Socialite orders MOPOL to beat up Adewale Ayuba

Bonsue Fuji Crooner, Adewale Ayuba got more than what he bargained for today when he was beaten to stupour by Mopol for attending a party he was billed to perform late.
Report is reaching Nigeriafilms.com from the ancient city that the top Ibadan socialite who engaged Adewale to perform got his Mobile Police to teach him a lesson about punctuality.
As Adewale stepped into the venue, he was apprehended by the Mopol and beaten blue black but for the guests who pleaded on his behalf he would have been lynched.
We’re yet to confirm if he eventually performed or not.
We shall update you soon as event unfolds.
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Plaza Building in Marina, Lagos, Engulfed in Flames

A late night fire of unknown origin was reported at a plaza housing several bank branches including the United bank of Africa (UBA) and Union Bank on Breadfruit Street in Marina area of the Central Business District in Lagos.
 At the time of this writing, fire service personnel were at the scene.
Witnesses say the fire fighters were ill-equipped to tackle the blaze that was burning the sixth floor and up.
Saharareporters cannot confirm from emergency personnel what caused the fire.
There is also no report on possible casualties. Nigerians have been on holiday in the past two days to celebrate the Muslim festival called Sallah.
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Nigerian man who used witchcraft rituals to smuggle teenage girls into UK arrested

An ‘evil’ Nigerian people smuggler who used witchcraft rituals to force terrified children to work as sex slaves has been convicted of trafficking and rape.
Young victims were raped, sexually abused and subjected to voodoo-style rituals once in the clutches of the trafficking ring.
One girl had hair cut from her armpits by a man wearing feathers. Others were slashed with knives, forced to drink foul-smelling potions and had blood taken with syringes to ‘cast a spell’ over them.
The girls were told they would die or never bear children if they tried to escape or revealed what had happened to them.
The man responsible, Osezua Osolase, 42, was on the surface a recycling worker living in a terraced house in Gravesend, Kent. But he was in fact the British linchpin of a multi-million pound global child sex trafficking ring that used medieval ‘juju’ black magic to control its victims.
His home was a secret staging post for vulnerable teenage orphans as they were smuggled from Africa to several European countries.
Detectives discovered evidence that at least 28 victims were smuggled in and out of Britain by Osolase over a 14-month period, earning him up to £1.5million.
But the true figure could run into hundreds as the paedophile was overheard by one girl boasting he had been operating for 15 years as he tried to sell her for £60,000.
This was despite being deported back to Nigeria in 2007 after police caught him trying to use stolen credit cards.
Nigerian recycling worker ‘smuggled children into Britain before brainwashing them with African witchcraft to turn them into prostitutes’
Osolase simply married a mysterious German woman and returned to the country the following year with a five-year visa. As well as his wife he had a Nigerian mistress in Catford, South-East London, who recently gave birth to his son.
The scale of his crimes can be revealed for the first time after he was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court yesterday of trafficking three girls aged 14, 16, and 17.
One was raped and all three endured juju rituals, including one conducted by Osolase himself. One feared she was being taken to another country to be used as a human sacrifice. A jury was told Osolase slashed the chest of his youngest victim with a razor and rubbed black powder into her bleeding wounds.
Osolase was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court of trafficking three girls aged 14, 16 and 17.
She was ordered to take an oath of loyalty to him and believed that if she broke it she would not have children, go mad and die.
Osolase groomed her after the death of her parents by visiting her village with presents and saying she would go to school in Europe.
But he abducted her and said she should prepare for life as a prostitute in Italy where she would be raped by ‘white men who smoked drugs’.
The other two girls were terrorised by a local witchdoctor in Nigeria shortly before being flown out of the country with promises of an education and modelling work.
The 16-year-old told police she was taken to a ‘place of witchcraft’ where she was told to bathe in a ‘bloody gunk’ and wrap blood-soaked cloth around her.
As Osolase watched, a man wearing feathers on his head cut hair from her armpits, cut some of her finger and toenails and took blood from her hand with a syringe.
She was told that the body parts taken in the ritual would be used to find and kill her if she tried to run away or failed to repay her captor.
The 17-year-old wept as she described how she was tricked into travelling to Britain with the promise that she would go to school. She was made to drink a potion laced with blood. Police found no evidence that Osolase lived a luxury lifestyle and believe he has hidden the profits of his crimes in Nigeria.
Dr Hermoine Harris, an expert in Nigerian religions, told the jury the juju rituals carried huge weight in Nigerian society. She said: ‘By taking someone’s blood you hold and control somebody’s very essence and their power.’
Detective Inspector Eddie Fox said after the case that Osolase was ‘evil’ and branded him a ‘predatory paedophile’. Osolase was convicted of five counts of human trafficking, rape and sexual activity with a child.
He will be sentenced on Monday.
 DailyPost

Between Fashola and Okada men in Lagos

Between Fashola and Okada men in Lagos

 

Oh well, that's life for you!

Kidnapped mother of House of Reps member regains freedom

The abducted mother of Abiodun Abudu Balogun, a member House of Representatives representing Ijebu North, Ijebu East and Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency who was kidnapped on Monday, has finally regained freedom.
The release of the 72-year-old Alhaja Obedatu, according to his son, was due to the timely intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan.
It was gathered that her captors freed the kidnap victim on Thursday night.
It would be recalled that earlier this week, some heavily armed gunmen numbering six whisked away Balogun’s mother from her home.
The gunmen were said to have stormed the Ita-Otu, Ijebu Waterside Local Government, residence of the mother of the lawmaker who is also the deputy chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Internal Security on Monday at about 9.30 pm and kidnapped the septuagenarian.
But Balogun, in a short statement sent via e-mail on Friday, confirmed the release of his mother.
The statement reads, “Hon. Abiodun Abudu Balogun has confirmed the release of his mother Alhaja Obedatu Abudu Balogun by the abductors.
“Hon Balogun and members of the family thank the Governor of the State his Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwai, the National Assembly, the security agencies, for being alive to their responsibilities, the religious organisations for their prayers and the ACN party leaders and all the good people of Ogun State.”
Asked whether a ransom was paid before the release of his mother, the lawmaker kept mum.
He said that members of his family had earlier vowed not to celebrate Eid-el-Kabir if their matriarch had not regained her freedom.
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“I did not announce my exit from THISDAY, because it is not a media event” – El-Rufai

El-Rufai

News broke out at the early hour of Friday that the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai, and Lagos-based newspaper, THISDAY, have parted ways.
Mr. El-Rufai announced the development to his fans Thursday night via his Facebook page that his. Friday column, El-Rufai, will no longer appear In the paper.
Its reads: “My Friday Column, El-Rufai on Friday will no longer appear on the Back Page of Thisday. It will continue to be on the Back Page of People’s Daily and on other web-based platforms. Thanks to all those who have read and encouraged me to write the column.”
An official of the media Thisday had however opened up on the matter. He said, “Our publisher told him it is either he writes exclusively for THISDAY or nothing. El-Rufai said he won’t write exclusively for us because of the wide reach he was getting by syndicating it.”
But in a telephone interview with DailyPost, El-rufai said: “When I started the column, did I announce to the world?
So why is it important that I announce when I’m leaving? My exit from the paper is not a media event; it is not a big deal. Please, you people should allow me enjoy my Sallah” He queried
When reminded that his departure from the paper is generating so much media attention because of his status in the country, El-rufai cuts in “I beg to differ, I am not any figure in this country. I am only a citizen like you.”
However, inside source at THISDAY say the incident was as a result of long time impasse between El-Rufai and the Publisher, Nduka Obaigbena.
We gathered that Obaigbena was under pressure from the present administration to stop running the column because it is too critical of government.
Recall the former minister was once arrested after he analysed the government’s security spending in one of his columns.

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“People are free to say what they want” – P-Square react to rumours they sacrificed mum for fame

Ever since Mrs Josephine Okoye, mother to rave twins, P-Square, died a few months back, there have been funny stories in some circles. Some feelers are of the opinion that the duo sacrificed their mum for more fame and money.
P-Square have now decided to react to the story, via an official press release which read: “We feel so bad to know that our mum is no more. But who are we to question the Almighty God. Traditionally, we are supposed to bury her and not the other way round. It is just that it happened so soon. Indeed, her death was a big blow to us.
“Then, it is too bad to hear that people are accusing us of being responsible for our mum’s death. We are not blaming anybody. People are free to say what they want to say. We begin to wonder whether there is anything that will ever make us to go for the life of our beloved mother.
“Her life cannot be quantified in terms of money or fame. So, our answer to this question is that we have no hand in our mum’s death. We only blame the death that snatched her away from us if not so, people won’t be pointing accusing fingers at us. She died after a brief illness.”
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