Husband kills wife over son's custody

By Tunde Odesola, Osogbo

A few minutes after he fought her husband, Mr. Ajisafe Akande, a middle aged housewife, Fasila, died on the way to a private hospital in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Wednesday.






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Investigation by our correspondent showed that the couple, who lived separately, fought over who should take custody of their four-and-a half years old son, Abdullahi.

The incident, which occurred in the Balogun area of Osogbo, cast a pall over the densely populated area with the residents talking about the matter in clusters when our correspondent visited the area on Thursday morning.

Speaking with our correspondent at the Oja-Oba police station, where he is being held, Akande blamed the incident on the devil, claiming that he did not beat his wife, whom he accused of waywardness.

He said, "I did not like the way I met my son when I visited her on Wednesday night, so I told her I want to take my son away but she refused. We had four children but two of them died. The younger one, Kafila, is living with me. She was dragging the boy with me.

"The boy is not well taken care of. He was always very dirty. The mother abandons him and goes her way; this was why I wanted to take him away. He was the one that descended on me and bit my finger. I only pushed away.

"I went to the police to report that I have taken my son away from the mother. I left my phone number with the police. When the DPO called me on Thursday morning, I did not know it was to arrest me; I thought he wanted to settle the matter. I did not know my wife had died."

Police Public Relations Officer, Osun Command, Mr. Olabode Akinola, said the case would be transferred to the state Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.

"Murder is a serious crime. We shall investigate the matter and charge the case to court as soon as we conclude investigation into the case," Akinola said.
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Anyway it was one of the things that motivated us into joining choir, just to shag does beautiful babes during night vigil.


Funmi, how many times were you fingered during night vigil?,  Girls like you are always the target.

Naah, I was hot,classy and beyond the reach of those church brothers and ministers. Fear no dey catch them?

U don't know whatchu talking about.

How can you compare a country of 180 million to 18 million??
Taking an equal random sample is folly if not moronic.
There are more than 30 million tall Naija men(which almost doubles the population of Cameroun).

You surely lack the nitty gritty in statistics if that is how you do yours. Is that is the case, You can claim that Nigerians are richer than Belgians because you can get more dollar millionaires from Nigeria than the whole country of Belgium.

I don't care how much money Soyinka or Fela's mother had, it was not like Ojukwu's father. Ojukwu's father was the first  multimillionaire in Nigeria  who owned a multinational company, president of a bank (ACB) and Nigerian stock exchange and that may contribute to Just Good's assertion. He may or may not be a spoilt brat.  I can still give him some credit tho after all he graduated from  lincoln and had his masters degree from oxford university with all those money trailing him and stayed in the service for a while. Few spoilt  male children of the rich and mighty these days will do that.

Again, I never implied anywhere that Wole Soyinka or Fela were from poor families but they certainly weren't as rich as Ojukwu's father.

May God accept her in His infinite mercy.

i should be btw 17-19, i had a crush on the vicar, who just got posted there. he was handsome, fair skinned and most

especially he was single. and when i couldn't stand it any longer i went right behind him and held his cassock, he i

immediately turned round and when he saw my pretty and innocent face, he returned it with a smile, and immediately i

became relieved.

and that became my first and last time of having crush on men of God.

Roflmao

Were you healed by the touch of his garment?

One time, my mum and I had gone off again and when we returned, he wrote me a letter. I don't know what was in the letter or why my mum refused to show it to me but next thing I know, Pastor M is in the police station (with my mum cursing and screaming at him so much, I wonder why she didn't burst a vein) and my family never went back to that church. I really felt sorry for him and I was upset that my mum was shouting at him so much since she knew I liked him a lot.
I was about 8 or 9 years old at that time.

Chei, pastor Mattias is a pedophile. Do you need to see the letter before you can figure it out?. He's a stupid pedophile for that matter because he didn't need to keep a written evidence of his sickness. Thank your God because you would've lost your virginity at 8.

when you said small, i thought you meant something else he he.


By the way, to answer your question, in Texas, we have this saying that in God we trust, others bring data. Which means that before you make an assertion, please back it up with numbers or hard data. Show me some data of height comparison of this countries you have spoken about, because all the ivoriens and camerounians you have seen are all big does not mean all of them are (geez, i don't need to be telling you this, you are an adult and should be smart enough not to be making this kinds of assertions). For example, one of my friends from honduras used to say that all nigerians are big simply because all the ones he met are big, i just used to chuckle to myself that if only he knew. My current roomate also has the same stereotype of africans simply because most black people he has seen are big, i had to set him straight. Your assertion could probably be true because most of the africans you see here are from aristocratic families and therefore are well fed so you are talking about the real cream of the crop.

In fact, i am going to stop arguing about this nonsense, just typing it makes me feel i am educating a toddler. Geez, i just can't believe that i just wasted 10 minutes of my life not only reading this thread, but responding to it, i just feel dumb.

Stop rigmaroling my friend. Check out their teams or make a visit to those places, you'll understand that average Camerounians look like Philistines compared to average Nigerians.Some say it's the plantain they eat, dereloaded blames egusi for Nigerians being small. I am not sure what is the cause but you guys are small compared to your central African brothers.

Egusi is the culprit for short rotund Nigerians with their bow-legs.

Ouch. Don't they eat egusi in other African countries, just curious.

The Biafra war is a mis-adventure of rich spoilt brat dragging his whole tribe into an unjust war that could not been won. You have to remember Ojukwu's father was one of the richest men in Nigeria in the 60's. If Ojukwu was a poor soldier he would have planned a coup to topple Gowon, but the moeny he had at his disposal blinded him from to the reality of the situation. Look at Kaduna Nzeogwu he was not from a wealthy home that is why he went for the top job which is the Head of state, same thing Gideon Orka. The Igbos should not see Ojukwu as a hero but as a dreamer and adventurer not any diffrent from those rich men in the states that are prepared to pay $20 million dollars to travel to space.

Was Soyinka that nearly died for it also a rich spoilt brat?

why is this nonsense in politics section?. This afamwhatever is sick in the head.

then what's the point of having unions if all they do is protest fuel prices?

What else do you want them to do?. Protest wages and how workers are treated in private companies?

Tallnaijaf,
Come to think of it oh. If banks are allow to run the system -like ur said with UBA- i think it will be a bit better. Maybe nigeria will be like britain- whose economy is runed by banks. Maybe we start havin bank holiday etc. If banks ar allowed to run nigeria- it may help. i dont know- but i think it will make sense a bit.

And if the banks collapse, Nigeria will also collapse?

Why did Wole Soyinka support Biafra and languished in jail for 22 months their cause?. Why didn't he start a movt then in the west to secede from Nigeria?. Did Gowon jail Soyinka because he was afraid he'll turn to BecomeRich and ask Yorubas to exit from that useless union called Nigeria?

Soyinka's return to Biafra  
Prof. Wole Soyinka and Gen. Yakubu GowonForty years ago, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka travelled to Nigeria's secessionist Biafra region to try and calm growing tensions. The visit saw him thrown in jail, forced to spend 22 months in solitary confinement. Now he has returned to meet those who ordered his detention.

Outside the airport there is a line of black cars waiting, their tinted windows making their occupants invisible. As we come through baggage reclaim there is a mad scrum and in the middle of it is Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author.

I am surrounded by large men in dark glasses who demand I get into a car. As we are not far from the dangerous Delta region of the River Niger, the thought of kidnapping flashes briefly through my mind.

Mr. Soyinka climbs into a land cruiser, I am led to the car behind and we speed off with hazard lights flashing and sirens blazing.

It is the beginning of Wole Soyinka's return to Biafra.

Persecution

Wole Soyinka, affectionately known as "the prof" by many Nigerians, has been collected from Benin City Airport by a group known as the Sea Dogs. Further investigation reveals that they are part of a fraternity set up in 1952 with Soyinka as one of seven founding members - hence the honour of a motorcade.

We are now heading for Asaba and the first stop on an emotional journey back to the civil conflict of 1967.

Back then Nigeria teetered on the brink of civil war.

The people of the east, referring to themselves as Biafrans, felt that they had suffered discrimination and persecution at the hands of the Nigerian Federation and their leader Odumegwu Ojukwu declared his intention to create an independent state.

Violent conflict seemed inevitable, and a group of Nigerian intellectuals then resident in London argued that someone should travel to Biafra to speak to Ojukwu and attempt to head off hostilities.

It fell to Wole Soyinka to undertake that dangerous mission to a jittery and volatile region. He met with Ojukwu and later returned to Lagos.

Suspicious of his motives, the federal government imprisoned Soyinka on suspicion of his involvement in the sale of military aircraft to the east. He was to spend 26 months in jail, all but four of them in solitary confinement.

Now he has returned to see both Ojukwu and back in the west, Gen Yakuba Gowon, the former leader of the Nigerian Federation who authorised his detention without trial.

Wooden guns

We arrive in Asaba and the Sea Dogs drop us in the lavish palace of Professor Edozien, and from there across the River Niger, where in 1967 Soyinka had slipped through a loosely observed blockade into Biafra.

In the feverish marketplace of Onitsha, the town on the eastern bank, he remembers his first visit well.

"There came this group of very young vigilantes with wooden guns," Soyinka says.

"They handled those wooden guns as if they were real guns. It was a kind of portent of what was to come, of a people unprepared for war but with absolute faith."

Soyinka was arrested at wooden gunpoint and taken to Enugu, the capital of the self-proclaimed state of Biafra. Here he waited for the opportunity to speak with Ojukwu.

When it came, Ojukwu was polite but firm. At the time, he said he was representing the people, and it was they themselves who had pressed for secession.

Forty years on, he is blind and infirm yet fiercely unrepentant.

Soyinka guides him to a chair and he reiterates his position.

"If you want Nigeria, I do not think it is impossible - but you will just have to train yourselves into really believing the equality of citizenship," he says.

"If you are not prepared for it, forget Nigeria."

We revisit the Presidential hotel where Soyinka stayed. He remembers the size of the rats in those days and feels that, unlike the rest of Enugu, the hotel seems to have taken a turn for the better.

We still choose to stay overnight somewhere else, leaving behind the long shadows of the past and the distant memories of oversized rodents.

Civil war

Returning to Lagos, Soyinka is concerned that Gen Gowon will pull out of the interview. They have met before, but Gowon seemed nervous - understandably so, face to face with the Nobel Prize winner he slung in jail.

But confirmation comes through: Gowon will meet us at his house. As we enter, he points out that Soyinka is spot on time in a country not famous for punctuality.

"We civilians have to teach you bloody soldiers about discipline," jokes Soyinka.

They talk through the background to the Biafran war and Gowon acknowledges the suffering that was experienced on both sides.

"No victor, no vanquished" was his theme at the end of the war and he is keen for Soyinka to know that he was serious in his intention to ensure that no-one felt excluded from Nigeria.

Soyinka points out that there were some terrible atrocities committed by federal troops. Gowon accepts that this happened, although he says he was not aware at the time.

After all the horrors of the civil war, Nigerians need to forgive, he says.

Finally, Soyinka is ready to challenge him about his imprisonment.

"Ah yes," exclaims Gowon. "You were my house guest."

Soyinka tells him of the solitary confinement, the hardship, and Gowon seems genuinely surprised. "I had no idea," he says.

Soyinka breaks the sombre mood with a flash of humour: "Let me tell you publicly, if the boot had been on the other foot, I would have slung your arse in jail much earlier."

As we leave, the two men embrace and there is a palpable sense of forgiveness and relief in the air.

Wole Soyinka's return journey is complete, a journey not only back to Biafra, but also back to confront those whose actions 40 years ago placed him in solitary confinement.

It is where some of his finest poems were written.

The ghosts of Biafra can be found in the pages of his work, scribbled on scraps of paper as the terrible history of the civil war was itself being written.

I totally agree. Payment by the hour and direct deposit makes sense.

In Nigeria?. Hourly payments?. Na die be that one oh.

YTour yellow line didn't get PH. Adjust your line to get PH and possibly capture parts of Cameroun like Douala.

Rivers state is the richest state in Nigeria.

I couldnt help but fall in love with this 16 year old girl.

Now thats what I call love.

How many of you remember your first "true" love?? The one that felt like she was the one?? Cry

I could have killed someone for her.

How many women have killed themselves for you? I guess none. That shows how hot you are.

U are comparing 180 million Nigerians to 18 million Camerounians.
Of course, by the law of average. . . .U will see more short Nigerian men than any African country.
The midgets in Oshodi alone will outnumber the whole people of Cameroun.

Stop lumping them together abeg. That's crude statistics. Take an equal random sample from each group and compare their heights and physique, you'll understand that Nigerians and Ghananians to a large extent are considerably small compared to most Central Africans especially Cameroun.

Raised with veggies, beans and cupcakes?? Liar!!!
U were busy munching Eba n Pap as a tot. It explains why you have the physique of a midget.

Funmi is a perfect example of perfect figure. I ate balanced diet unlike you that used amala as dessert.

Starchy foods!!!!

St. Funmi was fed with garri for most parts of her childhood. . . .
It's only natural for her stand below average height compared to other Africans.

Camerounians eat starchy foods too like plantain, cassava etc yet the grow taller and more masculine than Nigerian men. Why?

I was raised with veggies, beans,white meat, groundnuts and cupcakes and not you that eat apu three times daily.

More like diaries of a frustrated single black woman.

Does that change the question or the fact that Nigerian men are small compared to their counterparts in the west coast?

Which world are you living in? I need to expose you to a better mindset.

Liar liar pata afaya!. You are still chasing me after these years?. How will I say it now, YOU ARE NOT UPTO.

Imagine 16 years old in SS2 killing herself because of love. Hmmmm. This goes to confirm the saying "when the love of a man touches the heart of a woman, nothing else matters", not even death. Na wa o.

Roflmao

_{One remembers Osisi's love for Ade. She was ready to die for him.}

Shut you two of ya  . Why are you Nigerian guys small everywhere compared to your fellow black men from Uganda, Senegal, Cameroun and Ivory Coast?

Why not make room for positive assumptions rather than spit your rancid thinking on the forum? Undecided

+ve assumption for men? What's positive about men anyway?

The woman weights over 300 lbs. Any man that wants to commit suicide need not look anymore. Just slap her and get a beating of your life.

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You don't have to be like most of the gay community and make so obvious that you are gay. We know you are. So shut up and sit in your little corner.

That's my problem with gay men. Aggression. What kind of man tells his fellow nairaland men 'mess -YOU' with his screen name when there are many women walking around his neighborhood?.  You need any more proof that mess- You is gay?

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Roflmao. Is Atiku in Abeokuta again?



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That's my girl. Shoot 'em up if they raise their hands on you.

Monarch warns community leaders on militancy in Niger Delta


The Chairman of Rivers Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Chukwumela Obi, has called onThe traditional ruler made the appeal on Thursday at Omoku, Rivers, while inaugurating the new Central Community Development Committee (CDC) for Omoku community. Obi, who advised the committee members against using their new positions to enrich themselves, noted that peace and development could only be achieved in the oil-rich region if community leaders discharged their duties diligently. ''Attainment of peace, unity and development largely depends on the administrative style of the community leaders,'' he said. The traditional ruler, who urged them to liaise with government and oil companies to ensure that projects approved for Omuku area were not diverted, added that they were expected to ensure speedy execution of the projects.

Obi, the traditional ruler of Ogbaland in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni council area of Rivers, noted that lack of interest by community leaders in monitoring projects had contributed to the high rate of projects failure in the area. community leaders in the Niger Delta to stop using their positions to fan militancy. The traditional ruler made the appeal on Thursday at Omoku, Rivers, while inaugurating the new Central Community Development Committee (CDC) for Omoku community. Obi, who advised the committee members against using their new positions to enrich themselves, noted that peace and development could only be achieved in the oil-rich region if community leaders discharged their duties diligently. ''Attainment of peace, unity and development largely depends on the administrative style of the community leaders,'' he said.

The traditional ruler, who urged them to liaise with government and oil companies to ensure that projects approved for Omuku area were not diverted, added that they were expected to ensure speedy execution of the projects. Obi, the traditional ruler of Ogbaland in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni council area of Rivers, noted that lack of interest by community leaders in monitoring projects had contributed to the high rate of projects failure in the area.

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