HEART TOUCHING STORY OF A FINAL YEAR MEDICINE STUDENT AT OBAFEMI AWOLOWO

Elizabeth (pictured above), a final year medicine student at
Obafemi Awolowo
University was raped and Murdered Just because she refused to sleep with some cultists In the School.
They Raped her by force, killed her and then scraped out her private part for rituals. After the event, her body was thrown On the street, what a wicked and Selfish world we are. Report showed that her father died when she was 9yrs and her Mum had been the one catering for her since then.Her Mum suffered to educate her up till 500 level as a medical student. I wonder what the situation will be in her house.
PRAYER :
May God Protect Us From Wicked Ones & Save Us From
Untimely Death
Type "Amen" To Claim This Prayer

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Ghanaian Actress Moyesha Boudong puts her Hot bod in display in new Pictures

Moyesha Boudong is a beautiful Ghanaian actress and model with a few movies and TV shows to her credit. 
 

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Nigeria Tops Countries Most Plagued By Oil Theft

With the theft of an estimated 400,000 barrels of oil per day, equating to a revenue loss of about $1.7 billion a month and $20.4 billion annually, Nigeria currently tops the list of countries most plagued by oil theft in the world.
Following Nigeria on the top five list of countries most plagued by oil theft according to a report by oilprice.com are Mexico, Iraq, Russia, and Indonesia.
The amount lost by Nigeria annually represents 7.7 per cent of the nation’s GDP vanishing, or more than the country spends on education and healthcare combined, the report by oilprice.com noted.
The report maintained that “The numbers paint a harsh picture about the inability of the Nigerian government, and the multinational oil companies in the Niger Delta, to do anything about this rampant theft.”
It said that Shell’s head of communications in Nigeria, Philip Mshelbila, pointed to a sophisticated organization of people that have been working for years to steal oil from official pipelines.
With oil theft hitting record levels in 2013, the G8 has been reminded of its 2000 pledge to help Nigeria solve this crippling problem.
The federal government has repeatedly given assurances of its commitment to end oil theft with the help of the international community, but no visible progress has been made in this regard as the illicit business continued to thrive.
The Global Financial Initiative points out that “stolen Nigerian crude oil is transported on internationally registered vessels, sold to international buyers, processed by international oil refineries and paid for using international bank accounts.”
With one group of oil thieves reportedly admitting to profits of nearly $7,000 a day from their illicit activities, yet no workable strategy has been deployed to end the criminal trade.
Meanwhile, closely following Nigeria on this list is Mexico with an estimated theft of between 5,000 and 10,000 barrels of oil per day.
The country’s then head of Pemex’s Exploration and Production subsidiary, Carlos Morales, last year, admitted that fuel theft was growing 30 per cent annually in Mexico.
The staggering 1,548 per cent jump in the illicit trade from 2000 to 2013 has been attributed to powerful drug cartels like the Zetas realizing the potential of the black gold being pumped through territory they control, fleets of tankers were now being stolen in the country.
For Iraq which came third on this list, it is difficult to estimate how much oil is being smuggled out of the country as its metering system is behind by a number of years.
However, the report noted that there had been substantiated reports of complex networks taking thousands of barrels right from the refineries and selling them illegally to Iran and Syria. In the chaos left over by the Iraq War, smugglers and terrorist elements have reportedly swooped in compounding the situation.
Russia which came fourth on the list has an ambitious target to attain an annual production of 535 million tonnes of oil by 2020 and with over 50,000 kilometres of pipeline, protecting them becomes a huge task.
In 2009 organised criminals stole an estimated 27,000 tonnes of oil from the pipelines. This past April, the country threatened to shut down oil supply to Ukraine, saying that oil worth $63 million dollars had been stolen from its Prikarpat Zapadtrans pipeline system heading to Ukrain.
Also on the top five list is Indonesia whose state of oil smuggling might seem insignificant when compared to Nigeria, at just around 2,000 to 3,000 barrels per day.
However, the government seems to have awoken to the issue after a pipeline explosion in October 2012 killed at least eight people, and injured dozens. The explosion was caused by one of the hundreds of illegal taps on the pipeline networks.
The country’s national oil giant PT Pertamina, shut down one of its main pipelines, Tempino-Plaju, in July 2013, reporting losses of 17,500 barrels of oil within the first week of the pipeline’s exploration, oilprice.com reported.

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Fish sperm potions and camel's milk concoctions keep love alive in Africa

The practice of kayan mata aims to keep married couples' love lives on track. Photograph: Monica Mark for the Guardian

Has your love life lost its spark? Too tired after long days at work? Or maybe you suspect your partner's eye has been wandering?
Zainab Usman, a Muslim from northern Nigeria, says she has the solution for all these problems. Walking through a room lined with jars, bottles and gourds, perfumed air trailing in her wake, she ticks off each remedy on delicately manicured fingers. Out come a stream of names that sound like a cross between children's sweets and street slang for class A drugs.
There is the "wonder wand", a vial of peppercorn-sized pills that promise to enhance intimate experiences. Zuman mata, which translates as "woman's honey" in northern Nigeria's Hausa language, is guaranteed to "keep a man coming back". Or how about tsumi, a herb and camel's milk concoction that Usman has nicknamed "cocaine" which, if its effects match up to the claims, is best taken only if the user has several days spare to recover?
This is the world of kayan mata ("women's things"), a five-century-old practice in northern Nigeria and neighbouring Niger aimed at keeping married couples' love lives lubricated, so to speak. Handed down the generations by women, the creams, scrubs, perfumes and tablets are made using local herbs and roots that grow in the arid north. Traditionally meant to prepare a bride for marriage and ensure social stability by keeping couples happily married, they are growing in popularity.
Men have their own version, called maganin maza ("men's potions"), which includes chilli-infused foods.
Neither country particularly needs a helping hand in the sex department: 11,000 babies are born every day in Nigeria, the world's eighth most populous country, while Niger has the world's highest birth rate. But the centuries-old kayan mata is one of the few times when sex is openly discussed amid an otherwise decidedly old-fashioned approach to discussing physical intimacy and its consequences.
"In the north, girls start learning about it at a very young age," said Usman, whose female in-laws presented her with a kayan mata gift box on the eve of her wedding. It accompanied the equally traditional gara – a gift of kitchen utensils as the couple started a new home.
"The south is a good market for me because it's still new here, although I'm not sure Lagosians are ready for this," says Usman, who has started selling her wares in Lagos, hundreds of miles south of her home city of Sokoto.
As two giggling friends visit Usman, a third hovers disapprovingly nearby, though not so far as to be out of earshot.
"Do you have ones that uplift breasts?" the first friend asks.
"Of course," replies Usman, pouring a thick liquid into a tiny jar. For good measure, she adds a green powder called danagadas ("the one from Agadez" – a city in Niger's Sahara desert). "I can't use this one very much, I'd be too tired," she adds.
What happens, one of the women wants to know, if you stop taking the herbs?
"Your husband will notice a massive difference straight away," Usman says, snapping her fingers. The two friends look at each other and fall about laughing.
"You guys are making me feel uncomfortable," Usman says, a hint of reproach in her voice. "I'm trying to help you. It's not a big deal – women have been using this for ages."
The ingredients of kayan mata have changed little over 500 years except, perhaps, that dried camel's milk is now preferred to fresh as the goods travel longer distances. Typically, products have a base of rice, honey, millet and tiger nuts. Fish sperm and manatee fat are sometimes thrown in. Key, though, are the roots of the desert-growing jujube, baobab and catchthorn trees, which have long been used medicinally across the Sahara. Some herbs are so localised English translations are hard to come by.
"There's no reason to suppose that there's not some interesting ethnopharmacology behind the use of these remedies," says James Moffatt, a senior lecturer at St George's hospital, University of London.
Nevertheless some may be placebos similar to the western perception that oysters are aphrodisiacs, he says. "If dim lights, mood music and a plate of molluscs do it for one culture, why not camel milk and dates for another?"
Business is certainly booming. Big-name dealers include one of the wives of former president Ibrahim Babangida.
In the labyrinthine streets of Wuse market in the capital Abuja, Umar Mohammed, 56, sits in his booth surrounded by imitation gold jewellery, intriguingly named fake perfumes, sequinned headscarves and incense burners.
But at a word from two visiting customers, he springs into life and throws open a cupboard full of the familiar vials and powders. "Why didn't you say [what you wanted] right away?" after two elderly women in hijabs spend 15 minutes apparently poring over a single stick of incense.
He tries to sell them a dust-covered box of products whose extraordinary price is justified, he says, as it came from Malaysia. "When a woman uses these products, she will look and smell like a flower, which is how it should be.

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Impeachment saga: I will not resign as Adamawa Governor – Nyako

Embattled governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako has said that he was not making any plan to resign from office despite the ongoing plot by the state House of Assembly to impeach him.
Nyako further avowed that he may seek Jonathan’s intervention in the ongoing moves by the state House of Assembly to remove him from office at the appropriate time.
According to Nyako, the President would likely wade into the matter since the state has always been there for the President.
Nyako made this disclosure yesterday at the presidential villa in Abuja where he attended the inauguration of the steering committee of the Safe Schools Initiative inaugurated by the president.
Speaking with newsmen, Nyako said, “Not yet. It has not reached that crisis point. We have supported him all this time; he has supported us and in situations like these, when Mr. President’s support is required, we will seek it.”
Asked if he might likely resign, he said he was not considering that yet, even as he said his chances of surviving the ongoing impeachment proceedings in the state were bright.
“Well, it is in the court and the court said it was not well done. We are hoping that if they want to do it, they will do it following the normal process in whatever they want to do,” Nyako stated, just as he claimed that the state was calm and peaceful.
On whether some former Heads of State had spoken to the President on his behalf, the governor said, “That would be excellent”.
Asked to give insight into the root cause of the crisis, he said:” Adamawa is a very interesting place. If I tell you we have 87 ethnic groups and the two religions are fairly balanced, it means that being sensitive to each and everyone of us is very important.
“It is a place of intellectualism; everybody has his own point of view and you have a group of people who share a certain point of view. And until it changes, they will maintain that point of view. But we have been peaceful somehow and we will remain peaceful”, he pledged.
Asked if he may defect back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nyako said, “Quite frankly, you know how I joined the PDP and partisan politics in the first place. It is not really my field. My field is known. You know what I was before. We are straightforward; have two distinctions: loyalty and disloyalty; two separate pieces.
“But one of the politicians told me that there are a lot of things in between loyalty and disloyalty which up till this moment, I have not appreciated. So, for me, disloyalty with this type of attitude with Nigerian politics of today, you are likely to step on toes of a few,” he added.

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I’m Not Searching For Another Soulmate – Juliet Ibrahim

Few weeks ago, top Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim surprised many when she announced, via her publicist, that she is divorced. According to a press statement, she had dissolved her union a long time ago, but she kept it away from the media and her fans.(READ IT HERE)
“Juliet Ibrahim has found it necessary to let her fans know today that she is no more married to Kwadwo Safo and the marriage ended a while back.
“With the interest of an innocent child on the table, we ask that you treat this difficult, but necessary decision to put her divorce out there for her fans to know with utmost respect.
“Juliet Ibrahim and ex-husband Kwadwo Safo have agreed to remain friends and stay in close contact for the benefit of the child, despite the fact that their marriage didn’t work as planned,” some parts of the statement released by Juliet’s publicist read.
However, when asked after the divorce if she would move into another relationship soon or if she is already in one, the actress was quick to say no man is giving her warmth at the moment. She stressed that though she is single, but she is not searching. “No, I am not into any relationship at the moment. I am single, but not searching,” she said.
Juliet is one of the pretty stars in the movie industry in Nigeria. She was rumoured to have been dating a fellow actor, IK Ogbonna, who some alleged to have ruined Juliet’s marriage, but the duo has debunked such rumour.

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Kefee's Candlelight Night In Benin

It was a moment of reflection and grief for the Industry Colleagues, friends and fans of gospel artiste Kefee as they held a Candlelight Night for her yesterday Thursday, July 10, at the Oba Akenzua Cultural Complex, Benin City.

Among the artists in attendance who took turns on the microphone were Sammie Okposo, Tim Tehilla, Nene Soul Diva, Nikki Laoye, Anny Ibrahim, Aity, Linda Etukudo, Maleke and some others.

Kefee who passed away on the 13th of June, 2014, will be buried today Friday, July 11 in her hometown, Okpara-Inland, Ethiope East local government, Delta State. See some pictures from the event.

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BRT bus did not kill any soldier' - LAGBUS Official Explains What Really Happened

 

The LAGBUS Asset Management Limited, operators of LAGBUS, on Friday, said contrary to claims by soldiers and reports, it was not a BRT bus that killed a soldier. The death of the soldier drew angst from raging soldiers, who burnt BRT buses said to be worth about N100 million, and beat up the bus drivers and witnesses of their rampage.

Explaining the accident, Abiodun Apata, Project Manager, Mutual Model Transports, one of the LAGBUS Franchises, said the company only found a corpse after an eventful night and went to report it to the police. “By 10 p.m. last night, one of our buses broke down at Onipanu; by 11 p.m.,a rescue team with a van went to the scene to tow the bus.

“Unfortunately, area boys started stoning our team which made our men to leave. Meanwhile, the driver put on hazard lights and C- Caution to alert motorists of the breakdown.

“By 5am this morning, before the rescue team got to the scene, a corpse had been deposited in our bus and a motorcycle parked behind it.

“When we saw it, we reported the case to the Pedro Police Station, Somolu, but before we got back to the scene, soldiers had burnt down five BRT buses and one belonging to LAGBUS.

The Head of Operations of BRT, Johnson Oguntade, said BRT vehicles have been withdrawn from the streets to prevent more damage. He said the deceased soldier was not hit by a BRT vehicle “I do not still understand why we are suffering for what we never caused. Why they are burning our buses is not known,” Mr. Oguntade said.

LAGBUS also withdrew its buses from the roads following the burning of the buses by raging soldiers. The buses were attacked by soldiers, who were protesting the death of an army corporal who was allegedly riding a motorbike near the Palmgrove Bus Stop on the Ikorodu Road, Lagos. Mr. Apata said that the attack was unfortunate, adding that the luxury buses were withdrawn to avert more damage.

The alleged accident and withdrawal of the luxury buses left thousands of commuters stranded and crippled commercial activities on Ikorodu road. The developments also resulted in traffic gridlock. Some of the vehicles set ablaze had been towed, while the others are still at the scene as at the time of this report..

Commercial bus operators exploited the situation to increase fares by about 50 per cent. No BRT ticket vendors were seen at the vehicles shelters.

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19 injured, two dead in World Cup host city, Belo Horizonte overpass Bridge collapse .

 An overpass has collapsed in the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, killing at least two people and injuring 19 more, an emergency official said.
Television images showed part of a passenger bus crushed under the overpass and news website G1 said another two trucks and a vehicle were also smashed.
A fire department spokesman said there was still at least one person trapped in a car.
The accident site is around three kilometres from the Mineirao stadium, where a World Cup semi-final match will be held next Wednesday (AEST). The stadium has already hosted five games.
Two people died and 19 were injured, a spokeswoman for the Minas Gerais state health department said.
The cause of the collapse was unclear. The overpass was part of a network of bus lanes that Brazil planned to have ready for the World Cup but was not finished in time.
A woman on a bus at the moment of the accident told GloboNews TV she thought more people were under the debris.
“We were traveling normally and then there was a terrible noise,” Renata Soares said.
“I am sure that more people in other cars were underneath the debris.”
The bridge was to be used for passenger buses in a system known as BRT/Move, considered a legacy project from the World Cup.
Heavy government spending on the World Cup and long delays in finishing promised infrastructure projects have spurred violent street protests in Brazil over the past year, although they have died down in recent weeks.

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