Simon Stephen, who accused his friend, Nafiu Mua’azu, of being a thief, today, told a Gwagwalada Upper Area Court in the FCT that the friend stabbed him on the chest with a knife.
Stephen, who was led in evidence by the prosecutor, Insp. Martha Paul, told the court that he caught Mua’azu “red handed” when he broke into his father’s house on March 13, to steal.
“I caught my friend, Mua’azu, at about 2.30 a.m. when he entered my father’s house to steal.
“I recognised him and called his name and when he noticed that I had seen him, he used a knife to stab me on the left side of my chest.”
The witness told the court that he was later taken to the University Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, where he spent N200,000 on treatment.
Mua’azu, a resident of Anguwan Dodo in Gwagwalada, was earlier arrested and arraigned on a four-count charge of joint act, criminal trespass, causing grievous hurt and theft, but he denied the charges.
The prosecutor had told the court that the accused and one other now at large, criminally trespassed into the compound of the complainant of the same address with intention to steal.
She said that when the accused was caught, he stabbed the complainant with a knife on the left side of his chest, leading to serious bleeding and hospitalisation.
The presiding judge, Alhaji Babangida Hassan, adjourned the matter to July 9 for continuation of hearing.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Friday, 24 May 2013
Son machetes father to death
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65-year-old man, Mr. Felix Atta, a native of Umuonu Umuida community,
Enugu Ezike in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has
allegedly been killed by his son.
According to police, the alleged murderer identified as one Ejiofor Atta, used a machete to slaughter his father for reasons yet to be known.
He was said to have gone into hiding after committing the crime and security men and family members have commenced manhunt for him.
According to report, Ejiofor, about six years ago murdered his mother. It was gathered that the unfortunate incident took place at about 2 p.m on May 18 at Umuonu Umuida where the son of the deceased allegedly macheted his father who was believed to be about 65 years old to a state of unconsciousness.
The victim was, however, rushed to the General Hospital, Ogrute Enugu Ezike where he was confirmed dead while his corpse was deposited at the hospital’s mortuary.
In a related development, the police said a 56-year-old-man had allegedly hung himself on a wall hanger in his room at Umuenachi Amalla Egazi in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Amaraizu said the victim who is said to be suffering from a partial stroke reportedly committed suicide in his room. He said the lifeless body was found hanging on the wall hanger at about 7.30a.m on May 21.
He said investigations had commenced into the incident while the body of the deceased had been deposited at Prince Eze Hospital Mortuary, Obollo Afor for post mortem examination.
According to police, the alleged murderer identified as one Ejiofor Atta, used a machete to slaughter his father for reasons yet to be known.
He was said to have gone into hiding after committing the crime and security men and family members have commenced manhunt for him.
According to report, Ejiofor, about six years ago murdered his mother. It was gathered that the unfortunate incident took place at about 2 p.m on May 18 at Umuonu Umuida where the son of the deceased allegedly macheted his father who was believed to be about 65 years old to a state of unconsciousness.
The victim was, however, rushed to the General Hospital, Ogrute Enugu Ezike where he was confirmed dead while his corpse was deposited at the hospital’s mortuary.
In a related development, the police said a 56-year-old-man had allegedly hung himself on a wall hanger in his room at Umuenachi Amalla Egazi in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Amaraizu said the victim who is said to be suffering from a partial stroke reportedly committed suicide in his room. He said the lifeless body was found hanging on the wall hanger at about 7.30a.m on May 21.
He said investigations had commenced into the incident while the body of the deceased had been deposited at Prince Eze Hospital Mortuary, Obollo Afor for post mortem examination.
Hoodlums kill two policemen in Lagos
Some suspected hoodlums, killed two policemen and injured
several others in Imowo Nla community in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
One of the policemen was said to have been ambushed by some hoodlums from Ikorodu in the early hours of Wednesday.
The other policeman, who died on Thursday, was cut with machete on Tuesday, when the hoodlums numbering over 100 invaded the community.
One of the policemen was said to have been ambushed by some hoodlums from Ikorodu in the early hours of Wednesday.
The other policeman, who died on Thursday, was cut with machete on Tuesday, when the hoodlums numbering over 100 invaded the community.
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Japan hospital tests powerful breast cancer therapy
A Japanese cancer specialist said Wednesday she has started the
world’s first clinical trial of a powerful, non-surgical, short-term
radiation therapy for breast cancer.
The National Institute of Radiological Sciences has begun the trial using “heavy ion radiotherapy” which emits a pinpoint beam that can be accurately directed at malignant cells, said Kumiko Karasawa, radiation oncologist and breast cancer specialist.
The study was launched amid renewed global interest in breast cancer and its treatment after Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy.
Heavy ion radiotherapy has proved effective in combating other forms of cancer that have not spread, Karasawa said.
“We are able to conduct this trial because we have greater understanding of what types of breast cancer can benefit from this pinpoint treatment,” Karasawa told AFP.
Development of medical apparatus that keeps soft breast tissue immobile for this treatment has also helped, she added.
Japan is a leader in the technology used in the treatment, and is home to three of the world’s six medical centres that have the gigantic 10-billion-yen ($97.2 million) facilities, Karasawa said.
The therapy has proved its worth on other forms of cancer, including prostate and lung, Kyodo News said, but has never before been used on breast cancer. Conventional radiotherapy uses X-rays and gamma rays that are most potent at the surface of the body, but weaken as they travel deeper into the tissue.
Heavy ion particle beams maintain their strength to a much greater depth. In the trial, Karasawa will treat a total of 20 patients aged at least 60 and with small tumours that have not spread.
The patients will go through an hour of therapy per day for four days, much shorter than conventional radiation therapy that may last for months, Karasawa said.
The trial will follow the patients for five years to assess the outcome, she said. “Ultimately, this could provide an option for patients who do not want surgery and who cannot go through (common radiation therapy) requiring regular visits to clinics for months,” she said.
Japan, which has a high-quality medical system, has a good track record with breast cancer, giving patients a 90 percent five-year survival rate.
Localised and less invasive medical treatments are increasingly important as ageing Japan tries to reduce the physical burden for patients, the national institute said in a statement.
The National Institute of Radiological Sciences has begun the trial using “heavy ion radiotherapy” which emits a pinpoint beam that can be accurately directed at malignant cells, said Kumiko Karasawa, radiation oncologist and breast cancer specialist.
The study was launched amid renewed global interest in breast cancer and its treatment after Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy.
Heavy ion radiotherapy has proved effective in combating other forms of cancer that have not spread, Karasawa said.
“We are able to conduct this trial because we have greater understanding of what types of breast cancer can benefit from this pinpoint treatment,” Karasawa told AFP.
Kumiko Karasawa: new therapy for breast cancer
Japan is a leader in the technology used in the treatment, and is home to three of the world’s six medical centres that have the gigantic 10-billion-yen ($97.2 million) facilities, Karasawa said.
The therapy has proved its worth on other forms of cancer, including prostate and lung, Kyodo News said, but has never before been used on breast cancer. Conventional radiotherapy uses X-rays and gamma rays that are most potent at the surface of the body, but weaken as they travel deeper into the tissue.
Heavy ion particle beams maintain their strength to a much greater depth. In the trial, Karasawa will treat a total of 20 patients aged at least 60 and with small tumours that have not spread.
The patients will go through an hour of therapy per day for four days, much shorter than conventional radiation therapy that may last for months, Karasawa said.
The trial will follow the patients for five years to assess the outcome, she said. “Ultimately, this could provide an option for patients who do not want surgery and who cannot go through (common radiation therapy) requiring regular visits to clinics for months,” she said.
Japan, which has a high-quality medical system, has a good track record with breast cancer, giving patients a 90 percent five-year survival rate.
Localised and less invasive medical treatments are increasingly important as ageing Japan tries to reduce the physical burden for patients, the national institute said in a statement.
Anambra traders protest tax hike
More than 500 women on stormed
the Government House, Awka, to protest the hike in the tax payable by
them to the Anambra State Government.
The women, who also rejected paying tax at all, asked government to collect tax from their husbands.
The traders, who protested under the name of Eke Awka Market Women Association, were led by Mrs. Ifeoma Ezenwa.
They first marched through major streets in Awka before getting to the Government House.
They carried placards with inscriptions like ‘Eke Awka Market women say no to tax’, ‘why should women pay tax’.
They were however disallowed from entering the Government House by security men. The irate women nearly mobbed one of te security men.
A spokeswoman for the group, Mrs. Praise
Muoneke, said they were protesting against the imposition of tax
insisting that market women had resolved not to pay the N6,600 tax. Muoneke said, “Yesterday, task force men
invaded Eke Awka Market, destroyed market wares and commodities,
seized some goods and locked up many stalls as they demanded N6,600 as
tax.
“We want this N6,600 tax cancelled now.
We have paid N2,000 earlier for electricity to Eke Awka Market Authority
last two years.”
The Commissioner for Commerce and
Industry, Mr. Robert Okonkwo, said the tax would be paid by traders who
owned shops in the market.
Man tells how he killed Cape Town mom
A roof repair man has told a Cape Town court
that he stabbed a Claremont mother because she wouldn't pay him the money she
owed him.
Moegamat Salie, 31, told the Western Cape High Court that he went to Anzunette du Plessis’s house on 4 October 2012 to check on work he and his father had done to the roof of her house, reported the Cape Argus.
Although Salie pleaded guilty to murder, he denied the murder was premeditated as the prosecution claimed. His plea was then rejected by the judge.
Salie told the court when Du Plessis told him she didn’t have the money for some extra work he had done fixing door locks and the gate, he told her he would take some of her possessions and return them once he had been paid.
“As this was the second or third time I’d requested my money, I intended to keep the goods until she paid me. I took a camera and BlackBerry cellphone in the lounge and iPod in the kitchen.”
He said she started arguing with him and hit him from behind, at which point he took out a knife and stabbed her several times.
He slit her throat as she reached for the telephone. Salie took a camera, laptop, iPhone, iPod, flat-screen TV and four diamonds.
The murder happened during the 45 minutes that Du Plessis's child minder had taken her 2-year-old daughter to the park.
Moegamat Salie, 31, told the Western Cape High Court that he went to Anzunette du Plessis’s house on 4 October 2012 to check on work he and his father had done to the roof of her house, reported the Cape Argus.
Although Salie pleaded guilty to murder, he denied the murder was premeditated as the prosecution claimed. His plea was then rejected by the judge.
Salie told the court when Du Plessis told him she didn’t have the money for some extra work he had done fixing door locks and the gate, he told her he would take some of her possessions and return them once he had been paid.
“As this was the second or third time I’d requested my money, I intended to keep the goods until she paid me. I took a camera and BlackBerry cellphone in the lounge and iPod in the kitchen.”
He said she started arguing with him and hit him from behind, at which point he took out a knife and stabbed her several times.
He slit her throat as she reached for the telephone. Salie took a camera, laptop, iPhone, iPod, flat-screen TV and four diamonds.
The murder happened during the 45 minutes that Du Plessis's child minder had taken her 2-year-old daughter to the park.
Ibeto begins payment of Nigercem workers’ retirement benefits
Ibeto Cement Company has announced the
commencement of payment of the outstanding retirement benefits for
former employees of the Nigerian Cement Company Plc.
The company said in a statement made
available to our correspondent on Monday the was sequel to its emergence
as the core investor and majority shareholder in Nigercem Plc.
It said, “The company has commenced the
payment of final withdrawals payment, being retirement benefit scheme
due to 72 staff members of Nigercem Plc from their contribution and that
of the Company from Crusader Life Insurance Limited.”
It added that the payment would last from Monday, May 20, 2013 to Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
Stressing that it had faced several
challenges in fulfilling its obligations, the company said, “The
foregoing welfare initiative by Ibeto, no doubt, is in consonance with
its avowed aim and objective to resuscitate and revamp the moribund
cement company despite unlawful challenges by Chief Martin Elechi,
Governor Ebonyi State.
“However Ibeto Cement Company Limited is
undeterred in its determination to resuscitate the company, and improve
the socio-economic well-being and welfare of staff of Nigercem Plc, its
host communities and Ebonyi State, South-East geo-political region and
Nigeria in general.”
FUNAAB fires prof, lecturer over alleged plagiarism
The Federal University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta, Ogun State, has sacked an Associate Professor, Dr. Bamgbose
Titilayo, and an Assistant Lecturer, Bamigbade Adesina, over alleged
plagiarism.
The FUNAAB Governing Council also
demoted two other lecturers in the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Nkiko
Olubunmi, and Dr. Ahmed Akinyeye, from Lecturer 1 to Lecturer 2 over the
same alleged offence.
The institution’s Governing Council took
the decision to sanction the errant lecturers and approve the promotion
of others at its recently concluded 76th Statutory Council Meeting.
The decisions of the FUNAAB Governing Council were contained in the university’s publication, News Flash, published by the Public Relations Directorate of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office, and dated May 10, 2013.
The university also dismissed a Senior
Clerical Officer, Mr. Adebisi Isaac, over alleged non-remittance of
journal page charges due to the institution, while one Mrs. Banjo
Omolola, an engineer, was suspended from duty without pay for three
months over “conduct prejudicial to discipline and good governance.”
The council also warned and surcharged
for the period of alleged absence from work two Chief Technical
Assistants, Chukwu Vitus and Akinbola Oluwasina, of the Works
Department, alleged to have been “engaging personally in trade and
business without permission.” Twelve other lecturers were however
promoted as professors, while 25 others were elevated to the position of
Reader (Associate Professor) in various departments in the institution.
But FUNAAB Registrar, Matthew Ayoola, declined comments on the matter when contacted by our correspondent.
Ayoola said he was not competent to
speak on the issue, adding that only the Vice Chancellor of the
institution, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, could comment on the matter.
“Please, speak with the Vice Chancellor.
How did you get my own contact? Use the same method you have used in
getting my own contact to get that of the VC. I’m a public servant; I
don’t have the competence to speak to the press,” he said.
Apparently referring to the situation in
the institution, Oyewole had, at a recent function, lamented the
declining standard in FUNAAB and vowed to correct the anomalies. Oyewole had said, “Injustice has been
done in the past. I made a statement that I’m going to bring the case
before you. I have an assignment and a vision and I’m committed to that
vision. I’m not going to relent on that vision but if anything crops up
from behind to stop my advance movement, I will deal with it.
“There was a council meeting just some
few days ago and at that council meeting we were surprised that within
seven months, we had been able to assess 37 professorial candidates and
then we presented them. And I told them that the issue of somebody being
assessed for professorial position for one years, two years will not
happen in my time.”
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
14-Year-Old Boy Hires Prostitute For Sèx
A teenage boy who used an iPad to arrange a meeting with an alleged prostitute ended up with a different experience than he’d intended.
The boy, 14, from the Chicago suburb Prospect Heights, set up the intended encounter using a website for sexual liaisons, police say.
CBS Chicago reports when the woman arrived at the teenager’s home Wednesday, she allegedly sprayed him with pepper spray, stole the iPad, a piggy-bank and a jar full of money.
Police were able to track the suspect when she later used the iPad.
Dareka Brooks, 22, of Milwaukee, was charged with one count of armed robbery. Her bond was set at $10,000. Her next court appearance is set for May 31.
The teenage victim is safe, police said
Monday, 22 April 2013
Married Man, 2 Others Charged With Rape
•Kassim, one of the suspected rapists
The three men suspected to have raped her are Kassim Mohammed, 43, who is married and has three kids, Oluwatobi Daramola and James Aniekan who is a son of a pastor.
The trio allegedly engaged the little girl in serial sex between July 2012 and January 2013 without the knowledge of her guardians.
Daramola, popularly called Tobi and Aniekan, are said to be about 21 and 19 years old respectively, but they claimed to be 17 while Mohammed is 43.
They are facing charge of defilement and having unlawful carnal knowledge of the little girl at Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, Lagos.
Daramola and Aniekan were charged before Magistrate Mrs E. B. Daudu of Ikeja Magistrate ‘s Court, Lagos.
The court ordered the little girl to be remanded at Child Correctional Centre, Yaba, following an application made by a police prosecutor Anthonia, who told the court that the order was necessary because her guardians could not take proper care of her, which made her vulnerable to sexual assault.
It took the intervention of the Deputy Chief Registrar of the Lagos High Court, Mr A.O. Isaacs ,who requested Daodu to order for the release of the victim before the little girl rejoined her family.
The little girl’s ordeal in the hands of the three men started when she was only 6 years old.
The victim, who lives with her aunt Ngozi Ugwu and her husband at Isheri area of Lagos, said her problem began when her aunt travelled to Abuja to give birth and she was left in the care of her uncle (her aunt’s husband).
Narrating her ordeal in the hands of the men, the victim said one of the suspects, Tobi, met her and her uncle along their street when they were going to their shop. She said the suspect greeted her uncle and she also greeted him.
She said: “The next day, my uncle told me to stay at home, eat and do my home work. He said he would be back at home very soon, that he wanted to go and collect money from his shop.”
She said she was alone in their apartment because her aunt had travelled and when she went downstairs to buy biscuit, Tobi saw her and said “fine girl how are you.”
She said he bought her gala sausage roll and a bottle of soft drink and asked her to show him her house, which she did.
She alleged that when she was in bed and was about to sleep, Tobi sneaked into her house and started dipping his finger into her private part and later forcefully had sex with her and left.
“The next day, Tobi, James and a small boy came to our house. They pulled my pant and started put their fingers again inside my bum-bum (that is they thrust their fingers into her private part).
“The next day, Tobi and James came again without the small boy. They now put their wee-wee (penis) inside my bum-bum (private part). Another day again, Tobi came with Kassim. Kassim was holding a knife and a pack of Five-Alive and Gala.
“Tobi left but Kassim put his wee-wee inside my bum-bum. He said that if I shouted he would kill me with the knife. When Kassim finished, he said I should show him my bathroom. I showed him and he bathed. After bathing, he said I should bring a glass cup. He shared the Five-Alive with me. He also gave me four wraps of Gala while he took two. He told me to throw the empty pack of Five-Alive into a dustbin,” the victim narrated.
The girl said that Kassim left after he had made sure that she discarded the empty pack of the juice into the dustbin.
The victim, who had gotten used to being violated sexually every day was relieved temporarily, escaped being abused the next day by the suspects, as she went on holiday at Igando area.
She narrated that when she came back from the holiday and her aunt came from her trip, the sexual assault continued whenever she was sent on errand by her aunt.
She said on her way she met Kassim who forced her into his house and had sex with her.
“The next day I wanted to go and buy biscuit for my little brother (the aunt’s son) and Tobi saw me. He asked me to follow him to his house,” she said, claiming that Tobi threatened that if she refused, he would make sure she got lost and so would not see her parents again.
The frightened girl said she followed Tobi to his house while carrying her two-year old cousin along.
She said Tobi defiled her once again and when he finished, he told her to go and bathe in his bathroom, but she left with her brother to buy the biscuit.
“My aunt asked me why I came back late. I told her that there were many people that wanted to buy things from the Mallam (the man selling provisions in their area).
She said she did not report all these things to her aunt and her husband because Kassim threatened to deal with her if she mentioned his name.
When the victim’s aunt was questioned about the incident, she said the ordeal of her little niece started when she was away in Abuja to give birth.
She said that she was in Abuja between June and August last year, and even had to return to Abuja for medical attention because she developed some complications after she had given birth through a Caesarean section, adding that the victim was left in the care of her husband and a cousin while she was in Abuja.
She said it was in January this year, while she was going through the little girl’s clothes that she discovered that two of the girl’s underwears had blood stains, then she suspected that something was amiss.
She said that she had to persuade her niece until she told her about what James who worked in a barber’s shop nearby did to her.
She said that the victim confessed that James defiled her on many occasions and threatened to deal with her if she revealed what he had done to her.
The victim’s aunt said: “Immediately I was informed, I called my pastor and told him what happened. He called one of the members of our church who is a policewoman. The woman said I had to go to Ikotun Police Station to officially report the case.”
After the police had interviewed the victim, the police arrested James but according to the woman, James‘s father, a pastor, tried to defend his son, insisting that James could not have defiled the girl.
James was detained and arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, where he was granted bail.
James allegedly confessed to the police that he did it. But James’s father allegedly maintained that he made the statement under duress.
While James’ matter was still in the court, her guardians did not know that she had been raped several times by more than one person.
“It was two weeks later that we discovered that there were others who had raped her,” the victim’s aunt revealed.
She said she heard her two-year old son ordering the victim to lie down in bed.
She wondered how a two-year old boy could talk like that. So she asked the victim where the boy learnt that expression from.
The aunt said: “She was just staring at me. I insisted and threatened her that she should answer me. It was then she told me it was Tobi that said that to her in the presence of the boy. I started shouting and asked if the little boy was watching when Tobi was defiling her. She said yes, that Tobi ordered him to look at the dressing mirror in his room. It was then she told me about Kassim.”
However, there was a delay in the proceeding of the case as the victim’s aunt alleged that the police were reluctant to arrest the suspects.
She alleged that to stall the case, Tobi’s parents alleged that she wanted to extort money from them while Kassim’s wife claimed that her husband was not in Lagos.
The aunt claimed that the police were no longer working in the interest of the victim, even when Tobi was arraigned before the magistrate’s court presided over by Mrs. Daudu.
Consequently, the family of the victim, who no longer has trust in the police to prosecute the three suspects, is making efforts to get the state government to take over the case from the police.
The matter has now been transferred to family court at Ikeja.
Saturday, 13 April 2013
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Student’s death: Ogun Assembly exonerates police
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Friday exonerated the police over the alleged killing of a student of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu during a recent unrest at the institution.
The lawmakers gave the police a clean bill of health just as the command headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta denied killing any TASCE student during the April 10 protest.
The legislators, however, criticised the institution’s Provost, Dr. Abiodun Ojo, for the “managerial ineptitude” displayed by the school’s authorities by failing to put in place the necessary security arrangement that would have forestalled an outbreak of such unrest during examination period.
At the peace and fact-finding meeting convened by the House Committee on Education and attended by the officials of the dissolved students’ union government and the management of the institution, the lawmakers directed TASCE management to ensure the immediate release of all the students currently being detained by the police over the protest.
TASCE students had last Tuesday protested the decision by the management to prevent some 200 level students of the institution from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination due to their inability to pay tuition fees.
But the protest led to the death of a 200 level student of Eco/Maths Department, Aromasodun Rasak Tunde. The lawmakers condemned the tagging of the students’ union executives as cultists by the school authorities.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command on Friday denied killing any student of TASCE during the protest on April 10.
The students’ union leaders of the institution had earlier alleged that the police killed five students during the protest.
But the Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, refuted claims that the police shot and killed students during the protest.
“The command was taken aback to hear such disgusting rumour and thereby reiterates that no single student was killed by the police during the protest. The allegations by the students at the assembly were just to appeal to sentiment and for other reasons known to them.
“The command therefore appeals to the general public to disregard it as unfounded and baseless and a calculated attempt to create tension in the state.”
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Tenant Sends Landlord To Prison Over Missing Chicken
A Nigerian landlord, Olubukunaji Obajimi, 56, has been remanded in prison after he was arraigned in court for locking his tenants inside their apartment over his missing chicken.
He was arraigned on a two-count charge of conduct likely to cause breach of public peace and unlawfully locking out his tenant before Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
The landlord alleged that his tenant, Chukwunonso Okafor and his family were responsible for his missing chicken and locked all of them inside their rooms from morning till evening, insisting they must produce the chicken.
The incident happened at 55, Olubukunayo Obajimi street, Egan, outskirts of Lagos, where both reside.
They pleaded to no avail and they contacted their relation, who in turn contacted the police.
Narrating what happened, the tenant’s wife, Mrs Ngozi Okafor said they woke up and after their usual morning prayer, they discovered that their apartment was locked from outside by the landlord and they could not go out.
She said her husband, Chukwunonso asked the landlord what happened and the landlord told him that his chicken was missing and he was suspecting that one of them in his family stole it.
She said the landlord said he would release them if they provide the chicken. She said after pleading and explaining that they had nothing to do with his chicken, he refused to listen to them and they contacted her sister who contacted the police at Igando division who rescued them.
She said there were five of them living in the apartment the landlord locked up. The occupants included her husband and their last baby.
The presiding Magistrate, Mr P. E. Nwaka granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum.
He was remanded in custody pending when he will fulfil his bail conditions. The matter was adjourned till 25 May, 2013.
He was arraigned on a two-count charge of conduct likely to cause breach of public peace and unlawfully locking out his tenant before Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
The landlord alleged that his tenant, Chukwunonso Okafor and his family were responsible for his missing chicken and locked all of them inside their rooms from morning till evening, insisting they must produce the chicken.
The incident happened at 55, Olubukunayo Obajimi street, Egan, outskirts of Lagos, where both reside.
They pleaded to no avail and they contacted their relation, who in turn contacted the police.
Narrating what happened, the tenant’s wife, Mrs Ngozi Okafor said they woke up and after their usual morning prayer, they discovered that their apartment was locked from outside by the landlord and they could not go out.
She said her husband, Chukwunonso asked the landlord what happened and the landlord told him that his chicken was missing and he was suspecting that one of them in his family stole it.
She said the landlord said he would release them if they provide the chicken. She said after pleading and explaining that they had nothing to do with his chicken, he refused to listen to them and they contacted her sister who contacted the police at Igando division who rescued them.
She said there were five of them living in the apartment the landlord locked up. The occupants included her husband and their last baby.
The presiding Magistrate, Mr P. E. Nwaka granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum.
He was remanded in custody pending when he will fulfil his bail conditions. The matter was adjourned till 25 May, 2013.
7 killed, houses burnt in clashes with herdsmen
There appears no end in sight in the bloodletting between Fulani herdsmen and settler-farmers in Nigeria’s Plateau state.
With close to sixty people killed in March, renewed clashes have killed another seven persons, the Nigeria military said Tuesday
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Plateau state, which falls on the dividing line between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and predominately Christian south, has been racked for more than a decade by ethnic violence fuelled by land and political disputes.
“Seven people were killed in the attack at (the central) Langtang area of the state over the weekend,” the military spokesman in Plateau, Captain Salisu Mustapha said.
He said the suspected gunmen were members of the mostly Muslim Fulani ethnic group, made up largely of nomadic herdsmen.
The violence continued in another area on Monday when purported Fulani attackers razed several homes and fired weapons, but no one was killed, Mustapha added.
The Fulani have been blamed for scores of attacks on Christians in the state, who are mainly farmers.
Plateau’s Christian ethnic groups see themselves as the state’s indigenous people and hold greater land ownership and political rights. They have accused the Fulani of trying to steal wide swathes of land.
Fulani leaders have said their tribesmen are the victims of unequal treatment from the state’s mostly Christian political leaders.
With close to sixty people killed in March, renewed clashes have killed another seven persons, the Nigeria military said Tuesday
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Plateau state, which falls on the dividing line between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and predominately Christian south, has been racked for more than a decade by ethnic violence fuelled by land and political disputes.
“Seven people were killed in the attack at (the central) Langtang area of the state over the weekend,” the military spokesman in Plateau, Captain Salisu Mustapha said.
He said the suspected gunmen were members of the mostly Muslim Fulani ethnic group, made up largely of nomadic herdsmen.
The violence continued in another area on Monday when purported Fulani attackers razed several homes and fired weapons, but no one was killed, Mustapha added.
The Fulani have been blamed for scores of attacks on Christians in the state, who are mainly farmers.
Plateau’s Christian ethnic groups see themselves as the state’s indigenous people and hold greater land ownership and political rights. They have accused the Fulani of trying to steal wide swathes of land.
Fulani leaders have said their tribesmen are the victims of unequal treatment from the state’s mostly Christian political leaders.
60 Lagos Civil Servants Escape Death
At least, sixty workers of the Lagos State Government escaped death early this morning after the brake of the staff bus conveying them to work failed. The driver of the bus manoeuvred it until it rested on the wall of Mobil filling station on Ogunnusi Road/WEMCO junction, Ogba.
The fully loaded staff bus with registration number BK 301 KJA was heading to the Alausa Secretariat from Pen Cinema axis when the incident occurred.
The workers thanked their stars for the lucky escape as none of them sustained injury.Reports gathered that when the driver realised that the bus’ brake had failed, he swerved towards the wall of the filling station to avoid causing multiple accidents.
One of the civil servants in the vehicle who craved anonymity said that if not for God and the driver’s dexterity, lives could have been lost to the accident.
“We just need to thank God because the brake of the bus failed unexpectedly. If not for God’s intervention and the fact that the driver is a professional, we could have crashed into other vehicles,” a source said.
After the incident, another staff bus was sent to the scene to convey the civil servants to their place of work.
The fully loaded staff bus with registration number BK 301 KJA was heading to the Alausa Secretariat from Pen Cinema axis when the incident occurred.
The workers thanked their stars for the lucky escape as none of them sustained injury.Reports gathered that when the driver realised that the bus’ brake had failed, he swerved towards the wall of the filling station to avoid causing multiple accidents.
One of the civil servants in the vehicle who craved anonymity said that if not for God and the driver’s dexterity, lives could have been lost to the accident.
“We just need to thank God because the brake of the bus failed unexpectedly. If not for God’s intervention and the fact that the driver is a professional, we could have crashed into other vehicles,” a source said.
After the incident, another staff bus was sent to the scene to convey the civil servants to their place of work.
Boxer, 29, charged for theft
The entrances of the Federal High Court, Abuja,was locked up by striking workers. The crime occurred at Tipper Village in Kuje.
The Police Prosecutor, Samuel Ochefu, had told the court that the complainant, one Mohammed Ibrahim, a truck driver at Tipper Garage in Kuje, reported the case to the Kuje Police Station on April 5.
The prosecutor said that the accused, who also resides at Tipper Garage, Kuje, stole some money from the complainant. Mr. Ochefu said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 272 of the Penal Code.
He said that during investigation it was discovered that the accused threw a bag containing the money in the bush after his operation.
When the charges were read to the accused, he pleaded guilty to the offence, but urged the court to handle justice with mercy.
The Presiding Officer, Nuhu Ibrahim, after listening to both sides, however, gave the accused an option of paying N70, 000 to the complainant or to remain in prison custody.
Paedophile, 48, remanded after assaulting baby 15 mths old
A 48-year old Nigerian paedophile, Slyvester Ehiyele, who allegedly raped his seven year daughter, and 15 month-old grand-daughter has been charged to court and remanded in prison custody at Ikoyi in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
He was charged before Yaba Magistrate’s Court with indecent assault, defilement and unlawful carnal knowledge of the victims.
The police in Lagos State had paraded Ehiyele for the alleged crime and thereafter the matter was transferred to SCID, Panti, Yaba for further investigation where he allegedly confessed to the crime.
Ehiyele allegedly defiled and raped the victims at his house at Kolawole Sebili Street, Iyana-Ejigbo, Lagos when he was alone with the victims.
He was however caught after the baby started crying persistenly and blood was coming out from her private part. Ehiyele ‘s wife, alleged that she kept her granddaughter who is 15 months old with her nanny and when she returned home, she noticed that the baby was crying.
On inspecting her body, she noticed blood stains on her private part. When she asked what happened, her seven-year-old daughter said it was her dad that did it. The daughter also alleged that he had raped her on numerous occasions.
The girl said her father, Ehijele, had sex with her several times, adding that he used to promise to buy her goodies and toys before the act.
She said he usually had sex with her on a daily basis whenever her mother was not home. “Whenever my mom is not at home, he grabs me, forces his hand over my mouth and then inserts his penis into my private part. He promises to buy me a car, cake and biscuit but he doesn’t buy anything for me.
“He also threatens to use a knife to remove my eyes anytime I threaten to report to my mother.”
The victims were later taken to Isolo General Hospital where doctors confirmed that they had indeed been deflowered.
The matter was reported to the police and Ehiyele was arrested, paraded and charged to court on a five-count charge of indecent assault, defilemen and rape under the Criminal Code .
When the matter came up, the court transfered the matter to a family court because of the age of the victims.
Ehiyele was remanded in custody pending when the court will determine the matter. When visited his home, the residents were not surprised about what happened.
Some of them said that his wife left him because of the same attitude and after much plea, she came back and now he had defiled the victims.
He was charged before Yaba Magistrate’s Court with indecent assault, defilement and unlawful carnal knowledge of the victims.
The police in Lagos State had paraded Ehiyele for the alleged crime and thereafter the matter was transferred to SCID, Panti, Yaba for further investigation where he allegedly confessed to the crime.
Ehiyele allegedly defiled and raped the victims at his house at Kolawole Sebili Street, Iyana-Ejigbo, Lagos when he was alone with the victims.
Sylvester-Ehijele: paedophile
On inspecting her body, she noticed blood stains on her private part. When she asked what happened, her seven-year-old daughter said it was her dad that did it. The daughter also alleged that he had raped her on numerous occasions.
The girl said her father, Ehijele, had sex with her several times, adding that he used to promise to buy her goodies and toys before the act.
She said he usually had sex with her on a daily basis whenever her mother was not home. “Whenever my mom is not at home, he grabs me, forces his hand over my mouth and then inserts his penis into my private part. He promises to buy me a car, cake and biscuit but he doesn’t buy anything for me.
“He also threatens to use a knife to remove my eyes anytime I threaten to report to my mother.”
The victims were later taken to Isolo General Hospital where doctors confirmed that they had indeed been deflowered.
The matter was reported to the police and Ehiyele was arrested, paraded and charged to court on a five-count charge of indecent assault, defilemen and rape under the Criminal Code .
When the matter came up, the court transfered the matter to a family court because of the age of the victims.
Ehiyele was remanded in custody pending when the court will determine the matter. When visited his home, the residents were not surprised about what happened.
Some of them said that his wife left him because of the same attitude and after much plea, she came back and now he had defiled the victims.
Lagos traders count losses after prolonged downpour
Some traders in the various markets in Lagos sustained financial losses following a prolonged downpour which began in the morning. The downpour, which stretched into the afternoon hours, left many parts of the city and markets flooded.
Many workers reported late at work. Some markets, and many stalls were submerged by water, a situation which made it impossible for the traders and customers to transact businesses.
At the Apongbon, Idumota, Oyingbo and Mushin markets, the situation was the same.
Traders spent most of the morning salvaging their wares, while only few customers could brave the flood to make purchases.
Mr Olusegun Johnson, General Secretary, Mushin Market Association, said that the flood made it impossible for him to display his books and other stationery items for sale.
“I used nylon (polythene) to cover the little ones on display, but it is difficult for people to see what I am selling,” Johnson said.
Mr Charles Umeh, Chairman of Perishable Foods in Oyingbo Market, said that the downpour and the ensuing flood deprived them of their usual early morning sales.
“I could not come to the market as early as possible today because of the downpour that started in the morning,” Umeh said.
Mrs Titi Carew, a tomato seller in the same market, said that the sellers would naturally record low sales because of the large scale flooding in the area.
“Customers are at home because they can’t come out of their flooded houses to buy things in the market,” Carew said.
Mr Lukman Lawal, a trader at Idumota said that the flood made the markets inaccessible.
“Idumota road is very bad; vehicles can hardly pass through the road whenever it rains,” he said..
Mr John Obinna, Manager of God’s Favour Daily Contributory Scheme in one of the markets, said that the downpour would cause setbacks to traders’ projected daily savings.
“The traders are complaining of low sales and most of them did not come to the market,” Obinna said.
Many workers reported late at work. Some markets, and many stalls were submerged by water, a situation which made it impossible for the traders and customers to transact businesses.
At the Apongbon, Idumota, Oyingbo and Mushin markets, the situation was the same.
Traders spent most of the morning salvaging their wares, while only few customers could brave the flood to make purchases.
Mr Olusegun Johnson, General Secretary, Mushin Market Association, said that the flood made it impossible for him to display his books and other stationery items for sale.
“I used nylon (polythene) to cover the little ones on display, but it is difficult for people to see what I am selling,” Johnson said.
Mr Charles Umeh, Chairman of Perishable Foods in Oyingbo Market, said that the downpour and the ensuing flood deprived them of their usual early morning sales.
“I could not come to the market as early as possible today because of the downpour that started in the morning,” Umeh said.
Mrs Titi Carew, a tomato seller in the same market, said that the sellers would naturally record low sales because of the large scale flooding in the area.
“Customers are at home because they can’t come out of their flooded houses to buy things in the market,” Carew said.
Mr Lukman Lawal, a trader at Idumota said that the flood made the markets inaccessible.
“Idumota road is very bad; vehicles can hardly pass through the road whenever it rains,” he said..
Mr John Obinna, Manager of God’s Favour Daily Contributory Scheme in one of the markets, said that the downpour would cause setbacks to traders’ projected daily savings.
“The traders are complaining of low sales and most of them did not come to the market,” Obinna said.
Protesting TASCE Students attack DPO
Protesting students of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State southwest Nigeria, clashed with policemen this morning.
The students reportedly beat up the DPO and damaged his vehicle, after they were prevented from disrupting a semester examination planned for this morning.
After the attack on the DPO, the police reportedly returned with a reinforcement, and began shooting into the air to disperse the protesters. The police also made some arrests.
The students claimed one of them was hit by the shots fired by the police, but the police denied the claim. Trouble began after some student leaders, protesting the dissolution of their Students’ Union Government, SUG by the school authorities, demanded its reinstatement before a school examination, could go on this morning.
The school management suspended the SUG last week after it had also disrupted the examinations which was originally meant to start last Monday.
The student leaders were said to have taken the action to protest a management’s decision to prevent students who had not paid their school fees from writing the exams.
The school authorities and the SUG later reached a truce, and the examinations was rescheduled for today (Tuesday), while a number of policemen were deployed in the school to keep the peace.
But before the exercise could commence this morning, some SUG leaders insisted that the suspended union be reinstated first, which led to the confrontation between them and the police.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident to P.M.NEWS, said peace has returned to the premises.
Adejobi blamed the crisis on some miscreants who joined some students to disrupt academic activities at the school campus and attacked the Odogbolu Police Division DPO.
The students reportedly beat up the DPO and damaged his vehicle, after they were prevented from disrupting a semester examination planned for this morning.
After the attack on the DPO, the police reportedly returned with a reinforcement, and began shooting into the air to disperse the protesters. The police also made some arrests.
The students claimed one of them was hit by the shots fired by the police, but the police denied the claim. Trouble began after some student leaders, protesting the dissolution of their Students’ Union Government, SUG by the school authorities, demanded its reinstatement before a school examination, could go on this morning.
The school management suspended the SUG last week after it had also disrupted the examinations which was originally meant to start last Monday.
The student leaders were said to have taken the action to protest a management’s decision to prevent students who had not paid their school fees from writing the exams.
The school authorities and the SUG later reached a truce, and the examinations was rescheduled for today (Tuesday), while a number of policemen were deployed in the school to keep the peace.
But before the exercise could commence this morning, some SUG leaders insisted that the suspended union be reinstated first, which led to the confrontation between them and the police.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident to P.M.NEWS, said peace has returned to the premises.
Adejobi blamed the crisis on some miscreants who joined some students to disrupt academic activities at the school campus and attacked the Odogbolu Police Division DPO.
Lawyer’s withdrawal stalls Lagos Speaker’s trial
Nigeria’s Federal High Court Justice Okechukwu Okeke’s plan to accord accelerated hearing in the money laundering case against Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji, was this morning slowed down as prosecuting lawyer for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission withdrew from the case.
The court heard that Chief Godwin Obla, who had questioned the judge’s ‘unusual interest’ to determine the case in the past, after he had gotten a higher appointment had given notice of his withdrawal from the case.
In his 5 April letter to the registrar of the court, Obla said he was withdrawing because the court fixed consecutive days for the trial in the month of April, arguing that the new dates conflict with his existing judicial schedules before various courts and tribunals in Nigeria and outside the country.
This development, he said, will considerably prevent him from diligently prosecuting the case in the circumstance.
He advised his client (EFCC) to hire the services of another counsel whose calendar can accommodate the judge’s itinerary.
In view of this development, when the case was mentioned, an EFCC legal officer, Mr. Yusuf Alli, announced his appearance for the prosecution.
Alli told the court that he was compelled to announce his appearance for the EFCC since Obla has withdrawn from the case. He said though he has not seen a copy of the letter in that circumstance, he was asking for adjournment for three weeks to enable him study the case file.
The defence team, comprising Tayo Oyetibo (SAN) leading two other senior lawyers, Abiodun Onidare and Tunde Akinrimisi, told the court it is clear that Obla has returned all the files to the commission (EFCC); that they (prosecution) are now in the hands of the judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke handling the case and that this is a case the defendant is ready to be prosecuted, but the prosecution is running away.
Consequently, he urged the court to dismiss the case. However, Yusuf Alli opposed the application and urged the court to give them three weeks to study the case file. The presiding judge, while not acceding to the request of the defence counsel, adjourned the matter till 24 April 2013, for EFCC to engage the services of another lawyer.
The court heard that Chief Godwin Obla, who had questioned the judge’s ‘unusual interest’ to determine the case in the past, after he had gotten a higher appointment had given notice of his withdrawal from the case.
In his 5 April letter to the registrar of the court, Obla said he was withdrawing because the court fixed consecutive days for the trial in the month of April, arguing that the new dates conflict with his existing judicial schedules before various courts and tribunals in Nigeria and outside the country.
Adeyemi Ikuforiji
He advised his client (EFCC) to hire the services of another counsel whose calendar can accommodate the judge’s itinerary.
In view of this development, when the case was mentioned, an EFCC legal officer, Mr. Yusuf Alli, announced his appearance for the prosecution.
Alli told the court that he was compelled to announce his appearance for the EFCC since Obla has withdrawn from the case. He said though he has not seen a copy of the letter in that circumstance, he was asking for adjournment for three weeks to enable him study the case file.
The defence team, comprising Tayo Oyetibo (SAN) leading two other senior lawyers, Abiodun Onidare and Tunde Akinrimisi, told the court it is clear that Obla has returned all the files to the commission (EFCC); that they (prosecution) are now in the hands of the judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke handling the case and that this is a case the defendant is ready to be prosecuted, but the prosecution is running away.
Consequently, he urged the court to dismiss the case. However, Yusuf Alli opposed the application and urged the court to give them three weeks to study the case file. The presiding judge, while not acceding to the request of the defence counsel, adjourned the matter till 24 April 2013, for EFCC to engage the services of another lawyer.
Generator Fume Kills 3 Friends
The incident took place at 109/111, Alakuko Road, Akera area of Agbado, a suburb of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria.
The three friends were apprentices in a welder and vulcaniser’s shop partitioned with plywood.
They were sleeping in one of the shops and left the generator working on the other side when they died in their sleep after inhaling the fume. The incident, was reported at Ayila Police Station.
Mr. Shoremi Moses, the landlord of the shops where the incident happened, reported to the police that the three youths had died in their sleep.
When the policemen arrived the scene of the incident, they discovered that the victims were foaming from their mouth, ear and nose, an indication that they were choked to death by the generator fume.
Meanwhile, the families of the deceased have told the police that there was no need for post mortem to be carried out since nobody was responsible for their death. The bodies were subsequently released to them and they have been buried.
When visited the police station, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Supol Daniel Okere, was said to have gone to the Area Command.
But a source at the station confirmed that since the families of the deceased wanted them buried without any form of test conducted on them, the corpses have been released to them for burial.
“The families said they don’t want any test to be conducted on them, so we have released the corpses to them for burial,” a police source said.
When visited the scene of the incident Monday morning, some youths were seen mourning and discussing the circumstances that led to the death of Saka, Kadri and Wale.
An elderly man, who declined to reveal his identity, confirmed that the three friends have been buried.
100 vehicles vandalised, many injured in Lagos violence
Vandalised vehicles
| credits: Eniola Akinkuotu
| credits: Eniola Akinkuotu
No
fewer than 100 vehicles were vandalised and many injured when urchins,
otherwise known as “Area boys” on reprisal invaded four streets in Akoka
and Pedro in Somolu Local Government Area of Lagos State.
The hoodlums were said to have arrived
the area through the Somolu Market pretending to be holding a
candlelight procession for a man, identified simply as Old Skool.
The man was allegedly stabbed repeatedly
by some youths during a rally organised by the Somolu LG Chairman, Mr.
Gbolahan Bago-Stowe to mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Solanke
Street.
Old Skool died on Easter Sunday, thus creating tension in the Akoka part of the LG.
Our correspondent learnt that more than
70 hoodlums stormed the streets between 10pm on Sunday and 1am on
Monday, destroying vehicles parked on the streets and inflicting
injuries on many residents.
A resident, Mr. Ernest Molokwu, said he was beaten up by the hoodlums while his commercial bus was vandalised.
He said, “I was at the balcony of my
house when I saw the hoodlums. Knowing what they can do, I tried to
drive my bus away from my street, but they caught up with me and beat me
up. They also broke the windscreen of my bus. As it is now, I cannot
work today(Monday).”
Our correspondents who visited the
affected streets- Solanke, Ibukun Olu, Ojo Square/Ojo Street and Kajero-
in Akoka saw many of the vandalised vehicles. Some residents said many
whose vehicles were affected had taken them away from the streets.
On Solanke Street for instance, our
correspondents counted 25 damaged vehicles, including one belonging to
the Supervising Councilor for works, Somolu LG, Mr. Segun Adebiyi.
Another resident, Adekunle Ogunkoya,
said, “On March 29, 2013, the Chairman of Somolu LG, Mr Bagostowe, along
with some members of his cabinet, held a rally to mark the crucifixion
of Jesus Christ.
“The rally was also a part of an annual
carnival known as Humani Street Day Carnival. This attracted many youths
who marched through the streets.
Some of the youths, Rasaki Oseni (aka
Elewure); Kunle Eyin Bouncing and Olumide Ogbor, who are members of a
gang known as EFCC boys in company with their members from Somolu,
marched down to Akoka which is the stronghold of another cult known as
Alora boys.
“At Akoka, the EFCC boys taunted the
Alora boys. On getting to Solanke Street, the hoodlums clashed and Old
Skool, who is a member of the EFCC boys, was stabbed. He was rushed to a
hospital where he died two days after.”
Ogunkoya said after the incident, some of the hoodlums were arrested but were later released.
He said, “ At about 10pm on Sunday, some
friends of Old Skool held a candlelight procession in his honour. But
it was a decoy because after sometime, they dropped their candles and
started vandalising the vehicles parked on the streets. They also beat
up some of us.”
A vulcaniser on Ojo Square, who tried to protect his machine was stabbed but was later rushed to hospital.
A woman, who identified herself only as Bisi, said the hoodlums collected her two phones.
Bisi alleged that a community centre in the area which was built by the LG had become a hideout for criminals.
“We know them (suspects) but anytime we
report them to the police, they are only arrested for a while and later
released. That community centre on Ojo Street is a den of robbers,” she
said.
The LG boss while addressing aggrieved residents, promised to make sure that the suspects were brought to book.
Bagostowe said, “The residents are not
helping at all. They know these hoodlums and where they live. If these
hoodlums are arrested, I promise to make sure that they are prosecuted. I
will hold a meeting with OP MESA, the police and the Community
Development Association to make sure that we put an end to this problem.
“As regards the community centre, I
don’t believe it is a criminals’ hideout. There are many of such in
various parts of the state. Ours was built for recreational purposes.”
As of 5pm on Monday, a resident, who
declined to give his name, claimed that some of the urchins had started
reappearing in the area and that he heard gunshots.
When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident.
“While I cannot confirm the numbers of
the vehicles that were vandalised, I can tell you that efforts are on to
get the hoodlums,” Braide said.
Nigeria’s police boss orders manhunt for cop-killers
In a reaction to the killing of 12 policemen at Azuzama, in Southern
Ijaw, Bayelsa state, South- South Nigeria, the Inspector-General of
Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, on Monday in Abuja, ordered a massive
manhunt for the police killers.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, had claimed that its fighters killed the policemen whose boat was ambushed, to teach the security forces a lesson for ignoring its warning.
At a meeting with his Police Management Team at the Force headquarters in Abuja, the police boss issued an order to the rank and file to hunt for the killers and bring them to justice.
Mr. Abubakar stressed that only the arrest and prosecution of the police killers will be the best posthumous honour that can be given to the fallen police men.
Speaking to journalists through the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, the IGP stressed that the police would stop at nothing to ensure that the killers were brought to book as soon as possible.
He
also stated that following the frequent attacks on his officers and
men, that the Force had devised a new standard of operations aimed at
reducing fatalities and attacks on officers on duty.
He described the latest killing of policemen as a sad reminder of the danger faced by policemen while on national duty, noting that the country was passing through its most challenging period.
“The death of the 12 police officers on legitimate national assignment is sad, unfortunate and the police will stop at nothing to ensure that the killers are brought to book as soon as possible. The time is tough and the race against crime is tight, but with support from all Nigerians and all tiers of government,the police and other security agencies will restore national security soon,” he added.
On the progress made by the police so far in the investigation of Asadu’s murder, Mr. Mba stated that the police had recorded tremendous progress. He however declined to disclose details of the progress made thus far.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, had claimed that its fighters killed the policemen whose boat was ambushed, to teach the security forces a lesson for ignoring its warning.
At a meeting with his Police Management Team at the Force headquarters in Abuja, the police boss issued an order to the rank and file to hunt for the killers and bring them to justice.
Mr. Abubakar stressed that only the arrest and prosecution of the police killers will be the best posthumous honour that can be given to the fallen police men.
Speaking to journalists through the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, the IGP stressed that the police would stop at nothing to ensure that the killers were brought to book as soon as possible.
Mohammed Abubakar, Inspector General of Police
He described the latest killing of policemen as a sad reminder of the danger faced by policemen while on national duty, noting that the country was passing through its most challenging period.
“The death of the 12 police officers on legitimate national assignment is sad, unfortunate and the police will stop at nothing to ensure that the killers are brought to book as soon as possible. The time is tough and the race against crime is tight, but with support from all Nigerians and all tiers of government,the police and other security agencies will restore national security soon,” he added.
On the progress made by the police so far in the investigation of Asadu’s murder, Mr. Mba stated that the police had recorded tremendous progress. He however declined to disclose details of the progress made thus far.
Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20
A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road
in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20 passengers, an official and a
hospital source said.
The bus had set off from Nigeria’s second city of Kano and was headed to Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state.
Potiskum has been attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram Islamists, and the insurgency has forced state officials to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in several areas.
The bus was reportedly speeding towards the city in order to beat the curfew when it crashed at roughly 5:00 pm.
“A commercial bus carrying 22 passengers ran into a stationary truck” just outside Potiskum, said Sani Umar, an official with the state drivers union, noting that the vehicle was intended to carry just 17 people.
“The truck somersaulted several times on impact. …We evacuated 20 dead bodies from the bus, with two seriously injured,” he added.
He described speeding as the “likely cause,” as drivers typically increase their speed as the curfew approaches to avoid being barred from entering the city when the military shuts off access at 6:00 pm.
A doctor at the Potiskum General Hospital, who was not authorised to speak to journalists, said 20 dead bodies had been brought in from the accident site.
Osuman Masari of the Federal Road Safety Commission in Yobe state said he had “received information about a ghastly motor accident outside Potiskum this evening involving a commuter bus.”
“We don’t have details at the moment because we don’t have people on the ground,” he added.
Road safety officials were forced to withdraw from the area following a spate of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, he said.
The Islamists have killed hundreds of people across northern Nigeria since 2009.
Parts of several states targeted by the insurgents have been placed under curfew.
Nigeria’s roads are among the most dangerous in the world.
Badly maintained vehicles, poor roads and widespread reckless driving conspire to kill thousands in motor accidents across Africa’s most populous country each year.
Last Friday, another accident on Ore-Benin expressway killed over 60 people, when a fuel tanker exploded on a fully loaded luxury bus. All the dead were burnt beyond recognition.
The bus had set off from Nigeria’s second city of Kano and was headed to Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state.
Potiskum has been attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram Islamists, and the insurgency has forced state officials to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in several areas.
The bus was reportedly speeding towards the city in order to beat the curfew when it crashed at roughly 5:00 pm.
“A commercial bus carrying 22 passengers ran into a stationary truck” just outside Potiskum, said Sani Umar, an official with the state drivers union, noting that the vehicle was intended to carry just 17 people.
“The truck somersaulted several times on impact. …We evacuated 20 dead bodies from the bus, with two seriously injured,” he added.
He described speeding as the “likely cause,” as drivers typically increase their speed as the curfew approaches to avoid being barred from entering the city when the military shuts off access at 6:00 pm.
A doctor at the Potiskum General Hospital, who was not authorised to speak to journalists, said 20 dead bodies had been brought in from the accident site.
Osuman Masari of the Federal Road Safety Commission in Yobe state said he had “received information about a ghastly motor accident outside Potiskum this evening involving a commuter bus.”
“We don’t have details at the moment because we don’t have people on the ground,” he added.
Road safety officials were forced to withdraw from the area following a spate of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, he said.
The Islamists have killed hundreds of people across northern Nigeria since 2009.
Parts of several states targeted by the insurgents have been placed under curfew.
Nigeria’s roads are among the most dangerous in the world.
Badly maintained vehicles, poor roads and widespread reckless driving conspire to kill thousands in motor accidents across Africa’s most populous country each year.
Last Friday, another accident on Ore-Benin expressway killed over 60 people, when a fuel tanker exploded on a fully loaded luxury bus. All the dead were burnt beyond recognition.
Monday, 11 March 2013
Baby shot by robbers dies after seven months
Lawal
After seven months of battling with complications from a gunshot wound on the head, Taiwo Lawal, the one-year-old baby who was shot during a series of robberies in Lagos on September 9, 2012, has died.
Reports stated that Taiwo was shot at his parents’ home in Gbagada during the robberies which occurred simultaneously in various parts of the state, an incident now remembered as Black Sunday.
Following the injury and its publication in the press, telecommunications firm, MTN Nigeria, donated N500,000 for the baby’s treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.
The story also drew public interest as concerned members of the public also donated undisclosed sums of money.
Sadly, Taiwo gave up the ghost on March 7, 2013 at Ward E of the hospital.
The deceased’s distraught father, Wasiu, said the death was more painful because of the amount of money the family had spent.
He said, “We spent all that we had but unfortunately my son did not survive. After MTN donated N500,000 and few concerned members of the public gave us money, more expenses kept coming up. The money was not enough as we had to keep spending on drugs and other things.
“After the MTN donation, Taiwo was operated on and he showed signs of improvement at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. A couple of weeks later, after the bullet had been extracted, he was transferred to the main ward but in late December, his health started to deteriorate, he lost weight and we had to take turns to watch over him.”
Wasiu said although doctors at the hospital initially assured him that Taiwo’s brain was not affected by the bullet, he was later told that the bullet had affected the baby’s brain.
Wasiu alleged that after sometime, the nurses at the hospital were no longer as caring as before and even advised him to take the baby home.
He said, “Initially we were told that Taiwo would require another surgery but later we were told that he was too young to have another surgery and that he should have the surgery in a few years’ time. The hospital wanted to discharge him but I objected to it because he obviously was not alright.
“In late January, his health deteriorated and he could not breathe on his own and was placed on Oxygen. At that point, the doctor advised that we flew him abroad for treatment as it was now beyond their capability. However, last week he showed signs of improvement and was even eating.
“We were already happy but unfortunately on Thursday afternoon, Taiwo passed on, leaving behind his twin, Kehinde and two other siblings.”
Calls made to the spokesperson for the hospital, Hope Nwokolo rang out. A text message to her telephone was not replied to.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Survey opposes use of hijab in public schools
Majority of online voters have said ‘No’ to the question on whether pupils should be allowed to wear hijab in public schools or not.
The question was posted on website following a series of protests over the punishment reportedly meted on a pupil for wearing hijab, a head scarf worn by female Muslims.
Muslim students, under the aegis of Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit, had on Thursday protested the punishment of two pupils in Lagos by their principals.
The Principal of Kadara Junior Grammar School, Ebute Meta, Mrs. E.C Ukpaka, had allegedly flogged Aisha Alabi because she wore hijab on the school premises.
Also, the Principal of Mafoluku Senior Grammar School, Elizabeth Omidele, was accused of harassing Barira by telling her to pull off her hijab outside the school premises.
The protesters, who reportedly turned the office of the Lagos State Governor into a praying centre, insisted on seeing Governor Babatunde Fashola before they would end the protest
.
A total of 518 online users responded to the question-Should pupils be allowed to wear hijab to public schools? Out of this figure, 274 votes out of the total 518, representing 53 per cent of online voters, said ‘No’ to the question, while 235 voters, representing 43 per cent of the voters, said ‘Yes.’ However, nine voters, representing two per cent of the total votes cast, were undecided.
Meanwhile, MSSN, Lagos State Area Unit, under the aegis of its Council of Higher Institutions, has asked the state government not to renege on its promise of investigating the hijab crisis.
Addressing a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, Assistant General, COHI, Mallam Sulaiman Dhikrillah, said the group’s demands were the sacking of the principal of a school that suspended a Muslim pupil putting on hijab; the reinstatement of the pupil; and that victimisation and maltreatment of members should be stopped.
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