New Photo of Nadia Buari & One of her Twin Babies

New mum Nadia isn't showing off her babies' faces just yet. She just shared this on her IG page.

UK Taxpayers face huge bill to recover profits from £50m fraudster (James Ibori)

Here's a report I found on Standard UK. UK Taxpayers are blaming former Delta state governor James Ibori for a huge new bill. Find the report below...

Taxpayers are facing a “huge” new bill after efforts to force a former Nigerian state governor from London to repay profits from a £50 million fraud were delayed for more than a year.

James Ibori, who began his working life as a £5,000-a-year cashier at a Wickes DIY branch in Ruislip, became a multi-millionaire after returning to his homeland and committing a series of scams during an eight-year career running its oil rich Delta State.

His wealth allowed him to buy expensive homes, a £12 million jet and a £1 million fleet of cars including a Bentley, Mercedes and armoured Range Rovers. His crimes were detected in a Scotland Yard investigation that led to him being jailed in April 2012 for 13 years for fraud and money laundering.

But a decision on how much he will have to repay has now been postponed again, to June next year, after lawyers for Ibori and two other defendants told Southwark crown court that more time was needed to prepare their cases.

It means Ibori will not have to repay any of the money until at least 2017.

Prosecuting barrister Sasha Wass QC said the delay to the hearing, which was due to start in 2013, meant the cost to the taxpayer of dealing with Ibori would spiral further. She said £2 million had already been spent on his defence. Ivan Krolick, representing Ibori, told the judge that he and another defence barrister needed more time because of the recent submission of a 66,000-page file of prosecution evidence.

Ms Wass said the new file contained evidence already given to the defence, repackaged to make it easier to read.

Judge Pitts agreed to delay the hearing after barristers for the other defendants, London solicitor Bhadresh Gohil and Ibori’s former mistress Udoamaka Onuigbo, also called for a delay.
Ms Onuigbo’s barrister, Ami Feder, said his client — deported after serving her prison term for money laundering — wished to return to Britain for the hearing but failed to obtain a visa and needed time for a new application.

Ibori was governor of Nigeria’s Delta State between 1999 and 2007. He admitted fraud totalling nearly £50 million, but now denies making personal profit from his crimes.   

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Did Oba Akiolu’s threat work for Ambode? Yes and No!

Below is an article by Vanguard on how the threat by Oba of Lagos may have worked for Governor -elect, Ambode 

Pa Ikechukwu Okonkwo, a septuagenarian, and his family stayed back in their three-bedroom apartment in Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos, to monitor reports from his large screen television while the April 11 gubernatorial election lasted.

Unlike the previous election, where the aged grandpa had encouraged all his children to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential election, this time, he handed down a warning to all members of the family never to be involved in the gubernatorial election in the state. His reason was not farfetched.

The fear of the pronouncement of a first class tradition ruler was the beginning of wisdom. Even though some people believed the recent Oba Akiolu’s tirade was only a mere joke, Pa Okonkwo did not want to leave it to chance as according to him,

 “When a king makes a pronouncement on what bothers on his interest and even swears to it, it is better to abstain than to take a risk.

“I will not take chances; traditional rulers are powerful. They can do anything in the name of culture and tradition.”

Okonkwo, without apology said:

 “What people don’t know is that if he meant it, it may not necessarily be dying in the lagoon. It could be a philosophical statement which may manifest in the form of ill-luck or inexplicable occurrence at a later date on those who go against his wish, especially when people said he swore by his throne. I warned my children to stay at home and watch how it will end.”

Pa Okonkwo may not be alone on this line of thought; other Igbo residents in the state had different ideas on how the Oba’s threat affected their voting pattern or contributed to the turn-out of the last election in the state. If the Igbo actually came out for the election, did they vote out of anger and emotion? Did it cause voter apathy among Ndigbo or spur them to vote against the Oba’s wish?

Political observers believe that the pattern of voting in the presidential election, especially from the South-East, could have given the monarch much concern about how the Igbo in the state could sway the votes for Agbaje and therefore he handed down the threat.

Whether a mere joke or not, with the outrage that greeted the development, political analysts therefore expected protest votes from Igbo voters against the APC candidate. And scared of this the APC almost went on their knees to plead with Ndigbo to disregard the Oba’s threat and maintained that he spoke for himself and not the APC. The fear of protest vote swinging the pendulum for PDP’ Jimi Agbaje was palpable. Would the Igbo vote in Agbaje? Alas, that was not to be. Instead, not only that the Oba’s candidate won, the margin showed that many Igbo might not have voted.

And as a matter of fact, many stayed away from the voting centres. There were those who really felt threatened by the threat of the Oba and those who lost interest after President Jonathan was routed in the Presidential election.

Like Pa Okonkwo, many felt that the threat could not be treated with kid gloves, thereby abstaining from the process entirely.

Some of those who spoke to Saturday Vanguard maintained that the royal outburst of ‘drowning threat’ was just a media creation and a huge joke after all. They said that much as it was dismissed as a joke, it was inconsequential.

An Igbo domestic worker to one media executive, when asked why he refused to cast his votes said:

 “I wanted to vote for the PDP because I was tired of APC in Lagos, but I was scared of the Oba’s threat.” Even when reminded that as a Christian he needed not to be afraid of such threat, he maintained that it was safer not to vote than to be weighing the efficacy or otherwise of the Oba’s fetish dispositions. “Oga, we are all Christians but in a matter like this it is better not to give chances to anything,” said.

This was at Amuwo Odofin. “Many of my friends decided same way, just stay away,” he added.

An Igbo transporter at Volks Bus Stop, Ojo, also reacted:

 “I stayed away merely because I honestly believed PDP would win, and that there would be protests and violence. My family did not step out of our ‘yard’ till late in the evening, when we saw that the situation was calm.’

 He however confessed that he thought of the Oba’s threat and the fear of drowning in the lagoon but not as much as he thought about the possibility of chaotic and inconclusive election.

Buttressing this point, a teacher, Kingsley in his 40s who resides in Oyingbo, Lagos, said,

 “The Oba’s threat was a major factor why most Igbo resident in the area refused to vote.’’ According to him, “it was an all Yoruba affair; Igbo had nothing at stake. I stayed back at home to monitor what was going on. So, I don’t see how the Oba’s threat would get at me or any of my family members if I decided not to vote. I consider the statement as careless but that did not affect my decision. I just stayed away, merely because I had nothing to lose,” he said.

In another development, some other Igbo people were part of the process as they went out to cast their votes regardless of the threat. Anita Ihemba who hails from Anambra State and resident in Ajegunle, disclosed to Saturday Vanguard that she voted according to the directives given by their leaders at home. She stated that they were warned not to succumb to the threat of the Oba and not to vote APC in the state. 

“Since the outburst of the Oba, we have been inundated with messages from home that we should not vote for APC and my family complied.

Mr. Reuben Okafor is an Igbo trader at Alaba International Market, Ojo, and a resident of Ilufe, Ojo, said he voted PDP in the presidential/national assembly elections, but refused to vote in the governorship/state assembly elections. His reason was that votes did not count in the first elections.

 “I don’t think the votes counted in the presidential election. If the votes counted, I believe Jonathan would have won in Lagos. So, that was why I never bothered to vote in the governorship election.”

He dismissed the Akiolu’s threat, saying it was inconsequential. 

“No! The threat could not have caused it. Which threat? How can you cause all the Igbo in Lagos and say they would drown in the lagoon in this modern age? It is not possible,” he stated.

In his reaction, the Eze Ndigbo of Mushin, Eze John, commented that Oba Akiolu’s threat motivated them to come out and vote according to their conscience. 

“Every Igbo man condemned the threat totally. That is why every Igbo in my area was motivated to come out and vote.’’ “For me, I didn’t see the comment by the Oba of Lagos as a threat, rather, we saw it as not responsible and this actually motivated some people to vote according to our conscience. For us, it was a challenge for every Igbo in the state. Even those who travelled came back to Lagos to vote. I also rushed back to Lagos to vote regardless of the Oba’s threat. So, it geared us to come out to vote”.

John explained that the Oba Akiolu’s outburst only strengthened their resolve to vote and against the wish of the Oba in the gubernatorial election, adding that the results of the presidential election which did not go in the favour of President Jonathan had initially whittled down their interest.

“Before the Oba’s comment, immediately after the presidential results were announced, the Igbo in Lagos had decided not to vote in Lagos again because we believed our votes would not count. That had necessitated our initial refusal to vote, but we decided again to come out and vote according to our conscience after the Oba’s threat. So, it only galvanised our sympathy for Agbaje.

Meanwhile, Eunice Ugochukwu, a petty trader in Egbeda said, 

“In my own ward, most of our people did not come out to vote, not because of the Oba’s threat but because of the results of the presidential election” which according to her dampened her interest. According to her, “What I gathered from a lot of them was that they had premonition that APC candidate would win and so they did not bother to come out and vote.

“So, if there was voter apathy in the last election in Lagos state, it would not have been as a result of the Oba’s threat, but it could have been because the Igbo were not happy the way the last election went. In Lagos, we wanted a change in government, unfortunately, the person we voted for did not win,” she said.

 There could be other reasons why some Lagos Igbo residents stayed away from the polls last Saturday, but it will not be out of place to suspect that the threat from the Oba of Lagos could have played a major role.

Jonathan Personally Called INEC Returning Officers to Rig and Increase His Votes To Win

I just got this shocking report from SR. According to their findings, President Goodluck Jonathan played a direct role in efforts to rig Nigeria’s presidential election that took place on March 28, 2015, including placing telephone calls to pressure returning officers to alter vote tallies.

The extent of effort to rig the polls for Jonathan and the outgoing president’s direct role in the scheme, emerged from interviews and tips offered by electoral officials, security agents, foreign and Nigerian election monitors, and members of the president’s own party - the PDP.

Weeks before the election, as Jonathan’s internal pollsters warned that his reelection prospects looked dire, the president and his inner circle of associates approved several measures to rig the elections...

Investigation by Sahara Reporters revealed that these included massive deployment of soldiers to several states in Nigeria’s southwest to help intimidate voters sympathetic to the APC, the redeployment of police and other security officials to ensure that those who favored the incumbent president were assigned to “politically tough” states, and the movement of massive amounts of cash to designated states to entice both voters and opposition party agents to swing their support to Jonathan.

When all the steps failed to deliver enough votes to the president, Jonathan and his inner circle went into panic mode once collation of results began. At the end of the first day of election collation by INEC, as it dawned on the president’s team that he was headed for defeat, Jonathan sent retired Colonel Bello Fadile to shop around for any judge who would give an order to stop the collation.

A judge told Sahara Reporters that this effort largely failed because the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court had warned other judges to refrain from entertaining such controversial and potentially incendiary election-related cases. The one judge Mr. Fadile thought he could count on pleaded that he had left Abuja for his hometown for Easter holidays.

Once the plan to use judiciary to scuttle the collation collapsed, Mr. Fadile recruited ex-Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, to lead the role in a plan to physically disrupt collation of results. 

Mr. Orubebe drove into the collation center with two heavily armed men believed to be Niger Delta militants. Once Mr. Orubebe arrived at the International Civil Center (ICC), of the collation venue, the Department of Security Services (DSS) withdrew its security detail clearing the way for Mr. Orubebe’s thugs to foment mayhem. The agency also jammed the Internet service at the center, making it near impossible for reporters at the venue to access the Internet.

Our investigation revealed that what saved the day was the refusal of the Nigerian police at the venue to accept the order to withdraw from the venue. The police commanders at the collation center demanded an official letter from their Inspector General if they were to leave, arguing that their posting to the venue had been done via an official letter. “We said it would be unwise to leave [the collation center] without a counter letter or signal from our headquarters,” one of the police officers told our correspondent. 

As Mr. Orubebe began his disruptive action, Usman Abdullahi, an aide to INEC chairman Attahiru Jega, sent text messages to a few notable Nigerians as well as some Western diplomats alerting them to the possibility that the armed men who accompanied Mr. Orubebe would abduct Mr. Jega. Sahara Reporters saw a copy of the text message.

Mr. Jega’s calm response to Mr. Orubebe’s antics, as well as the refusal of the Nigerian police personnel to quit the ICC, foiled the plot to abduct the INEC chairman.

Mr. Jega remained on his seat for the better part of the day, refusing to leave the table even as he declared short breaks to await the arrival of election returning officers from various states.

Sahara Reporters learned that several of the returning officers were flown into Abuja on a presidential jet. However, the jet made unusual “disappearances” and curiously long delays in bringing in returning officers from the South South and South Eastern states. One of the Presidency sources said the president ordered a delay in flying in the returning officer of Borno State by at least four hours. The president figured that the poll results from the state would widen Mr. Buhari’s lead, giving Nigerians and the global community a clear picture of the APC candidate’s decisive and irreversible domination of the presidential polls. 

While the returning officer from Borno State was abandoned at the Air Force base in Maiduguri, the returning officer from Delta State presented figures that temporarily seemed to boost Mr. Jonathan’s electoral fortunes. 

Several sources disclosed that these delays were part of President Jonathan’s tactical game. President Jonathan made frantic calls to several returning officers from the South South and South East urging them to bump up his final figures to enable him win by at least 500,000 votes against his rival, Muhammadu Buhari. At the time of the president’s calls to returning officers, Mr. Buhari was already leading by at least three million votes according to authentic results published by Sahara Reporters the day before Mr. Orubebe’s meltdown at the ICC. 

A source at the Presidency confirmed to Sahara Reporters that President Jonathan personally reached out to at least four returning officers to ask them to inflate presidential election figures by several hundred thousand votes to enable him win the elections. In one instance, the source said, one of the returning officers told the president that the number of accredited voters was not up to the figures Jonathan wanted him to present to INEC. According to our source, the president remained unfazed. “Just declare the votes, I will take care of the rest,” the official quoted Jonathan as stating. 

Our sources at the Presidency said Jonathan was counting on the usual tactics of using corrupt judges in the Court of Appeal as well as Supreme Court to uphold the outcome of fraudulent elections. 

The sources also revealed that Sahara Reporters played a critical role in frustrating the president’s rigging plan by publishing the unofficial results of the presidential polls based on accurate compilation of results called at various state collation centers. “When your website published the results, there was little or no room to maneuver,” one source at Aso Rock said. He added that Mr. Orubebe’s reference to the publication of the election results was actually a reference to Sahara Reporters’ accurate representation of the polls tally from across the country. 

Our source said that, having been convinced that President Jonathan could pull off a victory by manipulating figures, some of his ministers and party officials began celebrating. For instance, a junior minister for Foreign Affairs, Musiliu Obanikoro, tweeted that he wished to be the first to congratulate Jonathan for emerging victorious. Also PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, spoke on Channels TV, urging the APC to accept defeat and behave peacefully [in anticipation of the rigging].

In the end, President Jonathan and his team came to terms with the reality that no amount of hanky-panky could secure victory for them. Jonathan’s much-praised acceptance of defeat was not part of his original design, according to sources close to the president. They said world leaders had inundated Jonathan with calls demanding that he accept the outcome of the polls. The calls were intensified as soon Mr. Orubebe began his public action aimed at disrupting the collation.

Diplomatic sources in Abuja told Sahara Reporters that the UK and US put enormous pressure on President Jonathan not to undermine the collation process or scuttle the polls. The barrage of pressure finally worked. Jonathan gave orders for the pilot of the presidential jet to head for Maiduguri to pick up the Borno State returning officer. 

Peter Obi Took N27bn From Diezani To Work For Jonathan But He Betrayed The President

When your time to lose has come, no matter how much you spend the result will be the same - defeat.

The noisy remnants of the colossal failure of President Goodluck Jonathan at the presidential polls of March 28, 2015 are exposing the intrigues surrounding the embarrassing lose.

Dirty details have started leaking out to the public. A source has disclosed that the Deputy Director General of the Goodluck Jonathan presidential campaign organization – responsible for the operation in the south south and south east geopolitical zones, Ex-Governor Peter Obi is significantly responsible for the embarrassment suffered by President Jonathan.

According to 247 UReports, as a caveat, shortly after the gubernatorial elections in Anambra State – that saw the victorious ascension of Willie Obiano of APGA to the seat of governor – Peter Obi announced his decampment from the APGA to PDP in a manner that saw the mighty chieftains of the PDP at his home Onitsha to receive him into the party. 

Peter Obi had claimed that he joined PDP to help reelect President Jonathan. In return, the former governor of Anambra State was said to have been promised by President Jonathan a ministerial position – likely the Minister of Aviation – to replace the sacked Stella Odua. But the promise never materialized – largely owing to insistence by PDP chieftains from Anambra who threatened President Jonathan to drop the notion of appointing Peter Obi a minister from Anambra.

So, as the preparations towards the presidential campaign fell into gear, and as President Jonathan set up his presidential campaign organization, Peter Obi was assigned in charge of the south east – and given the organizational title of deputy director general. Mr. Peter Obi became in charge of dissemination of resources and finances for all political activities within the said region – including on Election Day.

The beginnings of the betrayal by Peter Obi came when the Election Day plan was developed by a campaign team employed by the presidency to map out a strategy for victory at the polls. The campaign team were reported to comprise of former top officers of INEC and of the Nigerian intelligence community. The team’s primary responsibility included coercion of voters and INEC workers at the polling units on March 28, 2015 through heavy financial inducement.

A competent source conversant with the activities within the presidency revealed the strategy employed. He said varying amounts of money were earmarked for polling units across the country. For the south south and south east geopolitical zones – which the team marked as green states – were earmarked for N300,000 per polling unit – while the polling units in the north central zone – which were marked as grey states – were earmarked N500,000 per polling unit. The team had targeted having a significantly bumped up voter turnout rate in the three geopolitical zones of south south, south east, and north central – to outbalance the expected poll figures from the north west and north east geopolitical zones.

Through this effect, the sum of N27billion was earmarked for the south east and south south – and was remitted to the deputy director general – Mr. Peter Obi – through the instrumentality of the minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison Madueke.

But on Election Day, the south east states did not deliver enough votes for the President. Mr. Peter Obi, according to PDP chieftains who participated in Anambra elections on March 28, 2015, failed to distribute the money as agreed in the plan. Only N30,000 was distributed instead of the N300,000. For this reason, the INEC polling officials were not as willing to bump up the poll numbers as was done in 2011. The numbers registered at the south east polling units averaged at 550,000 to 660,000 for the PDP per state against an available voter’s strength that averages a little below 2,000,000 for each of the south east states – equivalent to about 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 votes – enough to give the President the expected victory.

With the defeat of March 28, 2015, it became clear to many within the outer circles of the PDP of the betrayal that might have taken place. While the PDP stalwarts observed that the PDP senatorial and House of Reps candidates were able to manipulate their results to an easy victory for the south east and south south states – the likes of Senator Andy Uba, Stella Odua and Uche Ekwunife – in Anambra State.

Some of the concerned PDP chieftains – the like of Arthur Eze and others – found the actions of Peter Obi as clear betrayal of the party and of their presidential candidate. He clearly pointed to Peter Obi as responsible for the failed execution of the planned strategy. He “kept the money” given to him. 

President Jonathan is said to be angry and want his money from those who betrayed him but by the time he leaves office, he would no longer have power to order the police to arrest any of them. How sad!

My Husband Is Disturbing Me Too Much With Sex

Men are not built to be with just one woman, I don't know why our society is living in denial. Most men who claim they have just one wife are "shooting" left, right and center with other ladies. Even the single ladies who are looking for one-husband are "firing" other women husband. #GoFigure

A lady who doesn't want her man to get another wife even when she can't satisfy him has cried out:

My husband's s*xual libido is so high that as his wife, I am exhausted and tired. He demands for it from me every other day and my refusal has caused issues between us.  

It is not like I am trying to run away from my marital duties but

sometimes I just need him to understand that the rigors of work and taking care of our three little children takes its toll on me and s*x is sometimes the last thing on my mind. 

I might just want to rest and as hardened as he is, even when he sees that I climb the bed by 11.30pm and I am to wake up by 5.30am to start preparing the children for school, he doesn't care and still demands sex from me. 

I am Tired. Now I am thinking if I should talk to my Pastor or his Father so that they can talk to him for me. 

Keep complaining...just continue ;-) 

Graphic photo: A foreigner's child attacked in South Africa

They are now attacking children? That's crossing the line and not cool at all. Not cool...

Save Me Before My Police Husband Kills Me, Wife Cries Out

The victim (Folashade carrying her twins)

Life, for 28-year-old Folashade Ayetan, a mother of four, has not been a bed of roses. Without respite, her life has been garnished daily with psychological, emotional and physical torture.

Folashade’s troubles began when she became pregnant 11 years ago at the age of 17, while in Jss 3. Naïvely, she thought that getting married to a man who promised her heaven on earth would provide an escape route or, at least, give her succour. Little did she know that her marriage to a police officer currently serving at Onireke Divisional Police Station, in Ojo, Lagos, would make her sad.

• MY ORDEAL

Looking haggard with her twins, Taiwo and Taiye, Shade recounts her ordeal to Crime Guard:

“I have come to the media because this is the only option. I want Nigerians who will read my story to come to my rescue, save me from the cruel hands of my husband. I live
every minute of my life in fear. No doubt, I have made some silly mistakes but, I t think I have suffered so much in silence and now, I am speaking out because I need help urgently.

I was born in 1987. My life is a very complicated one. I got pregnant when I was in JSS 3 and had a baby girl and could not continue schooling. Later, I learnt how to sew clothes. 

My problem started after my father chased me out of his house. I began to sleep in a bakery in the area. It was during this period that I met my husband Michael, a police officer and he promised to help me out. That was when I began to date him before I started living with him. My daddy chased me out of the house after he married his last wife, Iya Liade. she manipulated my father till he chased my mother out of the house.

• FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE BUBBLE BUST

“We have been together for about five years now but, we dated for a year before I became pregnant for our first child. He didn’t pay my dowry. When he came to see my parents, there was serious disagreement because when I was three months pregnant, he took me to his village to live with his family in a camp at Akure.

Initially, he told my parents that we were going to see his parents in Akure. But he kept me there for almost two years. While I was living with his parents in Ijoka road camp, his mother taught me how to cook their native food because I am Yoruba and he is Calabar. He stopped me from wearing trousers and make-up which I obeyed to make him happy.

Any time we had misunderstanding, he would beat the hell out of me. Even when I was pregnant, the beating continued unabated. He refused to give me money to register in the hospital for ante-natal.
I carried the pregnancy till I delivered. It was in his mother’s room that I delivered. It was God that saved me because after giving birth, they took the baby boy, Godwin, who is now 4 years old, went outside for celebration but abandoned me even while the placenta wasn’t out. It was his father that raised alarm and rescued me.

• BATTERING CONTINUES

Three weeks after delivery, he beat me up mercilessly because I bathed my baby when his mother went to a village market. Usually when she goes to the village market, she spends three days before returning, which was why I decided to bath him because Mama was not around. Two days later, I fell ill. I was sick for about ten days without medical care.

It got to a point when I was throwing up and also cleaning my vomit. When I recovered, I went to appeal to the Bale in the community where we lived to plead with my husband to take me back to my family in Lagos.

All these while, I didn’t know my family, especially my mother, had been calling and asking him to bring me back but he would tell them that he would give me the phone to speak with them which he never did. When I came back to Lagos, I found out that my family members made efforts to reach out to me but my husband prevented them because I didn’t have a phone.

• ESCAPE TO THE VILLAGE

When the trouble became unbearable, I told them that I wanted to go back to my family with my baby, they refused. They took my seven weeks old baby and chased me out. I practically begged for transport fare from people which I used to get to my village in Owo. My maternal uncle took me to the hospital. I was admitted in three different hospitals. I was at Oke-Mopo hospital before I was moved to Oke-oja hospital at Iyere-Owo. Later, I was transferred to Oke-Mopo-Iyere Medical Centre.

When I was discharged from the hospital, my uncles in Owo invited my father to a meeting to decide my fate because they felt he contributed to my problems. He honoured the invitation and after the discussion, he took me back to his house in Lagos. While I was living with my father, my husband began to plead for forgiveness, saying that it was the devil’s work and that he was a changed man, that he had gone to different churches and they said he must come and ask for forgiveness for all the wrong he did to me otherwise our son would die.

That his life would be miserable without me. He went to my village to plead with relatives. He insisted that he couldn’t marry any other person but me. I told him that I preferred to live under my father’s roof and I was no longer interested and that I have had enough of the beating, humiliation and misery.

• BACK TO MY FATHER’S HOUSE

After I returned to my father’s house, it did not take time for his attitude towards me to change. He kept on lamenting that I was a source of shame and disgrace to him and the family because I gave birth at home and also had a failed marriage. I kept pleading with him to have compassion on me. I sold fuel. I made clothes for people to enable me provide for my children.

All I asked of my father was to shelter me and my children. There was a day I beat his dog for bringing in disposed pampers from the refuse dump into the house. There was nothing my father did not say because I beat his dog. He said I must return back to the father of my children and that I was no longer welcomed in his house.

• SUICIDE ATTEMPT

My father frustrated me to the extent that I drank poison to commit suicide because I wanted to end it all. Luckily for me, they rushed me to the Grace land hospital. He called my husband to come and take me back.

That was how I left the little trading I engaged in to cater for myself and children. When he came, he took me to his place at Alapere in Ketu Mile 12, and we were living together. It was as if he was a changed man. Six months later I got pregnant for the twins. When I was four months gone, his attitude changed again.

• ……..AND THE BATTERING CONTINUES

He began to beat me. He got provoked at any slightest thing.
When I was seven months pregnant, he beat me, hit my head on the wooden bed and my protruding stomach on the floor. He tore the clothes I wore, chased me out with only pant. It was a neighbour that gave me wrapper to cover my nakedness. Our neighbours are living witnesses to all these beatings.

The constant beating led to complications to the extent that I had to deliver the twins through caesarean operation at Gbagada General Hospital. Yet, he could not raise money to pay for the hospital bills. It was my elder sister and her husband that loaned him money to pay for the hospital bills. Till date, he paid part of the loan and withheld the balance.

He harassed my mother who came to help me nurse my baby after I delivered the twins. She had to go because of how badly he treated her. Immediately my mother left, he increased the beating. While my babies were two weeks old, he kept demanding for sex even when he knew that I gave birth via caesarean session. When I refused, I received beating.

• FIGHT FOR SURVIVIAL

When my babies were four months, because I didn’t want to be idle, I got a shop where I paid N15, 000 as rent for six months so that I could sew clothes. But each time we had misunderstanding, he would destroy my wares and lock my shop. At a point, neighbours in the compound became fed up with the entire situation and they kept advising me to leave before he kills me. Yet, I continued to stay because I felt my family rejected me, where do I go from there?

• ABANDONMENT

There was a time he abandoned the children and I for over a month without coming back home I had to hawk pure water at Mile 12 to be able to feed the three children. After a month, he came back again and continued from where he stopped. There was a particular Sunday he beat me up, used one of the twins Taiye to hit the wall. He tore my clothes.

• REPORTS LODGED WITH WELFARE, POLICE

The next day Monday, I went to the Lagos state welfare office in Ikeja to report the case. They told me that they don’t treat cases that involve officers and their spouses because they hardly abide by the advice of the welfare. I cried, not knowing what to do, they told me to go to the police command and report to the provost.

I went to the Police Provost office and reported the case. He was invited alongside with my father. They did what they could to address the issue. They asked him to stop beating me, take care of his family and go to my father’s house and pay my dowry. When I got home that day, he invited his mother to come and take the children back to the village since I wanted the police to sack him. His mother accused me of wanting the son to lose his job. I said no, all I wanted was for these unnecessary beatings to stop and that I didn’t want him to lose his job.

• SEEKS DISOLUTION OFMARRIAGE

At this point we went back to the provost office and told them that I was no longer interested in the marriage. They asked him what he would be giving for the children’s monthly up keep. He said he would be giving N10, 000 monthly. To me, packing out was not the issue but where would I go with three children from there? My family refused to have anything to do with me because he kept threatening all of us openly that as a police officer, he would kill me and nothing would happen.
That he would only go to prison for a few years after killing me. I went back to the house only for him to chase me out with cutlass. I had to run to my mother’s house. Few days later, they brought the children to my father’s house but he chased them away. His mother took the children back to the camp in Akure. They lived with her for about seven months.

• PRESSURE ON ME TO CONTINUE

Within this period, I began to work in Balogun market as a sales girl, to enable me rent a shop and I was recovering from the hell I passed through. I don’t know how but he traced me to where I was working and would always come there to beg for forgiveness. He said I should come back because the children were suffering and missing their mother.

When I refused, he would come there and make trouble. He would embarrass me, shout at the top of his voice, that I am his wife and that I abandoned three children for him. He began to blackmail me saying that my children were sick in the village and that I would be heartless to allow them die because of his attitude towards me.

He went about convincing my family and relatives that the children need their mother and that he wanted me back. Because of the shame, he left Ketu Mile 12 and rented a room and parlour ( self-contain apartment) at Gabriela Awolowo Street, Ijanikin and brought back the children from Akure early January this year.

• BACK TO BASE WITH SAME OLD

I had no option than to go back. However, since we began to live in Ijaniki, he then stopped me from working. He seized my phone and said my family must not call me and I must not call them. The beating has continued.

He would insult and call my mother names each time we had misunderstanding. This is the woman that catered for him when he had accident and was in the hospital. I don’t want him to lose his job.
All I want is for him to take responsibility of catering for his children, stop beating me , stalking and constantly threatening my life. He also threatened to kill all the members of my family if I leave him. He said he has corked his gun and ready to kill any of my relatives that questions him about how he treats me.

He also threatened to disfigure me with acid so that no man would be attracted to me. 

Nigerians, please rescue me before he kills me if for nothing, but for the sake of my innocent children.”

When contracted, on the phone, Sergeant Michael, husband of the victim Folashade, denied beating or threatening his wife. He told Vanguard that nothing like that happened. I am not aware and I have no knowledge of what you are talking about.

Terrifying Photos Reveal the Horror of What's Really Happening in South Africa #Xenophobia

At least five people have been killed over the past two weeks since local vigilantes in South Africa started looting and attacking shops owned by immigrants mainly from other parts of Africa

In Johannesburg, Malawian immigrant Samuel Idrssa described how his friend was stabbed and set on fire by a mob.

‘We wanted to rescue him but there were too many of them,’ he said. ‘It was shocking.’
 ‘We have all left our homes. Those affected are those of us who live in poor townships because we live with poor South Africans who do not have jobs.’ 

Violence flared days after Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini said in remarks that foreigners should 'take their bags and go'. And pictures below capture the horror of what's currently happening in the country.

Addressing parliament in Cape Town on Thursday, President Zuma had reiterated his condemnation of the violence, calling it a 'violation' of South Africa's values.

No amount of frustration or anger can ever justify the attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops,' he said. 'We condemn the violence in the strongest possible terms. The attacks violate all the values that South Africa embodies.' 

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Mr Nigeria, Emmanuel Ikubese shares sexy photo on instagram Ha, Emmanuel! Ye should have pulled the shorts down just a tiny little bit more... *sigh*

Mr Nigeria, Emmanuel Ikubese shares sexy photo on instagram

Ha, Emmanuel! Ye should have pulled the shorts down just a tiny little bit more... *sigh*

Between Teebillz and Ghanaian star, Joselyn Dumas

So here's what happened. Teebillz, under his management alongside Spellz for 323Ent produced a song for his artist Trafic titled Joselyn Dumas, which was partly about the Ghanian actress. But Joseyln's management claim they were not informed that a song was being made about her and contacted 323Ent not to use her name or image for their song. 323 then contacted Joselyn's new management for permission and they requested to listen to the song first before they give it. When they heard the song, they said they didn't particularly like the lyrics as it was talking about her body which they weren't comfortable it and so didn't give permission. Then her management released an official statement two days ago saying they have officially signed Joselyn and anyone who wants to deal with her must go though them.

Something pissed Teebillz off because he went on instagram this morning to call out Joselyn...

This was before Joselyn went to sign with another label...