Federal Government (FG) Launched Offensive against new terror sect, "JAMBS"

News on Top  terrorist group, JAMA’ATU ANSARUL MUSLIMINA FI BILADIS-SUDAN (a.k.a JAMBS),  has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack on Nigerian’s troops in Kogi State.

JAMBS,  believed to be a breakaway faction of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram,  said in a statement on Saturday ,that the soldiers were attacked in order to warn Nigeria against joining Western powers in their “aim to demolish the Islamic empire of Mali.”

The soldiers,  on their way to Mali as part of African peacekeeping mission, were ambushed by  the JAMBS members  , who threw Improvised Explosive Devices at their convoy along Okene-Lokoja Road. Two soldiers  and many  others were said to be injured during  a gun battle that ensued.

JAMBS claim came on a day that the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, was flown abroad for treatment after Saturday’s attack on his convoy. Bayero’s   driver and three others died in the attack.

In  a terse  statement posted by an online publication, Dessert Herald, on Sunday, a person claiming to be the Leader of JAMBS, Abu usamatal Ansary, warned  Nigeria and other African to be ready for “ more difficulties”  as they embarked on restoring peace to Mali.

The  statement reads, “We, members of  JAMA’ATU ANSARUL MUSLIMINA FI BILADIS-SUDAN,  are gladly informing the general public, especially those in black Africa, that with the aid and guidance of Allah, we  on January 19,  2013  at Itape, Ekehi Local Government Area of Kogi State,   successfully

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"Emmanuel Alonge" 2-Year Old Boy returned After N5M Ransom Was Paid"

News on Top Kidnapped Nigerian two-year old school boy, Emmanuel Alonge has been returned to his parents by the kidnappers after his family paid N5 million ransom.
Alonge was kidnapped by yet to be identified gunmen on Monday at Iju area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and taken to an unknown destination.
The kidnappers had earlier demanded for N150 million, which they later slashed to N100 million and then to N20 million and later to N5 million.
Mr. Olusegun Alonge, father of the boy told P.M. NEWS on phone this morning that the boy has been returned to the family by the kidnappers after paying N5 million ransom.
The overjoyed Alonge said the family picked up the boy around 3.00 this morning at Car Wash bus stop,

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News on "Top Day I caught my husband Hand down with our neighbour"

News on Top He didn’t make love to me for eight months. ”After our wedding, I stayed for five years without an issue. Throughout  the period, life was unbearable for me. 
I developed  high blood pressure in the process but my husband  did  not feel concerned.

These were part of the testimony of a 39-year-old woman who  urged an Agege Grade ‘B’ Customary Court to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage over battery and threat to life.
Mrs Oluwatosin Abiodun, a trader, of 5, Bemil Street, Ojodu, told the court that her husband treated her like a slave and made life unbearable for her.
I lived in hell on earth.  I lived in fear, pains and anguish. I kept all these to myself because I didn’t want my home to break”, Oluwatosin said in her evidence-in-chief.

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Nuella Njubigbo shows legs in new sexy photos "Nollywood actress"

Nuella NjubigboThe Released of current photographs by the actress. What do you think of her new look?

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News on Top Tension In Nollywood As Africa Magic Announces AMVCA Nominees January 28

"Stephanie And Genevieve."

There is much tension in Nollywood at the moment as practitioners await the announcement of nominees for the first Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) to be announced on Monday, January 28, 2013.
No one is sure who will make the list to begin the search for the most popular in the 26 categories of the awards to be judged by the viewers.
The main awards ceremony will hold in Lagos in March 2013. The event is organised by Africa Magic and MultiChoice Africa.
AMVCA was created to celebrate both on-the-screen and behind-the-scene African talents. 28 awards are up for grabs.

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News on Top "De Thrills and Intrigues of Oge Okoye’s Phot"

This is characteristic of what many movie buffs in this part of the world are wont to do; and in the order clime, they may not be surprised as they are used to this latest phenomenon in cinematography. How do we mean? If you have watched Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman’ you would definitely appreciate this piece of art the Nollywood actress, Oge Okoye has tried to put together here.

From the fore going, it’s only evident that most lovers of the tube when it comes to movies are not exempted from due and undue criticisms of some flicks, especially when they are getting to witness such projection in movie making. Oge Okoye’s latest display in what she is known best to do elicited diverse opinions from her known and unknown fans.

Quite a large number of Oge’s admirers have randomly frowned at her recent photo speak filmed shoot on ‘TIME,’ culled from her name, Ogechi, meaning ‘time waits for no one,’ shot by Moussa Moussa and directed by Egor Efiok. However, the delectable mother of two is being lampooned by a barrage of comments because this is the first-ever photo speak film to be done by anyone in the entire African

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News on Top EXCLUSIVE GOVERNOR SULLIVAN CHIME "THE SILENT REVOLUTIONARY".

SULLIVAN CHIME News on Top Fellow citizens of our beloved Enugu State, and our dear country Nigeria, this short treatise is directed at you, to add to your knowledge, as well as enrich your experience, Silence, as we all know, is the absence of noise, and silence is said to be golden. The allusion made in the above aphorism, equating silence with gold, a very valuable mineral, shows the very high value placed on one who is able to do great things in a very quiet and low-key manner. Now, who is a revolutionary, and why is Governor Chime, the amiable and dynamic peoples’ Governor of Enugu State, being ranked as one? Well, a revolutionary is one who starts or supports a revolution that is a drastic change, in the way things are done. Anyone who had been to Enugu State before 2007, when Governor Chime assumed office, and re-visits the Enugu today would be absolutely astonished at the high proportion and quality of infrastructural and other development put in place by his administration within so short a period of time. This no doubt, informed Governor Chime’s re-election, by a landslide, in 2011, for a second term. In fact, such a person, a silent revolutionary, is Governor Sullivan Chime, going by his massive, people-oriented projects and programmes, some of which have been accomplished, and many others on-going.. By this time, in Governor Chime’s second tenure, it has become obvious that doing great things quietly has become the hallmark of this administration and stems from the personal style of His Excellency, the Governor of Enugu State. Those who knew him from the early days have attested to his quiet and unassuming manner and style of doing things. Mr. Chime brought this unique style into play, in governance and administration, when he became The Governor, and this has resulted in the total transformation or revolution if you like, that is

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News on Top Charles Novia Lampooned Fake tongued Radio/TV Broadcasters

News on Top Listening to some Nigerian radio stations can either leave one permanently befuddled or just plain angry all the time. The latter is what happens to me mostly, so I stopped listening to most radio stations for some time. The television stations are not any better. The cause of one's linear anguish is not hard to find. Confusing accents of the presenters! Yes, one cannot really tell if the presenters on radio and television are from Miami, Manchester or Mushin or if they are just a bunch of clueless upstarts mouthing words which seem to make them happy but leaves the listener with a terrible 'earache'. Tracing the history of radio and television presentation in Nigeria, who can ever forget the glorious days and diction of Soni Irabor, Jim Lawson Madueke, Bimbo Oloyede, Tony Abolo, Donald Everedjo, Sienne All-Well Brown, Ruth Benemesia Opia, Lola Alakija, John Momoh, Silver Oforgu and so many other articulate and fantastic presenters who shaped the entertainment industry with their style and panache of presentation? What these names have in common is a clear and distinct presentation style with a pleasant-sounding smattering of perfect Queens English and intonations, mixed with the distinct mother-tongue of the personalities ( if you will) . These guys made millions of people shape up their articulation. We wanted

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News On Top Britons urged to leave Benghazi over 'imminent threat'.

Foreign Office minister David Lidington MP:

Britons should leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately in response to a "specific, imminent threat" to Westerners, the Foreign Office says.

The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with a "small number" of British nationals whose details it had.
Germany and the Netherlands have also urged their citizens to leave Benghazi.
But Libya's deputy interior minister Abdullah Massoud insisted the security problems in Benghazi did not warrant such a response.
He told the BBC the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Libya had not been informed about the change in travel advice for British nationals.
The minister added he would be contacting the Foreign Office for further clarification and insisted such actions added to instability in the region.
'Credible and serious'

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News on Top Goodluck Jonathan- Boko Haram, a Major Threat to Africa

President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday described the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, as a threat not only to Nigeria, but also to the entire African continent and called for international efforts to curb its activities.

Jonathan, while fielding questions on a CNN programme, Amanpour, from the World Economic Forum, Davos said the sect was not fuelled by corruption or misrule as suggested by a section of the international community.

Earlier on Tuesday, the president, while addressing Nigerians resident in Switzerland, had explained that Nigeria’s involvement in the military campaign in Mali to rout Islamic militants from the Sahelian country was not for territorial gains.

In response to a question by the anchor of the programme, Christiane Amanpour, on the threat posed to the country by Boko Haram, Jonathan said: “Definitely, Boko Haram, if it is not contained, will be a threat, not only to Nigeria but to West Africa, Central Africa and of course to North Africa, because some elements of Boko Haram link up with some of Al-Qaeda (members) operating in Northern Mali and other North African countries.

“That is why the Nigerian government is totally committed to work with other nationals other friendly governments – to make sure that we contain the problems in Mali because as you rightly said, the issue of Libya tries to create more problems in the sub-region.”
On whether Nigeria is prepared for major terrorist attacks, the president stated that the Federal Government was working to avoid a repeat of the Algerian experience.

“Yes, of course, what happened in Algeria was quite unfortunate. That is why all the governments have been working day and night to prevent such excesses,” he added.

Jonathan debunked insinuations that Boko Haram was a resistance against corruption and misrule, saying the impression was created by some interests groups.

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News on Top "Mali's Ansar Dine Islamists 'split and want talks'"

One of the Islamist groups fighting in northern Mali has split and wants dialogue, a statement from the breakaway faction says.

Islamic Movement for Azawad said it was splitting from Ansar Dine, and "rejects all forms of extremism and terrorism".
France sent troops to Mali earlier this month to halt a militant advance.
Mark Doyle reports from central Mali.

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News on Top "UK sergeant 'stranded' in Kenya after civilian shot dead"

 

Britain's relations with Kenya are under strain over an incident in which a Kenyan civilian was shot and killed during a military training exercise.

A British Army sergeant is at the centre of a political tussle between the two governments over the case.
The soldier has been unable to leave Kenya for more than seven months following the shooting.
Britain has a military agreement with Kenya, with 10,000 UK personnel a year visiting the country for training.
UK soldiers were clearing an area of scrubland early on the morning of 10 June last year in preparation for a live-fire exercise.
Confrontation They spotted a group of local men, at least one of whom was armed. In the ensuing confrontation a Kenyan civilian was killed.
The precise circumstances of the shooting are still unclear, but the sergeant who was involved in the incident is still in Kenya.
BBC East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse says the sergeant is confined to a British base while the two governments wrangle over legal jurisdiction in the case.

He says the soldier has been named in the Kenyan parliament as Sergeant Madison.
Our correspondent says the question of what should happen to him has become a big issue in the "febrile" atmosphere as a general election looms in Kenya in March.
Rafael Letimalo, the local MP, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "If foreign troops commit an offence that is punishable by Kenya's laws, then they are also subject to the same laws."
He added: "The police should be able to carry out an investigation. And then the person responsible for

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