Five-year-old 'victim of voodoo ritual' named by former suspect.

Dumped in the Thames:
The five-year-old boy identified as Adam

This is the little boy whose headless and limbless body was found floating in the Thames ten years ago, it was claimed last night.

The five-year-old’s identity has remained a mystery after he was smuggled into Britain and murdered in a voodoo-style ritual killing.

He was drugged with a ‘black-magic’ potion and sacrificed before being thrown into the Thames, where his torso washed up next to the Globe Theatre in September 2001.

Detectives used pioneering scientific techniques to trace radioactive isotopes in his bones to his native Nigeria. They even enlisted Nelson Mandela to appeal for information about the murder. But they always struggled to formally identify the boy, who they called Adam, despite travelling to the West African state to try to trace his family.

Now Nigerian Joyce Osiagede, the only person to be arrested in Britain as part of the inquiry, has claimed that the boy in this picture is Adam. She said his real name is Ikpomwosa.

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Wonder of Loliondo

A Tanzanian pastor has asked people to stop going to his remote home for a "miracle cure" after thousands flocked there, causing chaos in the surrounding area.

All roads in Tanzania, including the dirt ones, seem to be leading nowadays to the Loliondo village about 400 kms from the nearest town of Arusha in Northern Tanzania. A “miracle cure” has turned the small village into the most famous place in the country, if not the continent.

Ambilikile Mwasapile, a former pastor of the Lutheran Church of Tanzania is the man behind “the cup” – a herbal concoction believed to be able to cure all diseases including HIV AIDS, cancer, paralysis and diabetes.

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PIC OF THE DAY : D'banj & Birdman

D'banj & American Rapper Birdman

Reality star, Chidinma Mbalaso of Koko Mansion dies in a car crash in Kaduna

The very beautiful and lively Chidinma died this morning after sustaining serious injuries from a car crash in Kaduna yesterday. She had been in a coma and needed blood, but died before help could come. She was 22years old. May her soul rest in peace...amen.

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The 'What About Us Presidential Debate' moderated by writer Chimamanda Adichie. More videos when you continue...

Yeka Onka Wins Nigeria Idol

Yeka Onka and Naomi Mac

It was between these two. But the lady on the left won it. She gets N7.5million, a car, a record deal and many other great prizes. Congrats girls

The Politics of "Our Time". by eLDee.

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Integrity requires three steps: discerning what is right and what is wrong; acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost; and saying openly that you are acting on your understanding of right from wrong." – Stephen L Carter

Months ago, before the 2011 voter registration exercise began in Nigeria some of us were very excited as we saw this as an opportunity to effect the much-needed change in our country. I geared up and began non-partisan campaigns aimed at youths in Nigeria to ensure that they register, vote, and protect their votes. I spent at least four to six hours everyday campaigning on social network platforms, TV/Radio, and print media. My team and I did everything we could from explaining the process, to following people on twitter who posted pictures of their registrationcards, to giving away cellphone airtime and even went as far as helping local INEC officials with some of the technical difficulties they faced at the commencement of the registration exercise.

Uber "Sexy" African Dance At Funeral

Funeral is meant to be a place of sober reflections, but not in this case !
Some ladies had too much fun on this one, check it out. A Funeral in Ghana.

Artificial cloud designed to offer shade at Qatar's 2022 World Cup

A design of an artificial cloud.

Dr Saud Abdul Ghani, head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Qatar University, unveiled a design and construction of an artificial cloud to shade and cool the open playgrounds to be used in the 2022 World Cup in Doha. He told a local Arabic daily that the project will be executed in collaboration with Qatar Science and Technology Park.

He said the artificial cloud will move by remote control, made of 100 percent light carbonic materials, fuelled by four solar-powered engines and it will fly high to protect direct and indirect sun rays to control temperatures at the open playgrounds.

He said the initial model of the cloud cost $500,000 but the cost will decrease upon launching the commercial models which could also be used at beaches, car parking by using the mobile phone.  Source

Tragic toddler weighs nine stone

Lu Hao, he has already been banned from nursery over fears his size might be a danger to other children, and usually plays alone at home.

THE desperate parents of a NINE STONE three-year-old have told how they can't make the giant toddler diet because they are scared of him.

Lu Hao, from China, is dangerously overweight, and at 9st 6lb is FIVE TIMES as heavy as other boys his age. He is getting so big his family are frightened of him — and have given up trying to stop the youngster from gorging on huge plates of ribs and rice.

His parents claim he throws vicious tantrums if he doesn't get third or fourth helpings of dinner.

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Miss Ireland Under Fire For Dating A Nigerian Brother

Love conquers all: Emma Waldron and Manners Oshafi have been dating for a year. The stunning Miss Ireland has been the victim of a vicious internet campaign because of her relationship

Stunning Miss Ireland Emma Waldron told yesterday in a forthright interview how she will never let 'ignorant' racists affect her love for Nigerian boyfriend Manners Oshafi.

Emma, 21, has been the victim of a vicious internet campaign because of her relationship with a black man and was forced to report an online poster targeting her with hateful and abusive racist comments.

She recently found herself at the centre of a row after one person branded her 'disgusting' for dating a black man.


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huh?

Pic of a python that supposedly swallowed a 9month old baby in Benin City
Some people think it's probably a goat or a monkey.

Youth-Centred Presidential Debate

Showing live on Channels on Friday, March 25th @ 7 pm is the What About Us? Debate, Nigeria's first ever youth-centered presidential debate. Send your questions to questions@whataboutusnigeria.org; submit a form on the website - www.whataboutusnigeria.org or via SMS - 33054. Format: RSVP Candidate Question.

The debate would be moderated by award-winning UK based author, Chimamanda Adichie. So far all of the top presidential aspirants, except President Goodluck Jonathan have accepted the invitation to the debate.

ABOUT WHAT ABOUT US?

Youth organisations ask "What About Us?" of Nigerian presidential candidates

OK! Magazine Set To Launch in Naija!

Weekly celebrity gossip magazine, OK! Magazine, is set to launch in Naija in about 4 months time. It will be sold in Lagos and Abuja, and the person behind the idea is UK-based entrepreneur, Alexander Amosu.

I'm not sure whether all the news featured in the magazine will be about Naija celebrities. Personally, I don't think it should be all about Naija celebrities 'cos all they'll get is pics of people going to events. Naija celebrities don't really give an in into their private lives like other celebs around the world do.

The magazine has been known to pay these celebrities amounts ranging from $300,000 (N45,000,000) to $2,000,000 (N300,000,000) for baby bump pictures, baby pictures, and post baby body pictures. It'll be interesting to see how this would translate in Naija 'cos I don't see anyone giving you over N100,000 for your baby's pictures.


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Guinness’ biggest market? Nigeria

This story fascinated me: There’s now more Guinness sold in Africa than in the U.K. and Ireland combined — and a full half of the African sales are in Nigeria. Huh.


Africans consume the equivalent of 2.5 million 30-centiliter bottles of Guinness a day. Nigeria, Africa’s largest nation, with 140 million people, and its biggest oil exporter, accounts for about half of these sales. The company plans to spend $400 million over the next five years to increase production in Nigeria from its three breweries, which use such local grains as maize and sorghum instead of barley. The Lagos brewery alone spews out 108,000 of the filled brown glass bottles every hour, with yellow labels boasting that “Guinness is good for you.”


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Nigeria Family Planning

Nigeria's government has been advised to become more financially committed to providing its health institutions with drugs for family planning. VOA's Jacqueline Ogoh reports from Lagos.

Igbo, Yoruba, Others Demand N670bn Compesentation For Jos Crisis

Jos crises: Igbo, Yoruba, others demand N670bn compensation

A coalition of people from the South-East , South-South and South-West resident in Jos, Plateau State have demanded N670bn from the Federal Government as compensation for the losses they have incurred in the series of crises in the state since 1994.


The coalition, at a news conference in Jos on Wednesday, said that since the crises started in the state, the Yoruba had lost property worth N450bn; the Igbo, N410bn; and South-South, N110bn. It added at the news conference addressed by its spokesman , Mr. Smart Irabor, that over 1, 654 people from the three regions had lost their lives in the crises.

Forbes List: 2011 World's Richest People.

Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga

Forbes Magazine recently released its list of billionaires for 2011.

Africans on the 2011 Forbes List of Billionaires
Name                   Country   Worth     Source        Ranking 
Aliko Dangote,       Nigeria      $13.8B     Business   #51(world) #1(Nigeria) 
Mike Adenuga        Nigeria      $2B         Business   #595 (world) #2(Nigeria)
Nicky Openheimer  SA            $7B        Inherited    #136(world) #1(SA)
Johann Rupert        SA            $4.8B      Business   #219(world) #2(SA)

The U.S. still dominates with 413 billionaires, Asia second with 332, 115 of which are Chinese.Europe has 300 billionaires and Middle East/Africa has 89.

Mexico's Carlos Slim is still the richest man in the world, adding $20billion to his fortune in the last one year. He is now worth $76 billion. Followed by Bill Gates $56 billion and Warren Buffett - $50 billion.

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"South Africa is the Giant of Africa" That's according to Nigerian couple, Bimbo and Seun Somolu

Bimbo and Seun Somolu

Have you seen that TVC where South African's got Nigerians to say - South Africa is Truly The Giant of Africa?. 
A lot of Nigerians who have seen the ad are outraged. They feel the couple sold out. Nigerians have always believed and being taught in schools that 'Nigeria is the Giant of Africa!"


To some Nigerians who have seen the commercial, what the couple said wasunpatriotic. To others, it is just a professionally done TV commercial. While some think that there is some element of truth in the claim.4

New photos of Mr President

New photos of The Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as he uploaded on his Facebook.

Remember, there are only two types of people in Nigeria and they are good or bad and not Northerners or Southerners. Judge people by their character which they have control over and not by their places of origin which they have no control over. God Almighty made us and placed us in the families and locality where we were born. To then discriminate based on place of origin is to question the wisdom of God. And the wisdom of God is beyond the wisdom of man. GEJ

SHE'S A GRANDMOTHER -- AT AGE 23!

A gypsy wife has become the world's youngest grandmother - aged just 23. Rifca Stanescu, from the village of Investi, Romania, told how she gave birth to her daughter, Maria, while only 13.

Despite her mother's pleas to stay in school, Maria gave birth to son Ion at the age of 11.

Happy family: Rifca Stanescu, left, now 25, gave birth to daughter maria aged just 12.
Maria then bore Ion, now two, right, at the age of 11

Rifca, now 25, told the Sun: 'I am happy to be a grandmother but I wished something else for Maria - and something else for me.

'Ion is a good boy - and he is already engaged to a girl aged 8. Boys are always good to have - they don't have to suffer as much girls I think.' Born in 1985, Rifca defied her family's wishes and ran away with jewellery seller Ionel Stanescu when she was 11 and he was 13.

A year after they were married, Rifca fell pregnant with Maria. She said: 'I wanted to marry him, so I agreed, and of course after we had spent the night together then there was no way anyone could separate us. I had been promised to another boy's family since I was two years old but I didn't want that.'

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Video: Undisputed (Official Video) by M.I (Chocolate City Music)

This the first video off the first single from MI sophomore album MI 2 The Movie !! Remember this is a preview only! Directed by Jonathan Jason Clarke.

Tunde Bakare addressing the crowd

Tunde Bakare addressing the crowd

Tunde Bakare addressing the crowd

The Conference for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare addressing the crowd in Maiduguri at the presidential campaign rally for the North-east yesterday.

FG Sends Ex-militants Abroad For Education

The Federal Government on Sunday sent 74 ex- militants from the Niger Delta region to University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a three-year degree programme.

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Matters, Kingsley Kuku, while speaking prior to the departure of the transformed ex-militants said the 74 men, said the men would do three to four-year courses in engineering, business administration and other related fields. Before now, 292 ex- militants had been sent to South Africa and Ghana for vocational courses and with the present batch, a total of 366 ex- militants had gained from government’s post amnesty training programme.

He revealed that in the coming weeks, more delegates would travel to countries including Philippines, Russia, Romania, United Kingdom, United States of America, Egypt, Poland and the Netherlands to commence various types of training.


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Patience Jonathan Has Done It Again

Nigerian First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan

Yesterday (sunday) while addressing an event for Widows, Patience Jonathan wife of the President Goodluck Jonathan started her speech thus: MY FELLOW WIDOWS.

ahh, lol.. Mr President go vex o


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Pay-as-you-go Church in Nigeria

Pay as you go church building!

The consequences of the quest for quick results and the gullible nature of some Nigerians to believe any word spoken by self-proclaimed prophets and preachers came to the fore recently in Onitsha, Anambra State. Sunday Sun discovered a church where members are hypnotised into parting with their hard-earned money in exchange for “miracles”.


Sunday Sun reporter gathered that prayers for breaking of ancestral curses in the church attracts a fee of N50,000 and above; special prayers for God’s favour, often done by selected “prayer warriors”, who are strict vegetarians, goes for N75,000; sowing of seed for abundant wealth costs N200,000, while fortification of a worshipper against misfortunes and accidents goes for N100,000, among other sundry charges members of the congregation are made to pay. The Bible, in the book of Malachi, admonishes Christians to give 10 per cent of their earnings to God as tithe so as to attract more blessings, but in the House of Canaan and Calvary Deliverance Ministry, tithe is 20 per cent of one’s income so that “God will answer prayers and requests very fast.”


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I Got Tricked To Attend Bode George Reception, Says Obasanjo

Olesugun Obasanjo with Jimmy Carter
by White House Photographer, 1977 

“Because I don’t see what PDP as a national party, as a party that is trying to form a government in Lagos State, as a party that formed government at the national level and in at least 27 states in the country, would be celebrating criminality because whatever we may say, the reason Bode went to prison should be condemned by everybody.

“And I have condemned it but he did not go to prison for political offence. If he had been sent to prison for political offence, then he comes back and all his political associates may get round him and PDP must do something noble and wholesome but in this case, PDP as a party must dissociate itself from celebrating criminality."
---- Obasanjo


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Samson Siasia Begs Nigeria To Forgive Yakubu Aiyegbeni

Yakubu's World Cup miss

The Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has pleaded with Nigerians to stop blaming Yakubu Aiyegbeni for Nigeria's horrible outing at the 2010 world cup.

Aiyegbeni has hit four goals in six appearances for Leicester City, and is gradually looking back to his best goal scoring form, but Siasia says he will leave him out until the team stabilises.

According to Siasia "We cannot take a chance on Yakubu now. This country will catch fire," Siasia told KickOffNigeria.com. "Almost all Nigerians blame him for what happened at the World Cup, but that is not true. There were 11 players on the field and those on the bench and it is a collective responsibility."

"The best players in the world can miss chances."

"We didn't play well as team at the tournament, but Nigerians don't want to see Yakubu and Sani Kaita because they felt they destroyed everything for us."

Nigerian refugees stage protest at Tunisia-Libya border camp

Refugees from Libya reached for food at the Tunisian border Tuesday

Ras Ajdir, Tunisia - Nigerian migrant workers fleeing unrest in Libya staged a protest Saturday claiming a lack of support from their government in their bid to return home.

Some of those who spoke out arrived at Tunisia's border with Libya twelve days ago. They initially slept rough and are now housed in a temporary tent camp several kilometres from the crossing.

'We want to go home,' said Charles Chuku, one of those who led the protest. 'We have watched almost all of the Egyptians leave, but we are still here waiting.'

Since Thursday there has been a significant drop in the number of migrant workers reaching the border. Numbers peaked at 20,000 per day on Tuesday and Wednesday, but had dropped to about 1,000 on Saturday, said a UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) official.

EFCC Confiscates Lucky Igbinedion’s Assets

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) this week seized 11 real estate assets belonging to former Edo State Governor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. The seized assets include a property in London located at 29, Sheldon Avenue, Highgate, London N6 4JP; a landed property formerly housing PML office at 55C, Adebisi Omotola Close, off Samuel Adedoyin Street, Victoria Island, Lagos... ‘White House’ along Ugbor Police Station Road by House No. 65, Ugbor Police Station; a house at neighbourhood of Etete and Ugbor Layout, located between Idusogie Street and Ogbomo Street, Benin City.

Others are: a building covered by approved building plan No 2041/2004 at No 20B Etete, Benin; a Land at No. 7, Justice Fatai Williams Street, off Justice Sowemimo Street, Asokoro, Abuja; a landed property at Maitama, located at 5, Danube Crescent, Maitama, Abuja; Sheraton Hotel Government Course, Government House road, Benin; Chicken Republic belonging to Igbinedion on Sapele-Benin Road, Benin; a parcel of land covered by Certificate of Occupancy No BDSR5458 registered as 24/24/B71 in the name of Okada Air Nigeria Limited at No 3, Boundary Road Benin City; and a block of four flats at No 43 Etete Road, Benin City.

"My Vote Fit Change Naija"

A movie by Youngstars Foundation featuring popular Nigerian actors, including star comedian, Julius Agwu, to highlight the importance of the April 2011 Elections and how the vote could check bad to ensure better service to the community such as improved healthcare, clean water, good roads, etc

Cardinal Okogie Blasts PDP Over Bode George’s Party

Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan See,
Anthony Cardinal Okogie

“Tell me what are they celebrating? What message are they passing across to the generality of the people and, especially to the young ones? Are they now saying it is okay to steal huge funds for that matter, serve a few months jail term and return triumphantly to enjoy the loot? why will people be wearing aso ebi and making all that noise on national television to celebrate someone who looted public funds and caused a lot of people and their family members and the nation at large untold hardship.” The archbishop did not fail to draw the attention of all those involved in this “show of shame to the present spate of revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East”, warning that “unless those in leadership position in the land caution themselves from insulting the sensitivity of Nigerians, the people may soon be provoked to revolt.”


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Goodluck Jonathan's Nigerianism

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan

“It is believed that a man’s greatest treasures are his children and immediate family and the proverb goes that where a man’s treasures are there his heart also will be. All my children, every last one of them school in Nigeria and of course my wife and I are fully on the ground. Some might describe other treasures a man has as his real estate property. And again every property I have in life is in Nigeria. Some might consider money as another treasure and again all my accounts every last one of them is domiciled in Nigeria. In everything I do I make a conscious decision to put Nigeria first whether it is in my dressing or the food I eat, or even the music I listen to. I am totally sold out on Nigeria." 
                                                                          -- Goodluck Jonathan

Quote from Tribune news report

Fela Kuti musical to travel to Nigeria

The show's executive producers include rapper Jay-Z,
and actors Will and Jada Pinkett Smith

An award-winning stage musical about the life of the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti is to be staged in his home country for the first time.

Fela! opened in New York in 2008 and transferred to Broadway in 2009, winning three Tony awards. It will be staged at the upmarket Eko Hotel in the capital, Lagos, in April. Fela! explores the musician's life as an artist and political activist through more than two-and-a-half hours of extravagant song and dance routines.

Organisers said: "The aim of Fela! in Lagos is to unite and connect Africans in spirit and unity, to serve as a catalyst for cultural revival in Nigeria, and to celebrate Fela Kuti, for the contribution he has made to Nigeria and the world."

Kuti, who died in 1997 from an Aids-related illness, was the king of Afrobeat, a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythms. He also became a national icon for speaking up for Nigeria's poor and challenging the country's military regime.

The show is set in his nightclub The Shrine, six months after the death of his mother at the hands of the government.

536 Nigerians Evacuated From Libya

Demonstrators gather near the White House
 in Washington in a show of solidarity
with the Libyan protestors on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The evacuation exercise embarked upon by the Federal Government to bring back stranded Nigerians in Libya has recorded additional 536 evacuees who were successfully flown to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Sunday night from Tripoli International Airport.

The total number of the evacuees so far, after the first batch of 499, is now 1,035 returnees which included adults and children.

The Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammad Sani-Sidi, while receiving the second batch at the airport said that the next flight, after receiving all necessary clearance, would leave for Tripoli today to bring back remaining Nigerians that had been registered and screened for the evacuation.

The woman charged over a daycare fire flees to Nigeria

The woman charged over a fire that killed four toddlers at a daycare centre, has fled the country, it emerged tonight. Twenty-two-year-old Jessica Tata has returned to her home in Nigeria just four days after the tragedy on Crest Park at Waypark in west Houston.

Fire Department Assistant Chief Michelle McLeod refused to reveal how she knew Tata had gone on the run. But passport coding has verified she took a flight out of Dallas, possibly as early as Saturday afternoon.

The U.S. Marshals Service in Houston has been asked to help track her down, said spokesman Alfredo Perez. He added: 'Just because someone who is wanted flees to another country doesn't mean the United States isn't going to get them back and have them face justice.

'We’re looking for her. We’re actively working this case as a fugitive investigation.' 

Perez confirmed that if Tata is in Nigeria, the U.S. will ask the country to arrest her. Tata, owner of Jackie's Child Care, was charged with reckless injury to a child involving serious bodily injury. If convicted, she faces a sentence of two to 10 years in prison.

A warrant was issued for her arrest on Sunday by the Harris County District Attorney's Office and the bail bond was set at $500,000.

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I’ll Remove Immunity Clause – Buhari !

Buhari

Former Nigeria‘s military Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has promised to facilitate the deletion of the controversial immunity clause from the nation‘s constitution if he gets the nod of Nigerian voters in the April elections.


”We will amend the constitution to remove immunity from prosecution for elected officers in criminal cases,” Buhari states in his manifesto which was released in Abuja on Monday.

How 12-year-old schoolboy aided arrest of his kidnappers–Police

A 12-year-old schoolboy (name withheld), who was kidnapped two weeks ago, has aided the police to arrest his kidnappers.

The Police in Lagos have arrested two brothers over the kidnap of the boy in Ojokoro area of Lagos two weeks ago. The suspects, Seun Akinyosoye, 19, and Akin Akiyosoye, 22, allegedly kidnapped the boy while on his way home from school.

The Junior Secondary School 2 pupil, reportedly took shelter in a shop around Centre Road, during a downpour on February 14.

PUNCH METRO gathered that the suspects also took shelter in the same shop and engaged the boy in a discussion.

During the discussion, the boy revealed that his father is a banker with one of the new generation banks and also gave out his mobile phone number to the suspects. The suspects thereafter, took him to their apartment around Jerry Street, Ojokoro, from where they made a call to his father and demanded N4m ransom.