Borno Gov. pressurized us into conducting Exams in Chibok – WAEC boss!

The Head of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Charles Eguridu has revealed that it was the Borno State Governor who pressurized his team to conduct examinations for the abducted girls in Chibok.

He made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting convened by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan to seek a solution for the missing girls which has received widespread local and international attention.

Eguridu said WAEC asked that the exams be conducted in Maiduguri which is much safer than Chibok, however his request was rebuffed by the governor who assured of security in the small town where the girls were abducted.

“Following the previous experience, we were afraid to go to the North East this year, yet we risked it and asked for extra security through the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike.

“We also asked the various state governments to relocate all the centres to the state capitals where there would be adequate security.

“The three governors did not respond to our request but instead said they had made adequate security arrangements.

“The Borno State government also refused to relocate the students from Chibok to safer places like Maiduguri. The Borno State government only agreed to relocate the remaining 189 pupils to Uba after the abduction of the girls.

“On the overall, 530 students registered for WAEC at the Chibok center: 135 males and 395 girls,” he said.

The WAEC boss presented the students bio data containing the passport photographs of all the 530 candidates that registered at the Chibok centre for this year’s examination.

He also tendered letters written to three North Eastern Governors by WAEC asking that the Governors conduct the exam in safer areas. It was only Shettima who requested, and at the last minute, that the exams be held in Chibok.

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Two inmates dead, at least 100 injured in suspected gas explosion at Florida jail!

Two inmates were reportedly killed and between 100 and 150 prisoners and guards injured in an apparent gas explosion at a Escambia County jail located in the northwestern part of Florida - southern United States, late on Wednesday.




The blast according to a county official, partly leveled the four-story Escambia County Jail’s central booking facility, which held roughly 600 inmates, at about 11 p.m., county spokeswoman Kathleen Castro said. No escapees were reported.


“The building is still standing, it’s just unstable and partially collapsed,” Castro told Reuters, describing the incident as an “apparent gas explosion”.


“We have reports people heard an explosion and smelled gas. There was no fire,” she said, adding that the blast may have been related to severe storms that have hit the southern United States.
“The facility did receive extensive flooding as a result of the rains yesterday,” Castro said.

She said two inmates were killed and between 100 and 150 of those present were injured, adding it was unclear how the inmates died or the breakdown of injured inmates and guards.

A statement on the Escambia County website made no mention of gas, saying only it was an “apparent explosion” after earlier reporting it was “an apparent gas explosion”.

The facility, holds about 400 men and 200 women. Injured prisoners were being transported to hospital, with those uninjured being sent to other detention centers in Escambia County and neighboring Santa Rosa County, Castro said.

Castro described a frenetic scene where officials were scrambling to get people out of the building, provide medical care, and working to make sure inmates were detained and routed to other facilities. The search and rescue operation was ongoing, though the building had been secured.

source: Reuters

Pope Francis sends out message to Politicians!

In a 'timely' message shared via his twitter page, Pope Francis has called on Politicians worldwide to carry out their responsibilities with human dignity and common good in mind. 



The twit below:
Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex 3h

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

Two internet romance scammers arrested!

According to a press release by The Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), the Unit has arrested some members of internet fraud syndicate that specialized in defrauding unsuspecting wealthy foreign women who are in dire need of husbands.


The Press Release reads: 
POLICE SPECIAL FRAUD UNIT ARREST TWO INTERNET ROMANCE SCAMMERS. Suspects:

 i. Yunusa Okonkwo and
 ii. Henry Chinedu Ogu.

A petition which was received via the Unit’s e-mail from one of such victims, a US citizen resident in New Jersey alleged that sometime in April 2013, she met the 2nd suspect Henry Chinedu Ogu on a dating site and both started a relationship which lasted for months until the suspect manipulated and made her to believe that he was in trouble in Nigeria and needed some financial assistance. She further stated that she sent the sum of $350,000.00 US Dollar to the two account numbers provided by the suspect. The account numbers were Sky Bank Account Number 36204796 and Ecobank account No. 04087350 belonging to Faneece Business Services International.

Police investigation showed that the account holder is one Yunusa Okonkwo of No. A1 Giwa Road, U/Muazu Kaduna where he was subsequently arrested. His arrest led to the arrest of the principal suspect, Henry Chinedu Ogu.

Yunusa Okonkwo a 42year old from Amuri Nkanu West LGA of Enugu State, is a patent medicine dealer that runs a Bureau De Change. He confessed that he is the account holder of Faneece Business Services International and admitted that he provided his two bank accounts for the illicit transactions. He also stated that the 2nd suspect. Henry provided him with his account number where he transferred the money after converting it to Naira. The account detail is Diamond Bank account No. 0021206871 with account name Raydeus Synergy Nigeria Limited. He also added that he always deduct his commission of N2.00 per Dollar before paying in the money.

Henry Chinedu Ogu is 29years old from Amafor – Ishingwa Umuahia, Abia State. He claimed to be one of the Directors of a company called Raydeus Synergy Nigeria Limited. He confessed to the alleged crime that he sent the account details of the 1st suspect to the victim who in turn paid the sum of $295,000.00 Dollars into the account which the 1st suspect Yunusa converted to Naira before paying into his Diamond Bank. He corroborated the Complainant’s statement that they met on a dating site last year January 2013 and started communicating and exchanging e-mails. He also confessed that he deceived the victim into believing that he wanted to marry her but was stranded in Nigeria and needed financial assistance. He further admitted that he had spent all the money, that he used N9million to purchase a heavy duty generating plant which Police had recovered. Also he purchased a plot of land for N800,000.00 along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway. The cash sum of N2million was also recovered from him.

Investigation is on-going. Effort is being intensified towards the recovery of the remaining monies fraudulently obtained from the Complainant or the proceeds thereof.

Suspects will be charged to Court to serve as a deterrent to others.

Chibok missing girls, Nigerian women take to the streets!

For over two weeks since gunmen raided a school in Chibok, Borno state in northeastern Nigeria and kidnapped more than 200 teenage girls from their dormitories; 


howbeit, the Authorities appears not to be doing much on the situation as affected/ aggrieved parents, individuals and groups took to the streets in a peaceful march against the uncomfortable silence from the Authorities on the issue.  

Hundreds of people, women  dressed in red marched  to the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday to demand answers and "concrete and visible" action from the federal government.

An organizer of the march and former government minister, Oby Ezekwesili told news men:


"We note that efforts may be going on, but what the women have come out today to say is that we want swift effort that has results.  And the only results that we know is a swift search and rescue operation and we want to see our daughters come back alive," said Ezekwesili.

Adieu Amaka!

 One of Nigeria's foremost film producers, writer, director and a leading player in Nigeria's entertainment industry Amaka Igwe is dead.



Information revealed that she died on Monday night in Enugu (Eastern Nigeria) where she had gone, in company of her producer/marketer husband, Charles Igwe for pre-production preparations of a new Igbo soap. 

It was gathered that she suffered an asthma attack and was immediately rushed to the hospital after initial interventions had failed; She passed on before getting to the hospital.

Confirming the death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Tuesday in Abuja, Mr. Agility Onwurah, Chairman, Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Abuja Chapter, said Amaka’s demise was a big blow to the Nollywood industry.
“Amaka had gone to Enugu in company of her husband for pre-production of a new Igbo soap when the sad incident occurred.

“She suffered an asthma attack and was immediately rushed to a hospital, but died before getting there.
“Amaka is survived by her husband of 21 years, Charles Igwe, three children, and an aged mother," the statement said.

Born Amaka Isaac-Ene, the deceased was an accomplished writer, producer, director, entrepreneur and teacher. She founded the BoB TV Expo, and was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Top Radio 90.9 FM, Amaka Igwe Studios, and the newly-launched Q Entertainment Networks.

Amaka hit national limelight as the writer and producer of the award-winning TV soap, “Checkmate” and the spin-off “Fuji House of Commotion”.

Her Nollywood projects included Rattle Snake and Violated, two critically acclaimed movies that set Amaka Igwe Studios apart in the much-criticised Nollywood industry.

Adieu Amaka, you indeed set the pace for excellence in Nollywood -Roving Informant.

Thousands languishing in Japan children's homes- Human rights group!

According to a Rights group, a shocking revelation alleged that bout 90 percent of children taken from their families in Japan end up in institutions rather than foster care.

It was gathered that just 12 percent of children who have been removed from their natural parents are placed with foster families, leaving tens of thousands of other youngsters to languish in understaffed children's homes, Human Rights Watch said.

Roving Informant hereby adds her voice in the call on International Child Right Agencies to further investigate this allegation, and intervene  accordingly for the sake of the future of these children.