Soldier Shoots High Court Judge, Son In Kaduna

Justice Hajara Gwadah of the Kaduna State high court and her son, Saminu Gwadah, were on Sunday shot by a soldier in full Nigerian army fatigues, at the junction of Ali Akilu and Alkali roads by SCOA, in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State.
According to Leadership, the husband of the high court judge and former legal adviser of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Barrister Bitrus Gwadah, who confirmed the tragedy, said it occurred at about 9.am while his wife and son were on their way to church.
My son was driving, and in front was a civilian car which was itself following a jeep/Toyota Hilux full of armed army personnel. My son, as were the two vehicles in front of him, was slowing down for traffic control. Suddenly, he saw a soldier in the open jeep, which was beginning to turn into Alkali road, cock his gun and shoot at him he said.
Barrister Gwadah further revealed that after his son had managed to pull over the car following the shock he suffered at the moment. It was observed that the car bonnet was smoking, and when it was opened it was discovered that the bullet had destroyed the radiator, the compressor, part of the engine block and some other mechanical parts.
He added that the vehicle conveying the soldiers also pulled over on Alkali road, where two armed soldiers in battle mode approached them and said they were too close and warned them not to try it again. He said the soldiers went back to their jeep and zoomed off.
Meanwhile, the state has been violent ridden for some time now following the activities of insurgents in the Northern part of the country. It would be recalled that on August 6, 2014,Policemen in Unguwar Rimi area of Kaduna state, also shot dead a 21-year-old female student of the School of Science and Health Technology, identified as Fauziyya Sulaiman. Also on August 7, 2014, suspected Fulani gunmen reportedly launched an attack on Gimi Dogara village, Sanga Local Government Area of the state, killing at least four people.

Nigerian woman arrested for human trafficking in Ghana

37-year-old Nigerian, Beauty Fabine, has been charged to Takoradi Circuit Court B, Ghana, for human trafficking

Fabine is accused of trafficking a certain Chioma Johnson, 21, from Rivers State to Ghana for prostitution.
Prosecutor, Police Inspector, Felix Danku, told the court presided by Mr. Justice Charles Nimako that the victim was trafficked by the accused from Port Harcourt to Ghana. He said on July 25 this year, the accused who lives in Takoradi went to Nigeria apparently to traffic ladies between 18 and 21 years purposely for prostitution.
Giving a detailed breakdown of the story, Danku said that security operatives had it that the accused returned to Ghana with Chioma and paid all her travelling expenses from Lagos to Takoradi. He said the defendant camped Chioma to make her start prostitution and to pay her an amount of 4,100 Ghana Cedis. But before the amount was paid, a quarrel ensued between them and the victim packed out of the house.
On August 21 this year, the accused was said to have spotted Chioma in a taxi, where she attacked and threatened the complainant who rushed to Police Station for assistance and Fabine was arrested.
The Police Inspector said that during interrogation, the accused admitted having trafficked the victim to Ghana with the help of a School mother called Happiness. He also revealed that the accused escape from Police custody but was re-arrested and charged after further investigations.
The defendant pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of 10,000 Ghana Cedis with two sureties to re-appear in court on September 8 this year.

Three Ebola Cases Recorded In Rivers

         Nigerias Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday, confirmed that a total of three new Ebola cases has been recorded in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
by SAHARA REPORTERS, Nigerias Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday, confirmed that a total of three new Ebola cases has been recorded in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Last week, Chukwu confirmed Saharareporters story that a doctor, Iyke Enemuo died in Port Harcourt after treating an ECOWAS employee, Olu-Ibukun Koye, who disregarded government warning and travelled to Rivers State after contracting Ebola from the index case, Patrick Sawyer.Ebola HealthworkerAndreas Kurth, courtesy of Fischer
The addition to the late doctor and a woman who was receiving treatment at the same hospital where the late doctor was treated is reportedly infected.
She has been receiving treatment at the states isolation ward while two other contacts of the late doctor are being closely monitored. They included a doctor who was part of the team that managed him and a pharmacy technician who worked at the doctor’s hospital.
Although they have been exhibiting are symptoms of Ebola and have been admitted at the isolation ward, they have so far tested negative to the virus. Further laboratory tests are being awaited before their final status could be determined. The wife of doctor Enemuo is receiving treatment at the Ebola treatment center in Lagos.
Of the total Ebola occurrence and surveillance since it was brought to Nigeria, Chukwu had this to say:
As at 31st August 2014, the number of contacts under surveillance in Lagos stands at 72; while, in Port Harcourt, the total number of contacts under surveillance stands at 199.
There’s nobody under surveillance in Enugu presently and no case of EVD in Enugu state.
As at 31st August 2014, 278 contacts in Lagos State had completed the 21 days surveillance and have been discharged from surveillance. While in Enugu, all the six identified contacts have completed the 21 days observation period and have been discharged from surveillance.
No contact in Port Harcourt has completed the 21 days observation period. It is expected that a few more contacts will develop EVD, especially in Rivers state before Nigeria will see the last case of EVD.

Divorce Scandal: Anita Oyakhilomes Name Removed From Christ Embassy Church Website

September 01st, 2014 | SOURCE:Sahara Reporters

Many describe the action as the beginning of a process to shut her out of the church, after she accused her husband of adultery and unreasonable behaviours in a divorce suit filed in London last April but only made public on Friday.
by Simon Ateba & Eromosele Ebhomele-PM News, NigeriaSep 01, 2014Anita OyakhilomeThe divorce mess between Pastors Chris and Anita Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy Church has worsened, P.M.NEWS can reveal.
On Sunday, two days after it was reported that Anita Oyakhilome had filed for divorce, Christ Embassy deleted her pictures and personal information from its official website, www.christembassy.org.
Many describe the action as the beginning of a process to shut her out of the church, after she accused her husband of adultery and unreasonable behaviours in a divorce suit filed in London last April but only made public on Friday.
Christ Embassys new website now shows only Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, with a broad smile welcoming his followers to the month of August, and tagging it, Month of Praise.
In the message on the website, Oyakhilome also urges his followers to rejoice for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Also, on the website of the Rhapsody of Realities, a daily devotional co-authored by the esrtwhile couple, theres nothing to show that Anita is still recognised as the only visible face on the website among the family members is that of her husband.
It was too early to know if the September edition of the Rhapsody of Realities still has the photographs of both the pastor and his wife as it used to be.
In the past, when the going was good, Anita and Chris Oyakhilome held hands on the church website and smiled broadly. They projected the image of a perfect couple.
But P.M.NEWS checks at the weekend revealed that there is confusion in the church following the divorce suit filed by Anita to end her over two decades marriage to the founder of Christ Embassy Church.
In the past, Pastor Chris headed the Nigerian branch of the church, though he travelled to other branches occasionally, while Anita headed the branch in London and its environs.
Christ Embassy and its founder have been embroiled in a myriad of controversies in the past. In 2010, Oyakhilome was accused of engineering a money laundering scheme in Nigeria, and questions swirled around his finances because of his glamorous lifestyle.
Many pastors and theologians also excoriated Oyakhilome for his New Creation doctrinea form of gnosticism that says after a person becomes a Christian, any sin they commit is only in the body and will not affect the spirit.
In 2008, Oyakhilomes reputation as a faith healer was tarnished badly in Johannesburg, South Africa, when a man told a Soweto newspaper that Christ Embassy offered him more than $1,200 to sit in a wheelchair and pretend to be crippled until Oyakhilome prayed for him.
The man went to the media instead of taking the money, sparking concerns that healings were being faked to impress growing crowds, said Lee Grady in an article in 2012 published by Charisma Magazine.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has also been a target of criticism by the Treatment Action Campaign for his support of faith healing to cure HIV.
Allegations that Christ Embassy members are reportedly being forced to give huge sums of money in offerings with the biggest donors receiving the biggest awards have left many people concerned.
Many Nigerians have also alleged that the church operates like a cult and pressures members to marry only within Christ Embassy.
Many people also remember the scandal involving Christ Embassy and Sheraton Hotel some years ago when a member of the church, who worked at the Sheraton Hotel, stole money from his employers and gave it to Christ Embassy. But when Sheraton approached the church for reimbursement, the church allegedly claimed that the money had been given to God and could not be refunded.
Many also excoriated Pastor Chris some years ago when the church began collecting gate fees from members for their New Year Eves Service.
More recently, Oyakhilome came under attack after he claimed that Christians were free to masturbate because it was not a sin.
But the latest scandal involving Anita and Chris, who have two daughters, seems to threaten the very existence of one of the biggest churches in Nigeria.
Christ Embassy runs several arms including the Healing School, Rhapsody of Realities, and an N.G.O called the Innercity Missions as well as three Christian television channels: LoveWorld TV, LoveWorld SAT and LoveWorld Plus.
The church is scattered all over the world, including in the United Kingdom, the United States, South America and the whole of Europe.
Stories about women bringing men of God down are not new. In 1988, Jimmy Swaggart, a famous American preacher was implicated in a sex scandal involving a prostitute that resulted initially in his suspension, and ultimately defrocking, by the Assemblies of God.
Three years later, Swaggart was implicated in another scandal involving a prostitute. As a result, Swaggarts ministry became non-affiliated, non-denominational and significantly smaller than it was before the scandals.

Ladies abandon their boyfriends to hold me – Charles Awurum

Nollywood actor, Charles Awurum must have a strong fan base with the ladies more than the males. In a recent interview when he was asked the craziest thing a fan has done to him, he said ladies grab him when they see him in public.
“I am used to their reactions. Sometimes they see me and shout Jesus! Some ladies will abandon their boyfriends to hold me. Even married women are not exempted; they often grab me in public, it happens most of the time so it can’t be tagged at the craziest” he said
The actor who was actually a painter before he went into acting added that desperate actresses pay to get roles in a movie, whether they know how to act or not, some pay over 300,000 to feature in a movie.

Where Is Gwoza Sef? Jonathan Asks At Meeting With Emir

September 01st, 2014 | SOURCE:Sahara Reporters

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In a bizarre tale that illustrates how Nigeria is run, President Goodluck Jonathan arrived two weeks ago at a top secret meeting with the exiled Emir of Gwoza, the newly-named headquarters of Boko Harams so-called Islamic Caliphate, with no knowledge of the location of Gwoza, presidency sources at the meeting said.
by SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKSep 01, 2014In a bizarre tale that illustrates how Nigeria is run, President Goodluck Jonathan arrived two weeks ago at a top secret meeting with the exiled Emir of Gwoza, the newly-named headquarters of Boko Harams so-called Islamic Caliphate, with no knowledge of the location of Gwoza, presidency sources at the meeting said. Suleiman Abba stands next to President Goodluck Jonathan on the scene of a deadly bus station bombing in Abuja
The Emir, Muhammed Timta, escaped after the militants invaded Gwoza on August 16 and took over his palace.
He arrived in Abuja after first making his way to Maiduguri to escape further attempts on his life. His father, Idrissa Timta, had died in a Boko Haram ambush on May 30, 2014 as Boko Haram ambushed his convoy on his way to the burial of the Emir of Gombe.
Shortly after Timtas arrival in Abuja, President Jonathan sent for the Emir, who was accompanied to the meeting by a Borno Senator, Ali Ndume. However, to the utter shock of the Emir, President Jonathan did not know where Gwoza was located: Adamawa or Borno State.
Presidency sources said silence enveloped the room after the President, apparently lacking basic research or a briefing by his numerous aides and security agencies, asked in condescending pidgin, Wheres Gwoza sef?
Mr. Jonathan then promised to liberate Gwoza after Senator Ndume told him Gwoza was his home town and that it is located in Borno State.
Gwoza remains under the control of Boko Haram after the sect took over the township in a raid and declared the town the headquarters of the Islamic Caliphate in the Northeast of Nigeria.
At least three attempts by Nigerian troops have been repelled by the militants. Several soldiers and innocent civilians were killed.
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Ebola: Female doctor tests positive in Port Harcourt

September 01st, 2014 

A female doctor who was on admission at the Green Hart hospital where late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemoah, was treated after he got infected with the deadly virus by an ECOWAS official, has tested positive to Ebola.
Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu revealed this today September 1st during a meeting of the National Emergency Council on Ebola outbreak in Nigeria. Continue…

Speaking with all Commissioners for Health in Nigeria, Prof. Chukwu said the doctor who tested positive to Ebola is now being treated at the Ebola isolation ward in Rivers state.
This recent confirmation brings to three the number of confirmed Ebola cases in Rivers state; the index case which is the ECOWAS official, Oluibukun Koye; the late Dr Iyke Enemoah who died on Friday August 22nd and the recently diagnosed female doctor.
Prof Chukwu said more cases of the Ebola Virus Disease were still being expected in Rivers state.