A BOY BORN WITH SIX LEGS

The 1 week old boy was born in pakistan..

Doctors were rily fighting hard to save d little boy.









God help us.this life is turning to smthing else...

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BIU female student invites juju group to school over stolen Brazilian hair..:-)

Lol, some things you hear and you're like 'da hell? So a female student of Benson Idahosa University, Benin had her Brazilian hair stolen from her room sometime last week. She returned from lectures that day to find her N75k Brazilian hair, which she'd planned to fix that weekend for a wedding, gone!. After asking her roommates and everyone denied taking the weave, the female student resorted to diabolical means to get her weave back. She invited the bini juju group called Ayelala to come to the school to curse and fish out whoever stole her weave.

The photo above was taken during the juju group's visit to the school. The group promised the female student that whoever stole her weave will return it within seven days. The university authorities have been informed and students are waiting to see what they do...
COULD THIS REALLY BE TRUE...........this is what i got from lindaikeji's blog oooooo!!!!!!!!

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‘Our weapons are stored inside commercial bus’

THEY are eleven in number, of different ages, sizes, complexion and tribes. But they have one thing in common: robbery! However, four suspected members of the 11-man notorious gang that have been terrorizing Lagos State, leaving in their trail, the death of policemen. Innocent and unsuspecting members of the public have reportedly been killed in their separate gun duels with policemen.
The list of their operations is endless. But the major operation was that which happened at Thermocool outlet at Bolade, Oshodi area of Lagos State on November 4, 2011, where two policemen attached to Akinpelu division were killed, including a commercial motorcyclist, his passenger and a pregnant woman who was waiting to board a vehicle. They also carted away millions of naira at the end of the operation which sent everyone scampering for safety.
Major robbery operation
Another operation by the dreaded gang, was that at Abusom United Investment Limited, a registered dealer in GSM recharge cards and vouchers, on Allen Avenue, Ikeja, where more than N20 million was reportedly carted away, last year.

*The leader of the gang, Fatai and two other members who were arrested earlier by the police.

But the good news is that five months after the last major robbery operation, operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested  the gang’s armourer, one Tunde Oyebade who has been on the squad’s wanted list. They recovered four AK-47 rifles, one pump action gun, two pistols and four magazines filled with live amminunitions . The suspect made startling revelations about the gang’s modus-operandi.
How he joined the gang: The  46-year-old father of five blamed his indulgence in crime on poverty but maintained that he never operated with the gang. He said his job was to take the ammunition to the scene of robbery and at the end, keep them, a job he did consistently for five years, until he was arrested.
To the astonishment of all, the weapons were discovered inside a built-in box attached to the seat of  a commercial bus which the suspect has been using for years.
Explaining how he joined the gang, Tunde said: “I am a carpenter by profession and owned a furniture outfit where I make chairs and other offices and homes furniture, until I met one Fatail Sulaiman in 2007 who assured that he would provide me with more jobs.
True to his words, he gave me an aluminum roofing job at Lagos Island and when I did that one, he brought many others. Our relationship grew so strong that it extended to both families. But after some time, the roofing job stopped coming and he bought me a Volkswagen bus for commercial purposes.
He painted it the state colour  before handing it over to me. The plan was that I should be working with the bus to feed the family since furniture job was not forth coming and return it to him whenever he wanted to make use of it.
“I never knew what Fatai was into until one day when I was cleaning the bus. I  lifted the back seat only to discover a built-in locker and out of curiosity, I opened it only to discover guns and ammunition. Out of fear, I shut the door and ran out to contact him on the phone and he said I should meet him at Iyana-Ipaja.
When I got there, he told me not to panic that he wasn’t an armed robber but a land speculator. He said the guns and ammunition were what he used to defend himself whenever there was an invasion in any property he had interest in. I believed him and with that revelation, my financial status changed because he started paying me between  N100,000 and N150,000 each time he came back with his boys. At other times, he would give me N50,000.
“This was five years ago. All I did was to take the weapons to them wherever Fatai told me and at the end, I would drive the vehicle back to my base. I didn’t complain since the money was helping me keep the family going.”
Thing fall apart: All, as gathered, went on well until 2008, when the suspected gang leader and Tunde’s benefactor was arrested and sent to prison for robbery. But while in prison, he reportedly communicated with members of his gang on phone.
The bubble burst as other members of the gang were intercepted by the police during an operation which led to the recovery of three guns from them. One of the suspects who managed to flee the scene with some arms was also arrested by members of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, in Sango Otta area of Ogun State in his attempt to bury the arms. The suspect identified simply as small Sule, was handed over to the Police in Ogun from where he was sent to jail.
Back to business
However, after serving his jail term, leader of the gang, Fatai Suleiman, regrouped with another gang where they continued to terrorize their victims.
Tunde noted: “The gang resurrected after Sulaiman was eventually granted bail. He started by forming a new squad. But first, he travelled to Oyo State, returned with two AK-47 rifles. He told me when he brought the rifles that he wouldn’t work with me anymore.
He accused me of bringing ill luck to him and making him to lose all his weapons. I tried to explain but he wouldn’t listen rather, he said he has found a new man known as pastor, who would keep and provide the weapons for him when ever he needed them for operation. The said pastor was operating from Benin Republic to avoid  a re-occurrence of what happened. He, therefore, bought a new bus for the operation and constructed the armoury as he did on the previous vehicle.
“Since he had just two rifles, he started operation with members of other gangs who had guns and they jointly carried out operations. He did that for a while before getting over eight AK-47 rifles and some pistols. Small Sule also regained freedom from the prison and joined my boss. Together, they bought a pick-up truck and constructed armoury in it. After operation, the said pastor would drive the vehicle back to Benin Republic and bring it back whenever they needed him.
Operation at Thermocool
“It was when they came back from prison that they made the biggest hit so far, with the operation at Thermocool where they made away with over N8 million and at Abusom United Investment Limited, a registered dealer in GSM recharge cards and vouchers, on Allen-Ikeja, where they made away  with N12.468m in cash and N14.865m worth of recharge cards and vouchers.
When I heard news of the killing on the radio, I was  shocked. I called Sulaiman and asked if what I heard was true and he got angry and asked me to mind my business. I was so worried because the number of people killed was so much.
That evening, I met him at Pleasure near Abule-Egba and he told me he could explain what happened that day and that he felt the entire mission was a set-up. He said the operation was supposed to be a smooth one and the people were not supposed to get involved in anyway. He later left me and said his heart was troubled and he needed to go for prayers. Then I left him and went away.
“After a few months, he was arrested with two other members of the gang, Macaulay and Kehinde and later we learnt they were all dead. Small Sule who was supposed to lead the gang had problems with the members leading to the gang splitting.
“Sule had to share the guns with Wale who left to form his own gang. With the split, I decided to stay on my own, only to be arrested, through a call I got from a lady I know so well. But to my shock on reaching where she asked us to meet, behold, the people with her were policemen. If I leave here alive, I swear, I will never go back again.”

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Death on an empty stomach

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
THE bomb that went off early on Easter Sunday at the heart of the commercial section of the city of Kaduna left behind it more casualties than most other explosions witnessed since the seeming democratisation of the knowledge, skills and means to inflict massive violence on Nigerians, centred around the Boko Haram insurgency.
Not necessarily in the number of lives, limbs and livelihoods which it took.
There have been attacks and assaults in the past that registered more deaths and destruction than the Easter Sunday bomb. Not even in the force of its impact, because there were bombs that took down entire structures in the past.
And not in its aftermath, because it did not trigger massive clampdown by security forces and the consequent additional casualties, or sectarian riots. And, it did not go off in a church, and thus add to the list of other bombs which specifically targeted the Christian community while they worshipped.
But the Easter Sunday bomb took its own casualties in a rather unique way. One of such casualties is the perceived wisdom that Boko Haram bombs target Christians and their places of worship. To date, there is no conclusive evidence that a church in the vicinity was specifically targeted, although, as is to be expected, there are many claims that Christians were its intended target.
Another casualty is the pattern of the bombing campaign. No police or military facility was attacked; and no markets, government building or home of a security officer was attacked.
There are lots of speculations regarding the intentions of the bomber, and many theories around how the vehicle with the bomb exploded around a junction in a commercial area on Easter Sunday, at a period and place which was bound to have little traffic.
Nature of victims
But by far the biggest casualty was the nature of the victims of that Easter Sunday bomb. Most of those who died (and we still do not know what figure to accept) were the poor and those living on the margins of existence.
Most were also Muslims, young men and elderly women selling them food to put some energy in their bodies to enable them scrape enough to the next day. Many of the achaba riders who waited for food to be served, or were fortunate to have been served were honest young men who preferred the risky and irritating life of an achaba rider, to life of crime or destitution.
Many of them would have been refugees from clampdowns on taxi-motorcycles in many parts of the northeast, as reactions of security agencies and state governments to the activities of Boko Haram. Many would have completed secondary schools and may even have qualified for admission to higher institutions, but had no support to push them over and above those with privileges.
Some of the casualties of the Easter Sunday bombing may never be known. Their limbs were packed and carried in body bags along with those of many others. They died with dreams of better lives in a nation which shows no signs of creating opportunities for better lives.
They may have heard President Jonathan say a few weeks ago that the Boko Haram insurgency would be brought to an end by June this year. Like most Nigerians, they must have hoped that the President’s words were founded on the realities and facts on the ground. As people who spent their waking lives on the streets, they had been on the receiving end of the numerous restrictions, inconveniences and hardship which govern daily lives of citizens of Kaduna and other cities in the North.
They were familiar with the demand of pushing their motorcycles past checkpoints, and engaging with policemen when they break curfews after 9.pm. Most spend nights sleeping ten in a room, and scrape through lives which stress them between making enough to make “returns” to owners, or sending monies home to families and parents in Zamfara, Jigawa or Yobe.
Died waiting for food
Some of the casualties of the Easter bomb in Kaduna who died on empty stomachs may have been part of the fanatical following of General Muhammadu Buhari in the run-up to the 2011 elections, and who naively believed that change was possible and inevitable in their time.
They may have been part of the motorcycle riders who accosted the Vice President at the Al Mannar mosque in Unguwar Rimi on a Friday before the 2011 elections to tell him they won’t vote for the PDP. They may have been part of the crowd that rose up to protest the result of the 2011 elections, and who joined the subsidy removal protests a few months ago, along with fellow Nigerians.
Most of the casualties of the Easter Sunday bomb were Muslims. If the bomb which killed them was planted by fellow Muslims, they would have died in the hands of people who say they are fighting so that Nigerian Muslims will live as good Muslims. If they died from bombs planted by people who exploit the situation to weaken the Nigerian state or sustain the Boko Haram insurgency by other means, they would have been casualties of an undeclared war where the vast majority of casualties are law-abiding citizens.
Many people died on Easter Sunday in Kaduna on an empty stomach. It may take weeks for the relations of many of them to know that they have been blown to pieces while waiting to buy food. They will be statistics in a war which shows no sign of being won by either side.
The nation will not grieve over them, because they are just another set killed by bombs and bullets, and there may be many after them.
By far the biggest casualty of the Easter bomb in Kaduna is the hope that Boko Haram will recognise that its mode of operation and goals are not winning it support; that government will acknowledge that it is dealing with an enemy which requires multiple strategies to deal with; and that the poor who live with hunger, frustration and hopelessness may be spared more pain and privation.

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Inca Girl, Frozen for 500 Years, Now On Display

(Above: The 15-year-old “Llullaillaco Maiden” was sacrificed along with two other children on top of Mt. Llullaillco, in northern Argentina, at 22,000 feet)
In Argentina, A Museum Unveils A Long-Frozen Maiden
September 11, 2007
NYT
SALTA, Argentina — The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice…
Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano 300 miles west of here near the Chilean border, their frozen bodies were among the best preserved mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work. They froze to death as they slept, and 500 years later still looked like sleeping children, not mummies.

Mount Llullaillaco, in northern Argentina, had three frozen Inca children at its top–offerings to the gods.
In the eight years since their discovery, the mummies, known here simply as Los Niños or “the children,” have been photographed, X-rayed, CT scanned and biopsied for DNA. The cloth, pottery and figurines buried with them have been meticulously thawed and preserved. But the bodies themselves were kept in freezers and never shown to the public — until last week, when La Doncella, the maiden, a 15-year-old girl, was exhibited for the first time, at the Museum of High Altitude Archaeology, which was created in Salta expressly to display them.
The new and the old are at home in Salta. The museum faces a historic plaza where a mirrored bank reflects a century-old basilica with a sign warning churchgoers not to use the holy water for witchcraft. Now a city of 500,000 and the provincial capital, Salta was part of the Inca empire until the 1500s, when it was invaded by the Spanish conquistadors.
Although the mummies captured headlines when they were found, officials here decided to open the exhibit quietly, without any of the fanfare or celebration that might have been expected.
“These are dead people, Indian people,” said Gabriel E. Miremont, 39, the museum’s designer and director. “It’s not a situation for a party.”
The two other mummies have not yet been shown, but will be put on display within the next six months or so.
The children were sacrificed as part of a religious ritual, known as capacocha. They walked hundreds of miles to and from ceremonies in Cuzco and were then taken to the summit of Llullaillaco (yoo-yeye-YAH-co), given chicha (maize beer), and, once they were asleep, placed in underground niches, where they froze to death. Only beautiful, healthy, physically perfect children were sacrificed, and it was an honor to be chosen. According to Inca beliefs, the children did not die, but joined their ancestors and watched over their villages from the mountaintops like angels.
Discussing why it took eight years to prepare the exhibit, Dr. Miremont smiled and said, “This is South America,” but then went on to explain that there was little precedent for dealing with mummies as well preserved as these, and that it took an enormous amount of research to figure out how to show them yet still make sure they did not deteriorate.
The solution turned out to be a case within a case — an acrylic cylinder inside a box made of triple-paned glass. A computerized climate control system replicates mountaintop conditions inside the case — low oxygen, humidity and pressure, and a temperature of 0 degrees Fahrenheit. In part because Salta is in an earthquake zone, the museum has three backup generators and freezers, in case of power failures or equipment breakdowns, and the provincial governor’s airplane will fly the mummies out in an emergency, Dr. Miremont said.
Asked where they would be taken, he replied, “Anywhere we can plug them in.”
The room holding La Doncella is dimly lighted, and the case itself is dark; visitors must turn on a light to see her.
“This was important for us,” Dr. Miremont said. “If you don’t want to see a dead body, don’t press the button. It’s your decision. You can still see the other parts of the exhibit.”
He designed the lighting partly in hope of avoiding further offense to people who find it disturbing that the children, part of a religious ritual, were taken from the mountaintop shrine.
Whatever the intention, the effect is stunning. Late in August, before the exhibit opened, Dr. Miremont showed visitors La Doncella. At a touch of the button, she seemed to materialize from the darkness, sitting cross-legged in her brown dress and striped sandals, bits of coca leaf still clinging to her upper lip, her long hair woven into many fine braids, a crease in one cheek where it leaned against her shawl as she slept.

The Llullaillaco Maiden’s new acrylic burial chamber is maintained at 0 degrees Farenheit
The bodies seemed so much like sleeping children that working with them felt “almost more like a kidnapping than archaeological work,” Dr. Miremont said.
One of the children, a 6-year-old girl, had been struck by lightning sometime after she died, resulting in burns on her face, upper body and clothing. She and the boy, who was 7, had slightly elongated skulls, created deliberately by head wrappings — a sign of high social status, possibly even royalty.
Scientists worked with the bodies in a special laboratory where the temperature of the entire lab could be dropped to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and the mummies were never exposed to higher temperatures for more than 20 minutes at a time, to preventing thawing.
DNA tests revealed that the children were unrelated, and CT scans showed that they were well nourished and had no broken bones or other injuries. La Doncella apparently had sinusitis, as well as a lung condition called bronchiolitis obliterans, possibly the result of an infection.
“There are two sides,” Dr. Miremont said. “The scientific — we can read the past from the mummies and the objects. The other side says these people came from a culture still alive, and a holy place on the mountain.”
Some regard the exhibit as they would a church, Dr. Miremont said.
“To me, it’s a museum, not a holy place,” he said. “The holy place is on top of the mountain.”
The mountains around Salta are home to at least 40 other burial sites from ritual sacrifices, but Dr. Miremont said the native people who live in those regions do not want more bodies taken away.
“We will respect their wishes,” Dr. Miremont said, adding that three mummies were enough. “It is not necessary to break any more graves. We would like to have good relations with the Indian people.”

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D’banj, Don Jazzy saga: Wande Coal withdraws tweet?

In 2009, when Wande Coal stormed the scene as the newest addition to the Mo’hit’s family, everyone saw the bond between him and the Koko master D’banj grow dramatically. It was therefore understandable when during the uproar that followed the split of Don Jazzy and D’Banj, Wande Coal had kept mute.
He was silent everywhere; both on his Twitter and Facebook pages. Until lately, when reports filtered in that the ten ten crooner had allegedly dropped tweets on social networking site Twitter in reaction to a new development on the Mo’Hits trouble only to withdraw the said tweet less than twenty four hours later.

*Wande Coal, Don Jazzy & D'banj

According to the gist, Wande had allegedly reacted to a story blowing in the rumour mills that D’banj allegedly asked Don Jazzy in a leaked email to return the Bentley he (D’banj) reportedly bought for Don Jazzy.
Wande was alleged to have tweeted “saying that he bought a car for Don Jazzy is wrong and untrue. Come onnnnnn. Well I don’t think he said that sha till I see a video of this”
As you read this, the said tweet is not on Wande’s timeline on twitter yet those who swear they saw it are sticking to their story.
Wande Coal has however made no comments to claim or deny this tweet and with the silence has come rather ridiculous guesses that probably hackers had been at work again.
This latest development comes as insiders say another label like Mo’Hits may re-emerge should Don Jazzy manage to rebuild a new music empire that would bare his name and seal alone.
As for the alleged tweet, what do you think is the mystery here? Did the tweet disappear after second thoughts from Wande Coal or is this a tweet that never existed? Share your thoughts.

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