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Etisalat, one of Nigeria’s Cellular phone service providers has been slammed with a N10 Million law suit for illegally swapping a subscriber’s active number without his consent.

Taiwo Egbon, an Etisalat subscriber claim that he woke up one morning and discovered his Etisalat line which he uses in communicating with family members who frequently sends him money from overseas had been cloned.

Out of curiosity, he called the number and discovered someone in Kaduna State had been taking his calls.

Egbon told Pointblanknews.com that after getting a confirmation from one Mr. Chima, a staff of Etisalat that his line was indeed swapped for “no just reason,” he filed a complaint through the Nigeria Communication Commission, (NCC) and Etisalat, but the cell phone company in its response simply told Egbon “we are not liable” in a letter in May 2010.

According to him “I received a response from the NCC through a letter dated August 20, 2010 and signed by one Mrs. Lolia Emakpore with an attached response from Etisalat and I was shocked that they lied to the NCC that I did the sim card swapping myself, that I authorized it on April 3, 2010.”

“It was a blatant lie. I loaded my phone with credit in my house and about to use it to call the University of East London where I have applied to do a post-graduate program and when the network keeps failing, I used another line to call my Etisalat number and someone else picked the phone claiming that he owns the number.”


Not satisfied with Etisalat game over the swapping of his number, Egbon proceeded to court, filing a law suit against the cell phone company. The ruling has been fixed for March 16, 2011 at the Federal High Court, Benin where Egbon is demanding N10 Million in damages.

Egon told Pointblanknews.com that he is particularly piqued because the Etisalat number was his main number which he uses to receive calls from relatives overseas and from Universities abroad .

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday began the enforcement of a court order to take over the assets and property of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, in different locations in the country.



Operatives of the EFCC began the enforcement in Abuja based on the order of Justice M.B Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos.



Two or the 11 property, located in Abuja, were the first to be taken over by EFCC operatives. Eight others are located in Benin City, Edo State and Victoria Island, Lagos.



Another house, located at 29 Sheldon Avenue, Highgate, London, was also listed among the property to be forfeited to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.



Justice Idris had on February 28 ordered that Igbinedion’s assets be forfeited to the government pending the determination of the charge in suit number FHC/B/11C/2011.



Other property the EFCC took over on Tuesday included a block of four flats at 43 Etete Road, Benin; Chicken Republic on Sapele Road, Benin City; a parcel of land at 3, Boundary Road, Benin City; a building covered by approved plan number 2041/2004 at 20B Etete Road, Benin City; a building known as White House located along Ugbor Police Station Road and a mighty house at the neighbourhood of Etete and Ugbor Layout, Benin City.



The property to be forfeited in Lagos is located at 55C, Adebisi Close, Off Samauel Adedoyin Street, Victoria Island, Lagos while those in Abuja are landed properties at 5, Danube Crescent, Maitama and 7, Justice Fatai Williams Street, off Justice Sowemimo Street, Abuja.



Igbinedion, who was governor of Edo State between 1999 and 2003, is facing charges of alleged unlawful conversion and criminal diversion of fund by the EFCC.



The former governor and six others are facing a 66-count-charge on money laundering and mismanagement of public funds amounting to about N3.2bn.



The other accused persons are Patrick Eboigbodin; Michael Igbinedion and four firms: Gava Corporation Limited; Romrig Nigeria Limited, PML Securities Limited and PML (Nigeria) Limited.

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(PHOTO NEWS) - These photos led to the resignation of the Rwanda minister of youth and sports, Joseph Habineza, after a female university student in Rwanda posted them in portest against government profligacy.

Remember the murder of a nursing mother, Mrs Doris Nonye Okere by a
policeman attached to a branch of Zenith Bank Plc in Mpape, a suburb of the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday January 30, 2010?

The husband of the deceased woman Mr Eugene Okere has cried out to
Nigerians to help prevail on the police authorities not sweep the matter under
the carpet or be treated as just one of the statistics of police “accidental
discharge.”

Mrs. Okere who was nursing a nine month old baby before her untimely death
was allegedly shot dead on January 30, 2011 by a Mobile Policeman attached to
the bank while she was in a taxi on her way to the work.

Speaking to African Examiner’s correspondent yesterday, Mr Okere cried out
that the police authorities in FCT and the Force Headquarters have kept quiet
on the matter. 17 days after the gruesome murder.

The bereaved husband who also bemoaned the attitude of the management of
Zenith Bank since the incident noted he has neither received a delegate from
the bank nor gotten any message from the police to commiserate with him over
the death of his wife.

His words: “the police are not forthcoming, they have not sent any delegation
even the Divisional Police Station has not even come to commiserate with me.
Even if they are not looking at me, they should look at the nine months old baby
that the woman left behind. They have never done that.

“There is no sign of remorse, rather on that day you only heard the Police Public
Relations Officer and the Commissioner of Police who have not even
investigated the matter saying it was an accidental discharge.

“I know very well that the killer of my wife pleaded guilty of the offence. He killed
her at a very close range. She could neither talk nor cry out after the gunshot.
She died without leaving a word”.

Insisting that his wife must not die in vain, Mr. Okere said that justice must be
done adding that the bank where the incident took place has been renovated
without any word to him from the bank’s management.

“I have been calling on Nigerians, the mass media, the civil society organisations
to help so that I can get justice for killing my wife for nothing sake. Even the
bank where the policeman was attached to as a corporate organisation has not
come to say ‘we are sorry; we have come to sympathise with you. They have not
done that rather they are busy renovating their bank when a life has been lost”
Okere grieved.

PUPILS of the Community Primary School II, Obinagu Uwani in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State now study under trees following lack of accommodation for classes.

The situation has forced the management of the school to teach primaries 1-3 together so as to accommodate them under the shelter provided by the trees.

The only building housing the pupils was blown off last year by wind forcing the authorities to relocate to a shed provided by a tree near the school.

But the State Universal Basic Education Board (ESUBEB) had in what looked like an intervention effort undertaken to renovate the building and in fact awarded the contract for the job to one Mr. Jude Igwesi.

However, since the contract was awarded last year, the job is yet to be completed forcing the teachers to send the children back home anytime it is raining or when there is severe cold weather.

The school’s head teacher, Mrs. Ngozi Nnaji, told The Guardian who visited the school yesterday, that the contractor stopped work on the building after the woodwork last year, stressing that the pupils had been studying under the tree since last year.
It was observed that pupils were lumped under a tree studying while the school building was yet to be roofed.

According to Mrs. Nnaji, the school which has seven teachers including the headmistress and her assistant also lack other amenities including desks, tables, blackboards and other amenities required for learning, stressing that parents are beginning to withdraw their children to private schools, as a result of the development.

“As a headmistress of this school, I don’t have an office. My office is under the tree likewise all the teachers we have here. We don’t have water, but we have a pit latrine. There are no facilities for the children to study with, the desks we have here are not enough to accommodate the pupils. My greatest worry is the accommodation, which is not in existence here. Let them come and roof the building so that the children can get into the classrooms. We have been managing the situation since last year and when it rains, we usually send the pupils home,” she said.

Mrs. Nnaji, who said she was posted to the school in January this year, added that the school had carried her case to the council chairman, Mr. Ekene Okenwa, who promised to assist, adding however that he was yet to make good his promise.
Contacted, the contractor, Igwesi said that funds had been responsible for the non-completion of the school building, explaining that the payments were made through banks.

He said so far, he had expended what was approved and paid to him and was waiting for release of more funds to enable him continue with the work.

Meanwhile efforts to reach the council chairman and authorities at ESUBEB to comment on the development yesterday proved abortive as none agreed to speak on the issue.

PUPILS of the Community Primary School II, Obinagu Uwani in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State now study under trees following lack of accommodation for classes.

The situation has forced the management of the school to teach primaries 1-3 together so as to accommodate them under the shelter provided by the trees.

The only building housing the pupils was blown off last year by wind forcing the authorities to relocate to a shed provided by a tree near the school.

But the State Universal Basic Education Board (ESUBEB) had in what looked like an intervention effort undertaken to renovate the building and in fact awarded the contract for the job to one Mr. Jude Igwesi.

However, since the contract was awarded last year, the job is yet to be completed forcing the teachers to send the children back home anytime it is raining or when there is severe cold weather.

The school’s head teacher, Mrs. Ngozi Nnaji, told The Guardian who visited the school yesterday, that the contractor stopped work on the building after the woodwork last year, stressing that the pupils had been studying under the tree since last year.
It was observed that pupils were lumped under a tree studying while the school building was yet to be roofed.

According to Mrs. Nnaji, the school which has seven teachers including the headmistress and her assistant also lack other amenities including desks, tables, blackboards and other amenities required for learning, stressing that parents are beginning to withdraw their children to private schools, as a result of the development.

“As a headmistress of this school, I don’t have an office. My office is under the tree likewise all the teachers we have here. We don’t have water, but we have a pit latrine. There are no facilities for the children to study with, the desks we have here are not enough to accommodate the pupils. My greatest worry is the accommodation, which is not in existence here. Let them come and roof the building so that the children can get into the classrooms. We have been managing the situation since last year and when it rains, we usually send the pupils home,” she said.

Mrs. Nnaji, who said she was posted to the school in January this year, added that the school had carried her case to the council chairman, Mr. Ekene Okenwa, who promised to assist, adding however that he was yet to make good his promise.
Contacted, the contractor, Igwesi said that funds had been responsible for the non-completion of the school building, explaining that the payments were made through banks.

He said so far, he had expended what was approved and paid to him and was waiting for release of more funds to enable him continue with the work.

Meanwhile efforts to reach the council chairman and authorities at ESUBEB to comment on the development yesterday proved abortive as none agreed to speak on the issue.

PORTHARCOUT
AFTER four months, members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) and the State University of Education have suspended their industrial action.

The suspension of the strike, which crippled academic activities in the institutions since October, 2010, followed the intervention of the Rivers State Economic Advisory Council (RSEAC) headed by former University of Port Harcourt Vice Chancellor, Professor Nimi Briggs.

RSUST–ASUU Chairman, Dr. Felix Igwe, told The Guardian that an agreement signed by the chairman of the university governing council, Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte (rtd), the chairman of RSEAC and the union stipulated that while the strike has been suspended, the RSEAC would facilitate the implementation of the 2009 Federal Government and ASUU agreement.

Igwe explained that the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and ASUU has been adopted as a working document by the governing councils of both institutions.

“Consequently, ASUU congresses in the two universities resolved to suspend the industrial action until March 31, 2011 and will resume the action without further notice if the 2009 Federal Government/ASUU agreement is not implemented by April 1, 2011,” he said.

The Registrar and Secretary to the council, Mrs. D.C Odimabo, had a month ago issued a directive to ASUU members to end the strike penultimate Thursday or risk mass sack, a threat that the union defied.

Igwe had told The Guardian that the striking teachers declined to sign a letter issued by the governing council asking them to resume work.

According to him, the only condition that would ensure the resumption of normal academic activities was the state government’s acceptance to implement the 2009 Federal Government and ASUU agreement.

He said: “Major key demands is the acceptance to implement the 2009 ASUU and Federal Government agreement. That is key. By the way, all the other universities have implemented the agreement except in Rivers State.”

AFTER four months, members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) and the State University of Education have suspended their industrial action.

The suspension of the strike, which crippled academic activities in the institutions since October, 2010, followed the intervention of the Rivers State Economic Advisory Council (RSEAC) headed by former University of Port Harcourt Vice Chancellor, Professor Nimi Briggs.

RSUST–ASUU Chairman, Dr. Felix Igwe, told The Guardian that an agreement signed by the chairman of the university governing council, Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte (rtd), the chairman of RSEAC and the union stipulated that while the strike has been suspended, the RSEAC would facilitate the implementation of the 2009 Federal Government and ASUU agreement.

Igwe explained that the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and ASUU has been adopted as a working document by the governing councils of both institutions.

“Consequently, ASUU congresses in the two universities resolved to suspend the industrial action until March 31, 2011 and will resume the action without further notice if the 2009 Federal Government/ASUU agreement is not implemented by April 1, 2011,” he said.

The Registrar and Secretary to the council, Mrs. D.C Odimabo, had a month ago issued a directive to ASUU members to end the strike penultimate Thursday or risk mass sack, a threat that the union defied.

Igwe had told The Guardian that the striking teachers declined to sign a letter issued by the governing council asking them to resume work.

According to him, the only condition that would ensure the resumption of normal academic activities was the state government’s acceptance to implement the 2009 Federal Government and ASUU agreement.

He said: “Major key demands is the acceptance to implement the 2009 ASUU and Federal Government agreement. That is key. By the way, all the other universities have implemented the agreement except in Rivers State.”

Two weeks after policemen rescued a self-confessed witch from being lynched by a mos at the Gowon Estate in Lagos, the police are at a loss as to what to do with the woman. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, told Daily Sun that the woman is still in the custody of the police as none of her relatives has showed up.

To worsen the situation, a dependable police source told Daily Sun that the woman has refused to reveal her identity.
“She has refused to talk to anyone. She is eating but she has refused to communicate with anyone,” the source said.
Daily Sun learnt that the police have been responsible for the treatment and feeding of the mystery woman. The police are also hoping that the mystery woman would not die in their custody, the source added.

“The only thing we know about this woman is that she claimed she is from Obubra in Cross River State. I’m appealing to members of the public searching for their missing ones to check at the Gowon Estate police station,” the source added.
Indeed, Tuesday, January 18, was like a normal working day for the family of Vincent Anamba (not real names). He and his household had returned from their daily duties and retired to their one-storey building on the Gowon Estate in Lagos.

After dinner, they said their usual night prayers and were about retiring to bed when they reportedly heard a loud bang on the roof of their building.
Anamba, whose attention was drawn to the strange noise by his wife, allegedly went outside the house to find out what was happening. Lo and behold, what confronted Anamba was the weird sight of a naked lady chanting incantations on top of his roof.

The businessman, who was shocked and confused, quickly raised the alarm. His neighbours were immediately attracted to the scene. The neighbours, who were as confused as Anamba, later came to terms with what they saw and decided to call in the police.
The police, Daily Sun learnt, did not respond on time. Consequently, the youths of the area became impatient and they started pelting the strange woman with stones, sticks and other objects.
The stranger reportedly became jittery. She reportedly made a desperate attempt to escape, but she fell through the roof, hit the ceiling and finally landed in Anamba’s sitting room.

Few hours later, the police stormed the scene and arrested the naked lady, who is believed to be in her late 30s.
Anamba recounted the strange experience in a chat with Daily Sun. He said: “It was stranger than fiction when I saw the naked woman. I thought I was dreaming but I later realized it was a reality when my wife and other neighbours also saw the same thing I was staring at.”
The woman, Anamba claimed, was chanting incantations, saying that the spirit that was holding her from flying back to Obubra in Cross River State should leave her alone.
A police source who spoke on condition of anonymity said: “When we received a distress call that a strange naked woman was on the roof of a storey building, we could not understand what the caller was insinuating until we arrived at the scene and met a naked, haggard looking lady in a man’s house while the owner of the house and his entire family were outside.”

The police officer revealed that the force was at the crossroads on what to do with the lady. “We don’t believe in magic but preliminary investigation has shown that the woman is not insane, neither is she a member of an armed robbery gang. How the woman climbed the storey building remains a mystery.”
He said the woman was being economical with the truth. “She has continued talking rubbish, saying she was in a spiritual aircraft that crashed. She has refused to reveal her identity. All she has continued to say is that one Vivian sent her to inflict epilepsy on another woman. This is unbelievable. I think the woman is hiding something from us.”

The police however, have combed the entire compound to check if there are other accomplices in the area but all to no avail.
The police became more confused as there was no ladder within the vicinity that would have provided aid to the lady.
Anamba and his wife believe that the woman is actually a witch on an evil mission who met a stronger power that disgraced her.
A pastor, who simply identified himself as Nnamdi said: “After listening to the confession of the woman, I believed her that she was on an evil assignment. She is not mad. She is normal, otherwise she would have revealed her identity.”
Meanwhile, the Gowon Estate police station and Anamba’s house have metamorphosed into tourist spots, with people coming from far and near to catch a glimpse of the mystery woman.

Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Mr. Frank Mba, confirmed to our reporter that a woman was actually found naked in the man’s sitting room at the wee hours of Tuesday, January 18.
Mba said: “It is true that such a thing happened but we are trying to unravel the circumstances that led to her being naked in somebody’s house at that unholy hour.”
The police spokesman, however, ruled out the possibility that the woman might be a witch. “What we did was to respond to a distress call and we rescued the woman from being lynched.”
He said the woman was in protective custody of the Force even as he asserted that investigation was on-going.
He also called on members of the public who might know the woman to report to the police.

EVEN BIBLE TALK AM SAY WITCH DEY EXIST. SAUL'S VISIT TO THE WITHCH OF ENDOW IN 1st SAMUEL CHAPTER 28 SHOULD MAKE you not have a doubt about the canal heart of man. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. Verses 3-7
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa. And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. And when Saul inquired of Jehovah, Jehovah answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor.

Residents of Gowon Estate area of Lagos woke early Tuesday to the startling discovery of a young lady on the roof of a three-story building,

The lady, who refused to give her name, claimed she was a witch on a mission. She further revealed that she flew from Obubra in Cross River State, to afflict her victim with epilepsy in Lagos. However, her supposed mission was not accomplished because, according to her, on reaching 4 Iwajuwa Street, dogs in the area started barking, resulting in her losing her balance in the air. The loud bang on the roof of the three-story building was said to have jolted the tenants from sleep at about 3am.

Occupants of the building, who said they mistook the sound as an explosion, could, however, not come out to ascertain the cause of the sound until 5am, when they reportedly heard a strange noise from the top of the building. The unidentified lady was thereafter brought down where she reportedly revealed her mission, following which an angry mob descended on her.

She later turned violent, throwing stones and dangerous objects. At this stage, the onlookers took to their heels, with mothers calling out to their children to leave the scene. But some brave young men were able to disarm her and were at the verge of lynching her when police officers from Gowon Estate arrived and took her away.

Unwanted endorsement

Garba Shehu,spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, howeverexpressed his surprise and dismay at the endorsement.

“Honestly, we don’t want to get involved in this kind of story, ”he said. “However, we believe that lesbianism and sodomy are unlawfulacts in this country, so we are surprised that law and order have sobroken down in this country that gays will organise freely, address thepress and the police did not arrest them. Law and order has broken downcompletely and the next thing we will be hearing now is that of armedrobbers and the kidnappers that will organise — then bombers will alsoorganise their press conference tomorrow. So one, we detest this kindof journalism; two, we say this is an illegal society organising freelyin this country. Then that tells us the kind of government that wehave.”

Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.

Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 13 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17 years old.

"Today God helped me realise my dream," Mr Dore said, after the wedding in the region of Galguduud.

The bride's family said she was "happy with her new husband".

Mr Dore said he and his bride - who is young enough to be his great-great-grand-daughter - were from the same village in Somalia and that he had waited for her to grow up to propose.

"I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry," the groom said.

Goat-skin documents

The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says the marriage, in the town of Guriceel, is being described by Somali historians as the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation for more than a century.


Our reporter says reaction to news of the marriage has been mixed.

Some people said while it was allowed under Islamic law, they were concerned about the age gap, but others were happy that age was not a barrier to love.

Mr Dore told the BBC he was born in Dhusamareeb in central Somalia in 1897 - and has a traditional birth certificate, written on goat skin by his father.

Our correspondent says he has an interesting history - in 1941 he joined the British colonial forces as a soldier for 10 years and then served as a police officer after Somalia won independence in 1960.

Altogether, Mr Dore has 114 children and grandchildren. His oldest son is 80 years old and three of his wives have died.

He says he hopes his new bride will give him more children.

"It is a blessing to have someone you love to take care of you," he said

u guyz are doubting thomases. well here is the source www.deadseriousnews.com/%3Fp%3D866

Stuck on the tarmac for 7 hours due to the massive snowstorm in the Northeast, some passengers on a Delta flight resorted to cannibalism. Members of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, or NAAFA, became famished after the onboard snacks were all eaten.

Eight members of NAAFA were on their way to NAAFA headquarters in Oakland, California, when flights were canceled at Newark airport. Bertha Lipowitz, a 450 pound Camden resident, suffered a heart attack two hours into the delay. The plane ran out of snacks two hours later. After complaining of severe hunger pangs, the other seven NAAFA members decided to consume Lipowitz’s corpse. Horrified onlookers were unable to stop the feeding frenzy.

After seven hours on the tarmac, authorities were able to enter the plane and remove what was left of Lipowitz’s corpse. There are no laws in New Jersey against cannibalism when the death is the result of natural causes, so the other NAAFA members were free to travel to Oakland.

Frances White, NAAFA co-chair, defended the actions of her members. “There is nothing in the NAAFA charter that prohibits the consumption of human flesh.”

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Comedians 'I go dye' and his colleague 'I go save' were yesterday beaten by Soldiers at a PDP rally in Warri, Delta State.

The Rally had prominent dignitaries in attendance including President Goodluck Jonathan and security was water tight, Soldiers, SSS men, mobile policemen , the Joint Military Task force was on full alert to prevent any breach of peace owing to the incessant bomb attacks, Our Source couldn't immediately ascertain what led to the assault on the comedians but people the claimed that the Comedians looked and acted like ruffians and all effort to identify themselves to the Military men fell on deaf ears.

Forty- five- year old Philip Ben from Akwa Ibom State who impregnated his 12 –year- old daughter has alleged that the daughter tempted him severally by wearing skimpy dresses and lying naked on bed whenever he was around at home.
The unremorseful father who escaped being lynched by women at the Oduduwa police annex, Ikeja, during his parade before newsmen yesterday, said he had sex several times with the daughter.
But the daughter (names with held) told Daily Champion that her father drugged her and broke her virginity at a tender age
Speaking with our correspondent, the suspect said he did not want to abort the pregnancy since it has become a public knowledge. He said he was prepared to appease the gods of their land than to abort the pregnancy.
"I don’t mind the shame but I cannot abort the pregnancy. I am not the only one that has been making love with her.
"I was tempted and the devil got me. The thing started one day when I came back from work and met her lying naked on top of bed and I was tempted to have sex with her," he said, admitting that the last time he had intercourse with her was last March.
But the 12 year old daughter denied that the sex was willful. She said the problem started the day her father bought her a drink and after taking it she became unconscious. She said when she woke up the next day she observed some semen on her private parts.
She said four days later, the father came and apologised to her and informed her that he was the one that made her to be unconscious.
She said her father had turned her to a sex machine by having sex with her almost every night.
She said the father divorced her mother and married another wife who later died after giving birth to twins. "I was staying in the village before my father came and picked me at the age of seven to take care of the twins. It was when I came and started staying with him that he began having sex with me."
She appealed to individuals and corporate organisations to assist her by taking her away from the father.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Lagos State, Mr. Frank Mba, said the suspect would be charged to court for incest.
Meanwhile, an eight-year-old groundnut hawker has been reportedly assaulted by an unknown rapist while hawking her wares at the Sabo area of Ibadan.
The spokeswoman of the Oyo State Police Command, Ms Olabisi Okuwobi, said in Ibadan yesterday that the victim’s father, Mr. Samuel Agbaf, reported the incident at the Sabo Police station.
Okuwobi said the victim was taken to the police station with blood-stained pants and was later rushed to the old Adeoyo State Hospital, Yemetu, Ibadan, for treatment.
The PPRO said in a related development, a 30-year-old nursery school teacher had been arrested by the police in Ibadan for allegedly inserting his finger into the private part of a 12-year-old pupil of his school.
She said the victim’s father, Mr. Olawale Omoniyi, reported the incident to the police.
Okuwobi said Omoniyi brought his daughter to the police station and reported that the teacher inserted his finger into his daughter’s ****** with force and later promised to marry her. She said the victim had been taken to the hospital for treatment.
The spokeswoman also reported the case of a 33-year-old man who was accused of defiling a four-year-old girl.
Okuwobi said the girl’s father, Mr. Victor Adeyemo, told the police that the suspect sent the girl’s brother on an errand to buy beans cake for him.
"Before the victim’s brother could come back, the suspect had lured her inside his room, laid her on his bed and defiled her. The suspect used his male organ to push the victim’s pant aside where he started using his manhood to defile the little girl,’’ Okuwobi quoted the victim’s father as saying in his statement.
The spokeswoman said the victim later reported the incident to her elder brother who called their mother on phone.
She said the suspect had been arrested while the victim had been taken to the hospital for examination and treatment.

my guy the fact is u are bleeped! Ur wife sole signatory to account? u are FINISHED. Just come back Naija send OTUMOKPO for her to die. SImple.

The Central Bank today said it has extended the December 31, 2010, deadline it issued customers of banks and financial institution in the country to update their account information failing which their accounts would be suspended with effect from January 01, 2011. It issued a new date of January 31, 2011.

A statement from the regulator bank’s Head of Corporate Communications, M.M.Abdullahi said: “Having reviewed the progress made so far and the response of the banking public, the CBN has extended the deadline for the information update of bank accounts from 31st December, 2010 to 31st January, 2011.”

Nigeria! what kind of stupendious act is this

Oluchi, it was gathered, was brought to the hospital on November 18, 2010, and since then nobody has come to identify the 14-year-old girl.

It was learnt that because of her mental state, the teenager could not give any reliable information about her background and this had made it difficult to trace either her parents or relatives.

Oluchi's aggressiveness on sighting men and the nature of bruises found on her at the time she was found, also heightened suspicion that the teenager could have been a victim of kidnappers or sexual molestation.

One of those, who found the girl at the scene of the accident and brought her to the hospital, Mr. Sola Afon, told our correspondent on the telephone that the accident occurred around Ewekoro and it claimed many lives.

He said Oluchi was found at the scene of the accident running up and down.

"We thought she was one of the accident victims, we tried to calm her down. But she was very violent and we handed her over to a Federal Road Safety Corps official," Afon said.

Afon, who is a factory worker, however, added, "The next day as we were going to work, we saw her after Ewekoro walking along the road to Abeokuta and she was holding a stick. So, we thought she probably ran away from the FRSC official and out of pity, I and four of my colleagues, decided to take her to the hospital."

Dr. Fidelis Ojeblenu, of the FMC, told our correspondent on Tuesday that because of her violent behaviour, Oluchi was first taken to Aro Psychiatric Hospital before being brought to FMC for treatment.

He said,"We discovered she did not have serious injuries but she had this awkward gait. We found all her legs with bruises and she was shivering, walking with awkward gait, she was also screaming on top of her voice and she became violent at the sight of any man.

"But once a female approached her, she became calmed and relaxed. Even to remove her clothes and make her take her bath was difficult as she became violent. She was brought here on November 19 with superficial bruises and a deep cut at the sole of her foot."

Ojeblenu said a psychologist and psychiatric doctor had been attending to Oluchi at the FMC for over a month, adding that her condition had improved.

He expressed doubt that Oluchi was an accident victim, but said she could have been sexually molested or kidnapped due to the nature of her wounds.

She said, "She could not have been traveling all alone at her age and one would have expected family members to look for her but we have not seen anybody. If it was a case of an accident somebody would have come for her. Her behaviour is not that of an accident victim and the bruises she sustained couldn't have been from an auto crash.

"When she was brought, she said her name was Angelina, and about two weeks ago, she gave us her name as Oluchi. She earlier said her surname is Onyekachi but you can see today now, she has given you Ugboaja as her surname. So, we are confused as her case is so sympathetic"

Our correspondent also gathered that the authorities of the Christ the King Church, Abuja, where Oluchi claimed that her parents worshipped and Jolatsen Secondary School, Abuja, where she said she attended had been contacted but they all denied knowing her.

Speaking in an interview with our correspondent, Oluchi, who claimed to be SSS One pupil, said she was sent on an errand by her father and an aunty she identified simply as Uche to Lagos together with her father's driver.

She said she was the fourth child of six children of two males and four females, adding that her parents were from Abia State.

"I came to Lagos with my aunty and we stayed in Lagos for one week. We went to Redemption Camp in Lagos before I ran away and I saw some group of FBI, who took me to their office (probably referring to the FRSC officials).

The Sunday Trust of 26 December, 2010 carried the distressing story of how the brutality of a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Rigasa neighbourhood of Kaduna led to the death of a woman, Binta, with a nine-month old pregnancy.

Binta’s painful journey to death, as reported in the paper, started when her three year old child lost a slippers belonging to a co-tenant who used the opportunity to insult Binta continuously. For the sake of peace, Binta bought a pair of new slippers and sent it to the co-tenant. Instead of receiving it and let the matter die, the co-tenant beat the daughter who took the slippers to her and also engaged the nine-month old Binta in a fight. By the time she was done, Binta was bleeding.

Not satisfied that she has beaten the hell out of Binta, she went to the divisional police office and lodged a complaint that Binta has fought her. The DPO ordered three policemen to arrest Binta immediately. She was taken to the police station and detained all night in spite of pleas from her relations and husband. The complainant was not arrested.

When the police realised that her condition may lead to death, they called her brother whose name they found on her cell phone. With him, the police conveyed her to a nearby clinic in a police van. The clinic declined to treat her seeing her condition and referred them to Yusuf Dantsoho General Hospital at Tudun Wada, Kaduna. There, Binta gave birth to a baby girl who died five minutes later. And Binta too died that evening.

The husband called the DPO on phone and told him that he, the DPO, has killed his wife. It was then the DPO ordered the arrest of the complainant who is renowned in the neighbourhood for her quarrels. It was too late. She has run away.

A number of things made this story very sad. One, the brutality and subsequent death was over a bathroom slippers of just N80 (50 cents)!. The DPO should have reconciled the two instead of killing one of them and her baby.

Two, relatives of the deceased begged for Binta’s bail but the DPO denied it and insisted on incarcerating the woman even as she was bleeding from the beating she received from the complainant. He was so heartless an animal that he even refused to allow her drink water which she asked the husband to provide her with.

Three, unlike Maimuna who survived her serial rape to demand for justice, Binta did not survive to even tell her story, let alone demand for justice. Nor would her baby girl know the circumstance that killed her mother, for the baby died immediately after her birth.

Four, the response of the Kaduna Police Command is most irresponsible. All it did was to transfer the DPO to another division, as if he did nothing wrong. The Commissioner of Police even refused to answer a question raised by a journalist about the incident at a press conference. The command is keeping the result of the autopsy hidden.

This story, like that of Maimuna, epitomises the callousness of many in the Nigerian Police. By the refusal of the Kaduna command to sanction the DPO, the Police have clearly chosen to side with him in the case. It is not worth any punishment, in their judgement. The police by their action are asking the nation the following questions: So what, if a Nigerian loses his life in a police cell? How many such deaths happen across the country every day in police cells? Why would Binta’s be different even to warrant a whole oga DPO to be reprimanded? It is normal!

It is this camaraderie that damages the police beyond correction. The good among them are not ready to punish or expose the bad. The guilty is hidden and protected, unless he is inconsequential when he will be used as a sacrificial lamb. That is why Inspector Dantalle escaped from being charged in Kano despite his participation in the rape of Maimuna. The girl insists that he too raped her. But the police commissioner only demoted him to sergeant. Nigerian Police Force!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Killer manholes on Lagos road worry motorists

Residents of estates on old Lagos-Abeokuta Road have raised the alarm over killer manholes that dot some sections of the road, saying they pose danger to road users and the residents.
They told PUNCH METRO that many accidents had occurred as a result of the manholes.

They added that road users, especially motorists, were forced to slow down as they approached the manholes, thereby exposing them to attack from hoodlums and armed robbers, who loitered around the area.

They therefore appealed to the government to urgently rehabilitate the roads and block the manholes.

Our correspondent, who visited the area, noticed that motorists found it difficult to ply the road and their slowing down when the approached the manholes also resulted in traffic snarl.

The Manager, Sunshine Estate Oko-Oba III, one of the estates in the area, Mr. Idoko Phillip, said residents had made individual efforts by filling the manholes with used tyres to alert motorists of the impending danger.

But he regretted that their efforts were not enough as motorists still ran into the manholes resulting in accidents.

Phillip said, "We feel very bad about all these manholes on the road. They have been there for some time now. Efforts have been made personally to prevent any occurrence of accident there. We had put tyres to indicate that there is a danger ahead for the motorists and other road users. But this has not yielded any positive result because some unknown people removed the tyres. It is a big problem.

"Even in the daytime, some motorists do not take cognisance of the tyres until they reach the verge of the manholes. It is only then that they try to meander and such can be disastrous. This attitude puts the lives of other road users at risk."

The estate manager called on the government to come to the residents' aid to avoid preventable deaths and attacks from hoodlums.

He argued that if road users were finding the road unsafe during daytime, the situation was worse at night.

Phillip said, "There have been some accidents, although they were not fatal. There was an accident that happened few months ago. I heard that a car knocked someone down and the victim sustained serious injuries and was treated at a hospital. The manholes really pose a great danger to the road users. Imagine how dangerous they will be at night.

"Some people may be driving there oblivious of the holes and they may fall into them or get their vehicles damaged in the process. Hoodlums and armed robbers can take advantage of the holes to unleash havoc to the road users.

"For the safety of Nigerians, the government should ensure that the appropriate authority fixes the roads. We want a speedy response. We should not wait until they claim lives. It will be very sad and bitter if the government only finds a solution to this problem after human life has been lost.

"There are four manholes: one near Mapowe Estate; another near Sunshine Estate; the next at Vetland and another one after that. They are between the abattoir area and Total Filling Station."

A resident of Mapowe Estate, Mr. Kehinde Lasisi, said the manholes caused an accident a few weeks ago and a woman was severely injured.

He said, "We are not comfortable with the manholes. We want government to help us fix them to avoid more accidents. They are dangerous. There was one accident that I witnessed. A vehicle was coming from Agege and another one from Abule Egba, the drivers seemed not to know about the holes. There was a woman that wanted to cross to the other side, suddenly they hit the woman, she sustained injuries and was rushed to a hospital for treatment. This happened about three weeks ago."

The Lagos Zonal Director, Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, Mrs. Bola Ilemore, in response to our correspondent's text message, said the Federal Ministry of Works had commenced work on the road, and assured the residents that their concerns would be addressed soon.