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Cynthia to be buried Sept 7 – Family

Jos – Miss Cynthia Osokogu, the victim of an Internet dating transaction, will be buried on Sept. 7 at Bebe, Ovia Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta, the family said.
Cynthia, a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, was allegedly killed by friends she met on the social media, Facebook, at a hotel in Festac, Lagos in July.
The suspected killers of the young woman allegedly lured her to Lagos on a phoney business deal and killed her in a hotel room.
Mrs Joy Osokogu , who announced the date to journalists in Jos on Monday, advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they did not know.
“The youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends in the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.

*Late Cynthia Osokogu

Osokogu described her deceased daughter as “very industrious, hard working and a respectful child.
“She was my daughter, my friend and my sister. Her memory will never be forgotten because she touched so many lives positively in her short stay on earth,” she said.
Osokogu said Cynthia’s killers had demanded N20 million ransom from the family.
“The killers of my daughter demanded a ransom of N20 million from my son, Flt- Lt. Kenneth Osokogu,” she said.
Osokogu said the killers sent her son, who is in Makurdi, a text message demanding that he paid N20million into an account which did not exist.
“The killers were not picking our calls; they only communicated to us via text messages.
“When my son got their SMS, he later replied them that the account number was fake and didn’t exist.
“He sent another message in which he said that if it was a case of kidnapping, he would like to speak with his sister before making any payment but the killers did not respond,” Osokogu said.
She said, however, that when she spoke with the suspected killers, they did not ask her for any money.
Osokogu said she spoke last with Cynthia on July 22, when she called to say that she was travelling to Lagos to get her goods.
“But the next day, I didn’t hear from her. When I tried to reach her, all her phones were switched off.
“After one week, the phones started ringing but no one was picking.
“Few days later, people I believe to be the killers, called and said that my daughter was in one Symbol Hospital in Lagos.
“I called the police I had earlier reported the case to, to go and verify if she was in the hospital, they said there was no hospital like that.
“After a while, I called the number and told them I wanted to speak with her but they said that it was not possible.
“When I asked why, they said she would come back but that I wouldn’t speak with her.
“When I called the number again, they said they had killed her and that was when we declared Cynthia missing,’’ Osokogu said..
The police in Lagos last week announced the arrest of some persons in connection with the murder of Cynthia. (NAN)

Former beauty queen and actress-Regina Askia displays sexiness at 45- Information Nigeria

Former beauty queen and actress turned Registered nurse in the US regina Askia, has something to show even after so many years of out-of-camera life. She is one lady that never quits when it comes to the art of looking good. These are recent photos of her. Would you agree she’s still got it?

View more photos of Cynthia Osokogu’s killers here

The photos below show two of Cynthia’s suspected murderers, ” Okwumo Echezona Nwabufo and Ezike ilechukwu Olisaeloka” and the Pharmacists that sold the drugs to the murderers “Orji Osita and Nwadiokor Chukwunonso”.
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Police arraign four persons over Cynthia’s murder

Four suspects were on Monday arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate Court for killing 24-year old Cynthia Osokogu, who they met on social media platform



The suspects, Okwumo Nwabufo, Ezeike Olisaeloka, Orji Osita and Maduakor Chukwunonso, are standing trial on an eight-count of felony, conspiracy, robbery and murder.
Their charge sheet states that the suspects killed the deceased by administering her with Rohypnol Flunitrapezam, binding, torturing, and strangling her.

It also adds that the suspects, along with some others at large, raped and robbed the deceased of valuables that included an international passport, a mobile phone, shoes, bags, wristwatches and jewellery.


The first and second defendants, Okwumo and Ezike, had earlier been paraded by the state police command, where they admitted to luring Cynthia to Lagos via facebook.
They also admitted to drugging, binding, assaulting and killing her.


At the sitting, Magistrate P. Adekomaiya asked the Police Prosecutor, Chukwu Agwu, to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutors (DPP).
Mr Adekomaiya adjourned the case to October 3, 2012 for mention, pending the advice of the DPP

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Youths chase Ondo monarch out of palace

Oba Akinfesola Adewola of Igburowo community, Odigbo Local Government, Ondo State, was on Sunday chased out of his palace by youths.
Our correspondent learnt that the group of youths, who marched to the palace early in the morning and barricaded roads leading to the community, made the monarch to trek several kilometres to a village on the Ondo-Ore highway where they left him.
The protesters carried placards that read ‘Enough is Enough, 16 years of No Development,’ ‘No to backwardness, Igburowo says no to Akinfesola’ ‘Go, Akinfesola, Go,’ ‘Igburowo community rejects you Pius Adewola’ and ‘Adewola is a wife snatcher, Igburowo, rejects you’.
Youth Leader of the community, Mr. Samuel Adeyemi, said the protest had no political undertone but was carried out to show their dissatisfaction with the leadership style of the monarch.
Adeyemi alleged that Adewola was accused of engaging in fraud, forcible acquisition of land belonging to his subjects, frivolous litigation over subject’s property, non-performance of traditional rites and assaulting his chiefs and subjects.
But the traditional ruler denied the allegation, saying they were unfounded and meant to damage his reputation.
Adewola told our correspondent on the telephone, “I don’t know what to say now because I have not done anything to warrant the treatment being meted out to me.”
The second-in-command to the monarch, Chief Festus Ogunsesin, described the incident as “highly unfortunate and embarrassing”.
A senior police officer at the Ore Divisional Police Station, Mr. Adeleye Abayomi, who led some policemen to the area, pleaded with the protesters and monarch to go with him for a meeting with the DPO of the station, Mr. Adekimi Ojo, over the matter.

Rev Chris Okotie “I will tell the world what my wife did next year”

 

According to reports, the head pastor of Household of God told Christian leaders who went to see him that he will reveal what his wife did to him to make him end their marriage, sometime next year.
Pastor Okotie has now shunned counsels and pleas by other pastors who have repeatedly called him or visited his church. He is not telling anyone what his ex-wife did to him nor ready to give out details of the past event now but will reveal all next year.
What do you think about this new development? Do you think as a man of God, he should keep private things private or he should go ahead with this move? Please Share your thought with me

N5000 Notes, N5, N10, and N20 Coins: Minting to Cost at least N40 Billion

News recently hit the media waves about the proposed launch of a N5000 note alongside the redesigning of existing notes in order to give them new looks. However, information filtering in has it that this project by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will cost nothing less than N40 billion of Nigerian taxpayers’ money. Out of the said amount, N11.8billion will be spent on the new N20, N10 and N5 coins.
According to a member of the board of the CBN, discussing with Punch Newspaper under conditions of anonymity, “The bank is spending over N40billion on the production of new coins and notes… The N40billion is the total sum for the production of the coins and the new notes.
According to the source, the CBN, at its board meeting two months ago decided that most of the new notes and coins would be printed by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, while only the N5,000 note would be printed by a foreign firm which had “the technology and the capacity to handle the sensitive features in it.”
Already mixed reactions are trailing the announcement of the introduction of the new notes. While some have described it as a disrespect to the likes of Tafawa Balewa, Alvan Ikoku, etc, the grandson of one of the women whose faces are expecting to appear on the proposed N5000 note, Seun Kuti, has condemned the idea saying, “If I were the FG, I wud establish more schools, improve on the educational system rather than come up with N5000 note idea… The N5000 note is nothing a common man can use, so printing d money is not the way forward.”

Breaking News: CBN Announces Introduction of 5,000 Naira Note!

CBN Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yesterday in Abuja revealed that the N5,000 denomination will be eased into circulation from March 2013, adding that the N50, N100, N200, N500 and N1,000 notes to be redesigned with added security features on it while the N5, N10 and N20 notes will be made into coins.


The faces of three prominent Nigerian female activists are to be used on the new note. They are those of late politician and social mobiliser, Margaret Ekpo (1914 – 2006); late politician and activist Hajia Gambo Sawaba (1933 – 2001) and late politician and women’s right activist Funmilayo Kuti (1900 -1978).
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12 Controversial Nollywood Actresses And Their Reckless Lifestyles Exposed [Part 1]

Movietainment Magazine in a recent piece discussed the prevalence of scandals in the Nigerian movie industry, these scandals which have become synonymous with Nollywood have been perpetrated mostly by female actresses.
Scandals ranging from husband snatching to sexual immorality are synonymous with Nollywood acts, and this has affected the image of many Nigerian actors and actresses.
That is why we decided to bring you the first part of an exposition on the reckless lifestyles of some Nollywood actresses in this edition.
Mercy Johnson
Mercy Johnson has always been in the news even before her controversial wedding to Edo big boy, Prince Odi Okojie on Saturday, August 27, 2011. The lady hit the news headlines when she was pictured exposing her private part at an event. It was obvious in the photograph that she did not wear pant or bra. Her wedding became an issue, which was feasted on by the print media as she was alleged to have snatched another person’s husband as revealed by one Lovelyn, a supposed wife of Prince Okojie. Mercy Johnson is one actress with scandalous sexual controversies.
Ini Edo
Another name on the list is that of Inibong Edobong, better known as Ini Edo. Ini is one Nollywood actress that is synonymous with sex scandals in the industry. Her wedding was a bit controversial after she was believed to have snatched Philip Ehiagwina from society lady, Ruth Okoro. She was once rumoured to be having a romantic affair with a governor in the South-South region of Nigeria. Also recently, she was reported to have left a club with another man.
Tonto Dikeh
Tonto Dikeh is unarguably the most controversial Nollywood actress. The beautiful lady has always been in the news since her emergence in the movie industry in 2006. She was recently alleged to have been paid N5million for sex by the Managing Director of Sifax, Mr. Taiwo Afolabi. Tonto is also noted for being a lover of tattoo as she has more than 57 designs on her body. One other thing about this lady is that she is a heavy smoker, and she once had a brawl with Van Vicker on a movie set in 2011.
Iyabo Ojo
One of the best hands in the Yoruba genre of Nollywood, Iyabo Ojo is not new to negative stories. It was reported that a top Lagos politician and former Senator gave her the Range Rover SUV she is cruising around town. Her bitter fight with colleague, Lizzy Anjorin was almost becoming monumental until some industry heavyweights stepped in to broker peace between the two beautiful actresses. Apart from that, the controversial actress has been involved in several sex scandals and she was once reported to have been caught having sex with a man at the back seat of a car in London.
Funke Akindele
Until her recent wedding to Oshodi big boy, Alhaji Kehinde Almaroof Oloyede, Funke was really an actress with many sex scandals. She was alleged to have fought with one of her colleagues on a movie set in 2011 over a man. Some have also rumoured that she had escapades with some notable men before her marriage, which held with funfare on May 26, 2012. Her wedding to Almaroof also became controversial as she was reported to be going into Almaroof’s life as a third wife.
Genevieve Nnaji
Genny, as sexy Genevieve Nnaji is fondly called, has been romantically linked with several actors in Nollywood. Ramsey Nouah, RMD, Pat Attah and others are some of the men she was rumoured to have dated. Genevieve was once said to have dated a topmost politician in Nigeria, apart from other alleged sexcapades here and there. Though she has become the face of a popular vehicle manufacturer, her sex life in the industry can never be easily forgotten in a hurry.
Tayo Odueke (Sikiratu Sindodo)
Not many know Tayo Odueke by her real name, she is better known and addressed as Sikiratu Sindodo, a name she got from one of her movie flicks. One of her most popular scandals was her hot romance with a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oshodi, Lagos, Musiliu Akinsanya also known as MC Oluomo. Oluomo was even said to have sent her to Saudi Arabia for holy pilgrimage.
She was also rumoured to have dated actor and producer, Kunle Afod. Just few months ago, there gist went round town that she was having an affair with younger brother of Kunle Afolayan, Aremu which she has profusely denied. She is presently rumoured to be in a sizzling romance with top Fuji artiste, Malaika.
Stella Damasus
Nollywood beautiful actress, Stella Damasus is seen by many as the industry ‘good girl’ until she was alleged to have caused the separation of fellow actress, Doris Simeon with her hubby, Daniel Ademinokan. Stella was reported to have started a love affair with Daniel before his marriage with Simeon crashed. Her secret was exposed by a soft sell magazine, which reported that Doris was ready to fight Stella for snatching her hubby. There were also reports that both Daniel and Stella have been seen together in some compromising ways. Though Stella and Daniel have denied having any amorous relationship, but some are still in doubt that their closeness is a business affair.
Bukky Wright
Her failed marriages and romantic affairs with some big wigs in the industry have been a thing for many to feed on. Bukky Wright’s pretty looks has attracted many men to her. The mother of two is surely not free from some scandals associated with the play-acting profession in Nigeria. She has been severally alleged of hoping from one bed to another.
Faithia Balogun
This estranged wife of top Nollywood actor, Saidi Balogun, Faithia is surely also not free of some scandals in Nollywood. She was once rumoured to have fought her colleague in the Yoruba movie industry over a young Ibadan politician, Rotimi Ajanaku. She was rumoured to have alleged that the lady snatched Ajanaku from her. She was once reported to be in sizzling romance with the Director of Corporate Pictures, Alhaji Abdullahi Razak. It was also reported that this almost destroyed the marriage of the top marketer. One funny thing about Faithia is the fact that she is yet to drop the surname of her former husband, Balogun.
Stephanie Okereke
Stephanie Okereke was reported in 2011 to have fought with Genevieve Nnaji when she reportedly found out that Genevieve had allegedly cornered her link to a man in the presidency she reportedly introduced Geneveive to in the presidency. She was reported to have felt bad that Genny cornered her in getting access to the presidency through a former aide of President Goodluck Jonathan, Douglas Oronto. Stephanie was said to be the only link Genevieve had to Douglas until she found her way through another means. Stephanie has also been linked with some sex scandals in the past.
Mosun Filani
At the wee hours of her movie career, was enmeshed into hot romantic relationships with actors; Muyiwa Ademola and Odunlade Adekola. She was reported to have almost ruined the marriage of Muyiwa, but for the understanding of his wife. Her wedding to Kayode Adeoye, who is a son of former police AIG, was very controversial. She was alleged to have snatched Kayode from another woman, who had two children for him. Weeks later, her former lover, Alhaji Babatunde, believed to be the head of ‘Omo onile’ in Epe, a suburb of Lagos, ordered Mosun to return a car gift he gave her while they were together. This was after Alhaji got the news that she has married Kayode.
Culled from Movietainment Magazine

Photo – Nollywood Actor Chinedu Ikedieze(AKI) displays his daughter to the world

The fruit that proceeded from the marriage of the Nollywood star Chinedu Ikedieze and Nneoma Hope Nwajah on Nov 26, 2011, has just been displayed in a rather dazzling light that makes one want to envy them for making out such a wonderful creature. Check out the baby and her father below

Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina and ‘brother-turned-lover’

They had her mother’s initials tattooed on their wrists earlier this month.
And now Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina and her brother-turned-boyfriend Nick Gordon have once again been inked.
The couple showed off their new body art in a series of new Twitter pictures.
Cuddling up on the bed together, Bobbi Kristina, dressed in a revealing blue lace crop top and grey tracksuit bottoms, displayed a music note design on the side of her stomach.
Nick, meanwhile, has revealed a lion design on his right bicep.
The pair, who lived together as brother and sister for more than a decade before their mother’s death, are seen looking extremely intimate in the snaps.
With their arms wrapped around one another, they appeared to be posing on the bed.
The new images come as Nick’s grandmother has said that she approves of the pair’s controversial romance and insisted that Bobbi Kristina is doing well following her mother’s death.
‘Bobbi Kristina is on the right path,’ Maxine Gordon told website Celebuzz.
‘If it wasn’t for my grandson, I think it would have been a different outcome for her.’
‘They are doing fine together as a couple,’ she added.
‘It was very difficult for Nick after Whitney’s death because he was one of the people who saw her in the hotel bathroom.’
Bobbi and Nick lived together as brother and sister for more than a decade before their mother’s death.
Whitney took Nick into her home at the age of 12 when his father went to prison and his mother was unable to take care of him.
Nick was the singing superstar’s unofficially adopted son, and she treated him like family up until her death at the age of 48 due to an accidental drowning complicated by heart disease and cocaine use.
Houston, a prestigious six-time Grammy award winning singer, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room on February 11, 2012.
Nick first fueled rumours about his relationship status with Bobbi Kristina in a tweet written in March, exclaiming: ‘Yea we got a little closer and what!!!’
The controversial couple have reportedly been sharing her $1.2million Atlanta home together ever since.
By the age of 30 Bobbi will have inherited everything that belonged to her iconic mother – mansions, jewellery, cars, and an extraordinary fortune.
She recently did a guest stint on Tyler Perry’s sitcom For Better Or Worse.
And the mourning starlet is currently filming her blooming love for Gordon on her upcoming reality show, The Houston Family Chronicles, which is set to premiere on Lifetime next month.

VIDEO: How we killed our facebook friend, Cynthia – suspects

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The Police in Lagos on Wednesday paraded two suspects in the murder of Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, daughter of a retired General.

One of the suspects, Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka, 23, told the police that they killed Cynthia because they believed she had a lot of money. But after taking her life, they did not find any significant amount of cash.
Both Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor, said they met the victim on Facebook and invited her to come to Lagos to buy goods at cheap prices.

“When she got to Lagos, we took her to a hotel in Festac. We thought she had a lot of money, but she said she didn’t have any money. We put a drug in her Ribena drink. After this, we slept with her for 12 hours in that hotel. We discovered that the tablet did not work quickly on her.
“We then attacked her, tied her up and used cellotape to cover her mouth. After that, we beat her to tell us where she kept the money.”
“When we didn’t get any money from her, we tied her mouth and strangled her and then we abandoned her in the hotel and fled.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Abubakar Manko, briefing journalists on how police were able to arrest the suspects, said detectives made use of the close circuit television at the hotel where the crime was committed to identify them.

The Area Commander, Area ‘E’ Police Command, ACP Okoro added that the suspects who are undergraduates of Nigerian universities were nabbed through the call logs of the telephone conversations they had with the victim who was a post graduate student of Nasarawa State University.
The police said that when the suspected killers strangled Cynthia, they called the hotel reception to inform them that there was a corpse in one of the rooms in the hotel. The management of the hotel subsequently deposited her corpse at the mortuary of Isolo General Hospital in Lagos.
ACP Okoro stated that many ATM cards, about 23 SIM cards, different identity cards were recovered from the suspects.
Police sources said the two suspects will soon be arraigned in court to answer a charge of murder

Man Kills 8-Day Old Baby For Ritual

Akpotejere Osuna, a 39 year-old man, has been arrested by operatives of Delta State Police Command for allegedly killing the eight day-old daughter of his step-daughter for ritual.
Report made us relaise the slaughtered baby was the daughter of the step daughter to Akpotejere who was visiting her mother for post-natal care.
Osuna actually made a confession that he killed the baby for ritual.
In his confession he said he took the baby away from the side of her mother while she was sleeping, took her to a nearby bush, where he allegedly slaughtered her.
Follow up made by the police when his suspicious move was realized was what got him arrested.
Delta State Police Command spokesman, Charles Muka who spoke with news agency on phone, disclosed that the suspect who was arrested at Jese Town, allegedly killed the baby, opened her up and removed the heart, the tongue and other parts. Muka said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as courts in the state resume sitting.
“The suspect sneaked into the house of the mother of the baby, took the baby into the bush where he murdered the child, cut of the heart and the tongue, wrapped them in a polythene bag, pocketed them and melted into the bush.”
Mr. Muka disclosed that upon report, the suspect was traced into the bush where he was arrested, adding that “he confessed that he was taking the parts to Ghana where he was going to make use of it for money making ritual.”

UPDATE: Cynthia Osokogu Was Killed By Her Facebook Friends

24 Year Old Cynthia Osokogu left Abuja in late July 2012 (according to reports, on the 22nd of July 2012). The post-graduate student of Nasarawa State University was a clothing retailer and had traveled to Lagos to purchase new stock.

Cynthia had been chatting with some new “friends” on Facebook for a few months. In the course of their conversations, they developed a friendship and a level of trust. These young men were also university students, they promised to host Cynthia when she came to Lagos.
There is speculation that they paid for her plane ticket and promised to pay for her hotel as well.
The two young men picked Cynthia up from the airport in Lagos and drove her to a hotel in Festac.

At the hotel, they tied her up, robbed her of all the money she brought to shop for her business and strangled her to death. They then left the hotel and quickly deleted her from their Facebook friend list to remove any trace of their connection.


The hotel found her body and, since her ID cards and mobile phone had been stolen, they could not identify her or call friends and family. Her body was deposited in a morgue in Lagos. All this time, her family and friends were searching for the girl.

At some point, one of the culprits accidentally answered Cynthia’s phone and the call was traced to Festac. Therefore, her missing person’s police report was submitted to the Area E Command in Festac. This enabled her family to find her body in the morgue, and also led them to the hotel.

Using CCTV from the hotel, the killers were identified. According to reports, these two young men are university students who have now confessed that they killed Cynthia and she is their sixth victim – the gang reportedly specializes in luring unsuspecting young women, robbing them of their possessions before killing them.


Though there is speculation that their motive was ritualistic, it appears that it was greed and their main goal was to rob and kill. The pharmacist who supplied the drugs used on Cynthia and hotel staff have also been arrested. According to the police spokesperson Ngozi Braide, “Six people were arrested on Sunday over the incident and investigations are ongoing”. As you can see, Cynthia is one of Nigeria’s numerous social media generation girls (with BB and a facebook account), this unfortunately led to her demise