BIllionaire Buried With Money, Expensive Champagne (Photos)

Ugandan Billionaire and businessman, Ivan Semwanga’s Rich gang splurged money and poured expensive champagne in His grave before he was buried on Tuesday, Ugandan Daily monitor reports.

The popular group in South Africa and Uganda known for its extravagant lifestyle sent off their boss in a form which left mourners bewildered.

The floor of the white and black tiled grave was filled with denominations of Ugandan shillings, South African Rand and US dollars sprayed by the gang shortly after they poured the champagne.

In the video shared by Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper, the gang members were adamant even as they were jeered by the crowd while spraying money on the grave. (Daily Monitor)

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3 women abducts and raped a man, left him traumatized

Three young women took turns raping a man over several days in South Africa, after they drugged him and held him against his will, say police.

Detectives said the man, aged 23, was left severely traumatised after he was abducted from a taxi and gang raped for three days.

He told police he lost consciousness after being injected with a substance and woke up in a room where he was raped several times a day.

Police launched a hunt for the women and driver, and appealed for information after the man was freed by his captors.

The man, from Pretoria, South Africa, told detectives that the women were inside the taxi, along with the driver, when he hailed it down on May 19.

They were travelling towards the city’s central business district when the taxi changed direction, police spokeswoman Captain Colette Weilbach told Times Live.

She said the man was ordered to sit in the front passenger seat, where one of the women injected him with a substance.

The man passed out and was taken to an unknown location.

Ms Weilbach said: “He stated that he woke up in an unfamiliar room on a single bed.

“The female suspects then allegedly forced the man to drink an energy drink‚ before taking turns raping him numerous times a day.”

She said the man went to police after he was dropped off in an open field in Benoni, about 30 miles south of central Pretoria, on May 22.

He was “very traumatised” by the incident and received medical treatment.

Ms Weilbach promised a “robust” investigation, adding: “The South African Police Service take all sexual offences seriously regardless of gender.”

As they hunt for the trio, police are investigating whether the suspects have carried out similar attacks.

Source: Mirror

The 82 released Chibok girls reunite with parents in Abuja

Chibok girl: A father in a bear hug with daughter

Emotional scenes, tears, huggings,  Saturday dominated the reunion of the recently released 82 kidnapped Chibok girls with their parents.

At the reunion held in  Abuja, fathers gripped their daughters in tight embrace, while mothers shrieked with joy, wiping away tears streaming from their eyes. In one scene, captured by the cameras, both the parents, along with one of the girls, burst out in tears of joy.

Emotions prevail at another scene of reunion

One of the rescued Chibok School Girls with her parents during their reunion in Abuja on Saturday

They hadn’t seen each other since  14 April 2014, when Boko Haram militants  snatched  270 schoolgirls from their dormitories in northeast Nigeria.

“I’m feeling very happy, I was dancing with her, she’s very happy,” said Yakubu Nkeki, whose niece Maimuna — who he had raised as his own child — was among the 82 released.

“Everyone was dancing today, even the old ones, everyone was dancing,” Nkeki told AFP.

“All of us had lost hope, we thought the girls would not be returned.”

Nkeki, who represents the Chibok parents, said that they would attend a church service with the girls on Sunday, before returning home early next week.

One of rescued Chibok School Girls with her Mother

Chibok girls at the reunion. All Photos by Sunday Aghaeze

In the meantime the girls would stay in a government facility in Abuja where they are receiving therapy and vocational training.

Nigeria’s minister for women  affairs, Aisha Alhassan has said that the government’s goal is to have all the rescued Chibok girls back in school by September.

The group of 82 girls was released in May in exchange for five Boko Haram commanders following months of negotiations brokered by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Twenty-one of their classmates were freed in October last year, while three others had previously been found or escaped.

The Federal government has said it is still in talks to release the remaining 113 girls in captivity.

In a statement the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,said the group of 82 girls had  also been reunited with 24 others, who were rescued by the Federal Government last year.

Minister of Women’s affairs, Aisha Alhassan  said “the children are being rehabilitated and we believe that in due course they will be properly aligned with their families.

“Intensive medical attention is being administered and as soon as they are done, they will be enrolled into a remedial programme’’.

Alhasan also disclosed that the 24 others who were rescued last year were undergoing psycho-social counselling and remedial programmes preparatory to their enrolment in school next academic session.

“For the 21 and three that were earlier released, I wish to inform us that their psycho-social counselling is still in progress and of course they have started remedial classes.

“They are being taught five subjects, which is designed with a view to getting them back to school come the next school session, which is in September this year.

“They will be settled in various schools and I am sure they will continue their education from there,’’ she said.

The Minister gave assurance of the Federal Government’s commitment to rescue the remaining girls in captivity. She also  expressed appreciation to all those involved in the rescue mission.

The Chairman of the parents of the abducted school girls, Yakubu Nkeki said their joy had no bounds and thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for wiping away their tears.

So far,  106 Chibok school girls, out of the 219 captured on the night of April 14, 2014, have been rescued.

NAN

They Learnt Nothing, And Forgot Nothing ― By Femi Adesina

President Buhari in Europe in 2016

By Femi Adesina

They showed their pernicious hands again last Sunday, and have been on the prowl since then, roaring like a lion, seeking who to devour. 

Purveyors of death they are, and they have killed President Muhammadu Buhari many times over, cloned the websites of international media houses to announce the hoax, but their wishes did not become horses, so they remain stranded, with nothing to ride.

Between January 19, this year, when the President first proceeded on vacation, and March 10, when he returned, they had announced his demise many times. They even created apocryphal images and footages to back up their inhuman claims, but God showed them He was the ultimate. 

The Real Deal, the Special One. President Buhari came back alive, and disclosed that he would still return to London at a later date for medical follow-up. He eventually left on the night of Sunday, May 7. 

They saw the Deux ex machina, the Invisible Hands of God, between January and March, but they are so steeped and marooned in unbelief, evil wishes and malediction, that they have started all over again. 

Last Sunday, they cloned popular websites for the umpteenth time, using them to announce the figment of their diseased imagination. They learnt nothing, and forgot nothing from the immediate past experience. 

And you begin to ask yourself, just as the Good Book also asked: "Why do the heathens rage, and the people imagine vain things?" Why do they arrogate to themselves the power that belongs only to God? 

"I can kill, and I can make alive," says God in His word. But these purveyors of hate possibly don't know God. That is why they declare a man dead, when God has not said so. Once has God spoken, and twice have I heard it, that power belongs to God.

Millions upon millions of Nigerians love President Muhammadu Buhari. They love his simplicity, his forthrightness, incorruptibility, love of country, and many other virtues. And they are praying. Bombarding Heaven with petitions. 

Baba o, Baba o, Baba o. Olorun da Baba si fun wa, Baba o, Baba o, Baba o. Olorun da Baba si fun wa. Oh God, spare our Baba, the father of the country. Spare him for us, O Lord we pray. And Heaven is listening to the supplications. We await the full manifestation.

Millions of us can follow Baba blindfolded into battle. We love him that much, and it is within our rights. But have you seen a man ever loved by everybody? Show me. Even if you feed an entire city daily, some people still won't like your guts. 

So, those who are not Buharists have a right to their convictions. But must any human being be hateful to the point of wishing another person dead, and indeed broadcasting a death that never happened? Shame! Shame upon evil wishers, purveyors of lies and wickedness!!

Do they have blood running in their veins at all? Do they realize that wishing another person dead, is sin before God? Yet they go to churches, mosques, and other worship houses. Who are they worshiping? The Unknown God.

Why do some people, a tiny but vocal minority, wish the President dead? Do they know that if God wills, the man they wish dead could outlive them by many years? There was a lady who was very active on social media in 2015, before the presidential election of that year.

She was in the league of anti-Buhari elements. Oh, he was too old. Oh, he was sickly. Yes, he would soon die. The lady was rabidly pontifical in her convictions, parading herself as someone with a charmed life, who would live forever. And then, it happened! Sometime last year, she died! 

When I saw the news online, I just shook my head, and prayed for the repose of her soul. I did not gloat. No need to. Not in her wildest imagination could she have thought that she would pre-decease President Buhari. But who has the final say? Jehovah has the final say. 

The breath of man is in his nostrils, and God can decide to extinguish his candle at any time. Jehovah has the final say. It is not by age, not by how healthy you seem, or how sickly you are. It's a lesson some people have not learnt. They learn nothing, and forget nothing.

Back to the earlier question. Why do some people want their own President dead? 

Why do they want the eclipse of a man who is actuated by nothing other than love for his country? 

Why have they constituted themselves into enemies of national progress, haters of all that is good? 

Why do they prefer the dark jungle of infamy to the light of a clear and bright day, signposted by freedom from rapacity and lootocracy? 

Who then are these enemies?

"Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as Ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds."

Those were the words of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, after the country's first military coup in 1966. You may like Nzeogwu, or you may not, depending on how you view his actions and inactions. But you can hardly deny the veracity of what he said. And 51 years later, the words still ring true.

The enemies of Buhari are the political profiteers. To them, political office is not about service, but about making profit. Ordinary people can go to hell, and stay there. Personal profit is the name of the game.

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The swindlers, too. Enemies of righteousness and transparency. They swindle man, and even try to swindle God. Of course, they wouldn't want a new sheriff in town. They'd rather shoot him, and sing the reggae song: "I shot the sheriff..."

Those that seek bribe and demand 10 percent. Enemies. Only that they are not satiated by 10 percent again. They take the entire 100 percent, and leave the country prostrate. But when a Daniel comes to judgment, and hurls them before the law, knowing neither friend nor foe, they wish that he dies. Gerrout, so that business as usual continues, they shout.

Those that seek to keep the country divided permanently. Evil souls. They use all the fault lines. Religion. Ethnicity. Language. Everything. We saw it all in the 2015 elections. They cashed in on all things that divide us as a people. 

But Nigerians were resolute for change, and they got it. But did those people give up? Did Pharaoh desist from pursuing the people of Israel? Hell, no! Till he ended in a watery grave. The stubborn fly follows the corpse into the grave.

For the greater part of this year, President Buhari has been away from home. But whether present or absent, he still looms large. The mere fact that his shadow hovers over the land riles evil workers to no end. But what can anybody do? Jehovah has the final say.

The old order is giving way for a new one in Nigeria. In just two years, the back of insurgency has been broken, corruption is taking a shellacking, and the comatose economy is turning round. Despite it all, some people still wish the President dead. Sad and sorry. But thankfully, they don't have the final say. 

However, if they refuse to repent, we can repent on their behalf, lest judgment comes speedily on them. How dreadful it would be.

Lord, we are sorry,

We've turned around and gone astray,

Your trust for us we have betrayed,

Your power we don't recognize

Your Lordship we have all despised,

We cannot pretend

We all now repent

Forgive us Lord we pray

Bring down your glory...

May God bless Panam Percy Paul, who sang the song. May God accept our repentance on behalf of evil wishers. May God spare our President, and restore him to full health.

Baba o, Baba o, Baba o, Oluwa da Baba si fun wa. 

Lord, please spare our President. Spare him for us, to the glory of your name. Let those who learn nothing, and forget nothing, be purged of all evil. Let them turn new leaf.

Amen somebody!

Adesina is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Culled from Elombah.com

Pentecostal Preacher Kills member Who Confront Him Over Impregnating His Wife at Church Service

Pentecostal church in Houston, Texas owned by the pastor who murdered one of his aggrieved congregants during a Sunday service.

The life of a young promising football career was abruptly ended during a church service at The City of God Ministry in Houston, Texas, US. The young man, Deante Smith and his young wife were members of the Pentecostal church whose owner and resident preacher is Pastor Keon Allison. Unknown to Mr. Smith, the church pastor, Keon and his wife had secret love affair which resulted in her being her becoming pregnant with her pastor-lover baby. When the young man discovered what had happened to his young marriage, he resolved to confront Pastor Keon Allison with the facts. Deante Smith is said to have held the church preacher in very high esteem and did, in fact, look up to him as a father figure.

On the fateful day, Deante resolved to go to the church during service and confront the pastor with consequences of his actions. As is allowed in Texas state, Mr. Allison carried a concealed handgun on him. During the confrontation, Deante Smith was shot five times in the chest and killed instantly in the City of God Ministry church by Pastor Keon Allison. It is not only that the pastor took over one of his congregant’s wife but also went on to finish off the man’s life by pumping bullets into the latter’s chest inside his church until he died on the spot.

This is surely the audacity of fame and and power on steroids. Perhaps, the Pentecostal preacher believes that he had a God-given authority over whatever belong to his congregants, including their wives. He must have become infuriated by the unanticipated confrontation from the late Mr. Keon Smith for mustering the gumption to challenge the pastor’s right to engage in intimate relationship with the deceased’s wife. So, he did what he felt obligated to do by sniffing out his youthful congregant’s life.

As stated by the local TV commentator relating the story, Christian Pentecostal preachers are known to have the penchant for greed, selfishness and acts of immorality which are often overlooked by church congregants who are often so brainwashed into believing that the pastor is indeed a true man of God and therefore, can do no wrong. Christian Pentecostal preacher, both within America and elsewhere worldwide, persistently demand tithes from their followers, sometimes on several occasions within a single church service. In Nigeria, for example, mass retreats are often orchestrated in large open spaces for the sole purpose of raising large sums of money from whoever attend these events. Whatever funds are realized, of course, belong exclusively to the pastor’s bank account since he is the alpha and omega of the Pentecostal church.

The Christian Pentecostal preachers usually end up amassing wealth that far exceeds that of all their church followers combined. The evangelical pastors thus can afford to live very affluent lifestyles; they dress in expensive clothes, wear pricey jewelry and other trimmings, ride costly cars, own private jet planes and live in opulent mansions while their congregants continue to struggle to make ends meet. As is the case with revelations in this YouTube video, the pastors feel that all the pretty ladies in the congregation are theirs for the taking.

Very often, these evangelical preachers become intoxicated by the adulation they routinely get from their followers to the extent that some of them could believe that they possess Godly powers to make and unmake. This is more so among the pastors who also claim to possess healing powers over all ailments of the mind and body. The killing of Deante Smith may have been considered to be justified by the church’s perpetrator because the victim had dared to challenge the “man of God” while engaged in his “holy” routine.

Culled from Lower Niger Congress USA

Fresh Ebola outbreak kills 3 victims

The 2014 Ebola outbreak victims

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, after the virus caused three deaths since 22 April.

WHO said the outbreak had affected an equatorial forest region in Bas-Uele province, bordering Central African Republic.

The last Ebola outbreak in Congo in 2014 was quickly contained and killed 49 people, according to official figures.

In a television address, the country’s health minister, Oly Ilunga, confirmed the outbreak and urged the population not to panic.

“[The DRC] has taken all necessary measures to respond quickly and efficiently to this new outbreak,” he said.

WHO said it was working closely with Congolese authorities to help deploy health workers and protective equipment in the remote area to “rapidly control the outbreak”.

In 2013, an Ebola epidemic began in west Africa that killed 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and has left thousands more survivors with long-term health problems.

WHO was criticised at the time for responding too slowly and failing to grasp the gravity of the outbreak. An experimental vaccine was recently developed that WHO said could be used in emergencies.

Culled from The Guardian

Buhari treats me like his son - VP Osinbajo

Vice President Osinbajo (right) with Governor Aminu Masari in Katsina

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN today gave some glimpses into the personal and official relationships he has shared with  President Muhammadu Buhari.

On a visit to Katsina to launch the state’s Micro, Small and Medium Scale  Enterprises Clinic,  Prof. Osinbajo disclosed that ” the President has been treating me as a brother. In fact the President has taken me as a son in the way he treats me.”

The Acting President noted that going by the amount of responsibilities President Buhari has given me, it shows that he seriously believes that we can live as brothers in this country.

Osinbajo with the Emir of Katsina, Dr. Abdulmumini Kabir Usman,

“He seriously believes in the unity of Nigeria. I pray the Lord will preserve our President to continue to lead us just as the nation has voted him to do.”

The Acting President who earlier paid a visit to the Emir of Katsina, Dr. Abdulmumini Kabir Usman, also spoke about his close relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari at the palace reception/

“One of the reasons why I feel very much at home in Katsina State is because this is the State of our President, President Muhammadu Buhari, who has taken me more like a brother; in fact sometimes more like a son than a Vice President.”

Acting President Osinbajo inspects the exhibition by small and medium scale enterprises

Ag. President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo issued a speedily-processed Certificate of Incorporation-within two hours of application- to one of the participants at the MSME Clinic today. Photo: Novo Isioro.

Ag. President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo with Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika; Emir of Katsina Abdulmumin Kabir Usman; and Governor of Katsina State Hon. Aminu Bello Masari

He commended the Government and people of Katsina State for being a role model in terms of peaceful co-existence of all ethnic tribes and religions in the State.

Osinbajo stated that President Muhammadu Buhari knows Nigeria’s capacity is limitless in terms of what we can produce. 

 “When he gave the 2017 budget speech in December 2016, the President said the central vision of our government is to grow everything that we would eat and to make everything we would use.”

At the launch of the Katsina State’s MSMES Clinic,  Osinbajo averred that the Federal Government’s newly launched Economic Recovery & Growth Plan (EGRP) places high premium on the nation’s capacity to grow it’s export potentials rather than continue on the unsustainable path of total dependence on import.

He said the focus of the Plan is to develop “the capacity of Nigerians to do everything that we need internally; to become a net exporter of the various things that we are importing today.”

Explaining Federal Government’s reason for the inauguration of the MSMEs Clinics that is now going round major cities in the country, Prof Osinbajo stated that it was designed to give small businesses the opportunity “to meet with the industry regulators, to talk to them and to hear their problems”, adding that he was so excited to see not only business men but women who are focussed and serious about their businesses.

He explained that the idea of the MSMES clinics which he has personally attended for the fourth time now is the Buhari administration’s effort to close the gap between MSMES and relevant FG regulatory agencies like NAFDAC, CAC, SON, BOI, FIRS and others and ensure that those agencies become facilitators of businesses not obstacles to business development.

Prof Osinbajo who declared the MSMEs Clinic open, was accompanied to Katsina by the Minister of State for Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika, Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar, Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler and Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu.

He also spoke about the imperative of a one indivisible and united Nigeria, emphasising that the nation’s diversity is its strength and noted that “Katsina State is the home of a United Nigeria.” (NAN)