Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US
Cover Stories, Headlines Aug 18, 2010
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By Uduma Kalu & Adekunle Aliyu


One of Nigeria’s most respected poet and professor of English and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl 37.


Chukwudubem Okafor and his wife Cheryl
Reports and calls from the US say Okafor, 64, cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading home, Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said.

A small-caliber handgun was found near the bodies, police said. The Berks County coroner declared her death a homicide and his death a suicide.

Chukwudubem A. Okafor, 64, an associate professor of English at Kutztown University, was said to have shot his wife, Cheryl V., 37, who was an artist, several times Sunday afternoon and turned the gun on himself shortly after they arrived separately at the home of his sister, Patricia Ofilin, in the 300 block of Pear Street, investigators said.

band Nigeria police from mounting road block any where in the country
free and fair election
i will lay strong foundation for generating electricity
change efcc chairman
standard national 1D CARD for Nigerians

becomrich3:

even if you look at the muritala coupist. muritala wife is yoruba.
Colonels Ibrahim Taiwo (Yoruba), Olusegun Obasanjo(Yoruba), Lt. Cols. Shehu Yar'Adua(Umaru brother), Ibrahim Babangida(wife western region). ,TY Danjuma(wife western region).


they did not have to make muritala head of state. even muritala plane could not land in kano. because there was coup going on. all airport have been closed by the coupist. So they could have turn back the plane. They granted the plane special permission to land, because they knew it was muritala that was inside the plane. muritala wife is yoruba. Ajoke.
So when you people say yoruba never did any coup before, you are wrong. They just allow the northerner to head the govt.

senator Tunde ogbeha is yoruba, bako was killed, tunde ogbeha I think was the one who over power the presidential guard . that was why they were scared of him after the coup and send him outside nigeria. buhari was never in the coup. buhari was the one that mostly brough in the northener officer after the coup. Tunde Idiagbon never laugh. So keep account of history correct. You can see yorubas allowed buhari and muritala to head the govt after coup. not to create problem.

it tell you yoruba are a peaceful people. Of the 4 northern coup. 2 of the coup failed, vasta coup and dimka coup. so 2 coup out of 9 coups in nigeria 2/9. So what I am trying to tell you is that it would be difficult to rig election in Yorubaland. So remove edo, delta Yorubas from nigeria.

Ajoke muritala(yoruba)

bro pls peace and fear are not the same beware

sure there be problem in Nigeria in 2011 election unless Jonathan stop his presidential ambition which his people wouldnt like

slap1:

^Then give it to her.

to be sincere the woman was badly treated,even if they want her out not in that way so NSE must pay her compensation

i pity Nigeria (woman)only do,do,do,one time,two times heeeeh
old and young fight to have you but not to marry you

when will u have ur own husband that will love,cherish and fight for u?

she deserve the money

Court stops EFCC from arresting Okereke-Onyiuke
By ADESINA AIYEKOTI
Friday, August 13, 2010


Okereke-Onyiuke
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A Lagos high court yesterday restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from further harassing, embarrassing, intimidating or threatening to arrest and detain the sacked Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke.

The judicial pronouncement by Justice Morenike Obadina, followed an ex-parte motion brought on behalf of the embattled NSE ex-Director General and argued by Chief Robert Clarke (SAN). Others named in the application, as defendants were, Inspector General of Police, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Restraining the defendants from taking any action to arrest the plaintiff, Justice Obadina said: After hearing Chief Robert Clarke (SAN) with I.B. Mohammed Esq. and O.J. Sodipo Esq. of counsel to the applicant, order is hereby made that the status quo ante be maintained by the respondents pending the hearing of the motion on notice.” In addition, the judge ordered the applicant’s counsel to serve the originating motion forthwith on all the respondents, who have five days under the rules after service to file a response.

She later adjourned the matter to August 19, 2010 for hearing of the motion on notice. Okereke-Onyiuke, had in the motion ex-parte brought under the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2009 and under the Inherent Jurisdiction of the court, prayed for an order of interim injunction restraining the respondents from violating any of her rights pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application.

She averred among others in the 18-paragraphs affidavit filed in support of the motion that since her removal on August 5, 2010, through a letter to her residence, series of strange faces both in mufti and uniform, strange vehicles, either of the EFCC or police had been parading her residence. She deposed further that, “two black unregistered Highlander Toyota SUV paraded my street repeatedly with their mission unknown to me.”

The plaintiff stated that the immediate intervention of the court was required to protect her fundamental rights to life, movement and properties and more importantly, from being intimidated, arrested and detained since she has not been charged of any offence before a court of competent jurisdiction. Prior to this, the sacked Director-General had instituted a suit at the Federal High Court seeking for N3 billion damages.
She prayed the court to declare her sack as null and void arguing that the purported removal was in utter violation and breach of the provisions of Investments and Securities Act (ISA), which spelt out the terms of her appointment.

Ribadu can not contest against Jonathan

is well:

but our Jesus whom they are representing did it ok let us invite alfas for that then

Alfa alfa hehe u remember wht they told Nigeria when they are invited to pray for our president? forgate about them on this matter

Aloy_Emeka:

Good but if Nigeria hopes to see 20% of their stolen money, they should throw human rights into the bush to achieve that. If those men didn't care about the rights of the children they stole their money and denied them good medical care and education, why should we give them their own rights?. May Thief Sunday Afolabi rest in pieces.bros am think we most do something

is well:

we gona invite all those big big pastors we get for naija to pray to God to send them back to life they most vomit all those money

forgate about our big pastors for this one jare if u are talking about jet yaaah

is well:

infact, all those destroyers of Nigeria their death is not enough

bros what shall we do then if not enough?

another new id card is about to come out

S. M. Afolabi: When death is not enough
By Steve Nwosu [ e-mail: styveng@yahoo.co.uk]
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

The news of the death of Chief Sunday Afolabi did not really come as a surprise to me. I am also sure it would not have surprised anybody who has been following the developments since the former Minister of Internal Affairs was picked up in connection with the $242 million National Identity Card scam. When a man of 70 begins to fall in and out of coma, then death begins to figure in the calculations. It is even worse when there is cause to believe that the old man was not getting the best treatment possible.
But that was not all that the former PDM chieftain had going against him. He was said to be battling with a kidney condition that had claimed the lives of even younger and more energetic people. Yes, the family may have had all the money that was required to both purchase a kidney donor and pay the best surgeons in the world for the transplant. But what was the chance of a septuagenarian surviving a kidney transplant? Medical experts insist that the records are not encouraging. And so, Afolabi was given up for dead even before any genuine effort had been made to save his life.
There had been talks about how an Osun State delegation that had journeyed to Abuja to plead his cause had met with rebuff; of how the family had met with stumbling blocks as they made effort to transfer him to the National Hospital in Abuja – and later, of how his alleged involvement in the National ID card scam had delayed flying him abroad for proper treatment.
So, what killed S.M. Afolabi? Don’t tell me anything about complications arising from a kidney condition. The doctors might believe that, but those of us who know that there is more to a man than the physical also know that a large part of what happens to the physical man is determined by his mental/spiritual environment.
But that is the farthest I would want to go on this topic of the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical - or else the Gabriel Okunzuas of this world would start demanding for the qualifications that emboldened me to venture into a field reserved for men (and women) with the proverbial third eye. But I will guess, all the same.
However, what I am trying to say is largely speculative. And it bears a close semblance to what one African teammate of our own Wilson Oruma, in France, recently said of the exploits of the former Golden Eaglets skipper’s exploit in the French Championat. If Nigeria had taken Oruma to the last Nations Cup in Tunisia, the Sochaux player reportedly said, Nigeria would have won the cup.
But Oruma was not in Tunisia. And we did not win. And the "ifs" continue…
If Afolabi had not been picked up for his alleged role in the national ID card scam, he probably would still be alive today. If he had not gone through the jolt and privations of detention, his weak kidney might not have given way so soon. If his passport was not impounded, he probably would have since been able to fly himself abroad for medical check-up without necessarily coming back as a cargo – as it is now certain he would.
It is the same "ifs" that greeted the death, in detention, of Hon. Morris Ibekwe – who, none of us knew was both asthmatic and diabetic. The same fears are now being raised over Chief Emmanuel Nwude. I hope we would not have cause to come back to these "ifs" in this case.
Back to S.M. Afolabi, however, there was also the talk that it was politically correct to allow Afolabi to die. At least, that would take some heat off the inquiry into what happened to the billions of naira sunk into the national ID card scheme and scam. Besides, too many people seem to be in possession of implicating documents of how the last (April 19) general elections were won and lost. With all the unguarded talk about "come-and-eat," there was little guarantee that the media would not, in the nearest future, be rewarded with another revelation.
But since there is no "nest of killers" within the PDP, nobody could silence anybody. However, it would not be a bad idea, after all, to allow anybody who "chooses to die" to do so – and save all of us unnecessary headache. That probably explains why we were told the ruling party could not help somebody who was central to its wresting of the South-West from the grip of an "overconfident" Alliance for Democracy. Why we were reassured over and over again that the law had to take its course.
Now that Afolabi is dead, however, if we have any regard for the memory of the dead, this is the time to ensure that we follow the ID card scam to its logical conclusion.
What was in this scam that made SM feel so betrayed that he was heart-broken - even before the conclusion of the case? Was it true that he was prevailed upon to cut out something from the allocation to fund any party’s campaign? Is this another case of use-and-dump? Who used SM? Who dumped him? Who killed him? But the painful part of it is that Afolabi has died without giving us our ID cards – except probably for such lucky Nigerians as Nasir El-Rufai who got theirs a few weeks back.
[b]This is one of those instances when I see a lot of reason in our forefathers’ custom of sending off their dead with a few human heads. If we were to be in the glorious past of our empire days, we’d probably have dispatched a few top officials of the ICPC to intercept Afolabi at St. Peter’s gate to bring back our ID cards - and, if possible, retrieve the former minister’s share of the alleged $242 million scam. For, with all that money, he’d still be able to get a good laugh at our dear old Cicero. He’d have something he can show his former boss – something Ige had failed to "come and eat" when he was busy abusing the government that invited him to dinner. But that is too late now.
And now, to the soul-searching questions: When are we going to learn that fighting corruption does not begin and end with hounding suspects into jail? That denying detainees their rights is a form of corruption? That bending the rules to ensure that a few undeserving persons are made scapegoats amounts to corrupting the system? And that neglecting our prisons is not just criminal corruption, but dictatorship?[/b]

philip0906:

So yoruba boys don dey use igbo identity dey thief? Nobody,noticed that,but if they were igbo boys,d thread would have reached 5 pages of "moronic comments" 4rm some sculptures called human beings. . .

nna nawaho thank God dey kachi dem if not na igbo people

Na bad gal forgate about her

not as b4,things has changed the world is turning upside down.women are incharge now and their words are taken in the homes or else there wouldnt be peace

in china many men are the cookers even in their homes,

civilization brought many good and bad things men have to understand this and stop claiming they are the head for their own life

one elderly man ones said this is the evidence of the world coming to an end coz women has taken over and they will ruin and destroy the world just as many of them are ruining their homes

@poster better women still recognize their husband as the head and the person who have the final say.peace. happiness and orderliness always fill her home but those who claim equal {two heads} women who want to change the will of the creator always met disaster.

anyway state police will be the answer to all these insecurity in Nigeria but politicans are afraid because of the their selfish interest that is why it will never work in Nigeria even 100yrs coming.

KnowAll:


[size=14pt]State Police, probably when democracy has run a good cause of 100 years. By then hopefully men of integrity and honour would be manning and calling the shots in our Governor's mansion. But today with people like Jang runnng amok in plateau it is a no -no.[/size]

Remeber that sate police will be under faderal police

0hsisi:

I honestly thought the new slang for weak erections was banana disease when I saw the topic
I had no clue this was about real bananas

hahaahaha me too

supported but that name should be change immediately we don't want fake Igbo biko

anyway as govt cannot provide work through industries, let them create works through new states