Photo-Gardner Electrocuted in River State

Omoku, headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area
of Rivers State witnessed a black Friday last week following the electrocution of a middle aged man, simply identified as Moses, at about 9.52am.According to an eye witness account, the victim, a gardener in the service of the Managing Director of one of the top ranking hotels in town, Royal Fortress Hotel, Omoku, met his untimely death when he attempted to pluck an avocado pear with an iron rod.The source said that the iron rod missed the avocado and connected with the high tension cable near the tree that ended up electrocuting him instantly.

The sad event was said to have happened behind the hotel near a pipeline, and was said to have attracted many sympathisers including motorists and motorcycle riders.

Photo of the Day-Man carrying a Cow in Okada

very funny..poko face.

M.I`s brother Jesse Jags quits Chocolate City

The talented rapper released a statement last night saying he has left his record label, Chocolate City.

 the decision caught everyone at Chocolate City, where his brother M.I is a Vice President, by surprise. Jesse and Chocolate City have been having issues for a while but no one really expected him to make it public.

WN gathered that he left because he wasn't happy about the way they were handling his music career.

Full Press statement below...

Calabar Boat mishap: We were in water for three days – Survivor

CALABAR — Twenty-seven people were rescued in the boat mishap, which occurred at Malabo, 40 nautical miles off the Calabar water ways on March 15, Vanguard has learnt.
Mr. Olayemi Abass, Coordinator of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety  Agency, NIMASA, said, yesterday, in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, that the survivors were rescued by Adax Oil,  which has an oil rig in the area.He said: "Some of the survivors  were taken to Oron and two brought to Calabar. Those in Calabar are receiving treatment at Bakorm Medical Centre, Calabar."At Bakorm Medical Centre, one of the survivors, who gave his name as Kieve Sani, a Togolese, said the boat  started its ill-fated trip at 9am on Friday and sank at 3pm, adding that they were on the sea until 3 pm on Sunday, before help came their way.

Man loses five children in Kaduna candlelight night fire

The arrival of a new baby is supposed to stir joy in a family. That, however, was not the case for the family of Mohammed Aminu Okene.
The arrival of the family's new baby was followed almost immediately by the death of his five other children in a night fire that engulfed their house at E 36, Faskari Street in the Kakuri area of the Kaduna metropolis.
The fire outbreak believed to have been caused by candlelight occurred at about 11 pm on Thursday while Okene went on a visit to his wife at the St. Gerard Catholic Hospital where she had just been delivered of a baby.
The deceased children's names were given as, Sadiya (16), Ramat (11), Monsir (7), Khalid (9), while the name of the fifth child, who was said to be 14 years old, could not be ascertained at press time. They have since been buried according to Islamic rites.
One of the children was said to have died on the way to the hospital, three others died at the hospital while the fifth died while Okene had gone to bury the other four.

ACN’s National Vice Chairman South south kidnapped

Awka — The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has raised the alarm over  the kidnap of its Vice Chairman (South-east), Dr. Chudi Nwike, in Anambra State on Tuesday

In a statement issued in Lagos Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party quoted Nwike's younger brother, who has been contacted by him (Dr. Nwike), as saying the kidnappers are demanding N30 million (in foreign currency) as ransom.

''We appeal to the security agencies to do everything within their power to ensure the safe release of Dr. Nwike, while assuring his family of our prayers and support at this very difficult time,'' the statement said.

House of Repswants Jonathan to Give amnesty to Boko Haram

The House of Representatives yesterday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to grant amnesty to members of Boko Haram sect without further delay in order to end the spate of violence in the country. Adopting a motion on matters of urgent national importance sponsored by Rep. Ibrahim Olaifa (AC, Oyo), MPs said the government and the nation have everything to gain when the violence is ended. In his motion, Rep. Olaifa argued that if the same government had given amnesty to Niger Delta militants there was no reason that it won't extend same to Boko Haram members because they too are Nigerians who deserve to be treated as such. "We have continued to lose lives and property everyday but there is nothing to lose if we engage these people in dialogue and offer them amnesty. They are Nigerians and we know that poverty pushed some of them to engage in violence. We should turn them to peaceful human beings instead of treating them as goats. Nigeria has nothing to lose," Olaifa said. The motion was not debated further but passed unanimously when the question was put to vote by Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who presided over the session.

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Should I Be A Second Wife?help

Wownaija reader needs our help,here is her story.

when I first meet my man I knew he had family in Nigeria,but I also knew he is not going there oftenly,so I thought it is not going to be a problem!but now with time,things are getting complicated,he says he wants to start a family with me,and he wants to talk to his wife,that she will understand,so we can make our family too,I am very confused. I do love him,but I don't want to hurt no ones feelings!!!!I know he can have 2wives but is it right for me to accept it?

Wife Poisons and Stabs Husband To Death Over Second Wife

A house wife Charity Ovudah, 36, has allegedly stabbed her husband to death in Mgboshiminu community in Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State after first poisoning his food.

The alleged murder said to have taken place in the night before was reportedly provoked by the deceased, Peter Ovudah's attempt to bring a second wife into the matrimonial home he had shared with the alleged killer.

A family source said the decease had already concluded plans to bring the new wife, who was pregnant, into the family houset before Charity's fatal reaction.

West Brom fine osaze £76,000 for his latest Twitter Rants

Osaze Odemwingie has been punished yet again with another fine for his latest Twitter rant where he said that West Brom are trying to ruin his career.the club fined him £76,000
This is what he wrote on Twitter: "If they like they shouldn't even give me 10 mins to play. Threatening to ruin my career? Career I closed already last summer? No harm to me.

"Want to treat me like an average player. The abuse and praise I get is it average? So get some extra from me too."

Over 166 dead as boat capsizes in Calabar

No fewer than 166 passengers reportedly died off Malabo, Equatorial Guinea waterways, about 40 nautical miles off the coast of Calabar, Cross River State, when a boat carrying them capsized.
 
Already, corpses of 45 of the victims have been deposited at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital mortuary, while rescue operations were still on.God rest their souls Amen

Kano blast-survivors speaks out

As the smoke cleared from the New Road Luxury Bus Motor Park, in Sabon Gari Kano, victims of the terror attack, who were lucky to be alive to tell their stories, on Tuesday recalled moments before the bomb went off.

Most of the injured victims are currently receiving medical attention at the Murtala Mohammed Memorial Hospital, Kano.
One of the victims, Mr. Emmanuel Bassey, 37, who works at the Luxury bus park as a park attendant attached to Ezewanta Transport, said he was hurt but lucky and happy to be alive.

In a telephone interview with our correspondent, (before hospital staff ended the encounter), he was full of gratitude to God for sparing his life.

Aisha Babangida"s 2nd Marriage dissolved

The second marriage of Aisha Babangida to former governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi has ended. The first daughter of former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, married Shinkafi less than two years after her marriage to first husband, Basheer
Nalado Garba ended.Aisha married Basheer in 2003 and Shinkafi in 2008 as his third wife but now shes single again and the reason is unknown

MASSOB-igbos will no longer fold their hands

The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and new Igbo leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has warned Nigeria that Ndigbo would be forced to defend itself from the recent killings in various parts of the North.

Chief Uwazuruike, while reacting to the bomb blasts in Kano yesterday said the Igbo had been pushed to the wall by the Boko Haram insurgency, adding that the people would be left with no other option than to defend themselves.

“I am ready to declare another civil war in this country if this killings and other senseless activities on Ndigbo continue like this because I know that it was this type of massacre that brought about the first civil war in Nigeria.” “I am disappointed in our people, when they were being slaughtered, I brought out buses to bring them home, but they refused to come home and remained in the North.

PICTURES:sabon gari, Kano Bomb Blast

the bomb blast that killed more than 60 eastern travellers and injured dozens yestherday.

N27.2bn pension thief,Mr john yusuf granted bail

An Abuja Federal High Court on Monday granted the convicted pension thief, Mr. John Yusuf, bail in the sum of N10m.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dragged him before the court on January 30 over fresh four counts of non-disclosure of assets.

You all remember mr yusuf?the man who,on January 28, 2013, was fined N750, 000 for conniving with others to defraud the Police Pension Office of N27.2bn,had been in custody since his arraignment.

Bomb Blast in kano motor park kills 30

series of blasts targeting buses loaded with passengers heading to the eastern part of the country has killed more than 30 and injured more.the blast occured at a park in the Sabongari district of Kano this evening. security forces did not immediately comment on the blast