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The father, Mr Felix Nweze is also querying God for the additional” burden” of triplets when he knows they have feeble hands and could hardly take care of the three children they had already.
He is blaming God for blessing his poor family with a set of triplets ( two boys and a girl) despite having a full house already. The wife, Confidence said those who have the wherewithal should have been favoured with such a blessing, not a family like theirs who can not even afford three square meals a day.

A 15-year-old resident of Ishaga Road in the Idi-Araba area of Lagos State, Afusat Musa, has been electrocuted by a live wire that was partially disconnected by officials of Eko Electricity Distribution Company.

About four officials were said to have stormed the neighbourhood penultimate Tuesday, around 2pm, and disconnected wires from houses, whose residents had yet to pay their bills.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the wire cut from a storey building was, however, abandoned on the roof of a mosque near the building, while the other end was still attached to an electric pole.

Our correspondent gathered that moments after power was restored on the fateful day, Afusat, a Junior Secondary School three pupil, who lived in a house next to the mosque, was electrocuted.

She was said to be returning from an errand at about 7pm and touched the metal pole of an aerial mounted beside her house.

She was said to have been rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was confirmed dead on arrival.

A brother of the deceased, Aminu Musa, told PUNCH Metro that the manager of the Idi-Araba office of the EKEDC visited the community after the incident was reported at the Itire Police Station and the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency.

Aminu added that the manager denied knowledge of the workers’ operation in the area on the fateful day.

He said, “Immediately Afusat died, we went to the Itire Police Station. LASEPA was also informed about the incident. The following day, LASEPA officials, the electricity workers and their manager visited us. The manager denied sending his men to disconnect wires.”

Afusat’s mother, Zainab, a trader, said the workers eventually admitted complicity in the occurrence when people confronted them, adding that the case was not properly handled because the family was not influential.

She said, “We initially thought it was our wire that caused the electrocution, but it persisted after my daughter died. It was somebody who rushed in to tell us that a live wire was abandoned on the roof of the mosque, which touched our house’s roof. The workers initially denied that they did come to our area for the operation. But when people insisted they were the ones, they apologised, saying the wire was mistakenly abandoned. If Afusat was from a rich family would the case die like that? They did not even come in to sympathise with us; they stayed outside.”

The deceased’s father, Alhaji Muhammed Musa, who described her as obedient, said her death was caused by the nonchallant attitude of the electricity officials.

He said, “Many wires were disconnected that day and we had to settle them to fix them back. I paid them N1,500. A wire was not re-fixed because the residents of the house did not settle them. It was carelessness on their part to have abandoned the wire that was not disconnected from the pole. When there was electricity later that day, people started complaining of shocks but we did not know where it came from until Afusat died.”

The Chairman of the community development association, Mr. Rasheed Bakare, said prior to the incident, several invitations had been sent to the electricity company for a discussion on the poor state of electric poles in the area, but were ignored.

He said, “Before this incident, we have written letters to EKEDC, inviting them for deliberation on lingering issues relating to electricity in this community, but they did not honour our invitations. There are cases of falling wires and illegal pole climbing, among others, which we wanted to discuss with them.”

The Lagos State police spokesperson, DSP Joe Offor, said efforts were on to get the statements of the workers complicit in the pupil’s death.

He said, “The DPO informed Lagos State of the incident and invited the concerned workers to the station, but they have yet to honour the invitation. Whenever our men go to their office, they are always told that the workers have gone out. We are still making efforts to ensure that they come to the station.”

Calls made to the line of the spokesperson for EKEDC, Mr, Godwin Idemudia, rang out. He had also yet to reply to a text message sent to his number as of press time.

maskamdo:
Hmmm... think again

he had thought that the soldier was an area boy because of the way he conducted himself. And to make matters worse, they beat them up as if they were entertaining the crowd.

free2ryhme:
Confirm the picture correspond with story for the thread

A 50-year-old Nigerian was arrested in India, on Wednesday, with 1.5 kilogrammes of hashish and one kilogramme of amphetamine in the international market in the capital, New Delhi, Indian police said.

Uruakpa Ahmed, alias Baba Don, claimed by Delhi Police as an international drug smuggler, was
arrested from his rented house in Mahavir Enclave
in west Delhi.
Police said Ahmed was earlier arrested by customs department in 2002 and Delhi Police's special cell in 2009.

"Three members of this international cartel--Deepak Pandey, Paramjeet Singh and Devender Pal Singh--were held on June 29. But, he managed to give a slip," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Rajiv Ranjan, said.
Ahmed, the alleged kingpin of the gang, told police about another Nigerian named Michel, a resident of south Delhi, who allegedly provided him the consignment of the drug recovered from his possession.

The official said Ahmed arrived in India in 2002
on a business visa.
"He later came in contact with his fellow Nigerians indulging in drug trafficking and started supplying drugs on their instances. He worked as courier for them," the official said.

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A police officer with the Ondo State command, Mr Israel Omowa has been stabbed to death by his
wife, Mrs Wumi Omowa.

The wife was alleged to have stabbed him on the neck with a knife after a misunderstanding at their residence around Olu, on Ilesa-Owo highway in Akure.

The cause of their quarrel was still unknown as at the time of filing this report.

It was gathered that the deceased was in his early 30s before the untimely death, while the suspect is in her late 20s.

Confirming the incident, the new Police Public Relations officer in the state, Mr. Femi Joseph said the police inspector was confirmed dead at a private hospital in Akure, where he was rushed to by his wife.

The PPRO disclosed that Mrs. Omowa had been
arrested.

The Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday said former president Goodluck Jonathan lacked the political will to fight corruption while in office.

The Yobe Legislative Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja has nullified the election of Rep. Sabo Garba (PDP-Nangere/Potiskum) for lack of educational qualification. The three-member tribunal, presided by Justice Frances Ikponmwen, gave the nullification order while delivering judgment in a petition filed by Alhaji Ali Yakubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Yakubu and his party had asked the tribunal to nullify Garba’s election on the ground that he did not possess the requisite qualification to contest the election. In the judgment, the tribunal ordered Garba to vacate his seat in the House of Representatives. It also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the petitioner as the winner of the election and issue certificate of return to him.


The tribunal held that Garba failed to defend the allegation that he did not possess the relevant qualification to contest the election. Out of the four issues raised by the petitioners – malpractice, non compliance with electoral guidelines, forgery and lack of educational qualification – the tribunal based its judgment on the fourth issue of educational qualification.

“The issue we consider is that why should the first respondent who should possess the originals of the certificate, shy away from testifying or from producing the originals of the certificates,’’ the presiding judge held. The tribunal awarded cost of N50,000 each against the 2nd and 3rd respondents – PDP and INEC, respectively.
The petitioners had alleged that the lawmaker did not attend the schools he claimed to have attended in the INEC forms he filled. “The first respondent as at the date of the election conducted on March 28, 2015, was not qualified to contest the election into the House of Representatives representing Nangere/Potiskum Federal Constituency.
“His affidavit in support of Personal Particulars INEC Form CF 001 states that he attended Teachers College, Bama, Borno State, from 1979 to 1984, but there is no record from the school and National Teachers Institute, of having attended such institution. “The first respondent claimed in the affidavit that he attended Central Primary School Potiskum, from 1974 to 1979, but there is no record from the school of having attended such institution,” the petitioners had submitted.
The petitioners tendered documents obtained from Teachers College Bama, National Teachers Institute, Kaduna, and Central Primary School, Potassium, to buttress their allegation. They had also subpoenaed officials of the three schools who had testified to the effect that the lawmaker did not attend the schools.

A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has said he has left the Peoples Democratic Party.

Clark, who was a staunch supporter of former President Goodluck Jonathan, however said he would not joint the governing party, the All Progressives Congress.

The Ijaw leader said this in Abuja on Wednesday when a group, Think Nigeria First Initiative, paid him a courtesy visit at his Abuja residence.

It was however not clear if Clark quit the party because of the defeat suffered by Jonathan during the presidential election.

snoopy1:
she must b related to luis suarez

DONily:
:oget rich or die trying[color=#990000][/color]

markmira:
shut up!!!!

Enyiobi said he was brought to Lagos by his village friend and brother he identified as Uchechukwu in 2014, who introduced him to other members of their gang.

Frankiss44:
How are we using economic .. please explain? And what change of orientation are you talking about... You guys need to chill

Gejpresident:
u are a useless fowl

Frankiss44:
Quit this talk abeg... Boko Haram has been bombing for years... Why is it now that they are holding to their last straws?