PHOTOS: Last Flight To Abuja....@ Nollywood Ireland Film Festival 2012

The Nollywood Ireland Film Festival which took place on the 29th of September at the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Resorts, Northwoods Park, Santry, Dublin was simply an event that will linger in people's memories for a long while.

Part of the event was the Irish premiere of  Nollywood movie directed by Obi Emelonye, Last Flight To Abuja featuring Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Jim Iyke, Ali Nuhu, Jide Kosoko, Uche Odoputa, Anthony Monjaro, Samuel Demola Ajibola, Jennifer Oguzie, Uru Eke, Celine Loader, Oma Iyasara, Charles Granville and Julie Adams.

The event organized by the Director of the Nollywood Ireland Film Festival, Reginald Okoflex Inya, was well studded with dignitaries and movie stars from Ireland, Nigeria, UK and other parts of the world. Also present were some of the cast of the award winning movie.. Uru Eke, Anthony Monjaro..

Yemi Adenuga and Basorge Tariah Jnr were the MCs for the event.

 Nollywood Stars Uru Eke, Anthony Monjaro arriving @ Dublin airport prior to the event

 

Uru Eke, Anthony Monjaro

Amaka Okonkwo (Metro Eireann)

 

Anthony Monjaro

 

Nnenna Amushan (WomenStyles), Anthony Monjaro (Last Flight To Abuja)

Basorge Tariah Jnr, Yemi Adenuga

Director of the Nollywood Ireland Film Festival, Reginald Okoflex Inya and wife

Director, Last Flight To Abuja Obi Emelonye and wife

 

Uru Eke

 

 

Director of the Nollywood Ireland Film Festival, Reginald Okoflex Inya, Nnenna Amushan(WomenStyles), Amaka Okonkwo ( Metro Eireann)

Nnenna Amushan, Obi Emelonye ( Director last Flight To Abuja) and Angela Ugonabo ( Entertainment OneLove)

 

 

 

 

 

HEARTLESS DEED!! 8-Day-Old Boy Abandoned At Kaduna Cemetery!

A baby boy suspected to be eight-day-old was found wrapped inside a bag and abandoned at a cemetery in Kakuri, Kaduna South local government area of Kaduna State, Nigeria yesterday.

The boy, who had maggots coming out from every opening on his body, was still alive, according to two good Samaritans who located him in the area.

Mr. Robert Ogbole, a student of Bayero University Kano and Miss Grace Yahaya, a Kaduna State athlete who found the baby, narrated their experiences to newsmen at the Kakuri police station where it was taken to after receiving first aid at a nearby hospital in Kakuri.

Ogbole said: “I was at home at about 11: 30 am when my younger brother (Mike), who passed through the cemetery to the football field came with a report that he heard the sound of a baby inside a bag at the cemetery. So, I quickly called my neighbour (Grace), and we ran to the place.

“On getting there, we found this baby boy rapped all over with cloth and was kept in the cemetery, so we picked him and this my neighbour helped to unwrap him, the baby had maggots coming from every opening of his body but was still alive.

“We then took the baby to Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) clinic in Kakuri where the baby was treated before we brought him to the police station.

“The nurse at the clinic confirmed that the baby should be about a week old and probably would have been in that condition for about four days,’’ she said.

When contacted, the Kaduna Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Aminu Lawan, confirmed the incident.

“When the baby boy was brought to our police station in Kakuri, our men immediately swung into action. We have taken the baby to the Saint Gerard Catholic Hospital for necessary medical investigation and treatment. At the end of the treatment, we will process all the documents and hand over the baby to the social welfare for further necessary action.

Meanwhile, the PPRO said, the police will carry out necessary investigation with a view to unveiling the perpetrator of such dastardly act.
Can someone please tell me how a mother can do this to a baby she carried for 9 months! A cemetery of all places!! God have mercy!!







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Aluu Community Demands Release Of Monarch, Reiterates That No Aluu Man Has A Hand In The Deaths

Killed UNIPORT Students

Seven days after four students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) were killed by an irate mob in Aluu in Ikwere local government area of Rivers State, the community yesterday broke its silence on the matter.

The community denied that its members were involved in the incident and demanded the immediate release of its detained traditional ruler, Alhaji Hassan Welewa.

The people warned that they would not fold their hands against any further destruction of their community and the infliction of pains on them.They urged security agencies to take note of plans to attack Aluu community by some ethnic groups whose sons were victims of the mob action.

Spokesman of Aluu Garshon Benson, who disclosed this during a media briefing attended by the chairman, Aluu Council of Chiefs, Richard Kalu, called for the release of the detained traditional ruler.

Benson also called on security agencies to stop the harassment and arrests of innocent Aluu natives and urged the outfits to carry out a thorough investigation of the gruesome murder of the students and bring the culprits to book.

He said: “It has come to our notice that some ethnic groups in the state whose sons were among those murdered on our soil are threatening to attack Aluu. We really sympathize with them for the loss of their children and reiterate that no Aluu man has a hand in their death.

“We implore them to allow security agencies to fish out the actual killers of their sons, but also warn strongly that we will no longer fold our arms and watch further destruction of our communities and the infliction of pains and injuries on the good and law-abiding people of Aluu clan.”





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ALUU RESIDENTS LAMENT: The same students I served for 35yrs have turned round to destroy all I laboured for – Retired UNIPORT staff

A deserted Aluu after the invasion by UNIPORT students. Inset top right are Mr. and Mrs. Toku, whose son was among the UNIPORT Four, while bottom are people fleeing Aluu.

The people of Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, one of the host communities of UNIPORT, have been on the defensive since then about the circumstances that led to the lynching of the undergraduates.

The four students – Chidiaka Biringa, Kelechi Ugonna, Lloyd Toku and Tekena Erikena- were branded thieves, brutalised and set ablaze by some members of the community for allegedly stealing a laptop computer and a BlackBerry phone.

Though many stories have been peddled about the circumstances that led to the killing of the students,

Police shoot sales girl dead, injure 3 others

 A 20-year old sales girl identified simply as Lucy, was on Friday shot dead by policemen in the Apo area of Abuja.

The girl was hit in the chest by bullets fired into a photography shop where she worked as a sales girl.

Three other people sustained gunshot injuries when policemen from the FCT Police Command fired bullets indiscriminately in an attempt to enforce the demolition order of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.