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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Four years on, court still waiting for police witness on assault case

Prince Yomi Oduneye

AN Ota, Ogun State High Court presided over by Justice Catherine Ogunsanya has ordered the Ogun State Commissioner of Police and the Area Commander, Igbeba Police Station, Ijebu- Ode to produce their sole witness in court on October 23, 2012 or close their defence.
The two police officers, eighth and ninth defendants, a former Ijebu-Ode Local Council chairman and first defendant , Mr. Mufutau Oseni and six others are defendants in a suit filed by an Ijebu-Ode-based businessman, Prince Yomi Oduneye who

TWO farmers in Anambra West local government area of Anambra State have committed suicide following complete destruction of their crops as a result of sudden surge of the River Niger and its tributaries into farmlands in the area. The two men, one from

A taxi driver, Femi Ajibola, will never forget July 1, 2012 in a hurry. At about 5.30 pm on that day, he received a phone call from a young woman in the Lekki area of Lagos and had quickly answered the subsequent invitation to pick her up.

“The lady introduced her as Susie. She called me to come and pick her and her friend. They told me to come pick them up at Mobolaji Estate near Lekki Second Roundabout. Later, I took them to a hotel at Lekki Phase I to meet one of their friends.

“From there we left for Beni Apartment in Victoria Island. They said that I should wait for them and promised to be back soon. Not long afterwards, one of the girls began to scream as she was coming towards my car. Behind her, I saw David Adeleke (Davido) and four of his bouncers.

“The girl was running towards me. I think they men had assaulted her. She said I should open the door for her so that

Africa’s richest man, Aliku Dangote, has refused to pay up compensation for about 40 deaths caused by his company’s truck driver.
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, who is worth N1.7 trillion ($11.2 billion) according to Forbes magazine has, through his company - Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc - refused to respect a court ruling which resulted from the killing of dozens of people by one of his employees, while on official duty.
A driver belonging to the company had rammed a company truck into waiting vehicles, resulting in an inferno which claimed over 40 lives.
The chief coroner, after

Must Read: Lagos Road Traffic Bill as presented by Lagos Attorney General

The Law as presented by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye includes:

Section 1 empowers Lagos State Traffic Management Authority to:
Apply breath testing, blood and urine specimen testing devices on any driver to detect drunk driving or driving under the influence of drugs.

2. Demand psychiatric evaluation of any person who drives against normal flow of traffic or fails to comply with any provisions of this law (at his own cost), if in the opinion of any officer of the authority such is necessary for the purpose of determining the person’s ability to operate a motor vehicle.

S. 3 No person shall operate a motorcycle or tricycle
-without a rider’s card issue by MVAA
-without wearing a standard protective crash helmet
-Carrying more than one passenger at a time (provided a pregnant woman, a child below the age of 12 years or an adult with a baby or

Until last Tuesday, T & K International Hotel, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos State, was a place where fun seekers visit to drink and satisfy their sexual desires.

But the death of a customer, popularly known as

TV presenter, model and actor, Uti Nwachukwu will today host 67 widows at a one day charity event at the Calabar Hall, Surulere, Lagos . The programme will see the former Big Brother Africa winner dole out gift items to

A 20-year-old nurse, Philomena, who is being held by the State Security Service (SSS), Delta State Command, over the kidnap of a top politician in the state yesterday narrated how she lured the victim with sex into the arms of his abductors.

The politician (names withheld) was on April 13 kidnapped at a bush path along Oleh Road, Ozoro in Isoko South Local Government Area of the state where he was having illicit affair with the nurse inside his car.

The victim squeezed out

Twenty-eight out of the 100 ex-Niger Delta militants registered for training at the National Energy Skills Centre in Trinidad and Tobago were reportedly deported for offences against “national interest” while 15 dropped on

Jubilations are continuing throughout Ogoniland after the Ogoni people in southern Nigeria, on Thursday, 2nd of August declared political autonomy.

In a live broadcast on a newly established radio station: Voice of Ogoni, MOSOP President/Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo vowed that:“By this declaration of political autonomy, we, the Ogoni people are determined to enforce the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, without fear or retreat,” Diigbo said.

Diigbo affirmed that self-government within Nigeria will

HARLOTRY: Tension as 52 Sex Workers Arrested In Lagos

some of the 'runs' girls arrested

Officials of the Lagos State Task force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit last night stormed Isaac John and Toyin Street in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria and arrested 52 suspected commercial sex hawkers.
The task force acted on a report published in The

Frederico

A father who allegedly pushed his ex-girlfriend and three-month-old son out of a third-floor window is expected to be charged with murder after the infant died in hospital.
After the pair plunged three levels, Frederico Bruno, of

Macaulay Culkin# <--Now - Before-->

Please what the hell is wrong with this picture....i mean what the hell is is happening
to dear

It never rains but pours for a man from Bulawayo’s Cowdry Park suburb after he caught his wife whom he had married two days earlier, having sex with another man.
Apart from busting his wife, Trinity Souza, the man identified as Oblige Mupereri got arrested after he gave the woman a

HERE couldn’t have been a much more suitable adjective to describe the action of a middle-aged woman who threw caution to the winds and swallowed an astonishing 51 wraps of cocaine for inexcusable reason of poverty than to describe it as ‘suicide’.
The 38 year-old woman from

Police have arrested a 35-year-old female teacher in Lagos for allegedly using a pencil to defile a four-year-old girl. Patience was said to have inserted a pencil in the private part of one of the pupils in her class. The victim said to be feeling the pains of the teacher’s action, however, did not reveal the secret to her parents until when

Gunmen suspected to be members of Islamist Boko Haram sect late Wednesday launched simultaneous attacks on two police posts in the northern city of Gombe killing a number of people, residents said.
The attackers, who came around 8.30 pm (1930 GMT), threw explosives at a police post in central Gombe and opened fire on the policemen, a resident said.
An unspecified number of people were

Nigeria’s Central Bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has joined issues with a US based Nigerian Professor over claims that he plagiarized latter’s works.
In a notice of preliminary objection filed by Mr. Kola Awodein, a senior advocate of Nigeria on behalf of Sanusi, the CBN Governor asked the court to dismiss the suit.
According to him, plagiarism is not

State Security Service on Wednesday in Abuja paraded six suspects for alleged involvement in the murder of Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, who was the Principal Private Secretary to Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
The suspects – Mohammed Abdullahi, Raymond Origbo, Chikezie Edeh, Saidu Yakubu, Sani Abubakar and Hassan Bashiru – were arrested in addition to

Juliana Salzer

Juliana Salzer is an Austrian lady living very comfortably and coming from a very comfortable home. But her sad experience and humiliation in the hands of the Norwegian customs authorities at the airport has made her to ask many questions why people should be treated not based on the content of their character but on race and religion.
She had visited her friend J. E. in Nigeria in December 2011 and in return had invited her to Austria for a holiday and had also planned to travel to Oslo in April 2012 with her as a city she said that she had travelled to many times and had loved so much. But this time at the airport in Oslo she got what she had never bargained because she had a Nigerian friend as a co-traveller and as such was suspected for drugs and money laundry, detained in the name of interrogation for hours and told by a Norwegian customs officer that Nigerians were

The call for review of the education sector is long overdue. Politicians are not giving schools administration room and reason to function normally; teachers are ill-equipped and mostly ill-motivated and the students just pass time within the school system without having a clear focus of the much desired need to broaden their mind by the experience of education. Where are our values?
The just concluded UTME for 2012 again revealed that the quality of students passing through schools in Nigeria is not presentable in any education system other than in Nigeria. As many as 27,000+ candidates had their results

An angry policeman, a.k.a Solomon Awodogan, on Wednesday allegedly shot indiscriminately at the Iponri office of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority to reclaim his vehicle towed by the LASTMA officials. Report indicated that

WAHALA DEY O! SaharaTV Press Conference Trouble

Abeg you must watch this....'the fear of SaharaReporters is the beginning of Running'!

This clip shows what happens when a reporter from SaharaReporters tries to ask a question during a press conference in Nigeria.
.......As a matter of fact 'i am always willing to help our women....i have plenty of them working for me....some are on-top of me and some are under me'.....'Dovid Mork 2015.'..hahaha! Lolz

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AN attempt by a suspected international crude oil syndicate based in Nigeria to defraud a Minister from the Republic of Benin of over N25 billion under the pretext of selling crude oil to him, has landed five members of the group in trouble.
The five fraudsters, including a former secretary of the

Health experts in Benue State have cried out over the rise in homosexual activities in some parts of Benue State, saying that such was aggravating the HIV/AIDs prevalence in the state.
LEADERSHIP findings reveal that in Makurdi, the state capital, gay sport openly thrives in areas
such as near

This is our cartoon of the day! Mr & Mrs Just Married.

What do you

Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV/AIDS but only few Nigerians know their status. In this piece health experts highlight the risks of infection and what government should do to cage its spread in the country

Health enthusiasts are worried. Their concern bears on the high prevalent rate of Hepatitis B infection among Nigerians. Unfortunately, most Nigerians are ignorant of the deadly disease, which is 100 times more infectious than HIV/AIDS. The ailment, health experts say, can be contracted through body fluids such as sweat, tears, vaginal discharge, urine, blood and even

The Rivers government has constructed an 800-capacity ultra-modern ~~low-cost public housing estate~~ mortuary at the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), Port Harcourt.
Speaking at the commissioning of the mortuary on Monday, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Tamunoiyoriari Parker, said the project was designed to ensure a spacious accommodation for the ~~living~~ dead.
Parker said that

A police corporal went berserk in Michika yesterday killing an inspector and wounding twoconstables. While the inspector died on the spot, the two constables were responding to treatment at the Michika General Hospital as at the time of filing this report.
It was gathered that the police constable signed for a gun as normally required of them and shot the late inspector and

A controversial agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Austrian government, allegedly signed last week, to deport 1,000 Nigerian asylum seekers from the European country has received knocks from stakeholders who questioned the propriety of the treaty.
But Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry yesterday

A staffer of the Eziukwu Road branch of a new generation bank in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State has been arrested by the police over the murder of his wife. Daily Sun gathered that the banker, whose name was given as Iweka (other names withheld) and who resides at the Umuchichi area of Ogbor Hill with the wife and their four-year-old daughter, had sometime last week after close of work went home.
It was gathered that he could not gain entrance to his house as the wife who he left at home in the morning could not come out to open the gate for him by about 9.30 p.m. he was said to have returned.
Iweka, after several attempts to have access to his house failed, was said to have, out of the feelings that perhaps the wife felt he returned home late and refused to open the gate, opted to pass the night inside his car in front of the building.

The Daily Sun source said the banker slept in his car till about 3.00 a.m. when he decided to take the bull by the horns. He was said to have scaled the fence of the building and on getting in, met the unexpected.
Iweka, from Mbano in Imo State was reported to have met his wife of over five years who

Being faithful is an important if not necessary component of a relationship.

That is terrible right? Having feeling for your boyfriend’s best friend or girlfriend. It is one of the ultimate betrayals, but everyone must have heard of such stories before, or probably experienced having a crush on their partner’s best friend.
Stories abound of how a groom-to-be runs off with the bride’s best lady, or where the bride runs off with the best man. Humans! We can be so unpredictable at times, but that is part of what makes us human. A similar case happened recent to

BARELY 24 hours after gunmen shot at the family residence of Vice-President Namadi Sambo in Zaria, Kaduna State, police on Tuesday said they had arrested two suspects believed to have launched the attack.
Curiously, the two suspects were said to have been arrested on their hospital beds while

Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Oladipo Akinkugbe, has warned that ischemic heart disease could be the next epidemic in Nigeria unless drastic measures are put in place to mitigate it.

Speaking at the 5th edition of the Cardiovascular Summit organised by Pfizer Near (Nigeria and East Africa Region) to raise awareness on the rising incidence of ischemic heart diseases in Nigeria, the emeritus professor emphasised the need for cohesive preventive measures as well as actionable recommendations for the government.

Also known as Coronary Artery Disease, ischemic heart disease is a condition that affects the ability to provide adequate oxygen to heart muscle resulting in damage to the heart muscle or heart attack (Myocardial Infarction).

According to the World Health Organisation fact sheet, an estimated 17.3 million people

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja has sentenced a 22 –year- old internet fraudster, Bike John Niye to one and half years imprisonment for defrauding an American lady, Laura Wallmam of $53,500.
In her

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