Friday, 24 June 2016
Photo: Father shot in the face while protecting his children from hijackers' bullet
A 37-year-old South African father Jameel Kader showed his ultimate love for his children by taking the full force of a hijacker’s bullet to protect them.
Kader Kader on Monday, June 20, underwent eight hours of reconstructive surgery to his lower jaw. The next few days were critical as Kader was on life support, said his cousin, Musher Khan.
Kader, a diesel mechanic and his wife, Mehfooza and their children Bibi Hafsa, Yusra, Sabah and Juwairiya, aged 3 to 11, were held up on Booth Avenue, Overport, on Sunday afternoon, June 19. They had arrived home at about 4.30pm after spending Father’s Day at the Pavilion shopping centre.
Because they were doing up their driveway, Jameel parked on the pavement outside their house. They exited the car, a Mercedes C Class, and were removing the groceries when two men approached, drew their firearms and demanded the keys to the car.
"Jameel was concerned for his family’s safety as these men were brandishing guns near them. They began to get aggressive and there was a scuffle. My cousin ended up throwing the car keys over the wall, on to his property," said Khan, who added that one of the men then walked towards the family in a threatening manner.
"Fearing the worst, Jameel followed him and ended up pushing him. They both fell.
The accomplice then came from behind and placed Jameel in a headlock. He put a gun to his head. During the tussle, I think the gun moved from his head to his jaw. That’s when he was shot."
He said Kader’s family, who were screaming and crying for help, witnessed the shooting.
"Mehfooza saw (the assailants) run down the road and jump into a car."
Khan said witnesses later told them the hijackers got into a blue Hyundai Getz with NUZ number plates. He said the bullet had entered Kader’s cheek and exited his jaw.
"Jameel was still conscious after the shooting and remained concerned about his family. Being Father’s Day, he had shown his ultimate love for his wife and children by protecting them against hardened criminals and taking a bullet."
He said doctors had told the family that Kader, who was fasting during the holy month of Ramadaan, was lucky to be alive.
"His wife and kids are still traumatised. We are all praying that he makes a speedy recovery."
Khan’s friend Rivaaj Ramdas -both are members of the Tactical Shooting Team - said he had combed the area for the suspects’ car but the hijackers were long gone.
Ramdas said he did not believe the hijackers were professionals.
"Professional hijackers usually come in late model fast cars like Polos, Audis and Mercs. These guys came in a blue Hyundai Getz."
He said he hoped to secure CCTV footage of the incident so the suspects could be traced. Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane said a case of attempted murder and carjacking had been opened at Sydenham SAPS.
"I am scared for the future because we haven't had food for 5 days" - Nigerian refugee in Chad
On World Refugee Day which was on Monday, June 20, MSF International (Doctors Without Borders) shared this photo of a Nigerian refugee Hadza and her young children, in Chad.
Burna Boy says Uju Stella was never pregnant for him, blasts bloggers
You won’t believe why this bride’s wedding photos have gone viral
Last week Nakyia, 27, shared photos from her big day on Instagram but never expected the positive reaction she received from other users from around the world who quickly fell in love with their natural hair..
Nakyia said on Instagram: “I have had people share with me how they are or were afraid to wear their natural hair out and I’ve given them some sort of boost to want to wear their God given tresses.
“I would just like to say that I honestly was just getting married with who and what I love and appreciate in mind for MY photo album. MY memories. MY big day.”
“In no way was I ever thinking I would be seen by or touch so many, but in light of believing that God makes no mistakes, I want to let everyone know how blessed I feel to be a blessing to so many.
“Whether it be by wedding inspiration, self esteem boosts, or if I’ve handed off a little courage to wear your natural tresses and own it, or even if you just felt like I made the #blackgirlmagic stick sparkle a little brighter, I am genuinely and humbly honoured.”
Uju Stella responds to Burna Boy, shares pic of her first 'pregnancy test result'
'Chai Caro u have suffered on top man matter' - Caroline Danjuma responds to her estranged husband's side chic
'Hollup Hollup. See drama. Chai Caro u have suffered .. On top man matter... This drama is juicy tho " grabs popcorn". Waaaauuuuu 😂😂😂😂😂😂...'
Do You Know An Olajumoke In Your Area?
When Adejoke Adegun, the CEO of Xqwizit, was a banker, little did she know that the onus of making the feminine gender a more respectable one would be her focal project. She was just like the normal everyday 8-5 worker, until she started seeing her colleagues being flushed mercilessly out of the banking system.
With Discovery for Recovery you can nominate anybody you know have the hidden beauty and talent, sometime that would become all she wants to be with right grooming and mentorship.
The “Discovery for Recovery” focuses on ladies between the ages of 18 and 26, at least 5”7 tall, size 6 - 10 and have model-like features. The company aims to enlarge the scope to include a wider range of people in subsequent editions and when the funding gets healthier.
Look within your localities for ladies who might fit the requirement but do not have the means or the platform to shine through. These ladies are required to send in pictures taken of them in their current situation or work place along with their background stories to @xqwizitevents on Instagram or to www.xqwizitevents.com.ng
At the end of the day, the selected ladies will be given seed investment of N200 000 each to begin to build good foundation for themselves.
The beautiful part of this project is that the ladies do not need to pay any registeration fee or buy any form.
Photos of the three Australians kidnapped by gunmen in Calabar
Peter Zoutenbier, Jack Couranz and Mark Gabbedy are the three Australians kidnapped in Calabar, their families have confirmed. The fourth Mr Coot managed to escape.
Mark Gabbedy, who is understood to originally be from Tasmania but had worked in Western Australia. He had been working in Nigeria for the past 15 months as a project manager. Engineer Mr Couranz from Perth studied at Curtin University and had been with Macmahon since 2012.
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop on Friday morning said the priority for the government was to protect the lives of the hostages and that limited details about the situation would be released.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Australian high commissioner was on the scene and officials were working with local authorities "at the highest levels".
The workers, employed by Perth-based engineering company Macmahon, were attacked and kidnapped on Wednesday along with four others; a Newzealander, a Nigerian, and two South African nationals, by armed gunmen who set upon their four-car convoy.
"A very intense search is on, with more patrol and surveillance teams dispatched to the rescue," Cross River Police Commissioner Jimoh Ozi-Obeh.
The family of Peter Zoutenbier said they were shocked by what had happened.
Mr Zoutenbier’s sister-in-law Tracy Zoutenbier said it was a “real concern” the group of kidnappers had already killed someone.
"Usually that doesn’t happen, so that’s sticking in our heads at the moment," Mrs Zoutenbier told News Corp Australia. "That’s a real worry. They’ve already been very violent. We just want to do everything we can to get these guys home safe to all their families."
Speaking from her Zilzie home, near Rockhampton on the state’s central coast, Mrs Zoutenbier said the family were expecting to talk with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
"There’s still a lot of shock, and we don’t know a lot at the moment," Mrs Zoutenbier said. She explained it was still “very raw” for the family, including Mr Zoutenbier’s wife and grown children whom remained in Queensland.
"It’s like you’re in a movie at the moment," Mrs Zoutenbier said. "It’s a bit hard to take in. It’s a shock. I think it’ll take a few days before it all sinks in. We’re just all rallying together"
Ekiti Civil Servants suspend strike
Civil servants in Ekiti State have suspended their four-week-old strike, following the signing of an agreement by the state government with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), today June 24.
Both sides agreed that no staff and representative of any union should be punished or victimized by a result if the strike. The JNC Chairman, Comrade Oladipo Johnson also said the suspension of the strike would allow for further consultations and expressed thanks to workers for their support during the strike.
Lionel Messi and Argentina teammates head to New York for 2016 Copa America final vs Chile (photos)
Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero posted pictures of themselves and the squad relaxing on the plane as the squad looked to be in high spirits ahead of the final. More photos after the cut...
The game has changed… By Reuben Abati (must read)
“My brother, I think all the people saying they have not seen any change should by now be convinced that truly, truly, the game has changed.” “Football? Euro 2016? Brexit?” “What is wrong with you?” “Or may be you are talking about the death of Stephen Keshi and Shuaibu Amodu and the fact that Nigeria’s House of Football needs to be re-organized”
“I really don’t know what the matter is with you today. I always try to engage you in a conversation because I consider you smart, but your responses don’t make sense to me.”
“Game change. Well. I studied a bit of game theory in school not as a student of political science but as a generally curious student.”
“Who is talking about game theory?”
“Game theory is about political marketing, the relation between structure and agents, how power is deployed, structuration, the framework of power, the politics of structural and collective agency.”
“When you are tired of boring yourself, you will keep quiet. I am just saying the game has changed in Nigeria. I guess that is simple enough so stop quoting text books.”
“Ha, I get you now. I recall that the former Chairman of the PDP, during the election was snick-named the game-changer. Everywhere he went everyone said game-changer!”
“If you are dumb, or pretending to be dumb, good for you. I am talking about today’s Nigeria, you are talking about the past. Can’t you see, don’t you hear, don’t you feel it, that indeed, contrary to what we used to think, something indeed has changed…”
“Tell me.”
“Me? You mean I, me, myself?”
“What is that?”
“If you mean I, me, myself, I have nothing to say. And please note that because the times have changed, I have developed all kinds of problems with my senses.”
“Then you should go to London for treatment.”
“God punish you for saying that. Do you want to put my family in trouble? I forbid you to talk carelessly anywhere I am. If you are looking for trouble, go and look for it on your own. My mid-year resolution is that I will not hear any evil, speak any evil and see no evil.”
“Is that your game that has changed?”
“Na you sabi?”
“I think your problem is that you are afraid. You are just like all these other people who have forgotten that there is a Freedom of information Law in this country”
“Hen hen. Who in this country has any law helped to put food on the table for his family? This man, be careful.”
“Feel free. Let’s analyze recent developments in the country.”
“As in…”
“The floating of the Naira”
“The Naira is floating eh. Good. So how many Nigerians have gone to the lagoon to pick up Naira free of charge, since the Naira started floating?”
“There is just one market now. “
“Hun hun.”
“Say something man. You are usually very intelligent and vocal.”
“I hear”
“Fayose, the Ekiti Governor and Ben Murray Bruce commented on this matter.”
“I am warning you, the way you are putting your hands in my mouth, I will call my wife to warn you to stay away from me henceforth.”
“What has your wife got to do with this?”
“Because you want to put our God-loving family in trouble.”
“Because you don’t want to talk critically about public issues?”
“You can say what you like?”
“Look at the Fayose issue. Even Zenith Bank like you is scared. They have disowned Fayose. Everybody today is sucking up and bootlicking. I hope someone will tell Zenith Bank and other banks that they all failed in their fiduciary responsibilities. The rule of banking says KYC: Know Your Customer. You can’t use ojukokoro to collect money and then turn around to say you don’t know. I also think a bank has a responsibility to report unusual transactions, the moment it happens not ex post facto.”
“Well done”.
“And as for Ben Murray Bruce, the commonsense Senator. You can’t borrow money and start behaving as if you have more sense than your creditor.”
“This man. What is wrong with you? You are also a businessman and you once told me you are terribly exposed financially. Talk with some sense. If AMCON takes over every company, they will add to the unemployment crisis in the country and punish innocent people. AMCON is taking over too many companies. Fact. ”
“I am talking sense”
“And I am saying these times we are in requires more than commonsense. It requires uncommon sense, tact and intellect, and a proper understanding of nonsense because what you call commonsense will just get you into trouble.”
“Ok, tell me”
“No comment. In this matter, I have neither sense, commonsense or uncommon sense.”
“I see. I see. The game has changed truly. Everybody with sense, even small sense is beginning to shut up and shut down. Tragic”
“Who has sense helped? The game has changed…I will not join you to say I have sense.”
“I am beginning to suspect you.”
“I will call your wife and ask her to advise you to avoid satanic conversations anytime you are with me.”
“You?”
“Yes. Me.”
“We cannot keep silent. This country belongs to all of us.”
“Good for you.
“We must talk, talk, and talk, on twitter, on instagram, on television, on the pages of newspapers.”
“Yes. Yes. Yes. And your wahala when it comes will also be televised, twitterised, instagramised, and newspaperized. You better borrow yourself uncommon sense.”
“Like Zenith Bank hen?”
“I think you should start going home now.”
“I also hear some militants are claiming that they are being instigated to continue pipeline vandalism and organize against the state.”
“Nobody is organizing anything in my house. Come, how has my wife wronged you, that you want to bring calamity to our household?”
“It s our job to criticize public affairs.”
“It is our job to support government, so that when government succeeds, we too can succeed.”
“From your mouth?”
“Honestly, from my mouth.”
“Now, I am beginning to understand.”
“Understand whatever you want. Change is here. Have you not heard that in Cameroon, the parliament is debating a bill that makes adultery a crime. The deal is to have you spend between two and six months in the senior college if you go do napoi anyhow, so it is better to be careful and to control.
“I know some napoi people in Nigeria.”
“Like you, yourself?”
“We know who the adulterers are. Like the National Assembly people who are now in court for forgery. You commit political adultery, you run a risk.”
“This man, can you shut up? Stop talking like this at a pepper soup joint. Do you know who and who is eavesdropping on us?”
“With this loud music and with the way everybody is busy with pepper soup and isi ewu?”
“Just shut the hell up.”
“Iyalaya anybody who wants to rob me of commonsense.”
“You too have changed.”
“Iyalaya change”
“Just shut the fuck up”
“So life is like this?”
“Life is like what”
“If anybody told me”
“That the iyalaya of social critics will face moving trailer.”
“That you will sound like this”
“At an open joint, with drunken souls eating pepper soup and half crazy? I have told you, whenever you want to hear sense from my mouth, choose a different location.“
“Truth is not selective. It should thunder forth from everywhere no matter whose ox is gored”
“Gore your own ox, leave us out of it. As for me and my house, we shall support change.”
“This is a loser’s creed. The sacrament of the defeated.”
“You will still go and blow this your grammar in a cell, very soon. And you’d be surprised if I am asked to testify against you, I will gladly wear a mask and do so.”
“Me?”
“Yes, you. You can’t make me guilty by association”
“What kind of life is this oh?”
“What kind of stupid man is this oh?”
“Like seriously?”
“Like I know suicide is bad, even God forbids it.”
“As in…”
“Can we change this subject? Ha ha, wetin? Stop putting your isi ewu hands in my mouth.”
“What a country? What manner of a citizen? With people like you, democracy is on trial.”
“Forget matter. Even in America democracy is on trial. Even in Britain, right now democracy is on trial.”
“Power is dangerous. Powerlessness is worse.”
“When you use power to serve your purpose, everybody will know where they belong. As you see me so, I won’t discuss power at a pepper soup joint.”
“What of on twitter?”
“Twitter? So I can get into trouble?”
“But you have a twitter account?”
“I have deleted it to avoid temptations.”
“You have indeed changed”
“I have oh”
“You have lost your power of expression”
“It is better oh”
“You have become gentle”
“Look for a stronger word, please”
“You have lost your caustic tongue”
“My tongue still dey kampe, but I am intelligent enough to use it now only on ponmo and cow leg.”
“Change”
“Go and ask the people who refused to change.”
“Human beings are chameleons”
“Can you get off my back? Oya, take the pepper soup and finish it. You can’t because you are paying for cheap pepper soup force me into trouble. Take your pepper soup. I am out of here.”
“Na fight? Finish your pepper soup.”
“I don’t want. You finish the rest or look for another mumu like you to finish it. This is amazing”
“Amazing as in the spread of mumuism. Go to Zenith Bank.”
“I can only wish you good luck”
“Same to you. Chop your pepper soup finish.”
“No”
“Next time, I’ll talk to that your Ph.D friend and report you to him. He should be more sensible”
“Hmm. Carry your wahala go. Who sense don epp?”
“Happy International Widows Day”
“Say that to your wife. She needs it. Yeye man”
Ben Murray-Bruce's business reopens
The Management of Silverbird Communications Ltd, owners of Rhythm Fm and Silverbird TV sincerely apologise to its numerous viewers, Listeners and on line subscribers over the disruption of our operations across Television, Radio and online Media.
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New Video: Jimmy J - Boju Boju
JimmyJNNCL Records presents the official music video of Boju Boju Dance. This video was shot by Chastity Corset Film and co-directed by Jimmy J. Beat was produced by DJ Dabeat which was a perfect blend of Nigerian and American teaming up together for a better output. The "boju boju dance" music video was shot in Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. so enjoy and share.
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'Those celebrating my downfall celebrated too soon!' - Ben Murray-Bruce
In a Twitter Question and Answer session with The Guardian Newspapers, Ben Murray-Bruce addressed the temporary sealing of some of his companies by the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), who secured an order to do so from a Federal High Court in Lagos, over his N11 Billion loan default. More tweets after the cut....
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