Gawker Explains The ILLUMINATI Connection That Connects The Pope, Jay-Z, Whitney Houston, Queen Elizabeth II, Beyonce’s Baby Blue Ivy Carter & More

The Pope, Queen Elizabeth II, Willow Smith, and Beyonce's newborn have something in common. They have all been suspected of being members of a clandestine occultist group, theIlluminati, by online conspiracy theorists.

Whether you're tired of hearing mentions of the Illuminati or are hungry for more, Gawker has you covered. The site features a "comprehensive guide" to the conspiracy theory that just won't die. The tongue-in-cheek explainer defines the Illuminati according to history and YouTube lore with the guides from "believers" and "skeptics".

What do the Illuminati do?

Oh, you know, conspiracy stuff. Assassinations, currency manipulation, Super Bowl halftime shows. All executed through puppet institutions and groups like the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Freemasons, and Def Jam Recordings. And all carefully controlled and hiddento ensure that their meddling in world affairs will remain secret.

This is sounding more plausible by the minute. What's the end goal of the Illuminati?

The end goal of the Illuminati is to establish a one-world authoritarian government known as the New World Order.

...and then?

Here, theories differ. Some of the internet's finest minds, writing on scholarly websites like Yahoo Answers, believe that forced conversion to homosexuality will be a top agenda item in the New World Order. Others claim the first order of business will be to round all non-Illuminati up into FEMA camps, possibly as part of a deal struck with aliens in Roswell. Many, if not most, experts believe that the New World Order will be a front for the rise of the Antichrist.

Nigerian state governor funded international playboy lifestyle with £50million fraud as he rose from humble roots working in London DIY store

·          James Ibori bought a portfolio of luxury London homes and a fleet of armoured Range Rovers

·          Fraudster may have stolen $250million from Nigerian coffers as he rose through the ranks

·          He spent £15,000 in two-day stay at London's The lanesborough hotel

·          He owned SEVEN properties in Britain

·         Ibori, 49, siphoned off millions by inflating state contracts

 His rise from DIY store worker to international playboy with a £250million fortune is the stuff of dreams.

A few years after quitting his £5,000-a-year job as a cashier for Wickes, James Ibori had become one of Nigeria's most influential and richest politicians.

He wasted no time spending his new-found wealth on luxury homes, top-of-the-range cars, five-star travel and fees at exclusive boarding schools.

But yesterday the 49-year-old stood shame-faced in the dock of London's Southwark Court as he admitted stealing tens of millions of pounds from the oil-rich state he governed in Nigeria. Scotland Yard detectives believe his fraud could exceed £250million.

He was on trial in the UK because much of the stolen money was laundered through his London office.

Ibori moved from Nigeria to West London in the late 1980s and was found guilty of stealing goods from the Wickes store he worked at in Ruislip in 1990.

A year later he was convicted of handling a stolen credit card. He moved back to Nigeria and worked for its president, Sani Abacha, as a policy consultant.

Rising quickly through the ranks of the ruling People's Democratic Party, he was voted governor of Delta State in 1999, winning re-election four years later.

In power, he systematically stole from the public purse, taking kickbacks and transferring state funds to his own bank accounts around the world.

He was helped by family members, including his wife Theresa, sister Christine Ibori-Ibie, his mistress Udoamaka Oniugbo, and Mayfair lawyer Bhadresh Gohil.

A massive police investigation into Ibori's activities revealed he had bought six properties in London, including a six-bedroom house with indoor pool in Hampstead for £2.2million and a flat opposite the nearby Abbey Road recording studios.

There was also a property in Dorset, a £3.2million mansion in South Africa and further real estate in Nigeria.

He owned a fleet of armoured Range Rovers costing £600,000 and a £120,000 Bentley. On one of his trips to London he bought a Mercedes Maybach for more than £300,000 at a dealer on Park Lane and immediately shipped it to South Africa.

He bought a private jet for £12million, spent £126,000 a month on his credit cards and ran up a £15,000 bill for a two-day stay at the Lanesborough hotel in London.

Prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court Ibori concealed his UK criminal record, which would have excluded him from office in Nigeria.

He was never the legitimate governor and there was effectively a thief in government house,' Miss Wass said. 'As the pretender of that public office, he was able to plunder Delta State's wealth and hand out patronage.'

The court heard Ibori abused his position to award contracts to his associates including his sister and his mistress.

Scotland Yard began its investigation into Ibori after officers found two computer hard drives in his London office that revealed his criminality.

He was arrested by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in December 2007, but two years later a court in his home town, Asaba, dismissed the charges saying there was not enough evidence.

When the case was reopened by Nigerian authorities in April 2010, Ibori fled to Dubai where he was detained at the request of the Metropolitan Police and extradited to the UK last April.

In a packed courtroom Ibori, dressed in a dark grey suit and black shirt, appeared in the dock to enter ten guilty pleas to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy on what was due to be the first day of a 12-week trial.

His wife, his mistress and his sister were all jailed for five years each for money laundering offences following earlier trials.

Last March, Gohil, 46, and described as Ibori's London-based lawyer, was jailed for seven years for his role in the scam.

Attempts will be made to confiscate as much of Ibori's money and assets as possible so that they can be returned to Nigeria.

The Met's Detective Inspector Paul Whatmore said: 'It is always rewarding for anyone working on a proceeds of corruption case to know that the stolen funds they identify will eventually be returned to some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.'

Ibori will be sentenced on April 16 and 17.

 Teju BabyFace getting ready to quit bachelorhood?

The top comedian and talk show host is dating top model and beauty queen, Ms Tobi Banjoko (She was Lagos Carnival Queen 2009). Tobi, 25, was at a modeling shoot over the weekend and was introduced as being engaged.

Whitney Houston's mother is said to be planning to visit the hotel room where the singer died.

The 78-year-old apparently wants to see the scene of her daughter's death in a bid to get closure.

Cissy Houston plans to visit the hotel room where her daughter died earlier this month

Cissy will make the pilgrimage to room number 434 at the Beverly Hilton hotel room in Los Angeles where Houston was found dead on February 11 in the bathtub.

                              Tragic end: A bathtub similar to the one Whitney was found dead in at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles

TMZ reports that Cissy wants to make a 'spiritual connection' with her daughter in the hope of coming to terms with her sudden death.

She will apparently pray while she is there and spend some 'quiet, contemplative time,' the website claims.

A source said: '[She] won’t be at peace until she gets closure

It's unclear when Cissy plans to return to the hotel room - but we're told the visit will be soon ... she's currently planning out the logistics.'

Meanwhile, the cause of death is still under investigation pending toxicology reports.

Whitney was laid to rest in her homeland of Newark, New Jersey, a week after she was found dead.

                     


                                      

The remains of Dim Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu arrived from London aboard a British Airline flight this morning. His body was received at the International Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja, where he received full military honour reserved only for top military officers.

How a convicted thief almost became Nigeria's president

  The story of how James Ibori went from convicted thief in London in the 1990s, to become governor of a wealthy oil-producing Nigerian state and then to a British prison is a remarkable one.

It is the story of a wily political operator, backing the right political horses and shifting allegiances when expedient.

Given slightly different circumstances, according to one observer, it could have seen Ibori in the presidential villa rather than a British jail cell.

Ibori's defence in the face of allegations had always been that he had a successful business career and had made money independent of government.

But in 1991, he was working in a hardware store in the London suburb of Neasden.

The prosecution in this trial told a judge he was earning around £15,000 ($24,000) a year.

He was caught by his employer allowing his wife to walk through the till he was manning without paying for goods.

They both pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court and were fined.

In 1992, he was convicted for possession of a stolen credit card, which had £1,000 spent on it, and was again fined in a UK court.

FG Plans To Sell Petrol At N140 Per Litre–NLC

 The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the Federal Government of creating artificial fuel scarcity across major parts of the country to blackmail Nigerians into accepting an increase in the price of the product, which it says is the ultimate goal of the government.

It said the government was aiming at removing the remaining part of the subsidy thus forcing Nigerians to buy a litre of the premium motor spirit at N140 in the nearest future, adding that it would resist such attempt.

There have been reports of fuel scarcity in places like Abuja, Port Harcourt and Bayelsa in the last one week.

Time Bomb Found At Seme Border

 A team of policemen from anti-bomb squad of the Lagos State Police Command this morning announced a shock find at the Seme Border near the Nigeria Republic of Benin border area.

According to a police source that prefers anonymity, the time bomb was planted by unknown persons but the police anti-bomb squad men discovered it about 6 a.m today.

The border area where the time bomb was discovered is dominated by residents from Niger, Mali and Hausa men from the North thus giving credence to speculations that Boko Haram Islamists may have found their way to Lagos.

Our source gathered that the police anti-bomb squad has detonated the bomb and they were conducting a vigorous search on people passing through the Seme Border this morning. Each person was ordered to raise his hands in the air before being allowed to pass.

But as rigorous as the search was, our source said more bombs were not found in the area.

The source said, “the part of Seme Border where the time bomb was found is occupied mainly by Hausa, Niger and Mali Republic nationals popularly known as “Zongo”. It is suspected the planting of the time bomb might have been done by them.”

Contacted, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba said he was yet to get any briefing on the report.

“I have not heard of anything from Seme Border. Give me time to confirm and I will get back to you,” the police image maker said

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James Ibori to plead guilty

  Embattled former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, who is facing trial in London for money laundering has reached a plea bargain agreement with the British police, in a bid to shorten his trial.

The British police had earlier dropped corruption charges levelled against the former governor, whose associates have been convicted for money laundering offences, leaving him to face money laundering charges.

A source said the former governor and the police are set to adopt Monday the terms of the plea bargain, which both the prosecution and the defence teams were vetting all through last week.

Picture of those who will eliminate boko haram,

 hmmm! Nigerian Police Force.
 Are these the people to help with Boko haram?

Oba Adetona is back to uni @ 78

 Seventy-eight-year-old Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, has gone back to school.

According to him, he desires to make history as the nation’s oldest monarch to bag a degree in Law while still on the throne.

Adetona on Saturday joined 201 other new Law students of the National Open University of Nigeria for their matriculation at Awa-Ijebu Study Centre.

Though he was admitted alongside 27 of his traditional rulers, the latter decided to defer their admission for a year.

7000 deported in boko haram crisis

 TO curtail the terrorism acts of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, the Federal Government has deported a total of 7,000 illegal immigrants.

Those deported, we  learnt, were mainly from neighbouring Chad and Niger republics.

Government officials had recently said the activities of the sect had been aided by illegal immigrants from these neighbouring countries.

The Nigerian Immigration Service confirmed the deportation to our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday even as the Service threatened to prosecute the employers of illegal aliens.

It said it had already sent a bill to the National Assembly to amend the Immigration law in order to allow for such prosecutions.

Suicide bombers attack Gov Jang’s church • Police recover explosives from Christians in Bauchi

TWO suicide bombers, suspected to be members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Sunday morning attacked a church where Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang worships in Jos, killing two worshippers.

The two bombers also died. Four others died in the angry protest by Jos youths that followed the incident. Thirty-eight other persons reportedly sustained injuries from the bombing.

The sect in a statement by its spokesman, Abu Qaqa, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack came even as the police claimed they defused two bombs planted at their barracks in Gombe.

Jang was said to have escaped the attack because he was not at the first service that started at 7.00am. The governor usually attends the second service, conducted in Hausa language, at 11.00am.

The attacked Church of Christ in Nigeria is an indigenous church attended by notable citizens of the state, including former governors Solomon Lar and Joshua Dariye.

Lanre Shittu snatches Zenith bank manager's wife.

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   An Assistant Manager in Zenith Bank is heartbroken and devastated. And unfortunately, the young woman he gave his life to tore his heart to pieces and ran into the arms of another man, a popular car dealer in Lagos who already has about four wives.

This is the story of Owolabi Bankole an Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank, Sango Ota, Ogun State branch; Ebunoluwa Akinosi-Bankole, a young female lawyer who works with Ojutalayo Law Chambers in Ota, Ogun State, and Alhaji Lanre Shittu, the owner of Lanre Shittu Motors in Surulere, Lagos.

House of rep member impregnates secret lover.

Likeable politician representing Egbado South/Ipokia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Abiodun Isiaq Akinlade has impregnated a young girl he is dating secretly.

it was learnt that the lady named, Bimbo, who works at a beauty parlour in Ikeja, Lagos, is about 4 months pregnant for the lawmaker.

What our source however found amusing is that the said Bimbo is like a younger sister to one of Akinlade’s alleged lover, Hon. Adijat Oladepo.

Corps members serve as tea girls, boys at N’Assembly

Some National Youth Service Corps members serving at the National Assembly have decried the shabby way they are treated by members of the legislature.

Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday showed that the corps members were disappointed after discovering that serving at the Assembly was neither rosy nor challenging, contrary to their expectations.

A male corps member who expressed anger over the development, told our correspondent that members of committees had little regard for them.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said, “Many of us here are attached to committees but there isn’t much to do. The committees hardly allow us to carry out any serious assignments; officials just treat us like errand boys.

“They seize the slightest opportunity to shout at us during committee assignments. It can get really embarrassing.”

Findings by our correspondent showed that the National Assembly, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Central Bank of Nigeria and commercial banks topped the list of “lucrative and challenging” institutions corps members posted to Abuja prefer to serve in.

An aide to a legislator, who did not want his name mentioned, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the reason why some corp members want to serve at the National Assembly was because of the opportunity to work directly as aides to Senators or members of the House.

“The disappointment sets in when they find out that the place offers no more than serving in committees and departments already congested by civil servants on the payroll of the National Assembly.

“In the committees, they will be largely redundant except during meetings when they can serve tea, kola nuts or sweets,” he said.

It was learnt that the hope of the fresh graduates to serve as legislative aides to senators or representatives was dashed in most cases because the lawmakers had given out such jobs to their relatives or friends.

But the National Assembly’s Director of Information and Publications, Mr. Monima Daminabo, dismissed the claim of maltreatment of corps members.

“The civil service is a disciplined and rule-guided system. Most of them came in largely untrained in the working of the parliament; so they need the assistance of superior officers to put them through. We have no tradition of discrimination in the National Assembly.

“Also, the authorities of the NYSC that posted them here have never reported to us that they received complaints from their corps members. So, if such cases exist, the authorities of the NYSC should know,” he said.

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Three die as suicide bombers attack church in Jos

Two male suicide bombers dresed in army uniform on Sunday morning attacked the headquarters of Church of Christ in Nigeria in Jos, Plateau State. The suicide bombers drove in a new Volkswagen Bora car to the gate of the church and were allowed into the premises by soldiers guarding the premises.

This was a strange action because the wave of bomb attacks on churches in parts of the North had forced many of them to stop cars from being parked close to their buildings.

After the suicide bombers had gained access to the premises, according to witnesses, they detonated their bombs.

One of the bombers died immediately while the other was badly injured. The survivor reportedly tried to flee the scene but was reportedly clubbed to death by unknown persons.

A 10-year-old girl who was entering the premises when the bombs exploded was killed while a number of worshippers were injured.

Soldiers started shooting immediately after the bombs exploded while security agents were swiftly deployed in the area.
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, many state officials and indigenes of the state worship at the church.
The governor was not in the church when the explosions took place around 7.30am when the first service was on.
But the church, which is undergoing renovation, was damaged.
The situation forced many churches to shorten their services in Minna, the Niger State capital, on the advice of the state police command.
The spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, Yushau Shuaibu, confirmed the development in an SMS.
He said, “NEMA confirms three dead in a suspected suicide car explosion in Jos today at a worship centre, including the suspected bomber whose body was shredded to pieces. As at now, 38 victims are on admission in the hospital. NEMA and Red Cross have completed evacuation.”
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Whitney Houston’s ‘son’ will get riches

The pop superstar took Nick Gordon, 22, into her home in Atlanta, Georgia, as a youngster to save him from his own troubled background.

Although never formally adopted, he would call her "Mum" and was treated like her own by caring Whitney, 48.

He also became a "brother" to the singer's 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina and featured in touching family photos.

Although Whitney struggled for cash later in life as she battled debt and drug problems, she is still believed to have left an estate of around £20million which has been boosted by increased record sales following her death.

Now Nick is set to get a share.

Kim Kardashian Is Attacked by a Fan on Twitter

Kim Kardashian may have several million followers on Twitter, but some haters are still lurking around. Kim got a taste of how the haters truly feel yesterday, since one of them lashed out at her on her Twitter, calling her a 'b*tch.' Kim proudly took a picture of the message she got and attached the picture on her Twitter and in a blog post to see just how her fans would react to the hater. "Maybe you should eat makeup so you can try and be pretty on the inside b*tch," the message read.

Kim Kardashian puts her best tight dress forward... as she weathers 'adultery' claims from ex Ray J's tell-all book

 You can't keep a good woman down. And Kim Kardashian didn't let another scandal stop her from putting in a glamorous turn on the red carpet last night. 

Kim showed off her enviable curves in a high necked but tight black dress as she attended The Buzz On The Red Carpet  presented by QVC at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills.

Kim's number wasn't her most flattering, though it certainly made the most of her feminine form.

The 31-year-old teamed her ensemble with glamorous over-sized gold hoops and bright scarlet lipstick.

'Momager' Kris was slightly more muted, wearing more subtle make-up- though she kept the focus on her smokey eyes.

The pair smiled amidst damning headlines from Kim's ex Ray J alleging that the reality star may have cheated on her first husband Damon Thomas with him. 

Their sex tape was leaked back in 2007, catapulting a then unknown Kim to fame.

19 Years Old Shoots His Parents For Trying To Kill Him In His Dream

COULD it have been the fear of his dream translating to reality that made 19-year-old Mohammed Muibi take the decision to terminate the lives of his parents? Or was it another phase of the criminal tendencies that he had previously exhibited in two robbery outings? These are the posers the operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit, Oyo, led by the Officer-in-Charge, DSP Olusola Aremu , are trying to unravel as they continue investigations into the boy’s action of shooting his father and stabbing his mother.

According to Sunday Tribune sources,  the suspect’s father, Alhaji Babalola Muibi, was in his sitting room in the night of Sunday, September 11, 2011 in his house at Owode area of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, when his son, Mohammed, stormed in.

Before the elderly man could blink his eyes, a loud shot rang out of the pump action rifle the boy pointed at him. While crying out in pain as the shot got him in the leg, other members of the house heard the sound and Mohammed’s mother ran out of the room to see what was happening, only to see her son holding a gun and her husband bleeding profusely from the gunshot injury on his leg.

74-year-old fake Ghanaian lawyer jailed for five years

An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos on Thursday sentenced a 74-year-old Ghanaian, Keinde Dodo, to five years imprisonment for pretending to be a lawyer and representing litigants in courts in Nigeria for 15 years.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Magistrate O.O. Martins did not give Dodo an option of fine but sentenced him to jail with hard labour.

Martins held that the Ghanaian pleaded guilty to the five-count charge on arraignment and that evidence before the court showed that he committed the crimes.

“The accused is hereby sentenced to one year imprisonment on each count with hard labour and without an option of fine,” she said.