MAN GETS 45 YEARS JAIL TERM FOR STEALING AREGBESOLA'S PHONE

For stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a 31-year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year imprisonment by an Osogbo High Court.
Ighodalo stole the phone from the pocket of Aregbesola on November 27, 2010, when the governor was being inaugurated at Government Technical College, Osogbo.
Justice Oyejide Falola, who heard the case, found Ighodalo guilty on six counts, which included conspiracy, stealing and fraud.
He was sentenced to 10-year imprisonment for the first three counts and five years for each of the last three which included impersonation, obtaining property by falsehood and collusion.
Falola, who ruled that Ighodalo deserved the jail term, held that the convict used the phone to obtain N500, 000 from the Owa of Ilesa, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran, while he obtained N200, 000 from Mr Shengen Rahman, an associate of the governor.
The jail term, which Falola pronounced will run concurrently, means that Ighodalo will spend the next 10 years behind bars.
Assistant principal state counsel, Mr Biodun Badiora, told the court that the convict had served six-year imprisonment in Ikoyi prison custody in connection with a murder case in 2005.
Counsel to Ighodalo, Mr. Ameachi Ngwu, prayed the court to commit him to community service, stressing that the convict should not be incarcerated but rather be placed where people could see him as a convict.

MY PRISON BREAK

Category-real life story by Omojuyigbe olanrewaju. Location-Lagos. This happens to be one of the most unbelievable stories I have heard this year and I thought it would not be a bad idea if I shared it. Bola is a young man,of about 25 years of. age. Dark skinned,black eyes and an introvert. According to him in a one on one interview,a couple of years back,he happened to fall into the category of youths that have this jevenile deliquency problem. His parents worried a lot and were hell bent on looking for a way to make him change for the better.Despite his misdeeds,he was still a very brilliant kid and it did not take long before he got admission into one of the tertiary institutions in the western part of the country. Not long,the first semester was over and he got back home. He was received with joy by his parents and things went on normally. Second semester approached and it was time for him to go back to school.His parents promised to take him back to school and he was very happy.On the D-day,he woke up early,packed his things into his dad's car and was fully set for school.His parents got into the car and they set out. It did not take long before he slept off and what woke him up was a loud sound and he saw a big gate open. He was surprised but thought maybe his father wants to just say hi to one of his friends. He decided to look around and he realized this place was more of a youth prison,the type you call a correction facility. He was very shocked . They all alighted from the car and his parents whispered something into the ears of an elderly man who came to receive them. He immediately made a call and in the twinkle of an eye,everything changed. Bola was given a new set of cloth,a new monitor,a new phone and everything just changed.Then it occurred to him that he was surely in a correction facility.He was scared to death but still could not utter a word. His parents then left . On the floor,somewhere west of where he was standing,he saw another set of youths tied together with chains and some were just in a single man cell. He was helped to his room by his personal monitor and there he met another set of youths who were to be his room mates for as long as his parents wants him to stay there. There were 5 sets of bed to contain two. He decided to 'interview' his room mates sort of. There and then he shouted 'Mogbe' which is a yoruba language meaning I am in trouble when an inmate said he had been there for 6 years and his parents came regularly.Then,he realized most of the people there are rich kids brought down there by parents bent on correcting their kids.Everything there was planned and not long,it was time for them to go to bed.He could not sleep at all because thought of what was going to happen to him and for how long he was going to be there filled his mind. He was about closing his eyes when he heard a trumpet like sound which means 'wake up!'. According to him,the correction facility was being controlled like a secondary school with the head called Headmaster.They also had teachers who are former mental patients. Now,in this facility,you are being treated according to how stubborn you are. Some in chains,some in cuffs,some totally made immobile. Some even have terrible bruises on them. It was time for hard labour and they were packed to the field. There and then,something struck him. He looked around and he saw nobody was looking his direction,then,he just kept moving towards the direction of the gate.He kept moving till he got to the main entrance. Luckily for him,there were lots of guests that day so he mixed with the children of one of the guests and they helped him out.That was it. He just managed to escape from a State Welfare Facility. Just a day's experience and it felt like ten years. 'I will never go back to that place' he said and since then,he changed for the better. His advice to stubborn kids is that they should take things cool and change for the better as they would not like to be an inmate in one. He also advised parents to take their time to understand their kids and be very careful as regards decision made because it could have either positive or negative effect on their wards. Bola is now working in one of the companies on the island.

Feyisetan Owonifaari,student of Ikosi High School, ketu,drowns in well

A student of Ikosi High school identified as Feyisetan Owonifaari has been reported dead.
According to reports reaching Realnaijagists, the teen was said to have been sent to fetch water when the unfortunate incident took place.
All attempts to reach her parents proved abortive.

STEPHNORA OKERE CONFESSES SHE IS STILL IN LOVE WITH JIM IYKE

Actress Stephnora Okere and Jim Iyke dated for a while many years back and according to an interview she granted Stella Dimoko Korkus in this week’s Encomium magazine, she’s still in love with jim. Excerpts from the interview:
I’ve been maintaining a low profile because of the fact that I wanted to re-arrange myself for the future having made one or two mistakes in the past.
“What mistakes are you referring to?
As an actress or your personal life?” Stephnora: “Both. First as an actress, I allowed myself to put on weight and that is not good for the kind of profession I’m in.
When I gained weight, I lost a lot of offer for movie roles. My personal life mistake concerns my involvement in a marriage process that never scaled through.
I got involved with someone with someone who doesn’t understand what the word love means. It took me being involved in that relationship to realise what true love really means. It made me realise that I had loved and still do love someone else.”
Who exactly are you referring to that you still love?
Stephnora: I still love Jim Iyke
Wow, that’s some revelation. I am sure even Jim Iyke will be shocked to read this.
He must have impacted on you strongly.
Stephnora: Jim Iyke was and is still the best friend I’ve ever had. He was not just around, he was there as a friend, brother, lover, companion. He was always there. He understood me.

MAYBACH MUSIC'S WALE TO FEATURE WIZKID ON FORTHCOMING ALBUM

Nigerian-born rapper Wale says Wizkid will feature on his forthcoming album ‘The Gifted’ scheduled for release on June 25, 2013.
The Maybach Music Group rapper revealed this a few weeks ago on Twitter while dropping some hints on how his new album would sound.
‘Best believe I got some new music for that green white green on my new album.. Ask @wizkidayo‘, @Wale wrote.
A few weeks before that Wale had expressed Wizzy as his favourite African artiste.
The pair must have spent quite some time in the studio last year; Wizkid also disclosed in an interview with OK! Magazine that he had enlisted Wale on his upcoming mixtape.

 

I WILL NEVER BE FAITHFULL TO ANY WOMAN>FEMI KUTI

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“I will never be faithful to a woman. Never ever!’ – Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti spoke to Yes! International magazine recently about women, marriage, and more. Quite interesting!!!

I will never get married again. I don’t think I will ever be able to trust anybody. I will never be able to give any woman that chance. First, I will never be faithful. Never ever! I will not even try to be faithful. I won’t! Because first of all, I don’t even believe a woman would be faithful to me. And why does she want to be faithful to me?

First, I think it’s very unnatural and I can not even imagine standing somewhere and one man will say ‘I pronounce you man and wife. Who are you to pronounce me man and wife? Okay, I pronounce myself man and wife. There’s a girl who lives with me now. She’s not as jealous as most of my other girlfriends.. She knows I like women, so we understand each other. She doesn’t question me, I don’t question her. She takes cares of our child, no wahala. But the minute she starts being over-jealous, we are going to start to fight. She’s the kind of person that I will say, that girl is fine o, and she will say, should I chase her for you? And I will say don’t worry, I can do it myself.

It’s about freedom expression, freedom of the mind, freedom of being able to live and if that institution can not give me that, why should I go into an institution that is about restriction? It doesn’t mean that I’m somebody that wants to sleep around, I just don’t like ‘don’t, don’t, don’t! I don’t need an institution to tell me that.

I don’t want anybody to question me. Who are you to question my life? Have you heard any of my song questioning anybody? And every time I’ve tried to love, they have broken my heart. From day one – either because I’m Fela’s son. I hear the parents say ‘oh, you want to marry Fela’s son? God forbid. Even Funk that I married, when her mother found out I was Fela’s son, she scream no o! God forbid. Funke had to runaway to get pregnant o! And we ran away to get married. So, by the time she and her mother made up, of course, the marriage collapsed.

So you see, I try to be straight forward. Why should I lie? I’m popular and I now want to be sneaking from house to house or lie to my girlfriend? There’s no way they won’t catch me so it’s better you’re truthful. So I don’t start a relationship with ‘you are my one and only, bla bla bla. No! I like you very much but the possibility of liking someone else is there. I tell them. Even my wife Funke, I made this very clear to her. I don’t start my relationship based on you are the only one, I want to marry you, you’re the apple of my eyes. I start by being very truthful.

HENRY OKAH SENTENCED TO 24 YEARS IMPRISONMENT ON TERRORISM CHARGES

Henry Okah has denied any involvement, claiming the charges against him were politically motivated [Reuters]

A South African court jailed Nigerian national Henry Okah for 24 years after he was convicted of 13 terrorism charges over twin bombings in Abuja in 2010. "Effectively, the accused Okah is therefore sentenced to 24 years imprisonment," said Judge Neels Claassen on Tuesday. The charges were related to two car bombs in Abuja, Nigeria, in which 12 people were killed and 36 injured on October 1, 2010, the anniversary of the country's independence. The second bombing took place in Warri on March 15, 2010 at a post amnesty dialogue meeting. One person was killed and 11 seriously injured. In both bombings, two car bombs went off minutes apart in both places. The cars were parked in close proximity to each other. Claassen sentenced Okah to 12 years imprisonment for each of the bombings and 13 years for the threats made to the South African government after his arrest in October 2010. The 13 years would run concurrently with the 24 years. In January, during judgment Claassen said the State had proved Okah's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and his failure to testify meant the evidence against him remained uncontested. Okah has denied any involvement, claiming the charges against him were politically motivated.