Naija Trend Zone: April 2014

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Actor Pa Kasumu Wins N500k on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire show’; Moves Into New Home

Happy times are here for veteran actor, Kayode Odumosu, aka Pa Kasumu, who is getting better now health wise.

The actor has also finally moved into his new three bedroom bungalow in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to an industry source, the talented role interpreter has moved from his Alayaki, Mushin, Lagos residence, where he had lived for about 10 years. The source said that despite the recuperating state of the ace comedian, he was still very much excited about the new development, singing praises in appreciation of what God has done in his life.

Pa Kasumu who just won N500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire programme, is so happy about it. His dream of travelling abroad for further treatment will soon be realized.

President Jonathan Cancels FEC Meeting Over death of Vice president's brother

President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) today, to enable the council members attend the three-day prayer for the late Captain Yusuf Sabo Sambo, younger brother of Vice President Namadi Sambo.
Captain Sambo, the Vice President’s brother died Sunday in a fatal accident along the Airport Road Abuja and he has since been buried at Apo cemetery, Abuja, according to Islamic rites.
Senator Pius Anyim, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, made this known in a statement on Tuesday night.
Special assistant to the vice president, Sani Umar, said in a statement that the younger Sambo, a pilot, died in a motor accident on Bill Clinton Drive, Airport Road, Abuja.
Aged 58, Mr Sambo is survived by a wife, three daughters, 10 brothers and sisters.

Mothers Of Abducted Girls Storm National Assembly, Demand Immediate Rescue

Mothers of 200 abducted female students and other residents of Chibok, Borno State, landed yesterday, April 30, to Abuja to submit a protest letter where they demand the immediate rescue of the girls.
The protest march started at Eagle Square in Abuja, from where the protesters walked to the National Assembly. When the women were led into the premises of the national legislature by a group of senior female police officers, senators Barnabas Gemade and Helen Esuene received them.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Poly. Students Threaten Disruption of Meeting Over School Closure

Polytechnic students issued a warning threatening to stage a protest to disrupt the ongoing national confab in Abuja next week Wednesday over months of closure of their schools. They plan to gather in their Hundreds including lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education to carry this out.

Though controlled by heavily armed policemen, the spokesman for NAPS expressed the anger of the students present at the protest. “We are supporting our lecturers because they are fighting for our own rights and those of all polytechnics in the country,” said Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, spokesman for National Association of Polytechnic Students. “We want to send information to people that are not here today. By next week Wednesday we are stopping the confab in Abuja again,” said Oyeniyi.

On Friday morning, a bus filled with polytechnic students from Anambra, Adamawa, Kogi and Niger, blocked traffic at Federal Secretariat junction in central Abuja demanding the sack of education minister Nyesom Wike, insisting on placards that he was “weak” and “not competent.” while calling on federal government to meet their demands and targets.

Check out footballer Dani Alves' incredible response to racism

Barcelona full-back Dani Alves produced the perfect riposte to a racist taunt when taking a corner kick during his team's 3-2 win at Villareal on Sunday.

The Brazil international casually picked up a banana thrown from the terraces onto the pitch, peeled it and shoved it in his mouth in one fluid motion before tossing away the peel and completing the kick.

Alves has previously taken a stand against racism at stadia in Spain.

The 30-year-old complained of racial abuse last year after being taunted by monkey chants from sections of the crowd during a Copa del Rey semi-final at Real Madrid and labelled Spain's efforts to tackle the problem a "lost war".

European football has long been blighted by racist incidents by fans and their leagues have been criticised for not doing enough to stamp them out.

Peter Okoye stands up for wife Lola against an imposter

Lola Omotayo's Impostor who has been tweeting and making some believe it's actually her and went to the extent of tweeting that the real Lola's twitter account is fake.
See Tweets below

Peter Okoye decided to set the record straight on twitter, by posting the tweet below

Woman kills her own new born child because he looked like her ex-boyfriend

18-year-old Ana Rosa Mora (pictured above) has been arrested for killing her own child because the the new born looked like her ex-boyfriend. Ana wrapped her baby in a bag and left him outside to die because she feared the child looked like her ex-boyfriend and her current boyfriend would leave her.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the teen gave birth last weekend and attended school on Monday after allegedly committing the act and even showed staff members pictures of a newborn girl that she claimed she downloaded from the Internet.

But after employees noticed strange behavior - such as the girl asking if authorities could link her to the child through DNA and lying about the baby's age - they alerted authorities.

The child had been found by a construction worker a few hours after the child was left outside. The boy was born alive but died of asphyxia and possible exposure, authorities said.

The new mother said her ex-boyfriend was the father and when the child was born she feared her current boyfriend would notice and leave her, the newspaper reported. She was arrested Friday April 25th.

Mora, who was scheduled to graduate from high school in June and attend college in the fall is facing charges of first-degree murder and is now being held on $500,000 bail.

Source: Chicago Tribune

Friday, April 25, 2014

Kogi Polytechnic Shut Down Over Lecturer’s Murder During Ebira And Igala Clash

The management of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja has closed down the institution indefinitely following the killing of a senior lecturer, Mr Nathaniel Abimaje by some students during an clash between students of the main ethnic groups in the state.

Mr Abimaje said to be a senior lecturer was allegedly stabbed to death by his students when trying to settle a dispute amongst them. The dispute allegedly degenerated from a clash between two females of the Ebira and Igala tribes.

The Polytechnic has been shut down indefinitely and students were asked to vacate their hostels as security operatives now patrol the institution.

The management of the school stated that the institution was shut down to prevent the crisis from degenerating.

Ethnic Clash

A correspondent in Lokoja who visited the institution reports that the lecturer was said to have been stabbed to death by some group of students while he tried to mediate in the crisis that involved two ethnic groups in the Polytechnic.

The Kogi State Polytechnic which has been peaceful since its establishment, recently recorded some conflict between students from the two major ethnic groups in the state; Ebira and Igala.

It was gathered that the tribal groups have been at logger heads over a crisis that involved two female students of the institution, since March.

The crisis that led to killing of the lecturer was said to have started at about 9pm in the night between the Ebira students and Igala students.

The fracas led students to take to their heels while some were wounded during the calamity.

Some students were lucky to have immediately left the institution with their belongings while some others were not lucky as they were not allowed into the dormitories by security operatives following the school’s closure.

The Rector of the Polytechnic, Professor Mathew Ajibero who spoke to Channels TV in Lokoja, said the initial crisis between the two females was resolved, but he could not explain what caused the fresh crisis, stating that the institution will investigate the issue.

While some students were already leaving for their homes, some were still waiting outside the school to get their properties out of the dormitories.

The students refused to speak to Channels TV out of fear that they might either been expelled or attacked.

Eventually, a student of the polytechnic who spoke to us blamed the school’s management for failing to manage the crisis well before it degenerated into manslaughter.

Former Barcelona Coach, Tito Vilanova Dies Of Cancer

A former Barcelona coach, Tito Vilanova, has died at the age of 45 after a long battle with cancer, this afternoon. He was rushed to the hospital yesterday when his health detoriated and passed on this afternoon.

Barcelona had announced that Vilanova was suffering from parotid gland cancer for the second time in December 2012, after he was first diagnosed a year earlier in November 22.

He was forced to resign his job when he could not cope with the demands of the job. Vilanova was 45. May his soul rest in peace.

Censor Board Delays Release of “Half of a Yellow Sun” in Nigeria

The Nigeria Film and Video Censorship Board, (NFVCB), has refused certifying the widely publicized and internationally acclaimed film, Half of A Yellow Sun which has been premiered in Nigeria.

The adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel is being stopped from getting into the marketreportedly due to parts in it that tend to whip up tribal sentiments, especially on issues that led to the Nigerian civil war. Reports say “with the Boko Haram insurgency and the Adamawa State governor’s outburst, the NFVCB is living up to its billing.”

At least 14 crushed to death at Congo music festival

At least 14 people died when a power cut caused a crush at a crowded music festival in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, a local government spokesman said.

The crush occurred in Kikwit, around 500 km (300 miles) from the capital Kinshasa, on the first night of a festival organized to commemorate famous Congolese rumba musician King Kester Emeneya, who died 40 days ago.

"Around 2 am (9 p.m. ET) there was a blackout in the stadium. At that time the concert was completely full," said Claude Malela, a spokesman for the local government and organizer of the festival.

"When people tried to leave there was a crush. We have counted 14 dead and 13 injured."

An official at the interior ministry who asked not to be named said there were fears the death toll could eventually be as high as around 40.

Mob Sets Ablaze 'Mad' Female Kidnapper Caught in Osogbo with 3 Kids, Beats up Another

There are reports that within the last 24 hours, four kidnappers have been caught in Osogbo, Osun state. One of the kidnappers, was caught yesterday with 3 kids as she was pretending to be a mad woman. A mob descended on her, stripped her naked, beat her up and was about to set her ablaze before the police intervened. The other kidnapper wasn't so lucky as they were already burnt before police arrived at the scene

Nigerian leaders unite against Boko Haram

Leaders from across Nigeria appealed for a united front against Boko Haram on Thursday, saying the Islamist insurgents were waging war on Christian and Muslim Nigerians alike.

President Goodluck Jonathan held a security meeting with governors of 36 states straddling Nigeria's largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north to seek ways of ending the Islamists' five-year-old insurgency.

"We agreed that the Boko Haram war is not a religious war and therefore it's a war against all Nigerians and should be treated as such," a statement said after the meeting.

The insurgents abducted 230 schoolgirls on April 14 and most are still missing. On the same day, a bomb in a bus station on the edge of the capital Abuja killed 75 people, an attack for which Boko Haram claimed responsibility.

The two attacks showed the inability of the Nigerian security forces to protect civilians against Boko Haram, seen as the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil producer.

The insurgency by the group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language, has killed thousands in the past two years.

Officials have long feared that Boko Haram, which wants to carve a breakaway Islamic state out of Nigeria, will harden religious divisions.

But while the group has repeatedly targeted Christians - blowing up churches or killing minority Christian ethnic groups in the north - the majority of their victims have been Muslims. The Islamists destroy churches, but also mosques.

"Both Muslims and Christians are being killed. Boko Haram doesn't discriminate against any person," Theodor Orji, governor of the southern Abia state, said after the emergency meeting.

"Boko Haram is not a religious war and people should not misrepresent it to be," Orji said.

Heightened Boko Haram attacks coincide with rising communal violence in the Middle Belt, where north and south meet, that has killed hundreds. Officials fear the Islamist insurgency will merge with this so far distinct conflict.

The military said on Thursday it had arrested gunmen who killed 40 people in two attacks on villagers in the east in the past week and they had confessed to being Boko Haram militants. The attack initially looked like Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacking ethnic Tiv Christian farmers.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Why I Think The Alder Social Media Report Weighs More Than The Africa Practice Landscape by @biddy_09

I decided to comment on a document i received recently which is the Africa Practice Social Media Landscape - a document that attempts to identify the top social media users whether they be brands or individuals -and the Alder report for brands. This came about because i received the request via an email from my boss. I thought it would be interesting so i've decided to share my thoughts.

Enjoy!

The Alder Social Media Report (Top Rated Social Media Brands) ranks social media users across all platforms without homing in on a single platform. The report attempts to give a concise round-off of an entity's social media endeavours through providing a top-three ranking based on several criteria. That is, social media professionals and savvy internet users - who made up the panel of judges - presented their top
candidates based on the candidate's influence on his/her chosen social media platform.

In contrast, the Africa Practice Social Media Landscape presents top influencers on a specific social media platform - Twitter - and then presents a ranking of blogging sites by using Alexa - a web analytics company - data.
Also, it provides a comparison between a traditional journalist, twitteratis, bloggers and social commentators

The Africa Practice Social Media Report provides other important data such as
1. A table showing the top most visited sites in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt.
interestingly, all ten of the sites are social media sites. Nairaland.com made number 7.
2. A brief internet usage report which highlighted that 72% of internet users in Nigeria visited social networking sites in 2013, 55% email and 46% entertainment

3. A comparison between Facebook and mobile chat apps (Eskimi, 2go and Whatsapp). This section showed that the chat apps all have more active users than Facebook in Nigeria. It mentioned that the
apps perform well because they are cheaper alternatives to SMS and use less bandwidth and data.

4. A brief discussion on the Impact of Social Media in driving accountability, civic engagement, branding and its use as a source for journalists and audiences.

Its twitter ranking was obtained based on: original tweets, replies, retweets and mentions.

The Alder report did not feature or mention a category in which any of the stations i work for were included despite their huge online following where as the Africa Practice Social Media Report listed Cool FM for Synchronizing the radio and social media effortlessly along with Beat FM. The Alder report didn't include a category on which radio stations whether online or terrestrial were represented.

In my opinion, both reports provide different data but have convergence points.
1. The Alder report provides rankings in a number of categories which are missing from the Africa
Practice report such as:Banking, Consumer, Faith, Insurance, Non-profit, Sports and Telecoms

2. The Alder report also provides expert rankings for Brands, Individuals and Foundations based on
specific parameters such as customer service, consumer engagement, Relevant Information, Speed of
Response, Up-to-date information, Visual Delight

3. The Alder report for top brands also further provided a ranking for individuals synonymous with certain categories.

4. SocialMedia giants such as GTB, Etisalat, who are very active on Facebook as well as Twitter were
however nowhere to be found in the Africa Practice report. Single focus on Twitter should still have produced such entities as outstanding but that wasn't the case.

In conclusion i think the Alder report is more conclusive and more reaching and encompassing and provides a greater sense and knowledge of the who-is-who in the Nigerian social media space. Its findings spread from individuals to governments to brands to faith-based organisations across Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress etc and ranks them not just in terms of followership numbers but such things as customer service, up-to-date information and other hard-to-define parameters. The selected brands, organisations and individuals stood out regardless of their preferred social media.
In addition, the Alder report includes four more volumes that break down categories further. See here.
The documents provide greater detail and more insight.

The Africa Practice report enlightens by providing numbers and tables and charts that inform about where Nigeria is in terms of mobile application users versus Facebook active users, a comparison between traditional journalism and the more modern forms like blogging, an Alexa ranking of top blogs and forums in Nigeria and other social media discussions. Its ranking efforts in my view are less reaching than the Alder report and also is limited to only Twitter and Blogs.

-By Bidemi Akinade
Bidemi is the social media specialist for Cool FM, Wazobia FM and Nigeria Info FM
He is also a tech enthusiast, a blogger and a graphic designer.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Tension in Deeper Life camp as Kumuyi breaks down during Easter Retreat

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life church, Pastor W.F Kumuyi allegedly collapsed during the Easter retreat on Saturday.
He has since been rushed out of the camp and is now responding to treatment at the undisclosed hospital he was rushed to.

According to Dailypost, a reliable source said “Pastor Kumuyi could not take the morning Faith Clinic on Saturday because of his health condition. He broke down during the ongoing retreat and was rushed to the hospital, he is currently under treatment."

“We were told to pray for his strength, which we have been doing, but he didn’t minister throughout yesterday, a development which has sent every member panicking.”

A dependable source in the church told Daily Post exclusively. He said there’s tension in the camp over the health of Kumuyi who broke down during the programme entitled: ‘Living in His Victory and Destined to Win.’
It was gathered that when it’s his turn to Minister, they may rebroadcast his old message to the congregation.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Pastor Who Ran Away With The Money Off Church Properties He Sold Captured In Lagos

The General Overseer, Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly Church in Lagos, Pastor Ikechukwu Ezeiru has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court for selling the church building and landed property located in Lagos and escaping with all the money realized from the illegal act. The same Pastor Ezeiru had earlier been brought before the same court for defrauding member of his church identified as Ifeanyi Ohazurume of N7m. Giving evidence in the latest case, Police said: 43yrs old Pastor Ezeiru sold the church building and land on Plots 9A and 9B, Family Estate, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, after which he absconded with the proceeds of the sale. The church trustees – Ifeanyi Ohazurume, Stella Johnson, George Ndubuisi and Ozuruonye Onwuka – reported the matter to the police and a manhunt was launched for the pastor since March 2013. He was caught in later April, 2014, and arraigned on three counts of fraudulent sale of property and stealing.Pastor Ezeiru was said to have sold the church building for N7.5m, while the land was sold for N5m. The charges read in part, “That you, Pastor Ikechukwu Ezeiru, and others at large, being the General Overseer of a church known as Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly Church, Plots 9A and 9B, Family Estate, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, in the month of March 2013, in the Lagos Magisterial District with intent to defraud, did sell church building and land, property of Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly, represented by the trustees, Ifeanyi Ohazurume, Stella Johnson, George Ndubuisi and Ozuruonye Onwuka. “That you being the General Overseer of a church known as Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly Church, Plots 9A and 9B, Family Estate Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, did steal the sum of N7,500,000, property of the church….” Police prosecutors said the offences were punishable under sections 409, 324, 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011. But Pastor Ezeiru pleaded not guilty. Chief Magistrate Mrs. A.A. Demi-Ajayi, granted him bail in the sum of N1m with two sureties in like sum. He will remain in prison custody until he meets the bail condition. Full trial will commence on May 26, 2014.

Governor Kayode Fayemi To Start Teaching At State Owned University

Governor Kayode Fayemi has said he will start teaching at the state owned university starting from October, 2014 because he has interest in monitoring the younger ones as well as provide the right type of leadership.

He said the opportunity will also help him clarify that, he was not trying to destroy the education system like a lot of people have said when the school fees was increased, and he will try his possible best to reduce the N50,000 fee to the barest minimum.

Abducted Girls: Nigerians Harangue FG On Twitter

Even as government steps up its efforts to rescue the school girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, Nigerians have taken to Twitter to debunk reports that some of them have been rescued.

On Wednesday, Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, announced an offer of N50 million to anyone who provides useful information which leads to the rescue of the abducted students.

“I want to make a pledge of N50 million for any information—relevant, credible information that will lead to the rescue of these innocent girls,” he said.

But on Thursday, there were several reports that the Nigerian Army lied in its claims about the abducted, most of whom were teenagers.

Following the reports, Nigerians took to Twitter to express their doubts.

"If the government has really rescued the girls, what are their parents looking for in the forest?" @hayaatedatty tweeted.

@yemiblaque, tweeted, "Families of girls kidnapped from Borno school by suspected Boko Haram militants are accusing the Nigerian military of lying."

A few even had their own 'released' statistics.

"Only 14 out of 129 abducted Nigerian school girls seized by suspected Boko Haram are now free," @faithbalmonte.

Simillarly, ‏@AugustineOgaba tweeted, "Only 30 girls have been released by Boko Haram."

The Army was accused of lying by a number of people.

One of them, ‏@abubaqr07, wrote, ""JTF told us that the kidnapped school girls were freed, while they still missing in unknown place by Boko haram."

"#NigerianArmy com out n defend your reports o #BBCAFRICA says only ten girls escaped from boko haram after Tuesday kidnapp," a doubting @Oceano_maliq tweeted.

Meanwhile, concerned parents are reportedly scouring the bush that is between Chibok and Damboa in search of their lost wards.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

Psquare's publicist speaks Regarding the team breaking up

Psquare Peter and Paul Okoye have reacted to the news that somethig just ain't right in their camp, triggered with Jude Okoye's earlier tweet. Speaking with PremiumTimes, their publicist, Bayo Adetu, said the report is FALSE.
He said:

"I am too busy to give some wanna be blogger traffic, I don’t know where that report is coming from. Maybe they just want to get traffic to their site. It’s baseless and untrue”.

So what did Jude Okoye mean by that tweet or was his account hacked???

Thursday, April 17, 2014

New leaked Apple iPhone 6 photos reveal production blueprints displaying 4.7 inch screen

They're not photo realistic images promising detailed insights into the look and feel of the heavily anticipated iPhone 6, but blueprints believed to be part of the creation process for Apple's newest flagship smartphone have surfaced online.

The pictures of the plans and moulds were posted on the Chinese networking site Weibo, and appear to detail the production methods and dimensions of a phablet sized iPhone.

Illustrating a device measuring 4.7in, the Telegraph reports that the images were sourced from a Foxconn factory in China. Critically, Foxconn has been confirmed as one of the companies employed by Apple to manufacture its iPhone range.

Taking a closer look at the plans, they reveal a device design remarkably similar to Apple's existing smartphone lineup. The chassis with its curved edge seems virtually identical to older models and includes the home button embedded with a fingerprint sensor.

The only crucial difference is the size itself. If Apple is indeed manufacturing a smartphone that's 0.7in larger than the current iPhone 5S, it would confirm months of rumour and speculation of a supersized offering. A recent report by Nikkei even claimed that the iPhone 6 will come not only in a 4.7in model, but a gargantuan 5.5in guise as well.

Customers who enjoy substituting their tea trays with smartphones will be pleased at the news, but for us 5.5in sounds a little unwieldly for a manufacturer famed for sleek, elegant designs (what do you think? Take our poll below and let us know.) Regardless, a larger display would encroach upon a space that has previously been dominated by Samsung's Galaxy range of phablet handsets.

Attack in Wukari Town, Taraba State: Gunmen Laid Siege On The Town

For days, the community has witnessed a series of violent attacks which have been attributed to religious issues but the Police Commissioner, Kalafite Adeyemi assured the residents that everything was under control and it had no religious or political undertones.

On Wednesday, the Taraba Police Command confirmed the death of seven persons in the violence which broke out overnight in Wukari.

The Police Public Relations officer, ASP, Jospeh Kwaji attributed the violence to reprisal attacks by youths in the town, following alleged incessant raids by suspected herdsmen from surrounding villages.

He shut down rumours that the crisis was religious.

There has been a bit of uncertainty as regards the death toll as the Police Command in the state state that seven people were killed, but eye witness account suggests the death toll is 15.

Residents had been appealing to security forces to come to their rescue as they were being held hostage by the gunmen.

Popular Musician Yinka Ayefele's House In Ibadan On Fire

Gospel singer Yinka Ayefele has been hit by another sad incident as his house in the Felele area of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, is reportedly on fire. According to report, the fire started on Tuesday morning but there has been concerted efforts to put it under control and I hear the fire fighters are making progress.

The cause of the fire could not be ascertained, but the talented singer said everything is under control even as he assured his teeming fans that he is safe and sound.

Yinka Ayefele became a household name after he was involved in a ghastly car accident in 1997, that led to a damage in his spinal cord, and paralyzed him from the waist down. Since then, he has been doing well in the music industry and thus financially, owning exotic cars and properties in choice areas.

His hit tracks such as "Experience" and "Transformation" are staple diets at parties in most Nigerian cities.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Local hunters, soldiers rescue over 80 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Borno

About 80 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Monday were reportedly rescued on Tuesday and Wednesday morning by a group of vigilante, local hunters and soldiers.
The joint security team pursued the insurgents in search of about 100 girls they abducted.It was gathered that the insurgents, who were carrying the school girls in Tipper Lories, got stuck in the bush while they were trying to crossover some muddy area between Chibok and Askira/Uba.
According to the father of one of the rescued girls Malam Ali Iliya, the girl said when the trailer got stuck, some of the girls jumped out and ran for their lives.

“They were scattered in the bush when the vigilante and local hunters found them. Some of them were wounded, some were with fracture, which I believe was as a result of jumping from the high vehicle, but we are happy that our children have been rescued.“Now we are praying for those who are still with the Boko Haram; our prayer is that every father will have his child back”, he said.
He added that his daughter Hajara was sound and healthy but weak stressing that “our children told us that when they started running, the insurgents didn’t shoot them.“They allowed those who could run to go but those who could not run either as a result of fear or wound are still with them in the bush. My daughter said the abductors were over one hundred and that the girls were 243; she said the insurgents asked them to count themselves”.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Russian Intelligence Claims MH370 Was ‘Hijacked And Presently in Afghanistan’, Passengers And Crew Alive

Russian intelligence sources have claimed that all passengers and crew members aboard the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 are alive and the plane was, in fact, hijacked and flown to Afghanistan.

A source in Russian’s FSB secret service has reportedly said that the plane was hijacked and flown close to the Afghan-Pakistan border and all people aboard the plane are currently being held hostage.

The intelligence source provided the data to a correspondent of a Russian newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets.

“Flight MH370 malaysia Airlines missing on 8 March with 239 passengers was hijacked. Pilots are not guilty; the plane was hijacked by unknown terrorists. We know that the name of the terrorist who gave instructions to pilots is “Hitch.” The plane is in Afghanistan not far from Kandahar near the border with Pakistan,” the source was quoted as saying.

The Russian newspaper has said that the passengers have been divided into seven groups and are living in mud huts with almost no food, according to Daily Star.

The report said that 20 passengers who were Asian have been smuggled into a bunker in Pakistan. It is also claimed that the terrorists are possibly seeking to bargain with either America or China.

The news, however, has not been confirmed by authorities either in Malaysia or China and must be taken with caution as there are no credible evidence to prove that this is what has happened. Also, the news cannot be independently verified due to the anonymity of the source to the Russian newspaper.

A massive search team, currently coordinated by Australia, is searching for the wreckage for more than a month and recent pings possibly emitted by the black box have been considered the best lead so far.

Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency has said that they were confident that the signals heard were from the missing plane.

“I’m now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not-too-distant future -but we haven’t found it yet, because this is a very challenging business,” Houston said on Thursday.

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