MALLAMS CLASH WITH IGBOS IN ABIA STATE !!!

3 feared dead after clash between Hausa and Igbo traders at Ariaria market.

No fewer than three persons have been confirmed dead after a fight broke out between Hausa and Igbo traders at the popular Ariaria market in Aba, Abia state this afternoon. According one of the traders, trouble started after an Ibo trader cautioned an Hausa trader who urinated close to his shop.

This degenerated into an argument which turned physical. Supporters of both traders then turned the disagreement into a free for all fight. Three traders were reportedly stabbed to death. The state police spokesperson, Onyeka Ezekiel, said the police brought the situation under control.

OHAKIM IN DEEP 'SHIT' !!!

Raw Cash In Ghana-Must-Go Bag: Ex-Gov Ohakim Gave Me $2.3m – Witness.

A Federal High Court in Abuja heard on Wednesday how ex-Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State allegedly bought a property in Abuja worth about $2.3m cash concealed in a “Ghana-Must-Go” bag.

A prosecution witness, Abu Sule, who was cross-examined by Ohakim’s lawyer, Awa Kalu (SAN), said he collected $2.29m cash in “Ghana-Must-Go” bag from Ohakim, with which he assisted the former governor to buy a property in highbrow Asokoro area of the FCT.

He said that Ohakim handed the $2.29m (an equivalent of N270m) to him in $100 bills at night

sometime in November 2008, for give to then owner of the property, Alhaji Isah Maidabino, the next day.

Sule, an architect and Managing Director of Tweenex Consociates H.D Limited, said he kept the money in the boot of his car overnight before handing it over to Maidabino, now a director in the office of the Head of Service of the Federation.

“The money ($2.29m) was given to me by the defendant. It was given to me in a ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag and that was how I transported it. It was in $100 bills. I didn’t count the money and he (Ohakim) didn’t request for counting because we trusted each other. But I counted it along with Alhaji Maidabino.

“I did not issue a receipt because a receipt was not demanded. I was sent an errand and I delivered it. I carried the money to a bank in Maitama in Unity Bank. I handed over the money to Alhaji Maidabino at Unity Bank.

“Alhaji Maidabino issued deed of assignment and sale agreement to me. He did not acknowledge the receipt of the sum in writing.

“I didn’t pay the money into any account. I didn’t see Alhaji Maidabino pay that sum into any account. I did not witness any [other] transaction.

“What Alhaji did with the money, I don’t know. But he handed over the title documents of the property to me,” Sule said.

IBETO IN TROUBLE !!!

EFCC freezes Billionaire Businessman Cletus Ibeto's accounts.

Chairman of Ibeto Group, Cletus Ibeto has been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over his alleged role in the "fraudulent" arms procurement deals.

Sources disclosed that bank accounts belonging to the business mogul who presides over one of Africa’s largest business enterprises have also been frozen by the EFCC.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had disclosed that about $15 billion - equal to half of Nigeria’s foreign reserve - was looted under the Goodluck Jonathan administration through arms "fraud" procurement deals.

TIWA'S MISTAKE !!!

The Reality About Tiwa Savage and Tee Billz Spat.....

by Niran Adedokun.

In the concluding chapter of his book, I Married You, the late German marriage counsellor and missionary to Africa, Walter Trobisch, wrote: “Last night, I committed all the errors which I advise other husbands not to commit. I talked only about my work. I told my wife to give a message in church and to prepare another one for the morning. I forgot to kiss her goodnight properly.”

On this particular trip to Africa, Trobisch had spoken to members of a community about the ways in which God expected them to treat their spouses and how to make the best of their homes. He spoke about how children should not detract from the attention that the man and woman give to each other and how the one should always put the other’s interest ahead.

Unfortunately, on that same night, he forgot to do the same thing he preached as he left his wife, Ingrid, to sleep alone and without the attention she craved for, in another room in the same hotel where he was.

Arriving his wife’s room the next morning, he met a broken woman with tears flowing down her cheeks like rain upon a window pane. Expressing surprise at his wife’s early morning testiness, he tried to find out whether it wasn’t a good night. The wife complained about how he didn’t pay attention to her. He explained that he did not want to disturb her and that he had to write his sermon the next day. To this, the wife replied: “There you have it; your sermon is more important than anything else.”

Trobisch dug in: “But I have to preach on marriage today.”

Then, his wife delivered the death punch. Hear her: “I wonder what you will have to say. You don’t understand a woman. You don’t know what marriage is. If you only knew how hard it is to be married to you…”

This marriage counsellor who had been married for 18 years lost his voice for what appeared like an eternity ashe realised that even he, had failed in the very thing that he taught people to do. He, after all, was as human as any other person he has had to advise on how to make his or her marriage better.

This is one of the reasons why I refrain from the public ecstasy that attends the exposition of conflicts in the homes of other people, especially celebrities. I know for a fact that the most knowledgeable counsellor, if he is blessed to add honestly to his skills, would tell you that there are no marriages without a measure of turbulence. Even in the process of proposing counsel on better ways to manage relationships, marriage counsellors would confess that no two marriages are the same. The situations that people are exposed to and which they have to cope with, are as diverse as the personalities that they have to deal with and so, it is difficult to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to the issues of marriage and conflicts associated with it.

This is why I find most of the commentaries that followed last week’s breakdown in the relationship of top Nigerian female singer, Tiwa Savage and her husband, Tunji Balogun, mostly unhelpful.

In the aftermath of the initial release by Balogun which publicised grievous allegations ranging from negligence and infidelity against his wife and the wife’s own expose in a video released online, reactions have ranged from condescending to empathetic and even totally dismissive of the couple’s right to a disagreement which is not unusual to a two-year old marriage. People have made countless parodies out of sound bites from these two celebrities giving a lot to Nigerians to laugh about in the past one week.

The question one would be forced to ask however is:
“Do you blame the people”? I imagine that reactions to the juicy details which this gentleman and his wife provided last week would have been the same irrespective of the nationality of the audience. But this event presents a number of very serious issues that can instruct a home whether already consummated or still under contemplation.

I think the man (TeeBllz) who fired the first salvo betrayed the office of a husband by going public with all those allegations against his wife. Forgive my saying it, but I see nothing exactly edifying in a man publicly accusing his wife of being in bed with three or four other men. If it happened at all...it smacks of nothing but immaturity.

But if you want to leave your wife because of her unfaithfulness, why don’t you just and spare us the lurid details, even if for the sake of the child that you have together.

And from the apparently contrived response of the madam (Tiwa), she gives the impression of a marriage contracted without much thought. She couldn’t even be sure whether the union was out of love or fear that age was creeping in and that night might soon fall.

This latter factor is no reason why anyone, especially one who desires a life-long home, should marry. Most people who rush into marriage will rush out with the same alacrity. Top on the mind of people who want to marry should be true love (for and from the other person) as well as compatibility. People dismiss the importance of love in a marriage but love actually does accomplish a lot of things two of which are selflessness and unending forgiveness without which marriage cannot stand.

People also make the mistake of assuring themselves that they can manage some unacceptable traits in their intended with the hope that they will be able to get that person to change after marriage. The truth is that...most often when people change, they change for the worse unless there is some real divinely inspired inner conviction. Prospective couples should therefore advise themselves not to condone behaviours that run contrary to their composition as this is sure to become a sore spot in future.

Over and above, all couples and intending couples should endeavour to commit their relationships into the hands of God. The truth about marriage is that most of it is in the future and only God is Omniscient and able to help with that. In addition, every faith has a body of prescriptions that make marriage an enviable and happy institution and most failures come from our refusal to stick with these recommendations.

We imagine that we know marriage, but this is a fallacy. Like every other important responsibility that we embark on, there are skills that make marriage work. We must be teachable, ready to learn and adapt every now and then in the matrimonial voyage.

It is important that those who marry work together towards a peaceful home in which, if they rear children, these children can grow up in love. It is only when we have homes where children are brought up in love that we can have a peaceful and healthy nation where there is respect for all.

In the event that things do not work however, I consider it a duty which couples owe themselves and their generations to manage their differences with maturity. For the sake of the couple, their children, family and friends, it pays for those whose relationship have broken down irretrievably to part ways amicably and avoid spectacles that may, not just make them become foes, but also turn them into objects of ridicule, ruin any chance of reconciliation and affect the psyche of their children and families members forever.

by Niran Adedokun

TIWA SAVAGE: 'TIWA NI TIWA' !!!

MY DEAR TIWA....U HV MADE YOUR POINT. MOVE ON AND THROW AWAY DIS CLOG IN THE WHEEL OF YOUR PROGRESS. NO POINT DWELLING ON 'TIME-WASTERS' !!!

• Listening to this interview almost brought tears to my eyes. I felt like you were my daughter, and deeply share your pain. It is pretty obvious that you longed for the ideal matrimonial home, but met the wrong guy...A COMPLETE DICK-HEAD.
• I hear the idiot was about to jump off Lekki Bridge??? Is it not easier and quicker to just go HUG a bloody ramshakled NEPA transformer down the road somewhere??? What a flipping waste of time, he is !!! 4ukin plonker.
• Please MOVE on babe....you are 2MUCH for dat foolish dude. The world is bigger than to let a 'no-gooder' like dat waste your time and future.
• My advice to you is to concentrate on your career and bring up your child as best you can. As for the future??? You have all it takes to meet a man of your dream. We are all entitled to make mistakes...as long as we learn from it....big deal !!!
• Believe me...there are GOOD men out there who will make you and your son HAPPY. It is obvious dat 'prick-head' did not appreciate you, and never wanted to settle down.
• CARRY ON TIWA......Thumbs up for Tiwa.....TIWA NI TIWA. We are on your side babe....NO SHAKING !!!

FULANI HERDSMEN KATAKATA !!

Herdsmen Attack: FG Removes Enugu Police Commissioner.

The Nigeria Police has removed the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, Mr. Nwodibo Ekechukwu, over the attack on Ukpabi Nimbo in the State by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Bisi Kolawole, confirmed on Tuesday that Ekechukwu had been posted out of the state to another command.

“Enugu CP has been posted out of the state to another command and a new CP, Emmanuel Ojukwu, has taken over. The redeployment is part of strategies to improve police effectiveness across the country.”

On Monday last week, no fewer than 20 persons in Ukpabi Nimbo, an agrarian community in the Uzo-Uwani area of Enugu State, were killed while many others were injured during an attack.

It was claimed that scores of armed cattle breeders, reportedly numbering more than 100, stormed the sleepy community in the early hours of the day.

The police high command was said to have been angry due to the fact that the villagers had informed the state police command about the impending attack but the formation did nothing to forestall it.

None of the cattle rearers, who were allegedly the aggressors, was arrested.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered heads of security agencies to take all necessary actions to get those behind the attacks and bring them to justice, either they are Fulani or not

FAYOSE RAISES RED FLAG FOR PUGNACIOUS FULANI HERDSMEN !!!

Fayose Says He Would Poison Water To Kill Fulani Cows?

If You Mess Up, We'll Poison Our Water; Fayose Threatens Fulani Herdsmen
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has threatened herdsmen, following clashes in Enugu and other places, warning them to steer clear of his state or otherwise risk a greater danger for their cattle.

He said failure on their part to heed the warning would lead to the people of the state poisoning the source of water by the herdsmen for the cattle.

Fayose stated this on Tuesday, while speaking on: “Journalism and Politics; two sides of a coin,” at the World Press Freedom Day organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council, held at the Dapo Aderogba hall, Iyaganku, Ibadan.

Fayose said the time had come for Nigerians to defend themselves in the face of unwarranted attacks and killings by suspected herdsmen across the country.

Citing the carnage carried out by them in Benue and Enugu states, the governor said Boko Haram appeared to have changed its identity to herdsmen, unleashing terror on innocent citizens of the country.

He said he had instructed his people to poison water with a particular brand of chemical used against fungal attacks in the event of any herdsmen attack in Ekiti. 

“It seems Boko Haram has changed identity to herdsmen now. You as journalists must speak out, the killings are under reported. Is it about the mass burial in Kaduna State, the Agatu saga or the recent killing which happened on Monday? Ask questions,” he said.

• BANG ON POINT.!!!
• GOOD IDEA.KILL D MODA4UKAS...AFTERALL DEY DO NOT GIVE A 4UK ABOUT HUMAN LIVES.
• BUHARI..BETTER WARN YOUR 4UKIN BRODAS...WE ARE NOT GOING TO SIT AND HAVE DEM RUN US OVER.
• IT IS OBVIOUS DEY ARE WORKNG FOR BOKO-HARAM...I HV RAISED DIS ALARM ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS ON DIS BLOG.
• EVEN WOLE SOYINKA HAS RECENTLY RAISED CONCERNS...AND YET IT IS NOT IMPORTANT TO BUHARI TO ADDRESS DIS ISSUE????
• WE SHALL SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!