₦airaland Forum

kingthreat:
Put allegation of theft on someone then use the opportunity to kill the person. If the people that did this ever get to power, wont they do much worse? The problem of Nigeria is Nigerians. A total re-orientation of the populace or nothing changes.

Hashabiah:
This country is crazy. So because of a car battery the OPC decided to take the life of a person? Chai...

kindlyheart:
Happy new month lovely nl members.

I ended the month of January on a sad note. My two phones were forcefully taken by armed robbers in a military uniform, a stone throw away from a military check point on Benue - Enugu road (at alade).

I don't know how to contact the relevant authorities so that is why i came here.

Even if I wont get back my phone, I'm willing to give the IMIE and other relevant infos to the Nigerian authority to use in tracing and fishing out the criminals.

Sorry for the bad grammar and other things. I have been relegated from a smartphone to a feature phone.

Mods pls help a brother. It is me today, God forbid it be ur dear one tommorow.

sampete:
Sometime ago last year, I gave my girlfriend some money to startup a restaurant business and she has been managing it well without issues.

She was doing so well that in no short time the business expanded, clean working and classy looking environment. Her workers were quite trained and they were neat as regards the preparation of the food they sell.

Trouble started last week. I got a frantic call from one of my Girlfriend's workers and she told me my babe got arrested by the police with some of her workers, she was the only one who eluded them.

I quickly rushed down to meet up with her as she wasn't coherent on phone. Getting there, she told me that earlier that day one of their regular customer came in to eat. According to her, the guy looked sick. He went on to ask for swallow and they served him.

Midway into his meal, this guy brought out some drugs to take and then he finished his meal. Table was cleared but the guy remained seated. Then few minutes later, he was observed to have laid his head on the table, eyes closed and they thought he was sleeping, not knowing the guy has passed off.

After like 30 minutes, one of my babe's worker decided to wake him to leave so that other customers could make use of his chair as everywhere was filled up. She raised the alarm when she tried to wake him and he was not responding. The guy was quickly rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Two hours later, my Girlfriend's restaurant was raided by the police on the suspicion that he poisoned the guy. All the food she cooked that day were seized and taken away for testing. And she and her workers have been in jail since and all efforts to see her has been unsuccessful. They won't let me see her and they won't tell me the results of their investigations so far.

I just don't know what to do. The food they claimed was poisoned was served to others and no one complained of even stomach pains not to speak of dying. I even ate from the food earlier that morning.

The way the whole case is going is so confusing and murky and it seems the guys family are well of and they are looking for someone to blame, innocent or not.

So guys, please what do I do? My girlfriend is all alone, no notable family to speak of, who could come out to help. Her parents are late and she isn't close to her relatives. I'm all she's got.

DBlackCeazer:
A pic of the shop

Keneking:
Seen..I am sure this must have been in the 2017 budget

Aregbesola sef...maybe seeking soft landing after court voided "State of Osun"
+ Was he there as special guest appearance?
- Why the cap?

Is that Reuben Abati in the first picture?

Something like this would be in the 2018 budget proposal too...

• Education ministry admits blame

Tears flowed at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos State, on Thursday, as one of the victims of the Queen’s College diarrhoea outbreak, Praise Sodipo, was buried.

Representatives of the school’s management, colleagues, family and friends of the victim paid their last respect to the 14-year-old, who died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, last Friday.

Some of the mourners broke down in tears when the coffin was opened for all to see late Sodipo, who was dressed in her school uniform.

The Senior Secondary School one pupil was buried around 11am.

Meanwhile, the Federal Ministry of Education has admitted blame in the death of the three pupils of the school, saying the incident could have been prevented if proactive steps were taken.

PUNCH Metro had reported that many pupils of the school were admitted in the sickbay after eating spaghetti and drinking water said to have been contaminated.

Two pupils – Vivian Osuiniyi and Bithia Itulua – who were in Junior Secondary School two and three respectively, reportedly died as a result of the epidemic.

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, had led a team to the school and ordered an investigation into the incident, just as the then Principal of the school, Dr Lami Amodu, denied the epidemic, blaming the report on haters of the school.

Amodu was later transferred from the school.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, a few weeks later released a statement saying health records from the school’s sickbay indicated that a total of 1,222 pupils presented themselves at the school’s clinic on account of abdominal pain, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.

The statement noted that 16 pupils were admitted to various hospitals. While two were confirmed died, one was on admission at the Intensive Care Unit of LASUTH.

Sodipo, who was the pupil in the ICU, died on Friday, bringing the number of deaths to three.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim’s family took her remains from LASUTH mortuary around 10am on Thursday.

The hearse bearing the body was accompanied by the family to the Atan Cemetery where sympathisers had converged.

The group observed a short service of songs, led by a minister at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of Refuge Parish, Pastor Joseph Ekato.

Ekato condoled with the family and prayed to God to give them the fortitude to bear the loss.

The coffin was subsequently lowered into the grave.

Her guardian, Lawrence Otun, said she was only eight when she lost both parents who were ministers at the RCCG. She was their only child.

He said she was enrolled in Queen’s College four years ago, being the only pupil to be admitted on merit from Osun State.

He said, “The sickness started from the school, but they refused to inform us. It was when my wife went to pick her for the midterm break that she discovered that the girl had been terribly sick and was admitted to the sickbay. She took her to a hospital.

“We were treating malaria when a doctor advised that we do a scan. The scan showed she had liver enlargement. The doctor referred us to Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba. Because it was late, my wife brought her home.

“When I, however, saw how she was breathing, I quickly rushed her to a private hospital around 11pm where she was placed on a drip till the following morning. We were advised to do another scan.

“The new result showed that she had perforated intestine due to chronic typhoid said to have been caused by the contaminated water in the school.”

He explained that she was transferred to LASUTH in an ambulance and was admitted.

A surgery was later conducted at the hospital.

Around 1pm on Saturday, she was reportedly transferred to the ICU, where she was placed on oxygen.

Otun said the illness got worse as she started convulsing and went into a coma, adding that she was placed on a life support.

“We spent over four weeks at the hospital; I couldn’t go to work. Despite all that, she still did not make it,” he added.

A family friend, Steven Babatunde, described the victim as brilliant and intelligent, adding that she was a mentor to some teenagers in her local church.

“The girl could have become a great leader in the future, but her life was cut short by the carelessness of some people. The former principal and the Federal Government must pay for this,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Federal Ministry of Education has said some lapses caused the death of the three pupils of the school.

The Director of Basic and Secondary Education, Federal Ministry of Education, Jonathan Mbaka, told journalists on Tuesday during an interview that the monitoring team of the education quality assurance inspected the school prior to the outbreak.

He said, “I must confess that there were lapses in the ministry concerning the report filed by the Education Quality Assurance team.

“The report was submitted to the directorate of that ministry. But the directorate didn’t pass the report to other departments for action. They just kept it in the office.

“Unfortunately, it was this week that I was able to get access to that report. It is a little lapse on our part. But it is a procedural issue and when procedure has existed for too long, to change it becomes an issue. No one expected such to happen; other reports had been kept like that and nothing happened.”

Mbaka, who also faulted the former principal of the school for denying the incident, noted that it was after the new principal came into office that the government knew there was a crisis in the school.

“The challenge we had was that the facts were not coming to us. I can inform you that I have visited the school three times. When I visited the school, I postponed the resumption for two weeks when I saw what was on ground.

“We have discovered that there is a failure in the system. This has opened our eyes to a lot of things. And we have agreed that after this issue, we will visit each of the unity schools for assessment. With this, I believe that we will not have a repeat of such,” he added.

The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, in a statement, condoled with families of the victims, saying the government was addressing the problem.

He urged the pupils doing examinations in the school to continue to come from home, adding that the school would soon resume normal academic activities.

The Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Lagos State, has ordered that alleged wife killer, Lekan Shonde, be tried for murder.
The DPP, in its advice dated June 16, 2016 by the Chief State Counsel, Mr. T. Adewoye, stated that evidences available revealed that the dock worker killed his wife, Ronke.
Our correspondent had reported that 51-year-old Shonde allegedly killed his wife of eight years at their home in the Egbeda area of Lagos.
He was alleged to have locked the door on the corpse and their two children, before the incident was discovered by a housekeeper and later reported to the police.
The man, who surrendered himself to the police after days in hiding, claimed that he only slapped the deceased during a disagreement on the night of the incident.
An autopsy report on Ronke’s death had, however, revealed that she died from respiratory seizure before the Lagos State Police Command decided to arraign him for the crime.
On Friday, an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, said the legal advice was ready but the court adjourned till July 8 after the counsel to the defendant, I.B. Mohammed, said he had yet to get the advice.
The Chief Magistrate, O.I. Adelaja, advised the counsel to obtain the Certified True Copy before the adjourned date.
Saturday PUNCH , which exclusively obtained a copy of the advice, learnt that Shonde would be tried for murder.
The advice read in part, “From the facts in the case file, it is clear that the victim died. However, it cannot be established that an act of omission of the suspect caused the death.
“From the duplicate case file, there is no eyewitness account of the circumstances leading to the death of Ronke Shonde. The issue to be determined is whether or not the circumstantial evidence available in this case is strong enough to secure a conviction.”
The advice said since the suspect admitted to slapping his wife before her death, he was culpable.
“The suspect admitted that he slapped the deceased, which is in consonance with the autopsy report that the deceased had deep tissue-bruising of the cheeks. Though the suspect said there was an argument between them and the deceased held on to his shirt, he did not however express what led to the deceased holding on to his shirt and challenging him to a fight, neither did he state how he freed himself from the deceased.
“Secondly, there has been a history of violence against the deceased in the past, confirmed by the complainant/landlord and Bolatito Bewaji (sister). It was also stated that he would beat his wife, lock her inside and take her phone away to prevent her from getting help from neighbours. Same thing happened on May 5 and 6, 2016.
“Thirdly, the autopsy report states succinctly that the death of the deceased was not natural neither was it by a terminal disease but all the indices related the death to the possibility of a fight, leading to a brain injury and thus respiratory failure and ultimately leading to her death.”

247frolicboss:
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Isnt this Punch?OMG!!

https://dksehxhc973rn.cloudfront.net/fccd670aa6a2a344caec3ba2461550d50d620fe3.png
Perhaps they re-used an old interview to make headline,he should find out before denying cos this is a big disgrace for a big paper like Punch ...


Timi Dakolo shared this Snapshot on Instagram and wrote:

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...I DIDNT GRANT THIS INTERVIEW...SO I WONDER ...HOW SOME WOULD SIT AND WRITE UP THINGS LIKE THIS..."

Has anybody tried to check up

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEyJ13eP12r/?hl=en

thunder74:
This is today's Punch 30/04/2016. The story is not in it, where did they get this from? Photoshop I guess.

247frolicboss:
https://dksehxhc973rn.cloudfront.net/b2c4a8d81f072b733c428001c32c35dab0d31c95.png

Isnt this Punch?OMG!!

https://dksehxhc973rn.cloudfront.net/fccd670aa6a2a344caec3ba2461550d50d620fe3.png
Perhaps they re-used an old interview to make headline,he should find out before denying cos this is a big disgrace for a big paper like Punch ...


Timi Dakolo shared this Snapshot on Instagram and wrote:

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...I DIDNT GRANT THIS INTERVIEW...SO I WONDER ...HOW SOME WOULD SIT AND WRITE UP THINGS LIKE THIS..."

Has anybody tried to check up

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEyJ13eP12r/?hl=en

Facts have emerged that the parents of the three students of Babington Junior Seminary School, Ikorodu, Lagos, who were abducted on February 25, 2016, paid N5.6m ransom to the kidnappers.

The father of one of the victims, Venerable Olusa Ayo, revealed in his statement to the police, that the kidnappers initially demanded N200m for the release of the girls.

He said the abductors, however, after agreeing to collect N15m, made him merry-go-round to ensure he was not being followed by security agents.

He said, “On the morning of March 1, at about 11am, I received a call through which my daughter informed me about the abduction. She said three students, including herself were abducted at gunpoint in the midst of sporadic shooting. She further advised me to contact the school authorities.

“The line was switched off thereafter until around 11pm on the same day. The same line called again, with my daughter requesting confirmation if the school management had been contacted. I told her to hand over the phone to her abductors. One of the abductors informed me that I should know what to do. He, thereafter, demanded a ransom of N200m before the girls could be set free.”

Ayo said while pleading with the abductor, the line was switched off.

He explained that the kidnappers flashed his number, and he called back the next day and continued with the negotiation.

The cleric said the kidnappers shifted grounds from N150m to N100m, adding that they asked him to pay N30m for the release of only his child.

Ayo said, “But I said I wanted all the three girls. I also explained that it had been difficult for the school to raise the ransom they were demanding. I offered N1m each on behalf of the other parents and N2m on behalf of the school.

“This was declined with constant threat to kill them if we failed to meet their demand. They finally decided to collect N15m which they claimed would be the final offer.”

He said after speaking with the kidnappers that the parents had raised an additional N600, 000 to the N5m they had, the kidnappers agreed to take it.

One of them was said to have given the cleric instructions on how to package the money and get it ready in a Ghana-must-go bag.

The cleric said, “At about 11pm on Saturday, March 5, 2016, I was contacted to bring the money with stern warning not to involve the security agencies. That I should come alone, and later they said I could come with a driver.

“I was asked to drive to Ijebu-Ode, but I was intermittently called to know my movements. I was also directed to put on the inner lights of the car, while the hazard pointers should be on.

“By the time I got to Imota, I was asked to proceed until I got to Agbone where I was asked to turn back to Ikorodu. I was later asked to turn back to Ijebu-Ode again until I got to Imota.

“Finally, I was directed again to go back to Ikorodu and watch out for a broken down vehicle after the filling station. When I confirmed that I had sighted the car, I was directed to drop the money in front of the car. This was at about 11.40pm.”

He said the kidnappers confirmed the receipt of the money to him on the phone and promised to release the children.

According to him, he returned to the school around 12pm on that Saturday and informed the security agencies of what had happened.

He said the girls were released the following morning and brought back to the school.

“The girls gave me N15, 000 which was given to them by the kidnappers for their transport. My daughter also delivered their message that I should pray that God would forgive them.

“The police then requested statements from me and the girls. I also took my daughter to the hospital for treatment,” he added. One of the abducted girls, Olaniyan said the kidnappers fed them with garri, among others, while they were in captivity, adding that they were also blind-folded.

She said, “The three of us were taken away through a hole they dug in the school, which led to a bush path.

“They put us in a canoe. I saw 11 men in the canoe and thy paddled the canoe for almost 30 minutes. We arrived at the spot at exactly 9pm. Getting there, they cut some wood and erect a temporary tent for us.

“When we woke up the following morning, they cut a blue cloth, which they used to blindfold our eyes. Later, Deborah (Akinayo) complained that the blindfold was affecting her eyes. So, they removed the blindfold from our eyes.

“They were carrying long guns and they called themselves names like Forest, Shadow, Senior man, Trachtion.”

She said the kidnappers began asking them for their parents’ phone numbers and if they had money in their bank accounts.

She said the abductors on the second day brought a sack of garri, cartons of bottle water, juice, sardines and other drinks.

“They asked seven men to stay with us, but others were going and coming back.

“On Saturday, an old man came, whom they were calling, ‘Daddy’. When the man saw us, he shouted at them and they shouted back. They had a brief discussion and after staying for about 30 minutes, he received a phone call and they started threatening to kill us if our parents involved the police.

“On March 6, at about 5.30am, I was woken up and we were taken in a canoe by two armed members of the group.”

She said around 8am, they were dropped off on the main road at Igbokuta where they approached a motorcyclist, who then took them to a police station.

She said the police from there took them to the school.

Meanwhile, an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, has ordered that six suspected kidnappers of the students should be remanded in prison custody.

The Chief Magistrate, I.O. Adelaja, ordered that the defendants – Emmanuel Arigidi, Gift Pius, Omoni Fred, Owei Godfrey, Akanji Seun, and James Segun – should be remanded pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

Atmmachine:
And my grandfather who was verbally dismissed from our village vigilante group hasn't been reinstated.

His salary from 1930 to 2016 would be around $200 million.
I pray they reinstate him soon, he use to catch arm robbers like rat.