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It was learnt that Ugwu belonged to a syndicate, which specialised in luring ladies while pretending to be spiritualists, defrauding and raping them.

Three members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who served as adhoc staff during the April 11 House of Assembly elections are in ‘soup’ for allegedly selling Independent National Electoral, INEC, ballot papers and other materials for N40,000.

State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, who disclosed this while reviewing the 2015 polls, said 15,000 workers were used for the conduct of the elections.

Igini said the three NYSC members sold two packets of ballot papers.

He stated that two workers of the commission who could not account for election materials given to them were suspended, adding that investigations had commenced to determine the culpability of the two INEC staffers.

According to him, “The ongoing investigations are to determine whether their act was deliberate or out of sheer negligence. With respect to the NYSC members, they were given ballot papers of which they sold two packets and were nabbed.”

Mike Igini who described their offences as severe said they would be dealt with ruthlessly.

Three members of the National Youth Service Corps, who served as ad hoc personnel during the April 11, 2015 House of Assembly election in Edo State, have been arrested for allegedly selling ballot papers and other sensitive materials.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr. Mike Igini, said this in Benin, the Edo State capital, while reviewing the 2015 polls in the state.

He said the suspects had allegedly sold two packets of the ballot electoral materials for N40,000 before they were apprehended.

While describing their offences as severe, he said they would be made to face the wrath of the law.

The REC also noted that two members of staff of the commission who could not account for election materials entrusted to them had been suspended and awaiting the outcome of ongoing investigations.

Igini said, “The ongoing investigations are to determine whether their act was deliberate or out of sheer negligence”

“With respect to the NYSC members, they were given ballot papers of which they sold two packets and were nabbed.”

Mrs Morgan said: “When I complained to my mother-in-law about the way my husband beats me, she asked me to be careful about my utterances because that was what his father did to her.”

“He is not faithful. There was a day I picked his girlfriend’s call and read his text messages thinking he was sound asleep. On seeing his phone with me, he beat me mercilessly, packed my things and took them to my parent’s house. Since then, I have been denied access to our son,” she said.
She said she picked the call because her husband saved the contact as Mrs Morgan.

Odutola allegedly attacked one of the peacemakers, Taju Adeboye, who used crutches. This led to a scuffle, which degenerated into a mob attack. The victim was lynched.

Nneka123:
yay! You're a Trap king for that.

hazzanovich:
[i][/i] d guy is a dumbo
d guy is a dumbo

The party said the PDP was scared of playing the role of opposition, adding that, “We don’t blame them as they have neither the capacity nor the commitment to be in opposition. A party that stood for nothing but looting and rent collection will naturally be afraid of being in opposition, where there is nothing to loot or rent to collect.”

The All Progressives Congress, APC has advised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to cease from being “a crying baby”, and accept the reality that its fortunes have changed and that it is now in the opposition.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the advice in a statement he released in Abuja on Wednesday.

According to the APC, the mere fact that the PDP devoted a substantial part of the communiqué issued after the inaugural meeting of its National Working Committee and Governors/Senators-elect, complaining about alleged harassment and intimidation by the APC, “when it should be strategising about the daunting task ahead of it,” means that the party has not come to terms with the enormity of the challenges ahead of it as an opposition party.

The party said the PDP was scared of playing the role of opposition, adding that, “We don’t blame them as they have neither the capacity nor the commitment to be in opposition. A party that stood for nothing but looting and rent collection will naturally be afraid of being in opposition, where there is nothing to loot or rent to collect.”

APC further advised the PDP that it cannot be effective as an opposition party by repeating obvious lies but “by being creative, knowledgeable, resourceful and above all credible. It is not by cheap blackmail, but by being resilient.

“This is why we wish to extend to the National Working Committee of the PDP a free orientation, just as we have offered the party’s spokesman a free crash course on how to be an opposition party spokesman.

“The theme of the orientation for the PDP NWC members will be ‘transiting from the ruling party to an opposition party.

“In the first instance, there is no substitute for experience. Also, we believe that democracy will be deepened only when there is cooperation between the governing party and the opposition, hence the offer,” the party said.

Slamming PDP for complaining of harassment and intimidation, the APC said if any party was guilty of intimidation and harassment before, during and after the 2015 general elections, it was the PDP.

The party said: “Have they so soon forgotten the reckless show of shame by their OPC lackeys with the full support of the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos or the mindless bombings and killings of APC members in Rivers and Gombe states, among others? Only on Monday, APC supporters were again
reportedly killed in Rivers and Kaduna states.

“Haven’t the folks in the PDP seen the pictures being circulated of their (PDP) supporters brandishing machetes in broad daylight during the party’s campaign in Aba on Tuesday (April 21)?”

It also said allegation by the PDP that it was trying to turn the country into a one party state was laughable.

Bigloaf:
The Guy Nor Sharp At All. Any how he the form nice guy. And the babe need the coco. Waffi boy nor dey dull

geni340:
now, this is my idea of a perfect gentleman. Some guys still got discipline...

temitemi1:
God fearing

rokiatu:
He is a fu..cking bore.

SuperSuave:
I think something is wrong with him/his preeq. You can see he stared and thought for a while

sauceny:
Lies upon lies,so court could rule in his favour.... I don't believe this man.

SUICIDE ATTEMPT
My father frustrated me to the extent that I drank poison to commit suicide because I wanted to end it all. Luckily for me, they rushed me to the Grace land hospital. He called my husband to come and take me back.
That was how I left the little trading I engaged in to cater for myself and children. When he came, he took me to his place at Alapere in Ketu Mile 12, and we were living together. It was as if he was a changed man. Six months later I got pregnant for the twins. When I was four months gone, his attitude changed again.

Sunnycliff:
Does she deserve to live?

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Tuesday said his agency was helpless in the face of calls for the cancellation of some election results.
Foreign and local election observers, including civil society organisations (CSOs) have queried the credibility of results of last governorship and House of Assembly elections in Abia, Akwa-Ibom and Rivers States.
Specifically, a coalition of CSOs – the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room – in its post-election analysis on April 13, said reports submitted by its members, who monitored elections in the three states, revealed that the elections were “lacking in credibility and fraught with irregularities.
It expressed concern “about the overall conduct of the elections in the three states because there are grounds to question the credibility of the elections results.”
The Situation Room urged INEC to urgently take steps to authenticate the final collated results from the three states against the polling unit results and make a reasoned judgment about them.
But Speaking on Tuesday in Abuja at a dialogue session put together by the Situation Room, Jega justified why his commission could not cancel election results from the states as being requested by many.
He blamed this on some inadequacies in the Electoral Act.
Jega decried the fact that the national office of INEC in Abuja has weak control over the state offices, noting that Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), currently wield enormous powers owing to the inherent lacunas in the Electoral Act.
He noted that once a Returning Officer declares any election result, “whether the result is false or doctored, there is nothing else we can do about it than to ask the candidates to go the tribunal to challenge such result.
“There is nothing in the legal framework that gives the INEC Chairman the power to cancel results from anywhere over alleged irregularities. We have no power to cancel elections results once returns have been made.”
He said his commission also lacked sufficient evidence to support claims about irregularities in the Rivers’ election.
“On the petition against election irregularities in Rivers State, the commission sent three national commissioners to the state to investigate it. Some people don’t want elections to hold, they are the ones calling for cancellation. We investigate the allegation of fake result sheets in Rivers, our reports showed that there was nothing like that,” Jega said.
He said there was no way INEC could have successfully conducted the run-off election within seven days as provided for in both the Constitution and the Electoral Act.

The rural Umuagbadagwo community in Ikwuano Obodoukwu, Ideato North local government area, was thrown into total confusion when a married woman, Emilia Ebedo, was reportedly beaten to death by her husband over a disagreement that had to do with her refusal to have sex with due to his infidelity.

It was gathered that the 50-year-old husband allegedly beat his wife so bad that she bled profusely and was pronounced dead when she was rushed to a hospital in the area.

Residents who gathered in groups discussing the tragedy, disclosed that the six-year-old marriage between the deceased and her husband never knew peace from day one following the alleged sexual excapades of the man with other women.

It was when the woman could not take it any longer that she insisted that her husband must go for a test before she would sleep with him for fear of being infected with a sexually transmitted disease.

Another reason gathered was that the late woman, a well to do business woman, was tired of giving money to her husband because he only spent her money on other women.

It was also gathered that the position of the deceased on the two issues did not go down well with her husband and he must have beaten her because of them.

Another villager claimed that the deceased single-handedly built the house the couple lived in and wondered why the quarrel should degenerate to the point of spilling blood.

A 16-year-old, Azeez Ganiyu, who allegedly defiled a two-year-old girl, was on Tuesday arraigned in an Apapa Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

Ganiyu, who resides at Ijora Badia area of Lagos, is standing trial for child rape.

The Prosecutor, Soji Ojaokomo, told the court that the accused committed the offence on April 16 at the same address.

Ojaokomo said the accused called the girl and lured her into a lonely place while her mother went to get food for her.

Ojaokomo said, “Ganiyu took the girl to an uncompleted building beside the house and defiled her.

“Her mother started looking for her child on her return and she asked her neighbor, who said she left the girl to play outside with other children.

“The mother said while she was searching for her child, she heard her screaming from an uncompleted building beside the house.

“When she got there, she saw Ganiyu satisfying his carnal desires with the child.”

He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

In his ruling, the Magistrate, Patrick Adekomaiya, ordered that the case file should be forwarded to the State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Section 137 prescribes life imprisonment for defilement of a minor.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The magistrate granted him bail in the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to May 5 for receipt of legal advice.

thekoko007:
what the man said is a pure fact,gej shouldn't have removed bamaga tukur.....

I still need my husband because he is a good man,” Mrs Fasade said.

“I sell alcoholic drinks in front of my husband’s house but I am not an harlot,” she said.
She said she never planned to kill her husband.

The police in Lagos have apprehended a gang of armed robbers that specialises in snatching motorcycles and money from riders at gunpoint.

According to the police, the four-man gang, which has hideouts in the Ishawo and Ijede areas of Ikorodu is led by 24-year-old Oladimeji Orisan, who is also a son of the traditional ruler in Ishawo.

Apart from Orisan, the other suspected robbers, who were arrested by the state Special Anti-Robbery Squad, are Emmanuel Olutade, Lukman Tiamiyu and Wasiu Sikiru.

Our correspondent learnt that the gang had snatched over 30 motorcycles and resold them since they began operations in March 2014.

It was gathered that the suspects, who sometimes posed as passengers, lured commercial motorcyclists in the evening to secluded areas where other gang members were waiting. The bikes and other valuables would subsequently be snatched from the victims at gunpoint

The police said they recovered two pistols and 25 live cartridges from the gang.

It was learnt that the SARS commander, Abba Kyari, who led operatives to Ikorodu, first apprehended 20-year-old Olutade on Saturday, February 28, and the suspect’s confession led to the subsequent arrest of others.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, the son of the Baale, Orisan, said his father had warned him several times to change his ways but he refused. He added that he started robbing motorcycle riders when he joined a cult while he was a student at a technical college in Ogun State.

He said, “As the second son, my father took good care of me but I dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School 2. I later attended a technical college but joined a cult while in school. I was going out with them to rob and that was where the idea of snatching and reselling motorcycles came.

“I formed my own gang in 2014 when I came back from college. I bought the guns from my cult friends. I belonged to the Eiye confraternity. We went for robberies like twice a week. We have snatched about 30 motorcycles from riders.

“We had a buyer, who we simply called Mallam. He bought most of the bikes at prices ranging from N30, 000 to N70,000. He would usually resell them too. I was arrested by the police in a hideout in Ishawo after they had first apprehended Emmanuel. My father does not know I am into robbery. Any time I did not come home, he would call me and advise me to change my ways but I never listened. I was just stubborn.”

Another suspect, Tiamiyu, from Ibadan, Oyo State, said he was an Indian hemp seller and had also served a jail term in Kirikiri, before he joined the gang.

The 27-year-old suspect said, “I was staying in the Itupate area of Ikorodu where I sold Indian hemp. Deji Baale (Orisan) usually came to my joint to smoke and that was where I met him. He introduced me to the gang and I started going on robbery operations with them.

“Before joining the gang, I had spent two years at the Kirikiri Medium Prisons from 2009 to 2011. I went with this gang on three occasions, and we also used my place as a hideout.”

The police revealed that four of the stolen motorcycles had been recovered from the gang while the Baale in Ishawo had also disowned the suspect and refused to visit him.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, said he would get back to our correspondent on the matter, but he had yet to do so as of press time.