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....
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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
Photo: www.nairaland.com
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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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