My Life Ambition Was to Win Gulder Ultimate Search and I Did It –– Dennis Okike

29yrs old Dennis Okike is a

multi-millionaire today and the

proud owner of a brand new

SUV, courtesy of his

participation in the just

concluded Gulder Ultimate

Search, 2013 edition. He

speaks with Punch on the

show, his experiences and how

it took him three years to

emerge the Ultimate Man.

Enjoy...

Why did you decide to go in for

Gulder Ultimate Search 10?

I had the craving to be a part of

the show. I saw myself as

being an Ultimate Man

someday. I have always had

the dream. My friend, Uche

Nwaezeapu, won the GUS in

2006. He wasn’t as athletic as I

was back then. He was just the

guy next door and didn’t

participate in any sports while

we were in school. Now, I

started seeing him on TV and

he became the winner. So I felt

if Uche could win, I could as

well. I prayed about it and from

that day, I started working

towards it...

So this wasn’t your first time of

trying to be a part of the show?

No. this was actually the third

time. The first time, I didn’t

make the preliminaries. The

second time, I was evicted

during the final selection and

then this time around, when I

went into the jungle. I played all

my cards well and I prayed so

much about it. I trained for

almost eight months for this

year’s search. I was always at

the stadium and the pool

training for the search. I was

just ready for it. I watched all

the past tasks they had in the

other editions and I was just

ready for anything new.

That means just as Uche won,

your life ambition was to be a

part of GUS?

That is true, very true. When

the show came out 10 years

ago, I liked it. But I was scared

of the jungle. But when I saw

Uche my friend doing it, I knew

I could do it as well. He was

my best friend in secondary

school. He coached me all the

while; he made sure I practised

my swimming. He pushed me

so hard. He told me that I

wouldn’t remember all I have

gone through when I start

reaping the fruits of it. He was

the motivational person I

needed. I think I owe all of this

to him.

When did you graduate from

the university?

I graduated in 2009/2010. I

attended University of Nigeria,

Nsukka.

So you haven’t been working

between then and now?

I was working in a bank. But it

was a holiday job. I did my

industrial training at the bank

and somehow, I went back

after graduation and since I

was close to the bosses, they

gave me a holiday job. I

worked there for a while until I

realised that I needed to go

back to school to settle some

issues. I did and that was it.

So you went in for the show

and even made it a ‘life

ambition’ because you didn’t

have a job?

I think God has a way of

planning my life. Everything

went according to God’s plans.

Those who come for the search

are mainly those who are less

occupied. If you had a nine to

five job, I don’t think you would

have the time to be a part of

GUS; that means you would

quit your job. And then, what if

you didn’t become the winner

after quitting your job?

How did you feel when you

were declared the winner?

I told you winning the show

was my priority in life. When I

won, I couldn’t help how I felt.

It was overwhelming. I had to

fall back into the water. How do

I explain being excited and

happy at the same time? I

couldn’t believe it. I was

startled. It didn’t get to me at

first but when it did? I almost

fainted. I got hit by N10m on

my left side and a brand new

SUV on my right side so I

fainted.

You raise the alarm at first even

when you hadn’t found the

piece you were asked to…

Yes. I saw something. It was a

bag of sand. I screamed that I

had found something. It turned

out to be a bag of sand. But it

didn’t deter me. I kept

searching. I asked myself what

I was coming back to if I didn’t

find the piece. I didn’t mind

breaking my nails and hurting

myself. No matter what, I

wanted to come back home

with the money. I had injuries

but I didn’t mind. I took the

pain and I felt I would get the

glory eventually. I was always

reciting my favourite Psalm-

Psalm 53. I kept digging. I went

to a spot where I noted that the

other contestants hadn’t gone.

I kept searching. I found

another bag. I didn’t want to

raise the alarm again. I pulled it

out and the more I pulled, it got

bigger. Obviously, it wasn’t a

sack of sand, it was the

scepter. I went on my knees

and thank God. There were

times I would have been

evicted but I kept praying that

the day wouldn’t be my last

day in the jungle.

What if you hadn’t won?

I still would have gone home

with money. But the most

important thing I am happy I

came for the show this year is

that it gave me the opportunity

to get a GUS pendant. I longed

for it. I wanted to be a part of

the GUS family. I wasn’t keen

about winning. But when I got

into the jungle and I saw the

contestants, I realised that I

should win. Some of them

hadn’t been through what I

have been through in life. Some

of them are comfortable in life. I

felt I hungered for it more. The

hunger kept pushing me. The

longer I stayed in the jungle,

the more I got weaker. People

felt I was losing focus but I am

human. God just protected

everyone of us.

You said you have been

through a lot in life, can you

tell us some of what you have

been through?

I have been neglected by

friends. I am an only son and it

sort of made me to be a one

man army. I grew up having

the sense of being on my own.

I had issues in my family. My

father was comfortable at a

point but at a point, he got shot

in 1998. You know what

happens when the breadwinner

is not able to bring in money

into the family again. Things

became bizarre. I can’t really

say most of the things that

happened. Going through the

university wasn’t easy at all.

But I am this kind of person

that even if I wear bathroom

slippers, I would still look good.

I didn’t let hardship get to me. I

have tasted hardship.

So many people think what we

see on TV is film trick; you

guys don’t get to suffer as

much as...

I don’t think you were shown

half of what we went through in

that jungle. We didn’t have

tooth brushes. We didn’t brush

our teeth for a month. It is a

jungle and you don’t have tooth

brushes in the jungle. It was

incredible. We were walking

casually into the jungle not

knowing what was in stock for

us. We had to go into the mud

for the mudslinging game. That

was when reality dawned on

us. Before then, we were

lounging and relaxing in the

hotel. In the jungle, I went

without food for two and half

days. I was being punished for

an offence. We slept under the

rain. We had bamboos as beds.

We had roaches, mosquitoes

and rodents all around us. We

went through a lot.

Was there a time you felt like

quitting?

I wanted to give up on the

fourth day. But no girl

complained. If no girl

complained, how could I have

been the first to quit? I had to

endure. Our food weren’t tasty

but we had to eat it. we just

wanted the stomach to be filled

up. Initially I thought we would

go and take shelter somewhere

if it rained. But that wasn’t the

case. Rain or shine, we were in

the jungle. It wasn’t the most

wonderful experience but I

thank God.

Was it all worth it, even with

the N10m?

It was worth it.

You didn’t have a good

relationship with the other

contestants…

I wouldn’t say it that way. I

didn’t want to be lukewarm. I

wanted the fire to continue

burning in me. I didn’t want to

continue joking and laughing

and playing. At a point, I felt it

could make us forget the

reason we were there. They

said I was quarrelsome, I was

just being defensive. I don’t like

being bullied.

What is next now?

A new phase of my life has

begun. I don’t have to rush. I

had my plans before I went to

the jungle. Now that I am out,

some plans might be altered.

Better plans have come. I am

not going to sit down and start

spending the money. My plan

is to see if I can double the

money.

What of your girlfriend?

I don’t have to say anything

about that. I will keep living my

life. I live a decent life and I will

not have issues. I will not bring

out my private life in public.

Old friends must have

resurrected now since you

won?

You don’t need to ask. There

was a point in my life my phone

didn’t use to ring. But now, it is

crazy. And the thing is that you

cannot be rude to anybody. My

callers even call by 2am. It has

been crazy. I now have to live

with it. It is my cross and I will

carry it humbly.

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Why We Go after Married Men –Yoruba Actress Bose Opens Up

The truth is bitter but it has to

be told, anyway. Fast-rising

Yoruba actress Bose

Arowosegbe is married to a

man who already has a wife

and children, and she is very

proud of it. WTH! She opens up

to Vanguard the many reasons

why ladies like her prefer to go

for other women husband's.

Why are you actresses always

going after married men?

" I am married to a married man

too . I have not told anyone this

before. Other journalists I have

met were fed the story that my

husband is abroad when he

has always been in the

country. Most single men out

there are not matured enough

to handle the fact that

actresses are normal women.

They believe we are harlots to

be used and dumped.

I believe they (single men) are

too immature to handle the life

around us . They are easily

affected by things they read

and hear about us, and also

things they see on screen

about us.

But married men are matured to

handle all this. They listen to

us instead of listening to gist

about us. They seem to

understand women better.

Besides, they (married men) are

more caring, gentler and wiser."

Dear married women, please

protect your husband o, before

another actress take over from

you. lol!

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ASUU Gives FG Final Condition Before They End The Strike

It is not yet over, as the

Academic Staff Union of

Universities (ASUU) has

given the Government

conditions to be met

before the union would

finally call off its over

four-month old strike.

“I must tell you that

our mandate

remains. The only

mandate we have is

that 2009 agreement

must be met. We

have not reached

any agreement with

the Federal

Government.

“Since the Federal

Government wants to

be releasing N220bn

every year for five

years, then all

monetary and

regulatory agencies

must sign.... The

reason we will

ensure this is that

we don’t want

argument tomorrow

that the agreement

was entered in error

or that they don’t

know the implication

of signing the

agreement . If

possible, documents

that will provide for

automatic deduction

of the agreed money

at a particular/

agreed date must be

provided.”

A prominent member of

the union, who craved

anonymity because he

was not authorised to

speak on behalf of the

union, told Punch that

doing this would give the

association the confidence

that “the Government

knows what it is doing

when it signed the

agreement.”

He said, "The Central

Bank of Nigeria, Ministries

of Finance and Labour,

National Assembly, Office

of the Presidency,

National Universities

Commission, Tertiary

Education Trust Fund,

Trade Union Congress

and our umbrella body,

the Nigeria Labour

Congress, must sign with

consequences stated."

Recall that the leadership

of ASUU had engaged in

a 13-hour marathon

meeting with government

delegation led by

President Goodluck

Jonathan in Abuja

between Monday and

Tuesday.

Asked when the lecturers

would call off the strike, a

source who was at the

meeting said, “I doubt if

the strike is ending soon.

The problem is with the

Finance Minister. Where is

government getting N1trn

from? A government that

could not implement

agreement between 2009

and 2013, what is the

guarantee that they would

honour this agreement.

“It is all politics. We are

still awaiting directives

from our branches. We

have told them the

outcome of the meeting

with the President but we

are waiting for them to tell

us what they think of

government’s proposal.

“Imagine the Minister of

Education has travelled

out of the country. He

was appointed Vice

President for UNESCO

General Assembly. How

can he travel out of the

country without resolving

the crisis in the education

sector?’"

The agreement reached

by both ASUU and the

Federal Government is

that government would

inject N1.1tn into public

universities in the next

five years. But ASUU need

guarantees that this will

happen.

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Jim Iyke Will Suffer For Using and Dumping My Daughter ––Says Nadia Buari’s Mum

Mrs Hajia Buari, mother of

Ghanaian actress, Nadia

Buari, is very mad at

Nollywood bad boy Jim

Iyke who was recently

delivered at Prophet TB

Joshua's church in Lagos

from his spiritual

challenges.

Many had thought after

his deliverance, Jim will

get married to Nadia who

has been with him for

sometime now, including

having "private"

vacations...you know

what I mean! But

unfortunately the reverse

is the case. Jim Iyke

responded to a tweet from

Obascotec , by

saying he's not ready for

marriage.

Jim has dumped Nadia

and her mum is very

angry. See what she said

about him below...

“They were great

together. They were

like a couple and we

thought they were

heading for the altar .

She was very

connected to

him. She has talked

to me about getting

married and having

children.

She plans on settling

down but not right

now. She has to

focus on her career.

That Nigerian boy

will suffer for daring

to break my baby’s

heart ,” Mrs Hajia

was by a Ghanaian

media.

I think she shouldn't rush

into any conclusions. Jim

Iyke might still have good

plans for Nadia, who

knows?

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This Deadly Robber Sold Pasuma's Range Rover for N950,000; The Car Is Worth N9m

The gang leader of the

deadly robbery gang that

snatched Fuji Musician,

Alabi Pasuma's Range

Rover Sport car at gun

point months ago has

been apprehended. He is

Kasali Adegoke. Below

are his confession...

“While he was with

us, we had no idea

that he was Pasuma.

We did not recognise

him. It was the next

day that we realised

that it was Pasuma

car we snatched the

previous night when

the news was all

over town.

“By that time, the car

was already in

Cotonou. We drove it

that same night to a

border town in Ogun

State where one of

the receiver’s boys

was waiting to drive

it back to Cotonu.

We were paid

N950,000.

“I have a receiver at

Cotonou who usually

calls to place orders

for any type of

vehicle that he

wants. Before we

stole Pasuma’s car,

my buyer had

already told me that

he wanted a Range

Rover Sport. We

were just on the

lookout for possible

victims when we

noticed Pasuma’s

car.”

It would be recalled that

Pasuma was to have

hidden his face from the

robbers that night until he

was dumped in a bush

near Ota, Ogun State, after

they stripped him down to

his underwear.

SARS operatives led by

the Officer-in-Charge,

Mohammed Tijani,

arrested Adegoke in

Obele, a border town

between Nigeria and

Benin Republic. He was

critically injured in a

shoot out with the police.

He later led SARS men to

arrest other members of

his gang at their hideout

in Iju-Ishaga, Lagos. A

top police source say the

deadly gang, led by a

deformed Adegoke, have

killed about 20 policemen.

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Nigeria Overtakes South Africa As Continent's Largest Economy

Nigeria is expected to release

revised economic numbers

from 1990 to 2008. That is

expected to show that the

country has overtaken South

Africa as Africa's largest

economy

.With us to discuss all this is

professor at the University of

Massachusetts Amherst

Léonce Ndikumana. He is a

professor of economics at

UMass Amherst, as I

mentioned, and he's the

director of the African Policy

Program at the Political

Economy Research Institute

(PERI).Thank you for joining

us.LÉONCE NDIKUMANA,

ASSOC. PROF. ECONOMICS

AND LAW, UMKC: Thank you

very much for the

opportunity.DESVARIEUX: So,

Professor, let's talk about

Nigeria. It's moving to become

the number-one economy on

the African continent. What is

the cause behind this rapid

economic growth?NDIKUMANA:

Thank you very much. I think

this is a very important and

interesting question.There are

two things that we need to

single out. One is that even as

of today, Nigeria is the second-

largest economy on the

continent, with about

$262 billion in 2012, compared

to $384 billion GDP for South

Africa.

The second one is that Nigeria

had been growing quite fast. In

2011, they grew by 7.4 percent,

which that went down a little

bit to 26.6 percent in 2012. At

the same time, South Africa's

been growing a little bit slower,

in the range of 2 to 3 percent,

which is consistent with a more

mature economy. So that by

itself would mean that over

time Nigeria is going to get

closer and closer to South

Africa. Even if you look at the

last 12 years, in 2012 the

economy of South Africa was

about three times larger than

the economy of Nigeria. Now

it's about 1.5 percent.Now you

bring in another factor, which is

the rebasing of the national

data in Nigeria, which is

something that other countries

are going to also have to

undertake because their

national accounts based on

outdated--have outdated

bases, in the sense that some

sectors which were not there

when they were doing the

calculations now are more

predominant in production of

goods and services.

One of the biggest new

innovation is the telecom

sector, which is becoming a

bigger and bigger part of the

service sector. So this requires

countries to go back in their

statistics and redo the

weighting of each economic

sector. And this, for many

countries, is going to result in a

larger major amount of national

output, which is GDP. Ghana

has already done it, and Nigeria

is on track of releasing their

new statistics. And this will

result in a larger GDP for

Nigeria. And, again, as you

said, it may be the case that

they may be either closer, even

take over South Africa,

assuming that South Africa

doesn't do the rebasing

[incompr.]DESVARIEUX: And I

can imagine what's propelling

this rapid growth is that three-

letter word, oil, since Nigeria

has a lot of it. What do you

make of that?NDIKUMANA:

Yes. As you indicated, the rapid

growth in Nigeria over the past

years is driven mainly by the oil

sector.

To give you an example, of the

six point--while the country as

a whole grew by 6.6 percent in

2012, the oil sector actually

grew faster, by 8 percent, which

means that some of the sectors

were shrinking. And this

poses--is a source of concern

because oil, the oil sector, as

we know, is a very capital-

intensive sector, which means

that it doesn't create lots of

jobs.At the same time, since

we're talking about South Africa

and Nigeria, they share two

important problems. One is

unemployment, and the second

is [incompr.] to global markets,

shocks in global markets.

Unemployment has been high

in South Africa. It's known. And

they have very good statistics.

It's about 25 percent. In fact,

Nigerian unemployment over

the past two years has been

increasing from 21 percent to

24 percent. So even as the

economy's growing in Nigeria,

unemployment is actually

growing at the same time,

which is the result of the fact

that growth is taking place in

sectors that are not creating

employment. So this is a major,

major problem for Nigeria.

At the same time, the sectors

which are the life--which

provide the life for the majority

of the population, especially

agriculture, is not growing as

fast, because there has not

been sufficient investment in

technology so that productivity

in agriculture, the mainstay of

the livelihood of the population,

is actually seeing a decline in

productivity. And that is true for

Nigeria as well for many other

countries.

So the challenge for Nigeria is

how to harness these oil

resources so that the growth in

revenue that's coming from oil

can actually trigger expansion

in other sectors outside of the

oil sector.

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This lady is kinda crazy

though. She went ahead

to send her private photos

to a man that is not even

based in this country but

abroad, not knowing that

the Naija guy wanted to

rubbish her. See more

photos below

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Female Student Sends Her Nudé Photo To A Man; Leaks Online

This lady is kinda crazy

though. She went ahead

to send her private photos

to a man that is not even

based in this country but

abroad, not knowing that

the Naija guy wanted to

rubbish her. See more

photos below

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Nadia Buari's Mother Curses Jim Iyke For Nadia's Heartbreak -

After leading one of Ghana's star

actresses, Nadia Buari, on and

making her believe he would

settle down with her, and finally

breaking her heart, Nigerian

actor, Jim Iyke has been cursed

by Nadia's Mother. This is real! I

mean this is not a movie in

which Jim gets away with stuff

of this kind.

Jim and Nadia were intimate and

appeared to be so much in love

and everyone thought that they

will tie the knot before the year

ends, until Jim posted on his

Twitter handle that he was not

going to marry the Ghanaian

beauty, while Nadia herself

responded by deleting Jim’s

pictures from her Instagram

account.

Hajia Buari, after the media

celebrated break-up, was

reported by a Ghanaian

entertainment site, to have said

Jim will suffer untold hardship in

life:

“They were great together. They

were like a couple and we

thought they were heading for

the altar. She was very

connected to him. She has

talked to me about getting

married and having children. She

plans on settling down but not

right now. She has to focus on

her career. That Nigerian boy will

suffer for daring to break my

baby’s heart,” Angry Hajia Buari

said

Well, in weeks to come, media

eyes will be on the erstwhile

lovers to see how the Jim and

Nadia story further develops.

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i shall not die, but LIVE! the story about me on fake Facebook. pages are not real-van vicker

The picture that trigger the rumour

A terrible rumor being peddled around on social media and website has it that, celebrated

Ghanaian actor van vicker has had an accident.

The rumor which started this morning on Fake Nadia Buari, Fake Ini Edo, Fake Jim Iyke and some

other African celebrities social media pages provoked Van vicker to react that,

‘There is a post on an imposter's page that I had an accident this morning on my way to church

and I might die from bleeding. Its a rumor and a stunt to drive traffic to that page. I am well and

in great health. JeHoV dey by my side. StayEeasy’ Unedited.

In a separate chat with Van Vicker;s Publicist ( Mustapha Ayinde Inusah AKA Attractive), he

revealed to Guruscoded.com that , he doesn't really know where the sham rumors are coming

from , and confirmed that Van vicker, is not dead but rather he’s on set shooting in Nigeria

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APGA's Candidate In Anambra Governorship Election Caught In Multiple Registration

The issues militating against

Governor Peter Obi's anointed

candidate in the November 16

governorship pool in Anambra

State is increasing by the day.

Despite an insistence by Willie

Obiano, the governorship

candidate of APGA, that he did

not engage in multiple

registrations, damning evidence

has now emerged that he did.

The proof that Mr. Obiano

registered multiple times might

put his candidature in serious

trouble, a source at the electoral

commission said. The

revelations came after an

Anambra State High Court had

granted the candidate a weird

injunction to shield him from

criminal prosecution.

Evidence of Obiano double

registration in Anambra State

below:

Unimpeachable documents

obtained by Sahara Reporters

show that Mr. Obiano registered

more than once, an act that

violates the law. On August 21,

2013, he was issued a voter

identification number (VIN)

90F5B12B88377091121. Then,

at 10.25 a.m., on September 3,

2013, he was given another

voter identification number

90F5B15E7D378200332. A third

registration car has also

emerged from Kosofe Local

Government area in Lagos.

Except for the fact that the APGA

candidate wore different clothes,

all the information in the three

registrations remained the same.

In the cards, he was registered

as “Obiano, Maduabuchi Willie.”

His address in both documents

was given as “No. 1 Chief Willie

Obiano Street, Otuocha” just as

his date of birth was recorded as

August 8, 1955. His age on both

cards was recorded as 56.

The watermarks on the cards

clearly show the different voter

identification numbers as well as

different issuing dates and times,

though the name of the

candidate was unchanged.

“It is against the law to register

more than once,” a source at

INEC told SaharaReporters

today. Section 12(2) of the

Electoral Act 2010 (as amended)

provides that “A person shall not

register in more than one

registration center or register

more than once in the same

registration center.” Section

12(3) then states that any

person who contravenes the law

would be liable “on conviction to

a fine not exceeding N100,000

or imprisonment.”

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EXPOSED: Tonto Dikeh Snatches D'Banj From Genevieve

Information reaching

Obascotec is that

controversial Nollywood actress,

Tonto Dikeh is seriously on the

verge to remove Genevieve Nnaji

from D'banj's heart and occupy

the space. I hear she is giving

her all to the affair, which started

secretly few weeks back but the

whole thing has been exposed.

Genevieve is said to be very

bitter because she sees Tonto

as a younger sister and could

not believe that she of all ladies

will go behind her to be having

an "affair" with a man D'banj

who she is trying to get back.

What is actually giving some

people concern is the fact that

Tonto Dikeh dated Don Jazzy

when he and D'banj were still

working together. But Tonto

doesn't give a damn over what

Genevieve or anyone think.

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Davido & Bodyguard in Bloody Fight: See what Really Happened

On Sunday, news broke that

Davido and his bodyguard were

involved in a fight at a club in a

highbrow Lagos area. After

different stories were peddled on

the matter, his management has

released a statement on the

issue, with a view to “clear the

air” on the falsified accounts

circulating about the incident.

Below is what happened at the

Grotto Club in Victoria Island,

Lagos...

Official Statement from Davido's

management:

After a successful outing at a

recent concert on Sunday

November 3 at Eko Hotels,

popular musician Davido headed

to the Grotto Nightclub on

Victoria Island. After a brief stay

at the club, Davido and his crew

proceeded to his vehicle outside

to head home.

Upon entering the vehicle, he

realized that his ATM card was

missing. His bodyguard Tijani

Olamilekan Ogbeide better

known as Teejay got down from

the vehicle to search for the

ATM card in the club.

Upon alighting, he was accosted

by an already drunk “DJ Jay

Dee” who had in his hand a

champagne flute. This DJ

Jaydee informed Teejay that he

had the ATM card in his hand

and would like to personally

deliver it to Davido.

Teejay politely asked him to

hand over the ATM card as it

was clear that Davido was right

in his view in his car. DJ Jaydee

refused to hand over the card

without payment and instead

proceeded to shout that he knew

who Davido was personally and

that he (DJ Jaydee) was a

known person in Lagos.

Teejay refused him access to

Davido which led DJ Jaydee to

throw the ATM card on the

ground in anger. As Teejay bent

to retrieve the card, DJ Jaydee

stabbed him in the neck with the

champagne flute he was holding.

An oblivious Teejay threw him

off his back and proceeded to

return the ATM card to Davido.

As he was entering the car to

leave, one of the occupants

noticed the stab wounds and

called his attention to the blood.

Teejay promptly alighted from

the car and went to confront DJ

Jaydee who was still yelling

outside.

DJ Jaydee apparently not done

with his violence stabbed the

bodyguard a second time, this

time on his hands and ran off

into the club. Teejay searched

for him to no avail and left the

club soon after.

Tijani Olamilekan Ogbeide has

since reported the matter to the

police and they have been to the

club to invite DJ Jaydee for

questioning. Grotto has been

unable to deliver DJ Jaydee to

the police, instead malicious and

falsified accounts of the incident

have found their way on social

media portals being championed

of course by sources intent on

casting vile aspersions on

Davido and his bodyguard

Teejay.

DJ Jaydee is yet to surface.

Tijani Olamilekan Ogbeide has

pressed charges to this effect.

Davido’s management

categorically refutes all the

allegations of violence as

insinuated by some. Teejay was

carrying out his job by

restricting access to Davido from

an unknown and obviously

inebriated and violent individual.

He performed his duties as

bodyguard and instead of

resorting to violence, followed

the dictates of the law. Members

of the public and fans should

please note that Davido was not

present at this unfortunate

incident that occurred that night

as erroneously reported in a few

quarters.

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REVEALED: Governor Chime's Wife Clara Is Mentally Unstable

What we usually see in
Nollywood movies where a man
will be very wealthy and in
position of authority but his wife
or first son will be battling with a
"serious" challenge, is what is
playing out in Enugu State. Sad!
Following several reports in the
social media that Governor
Sullivan Chime of Enugu State
was holding Clara, his wife in
solitary confinement,c observed that
some persons close to the wife
contacted Femi Falana, a popular
human rights activist, to help
rescue the woman.
But in a bid to stop Falana,
Governor Chime has opened up
on his wife's true condition...
He said it is not his will to
subject his wife to such
condition and that whatever is
been done to her is for her own
good and was put in place by
professionals to save her from
"shame and ridicule".
Speaking to selected journalists
on Tuesday night in the
presence of some family
members and his wife, who is
said to be mentally unstable,
Governor Chime said Femi
Falana should not allow people
to push him into taking any
action against him as he is only
trying to help his wife's
situation.
In the words of Govenor Chime:
“Well, my wife has some
medical challenges , and it
would be very unkind for
me to talk about her
condition on the pages of
newspapers. I have done
everything to protect her
integrity and I’m not now
going to expose her to
ridicule because some
people want to exploit her
situation to drag me into a
needless war of words.”
Ascotec gathered that
his wife, Clara, sat calmly
throughout the session with the
journalists but it was not too
difficult to notice some signs in
her disposition from time to
time.
The wife's psychiatric doctor, Dr.
Aham Agumuo, was also present
at the session. We pray she gets
well!

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16yrs old girl rape in abeokuta

A 16-year-old girl (name withheld) has been reportedly hospitalised after she was

allegedly r*ped to coma by some unknown men in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred at 8p.m. on Monday on her way back

home from where she was sent on an errand.

According to a popular actress (name withheld) who broke the news through her post

on the Facebook: “A-16-year-old girl from Abeokuta in Ogun State was sent on errand

last night (Monday) around 8 p.m. to the nearby street.

“On her way back home, hefty men ambushed her and got her r*ped till coma. As we are

posting this right now, she is lying in sick bed at Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta.

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EKITI 2014: Reference Anambra 2013

Since the creation of the new

Anambra state in 1991, it's only

Anambra North Senatorial district

that has never produced a

Governor of the state likewise

the Ekiti South Senatorial district

since 1996 when the state was

created.

Anambra North is likely to

produce the governor of the

state in November 16, 2013,

because it has the highest

voting strength compare with

other two senatorial districts.

The two major political parties

zoned their candidates to

Anambra North.

Chief Willie Maduabuchi Obiano

is APGA flag bearer, from the oil-

bearing Aguleri in Anambra

North Senatorial District while Dr

Tony Okechukwu Nwoye is the

standard bearer of the PDP, he

is from Offiantta Village, Nsugbe

in Anambra East Local

Government, Anambra North

Senatorial District.

Out of Nine(9) elected Governors

produced in the state. Two of

the elected Governors were old

Anambra state "Enugu

state" (Chief Jim Nwobodo and

Chief Christian Onoh) other

elected Governors are:

Dr Chukuwuemeka Ezeife

(Anambra south)

Dr Chinwoke Mbadinugu

(Anambra south)

Senator Chris Ngige ( Anambra

Central)

Peter Obi ( Anambra Central)

Verginia Etiaba( Anambra South)

Andy Uba ( Anambra South)

Peter Obi ( Anambra Central)

Likewise in Ekiti State, it was

only Ekiti South Senatorial

District that has never produced

a governor of the state since the

return of democracy in the

country 1999. Out of the Four

elected Governors produced in

the state,Ekiti Central and North

Senatorial Districts had

produced two Governors

each,they are:

Otunba Niyi Adebayo (Iyin Ekiti)

Ekiti Central

Dr Ayo Fayose (Afao Ekiti) Ekiti

Central

Engr Segun Oni (Ifaki Ekiti) Ekiti

North

Dr Kayode Fayemi (Isan Ekiti)

Ekiti North.

Party politics and zoning are

very important elements of any

liberal with a wave of hand in

primordial state like Ekiti State.

Power shift or zoning as the

case maybe is the only way

forward for our amiable state

because of our different

senatorial districts.

All Progressive Congress (APC)

had shifted their Governorship

race to the Ekiti North/Central

Senatorial District where the

zone have produced two

governors each. The ideology of

APC is different from other

parties in Nigeria (Ondo and

Anambra States as a case

Study). I think the Peoples

Democratic Party (PDP) will shift

the Governorship position to the

South Senatorial District,the

largest Local Government Area

and which has never produced a

governor since the creation of

the state.

Infact, it is clear in PDP

constitution that there is zoning

and rotation everywhere,Right

from National level through the

various states to Local

Government areas and electoral

wards arrangement across the

country. I refer to the PDP

constitution, Article 7 subsection

2(c) which states that in

pursuance of the principle of

Equity, Justice and Fairness, the

party shall adhere to the policy

of rotation and zoning of the

party and public offices and it

shall be enforced by the

appropriate executive committee

at all levels. (PDP

constitution,1999).

Ekiti people especially PDP SWC

and PDP NWC,should promote

peace and stability, fairness and

equity. we need to focus on

Governorship aspirants that

come from Ekiti South Senatorial

district such as His Excellencies

Adebisi Omoyeni,Abiodun Aluko

other are Senator Gbenga

Aluko,Prince Dayo Adeyeye ,Amb

Dare Bejide, Pham Bimbo

Owolabi, Rt (Hon) Femi Bamisile,

Senator Bode Olowoporoku, Dr

Kunle Folayan, Hon Ropo

Ogunbodunde, Mr Babatunde

Larin-Alabi and Mr Mayowa

Aluko.

Many would argue that many of

the above listed aspirants are

'no name' people ,but they forgot

that prior to the 1999 election,

how many people have heard the

name of Otunba Niyi Adebayo

who later became Governor? Let

us assume that Adebayo is not

good example judging from the

below Average rate his

administration achieved, how

about his successors? How

many people had heard about Mr

Ayo Fayose prior to the 2003

election? Even Five months to

the election, did many ever

heard of him? Did many gave

him a chance of making any

difference? How many people

heard about Engr Segun Oni?

How about Gov Kayode Fayemi?

Did many so-called pundits ever

heard of Fayemi prior to 2007

election?

I understand that at the end of

the day, it is the people of Ekiti

that will decide who will be their

next Governor but we should not

forget the fact that in the interest

of Equity, Justice and Fairness,

every section of the state should

show a sense of belonging.

Ekiti State belongs to all of us

and not to a particular Zone.

Ekiti south Senatorial district

should be given the chance to

present the next Governor like

other Zone in the state.

God bless Ekiti South Senatorial

District;

God bless the land of honour;

God the Federal Republic of

Nigeria.

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At Last! ASUU Gets A Better Deal of N1.1trillion From Jonathan

Details of the Monday/Tuesday

marathon meeting between

President Goodluck Jonathan

and the leadership of the

Academic Staff Union of

Universities have begun to

emerge.

“The meeting should be the

longest that we have ever

had on this crisis but I can

tell you that both parties

were frank all through the

discussions.

“The parties also showed

commitment towards

ending the crisis. The

President in particular

showed that he was serious

about ending the strike and

that was why he offered to

release over N1tn to the

universities in the next five

years."

Punch gathered on Tuesday

evening that a key component of

the agreement reached by the

parties was that the Federal

Government would inject N1.1tn

into public universities in the

next five years.

A reliable source, who made this

known, also hinted that the

strike would be called off

anytime next week.

He said the government team

which was led by President

Goodluck Jonathan would

release N220bn yearly into the

sector beginning from 2014.

The source added, “The money

will be released on a yearly

basis at N220bn per annum

beginning from 2014. For the

outgoing year, the government

will only release N100bn and

this has been processed.”

He said that the government, in

order to show its commitment to

a fresh pact, accepted that “the

fund (N1.1tn) should domiciled

at the Central Bank of Nigeria”

“The money will be released on a

quarterly basis to the

universities. So, there won’t be

any problem about funding the

deal,” the source said.

The National Universities

Commission and the Trade

Union Congress, according to

him, are joint guarantors of the

agreement while the Minister of

Education will be the

implementation officer.

The source said that the

government agreed among other

things, to revamp the public

universities by ensuring that all

those issues that always led to

strike were dealt with once and

for all.

It was learnt that the negotiating

team of ASUU led by Dr. Nassir

Faggae met on Tuesday to

further deliberate on the deal.

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Jim Iyke Breaks Up With Nadia? He's Not Ready For Marriage

Signs that all is not well between

actor Jim Iyke and Nadia Buari

manifested after OluFamous.Com

sent him a tweet on Sunday

evening on why he wants to

marry the Ghanian actress.

Moments after Jim Iyke read the

report on Obascotec, he

dished out a statement that

suggests that all is no longer the

way they used to be before his

pregnancy scandal with a Lagos

babe known as Nancy.

Below is what we have gathered

about Jim and Nadia's issues...

Before Jim Iyke even sent out a

statement on Sunday denying

reports that he was making

marriage plans with Nadia Buari,

the actress have already deleted

all his pictures from her page on

instagram.

Then Jim himself now capped it

with a tweet, saying marriage is

not his priority now. Many folks

have read a lot of meaning into

their issues, but it appears the

matter of Nancy's pregnancy is

still a major issue.

Nadia is no longer saying sweet

things about Jim online and he

is now saying he's not ready for

marriage yet.

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Catholic Priest Denies Inviting Obi To Uke Adoration Centre -

By Bruno Mbanaso

Obi made a surprise and

unscheduled

visit to Holy Ghost Adoration

Ministries

with his entourage, says the

proprietor

of Holy Ghost Adoration

Ministries, Rev

Father Emanuel Obinma aka

Ebube

Monso.

Gov. Obi had in his broadcast

claimed to

have been invited by the

Reverend father,

but the spiritually gifted clergy

confided

in a close friend and

worshipper in the

church that what Obi is

broadcasting to

the state in not correct, as he

did not

invite him, but could not have

asked him

to leave once he had come.

Our source states: ‘Rev.

Obinma as visibly

angry, based on the false claim

by the

governor in a state-wide

broadcast,

which gives the impression that

our

church is being mixed up with

politics.’

‘Well, we do not ask people to

leave when

they come here, We open our

hands to

receive all, because that is the

nature of

soul-winning, but to say that

we sent a

written invitation to him ( Gov

Obi) to

attend our vigil on November 1,

2013 is

to say the least worrisome’ Rev

Obinma

was quoted as saying.

According to our

very reliable source, the

catholic priest is

yet to make up his mind

whether to join

issues publicly with Gov. Obi

but is very

resolute about straightening the

records

on the issue of a written

invitation to the

governor’.

Gov Obi had attended a night

vigil in the

Adoration Centre at 2.00am last

Saturday

along with Candidate of APGA

in

November 16 governorship

polls, Mr Wilie

Obiano, National Chairman of

APGA, Chief

Victor Umeh,Director General of

Willie

Obiano Campaign Organisation,

Chief Joe-

Martins Uzodike, also the

Commissioner

for Information,Mr Oke Udeh

erstwhile

Deputy Governor who betrayed

Dr Chris

Ngige in office as a governor,

and one

Ifeanyi Ibezi, a native of

Abatete, among

others.

There attempt to speak to the

crowd and

convince them to vote for

Obiano failed,

as the people initially protested

the mix-

up of worship with politics.

However,

when Obi insisted on having his

way, the

crowd burst into a song,

rendering

praises to Senator Dr Chris

Ngige, Obi’s

political rival and candidate of

the All

Progressive Congress (APC), a

development which angered

Obi.

Peter Obi at the Adoration

Grounds

It took the intervention of Rev

Fr Obinma

for Obi to speak at all to the

people, who

became uncontrollable again

when the

governor asked them to vote

for Obiano

who was beside him in the

uniformed

delegation.

Obiano has since denied

attending the

vigil with Governor Obi, while

Obi’s

broadcast to the state carefully

omitted

the name of the faltering

candidate of

Obi’s political party.

Controversy has ensued over

the actual

time of departure of the

governor from

the venue, and how it relates to

the

stampede which eventually

recorded a

death casualty of 61 persons as

the

governor claims to have left at

3.00am ,while eye-witnesses

say the

governor and his entourage

were in Uke

ill the adoration closed at 5.20

am.

‘Look, telling you the story as

someone

who was there, forget all you

hear those

who felt angered by the

governors

intrusive presence simply

hauled sachet

water and other things at

him ,leading to

the decision of his security

details to

shoot into the air and release

some

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PHCN Manager, Others Arrested For Alleged Cable Theft -

The Nigeria Security and Civil

Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom

State Command, has arrested a

Power Holding Company of

Nigeria service manager and

eight others for allegedly

engaging in illegal poles

planting and cables theft.

The eight men were said to

have been nabbed following a

tip-off from residents that some

vandals were tampering

with the PHCN installations at

Nung Oku in Ibesikpo/Asutan

Local Government Area.

It was learnt that the service

manager, Ibesikpo/Asutan

LGA’s PHCN office was arrested

for alleged complicity in the

crime.

The command’s head, Public

Relations/Protocol, Mr. Ime

White, told PUNCH Metro in Uyo

on Monday that following

the tip-off, the state

commandant of the agency, Mr.

Pedro Ideba, quickly mobilised

patrol teams to the area.

He explained that the

command’s prompt action was

also

necessitated by the fear that if

the vandals were quacks,

they could be electrocuted.

White said following the arrest

of the suspects, the

command impounded the truck

they were using, which

had PHCN label indicating that

the vandals were from the

Port Harcourt district.

He noted that investigation,

however, revealed that though

the vandals posed as PHCN

workers, none had ever worked

with the parastatal.

He added that NSCDC had

impounded feeder cables,

insulators, ladder and other

working tools recovered from

the suspects.

He said, “We discovered a

purported contract of

transplanting poles being

undertaken by one Jenkins

International Limited.

“It was the duty of the service

manager, PHCN, Ibesikpo/

Asutan LGA, to have notified the

Uyo District of such jobs,

but that did not happen.

“Upon the arrest of the

suspects, we discovered that

the

truck they were using had

PHCN label that has to do with

metering project of Port

Harcourt district and not Akwa

Ibom. Although they posed as

PHCN workers, we

discovered that none of them

worked with the company.

Feeder cables, insulators,

ladders and other working

tools, were all impounded

here.”

He stated that when the

command contacted Uyo office

of the PHCN to verify if there

was any contract they gave to

Jenkins International Limited,

the office denied knowledge of

such deal.

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This Lady Got Pregnant at 18; Today at 25 She Is Overall Best Graduating Student

Seven years after an

unwanted pregnancy

forced her to drop out of

the University of Ilorin,

Aishat Farooq has

emerged the best

graduating student of the

Bells University of

Technology in Ota, Ogun

State.

When Aishat Farooq

gained admission into the

University of Ilorin at 15,

to study Zoology, little did

she know that her secret

romance with a boy will

abort her lofty dreams

through pregnancy...

Despite the fact that she

was a high flyer in her

first two years in

UNILORIN, the now 25-

year-old indigene of Ilorin,

Kwara State, got

distracted along the line.

She played the campus

love game and got a

shocking result: she got

pregnant.

It was in 2006 and in her

third year. She was

pregnant for a fellow

student whom she had

been dating. She was

disappointed in herself

and thought the whole

world was crashing on

her. Yet, she vowed not to

terminate the pregnancy.

Although she wanted to

continue her studies in the

university, she became

disillusioned and dropped

out at 18. She sought

consolation in trading. But

her father, Shehu Farooq,

who believed that his

daughter’s academic

prowess should not be

wasted, was determined

to get her back on the

academic track.

Today, Aishat has a

different story. On

Saturday, she stood tall

among her peers at the

5th convocation ceremony

of Bells University, Ota,

Ogun State, where she

emerged the overall best

graduating student with a

Cumulative Grade Point

Average of 4.93 .

“The rebel in me won,”

Aishat declared while

giving the valedictory

address on behalf of the

208 graduating students

of the university.

“I hope my story will

inspire at least one

person to change his or

her circumstance. I was

pregnant at 18 and by 19

I was already a mother. I

had disappointed my

father who believed so

much in me. He had such

big dreams for me and

feared the dreams would

become unfulfilled,” she

added.

Breaking the news of the

pregnancy to her father,

who was at the time

based in the northern part

of the country, was not

easy. Aishat’s mother,

Fatima, who stayed in

Lagos with the family, did

not break the “sad news”

to the man until the lady

was almost due. The

mum then feared her

husband would be too

angry.

Aishat studied Business

Administration with

specialisation in Human

Resources Management,

and received the Vice-

Chancellor’s Prize for the

Overall Best Graduating

Student with a cash

reward of N50,000 and a

plaque . She also won the

College of Management

Sciences Prize and

Department of Business

Administration Prize for

the Best Graduating

Student.

Speaking with Punch's

Temitayo Famutimi after

she received the awards,

Aishat, whose face

beamed with smiles,

expressed gratitude to her

dad for not losing hope in

her during her trying time.

She noted, “I did

exceptionally well and

bagged awards in the

schools I attended. I had

the overall best result at

the Senior Secondary

School Certificate level at

Model Secondary School,

Maitama, Abuja. In fact in

UNILORIN, I was on the

first class grade in my

first year but in 200 Level,

I dropped to second class

upper division because I

had already started

getting distracted by the

boys .

“It just happened that

things turned out the way

it did. But here I am, a

product of God’s

unending mercies,

unconditional love and

grace – all coupled with

the faith my dad had in

me and my fierce

determination.

“I’m a goalgetter. I push

myself hard. Even here in

spite of being a mother, I

was pushing for the best

despite the challenges. I

wanted to make my dad

proud again. Once you

are determined, nothing is

impossible. Nothing can

stop you .”

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UPDATE ON JONATHAN'S MEETING WITH ASUU LEADERS

The major reason why ASUU has

refused to call off its prolonged

strike is the mind-boggling

salaries and the unending

allowances of political office

holders in Nigeria, especially the

Executive and Legislature.

Obascote cobascotec gathered that it

is with this 'trouble' that ASUU

leaders entered into a closed

door meeting in Aso Rock with

President Goodluck Jonathan on

Monday. Sensing that the

lectures are ready to speak their

minds without fear, the meeting

was shifted to the First Lady

Conference Room.

Indication that the strike may be

called off emerged when

Jonathan said while shaking

hands with members of the

delegation that, “The matter must

be resolved here today. Our

children must go back to

school.”

The meeting went into the early

hours of Tuesday, all in a bid to

find a final resolution to the

strike that started on July 1,

2013. ASUU went into the

meeting with the NLC President,

Abdulawahid Omar.

On his part, Jonathan was joined

by VP Sambo; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-

Iweala; Anyim Pius Anyim;

Nyesom Wike and Minister of

Labour, Emeka Wogu.

gathered that if

ASUU have its way, the strike

will be called off soon but their

would be a general reduction in

the salary of political office

holders across board by 2014.

The President ASUU is expected

to meet his members on

Tuesday to take a final decision

on the strike.

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24yrs old Man Killed 2 Boys & Harvests Their Vital Organs For Money Rituals In Abia/Enugu

Chizoba Michael Nwobodo’s

inordinate ambition to get rich

quick has left two families in

deep sorrow and anguish. The

24-yr-old gruesomely

murdered two young boys and

harvested their vital organs

for money making rituals.

He’s a kidnapper, armed robber

and ritual killer who hails from

Umualaguroyi Uhueze Nenwe

village in Aninri West Local

Government Area of Enugu State.

He committed the heinous

crimes between August and

October this year.

In the first incident, which

occurred in Ohuhu, Abia State on

August 7, 2013, he abducted

Emmanuel Nwobodo, the nine-

year-old son of his uncle,

Nnamdi Nwobodo, immediately

the boy returned from school at

4.00pm on that fateful day. He

took the boy into a nearby bush,

beheaded him and proceeded to

harvest his kidneys, lungs, heart

and genitals. Done with the

horrible act, he calmly dumped

the boy’s dismembered body on

the bank of a nearby river.

When evening came and the boy

had still not returned from

school, the parents started

searching for him. Chizoba even

joined in the search for the

unfortunate boy. When he could

not be found, his parents

reported the matter to the police

at Isikwuato Police Station, Abia

State.

Later, Chizoba made a call to his

uncle, informing him thus: “I told

my uncle that I kidnapped the

child at 4.00pm, that if he can

pay me ransom of N300,000 I

would release the child to him.

He paid me N200,000. After

some time, I called my uncle

again and demanded another

sum of N200,000. I told him to

sell his land, but my uncle

refused to pay the money. At the

time I was demanding the

money, I had already killed the

child.”

On October 11, 2013, barely two

months after murdering nine-

year-old Emmanuel, Chizoba

again abducted another child,

Promise Uwakwe, a five-year-

old boy as he was returning

from school. This time around,

he enticed the innocent boy with

biscuits, dragged him into the

bush and when the obviously

startled boy began to scream

after sensing danger, Chizoba

quickly strangled him to death

and then removed the boy’s vital

organs.

Promise’s father, Mr Ngozi

Nwakwe said the family became

worried when the boy’s school

uniform was found on the

ground but he could not be

found. After the first day, he

reported to the police at Anniri

Police Post and the policemen

joined in the search for the

child. When the child was not

found after three days, the case

was transferred to the Anti-

kidnapping Squad of the Enugu

State Police Command.

Like the well-known Otokoto

ritual killing incident that

occurred in 1996 in Imo State,

the blood of the gruesomely

murdered innocent little boys

cried unceasingly before the

Throne of the Almighty for

justice.

“It was when the suspect

demanded N3 million ransom

from us that we alerted the

police and they rounded him up

and he confessed to them that

he had killed my son and

removed his genitals lungs,

kidneys and heart and then

dumped him inside a water tank

from which we recovered his

corpse,” Nwakwe said in

anguish.

Enugu State Commissioner of

Police, Mr. Abubakar Adamu who

narrated Chizoba’s murderous

escapades to Sunday Sun

revealed that the suspect was

exposed when he called Mr

Nwakwe and demanded N3

million ransom for the boy. The

family refused and reported to

the police.

CP Adamu said the Commander

of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad,

Alex Akinlalu, a Deputy

Superintendent of Police (DSP)

and his team swung into action

and arrested Chizoba at his

village.

In a brief chat after his arrest by

the police, Chizoba told Sunday

Sun “I am a kidnapper, armed

robber, ritualist, artist and

musician. I traveled to India in

2013 to acquire power so that

anything I engage in will

prosper. I spent one month and

one week in India. I needed

money, so I contacted a

herbalist who told me that if I

wanted to make money I should

look for two boys and two girls

between the ages of four and

nine years old for money ritual.”

Continuing, he said: “I used the

two boys for the ritual. I bought

red candle, blue candle, black

candle, white candle and other

ritual materials and did some

incantations after which I threw

the human parts into the bush.”

Meanwhile, Mrs. Elizabeth

Nwobodo, mother of Emmanuel,

the first victim, is crying and

calling on the government to

ensure that justice is done and

she has been assured by CP

Adamu that the suspect would

definitely be charged to court for

his heinous crimes at the

conclusion of investigations.

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ASUU Strike: Union Rejects Jonathan’s N200bn Offer -

The end to the ongoing strike by

the Academic

Staff Union Of Universities,

ASUU, might not be in view yet,

as the union has rejected the

offer of N200 billion by the

Federal Government. The

government had earlier offered

N130 to the protesting lecturers

in order to resolve the impasse;

the offer was also increased to

N150 billion, all of which ASUU

rejected, insisting that

government must implement the

2009 agreement. The union

asserted that going by the 2009

agreement, government is

supposed to have injected N500

billion

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