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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Nigerian woman’s kidney illegally removed in Italy



The Chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Rita Orji, has brought to the public the case of a Nigerian woman said to be in her 30s named Julie Osamese, whose kidney was allegedly harvested by some doctors in Italy. According to The Sun, Julie, a mother of one, who is a legal immigrant in Italy, had gone to the Ospedale Maria Vittoria Cibrario Hospital in Turin, Italy sometime in November 2008 to complain about her poor health....

NSCDC discover bomb making factories in Borno


The Borno State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) recently discovered two major bomb making factories in two abandoned houses. According to reports, live Improvised explosive device were neutralized, IEDs making equipment, gas cylinders and a jet bomb propeller were also discovered and handed over to the brigade command. More photos after the cut. 

This can only be true love! Check out this Nigerian couple at their wedding


Engr. Utibe Oton and Precious Uzoka got married last week in Umudimagu community in Ideato South L.G.A of Imo State. Congrats! Wishing them a blissful union! See more photos after the cut..



Lost year in Nigeria under Buhari leaves economy on knees' - Bloomberg magazine writes


Looks like Bloomberg likes to analyze and criticize our government and president. Found this new posted on their site today. Please read the article below
President Buhari took office as Nigeria’s president a year ago on a wave of optimism that the ex-military ruler could revive a nation battered by falling oil prices and decades of corruption. Now, Africa’s biggest economy is on its knees and Buhari has been forced to throw in the towel on a central pillar of his economic policy -- a currency peg. 
“It was difficult to imagine a scenario in which things got worse,” said Malte Liewerscheidt, a Nigeria analyst at Bath, U.K.-based consultant Verisk Maplecroft. “But it’s been a lost year. What’s missing is sound macroeconomic policies.”
Nigeria will soon enter a recession, according to the central bank, and an upsurge of militant attacks since February has sent crude production, which usually accounts for 70 percent of government revenue, plummeting to an almost 30-year low. Delays in approving a budget and a cabinet as well as Buhari’s refusal to weaken an overvalued currency -- until he relented this week -- have caused foreign investors to flee.

Man and his wife burnt to death at their home in Benue


In the early hours of Saturday May 28th, unknown gunmen raided the house of a man named Joseph Msen Akosu and killed him with his wife after which they were burnt beyond recognition.

This took place at Abinsi, Guma LGA of Benue State. The cause of this brutality isn't clear yet but speculations have it that it was as a result of land disputes between the Tivs.

 Security agencies have since taken charge of the area to ensure peace. Meanwhile the Chairman of Guma LG have set up measures to bring to book those responsible.


Friday, May 27, 2016

Student, 17, charged with N85,000 laptop theft




A 17-year-old student, Mutiu Olawuyi, was on Friday brought before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing a HP laptop valued at N85,000.

Olawuyi, who lives at No. 1, Gunny Odubena St., off Omilani Street, Ijeshatedo, Lagos, is facing a three-count charge bordering on malicious damage and theft.

The Prosecutor, Cpl. Osanyande Anthonia said the accused committed the offences at Ijeshatedo at about 4.00 p.m on May 1.

According to him, the accused asked the complainant, Mayowa Ibraheem, to give him her laptop to help repair at a computer workshop.

``The accused absconded with the laptop after collecting it.

``The woman came to the Police Station at Ijeshatedo to report the incident, leading o the arrest of the accused at his residence at Ijeshatedo.’’

The offences contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused pleaded not guilty.

Ruling on the accused’s bail application, the Chief Magistrate, Mrs Ekpaye Nwachukwu, granted him bail in the sum of 100,000 with one surety in like sum.

She said the surety must be a grade level 14 officer in the civil service.


The case has been adjourned to July 4 for mention. 

Building children is our key agenda - Gov. Ayade





Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River says his administration will continue to give priority to children’s welfare through provision of quality education and moral uprightness.

Ayade made the promise in Calabar on Friday during the 2016 Children’s Day held at the U.J. Esuene Sport Stadium.

He said that the state had initiated a `Finance the Children' programme to train children who excelled in their academic studies.

According to him, the state will not relent in sponsoring secondary and primary school students in local, state, national and international competitions.

``It is my belief that all of you standing here are the future leaders of tomorrow.
``Children are great leaders of tomorrow, as I greet you today, I see doctors, lawyers, engineers, senators, governors and others.

``What you shall become depends on what you plan today. We will create that enabling environment that will spur you to greatness.

``If you want to be a governor, senator, president, you must read your books; respect your parents and the ruling authority.

``I inspire you to have the fear of God as this is a sure way towards success,’’ he said.
The governor advised the children to look beyond their present age and have confidence in themselves.

Earlier, the state Commissioner for Education, Mr Godwin Eta, said that the theme for the 2016 Children Day is `Protecting the Right of the Child in the Face of Violence and Insecurity’.

Eta said that the state had already mapped out several programmes meant to uplift the educational standard of children in the state.

He said the ministry would continue to partner with non-governmental organisations and corporate bodies in fashioning out modalities that would promote children education in the state.

``The education ministry would ensure that children education in the state is given utmost attention.
``Also, as a way of developing the all round knowledge of children, we will also pick sport as a special activities for the children,’’ he said.


The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that both private and public primary and secondary schools attended the Children’s Day celebration which featured a match past of all the schools. 

Beauty Queen/Face of Idoma 2015/16 survives road accident


Queen Ashley Mariam Yusuf, Face Of Idoma 2015/16 under Agila Carnival, was involved in a horrifying road accident on Lafia - Akwanga road in Nassarawa State on Tuesday 24th May 2016, while traveling from Abuja to Benue State for her Project to feed 500 Orphans on Children's Day.



According to reports, She was unconscious for a while and after she regained consciousness she narrated what she remembered. The driver of the vehicle which she boarded for her journey - 'Benue Links' with Registration no: MKD-270 XA, was driving at an overwhelming speed. 

The Passengers kept on cautioning him but he persisted until one of the tyres pulled out and the car somersaulted.

The car was said to have somersaulted four times before landing on it's back. The trapped passengers were quickly rescued by other vehicles plying the same route and rushed to the emergency ward of the nearest hospital for treatment. Queen Ashley sustained severe injuries and was having excruciating pains. 

She received treatment, is recuperating speedily and has promised that her event will still hold today. See more photos below...


Zambian woman allegedly shot her husband dead

 ...Says because he had a child with another woman (photos)


A 30-year-old woman from Lusaka, Zambia allegedly shot her husband dead on May 25, because he had a child with another woman. Head Business News ChannelsTV, Boason Omofaye broke the news yesterday on twitter.

According to Zambezi News, Police deputy spokesperson Rae Hamoonga in a statement to Mwebantu stated that Precious Longwe Liteebele shot her husband Akakanda Lubinda Liteebele five times.


 

"The murder occurred at around 03:00 hours at unknown house number off Buluwe Road Woodlands extension in which Mr. Akakanda Lubinda Liteebele aged 30 years was shot at five times by his wife Precious Longwe Liteebele aged 30years,” Mr. Hamoonga stated.

"The couple was working for a named bank and Precious has been arrested and charged with murder. She used a pistol and the deceased sustained five bullet wounds: on the chest, left rib side, right rib side, lower back and on the right arm."

Mr. Hamoonga stated that four empty cartilages, one projectile and one ammunition were found on the scene.

He stated that the pistol had been retrieved by the police and that the body of the deceased was in the University Teaching Hospital mortuary

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Teenage boy commits suicide rather than face his parents anger for crashing a new car


An 18-year-old teenage gymnast, Ruslan Gutu, committed suicide by hanging himself, after crashing a brand new car bought for him by his parents. According to his girlfriend Athena, Ruslan confided in her on how worried he was about telling his parents about the crash of the new car.

Athena told the coroner that he was 'shaking' as he told her he was worried about how he would pay for the damage done to his crashed car. 
 

He also asked if she had any rope or paracetamol and 'how much paracetamol it would take to overdose.' She told him he was being stupid and advised him to think of those close to him.

Before committing suicide, he sent his mother a chilling text, which was later released. It reads, 
'I am sorry to have left you with everything but it is better this way. I will be watching from above.'
Sadly, his hanged body was later discovered in the woods by a park ranger, close to where he lived in his hometown in Bracknell, Berkshire. 

Police cut down the 18-year-old and paramedics at the scene confirmed he had died.

Nigerian Igho Ejeta wanted by the UK Police in relation to London shooting


Detectives investigating a shooting at a south London barber's shop have today, May 26, released CCTV footage in an effort to find a man they urgently want to speak to. 

Officers need to trace 29-year-old Igho Ejeta following the attempted murder of an innocent bystander at the shop in Rotherhithe New Road, SE16 on Friday, 8 May 2015.
Another man is already serving a life sentence for his role in the incident, having been convicted by an Old Bailey jury last year.

Detective Constable Jo Ross, from the Trident and Area Crime Command, said:

"Although we have one man safely behind bars, we urgently need to trace Ejeta in connection with this incident. We would ask anyone with information to come forward in the strictest confidence and help us find this man."

Police allegedly beat husband and wife to Coma in Obada Agbara, Lagos


Read the statement sent in by friends of the victims below...

"The Igbo residents of Magbo ,Obada Zone 5 Community of Fortune Estate in Agbara, Lagos has cried out and sent a save our soul {SOS} message to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase in a matter of urgency to set up a panel of enquires into the recent Brutalization of a Member of their community, Mr. Chukwuka Paul by the Men of the Nigeria Police force Area k, as they pounced on Mr. Paul and his wife beating them to Coma before he was taken into custody for close to 72 hour without concrete Evidence against the gentleman and his family. 
It was gathered that on Thursday 19th of may 2016, about 8 heavy armed men storm the residence of Paul Chukwuka where he also has his house finishing material store, order him to enter their vehicle, while the latter was trying to know why such arrest is for him, they bounce on him as if they gave them Order to brutalized him, he was handcuffed beaten and while his wife Ebele Paul and their little child were shouting for help from the Neighbors, his wife too was beaten and stripped naked in the present of sympathizers.

World's heaviest baby weighing 15 pounds born to an Indian Woman


A 19-year-old lady named Nandini, has given birth to the world's biggest baby, weighing a staggering 15lbs. The baby girl was born through Caesarean section at a government-run hospital in India. She tipped the scales at twice the size of an average baby, which typically weigh about 7lb 5oz and weighs the same as an average six-month-old.

Ghanaian pastor caught pants down with a married woman on her matrimonial bed (photos)


Apostle Douglas Akwesi Amanor (pictured on the bed) was caught naked with Mrs Mina Adjei (pictured) a married woman and a member of his church on her matrimonial bed in Accra, Ghana. 

Read the story as told by Nana Effei, from Tema, Ghana after the cut...

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Court dissolves 17-year-old marriage




A Lagos Island Customary Court on Wednesday dissolved the 17-year-old marriage between a transporter, Haruna Amunikoro, and his wife, Alimotu, after he complained that his wife built a house without informing him.

Granting the husband's request, the court President, Mr Awos Awosola, said that the effort of the court to reconcile the parties had failed, as Amunikoro insisted on divorce.

“The marriage between the two parties is hereby dissolved with effect from today in accordance with the Lagos State Customary Court Law, 2011, Order 3, Rule 7, as amended.

“The custody of the first child and only son, Anus, 15, is awarded to the father while that of the two girls, Simiyat, 10; and Aishat, 7, remains with the wife.

“The petitioner should pay the children's feeding allowances of N10,000 on a monthly basis through this honourable court and should also be responsible for the children school and hospital bills.

“However, both parties are granted unhindered access to the child/children at any reasonable time of the day,’’ he ruled.

Awosola also ordered the petitioner to give the respondent N250,000 compensation within seven days of the judgment with which to start her new life.

Amuniloro, 42, who resides at No. 91/93 Odunfa St., Lagos Island, in his petition, told the court that his wife, a trader, bought a plot of land in Ikorodu and built a bungalow on it without letting him know.

“My wife has also started giving out tricycle and motorcycle to riders and they pay for them on instalment, which is the same business that I do.

“I have warned her severally to stop the business but she would not listen. On two occasions she has stabbed me with a kitchen knife and a scissors.

“My wife is not sincere with me. She hides so many things about herself from me. I cannot cope with her secretive ways any more, please separate us,’’ he pleaded with the court.

Alimotu, who did not deny the allegations, said that she started being secretive with her husband 
because of the sudden change in his behaviour and his infidelity.

She told the court that their marriage which was once blissful took a different turn in 2012 when they rented their own apartment.

“We were staying in my husband's family house before we rented our own apartment in 2012, since then my husband has been unfaithful to me.
“He brings different kinds of women into our matrimonial home and sleeps with them on our bed.
“Whenever I confronted him, he beats me. On three occasions my husband beat me to a pulp and stripped me naked.
“I joined him in doing thesame business because it is a lucrative one, but since I started it, I have had no rest of mind,’’ she said.

Alimotu, who had consistently prayed the court to reconcile them as she still loved her husband, however, pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage without further delay.

“Since I have been begging my husband and his family for so long and nothing positive have come of it, please dissolve the marriage so I can go on with my life,” she said. 

No sign of EgyptAir plane technical problems before take-off - Sources






Sources within the Egyptian Investigation Committee said late on Tuesday that the EgyptAir jet that disappeared last week did not show technical problems before taking off from Paris.

The sources said the plane did not make contact with Egyptian air traffic control, but Egyptian air traffic controllers were able to see it on radar on a border area between Egyptian and Greek airspace.

He said the border area was known as KUMBI, 260 nautical miles from Cairo.

The sources said on condition of anonymity that the plane disappeared without swerving off radar screens after less than a minute of it entering Egyptian airspace.

The sources said air traffic controllers from Greece and Egypt had given differing accounts of the plane's final moments.

"A report said the plane had shown no technical problems before taking off, citing an Aircraft Technical Log signed by its pilot before takeoff.

"The paper said EgyptAir flight 804 transmitted 11 "electronic messages" starting at 2109 GMT on May 18, about 3 1/2 hours before disappearing from radar screens with 66 passengers and crew on board,’’ he said.

The report said the first two messages indicated the engines were functional.

It said the third message came at 0026 GMT on May 19 and showed a rise in the temperature of the co-pilot's window.

The report said the plane kept transmitting messages for the next three minutes before vanishing.

Meanwhile, Hisham Abdelhamid, Head of Egypt's Forensics Authority, has dismissed as premature a suggestion that the small size of the body parts retrieved since the Airbus 320 jet crashed indicated there had been an explosion on board.

"The assessment is mere assumption; it is too early to draw conclusions,” Abdelhamid said.

He said investigators were looking for clues in the human remains and debris recovered from the Mediterranean Sea.

He said the plane and its black box recorders, which could explain what brought down the Paris-to-Cairo flight as it entered Egyptian air space, had not been located.

An Egyptian forensics official said on condition of anonymity that the 23 bags of body parts had been collected, the largest no bigger than the palm of a hand.

He said their size pointed to an explosion, although no trace of explosives had been detected.

At least two other sources with direct knowledge of the investigation also said it would be premature to say what caused the plane to plunge into the sea.

"All we know is it disappeared suddenly without making a distress call," one of them said.

"Only by analysing the black boxes or a large amount of debris could authorities begin to form a clearer picture,’’ they said.

Egypt official disclosed that government had deployed a robot submarine and France has sent a search ship to help hunt for the black boxes.

He said it was not clear whether either of them can detect signals emitted by the flight recorders, lying in waters possibly 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) deep.

The official said the signal emitters had a battery life of 30 days.

He, however, said five days after the plane vanished from radar screens, air traffic controllers from Greece and Egypt were still giving differing accounts of its last moments.

Although government officials have acknowledged the need for international assistance, the U.S. Navy said Egypt had not formally requested American support beyond a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft, which was deployed on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the relatives of the victims were giving DNA samples at a hotel near Cairo airport on Tuesday to help identify the body parts, their grief mixed with frustration.

Amjad Haqi, an Iraqi man whose mother Najla was flying back from medical treatment in France, said the families were being kept in the dark and had not been formally told that any body parts had been recovered.

He said all the officials were concerned about was to find the black box and the debris of the plane.

"That's their problem, not mine.

"And then they come and talk to us about insurance and compensation. I don't care about compensation, all I care about is to find my mother and bury her,’’ he said.

Carpenter in court for attempting to defile a minor





A 37-year-old man, Abdullah Oseni, who allegedly assaulted a minor by attempting to defile her was on Wednesday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos.

Oseni, a carpenter, lives at 23, Aishatte St., Agege, suburb of Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of attempt to commit sexual assault and escape from custody.

The Prosecutor, Insp. Benedict Aigbokhan, told the court that the offences were committed on May 19 at the residence of the accused.

Aigbokhan said that the accused locked the victim - a two-year-old neighbour’s daughter - in his room and was fingering her when her mother caught him.

"The accused was arrested, but he ran away from police custody," he said.

He said that the accused was re-arrested from his hideout by the police.

He said that the offences contravened Sections 106 and 260 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, granted the accused N500,000 bail with two sureties in like sum.


Elias ordered the accused to deposit N50,000 into the Chief Registrar’s account and adjourned the case till June 22 for mention. 

11- yr- old girl fainted after rape by 40- yr -old man



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11 –year- old victim, whose parent did not want her name to be on print was fainted and unable to walk on her own when their neighbour , a  40- year -old man allegedly   raped her after forcing the victim to assist him suck his manhood.

Both the suspect and the victim’s Aunty live in the same compound where the incident took place at Egbelu area of Port Harcourt in Obio/Akpor Local government area of Rivers State.

The Ozuoba Police division in Obio/Akpor Local government is handling the matter and had arrested the suspect, Mr. Innocent Akppa   after the victim’s family reported the matter.

 The Rivers State Police Spokesman, Ahmad Mohammad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) confirmed the incident and assured the victim’s family that the suspect must be charged to court.

When The Nation visited the victim at the hospital where she is recuperating she struggled and   explained her ordeal in a pensive mood that the suspect had always fingered her private part since they packed in into the compound.

She said the recent attempt which exposed the suspect was not the first time he attempted to rape her, adding that  all efforts to shout for her Aunty and neigbour to hear her prove abortive because the suspect tunes his music player high.

She noted that when the Aunty finally knock on the suspect door after searching for her in all the neigbours  houses it was them that she ran out of the house with her cloth and pant in her hand which made the aunty to believe her story.

The victim said:  “ This is not the first time he has been disturbing me,  one day when my aunty was not around he followed me to our bathroom and removed his trouser and asked me to start washing his manhood which I did.

“But this last day, he called me and said I should enter his house that he wants to send me to assist him buy something. I didn’t know what was in his mind, so I went to his door knocking, he opened and asked me to enter inside that was how he dragged me inside and locked the door.

She continued, “As soon as I entered inside his house, he removed my pant and asked me to wash his manhood and I did. And later, he said I should start sucking his manhood but I refused, I told him that I will not do it, before he carried me to his bed and put his thing inside me and blood came out.”


Mrs.   Marry Effiong, the Aunty to the victim said she didn’t know that why the suspect was always sending her girl for an errand was because of his evil plan against the little girl.
 Mrs. Effiong said:  “I didn’t notice what was going on time, that particular day I went to church and came back late. Then I told my girl to assist me prepare what we were going to eat  few minutes after I discovered that I can no longer see her so I started knocking on my neighbour’s  doors.

“Later, it occurred to me that I should knock at the door of Mr. Innocent, and when I did Mr. Innocent came out and said my girl is inside watching films. Then I immediately told her to come out and surprisingly she came out naked, that was how we reported to police.

The suspect’s brother who simply introduced his name as Mr. Ben said he cannot argue for his brother’s innocence, stressing that this is not the time to say he is  guilty or not but how they can get him out of the police cell.

Ben said  friends of the suspect has made so many effort to beg the family of the victim but the Aunty seem to have being proving difficult in spite of the N10,000 they contributed for the girl treatment.

Ben said: “I am not the blood brother of Mr. Innocent but we came from the same village in Enugu state, I cannot say he did it or not but I know that temptation is much these days. But it has happened, we met with the police and they advised us to go and beg the man as the only option for Innocent release.


“But the family of the victim is not helping matter, when we met them to plead and to ask them to withdraw the matter the Aunty started fighting us.  We are only begging not by force, we want the matter to be settled amicably.”

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