Boko Haram: Disregard Threat Messages, Igbo Community Told

31 Jan 2012

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 Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari 

By Ibrahim Shuaibu

The Eze Igbo of Zamfara State, Chief Egbunna Obijiaku, has appealed to the Igbo community residing in the state, to live peacefully with their host community and disregard threat messages emanating from certain quarters meant to cause panic.

Eze Obijiaku, who made call in his personal residence in Gusau, urged journalists to be careful while discharging their primary assignments in order not to incite violence but to sustain the relative peace that is gradually returning to the country after the nationwide strike against the fuel subsidy removal.

He expressed his dissatisfaction with a report that raised alarm over a large exodus of Igbo people back to the eastern part of the country as a result of the Boko Haram threat.

Obiajakor, however, urged the federal government to unmask any person or group that is all out to trigger disunity and in the process cause havoc in the country.

Eze has further explained that, the Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari was very proactive in taming attacks reportedly targeted at Christians before, during and after the strike.

Meanwhile, the Zamfara State government has remitted one billion naira being part of its counterpart funding to the programme of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) projects even as three local government areas were selected to lead some lucrative projects in the state.

Speaking with THISDAY, the state’s Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Kabiru Sahabi Liman, maintained that, Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, has since approved the released of counterpart funds for the state to benefit from the MDG’S  programmes.

The commissioner revealed that, the present administration was fully committed to the projects that have direct bearing on the entire people of the state.

According to him, the three local governments which have been selected so far to benefit from the on-going MDG’s projects are Maru, Bukkuyum and Zurmi, adding that, the projects to benefit by the mentioned communities include, health care, education and portable water.

The season finale of Kim and Kourtney Take New York airs this Sunday (Jan. 29) on E!, and it digs deep into the tough decision Kim Kardashian had to make when she ended her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries. A heartbroken Kim breaks down to her sister Kourtney and explains how difficult this is for her:

 “[Kris] is everything I want in someone but for some reason my heart isn’t connecting. You think I feel good that I met this guy from Minnesota? I feel awful that I made him move out here and change his whole life. I feel sad. I feel bad for the guy. I changed his whole life. He fell in love with me, and I fell in love with him and now all my feelings have changed.”

Kim reflects on how awful she feels about her wedding and everything that went into planning the big day.

“I invited all these people to this huge wedding and flew everyone out, wasted everyone’s time and everyone’s money – everyone’s everything– and I feel bad! At 30 years old, I thought I’d be married with kids and I’m not. I failed at this. People change their minds, people make mistakes.”

“I have never seen Kim like this,” Scott Disick says on Kim’s current state. “Kim needs to get her feelings out there, tell Kris everything she is feeling and either move forward or move on.”

The Demi Moore 911 call is adding fuel to the flames that she reportedly was on drugs when the emergency call was made on her behalf. Though three people speak with the dispatcher during the six-minute long conversation, the first woman to speak reveals: “She smoked something. It’s not marijuana…It’s similar to incense. She seems to be having convulsions.”

As noises go on in the background as if a party is going on, the woman tells the operator that Demi is “semi-conscious, barely [conscious].” The caller added, “She’s been having some issues lately with some other stuff, but I don’t know what she’s been taking or not.”

This isn’t even the entire 911 call as ETonline notes that personal details about the Demi’s medical condition and/or medications were omitted by the Los Angeles Fire Department in order to “comply with federal medical privacy laws and at the insistence of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office.”

It had been reported that Demi may have gone into a seizure after doing what’s known as “whip-its,” where nitrous oxide is inhaled to cause a quick high.

The actress, 49, was released from the hospital after being admitted for four days. She is expected to go into treatment, and her estranged husband Ashton Kutcher is reportedly in route from Brazil to visit her.

Immigration Scam: Nigerian Mother Of Four Attends Husband Wedding [Photos]

January 27, 2012 at 4:23 pm by DailyMail

A mother-of-four attended her partner’s wedding to another woman – moments before assuming the bride’s identity in a sophisticated immigration scam. Illegal immigrant Esther Ogunrinde, 30, even took her daughter – one of the four children she had with the groom – to the ceremony, in Moston, Greater Manchester.

The ‘bride’, 28-year-old Zunica Sabina, was an EU national, who have the right to live, work and claim benefits in any member country, to marry Nigerian Olukayode Olusanya, 34, a court was told. But minutes after posing for photographs, Sabina flew back to her native Holland with the £3,000 she had been paid for her part. She left behind documents which were used by Ogunrinde to assume her identity. The scheme meant Ogunrinde and her new ‘husband’ Olusanya could find work and avoid deportation.   The marriage even gave Olusanya the right under British law to remain in the country despite him being a failed asylum seeker from Nigeria.

Ogunrinde fooled three employers using an ID card which Sabina had left behind and declared as lost, in a scheme that lasted for three years before they were caught out. On a previous visit, the sham bride had even set up a bank account and secured a national insurance number for Ogunrinde’s use, Joanna Rodikis, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court. 

The ruse, which dated back to 2008, began to emerge last June after the UK Borders Agency was tipped off.

They say they were able to crack the ‘serious organised criminality’ by working with Dutch police. The identity swap had begun even before the wedding at St John’s Church, Moston. When Sabina was unable to attend church to apply for the banns of marriage, Ogunrinde stood in for her. A court heard there was no suggestion church officials had any idea the wedding was a scam. Months later, the real Zunica Sabina flew in for the big day.

Olusanya was working as a nursing assistant at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital at the time.   Ogunrinde had worked as a care assistant and cleaner, but had continued to claim food vouchers intended for asylum seekers. The Nigerian couple, from Newton Heath, Manchester, appeared alongside each other in the dock, along with Sabina, from Amsterdam. Sentencing, Judge Martin Steiger QC said the conspiracy had been ‘highly sophisticated’ with ‘ingenious features’.

Olusanya was jailed for 32 months after admitting two charges of conspiracy to acts to facilitate the commission of a breach of immigration law.   Gill Crossley, defending, said he had wanted to do better for his family and legitimise his eldest daughter whose birth had been hidden from the authorities because of the couple’s immigration status. She read a glowing reference from former employers at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Laura Foster, defending social worker and mum-of-one Sabina, told the court that she had been recruited for the scheme at a time when she was so cash-strapped and she felt she had no choice. She was jailed for 16 months.

Ogunrinde was spared jail after Ronan Maguire, defending, said she had ‘mixed feelings’ about the sham marriage, but had gone along with her partner, who was ‘determined’ to stay in the UK.Judge Steiger said he could not ignore ‘humanitarian considerations’ in her case, since she had four children, ‘even if her continued reproduction’ had been in part an attempt to ‘cynically’ improve her hand with the authorities. She must serve a 12-month suspended sentence and do 180 hours of unpaid work.

Both Sabina and Ogunrinde admitted a single count of conspiracy to acts to facilitate the commission of a breach of immigration law. Ogunrinde also admitted three charges of possessing false identity documents.



John Dilworth, head of the North West Complex Case Unit at Crown Prosecution Service said: ‘The marriage was a sham in an attempt to defeat the immigration rules that protect UK borders. ‘The Crown Prosecution Service will continue to pursue anyone involved in such offences and prosecute robustly.

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