27 Yr Old Woman Stabs Her Husband To Death For Infidelity

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested a 27 years old woman who allegedly stabbed her husband to death in the Azikoro suburb of Yenagoa the state capital. The woman identified as Osas Omorege according to eyewitnesses stabbed her spouse, Chukwuma Iwu over alleged marital squabbles. It was gathered that trouble started when the wife of the deceased suspected he was having extra marital affairs due to his alleged late night outings. The tragic incident which threw the rustic Azikoro settlement into mourning occurred last Friday when the deceased reportedly received a phone call which the wife suspected was from one of his lovers. The wife’s suspicion and anger over the phone call the source said, might have been fuelled by his alleged absence from home for two days. “After returning late to his matrimonial home he received a phone call which the wife suspected was coming from his girlfriend and attempted to stop him from answering it”, the source added. Consequently, a scuffle ensued and the deceased ordered his wife to move out of the house with her belongings, the source further said. Angered by the wife’s refusal to comply with his order the deceased was said to have reached for a kitchen knife ostensibly to frighten her but she was adamant. Immediately he dropped the knife, the wife was said to have picked the said knife and stabbed the husband on the chest. The loud cry of the husband for help attracted neighbours who rushed to the scene and took him to the health facility in the community where he was confirmed dead. The woman it was learnt turned in herself to the police where she is currently in detention and assisting them in their investigation into the matter. Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fidelis Odunna (DSP) confirmed the incident saying the woman voluntarily gave up herself to the police. He said she would be charged to court for murder. Source: Vanguard News

Wicked Business! Niger State Police smash baby selling syndicate

The police in Niger state have arrested a syndicate of human traffickers that deals with the babies in Abuja, Niger and its environs.
The group sells these babies for the sum of N100, 000 and above.
The syndicate is allegedly operated by a staff nurse with the General Hospital, Kubwa in Abuja, Martina Ohakwe who operates with her partner, Kinsley Linus from Imo state.
The duo lure young ladies, expectant mothers, young mothers and their babies in some states in the east to Abuja with the promise of providing them with gainful employment and also lure young defenceless girls with unwanted pregnancy with the promise of getting someone to take care of their babies.
The women are camped in a house believed to be rented by Martina where they are taken care of before their babies are sold.
Before their arrest, the group had sold a seven months old twin daughter of Ngozi Nwani after luring her with the promise of marriage from Abakaliki, Ebonyi state. Kinsley gave the twin baby girl to Martina who sold the baby to one Joy Opara for N400, 000 and the eight month old of 20 year old Oluchi Agachi for N100, 000.
Speaking with our Correspondent when he was paraded, Kinsley denied being a member of the syndicate group as he was only offering help for the girls who wanted money to take care of themselves. Source: Vanguard News

Caught in the act! Ex-Minister of Interior, Ihenacho, arrested for oil theft!

FORMER Minister of Interior and owner of integrated Oil and Gas Limited Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho was yesterday arrested over his involvement in  the hijack of a vessel\M.T. Grace’ laden with suspected stolen petroleum products.
Disclosing this to  newsmen in Lagos, Director General of the Nigerian Maritime  Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)  Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi said that the search for the sponsors of these pirates has led to the tracing of the stolen products to integrated oil and gas tank farm.

FORMER Minister of Interior Captain Emmanuel Ihenacho

Akpobolokemi who represented by NIMASA’s  Executive Director in charge of maritime labour services and Cabotage Barr. Obi Nwabueze said that the premises of integrated has been sealed off pending investigation.
He  said NIMASA has come to the realisation that behind the facade there are the kingpins and the big men who facilitate piracy adding the agency in collaboration with other security operatives will unravel the people behind the sale, purchase and storage of the stolen products.
“You recalled we had cause to parade some pirates here and we did say that we were going to continue to look for those who were behind these pirates because we came to the realisation that behind the facade there are the kingpins and the big men who facilitate piracy.
“So in line with our promise to the Nigerian public, we intensified our search for the big men behind the scene  and we are happy to tell you today  that we have  been able to trace them to  a company, a major company  integrated oil and gas.
“The products that were stolen from the activities of piracy  were conveyed  and stored at integrated oil and gas. As we speak we have sealed off the company and we have arrested the top management of the company.”

Not Again! Popular Actress Ngozi Nwosu Critically Ill!

Not too long ago, it was rumoured that Ngozi Nwosu was suffering from an undisclosed illness, owing to her incredible loss of weight.

The light skinned actress and “Fuji House of Commotion” star on national TV, is usually a bubbly and merry-go-round person and so it was surprising when people started to notice she had emaciated and her collar bones were becoming glaring in place of a once full and robust body.
At the height of unimaginable insinuations then, the actress had maintained her cool and even dismissed such insinuations by insisting nothing was the matter with her.
However, we can inform you today that sources close to the veteran actress have revealed that she has been suffering from a kidney ailment for some weeks now and is currently receiving treatment at a private medical facility. According to news reports gathered, she is confined to her hospital bed and having difficulty speaking.

She is the second high profile face in the industry who is presently bed-ridden owing to kidney related ailment. Popular actor and veteran, Enebeli Elebuwa is also bed-ridden and his current health status remain unclear as he had cause to deny being ‘healed’ after a popular ‘man of God’ claimed to have prayed for and healed him of his sickness.

How We Escaped From Ritualists' Den: Grace Ayetan

Not so many people get lucky when they fall in the hands of ritualists, so those that find a way out, usually feel obligated to to tell their stories and probably save somebody from such hell. A first year student of Health Technology at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Miss Grace Ayetan (20),  narrated her ordeal with ritualists to The Nation in Benin, the Edo State capital.

Grace, who was accompanied by her father, Mr. James Ayetan said:

“I boarded a bus from Ring-Road to school and there were other passengers in the vehicle. At Five Junction, the bus stopped and the conductor went down to pour water into the radiator. That is the last thing I remembered. We all fell asleep. “When another passenger, a woman, woke us up later, the bus was in the bush. Click to continue reading.

“We started shouting, but the driver and the conductor brought out a gun and told us to be quiet.

“They took us to an underground house in the forest and put us into different rooms. They chained us and hung our bags around our necks. We went without food and water for days.

 

“After beheading a woman and her baby, a fight ensued between the ritualists over what to do with the rest of us. In the process, a bunch of keys fell from one of them.

 

“The fight drew the attention of the guards at the main entrance who took the parties into a room to settle the dispute.

 

“That gave one of us the opportunity to pick the keys and unlock the chains. That was how we escaped.”

Grace said a good Samaritan took them out of the forest and brought them to Benin.

She advised the public to be careful when boarding commercial vehicles. Mr. Ayetan urged security agents to curb the activities of ritualists

PHOTO: Female Robbery Gang Leader Nabbed In Abuja

A female robber who is also the leader of a gang of robbers was nabbed and stripped naked by a mob in Abuja while she and her gang were trying to rob another woman. Luck ran out of her as onlookers swooped down on them and vented jungle justice.

Among the team of five, she was the only one who was captured as the others were able to escape.Inside the ash coloured Nissan Sunny were loads of ATM cards, Passports of various persons, her bag contained “many phone” an eyewitness said. This incident happened at the AREA 11 TRAFFIC LIGHT where they were held by traffic as they were been chased. It happend on Thursday, at about 2:00pm. [pix from George Onmonya Daniel]

Confusion, stampede in Jos as Muslim youths protest alleged blasphemy

Some parts of Jos were engulfed in confusion Friday afternoon after some Muslim youths took to the streets to protest an American film said to have portrayed Prophet Mohammed in bad light.

What started as a peaceful protest by the youths bearing placards, turned to chaos and confusion when soldiers fired gun shots into the air, ostensibly to disperse the youths.
A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent, who witnessed the protest, reports that there was confusion in the city centre as traders, students, and other people ran to areas considered safe.
The confusion resulted in vehicles and pedestrians running into each other, while traders, offices and banks were hurriedly shut down.
The development also caused a major traffic snarl, with unconfirmed rumours that violence had erupted in some areas.
NAN, however, observed that more security men were deployed to sensitive areas, especially churches around the city centre.
Also heavily guarded were eating joints, PHCN offices and banks.
Media Officer of the Special Task Force, Capt. Salisu Mustapha, who spoke on the development, wondered why the confusion erupted as the protests were supposed to be peaceful.
“We met with Muslim leaders and urged them not to allow the protests to take place in view of the security situation.
‘This afternoon, they started what we felt was peaceful, but I am hearing something different. In fact, I am rushing to the area to see things for myself, but my colleagues are already there.
“But generally, I think there is no casualty. Troops have been stationed there and are merely shooting in the air to scare away the youths, but nothing ugly happened,” he said.
Mustapha said he was particularly surprised at the protests because he worshipped at the Jos Central Mosque, where the preachers cautioned against any protest.
“I think most of the protesters must be people that did not even go to the Mosque; people whose main concern is to cause confusion and make trouble,” he said.
In Katsina, hundreds of Muslims on Friday staged a peaceful demonstration to express their anger over a film they considered blasphemous of the Prophet Mohammed.
NAN reports that the demonstrators started their protest at Sabon Layi Area of the metropolis at 9.30a.m and moved peacefully through Gwangwan Area to Kangiwa Square.
The demonstrators were seen carrying placards with assorted inscriptions such as ‘Death to Amerians,” “May Allah Almighty punish whoever tarnished the image of our Prophet,” and “To hell with the attackers of Islam’ among others.”
During the demonstration, which lasted for over two hours, many Muslims in procession were seen chanting various slogans condemning the U.S. for their act, while others were only reciting verses of the Holy Quran.
In his address, Malam Usman Mohammed, who led the demonstrators said, “Our action is to express our anger over the blasphemous movie produced in American.
“The personality of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), which is above every Muslim is attacked, and whoever attacks the Prophet will face the consequences.”
Mohammed prayed Allah to punish those involved in the production of that movie.
When contacted, the Deputy Police Public Relation Officer, Mr. Shehu Koko, who confirmed the demonstration, said it was peaceful.
The demonstrators were accompanied by the police to ensure that the protest was peaceful.

75% of kid hawkers, slaves from Ebonyi: NAPTIP

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From GODDY OSUJI, Abakaliki
For long, Ebonyi has been infamous for several reasons. It has been described as a factory where house helps, kids hawking on major streets of urban cities, children that labour at rice mills and quarries and others are produced in large quantity.
But right now, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) is getting worried about the state. NAPTIP said Ebonyi State produces about 75 per cent of the entire victims of child labour and kid hawkers from the South-East.
The agency, fully committed to the prevention of all forms of human degradation and exploitation, in an effort to stamp out human trafficking, liberate the vulnerable, especially women and children from dehumanisation, exploitative employment and ensure their rehabilitation and effective reintegration into society, recently embarked on a sensitisation drive to the womenfolk to campaign against child abuse.
The Enugu Zonal Head of the agency, Mrs. Nkiru Emmanuel, went round the communities in Ebonyi State, talking to the women and men alike against the ills of child abuse and exploitation and engaging the under-aged in labour at rice mills and quarries.
Emmanuel frowned at such abuse and warned that the agency would not spare anyone found to have abused the under-aged, engaged them in exploitative labour, slavery and sexual exploitation, forced labour and other related matters.
She reminded them that such an offender risks being sanctioned according to the law as stipulated in the statute book.
According to the Zonal Head of the Agency, NAPTIP came into existence as a response to the scourge of human trafficking, child abuse and child labour in the country.
She told Daily Sun in an exclusive interview that the agency was in Ebonyi State, which falls under the Enugu Zone made up of Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia and Imo States, because the state was plagued with different types of trafficking and child labour.
Her words: “In Ebonyi particularly, child abuse is noticed. Most of them are not sending their children to school. Instead, they send them out to beg, hawk, work in the quarries and also in the rice mills. That is why we are particular about Ebonyi. And also, this issue of house help syndrome is endemic in this state, even child labour. When I talk about child labour, it involves both sexes. And when I talk about house help, it involves both sexes.
“We have house girls, house boys and the victims we are getting in this South-Eastern zone, 75 per cent of them are from Ebonyi State. So, that is why we are using this meeting of women to sensitise on this issue. In Ebonyi, there are 13 local government areas and each of these local governments has its different days of meeting and all the communities in the local government are represented at the meeting.
“So, we wish to sensitise them so that they will be able to carry out the message to the grassroots because our mandate this year, particularly, is that everybody must hear about this evil called human trafficking and child labour.”
Asked what the core message to the women was, she replied: “The message is for every woman. We are the pillars, the foundation in every society, every state.
“So, when you educate a woman, you have succeeded in educating a nation and some of our mothers are the ones sending out their children. So, we want them to know what is happening. Like, if you don’t have access to the child you are sending out, you can’t call the child… And some of these women are in the rural areas. They don’t even know where Lagos is and you are sending your child there and you can’t even travel to where your child is located.
“So, don’t send your child where you don’t know or have access to. Don’t you see it as a result of poverty?
“Yes, poverty is part of it, but there are other factors. Being uninformed is one factor because they can’t come and deceive you or I. It is only the uninformed, the uneducated ones that they can deceive. And when a woman cannot take care of the number of children she has, she decides to give out some.
“Another factor is greed because they have the food, the clothing and shelter, so what are you looking for? Maybe you have a bungalow, and you are looking for a storey building. You now decide to send out your child to get the money for you. Another factor is laziness. Some parents are lazy and even when you talk to them, they become aggressive and angry about it and will ask you if they are not their children.
“On the issue of those that work in rice mills and quarries, we have carried out sensitization where we invited them and sensitised them.
“Then, after that, if it continues we have to arrest them.”
Emmanuel mentioned offences that attract various sentences as procurement of any person for illicit intercourse with another person; causing or encouraging the seduction or prostitution of any person under 18 years and the procurement of any person less than 18 years to have unlawful carnal knowledge, either in Nigeria or outside Nigeria.
She explained that there were two types of trafficking; internal and external.
“While internal trafficking is all about street begging, house-help syndrome, forced marriage kidnapping, ritual and unpaid labour, external trafficking is all about exploitative labour, pornography, prostitution and homosexualism, drug peddling and recruitment for war,” she said.
Emmanuel also spoke about the causes of human trafficking.
She said: “They include, ignorance, low level of education, unemployment, poverty, greed, increased demand for cheap labour and peer pressure, while negative effects of human trafficking include, among other things, impaired growth on children, negative impact on national image, bad health such as HIV, tuberculosis, gonorrhea and negative effect on the country’s culture,” she explained. Mrs. Emmanuel argued that women should effectively participate in curbing the trend.”
She urged women leaders to select trustworthy women to form a committee in charge of taking children outside their homes.
“This committee should also be in charge of human trafficking activities in their area and should report back to us as a kind of follow-up,” she suggested.
She also advised that women should not give out their children to unknown persons or allow their children, especially the girl child, to be taken to places where they would not have access to them.
She cautioned against handing out their female children to people of questionable character who might want to use them for prostitution outside the country.
The NAPTIP boss reminded the women that children are gifts from God and as such proper care should be accorded them.
Emmanuel also warned them to be careful of people with sugar-coated tongues who come to take away their child promising to do all sorts of goodies for the child.
She said many people come with the intention to take them for prostitution and slavery outside the country where they are subjected to all kinds of forced labour.
While noting that even boys are subjected to prostitution, she advised mothers to monitor the whereabouts of their children.
She said: “You should be sure of where your child is. Even some that take them as house helps also use them as slaves from one family to the other only to collect money.”
She warned that those found indulging in such abominable acts as well as parents who use their children to beg for alms would equally face the consequences as prescribed by law.

Devil? Woman pours hot water on two kids, sets 85-year-old stepmother ablaze

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By MATTHEW DIKE
A woman threw caution to the winds in Imo State as she set her 85-year-old stepmother ablaze, after splashing her two grandchildren with hot water.
The natives of Ndiokwu Lorji, Aboh Mbaise area of the state, would not forget the fateful day in a hurry as the devil, metaphorically, took control of one of them and she caused tragedy within her own family.
People wept uncontrollably at the sight of the old woman and the two kids who were writhing in pains following the alleged action of the suspect.
Gladys, 48, mother of many children, was said to have splashed hot water on Emeka Ukaegbu, 4, and Nzube Ukaegbu, 6.
Daily Sun gathered that the children were viewing a film in the family parlour when Gladys appeared with the hot water and before anybody knew what she was up to, she had poured the hot water on the two kids.
Their uncle, Chukwuma Ukaegbu, 32, told Daily Sun in Lagos that the kids screamed as they were running out from the parlour in agony.
Chukwuma said his mother, 85-year-old Mary Ukaegbu, staggered as she ran to inquire what had happened.
The woman was shocked to see her grandchildren with their body peeled .
The children kept shouting the name Gladys to their enraged grandmother who moved in haste to see Gladys.
Upon sighting the old woman, Gladys allegedly poured a substance suspected to be fuel on her and immediately set her ablaze.
Mary, Emeka and Nzube were rushed to the hospital but only the two kids were admitted while hospitals rejected the old woman.
Chukwuma said the incident began at about 1.30pm, adding that his mother (Mary) gave up the ghost at 11 pm same day, August 20.
Chukwuma said the kids are still in hospital receiving treatment as at the time of filing this report.
He explained that Emeka sustained injury from his head to the back.
He said Nzube was the worst hit as his body peeled completely from head to toe.
He said it took some days before the eyes of Nzube could open.
Chukwuma could not fathom what could have been the cause of Gladys’ anger.
According to him, there used to be minor quarrel over sundry issues like “your goat ate my leaves or yam.”
He alleged that there was nothing very serious that would have warranted such wicked act.
He further alleged that his elder brother, Nnabuihe, told him that Gladys had several times threatened that she would kill his (Nnabuihe’s) children, kill him (Nnabuihe) and their mother, Mary.
He said Nnabuihe waved her threat off as one of those empty ones.
They never knew evil thought was brewing in the heart of the suspect until the fateful day.
Policemen from Aboh Mbaise Division arrested Gladys the following day and later transferred the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Owerri, Imo State.
While Chukwuma insisted that the name of his half sister is Gladys, the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Vitalis Onugu, a deputy superintendent, while confirming the story to Daily Sun, said the name police recorded in the file was Clarene.
Onugu said the suspect had an altercation with the two children and as she wanted to pour petrol on them, she allegedly poured it on the old woman, Mary, and she went up in flames.
Onugu also said the suspect later poured hot water on the children.
The police spokesman said the suspect would soon be arraigned in court. Source: Daily Sun

RIP: Ten Teenage Girls Drown in a Boat Mishap on Their Way to a Wedding in Taraba

What residents have to face as a result of the River Benue surge (credits: Vanguard)

As the floods that have been predicted in strategic parts continue, at least ten teenage girls have lost their lives when their canoe capsized on their way to a wedding in Taraba one of the regions hit by the predicted flooding.
According to the head of the Red Cross in Taraba State, Manja Agwe Mathew, on Wednesday, three others who were in the canoe that capsized on the Karim River are still missing: “The bodies of 10 passengers in the canoe were recovered by local fishermen while search for the remaining three is still on,” he said.
He added that the accident occurred late on Tuesday while the group was travelling “to a wedding ceremony in another village across the river.”
Earlier on, on Monday, the Red Cross had announced that at least 137 people have died in Nigeria since July from flood-related causes. Water levels have surged on the River Benue, which feeds the Karim, causing at least 30 deaths. Meanwhile, the thousands of people in the south and centre of the country who live on the plains of the River Niger have been urged to evacuate their homes, fearing that the river will overflow.

FOR ADULTS ONLY! Video Of ‘Doctor’ Who Allegedly Raped His Patients Before Performing Abortion On Them

You remember the story we brough you last week of the Ghanian “Doctor” that rapes his patients- usually young women with unwanted pregnancies, before performing crude abortion procedures on them? Well, here’s a video to his dastardly act which was secretly recorded by a Ghanian undercover journalist who posed as a worker in the clinic where this fake doctor works.
The “doctor”, Joshua Drah, will pretend to ‘seek the consent’ of his victims by telling them while they are in that helpless position, that he has to have sex with them to make the procedure ‘less painful’ and to drive home his point, actually starts yanking out the insides of a hesitant girl, who quickly allows him have his way after screaming out in pain! Even with blood already dripping out of his hapless victim! The procedure is also carried out without the patients been anesthetized, so the women are fully conscious, feeling every torture this ” Sexy Lord of Abortion” inflicts on them.
Meanwhile, The Ghana Medical Association has expressed worry over the news reports about Joshua Drah at Madina, who claimed to be a medical practitioner. This was contained in a release issued and signed by the General Secretary, Dr Frank Serebour, and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Friday. It said: “Indeed, the Ghana Medical Association will like to state emphatically that the said Joshua Drah, according to our records, is not a Medical Doctor and that his actions should not be used to drag the name of doctors into disrepute.”
The press release also enjoined the public to be circumspect in their dealings with individuals who posed as medical doctors and should immediately report all suspicious individuals to the security agencies for appropriate actions to be taken.
“Moreover, the judicial system should give stiffer punishment to such unscrupulous individuals to deter others from treading the same course,” it added
Click the link below to watch the video.

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Another Facebook Murder! Rapist Kills 16 Yr Old Girl Through Facebook For Trying To Testify Against Him

A Texas man, Franklin B. Davis, accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl used social media to lure her to a meeting, abduct her from her school and drive her to a river, where he killed her to keep her from testifying against him, police and a family spokeswoman said.



Franklin Davis gave a series of jailhouse interviews to local media outlets on Monday [Sep 10] to share his part of the story. Demons, he said. It was the demons. "I didn't plan on hurting her", he told WFAA's David Schecter. "I was fighting demons. It was like a different person was in me”.

The facts of the story are unsettling. Davis, 30, is charged with molesting Shania Gray, then 14, several times when she was a babysitter for his kids. She was scheduled to testify at his trial in October 2012 which, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Morning News, is why Davis wanted to talk to her.

Davis created a fake Facebook account with the picture of a teenage boy. He began messaging Shania, telling her he knew her friends and had a crush on her, per the paper's front-pager on Sunday. He called her using a pre-paid cell phone and agreed to meet her Thursday at Hebron High School.

Shania was surprised to see him, according to the affidavit, but agreed to get into the car when he said he just wanted to talk about the assault case. During the drive to a trail head at Valley View Lane and 635, she saw a pistol in his car and asked Davis if he planned to hurt her. He said no, and they walked down the trail to the Trinity, where he shot her twice.

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"Why, Wish?" she asked as she stumbled into the water, using his nickname. Davis then pulled her onto the bank and stepped on her neck until she stopped breathing, according to what he told police. Shania's body was found there two days later.
 
"I needed to get some kind of evidence, some kind of proof myself to show I did not made love with her and that she's lying”, David told the television station. He said he didn't intend to harm Gray but was overcome in the moment.



"I was fighting demons", Davis told the station. "It was like a different person was in me. It wasn't me."

Hundreds of friends and well-wishers joined Gray's parents at a candlelight vigil Monday [Sep 10] night outside Horn High School in Mesquite, where she previously attended.

KTVT-TV of Dallas and Fort Worth reported that one student was taken to a hospital after her friends said she was crying so hard that she had a seizure.
 
Davis was arrested on Saturday [Sep 8] and allegedly confessed. He's being held in Dallas County on a capital murder charge. Bond is set at $2 million. Friends and family have set up a memorial Facebook page in memory of Shania.

Aluta! Ondo Varsity staff chase VC out of official quarters

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, (SSANU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko branch, who are currently on a three-day warming strike over unpaid allowances, on Tuesday staged a protest march in the university campus. The workers chased the Vice Chancellor, Femi Mimiko, out of his residence over what they described as his “high-handedness.” They alleged that the VC, who is a younger brother to the state Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, treated the members of staff of the university as less than human. It took the combined efforts of policemen and operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) to rescue the VC through the back doors of his official residence when the angry protesters marched on the house. The striking workers massed around the imposing structure and sang solidarity songs, holding the VC and his management team hostage for hours. The incident later degenerated rapidly, as the workers hauled stones and other dangerous missiles at the building where Mimiko and the management team had just ended a meeting with leaders of the striking unions. They were protesting over payment of arrears of hazard allowance as captured in the FGN-Unions agreement of 2009. Attempts by the VC to leave the premises after the meeting was delayed for several hours, as the workers, led by Ayo Falade (JAC-3), Akingbesote (SSANU), Giwa (NASU) and Aguda (NAAT) virtually held him hostage. The VC’s exit was ultimately facilitated by some top officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) who, reportedly, had been around all day to discourage the striking workers from taking any action that could impair the delicate peace in the state. An aide to the VC who insisted on speaking anonymously after he (VC) had been spirited out of the complex decried the development which he described as unfair. “It was a horrible experience and to think that some workers could go to this extent to pursue arrears of a package that more than 90 per cent of universities in this country have not even started implementing at all is quite unfortunate. “I just thank God for the presence of the SSS people. The situation would have degenerated. Indeed, anything could have happened,” the aide said. Attempts to get the VC for comment proved abortive. He was, however, seen giving instructions to his security aides as he was driven past the mob. In his earlier address to the striking workers, JAC-3 Chairman, Ayo Falade, had vowed that his members would leave no stone unturned in collecting the arrears, noting that contrary to the claim by the university management, his union (SSANU) indeed had the approval of its national executive to embark on the three-day protest.

Jonathan returns to Nigeria ahead of schedule; Speculation hightens over Patience' health

President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday evening returned to Abuja from his two-nation state visit to Malawi and Bostwana.
He returned 24 hours ahead of his scheduled Wednesday arrival date.
His arrival ahead of schedule further increased the speculation over the state of health of his wife, Patience, who is believed to be undergoing treatment in a German hospital.
The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, had in a statement on Saturday said the President would return to Abuja on Wednesday after his state visits to the two countries.
Online reports had it that while in the middle of a luncheon in  Gaborone, Bostwana, the President received a message which allegedly changed his countenance and forced him to leave the country.
The reports further insinuated that he left some members of his delegation behind in Bostwana and might have headed to Germany to see his ailing wife.
But our correspondent confirmed that Jonathan returned to Nigeria on Tuesday evening with members of his delegation.
Our correspondent spoke with Abati on telephone but while making enquiry on the President’s alleged sudden arrival, the line went off.
The presidential spokesman did not pick subsequent calls made to his mobile telephone.

Source: The Punch

Five Boko Haram commanders Arrested in Maiduguri

THE Military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has arrested five suspected Boko Haram commanders and six others.
Acting on an intelligence report on the sect’s hideout at Waka-Biu of the Biu Local Council of the state, the JTF arrested the suspected terrorists on Monday night.
Apart from arms and ammunition, 36 primed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were recovered from the hideout.
Five riot tear gas and four tear gas canisters, bomb making materials, two handcuffs, two cameras and a binocular were also recovered.
Police helmet and combat boots, a Yoshita empty tank and driller machine were recovered too.
Waka Biu is 187 Kilometres south of Maiduguri and headquarters of the sect. A statement by JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir, confirmed the arrest.
Besides, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has condemned the recent attacks and torching of the office complexes of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Pilgrims Welfare Commission (YPWC), mosque, a secondary school, Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM) firms’ masts and 14 vehicles in Damaturu.
He said that the attacks were sponsored by the opposition within and outside the state.
The governor gave the condemnation while inspecting the destroyed three office complexes and vehicles on Potiskum Road, Damaturu, the state capital.
Gaidam said: “The wanton destruction of government property and GSM firms’ masts by suspected Boko Haram members, is not only barbaric, evil-minded and counter-productive, but condemnable in totality by any right-thinking person that wants this state to move forward and live in peace and unity.”
The governor recalled that in June this year, primary and Islamiyyah schools as well as churches in parts of Damaturu, the state capital were attacked by hoodlums in a similar manner the offices complex, school, and government and private vehicles  were destroyed.
Gaidam said that government would reconstruct all destroyed government office complexes

Source: Guardian

Marijuana smoking increases risk of testicular cancer: research

(Reuters) - Young men who had smoked marijuana recreationally were twice as likely to be diagnosed with testicular cancer than men who have never used marijuana, according to a U.S. study.

False claim on Obama’s invitation: Tinubu must apologise to Nigerians - S/West PDP

THE South-West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader and former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, to apologise to Nigerians, for bringing the country into disrepute, with his lie that he was specially invited to attend the United States (US) Democratic Party convention.

Court Orders Arrest of Sen Uba, Achigbu Over Involvement In The Ibori's $15m Loot

(Vanguard) ABUJA — Following an application by Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse, has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, to arrest and investigate Senator Andy Uba and one Chibuike Achigbu, with a view to ascertaining their actual involvement in the $15 million bribe allegedly offered to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by cronies of the convicted former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, in 2007.
It will be recalled that Achigbu, who identified himself as an oil magnate, on August 29, 2012, approached a Federal High Court, Abuja, claiming that the said money, which is currently in custody of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, belonged to him.
This is even as both the Federal Government and the Delta State government are currently enmeshed in a legal tussle over who should keep the alleged bribe money, which Ibori denied offering or authorising anyone to offer on his behalf.
Meanwhile, few days after the court fixed September 17 to hear arguments from both the Federal Government and Delta State government on the issue, Achigbu, who engaged the services of three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, went before the court, claiming that he actually gave the $15 million to Dr. Andy Uba, a former aide to the then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, for the purpose of financing Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, during the 2007 general election.
In an affidavit he deposed to before the high court, Achigbu averred that owing to his desire to ensure that PDP secured power at various levels of governance in the country then, he initiated a personal fund-raising scheme for the party.
Nevertheless, dissatisfied with the explanations, Keyamo sought an order for the duo to be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted for either acting as accessories to an act of bribery or for deposing to false affidavit, which he said amounts to perjury.
Keyamo maintained that in the event that the origin of the $15 million was not ascertained, Uba and Achigbu should be charged with money laundering and/or conspiracy and bribery.
He further contended that in the alternative, the Federal Government should: “Arrest Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, interrogate him and charge him to court, if necessary, for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and perjury as regards the proceedings in Asaba, when he swore on oath or procured another to swear that he was given a bribe.
“This is because, it is either Ribadu on the one hand is lying that he was offered $15 million as bribe or Andy Uba, Ibori and Achigbu on the other hand are all lying that it was not bribe. Both versions cannot be correct and any version that is false amounts to a crime under our laws.”

Fighting For God? Islamists Protests in Lybia, Cairo, Over Film.

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CAIRO (AP) — Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one American diplomat, witnesses and the State Department said. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.

It was the first such assaults on U.S. diplomatic facilities in either country, at a time when both Libya and Egypt are struggling to overcome the turmoil following the ouster of their longtime leaders, Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak in uprisings last year.

The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad produced by an American in California and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States. Excerpts from the film dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed that one State Department officer had been killed in the protest at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. She strongly condemned the attack and said she had called Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif "to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya."

Clinton expressed concern that the protests might spread to other countries. She said the U.S. is working with "partner countries around the world to protect our personnel, our missions, and American citizens worldwide."
"Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet," Clinton said in a statement released by the State Department. "The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind. "
In Benghazi, a large mob stormed the U.S. consulate, with gunmen firing their weapons, said Wanis al-Sharef, an Interior Ministry official in Benghazi. A witness said attackers fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at the consulate as they clashed with Libyans hired to guard the facility.
Outnumbered by the crowd, Libyan security forces did little to stop them, al-Sharef said.
The crowd overwhelmed the facility and set fire to it, burning most of it and looting the contents, witnesses said.
One American was shot to death and a second was wounded in the hand, al-Sharef said. He did not give further details.
The violence at the consulate lasted for about three hours, but the situation has now quieted down, said another witness.
"I heard nearly 10 explosions and all kinds of weapons. It was a terrifying day," said the witness who refused to give his name because he feared retribution.
Hours before the Benghazi attack, hundreds of mainly ultraconservative Islamist protesters in Egypt marched to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Cairo, gathering outside its walls and chanting against the movie and the U.S. Most of the embassy staff had left the compound earlier because of warnings of the upcoming demonstration.
"Say it, don't fear: Their ambassador must leave," the crowd chanted.

Dozens of protesters then scaled the embassy walls, and several went into the courtyard and took down the American flag from a pole. They brought it back to the crowd outside, which tried to burn it, but failing that tore it apart.

The protesters on the wall then raised on the flagpole a black flag with a Muslim declaration of faith, "There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet." The flag, similar to the banner used by al-Qaida, is commonly used by ultraconservatives around the region.
The crowd grew throughout the evening with thousands standing outside the embassy. Dozens of riot police lined up along the embassy walls but did not stop protesters as they continued to climb and stand on the wall - though it appeared no more went into the compound.
The crowd chanted, "Islamic, Islamic. The right of our prophet will not die." Some shouted, "We are all Osama," referring to al-Qaida leader bin Laden. Young men, some in masks, sprayed graffiti on the walls. Some grumbled that Islamist President Mohammed Morsi had not spoken out about the movie.
A group of women in black veils and robes that left only their eyes exposed chanted, "Worshippers of the Cross, leave the Prophet Muhammad alone."
By midnight, the crowd had dwindled. The U.S. Embassy said on its Twitter account that there will be no visa services on Wednesday because of the protests.
A senior Egyptian security official at the embassy area said authorities allowed the protest because it was "peaceful." When they started climbing the walls, he said he called for more troops, denying that the protesters stormed the embassy. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
The Cairo embassy is in a diplomatic area in Garden City, where the British and Italian embassies are located, only a few blocks away from Tahrir Square, the center of last year's uprising that led to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The U.S. Embassy is built like a fortress, with a wall several meters (yards) high. But security has been scaled back in recent months, with several roadblocks leading to the facility removed after legal court cases by residents.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry promised in a statement to provide the necessary security for diplomatic missions and embassies and warned that "such incidents will negatively impact the image of stability in Egypt, which will have consequences on the life of its citizens."
One protester, Hossam Ahmed, said he was among those who entered the embassy compound and replaced the American flag with the black one. He said the group has now removed the black flag from the pole and laid it instead on a ladder on top of the wall.
"This is a very simple reaction to harming our prophet," said another, bearded young protester, Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Egyptian police had removed the demonstrators who entered the embassy grounds.
Muslims find it offensive to depict Muhammad in any fashion, much less in an insulting way. The 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper triggered riots in many Muslim countries.
A 14-minute trailer of the movie that sparked the protests, posted on the website YouTube in an original English version and another dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman in an overtly ridiculing way, showing him having sex and calling for massacres.
A YouTube spokesperson said the website would not take down the video at this point. The website's guidelines call for removing videos that include a threat of violence, but not those only expressing opinions. YouTube's practice is not to comment on a specific videos.
"We take great care when we enforce our policies and try to allow as much content as possible while ensuring that our Community Guidelines are followed," the YouTube spokesperson said. "Flagged content that does not violate our Guidelines will remain on the site."
Sam Bacile, an American citizen who said he produced, directed and wrote the two-hour film, said he had not anticipated such a furious reaction.
"I feel sorry for the embassy. I am mad," Bacile said.
Speaking from a telephone with a California number, Bacile said he is Jewish and familiar with the region. Bacile said the film was produced in English and he doesn't know who dubbed it in Arabic. The full film has not been shown yet, he said, and he said he has declined distribution offers for now.
"My plan is to make a series of 200 hours" about the same subject, he said.
Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Christian in the U.S. known for his anti-Islam views, told The Associated Press from Washington that he was promoting the video on his website and on certain TV stations, which he did not identify.
Both depicted the film as showing how Coptic Christians are oppressed in Egypt, though it goes well beyond that to ridicule Muhammad - a reflection of their contention that Islam as a religion is inherently oppressive.
"The main problem is I am the first one to put on the screen someone who is (portraying) Muhammad. It makes them mad," Bacile said. "But we have to open the door. After 9/11 everybody should be in front of the judge, even Jesus, even Muhammad."

For several days, Egyptian media have been reporting on the video, playing some excerpts from it and blaming Sadek for it, with ultraconservative clerics going on air to denounce it.

Medhat Klada, a representative of Coptic Christian organizations in Europe, said Sadek's views are not representative of expatriate Copts.

"He is an extremist ... We don't go down this road. He has incited the people (in Egypt) against Copts," he said, speaking from Switzerland. "We refuse any attacks on religions because of a moral position."

But he said he was concerned about the backlash from angry Islamists, saying their protest only promotes the movie. "They don't know dialogue and they think that Islam will be offended from a movie."

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Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper in Washington and Esam Mohamed in Tripoli, Libya contributed to this report.

NDLEA intercepts N294 million worth of heroin concealed in carpets

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have aborted an attempt by suspected drug syndicate to smuggle 24.5kg of heroin concealed inside carpets into Nigeria.

The consignment described in the airway bill as Pakistani hand-knotted new woollen carpets originated from Lahore, Pakistan. It left Karachi airport in an Emirate flight as unaccompanied cargo and taken to Nigeria Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Shed, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos.
The estimated value of the drug is N294 million. It is the first discovery of drug inside carpets in the country.
The NDLEA airport Commander, Hamza Umar said the consignment was examined by the Agency when it was abandoned by the importers.
“The suspicious cargo was monitored by undercover operatives for a week after it arrived. We decided to conduct the search when nobody came to claim it. In all, there were twelve pieces of carpets but only six contained heroin. The heroin was prepared into tiny bits inside plastic hollow treads and weaved in a way that makes it difficult to detect unless it is unfastened” Mr Hamza said.
He added that the information on the airway bill was found to be incorrect by investigators.
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade who described the seizure as breath-taking promised to unveil the importers.
“The drug syndicate did their best concealing the drug but it was not good enough to go undetected. If drug barons will not lack concealment methods, we also will not be tired in detecting narcotics. This seizure is unique because it is the least place anyone will go to in search for narcotics. We shall continue with investigation until those behind the illegal shipment are brought to book” Mr Giade said.