JTF uncovers Lebanese terror cell in Kano

JTF uncovers Lebanese terror cell in Kano

The Joint Task Force on Thursday said it had uncovered a Lebanon-based Hezbollah armoury and terror cell in Bompai, Kano State.
The force, which said it found large cache of arms and ammunition, also confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the armoury and the cell.
A Lebanese national currently out of the country reportedly owns the premises where the armoury and the cell were found at No 3, Gaya Road, Off Bompai Road in the ancient city.
A statement by the JTF spokesman, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, said the JTF operatives, comprising officials of the 3rd Army Brigade in Kano and the State Security Service conducted the operations.
The operatives, he said, uncovered an underground bunker in the premises where large quantities of assorted weapons were hidden.

Iweha, who said the construction of the bunker was special, listed anti-tank weapons, rocket propelled guns and anti-tank/personnel mines as some of the dangerous weapons found in the premises.

He added that the weapons and ammunition were concealed in coolers, drums and bags.
According to him, the latest recovery followed an ongoing robust counter-terrorism investigation by the SSS.

Confirming the existence of a Hezbollah cell in the country, Iweha noted that the SSS had arrested one Mustapha Fawaz, co-owner of Amigo Supermarket and the Wonderland Amusement Park, in Abuja.

The arrest of Fawaz, Iweha said, led to the arrest of another Lebanese terror suspect, Abdullah Tahini, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport with over$60,000

He added, “Thereafter on May 26, 2013, one Talal Roda, also a Lebanese with a Nigerian Passport, was arrested in the same house.

“All those arrested have confessed to have undergone Hezbollah Terrorist Training and further implicated one Fauzi Fawad, also a co-owner of Amigo Supermarket and Wonderland Amusement Park.”

When one of our correspondents contacted the Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, he described the discovery of the arms and the arrest of the Lebanese importers as “a major breakthrough.”

The action of the JTF operatives, he said demonstrated the commitment of security agencies to riding the country of illegal arms.

Meanwhile, the SSS said the weapons  were intended for use against “Israeli and Western interests”.
“This is the handwork of Hezbollah,” Bassey Ettang, director of the SSS said in Kano.
“You can also be sure that if a group like this is existing, then it may even lend support to some of the local terrorists we have on the ground.”

Hezbollah is a Shia military and political movement based in Lebanon considered by the United States to be a terrorist organisation.

  The sect was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and was primarily formed to offer resistance to the Israeli occupation.

Its leaders were inspired by former Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organised by a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Hezbollah’s 1985 manifesto listed its four main goals as “Israel’s final departure from Lebanon as a prelude to its final obliteration.”

Bill Clinton Secret Son

Bill Clinton Secret Son

A 27-year-old man from Arkansas is claiming he is Bill Clinton's secret son..
Bill Clinton has a secret son he fathered with a hooker – and the now 27-year-old young man is desperate to meet his biological dad.
In a bombshell exclusive interview, Danney Lee Williams Jr., the love child the then-governor of Arkansas conceived with ‘working girl’ Bobbie Ann Williams, tells GLOBE he fears Clinton, 66, who’s battling heart disease and also suffers from Parkinson’s, will pass away before they can meet.
“I read he doesn’t have long to live and I want to meet him face to face before he dies,” says Danney, who lives in Little Rock Ark.
“I just want to shake his hand and say, “Hi Dad,’ before he dies. I’d like to have a relationship with Chelsea, too. She’s my half-sister."
Danney also wants Clinton to acknowledge and meet his five children, who he says are the former President’s only grandchildren and range in age from 10 years to just 4 months old.

Rihanna’s MAC Lipstick Gives Fan Herpes

Rihanna’s MAC Lipstick Gives Fan Herpes

Be careful when you’re attending one of singer Rihanna’s concerts. If a representative from MAC asks you to try her ‘RiRi Woo’ lipstick, just say “no thanks.”
One fan, Starkeema Greenidge, 28, of Harlem, told the NY Daily News she tried the RiRi Woo lipstick at a MAC counter set up at a recent Rihanna concert. But 2 days later, the unlucky fan developed a cold sore on her lips which turned out to be herpes.
Rihanna has been plagued with rumors that she has herpes.
Greenridge said she’s suing MAC to urge the company to be more sanitary with its products.
Greenridge said the MAC employee instructed her to “press her lips together and spread the lipstick around,” according to the lawsuit.
“(MAC) didn’t use a fresh or new lipstick tube, but rather one that had been used for other patrons,” the suit charges.
“I wasn’t able to work for two weeks. It cost me a lot of money,” Greenidge, a waitress, told the Daily News on Wednesday.
She said she slapped MAC with the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court in hopes of forcing the company to be more sanitary in the future. Greenidge also said the company should train its employees to use disposable tubes or swabs to apply the lipstick.
The RiRi Woo lipstick was inspired by the singer’s favorite MAC red, Ruby Woo lipstick, according to the NY Daily News.
The lipstick sold out within hours of its launch online.
Herpes is a highly contagious, sexually transmitted parasitic virus. There is no known cure.

Kanye West stops Yeezus Pre-Sale

Kanye West stops Yeezus Pre-Sale

Kanye West debuted songs from his new album Yeezus on Saturday Night Life two weeks ago, but Yeezus pre-sales have been mysteriously taken off line...

The night of Kanye's SNL performance a Yeezus pre-sale page went up on iTunes but days later it disappeared.

Fans are also wondering why Kanye's controversial new single 'New Slaves' is not available on iTunes despite the innovative cross country promotion involving projecting the song on random buildings around the country

Kendu Isaacs' Daughter Pregnant and Homeless

Kendu Isaacs' Daughter Pregnant and Homeless

Mary J. Blige's husband Kendu Isaac's daughter Briana, most famous for ending the career of underground rapper Charles Hamilton with one punch  is pregnant and homeless and blasting her parents online...

Mom who accidentally flushed her newborn son down the toilet

Mom who accidentally flushed her newborn son down the toilet

The story about the new mom in China who flushed her newborn son down the toilet because she didn’t want him has taken a dramatic turn.
Neighbors called authorities after hearing a baby’s faint cries in the plumbing above them. Rescue workers arrived and uses blow torches to cut through the L-shaped sewage pipe to reach the baby. The newborn, still encased in the sewage pipe, was rushed to a hospital where doctors and nurses used pliers to break open the pipe and extract the crying baby.
The infants eyes, nose and mouth was filled with sewage material.

Chinese officials don’t believe the infant was born in the bathroom because of the lack of blood.
The original story was that the mom, who lived with her parents, was afraid her parents would find out she was pregnant, so she flushed the infant down the toilet, but the baby became stuck in the L-joint of the 3-inch sewage pipe.
Now Chinese officials are saying the mom was the one who called 911, and she “accidentally” flushed the baby down the pipe, along with the placenta.
This new revelation comes after hundreds of thousands of outraged world residents swamped the hospital with phone calls, emails, and gifts for the infant.
The mother is being treated in the same hospital for a high fever. Her parents are also at the hospital. No charges will be pressed.
Authorities don’t yet know who will care for the miracle baby.
In China it is against the law for a woman to give birth to more than one child. Most couples opt for a boy instead of a girls. Girls are usually aborted or killed soon after birth.

SSS Arrests PUNCH Reporter Over Obasanjo Story Regarding Assassinations Of Bola Ige, Harry Marshal And Dikibo

SSS Arrests PUNCH Reporter Over Obasanjo Story Regarding Assassinations Of Bola Ige, Harry Marshal And Dikibo


The State Security Service (SSS) has again gone after the press, last Monday in Abeokuta arresting and harassing Segun Olatunji, the Ogun State Correspondent of The Punch.

Mr. Olatunji went to the offices of the SSS at the invitation of Joseph Okpo, its state Director, who had sent an invitation to him though Kehinde Akinyemi, the Chairman of the Ogun State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

SaharaReporters has learned that Olatunji was then subjected to a full day of exhausting and humiliating questioning and harassment by Okpo himself, who then tagged with his deputy, Yau Umar, to continue the process, before he was handed over to their Principal Staff Officer (PSO).

The men, who said their activities had to do with issues “bordering on national security,” questioned the correspondent about his academic qualifications and work experience.  They then began an interrogation about a story in the Sunday Punch which contained allegations by two former government insiders against former President Olusegun Obasanjo about his maintenance in place of a killer squad that was previously used by General Sani Abacha.

Last month, the two men, Segun Seriki and Richard Odusanya, sent a petition to the National Assembly in which they called for an investigation of a slew of allegaitons they said they were ready to substantiate.

On April 20, the two men also appeared on SaharaTV and spoke, among others, about issues of corruption and several high profile killings during the Obasanjo presidency, including those of former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige and Chief Harry Marshal, which were never solved by the police.

Nonetheless, Mr. Okpo, upset that Olatunji had failed to give him “straight answers” to his questions, instructed his faithful deputy to extract a statement from the reporter, who was then forced to open his email on a computer to enable the SSS identify some of the reports he has written in the past.
He was also forced to fill out forms and to write further statements, following which he was handed over to the Principal Staff Officer, and then fingerprinted and photographed in a variety of postures.

As the night fell, the reporter was returned to the office of the Deputy Director, made to write another statement, and then thrown into an unlighted room on the ground floor of the building.  The room contained two men in handcuffs.

The matter took a different turn thereafter when Mr. Akinyemi and the chairman of the NUJ, Wole Sokunbi came in and met with Mr. Okpo in his office.  When Mr. Olatunji was brought into the room, the powerful SSS boss asked if Olatunji, who had not been charged to court, would like the duo to “bail” him.
He was eventually released, but not until he had been warned against his “uncooperative and arrogant demeanour,” and asked to return again to the SSS office at 11.00am the following morning.

It is unclear at this point whether Mr. Okpo, Mr. Yau Umar, or their PSO have solved the security mystery they are chasing, or whether they have yet invited Chief Obasanjo to their office.


FULL INTERVIEW GRANTED SAHARATV BY oRICHARD ODUSANYA & SEGUN SERIKI  click here to watch it  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vCUaZ7qDThc#!

TB Joshua banned from hosting revival in Ghana after stampede

TB Joshua banned from hosting revival in Ghana after stampede
 

Ghanaian authorities have temporarily banned the Ghana branch of TB Joshua's Synagogue Church of All Nation from hosting revivals, days after four people were killed and 13 more injured in a stampede during a church service on Sunday May 19th.

Thousands of people flocked to the church after church officials announced that holy water would be distributed. During the rush for the anointed water, three women and one man lost their lives after being trampled over.

Ghanaian authorities said the stampede could have been avoided if the church had used a bigger venue. The church is no longer allowed to hold revivals at their Spintex Auditorium in Accra.

Bus Preacher Beaten To Coma In Lagos After Condoms Fell Out From His Bible

Bus Preacher Beaten To Coma In Lagos After Condoms Fell Out From His Bible

A bus preacher was reportedly almost lynched on Saturday morning at Toyota Bus stop, in front of the popular Ladipo Spare parts market, when some condoms allegedly fell out of his bible as he preached the ‘Word of God’.
The self acclaimed Man of God was dragged out of the commercial bus and beaten into a pulp before he was rescued by some policemen.

According to eye witnesses, the Pastor had embarked on his journey from Apapa and proceeded to preach to the people on the bus, using very strong words like “If you wear trouser you’ll go to hell! The Devil invented Make up! Weave-on is from Marine Kingdom! If you have pre-marital sex you will burn in hell and your skin will peel!”

It was learnt that the people in the bus were so moved and some started falling under the anointing.

Eyewitness, Mr. John Mbakogu, who was on his way to his shop at Ladipo said, “People were just falling as he was laying hands. One man almost fell out of the bus under the influence of the Spirit. It was amazing until he raised his hands to cast the demons out of one girl, and 2 Durex condoms fell out”

“The angry men in the bus who had been having pangs of guilt due to the pastor’s preaching about sex suddenly got really angry and pounced on him, who all of a sudden started shouting, I also preach safe sex! Safe sex is good!”

However, Policemen had to be called to the scene to save the pastors life. So far 2 arrests have been made, and the Condoms have been kept as evidence.

Meet The Nigerian Big Brother Africa Housemate - Beverly Osu

Meet The Nigerian Big Brother Africa Housemate - Beverly Osu 

Guys, meet our second Big Brother Africa Nigerian housemate Beverly Ada Osu. She is also from Delta State. Had to go do a lil digging up about her and here are her family pictures, video I found. She is a video vixen, model. check out the pics after the cut.

Beverley says that viewers can expect “a total packaged African young diva to command the right qualities and characteristics of a blunt, sexy go-getter”. She doesn’t really have any role models, choosing rather to take unique attributes from different people. Asked who has influenced her life most, Beverley says “who I want to influence me all depends on the situation at hand”.

Meet The Nigerian Big Brother Africa Housemates - Melvin Oduah

Meet The Nigerian Big Brother Africa Housemates - Melvin Oduah

Melvin Oduah, 27 years old, is a model and actor from Delta State with a BSc in Chemistry. Karen, Uti are also from Delta State.
Melvin was first runner up Mr Nigeria competition 2011 and 1st runner up Gulder Ultimate Search Season VI.


Melvin enjoys listening to Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and R Kelly.
His favourite place in Nigeria is Lagos and he says the best things about the continent as a whole are the culture and people. Outside of Nigeria, he enjoys spending time in South Africa and the USA because “these are places where you can relax and relate to people conveniently”.

His friends and family inspired him to enter Big Brother. He has always been a fan of the show and has previously come out tops in two other reality shows. He is hoping to use all his experience and charm to go all the way on Big Brother. If he wins the grand prize, he’ll invest it, but he’s also hoping to make his country proud and use this experience as a platform to achieve other things in his career.

Arrest Warrant Issued for rapper Tim Dog Who May Have Faked Own Death

Arrest Warrant Issued for rapper Tim Dog Who May Have Faked Own Death


Back in February, media outlets reported the death of long forgotten rapper Tim Dog who reportedly died of seizures related to diabetes in Atlanta on Valentine’s Day.
But a Mississippi prosecutor haas issued a warrant for the rapper’s arrest after a woman conducted her own investigation into Dog’s suspicious death.
The woman, Ester Pilgrim, uncovered information that indicates Dog, real name Timothy Blair, is a con man who may have faked his own death to avoid paying back $2 million in loans.
Pilgrim won a lawsuit against Blair, who was ordered to pay her $100 a month. When he was reported dead, she says, all the payments stopped.
“He really thinks he can outsmart everybody,” she said.
“I need proof,” prosecutor Steven Jubera told WREG in Mississippi. “I need a death certificate showing that he’s dead because as far as I’m concerned, he’s alive.”
News outlets reporting Blair’s death in February quoted a news item from a Hip Hop website, TheSource.com. But the original report has since been deleted from The Source‘s website. The original report did not mention the circumstances of Blair’s death, such as where he was found or how he died.
Hip Hop producer Ced-Gee, who was one of Blair’s closest friends, refused to give the eulogy at his funeral in February because the family didn’t produce a death certificate. Ced-Gee believes the funeral never took place.
Prosecutor Jubera says he will drop the lawsuit if Blair’s family can produce a death certificate proving Blair is really dead.

Jonathan orders release of detained suspected Boko Haram terrorists

Jonathan orders release of detained suspected Boko Haram  terrorists


As the military offensive to dismantle Boko Haram terrorists activities and the camps in North East Nigeria continues, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the release from Police, SSS and Military detention centers, of hundreds of persons held in connection with the insurgency.

The action of the President which took many Nigerians and security agencies by surprise is however interpreted by presidency sources as the ‘Carrot and Stick’ policy by the Commander in Chief to bringing an end to the Boko Haram debacle.

beneficiaries will cut across such states as Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano, `Kaduna, Gombe and Niger, though the exact number was not revealed.

A statement to that effect signed by the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade said “Consequent upon the directives of the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the Defence Headquarters will be releasing from detention a number of persons being held in connection with terrorist activities”.

“The move is in furtherance of the Federal Government position in response to requests by the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Reconciliation”.

“The measure which is in line with Presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts in the country will result in freedom for suspects including all women under custody”.

“The details of the directives and those to benefit from this gesture have been communicated to field units and the Joint Task Force”.

“The beneficiaries will be released to the State Governors who will be involved in further rehabilitation before these suspects are released to their respective community leaders/relations”.



The federal government however explained that the decision to order the release is sequel to the request of the Presidential Committee in Dialogue and Reconciliation set up to explore the possibility of amnesty for converted terrorists.

Chinua Achebe's body arrives Nigeria

Chinua Achebe's body arrives Nigeria



The body of late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport Abuja, earlier today May 21, where it was received by government officials. The body was then moved to Enugu, the home town of the late author, aboard a private aircraft, where it was received by Achebe's elder brother, Chief Augustine Achebe, other family members and state government officials.

He will be buried Thursday May 23. See more photos after the cut...

Charles Taylor's family ejected from calabar mansion

Charles Taylor's family ejected from calabar mansion


According to a story in Encomium magazine, the family of former Liberian president and war crimes prisoner, Charles Taylor, have been ejected from their N2.5million per year rented mansion in Diamond Hills in Calabar, Cross Rivers state. The family he left behind in Calabar as he faced criminal charges in The Hague were ejected because they were unable to per their rent. The house belongs to Dr. Joseph Wayas, the Second Republic Senate President.

His wife and kids, who have since been abandoned by the former president's friends and business associates, now live in a small flat at the state housing estate along Murtala Mohammed highway in Calabar. No aides, no cruising of luxury cars, no partying, no money to spend lavishly. That's their new life now.

Charles Taylor was forced to resign as president and take up political asylum in Nigeria. He arrived Nigeria with his family on August 12, 2003 but was extradited in 2006 to stand trial for war crimes.

In 2012, he was found guilty of all 11 counts of "aiding and abetting" war crimes and crimes against humanity.

2 Students Reportedly Shot Dead During OOU Students Protest Today

2 Students Reportedly Shot Dead During OOU Students Protest Today

Violence rocked the Ago Iwoye campus of the Olabisi Onabanjo University on Monday. As early as 7.30 am, students had stormed the gates of the institution which they succeeded in locking. Policemen were however on the scene not long after. Some of the protesting students including the President of the Institution’s Students Union Government, James Ogunjimi were reportedly arrested by the police and taken to Ijebu Igbo. Street Journal’s findings revealed that the students were protesting against some of the “anti-students policy” of the school’s management. Some of the students revealed that one of the new policies stipulates that any student who does not pay school fees on time would not be allowed into the exam hall, which could mean an extra year for some.  Two students were feared dead during the protest as students claimed policemen opened fire on the students. In a matter of minutes, it was all over the social networks that 2 students were killed while more than 300 were lost in the bush. A picture of a dead male in white singlet having a bullet wound in the stomach region also went all over the social media as one of the students killed in the protest.


Street Journal called Mr Muyiwa Adejobi, the spokesman of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force. Adejobi denied the students’ claims that two of their colleagues had been shot dead by the police. He said  ”they went violent this morning and some of our men were deployed to disperse them. The operation was led by a Deputy Commissioner and no live bullet was used so the issue of killing does not arise at all.” Speaking further, Adejobi said “they are just using the issue of killing to seek public sympathy. We don’t kill. That was the same thing they said when there was a crisis in Tai Solarin University of Education in Omu Ijebu, they said policemen killed four students. No one saw the bodies. That is what they always say to win public sympathy”.
When he was told by Street Journal’s reporter that pictures of one of those feared dead in the protest were already on the internet, Adejobi who disclosed that he had seen the picture said “we know the way students try to get sympathy. Let them produce the corpse in the picture. They should bring the corpse to the police.”

Meet The Candylicious Men: Mr Universe Nigeria 2013 Contestants

Meet The Candylicious Men: Mr Universe Nigeria 2013 Contestants



Please check out the hot, so so hot Mr Universe contestants.
They are sweating it out to become Nigeria’s next finest Gentleman - Mr. Universe Nigeria come June 1st 2013.

The 35 contestants were asked to create their signature looks and here's what the boys came up with.
Who's your fave?

Above are 'Mr's Adamawa, Kaduna, Ebonyi and Delta.
More pics after the cut

Abia

Abuja

AkwaIbom

Bauchi

Bayelsa

Benue

Borno

CrossRiver

Edo

Ekiti

Enugu

Gombe

Imo

Jigawa

Kano

Katsina

Kebbi

Kogi

Kwara

Lagos

Niger

Ogun

Ondo

Osun

Oyo

Plateau

Rivers

Sokoto

Taraba

Yobe