Nigerian woman Ajibola Obabiyi wins Muslim World Beauty Pageant

21 year old University of Lagos student Obabiyi Aisha Ajibola, beat 19 other beauty hopefuls to emerge Muslimah Queen 2013. Ajibola won the exclusive beauty pageant for Muslim women which took place today Wednesday September 18th in Jakarta, Indonesia. She received 25 million rupiah ($2,200) and trips to Mecca and India as prizes. The contestants were all required to wear headscarves, covered from head to foot. They were judged on their looks, how well they recited Koranic verses and their views on Islam in the modern world, in front of an audience of mainly religious scholars and devout Muslims This pageant was actually staged as a retort to the Miss World pageant holding in the same country. The organizers said they wanted to create an awareness within the muslim female community that there is a better form of beauty than the one being portrayed by the Miss World. They said the pageant is Islam's answer to the glamorous Miss World Pageant. Congrats to her!

Gunmen attack & kill over 10 in uncompleted building in Apo, Abuja

Unknown gunmen dressed in military fatigue stormed an uncompleted building behind Legislator’s Quarters in Apo, Abuja in the early hours of this morning Friday September 20th killing over 10 people. The people killed were squatting at the uncompleted building, mostly abokis who polish shoes and sell water. According to eyewitnesses, the owner of the uncompleted building had warned people who pass the night in the building to desist from it, but they refused. Then the massacre this morning happened. A survivor said they pay someone N200 every night to sleep in the uncompleted building and had been harassed and warned severally by military men to stop coming there...but they couldn't because they had nowhere else to go. A resident in the area said that at about 12:30am he heard gunshot severally throughout the night, causing panic in the area. The number of people who died may be more than 10.

P-Square Paul Okoye proposes to girl friend

Yep, Anita got two very expensive diamond rings from her man, P-Square's Paul Okoye. Lucky girl!

"James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007" - Nuhu Ribadu

Desperate to halt a probe into his finances, governor James Ibori tried to bribe
former anti-corruption boss Nuhu Ribadu in 2007 with $15 million in cash in a
bag so heavy one man alone could not lift it, Ribadu told a London court on
Thursday.
Ribadu said he pretended to take the bribe because he wanted the cash as
evidence to use against Ibori in a prosecution, but rather than keep the money
for himself he had it taken straight to the Central Bank of Nigeria to be kept
safe in a vault. Continue..
Ribadu told the court that about $1 billion flowed from federal government
accounts into Delta State coffers during Ibori’s eight years in power, and he
estimated Ibori had stolen or wasted more than half of that amount.
The charges to which Ibori pleaded guilty amount to the theft of about $80
million, but British prosecutors say that was only part of his total booty, which
was kept hidden via a complex web of shell companies, offshore accounts.

Anambra commissioner resigns over police fraud allegation

Barely 24 hours after he was declared wanted by the police, Anambra State
Commissioner for Special Duties, Barr. Vincent Ezenwajiaku, will today resign
his appointment.
Speaking in Awka, yesterday, Ezenwajiaku stated that he would submit his
resignation letter to Governor Peter Obi today, adding that this became
necessary following the announcement of the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU)
Lagos on Wednesday that he was wanted for allegedly obtaining money by false
pretence. CONTINUE

Benue State Governor serve as best man for cook

Benue State governor Gabriel Suswam served as best man for a cook named Peter Anyiman at his wedding which held over the weekend at Our Lady Perpetual Help Cathedral, in Makurdi, Benue State. 

Governor Suswan told guests at the wedding that he decided to serve as Anyiman's best man to honour him because of his commitment to his job. Anyiman has been as serving a cook for Catholic Priest, Rev. Father Michael Tumba in Abuja for over 18 years.

Anyiman expressed his delight at having his own state governor serving as his best man, saying he couldn't have wished for a better wedding gift.

142 corpses recovered after Boko Haram highway massacre

I'm sure you guys have been reading about all the killings perpetuated by Boko
Haram in the past few days in the Northern part of the country. They are going
to homes, highways and just killing people.
Just yesterday 142 bodies were discovered and evacuated from the highway
and surrounding bushes in Borno state by officials of the Borno State
Environmental Protection Agency (BOSEPA) after travelers were ambushed,
removed from their cars and killed on the Maiduguri/Damaturu highway on
Tuesday Sept 17th by Boko Haram members who dressed up as soldiers and
set up checkpoints.
The officials said they believe there are more bodies they are yet to find but
plan to keep searching.
The gunmen, said to be over 300 in number, also stormed Benisheikh town in
Borno state on Wednesday, killing civilians, soldiers, policemen and setting
houses, cars and motor cycles ablaze.
The military post in the area and the local government secretariat were also
attacked with rocket-propelled grenades.
The governor of the state promised people who lost loved ones or property
N250,000 each as compensation and promised to rebuild the destroyed town.
He described the attack as barbaric and un-Islamic.
The attack is believed to be in retaliation of a military strike on a Boko Haram
camp last week that left about 150 members dead. - Linda Ikeji.