Nigerian Hajj stampede female victim in hospital in Saudi Arabia

Unidentified Mina stampede victim from Kwara State in critical condition at King Abdul'aziz hospital, Saudi Arabia. A lot of Nigerians are missing relatives. Anyone knows who this woman is?

Man 'happily' married to 3 women encourages men to marry more than one wife

Fresha Nyambura, Esther Nyaguthii and Agnes Wambui have been married to Charles Macharia for 30 years. The women are now jointly planning the payment of their dowry. They organised an animated ceremony for first wife Nyambura last Saturday, September 26, in Murang'a town, Kenya, that saw them all dance with their husband and explain their unusual set up.

 "They respect and listen to me. My authority is never undermined," First wife Nyambura said.She said they have a systematic way of spending time with Macharia but did not give details. Second wife Nyaguthii said;
"He advised us when he decided to get other wives. We are satisfied; there is no need to cause problems. Men pretend to be faithful while keeping their other wives a secret, but we are all here together."Third wife Wambui said they love each other and are good friends. The three, who live in different houses, broke down their roles ahead of the dowry ceremony to Macharia, who gave them the money needed. Asked to introduce his family during the event, Macharia began by inquiring about attendants only interested in his polygamy.

He then asked those who attended because of their friendship to raise their hands after which he said;
"Let all my wives come here for introduction."The businessman then introduced the women in the order in which he married them, followed by his 12 children.
"There is no man here who does not have another wife. Notice how smart they are. You have to wake up early and take care of the family. You cannot laze around, you must work hard."Macharia said he is satisfied and will now focus on getting more children, and lauded his wives for uniting and living peacefully. It is best for men to declare their other relationships, he said, adding that all was well in his family, and urging men to marry more than one woman. Macharia said plans to pay dowry for Nyaguthii and Wambui were in place.

Source: The Star Kenya

Photos of Boko Haram members allegedly celebrating Sallah openly

These are photos of suspected Boko Haram members openly celebrating Sallah in their hideout. According to Sahara reporters, the pictures are from a video released by the sect members apparently in a bid to counter the statements of the Nigerian army that they are being routed out.

Woman held for attempt to use Uche twins for fraud

•’She told us she wanted to put them on a film’

The police have arrested a woman for allegedly attempting to use the four-month old twins of Mrs Ruth Uche, whose husband fled after she gave birth to them, to defraud a retired police chief.

The woman was caught at College Road Estate, when she took the babies to the retired police officer’s house, claiming that they were his grandchildren.

It was learnt that the suspect, a mother of two, identified as Victoria, was introduced to the Uches by a neighbour.

She was said to have told the twins parents that she wanted the babies to appear in a film.

Although Mrs Uche’s husband, Emeka was said to have initially declined, he later conceded on the condition that his wife must go with the children.

Rather than taking them to location, she was said to have carried the babies to the house of the wealthy man, who was said to be happy to see his ‘grandchildren’.

But, the suspect could not say the sex and age of the babies when she was asked.

The suspect, had earlier taken the twins’pictures and sent to the man, claiming that they were boys and two months old.

When the retired officer saw the babies, he realised that they were a boy and a girl, and looked much older than two months.

It was then Mrs Uche suspected something was amiss and told the man the age and sex of her babies.

“I did not understand what was going on. I do not even know the place we went to. She has been pleading with us that she wanted to use the twins (youngest set) in a film.

“My husband initially denied but later since she said it was to act film; I begged my husband and he agreed on the condition that I go with the woman.

“So, around 11:30am on Sunday, we all left the house and came to Agege. She took us to one big man’s house, I do not know the place and she told me to sit down that it is she and the kids that will act the film.

“But when I sat down, I heard the man asking her whether my children are two boys and how old they are.

“She said two months and that they are boys but I told the man that they are a boy and a girl, and that they are four months old.

“The man asked whose children they were and I told him they are my children and that the woman said she wanted to act film with them.

“That was when the man started shouting and saying that she told him that my children are his grandchildren. That she has sent their picture before and that she told him his son impregnated her before travelling abroad.

“The man now said that we were in it together and that I knew about it. I told him I do not know anything that the only thing she told us was that she wanted to act film with my babies.

“Before she did not want to talk, but when people threatened her, she now told them that I am innocent. That she wanted to get money from the man. That woman is a criminal,” Mrs Uche said.

The suspect said she wanted to use the twins to get money from the retired officer for her children’s school fees.

She claimed that she did not plan to sell them; nor was she planning to steal them from their parents.

“Please I am sorry, have mercy on me. I am a poor widow and I have two children. I begged their parents that I wanted to act film with the twins and the twins’ father told his wife to follow me.

“I wanted to use them to collect money from the man because I used to date his son after I lost my husband.

“Before he travelled abroad last year, I got pregnant for him but I aborted the baby. So, because I needed money, I decided to use the twins and show his father so that I can get money from him and pay my children’s school fees.

“I did not plan to sell them and I did not know that things will turn out this way,” cried Victoria.

Contacted, the command spokesman, Joseph Offor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed the woman’s arrest.

He said the twins’ mother would have been detained too but for the children.

Offor said investigations were ongoing to be sure the parents did not conspire with the suspect.

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61 year old man on the run for raping 11 year old and 10 year old sisters

A 61-year-old year security man, identified as John, is currently on the run for allegedly raping two sisters for several weeks in the Anthony area of Lagos.  learnt that  John reportedly gave the sisters, an 11-year-old and a 10-year-old N200 each time he raped them and warned them that he would kill them if they revealed the secrets to their mother or anyone else.
It was gathered that the rape, which reportedly went on for several weeks, was later discovered on August 30, when the girls started to complain about back pain and headache and opened up to their mother.“I work as a food seller. John was one of my customers. He would say I should send a take-away pack to him at his workplace by afternoon. So, when the girls returned from school, I would send the two of them to take the food to him. I did not suspect that he was raping them.“When they took the food to him, he would take them to a place and rape both of them. After satisfying himself, he would give them N200, and warn them not to say anything at home. He would threaten that he would harm them if they spoke up.“Eventually, the two of them started to complain about headache and back pain. I was worried. On one occasion, I happened to be where the 11-year-old was taking her bath, and I observed that her private parts were slack as an adult’s. I was shocked, and I urged her to tell me what went wrong.“That was when she opened up that it was John who had been sleeping with her and her sister. I rushed to the police station to make a report, but news had got to John that the girls had let out the matter, and he fled the area on the same day.“But the police have assured us that he would be arrested. They told us to alert them anytime we set our eyes on him.”A resident in the area, Fatai Gafar, said the police should need to areest John asap and that the girls need medical attention which they haven't received yet.
 He said:“The whole estate is aware of the incident. It is very unfortunate. The security man does not live here with his family. He was the only person staying in the place he rented, and he has fled."
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Senate gets Buhari’s list of Ministers today

IT is certain that the list of ministers is ready, and President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the prized document should be submitted immediately to the Senate, which resumes from its six-week break, today.

The list was said to contain the names of people like former Rivers State Governor, Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi; a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Rotimi Akeredolu; former Army Chief, Lt-Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazzau, and activist lawyer, Femi Falana, among others.

It was gathered, yesterday, that President Buhari handed the list to his Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, and directed him to forward it to the Senate President.

Therefore, Senate President, Bukola Saraki will tomorrow formally present Buhari’s ministerial list to senators.

President Buhari, currently attending the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, was said to have given the list of 36 ministers to Senator Ita Enang in New York.

It was gathered that President Buhari directed Senator Ita Enang to either hand over the list to the Senate President at the resumption of the plenary today or on Wednesday, depending on the mood of the Senate.

However, it was  learned that Enang who left New York for Nigeria, yesterday, will not arrive Abuja before 3pm today, when the Senate would have concluded its business for the day. The Presidency had repeatedly promised that the list would be available this month and tomorrow is the last day of September.

Meanwhile, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has dismissed as a family affair perceived misgivings between the party and President Buhari over the ministerial list.

Fresh primary  poll in Bayelsa

This came as  APC National Working Committee, NWC, yesterday, said the party was going ahead with the conduct of a fresh governorship primary in Bayelsa State, insisting that the previous one was invalid.

It also asked the former governor of the state, Timipre Sylva, who purportedly won the last primary election, to approach the court should he find the decision of the NWC unwholesome.

Asked if the NWC discussed the ministerial list, Odigie-Oyegun said: “We know that the President will do what he needs to do. What happened or did not happen between us and the President is a matter for the party as a family. It is a family affair, but he will do what he needs to do, when he needs to do it. You can trust him on that.”

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, who was the chairman of the election panel, testified before the NWC that there was no election, stressing that hoodlums attacked him, making the exercise inclusive.

Briefing journalists after the NWC meeting at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, Odigie-Oyegun said the process for fresh primaries would commence today.

He said the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Solomon Arase, had been notified of the decision.

His words: “The main issue that occupied us today at the NWC meeting had to do with the Bayelsa governorship primaries. We want to make it very clear that as a party, the APC guards very jealously its records of free and fair primaries.

“The NWC sees it as a duty to provide a level playing ground for all those who aspire to offices in this party, unfortunately, in Bayelsa state, we had serious security challenges and so the process could not meet the standards which this party has set for itself and so we had no alternative but to stop the process by ensuring that the chairman of the panel was effectively moved out of the venue with the help of security agencies.

“We decided thereafter that there should be a proper primary. So, we have written to INEC appropriately and decided to conduct fresh primaries for the Bayelsa governorship election beginning tomorrow. We are getting in touch with the Inspector General of Police and all the other security agencies to please assist us in ensuring effective security.”

Oyegun stated that the party was not interested in who emerged the candidate eventually but that due process must be followed as APC stood for change and must reflect it in its dealings.

“Let me make one thing clear. The issue of who is candidate or not is not the issue here. That is not what is in consideration because it can be any of the 19 aspirants that obtained the form to contest that election.

‘’But for the APC, the party of change, it is essential that in party processes, elections within the party are also seen to be free, fair, totally above board and without any form of force.

‘’That is what we hope to achieve beginning from tomorrow. The venue remains Yenagoa because by law, you cannot change the venue because that is part of the electoral act,” he said.

Primary election c’ttee returned Sylva under pressure

The national chairman also exonerated the panel that declared Sylva winner, saying anybody could have done so under the intense atmosphere.

“We sent people to do a job and it got to a situation where they had reasons to fear for their safety, rightly or wrongly. Anything that anybody does in such a situation to keep body and soul in one piece is welcome,’’ he said.

Reminded that Sylva might challenge NWC’s decision, Oyegun said:   “That is what the courts are for. We will cross that bridge when we get there. The Saraki issue is in court and I will not want to say one word about it.”

Speaking on security arrangement for the fresh primary, he said: “They say once beaten, twice shy. I am not a security man; I am not a security expert. But I am sure that the IGP is fully abreast of  what happened that day as well what can be done and need to be done to avoid a repetition and we trust his judgement.”

Cancelled primary was a mini-war, says Oshiomhole

Meanwhile, the chairman of the election panel, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, appeared before the NWC and testified what transpired at the Yenagoa election.

Briefing journalists, the governor stated that he was not on any revenge mission but was being truthful about the situation, admitting that what happened in Bayelsa was a mini war.

He said: “I along with six other colleagues of mine were a panel to conduct the primaries. We have reported back and we have signed the report, five of us and that report has been presented formally to the party and it details all the issues. You know them and that is how far I can go. The report belongs to the party. It is not for me as a steward to tell the master what to do, but we have reported.

“I really don’t want to go back to those issues. These are not issues that transpired in a bedroom. I do hope that some day we get to a point where even the media must defend the democratic space, concerning what happened in the stadium I have seen independent reports, “gun shots were being fired”, “AK 47 were recovered, two of them, Pump action, live ammunition.

“These are not secrets that transpired. I am not the issue and I don’t want to be the issue. There are issues that are important to me. I didn’t go there as a governor. I went there as a party member on a national assignment for the party and it is a great honour.

“I have done that job along with my colleagues to the best of my ability and I have reported with the fear of God the truth as I know it and this has been signed by every member and we have forwarded the report.”

Oshiomhole also denied speculations that he planned to favour one of the aspirants, Mr. Timi Alaibe, emphasizing that Sylva was his “brother”.

“You know Sylva is my brother and I can show you my phone, I’m not just calling him my brother, I have sent him a text saying my brother and he will remain my brother. So, if there is an argument or somebody is under tension what you need is our help, I know what it takes contesting for an election and I have passed through all of that and happily, I’m doing my second term.

“So, I will not create burden for anyone except that because of the tradition I’m coming from, democracy has only one meaning “one man, one vote”. It is a covenant between me and my God. I have fought electoral fraud in Edo and God mercifully aided me and we defeated some of the retrogressive forces and if there is nothing else I can do, the principle of one man one vote is something I’m committed to so. If he is offended by that it is a pity. For emphasis, Sylva is my brother and I’m not going to fight him in the street”, he stated.

Meanwhile, there was palpable fear earlier in the day when the NWC meeting came on stream as the party secretariat witnessed an unusual horde of stern-looking police men and operatives from the Department of State Service, DSS.

Vanguard gathered that the development was a measure to prevent anticipated showdown should there be an attack from, perhaps, Silva’s camp.

It will be recalled that the social media went viral with the news credited to Sylva that the APC national chairman could not upturn his electoral victory or stop him from contesting the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State.

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Queen of Aso 2015 winners.

The 10th edition Queen of Aso Nigeria 2015 has come and gone but the memory still lingers because it was one of the best show ever organised any where in the country. The event was world class with the contestants of the little Queen of Aso and Queen of Aso.

The contestants who represented various ethnics groups in the country exhibited great level of intelligent, dance and Beauty to promote the rich cultural heritage and tourism value of Nigeria.

At the end of the competition 25yrs Old princess Jessica Anyansi(Queen Fulani) from Delta State was crowned the Queen of Aso World 2015,Queen Sandra Ekwosiobi(Queen Igbo)from Anambra State was crowned Queen of Aso Universe 2015,while Queen Cynthia Umenyi Was crown Queen of Aso Africa 2015,Miss Habibat Aliyu(Queen Okun)-Queen of Aso Tourism 2015,Miss Kate Asima(Queen Kalabari)-Queen of Aso Ambassador 2015,Miss Chichibem Aguocha(Queen Ibiobio)-Queen of Aso Photogenic 2015,Miss Tosin Amina Pedro(Queen Yoruba)-Ambassador of Sofa 2015,Miss Miebaka Wokoma(Queen Okrika)-Face of Aso Label 2015, the winner will represent Nigeria @ Miss Tourism Universe 2016 and Miss Africa Naiades 2015 ...

The winner of the little Queen of Aso World 2015 is Miss Miss Chelsea Aniegboka(Queen Efik) ,,Little Queen of Aso universe is Miss Jennifer Sabastine (Queen Igbo); Little Queen of Aso Africa is Miss Crown Bereba (Queen Ogoni),Miss Hadiza Shehu(Queen Fulani) is Little Queen of Aso Tourism 2015 ,the Winner will represent Nigeria @ Little Miss Wolrd 2016.

The event had high personalities like the Director General National Council for Arts and Culture -Mrs Dayo Keshi and the entire management staff of the agency, Ambassador John Fashanu,the representative of the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of culture and Tourism and the Permanent Secretary of FCT.

Top Nigeria musicians like Joe el, project fame winner Monica Ogar, Jumabee performed during this anniversary edition to the delight of the crowd at Sheraton hotels and towers Abuja. And the event was anchored by Kyrss da Boss of Cool 96.9fm and Amaka of Hot 98.3fm.