American Artist, Jamie Foxx, criticized for calling Obama "our lord and savior"

Jamie Foxx is drawing criticism for calling President Barack Obama "our Lord and savior" at the recent Soul Train Music Awards in Las Vegas.


During the show, Foxx took to the stage to praise Obama when he used the godlike terminology, E! News reports. "It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama," he said to the audience.

E! News notes that the Soul Train Awards aired Sunday night, but was filmed in Las Vegas just days after the president won reelection in November.

Foxx's comments incited furor in some Christian groups after the show aired on BET.

The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States, Bill Donahue, released a statement regarding Foxx's "Lord and Savior" comment, referring to a 2011 red carpet interview in which the actor said he does not know what God means to him.

"Foxx’s epiphany is startling. It just goes to show that even though Obama did not succeed in stopping the oceans from rising (as he promised to do in 2008), he did succeed in convincing Jamie Foxx, and no doubt legions of others, that God exists," Donahue writes. "Whether God can survive an ACLU lawsuit accusing him of violating church and state grounds remains to be seen."

Radio host and Fox News commentator Mary Walter said the "Django Unchained" actor's reference may root back to reliance on government. "The intellectually superior don’t need the crutch of religion," she said on Fox News, according to Mediaite. "Those of us clinging to our guns and religion… we’re somehow less evolved. It’s about a societal religion as opposed to a church religion, because if the government gives you everything, the government becomes your religion, and he’s our leader.”

NewsBusters, which also blasted Foxx, has previously criticized Obama-as-God references in the media. The conservative blog chastised Newsweek editor Evan Thomas for saying that Obama is "standing above the country, above above the world, he's sort of God" during a 2009 interview.

Movie Makers Produce a Movie on Aluu 4.

Simony Productions, producers of Blackberry Babes have revealed they are producing a movie titled Aluu 4. The movie is expected to be a show of the event that took place in on October 5th morning in the Omoikiri community in Aluu, Rivers State where 4 Undergraduates were brutally murdered in the most gruesome way. Reports say the movie is already on set.
The plan to make the movie on the shocking event that shook the entire nation has attracted criticism from several Nigerians. Most Ngerians believe Idumota Marketers, where Simony Productions stems from, only care about making money and therefore the movie will not necessarily come as a tribute to the memory of the young men who lost their lives.
Others are wondering if enough research will be done to create such a critical real live event, suggesting, that the movie may turn out to be a mockery cooked out of materials gathered from mainly online sources.

Police declares Singer, Terry G, wanted

Contoversial singer cum producer, Gabriel Amanyi popularly known as Terry G, has been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police in relation to a hit-and-run incident in Ikeja Lagos, last Friday.
According to reports, Terry G had gone clubbing on Oba Akran Road, Ikeja penultimate Friday with friends when the incident happened.

Eye-witness reports that as Terry G was leaving the premises of the club at the dead of night, he recklessly drove out on high speed without looking and in the process crushed the legs of a funseeker who was identified as Moshood Azeez.

The victim who is a regular caller at the Computer Village Market, Ikeja was rushed to the General Hospital, Ikeja by good samaritans for medical attention.
The matter was later reported at the MAN Centre Police Station, Wemabod Estate, Ikeja.
Ngozi Braide, Lagos State PPRO who confirmed the incident, said the police will do everything within its power to arrest the singer whose wife just recently put to bed a baby boy.

Lagos tout kills friend, "to give him peace".

Joseph Akindele, a middle aged man left people’s mouth agape when he confessed killing his friend, Mufutau, to relieve him of the persistent pain and agony he was going through due to an undisclosed ailment, affirming that Mufutau is “now happy in death.”

Akindele was arrested with a bag containing the skull and other remains of the deceased by a team of patrol
officers in the Badagry area of Lagos State.

In his written statement to the police, he said, “I am a tout. I live under the Gbaji/Iyafin bridge at Badagry with Muftau. I don’t have a means of livelihood and that’s why I live under the bridge. I work as agbero (tout) at motor parks; there, I get money to feed. Muftau has been living under the bridge but he was aways sick and there was no money to go to hospital.”

“He was suffering too much because his sickness will not go. We didn’t have money for treatment, so after watching him in that pathetic state, I decided to put a stop to it by killing him with a sharp cutlass, so he can rest from the pains he was going through,” he added.

The suspect has been transferred to the Homicide department at Panti, Yaba for further investigation to ascertain if he is in a good frame of mind, a ritualist or/and a cold-blooded murderer.

Man pours acid on his girlfriend

 A middle-aged man David Suleiman has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly pouring acid on his fiancée, Chika Egbo and a yet to be identified Okada rider at Ikotun area of Lagos State.

Suleiman who is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti,Yaba, Lagos, was said to have attacked his girl friend, a 300 level student at Enugu State College of Education, with acid for refusing him access to their only child.

Police sources at the state SCID, intimated newsmen that trouble began for the couple when Egbo became pregnant for Suleiman, and he abandoned her claiming that he travelled out of the country, and leaving her with the burden of fending for herself and the baby.

But few months after giving birth, he came back requesting to see the baby and he was refused.
A source, who craved anonymity, said he tricked the 25-year-old students who resides in Enugu State to Lagos State and he took her to an hidden spot in Ikotun where he poured the acid on her.

“An Okada rider who witnessed as the incident unfold went after Suleiman, but while he chased him, Suleiman emptied the can of acid on the Okada rider, who held him strongly waiting for the help.

Other Okada riders who drove by saw what was happening and the came to his rescue and they took Suleiman to Ikotun police station while the Okada rider and Egbo were rushed to a hospital.”

Meanwhile, Egbo, who is laying critically ill at the emergency unit of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, had her face, chest and some other parts of body destroyed by the acid bath.

Chelsea Fans Reject Their New Coach as they draw their first game after Di Matteo

"I have never heard in the history of the Premier League such a reaction to the appointment of a new manager as I have just heard from the Chelsea fans to Rafael Benitez. There were universal boos for the new boss." Said Jonathan Pearce, BBC Match of the Day commentator.

The pact of silence and subservience Chelsea's fans have made with owner Roman Abramovich ensured Rafael Benitez walked straight into a wall of hostility at Stamford Bridge.
Abramovich's decision to sack Roberto Di Matteo six months after winning the Champions League offended many Chelsea fans - but it almost qualified as a populist move compared to his replacement with Benitez.
Benitez's time at Liverpool made him a figure of derision and dislike at Chelsea. It was the result of an acrimonious rivalry with Jose Mourinho and his outwitting of "The Special One" in 2005 and 2007's Champions League semi-finals and the 2006 FA Cup semi-final, plus some barbs many of their supporters remember only too well.

This history meant the introductions were always going to be awkward when the interim manager met his new fans for the first time when Manchester City arrived at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
However much Benitez claimed he turned a deaf ear to his reception, nothing could have prepared him for the sound and fury that greeted him as he made his way through the tunnel to his place in the technical area prior to kick-off.

Chelsea have lost most of their capacity to surprise - but the venom aimed at Benitez carried an edge that was a shock even to those expecting the frostiest of welcomes.
And yet, while Benitez, received a warmer greeting from Manchester City's contingent than he did from Chelsea's fans, no voices were raised against Abramovich. No banners or chants suggesting the Russian was not welcome at Stamford Bridge. Nothing.

Abramovich dismissed Di Matteo and brought in Benitez - but any Roman revolt always stops short of the owner's executive box. This is the deal that has been made. If any of his behaviour meets with disapproval, it is suffered in silence for fear of causing offence.
So, during Chelsea's 0-0 draw with Manchester City, Stamford Bridge got as close to rebellion as it is ever likely to get but no anger could be heard rising up against Abramovich. The whole weight of the flak descended painfully on to Benitez.
The brutal truth is that so many Chelsea supporters have enjoyed so much of what Abramovich's money has brought and bought them in the shape of the Champions League, Premier League titles and FA Cups that his approach is simply accepted - and you suspect supporters of many other clubs who state their own disapproval and scorn would be exactly the same.

Analysis

Benitez, in certain situations, has a very thick skin but his suggestion he did not understand chanting that ranged from general disapproval to brutal abuse as he stood out in his technical area sounded very much like making the best of a very uncomfortable job. He would have to be constructed from stone not to have felt the impact of such personal criticism.
Stamford Bridge was a cacophony of jeering while the PA announcer, no shrinking violet with a microphone in his hands, struggled to make his point that a minute's applause was about to be observed for the late former Chelsea manager Dave Sexton.
Indeed, the show of respect for Sexton saved Benitez as attention rightly turned to the great old servant of Stamford Bridge rather than the unpopular new arrival.

Abramovich was as unmoved as ever as he looked on. If he cares about what he witnessed, no-one outside his inner circle will ever know - and Benitez was his shield anyway.
Benitez happily accentuated the positive of a clean sheet and a point against the champions but it was his opposite number Roberto Mancini who explained the only way Chelsea's new manager can reverse a popularity rating that is well into minuses: "Win, win, win, win, win...every game."
You would not place too much money on even this being enough to convince Benitez's detractors.
When a manager is not even given the first minute of his first game before being loudly and viciously acquainted with the disapproval of his own supporters, it is hard to see what he can actually do to win them over even before he tries to convince Abramovich to ditch the word "interim" from his title.
A banner draped from The Shed Stand read "Rafa Out - Fact." Posters held up stated: "In Roberto We Trusted And Loved. In Rafa We Will Never Trust. Fact." There were others.
The other fact is that Abramovich has chosen his man and no matter how loud the dissenters shout and whether they like it, they are stuck with him until the owner decides otherwise. This is the law at Stamford Bridge.

Frustrating start for Benitez

Of the nine managers making their debut for Chelsea under Roman Abramovich, Rafael Benitez became the third to not win. The Spaniard equalled Andre Villas-Boas in drawing, with Avram Grant being the only one to lose

In an undistinguished game, in which Manchester City were marginally the better side, Benitez's tactical side will take pleasure from a Chelsea team that looked reasonably well organised but there was little else to savour on a thoroughly joyless day all around.
And those hoping Benitez could offer instant restorative powers to his old Liverpool marksman Fernando Torres were to be disappointed. Perhaps his first question could be: "Why so sad Fernando?"
Torres simply looks a dejected and miserable figure and that is before you even analyse why the snap and threat has gone from his game. Benitez's Chelsea were clearly under orders to get the ball longer and faster to Torres - but it was a ploy greeted with more gratitude by Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany than the striker.
Benitez is likely to spend his early days introducing more pragmatism to Chelsea's play. He will be happy to sacrifice some of the gloss from the side Di Matteo was managing to ensure greater reliability and durability.
And then, with perhaps a tweak or two in January, it will simply be a matter of following the Mancini mantra of "Win, win, win, win, win...every game."
This is the deal Benitez has made with Abramovich - and the deal Chelsea's fans have made with Abramovich in exchange for success.

Gunmen Attack Police Headquarters Unit, in Abuja day After Kaduna Barracks Twin Bombing

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja was attacked early Monday morning by a group of unidentified gunmen.

The SARS HQ is one of the places Boko Haram suspects are normally held when transferred to Abuja.

The police however told reporters that the attack was repelled by the security operatives on duty.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but it mirrors the style of the dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram.
This attack comes a day after a double suicide bombing killed 11 people in a church inside a military barracks in Kaduna state, north- central Nigeria.
A military source confirmed on Sunday that a bus entered the barracks and was driven into the wall of the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, where it exploded and ten minutes later another car blew up outside the church.

Though the first blast caused no casualties, the second blast however did as curious worshippers gathered around the scene of the first blast looking at the debris of the initial explosion.