Ojukwu's brothers demand paternity test from Bianca

Late Odimegwu Ojukwu's wife, Bianca is currently in a heated battle with her husband's brothers.

Bianca’s brothers-in-law have asked her to prove that she was legally married to their late brother, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. Not only that, she was also asked to prove that her two boys, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu were actually fathered by their brother.

The reason for this war of attrition between Bianca and her brothers-in-law is not far-fetched. Bianca, on behalf of her two children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu, had sued her brothers-in-law and her late father-in-law’s company, Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL), over some property which includes No. 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, Lagos; No. 13, Hawksworth Road, Ikoyi (now known as Ojora Road)l No. 32A, Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos; No. 30, Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos and No. 30, MacPherson Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos.Bianca had in a Suit No. LD/1539/2012 filed before Justice Funmilayo Atilade of Lagos High Court, Igbosere, Lagos asked the court to declare that her children are entitled to possession and occupation of all these property. She had, through her counsel, Chris Ezugwu, to declare as illegal the threat by her brothers-in-law to forcefully eject her and her children from the property at No. 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Bianca and her children through their counsel, are also asking the court to restrain the Ojukwu brothers, their agents or privies from interfering with their possession and control of the property.

They said that throughout the period, Late Odumegwu Ojukwu, in his lifetime, was struggling to retrieve the property from the government, his brothers were nowhere to be found. “They never played any role in the struggle nor contributed financially or otherwise to the realization of the struggle.”

But the Ojukwu brothers which includes Prof. Joseph Ojukwu, Emmanuel Ojukwu, Lotanna Putalora Ojukwu, Dr. Patrick Ojukwu, Edward Ojukwu, Lota Akajiora Ojukwu and Messrs Massay Udegbe, in their defence through their counsel, George Uwechue (SAN), averred that the subscribers of the OTL (Ojukwu Transport Limited) Memorandum of Association at Incorporation in 1952, were LP Ojukwu and Bertram Chukwuemeka. They added that the Late Odumegwu Ojukwu and Prof. Joseph Ojukwu were later appointed directors in 1953.

They averred further that Odumegwu Ojukwu ceased to be a director of the company, OTL, prior to the Nigerian Civil War and was reappointed director on December 16, 2005.

They alleged that Bianca and her children’s statement of claims contained tissues of lies and distorted facts.

That Bianca who instituted the suit is “being greedy for wanting to hold on to the company’s property.

They also stated that for over 12 years prior to his death, Late Odumegwu Ojukwu moved to Enugu State and since then had not lived at any of the company’s property as allegedly claimed by Bianca and her children.

They further averred that the property being claimed by Bianca and her children belong to OTL and challenged Bianca’s children to show proof of any such agreement their late father had with OTL for him to control and/or manage its property.

They also, in their statement of defence asked Bianca to show proof of legal marriage to the late Biafran warlord, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

They also demanded proof of the paternity of Bianca’s two sons Afamefuna and Nwachukwu.

Bianca children’s counsel, Chris Ezugwu was, however, absent from court on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, when the case was called. This necessitated Justice Atilade to adjourn till December 10, 2013.

The Worlds Top Financial Centres

By Sammy Said | Google+ in Economy

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Published: October 24, 2013 at 3:36 pm

What makes a city a financial center? Is it the strategic location, the presence of big businesses and modern infrastructure? Actually, all financial centers possess these features and more. To be considered a financial center, a city has to have the following: heavy concentration of financial institutions, a highly developed commercial and communications infrastructure system, must have the ability to generate a great number of domestic and international trading transactions are conducted, and must be currently implementing sound and flexible financial policies.

So where are the world’s top financial centers located? A recent study sponsored by the Qatar Financial Center Authority, examined the top 1,000 financial centers of the world and placed the following cities on top of the list.

10. Seoul, Korea: New Tourist Destination?

The crown of South Korea is also the first city in East Asia to have electricity, a telecommunication grid, and a water system all at once. Its current main industries include electronics, textile production as well as iron and steel production. The city has also been investing heavily into promoting itself as a tourist destination. Famous transnational companies that are based in Seoul include the Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Grupo Santander, UBS, Credit Suisse, UniCredit, ING Bank, State Street and Standard Chartered, among others. The Korea Exchange Bank also has its headquarters in this very cosmopolitan city.x

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The Top 10 Most Intelligent People in the World

Have you ever met anyone who knows everything about anything? They know it all and we mean that not in the negative sense of the term. They are some of the smartest people in the world and they have the IQ scores to back it up. They can answer probably anything from simple arithmetic to the most complicated rocket science question. Here is a list of the top 10 most intelligent people in the world.

10. James Woods – 180 IQ

James Woods is a movie, television and stage actor. He has won two Emmy Awards for his performances in “Promise” and “My Name is Bill W” and has been nominated twice for the Academy Awards. He also played the lead role in the television series entitled “Shark.” Aside from acting, Woods is also some sort of math whiz, having studied linear algebra in UCLA while he was still in high school. He was also a full scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before the acting bug hit him.

9. Marilyn vos Savant – 190 IQ

She is a popular columnist for Parade Magazine. Through “Ask Marilyn,” readers can send puzzles and questions on different subjects for vos Savant to solve and answer. Her IQ was the last recognized highest IQ by Guinness before the category was retired in 1990.

8. Kenneth Ferrell – 190 IQ

Kenneth Ferrell is a North Carolina-based doctor who is a member of a number of elite IQ organizations, like the GenerIQ Society, Epimethius Society and the Order of Imhotep. He treats IQ exams as fun hobbies. Ferrell has created several verbal and numerical IQ tests, namely the 12354 and the QUINTIQ.

7. Garry Kasparov – 190 IQ

He is a chess grandmaster from Russia who became the youngest undisputed world champion when he was 22 years old. He beat the then-champion Anatoly Karpov after a grueling duel in 1985. Kasparov held the official world title recognized by the international chess federation until 1993. A dispute occurred, however, forcing Kasparov to relinquish the crown and to form instead the rival Professional Chess Association. In 1997, he lost a chess match to Deep Blue, the first time a world champion had lost to a computer under standard time controls. Kasparov was recognized as the “classical” world champion until 2000, when he as defeated by Vladimir Kramnik. Still, he holds the record for the longest reign at number one.

6. Mislav Predavec – 192 IQ

Mislav Predavec is the founder and president of the GenerIQ Society, an elite organization of some of the most intelligent people in the world. It counts among its members Kenneth Ferrell, who is at number eight in this list. Predavec is a Croatian professor of mathematics based in the country’s capital of Zagreb. He is also the owner and director of a trade company. He loves rock music, particularly the songs of Pink Floyd, and the arts, specifically the works of Leonardo da Vinci. He used to play Mafia Wars regularly as well.

5. Rick Rosner – 192 IQ

By simply looking at his resume’, Rick Rosner would not be thought of as one of the most intelligent people in the world. He has a rough and tough demeanor, having spent a number of years as a bar bouncer. He has also worked as one of those waiters who go around in roller skates. In addition, Rosner has no qualms showing off his body, having been a stripper and nude model in the past. What sets him apart is his 192 IQ. He has put it to good use by joining the television game show called “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” And he does not want to rest on his laurels, as he spends up to 20 hours a day completing IQ exams in a bid to get further up this list.

4. Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis – 198 IQ

Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis is a Greek national who works as a psychiatrist. He has earned degrees in three fields, namely philosophy, medical research technology and psychopharmacology. Katsioulis is also a good painter and a decent swimmer. He also indulges in a lot of traveling.

3. Kim Ung Yong – 210 IQ

This South Korean has a tremendous capacity for both numbers and languages. He started speaking when he was only six months old. By the time he was three years old, he could read several languages already, including Korean, Japanese, German and English, as well as solve complex calculus problems. He also wrote poetry in Chinese and Korean and compiled enough essays and poems for two books. He was already auditing college courses when he was four. NASA then invited him to study in the U.S. when he was eight. By the time he was a teenager, he was already working for them. He then returned to Korea and switched fields from physics to civil engineering. He then published 90 papers about hydraulics.

2. Christopher Hirata – 225 IQ

At the age of 13, Christopher Hirata made waves by getting a gold medal at the international physics Olympiad. The following year, he enrolled at Caltech. By the time he was 22 years old, he was able to earn his PhD from Princeton. He has been working for NASA’s project on how to colonize Mars.

1. Terrence Tao – 230 IQ

He is a mathematician of Australian and American roots. If you think that math is hard enough, just take a peek into the subfields that Tao is involved with: additive combinatorics, analytic number theory, ergodic Ramsey theory, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and random matrix theory. A recipient of the Fields medal in 2006, Tao holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has had good training, learning math when he was barely a toddler, solving arithmetic problems at two years old, studying college level math at nine and getting a gold medal in the international math Olympiad when he was 13. He got his PhD when he was only 20 from Princeton and became a full professor at UCLA when he was 24. He has already published 230 research papers.

The 20 Poorest Countries in the World in 2013

In the early 80′s, Bob Geldof of the band called The Boomtown Rats saw in the news the massive famine engulfing the African country of Ethiopia. He felt guilty because he couldn’t believe that while the Western world was suffering from an abundance of wealth and food, a continent just below them were a people that did not have anything at all.

He organized Band Aid, enlisting the help of other stars like Bono, George Michaeland Sting, to raise funds for Africa through a song entitled “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Their counterparts in the United States followed suit, with Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie writing a song called “We are the World.” They then banded together for Live Aid, that added stars like Madonna, Paul McCartney andElton John in a two-continent concert.

Yet, almost three decades after, Africa remains a veritable wasteland. Out of the 20 poorest countries in the world, 17 comes from the continent, including nine out of the top 10.

Based on the different countries’ gross domestic product purchasing power parity, here are the 20 poorest countries in the world in 2013.

20. Haiti – $1,358.10

Haiti is a country in the Caribbean that was the first independent nation of Latin America, the second republic in the entire Americas, and the first republic in the world to be led by blacks. It is one of only two nations in the Americas to speak French in an official capacity. It has been ravaged by political violence throughout its history.

19. Nepal – $1,347.62

Nepal is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is home to eight of the 10 tallest mountains in the world, including the tallest at Mt. Everest. It is host to Lumbini, one of the holiest places in the world as it was the birthplace of Lord Buddha. It suffered from a civil war that culminated to an agreement in 2008 to abolish the monarchy.

18. South Sudan – $1,324.10

South Sudan is a new state that got its independence in 2011. It is a landlocked country in east central Africa. It has little infrastructure and has the highest maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates in the word. It has one of the most underdeveloped economies in the world.

17. Comoros – $1,296.77

Comoros is an archipelago off the eastern coast of Africa. It is the third smallest nation in Africa based on area. Its unique position allows it to become the only nation that is a member of the African Union, Francophonie, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Arab League and the Indian Ocean Commission at the same time. It has suffered from numerous coup attempts, and half its people live below the poverty line.

16. Guinea-Bissau – $1,268.46

Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa that was once part of the Mali Empire. It has been independent since 1973, but no president has ever served the full five-year term because of political instability.

15. Mozambique – $1,262.96

Mozambique is a country in southeast Africa. Endowed with rich natural resources, its average GDP growth is actually quite high. It however lags behind in GDP per capita, human development, average life expectancy and inequality measures.

14. Ethiopia – $1,258.60

Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second most populated nation in the entire African continent. It actually has the largest GDP in central and east Africa, but famines and civil wars in the past destabilized the country.

13. Guinea – $1,162.18

Guinea is a country in the western part of Africa. It is the second largest producer of bauxite in the world and is known to have rich deposits of gold and diamonds. It is marked with poor infrastructure and frequent electricity and water shortages.

12. Togo – $1,145.94

Togo is a country in west Africa. Though it serves as a regional and trade center in the region, economic reforms and activities have been stalled by political strife and instability.

11. Mali – $1,136.77

Mali is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is the third largest producer of gold in the African continent. Half of its population lives below the international poverty line.

10. Afghanistan – $1,072.19

Afghanistan is a landlocked country in South Asia that is considered as one of the most dangerous in the world. It is the largest producer of refugees and asylum seekers in the world. Terrorist groups still abound in the country despite international efforts to rebuild the country.

9. Madagascar – $972.07

Madagascar is an island country off the coast of southeast Africa. It is a biodiversity hotspot, with 90 percent of its wildlife unique to the country. Over 90 percent of its population lives at less than two dollars per day.

8. Malawi – $893.84

Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa. It has a low life expectancy and high infant mortality. There is also a high prevalence of AIDS among its population.

7. Niger – $853.43

Niger is a landlocked country in western Africa. It suffers from a lack of infrastructure, poor health care, environmental degradation and poor education among its people.

6. Central African Republic – $827.93

The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in central Africa. It has degenerated into practical anarchy after a coup in March 2013 removed all vestiges left of governance. It also suffered from armed conflicts in the 2000′s.

5. Eritrea – $792.13

Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa. It became independent in 1991. It actually has a fast growing economy at 8.7 percent, though much of its GDP was accounted for by remittances from abroad.

4. Liberia – $716.04

Liberia is a country in west Africa. A coup in 1980 marked the start of a long period of instability, with the country ravaged by two civil wars. It devastated the economy and left 250,000 people dead.

3. Burundi – $648.58

Burundi is a landlocked country in east Africa. It has a dense population that suffers from constant warfare, corruption, poor education and widespread contamination of AIDS.

2. Zimbabwe – $589.46

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in south Africa. It has been ruled by Robert Mugabe since 1980 and he is often blamed for the country’s poor human rights record and economic decline.

1. Democratic Republic of Congo – $394.25

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country in Africa. It is beset with violent atrocities because of the fight for control of its mineral wealth. While it has potential in agriculture, it suffers from a high rate of malnutrition and mortality.