kedeojo:
Only the igbos are praising the book. You can read all lies by the maradonna. He knows Abacha is not alive to defend himself about the annulment of the best election conducted so far. How can Abacha is subordinate will decide for him the head of state. A coup that was carried by the major actor left his tribe and killed other military personnel from other zone, the old cargo now say it wasn't an igbo coup. Other Nigerians know truth. That coup remains Igbo coup.

MasterJayJay:
Why wasn't Reno Omokri appointed?

He begged Nuhu Ribadu to help him meet Tinubu so he can appoint him.

Reno Omokri has been licking his ass to get favour after calling him a druglord.

floss:
Truly this man is the biggest asslicker I’ve seen…

Hmmm

FULL LIST: US excludes UK, others from visa-free entry for 2025


The United States, on Monday, released the list of eligible countries for its 2025 Visa Waiver Programme.

The United Kingdom was excluded from the programme but remains eligible under specific conditions.

The list also does not include any African countries, such as Nigeria, Ghana, or South Africa.

While most of the VWP list remains unchanged, the addition of Romania marks a significant update. The US has also focused on enhancing security checks and prioritising countries with strong diplomatic ties and border security standards.

According to the US Bureau of Consular Affairs website, the Visa Waiver Programme allows most citizens or nationals of participating countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa.

The agency stated, “Travellers must have a valid Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) approval prior to travel and meet all requirements explained below. If you prefer to have a visa in your passport, you may still apply for a visitor visa.”

The new Visa Waiver Programme for 2025 introduces policy updates on permit eligibility and revisions to the list of participating countries, as well as new travel policies.

This update simplifies visa-free entry into the United States for millions worldwide, making business, tourism, and transit travel more accessible.

The 2025 Visa Waiver Programme includes 40 countries whose citizens can now travel to the United States without a visa.

See the full list below:

1. Andorra,

2. Australia,

3. Austria,

4. Belgium,


5. Chile,

6. Czech Republic,

7. Croatia,

8. Denmark,

9. Estonia,

10. Finland,

11. France,

12. Germany,

13. Greece,

14. Hungary,

15. Iceland,

16. Ireland,

17. Italy,

18. Israel

19. Norway,

20. Poland,

21. Portugal,

22. San Marino,

23. Singapore,

24. Slovakia,

25. Japan,

26. Slovenia,

27. Latvia,

28. South Korea,

29. Liechtenstein,

30. Spain,

31. Lithuania,

32. Sweden,


33. Luxembourg,

34. Switzerland,

35. Malta,

36. Netherlands,

37. New Zealand,

38. Qatar,

39. Romania

40. Monaco

UK-Based Nigerian Woman Accuses Ogun Monarch Of Marriage Scam Involving N65Million, N120Million In Gold, Other Valuables

She told SaharaReporters that the monarch later went ahead to help her obtain a forged divorce certificate to leave her former husband so that the monarch could marry her.

A UK-based Nigerian woman has accused a traditional ruler, Oba Adekeye Adeyemi Olanrewaju, the Abepa of Joga Orile, Yewa North, Ogun State, of using marriage as a ploy to defraud her.

The woman, identified as Christy Oluwabunmi, claims that the monarch exploited her trust, leading to financial and material losses amounting to hundreds of millions of naira.

She told SaharaReporters that the monarch later went ahead to help her obtain a forged divorce certificate to leave her former husband so that the monarch could marry her.

“Kabiyesi went to forge a divorce certificate for me to leave my husband and also took me to the court registry to formalise my marriage with him.

“It was later I realised this is his usual way of deceiving women. In fact, it was later I knew no fewer than five women were once his victims. He always preyed on wealthy ones like me,” the woman told SaharaReporters in a telephone conversation.

In petitions submitted to the Osun State Governor; Ondo State Governor; Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Inspector General of Police, and Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), otherwise known as Department of State Services (DSS), and the Chairman of Ogun Council of Obas, Ms. Oyewole narrated how Adekeye Adeyemi approached her on June 30, 2022, with romantic advances, promising marriage and financial stability.

“He pretended to be in love with me, vowing to marry me and support my business. Eventually, I was manipulated into transferring over N53 million via electronic transactions, N12 million in cash, mobile phones worth N10.8 million, and gold valued at N120 million,” she wrote in the petition, attaching receipts as evidence.

The victim further alleged that after extorting her, the traditional ruler attempted to lure her into a dubious ritual in Ekiti State, where she was told she would need to sacrifice an eye or a leg to attain financial prosperity.

Realising she was being deceived, she resisted, only to find herself financially ruined and abandoned.

In a shocking revelation, she claimed the monarch had forged a divorce judgment and had used the same fraudulent scheme on at least three other women.

When she demanded a refund of her money and valuables, he allegedly threatened her life, boasting about his influence and ties to cultists and thugs.

“He has converted my hard-earned money, gold, phones, and valuables to his personal use unlawfully. All efforts to retrieve them have proved abortive. Instead, he threatens to kill me, claiming nothing will happen because he is a king,” she alleged.

In her petitions, she wrote, “That one Adekeye Adeyemi Olanrewaju approached me on 30th day of June, 2022 with a confidence trick, pretended to be romantically interested in me when he claimed and vowed that he would marry me being a single mother struggling alone to cater for myself and children without husband.

“It was thereafter revealed to me that the suspect has been using same style to defraud single women who are blessed with wealth. The suspect had used the similar criminal style to defraud three different ladies who were later threatened to be killed if the matters were reported to the law enforcement agencies.”

She said she was hypnotised to an extent of being defrauded of more than N53 million via electronic transfer, cash of N12 million, mobile phones worth N10.8 million, gold worth N120 million “under the false pretences to help me boost, develop my business and rebrand my financial status and repertoire”.

As of the time of filing this report, Oba Adekeye Adeyemi has not responded to the allegations.

He did not answer multiple phone calls and has yet to react to a follow-up message.

Canada denies asylum, moves to deport retired officer Wale Akinpelu, wife for serving in corrupt Nigeria Police Force

Mr Akinpelu’s asylum application was denied “on grounds of violating human or international rights due to his past employment as a police officer in Nigeria.”

Canadian immigration authorities have denied the asylum application of retired Nigerian police officer Wale Akinpelu and his wife, Ajarat Mojirola, citing his previous employment under the Nigerian police —with a reputation for corruption and human rights violations— as a stumbling block to his request.

Justice Norris of a federal court in Ottawa, Ontario, on January 2, rejected the refugee status request of the Nigerian couple who fled Nigeria in 2017 and claimed that a criminal gang was after their lives.

Mrs Akinpelu was the first person to travel to the U.S. in May 2017 and was later joined by her husband in October 2017 “shortly after quitting his job as an officer with the Nigerian Police Service,” court filings seen by Peoples Gazette stated.

The couple left the U.S. for Canada in 2018 and immediately sought refugee protection, asserting that they were in danger of being harassed and attacked by a criminal gang.

Court filings showed that the couple admitted that Mr Akinpelu’s former corrupt colleagues at the Nigerian Police had “scores to settle” with him, a statement that led the Canadian immigration authorities to immediately suspend his asylum request.

Mr Akinpelu’s asylum application was subsequently denied “on grounds of violating human or international rights due to his past employment as a police officer in Nigeria.” A judicial review of the matter upheld the denial.

The foreign government separated the couple’s applications into two to allow the processing of Mrs Akinpelu’s documents while her husband’s request was suspended.

The Refugee Protection Division (RPD) later in March 2019 rejected Mrs Akinpelu’s asylum application, having found loopholes in her claims of needing protection. She appealed the rejection.

The Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) granted her appeal and ordered a fresh hearing of her case.

The RPD again denied her asylum in February 2023, upholding a previous decision that she was “neither a Convention refugee nor a person in need of protection because she had not credibly established the core elements of her claim.”

Mrs Akinpelu marched to court to seek redress, claiming her asylum denial reeked of procedural unfairness and unreasonableness.

But Justice Norris said the RPD found that her application was predicated on the documentary evidence provided by her husband, which was riddled with inconsistencies.

The judge reiterated findings from the RPD stating that Mrs Akinpelu fabricated fraudulent documents to support her asylum request.

“The RPD found that the applicant’s husband’s narrative (which, for the most part, the applicant had simply adopted as her own) was not credible,” stated court filings.

The RPD adjudged Mrs Akinpelu as not being a credible witness “due to the abundancy of inconsistencies and contradictions in her evidence, evolving testimony, and relying upon multiple fraudulent documents created specifically to bolster her allegations.”

Mrs Akinpelu’s claims that her father-in-law, husband’s first wife and daughter were killed in an attack were not properly substantiated.

When questioned to clarify inconsistencies, the police officer’s wife gave a “vague, rambling testimony” and said she was not aware of any discrepancies because her husband was the one who obtained the evidence.

The RPD said Mrs Akinpelu did not show any willingness to ask her husband to clarify the contradictions in the documentary and that “it would serve little purpose to belabour these issues in questioning” her.

When the Canadian immigration authorities raised some concerns, they soon realised it was an “exercise in futility.”

Consequently, the judge dismissed Mrs Akinpelu’s request for judicial review and will soon commence standard deportation protocol on her case.

JagabanBorgu:
Don't forget the people of Rivers Abonnema also celebrated being liberated from Biafra, they celebrate 21st June, this year they will still celebrate it, but somehow, the probIem is the Yoruba according to lgb0 propagandists.

I'm not a Yoruba, I don't have any tie or relationship with Yoruba, but lgb0 propaganda must be check mated, same propaganda ran against the north all the years Buhari was in power, it has been shifted to Yorubas now because the president is a Yoruba.

flokii:
Awolowo was too learned and sophisticated for such.. it's only Igbos that will go and kill people unjustly (errand noone sent them) and then turn around to claim they did the evil acts to install Awolowo.. install Awolowo as what?

Do you have any legal power to install someone as PM or Preisident without election or due process?.. you lots should keep deceiving yourselves.

After Ibrahim Babangida’s ‘A Journey In Service’, here are the top 10 revisionist books to expect in the next 20 years, their predicted year of publication, and their authors:

2026: Restoring Nigeria After One Million Years Of PDP Misrule — By Muhammadu Buhari

2028: Contentment: Rejecting The Offer Of A Third Term — By Olusegun Obasanjo

2030: My Sacrifice: Defeating Insecurity In Kaduna — By Nasir el-Rufai

2032: Resilience! How I Broke Down The Walls Of Boko Haram — By Goodluck Jonathan

2034: ENDSARS: Saving Lagos From The Children Of Anger — By Babajide Sanwo-Olu

2036: A Peaceful Man’s Way of Breaking The Yoke Of Political Godfatherism — By Nyesom Wike

2038: Eight Years Of Fighting Corruption To A Standstill — By Bola Tinubu

2040: How I Won Opposition #EndSARS Protesters Seeking To Remove Me From Office — Muhammadu Buhari

2042: A Democrat’s Approach To Defending Democracy And Press Freedom — By Bola Tinubu (Again)

2044: A Presidential Guide To Winning Elections By The Ballot — By Bola Tinubu (AGAIN!)

EXTRAS
2046: All Of Nigeria’s Politician-Authors Are Deranged — By David Hundeyin

2048: UNDERCOVER: Inside Nigeria’s Multibillion-Naira Revisionist Ghostwriting Industry — By ‘Fisayo Soyombo

Judolisco:
Exactly.... Someone that hurriedly murdered his best friend

madone:
That is rather insulting that no ibo soldier had the chance to want to grab power. Was it the greed they lacked or the courage.

Nislee:
Flush out those bastard terrorists from the bushes!

yarimo:
Gathering of VIPs the agulu fraudster was not invited 😂😂😂😂😂

Astronomers spot flares of light near the black hole at the center of our galaxy

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire display includes seconds-long short flashes and longer, blindingly bright flares of light on a daily basis.

The Webb observations mark the longest, most detailed look researchers have been able to make around the Milky Way’s central black hole, called Sagittarius A*, building on past evidence of its highly energetic activity.

While black holes are invisible, the flares unleashed by the swirling disk of hot gas and dust, or accretion disk, that orbits Sagittarius A* resemble a pyrotechnic extravaganza. A study describing the findings was published Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Astronomers believe the flares are coming from the inner edge of the accretion disk just beyond the black hole’s event horizon, or the area around a black hole where the pull of gravity is so strong that not even light can escape, according to NASA.

“In our data, we saw constantly changing, bubbling brightness,” said lead study author Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, in a statement. “And then boom! A big burst of brightness suddenly popped up. Then, it calmed down again. We couldn’t find a pattern in this activity. It appears to be random. The activity profile of this black hole was new and exciting every time that we looked at it.”

The observations could shed light on how black holes behave and the ways they feed on their surroundings.

The strong, gravitational influence of black holes pulls in gas and dust from any celestial object that wanders too close. The gas and dust swirl together at high speeds, forming the accretion disk that feeds the black hole. The rapid movement of the material causes it to heat up, releasing energy in the form of radiation as well as jets of material that don’t make it into the black hole.

The radiation and jets can change the way gas is distributed throughout galaxies and feed the formation of stars, which is why supermassive black holes are regarded as giant engines at the centers of galaxies.

Yusef-Zadeh and his colleagues observed Sagittarius A*, also called Sgr A*, for 48 hours over the course of one year in eight to 10-hour increments, using Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera to track the black hole’s activity. The team spied five to six big flares a day as well as smaller flashes of light in between.

“Flares are expected to happen in essentially all supermassive black holes, but our black hole is unique,” Yusef-Zadeh said. “It is always bubbling with activity and never seems to reach a steady state. We observed the black hole multiple times throughout 2023 and 2024, and we noticed changes in every observation. We saw something different each time, which is really remarkable.”

This composite image of nebula NGC 1333 captures minute detail of young stars and brown dwarfs. These details were previously obscured in Hubble Telescope's images of the same nebula.

The variability of the black hole’s activity is likely due to the random nature of the material flowing into the accretion disk, Yusef-Zadeh said.

The team believes the short bursts of light are created by minor, turbulent fluctuations within the accretion disk that could squeeze hot, energetic gas called plasma and cause a flash of radiation.

“It’s similar to how the Sun’s magnetic field gathers together, compresses, and then erupts a solar flare,” Yusef-Zadeh said in a statement. “Of course, the processes are more dramatic because the environment around a black hole is much more energetic and much more extreme.”

Meanwhile, the longer, bigger flares may occur due to magnetic reconnection events, or when two different magnetic fields collide near the black hole and release energetic particles moving near the speed of light.

“A magnetic reconnection event is like a spark of static electricity, which, in a sense, also is an ‘electric reconnection,’” Yusef-Zadeh said.

A ‘rainbow’ of activity
Webb’s capabilities enabled the team to observe the black hole’s flaring across two different wavelengths of light simultaneously.

“(It was like) seeing the world in color versus in black and white, and (we) found rainbows,” Yusef-Zadeh said. “This tells you about the nature of flaring activity and the physical characteristics of the radiation mechanism, the magnetic field and the density of flares more directly.”

The observations provide a deeper look at how the black hole’s activity varies in brightness over time, said Tuan Do, associate professor in the physics and astronomy department and deputy director of the Galactic Center Group at UCLA.

Do was not involved in this study but has led research on Sagittarius A* in the past, including when the black hole showcased unusual activity in 2019.

“Sgr A* got about half as bright in the new data as was seen in 2019, so I think that 2019 is still unusually active for the black hole,” Do said. “The black hole and its environment (are) always changing though so we are never sure what we’ll find! This is what makes observations of the galactic center so exciting, even though we’ve stared at this spot in the sky for decades now."

When the authors of the latest study observed the two different wavelengths of light from the black hole simultaneously, they realized the shorter wavelength changed in brightness just before the longer wavelength. The observation suggested that as the particles spiral around magnetic field lines, they lose energy more quickly.

The changes in brightness have been noted in previous research and recent complementary data from the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the Webb telescope and other observatories.

“I think the next big step would be to try to connect these different data sources together to form a fuller picture of the physics of the environment around the supermassive black hole,” Do said.

The new study also confirms the black hole has “non-stop variability,” as previously observed, said Mark Morris, distinguished research professor in the department of physics and astronomy at UCLA. Morris was not involved in the new study.

“X-ray astronomers see reasonably strong evidence that in the last few hundred years, there has been at least one, maybe two instances of enormous flares taking place,” Morris said via email, “with intensities (10,000 to 100,000) times larger than anything we’ve seen in the last quarter century that we have been closely examining Sgr A*.”

What might have caused these flares? Astronomers still don’t know, but it’s possible the black hole gobbled up a planet a few hundred years ago, Morris said.

This artist’s illustration shows the largest radio jet ever found in the early Universe. The jet was first identified using the international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio telescopes throughout Europe. Follow-up observations in the near-infrared with the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS), and in the optical with the Hobby Eberly Telescope, were obtained to paint a complete picture of the radio jet and the quasar producing it. GNIRS is mounted on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have valuable new insights into when the first jets formed in the Universe and how they impacted the evolution of galaxies.
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When the sun releases solar storms, scientists worry because such activity can potentially affect GPS, communications and the power grid on Earth. But at 25,000 light-years away, the highly energetic and variable activity of the Milky Way’s central black hole isn’t a concern, Morris said.

However, the Webb telescope observations allow researchers to understand what kind of “storms” are created when matter is compressed and heated as it is drawn toward the black hole.

“Beyond pure interest in the most dazzling fireworks that the universe can produce, those fireworks can have a profound effect on the evolution of the galaxies that they are in,” Morris said. “They can provoke or impede star formation on large scales, they can remove gas and clear out galaxies, leaving them unable to form stars.”

A longer look
The study authors don’t believe the black hole was experiencing an unusual spike in activity, but they want to observe Sagittarius A* for an uninterrupted 24 hours to be sure.

“We also can see if these flares show periodicity (or repeat themselves) or if they are truly random,” Yusef-Zadeh said.

Astronomers still don’t know how fast Sagittarius A* is spinning as it gobbles up matter, but longer observations could provide the data necessary to find the answer.

Ultimately, more data from Webb observations of Sagittarius A* could help astronomers simulate how accretion disks behave around black holes, as well as comparing the behaviors of less energetically active, black holes with more active ones.

Magnetic010:
Is this not the same lady that had something something with a popular General Overseer of a big church sometimes ago?

Posers For Anambra Police Command Following The Escape Of Two Kidnap And Murder Suspects From Its Custody

Since my Facebook and Live interview with Superintendent Tochi Ikenga, the Anambra Police Command PPRO on Tuesday, 18th February 2024, to discuss the escape of two suspects from police custody who are linked to the kidnapping and murder of Anambra lawmaker, Late Hon. Justice Azuka, further shocking information has come to light. (Watch the interview here

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B3So37YjT/?mibextid=wwXIfr)

(1) The suspects already escaped before the current Police Commissioner, CP Ikioye Orutugu, fwc MNIPS Ph.D took over. Why wasn't the incident made public? This is scandalous.

(2) The current Police Commissioner was not aware of the incident until yesterday, Monday, 18/2/2025. This informed his directive to launch a manhunt for the escaped suspects and disciplinary action against the officers involved.

(3) We have information that the suspects did not escape from the Police cell but during an operation to arrest another gang member who kept their operational vehicle.

(4) Why didn't the former CP Itam brief CP Orutugu during handing and taking over about this?

(5) Is this a calculated attempt to sabotage the efforts of the Governor of Anambra State and the government over their ongoing onslaught to dislodge criminal elements in the state?

I intend to bring the PRO SP Ikenga Tochukwu back to myUche Nworahive show if he would oblige to respond to these posers.

Uche Nworah Ph.D

GeneralPula:
Mtchew..

Sowore is here again to use headless mob head to play ping pong... They can’t kuku think upright..

Karma is the one dealing with Igbos, not Nigeria. Adaka boro was the first to declared secession away from Nigeria. It was Ibos that frustrated the guy’s dream (Ojukwu, Ironsi). A year later, Ojukwu declared Biafra and he expected success? How? You spoilt someone’s dream then you expect you own dream to come to reality? Life doesn’t work like that..

There will never be anything like Biafra! It has always been a figment of imagination and it will always be..

TooMuchStuff:
Welcome back to Nigeria. U think say u smart

Same reason why you ran to USA is the same reason you blare being harrase back home..

Las las POVERTY no be ya mate o....

Village People are pleased to have you now

Sharpsharp00123:
freedom of choice to b stupid?

Directionless idiots who are only driven by mischief n last last they get disgraced in their every move

Today it's chinedu
Tomorrow it's seyi

Bunch of pathetic clowns

Sharpsharp00123:
so chinedu no dey rule Lagos again?


It's true u fools from the land of d rising stupidity are delusional