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HE Ogun Police, yesterday, arraigned a 50-year-old man, Alao Akala before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly biting off the left ear of a journalist, Saheed Ganiyu.

Ganiyu’s ear was bitten off when he was investigating the background of late political god-father of Kwara politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki.

Another journalist, Rasaki Olayiwola was also reportedly hit on the head with a camcorder stand by the accused.

Police Prosecutor, Sunday Eiagbejiale told the court that the accused committed the offence on January 3, 2013 at Ago-Ika in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Eiagbejiale told Magistrate Matins Akinyemi that the accused attacked the two journalists who were carrying out their lawful duties without just cause.

He said “ Akala attacked the journalists when they were on a research mission into the background and origin of late Saraki who was reported to have claimed to be from Abeokuta.

“Akala bit off Ganiyu’s left ear, causing grievous harm and hit Olayiwola on the head with a camcorder stand. `”It will interest this court to know that the journalists were in Abeokuta from Ilorin to research the claim that Chief Olusola Saraki was from this town.

“As an indigene, I was giving them the lowdown of how the late Saraki was related to Abeokuta, when the accused came mid-way into the interview, broke the camera and turned the venue upside down.”

The prosecutor added that the accused also “maliciously damaged” the journalists’ camcorder valued at N300,000.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Sections 355, 335 and 451 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun, 2006.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of assault and unlawful damage.

Akala, who was not represented by any counsel, pleaded that he thougth the journalists were prospective buyers invited to inspect his family property where the incident took place.

Magistrate Akinyemi granted bail to the accused in the sum of N140,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned further hearing to March 3.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/man-docked-for-biting-off-journalists-ear/

cogitoErgo: there s no way there will be no demolisions if roads are to be expanded n many part of Osun! how I wsh the roads within Ilesha could also be expandd.

Also @yoged, FG has approved dualisation of Ereja roundabout -Oke Omiru to Osogbo but ur pple said dey wan govt to do just two lanes upto Oke Omiru n continue the dualisation to Osogbo from there. Even Owa Obokun dat suppose to enconrage his wards is busy asking Aregbe to make his wife a commissioner. How I wish as well but ...

capua: pls anybody dat applied for m.sc chemistry shld brief me on recent happenings.tanks in advance.

The test has been marked less than a forthnight after Nov. 16th but they ve refused to let d generality of d applicants know wat dey scored.
One of my friends has checked his own thru one Prof. and he scored 18/50,that is acccording to him oooo.

Diploma/Pre degree aspirant, let discuss pls, Add me on 2go "Ajilex1"

=Barbar2@ thank u for dis info, but I was told, online dat d entrance exam s on 14th jan nw,but they v nt even start d reg on sch website.

@Daniel,Pls send full detail to biz4babafemi@gmail.com

I was 25 years old and I had my first kiss from that girl a year later.She was 18 when I met her then.

What do you think will happen? When Aregberascal has ordered SARS(police unit), that suppose to be running after armed robbers, to be scaling ladies to naked over percieved indecent dressing even in public.
I happened to be in Ilesa about a week ago before return to my base in Owerri, and I was told of how one lady was stripped of her clothes and the Okada man that carried her was being beaten by SARS for him to be sucking the lady breasts even in public(Ereja roundabout).

Court!!! Their arshe. If you slap them,they will cut your head but if they slap you, they want you to be begging them.

OBAMA!!! Tolerance is what that can hold world together.Islam is an insult to Christainity by saying Jesus is not son of God,etc

The guy done nothing wrong at all.Except if the muslims could come and say that they have not provoked people of other religions.
Even to Christainity,when you say Jesus is not the son of God, is a greatest insult to christainity.
Tolerance is the answer,nobody religion should be determined how world would be governed.

Mr Ibu !!! Ah, my wish for you is that your wish shoud be granted by God Almighty.

@ rossikk,GEJ is already GCFR

@engineerd,u re too bad.

This is getting serious.

It was a show of a shame on that Islamic cleric.Anyway,the story is being aired on all the major television networks

I achieved adult kiss at age of 26 and in that year , it was 1st of April

What most Nigerians culturally do by
using corporal punishment to correct their
children when they do wrong and go scot free
has become the albatross for two Nigerian
couples resident in the United Kingdom.
For beating their six children with brooms,
hoovers and wires and even giving their baby a
morphine overdose after childbirth, the Nigerian
couple have been jailed for seven years each in
London, with the UK press calling them all sorts
of names.
But the Nigerian married couple denied the
allegations, claiming the children were victims of
a racist witch-hunt. They were, however, found
guilty of cruelty to a person under 16.
The parents convicted of a decade long
campaign of abuse against their six children
were jailed for seven years each yesterday.
The Nigerian couple, which the paper said
claimed their kids were possessed by evil
spirits, were found guilty after Coronation Street
star Michelle Collins gave evidence against
them.
The parents argued that the children had been
‘brainwashed’ into making the allegations by the
police, the London Borough of Haringey and
Miss Collins who they said ‘wanted to steal’
them, UK’s Green Crown Court heard.
Jurors rejected the parents conspiracy theories.
When they are released, they face deportation
back to Nigeria – despite pleas from their legal
team that they have been ‘punished enough’ by
having their children taken into care.
As they left the court, the paper said the couple
wailed: ‘We are innocent, this is a miscarriage
of justice.’
The couple were accused of beating their
children with brooms, hoovers and wires and
even giving their baby a morphine overdose just
days after her first birthday.
A report published in UK’s Daily Mail said five of
the children were rescued after their eldest
daughter threw a heart-wrenching SOS note out
of a window.
The report said it was not until their one-year-old
baby was given a morphine overdose over a year
later that police reopened the case which led to
their prosecution.
The paper said the plight of the children was so
bad that Miss Collins, who met them at a
church lunch, took them to the cinema ‘because
she felt sorry for them’.
The Miss Collins gave evidence as a prosecution
witness during the trial of the parents, both 40,
who could not be named to protect their six
children.
Sentencing them to seven years behind bars
each, Judge James Patrick described it as
‘shocking mistreatment’ that they had tried to
cover up with a ‘web of deception’.
Judge Patrick said: “No-one who sat through
this trial could help but be moved by the fact
that these intelligent, charming, fun, lovable
children continue to love you despite what you
put them through.
“You alleged a conspiracy involving a well-known
actress, who had done nothing but show your
family generosity and kindness, a member of a
housing charity, social workers and foster
carers.
“Those who had taken the trouble to support you
were repeatedly accused of dishonesty, lying,
and conspiracy to rob you of your children when
the reality was that both of you were lying – in
fact they ware simply seeking to give your
children stability.”
But the parents claimed they were victims of a
conspiracy – and even alleged Miss Collins was
involved in a witch hunt against them and
wanted to ‘steal’ their children.
One of the youngsters, a baby at the time, had
been allowed to stay in the home by Haringey
council, who were involved in other case called
the Baby P and Victoria Climbie cases, despite
the fact the five other children had to be
rescued.
The abuse reportedly came to the attention of
police in April 2010 when their nine-year-old
wrote an SOS note and threw it out of her
bedroom window.
The heart-breaking plea read: ‘My mum is the
worst mum ever because she can’t cope with
five of us, her broken hand and being pregnant.
She always leaves me out so I always starve
and I am forced to work.
‘If I don’t get enough house work done, I am
beaten without mercy with the wooden end of a
broom. I have scars all over me to prove it. I
can’t stay here. I would like a new mum.’
It was found by a neighbour who called the
police, and when officers attended the address
they found the children living in messy
conditions with ‘dirty’ and ‘dishevelled’ clothing.
Revealing scars the eldest said her mother had
hit her with a cable, a broom, and a hoover and
her father had dangled her by her feet down the
stairwell of the house, tied her hands behind her
back and her legs together ‘to get the devilish
spirits out’, prosecutor Emma Smith said.
Her sister, who was seven at the time, had a
stick shaped bruise of her thigh and after a few
months in care, she drew a series of pictures
showing her dad beating her and her being left
home alone and including a speech bubble
saying ‘I’m hungry.’
The children were left home alone for hours,
sometimes days on end, with the elder kids
forced to look after the others.
They had even been forced to lie to a charity and
social services that they were living alone with
their mother in one room and had no idea who
their dad was so they could scam benefits.
Even during the trial the eldest feared she had
torn her family apart with her ‘devastating cry
from the heart in the form of a letter which she
threw from the window’, the judge noted.
There was an investigation but no further action,
and the five children remained in care until the
parents once again came to police attention on
28 June last year, when they gave their baby an
overdose.
‘But for the events of June 28 you would have
gotten away with your crimes because of a
merciful decision not to prosecute you’, Judge
Patrick noted.
The couple’s sixth child, a baby girl, the report
said, was also initially taken into care but then
returned to her parents. They took her to St
Thomas’s Hospital just days after her first
birthday last year.
The paper went on to say that without treatment,
the baby could have died but doctors managed
to save the youngster, who it is believed was
given morphine orally that morning.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/nigerian-couple-who-beat-their-kids-jailed-14yrs-in-london/

cogitoErgo: My broda did u tnk we can be havng suicide bombers in Naija 1999?

Not even in 2005.

Power generation hit a peak capacity of 4,237 megawatts on Monday, excluding spinning reserves. Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, described the figure as the highest power output ever generated and supplied in Nigeria to date.

Nnaji, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Power, announced the development to his ministry’s directors on Tuesday. He attributed the sharp increase to gas availability and praised the Nigeria Gas Company and the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, for delivering on the promise to supply gas to the thermal plants. “Gas is coming up gradually and when fully stabilised, we can easily hit 5,000MW,” he said.

Nnaji also said that although water levels had also improved at the dams, hydro power plant managers at Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro were operating a management system designed to ensure that there is water for power all year round. “We can have more (power) if we decide to use what is available at Shiroro, for example, but we do not want to do that,” he said.

The minister said he was also pleased that the transmission backbone had been able to wheel the power produced effortlessly.

When President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office in May, 2010, the quantum of power generated in Nigeria was about 2,800MW. The figure spiked by 1,000MW within one year, mostly through recoveries from existing plant capacities. By January 2012, the generation capacity peaked to about 4,100MW.

The minister had in April promised that there would be considerable improvement in power supply from the end of July 2012 because of the scheduled increase in natural gas supply from the Nigerian Gas Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and in the volume of water at the lakes in the nation’s three hydro power stations at Kainji, Shiroro and Jebba.

www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/power-generation-hit-4237mw-on-monday-nnaji/

We are not yet serious about power issue despite billions of dollar that has been wasted on this project .

I dont think things can get to this level in Nigeria.

KABUL (AFP) – A bomb strapped to a donkey
by Taliban insurgents killed an Afghan district
police chief and wounded three others, an official
said Tuesday.
The explosive-laden donkey was tied to a bridge
near the gate of the local government
headquarters in Charsada, in impoverished
central Ghor province, before police chief Gul
Ahmad arrived at work on Monday, the official
said.
“When the district police chief’s vehicle was
passing, the bomb was exploded by remote
control, killing the police chief on the spot,”
provincial spokesman Abdulhai Khatibi told
AFP.
Three other policemen were injured, he said,
blaming the attack on Taliban militants.
Although donkey bombs are rare in Afghanistan,
they are occasionally used by insurgents as a
way of getting close to targets.
In a similar incident last November, a bomb
strapped to a donkey blew up in northern
Afghanistan, killing two people, including a
policeman, and injuring 16 others.
Afghan government forces are fighting a bloody
war against a decade-long, Taliban-led
insurgency with the help of around 130,000
international troops stationed in Afghanistan.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/donkey-bomb-kills-afghan-police-chief/

We need to be watchful because if security operatives refuse to stop these ugly threads,very soon our security challenges may degenerate into this.Imagine Boko Haram now using donkeys and horses as their suicide bombers.

A policeman, Solomon Awodogan, on Wednesday
allegedly shot indiscriminately at the Iponri office of
the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority to
protest the towing of his vehicle by the agency’s
officials.
PUNCH Metro learnt that LASTMA officials had
towed the vehicle after it was parked on the Bus
Rapid Transit lane.
The General Manager, LASTMA, Mr. Babatunde
Edu, said after the shooting, the policeman got itno
his vehicle and sped off.
Edu said, “The policeman reportedly stormed the
Iponri office of LASTMA, shot sporadically and
forcibly ran away with his apprehended vehicle. The
red Mercedes Benz with number plate JV 23KJA
was apprehended at Oyingbo for parking on the BRT
dedicated lane, thereby violating the BRT traffic law.
“The owner of the vehicle deliberately parked on the
dedicated lane without recourse for the established
law as it became an impediment for BRT buses to
move on the lane. This led to the towing of the
vehicle. The Mercedes Benz was booked in
accordance with Lagos State Traffic Management
Regulation law.
“The suspect, who later traced the vehicle to the
Iponri office of the agency, wore a cream top on his
police trousers and started shooting into the air
indiscriminately to scare away the officers and the
security men on duty and succeeded in taking away
the vehicle from the yard.”
Edu expressed disappointment that a law
enforcement agent could break the law with
impunity, adding that such acts of indiscipline could
lead to the breakdown of law and order.
Edu said the policeman, whose address was traced
to 10, Abolade Street, Mushin through the aid of the
auto inspector computer software, would be
sanctioned accordingly so as to serve as a deterrent
to others.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the State
Police Command, Ngozi Braide, said she was
unaware of the incident but promised to find out.

www.punchng.com/metro/policeman-protests-towing-of-car-shoots-at-lastma-office/

The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police has
arrested two Islamic clerics, Fatai Bamidele and
Lateef Ahmed, for allegedly obtaining N30m from
Lawal Sulaiman, a Lagos-based businessman,
under false pretence.
Police authorities said the suspects obtained the
money from Sulaiman with a promise to perform
ritual to make him wealthy and invincible.
Sulaiman said he was hypnotised and held in
captivity for three months by Ahmed in Kwara State.
He denied approaching the clerics for money ritual,
saying he only sought protection from evil forces.
He said, “I supply fireworks and Bamidele’s shop is
very close to mine. I’ve known him for years and I
trusted him to the extent that I discuss my personal
problems with him.
“One day, he told me that he had a bad dream about
me and that I would need special prayers. He said I
would need to buy a ram and 40 Qurans for 40
Imams who would pray over the matter. I paid N125,
000 into his bank account to facilitate it.
“After the prayers, he said a superior Imam in Kwara
State needed me to come down to Ilorin to eat the
heart of the ram. Initially, I was reluctant but he told
me it was a matter of life and death. So, I went.”
The 31-year-old victim said when he arrived Ilorin, he
met Ahmed who gave him the heart of the ram to
eat.
He said after eating it, Ahmed showed him some
charms and objects and told him to keep what
transpired between them secret.
Sulaiman said, “After I ate the ram’s heart, Ahmed
showed me the charms and other objects. I lost my
senses
“I came back to Lagos and on several occasions, I
gave them different sums of money. Sometimes, I
would pay cash, some other times, I would pay into
their accounts.”
Sulaiman said when he became broke, he
complained to Bamidele about his finances but he
advised him to return to Ilorin and talk to Ahmed.
He said the major chunk of the money he gave to
the suspects were deposits made by his customers
Sulaiman said, “On getting to Ahmed’s place, I
remained there for three months. He kept on
controlling me and I wasn’t myself. Sometimes, he
would put my phone on private number and tell me
to call my relatives and tell them not to look for me
as I was abroad.
“He continued to extort money from me until one day
when he told me to go back to Lagos to bring more
money. When I returned to Lagos, I became myself.
I called the two suspects, recorded our
conversations and then reported to the police.”
The suspects however said they collected N10m
from Sulaiman and not N30m.
Ahmed, 45, said, “Sulaiman told me he wanted to be
rich and wanted his creditors to forget his debts.
“I informed him that there are two types of money
rituals. There’s the one that a ghost will bring money
at once and there’s another one that he will be
getting the money daily. Sulaiman said he wanted
the latter and gave me N10m as a gift.
“I did not abduct him. He was hiding because he
said he owed people. The ritual takes a year to
perform and it would have ended in October if not for
my arrest.”
Bamidele, who accused Sulaiman of greed, said his
share of the money was N2.5m.
“After I did the first set of prayers for him, he said he
wanted to become very rich. That was when I
referred him to Ahmed. Nobody defrauded him. It
was all a gift,” he said.
The Commissioner of Police for the command, Mr.
Ayotunde Ogunsakin, who confirmed the incident,
said the suspects used the money to buy expensive
cars and renovate Ahmed’s building in Ilorin.
He said, “During investigations, it was discovered
that out of the N10m, Ahmed gave Bamidele N2.5m
while he kept N7.5m.
“Bamidele bought a Nissan Infinity Sports Utility at
N1m,. They will soon be charged to court.”

www.punchng.com/metro/money-ritual-islamic-clerics-extort-n30m-from-businessman/

Millitary officers that are not in operation are expected to comply with BRR edict
,except if reverse is the case.

Both parties 'll rig but the best rigger 'll win.

Lilprocess: Haha we d muslims ar stil d majority in kaduna state if we wish 2day we can kil al d xtians in kaduna witout resistance 4rm any body

You this slowpoke,you are uncutured animal even less than DOG among animal.
They have said that this vampire's vein is tribalistically and otherwise running in you these people.
May the souls of the departed respect in peace.

@miteolu,
This is not the first time NCC will punish those extortioners(mtn, glo, airtel ,etc)and as in the past money goes to the networks' customers, so also will it be this time around.

Mr Lawan need no pity from all these corrupt inclined person that have been commenting in his(Lawan)favour.
Mr Lawan collected $620000 bribe from Mr Otedola in which SSS provided the said marked money.
Mr Lawan's committee indited Otedola's company in their first report but later he(Lawan) fought his way to *vindicate otedola's company in the house plenary session* having recieved some cool dollars
The question to Mr Lawan is why vindicated Otedola's company after he has collected the bribe and exposed him?

At last the drama is being unfolded and it is getting interested.More to come from Mr Lawan and Mr Otedola.
Before I did not take bribe from any marketer,now story has changed to I took bribe to expose him.hummmmmmm!
Some people are just making comments with sentiments and predetermined prejudice.Please let us base our comments on the episodes as it were being unravel for us.

mafioso47: My Lawyer friend Told me that Both Τ̣̣ђё Giver and Taker of Τ̣̣ђё Bribe are 2Be Punished
Let's see τ̣̣ђё Video pls lolzz

I am afraid that your Lawyer friend is a disgrace to Western Education and hence he/she is not competent as lawyer.
Pls,let us look at this sadden situation without any emotional strings,prejudices and unnecessary sentiments toward Odetola and Lawan