15 yr-old girl defiled by police officer, raped by shop keeper

Chidinma Olosota (not real names) is your run-of-themill 15-year-old girl at a first glance. A closer scrutiny, however, reveals a troubled teen. She has been sexually abused serially by those least expected.
The April sun was going to bed. Somewhere around Isheri, a Lagos suburb, a 15-year-old girl too was hurrying homeward. She wanted to arrive home before dusk. Suddenly, she struck her foot against a stone half buried in the earth. The teenager hissed and made to continue with her journey. But one of her footwear did not obey her.
A strap had snapped in one of the flip-flops that covered her dusty feet. Chidinma Olosota (not real names) hissed and moved on. After taking some steps, she decided to wait for a mobile cobbler to rectify the situation. She looked around and sat at the front of a house.
It was a decision that would affect her life. Not long after, a young man approached her, offering to help. The unsuspecting girl took the extended hand of help. A few hours later she had been raped. Not only that, she was prevented from leaving the house.
Two days after, Chidinma struggled home to her already exasperated parents who were beside themselves with worries over the disappearance of their daughter. After showing her face at home, she was bundled straight to the church where the pastor lectured her on the gains of being an obedient child. It was the return of Chidinma’s father that exhumed any dirt the teenage girl thought had been buried. The man insisted that he be taken to the house she spent two days. Reluctantly, the girl led her father to the house she spent the last two days. As soon as the father sighted the young who allegedly housed his daughter for two days, he was overcome by emotion and a shouting match ensued. Invectives and insults were hurled from both sides. Irked by the insolence demonstrated by the young man, Chainman’s father made for the Isheri Police Station to report the matter.

At the police station, the matter was assigned to an elderly police officer who is also said to be the Station Officer. The officer, according to a petition signed by 25 rights groups, Mr Ajayi, blamed the girl for the rape “because she ran away from home.”
Also, she “was severely beaten by Inspector Ajayi with her father’s approval on the ground that she caused what happened to her”. Meanwhile, that was just the beginning of other harrowing experience which the girl would go through in the hands of this particular law enforcement agent and his colleagues. “Inspector Ajayi then asked that Chidinma (not real name) remain at the police station for a couple of hours in order for her to ‘calm down’.
Confident that Inspector Ajayi held a position of trust, Mr Olosota (not real name) complied with the instruction and left for work hoping that his daughter would soon be allowed to return home. Whilst at the police station, a number of police officers on duty sexually assaulted her, some fondled her breasts and others verbally abused her. All of these took place in the presence of Inspector Ajayi and another female officer who goes by the name of Happiness,” alleged the petition which copies were sent to the the Inspector General of Police, Lagos State governor, Lagos State deputy governor, Office of the Public Defender (OPD), Divisional Police Officer, Isheri Police Station, Lagos, Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WARA) and the Attorney General of Lagos State.
It continued: “Chindinma (not real names) was held at the Police Station all day till late in the evening without being offered any food. When she pleaded with Inspector Ajayi to release her to return home, he paraded around the holding cells threatening detention with the male inmates. Ensuring that she was frightened enough, Inspector Ajayi took her back to his office.
In his office, he told her to write her statement and as she was writing, he was robbing her back telling her that he wants her to undress, when she refused, he threatened her. In her words: ‘Inspector Ajayi locked his office and told me that he wants to have sex with me and if I don’t agree, he will detain me till tomorrow and carry me and the boy to court so that I will go to prison’.
Apparently scared, she allowed him have his way. Right in the police station and right on the police desk, Inspector Ajayi raped Chidinma (not real name). At 9pm, Miss Chidinma (not real name) was released to go home” Chidinma confirmed the incident to Saturday Mirror adding that when he gave her a sachet of table water after and then allowed her to go home. She added that when she got home, she just went to bed without informing anybody of the incident.
The petition, however, alleged further that: “Inspector Ajayi did not take down Chidinma’s statement or the statement of the perpetrator and did not advise her to visit a general hospital for the necessary medical examination immediately after rape. He didn’t even open a case file for her. He only invited her and her father to the station the next day to go for a pregnancy test at Calvary Hospital, Omole Phase 2”.
But the teenage girl’s ordeal did not end there. On May 16 she was also raped. This time, the perpetrator is an acclaimed brother of a shop owner at Reality Plaza, Isheri. Her account: “A boy called IK now took us to the house. As we were going my friend excused herself saying she was to run an errand for her mum. Ike and I continued. When we got to the house, IK asked me to come inside but I refused. He now begged me to come and that he did not want to bring his sister’s phones outside. On getting inside, he asked to sit and offered me a newspaper.
He told me he was going inside to bring the phone. When he came back, he knelt beside me told me that there was no phone but that there was something he needed from. I asked him what. He then went inside again and brought a knife and asked me to pull off. He said he is a cultist and that he had done it before, that he would kill me and throw my body away in the night. When I refused he pressed the knife on my tummy and neck. When I saw blood, I started pulling off. I had on a gown and a pair of shorts. As I was doing that the N5, 000 which I kept in my knickers fell out and he picked it He asked me to lie down and I refused so he finally pushed me down and raped me.”
At the last incident, the girl could no longer hold it in. She returned to the shop with the aid of some good Samaritans and raised some dust. When her father got wind of the incident, he asked the daughter again to go to the police station, but she refused. On further probing, she finally owned up on why she did not want to return to the police station: she had lost confidence in the police.
That was when she opened up and told her father about her harassment by the officers and eventual rape by Ajayi. Saturday Mirror was at the said police station but everyone contacted declined to speak. Our correspondent was directed to the office of the Police Public Relations Officer. Frequent visits and calls to the officer, however, yielded no results. Twice her phone was picked by her orderly who promised to relay the message to her.
A message to the effect was also sent to her via her facebook account. Saturday Mirror was also at the office of the Officer in Charge (OC) Human Rights of the Lagos State Command Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Amhedu, who is a lawyer.
Amhedu, who declined to speak with the press because he was not in a position to do so, said his office was aware of the matter. He also directed our reporter to the PPRO. However, a source in the Human Rights unit disclosed to Saturday Mirror that the matter was actually brought to the attention of the unit and that it was taken up and investigated.
The source added that the Commissioner of Police had been advised on the matter. Probed further, the source who disclosed that the unit has in its fold many lawyers of long bar experience added that during investigation, the victim, her father and the suspects including the police officer alleged were invited for interrogation.
“It was then that we discovered that the girl was wayward and that the father was trying to use her to extort money from Ajayi and the Nigerian Police. “It is true that Ajayi flogged her but he never raped her as claimed”, it added.
Asked how they came about their conclusion, the source continued: “In front of everybody we asked the policeman to strip and he did but he was not wearing the type of underwear the girl said he had on. We also sent a police officer to his office, it was not as the girl described. There was no television set and there was no couch.
The girl was just lying “We have reprimanded Ajayi. The police have no right to administer corporal punishment which he did by flogging the girl. We have recommended that he be sent on a six months course on human rights. We have also charged the first suspect to court. Though he claimed, he did not rape her; the girl was a minor then, hence could not give consent.
That is defilement. He has been charged to court and remanded in prison custody” The source also dismissed the claim against the third suspect, IK, saying he was culpable and that the girl’s father also wanted to exploit the young man and his sister.
The source, however, reprimanded the girl’s father accusing him of wanting to use his daughter to exploit the said police officer who was actually his friend before the incident.

Culled from Daily Champion

My husband used love portion to marry me, wife tells court

A 36-year-old hairdresser, Adeola Fabiyi, told an Abeokuta customary court sitting in Ake, that her husband, Alfa Kasumu, used charm to marry her.

According to her, she couldn’t explain how she moved into his house and became his wife.
Meanwhile, Kasumu, a muslim cleric, denied the allegation and said she is wayward.  Adeola informed the court that it just dawned on her that her husband cast love spell on her when they met about 12 years ago through a friend who took her to his house when her hairdressing business was not booming.
The applicant added that Kasumu helped her by doing a charm that made the business flourish and customers started trooping into her shop.
” I remember vividly that a man was dating me and l was two months pregnant then, but as soon as l moved into Kasumu’s house, the pregnancy disappeared”.  She claimed that after she lost the pregnancy, she could not conceive again, saying her husband married three other women shortly after she moved out of his house.
When asked how she realised that her husband used charm on her, Adeola responded that a close friend of Kasumu who was privy to the deed confessed to her.
The applicant therefore urged the court to dissolve the marriage and beg kasumu on her behalf to release her from bondage, so that she can bear children.
The respondent denied the allegation and told the court that Adeola is wayward and that’s what is responsible for her inability to conceive.
He added that it was true that he had many wives, but he did not use charm to marry them.  Meanwhile, the case was adjourned for further hearing.

Revolution! Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code

Iranian women can be subjected to harsh punishment for small infractions of the country's Islamic dress code.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Two girls beat up a cleric on his way to noon prayers, news agency says
• He asked one of them to cover herself to comply with Islamic hijab
• The girl told him to cover his eyes, he said
• The cleric was hospitalized for three days

Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- They may be a far cry from their Western counterparts fighting for the acceptance to breast-feed -- or go topless -- in public, but two girls clobbered a cleric recently in a small town in Iran when he admonished one of them to cover herself more completely.

The cleric said he asked "politely," but the girl's angry reaction and some pugilistic double-teaming with her friend landed the holy man in the hospital, according to an account Monday in the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.

Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the girls on his way to the mosque in the village of Shahmirzad for noon prayers in late August.

He told one of the girls to cover up, the report said.

"She responded by telling me to cover my eyes, which was very insulting to me," Beheshti said. So he asked her a second time to cover up and also to put a lid on what he felt was verbal abuse.

She hit the man of the cloth, and he hit the ground.

"I don't remember what happened after that," he said. "I just felt her kicks and heard her insults."

Beheshti, who emerged from the infirmary three days later, said he did not file a complaint against the girls.

But he doesn't mind the local prosecutor's investigation into the matter either "as long as the case helps the cause of Islamic hijab."

The girls may have put the "jab" into "hijab," but fighting with morality police or private individuals telling women to cover up is rare in small towns. It's more common in larger cities, where women are more likely to take a stand.

Libyan Protesters Take Over HQ of Islamic Group That Attacked US Embassy

Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Ten days after four Americans were killed in their Libyan city, hundreds marched in Benghazi and took over the headquarters of a radical Islamist group tied to the attack.

Thousands of protesters had taken to the street earlier Friday, loudly declaring that they -- and not those behind last week's deadly attack -- represent the real sentiments of the Libyan people.

"I am sorry, America," one man said. "This is the real Libya."

In the evening, an offshoot of several hundred people then headed toward the headquarters for Ansar al-Sharia, a loosely connected radical Islamist group.

As militia members fled, the protesters torched a vehicle and took over the group's building without firing a single shot. Some of those involved claimed to have freed at least 20 captives held inside, and expressed their intent to assume control over other Ansar al-Sharia buildings.

Army General Naji al-Shuaibi said the citizens, whom he referred to as "revolutionaries of the February 17 uprising," later asked that the Ansar al-Sharia headquarters be handed over to the Libyan army.

"Indeed, we rushed here and we will now take it over," said the general. "There are also other places that we intend to take over (which belong to armed groups) if the revolutionaries and the people allow us to do so."

But some of the protesters gathered at locations that house forces loyal to the national authority, he said, including the headquarters of the Rufallah al-Sihati battalion. Gunfire could be heard at the headquarters, but it was not initially clear who was responsible.

Mohamed al-Magariaf, president of Libya's General National Congress, thanked the protesters for helping evict "armed groups. He also said the Rufallah al-Sihati brigade was actually "under the command of -- and committed to -- the national authority," the case appeared to be one of mistaken identity. Magariaf asked demonstrators to stop their activities and go home.

There was widespread speculation that anti-national authority groups capitalized on the euphoria after the takeover of the Ansar al-Sharia headquarters and pushed protesters to move toward locations under the control of the army and the police force.

On the night of September 11, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was one of four Americans slain after a group assaulted the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city.

Seen as the birthplace of the revolution that led to the death of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Benghazi has in recent months been beset by security issues.

Initial reports indicated that, ahead of the consular attack, Ansar al-Sharia had organized a protest to decry an inflammatory film that mocks the Prophet Mohammed and also protest the United States, where the film was privately produced.

On Thursday, Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur said eight detained in connection with that assault include members of Ansar al-Sharia, though he added that not all the attackers came from one specific group.

Responding to the report from Benghazi, U.S. Sen. John McCain applauded the citizens' efforts Friday and said it represented the true, freedom-loving Libya that he and other U.S. officials involved in the country knew.

"Somewhere Chris Stevens is smiling," the Arizona Republican said. "This is what we knew ... about Libya."

Ohio woman unknowingly married father

• Valerie Spruill, 60, found out her husband was her father in 2004
• Spruill's husband-father died in 1998 at the age of 60
• Spruill learned the family secret from an uncle
• A DNA test on hair taken from a brush proved the claim

(CNN) -- It was a dark secret. The kind that destroys lives, devastates families and decimates faith.

Nobody shared it with Valerie Spruill while her husband was alive. For years after his death, she heard bits of the story. It was something about an absentee father, something about her husband.

None of it made sense, she said. That's not until her uncle finally told her what no one else had: She had unknowingly married the father she never knew.

"It is devastating. It can destroy you," Spruill told CNN late Thursday by telephone. "It almost did."

Spruill, 60, of Doylestown, Ohio, went public with her story this month, first published in the Akron Beacon Journal, with the hopes that it would help others facing what seem like insurmountable problems.

It's a story that has gone viral, attracting attention as faraway as Australia and India where the questions are always the same, she says: How could that happen?

It's a question that Spruill said she has been grappling with since she first learned the truth in 2004, six years after her husband Percy Spruill died.

"I don't know if he ever knew or not. That conversation didn't come up," she said. "I think if he did know, there is no way he could have told me."

She confirmed that her husband was indeed her father through a DNA test, hair taken from one of his brushes.

The aftermath of the secret was devastating emotionally -- and physically, Spruill suffered two strokes and was diagnosed with diabetes.

All of it, she believes was brought on by learning the family secret.

"Pain and stress will kill, and I had to release my stress," Spruill said. "I'm just telling the story to release my pain."

She has a deep, abiding faith in God, who she believes has guided her through the experience -- and others that have shaped her life.

"You have to have faith," she said. "If God brought me this far, he's not going to leave me now."

Spruill met and married her husband-father in Akron and settled in Doylestown, a working class suburb of about 2,300.

It was her second marriage. Spruill was a nice man, a good provider. He was kind to her three children from her previous marriage.

"We had a good life," she said.

She initially struggled with anger, with hating Spruill for what happened.

But therapy taught her what happened wasn't her fault. Her faith taught her to forgive.

Initial response to her story has been mixed: "More positive than negative," she says.

In recent days, she has been in contact with a couple who found out after they were married that they were brother and sister.

They told her, she said, that her story is helping them deal with their own experience.

"They are trying to be friends now," Spruill said.

Others, though, have been less kind.

"They've said things like 'Some secrets should stay secrets,'" she said. "I can't do anything about what they think. I just know what I think. God is always mighty, and he teaches you to tell the truth no matter what."

Spruill knows not everybody tells the truth. It's a lesson she learned as a child the hard way.

By all accounts, Spruill's mother got pregnant as a teenager while dating her then 15-year-old father.

She was 3-months-old when she was sent to live with her grandmother and grandfather, who she initially believed as she grew up was her father.

Spruill said at about age 8 or 9, she discovered that the woman who often visited the house was not a family friend but her mother.

But nobody, she said, talked about her father.

There's nobody left to give her the answers about her husband-father. Her mother, Christine, died in 1984. Her grandparents have long since passed. So, too, have a number of Percy Spruill's relatives.

Spruill knows her mother worked as a prostitute and even got caught up in the 1980 high-profile corruption scandal surrounding James Barbuto, a probate judge who was convicted of intimidating investigators and gross sexual imposition for attacking a courthouse clerk in his chambers.

"My mother showed me lots of love. All said and done, I have no regrets in my life at all," she said.

She believes she has siblings or half-siblings from Spruill's previous relationships, including the one with her mother.

She said she wants to find them and let them know they are not alone.

Spruill, herself, has three children and eight grandchildren. She struggled with telling her children that the man they believed was their step-father was their grandfather.

A therapist "advised me to tell my kids," she said. "I told them about two years ago. They are remarkable. They are handling it better than I am."

In recent days, shortly before the news broke, she also told her grandchildren.

"They have been so supportive. They are telling me they love me, telling me they will do whatever I need," she said.

In her spare time, since retiring from the accounting department where she worked for 34 years at Goodyear, she has been writing down her story with the hopes of publishing it.

"I thank God that he gave me a chance to live through all of this," she said. "It is nothing short of a miracle that I'm still here. I want people to know that they can survive something like this."

FRSC officials dismissed for having more than N200 with them

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Zone 2, which comprises Lagos and Ogun State Commands, has recommended the dismissal of four corps members for collecting bribe.

The four officials were caught on July 21 in Ogere, Ogun State after tcollecting about N3000 from motorists.
Zonal Commanding Officer, Ademola Lawal, said the officers were found guilty by the disciplinary committee, and have been recommended for dismissal.
According to Lawal, FRSC had zero tolerance for corruption, thus corps members are not allowed to go on patrol with more than two hundred naira, and the sum must be declared before they go out on patrol.
“This is done in other to achieve the reduce extortion level among our men.
“Whenever we search any officer, the money found on them must correspond with the amount declared by such officer.
“If we find more than that, then you must explain the source of the cash in your pocket
“Their inability to defend why they were found with such amount led to their recommendation for dismissal.”
Lawal said the surveillance team, which operates twice a week, found about N3000 on the accused officers. Recall that FRSC, Rivers State command, dismissed over 100 corps members for various offences recently.
Meanwhile, the Zone has expressed commitment to reduce Road Traffic Crash (RTC) to 2 accidents per 100 vehicles before December.




Source: Guardian

Man Set His Wife Ablaze For Dumping Him

A jilted husband, Adesanmoye Kehinde, expressed his frustration after he was dumped by his wife, Jean Odegba, 29, by setting her ablaze in Ikotun, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
He was said to have poured some petrol on her and lit a match that set her ablaze.
Although Jean was rescued, she suffered severe burns and is now lying critically ill at a hospital.
The victim claimed that Kehinde enjoyed every benefit from her as his wife and yet he did not pay a dime to her family as dowry after repeated promises to do so.



She therefore decided to quit the four-year relationship for another man who was ready to marry her. But Kehinde insisted that she must not leave her and threatened to deal with her if she left. To prove to her that he meant the threat, he set her ablaze at the popular Ikotun round about and fled.

According to the victim, he threatened to deal with her, but she did not know he planned to set her ablaze. On the day of the incident she was going to see a friend and unknown to her Kehinde was trailing her. On getting to the Ikotun roundabout, he poured some petrol on her, lit a match and set her ablaze. She was rushed to a hospital where she has been on admission.

Kehinde who was later arrested and is now in prison custody, hails from Ondo State Southwest Nigeria while his estranged wife is from Edo State, Southsouth Nigeria. P.M.NEWS gathered that the estranged lovers had been living together as husband and wife at 2 Olaoluwa Street, Abaranje, Ikotun. The suspect was charged to Ejgbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos on a two-count charge under section 243 and 244 of the Criminal Code Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

When the charge was read to him, he pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, ASP Nicholas Atunmonye objected to his bail. He told the court that he was callous to have set the woman ablaze. He added that if he was allowed to go, it will send wrong signal to the society and the victim was still lying critically ill at a hospital. The presiding magistrate, Mrs. M. B. Folami ordered him to be remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Apapa, Lagos pending the outcome of the medical report.

The matter was adjourned till 24 September, 2012. When P.M.NEWS visited their residence at Abaranje, Ikotun, their neighbours confirmed the incident, saying that they heard about it some days after it had happened. Some of them said that they knew the couple as husband and wife and did not know Kehinde did not pay dowry on Jean. PM News

2015: Confusion Over Buhari

Written by Kunle Oderemi and Idowu Samuel Saturday, 22 September 2012

THERE is confusion over a fresh campaign for the 2015 presidential race launched by an organisation for the leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) former Nigerian leader, Major General  Muhammed Buhari.
Buhari 2015, which is behind the campaign, has been sending text messages to members of the public on why they must rally round Buhari, so that he could bring an end to what the organisation perceived as the circle of corrupt leaders in the country.
The group is predicating its campaign for Buhari on his integrity and need for Nigerians to free themselves from the shackles of general corruption in the system towards restoring the lost glory of the country.
In one of the text messages sent out by the organisation, it claimed that he could make a lot of difference if Nigerians backed him during the 2015 presidential election.
It stated, “The set time has come to be liberated from the hands of corrupt leaders. General Buhari is the answer. Together, we can make the change.”
Though some members of CPC top echelon said they were not involved in the subtle campaign, the leaders said the promoters could be  staunch supporters and admirers of Buhari outside the party, who shared his ideals and political philosophy.
Some of the principal officers of the party, who craved anonymity, told Saturday Tribune that they had received similar messages, but were handling them with utmost caution because of what they called Buhari’s tenacity to due process on matters.
But one of the state chairmen of the party in the South-West, said the former head of state would be leading other party leaders to Akure, the Ondo State capital next Saturday to launch the party’s campaign for the governorship poll  coming up on October 20, 2012.
He said he and many other party leaders had received text messages from Buhari 2015, but were being careful in orchestrating the contents since the party was yet to take a formal position on the matter.
CPC spokesperson, Mr Rotimi Fasakin, when contacted said, some supporters, not  Buhari, was the mastermind of the underground campaign.
Fasakin said he was aware that Buhari still commanded a large support base across the country, more so in the face of dwindling performance by PDP, stating that the most eager among his supporters would have been making efforts for him to enter the 2015 contest.
He said the ex-leader was yet to personally inform CPC of his desire to contest in 2015, noting that he would never start campaigning to contest the next election by putting his party in abeyance.
Fashakin said Buhari had earlier declared that he would not contest any presidential election again, given his disappointment with the conduct of the 2011 poll, won by President Goodluck Jonathan and hence would need to brief the party if at all he had changed his mind on his earlier stance.
He said, “Buhari is a principled politician. He is also methodical in his approach. He is not someone who would say something and then renege without a sound reason. If he announced his withdrawal from future presidential contest, I trust that he will not start any campaign for such without consulting with his party”.
His party is currently involved in exploratory talks with the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in particular, on the possibility of a merger before the 2015 elections.
However, the messages by the Buhari 2015 came on the heels of claims and counter-claims by some leaders from the North and their counterparts from the South-East over the right of their zones to the presidency in 2015.
The Northern leaders, under the aegis of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), who met in Kaduna on Thursday, promised not to compromise over their stand that their area produced the successor to  Jonathan in 2015.
While observing that it was premature to engage in serious political manoeuvrings ahead the next election year, the ACF chieftains said their preoccupation now was how to bringing about unity and peaceful co-existence among stakeholders in the country.
According to them, such unity can only be achieved through mutual interface between them with their counterparts in other parts of the country.
“While the forum supports any political strategies that would put the North in a position which will enable it to negotiate with other sections of the country from a position of strength and secure some favourable terms, it was the considered view of the forum that it is too early to start full-fledged political activities for 2015. This is because such start is capable of detracting from the task of governance at our collective peril,” they stated.
On his part, a former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu said the quest by Ndigbo for the presidency in 2015 was not negotiable, hinging his stand on the policy of power rotation among the six political zones in the country.
He declared, “Anybody that thinks the Igbo will settle for a lesser office in the next presidential election should bury the idea, as we are not ready to compromise our stand on the matter in 2015. We don’t want anything short of that this time round.”
Similarly, some eminent persons from the South-South, where the president hails from, have advised other zones, especially in the North  nursing ambition of stopping Jonathan from seeking another four-tear term in office to perish the idea as he has the constitutional right to seek two terms as president.
Meanwhile, the CPC spokesperson has debunked speculation that the party had resolved to drag the Governor of Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi into the party for the 2015 presidential election.
Fasakin said at the moment, Lamido was not a card carrying member of CPC, and neither had he made any move towards joining the party, thus wondering how CPC could have planned to use him for the contest without him integrating properly with the party.
He said he found report on Sanusi Lamido contesting on the platform of CPC in 2015 laughable when indeed; there was noting linking him with the opposition party, although he fingered members of the ruling party as the originator of the speculation on the CBN Governor.
According to him, the aim of touting Sanusi as a CPC presidential hopeful was to pre-empt any possible move by the party to get stronger candidate from the north for the 2015 presidential election being one of the most popular political parties in the northern region at the moment. Source: Nigerian Tribune

Another Two Commanders of Boko Haram Gunned Down!

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore order in Borno State, has said that its operatives and men of the State Security Service (SSS), in a gun battle at about 2.20 p.m. on Wednesday, gunned down two top sect commanders on Maiduguri/ Kano road.

A statement from the JTF, which was signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa, said the security outfit was provided with intelligence report when the top commanders were about fleeing the state.

According to the statement, “the terrorists were top commanders coordinating the sect’s activities in Mubi and Yola in Adamawa as well as Yobe states. They were travelling in a silver ash colour Honda Accord 2000 model car with registration number Bam 214 AA. They were on their way to Damaturu for a planned special operation to attack civilians and military locations today (Thursday 20, September 2012).”

The statement also said intelligence report equally revealed that they were meant to carry out attacks in Maiduguri, adding that, items recovered from them include a Honda car, five handsets and weapons.

In another development, the JTF said in earlier operations, a total of eight sect members were arrested in Garanam, GRA and Lawanti areas of Maiduguri metropolis.

It also said that those arrested were discovered to have found their way into Maiduguri from neigbouring states. 

Items recovered during the arrests include a 1988 model silver colour Camry car with Yobe State registration number AE 574 DTR, suspected to have been stolen for possible suicide attack and movement of weapons.

The JTF, while thanking law abiding members of the public for the timely information, also appealed to them to report suspicious movement and activities in their neigbourhood to security agencies.

Meanwhile, about 12 shops were said to have been set ablaze by soldiers around Budum area of Maiduguri following the killing of a medicine seller in the area by gunmen suspected to be members of the sect.

An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the soldiers were allegedly angry with the people for not being able to provide information about the killers, which according to them, lived in the neigbourhood.

Driver to die by hanging over lecturer’s murder

A driver, Kehinde Olumide, was on Thursday, sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Joseph Olubunmi Oyewole of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja. The court found him guilty of murdering a lecturer.

The judgement came after 12 years of trial that followed the murder of Mr R.A. Adisa, a senior lecturer at the Federal College of Education in Okene, Kogi State.

The court after examining the submissions of the prosecution led by Lauqman Sanusi and the defence counsel, Mrs Femi Ajanaku, “found the defendant guilty as charged and convicted him accordingly.”

“The only statutory punishment for murder is the death penalty.

“Accordingly, the sentence of the court upon you, Kehinde Olumide, is that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.”

Olumide, who was arraigned on a one count charge of murder, was alleged to have murdered one Mr R.A. Adisa, on November 29, 2000, in Alafon village on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway and dispossessed his victim of his new ash-colour Honda car.

The offence, according to the prosecution, was contrary to section 319(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 32, Vol. 2, Laws of Lagos State 1994.

The deceased, according to the prosecution, had sought the assistance of the defendant to help him drive the car to Okene since he could not drive.

After killing his victim, the accused person, who was a driver with the Institute of Management and Technology, Ketu, until November 14, 2000, later gave the Honda car to his friend who sold the car and gave him the proceeds to process a purported journey abroad.

While delivering judgment in the matter, Justice Oyewole held that sufficient evidence existed before the court to come to the inevitable conclusion and beyond any reasonable doubt that the defendant murdered the deceased, Mr Adisa, as alleged by the prosecution.

During the trial, the prosecution called five witnesses who testified against the defendant including the father of the defendant and whose testimonies, the trial judge noted, were “not subjected to cross-examination by the defence.”

The judge, therefore, held that the facts deductible from the evidence of the prosecution witnesses were that the deceased, a graduating student of the institute had travelled to Lagos from Okene to purchase the imported fairly used car and after the purchase, engaged the defendant “with whom the said Adisa was cordial, to drive the car to Okene.”

The judge stated that when the defendant eventually showed up at home with an unlicenced car, his father, knowing the financial situation of his son, ordered him to take the car off his premises.

Justice Oyewole held that there was no doubt the accused person had the opportunity to commit the offence for which he was charged.

Source: Nigerian Tribune

NUC Ban The Conduct Of Supplementary Exams In Universities

NATIONAL Universities Commission (NUC) has banned the conduct of supplementary or re-sit examinations in Nigerian universities.
The NUC management, in a statement by the Chief Information Officer of the commission, Mrs Bukola Olatunji, in Abuja, on Wednesday, frowned on revelations that some universities conduct supplementary examination for their students, in addition to regular semester examinations.
The commission warned that the conduct of such examinations was in violation of extant rules and regulations, and urged all universities involved to stop the practice henceforth or face sanction.
“The attention of the NUC has been drawn to the fact that some universities conduct supplementary examination for their students, in addition to regular semester examinations.
“This contradicts the Course Credit System in operation in the Nigerian university system, which has no provision for re-sit or supplementary examinations.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Course Credit System provides that courses should be taken on semester basis and a course failed in one semester should be carried over to the following year and to be re-taken at the next available opportunity,” the statement read.

Stay Away From Our Land For Now - Ogun State Govt Orders Fulani Herdsmen

Ogun State government has ordered Fulani herdsmen to halt their migration to the state as it aims to end clashes between farmers and the cattle-rearers.

Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Ayo Olubori, at a meeting of the stakeholders in Abeokuta on Wednesday, said the directive was to enable the state to address the factors responsible for the recurring clashes between farmers and herdsmen and also to set a minimum requirement for the nomads.

Olubori added that issues concerning grazing land, cattle routes, registration and the signing of agreement by the nomads would be resolved at another meeting.

He, however, directed the chairmen of Imeko-Afon, Yewa North and Abeokuta North local governments to convene a meeting of traditional rulers, youths, Fulani herdsmen, farmers and community leaders in their areas to inform them about  the government’s efforts aimed at forestalling a recurrence of the crises.

The commissioner said, “Fulani herdsmen who are bringing their cattle into the state for grazing should suspend their coming until proper arrangements have been made to ensure that the crises that usually occur between them and farmers do not happen again.

“Government is working to ensure that farmers and herdsmen can cohabit peacefully without a breakdown of law and order and we will not tolerate a recurrence of what was witnessed last year.”

Prominent  among those who attended the  meeting were the representatives of the ministry, security agents, the concerned council bosses, Seriki fulanis of the affected areas and Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, Ogun State chapter, Mr. Segun Dasaolu.

Japanese To Appear In Court For Cooking And Serving His Genitals In His Restaurant

Mao Sugiyama, a 23-year-old Japanese man would soon appear in court for “indecent exposure” for cooking and serving his genitals to guests at a Japanese restaurant. Sugiyama (aka HC) who describes himself as an "asexual" illustrator, could not be charged for cooking or selling his genitals as there is no law against cannibalism in Japan. The same applies to those who ate his genitalia meal. In March this year, shortly after his 22nd birthday, Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed by a physician. They were certified free of infections after removal and frozen until served at a banquet in Suginami, a residential area in western Tokyo. Sugiyama cooked the genitalia himself under the supervision of a chef.
Guests were charged £160 each for a plate of meal garnished and spiced with mushrooms and parsley. Diners were made to sign a waiver so he could not be held responsible if they became sick. Sugiyama is to be charged along with three others who helped him organize the event, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said criminal papers against Sugiyama and the three collaborators had been forwarded to the Tokyo district public prosecutors' office. If convicted of indecent exposure, Sugiyama, who also had his nipples removed, faces up to two years in jail and up to 2.5 million yen fine. ( Continues below..... )

Photo Above: Seaweed that looks like penis.
Sugiyama advertised the genitalia meal event on Twitter. Broadcasting (twitting) the event on Twitter, he offered to cook his penis for guests for 100,000 yen. Sugiyama twitted: "I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen. I'm Japanese. The organs were surgically removed at age 22. I was tested to be free of venereal diseases. The organs were of normal function. I was not receiving female hormone treatment. First interested buyer will get them, or I will also consider selling to a group. Will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location. If you have questions, please contact me by DM or e-mail."
A total of 70 people attended Sugiyama’s event, but only five ate his genitalia dish while others ate beef or crocodile meal.

Reps Want Quarterly Allowance Increased By N7m

Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday launched an agitation for a N7m increase in their quarterly allowances, barely 24 hours after resuming from a two-month recess.
Each member of the House currently enjoys  N27m per quarter  as allowances but the lawmakers  want the sum jerked up to N35m, The PUNCH learnt.
Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal, reportedly had a  hectic time calming  frayed nerves at an executive session on Wednesday.
Some of the lawmakers, in seeking an  increased allowance, at the closed door session, reportedly raised questions of financial impropriety against the leadership of the House.
They reportedly questioned how the   “N5m” budgeted for each member’s medical expenses and insurance was utilised by the House.
One of the lawmakers at the session told our correspondent that “transparency and accountability were the main issues discussed at the executive session.”
“There are 360 members; we have funds budgeted for medical allowances and insurance.
“If you put aside some funds for these sub-heads, which is about N5m, we have to know how this money is being utilised.”
Tambuwal was said to have used the session, which lasted for over two hours, to explain to his  aggrieved colleagues that the leadership was transparent in the running of House accounts.
A source said he explained that the delay in the payment of pending allowances was caused by paucity of funds.
The speaker reportedly tried to convince members that there was the need to prudently manage resources.
He reportedly called for the account books of the House in a bid to convince his colleagues that no lawmaker’s funds had been taken for any unofficial purposes.
The PUNCH had stumbled on a text message circulated to members before Wednesday’s session by some lawmakers, who said they were launching a project to clean up  the House.
The text message had invited members to a meeting originally scheduled for the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Thursday (today).
Investigations revealed that the House quickly went into an executive session on Wednesday in a bid to stop the meeting and use the opportunity to clear the air  on  any misgivings.
The text reads, “This is inviting all first term members of the House of Representatives to an urgent meeting and launching of the Project “OPERATION CLEAN.” Date; 20th Sept. 2012. Venue-Transcorp Hilton, Abuja Time: 11am prompt.”
However, following what a member described as “the elaborate explanations by the Speaker”, the conveners of the meeting were reportedly “satisfied and saw reason to call off the meeting.”
The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, however denied that issues of increased allowances and use of the House funds were mentioned at the executive session.
“It is not true; there was nothing like that as far as I am concerned,” Mohammed said in a reply to The PUNCH enquiries.
He said the executive session deliberated on a meeting held between President Goodluck Jonathan, the President of the Senate, David Mark, and Tambuwal on Tuesday night.
Mohammed claimed that the Speaker used the session to inform members on what transpired between the three leaders at the Aso Rock Villa.
According to him, Jonathan raised the opposition by the National Assembly to the planned introduction of the N5000 note by the Central Bank of Nigeria with Mark and Tambuwal.
“He (Speaker) told members that the President was under the impression that the National Assembly queried the Executive on the policy”, Mohammed stated.
But, he said Mark and Tambuwal took time to explain to Jonathan why the proposed N5000 note was not necessary.
He added that the  two leaders of the National Assembly told Jonathan  that they had a constitutional responsibility to protect the wishes of Nigerians, whose suffering would be worsened by the N5000 denomination.
However, a separate source, who attended the meeting, confided in The PUNCH that Jonathan hinted that he would direct the Governor of the CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, to stop the proposed policy, having heard the position of the National Assembly.
“It is a good thing that Mr. President has promised to ask Sanusi to stop this N5000 issue.
“He gave Mark and Tambuwal the assurance”, the source disclosed.
The Chairman of a major committee of the House, also  said, “take it from me; Mr. President has said he would stop the policy.
Source: PUNCH Newspaper

Zimbabwean man impregnates mother

A Zimbabwean woman and her son have done the unthinkable – they have fallen in love with one another. And now they want to marry since the mom, Betty Mbereko from Mwenezi in Masvingo, is six months pregnant and expecting her son’s child. Mbereko (40), who was widowed... 12 years ago, has been cohabiting with her first child, Farai Mbereko (23). She confirms that she is six months pregnant and that she has decided it is better to “marry” her son because she does not want to marry her late husband’s young brothers, whom she says are coveting her. Betty stunned a village court last week when she said the affair with her son had begun three years earlier. She said after spending a lot of money sending Farai to school following the death of her husband, she felt she had a right to his money and no other woman was entitled to it. “Look, I strove alone to send my son to school and no one helped me. Now you see that my son is working and you accuse me of doing something wrong. “Let me enjoy the products of my sweat,” she told the village court. Farai said he was more than prepared to marry his mother and would pay off the ilobola balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents. “I know my father died before he finished paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay it off,” he said. “It is better to publicise what is happening because people should know that I am the one who made my mother pregnant. Otherwise they will accuse her of promiscuity.” But local headman Nathan Muputirwa says: “We cannot allow this to happen in our village, mashura chaiwo aya, (This is a bad omen indeed). In the past they would have to be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.” He warned them to break off their marriage or leave his village. They chose the latter and have left the village for an unknown destination.

Shocking! Man Killed His Wife And Cooked Her Body For 4 Days

A Los Angeles chef on trial for the murder of his wife told investigators that he disposed of her body by boiling it for four days then trashed the remains with other waste in a grease pit in his restaurant.
David Viens, 49, was a chef at the Thyme Contemporary Café in Lomita, Calif., when on Oct. 18, 2009 he came home and argued with his 39-year-old wife, Dawn Viens.
At one point he duct-taped her mouth and bound her hands and feet before falling asleep and finding her corpse the next morning, he told investigators according to The Los Angeles Times.
"I woke up. I panicked," Viens said. "She was hard."
On Tuesday a jury in L.A. heard that Viens told investigators that in a panic he stuffed his wife's body face-down into a 55-gallon drum of boiling water and proceeded to cook it for four days. He said that he used weights to submerge Dawn's 105-pound body in the boiling water.
"I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days," he told investigators.

Viens then took some of his wife's body's remains, mixed it with other waste from the restaurant and poured it into the grease pit at the Thyme Contemporary Café. Other remains were placed in the dumpster in garbage bags.
He said that afterwards all he saved was his wife's skull, though a search of the house turned up nothing, nor did an excavation of the restaurant, according to The Associated Press.
"That's the only thing I didn't want to get rid of in case I wanted to leave it somewhere," he told police of the skull, saying that he left in "my mother's attic."
It wasn't until 2011 that Viens learned that police investigating Dawn's disappearance began to suspect him. At that point he leapt feet-first from an 80-foot cliff in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. He survived the fall and is now in a wheelchair.
Viens sat in the courtroom staring ahead and scribbling notes as a stunned-looking jury listened to the 2011 taped hospital bed confession to police.
What Viens says in the taped interviews closely matches what he told his daughter and a former girlfriend, both of whom have testified for the prosecution.
Details of exactly what occurred between David and Dawn Viens that night in October 2009 remain unclear. Viens told police that he and his wife had eaten at a California Pizza Kitchen before he did some work at the restaurant and then went out with friends. When he arrived back home, he said, the couple began to fight.
In one interview Viens said that he and his wife had argued after he accused her of stealing money from their restaurant.
In a later interview, he said that the couple had taken cocaine, and in yet another interview he said she was bothering him while he was trying to sleep.
Viens told police that he had previously taped her up to prevent her from "driving around wasted, whacked out on coke and drinking."
"For some reason I just got violent," Veins said.

Woman in Court For Attemting to Decapitate Her Husband While He Slept

A Washington State woman who is accused of trying to saw off her husband's head while he slept is on trial this week on charges of attempted murder.
Renee Bishop-McKean was arrested in Everett, Wash., in October after her husband, Brett Bishop, awoke in the middle of the night to find her standing over him with a hand-held electric sabre saw, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in court.
In an attempted-murder trial this week in Everett, the prosecution said Bishop-McKean, 44, plotted the attack for weeks, buying plastic sheets, bleach and garbage bags to clean up the scene, according to ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV.
Bishop-McKean and her husband had been separated but were living together once again on the night of the attack, according to court documents.

Brett Bishop went to sleep first that night, but awoke to the sound of an electric saw revving above him. When he awoke, Bishop-McKean was standing over him, according to the affidavit.
"Renee came at me in the kitchen with the Sawzall [saw] raised up, we had a struggle over it. She kept pulling the trigger to make it run, so I reached out and pulled the battery out of it," he said in court, according to KOMO.
After the struggle, Bishop-McKean allegedly hit him with a mallet and a hatchet. He was later treated at a hospital for cuts and scrapes, including stitches, the documents said.
Bishop-McKean told police on the night of the attack that she and her husband had both been attacked by an intruder. Her attorney, Ken Lee, told ABC News today that she stands by that story and denies that she tried to kill her husband.
Prosecutors told the jury that if Bishop-McKean had equipped the saw with a sharper blade or aimed the saw closer to her husband's neck, he might not have had the ability to fend off the attack and would likely be dead, according to the affidavit.
Bishop-McKean is charged with first-degree attempted murder and first-degree domestic violence assault in connection with the attack. Lee declined to provide an opening statement during the trial, and told ABC News that the trial is expected to wrap up Thursday.



Source: ABC News

Painkillers 'are the cause' of millions of headaches

By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News

Up to a million people in the UK have "completely preventable" severe headaches caused by taking too many painkillers, doctors have said.

They said some were trapped in a "vicious cycle" of taking pain relief, which then caused even more headaches.
The warning came as part of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) first guidelines for treating headaches.
It is also recommending acupuncture in some circumstances.

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This can end up getting into a vicious cycle where your headache gets worse, so you take more painkillers, so your headache gets worse and this just becomes worse and worse and worse”

Prof Martin Underwood Warwick Medical School

"Medication overuse headaches" feel the same as other common headaches or migraines.

There is no definitive UK data on the incidence of the condition, but studies in other countries suggest 1-2% of people are affected, while the World Health Organization says figures closer to 5% have been reported.
While painkillers would be many people's instant response, they could be making sufferers feel even worse.
Prof Martin Underwood, from Warwick Medical School, who led the NICE panel, said: "This can end up getting into a vicious cycle where your headache gets worse, so you take more painkillers, so your headache gets worse and this just becomes worse and worse and worse.
"It is such an easy thing to prevent."
'Tipping point' Exactly how painkillers have this effect on the brain is unknown.
Most of the people affected are thought to have started with either everyday, tension-type headaches or migraines. The headaches then became worse as they treated themselves at home.

Main types of headache

• Tension - the common "everyday" headache most people will experience at some point in their lives. In some cases people have tension headaches on most days of the month.
• Migraine - severe headache that can last for several days. It gets worse with activity and often comes with nausea as well as sensitivity to light and sound.
• Cluster - extremely severe pain around the eye and side of the face, also includes swelling and a red watery eye. Some people report eight attacks a day, which can last up to three hours.
• Medication overuse - feels like a tension headache or a migraine, but is due to taking too many painkillers.
• However, there are more than 200 types of headache.

Manjit Matharu, a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, said there was a tipping point at 10 to 15 days of using pain relief each month when the drugs became the issue.

He said: "This is a huge problem in the population. The figures in terms of the number of people who have medication overuse headache are one in 50, so that is approximately a million people who have headaches on a daily or near daily basis because they're using painkillers."

Dr Brian Hope: 'Brain gets used to painkillers'

People with a family history of tension-type headaches or migraine may also be genetically more vulnerable to medication overuse headaches. They could be susceptible when taking pain relief even if it is not for headaches.
The new guidelines for doctors in England and Wales advise telling sufferers to immediately stop taking all pain relief. However, this will lead to about a month of agony as patients contend with regular headaches without pain relief, until symptoms eventually improve.
The panel said other options for controlling any underlying headaches, such as preventative treatments, could be considered.
Acupuncture The guidelines also include a recommendation for acupuncture in patients susceptible to migraine and tension headaches.

Drugs causing overuse headaches

• Paracetamol, aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on 15 or more days per month
• Triptans, opioids, ergots or combination analgesic medications on at least 10 days per month

Source: NICE

"We would expect that to lead to more people getting acupuncture, but given there is good evidence to show this is effective for the prevention of both tension-type and migraine-type headaches then that is a good thing because people are getting access to an effective treatment," Prof Martin Underwood said.

Doctors have also been asked not to refer patients for brain scans "solely for reassurance" that they do not have a brain tumour. The NICE panel said a tumour would come with other symptoms such as a change in behaviour or epilepsy.
The chief executive of the Migraine Trust, Wendy Thomas, said: "The guideline will assist with accurate diagnosis, appropriate referral and evidence-based information for those with troublesome and disabling headaches.
"It will also raise awareness of medication overuse, which can be an issue for those with severe headaches.
"People with disabling migraine will experience improved quality of life as a result of this guideline."
Dr Fayyaz Ahmed, the chair of British Association for the Study of Headache, welcomed the guidelines.
He said: "Headache is the most prevalent condition and one in seven of the UK population has migraine.
"The condition puts an enormous burden on the healthcare resources and the economy in general."

“I only raped four of them” – Man who is accused of raping 8 underage girls in Lagos

The police in Ipaja-Ayobo area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria have arrested a man who allegedly defiled eight children. He is now being detained, awaiting arraignment in court.
The suspect, Mr. Temitope Alo was arrested on Saturday at Koloba area of Ayobo after the children allegedly confessed that he had raped them.
The eight victims, whose ages range from eight to 15 years were brought to the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA yesterday by the Vice Chairman, Ipaja-Ayobo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Alhaja Falilat Ajijola to enable the state government to take over the case.
The victim said he works for a newspaper company (name withheld) in Lagos and allegedly lured the children to his apartment where he defiled them and threatened to kill them if they reported the matter.
Tests conducted on the eight children at the Ayobo-Ipaja Primary Health Centre, PHC, showed that the children had been defiled.
A top official of the WAPA Ministry told P.M.NEWS that the ministry had been handling rape cases but they had never recorded a case where a man serially raped eight children.
The news of the rape caused a stir at the WAPA ministry as the staff rained curses on the alleged rapist.
According to the Ayobo-Ipaja LCDA Vice Chairman, Ajijola, last week a case of rape was reported to the Neighbourhood Watch office at the council but when enquiries were made, the traditional ruler of Koloba was said to have denied that such a thing happened in his area.
She said a few days later, the former council chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja, Bisi Yusuf reported that the incident actually happened and that further investigation traced the rape case to the culprit, who was promptly arrested.
Ajijola added that the traditional ruler, Chief Babayanju, later opened up and admitted that the story was true, while eight children came forward to report that they were allegedly raped by Alo.
The vice chairman said the children were taken to the PHC in the area where tests were conducted on them and it was confirmed that the children had been defiled.
Two children of a community leader in the area were among the victims.
Chairman, Ayobo-Ipaja LCDA, Alhaji Shakiru Adisa Yusuf said he was shocked when he heard the story, adding that such a person is worse than an animal.
“I was shocked because I am also a parent. Why must he go after innocent children? Such people should not live in this community,” he said, adding that the council would pursue the case to ensure that justice was done.
“We will collect the tests conducted on the children and hand them over to the state government. We will pursue the case to a logical conclusion. This man has brought disgrace to this community,” he said.
Acting Director, Child Development, WAPA Ministry, Mrs Mosunmola Dada said the issue was disgusting, adding that such a man must be a paedophile and vowed that the government would ensure that he was prosecuted.
“We have evidences against him. The Ayobo-Ipaja LCDA has a medical report on this case. We will monitor and follow up this case,” she said.
The suspect, in his statement at the Ayobo Police Station, was said to have admitted that he raped some children, but that he only raped four and not eight.
P.M.NEWS could not get to him as he was in custody of the police, while the Divisional Police Officer, DPO of the station was not around for comments.
One of the victims, an eight years old girl (name withheld) told P.M.NEWS that the suspect told them to help him arrange newspapers in his apartment, adding that, “after that, he told us to go into the next room.
“He asked us to remove our panties and I asked him what he wanted to do to us. He laid me on the bed and defiled me four times. He covered our mouths with white handkerchief and threatened to kill us if we report,” she said.
Another victim, a 12 years old girl (name withheld) alleged that the suspect “licked my private part. He called me and my friend in. He asked me to bring N100 fufu for him, which I brought. While I was waiting for the money with my friend, he asked my friend whether she could keep a secret.
“He asked me to pull off my panties but I did not answer and he forced me and licked my private part while he slept with my friend and defiled her too. He gave us N50. I told my friend that I will tell my mummy, but he threatened to kill us if we told anybody.” Source: PM News

More Shocking Pictures of Weapons of Mass Destruction From "Qaqa's" Residence!

Shortly after claiming that they have killed the spokesperson of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, members of the JTF in Monday night in Kano raided the residence of suspected top media coordinator of radical Islamist group. The place, located at Rimi Kebe and Rijayar’zaki general area of Kano, proved to be a discovery indeed!
A statement was released by the spokesman of Joint Military Taskforce in Kano, Lt Ikediche Iweha on the operation. According to the statement titled “Update on Capture of Boko Haram Terrorists on 17th September 2012”,the JTF spokesman said “this latest encounter with the terrorist group has foiled its planned attack to wreck havoc on the good people of Kano state.”
The statement continues:
“Following further operation in the suspects heavily wired IED hideout, the following items were recovered: Two AK 47 rifles, Two Pump Action Rifles, One Berretta Rifle, One Smoke Discharger, 433 rounds of 7.62 Nato ammunition, 80 rounds of 7.62 special ammunition, 2 AK 47 magazines, 36 Prepared IEDs, 13 Laptops, Two motorcycles, Four Printers, One photocopier, One 33 slots Zenith Disc writer, One TG 3900Ez Generator set, Religious Books, large quantity of CD plates, Two decoders, Two Satellite dish, One 21” Television set, One DVD player, 2 Bags of Urea fertilizer, One Elite dry cell 12v battery, One blue gate UPS, One stabilizer, 10 Hand held Motorola radios and 5 Battery chargers.”