11 long days in kidnappers’ den January 29, 2017 Life and Living When some staff and students of the Turkish International College in Ogun State were kidnapped, they never bargained for the physical and emotional trauma they went through not with the huge ransom demanded by their kidnappers. OLUYINKA OLUKOYA reports the whole kidnap saga. WITHIN the past five months, kidnappers had abducted several students in schools across Lagos State, including the adjoining Ogun State. Two schools, privately- owned Babington Macauley Girl’s College, Ikorodu and the government-owned, Model College, in Lagos, had been visited by the hoodlums. The most recent attack was on Nigerian-Turkish International College (NTIC), located in a swampy area of Isheri/Ifo Local Government of the state. Just like the earlier abductions, there was a media frenzy surrounding it more so because of the very high ransom demanded by the kidnappers. Following public interest in the criminal a...
Man allegedly chops off pregnant woman’s hand A man, who was engaged in a fight with his neighbour in Isaba-Ekiti, allegedly chopped off the left wrist of a pregnant woman, Aisha Adam, with a cutlass. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent, who visited the pregnant woman and mother of four on her hospital bed on Monday, reports that the left hand of the victim was cut off from the wrist. The victim’s husband, Mohammed Admams, said that there was a quarrel between him and his neighbour, resulting in the chopping off of his wife’s hand. “My wife, the victim, reported to me that our neighbour had fought with her while I was away. ” I challenged him and in the process, both of us started fighting. “My neighbour rushed inside his room, brought out a cutlass and I also brought out a cutlass in defence. “ When the man came out, my wife tried to intervene and he slashed her with the cutlass. ” Her wrist immediately fell-off her hand,” the husband said. Confirming the incide...
My wife is dating my pastor and brother —Husband THE TEXT MESSAGES HE SAW WERE FORGED —WIFE Metro Worried by his wife’s adulterous acts, Mr Kolawole Okeeyi, has approached the Igando Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve his 31-year-old marriage. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Okeeyi accused his wife, Funmilayo, with whom he had five children of infidelity. “My wife is having an affair with my pastor, I got to know when I did not have credit on my phone and wanted to use her phone to call our pastor to report her for starving my mother of food. “I picked her phone and I saw on the screen “sent message” I mistakenly press it and the message opened, I saw several love messages my wife sent and received from our pastor. “I showed her the messages when she came in, but she begged me, I seized the phone and later confronted our pastor with those text messages, but he told me to do my worst. “I also caught her with my brother in a ...
Anambra rally–Take whatever you see – IPOB warns Obiano,APC members MARCH 9TH 2017, The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday vowed to scuttle a rally planned to hold in Anambra State by the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement made available to DAILY POST by Emma Powerful, IPOB publicity secretary, the group warned of dire consequences of holding the rally. It, therefore, cautioned “Governor Willie Obiano along with certain elements within APC Anambra State to scrap their solidarity rally in support of Buhari’s Government or face the incalculable consequences of their actions at the hands of the people.” Giving reasons for the threat, the IPOB said, “it smacks of crass insensitivity that certain Igbo speaking people in desperate need of money to feed their children at these austere times, would go as far as planning to shamelessly hold a rally in support of this Buhari administration that has killed and abducted over 1000 Biafran men and women. “Doe...
The UK government objected to the term "pregnant woman" in a United Nations treaty, claiming sports.rm "excludes" transgender people who give birth and should be replaced with "pregnant people," reports said Sunday. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) voiced their opposition to the term in a statement regarding the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that asserts a "pregnant woman" must be protected and not subjected to the death penalty, The Sunday Times reported. In a proposed amendment, the government said the term "pregnant woman" should be substituted with "pregnant people" because otherwise it may "exclude transgender people who have given birth." "We requested that the UN human rights committee made it clear that the same right [to life for pregnant women] extends to pregnant transgender people," the FCO said in a statement. According to FoxNews, the proposal sparked f...
My sister’s husband forcibly had sex with me, my 2 sisters, witness tells court January 28, 2017 Metro A 17-year-old school dropout, on Friday, told a Jikwonyi Customary Court, Abuja, that her sister’s husband forcibly had sexual intercourse with her, and two other sisters. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reported that the teenager, who resides in Minna, gave the testimony as a witness in a divorce petition filed by her elder sister, Janet Suleman, against her husband, Philip Ogho. “When I was living with my sister, her husband attempted to sleep with me but I never agreed. Whenever I refused, he would beat me. “One day he asked me who I was, that he couldn’t have sex with me, claiming that he had had sex with my other two sisters living with them,” she testified. The witness said that her sister’s husband kept on maltreating her until she gave in to his request. “He kept on beating me, the day I could not bear it again I allowed him to sleep with ...
Close to 24 hours after their abduction, the whereabouts of the kidnapped German archaeologist, Professor Peter Breunij and his research fellow, Johannes Buringer remains unknown. The two german nationals were abducted on Thursday afternoon around Kaduna State-Abuja axis, a security source in Abuja who is closely following the situation has told SaharaReporters. Prof. Breunij is an authority on Nok culture and other issues associated with the ancient culture of Southern Kaduna. According to the source, no contact has been established with the kidnappers of the two foreigners. “As we speak, there is no communication, and there is also no any trace to where they are being held. And no one has asked for ransom or even communicated. “But we have not lost hope, and we are putting in our best to track them as soon as possible. “We are in touch with German Embassy here in Abuja, and the Nigerian commission the professor is partnering with Nok Culture project here in Abuja.”...
A UK-based Nigerian man, Jonathan Goodluck Oberia, teamed up with his female friend to stage a protest in front of the Abuja house in London to ask the presidency to disclose the health status of President Buhari who has been out of Nigeria for 92 days now. According to Jonathan, some staff of the Abuja house called the police to arrest him but the police officers on their arrival said the man did not commit any crime.
Police in Sao Paulo have foiled the world’s biggest bank robbery after discovering a well constructed 500-metre tunnel, complete with lighting, ventilation and rail tracks, leading from a rented house to the vaults of the Bank of Brazil. The thieves hoped to steal up to £250 million, police said, and had planned to carry out the raid this weekend. Several bullet-proof cars, suspected of having been prepared as getaway vehicles, have been impounded as part of the police operation. Prisoners accused of digging the tunnel, which allegedly took four months to build. Photograph: Lopes/Zuma Wire “This would have been the biggest bank robbery in the world,” chief investigator Fabio Pinheiro Lopes told the Guardian. “They are an extremely dangerous and organised gang with a long history, including some violent cri...
*Panetta was Bill Clinton's chief of staff *The remarks come after Gillibrand said Clinton should have resigned (CNN) Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta defended President Bill Clinton on Saturday, telling CNN he "more than paid the price" for his affair with Monica Lewinsky while he was in office. "The fact that he went through an impeachment process as President of the United States," Panetta told CNN's Ana Cabrera in an interview Saturday. "The House of Representatives voted for articles of impeachment, (but) the Senate did not. Panetta, who served as Clinton's chief of staff, continued: "But the mere fact that he went through an impeachment process as President means that there will always be a shadow on the legacy of his presidency, so at least from my point of view, he's more than paid the price." His remarks come after New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said she believes Clinton should have resigned after the scandal...
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