4 Signs You Have A Pórn Addiction

While there are a lot of things much worse to find yourself addicted to than pórn, pórn addiction is real. Most guys would probably readily admit an addiction to pórn—jokingly, of course. But apparently, pórn can become a vice similar to alcohol or drug use.

Wow. Who would've thought that a few thousand X-rated movies stored on your hard drive would be an indicator of a pórn addiction?

That stack of dirty magazines dating from the mid-1980s may be an indicator as well. All joking aside, here are four signs you have a legitimate pórn addiction.

Pórn hoarding. Apparently that mountain of dirty magazines is a sign of a pórn addiction. There is no real reason to have pórn magazines in 2011. You can have all the pórn you want if you have a laptop and an Internet connection. Hoarding can still occur in the virtual world, however. If you find yourself spending hours upon hours using search engines to download and store porn on your laptop, you may have a problem. Hoarding can also show itself in the form of subscription after subscription to pórn for pay sites.

Pórn, pórn everywhere. If you can't get away from pórn, even just for a little while, you have a pórn addiction. If you have pórn on your laptop, pórn on your smartphone and you still have the need to carry around magazines in your briefcase, seek help. Another sign is when pórn begins to take up more and more of your day. Ask yourself this: What's your relationship with pórn. If you spend time, only on the weekends, watching pórn, you're probably OK. If, however, you've seen the time spent on pórn increase over a period of time, you're addicted.

Getting in the way. If you find yourself replacing your normal activities with porn, you have a problem. You used to hang out with friends, but now you're hanging with your laptop. Pórn addiction is like any other addiction. You replace aspects of your previous life with this addiction and, gradually, there's nothing but the addiction left. Coming to work late because of pórn, not being able to even start your day without pórn or sneaking to watch pórn on your smartphone in the bathroom are all signs of an addiction.

Really serious. If, by chance, you lose something serious like a job or a relationship over pórn and you continue to seek that pórn for refuge, you're definitely addicted. Any other addict will do the same thing with their addiction. The very thing that has destroyed their lives is the very thing they continue to run back to. Replace your pórn addiction with heroin, crack, alcohol and you'll see very similar results. Hopefully your addiction to pórn never gets this severe. Ask yourself right now: As you read this, do you have two or three other windows open for pórn viewing? Maybe you should cut back.

LASG finally shuts Ladipo market

The Lagos State Government on Monday finally shut the popular auto spare parts market, Ladipo Market, in Mushin Local Government Area over environmental degradation.

The government had, two week ago, threatened to close the market indefinitely if the traders did not clean it up.

It was gathered that officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit arrived the market at 4am on Monday to effect the closure order by the government.

Hundreds of policemen attached to the Taskforce led by its Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, took over all “official and unofficial” entrances to the market to prevent the traders from gaining access into the market.

 By the time the traders arrived, they were driven back by the policemen, who shot canisters of teargas into the air.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier was stationed at the Toyota end of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, while the road leading to the market was barricaded by the taskforce officials, who were backed by officials of Rapid Respond Squad.

The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, said the closure became inevitable because the government had had several meetings and had warned the market leaders and traders about the deteriorating state of the market.

He said, “The environment is seriously polluted and degraded with oil. Surrounding canals are filled with full and half engine parts and human waste. Illegal structures were built along drainage path and all the canal setbacks have been turned to shops and trading points.

“A visit to the place also shows that, street traders have taken over the entire major inlet and outlet to the market. The residents have severally petitioned the Ministry of the Environment about lack of access to their homes and property.

“These traders have degraded all the major access roads to the market.”

The commissioner said before the government would reopen the market, the traders must remove illegal and attached structures built along canal paths.

Bello added, “They (traders) must be confined to the main markets and under no condition must they trade or solicit for customers on the main road. They must remove all shop attachments built around the market/canals, remove all derelict and abandoned vehicles packed from within the market to the expressway. They must also remediate all forms of degradation on the roads and market area and sort out waste management issues with LAWMA as they cannot continue to dump refuse into the canals.”

Pupils In Enugu Study On Bare Floor, Leaking Roof

Despite promises by the Enugu state Government and its council areas that it will prioritize education in the state, investigations has shown that the state of primary education in many parts of the state could still be described as “shameful and embarrassing”.

 Press who went round the state observed that primary schools in Igbo-Etiti and Udenu council areas are among the schools neglected by the state government.

Ironically, Igbo-Etiti prides itself as the Local Government area that has produced the highest number of professors in the South-East geopolitical zone.

With over sixty professors from the council, and its immediate past local government chairman clinching the most prestigious ALGON best local government chairman award, nobody would have believed that thousands of its primary school pupils still receive their class lessons sitting on bare floors in dilapidated buildings.

To say the least, teachers also sit on their motorbikes to write lesson notes.

When DailyPost visited the Union Primary School, Akaibite , Ohebe Dim, a teacher who spoke under anonymity for fear of victimization explained that the school has been forgotten by both the state and the local government.

“In fact, this school has been forgotten by the government. There is no help whatsoever coming from the government. During rainy season, teachers and pupils are always in trouble because the roof of this building is leaking. Also in the dry season, heat is always too much here.

“Many pupils don’t attend school during rainy season for fear of the building collapsing.

Painfully, this school is supposed to be the center for the Common Entrance Examination this year. But, we were denied this because we don’t have seats talk more of other facilities for the comfort of both the candidates and examiners”, he lamented.

“We have made several appeals to the government but nothing is coming our way. The parents have done the best they can all these years.

So right now, we are surviving by the mercy of God, but my concern is for the pupils, because I wonder how they would compete with their counterparts in other parts of the country”, he added.

One of the pupils in primary four who said they were not happy studying on bare floor, said that he would like to be a computer scientist.

Asked why he would like to study the course, he explained “I will invent a machine that will be able to detect when one is telling lies or not because the government people tell lies a lot. I’m not happy that our school does not have seats and tables for both the teachers and pupils.

“We are begging government to help us provide all these and even renovate our school building. Many of us sit on the floor during lessons while our teachers sit outside on their motorbike to mark our class work”

For the Chairman of the Parents’ Teachers Association chairman of the school Mr. Robert Ezike, the community’s effort had already been over stretched.

He explained that the school was built through community effort, pointing out that there was no basic facility being provided by both the local and state governments since the school started more than three decades ago.

He said: “This school was built evenhandedly by the poor community dwellers. We have cried to the government to help us at least renovate the building, all to no avail. If nothing is done to ensure the renovation of this building this year, it may collapse.

 

“As you can see, pupils here don’t have any seat. Teachers don’t have tables and seats. Parents here are very poor and have tasked themselves so much to run this school”.

At the Central Primary school, Ozalla, the situation seems worse. But for the presence of the pupils outside the school building, a visitor to the school will mistake the building for an oversize cave. The building that houses the over 200 pupils of the school is one pre-colonial dilapidated structure playing host to holes in their large numbers.

One of the teachers stated that they had been trying to get the attention of the government towards the completion of an abandoned school block in the school compound to no avail.

“You can see that uncompleted classroom block. It would have reduced our problems. When the headmaster was posted here in 2010, he made all efforts to see that this building was completed.

“He even got the phone number of the contractor but when he called the contractor, he said that government had not paid up the agreed contract amount to enable him finish the building.

“Another problem is that we don’t have enough seats, tables and public convenience. You can see for yourself that our pupils sit on bare floor while many sit on logs”.

He also disclosed that apart from some text books supplied by the state government this year and last year, no other help had ever come the way of the school.

“When we got to Enugu last time, they told us that they don’t have even chalk to give us. We use our money to buy chalk here. We need the help of the government here”, he pleaded.

At Egbu Primary School Amalla Orba in Udenu Council Area of the State, it was another pitiable sight.

Lamenting over the situation, one of the teachers said: “our school is in total collapse. We don’t receive any help from both the local and state government. There is no incentive whatsoever from the government. We use our money to buy chalks and other teaching materials.

The headmaster provides chalk, provides seats for the pupils. Most of the pupils sit on dusty ground to receive lessons”.

More disturbing is the teacher’s ratio in the school with the over 200 hundred pupils receiving lessons from only 11 teachers.

In many other schools visited in the area, it was the same tale of woes. At Amukwu Primary School, two school blocks have already collapsed, leaving the pupils to squeeze themselves in a dilapidated block.

15 detained Russians get bail

Fifteen Russians, who were charged with unlawful importation of arms into the country, were on granted bail by a Federal High Court in Lagos.

Justice Okechukwu Okeke, in a ruling, released the 15 defendants to the Russian Ambassador in Nigeria, who would have to ensure the accused were in court whenever the need arises.

He also granted bail to the ship, MV Myre Seadiver, charged along with the 15 accused, in a bail bond of $500,000 to be guaranteed by First Bank Plc.

The accused had on February 19 pleaded not guilty to the four counts of alleged unlawful importation, possession of firearms and non-declaration of the content of the vessel.

The charges were instituted against them by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The accused are Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Chichkanov Vasily, Varlygin Igor, Komilov Alexander, Lopatin Alexey and Baranovskly Nikolay.

Others are Mishin Pavel, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov, Kononov Sergel, Korotchenko Andrey, Vorobev Mikhail, and Stepan Oleksiuk.

The defendants’ counsel, Mr. Chukwuwike Okafor, had assured the judge that his clients would attend their trial if they were granted bail.

The prosecutor, Mr. Ernest Ezebilo, had agreed that the defendants should be released on bail to the Russian Ambassador in Nigeria, who should undertake to produce them in court whenever the need arose.

Nevertheless, the judge asked the Russian Consul Officer, Mr. Radomir Ganich, to choose a bank from the bond would be obtained.

The judge adjourned till April 10 for hearing.

The accused and their vessel were said to have been arrested by naval officers on October 18, 2012, within the Nigerian territorial waters in Lagos State.

The prosecution alleged that the accused and their vessel had entered the Nigeria waters without due licence and clearance from the Nigerian Customs Service.

According to Ezebilo, the accused had also refused to declare the content of the vessel, contrary to the provisions of the Customs and Excise Management Act, 2002.

Policeman accidentally shoots himself while trying on clothing

A retired New York State Police investigator has accidentally shot himself in the knee while trying on new clothes in a department store dressing room.

Colonie Police say 56-year-old Robert Talbot of Ballston Spa suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 8:20 pm at a Sears store in Colonie Center Mall. A .22 caliber pistol in his pocket was set off accidentally.

Talbot is being treated at a hospital. The police said that his injury does not appear to be life threatening.

Navy destroyed 7,378 illegal refineries in six months

Nigerian Navy said it destroyed 7,378 illegal refineries and 908 canoes in the last six months of 2012.

Within the period also, the service said it arrested over 40 vessels and destroyed many barges used for crude oil theft.

Presenting a paper at a retreat for maritime stakeholders in Uyo on Monday, the Director, Naval Operations, Commodore Joseph Okojie, said the reduction in criminal activities in the country was possible because of the renewed commitment of the Nigerian Navy.

Okojie, who spoke on ‘Deterring Crude Oil Theft and Pipeline Vandalism in Nigeria: a Panacea for National Economic Prosperity’, noted that the war against illegal refiners of crude was enormous as even villagers see oil bunkering as their legitimate right.

He said, “In the last six months of 2012, the NN had destroyed over 7,378 illegal refineries and 908 deep canoes, commonly called Cotonou boats.

“Everybody in the village where these activities occur has a boat. They do not see anything wrong in what they are doing.

“As these refineries are destroyed and naval officers turn their backs, you will discover that thousands more of these illegal refineries resurface.”

He added that the total volume of oil stolen last year amounted to 9,831,520, saying the losses in the black waters were more than what the country was losing offshore.

Calling for cooperation among security agencies, he said, “For enforcement in which we handed over all those arrested to agencies such as NIMASA, EFCC and the Nigeria Police Force for prosecution, the snag here is the absence of a feedback mechanism with respect to prosecution.”

Okojie, however, identified inadequate platforms, ship support facilities, and inadequate funding as some of the factors militating against Navy’s operations.

HURIWA condemns gruesome killing of NSUK students by soldiers

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has condemned the killing of four students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, by armed soldiers . The students were killed by the soldiers who were mobilized to the area to stop further breakdown of law and order by the students who were protesting the persistent scarcity of clean water in and around the school campus.

The group said the killing amounts to grave crimes against humanity which must not go unpunished.
It therefore called on the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to immediately commence independent investigation of the circumstances surrounding the deployment of armed soldiers by the state government to unleash a regime of violence on peaceful protesting students of the Nasarawa state University.

In a statement jointly signed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Director Miss. Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA asked the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Onyeagbor Ihejerika to explain to Nigerians the rationale behind the deployment of armed soldiers to quell a peaceful demonstration by unarmed students, that now resulted to their gruesome murder and to immediately identify and hand over the indicted soldiers to the relevant law enforcement agency for immediate prosecution in a competent court of law.

  

“This is a sad commentary on Nigeria’s democracy and marks a turning point which signposts that Government may be plotting to emasculate the fundamental freedoms belonging to the citizenry that are inherent and inviolable especially as tension builds up over the excruciating economic condition in Nigeria brought about by corruption and misgovernance by all levels of government in Nigeria”, it said.

“We in the human rights community will be disappointed if the Nigerian National Human Rights Commission fails to use its new found independence and operational power to probe the brutal killing by armed soldiers of peaceful demonstrators in this era of democracy when it was clear that the lives of the soldiers did not come under any threat since the protesting students merely carried placards and fresh tree leaves”.

“How come the Nigeria Police that ought to maintain law and order were not deployed to ensure that the students demonstration was peaceful? If at any time external hoodlums sabotage the protest then why didn’t use the police? with plastic bullets or water canons, wouldn’t they have dispersed the demonstrators if they turn rowdy and out of control?”

The Gorgeous Opulence Inside Some Private Jets [Photos]

For most people, flying is a boring and uncomfortable experience. But in the customized private jets that belong to the ultrarich the possibilities are endless, and it's astounding to look at.These incredible aircraft include cinemas, marble baths, aquariums, Rolls Royce garages, glass floors, concert halls, wellbeing rooms, thrones, chef's kitchens and gold seat buckles. Each unique jet can be personally designed down to the tiniest luxurious detail for work or play. Photographer Nick Gleis specializes in picturing such planes. But many of the owners wish to remain anonymous, so around 90 percent of Gleis’s work is never seen by the public.Well-known names who feature in the photos below include Jackie Chan, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and Donald Trump. Chan's plush jet has his name and intertwining dragons emblazoned on the side. Al-Waleed's has several planes and his 'flying palace' includes a concert hall complete with a grand piano. And Donald Trump's chosen transport has 18 IMAX-level speakers in the cinema room

60 Army officers quizzed over exam malpratices

About sixty officers of the Nigerian Army are currently being interrogated for allegedly cheating during the just concluded promotion examination held at the 1st Mechanised Division, Kaduna. If found culpable at the end of investigation by the Military Police unit of the Force, the officers, according to Army authorities, would be charged before a court of competent jurisdiction for trial.



Vanguard gathered that 300 officers, captains and lieutenants, sat for the mandatory promotion examination between February 10 and 15, 2013, out of which only 60 of them who allegedly saw the leaked questions, passed. The leaked answers was reportedly found in the cell phone of one of the officers, a lieutenant, while the examination was going on, despite instruction to keep mobile phones away from the hall. Report said the officer bolted immediately the deed was discovered. But already, he had allegedly passed the answers round to some of his friends.

Also indicted in the examination leakage saga, was a clerk alleged to have made the questions available to the lieutenant. Although it was gathered that the result was currently generating an uproar from the 240 officers who failed the exam, as they claimed only those who saw the leaked questions passed the exams. They also expressed shock that no measure had been taken to punish the alleged cheats.

Abducted lecturer mistaken for govt official

The abducted University of Maiduguri lecturer, Dr Abba Kagu, said to have been kidnapped on Saturday by gunmen in Maiduguri was reportedly mistaken for an in-law of a top official of Borno State government prompting  his abductors to demand N5million from his family,  it was learnt.

Investigations revealed that the abductors had initially demanded N100 million ransom for the release of the supposed target and a brother in-law to a very senior elected political office holder in the state.

This came even as a retired civil servant from National Population Commission and now  lecturer at same university (name witheld) yesterday cheated death when some suspected ‘’terrorists brushed his face with gunshots’’ on his way to buy feeds for his animals.

In recent times, abduction has became a source of concern to the people of troubled Maiduguri, as businessmen, and well -to- do individuals have been kidnapped and later freed after their families paid ransom to the abductors.

The abductors, according to the colleagues of the kidnapped lecturer realised they were holding the wrong person when they read yesterday’s newspapers where the true identity of the lecturer was unveiled.

’’When they called us on phone this morning, we pleaded with them to kindly release him since they now realise he wasn’t their target; but they insisted that we must pay N5 million instead of 100 million,’’ one of his colleagues who spoke on the condition of anonymity said.

Efforts to get comments from security officials on the issue proved abortive.

Man Arraigned For Defiling 3yr old girl

A 34-year old man, Kehinde Paul Layode, has been arraigned before a family court in Ikeja for allegedly defiling a three-year old girl (name withheld).

The incident, which happened at 3/5, John Crescent, Igando, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, was reported at the Igando Police Station.The accused, if found guilty, risks spending a minimum of five years in jail under the Criminal Laws of Lagos State.

Five years in jail for molesting a 3 year old child? I think rapist should spend the rest of their lives locked up...

According to the girl’s mother (name withheld) who spoke with the press, Kehinde was one of her neighbours and she left her daughter in his custody to get drugs for the girl when the man allegedly took advantage of her.

“I was going to make my hair in the salon when I discovered that my daughter’s temperature was high and I told Kehinde’s wife to help me take care of her. But she asked me to leave her with her husband since she also wanted to make her hair and that we should go to the salon together.”

“It wasn’t up to ten minutes after I went to get the drugs for her that I returned to the house and asked Kenny (Kehinde) to open the door but he didn’t. Instead, he told me that the girl was sleeping, that I shouldn’t bother myself about her. Then I asked him to at least open the door for me to see my girl and he said that he was in the bathroom.”

The girl’s mother said she was shocked when the door was eventually opened and she discovered that the girl had been defiled.



“I insisted that he opened the door. At this point, my daughter was lying down on the bed but was not sleeping. I asked him why he told a lie but he did not respond. I only observed that my girl was looking rather disturbed.

“When I opened her pant out of suspicion to check her, I saw sperm in between her thighs. I got really mad at him and asked him what happened but he went really wild and told me that he did not do anything. ‘How could I have molestd her?’ he asked me and when neighbours came around, they were also as surprised as I was,” she narrated.

The doctor’s report confirmed that the girl was defiled following the tests carried out on her.

It was also alleged that the accused had pleaded with the family to settle out of court but the girl’s family insisted that they wanted justice to prevail.

When the matter was initially taken to the magistrate’s court, he pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of N250, 000 with a surety and the matter was adjourned till Friday, 22 February, 2013.

However, the matter was tranferred to the family court. The court did not sit on 22 February and the matter was adjourned till 8 April, 2013.

15-year-old kills boy,12, with dane gun

A 15-year-old boy has allegedly shot to dead a 12-year-old boy, Timilehin Oguntoye, while playing with a loaded dane gun at Akiriboto village in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State.

The incident, according to sources, has thrown the village into confusion while the family of the deceased boy had threatened to retaliate the death but for the intervention of the Police in the area.

It was gathered that the boy who was playing with his father's gun at his family compound alongside some of his friends, shot the deceased boy unknowingly and ran away when it was discovered that the boy was dead.

The case was immediately reported to the Police and efforts by the Police to arrest the suspected killer proved abortive as he fled from the village to an unknown destination.

It was also gathered that the deceased was rushed to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, OAUTH, Ile-Ife shortly after he was shot but died before he got to the hospital.

Our correspondent was informed that the bullet hit the deceased on the head.

Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of the state Police Command, Mrs Folashade Odoro, who confirmed the incident, said the Police were on the trail of the suspected killer and vowed that he would not go unpunished.

She said the Police got wind of the ugly incident shortly after it happened and swung into action, but was unable to locate the suspected killer as he took to his heels immediately he committed the offence.

She assured that the Police wll do everything possible to ensure that the suspect was brought to book in no distant time, stressing that officers of the state Police command were already on the trail of the suspect.

Soldiers Shoot Four University Students Dead In Nasarawa During Protest

Four students of Nassarawa State University were on Monday shot by security operatives during a protest over water scarcity in the institution.

The victims were among the hundreds of students who protested against the scarcity of electricity and water in the school. During the protest, some soldiers invaded the school and started firing shots which left four students dead, a witness said.

Nassarawa State Police Command spokesperson, Michael Ada, confirmed the killing of the students but denied that they were shot by police officers.

He said the commissioner of police in the state was already at the scene.

The victims were among the hundreds of students who protested against the scarcity of electricity and water in the school. During the protest, some soldiers invaded the school and started firing shots which left four students dead, a witness said.

Nassarawa State Police Command spokesperson, Michael Ada, confirmed the killing of the students but denied that they were shot by police officers.

He said the commissioner of police in the state was already at the scene.

Lagos win Ochei wheelchair b/ball tourney

The Lagos State have won the second edition of the International Wheelchair Basketball Championship after defeating Delta State 40-29 in the final played at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos.

The competition was sponsored by the Grand Patron of the Wheelchair Basketball Federation of Nigeria, Victor Ochei, who is also the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly.

For winning the championship, the Lagos team went home with a cash prize of N2m, while the Delta team got N1m for their efforts.

The Edo state team that finished third after beating their opponents from Benin Republic got a cash prize of N500,000.

Ochei, who was present at the competition where he watched the finals, promised that he would continue to bankroll the event.

He commended the teams from Ghana, Benin Republic and Togo who participated in the competition. He gave plaudits to the Nigerian teams for beating their foreign opponents, a situation he said was an indicator that Nigeria is above other West African countries in the sport.

The president of the Wheelchair Basketball Federation of Nigeria, Mr. Bukola Olopade, also expressed his delight on the success of the competition.

Olopade was full of commendations for the sponsor and the Lagos State government for accepting to host the championship. He noted that the standard of the event was better than the maiden edition held last year.

Court orders Army to pay 2 brothers N10m

A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia has ordered the Nigerian Army to pay two brothers, Destiny and Mustard Enweremadu N10 million for unlawful detention.

The two brothers are the children of the traditional ruler of Ngwa Ukwu, Eze  Bernard Enweremadu.
The court presided over by Justice M. G. Umar however, ordered that the two Enweremadus be handed over to the police for proper investigation of the allegations against them.

They were arrested sometime last year by soldiers from the 14 Brigade Ohafia on April 7, 2012 over alleged case of armed robbery and kidnapping.

They were arrested from their fathers’ palace by soldiers following reports alleging that armed robbers and kidnappers were living in the palace.
Delivering judgment in a suit filed by the Enweremadus, Justice Umar said that it was wrong for the military to assume the role of the police when they are meant to take care of the territorial borders of the country.
According to him, the army have no right to detain anyone involved in a criminal case, saying “even when they make such arrests they are bound by law to hand them over to the police who have the right to detain them and investigate the matter properly.”

He berated the Army for their penchant for arresting and detaining people, saying that it was not their duty to detain but to hand over to police any suspect they arrested.

His words: “The law allows for detaining of suspects at least one day and at most two days, yet these boys have been in military cell without anyone knowing the state of their health.”

The applicants approached the court for the enforcement of their fundamental rights and asked for N100 million as damages, but were granted N10 million.

Nigeria Police Rescue Kidnapped Pastor

Mr Emmanuel Agbesi, the kidnapped Pastor of the South-East Regional Headquarters of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries at Aba in Abia, has been rescued by the police.

Agbesi was kidnapped by gunmen on 18 February.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that two suspects, Ogbonnaya Ugwumba and Kelechi Ugwumba have been arrested by the Aba Area Police Command in connection with the incident.

The police said that the suspects were being interrogated in the course of investigations to arrest the three fleeing abductors. A senior police officer said on condition of anonymity that Agbesi was rescued the same day with his car, a Gulf Saloon with registration number KSF 281 AH, near the Coca-Cola Depot along the Owerri-Onitsha highway in Imo.

The officer said that the suspects now in custody were the children of the landlord where the church was situated, who had previously threatened to physically assault the pastor.

When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in Abia, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, told NAN that he would get the details before making public statement on the matter.

“I will get back to you. I am yet to get any report on the matter from the Aba Area Police Command but I will call them to find out,” he said.

Police Arrest Border Robbers

Two robbery suspects, Saheed Adekunle, 30, and Ogunmuyiwa Adeola, both from Ibadan, Oyo  and Abeokuta, Ogun states southwest Nigeria, who allegedly snatch exotic vehicles in Lagos from their owners and ferry them to Cotonou, Republic of Benin, have been arrested.

They were nabbed by operatives at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island, with four locally made pistols, at Ajilete area of Ogun State.

They allegedly concealed the guns inside a bag at the time they were arrested inside a chartered taxi by the operatives on a stop and search mission.

The suspects were on their way to Lagos State after they reportedly disposed off the vehicle they allegedly snatched at Ojuelegba area of Surulere, Lagos.

They have been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on a two-count charge of felony to wit, unlawful possession of firearms and robbery.

The suspected border robbers

The police alleged that the accused were arrested at Ajilete area of Ogun State when they laid an ambush for them following information that the accused had snatched a car at Ojuelegba and headed toward Idiroko border enroute Cotonou to sell the car.

During interrogation, they allegedly confessed to the crime that they allegedly snatch exotic cars for their boss they identified simply as Alhaji A.A. who usually sells them in Cotonou. They revealed that he resides at Ojuelegba.

In his alleged confessional statement to the police, Adekunle said: “Alhaji A.A. gave us the guns we use to rob and snatch vehicles in Lagos State and drive them to Idiroko border from where Alhaji A.A. would ferry them to Cotonou to sell.

“But our regret is that we have used all the money we realised from the business to sleep with prostitutes at the railway line, Mushin, and drink beer.

“We always sleep at an Indian hemp joint at Akala,Mushin to evade police arrest. We pray to God to forgive us our sins.”

The weapons recovered from the suspects include one double barrel, locally made pistol, one single barrel Ghana made pistol and 21 rounds of live cartridges.

After investigation by Inspector Oluwemimo Banjoko and his team, the suspects were charged to court.
The prosecutor, Supol C.N. Odii said, the offences are punishable under sections 6 (b) and 3 of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act R11, laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The plea of the accused was not taken because the court lacks jurisdiction to try the matter.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs. F.O. Botoku ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody pending the advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, on the matter.
She adjourned the matter till 20 March, 2013 for mention

Female banker jailed 9 years for fraud

Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former banker, Vera Ogbonna Akanni to nine years imprisonment for defrauding her bank customers various sums of money to the tune of N35.4 million.

The convict was prosecuted on an eight count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and stealing by fraudulent conversion.


Prior to her sentencing, defence counsel, Yinka Oyeniji, drew the attention of the court to an affidavit of means placed before the court on February 17, 2013.
Besides, Justice Onigbanjo asked the prosecution counsel, Oluwatoyin Owodunni, if the convict had any previous records of conviction.

Owodunni confirmed to the court that the convict did not have any such record.
However, the prosecution counsel further addressed the court on the convict’s sentencing, saying that the offence for which she was tried attracts a punishment of between seven and twenty years imprisonment.
“My lord, this is money entrusted to the convict as a banker and an account officer. Her criminal conduct is not only a breach of trust but a heinous crime.

This money belongs to innocent and unsuspecting members of the public”, Owodunni submitted.
He, therefore, prayed the court that the convict be made to face the full wrath of the law.
Justice Onigbanjo consequently sentenced the convict to 7 years imprisonment on two of the counts and 2 (two) years imprisonment on two other counts effective from December 2, 2009 when she was first arrested.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
Also, Justice Onigbanjo ordered the convict to make full restitution of the stolen money to the owners.

32 Illegal Drug Stores Shut In Lagos

Officials of the Lagos State Task Force on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods have shut 32 illegal drug shops and carted away fake drugs worth millions of naira.

The raids were carried out in Ikorodu Local Government areas of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
Reports gathered that the officials combed Ikorodu in search of illegal drug stores and shut those found wanting.

The raids were conducted in conjunction with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN), National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Nigeria Police from the state command.

Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina said the shops were sealed for various offences contrary to the provisions of the law on the operation of pharmacies and patent medicine stores in the state.

“Government’s action was informed by the dangers posed by the nefarious activities of illegal operators of patent medicine/pharmaceutical stores in the state. The exercise is coming on the heels of the state government’s sanitization efforts to check the activities of illegal operators, drug adulterators and infiltration of the drug market by imported and locally produced sub-standard drugs by stream lining the drug distribution system in the state.

“The shops were sealed off for offences ranging from sales of drugs without licence from the regulatory authority; failure to relocate from a market area/adherence to the mandated distance between a patent medicine shop and market place as stipulated by the law and sales of counterfeit and fake drugs amongst others.

“Government is committed to streamlining the drug distribution system in the state in order to ensure the safety of the citizenry, hence it has mandated the Task Force on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods to comb all nooks and crannies of the state for illegal operators,” she stated.

The special adviser urged operators of pharmaceutical and patent medicine stores to ensure that their activities were within the ambit of the law regulating their operations just as she urged the people to always patronise only registered pharmacy or patent medicine shop recognised by their signboards.

NULGE strike paralyses Ogun State Local Govt

Activities were on Wednesday paralysed at the secretariats of the 20 local government areas in Ogun State as council workers embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged backlog of unpaid salaries, leave allowances and pensions.

Protesting workers locked out officials of the councils, including the LG chairmen and councillors.

Our correspondent observed that the angry workers were sitting outside the locked gates discussing the action in groups in Abeokuta South, Abeokuta North, Obafemi Owode, Odeda, Ifo, Sagamu and Ijebu Ode.

The situation was the same in Yewa South, Yewa North, Ijebu East, Ijebu North East and Ijebu Waterside.

State President of NULGE, Mr. Tajudeen Olusesi, told newsmen at the end of the union’s State Executive Council meeting that the workers had no other alternative but to embark on the indefinite strike following the failure of the state government to honour earlier agreements with the union on the matter.

Olusesi said NULGE took its time to explore all avenues for an amicable resolution of its grievances concerning its demands from the state.

The NULGE president however expressed regret that the union had to embark on the action because it discovered that the government seemed not interested in addressing the plight of the workers.

Olusesi said, “Despite the agreement we entered into with the representatives of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria in the state in October 2012, we observe with dismay that nothing has changed for better in our various local government.

“Our members’ welfare continues to dwindle; salaries are not being paid as and when due as promised and when they eventually pay, it is always net salaries, leaving out all deductions such as pensions, cooperatives and check-off dues unpaid.”

Olusesi also decried the poor financial state of the councils, alleging that all of them were being run on “overdraft” from banks due to what he described as “negative allocation” from the state government.

Reacting, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Muyiwa Oladipo, said the council workers had the right to embark on the strike.

Oladipo however said the government would within the next 24 hours address the issues raised by the workers.

“Strike is a veritable tool. It is the right of every worker who feels aggrieved for one reason or the other. But the issue is being addressed by the government. Within the next 24 hours, I believe strongly the whole state would hear some news,” he said.

OAU opens her E-portal for 2012/2013 Fresh Student Admission Checking

This is to inform the house and all aspirant into the Great Obafemi University Of Ife, that the school E-portal has been open and successful candidates can now print their admission letter.

You are required to print your ADMISSION STATUS in colour for submission during your screening on resumption.

The e-portal would be opened to ALL FRESH STUDENTS for accommodation on Friday, 1st March, 2013 at 4.00pm. THIS WILL BE ON FIRST COME FIRST SERVED as there are limited bed spaces.

If you'ld like to check your admission status and print your admission statement, follow the steps below;

1. Visit eportal.oauife.edu.ng/admissions.php

2. Enter your JAMB Registration Number in the space provided and click on "Submit". Your status will be made available to you.

COMMUTERS SHIRK PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

 

                                                 PEDESTRAIN BRIDGE AT LASU MAIN CAMPUS, OJO

Commuters and petty traders around LASU-Iyana Iba have given various reasons for not putting to use, the pedestrian bridge at Lagos State University main campus, Ojo.

A hundred level student in LASU, Wahaab, said that the bridge was extremely filthy as the entire walkway was distraught.

He lamented, "there are sometimes that the bridge is always very dirty and it discourages people from using the bridge. So far, it is not good enough".

A three hundred level student of Economics, Shittu Miriam admonished the state government to endorse a law that will make people use the bridge.

According to her, “I do not know why people don’t make use of the pedestrian bridge meant for them. The best thing is for the government to try and enforce laws that will make the residents use the pedestrian bridge”.

Speaking in the same vein was a gala seller named Obi, at the Iyana Iba junction who, also complained of the threat to health, the bridge posed to whoever should make use of it.

Obi said "people dey pass the pedestrian bridge. You fit pass am and you fit cross the major road. But for me, e too far; that's why I no like to dey pass the bridge".

However, a LASU staff, Mr. Akin explained the obstacles challenging people that Nigerians likes shortcuts and the bridge is left in ruins.

"Really, you know that we Nigerians always look for shortcuts to do a thing, that’s our problem", he said.

He continued, "there is nothing bad in passing the pedestrian bridge. The people just deliberately not pass it because, if you go there now, you will find out that good lucks have devastated in all the stair cases".

"The whole place is messed up. But in Nigeria factor, people are fond of looking for shortcuts which is easier for them to cross the barricades on the highway", he stressed.

Giving advice on how to make the bridge passable, Mr. Akin, urged the government agencies concerned to engage people around the vicinity in an interactive session.

"They need to have a joint workshop with the road maintenance agency, university management and students union", he said.

He further mentioned on specific steps to be taking in eliciting the people’s understanding and cooperation in making use of the bridge.

"The issue there is that its orientation that matters. The KAI should hold a workshop with the university management and students union so that they could all join hands together to enforce the law, so that they should be passing the pedestrian bridge".

"It is safer rather than crossing the major highway", he concluded.