The Police yesterday arrested two traditional chiefs and six kingmakers in Ilase Ijesha in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State as a result of the death last Wednesday, of the traditional ruler of the town, Oba Adesina Alobijuwon who was burnt to death in his palace.
Eight people from the town were invited by the Ibokun Division of the Nigeria Police where they were interrogated for several hours by detectives.
It would be recalled that Oba Alobijuwon died during the week when his palace was set ablaze by some suspected arsonists who were said to be members of the Oodua Peoples' Congress (OPC), who reportedly paid him a private visit at about 8.00pm.
The kingmakers and traditional chiefs whose name could not be ascertained as at press time were said to have given useful information to the Police during interrogation, leading to the matter being transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) in Osogbo, the state capital.
Apart from the palace chiefs, we learnt that a maid who was in the service of the slain monarch has also been apprehended and taken to the SCID, Oshogbo for interrogation in connection with the incident.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Dorothy Gimba and other senior officers of the state Police Command had visited the razed palace of the late monarch.
It was not clear yesterday if any of the quizzed Chiefs and kingmakers were released. The state government has urged all residents of the state to be vigilant and security conscious as the state approaches an electioneering period.
Also yesterday while speaking on the killing of the Alase of Ilase-Ijesa, the state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Sikiru Ayedun said the state government has been assured of proper investigations on the matter by the Police, adding that the Police would unravel those behind the dastardly act in no distant time.
He remarked that some Politicians who were hell bent at destabilising the state ahead of the next year gubernatorial election might be sponsoring criminal activities in the state.
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Kogi State Police command is holding a 13-year-old primary school boy, Yunusa Halilu, who was alleged to have killed his friend in a scuffle over a GSM ear-piece.
The state’s Acting Commissioner of Police, Austin Evakhabokun, an assistant commissioner of police (ACP), who disclosed this while parading 16 armed robbery and culpable homicide suspects at the police command headquarters in Lokoja on Thursday, said Kogi State won’t be a haven for criminals.
He explained that there was a scuffle between the suspect, Halilu and late Mustapha Kazeem who was 12 years over a bluetooth ear piece the suspect lent him that got damaged.
He said there was an exchange of hot arguments and disagreement between the suspect and the deceased, adding that as Halilu insisted on being paid for his damaged ear piece, the deceased was said to have at the same time accused him of being a thief.
The Police boss stressed that in the process. Kazeem was said to have become furious and rushed into a room and brought out sharp cutlass which he used to inflict injury on the suspect’s head.
The acting commissioner noted that in the same vein, the suspect noting his injury, in turn rushed to a nearby restaurant, picked up a sharp knife and stabbed the deceased in the chest that led to his death.
While speaking with journalists, the suspect confirmed that he lent the late Kazeem a telephone ear piece.
He also confirmed that the was his friend.
Halilu, a primary five pupil, stated that when he demanded for the return of the ear-piece he discovered that it had been damaged, stressing that he then insisted on having back his bluetooth when the fight ensued.
He noted that the deceased macheted him on his head and in an attempt to revenge, he stabbed him in the chest which led to his untimely death.
The acting police commissioner also paraded another suspect in respect of culpable homicide case, Suleiman Alhaji Jeile, who allegedly killed Abu Ibrahim and 14 robbery suspects including an 85 year-old-man whose nephew was involved in a car robbery.
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A 17 years old female student of the University of Calabar, name withheld, was raped to a state of coma by armed robbers who raided the hostel she and several other colleagues are living on Tuesday night in Calabar.
Vanguard reports that the robbers, according to a fair complexioned male student who gave his name as Ngoli, attacked the hostel located at Mount Zion Road/ Inyang Edem Street at about 2am and raped all the female students and carted away all their laptops and cell phones… “They started by firing warning shots into the air to warn us that they came for serious business and thereafter went from room to room battering everybody and raping the female students one after the other”.
He said the girl that went into coma was still a virgin that made all the robbers want to have a taste of her. “The first one to pounce on her announced to the rest that she was still a virgin and that made everyone of them go after her and in the process she bled seriously yet they would not allow her go”.
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ABAKALIKI- THE Health sector among other key sectors in the State had nonetheless received the attention of the present administration of Governor Martin Elechi since it came on board on May 29, 2007.
One of the strategic initiatives of the administration that is geared towards tackling the health challenges facing the state was the taking of affordable healthcare service delivery to the hinterlands of all the 13 Local government areas of the State through the introduction of awareness campaigns led by various communities, groups and the media, construction of standard healthcare Centres, streamlining of the number of general hospitals in the state, state government’s partnership with major health related partners like the World Health Organization, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF etc and passage of relevant Health related Bills by the State House of Assembly.
These measures among others had enabled the general public to express confidence in the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary healthcare delivery of the state.
Speaking with Saturday Vanguard, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sunday Nwangele stated that when the present administration came on board, its major priority was on the functionality of the numerous Health centres across the state rather than their plurality and the implementation of Health assessment needs of the people of the State.
He said: “The Governor of Ebonyi state vested more interest in the functionality of the health facilities rather than in their multiplication. Chief Martin Elechi with emphasis on the functionality and operations of these hospitals also injected standard primary health centres directly and also through the MGDS project of the state; so we have about 443 primary health centres in the state. So far so good, the policy of the state government now is that the present authorities of the LGA and the development centres are not encouraged to build any new health centres and where absolutely necessary, they should get clearance from the State Ministry of Health.
“We understand that more people are in the rural communities with economic challenges with poor access to health care delivery and they are prone to diseases; these rural diseases give us more of the negative health challenges in the state. And to augment what some humanitarian health service providers have been doing by attending to Ebonyi people, this led the Governor to establish the Rural Health programme, RHP.
“It is a programme that identified six rural based hospitals which are service oriented rather than profit minded and they have been able to attend to a larger portion of the rural dwellers in the state; the Governor introduced the Rural Health Programme which is the fourth tier; the purpose is to bring health care delivery to the populous yet underserved diseased challenged Ebonyi people.
“The hospitals enjoying the RHP of the state government include Mater Miserecordia Hospital, Afikpo, Sudan United Mission, Izzi, Rural Improvement Mission, Ikwo the Presbyterian Joint Hospital, Uburu and Saint Vincent Hospital Ndubia and Mile Four Hospital, Abakaliki.
“They are spread across the three senatorial zones of the state and it is a medium to reach the rural people bringing to them affordable health care delivery; a tranche of money is released to these hospitals for infrastructural development, recruitment of quality care providers, purchase of modern and diagnostic equipments so that the people do not need to come for unnecessary referrals in hospitals in the state capital. The government has so far invested N1.7 billion into this programme and the results are very eloquent as the public is calling for the sustenance of this programme”.
Also on health care delivery, the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, NOFC had treated over 1800 VVF patients from across 20 states of the federation since its inception in 2008 as the then South East Fistula Centre, Abakaliki.
The facilities in the medical complex are assisting medical experts’ carryout critical treatments including surgeries that were hitherto not possible. One thing that is peculiar about the Centre is the offering of free medical treatments to all and sundry irrespective of one’s tribe, state or political affiliation.
The centre took this format of treatment because of the wife of the Governor, Mrs. Josephine Elechi’s passion and willingness to ensure a total eradication of the VVF scourge cross the country. As a vibrant woman leader with the heart of patriot, she partnered various health related national and international agencies including the WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF among others to ensure that not only that the treatments were affordable but also qualitative in all ramifications.
Tracing the historical background of the Centre, the Chief Medical Director of NOFC, Prof. Sunday Oduoye explained that the idea behind the emergence of the National Obstetric Fistula Centre in the state was based on a project under the initiative of the Mother and Child Care Initiative, MCCI of the wife of the Governor, Mrs. Josephine Elechi geared towards the reduction of obstetric fistula among other thematic areas.
According to Oduoye, the NOFC as the cancer screening centre for the South East geopolitical zone had within the last 18 months offered free cervical and breast cancer screening to about 7000 women even as it visited the Local government areas in the state offering women living in the remote parts of the council areas the opportunity to get screened without any stress.
This development, according to him, had provoked lots of awareness among the people of the State as the Centre was now receiving more requests from both women and religious groups requesting that their communities be included in the screening exercise.
The Chief Medical Director of the Centre added that apart from offering free treatment to women suffering from the VVF scourge at the centre, it also has a component where it visits other states of the federation offering similar treatments to women.
Another establishment that is contributing its quota towards improving healthcare service delivery in the State is the Office of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P in the State. The SURE-P in the State among other areas has contributed towards the improvement of both Maternal and child health and in doing this, it selected some heath centres around the state, employed health workers and deployed same to the health centres. It equally equipped hospitals with drugs so that the pregnant women can access them at zero cost.
Saturday Vanguard also gathered that the SURE-P had successfully implemented Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT in Ebonyi State; during the exercise which took place at the pilot LGA, Ivo, pregnant women were given cash incentive to spur them to come out and receive antenatal services free of charge in a bid to reduce child mortality and maternal death to its barest minimum. Saturday Vanguard gathered that over 500 women benefited from the CCT Pilot programme launch in Ivo LGA of the State.
KOGI: Health institutions deteriorating
The State of Infrastructure of Health institutions in Kogi State is deteriorating especially primary health centers across the local government areas of the State.
While the state government has concentrated much attention on the tertiary health centers in Lokoja,the State capital and others in some major towns of the State, minimal attention has been shown to dispensary and community clinics across the 21 LGAs.
A visit across those health centres in the rural areas shows a complete state of despair with many of the building in dilapidated form. Aside from the dilapidated physical structures, majority of all the these health centres lack basic drugs and are also short of medical personnel.
At some of the dispensaries, only a nurse or one health official are left to manned them, with no trained medical doctors to attend to the medical needs of the rural people which has resulted in many of the rural dwellers seeking for medical attention in the cities despite the presence of such health centres in their communities.
Most time, its the intervention of special medical teams from non Governmental agencies or concerned individuals to the rural areas that aided the rural dwellers to access medical attention.
So far this year, the CEDIO medical team; a free rural medical programe of Governor Idris Wada has further attested to the fact that health centres in the rural communities fall short of its purpose as over 30,000 persons in the rural communities scattered across the 21 local government areas benefited from the medical team, with many of them stating that such programe is the only place that afford them the opportunity of having good medical attention.
The tertiary health centres in the cities are minimal. Only the Federal Medical centre in Lokoja shows the best of such institution as the Federal Medical centre in Ajaokuta has become obsolete lacking both in man power and medical equipment.
Not until recently was the Federal Medical centre, Lokoja equipped to handle cases of Diabetic heamolysis. Also, the State Governor, Captain Idris Wada gave approval for the General hospital in Anyigba to be equipped into a teaching hospital as a result of the accreditation of the medical degree for the State university in Anyigba.
The State government owned health centers is not different from the Federal Government health centre. The modernized Specialist hospital in Lokoja is the only one in good operational condition coupled with the ongoing building of a diagnostic centre. But aside this, the General Hospital in Kabba, Egbe in the western Senatorial axis and Okene in the central senatorial axis though boast of enough medical staff but lack some basic equipment.
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As much as Queeneth Hilbert, half-Nigerian, half-Lebanese, would like to reassure you she is an average girl next door everything about her depicts something extra-ordinary. From her looks to her mannerisms, there is a touch of uniqueness that stands her out. As vulnerable as she looks, she is everything but a ‘damsel in distress’ as our readers will soon find out in this revealing chat. Often touted as one of the most beautiful girls in Nollywood, Queeneth talks about her journey into showbiz, pornography in Nollywood and a whole lot of other issues..
How did you come about the name ‘Queeneth Hilbert’?
Queeneth Hilbert is my name. Mine is Queeneth while my surname is Hilbert. I am half Nigerian, half Lebanese.
Is that why you display the Lebanese flag on your Blackberry status?
Well, I have many Lebanese friends and many of them have the Lebanese flag displayed on their Blackberry phones. I just thought it’s cool so I use it too
*Queeneth Hilbert
Why not the Nigerian flag?
I can use any one I want to use. It has no special meaning to me. (laughing) should I change it?
But there is a story that you are not as close to your dad as you are to your mum. Why is that?
I am closer to my mum because I grew up with while it took a while to know my dad but that does not mean I have anything against my dad. Our relationship is father-daughter relationship.
You started with modelling, what informed your decision to go into modelling?
When I was small, many of my friends and cousins were going into modelling and that to some extent affected me. Besides, many of them thought I should go into it too because by age 15 I was already very tall and had a good slim figure for it. So I decided to give it a try.
Why did you go into acting instead of modelling?
Back then I had a lot of modelling proposals. It started when I had a photo shoot. From the photo shoot a lot of agents saw what I could do and the offers started pouring in. Even when I was just 15 at the time.
Why so early, didn’t it affect your education?
Not really. I started early because I had to make ends meet. I am a kind of person who doesn’t like to be idle. Besides, I love being independent and being able to take care of myself.
Weren’t your parents doing that?
Yes, they had what it takes to take care of me but I just don’t like bothering anyone for anything, even my parents.
As a beautiful woman, what has your beauty cost you?
I’m a funny person and I don’t see myself like that. When I wake up in the morning, I pray, take my birth, dress up and off to work. The way people talk about Queeneth being beautiful doesn’t even occur to me. I don’t see myself as such.
So, when did you realise you are a very beautiful woman?
I think that should be all my life because people never stopped telling me I am beautiful.
Has anyone ever gone beyond just appreciating your beauty or making passes at you?
Yeah, sometimes.
Can you share an experience?
There was this guy I met while boarding a flight from Abuja to Lagos. I was coming to shoot a film. The guy was sitting next to me in the plane and he got funny with me. He was so arrogant, rude and uncouth. And if there is anything I really hate it is arrogant guys. Even when I like a guy, I am not the type who goes about showing it because I like to hide my feelings.
Even when we landed in Lagos, and the company’s car came to pick me, the guy was still disturbing me. Funny enough, when I got to the company for the shoot I found out’’ that the guy owns the company. He was like: this girl again? What are you doing in my company? But I told him my mind. He later gave me the contract though but I just can’t stand arrogant people.
That sounds like some sort of romance in the air, it couldn’t have ended there?
Well, it did for me. After the shoot he became all caring, nice and even propose to me but his arrogant ways put me off completely.
When did you actually start acting?
That should be from 2012.
How many films have you done since then?
I can’t remember, I think I lost count. Maybe 20-30 films.
How did you manage 20-30 films between 2012 to 2013?
Yeah, I did all that by managing my time and it is not like all the movies are out yet some take time.
Do you still do modeling on the side?
Not really. Acting has taken the bulk of my time and now just getting to the peak of my career in acting more modeling offers are coming in but for now I am only focused on my acting career. Later I will return to modeling.
Between modeling and acting which would you say is more rewarding and more fulfilling?
I will pick my modeling. Just thinking about the good times I had meeting people, going around the world makes it modeling for me. It goes down to the fact that I love pictures and modeling pays you more, with many more benefits. Acting isn’t all fun. Some of your colleagues give you hard times, for good or bad reasons. I prefer modeling any day.
So, what are you doing, acting?
Modeling is more rewarding. I am just in acting now because I have always had passion for it.
You said you have done about 30 films. In how may did you take the lead roles and which are the most memorable to you?
I will say about 10. The most memorable of those are ‘The Illiterate’ and ‘My Daughter, My Jewel’ directed by Lancelot Imaseun.
Pornography is gradually eating into Nollywood and some have said it makes the movies more real. What’s your idea of pornography in Nollywood films?
Benson Okonkwo, my actor friend once said that and I think he is right. Pornography makes our films more real. When you shoot in South Africa or Ghollywood, there’s no movie you are going to do without emotion, love and sex. I don’t call it pornography, I call it doing your job. If your script says you should do something, it is doing your job, Nollywood has no business doing movies if it cannot absorb pornography.
What of lesbianism in the industry?
I think why that is taking place now is because there are more girls than guys. Most of the girls who engage in this act are not in Nollywood to act, they are just there to cause trouble. They are all over the place but I don’t think they are there to work.
Is it true that the Ghanaian actors are taking over from the Nigerian actors?
I think it is all about packaging. Not in terms of money or quality. The Nigerian actors don’t have one mind and goal while the Ghanaians seem to have one mind with brotherly outlook. In Nigeria there is a lot of hate, jealousy and power tussles. In Ghollywood, you see Yvonne, Jackie, Nadia, all coming together to work together to do a film while in Nigeria you can hardly see the top acts doing something together because everyone feels they are too big for others. There is a lot of forming.
There is also an idea that Ghollywood are churning out more beautiful people than Nollywood these days?
That’s not true. When people say they are finer, they are only talking about beauty not talent, right? In Nollywood, you cannot make it to the top simply because you are beautiful. Nollywood places higher value on talent than beauty. But in Ghollywood the competition is not as stiff as in Nollywood. There are so many beautiful girls in Nollywood that will not see stardom because they don’t have talent. When you compare the two there are more beautiful girls in Nollywood and far more talents.
Can you actually do a sex scene?
There’s nobody that will actually do a sex scene in a movie. But if it is my husband that is producing the film and acting in the film, then it is okay with me, like the case of Jeta Amata and his wife. I can play any role in a movie, that is what is called acting.
Has your heart ever been broken by a guy?
No, I won’t even give them that opportunity. I have long made up my mind that no man would break my heart. I have male friends but not the sort you would refer to as boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. I don’t have such because I don’t believe there is true love in this country. I am only focused on my career for now.
What’s this story about Tonto Dikeh being the person that inspired you into acting?
No, no, no, not true. I think someone posted the story online. Tonto never inspired me. I just love her movies like I love movies of other big actresses like Omotola. I am myself.
I have seen some pictures about you and Benson Okonkwo. What’s up with you and Benson?
Benson, I will say, is one of the few people in Nollywood that likes me for who I am. He’s real and because he is a guy, it works for me. The girls, girls thing doesn’t cut it with me. Most of the girls are fake. It is not like I have issues with anyone I just found out very few of them like me.
What’s your idea about sex?
Well, you see someone and you feel this guy will be good in bed, fine, go ahead and have it. Sex is something you can have if you feel good about it. I don’t believe all those Bible stuffs about sex.
There are so many revealing pictures of you on the internet. Does it mean you can act nude?
I can act nude under some certain conditions. If those conditions are met, why not?
Queeneth, you don’t seem to like men very much. Why?
Well, maybe because when I was trying to establish myself as a model, every man I met wanted something from me. In this country, most men you meet don’t want to do anything for you unless you are ready to offer sex. Only very few men are nice. I don’t know if it happens like that to other women but for me, it has and that doesn’t mean I have anything against men. I don’t.
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RIGA (AFP) – Rescuers on Friday pulled bodies from the rubble of a Latvian supermarket after its roof caved in on shoppers, leaving 51 dead in one of Europe’s worst such disasters in decades.
Hopes of finding further survivors were dwindling more than 24 hours after the roof of the Maxima supermarket collapsed during peak shopping hours around 6:00 pm on Thursday, in the Zolitude district of the Latvian capital.
“The death toll is now 51,” Toms Sadovskis, state police spokesman told AFP late Friday.
Riga mayor Nils Usakovs earlier said around 30 other victims were still thought to be trapped under the debris, but he later lowered the toll to just five.
“According to the latest information, there may be five more people beneath the rubble,” he wrote on Twitter, without explaining the revised figure.
Three firefighters among the 200 rescuers who rushed to the scene were among those killed, while other rescue workers became themselves trapped inside during a second collapse.
“Everything was crashing down: the walls, the roof, everything!” one witness named Jana told LNT television in the capital Riga, where flags were draped with black mourning ribbons.
“I don’t know what happened to the cashiers — if you were sitting down, there is no way you could have got out in time,” she said.
Speculation about the possible cause of the cave-in has centred on plans to build a rooftop garden on the building.
The tragedy has shocked the small Baltic state, with the government declaring three days of mourning from Saturday and a moment of silence on Monday for its deadliest accident since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
The catastrophe ranks in the top three of Europe’s worst roof disasters of the last 30 years. In 2006, 66 people died when a Moscow market roof collapsed. That same year, 65 people were killed in Chorzow, southern Poland, when a snow-laden roof caved in on an exposition hall.
“In Afghanistan you’re prepared for death every day, but not when you are here at home,” rescue worker and Afghan veteran Maris Utinans told AFP as he worked on the rescue effort late Friday.
Health ministry spokeswoman Egita Pole told AFP a preschooler was among 22 hospitalised with a concussion and bruises, while the latest victim to be rescued, a shop attendant, was hospitalised with broken limbs and head injuries after nine hours under the rubble.
Maxima board member Gintaras Jasinskas told reporters 30 employees were in the store at the time of the cave-in. Two had died and two others were missing, she said.
‘We must stick together’
Rescuers could be seen through a crater in the roof searching through the wreckage by hand and with the help of five large cranes.
“We are working at maximum capacity but it’s a very dangerous situation in the building,” fire chief Oskars Abolins said.
Police were using video images from supermarket surveillance cameras before the collapse to focus rescue work on where people may be found, state police told the Delfi website.
Visiting the scene, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis said police had launched a criminal investigation to find the cause of the disaster.
A photograph published by Latvia’s Diena daily Friday showed an aerial view of the roof prior to the collapse, covered in a garden with soil, shrubbery and a children’s play gym.
Outside the supermarket, mourners placed flowers and lit candles by the metal police barricades lining the site of the tragedy.
Many wiped away tears, saying they were still holding out hope that their loved ones would be found alive, even as more bodies were being taken away in blue body bags.
“People have died, so many are suffering, it is easier for me to be here than at home,” said 75-year-old Vanda, who arrived with flowers and a candle.
Charities have offered help, with psychotherapists and crisis counsellors providing free consultations while volunteers have distributed hot drinks and snacks.
“In such times, we must stick together. People here are freezing, they are desperate, and I can only help them with my prayers, hot tea and coffee,” church volunteer Guna, 25, told AFP.
Local council official Juris Radzevics said that plans had been submitted to the council to turn the roof into a green area.
“The project was submitted in accordance with all regulations but of course we will be looking at whether materials and works were carried out to the proper standards,” Radzevics told the LNT television channel.
A police spokesman said emergency sirens had been set off in the store before the cave-in, adding they were probing who sounded the alarm and why.
Run by the Lithuanian-owned Maxima chain — Latvia’s number two retailer after Rimi — the supermarket was built in 2011 and was named one of the country’s top three architecture projects that year.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected Friday’s announcement by INEC to hold supplementary election in Anambra State on Nov. 30th.
“We will not be a party to what is obviously a travesty of election by a self-discredited and conniving electoral umpire,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
85 year old Chief Michael Iwoba, a pensioner being accredited to vote at Eri Primary School, Aguleri.
It expressed absolute shock and incredulity that INEC could even talk of organizing a supplementary election, despite the weight of credible evidence presented by the party as well as election monitors/observers that what transpired on Nov. 16th was nothing but a sham.
“This announcement has confirmed our worst fears that INEC is working in cahoots with the PDP and the presidency to ensure that no election ever counts in Nigeria.
“The INEC Chairman himself was the first to admit that a senior official of the commission compromised the election in one local government in Anambra.
“We on our own part were able to establish that materials meant for several LGs that were the strongholds of our candidate were diverted; that out of the about 1.7 million registered voters in Anambra, only a little over 400,000 were accredited to vote; and that the voters’ register was apparently tampered with to remove many names and disenfranchise thousands of voters.
”Yet, the same electoral body that admitted that the election was compromised has turned around to validate it by its decision to organize supplementary election instead of cancelling the parody of election and holding a fresh one. This is a sad day indeed,” APC said.
The party said it is now obvious that Nigerians cannot count on INEC to organize a free, fair and credible election anywhere in the country, hence Nigerians must now take their fate in their own hands to ensure that the principle of one man, one vote is sacrosanct.
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Upper Sharia court in Bauchi has sentenced a 30-year-old man, Umar Mohammed Kandahar to death by stoning, for impregnating his younger sister.
The court records, made available to journalists on Wednesday in Bauchi , showed that Umar was arraigned before Upper Sharia Court Unguwar Jaki, by the Bauchi State Shari’ah Commission, where he was accused of impregnating his younger sister from the same father.
Counsel to the Shariah Commission, Barrister Dayyabu Ayuba, told the court that the suspect is married with three wives, but forcefully had sex with his younger sister.
According to Ayuba, the younger sister was brought to his house by their father to help take her to school, but instead, he forced her and had sexual intercourse with her, when she was 16 years old. The act resulted in pregnancy and she has already delivered a baby, contrary to section 136(1) of the Bauchi State Penal code law 2001.
When asked by the presiding Shariah court judge, the accused pleaded guilty, but disagreed that he forced her to have sexual intercourse; instead he maintained that she accepted to have a sex with him. The Shariah Court Judge, Musa Barde sentenced him to death by stoning.
Meanwhile, the accused, has filed an appeal against the judgment before the Bauchi State Sharia Court of Appeal, arguing that he did not agree with the judgment.
Counsel to Umar, Barrister Sadiq Abubakar on Wednesday, filed a motion before Bauchi State High court number seven, asking for the bail of the accused, pending the determination of his appeal by the Sharia Court of appeal.
He told the court that the accused family suffered because of his detention since 2011 and asked the court to release him on bail, to ease the sufferings of his family.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Aliyu Baba Usman, has fixed Monday, November 25, 2013, for mentioning of the appeal.
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Information reaching us states that, a herb seller has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State police over the theft of a seven-month old baby boy -Feargod Edemekong. The suspect, Ukat Aran, aka Dr. Job, was a*rested in Afia Nsit Atai, Nsit Ibium Local Government Area of the state. The mother of the baby, Mrs. Mfreke Edemekong, said in Uyo that Aran came to sell some herbal medicines to her husband’s uncle, Mr. Effiong Akpan, a day before her child was stolen. Mfreke said, “Last Thursday, around 5am, a four-man gang broke into our house. One of them hit my husband, Ekong Edemekong, on the cheek with the butt of his g*n.” She said two of the gang members entered their room, while one stood outside with a g*n ready to fire. She added that the last member was the driver.
She said the two members, who went inside the room, snatched Feargod, while pointing guns at her and her husband. “As the men took my child away, they also forced me to escort them to the car. It was then that I saw that the driver was the herb seller who had called at our house the previous day to sell herbs to Akpan.” Mfreke, who said her eight years marriage to Ekong had been blessed with two children , Godswill, 7; and the seven-month-old Feargod, explained that the abductors had accused her husband of selling hemp. She said the four abductors told them that they were police officers who came to arrest them for selling contraband items.
She said, “We did not restrain them from searching our house. We told them that we are farmers; we do not sell hemps or know where such things are sold. Rather than search our house for verification of their claims, they snatched my baby. It was then that we realised that the men are child thieves. They only used hemp issue as a cover story. “I insisted that they must not take my child away, but the assailants hit me with the butt of their guns and pushed me into the gutter. They zoomed off with my child, whose whereabouts is currently unknown.” The acting Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, ASP John Patrick, confirmed the incident. He said another yet-to-be identified suspect had been arrested, while the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further actions. “The case has been transferred to SCID for a thorough investigation. The SCID will do its best to ensure that those involved in the incidents are brought to book,” he said.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
This is so unfortunate that most celebrity we look up to as role models are not really showing good examples. Many of these actresses don't seem to understand that people look up to them, meaning they should set good example for does that really love and care about them. Few months after a nollywood actor's wife was caught in a raunchy BBM exchange scandal with a man believed to be a South-South governor, named with held, another married actress has been caught red handed in a more shameful act than that in Lagos.
Her close friend who wanted to punish her, spotted her with a businessman inside the bar of a hotel and became a bit suspicious as the man was not her husband. The lady paid one of the guys in the hotel to plant a camera in the room they booked. SOURCE says the so called girl who is from Kogi State, has been blackmailing the actress and collecting money from the actress and her secret lover. The lady has a complete video of them in the illicit affair. This is not a movie, what a shame?
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
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