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•Award-winning app developer Godwin Benson. A tutoring app developed by a 27-year-old Nigerian has won an engineering award given by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. Godwin Benson designed Tuteria, a platform that links qualified tutors to students in their area and within their budget. He developed the platform based on the experiences he had as a tutor. The engineering innovation award was launched in 2014 and rewards innovators in sub-Saharan Africa. Mr Benson beat 16 participants to clinch the £25,000 ($32,000) prize money. Other entries in the competition included a system that reduces the amount of energy used to heat water, an app that controls water consumption and a smart jacket to identity pneumonia. The group received coaching on preparing business plans and communication ahead of their final presentation on Tuesday in front of a live audience in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The head judge of the competition Malcolm Brinded said that Tuteria could change...

YAHAYA BELLO Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is enmeshed in double voter’s registration scandal, after he was pictured in his office registering as a voter the second time, having already registered in Abuja. Bello was shown being registered by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). A group, Kogi For Change, in a statement signed by its chairman, Omeiza Yakubu, said it would take legal action in view of the illegality of Bello’s action. At the Kogi governorship election tribunal, the governor’s Chief of Staff, David Onoja, standing as a witness, had said his principal never registered to vote in Kogi, but Abuja. However, in the course of the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise, Bello registered again, this time in his office, in Lokoja, Kogi State capital. “We got really concerned when we saw the picture of the Governor (Yahaya Bello) being registered by an INEC official inside his office,” said Kogi For Change. “Is the ...

Gunmen suspected to be militants on Thursday morning invaded Lagos State Model College, Igbo Nla, Epe, Lagos, abducting the principals and some students. The kidnappers were said to have stormed the school in the early hours when the students were at the morning assembly. The gunmen abducted the principal of the junior secondary school, Mr. Oyesola and Mr. Akirinmade who is the Principal of the senior secondary school. They also abducted some of the students. Presenting the case to the House of Representatives, the member representing Epe Constituency, Wale Raji, appealed to the House to call on the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State to treat the case with utmost urgency. The House suspended other proceedings to attend to the matter and asked the police to mobilise and rescue the principals and students. •Sourced from PUNCH.

200-Level UNIBEN student, Stabs Her Recently Bereaved Colleague Severally. A 2OO level student of UNIBEN is currently fighting for her life after she was stabbed severally by her colleague over unknown reason. Here’s how it was reposted on an IG Blog… This photo is of two undergraduate students of University of Benin in the Ekewan campus of the University. Becky is said to have stabbed Heritage in the head and Heritage is at the moment battling for her life. While some say it is over a boy, others say it is over a wrapper. Please say a prayer for Heritage! We hope she recovers fully. This photo is of two undergraduate students of University of Benin in the Ekewan campus of the University. Becky is said to have stabbed Heritage in the head and Heritage is at the moment battling for her life. While some say it is over a boy, others say it is over a wrapper. Now, we have got photos.. Heritage is currently hospitalized after she was stabbed in the head by Becky, her friend. H...

A beautician, identified only as Oby, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly beating her maid, Miracle, to death on Lateef Aregbe Street, Ago Palace Way, Okota, in the Isolo area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that the mother of two had descended on the eight-year-old on Saturday and beaten her till she collapsed and gave up the ghost. She was allegedly plotting with some persons to dispose of the corpse when some neighbours raised the alarm and reported the case to the police. The suspect was subsequently detained at the Isolo Police Division. A resident of the area, who did not want to be identified, said the suspect had been beating Miracle for months. He explained that anytime Oby, who hailed from Anambra State, was confronted by neighbours, she would shun and insult them. He said, “She is a beautician and has two children and she is heavily pregnant with her third child. Her husband was deported from Libya before he travelled again to An...

Lawrence Sullivan, who was arrested in Miami-Dade County, Fla., on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, and charged with carrying a concealed firearm. (MIAMI) — Police in Florida have managed to arrest the Joker without Batman's help following reports of a green-haired man with tattoos on his face pointing a gun at traffic. A Miami-Dade police report says 29-year-old Lawrence Sullivan was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with carrying a concealed firearm.  A booking photo shows the word "Joker" and a knife-pierced Batman symbol across Sullivan's forehead, while tattoos of long, stitched cuts are on each side of his mouth.  His green hair matches that of the comic book and movie villain. Police say officers found a loaded handgun on the self-described "tattoo model."Sullivan was being held on $5,000 bail. Jail records didn't list an attorney.

LAGOS—Scriptural assertions of wolves in sheep clothing resurfaced yesterday, following a startling revelation by a 16-year-old Senior Secondary School, SSS, I student, on how she has been subjected to sexual violations since she was 10 years by a pastor at the Egbe branch of a popular new generation pentecostal church. The victim, who spoke from the hospital bed around Ikotun area of the state, alleged that the suspect, with the connivance of a medical doctor, had carried out four abortions on her without her consent.  Trouble, as gathered, started for the teenager after the demise of her parents six years ago. An uncle she identified simply as George, took her to Delta State from where the suspect, who had just been separated from his wife, took her to Lagos to look after his child, with a promise to train her in school. That was when he allegedly started a sexual relationship with her in his three-bedroom flat at 6, Dolamo Street, Agodo-Egbe.  The victim alleged that...

THE FORMER LOVERS A General Court Martial of the Nigerian Air Force has arraigned one of its personnel, Aircraftman Bernard Kalu of Five-five-three Central Armament Depot, Nigerian Air Force, Makurdi, for the murder of his girlfriend, an Air Craftswoman, Oladipupo Sholape. Late Aircraftswoman, Oladipupo Sholape The accused, Benard Kalu, who is also standing trial for housebreaking, impersonation as a commissioned officer on Facebook with the intention to defraud the public, and attempt to murder one Samuel Onah. Aircraftman Kalu at the court martial He is also accused of failing to perform assigned military duties and using service property contrary to the armed forces Act. While reading the six charges against the accused, President of the General Court Martial, Group Captain Elisha Bindul, said the accused had on March 12, 2017, gone to Sholape’s house at Compound 9, Block B, Flat 9 at NAF Base and shot her with an FM rifle with an intent of causing her death. Kalu, how...

An Ile-Ife Magistrate Court has remanded one Isreal Ojimi, 38, said to be a prophet and Bose Adetimikan, 27, in prison custody over alleged rituals. The prosecutor, Inspector Emmanuel Abdullahi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on May 20, 2017, around 10:00 pm at Mosarajo area via Ile-Ife. According to him, they had armed themselves with some charms in the form of a garment with an intention to commit felony. He further explained that they conducted themselves in a manner that caused mayhem, adding that their behavior was against the norms and ethics of the nation and had contravened sections 213, 249 (d) and 516 of the State Penal Code. Although defence counsel, Mr Alaba Awoseemo pleaded for their bail in most libral terms, the plea was not accepted. Magistrate Olalekan Ijiyode, however, asked the counsel to put the plea in writing and ordered that the accused persons be remanded in prison custody. Ijiyode, subsequently adjourned the case to June 13...

The police in Kogi, yesterday, parade 32 suspects arrested over offences bothering on kidnapping, robbery, illegal possession of fire arms, vandalism and unlawful possession of substance, among others. Four of the suspects are allegedly behind the kidnap of two businessmen and recent robbery incidents in the state.  The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operation, Edward Ebuka, who paraded the suspects at the Police Command Headquarters in Lokoja, said they were arrested at their different hideouts.  He said six of them, Ugbodaga Wada, Abdul Mudi, Adamu Faruna, Nuhu Usman, Abaji Awor and Abdulahi Sule were arrested for the kidnap of Alhaji Musa Oseni and Alhaji Buba in April at Ayingba.  Ebuka said that 17 suspects were also being held for their alleged involvement in various robbery incidents on the highways and other parts of the state.  He said that four guns, including two AK-47 rifles, a locally-made pistol and a Bareta Pistol with number 212...

Egypt on Thursday blocked 21 websites, including Qatari news network Al Jazeera and Islamist-affiliated platforms, following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Among those blocked since Wednesday evening is the website of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwan Online, according to a report in the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. All websites blocked contain material that “support terrorism and extremism as well as publish lies,” a security source was quoted as saying. The Arabic edition of the Huffington Post was blocked, although the English-language version was accessible. The independent Cairo-based Mada Masr was another site blocked. Since the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Egypt in 2013, Egypt’s relations with Qatar have worsened as Cairo slams Doha for hosting members of the now-banned group. Egypt’s Gulf allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates blocked the website of Al Jazeera and other Qatari ...

Fatai Owoseni Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni has warned Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) in the state police command to shun bribery or leave the state, saying that some of them are on the payroll of fraudsters. Owoseni stated this during a lecture on Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officers at the Police Officers’ Wives’ Association (POWA) Hall, Ikeja. He warned that the era of impunity and corruption among cops was gone, appealing to his subordinates to come for transfer if they would not want to play by the rules in the state. He said: “I am tired of hearing about shooting or killing of innocent persons. No one has the right to take another man’s life. It is only God that has the right to take life. “It is your responsibility as a DPO to know those who are collecting bribe under you. If you refuse to stop them, they will stop you from being a DPO. “It is embarrassing to see policemen collecting bribes and chasing yahoo yahoo boy...

Shaurn Thomas, left, and his mother, Hazeline Thomas, moments after his release from prison in Frackville, Pa., on May 23 after 24 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Shaurn Thomas had claimed for 16 years that he didn’t kill a popular Philadelphia businessman in a street robbery. He was 16 then, and said he had been at a juvenile court proceeding for trying to steal a motorcycle when the daylight slaying occurred. But the courts weren’t buying it, and Thomas lost appeal after appeal. Convicted almost completely on the testimony of a co-defendant, he was sentenced to life without parole. Then in 2009, Thomas sent a letter to the newly formed Pennsylvania Innocence Project, and a lawyer named James Figorski happened to open it. Figorski had spent 25 years as a Philadelphia police officer. He knew how the city’s juvenile system worked, and he sensed something wasn’t right.  For the next eight years, Figorski volunteered countless hours investigating Thomas’s...

Two siblings said to be members of a seven-man robbery gang have been arrested by the police in Ogun State for allegedly breaking into a Coca-Cola warehouse in the Ota area of the state. The suspects – Ikechukwu Onwe, 40, and 35-year-old Chukwunma Onwe – and five others reportedly stole several pieces of heavy duty batteries, truck engines, air cleaners, radiators, and cartons of insecticide, valued at N30m from the warehouse. PUNCH Metro learnt that the siblings and their gang members, Onyebuchi Muruako, 37; Obiora Onyemuazu, 49; Chidi Monday, 36, and Mutiu Olodigbo, 40, were led to the warehouse by a ringleader, who is still at large, in a truck on Monday. It was gathered that they were offloading the stolen goods at Monday’s house in Alishiba, Sango Ota, around 6am when they were caught by some vigilantes in the area, who alerted the police at the Onipanu division. A team of operatives, led by the Divisional Police Officer, ACP Muyideen Obe, responded to the distress call...