Fayose congratulates Buhari

Fayose, governor of Ekiti state and one of the arrowheads of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign, has saluted Muhammadu Buhari, describing the outcome of the presidential election as the will of God.
Fayose famously raised health concerns over Buhari and engaged in an acrimonious media campaign against the retired general.
With results of the election showing Buhari taking an unassailable lead on Tuesday afternoon, Fayose issued a statement, saying “the election result is the will of God
and Nigerians , and all lovers of peace, progress and development of Nigeria must accept it”. The governor said the election results should not be seen as victory or loss for any political party, adding: “To me, Nigerians and democracy won.”
Fayose said: “I salute Nigerians, especially the great people of Ekiti state.
“I salute President Jonathan for laying the most solid foundation for democracy in Nigeria. And I salute Major General Buhari for being a resilient and dogged
fighter.
“I urge Nigerians, irrespective of their ethnic, religious and political affiliation to respect the outcome of the election in the interest of peace, progress and
development of the country.
“Nigeria as a country is greater than any individual or group and it is my plea that no one should do anything to rock the boat of peace in the country.”

Source: The Cable

List of Nigerian universities that accept 180 in UTME

This is based on previous years.

List of Universities That Accept 180 In JAMB

The following schools and others not mentioned accept scores ranging from 180 and above. Candidates with such marks in the ongoing 2015 Computer Based Test should therefore check their fates. We have also tried to state whether or not the listed schools accept first and or second choices. The list are not exhaustible, if you fail to see your school below, kindly ask for it using comment. Stop asking questions like “does UNN accept 180 in JAMB, What is JAMB cut off mark for…, can I gain admission into university with 190, etc. Rather, check and see for yourself below.

Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto: 180 First and second choice

University of Uyo, Uniuyo: 180 first choice only

University of Calabar Unical: 180 for some courses and 200 for others

Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO: 180 First and Second Choice.

University of Agriculture, Abeokuta UNAAB: 180

Man kills friend over N100 debt in Enugu

A middle-aged vulcaniser, Stephen Eze, al­legedly hacked his friend and business neighbour, Mr. Ikenna Anayo Omeje, to death over N100 debt.

 A source told Saturday Sun that the suspect, Mr. Eze and the deceased had been the best of friends for close to three years before the ugly incident.

According to the source, trouble started, when the de­ceased was said to have decid­ed to build his own shop few metres away from his friend’s workshop.

The suspect was said to have warned him several times that he had become arrogant because he had made money to build his own shop and buy a new motorbike.

However, on that Thursday morning, Mr. Omeje took his motorbike to the suspect’s shop to change its back tube, and was charged N300. He paid N200 and promised to pay the balance of N100 in the evening.

PHOTO: 75-yr old herbalist arrested for defiling 12-yr old boy

A 75- year-old herbalist, Odinkemere Ogbuehi, from Abia State has been paraded by the police for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a twelve-year-old boy “through the anus.”
Commissioner of Police, JoshakHabila, who paraded the suspect in Umuahia on Friday with other suspected criminals, said that the incident occurred on March 8, 2015 .
According to police, the suspect allegedly “took the victim without the consent of the parents and had sexual intercourse with him through the anus for three good days.”
Police said that the suspect had during interrogations, confessed to the crime.

Read what the 9 year-old who donated N10k to Buhari's campaign said

9yr old Nicole Eniiyi Benson on Thursday donated N10k to the APC Presidential campaign team and publicly read the letter she wrote on stage during the Buhari interactive session with women in Lagos. Nicole said she saved up her lunch money given to her by her mum (N5,785) and her mum added the rest to a round figure of N10k. She shared her letter on APC website and was then invited to the event to read the letter to APC members and guests. What she wrote after the cut...

In her letter, she wrote thus;

Dear APC and governor Fashola,

My name is Nicole Benson. I am 9 years old. The name of my school is Green Springs School Lekki campus and I am in year 4 peters. I want to be a doctor when I grow up so that I can take care of people who are sick and dying because they take care of me when I am sick.

LAWMA truck crushes 25 year old woman to death

A 25-year-old woman, identified simply as Pamela, was on yesterday morning crushed to death by a truck belonging to one of the partners of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, TFOB Ventures.

The incident was said to have happened at the Kudirat Abiola Way junction, on the Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja Lagos at around 6:30am.

An eyewitness, who spoke to Saturday PUNCH on the condition of anonymity, said the truck driver was driving against oncoming vehicles when he ran into the deceased, who was driving a Toyota Matrix saloon car. He said the deceased died on the spot, while the driver of the truck had been arrested by the police.

Man kills Army Officer brother for marrying another wife

A warrant officer with the Nigeria Army, 50-year-old Joseph Ekpenyong Okon has been shot dead by his elder brother. The suspect was said to have taken the action as a way of protesting against the de­ceased’s decision to marry a new wife.

 This has led operatives of the De­partment of Criminal Investigation, Rivers State Police Command to ar­rest the 60-year-old suspect, Okon Ekpenyong Okon who is now helping with investigations into the incident. The victim and suspect are from Ono Ito Odukpani area of Akwa Ibom State.

 Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Fadairo, who con­firmed the incident, told Saturday Sun that the Army officer was killed on January 24, following his decision to marry another woman identified as Ruth.

PHOTOS: Mad woman delivers baby girl in Ogun

Jonathan begged me severally to dump APC – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revealed how President Goodluck Jonathan repeatedly appealed to him to dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, and return to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

Atiku said the president pleaded with him three times, once during a surprise midnight visit to his house.

The former VP made the

revelation in an interview with the Hausa service of the BBC, during which he also explained why he has not been very visible in the campaign rallies of his party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr. Abubakar said he turned down the personal request of President Jonathan to return to the PDP on three separate occasions.

He said the last was in Abuja last Friday when the President paid him a surprise midnight visit.

He said on that day, he received speaker Aminu Tambuwal and ex-military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, and they held fruitful discussions.

Etcetera on: Mr President,please leave entertainers alone

Once again, Nollywood and President Jonathan are disconnected from the priorities of Nigerians. Millions are hungry and the country is headed off a cliff and what we get is the President having weekly dinner with celebs at Eko Hotel. Mr. President should know that all entertainers in the country won’t amount to a spoon of water in the bucket of our population.

I agree that our entertainers judging by recent behaviour are now seen as hungry men and women with insatiable appetite, but Mr. President, the larger part of the society are equally hungry and should be fed as well. Why feed just the entertainers? Isn’t that discrimination? What will the entertainers say to Jonathan except the usual lies and half truths? Can a man with a mouthful of undeserved food speak or say the truth?

 An assessment of the lifestyle of these entertainers gives a false picture of the situation of things as it affects the society at large.

Jonathan to BBC: 'I must win'

President Goodluck Jonathan says he will “surely” win the 2015 presidential election which will hold on March 28. Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Jonathan said categorically: “I’ll surely win.” The election is generally expected to be very tough, with many analysts concluding that Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), would win.

President Goodluck Jonathan says he will “surely” win the 2015 presidential election which will hold on March 28. Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Jonathan said categorically: “I’ll surely win.”

The election is generally expected to be very tough, with many analysts concluding that Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), would win.

Boko Haram kill 11 in fresh attack

Boko Haram extremists have attacked a Nigerian border town, killing 11 people who had recently come home after military forces ousted the insurgents, witnesses said.

Umara said Cameroonian forces immediately crossed the border when gunfire erupted and drove the militants from Gamboru-Ngala.
"We were terrified when we started hearing gunshots echoing ... but everywhere became calm about an hour later. The soldiers informed us that it was the Boko Haram terrorists that came back," said another resident, Aji Kaumi.
He and Mr Umara said 11 civilians were killed on the outskirts of Gamboru.

Man who prepared parents like barbecue found guilty of murder

 Hong Kong man who was accused of killing, dismembering, salting and cooking his parents has been found guilty of double murder.

During the 20-day trial the court heard how Henry Chau, 31, had dismembered his elderly parents before salting, cooking and packing their body parts into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork”.

The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March 2013, stuffed into two refrigerators in a bloodstained apartment, days after they were reported missing.

Other remains were found in a rubbish bin and packed into lunchboxes with rice.

Nigeria's president predicts Boko Haram defeat within a month, security analysts disagree

As Nigerians prepare to go to the polls next week, President Goodluck Jonathan has said in an interview that he expects Boko Haram will be flushed out of all the areas they have seized within a month.

"I'm very hopeful that it will not take us more than a month to recover the old territories that hitherto have been in their hands," he told BBC.
"They are getting weaker and weaker by the day," he said.
By the start of this year Boko Haram controlled around 20 local areas, a territory the size of Belgium. Earlier this month the militants pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State group.
President Jonathan, who is seeking re-election in a March 28 vote, has been heavily criticised for his failure to end Boko Haram's six-year-long Islamist insurgency.

Experimental anti-cholesterol drug shows promise

People taking an experimental drug called Repatha (evolocumab) for high cholesterol were half as likely to die or suffer a heart attack or stroke as those taking conventional statins, researchers said Sunday.

The findings were based on 4,465 patients who were studied for one year after completing an earlier phase of the drug's safety and efficacy testing.

The results could offer an alternative to the estimated one in three Americans with high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol who have been unable to manage their condition with diet, exercise and statin drugs currently on the market.

Patients were randomized to either receive evolocumab, made by the pharmaceutical company Amgen, injected under the skin in addition to standard care, or standard care alone, which meant taking the cholesterol-lowering statin drug recommended by their physician.

Evolocumab works differently than traditional statins. It is a human monoclonal antibody that blocks a harmful protein in the liver, freeing the organ up to remove LDL cholesterol from the blood.

This new class of drug is known as a PCSK9 inhibitor, and three different kinds, including evolocumab, are being studied in large clinical trials.

Previous research has shown evolocumab could lower LDL or "bad" cholesterol — the kind that contributes to plaque buildup in the arteries — by 61 percent.

The drug has yet to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and more years of study are planned to test its longer term outcomes.

But after one year, the analysis showed the rate of cardiovascular events — such as death, heart attack, stroke, hospitalization or surgery to open blocked arteries — in the evolocumab group was 0.95 percent, compared to 2.18 percent in the traditional statin group, most of whom were taking moderate or high intensity regimens of the cholesterol-lowering drugs.

"The reduction in LDL was profound and that may be why we saw a marked reduction in cardiovascular events so quickly," said lead author Marc Sabatine, senior physician in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

"It suggests that if we can drive a patient's LDL cholesterol down a large amount to a very low level, we may start to see a benefit sooner than would be expected with a more modest intervention."

High cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading killer worldwide.

The study, which was funded by the drugmaker, Amgen, showed few cardiovascular events among both groups — just 60 total, so more data from a long-term study of 27,000 people expected in 2017 should shed more light on the drug's effectiveness.

The FDA may decide to make the treatment available after an expected review of the data later this year.

"We won't have any definitive answers until this larger trial we are doing is complete, but these data now give us a sense for the potential clinical benefit of these drugs," Sabatine said.

The results were presented at the American College of Cardiology annual conference in San Diego, California, and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Vanguard

Bombs found in camp for displaced people in Maiduguri

Soldiers on Saturday detonated two homemade bombs found in a camp housing people displaced by Boko Haram violence in Maiduguri.

Two men suspected of planting the explosives were arrested and an investigation is ongoing, they said.

The bombs were found in the city's Yerwa primary school, prompting panic until soldiers destroyed the bombs from a distance.

The school was converted into a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) after Boko Haram Islamists captured the town of Bama, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Maiduguri, last July.

"Two improvised bombs were found in Yerwa primary school IDP camp by the people who notified soldiers stationed nearby," local vigilante Ari Butari said.

"The soldiers asked people to evacuate before shooting the bombs from a distance, triggering two explosions that didn't harm anyone," he said.

"Two men were arrested on accusation that they were involved in planting the bombs. They drew suspicion because they were not known to be living in the camp," he added.

Butari accused Boko Haram of being behind the foiled bomb attack.

His account was supported by Suleiman Yusuf, an IDP staying in the camp.

"Some people saw two abandoned black polythene bags and called the attention of our leaders in the camp who in turn informed security personnel," Yusuf said.

"The bags turned out to be containing bombs and the soldiers asked everyone to stay clear of the bombs which they detonated from a distance," he said.

He confirmed that two men were detained after raising suspicions.

"Everyone is vigilant and once a new face shows up we all remain on the alert," he said.

Scores of IDP camps dot Maiduguri following a huge influx of people fleeing towns and villages seized by Boko Haram, doubling the population of the city which stood at around one million people.

This is believed to be the first foiled attempt to attack any of the camps in the city.

The six-year-old Boko Haram insurgency has killed some 13,000 people and displaced 1.5 million in Nigeria and neighbouring countries. (AFP)

Three killed, five vehicles, 22 shops burnt in Mile 12 market fire

Three bodies were recovered after 22 shops and five vehicles were razed, Friday, when a section of the popular Mile 12 market in Kosofe local government, Lagos State was razed.

Although the cause of the incident remains unknown but eye witnesses' account said the inferno which started around 4.30am may have been ignited by the illegal petroleum business which the section is associated with.

According to eye witnesses' account, the burnt vehicles were some of the trucks used in transacting the illegal business while the bodies were some of the suspected dealers of the business before the disaster was recorded.

An eye witness Mr Innocent Alabari said one of the shops was as at 2am, been delivered of a new stock unsuspecting that the fire will strike.

Naked women protest in Ekiti‎

Angry women in Emure Ekiti have protested against the arrest of over 30 of their children by the Police in connection with the alleged attempt to burn the palace of Elemure of Emure Ekiti, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo, a retired Assistant Inspector General of Poilce and ex-Commissioner of Police in Lagos and Abuja.

The PUNCH gathered that the women, some of whom appeared half-naked on Wednesday, held leaves and sang hate songs against the monarch, demanding the release of their children.

Trouble started last Monday, when a group of angry youths of the community took to the streets to protest against power cut by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company.

They also complained against disruption of banking service from the only bank in the community for over seven months.

A resident, Olaoye Olayinka, said efforts by Oba Adebayo to stop the protest was met with stiff resistance by the angry youths who blocked the two entry points to the town.

"For the past seven months, we hardly have light 5 times in a month, and when they bring it, it was only in the mid-night when we would be asleep.

"Why this bad treatment from the electricity firm is so painful is because, of all Ekiti communities, Emure pays the highest bill, you can go find out about this. But still we are not enjoying the benefit, instead we are getting crazy bills for very bad service.

"The electricity firm slams us with N8,000, N6,000, N7,000 bills for each household, and for the artisans who are just welders, each of them get N15,000 a month. It's ridiculous. And we have warned the boys coming to cut the power supply anytime they feel like," Olayinka said.

The Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, had told journalists that the youths were arrested for attempting to burn the king's palace and for attacking the police station in the town.

"The Emure people protested against BEDC for disconnecting their light. What we disagreed with was the mode of protest. They became very violent; attacked the palace and the Police Station. We moved in and succeeded in quelling the violence. The area is calm now.

"We are screening those arrested and we have released some of them on bail. We are also looking at the case of arson which is not bailable because the palace was nearly set on fire."

The Police Public Relations Officer, Alberto Adeyemi, told our correspondent on Sunday that those arrested had been released except five of them still under investigation.

"The remaining five are at the State Criminal Investigation Department assisting police in the investigation. They would be charged to court if found culpable depending on their level of involvement."

Punch

Fire guts Abuja INEC office

There was a minor fire incident at Independent National Electoral Commission's Electoral Institute in Abuja on Saturday night.

However, the fire was contained swiftly and no harm whatsoever was done to electoral materials.

The Chief Press Secretary to the chairman of the commission, Mr. Kayode Idowu, confirmed the incident.

He also said the fire didn't affect any electoral material.

Internet

 

VP, northern govs shun ACF lecture

Northern leaders including Vice-President Namadi Sambo and governors of the region on Saturday shunned the 56th Anniversary lecture of the Arewa Consultative Forum.

Apart from Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, 18 other governors of the North were absent at the 56th anniversary lecture of the attainment of self government of the Northern Nigeria.

The lecture has as its theme, 'The North and the Nigerian Federation: the Past, Present and the Future', organised by the ACF in conjunction with the management of Arewa House.

The event was Chaired a former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, who was represented by Ahmed Joda.

Most of the governors sent their representatives.

Though as a face-saving measure Yero represented the Vice President at the event.

It was gathered at the event that 'bad weather' prevented the vice president's flight from landing.

Last year, Sambo attended the event, where he showcased the laudable programmes and the achievements of the President Goodluck Jonathan Transformation Agenda.

A source told one of our correspondents in Kaduna on Saturday that the vice president's absence might not be unconnected with the open endorsement of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.) as the candidate of the region against Jonathan in the March 28 election.

Punch

IG to hand over Saraki money laundering case file to FG

There were indications earlier today Indications that the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and that of the Inspector General of Police might have disagreed on what to do with former Kwara Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on his alleged use of fronts to withdraw the sum of N6 billion from the accounts of a company, Joy Petroleum, domiciled in Intercontinental Bank, now Access.

Initially, the Office of the IG had approached a Federal High Court in Abuja on April 26, 2012 to press charges against the former governor for conspiracy, forgery and stealing after claiming to have initiated a comprehensive investigation into a petition sent to it by Joy Petroleum that it was being denied access by the bank following the illegal change of signatory to the account by unknown persons.

But in a legal advice to the IG on the move to prosecute Saraki and others named by the petitioner, the Attorney General advised against taking any action against Saraki and his aides over the bank issue, since from the records available to his office, the former governor had not committed any offence to warrant such trial.

In the legal document, which Vanguard sighted last night, dated 9thOctober 2012, with reference Number DPP/ADV: 061/12, and signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mrs. O.O. Fatunde, the AGF Office, noted that it would be improper to hold Saraki liable for the internal actions of the then Intercontinental Bank.

The AGF Office said: "It would therefore be improper and unjust in the circumstance to hold Dr. Saraki , Mr. Pinheiro or indeed the companies criminally liable for the internal actions and decisions of the bank and its officials bordering on exercise of discretion.

"Every customer of a bank (corporate or individual) has the right to apply for a loan on the most favourable terms possible. This alone does not constitute any offence under any law because it is within the discretion of the bank to grant or refuse such loan application.

"Dr. Saraki and Pinheiro are alleged to be connected with the grant of the loans as promoter and director respectively of the companies. By virtue of Section 18 of the Act, a director or any other partner or officer of a company can only be held responsible in that capacity for the actions of the company if the company is guilty of an offence under the Act.

"Since the company in this case cannot be held to have committed any offence under Section 15( 1) (a), it follows that Dr. Saraki and Mr. Pinheiro cannot also be held criminally responsible only on account of having acted as promoter and director of the companies in connection with the said loan," the DPP advised.

However in a new twist that is likely to upturn the whole investigation and pave the way for the prosecution of the former governor, the Attorney General has written a different letter to the IG to hand over the case file to him for further action.

In the new letter, which Vanguard obtained last night, the AGF in insisting that his office needed to carry out further review of the case file before any further action is taken on the matter.

In a memo with reference No. DPP/ADV: 061/12/91 and addressed to the Inspector General of Police with particular attention to the Commissioner of Police Special Fraud Unit, and signed by Haruna Isa Alabi, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, the AGF said his office wanted the case file to be able to ascertain whether the evidence presented against Saraki and others was borne out of mere suspicion or was capable of sustaining a conviction before trial.

Saraki has said that there was no infraction of any law in the matter, which his companies obtained loans and paid back to the banks through agreed terms of settlement.

But the former IG, Mohammed Abubakar, who initiated the trial of Saraki, had alleged among other things that the former governor made the bank to lose funds by using his fronts while serving as governor to engage in money laundering.

Sina Fadare and Medinat Kanabe research on:The teenage marijuana smoking epidemic

With the rate at which teenagers in Lagos are smoking Indian Hemp as if it is a candy, and going out of fashion, stakeholders are at a crossroad on how best to handle the helpless situation reports Sina Fadare & Medinat Kanabe

They are helpless, homeless, hopeless and perhaps do not know the implications of their actions.  They are smoking marijuana, popularly called Indian hemp, igbo, eja or kukuye on a 24-hours basis as if their lives depend on it. They are products of broken homes and carefree parents who care less about where, when and how they are surviving.  They live their lives on the streets and under the bridges. During the day, they are noticeable at major bus stops and parks across Lagos and other states. And these are aside those permanently operating under the bridge at Oshodi towards the Ilupeju end. Often, you can identify them by their tell-tale unkempt looks, wrapped weed in between their fingers, thick smokes unfurling and melting into the atmosphere, and of course the nauseating odour. Welcome to the little world of teenage hemp smokers,

As early as 5 am, their day starts. They are on the streets, snatching bags, phones and money. Investigation by The Nation revealed that they rarely sleep, preferring to occupy themselves with smoking Indian hemp almost throughout the night. And they're freshly out of the cradle, their ages ranging between 12 -16 years.

"How can they sleep, when throughout the day they are smoking Indian hemp? Definitely sleep will elude them and that is why they are ready-made recruits for buglers and armed robbers," a newspaper vendor under the bridge, who knew virtually all of them, due to years of interacting with them lamented.

We also discovered that some of them have turned under the bridge to their homes. Their clothes could be seen littering the base of the bridge, while those recently washed hung on the barbed wire, supposedly used as demarcation by the authorities to discourage people from making the place a bypass.

A repeat visit to the place on weekends confirmed that the kids actually live under the bridge. Some of them could be seen washing few of pieces of cloths, while others naturally busied themselves with their pastimes, hemp smoking. It did not matter that it was just 6:30 in the morning. We also discovered that they are threats to commuters who trooped to the popular bus terminus to take early bus rides to Lagos Island and other cities and towns outside the state. At one time or the other, a good number of them have fallen prey to these urchins, losing bags, phones and other belongings in the process.

After the morning rush of passengers, some of them move to the garage adjacent their abode to begin a long session of dice and card games, using money, wrist watches and sometimes shoes, most of which were stolen,  to bet. During this time, the big white stick never leaves their fingers. They just can't seem to have enough of the illicit weed.

How teenagers between the ages of 11 to 15 years of age could become hemp addicts in the glare of the ever busy Oshodi, with so many people troop in droves on a per minute basis beats the imagination and raises cause for concern.  More worrisome is the fact that a police station sits just about 10 meters from this spot.

This team of The Nation was however dazed to discover that this trend cuts across the major bus parks and bus stops across the Lagos metropolis. From Fadeyi to Mushin to Bariga; right across to Somolu, Ketu, Pen Cinema, Abbatoir, Mile 12, Olodana Oto Apapa,  Agege, Ajelogo, Agric Ikorodu, Agbole area of Ikotun, Itire, Ojuelegba, Obalende; the story is the same. And so it is official, hordes of teenagers, who should be in school or at vocational training, preparing themselves for a meaningful future, are smoking away their future with impunity.

At Agege area of the state, a middle age man, who identified himself as Baba Kabiru, said he almost fainted the day he learnt that his son who was in primary six was smoking Indian hemp.

He said the poor boy learnt to smoke the weed during his regular trips to the Quranic lesson, which he used to attend after school hours. "Some of the bad boys were living in the same building that is housing the evening class and were using these innocent children as errand boys whenever their master was not around. Gradually my son and some others were inducted into smoking. I got to know one day when my wallet was missing. In the confusion of searching everywhere, l checked his school bag where l saw two raps of Indian hemp."

Baba Kabiru who disclosed that he was unable to sleep that night said upon investigation he learnt that they have a group and they have been involved for a while. "l had to change his school and move away from the environment because l was too shocked to see my son, a primary school pupil smoking Indian hemp. The experience is still strange to me." He lamented.

The entrance of Our Lady Lourdes Girls Primary School on Clegg Street in Surulere area of Lagos is another notorious joint that harbours hemp-smoking kids. On a daily bases, immediately the school closes for the day, these kids take charge and smoke marijuana till the wee hours of the day.

Again, the Area  'C' Police Division  is very close to the school compound, but somehow, they seem to be content with looking elsewhere, whilst this atrocity go on.

Speaking to The Nation on condition of anonymity, a police officer from the command said most of the parents of these kids are within the vicinity, but unfortunately they cannot put them under control, adding that "there is little the police can do because some of these kids are under-age and cannot be put behind bars."

As a panacea, he challenged the government to wake up to its responsibility and send these kids to rehabilitation homes, where they can learn different vocations to make useful to themselves and society later in life.

At Obalende, another kid hemp smoking rendezvous assailed our reporter. Here we gathered that weed smoking, particularly among the teenagers, is like a carnival. A middle-aged woman, Labake Ilori who sells assorted wines in the area questioned this reporter's naivety, asking if he was new in Lagos not to know that smoking of Indian hemp in the vicinity by the teenagers is a daily occurrence.

"Are you new in Lagos? All these kids are chain hemp smokers, virtually from morning till late into the night. Some of them don't have anywhere to go; therefore they live on the streets and sleep in most of the kiosks. Occasionally the police come here to raid them, but after few days you see them again," she explained.

She lamented that at the dawn or night, they become uncontrollable and there is nothing they cannot steal. "You can see all of us are very careful and keep our money inside our inner purse otherwise they can do anything."

 Candidates for nuthouse

If the kid hemp smokers are potential recruits into the world of crime, they are also potential patients at psychiatric homes. The question thus arises; why are they left to waste away their future under the bridges and at bus terminals, when their parents, government officials and even the police could have kept them in check?

Lagos State Police Public Relation Officer, Mr.  Nwosu Kenneth said that the police in the State are doing everything within its power to arrest the situation.

He pointed out that Oshodi area of the state is a peculiar terrain that remains a concern to the police authority, adding that "when we arrest people we know are underage and cannot really be arrested under the criminal justice system, we take them to juvenile homes for care because some of them get involved in it because of lack of care."

He said the police in partnership with the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW and the government of Lagos State are trying to mop up the area in order to save the future of the kids. "Most of the kids you see there are not from a home; they are on their own, fending for themselves; so they are vulnerable and easily lured into these things. We do clean up there about twice a week. We rescue these kids because they cannot be arrested. If you have information about how we can get the kids, so they can be rescued, it will be much appreciated."

Kenneth however regrets that the kids keep returning to the dark areas, despite being rescued on a daily basis. He ascribed this to the fact that these are places where they earn their living, albeit illegitimately.

Speaking in the same vein, Head of Public Affairs of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr.  Ofoyeju Mitchell said kids get involved in marijuana due to their ignorance of the consequences of the drug.

Mitchell while speaking to The Nation in his office noted that "some are so carried away by the type of peer groups they keep that they don't even know when get involved.  If they are unfortunate to have friends who are involved, they are likely to succumb to pressure by their peers to try it out."

According to Mitchell most of the kids do not have what you can call a home; therefore they are ready-made tools for such a gamble. "Lack of good upbringing also leads to it because when children are not properly cared for, it affects. You don't know their friends or what they do; when they keep late nights, nobody asks where they are coming from. And children being what they are, like to experiment, even when they know that government have said the drug abuse is bad. They want to experiment and have a taste of that much-talked-about euphoric pleasurable feeling, forgetting that the feeling is addictive."

He lamented that these kids are products of broken homes, who possibly have nobody to lean on for survival and therefore take solace in bad peer groups. "There are children that don't even know where they are from or where their parents are. We have counseled some that we expect them to go back home, but they can't because of one reason or the other. Some live under the bridge in Lagos but their parents are in Osogbo.  And when they are on the streets, they are exposed to all forms of abuses because they don't have guidance."

Mitchell pointed out that the NDLEA has put up a lot of enlightenment programmes to assist them. "We have introduced drug free clubs in schools. The club builds capacity among the children. They have their NGO. We  talk to them and give them  fliers, and whenever they are having programmes like debate or seminar within their school, they invite us as patrons to come and present talks and we believe that by involving them in anti-drug abuse programme, it will help to inculcate a drug free lifestyle in them, and it is working."

Mitchell said that in as much as the agency wants these kids off the street, it has its limitations. "We have challenges of accommodation for them. After we counsel them, we can give them money to go back to their various homes around the country, but there is no proper follow-up or monitoring to know if they actually went home.

"There are some others that after the counseling process, they go back home but because of lack of follow-up we re-admit them again. We expect that their parents would take over after they complete the process. Some say that nobody cared for them after getting home, but their friends came and they followed them and started taking the substance again."

He argued that the daunting challenge at hand is that all hands must be on deck to monitor these kids, particularly by their parents who have greater responsibility towards them before they turn to social menace.

"We have raided Oshodi, Obalende and some other notorious spots in Lagos and we do that on regular bases, but we cannot do it alone. Parents must be involved; NGOs, civil society groups, opinion leaders, traditional rulers, individuals. We have a dedicated phone line on our website that people use but we also advise other people to use it. I cannot know what is happening in your area even though we have people who go out to raid notorious places." He said.

Reacting to the allegation that the government of Lagos State is not doing enough to take these kids off the streets, a deputy director at the ministry of Environment, Lagos State, who spoke to The Nation on condition of anonymity said the government is trying to do its best but challenged parents not to give birth to children they cannot take care of, lest they become social deviants.

According to him the government in conjunction with relevant security agencies raids these notorious dark spots, but the kids are always back there after "escaping from our custody at juvenile homes."

He lamented that the government is busy about electioneering at the moment and most of these kids have been conscripted into pasting posters, especially at night; therefore he said "To have a meaningful programme for them will be after this election palaver."

First published in The Nation of March 15, 2015

25 Boko Haram suspects died in cameroon custody

Cameroon acknowledged on Friday that more than two dozen Boko Haram suspects died in custody late last year, but a government spokesperson denied the country's army was carrying out regular human rights abuses in its crackdown on the Nigerian Islamic extremist group.
The 25 suspects were found dead in their cell one day after being arrested in December, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a press conference on Friday evening. They were part of a group of 56 detainees, and the cause of their deaths is still being determined, he said.
"I can already state here that at this stage of investigation, no evidence has been established to corroborate that these persons were deliberately killed," Bakary said.

APC says Jonathan is playing politics with Immigration Recruitment deaths

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of taking political advantage of calamities that have befallen Nigeria under his watch, saying giving 5 million Naira to each family that lost a relative in the Immigration recruitment exercise after one year is not only belated but aimed at currying votes.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party wondered why it took the President all of one year to act on the promise he made to the families, adding that but for the forthcoming elections, the President would have simply ignored the families, in his usual style.

Gunmen kidnap three Chinese in kogi – police

Gunmen have kidnapped three Chinese workers in central Nigeria, the latest such incident in the region, police said Saturday.
“Three Chinese nationals were abducted by some unknown gunmen within the early hours of Friday,” a senior police officer, who did not want to be named, told AFP.
He said the gunmen stormed a quarry outside Lokoja, the capital of Kogi state, and engaged the policemen on guard in a shootout.

Boko Haram bomb factory uncovered in northeast

Nigerian troops discovered a Boko Haram bomb factory this week after they seized a northern town from the extremists, the military said.

The factory was tucked inside a fertilizer company in Buni Yadi town in Yobe state, according to officials.

Islamist fighters took over the town in August, one of many seized in the troubled northeast. Troops have battled the militants for months to regain control, and said they recaptured it last week.

Militants planted explosive devices along the highway on their way out, which delayed the soldiers' advance. Four soldiers were killed during the operation.

Soldiers have been scouring the factory and have found suicide bomber vests and improvised explosive devices, the military said Friday.

Apologise to Nigerians over Moroccan king ‘conversation’, APC tells Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to apologise to Nigerians for the “embarrassment he has caused them over his phantom phone conversation” with the king of Morocco.

In a statement in Lagos on Friday, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Lai Mohammed, said, “in our earlier statement on the issue, we gave President Jonathan the benefit of the doubt by asking him to clarify what happened, just as the Moroccan king has done.

“Instead, a loquacious spokesman for the President decided to abuse us, instead of addressing the issues. That tells us that, indeed, these people have something to hide over the phoney phone conversation.”

Jonathan set to give N75m to families of Immigration recruitment tragedy

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday handed out a total of N75 million (N5million each) as well as letters of  employment letters into the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to families of the 15 job seekers who died a year ago in the tragic immigration recruitment test.

 A total of 35 beneficiaries  - three from each family – were handed the employment letters by the President while the N5m cheques were handed out to the respective next of kin by the Head of Federal Civil Service, Danladi Kifasi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Oyinlola enrolls to study Theology at Open University

Former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, was today matriculated as a post graduate student at the National Open University, Osogbo Campus.

Oyinlola, who retired from the military as a Brigadier General enrolled at the university for Post Graduate Diploma in Theology.

The Centre Director of NOUN, Osogbo campus, Dr. Yemisi Pitan, advised the former governor and other matriculating  students to focus on their studies and be good ambassadors of the institution.

Pitan asked the students to take their studies seriously, saying the centre would not tolerate laziness and any anti-social behaviour.

Boko Haram is too weak to continue attacking towns, says official

Boko Haram are no longer in a position to seize a single town in Niger, a Niger government minister said today, following a regional effort to boost the fight against the Islamist group.

Thousands of troops from Niger and Chad, which had gathered in southeastern Niger, launched a major ground and air offensive against the Islamist group last Sunday and succeeded in retaking the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak.

“The situation is totally under control. There is no longer any chance that Boko Haram will take a city… The risks of attacks occurring are very much reduced by the elimination of all the potential actors,” Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s Minister of State at the Presidency, said during a visit to Ivory Coast.

Collapsed synagogue building foundation viable, witness

A witness from the Council for the Regulation of Engineers in Nigeria (COREN), Engineer Victor Oyenuga, on yesterday told the Lagos State Coroners Court sitting in Ikeja, that the foundation of the collapsed Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) owned guesthouse, is very thick.

The witness also revealed while testifying before the court presided over by Chief Magistrate, Oyetade Komolafe, that the quality of materials used on the failed building were good and capable of standing the test of time.

While being cross-examined by SCOAN’s counsel, Olalekan Ojo, Oyenuga acknowledged that structural engineers basically work on assumptions.

Ibori’s freedom will shock many –Prophet

Prophet Samuel Owoyemi, the presiding preacher at God of Mercy International Ministries of  Christ Apostolic Church, Idiosan, Ogun State, has said that the release of former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, from incarceration in London would surprise many Nigerians.

The prophet also predicted victory for the incumbent Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, but warned him not to take support for granted.

The cleric made the pronouncement during an exclusive chat with our correspondent in Lagos while reappraising the political situation in the country.

My husband must complete his two terms – Mrs. Jonathan

The first lady of Nigeria, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, today insisted that her husband President Goodluck Jonathan, would remain in office for eight years to complete his two terms, despite the opposition.

Mrs. Jonathan, said this during the Peoples Democratic Party women rally, under the auspices of Women for Change and Development Initiative, in Benin, Edo State.

She was accompanied by national and state leaders of the party.

Women, drawn from different support groups across the state had turned out for event as early as 9am. They, however, began to leave the stadium at about 1.30pm, when Mrs. Jonathan arrived at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, venue of the rally.

Pastor snatches another pastor's wife

Pastor, John Ajayi, on Tuesday pleaded with an Orile Agege Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his marriage over his wife’s alleged adultery and desertion.
Ajayi, 49, who lives at 22, Erinle Street, Iju Ishaga, near Lagos told the court that his wife, Christiana, left their matrimonial home since 2011.
They had been married for 16 years.
Ajayi, a father of three, aged between seven and 14 years, told the court that his wife had an affair with his pastor-friend whom he invited for a church programme.
“When my pastor-friend came to Lagos on my invitation for our church programme, I noticed how my wife was admiring him which made me to suspect a foul play.

Muazu denies dumping PDP

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Muazu, has said that the
party is his home and will never leave it, following rumour of a rift between him and President Goodluck Jonathan.
Muazu took to his verified Twitter account, to debunk the rumour and reiterated his loyalty to
the party and the president. The tweets were also signed by him (#AM) to underscore the
importance.
The former governor of Bauchi, noted that he has remained in the party since its formative stage in
1998 and will not leave it for a regional, sectional or ethnic party. He also wished the oppositions
“goodluck in the propaganda business”, stressing that the PDP has an election to win.
While you focus on your propaganda & lies, we have an election to win.

APC to expose activities in Aso Rock

Femi Fani-Kayode has announced that the APC is plotting to expose details about the private lives of President Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady, Patience Jonathan and Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke and some of the allegation bothers on Gay sex.

Court oders AIT, NTA to stop airing damaging documentaries on Osibanjo

The Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained Daar Communications Plc (AIT) from broadcasting any video documentaries against All Progressives Congress (APC) Vice-Presidential candidate Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN).
According to Thisday,the order by Justice James Tsoho was made on Wednesday has been extended to all other broadcast stations under the control of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria including NTA
The application was brought before the court by Osinbajo through his lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN)..

See what Ambode's fan did to his hair

Kemi Olunloye at it again, says she will expose her ex-governor dad

Kemi Olunloyo, the daughter of an erstwhile governor of Oyo state, Victor Omololu Olunloyo, has been on rampage all morning on micro-blogging platform, Twitter.
She has been dishing out some dirty details of her family, especially her father, whom she says used rituals to control the entire family.
Below are tweets from Kemi Olunloyo’s
rantsrevelations:

Police confirms killing of PDP chieftains in Benue

The Police in Benue have confirmed the killing of two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party at Gbinde village in Ushongo Local Government Area of the state by gunmen.
The police spokesperson, Austin Ezeani, said on Thursday in Makurdi that the deceased, Agbatse Tarkighir and Degeh Ayaahemba, were PDP leaders at council level.
Mr. Ezeani said the victims were traveling from Katsina-Ala to Adikpo on Wednesday evening when another vehicle overtook the bus conveying them suddenly opened fire on them and killed the two.
He said two other passengers in the bus, who sustained various degrees of injuries, were receiving treatment at a hospital at Ushongo, while the corpses had been deposited at the general hospital, Adikpo in Kwande Local Government Area.

Man gets divorced from wife for impregnating mad woman

Although the said mad woman later died due to pregnancy complications, Mr Rafiu Kareem has been divorced by his wife, Mrs Titi Kareem for impregnating the mad woman.
The 13-year-old marriage crashed as the wife who could not withstand the shame moved out of her matrimonial home at Igando Road, Ikotun, Lagos.
Mrs Kareem, according to Leadership, also filed a suit before a Customary Court sitting in Ejigbo area of the state, seeking for the dissolution of the marriage.
The mother of four kids said she could not cope with the behaviour of her husband because she no
longer loved him, urging the court to dissolve the marriage.

Jonathan knows the sponsors of BH, Guru Maharaji

The Spiritual Leader, One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj Ji, has  said that he had in the past revealed the sponsors of the Boko Haram sect to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Recently, Guru Maharaj Ji declared that both sponsors of the group and those behind the April 14 bombing at Nyanya Park in Abuja that claimed scores of lives would face repercussions of their action before the end of October.
He also revealed during an interview with a reporter of Daily Independent: “I had told President Goodluck Jonathan those behind these nest of killers (Boko Haram) through several publications.”
He named some former military rulers, a former Vice President, and some leaders in the North as financiers of the group.

Photo School children feared dead in a tragic accident on their way to excursion

Some Ghanaian school children going on an excursion to the mount Afadjato in Ghana lost their lives in an extremely horrible accident yesterday. According to an eye-witness, the vehicle the children were in was almost finishing the mountainous portion when the driver lost control and fell into the ditch killing pupils between the ages of 7-15 years.

Covenant expels 3 students over sex and naked video

Three students of the Bishop David Oyedepo-owned Covenant University have been expelled over sex-related activities. According to reports, a 400-level boy and his 300-level girlfriend were expelled for “sex-alcohol Unclad video on their phones” at Camp House in the university. Also a computer science student who was until today a postgraduate student in the university was expelled.

APC says Buhari must serve two terms

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked the notion being peddled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari will spend only one term in office if elected president, saying it is the creation of the PDP, which is seeking to play a section of the country against another.

“The APC will not abridge the right of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to spend the constitutionally-guaranteed two terms as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria if elected in the March 28 poll,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

Abuse of Parecetamol can cause heart attack, stomach ulcer-NAFDAC

This is a statement from NAFDAC informing Nigerians on the dangers of prolonged use of Paracetamol
The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that the regular use of painkillers especially, paracetamols could lead to heart attacks, stroke and early death, According to a study published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases journal, patients prescribed high doses of the painkiller for long periods were 63% more likely to die unexpectedly. There is also a 68% higher chance of having a heart attack or stroke and an almost 50% greater chance of having a stomach ulcer or bleed.

Woman kills husband after cutting off his penis for cheating

The photos accompanying this story are very graphic, very gruesome, very gory! Unbelievably so! Allegedly, this Zimbabwean woman (pictured above) attacked her husband for allegedly constantly cheating on her and cut of his penis. I'm going to share the photos but if you guys complain too much, I will take it down...because it's quite gory! How anyone can do this to someone else is beyond me, especially someone you once loved and is the father of your children. See the pics after the cut...but brace yourselves..it's not pleasant.
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80 children found in Boko Haram Cameroon camp cannot remember their names

80 children who were freed from Boko haram camp in Northern Cameroon by Cameroonian soldiers in November 2014 cannot remember their names or where they are from and are yet to be united with their families and loved ones.
According to Christopher Fomunyoh, a director for the US-based National Democratic Institute, the children range from 5-18 years of age and do not speak English, French or any local language.

Photo of new born baby found on Lagos streets

A new born baby boy who looks not more than 2-days was found on Sunday after he was abandoned in a kiosk on Marina street close to Wema Bank Plc in Lagos Island. The baby who has since been named after late philanthropist Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, was found by a good Samaritan, Dr Oscar Odiboh who runs the Afribaby Initiative,a non-governmental organization.
According to Punch, Dr. Odiboh (pictured above), said he got a call from some people that a baby has been abandoned on the streets in Marina.
"I got a distress call on Sunday that a baby had been abandoned by the roadside at Marina.

Meet woman who set husband ablaze and photo of husband in hospital

This is Mrs. Bukola Olusegun Ogidiolu, 36 who set her husband ablaze on Valentine's day at their home in Idolofin area of Ado Ekiti in Ekiti state after he allegedly refused to take her out . And right is the man in hospital
When interviewed by Tribune, Bukola denied any wrong doing. Although her claims do not add up, Bukola said she and her husband always fought over their inability to have a child. Continue...
"I don’t know how it happened. We had a quarrel and he left me and went home. I went to meet him at home and by the time I got home, he had destroyed everything in our room. There were people around who were telling him to calm down. The petrol was in our room, placed on top of the electricity generating set. Later I recall that he went outside the room and I heard the fire alarm. I could have prevented the fire from burning him that much but he was dragging me to himself but I freed myself from his grip and ran out.

Breaking: Obanikoro confirmed minister even with Ekitigate scandal

The Nigerian Senate today confirmed Musiliu Obanikoro as a federal minister, appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan, brushing aside allegations that Mr. Obanikoro played a key role in election fraud in Ekiti State.
Mr. Obanikoro was named recently in a leaked tape as a principal actor in the state’s governorship election rigging in 2014, sparking national outrage.

No Jega, no elections -APC

 Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman of of the All Progressives Congress, APC over the weekend said that there will be no election in Nigeria if Prof Jega Attahiru, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC ; LEADERSHIP reports. 

Speaking in Abuja, Oyegun said, ''I don't think they can remove him. We have only three weeks, although President Goodluck Jonathan, keeps saying he has no plan to sack him, that is different from removing him. But we have only three weeks unless they don't want an election''.

78 year old man rapes 6 year old girl

A man, 78, identified as Oji Nnachi of Ezi-Nkelu-Ezi in Ogwuma Edda in Afikpo south local government area of the state was last weekend report to have allegedly raped a six year old girl, Uchechi Uduma residing within the same locality.

Reacting to the incident, the father of the victim, Nnachi Ndukwe who expressed shock and disappointment over the development blamed the ugly episode on his ex-wife, Ogechi who left him and remarried without considering that the future and welfare of their daughter was a piority.

"I blame my wife for this ugly episode in my family; she left me over 9 years ago and remarried another man.

Man remanded for hacking neighbour to death

A 29-year-old bricklayer, Ibrahim Tijani, who allegedly killed his neighbour, Bashorun Okanla, with a cutlass, was on Monday in Lagos remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons. The Magistrate, Mrs M.O. Tanimola, of an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates' Court gave the order at the arraignment of the accused.

She said that the accused should be remanded pending legal advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The accused, who resides at Okun in Ajah area of Lagos, is facing a charge of murder. The prosecutor, ASP Elizabeth Ekuma, had earlier told the court that the deceased had complained about the fumes coming out of he accused' generator which was filtering into his apartment.

Buhari is too old, cannot survive rigours of office – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has asked the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party's presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) to apologize to Nigerians for dishing out naked lies on daily basis on issues that are very fundamental to the corporate existence of the country.
Fayose and Buhari Fayose and Buharibu While questioning the moral right the party and its presidential candidate,Gen Buhari had to contest March 28 presidential election, Fayose said in a sane clime, that APC and Gen Buhari could have withdrawn from the race. According to a press statement issued in Ado-Ekiti, Monday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor noted with dismay the contemptuous manner in which the APC and Gen Buhari hold Nigeria and its people.

Your supporters threw stones at my husband, Patience Jonathan says

Nigerian's First Lady Mrs Patience Jonathan said yesterday that she does not subscribe to anything that can cause violence in Nigeria.

Mrs Jonathan was reacting to a decision by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation to file a complaint against her at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly calling on People's Democratic Party's supporters to "stone" anyone asking for change.

The spokesman of the first lady, Ayo Adewuyi, said Mrs Jonathan, "as the mother of the nation, believes in peace, especially before, during and after the forthcoming general elections. And she will not subscribe to anything that could cause violence".

He added: "It was the APC supporters that stoned the sitting president of the country during the electioneering campaign".

The campaign for the March 28 Presidential election had slowed down since the poll was moved forward from February 14.

PHOTOS: Woman catches husband in a hotel room with teenage girl

A wife caught her husband with a secondary school girl in a hotel having a great time without any knowledge or premonition that his wife traced him to the hotel. 

She did not go alone, she called people to see what her husband is doing with a little girl in a hotel.

Photos: Gov Rochas Okorocha turns pastor

Didn't they say that the amiable governor of Imo state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is an Alhaji? What won't these political Propagandists do to discredit an achiever all in the name of politics?

"I will not vote" - Pastor Paul Adefarasin

Senior pastor of House on the Rock church pastor Paul Adefarasin, told his congregation in church yesterday that he won't be voting in this year's general elections. He says he's non-partisan. 

He said he's decided not to vote because this year's election is like a do-or-die affair for some people.