Wazobia Reporters

Monday, February 10, 2014

PHOTOS: Ageless American artist - Mariah Carey Exposes Her "Big Things" On Stage

This woman just don't want to get old and leave things like this for young girls. This was how she performed at the BET Honors at Warner Theatre in Washington DC on Saturday. See more photos below...

This is just too much, mama!

Female Student Rapéd By Her Brother After She Got Drunk

Crisis is gradually brewing in a family at Ijoko area of Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State as a man in his 20s was said to have rapéd his step-sister after he took her out and got her drunk in a club.

The Elesin family, which recently moved to their own house at Ijoko area is currently thrown into confusion an NYSC member and second born of the family, has been fingered in the rapé of his own sister, said to be a first year student in a tertiary institution.

Overzealous and desperate commercial séx workers in Abuja, develop new strategies to beat directives of the Federal Capital Territory administration on their illicit operation in the city centre, Punch's Olalekan Adetayo writes.

For a civil servant who recently transferred to Abuja from Ondo State, a dating site, Badoo, is handy for him when he needs female companions. He adds, “What I normally do is to launch my Badoo wherever I am. Whether I am drinking in a garden or visiting friends, once I launch it, my handset will show me ladies who are on Badoo within that vicinity. It will bring out their pictures and we will begin chatting. Anyone I decide to invite will be with me within 10 minutes because of her proximity.”

He notes that while some of the “online prostitutés” will prefer to negotiate their price via online, others prefer the face-to-face negotiation, perhaps with some bottles of drinks to spice up the moment.

Like every other urban settlements, the FCT is having its fair share of the activities of séx workers. Once upon a time, these women of easy virtue draped in their skimpy dresses, dotted every major road and hotel in the nation’s capital.

At a point, the FCT authority became uncomfortable with the situation and so rolled out some directives to put an end to prostitution in the city. The authority, through its Secretary for Social Development, Mrs. Blessing Onuh, in fact, banned the “business” in the city.

As of today, it may be difficult to see these commercial sex workers loitering around public places, but that does not mean that they have left the city to sell their “ware” elsewhere as directed by the Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed.

A two-week investigation carried out by Punch correspondent showed these ladies are still plying their trade in the metropolitan city, but in different styles. Indeed, with the arrest of many of them by the special taskforce for loitering, they simply went back to the drawing board, devising new methods to up their game.

One of such methods, findings reveal is “online prostitution.” This involves employing strategies, such as using social networking service. In fact, one unique approach is the use of Badoo, a dating-focused social networking service, which operates in 180 countries. Report has it as the 136th most popular website in the world.

The use of smart phones is another veritable platform. Here, their agents with such i-phones display pictures (nude and semi-nude) of their friends and business partners, as it were, who are up for grabs. Once they gain the potential men’s attention, they show them the pictures from which they make their choices.

Our correspondent ran into one of such agents at a popular garden in the Central Area of Abuja and offered her a drink. To reciprocate the gesture, the lady, who claimed to be Benita, offered to provide her friend(s). “What are your specs (specifications)? You like them chubby or thin. What size of boobs and buttocks do you prefer?” These and many more questions came from Benita.

Without waiting for answers, she opened her Nokia Lumina phone and next was a series of beautiful pictures of young ladies in their early and mid 20’s.

“You will like this one, she is gentle. You will enjoy this one, she is jovial,” she said and continued using different words to advertise the special attributes of each of the ladies on her phone gallery.

On whether the ladies are her friends, she said, “I knew them when I was doing girls’ business.” When pressed further to explain what the business was, Benita recoiled into her shell out of suspicion.

In order not to give himself away, our correspondent asked her to call any of the girls who she could vouch for. Tingling with excitement, she immediately promised to invite three of such women to avoid any disappointment. But if you think that service would be done without a price, you are dead wrong. In fact, this correspondent mobilised her to carry out the task with a recharge card and in less than 20 minutes, two of the ladies were already close to the garden, desperately seeking information on the phone on how to reach us.

But before they finally joined us, she boasted, “Two of them are already close by. I do not want to turn anyone of them back. You can pick your choice from the two. In case you want to go with the two, you are free to do so. In this Abuja, I can “control” 10 girls for you immediately without standing up from here.”

As soon as Sandra and Love (not real names) joined us, they ordered drinks while I kept taking notes of the sequence on my i-pad. Benita kept interrupting me, accusing me of not concentrating on my guests. She whispered to me, demanding to know which one of them I preferred or whether I would go with the two. When I asked what it would cost me to take them; away, she replied, “I have worked on them so you do not need to negotiate with them. Just take them away and when they are leaving tomorrow morning, give them whatever you can afford.”

At that point, I told her that I had an evening meeting to cover and I promised to join them later. To erase any doubt, I left enough money to cater for their drinks while the contact person assured of keeping them company until I returned.

Again, instead of loitering around, Abuja commercial sex workers now sit inside drinking joints or hotel bars, occasionally engaging in one social debate or another. Indeed, since they dress well, it will be difficult to take them for whores.

On Sunday evening, our correspondent, in company with a colleague, drove to a popular hotel located in Area 3, Garki, which is notorious for huge presence of these damsels. Interestingly, these women of easy virtue were not on the street leading to the hotel as was in the past. They have also adopted a fresh strategy.

As we entered the hotel’s drinking garden, there were no fewer than seven men with small kiosks inside the garden. Apart from chewing gum and perhaps recharge cards, the other most prominent items on display at the kiosks were all manner of cartons of condoms.

I bought a recharge card from one of them in order to gain his confidence and talk to him. The trick worked. When I demanded to know whether “babes” no longer come to the hotel, he smiled and pointed to a corner where there was a live band. He told me in not-too-perfect English that I had passed many of them unknowingly.

As we made our way towards the live band, ladies who were already seated, pretending to be patrons who came to drink, started making some unusual gestures towards us. Pronto, we found out that they were CSWs who, for fear of arrest, no longer stand on the roadside.

No sooner had we gone past them than different perfume ordour hit our nostrils. So also were clouds of cigarette smoke. They also maintained eye contacts with us with the hope that we would invite them. They were however disappointed as we made our way back to our car and drove off.

A banker, Emmanuel, told our correspondent a story of how commercial sex workers contribute money to rent houses in the city centre with about five or more of them sharing a single room. He recalled how one of his friends who went in search of one of the ladies in Area 8 ended up sleeping with not only the lady but also with one of her roommates.

Although efforts to get the reaction of the FCTA to react to the new trend did not yield any result, a source told our correspondent that it would be difficult to tackle.

2 Islamic Clerics Die As Their Jeep Plunges Into Canal in Laogs

I know this particular place in Lagos and I believe adequate protective measures are needed there...

Two Islamic clerics lost their lives in an unfortunate accident on Saturday after their jeep collided with a bus and plunged into a canal at the Iyana Ipaja end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The victims, identified as Alhaji Akinsola Al-Ameen and Muyideen Thiamiyu, were coming back from Ikorodu when their vehicle had a tyre burst around 10pm.

BREAKING NEWS: Asari Dokubo Arrested By SSS

After series of deliberations by PDP agents in Abuja on whether or not he should be arrested since he is one of those speaking in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan, the SSS on Thursday finally summoned courage to pick up Niger Delta Militant leader, Asari Dokubo, for "questioning".

Below is what Asari said would happen in Nigeria if Jonathan loses 2015 election:

"In less than one hour, the way we would strike, the world will be shocked. If anybody does anything against Jonathan, we will retaliate. What we will do will shock the whole world. We will cripple the economy of the country not only in the creeks, but also on the nation’s territorial waters, no vessel will be allowed to enter Nigeria’s territorial waters."

Olu Famous had reported how Asari told a national daily in an exclusive interview that Nigeria will burn if by any chance President Jonathan is defeated in 2015, even if the election is free and fair.

With this level of threat to all Nigerians, we are watching how the SSS will handle this situation.

IS GOVERNOR RAUF AREGBESOLA THE PROBLEM?

NIGERIANS ARE GOOD PEOPLE!!

I almost believed that

The Government is bad, the Police is corrupt, the Teachers incompetent, the Nurses cruel BUT Nigerians are good people. What an Irony!
The Nigerian, or say, Many Nigerians have the mentality of exclusion. Every other group of people is bad except for their self righteous selves. When it gets tribal, you know how it gets and when religious, the hypocrisy is VIVID.

Bad spirits are on the loose and not even the homes of pastors are spared these days. A pastor in Lagos has pleaded with a court to dissolve his 20-year marriage after he revealing that his loving wife cheated on him.

44yrs old Pastor Olufemi Adewumi, who lives at 12 Ajiboye Close, Agbado Oke-Odo, Agege, disclosed that his wife is threatening his life, stealing and also commits adultery amongst other things.

After failing to come up with a reasonable excuse why he happily allow Senators to decamp from their party to PDP in the past, Senate President David Mark cited a court order and declined to accept the defecting 11 PDP Senators’ letter who have indicated their intention to join the APC.

OMG! Nigerian Olympic Athlete, Ambrose, Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing Married Woman

I find it hard to understand how a someone will comfortably KILL a fellow human being. It's crazy!

Former Nigerian Olympian, Ambrose Monye (left), was on Wednesday been sentenced to life in prison by a South Africa court for the murder of a 26yrs old woman, Channelle Henning (middle).

Ambrose, who took part in Souelle Olympic in 1988, was said to have killed Channelle as she drove out after dropping her young son at a Montessori Preschool in East Pretoria South Africa on November 8th, 2011.