Pep Opara's Blog

I have reiterated many times that Borno State Government and some current and past top government officials can tell exactly who the Boko-Haram sponsors are. Yes! even our Number one top man said Boko Haram had infiltrated his government, and same Nasir El-rufai ranting about could be one!. They know and would always be skirmish and defensive...   People let me refresh your memory, which state government lodge house in Abuja was a top Boko-Haram leader arrested during the Late Yar Adua/Jonathan regime? It was Borno State Government Lodge House and who was the then governor? Modu Sheriff  was. Get your brains at work and do a deep think.    Murderers are moving about as free men and joining "so called" winning party for protection while daily perpetrating heinous crimes through their agents of destruction.  

  The dissolution of the marriage between Christ Embassy Church founder, Pastor Christian Oyakhilome, and his wife, Rev. Anita Odegwa Oyakhilome, has entered the final phase.    According to TheCable report, the wife is seeking divorce on the grounds of “unreasonable behaviour” and “adultery”. She outlined several allegations against the pastor which TheCable cannot publish for legal reasons.   The divorce case, with Suit No FD14D01650, was filed on April 9, 2014 at Divorce Section A, Central Family Court, First Avenue House, High Holborn, London, UK, on Anita’s behalf by Attwaters Jameson Hill Solicitors, a full-service law firm with expertise in commercial law and a strong consumer focus in family, wills and estate, personal injury law and medical negligence. Efforts to reconcile the popular couple, whose church is one of the biggest denominations in Nigeria and has branches all over world, have failed. They have two...

  Kim K is obviously tired of Fat Rob and the drama surrounding his growing weight and new found love for drugs. She opened up to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live last night about how Rob  unceremoniously let her know that he wouldn’t be attending the KimYe wedding the morning of, via e-mail, and how unbothered by whatever he’s going through as she was running at of patience with him, and her preferable choice of girlfriend for Rob.   Via DailyMail : He famously fled Europe just a day before his big sister’s big day.  Now, Kim Kardashian, 33 has finally addressed the rumours surrounding brother Rob, 27, missing out on her wedding to Kanye West in Italy in May this year.  Speaking on Tuesday evening to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, Kim confirmed that he did not break the news to her face to face.  ‘My brother and I are so close, he is one of my best friends,’ she began, trying to downplay the rift. ...

Patrick Sawyer’s Wife The wife of the Liberian man late Patrick Sawyer, who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has defended her husband’s decision to travel to Africa’s most populous country, saying he did so in desperate search for a country with better healthcare system than his own country. In an article published earlier today, TMZ Liberia Magazine quoted Decontee Sawyer, who is a radio host in New York, as explaining that Mr. Sawyer had no trust in the healthcare system in Liberia and had possibly headed to Nigeria with the hope of receiving better treatment for his ailment.  Mrs. Sawyer shared her thoughts on her Facebook profile from which TMZ Liberia sourced it for publication.   “I’ve read other reports in other papers (not the New York Times) about Patrick’s “recklessness.” I get where they’re coming from, and they certainly have the right to feel the way they do. However, as Patrick’s widow, I would like to shed some light on this from another perspective....

  Liberia’s efforts to control deadly epidemic being hampered by local mistrust as two infected US health workers return home The withdrawal of some international medics from  Liberia  following the infection of two US health workers with the  Ebola  virus has exacerbated the healthcare crisis caused by the epidemic.   The overcrowded and understaffed Elwa hospital in the capital, Monrovia, where Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol worked, has been forced to turn away some Ebola cases. The virus, which is highly contagious and fatal in more than half of the cases in the current outbreak, has killed more than 700 people in west  Africa .   On Sunday, US health authorities said Brantly’s condition was improving after his return to the US, where he is being treated by infectious disease specialists at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.   “It’s encouraging that he seems to be improving – that’s really important – and we’re hop...

  A Chinese medical expert, Dr Zhou Zhengyou has claimed to cure up to 70 per cent of his gay patients, although he says it is a long and difficult process.   But Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.   Later this month, a Chinese court will hear the first case of its kind brought against a clinic that offers so-called “gay conversion therapy.   A long campaign in Europe and America has been successful in shifting the medical consensus against such treatment, and now campaigners want Chinese doctors to follow suit.“China declassified homosexuality as a mental illness well over a decade ago, but clinics like Zhengyou’s are still easy to find,” a protesting activist said.   He said “Dr Zhengyou shows me some of the books he’s written on the subject over the course of his career. “One of them is a guide for parents who suspect ...

Days after the masked one, Lagbaja rejected the offer to perform at the grand finale of the Osun PDP Governorship election campaign which held at Osogbo and which was also used to host the President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the musician has cried out that his musical shrine, “The Wonderland” has received too many august visitors in the last one week from the Department of State Security Service (SSS) and Armed Mobile Policemen on the instructions from order from above.  A report by Champion Newspaper says; they have continuously lay siege for Lagbaja and after a futile attempt to get him, has resorted to harassment and molestation of staff members of his company.   Lagbaja, who spoke from the UK, said he has been away from Nigeria in the last 41days owing to performance he had in London and Canada. He also claimed to have received threats to his life to either debunk the story published by some major newspapers in the country or face the music.   After c...

  French troops moving to the frontline of the war fight   French President Francois Hollande and his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, on Sunday marked the centennial of the start of World War I with a joint ceremony at the observation post on Hartmannswillerkopf, a mountain that was the scene of intense fighting during the war.   According to a report by Fox News Latino , the observation post in the Vosges mountains of Alsace, a region in north eastern France, changed hands eight times between December 1914 and 1915.   Some 30,000 soldiers from both countries died in the fighting around the rocky spur in the months after Germany declared war on France on Aug. 3, 1914.   Hollande and Gauck shook hands, embraced and participated in a military ceremony before placing the cornerstone of what will be the first Franco-German museum to tell the story of "The Great War." The museum is scheduled to open in 2017.   Hollande and Gauck ...

  A woman has been quarantined at a hospital in Hong Kong after falling ill with Ebola-like symptoms when she returned from a trip to Africa.The patient, who is said to be exhibiting symptoms similar to the deadly virus, is undergoing tests to verify the cause of her illness, local media reported.   It comes as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond today declared the disease a ‘very serious threat’ to Britain as he prepares to chair an emergency meeting on how to bolster the country’s defences against the vicious virus.   British airlines are on alert for cases of the deadly virus, after tests revealed a man died in Nigeria from the disease, having been allowed to board an international flight from Liberia. “Deadly: The man was tested for the Ebola virus at a hospital in Birmingham after developing ‘feverish’ symptoms. He was given the all-clear by doctors but there are fears the killer disease could spread to the UK”   What is Ebola virus disease? Eb...

  Hmmmn! If WHO Chiefs says this, then it's real mess for the globe..   An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is out of control but can be stopped with more resources and tougher measures, World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said yesterday.   The outbreak is the worst since the disease was discovered in the mid-1970s, with 729 deaths in four countries.   “This outbreak is moving faster than our efforts to control it,” Chan told the presidents of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone at an emergency meeting in Guinea’s capital Conakry.   “If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost of lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries,” she said, according to a WHO transcript.   But the outbreak could be stopped and the public was not at high risk of infection, she said. Governments might need to restrict population movem...

  He noted that PDP did not stop at that. “Just recently, we have the same case, after we joined the APC, they came with one ‘hawk’. I think he is from Kebbi, he was calling them to his house you know Kano is a great state, we want people to come and settle in Kano, but many of them are trying to become enemies but we don’t mind because Kano is so attractive.   Read via Sahara Reporters : Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state has said he is too big for the impeachment tricks and antics of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He said ruling party tried to induce the legislature to impeach but their cynical plan was dashed by the people of Kano. “They have been trying and that you are aware of. They came here and collected all the principal officers and other members of the state House of Assembly; not because they stole anything, but because they didn’t want us to pass the budget. The EFCC came dead in the night and started c...

  Sources have reported that a bird flying at noon time today accidentally hit an object and immediately transformed into a young girl whose identity has not been ascertained at the time this report. This bizarre incident occurred at Italapo area of Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria. The bird girl was pictured was pictured by sources at the scene of the incident.   Would bring more details soon.

  As he prepares to host a summit in Washington, DC, that will bring together leaders from across Africa, how does Barack Obama see the continent’s future.  Does he feel let down by Vladimir Putin? Could he have designed a more elegant health-care law? And why don’t more business leaders admit that they have lunch with him? In his cabin aboard Air Force One, returning to Washington from Kansas City, where he had been speaking about economic policy, the president talked with John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of  The Economist , and Edward Carr, our foreign editor. The prompt for the interview was the Africa summit, but the conversation ranged widely through the emerging world, China and Russia and the principles underlying his foreign policy. It ended with a lengthy riposte to those, including  The Economist , who have criticised the White House for its treatment of business. Mr Obama was unusually relaxed and contemplative, buoyed by the recent economic n...