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The President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), and former Senator of the Federal Republic, Tari Sekibo, has died. Mr Sekibo slumped today in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and was evident lifeless at the Federal Medical Middle where he was rushed to. May his heart sleep in peace...Ase.

Sad news! One of Nigeria's most popular 90s musicians Olufemi Mayomi, aka Father U Turn, is dead

The dancehall artiste who rose from poverty as an orphan, to build a successful and inspiring career as a songwriter, recording artiste, TV presenter and performer, passed on in Lagos today, following a brief illness. He was 36 years old. May his soul rest in peace...Amen.
Read more about him after the Jump

The late U Turn was from Kabba-Bunu in Kogi State where he first tried his hands on entertainment, working as a radio and TV presenter.

He had a brief stint at NTA in Lagos, after relocating here, before signing a deal with Ultima Records which released his early albums.

He was a little boy, with braids and a charming personality. And his signature intro 'Apoola Berekete' was far beyond his stature. But he got the industry's attention and got a leg in the door before long.  After years of club tours and free gigs, he got his first break when he was signed to one of the biggest record labels of the time, Ultima Records.

Ultima engaged Nelson Brown to work on his first album which proved to be a huge success.

The hits 'African Culture' and 'Shakara' threw him into national limelight, instantly putting him in the league of bonafide ghetto stars like Daddy Showkey and Daddy Fresh.

He espoused Okokomaiko where he resided, with many songs dedicated to the Lagos outskirt.

His second album 'Padlock Ur Mouth' produced the smash hit 'Yetunde' a collaboration with Pasuma Wonder.

With dozens of awards confirming his exploits, including multiple decoration by Awards for Musical Excellence in Nigeria (AMEN), Youths Awards for Excellence in Music (YAFEM), amongst many others, U Turn lead a generation of alternative dancehall cats by the hands. And in Okokomaiko where he spent the last two decades of his life, he was like a king. His success encouraged many children in the area to embrace music, and he supported many of them.

Although his later years were troubled by label issues with Bayowa Music, and career challenges that came with unsuccessful albums, Father U Turn remained dedicated to his art - recording endlessly and refusing to let go of his passion and dedication to reggae/dancehall. He also vehemently refused to relocate from Okokomaiko, despite constant pleas from friends and family.

He died in a hospital around Okokomaiko today, after suffering a liver related illness. A family member confirmed he had been in and out of hospital for many weeks. He had been on admission at the last hospital for 10 days before he passed on.

He is survived by his siblings, wife Ajimoh and five children.

Nigerian socialite & business person Taiwo Jamani, 45, died yesterday November 13th about one month after he was attacked in Swords, Dublin by a business associate.

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37year-old Jooda Akanbi attacked Jamani with a baseball bat on July 10th in broad light on Major Street in the north Dublin area at about 12.20pm after an argument broke out between them.

Mr, Jamani, a resource expert who owns a Date link Organization in Dublin, suffered significant harm to his back and throat after his own pal attacked him. An eye witness told police that the 2 guys first started shouting at each other, then these were pushing and shoving...

"I think one was waiting for the another since the boot of his car was open & there were two bats inside just before the fight began. Then the person with the bat used it high over his mind and made it down hard on another man's forehead and he just slumped to the ground. It had been shocking. It's not something you wish to see,”the witness said.

Jamani was hurried to the hospital where he eventually succumbed to his injuries. He died in Beaumont Clinic in Dublin yesterday. Mr. Akanbi has been arrested for murder and is awaiting trial.

Authorities report show that a 10-year-old girl whose malnourished human body was within a suburban Atlanta trash bin had tried to run abroad a year ago and turned up at college years earlier with bruises and welts on her behalf body.Gwinnett County Authorities say Emani Moss'malnourished human body was found Saturday.

  Her dad, Eman Moss, and her stepmother, Tiffany Moss (pictured right), have now been charged with murder, concealing a body and child cruelty. It's not clear if they have attorneys. Reports from the team show that a nurse found bruises on Emani's human body in March 2010 and the girl tried running away in July 2012.

In a crowded city, Asher Vongtau of Nigerian descent was completely alone, trapped in a space barely wider than a shoe box after plummeting perhaps 30 metres into the tiny crevice between two buildings in Manhattan.  His skull was fractured, one arm was broken   and he had a collapsed lung. But he was alive. Still, as day turned to night and back to day again, there was one urgent question: Would help arrive in time?

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Not only had Vongtau, a 19-year-old New York University sophomore, survived the fall, but he had been trapped for nearly 36 hours.

“It is a testament to the kid’s will that he is alive,” he said. “I don’t know how he lasted.”

There was much that remained unexplained on Monday about how Vongtau became trapped, including exactly where he was when he fell.

Fire officials said that given how tightly he was wedged into the space – positioned on his left side just above the ground, unable to twist in any direction in a space about 30 centimetres wide – and the layout of the buildings, it was possible he fell from the roof of the 18-story dormitory.

The gap between the two buildings is wider on the higher floors, but the last six metres or so of space is quite narrow because of a setback. That lack of space might have helped slow his fall, officials said.

There is also an old fire escape on the building next to the dorm as well as an unused fire escape attached to the dorm, and officials said it was possible he could have fallen from one of those as well, in which case he might have fallen a shorter distance.


Vongtau was awake on Monday and talking to friends and family members, but it was unclear whether he was able to recall the details of what happened.



The weekend started like a typical one for a college student, with a night of partying Friday. After going out, Vongtau went to the 10th-floor dorm room that another student, Michael Yablon, shared with three roommates.

Yablon, Vongtau and another friend were still awake when the sun came up. At around 7 am, Vongtau left the room “to get some fresh air,” Yablon said.

Soon after Vongtau walked out the door, someone pulled a fire alarm, waking up residents and causing a brief period of chaos.

By the time it was clear that it was a false alarm, Vongtau had disappeared.

At first, his friends thought he must have gone to his dorm room in nearby Alumni Hall to get some sleep. But on Saturday afternoon, they started to worry.

Yablon said that Vongtau, who was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States when he was 12, always returned messages. When his friends were unable to contact him, they were convinced that something was terribly wrong.

Saturday night they alerted campus security and, later, called the New York Police Department.

Yablon on Monday said he did not think the university treated his concerns with enough urgency. But university officials said they did all they could with the information available.

By Sunday morning, the university’s security officers had contacted nearby hospital emergency rooms and checked to see whether Vongtau’s student identification card had been used to enter any university buildings. His friends began a frantic search, on foot and online. They even reached out to his 13-year-old sister on Facebook, hoping his family might have heard from him.

It was all to no avail.

Then, on Sunday evening, Yablon said, someone got in touch with the friends about a stray pair of grey high-top sneakers discovered in a hallway on the seventh floor of the dorm.

Yablon said they quickly realised the shoes belonged to Vongtau and once again contacted campus security.


John Beckman, an NYU spokesman, said the initial reports indicated that Vongtau left the dorm on Saturday, but with the discovery of the shoes, attention was focused on the building itself.

A security officer checked areas usually off limits to students, including the roof, Beckman said. Students are warned that going on the roof can result in their being kicked out of the dorm. Nothing was found on the roof, Beckman said.  About 5 pm, a security officer checked the area around the bottom of the fire escapes and found Vongtau’s phone. He also heard what sounded like a soft moan, Beckman said.  At 5:11 pm, Blatus arrived on the scene.

From the fire escape of the adjacent building, firefighters could see where Vongtau was located and they quickly determined that the safest way to get to him was through the wall of the garage.

“It was a painstaking process,” Blatus said.

They cut through two layers of cinder blocks, being careful not to cause structural damage to the building or further harm to Vongtau.   It was also critical to get him medical treatment.

Doug Isaacs, the medical director for the Fire Department, said one of the biggest risks in such a rescue was “smiling death,” when a victim initially seems fine when he is removed but soon dies because of internal wounds.

Even as firefighters were opening up the wall, Isaacs was working to give Vongtau medication and assess his condition. Although Vongtau was conscious, he was not coherent. Still, Isaacs said that he came to understand that he had fallen at least 10 stories.   By 7 pm, Isaacs was escorting Vongtau to Bellevue Hospital Centre.

After 36 hours of being trapped, Vongtau was saved by the decisions that emergency responders made in minutes, something he seemed aware of when Isaacs visited him in the hospital on Monday.

“We bring good medicine to bad places,” Isaacs said. “He told his mother that he compared us to the Navy SEALS, very efficient in what we did.”
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The yoruba movie industry is bereaved yet again as one of its actresses, Falilat Okerede Oketayo has reportedly passed away.
This is coming soon after they lost two other people. First it was the death of a 32-year-old Jane Atayero-Oluseye, followed closely by that of veteran actor, Pa Ola Ogungbe and now this one.
Falilat who is a person in the Association of Theatre Arts Practitioner of Nigeria, ANTP, in Ogun State reportedly died on Tuesday at her residence in Sagamu, Ogun State.
According to report, she died following a brief illness. She's survived by two children, an aged father and siblings. She was described by ANTP in Ogun State as a versatile, energetic and confident actress.

A middle-aged man identified as Wasiu Yusuf has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his bosom friend, Adeolu Olatoye,  to death for having clandestine relationship along with his wife.

It was gathered that the incident which occurred at Oke-Efon area of  Abeokuta, Saturday  night,  was reportedly  carried out by the  suspect and one  accomplice identified as Mukaila, considered on the run as at the time of the report. It was further gathered that the suspect lost his temperament when he reportedly caught  his 32 -year-old  friend  along with his wife on the day of the incident on his matrimonial bed. The suspect, according to the findings, laid siege for the victim who reportedly came  to his house, and in the ensuing scuffle,the victim erroneously stabbed himself.

But another version of the story had it that, the victim had opted to his friend's house to drop an invitation card of his mother's 80th birthday scheduled  for Saturday when the friend attacked him with bottles.
Adeolu, a graphic artist, met his death barely two weeks after he held the naming ceremony of his child.
His remains had been  deposited at the State Hospital Mortuary at Ijaiye, Abeokuta, as police await the autopsy report.

Contacted, Ogun State Police Command Public Relations, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident and arrest of the suspect, adding that investigation was ongoing. Speaking, the deceased's elder brother, Akinyemi Olatoye, said he was shocked over the development, explaining that his late brother had opted there to drop their mother's birthday invitation card.

A 37-year-old man who confessed to killing his mistress because she had HIV may have planned the attack, a court heard on Tuesday.

Larry Dunn stabbed Cicely Lee Bolden, 28, twice in the neck and left her to bleed to death in her southeast Oak Cliff, Dallas, apartment

Larry Dunn stabbed Cicely Lee Bolden, 28, twice in the neck and left her to bleed to death in her southeast Oak Cliff, Dallas, apartment last September after she told him she was infected.


Dunn initially told police he stabbed Bolden with a kitchen knife moments after they had unprotected sex and Bolden revealed her illness.

However new evidence presented at trial suggests the attack may not have been spontaneous.

Dallas Observer reported Bolden had told Dunn of her diagnosis a week before he killed her.

The court heard Dunn, believing he was infected and fearing he gave his wife HIV, went to his hairdresser girlfriend’s house seeking revenge.

They had unprotected sex one last time.

Then, while Bolden lay in bed, Dunn went to the kitchen, grabbed a steak knife, got back into bed and plunged the blade into Bolden’s neck, killing her.

‘In my mind, I’m already dead,’ Dunn told police at the time. ‘She killed me, so I killed her.’

Dunn faces up to life in prison if convicted.

His attorney, however, is trying to prove he acted with ‘sudden passion’, which carries a 20-year sentence.

More than a year after the couple had sex, Dunn still hasn’t been diagnosed with HIV. His lawyers say he is still undergoing tests.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most people develop a detectable amount of HIV antibodies between two to eight weeks of exposure.

Bolden’s body, which was naked from the waist down, was found by her son, seven, and daughter, eight, in their apartment.

The children ran out of the unit crying and screaming ‘my mama, my mama’, testified neighbor Latoya Arnett, who had called 911. The children now live separately with relatives.

Dunn initially denied killing Bolden, though he admitted that the two had sex that day. He also denied knowing that Bolden was HIV positive when Dallas police Detective Brian Tabor told him.

In a second interview, Dunn admitted what he had done, saying: ‘I was enraged, man…She knew she had HIV.’

He said Bolden didn’t struggle because ‘she wasn’t very strong.’

He also revealed he burned his clothes afterwards and dumped the knife in the garbage at a waffle house. Police later recovered the weapon.

‘I wanted to make her pay,’ Dunn said in the recorded interview, according to Dallas News. ‘Killing her wasn’t on the menu. That’s just how it ended up.’

The father of Cicely’s son, Jeff Busby, said that Bolden had contracted HIV within the last couple of years.

Speaking about Dunn, he said: ‘I hope he rots in prison. She [Bolden] did not deserve this.’

Stuffed teddy bear toys and candles were left outside Bolden’s boarded-up apartment in Highland Village Drive after the grisly murder.

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The police in Lagos State have commenced investigation into how a nine-year-old girl died, after sustaining injuries caused by alleged consistent rape. According to police authorities, the deceased was molested over five times, by a 14-year-old student, Onyi Adimabua, in the Ikorodu area of the state. The father of the deceased, Simeon Jigo, told PUNCH Metro that Onyi is the son of the proprietor of the school his daughter attended.

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He said his daughter opened up about the rape when she started having medical problems. The 77-year-old man said his daughter died on October 3, 2013. He said, “Up until my daughter’s death, she was a pupil of Fulfilled Greenland School, Ikorodu, and she was in primary three. One day, she came home and started complaining of pains around her honeypot, stomach area. We rushed her to Ikorodu General Hospital.

“A doctor checked her and after conducting some tests on her, told us that my daughter had sustained medical complications due to forced sexual intercourse. I was alarmed by this; so, I had a private discussion with my daughter.

“She told me that it was her school proprietor’s son, Onyi, that had been molesting her. The boy had threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone about it.”

The indigene of Ondo State told PUNCH Metro that after initial treatments, he took his daughter to Arogbo in Ondo State to be taken care of but her condition continued to deteriorate.
A few days after the troubled father travelled to Ondo State, Onyi, accompanied by his parents, also travelled to Ondo State, to apologise to Jigo’s family. The girl, however, was said to have died that very day.

“On getting to the house where my daughter was, we discovered that she was dead. Onyi confessed that he had been molesting my daughter prior to her death,’ Jigo said.

PUNCH Metro learnt that after the girl’s demise, irate youths in the area attempted to lynch the 14-year-old boy.
The bereaved father was said to have intervened and reported the matter to a nearby police station, where the teenager was held for safe keeping. The next morning, Onyi and his parents travelled back to Lagos.
The alleged rapist’s parents, in company with a chief in Ikorodu, reportedly visited Jigo when he returned to Lagos. The group were said to have pleaded that the bereaved father should not pursue the case but he refused.

Jigo said, “I went to the Ikorodu Police station to report the case but was surprised when the policemen on duty said I should not write any statement. They only told me to write down my telephone number and said they would call me later.

“After waiting for many days without any call, I wrote a petition and the matter was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.”
It was however learnt that Onyi had been taken to his father’s hometown in Delta State thereby stalling police investigation.

The teenager’s parents, however described the incident as the handiwork of the devil.
The 14-year-old boy’s father, Andrew Adimabua, said, “I trained that boy in the way of the Lord and expected so much from him. He has confessed to the act; there is nothing to hide. He told me that he learnt about sex by watching blue (badographic) films.

“We are not hiding him and we will cooperate with the police. On the day the little girl died, he was beaten up and made to stay in the rain for hours. As a result, he contracted pneumonia so we sent him home for treatment. When he recovers, he’ll be taken to the police for questioning.”

Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the telephone, expressed shock at the development.

Braide said Onyi would be re-arrested in the course of investigation.

“It is appalling that a teenager could indulge in such act. The matter is under investigation and the culprit will be re-arrested.”