Messi, C Ronaldo & Iniesta nominated for 2012 Fifa Ballon d'Or

FIFA has revealed the names of the three players who remain in the race to win the World Footballer of the Year award 2012. They are Andres Iniesta (Spain, FC Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Argentina/FC Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Read Madrid)

The winner will be revealed at the FIFA Ballon d’Or gala as part of a televised show at the Zurich Kongresshaus on 7 January 2013. Who do you think should win this year?

How my daughter’s fiancé bathed her with acid

The motive behind the acid bath of 22-year-old Chika Egbo by her estranged lover, David Sulaimon, remains elusive, but one thing is sure, the victim may not remain the same again.

Chika is a student of the Enugu State College of Education.

Last Tuesday, when our correspondent visited her at the Burns Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Egbo has become a shadow of the beautiful girl she was. The substance Sulaimon allegedly poured on her had destroyed every visible skin from her chest upwards.

She mumbled to her father, a Taraba State-based businessman, as she could neither see nor speak properly at the time.

When her father, Matthew Egbo, narrated the incident that led to Chika’s state, the story brought tears to his eyes as he lamented that his daughter would never be normal again.

Matthew said, “In March 2011, someone who identified himself as Lekan Sulaimon called me, asking for my daughter’s hand in marriage. We talked a lot and I promised to speak with Chika on the issue.

“My daughter later told me he was the boy she was in love with and said she had resolved to marry him.”

After much discussion, Matthew told Sulaimon to bring his parents for proper introduction, but the suitor said his father was ill and needed to be taken abroad for treatment. He also said his mother was abroad.

Matthew said, “On the June 25 date that we agreed on, Sulaimon brought seven men and four women dressed in Yoruba attire to my hometown, Enugu, where we held the introduction.

“But around November last year, my wife travelled from Taraba to Enugu and Chika told her she was pregnant.”

According to Matthew, Chika told her parents they should not be alarmed since she and Sulaiman had agreed to get married.

Chika was instructed to go to Lagos and tell Sulaiman’s relations about the pregnancy.

But when she got back from Lagos, Chika told her father that she discovered that most of what Sulaiman had told her about his parents were lies.

Matthew explained, “For instance, Chika discovered that Sulaimon’s father was hale and hearty. The father told her he was not aware of any plans by his son to get married.

“She also learnt that the mother was not abroad too. She visited her and she told us the woman received her well and even expressed joy that his son had found someone to marry.

“But after the visit, we heard nothing from neither Sulaimon nor his parents until after my daughter gave birth to a baby girl on May 4.

Our correspondent learnt that Chika had broached the idea of abortion to her parents, as she told them it was apparent that the man she was in love with had lied to her all along.

Matthew forbade her to consider abortion. After the baby was born, Chika was said to have informed Sulaimon, but he gave series of excuses why he could not visit her.

He reportedly told her he was facing some challenges and did not have the wherewithal to take care of the baby at the moment.

After a few months, Chika’s baby girl was weaned and taken to Taraba to live with Matthew and his wife.

The Egbos said they took the decision to take the baby off their daughter’s hands so that she could continue her study.

PUNCH Metro learnt that in November, Sulaimon began to request that he needed to see his baby, but Matthew told him to bring his parents to come and iron things out.

Chika was said to have insisted she did not want to have anything to do with the young man anymore.

But on November 5, Chika travelled to Lagos after Sulaimon had informed her that his mother wanted to see her. The unsuspecting girl left Enugu without informing her parents.

“My phone just rang that day and I was told to come to Lagos because a young man had poured acid on my daughter,” Chika’s father said.

Matthew said the message came as  a rude shock since he was not aware his daughter went to Lagos. He explained that the police were the ones who got his number from her phone.

He said,“What I learnt was that when she arrived Igando, Lagos, Sulaimon met her and she demanded that he should take her to his mother who wanted to see her.

“What we gathered from the little she could mumble to us was that Sulaimon went behind a house and as they were about to pick an okada to his mother’s house, he brought out a polythene.

“But when they stopped at a point and Chika thought they were going to proceed to his mother’s house, he just opened a container in the polythene he was carrying and emptied its content on her head.

“She told us when she realised that what Sulaimon poured on her had began eating into her skin, she raised the alarm and called for help.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that passersby and sympathisers, who had been alerted to the young woman’s plight, pursued the fleeing Sulaimon. He was caught and taken to Ikotun Police Station.

 “Till now, I still don’t know why he did what he did,” Matthew said.

Divisional Police Officer of Ikotun, Mr. Augustin Akika, confirmed the incident, but said the suspect had been transferred to the state Criminal Investigations Department, Yaba.

Osita Iheme (pawpaw) showing off his jersey in Uyo!

Just before the match which was scheduled between ex super eagles stars and team Godswell, yesterday in Uyo. Nollywood star Osita Iheme displays his jersey to his fans.

Florida Woman Edwarda O'bara Dies After 42 Years In Coma

A woman who lived in a coma for 42 years, meticulously cared for by her family, died Wednesday in her home in Miami Gardens, Fla., the Miami Herald reported.

Edwarda O’Bara was a 16-year-old high school student in 1970 when she became sick from her diabetes medication and slipped into a diabetic coma.
According to the Herald, just before she lost consciousness, Edwarda asked her mother, Kaye O’Bara, to never leave her side, and her family never did.
Edwarda’s father, Joe O’Bara, and Kaye took care of their daughter — reading to her, playing her music, making sure she was turned every two hours, bathed, given insulin and given nourishment through a feeding tube — until their deaths in 1976 and 2008, respectively. After that, Edwarda’s sister Colleen O’Bara took over.

The family’s story inspired the 2001 book, "A Promise Is A Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother’s Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us" and a song called "My Blessed Child," and it prompted people from around the world to travel to her Florida home.
"She taught me so much, and I’m talking about now, after she was in the coma," Colleen O’Bara told the Herald. "She taught me so much about unconditional love that I couldn’t say I had it before. She taught me about patience that I didn’t have before."

In an announcement of Edwarda's death posted Thursday on a website dedicated to her, Colleen O'Bara wrote: "Yesterday while taking care of Edwarda I noticed her looking directly at me and gave me the biggest smile I had ever seen. She then closed her eyes and joined my Mom in Heaven."

Edwarda O’Bara was 59. A memorial is scheduled for Tuesday.

Obasanjo Builds N350M Mosque And Arabic School In Abeokuta - Islam for Muslims

Obasanjo To Build A N350m Ultra-modern Mosque, Arabic School In Abeokuta

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday laid the foundation of a N350,000,000 (three hundred and fifty million naira) ultra-modern central mosque and Arabic school within the premises of his Presidential Library in Oke-Mosan Abeokuta.

Sources say Obasanjo decided to construct a mosque within the premises of the controversial Presidential Library so as to make the place look international and as well erase the impression that he hates northerners and Islam.

The source said further that four governors in the north held a closed door meeting with Obasanjo before the event where they discussed 2015 election and how President Goodluck Jonathan would be either convinced or stopped from re-contesting to pave way for a Northerner as the next President.

The four Northern governors that were present at the foundation laying and fund raising of Olusegun Obasanjo Baytus Salam central Mosque are Kebbi; Usman Dakingari, Kano State; Rabi Kwakwanso, Sokoto; Aliyu Wamakko, Katsina state governor; Sheu-Shemma Shetima who was represented by his deputy. Each of them donated N20 million for the construction of the mosque.

Others who contributed to the Obasanjo’s mosque and arabic school were the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal who pledged N2 million, Chairman of Dangote group of companies ,Alhaji Aliko Dangote who promised N25 million, former governor of Kebbi State, Senator Adamu Aleru who pledged N10 million.

Former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki also pledged N2 million while former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar also sent a sum of five million naira pledge towards the construction of the mosque.

Also the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi donated N5 million.

Other States that contributed to the construction of the mosque were Adamawa, Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kogi, Kwara and Ogun States which all sent their pledges of N20 million each through the Sokoto state governor.

Speaking at the gathering, Obasanjo, a Christian of the Baptist faith himself, urged Nigerians to have religious tolerance and be accommodating, one to another. “I believe that the more you know your God, the better you will be able to serve him,” Obasanjo said.

AY Apologises To Tonto Dikeh Over His Daughter's 'high" Video

Meanwhile AY is so enjoying himself in London right now, prepping for his comedy show AY LIVE IN LONDON - IndigO2 O2 Arena holding tomorrow.

BBA Star Prezzo Releases New Songs; "Naija Girl" And "Liqher"

Goldie's new best friend Prezzo is out with two new singles..."Naija girl" (I wonder if he was talking about Goldie on this track) and "Liqher"
If you followed the just concluded BBA StarGame show, you must know about Prezzo and his fling with Nigeria's Goldie in the House. They’ve been spotted together several times – 'as friends' – since the show ended.


Listen to Naija girl HERE

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Listen to Ligher HERE

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