Friday, 24 May 2013
Police Arraign Canadian For Allegedly Cheating Woman Of N15 Million
The police on Tuesday arraigned a Canadian, Jim Mansfield, at a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court for allegedly cheating one Hajiya Binta Muktar of N15 million.
The prosecutor, Tope Falode, told the court that Muktar reported the matter to the Interpol on May 2012.
Falode said that in May 2012, Muktar leased her house located at No 3, Udi-Hill Close, Aso Drive, to Mansfield with an agreement that he should pay N15 million into her account.
However, he said, Mansfield fraudulently possessed the said house and refused to credit Muktar’s account.
The prosecutor added that the accused, in July 2012, presented forged documents from Wells Faruo Bank to Muktar, claiming to have deposited the said sum into her account, an offence which contravened sections 312, 321 and 368 of the Penal Code.
Section 312 of the code states that whoever commits criminal breach of trust shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or fined or both.
Section 368 states that whoever has in his possession any forged document shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 14 years and shall also be liable to fine.
However, Mansfield, pleaded not guilty to the charges as his Counsel, Mr David Ashaolu, prayed the court to grant bail to his client.
Ashaolu said his client would not jump bail and would not jeopardise investigation in the case.
But the prosecutor objected the bail of the accused, and said, ``the accused is not a Nigerian and he is likely to jump bail''.
The prosecutor also alleged that the accused had two different passports bearing two different names.
``The accused has a Canadian passport bearing the name Jim Mansfiled and a UK passport with the name James Michael Mansfiled.’’
Mansfield’s counsel, however, urged the court to grant his client bail on liberal terms.
The Senior Magistrate, Mr Tony Ubani, granted the accused bail in the sum of N5 million with two sureties in like sum.
He said one of the sureties must be a civil servant of not less than Grade Level 13 and must be living within the court’s jurisdiction.
He said the civil servant must deposit the original copies of his employment and last promotion letter and bank statement of account for the last three months in the court.
The second surety should be reasonable and swear to an affidavit of having not less than N2 million in his account.
Ubani then adjourned the matter to May 20 for heari
The prosecutor, Tope Falode, told the court that Muktar reported the matter to the Interpol on May 2012.
Falode said that in May 2012, Muktar leased her house located at No 3, Udi-Hill Close, Aso Drive, to Mansfield with an agreement that he should pay N15 million into her account.
However, he said, Mansfield fraudulently possessed the said house and refused to credit Muktar’s account.
The prosecutor added that the accused, in July 2012, presented forged documents from Wells Faruo Bank to Muktar, claiming to have deposited the said sum into her account, an offence which contravened sections 312, 321 and 368 of the Penal Code.
Section 312 of the code states that whoever commits criminal breach of trust shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or fined or both.
Section 368 states that whoever has in his possession any forged document shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 14 years and shall also be liable to fine.
However, Mansfield, pleaded not guilty to the charges as his Counsel, Mr David Ashaolu, prayed the court to grant bail to his client.
Ashaolu said his client would not jump bail and would not jeopardise investigation in the case.
But the prosecutor objected the bail of the accused, and said, ``the accused is not a Nigerian and he is likely to jump bail''.
The prosecutor also alleged that the accused had two different passports bearing two different names.
``The accused has a Canadian passport bearing the name Jim Mansfiled and a UK passport with the name James Michael Mansfiled.’’
Mansfield’s counsel, however, urged the court to grant his client bail on liberal terms.
The Senior Magistrate, Mr Tony Ubani, granted the accused bail in the sum of N5 million with two sureties in like sum.
He said one of the sureties must be a civil servant of not less than Grade Level 13 and must be living within the court’s jurisdiction.
He said the civil servant must deposit the original copies of his employment and last promotion letter and bank statement of account for the last three months in the court.
The second surety should be reasonable and swear to an affidavit of having not less than N2 million in his account.
Ubani then adjourned the matter to May 20 for heari
My Husband Sold My Unborn Child For N200,000 – Wife
This is as shocking as it gets: a husband and his wife are currently in police detention for allegedly engaging children
trafficking, with the pregnant woman revealing the shocking news that
her husband had already sold her unborn baby for N200,000.
Chibuzor Mba, 27, and his wife, Adaobi, 23, were arrested for allegedly stealing a neighbour’s four-year-old son, Stanley Uchenna Ezeaka, at their home located at Jakande Area of Ajagbandi, Lagos, on March 14, 2013.
Two other female suspects are also being quizzed by the detectives in Lagos.
While parading the two suspects before newsmen at the command headquarters, Ikeja, yesterday, Lagos State Police Command spokesperson Ngozi Braide said the couples tricked the little boy, Stanley, when his parents were not at home and took him to Calabar, Cross River State, where he was sold to a woman, Benedict Ogbonna, a resident of Onitsha, Anambra State, who operates an illegal orphanage home, for N400, 000.
The same boy was allegedly resold to another woman, Patricia Mgbuowor, who has been childless for 29 years, for the sum of N600,000.
Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said: “The case of missing person was reported to the police at Ilemba Police Station, Ajamgbadi, where a manhunt was launched for the couple, Chibuzor and Adaobi, who had been on the run. The detectives called their mobile phone sets, but they had switched them off. Following a tip-off, the couples were traced to Calabar, Cross River State and the duo was arrested.
Chibuzor Mba, 27, and his wife, Adaobi, 23, were arrested for allegedly stealing a neighbour’s four-year-old son, Stanley Uchenna Ezeaka, at their home located at Jakande Area of Ajagbandi, Lagos, on March 14, 2013.
Two other female suspects are also being quizzed by the detectives in Lagos.
While parading the two suspects before newsmen at the command headquarters, Ikeja, yesterday, Lagos State Police Command spokesperson Ngozi Braide said the couples tricked the little boy, Stanley, when his parents were not at home and took him to Calabar, Cross River State, where he was sold to a woman, Benedict Ogbonna, a resident of Onitsha, Anambra State, who operates an illegal orphanage home, for N400, 000.
The same boy was allegedly resold to another woman, Patricia Mgbuowor, who has been childless for 29 years, for the sum of N600,000.
Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said: “The case of missing person was reported to the police at Ilemba Police Station, Ajamgbadi, where a manhunt was launched for the couple, Chibuzor and Adaobi, who had been on the run. The detectives called their mobile phone sets, but they had switched them off. Following a tip-off, the couples were traced to Calabar, Cross River State and the duo was arrested.
PHOTOS: Female Teacher, 35, Banned From Teaching After Desperately Trying To Seduce 15-Year-Old Male Student
A teacher who spent two years trying
to seduce a male pupil less than half her age has been banned from every
school in the country.
Catherine Rayne, 35, pursued the boy from when he was 15, sending him gifts, texts, Facebook messages and a letter inviting him to start a 'romantic relationship'.
She was friends with the boy's parents, but at one point Miss Rayne visited the family home when the pupil was there by himself.
A professional conduct panel heard that the boy tried to telephone his father three times, saying he felt uncomfortable and compromised being alone with the teacher.
She later texted the pupil to say 'the offer is still open', and the boy's father made an official complaint to the school.
Miss Rayne, a geography and history teacher at the independent Michael Hall Steiner Waldorf School in East Sussex, admitted engaging in 'inappropriate behaviour' beginning in September 2009, when the pupil was 15.
She gave him private tuition at her house, and during the summer holiday of 2010 she sent him a letter and a gift.
In September of that year she visited the boy's bedroom and asked him whether he wanted to be 'just friends'.
The same month his father complained to the school, and Miss Rayne received a formal warning. But in March 2011 she sent the boy a handwritten letter asking him to begin a 'romantic relationship'.
She resigned after the boy's father sent the letter to the school – although she still sent the pupil one further gift.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership professional conduct panel found Miss Rayne guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, and recommended she should be banned from teaching.
It found that she had ignored an informal warning in September 2009 that her contact with pupils was inappropriate, as well as the formal warning the following year.
Its report said: 'It is a well-accepted and understood principle, teachers must not establish or seek to establish social contact with pupils, children or young people for the purpose of securing a friendship or to pursue or strengthen a relationship.
'However, from September 2009, Ms Rayne sent text and Facebook messages to the pupil, gave him gifts, visited him at his home and gave him tuition at her home.
'Her conduct was compounded by the fact that it ought to have been apparent to her, at least from September 2010, that the pupil found her attentions “uncomfortable” and that his relationships with his peers were affected because of them.'
The panel added: 'By acting as she did, Ms Rayne demonstrated a serious lack of professional judgment that had the very real potential not only to damage her own professional reputation but also the reputation of the school and the profession as a whole.'
The Education Secretary Michael Gove backed the panel's call for a ban. He said: 'The conduct and behaviour of Ms Rayne falls significantly short of that expected of a teacher.'
The decision means Miss Rayne is banned from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England.
She may apply for the ban to be set aside, but not until May 2018. She has a right of appeal.
Catherine Rayne, 35, pursued the boy from when he was 15, sending him gifts, texts, Facebook messages and a letter inviting him to start a 'romantic relationship'.
She was friends with the boy's parents, but at one point Miss Rayne visited the family home when the pupil was there by himself.
A professional conduct panel heard that the boy tried to telephone his father three times, saying he felt uncomfortable and compromised being alone with the teacher.
She later texted the pupil to say 'the offer is still open', and the boy's father made an official complaint to the school.
Miss Rayne, a geography and history teacher at the independent Michael Hall Steiner Waldorf School in East Sussex, admitted engaging in 'inappropriate behaviour' beginning in September 2009, when the pupil was 15.
She gave him private tuition at her house, and during the summer holiday of 2010 she sent him a letter and a gift.
In September of that year she visited the boy's bedroom and asked him whether he wanted to be 'just friends'.
The same month his father complained to the school, and Miss Rayne received a formal warning. But in March 2011 she sent the boy a handwritten letter asking him to begin a 'romantic relationship'.
She resigned after the boy's father sent the letter to the school – although she still sent the pupil one further gift.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership professional conduct panel found Miss Rayne guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, and recommended she should be banned from teaching.
It found that she had ignored an informal warning in September 2009 that her contact with pupils was inappropriate, as well as the formal warning the following year.
Its report said: 'It is a well-accepted and understood principle, teachers must not establish or seek to establish social contact with pupils, children or young people for the purpose of securing a friendship or to pursue or strengthen a relationship.
'However, from September 2009, Ms Rayne sent text and Facebook messages to the pupil, gave him gifts, visited him at his home and gave him tuition at her home.
'Her conduct was compounded by the fact that it ought to have been apparent to her, at least from September 2010, that the pupil found her attentions “uncomfortable” and that his relationships with his peers were affected because of them.'
The panel added: 'By acting as she did, Ms Rayne demonstrated a serious lack of professional judgment that had the very real potential not only to damage her own professional reputation but also the reputation of the school and the profession as a whole.'
The Education Secretary Michael Gove backed the panel's call for a ban. He said: 'The conduct and behaviour of Ms Rayne falls significantly short of that expected of a teacher.'
The decision means Miss Rayne is banned from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England.
She may apply for the ban to be set aside, but not until May 2018. She has a right of appeal.
Why I Sold My Kidney - Unemployed Graduate
Since the decline in Internet related
frauds, especially the infamous ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, unemployed, frustrated
and ‘ambitious’ Nigerian youths, especially those with the
get-rich-quick mindset have moved on to a more deadly but lucrative
money spinning venture-sale of kidneys.
With
the worsening economic and resultant unemployment situation in the
country, the business, though old, has remained a growing fad.
On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Kingsley Odoh, a Chemical Engineering graduate of Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, flew into Nigeria, from Malaysia. Immediately after his ‘glorious’ arrival in Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, the atmosphere seemed transformed. Apart from his appearances oozing riches, his bravado also signaled that ‘levels have changed,’ as he treated longtime friends to sumptuous meals and expensive wines in one of Enugu costliest hotels, Protea Hotel.
As if that shindig was not enough, for many weeks, probably till today, Odoh’s residence located at Independence Layout, Enugu, has suddenly turned to a haven of merriments, as friends, both old and new regularly visit to wine and dine with him.
Apart from relocating from his one room apartment to a four bed room flat, Odoh also grooves around the Coal City in his newly acquired Sports Utility Vehicle, and expectedly, in company of his choice girls who are mostly students of IMT and ESUT.
While few of his pious acquaintances have questioned his instantaneous grass to grace status, describing him as internet scammer, a handful of others knew how he made his money-not from internet fraud, but sale of his own kidney!
“If you are interested I will connect you to the agents. The truth is that there is nothing wrong in what I did. If people can donate their kidneys to save lives, why can’t another person sell his to also save a life and at the same time make money to help alleviate his poor condition. That was what I did and I have no regret for the act,” he revealed to Sunday Express.
Odoh further threw the bombshell: “As I’m speaking with you, there are lots of Nigerians on the queue in Malaysia who have made all the arrangements to sell their kidneys.
Some of them desperately need money to establish something that would turn their lives around. I wouldn’t tell you that some are not donating for free. But the truth is that, even those who have chosen to donate for free are still being financially compensated. So what is the difference? He rhetorically asked.
On why he chose to trade one of his kidneys for money, the Abia State-born graduate avowed thus: “What I did is what anybody could easily do. I just needed the money so I went for it. Besides, I don’t see anything wrong in it, especially when it’s obvious that all what one needs to live a normal life is one kidney. If you are interested, I will link you up,” he disclosed.
While Odoh, according to insiders, have already squandered part of the eight million naira (N8m) he was allegedly paid in exchange for his kidney, he is currently considering setting up a boutique in the heart of the city. “He has already paid for a shop along Ogui road. From his comments, I believe it is going to be a boutique or super market.
He just needs something that would keep him out of the reach of poverty, which is the major reason he took the risk,” one of his close friends further revealed in a telephone chat.“Employment and frustration drove Odoh into this deadly venture. He’s been looking for a job several years after we left school,” hinted another of his mates on campus.
No doubt, the kidney-for-money business has become a booming market for the Nigerian youths, as one kidney goes for about seven to eight million naira. This mouth watering price is the attraction for those who travel to these countries- India, Bangladesh, Iran, China, etc- ultimately to deal in the illicit and very risky business.
Sunday Express investigations further uncovered that there is a sophisticated online network of vendors, agents, resellers and hunters, who actively seek young Nigerians ready to trade their kidneys, and other vital organs. One among such is www. kidneykidney.com.
“Crisis? Crisis is running over the planet, but you’ve got a chance! The cost of a human kidney is $70, 000-$80,000 and it could be enough to pay all your debts, credits and much more. You can help yourself right now: just sell your kidney. Hurry up!” That is one of the adverts on the website. “Link your friends and get 20% of friend’s kidney price. Only until July 1,” another one reads.
Apart from the online middlemen, there are so many other agents with offices situated in some cities in Nigeria, especially in Enugu, Asaba, Benin, and Lagos. They arrange and fly out candidates to these countries, mostly, India and Malaysia.
However, while some people successfully get themselves operated upon and get paid, others are not so fortunate as they die either before the surgery is completed or shortly after. Some, according to reports, end up suffering renal deficiencies in the long run.
Speaking on the health implication of the widely condemned act, a Neurologist, Ayodele kehinde, stated thus: “While it is very much possible for such individuals to live a normal and active life, such lifestyle is sometimes demanding in many aspects. Poor dietary and lifestyle habits can overwork a single kidney, causing diminished kidney function, leading to failure. So to live with a single kidney, one needs resources. Personally, I don’t really support such trade in organs. These organs are priceless possessions given to you by God, for free. So, why sell? It is better donated for free.”
Proffering a solution to this menace, a concerned Nigerian, Jimoh Obi, advises thus: “The Federal Government should ensure that Nigerian youths travelling to Malaysia, India and China are rigorously vetted to determine their mission in these Asian countries. There have been claims that some travel agencies woo youths into the kidney trade under the guise of schooling abroad. Every claim of admission into a Malaysian school should be properly verified; government should also double-check to see if the youths register at the schools or whether it is a ploy to jet out of the country to exchange their kidneys for 10 million Naira. They should also provide employment to our teeming youths are becoming more frustrated and desperate due to untold economic hardship.”
Obi continues: “I would also like to suggest a more drastic measure to check every Nigerian youth at the point of departure and return from the mentioned Asian countries to determine if someone with two kidneys is now ‘miraculously’ left with one kidney.
Government should take a step further. If upon discovering that any youth had sold his kidney, the travel agency that facilitated his travelling should be black-listed and those managing it jailed. The National Assembly should also come up with a legislation that makes it a crime to lure youths into the kidney business.”
According to reports, given the high incidences of chronic kidney diseases in some Asian countries, the trade is certainly a money-spinner. In Malaysia alone, it is said that there are about 2,500 cases of kidney failure yearly while in China about 1.5 million people are reportedly in dire need of organ transplants, thus fueling an illegal trade in organs.
Meanwhile, as you read this shocking confession from Kingsley Odoh, there are possibly more than 1000 other Nigerians currently making preparations to barter their kidneys for money. Ironically, the tales of those who have treaded the path and failed does not in any way deter prospective “kidney sellers” from embarking on the deadly voyage, all because of poverty caused by the frustration of unemployment among youths.
With
the worsening economic and resultant unemployment situation in the
country, the business, though old, has remained a growing fad.On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Kingsley Odoh, a Chemical Engineering graduate of Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, flew into Nigeria, from Malaysia. Immediately after his ‘glorious’ arrival in Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, the atmosphere seemed transformed. Apart from his appearances oozing riches, his bravado also signaled that ‘levels have changed,’ as he treated longtime friends to sumptuous meals and expensive wines in one of Enugu costliest hotels, Protea Hotel.
As if that shindig was not enough, for many weeks, probably till today, Odoh’s residence located at Independence Layout, Enugu, has suddenly turned to a haven of merriments, as friends, both old and new regularly visit to wine and dine with him.
Apart from relocating from his one room apartment to a four bed room flat, Odoh also grooves around the Coal City in his newly acquired Sports Utility Vehicle, and expectedly, in company of his choice girls who are mostly students of IMT and ESUT.
While few of his pious acquaintances have questioned his instantaneous grass to grace status, describing him as internet scammer, a handful of others knew how he made his money-not from internet fraud, but sale of his own kidney!
“If you are interested I will connect you to the agents. The truth is that there is nothing wrong in what I did. If people can donate their kidneys to save lives, why can’t another person sell his to also save a life and at the same time make money to help alleviate his poor condition. That was what I did and I have no regret for the act,” he revealed to Sunday Express.
Odoh further threw the bombshell: “As I’m speaking with you, there are lots of Nigerians on the queue in Malaysia who have made all the arrangements to sell their kidneys.
Some of them desperately need money to establish something that would turn their lives around. I wouldn’t tell you that some are not donating for free. But the truth is that, even those who have chosen to donate for free are still being financially compensated. So what is the difference? He rhetorically asked.
On why he chose to trade one of his kidneys for money, the Abia State-born graduate avowed thus: “What I did is what anybody could easily do. I just needed the money so I went for it. Besides, I don’t see anything wrong in it, especially when it’s obvious that all what one needs to live a normal life is one kidney. If you are interested, I will link you up,” he disclosed.
While Odoh, according to insiders, have already squandered part of the eight million naira (N8m) he was allegedly paid in exchange for his kidney, he is currently considering setting up a boutique in the heart of the city. “He has already paid for a shop along Ogui road. From his comments, I believe it is going to be a boutique or super market.
He just needs something that would keep him out of the reach of poverty, which is the major reason he took the risk,” one of his close friends further revealed in a telephone chat.“Employment and frustration drove Odoh into this deadly venture. He’s been looking for a job several years after we left school,” hinted another of his mates on campus.
No doubt, the kidney-for-money business has become a booming market for the Nigerian youths, as one kidney goes for about seven to eight million naira. This mouth watering price is the attraction for those who travel to these countries- India, Bangladesh, Iran, China, etc- ultimately to deal in the illicit and very risky business.
Sunday Express investigations further uncovered that there is a sophisticated online network of vendors, agents, resellers and hunters, who actively seek young Nigerians ready to trade their kidneys, and other vital organs. One among such is www. kidneykidney.com.
“Crisis? Crisis is running over the planet, but you’ve got a chance! The cost of a human kidney is $70, 000-$80,000 and it could be enough to pay all your debts, credits and much more. You can help yourself right now: just sell your kidney. Hurry up!” That is one of the adverts on the website. “Link your friends and get 20% of friend’s kidney price. Only until July 1,” another one reads.
Apart from the online middlemen, there are so many other agents with offices situated in some cities in Nigeria, especially in Enugu, Asaba, Benin, and Lagos. They arrange and fly out candidates to these countries, mostly, India and Malaysia.
However, while some people successfully get themselves operated upon and get paid, others are not so fortunate as they die either before the surgery is completed or shortly after. Some, according to reports, end up suffering renal deficiencies in the long run.
Speaking on the health implication of the widely condemned act, a Neurologist, Ayodele kehinde, stated thus: “While it is very much possible for such individuals to live a normal and active life, such lifestyle is sometimes demanding in many aspects. Poor dietary and lifestyle habits can overwork a single kidney, causing diminished kidney function, leading to failure. So to live with a single kidney, one needs resources. Personally, I don’t really support such trade in organs. These organs are priceless possessions given to you by God, for free. So, why sell? It is better donated for free.”
Proffering a solution to this menace, a concerned Nigerian, Jimoh Obi, advises thus: “The Federal Government should ensure that Nigerian youths travelling to Malaysia, India and China are rigorously vetted to determine their mission in these Asian countries. There have been claims that some travel agencies woo youths into the kidney trade under the guise of schooling abroad. Every claim of admission into a Malaysian school should be properly verified; government should also double-check to see if the youths register at the schools or whether it is a ploy to jet out of the country to exchange their kidneys for 10 million Naira. They should also provide employment to our teeming youths are becoming more frustrated and desperate due to untold economic hardship.”
Obi continues: “I would also like to suggest a more drastic measure to check every Nigerian youth at the point of departure and return from the mentioned Asian countries to determine if someone with two kidneys is now ‘miraculously’ left with one kidney.
Government should take a step further. If upon discovering that any youth had sold his kidney, the travel agency that facilitated his travelling should be black-listed and those managing it jailed. The National Assembly should also come up with a legislation that makes it a crime to lure youths into the kidney business.”
According to reports, given the high incidences of chronic kidney diseases in some Asian countries, the trade is certainly a money-spinner. In Malaysia alone, it is said that there are about 2,500 cases of kidney failure yearly while in China about 1.5 million people are reportedly in dire need of organ transplants, thus fueling an illegal trade in organs.
Meanwhile, as you read this shocking confession from Kingsley Odoh, there are possibly more than 1000 other Nigerians currently making preparations to barter their kidneys for money. Ironically, the tales of those who have treaded the path and failed does not in any way deter prospective “kidney sellers” from embarking on the deadly voyage, all because of poverty caused by the frustration of unemployment among youths.
Keshi Gives Up On Mikel, Awaits Moses
Nigeria manager Stephen Keshi has
expressed serious doubts about Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi eventually
turning up for the friendly match against Mexico.
The African champions face Mexico in Houston, Texas, on May 31 to prepare for a hectic schedule in June when they will play two World Cup qualifiers as well as feature in the FIFA Confederations Cup.
While the Super Eagles are in Germany, Mikel is in England to process an entry visa to Brazil in time for the Confederations Cup.
“I’m not sure he’s coming,” Keshi told MTNFootball.com from the Eagles training camp in Germany.
“Our initial agreement with Chelsea was for them to drop off both Mikel and Victor Moses after their game. But now he is pursuing a visa to Brazil. We’re also not sure about his condition, if he is fit or not. And so, Mikel might not be there with us.”
The Eagles have been seriously depleted by the withdrawal of several players because of injuries as well as club engagements.
Moses, Emmanuel Emenike, Kalu Uche, Gabriel Reuben have already been ruled out because of injury, while Ahmed Musa, Fegor Ogude and Efe Ambrose are involved in cup finals at their various European clubs.
The Eagles will fly out of Frankfurt, Germany, to the US on Tuesday morning.
But while Mikel stays out, Chelsea have said Moses is expected to be fully fit again by July 6.
Keshi said the English Premier League club have informed his team official they expect Moses to be back playing again in less than two months. Chelsea say Moses has been battling injuries towards the end of the season and as such he is unavailable for the series of matches involving Nigeria.
The 22-year-old Moses passed a late fitness test to be in the Chelsea squad for the all important clash with Aston Villa earlier this month.
Moses picked up a knock in a 2-2 draw at home against Tottenham Hotspur.
“Chelsea have informed us that Moses cannot play again till July 6, but he will be with them in the US,” Keshi said.
However, it is not clear the nature of the winger’s injury.
The injury-hit Moses has already pulled out of the Nigeria squad for a series of matches beginning with a friendly against Mexico on May 31 in the United States of America.
The African champions face Mexico in Houston, Texas, on May 31 to prepare for a hectic schedule in June when they will play two World Cup qualifiers as well as feature in the FIFA Confederations Cup.
While the Super Eagles are in Germany, Mikel is in England to process an entry visa to Brazil in time for the Confederations Cup.
“I’m not sure he’s coming,” Keshi told MTNFootball.com from the Eagles training camp in Germany.
“Our initial agreement with Chelsea was for them to drop off both Mikel and Victor Moses after their game. But now he is pursuing a visa to Brazil. We’re also not sure about his condition, if he is fit or not. And so, Mikel might not be there with us.”
The Eagles have been seriously depleted by the withdrawal of several players because of injuries as well as club engagements.
Moses, Emmanuel Emenike, Kalu Uche, Gabriel Reuben have already been ruled out because of injury, while Ahmed Musa, Fegor Ogude and Efe Ambrose are involved in cup finals at their various European clubs.
The Eagles will fly out of Frankfurt, Germany, to the US on Tuesday morning.
But while Mikel stays out, Chelsea have said Moses is expected to be fully fit again by July 6.
Keshi said the English Premier League club have informed his team official they expect Moses to be back playing again in less than two months. Chelsea say Moses has been battling injuries towards the end of the season and as such he is unavailable for the series of matches involving Nigeria.
The 22-year-old Moses passed a late fitness test to be in the Chelsea squad for the all important clash with Aston Villa earlier this month.
Moses picked up a knock in a 2-2 draw at home against Tottenham Hotspur.
“Chelsea have informed us that Moses cannot play again till July 6, but he will be with them in the US,” Keshi said.
However, it is not clear the nature of the winger’s injury.
The injury-hit Moses has already pulled out of the Nigeria squad for a series of matches beginning with a friendly against Mexico on May 31 in the United States of America.
My Story: "How I Confronted My Rapist"
It takes a strong person to confront
their rapist. Sometimes it is unavoidable. In cases of rape between
family members or friends, you will undoubtedly see this person again.
Other times people are forced to confront their rapists in the court of law in order to get the justice they seek. The majority of rapes go unreported (95% of sexual assault victims do not report the crime to the proper authorities).
I was so young when I was raped I thought I would be the one who got in trouble if I reported it. So I didn't get the courage to speak up for a decade. By that time, any physical evidence that was left had faded. I spoke to police and counselors about reporting it but they told me it wouldn't be an easy case to prove with only circumstantial evidence. Since there were two rapists involved, I thought maybe it was possible that one would rat the other out to save their own butts. It was a possibility, but nothing was for certain.
My family encouraged me not to report it because of the fragile state I was in. They were afraid I couldn't handle the long drawn out court procedures. I was struggling with my day to day life as it was.
It happened over a decade ago, I was watching a game with two of my guy friends. I didn't like sports, I was there for the beer. The last thing I remember before passing out was the pattern of the ceiling tiles. They ceiling was white. The grooves in each tile looked like rows of paper Asian fans. It was odd that I blacked out like this, only having two drinks.
I hear when they were done with me they left me on my front lawn, like garbage. The next morning I was beyond hungover. I still felt drunk. My pants were on backwards and I was sore and sticky as if I'd had sex. Had I had sex? Slowly I began to put things together. The next time I saw one of the guys he asked me if I remembered anything from that night, "You were so drunk!" he laughed, "Do you even remember anything?"
"No," I replied.
"Nothing at all?"
"No."
"Wow, you were wasted."
In retrospect it is clear that he was checking my memory in order to get a peace of mind to cover his own ass. I still began to piece things together and remember other parts of the night. He and the other guy stopped hanging out with me shortly after. I felt pretty bad and confused as to why they had dropped off the planet, but now I know why. I didn't see them again for years. My boyfriend at the time even heard them bragging that they had sex with me at a party and saying how big of a slut I was.
I ran into one of them at a house party, he shied away from me and avoided me. The other came into a bar, not knowing I worked there, and did the same. It was no secret what happened that night. I was really angry and felt completely violated.
I didn't hear from them again until one day I got a Facebook friend request. It was from the more conniving of the two, the one who'd asked me all those questions. Quickly I hit the "deny" button. Not a day later he resent the request, as if I had made some mistake by discounting it the first time. Again, I hit the "deny" button.
I didn't hear from him again.
Around the same time my Healing After Sexual Assault series went into publication, he showed up in my life again. He again tried to add me on Facebook. This time I stared at the request, should I say something? Should I message him, "I know what you and (other person) did!"? I stared at the screen. Was he trying to get some sort of validation from me, that in his mind if I accepted his friend request it proved to him that he wasn't a bad guy or a rapist? I hit the "deny" button.
Over a year passed, and then a few days ago, he had the nerve to send me a request again. This time I was beyond pissed. Quickly I took my keyboard and wrote back to him,
"Are you joking? I know what you and (other person) did to me! Get lost!" There were a few expletives in there that I didn't add in this post, but you get the gist.
Confronting him doesn't change my life. Because of what he did and the pain he caused, I need to come with a disclaimer. I still have to explain my life story to everybody I meet if they have intentions of checking out my writing. If I don't forewarn them, they will almost always ask me about it later, citing they had no idea. It still bothers me. It's never an easy thing to talk about.
If anything, I scared him. I hope I did. Maybe now he knows he didn't get away with it completely. It is unlikely that he and his friend will ever go to jail for raping me. Like other rapists who think they got away with something because they never served time or appeared in court, I know that in the end, there is one judge that they will not be able to charm or lie his way past.
Other times people are forced to confront their rapists in the court of law in order to get the justice they seek. The majority of rapes go unreported (95% of sexual assault victims do not report the crime to the proper authorities).
I was so young when I was raped I thought I would be the one who got in trouble if I reported it. So I didn't get the courage to speak up for a decade. By that time, any physical evidence that was left had faded. I spoke to police and counselors about reporting it but they told me it wouldn't be an easy case to prove with only circumstantial evidence. Since there were two rapists involved, I thought maybe it was possible that one would rat the other out to save their own butts. It was a possibility, but nothing was for certain.
My family encouraged me not to report it because of the fragile state I was in. They were afraid I couldn't handle the long drawn out court procedures. I was struggling with my day to day life as it was.
It happened over a decade ago, I was watching a game with two of my guy friends. I didn't like sports, I was there for the beer. The last thing I remember before passing out was the pattern of the ceiling tiles. They ceiling was white. The grooves in each tile looked like rows of paper Asian fans. It was odd that I blacked out like this, only having two drinks.
I hear when they were done with me they left me on my front lawn, like garbage. The next morning I was beyond hungover. I still felt drunk. My pants were on backwards and I was sore and sticky as if I'd had sex. Had I had sex? Slowly I began to put things together. The next time I saw one of the guys he asked me if I remembered anything from that night, "You were so drunk!" he laughed, "Do you even remember anything?"
"No," I replied.
"Nothing at all?"
"No."
"Wow, you were wasted."
In retrospect it is clear that he was checking my memory in order to get a peace of mind to cover his own ass. I still began to piece things together and remember other parts of the night. He and the other guy stopped hanging out with me shortly after. I felt pretty bad and confused as to why they had dropped off the planet, but now I know why. I didn't see them again for years. My boyfriend at the time even heard them bragging that they had sex with me at a party and saying how big of a slut I was.
I ran into one of them at a house party, he shied away from me and avoided me. The other came into a bar, not knowing I worked there, and did the same. It was no secret what happened that night. I was really angry and felt completely violated.
I didn't hear from them again until one day I got a Facebook friend request. It was from the more conniving of the two, the one who'd asked me all those questions. Quickly I hit the "deny" button. Not a day later he resent the request, as if I had made some mistake by discounting it the first time. Again, I hit the "deny" button.
I didn't hear from him again.
Around the same time my Healing After Sexual Assault series went into publication, he showed up in my life again. He again tried to add me on Facebook. This time I stared at the request, should I say something? Should I message him, "I know what you and (other person) did!"? I stared at the screen. Was he trying to get some sort of validation from me, that in his mind if I accepted his friend request it proved to him that he wasn't a bad guy or a rapist? I hit the "deny" button.
Over a year passed, and then a few days ago, he had the nerve to send me a request again. This time I was beyond pissed. Quickly I took my keyboard and wrote back to him,
"Are you joking? I know what you and (other person) did to me! Get lost!" There were a few expletives in there that I didn't add in this post, but you get the gist.
Confronting him doesn't change my life. Because of what he did and the pain he caused, I need to come with a disclaimer. I still have to explain my life story to everybody I meet if they have intentions of checking out my writing. If I don't forewarn them, they will almost always ask me about it later, citing they had no idea. It still bothers me. It's never an easy thing to talk about.
If anything, I scared him. I hope I did. Maybe now he knows he didn't get away with it completely. It is unlikely that he and his friend will ever go to jail for raping me. Like other rapists who think they got away with something because they never served time or appeared in court, I know that in the end, there is one judge that they will not be able to charm or lie his way past.
3 Female Gang Members Arrested For Having Sex With Married Men Then Blackmailing Them
Police in South Korea say they have
cracked a 'honeypot' operation where female gang members would have sex
with married men then blackmail them.
In each case, the women are said to have enticed the men to have sex, then threatened to report the encounter to police as rape if they failed to pay substantial sums.
Police in Chungcheong Province arrested five people on Monday who are accused of extorting around £25,000 from three victims.
In one case, on New Year’s Eve, Mr. Lim, 31, was having a drink with a friend when some women joined them at their table.
Mr. Lim went to a motel with a woman by the name of Ms. Jeon.
It is alleged she ended up accusing Mr. Lim of rape, demanding £3,500 in compensation which he paid.
She then demanded a further £60,000 saying ‘if you don’t pay, I’m going to call the police’, investigators say.
Mr. Lim suffered a brain hemorrhage on January 13 and is said to remain in an unconscious condition.
However, a police report revealed that the woman who slept with Mr. Lim was part of a criminal gang’s ‘honeypot’ operation.
They have arrested five individuals on suspicion of using sex to lure victims and steal their valuables.
Among those arrested for theft and making threats were three women, all of whom have since been released.
Police say that the gang is suspected of stealing £25,000 from three separate victims during a one month period last December. All of the victims of the ‘honeypot gang’ were either friends or acquaintances of the suspects.
The gang even went so far as to report one of the three victims, 58-year-old Mr. Jeong, to the police for rape after he failed to pay the demanded £40,000.
The police report also mentioned how the gang planned ahead for cases where they would actually accuse the victim of rape, using disposable cell phones with which they wouldn’t contact their accomplices.
After obtaining confessions from the gang about their threats to the three victims, the police have begun examining similar cases from the same period.
‘We have heard about other honeypot operations run by gangs in the area, so we are expanding our investigation,’ said a representative from the North Chungcheon Province Police Department, ‘since targets of this crime can suffer greatly, even losing their families, we advise extreme caution.’
In each case, the women are said to have enticed the men to have sex, then threatened to report the encounter to police as rape if they failed to pay substantial sums.
Police in Chungcheong Province arrested five people on Monday who are accused of extorting around £25,000 from three victims.
In one case, on New Year’s Eve, Mr. Lim, 31, was having a drink with a friend when some women joined them at their table.
Mr. Lim went to a motel with a woman by the name of Ms. Jeon.
It is alleged she ended up accusing Mr. Lim of rape, demanding £3,500 in compensation which he paid.
She then demanded a further £60,000 saying ‘if you don’t pay, I’m going to call the police’, investigators say.
Mr. Lim suffered a brain hemorrhage on January 13 and is said to remain in an unconscious condition.
However, a police report revealed that the woman who slept with Mr. Lim was part of a criminal gang’s ‘honeypot’ operation.
They have arrested five individuals on suspicion of using sex to lure victims and steal their valuables.
Among those arrested for theft and making threats were three women, all of whom have since been released.
Police say that the gang is suspected of stealing £25,000 from three separate victims during a one month period last December. All of the victims of the ‘honeypot gang’ were either friends or acquaintances of the suspects.
The gang even went so far as to report one of the three victims, 58-year-old Mr. Jeong, to the police for rape after he failed to pay the demanded £40,000.
The police report also mentioned how the gang planned ahead for cases where they would actually accuse the victim of rape, using disposable cell phones with which they wouldn’t contact their accomplices.
After obtaining confessions from the gang about their threats to the three victims, the police have begun examining similar cases from the same period.
‘We have heard about other honeypot operations run by gangs in the area, so we are expanding our investigation,’ said a representative from the North Chungcheon Province Police Department, ‘since targets of this crime can suffer greatly, even losing their families, we advise extreme caution.’
Gov Akpabio Bags Best Governor In Africa Award
Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief
Godswill Akpabio, has bagged the best Governor in Africa Award from an
Accra-based Africa Development Magazine, for his development strides in
the state.
Presenting the award in Accra, Ghana, renowned Ghanaian Professor, Walter Alhassan, described Governor Akpabio as an icon of democracy and a good example of what leadership should represent.
He said that available and verifiable facts singled out Chief Akpabio as a pride of Africa, worthy of emulation.
Speaking on behalf of the organisers, Soma Brown recounted the numerous achievements of the Akpabio administration in Akwa Ibom State, but particularly noted the free, compulsory and qualitative education policy; free medical care for pregnant women, children and the aged; and the massive infrastructural investment as key reasons for the award conferred on Governor Akpabio.
Receiving the award, Governor Akpabio, represented by his Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, thanked the magazine for considering him for the global honour.
Presenting the award in Accra, Ghana, renowned Ghanaian Professor, Walter Alhassan, described Governor Akpabio as an icon of democracy and a good example of what leadership should represent.
He said that available and verifiable facts singled out Chief Akpabio as a pride of Africa, worthy of emulation.
Speaking on behalf of the organisers, Soma Brown recounted the numerous achievements of the Akpabio administration in Akwa Ibom State, but particularly noted the free, compulsory and qualitative education policy; free medical care for pregnant women, children and the aged; and the massive infrastructural investment as key reasons for the award conferred on Governor Akpabio.
Receiving the award, Governor Akpabio, represented by his Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, thanked the magazine for considering him for the global honour.
Jim Iyke & Actress, Nadia Buari In Hot Romance
Nollywood 'bad boy', Jim Iyke and Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari have finally decided to confirm the rumour making round that they are in a romantic relationship.
For some time now, both stars have been seen around each other in suggestive ways.
They have also reportedly been seen together at some suggestive places which brought about the rumour that both have some 'rubbing and entangling of bodies' going on between them but at some point Jim Iyke denied such speculations.
Well looks like they have decided to come out clean as they took to twitter to display their love.
Although some still thinks its just publicity stunts.
relationship.
Nigeria says children detained in connection with insurgency
The statement from an adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan comes after widespread allegations of Nigerian authorities carrying out indiscriminate arrests, unlawful detentions and extra-judicial executions in the fight against Islamist extremists over the last several years.
It was issued because the government said it wanted to further clarify a defence ministry statement this week promising to release certain suspects held in connection with "terrorism," including all women. The military had made no mention of children.
"The order for the release of the detainees will be executed in phases," the statement from Jonathan adviser Doyin Okupe said.
"Concerning the first batch, the emphasis is on women and children who have been in detention on suspicion of involvement and/or connection with insurgency in some parts of the country."
Okupe did not respond to phone calls on Thursday for further details.
Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has previously demanded the release of women and children prisoners, though neither the defence nor government statement made any mention of the demand.
Suspected Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed in a recent video that the group was holding women and children hostage in retaliation for wives and children of its members detained by the military.
The promise to release some of those detained comes as the military carries out an offensive in Nigeria's northeast launched on May 15 seeking to end a violent insurgency underway since 2009.
A state of emergency has been declared in three northeastern states hard hit by the violence, and phone service has been out since the weekend in certain areas.
Rights activists have long criticised Nigeria's military over its response to the insurgency, accusing it of major abuses.
The conflict is estimated to have cost 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security services.
London-based rights group Amnesty International on Thursday issued a statement urging Nigerian authorities not to use the recent emergency declaration to commit abuses.
"In recent weeks, residents of Borno state in northern Nigeria have told Amnesty International that mass arrests in the state capital Maiduguri have increased," it said, referring to the city where Boko Haram has been based.
"Individuals in military vehicles have been depositing bodies on an almost daily basis at mortuaries in the town. The government does not appear to carry out any investigation into these deaths, and has not released any information pertaining to those deceased and deposited at the mortuaries."
Shehu Sani, a prominent rights activist based in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna who has sought to arrange peace talks, said he did not think the planned release of detainees would improve the situation.
He alleged that some detainees have been held for several years and questioned whether those being released would simply be replaced with new prisoners.
"It doesn't make sense if you are releasing a few people who you have held for three to four years while you are embarking on massive arrests of more," he said.
"So it is more or less replacing those you are releasing with more you are arresting."
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Uefa: New drug-testing plans and 10-match bans for racism
Uefa will retrospectively study 900 doping samples given since 2008 as
it attempts to combat use of performance-enhancing drugs in European
football.
Though it will not lead to future punishments, the governing body intends to identify the scale of steroid use.
Uefa will also carry out blood testing in more competitions from 2013-14, and consider using biological passports.
A proposal for 10-match European bans for players and officials found guilty of racism has also been ratified.
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The new measures were on the agenda at Uefa's executive committee meeting, held in London prior to Saturday's Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.
In February, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he had asked Uefa several times to implement new drug-testing procedures.
"When you have a doping control at Uefa, they do not take blood, they take only urine," the 63-year-old said. "I have asked many times [at Uefa meetings] in Geneva [for that to be changed]."
The World Anti-Doping Agency's president has also accused football of not doing enough to stop doping.
Nigeria: 2face, D'banj, P-Square Leads Others for Star Music Trek 2013tar Music trek started in 2002.
Nigerian pop stars, Tuface Idibia, D’banj, and Psquare were announced at the unveiling ceremony held in lagos on Wednesday May 22, as the headlines for this year’s Star Music trek.
The star-studded lineup also includes Ice Prince, M.I, Mr. Raw, Naeto C, Phyno and Olamide, Timaya, Sound Sultan, Wande Coal, Obesere, Dr Sid, J Martins, KCee, Tiwa Savage, Seyi Shey, Yinka Best, Kas and Star Quest past winners Juke Box, Da Beatz and Crystalz.
The 10-week concert will hold at 10 different venues starting with Lagos on June 8 at Jite Open Field, Road 21 Festac; Kogi, June 15, Lokoja Stadium; Imo, June 22, Hero Square, Owerri; Enugu, June 29 Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.
Other cities and centres are : Abia, July 7, Recreation Center, Aba; Anambra, July 13, Beverly Hills, Nnewi; Delta, July 20, Event Center (DOME) Asaba; Ogun, July 27, Abeokuta Sports Club; and Lagos, August 3, Lagos State University Museum Agege and on August 10, at the Onikan Stadium on the Island.
Star Trek, an annual nation-wide musical concert tour that parades the best of Nigerian artistes across 10 cities in Nigeria was introduced in 2002.
Niger suicide bombers target Areva mine and barracks
Security was stepped up at the Arlit mine this year
Suicide bombers have struck a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west Niger.
A bomb at a barracks in Agadez killed at least 19, including
18 soldiers, officials told the BBC. Four attackers died and a fifth is
holding four army officers hostage.The attack on the Somair mine, in the town of Arlit, killed one person and injured 14, its operator Areva said.
The jihadist Mujao group said it had carried out the two attacks.
Mujao spokesman Abu Walid Sahraoui said the operations targeted "the enemies of Islam in Niger", according to Agence France-Presse.
"We attacked France, and Niger because of its co-operation with France, in the war against Sharia," he added, thought to be a reference to French and Nigerien involvement in combating Islamists in neighbouring Mali.
French President Francois Hollande vowed to protect his nation's interests and co-operate with Niger in its "fight against terrorism".
He said on a visit to Germany: "Everybody should know that we will let nothing pass, and support Niger's authorities in ending the hostage taking and destroying the group that carried out these attacks."
'Strong detonation' Both attacks were carried out as people prepared for the early morning prayer just after 05:00 local time (04:00 GMT), BBC West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy reports.
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There is little doubt that these two attacks are evidence of a
spill-over from the conflict in neighbouring Mali. However, although
Niger shares a border with Mali, the attackers are more likely to have
come through southern Libya, given the location of their targets in the
country's far north. This could confirm suspicions that fighters linked
to al-Qaeda had been on the move in the area.
But this would also be the bloodiest attack carried out since the French started their military campaign in Mali this year. The French nuclear company Areva had recently resumed rotations for its expat staff at the uranium site of Arlit. After seven workers at the site were taken hostage - three of them have since been released - two and half years ago, Niger had deployed extra troops to secure the mine. French special forces were also reportedly sent in. But militants have just shown how determined they are to strike across the region.
Analysis
But this would also be the bloodiest attack carried out since the French started their military campaign in Mali this year. The French nuclear company Areva had recently resumed rotations for its expat staff at the uranium site of Arlit. After seven workers at the site were taken hostage - three of them have since been released - two and half years ago, Niger had deployed extra troops to secure the mine. French special forces were also reportedly sent in. But militants have just shown how determined they are to strike across the region.
He says the army is patrolling in and around Agadez following the attack.
Abdoulaye Harouna, a resident of Agadez, told the Associated
Press: "We heard a strong detonation that woke the whole neighbourhood,
it was so powerful."Niger's Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said insurgents had driven a car bomb into the military base there. Around two dozen people were wounded in the blast, including civilians.
"There is at least one remaining assailant that we are trying to capture," Mr Karidjo told the BBC.
He said the government had declared a three-day period of national mourning.
Further north in Arlit, a suicide bomber blew up a car close to workers at the mine operated by French nuclear company Areva.
It said one person had been killed and 14 were being treated in hospital. The company said operations at the mine had been "temporarily suspended".
"A man in military uniform driving a 4x4 packed with explosives mixed in with the Somair workers and blew up his vehicle in front of the power station at the uranium treatment facility," a mine employee told AFP news agency.
He said the bomber had also died in the blast.
Niger's Interior Minister Abdou Labo put the number of wounded at the site at about 50.
Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said French special forces had moved in to protect the site after dozens of hostages died when Islamist militants seized a gas plant in Algeria in January.
Seven workers, including five French nationals, were kidnapped from the Arlit mine by Islamist militants in 2010.
Four of them are still being held and it is believed they could be in northern Mali, close to where French troops were sent to oust al-Qaeda-linked militants in January.
Mujao (the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa) is a splinter group of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which operates mostly in northern Mali.
It says its objective is to spread jihad to West Africa rather than confine itself to the Sahel and Maghreb regions - the main focus of AQIM.
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Nigeria: Insecurity - Buhari Asks Jonathan to Resign
Katsina — Former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for his inability to tackle the security challenges facing the country.
"Jonathan should vacate and give way to competent hand to govern the country", he said.
Speaking to newsmen in his residence in Daura town yesterday, General Buhari said the issue of security is a fundamental duty of any responsible government, but Jonathan failed to protect the lives and the properties of Nigerians since he assumed power.
"When the Niger Delta militants started their activities in the South-South, they were invited by the late President Umaru Yar'adua.
An aircraft was sent to them and their leaders met with the late President in Aso Rock and discussed issues. They were given money and a training scheme was introduced for their members. But when the Boko Haram emerged in the north members of the sect were killed," General Buhari lamented.
"And when the police failed to address the insurgency, soldiers were invited and they captured the Boko Haram leader, Muhammad Yusuf alive and handed him over to police. But Yusuf was eventually killed, his in-law too was killed and their houses were demolished", he said.
He said the murder of the Boko Haram leader however provoked his followers and that was what led the country to its present situation. He suggested that government should adopt a new approach that will end the insurgency without affecting the lives and properties of innocent people.
"In Bama and Baga towns, military personnel were reported to have been engaged in extortion and sometimes raping of women. And because a soldier was killed in Baga the whole town was sacked by military. This is not the best way military should have acted when they were sent to restore law and order in a town. How can a responsible government allow its people to be killed in this way," he asked.
He warned that the police, SSS, army, navy and Air force should know how to conduct themselves and act professionally.
"The soldiers are not expected to go and sack a town because one of them is killed. They are expected to capture the culprits for prosecution. After all the soldiers are not meant to tackle internal crisis but when it is necessary they should act professionally.
"Whoever is sent to protect people should also protect their integrity. When the former England's Prime Minister, Margret Thatcher decided to hold its political meeting in Brighton the security advised her to cancel the meeting because of the IRN rebellions, but she insisted and held the meeting. The hotel she was accommodated was bombed and some of her political associates were killed but soldiers did not condone the area and kill everybody there, rather they conducted themselves professionally," Buhari said.
General Buhari, who condemned the imposition of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, said state of emergency was not the best way to address insurgency in the three affected states and the country in general.
"Government cannot kill all the Boko Haram members. Government should rather arrest and prosecute the Boko Haram members. They should only be killed when they said clearly they wage war against their country like what happened during the civil war. And even during civil war we that fought in the war were given a copy of code of conduct book which guided us against killing innocent people", he said.
Nigerians On the Run As Military Combats Boko Haram
Kano — Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps from 15 May.
The attacks on BH camps in northern parts of Borno close to the borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon followed the 14 May declaration of a state of emergency by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
Musa Karimbe fled his village of Bulabute near Marte, BH's major stronghold in the area, on 17 May to Kusiri, 100km inside Cameroon where he is staying with a friend. "We are afraid of a repeat of Baga attacks on our homes," Karimbe said, referring to fighting on 16 and 17 April between troops from the Chad-Niger-Nigeria Joint Multi-National Task Force and BH members in which 187 residents from Baga town on the shores of Lake Chad were killed, and 2,128 homes burnt, according to Human Rights Watch.
People from villages around Abadam District, including Malamfatori, fled to Bosso in Niger's Diffa Region, while others have taken refuge in the Cameroonian towns of Fotokol, Amchide, Darak and Kusiri, according to interviews with displaced Nigerians. Officials say 2,000 people have fled across borders, though several of the displaced told IRIN they thought the number was higher.
The number of casualties from the fighting is not yet clear, though Nigeria defence spokesman Brig-Gen Chris Olukolade said on 17 May that there had been BH casualties, and that 100 BH members had been arrested.
An official with the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the capital, Abuja, said they had not yet been able to establish contact with their teams to find out the details of the humanitarian situation, because telephone networks in Borno and Yobe states have been shut down since 16 May. "The areas where military operations are ongoing, are not accessible," he told IRIN.
Residents of Gamboru Ngala in Borno State said military forces screened them thoroughly before allowing them to cross the border; others passed through the network of unofficial trade routes that criss-cross the region.
The military has placed a "food blockade" on northern Borno, refusing to allow trucks laden with household commodities from leaving Maiduguri (the state capital) to the northern part of the state, in case they end up in BH hands. As a result, prices have shot up, said Bukar Zanna, head of the Traders' Association in Gamboru Ngala.
Since January 2013 BH has taken control of Marte, Mobbar, Gubio, Guzamala, Abadam, Kukawa, Kala-Balge and Gamboru Ngala local government areas in northern Borno, chasing out local government officials, taking over control of government buildings and imposing Sharia law.
This prompted President Goodluck Jonathan to declare last week that he would "take all necessary action... to put an end to the impunity of insurgents and terrorists," including the arrest and detention of suspects, taking over BH hideouts, the lockdown of suspected BH enclaves, raids, and arresting anyone possessing illegal weapons.
The military crackdown came after several attempts at dialogue - the most recent on 17 April, when the president set up a 26-member Amnesty Committee (headed by Nigerian Special Duties Minister Kabiru Tanimu) with a three-month mandate to try to convince BH to lay down its arms in exchange for a state pardon and social reintegration
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Saturday, 18 May 2013
For confronting the referee
Mourinho sent off
In the 75th minute, José Mourinho lost the plot after a
coming-together in the centre of the pitch. He protested loudly to the
referee, prowling around beyond his technical area and bellowing in
apoplexy.
The man in black, Clos Gómez, went over to the touchline to book the 'Los Blancos' coach and attempt to calm him down, but the Portuguese persisted with his outbursts.
In a rush of blood to the head, Mourinho next appeared to challenge the official to show him a red card, leaving the referee little choice but to banish him from the dugout.
The man in black, Clos Gómez, went over to the touchline to book the 'Los Blancos' coach and attempt to calm him down, but the Portuguese persisted with his outbursts.
In a rush of blood to the head, Mourinho next appeared to challenge the official to show him a red card, leaving the referee little choice but to banish him from the dugout.
He failed to win any major trophies this season
Mourinho: "This is the worst season of my career"
"With a final, semifinal, a second place and a Super Cup, for me it is the worst"
Aside from a Spanish Super Cup victory over Barcelona, Real Madrid's 2012-13 season ended with zero titles after Real Madrid's 2-1 extra defeat to Atlético in the final of the Copa del Rey.
'The Special One' did not mince words following the match in his press conference with reporters. "This is the worst season of my career", said Mourinho. "With a final, semifinal, a second place and a Super Cup, for me it is the worst", he added.
When asked if he had failed this season, the Portuguese boss gave a frank description of what failure means to him. "I have failed this season because in the first season we win the Copa, we get to the semifinals of the Champions League and fight for a league", explained Mourinho.
"In the second season it is a failure to win a league, make another Champions League semifinal lost in penalties. The third season, with these results, it is a failed season. When things go well, it's because of everyone. When things go bad, it is the manager's fault. For me it's the worst season. I have never gone without winning a major trophy because the Super Cup is very little".
The former Chelsea manager, who has been rumored to return to Stamford Bridge, also spoke about his managerial future.
"I have a contract for three more years. I have not sat down with the president to talk about my future. I think it's normal that people are speaking of Ancelotti if I go to Chelsea. When the season ends I will sit down with the president so that the fans know what is going to happen", concluded Mourinho.
The Real Madrid captain spoke after the defeat
Ramos: "This is reality, and we have to accept it"
Sergio Ramos, Real Madrid captain in the Copa del Rey final,
braved it up and spoke to reporters as soon as the game against
Atlético de Madrid had finished. The man from Seville, speaking to
Spanish television, said that "we have to congratulate Atlético, it has
been the just winner and deserves its victory. We took things easier
after Cristiano's goal, and they took full advantage of it.""We didn't manage to convert a fair few opportunities; we don't know what would have been the outcome if they had entered. But this is reality and we have to accept it", he said.
Ramos was insistent: "This is reality, there is nothing else. We can now start thinking about the coming season."
Atlético end 14-year Madrid curse with a Copa Del Rey win for the ages
Atlético's
fans had tasted only pain against Real since 1999. Now, at last, they
can begin the first day of the rest of their lives
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Atlético Madrid
celebrate their 2-1 victory over Real Madrid at the Bernabéu.
Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images
Beware of worshipping false idols. Two statues, two gods, stand in the centre of Madrid. Cibeles is the meeting point for Real fans. It used to be the meeting point for Atlético supporters too, but these days they gather at Neptune, just to the south. They've been there quite a lot recently – two Europa League titles and a European Super Cup have ensured that – and Neptune was ready too, but few truly expected this: Atlético won the Copa del Rey. Against Real Madrid. At the Santiago Bernabéu. In this battle of the gods, Neptune defeated Cibeles, 2-1 after extra time. "This is historic," beamed the full-back Juanfran.
Historic is the word. This may even be Atlético's greatest ever night. "If we win it will be forever," Adrián had said before the game. Diego Simeone said he didn't know where it ranks in the club's history. But, he added, "in many years' time, it will be remembered." And how. Atlético had not defeated their city rivals this century. They had not defeated them this millennium, in fact. The last victory came in October 1999, back when Christina Aguilera was being rubbed the right way, the Pet Shop Boys didn't know what you wanted and Thibault Courtois was seven.
That year, victory was empty. Atlético were relegated to the second division for the first time in their history, "one little year in hell" that turned out to be two. In the first derby for almost three years upon Atlético's return to the first division, a last minute free kick and a penalty save from the then-goalkeeper and current assistant manager Mono Burgos – with his nose – earned them a 2-2 draw but they have not won since. Twenty-five games, not one victory. Over 60 teams have beaten Real Madrid since 1999 but their neighbours weren't one of them and it hasn't even been close of late: Madrid had won the last 10 matches.
There is a whole generation of kids – and in fact, Spanish football correspondents – who have never seen Atlético win against Real. No matter what they tried, no matter what they did, no matter what the conditions, they simply couldn't win. There was a crushing inevitability about defeat that fed into an identity being built on failure. Atlético were El Pupas, the jinxed one, that famous advert showing a father lost for words when his son asks him: papá, why do we support Atlético? There was even a supporters club called The Suffering and their centenary hymn, from gravelly-voiced folk singer Joaquín Sabina, lauded: "What a way to suffer! What a way to lose!" When their centenary came around, a problem over the rights meant that they could not play it at the Calderón. So they chose the Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get what you want instead.
Although the Pupas legend was not founded solely on defeats against their neighbours – it started with a European Cup final loss to Bayern Munich – part of Atlético's identity is: they are the team fighting against the odds and against Real, always at a disadvantage and more authentic for it. That at least is how some liked to portray it. "I couldn't play at Madrid because of how I look," Mono Burgos insisted once. "I'm not joking. They'd make me cut my hair. Atlético is synonymous with workers. Atlético fans are brickies, taxi drivers, and churros sellers."
The Pupas legend became a millstone and an excuse, something to hide behind, avoiding responsibility and overlooking the fact that they have a successful history. Besides, in the last three years they have actually won as many trophies as their neighbours and this season any sense of mental weakness had been broken by their coach, Diego Simeone. But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals. Sure, there was hope, maybe even a sneaking feeling that this could be their moment, but they had learnt not to hope. When it came to facing Real, there was always something that stood in their way. Fate, destiny … a curse.
Until now. And what better way of breaking the spell than this? Afterwards, Arda Turan was grinning, his hair shaved off as promised. Filipe Luis came through with the match ball under his arm, slapping Courtois as he went: "Madre mía, what a save," he shouted, "the world's best goalie!" "This is amazing: glorious," the keeper smiled. Simeone conjured up the rather unlikely image of Jesús Gil in heaven and dedicated victory to everyone struggling in life: "we're an example, proof that you can do it," he insisted. As for Miranda, scorer of the winning goal, he said: "I wanted to score that goal for all the kids who laugh at my son every day for being an Atlético fan."
Atlético's players and staff wore T-shirts. "Winning is not an aim, it is an attitude," read the front; "Madrid is red-and-white," read the back. At 2.15 am, Atlético's team bus finally pulled out of the Bernabéu, home of their great rivals, with the Copa del Rey on board. Miranda had nailed it. This was cathartic, revenge at last. This time there was a hint even before the game, that the psychology and pressure had shifted. Now, it really has, at long, long, long last. All year banging on about the décima (the 10th), all decade in fact, and it turned out they were right: this was the year of the décima … just that instead of Madrid's 10th European Cup, it was Atlético's 10th Spanish Cup. In 18 months, Diego Simeone has won as much as José Mourinho in three years.
This time, Real Madrid were the Pupas, hitting the post three times, while Thibault Courtois made two stunning saves. For Atlético, this was not just a victory, it was an exorcism. Fourteen years and 26 games later, they had finally beaten Madrid. The never ending story ended. It is worth playing after all. There will be defeats against Real but they will not be the same. Goodbye Ctrl C, Ctrl V. Goodbye fatalism. Goodbye fear. Goodbye Pupas. Goodbye pain. Goodbye Cherry Street Bed and Breakfast, Punxsutawney. Goodbye and good riddance.
"If you had made the fans an offer in which you'd said: 'we won't win against them for 14 years but when we do, it will be in the Cup final at their stadium, with them scoring first, hitting the post three times and us winning in extra time,' they'd have signed up for that'," Simeone smiled. "Tomorrow there will be a few more Atlético fans. I invite them to all wear their shirts. Tomorrow will be a special day." The first day of the rest of their lives.
La Liga Results and talking points to come on Monday
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