Enyeama fails to clinch BBC African Footballer of the Year Award

Super Eagles captain Vincent Enyeama failed to clinch the 2014 BBC African Footballer of the Year award.  He was beaten to the 2^nd position by Algerian Yacine Brahimi.
 

Brahimi shrugged off competition from likes of Ivorian star and former holder Yaya Toure, Gervinho Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Enyeama to become the first ever Algerian player to be so honoured in the continent.
 

Many had thought Enyeama who has been a phenomenal figure in-between the sticks for the Super Eagles and was key to Nigeria making it to the round of 16 of the last world cup staged in Brazil will win the top prize.

 

Overland plane which crashed landed in Ilorin have been in service for the past 21 years

Information has it that the Overland ATR-720202 5N-BMP plane which last Saturday crash landed at the Ilorin airport has been in operations  since May 1993 (that makes it 21 years).

 

The plane was first flown in May 1993, and was originally registered to Air Tahiti and later became part of the fleet of Air Corsica in France and left there in 1999.  The aircraft was later sold in Brazil to TRIP in Campinas, Sao Paolo.  After which Azul, another Brazilian Carrier based in Barueri bought it.

 

David and Victoria Beckham sure knows how to rock the red carpet! See their photo at the 60th LESA

All eyes yesterday were on David and Victoria Beckham at the 60th London Evening Standard Awards held at Palladium.

While Vic wore a black long line gown from her eponymous collection, her husband David wore a navy blue suit complete with a black bow tie.

 More photos after the cut

Gunmen invades Ado Ekiti Prison

GUNMEN early Monday invaded Ado-Ekiti prison on Afao Road and attempted to free inmates.

 

The Controller of the Prison, Fadipe Abolarin Kehinde,  confirmed the attack, but denied loss of life during the attack.“It was not a jail break, but an attack on the prison.

 

“The main entrance of the prison was broken. What happened is that we were attacked from outside not from within.They came massively with different weapons.''

 

On those that escaped from prison, Kehinde said his men were already out to re-arrest them.

 

41-year-old married father of one jailed 22years for sexually abusing 18 seriously ill boys

Myles Bradbury, 41, a Consultant Paediatric Haematologist at the Addenrooks Hospital in Cambridge has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for abusing terminally ill boys between ages 10 and 16.

 

The children were said to have been suffering from terminal illnesses like Leukaemia, haemophilia and other serious illnesses.

 

Judge Gareth Hankesworth, described Bradbury's action as ''one of the worst forms of sexual abuse imaginable.''

 

Convicted paedophile Myles Bradbury 

 

Secret pens used in filming the boys 

Court orders sale of Erastus Akingbola's Cayman Island properties

A grand court of the Cayman Islands has granted Access Bank Plc leave to sell some of the properties belonging to former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola that were recently discovered.

 

Dr. Erastus Akingbola was also ordered by the court to pay Access Bank Plc the sum of N238,471,484.162 and £1,800,000 with interest from April 2014 until the payments are made.  Access Bank Plc acquired Intercontinental Bank in 2012 after the bank was taken over by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

 

 

A Nigerian man jailed 10 months in Ghana for impersonating Majid Michel

One Kelvin Ogodogu, a Nigerian, will be spending the next 10 months with hard labour in a Ghanaian prison for impersonating Ghanaian actor, Majid Michel and defrauding a fan of the star thousands of dollars.
 

Kelvin Ogodogu posed on facebook as the star and was soliciting for funds to bury his dead mother who passed on few weeks back.  A Nigerian who was a great fan of the actor fell for Kelvin’s lies and sent him several thousands of dollars to assist with the burial.

 

Kelvin Ogodogu the facebook impersonator

Female Suicide bombers attack Maidiguri market again

Two female suicide bombers have attacked a market in Maiduguri again near where they killed several people last week.

Sources said  the two female bombers carried the explosives in the back of their hijab dress,  arrived a hair braiding salon and blew themselves up as a female civilian-JTF operatives made to search them. 

More details later

 

Do not blame Nigerian soldiers for not defeating Boko Haram - Muhammadu Buhari

Former Military Head of State and a presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhamadu Buhari, over the weekend at Enugu while addressing delegates of APC to the forthcoming presidential primaries of the party, said it was wrong to blame Nigerian soldiers over the country’s inability to root out Boko Haram insurgents.  According to him, since no attention had been paid to soldiers’ complaints about lack of equipment to tackle the insurgents headlong, despite huge money voted for defense sector.

 

Military might against Boko Haram justifiable - Pope Francis

Pope Francis have joined millions of people in the world to condemn the activities of Boko Haram.   He described their activities as ''extremely serious sin against God.''   He also said military might against the Boko Haram insurgents was justifiable.

 

 He called on Muslim leaders to condemn the ''barbaric violence'' being committed by Islamic groups in the name of Allah.

 

The Pontiff urged both Muslims, Christians and people of other faith to have better dialogue and end religious fundamentalism that is currently ravaging the world. 

 

 

 

Damaturu Yobe State attacked by Boko Haram

There was a fierce between security agents and Boko Haram fighters that started around 4am today on Gujiba road in Damaturu the Yobe state capital and continued unabated several hours after it started.

A resident said a large contingent of militants arrived the state capital and began massive shooting and bombing in the city.