in the world, our beautiful daughter. If I didn't cage her so much maybe we would still be together. I stole her youth and didn't let her live her dream so it was better to let her go and find new adventures. She's happy and so am I. Despite the fact that we are no longer together, we are still good friends. She even lives close to me here in LA. Things are great between us and I'm happy to see her happy."Since the separation Mbong has featured in two Nollywood movies, one of them is Forgetting June produced by Emem Isong, which she came back to Nigeria to shoot. She also revealed her sexy bikini body some months back. Y'all didn't know she was a single woman then...pic below...
As for Jeta, I heard he now has a new girlfriend. Jeta is dating Australian actress Viva Bianca, best known for her role as Ilithyia in Spartacus (Pic below)
Viva is starring in Jeta's new movie project - Road to Redemption, which also features Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson and pop star, Akon. Jeta and Viva have been dating for many months now and were even spotted in Las Vegas recently. When I asked Jeta about his relationship with Viva, he didn't want to talk about it.
And that my friends, is the end of the story. Wishing Jeta and Mbong Amata the very best.
It is no longer news that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike for almost four months now. I have done an empirical analysis of what Nigerian students as well as lecturers will gain and lose as a result of the current struggle. Read, digest and see if we need to support them any longer or not.
GAIN OF LECTURERS 1. Increased allowances for project supervision, call duty, extra hours worked, hazards, etc.
2. Payment of salaries and entitlements for the several months in which they didn’t work!
3. Those schools that did not partake in the struggle e.g UNILORIN and RSUST will also benefit from the infrastructure funds and the earned allowances (needless to say UNILORIN almost began sharing the almost one (1) billion they got for earned allowances last week)
NEGATIVE EFFECT OF THE STRIKE ON LECTURERS
1. Delay in obtaining Masters and PhD’s for those still doing their postgraduate studies.
2. I cant fathom out any. Please, help me if you have been able to think of any other one.
GAINS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR STUDENTS
1. The funds released for infrastructure will be used to meet the immediate needs of our schools. Some will use the funds to construct more hostels, some will use it to equip libraries, provide internet connectivity, build laboratories and furnish them, amongst others. These are projects that will aid learning and ultimately benefit students.
2. Those that will later join the academia and become Professors among us will also have the benefit of retiring at 70 years.
3. Those that will join the academia among us will also enjoy the special allowances that the current struggle will benefit lecturers in the years to come.
NEGATIVE EFFECT OF THIS STRUGGLE FOR STUDENTS.
1. BATTERED ACADEMIC CALENDAR Our Schools have lost a semester which cannot be made up for. Most schools were either in their second semester of the 2012/2013 session or were rounding up their first semester exams when the strike began. This will result in an abridged semester and most schools will finish their 2012/2013 session in 2014.
What this implies is that those that wrote the 2013 UTME and will be offered admission (most schools have not released their admission list) might not resume until probably March next year (when another UTME will be on the way) This will inadvertently result in late resumption of the 2013/2014 academic session which is likely to finish early 2015 (provided ASUU does not embark on another strike action before then). Academic calendar is thus in tatters!
2. DELAY IN THE RELEASE OF ADMISSION LIST.
It is pertinent to note that a lot of prospective University students do not know their fate regarding admission as a result of the strike action.
3. LAW STUDENTS CANNOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL TILL NEXT YEAR OCTOBER.
2012/2013 Final year Law students must be cursing down their throats as the strike has barred them from progressing to the Law school this year. When the dust of this strike settles, they will have to wait till next year October before they can go to the Law school. This is not the only problem because Law graduate of next year 2014 might not be able to go to the Law school till 2015. One year wasted!.
One might say two (2) sets will be merged but those in the know-how will tell you that the Law school has a quota for each school. Are we seeing the imminent crises?
4.FIERCE COMPETITION FOR 2014 NYSC BATCH ‘B’.
As a result of this strike action, most public Universities (except probably UNILORIN) cannot present Students for November 2013, BATCH ‘C’ service year and with the look of things, public Universities might not be able to meet up with February 2014 BATCH ‘A’ Service year thus resulting in a fierce competition by students to be mobilised for service next year June BATCH ‘B’. What this means is that some students who were supposed to go for service in 2013 will be deferred to November, 2014 and some till February 2015. Are you calculating the time wasted?
5. SOME PROJECT STUDENTS MIGHT HAVE TO START ALL OVER
2012/2013 Final year students of most schools who were working on their projects (Science-related) when the strike action began might have to start again because the results obtained then might not be tenable again. This results in waste of scarce resources, time and energy.
Having considered the gains and pains of the current struggle, Nigerian Students can now decide if they wish to continue supporting ASUU or reconsider their support. We can decide if the gain of the struggle outweighs the sacrifice we are paying or otherwise. If strikes could rescue the Nigerian Education system, then our Institutions should by now be one of the best in the world. If ASUU has been on strike for 30 months in the past 10 years and we are still where we are today, then it means No weapon of strike fashioned against the Pharoahs in Abuja can work.
Government has made concessions, we will only be deceiving ourselves if we think Jonathan will implement every bit of that agreement. Its not realistic!..let us be factual and move forward. When ASUU started this struggle, they had popular support not just because it was a Tradition for them to garner sympathy of Nigerians but because we felt it was an aberration for them to still be on an agreement that Government signed in 2009 after an almost four months strike action.
But if after a Hundred days of protests, demonstration, rallies and negotiations, we are still at this stage, then it doesnt look like its going to get better. The Truth is ASUU is already losing public sympathy because the collateral effect of their strike is so harsh on students.
Remember, in an industrial dispute, you dont win 100%, you win some and concede some ( as corroborated by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Archbishop Kaigama, Tolu Ogunlesi and a host of others).
In my own Opinion, the strike doesnt makes sense any longer and ASUU should just call it off to avoid being termed 'stubborn fellows' in the face of the Nigerian Public.
Could this be Saka or a parody account? See his tweets below;
A 26-year-old woman studying to becoming a Catholic nun smothered her newborn son to death because she didn’t want anyone to find out she had been sexually active.
Police in DC (USA) saySosefina Amoagave birth to the boy on October 10, 2013 in her room at the Little Sisters of the Poor elderly care facility. Afraid the nuns would hear the newborn’s cries and discover she lied about sexual activity, police say Amoa told investigators she smothered him.
The hospital called police. A day later she and a nun took his body to a hospital in a small, black luggage bag. She allegedly told detectives she had heard the child cry for two to three minutes and then, worried that someone would hear; she covered the baby’s mouth with a wool garment.
When she removed it, the child wasn’t breathing. She then ‘wrapped the child in Samoan garb, placed the child on her bed…remained in her room’ until the next morning. Amoa was charged on Wednesday with first-degree murder after the death was ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.She told police she did not know she was pregnant.
According to the arrest warrant, she ‘began Religious Formation, which included religious classes, doctrine, and prayer life’. The 26-year-old arrived from Samoa on October 5, 2013 and was considered a postulant – someone who wants to be admitted to the order. The Little Sisters of the Poor says in a statement that they’re praying for everyone involved.
“We all feel this is a very tragic situation. We are just praying for everyone involved. Now that it is in the hands of the legal system, we will not be providing any further comment.
A devout Christian who lost her job after refusing to work on Sunday is mounting a fresh court appeal this week.
Celestina Mba, 58, lost a previous case after a judge ruled that not all Christians observed the Sabbath as religious.
But she is now taking her case to the Court of Appeal and if successful could establish the right of Christians to refuse to work on a Sunday.
Mba, a children’s care worker, will argue that every employer has a duty to ‘reasonably accommodate’ religious beliefs in the workplace.
The legal challenge comes after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Britain had failed to protect the freedom of Nadia Eweida, a British Airways employee who was suspended after refusing to remove a cross at work.
Mba’s lawyer, Paul Diamond, is expected to argue that the ruling in Eweida’s favour extends to religious days as well as items of clothing.
Under the new ruling the baptist mother-of-three only has to prove that she herself holds the belief, not that it is a general rule which all Christians observe.
Shopworkers are already guaranteed the right to refuse to work Sundays, but other businesses must prove a legitimate need to force people to work.
If the court rules in Mba’s favour it could also grant Muslims the right to take Friday off, and Jews to be excused on Friday and Saturday.
If successful, campaigners hope the Court of Appeal ruling would mark a rare victory for Christian causes in British courts
Mba, who is now working a new job in south west London which allows her to take Sundays off, quit her previous job in 2010 after a row broke out.
Between 2007 when she was first employed and 2008 Mba claims her employers, Brightwell children’s home, were happy to accommodate her request after she mentioned it at her interview.
Mba’s case has be launched after Nadia Eweida won her case in the European Court of Human Rights over the right to wear a cross at work
Mba’s case has be launched after Nadia Eweida won her case in the European Court of Human Rights over the right to wear a cross at work
However in 2008 she was told she would have to work, and began getting other staff members to cover for her, until she was called to a disciplinary hearing in 2010 after which she left.
During the case she said: ‘I was willing to work at any unsocial time of shift in order to preserve my Sundays, I was prepared to work nights, or Saturdays.’
She argued that she doesn’t just go to church on Sundays, but spends the whole day caring for vulnerable people in her community as part of her church’s ministerial team.
The order to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy is the fourth of the ten commandments.
John Deegan, Mba’s manager who also gave evidence at the time, told the tribunal he did not believe she had specified she could not work Sundays.
Christian campaigners hope this week’s case could provide a welcome victory for a faith they feel has been overlooked when it comes to sensitive issues.
Andrea Williams, founder of the Christian Legal Centre, told The Sunday Times: ‘The courts have acted to protect the kara bracelet (worn by Sikhs), Afro cornrow haircuts, the wearing of a hijab and a Muslim’s right to fast, but have refused to grant protection to the cross of the Christian Sunday.
In January this year Nadia Eweida praised Jesus after winning her seven year long appeal after she was suspended from her job as a British Airways air stewardess when a customer complained that they found a cross she was wearing offensive.
The ruling, which was praised by David Cameron, said that a uniform dress code didn’t supersede her right to express her faith.
Read more: Daily Mail
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Mysterious bees reportedly invaded a church in Odo-Ayo street, Ondo town, sending the worshipers who had gathered for service, scampering.
It was gathered that the bees stormed the church and a house beside it, in their numbers and operated for some minutes, thereby making the worshipers and occupants of the building to run for their lives.
Narrating the incident, one of the victims, Mr Olatubosun Olafusi said he was carrying out some household chores when he saw his co-tenants running helter-skelter to escape the sting of the mysterious bees.
He quickly to to his heels, seeing the movement of the bees towards his apartment. He said he left his house for a safer place from where he was able to catch a glimpse of the bees as they moved into the house in large number.
He said, “I later noticed from where I was standing and watching the scene how the bees later moved to the church building which was very close to the house.
“However I was very surprised to notice that rather than moving to another house after invading the church, the angry bees left the area after about 15 minutes” he narrated.
According to him, he didn’t return to his apartment because he was afraid the bees might return. He rather sought refuge in another apartment in the area.
Also speaking on the incident, a woman on the same street who pleaded anonymity expressed her concern over the invasion.
She described the incident as strange, adding that it wasn’t the first time such would occur in the area.
