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ben1daEbiri:
op your topic is becoming misleading..."cut leg with a hot...." but the picture says something different!

Dear Taiwo,
I am 17, the first child of my parents. I have two younger siblings, both boys. We lost our mother precisely six months ago after a protracted illness; cancer. Her death though, expected since we all knew cancer is a terminal illness came to all of us as a shock, because it came at a time all of us thought she would survive.
My youngest sibling is just seven, so my mother’s elder sister volunteered to take him with her, but my father would not allow him live outside our home. He said he doesn’t want any of his children away from him.
It was a good decision and we all applauded him, until I started noticing the presence of his personal secretary in our house. I wasn’t comfortable, so I had to ask him. I was shocked when my father told me that he is thinking of marrying her as he feels we need a new mother, more so since I will be going to the university soon.
I am not really comfortable with the idea, I told my father that much and I cannot relate well with this new woman. I have tried my best to like her, but I can’t. This situation is beginning to bring tension between my father and I because he feels I am deliberately hostile to his secretary.
I have tried my best but I just cannot warm up to her?

sammieguze:
Where is he running to now

It took me about seven hours to swallow 70 wraps of cocaine.

The father of a 17-year-old girl, identified simply as Senami, is on the run after allegedly cutting his daughter’s leg with a hot knife.

It was learnt that the father, who was identified only as Azama, tortured the girl, who hawks Dokunu (local dish), for returning home late on Sunday, May 4.

She was said to have returned home earlier on the fateful day, but went back to collect payment from some customers who bought Dokunu on credit.

Our correspondent was told that Senami’s explanation to her father fell on deaf ears. He reportedly tied her with a rope and used the hot knife on her left leg.

PUNCH Metro gathered that Senami had helped her stepmother, Rukayat, to hawk the goods, which she usually did in the evening every day. Senami lives with the couple in the Badagry area of Lagos.

It was also learnt that a seven-year-old girl, Aliat Musa, also lives with the couple. She was said to have been tortured by Rukayat. Musa, who is Rukayat’s cousin, sustained injury in the head during one of the tortures.

It was said that the injuries drew attention of the teachers in the school which Senami attended. One of her teachers, it was learnt, took her to a social welfare office in Badagry. The teacher later took her to the Ajeromi Police Station, where the case was reported.

Senami, an indigene of Benin Republic, said, “On May 4, after I came back from hawking, daddy (Azama) ordered me to go back and collect the N500 my customers owed me. I came back home late. I did not know my father had put a knife on the fire. He tied my leg and started stabbing me with the knife.

“When I got to the school the following day, my teacher, Mr. Okoafose, took me to a welfare office and we all went to a police station.”

An employee of the welfare organisation, who preferred not to be named, said the victim was “utterly abused.”

She said, “The subject (Senami) reported that she hawked Dokunu every day after school. This is a clear case of child abuse. It is high time parents stopped this inhumane act. We will ensure that the father is arrested.”

While Azama is still at large, his wife was arrested for assaulting Musa. She was arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court.

Appearing before the presiding magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, on Thursday, Rukayat pleaded guilty to the two counts preferred against her by a prosecutor, Inspector Olusoji Ojaokoma.

The magistrate subsequently sentenced her to three months of community service.

Adekomaya said, “Upon the quilty plea by the accused, she is sentenced to three months community service to be carried out at the Badagry General Hospital.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that the driver, identified as Rafiu Baale, was pushed into the path of the truck by a tricycle driver, Imeh Matthew, during an affray

Amaechi took a risky decision—Soyinka

In his comment, Prof. Soyinka commended Amaechi for standing up to President Jonathan during the NGF crisis. He identified Tinubu and Amaechi as the two main agents who brought down the PDP.

MightyD:
There is always an opposition in the Land of the Living (mostly in Nigeria political forum) even in our different various homes, there are always an opposition, so let no one expect/force any cabinet to quit From His own favourite song and dance to their tone with unnecessary and fabricated propagandas.

kodded:
tinibu and all yolobas are traitors

MightyD:
Apc too the complain,,,,

When did political raise become an a personal body?

Does it mean that He who refuses to be intimidated by His fellow has automatically become an opposition?

Most everyone ride with so called apc?

Apc tom and jerry please your daily complain is too much for us to bear.

dre11:
This is APC response to the statement made by Olisa Metuh

“it’s Time To Stop Lying”, PDP Tells APC Spokesman, Lai Mohammed ............

https://www.nairaland.com/2312169/time-stop-lying-pdp-tells by islie.

pak:
Why should you blame her for her death...
By your own estimation. You might consider it wrong for her to sleep with another man....
But this does not in anyway justify her killing , especially considering they were not even married!

AmucheJane:
You go call Jonathan tire, go get a life.

bigtt76:
And of course a new Book Haram member in the making is born.

1stCitizen:
This is what happens to women who date lunatics and cannot close their legs.

donphilopus:
The Mods wouldn't review the subject of this thread before moving it to the homepage now...

Metuh who urged Lai Mohammed to learn to be truthful, honest and desist from fabricating lies that could be injurious to democracy and peaceful co-existence in the country, said, “but for the maturity of President Goodluck Jonathan and the head of the APC’s Transition Committee, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, who cleared the air, the country would have been thrown into crisis over the false alert by Lai Mohammed that the Presidency was frustrating the transition process.

By Henry Umoru
ABUJA- THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said Wednessday that but for the maturity of President Goodluck Jonathan and the head of the All Progressives Congress, APC’s Transition Committee, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, who cleared the air that the presidency was not frustrating the Committee, APC’s spokesperson, Alhaji. Lai Mohammed would have thrown the country into crisis.
The PDP called on all Nigerians to be wary of actions that were capable of causing disunity in the land, just as it reiterated its resolve to focus only on purposeful criticism while presenting credible alternatives to the policies and programmes of the in-coming administration in a manner that will promote democracy, unity and the well-being of Nigerians.
In a statement signed Wednessday by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the party stressed that he must apologise to Nigeria and Nigerians for alleging that the Presidency and the PDP had ‘bluntly refused to cooperate’ with the APC to ensure a successful transition and that the Transition Committee of the Federal Government had refused to hold any meeting with that of the APC.
Metuh who urged Lai Mohammed to learn to be truthful, honest and desist from fabricating lies that could be injurious to democracy and peaceful co-existence in the country, said, “but for the maturity of President Goodluck Jonathan and the head of the APC’s Transition Committee, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, who cleared the air, the country would have been thrown into crisis over the false alert by Lai Mohammed that the Presidency was frustrating the transition process.
“After Alhaji Joda debunked Lai Mohammed’s false statement and denied that his committee was being frustrated by the PDP-led Presidency, we waited for forty-eight hours expecting the APC spokesman to apologize to the nation, but this has not been done.
“It would be recalled that Lai Mohammed in a press statement last Thursday alleged that the Presidency and the PDP had ‘bluntly refused to cooperate’ with the APC to ensure a successful transition and that the Transition Committee of the Federal Government had refused to hold any meeting with that of the APC.

Crisis has hit the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State as the Chairman, Chief Idowu Faleye, was removed by the State Executive Committee at a meeting held on Tuesday for alleged inefficiency.
Faleye, a loyalist of Governor Ayodele Fayose was also accused of failure to convene a meeting since he assumed office last year.
He was appointed in 2014 following the elevation of the then Chairman, Mr Makanjuola Ogundipe, to the position of the National Vice Chairman, Southwest of the PDP.
The SEC, which was said to have sacked the chairman without notifying the governor elected Mr. Olatunde Olatunde as the Acting Chairman pending ratification of his appointment by the National Executive Committee of the party.
Olatunde, who disclosed this to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, said appointing Faleye as the chairman was an error because he hailed from Ido Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government with the State Youth leader of the party.
But Faleye maintained that he was still the duly elected chairman asking journalists to ignore his purported resignation.
According to him, the issue is all about money, adding that his appointment has been ratified by the NEC because he led the state to the PDP National Convention last year and voted.
“The person is saying that at his own detriment. All the party leaders are behind me. The only misunderstanding we had was that they demanded for honorarium for six months amounting to about N11m and I said I cannot sign the cheque without the approval of the governor,” he said.
Olatunde said Faleye was asked to resign after confronting him with the facts and that the decision had been transmitted to the Alhaji Adamu Muazu-led National Working Committee in Abuja through South West Zonal Committee.
He said, “We held the State Executive Committee’s meeting at our secretariat in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday where Chief Idowu Faleye was confronted with the fact that we made a mistake in his appointment and that he is not doing well among us.
“Besides, the SEC has yet to ratify his appointment. After a prolonged argument, he willingly stepped down.
“We follow Federal Character in the appointment in our party. We cannot appoint two different principal officers from the same ward, it is against our constitution. Faleye is from the same Ido Ward 1 where the State Youth Leader comes from. The SEC in its wisdom appointed me as the Acting Chairman.
Olaleye, who said the decision had not been communicated officially to Fayose, said it had nothing to do with the feud between the governor and the National Chairman.
“We don’t have to meddle into their affairs, they know how to settle themselves.
“Though, we have not breached any constitution by not confiding in the governor before taking the action because going by the Constitution of our party, there is a difference between governance and the party. The governor holds the governance but he is a PDP member under me.”
He added, “We are making a change for the betterment of the party. Those who had abandoned the party have started calling us since Tuesday promising to work with us. So I know that this will make our party to wax stronger.
“I don’t foresee any crisis, but if there are issues to settle, we won’t hesitate to do that. The issue on the ground is to reposition the party and make it stronger.”

“Since the last 16 years, there has been no democracy in Nigeria, it is only civil rule because people don’t win elections; they just swear them into various elected positions. The ability to win elections or to go into any elective offices within that period was the “Ghana must go”. That era is gone and gone forever

The security men were, however, able to repel the attack and the attackers fled the scene, while it was not clear, as of the time of filing this report, if the attackers were assassins or kidnappers.