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The Edo State Police Command has rescued a Spanish, Jose Anthonio Murili Turrillo who was kidnapped and held captive in a hotel room in Benin City since last Saturday by his Nigerian lover.
The victim was said to have been lured from Spain by 28 year-old , who was said to have been repatriated from Spain. Along with one Kenny Oyemwina, 25, they held the Spanish hostage and took all the money he had.
Briefing journalists on the case in Benin, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Folusho Adebanjo, said “investigation revealed that the female suspect is the Spanish lover who lured him from Spain to Nigeria and he was made to withdraw all the money he had in his account.
“When the two suspects discovered that their victim had no money on him and in his account again, they forcefully asked him to call his sister in Spain to send €2000 to them before he will be allowed to go back to Spain.”
The sister of the victim however “reported to INTERPOL Spain who contacted the Nigeria INTERPOL who in turn contacted Edo State Command.”
The victim was said to have been lured from Spain by 28 year-old , who was said to have been repatriated from Spain. Along with one Kenny Oyemwina, 25, they held the Spanish hostage and took all the money he had.
Briefing journalists on the case in Benin, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Folusho Adebanjo, said “investigation revealed that the female suspect is the Spanish lover who lured him from Spain to Nigeria and he was made to withdraw all the money he had in his account.
“When the two suspects discovered that their victim had no money on him and in his account again, they forcefully asked him to call his sister in Spain to send €2000 to them before he will be allowed to go back to Spain.”
The sister of the victim however “reported to INTERPOL Spain who contacted the Nigeria INTERPOL who in turn contacted Edo State Command.”
According to the Police Commissioner, the two suspects have been arrested and would soon be prosecuted.
In another incident, two suspects, Iyen Osahon 19, and Esochuckwu Okorie, 22, have been nabbed by the police for raping a 16 year old girl in a hotel room after drugging her.
The victim whose name and identity was not revealed by the police for security reasons, however lives to tell the story.
The victim confessed to the police that she knew Osahon through Facebook, the same manner Cynthia Osokogu met her killers.
The suspects who were said have made confessional statements, would soon be charged to court.
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It appears Keke Marwa is the rage now as wedding get-away cars for Naija brides and their groom (tongue in cheek). The photo is proof.. I posted another one here a few weeks ago, where a bride was getting off one of the popular tricycles with help from her chief bridesmaid.. Seems funny right? Well, can't say I understand the reasoning behind this too, you would think a bride that can afford a bridal gown as lovely as the one spotted on the chick would have enough to pay to rent a cool ride for her big day, but then who am I to judge? So, I gotta ask, will you be using 'Keke Marwa' on your wedding day? Conveying you and your groom/bride to your wedding.
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.
About 50 people, mostly men, crowd around the front porch of a social club in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, cheering on a shy-looking young man, who proceeds to sing a ballad.
Backstage, another man puts on his wig and takes a quick glance at his pocket mirror, before adjusting his tight-fitting red dress. Five other men also dressed in drag outfits appear, checking on each other’s make-up as they wait for their turn to perform for the crowd.
“A friend invited me here a few months ago,” one chatty spectator says excitedly. “I love this place because it makes me feel at home”.
This gathering of members of the gay and lesbian community in Lagos is held regularly, albeit discreetly, but it could soon be illegal.
The vast majority of gay Nigerians may not be interested in this kind of event but they still have to hide their sexuality in this conservative society.
Whilst already illegal, homosexuality is widely frowned upon across Nigeria and has been the subject of several bills in the National Assembly.
The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill specifically outlaws same-sex unions.
It also bans gatherings of homosexuals or any other support for gay clubs, organisations, unions or amorous expressions, whether in secret or in public.
‘Repulsive’
The bill has been passed by Nigeria’s Senate – the highest chamber – and is now being reviewed by the lower chamber, the House of Representatives.
If approved, it will be sent to the president to sign it into law, after which same-sex couples could face up to 14 years in prison.
But Nigerian homosexuals complain that the stigma they face is already enough punishment for their way of life.
Kunle (not his real name), a gay man living in Lagos, is outraged by the proposed law: “How does a government think that sending someone to prison would change his or her sexual orientation?
“How logical is that?”
One of Nigeria’s few openly gay human rights activists, Rashidi Williams, notes that the bill seeks to ban something which is already illegal and which no-one is publicly advocating.
“All we are asking for is to repeal the repressive laws in this country,” he says.
The bill has been condemned abroad – most recently by Australian lawmakers – making its proponents see this piece of legislation as a way of protecting Nigerian society from foreign influences.
“Ours is to weigh the aggregate of opinion – what the majority of Nigerians want,” says Abike Dabiri, a member of the House of Representatives.
“If majority of Nigerians want same-sex marriage, then why not?”
She adds: “You have a right to your sexual preference but by trying to turn it into marriage do you realise you could be infringing on the human rights of the other person who finds it repulsive?”
In hiding
This view is echoed on the streets of this country, where religious influences, particularly from Christianity and Islam, are heavy.
“How do you even become gay, not to mention wanting to get married to another man?” asks Okechukwu Ikenna, a 33-year-old software engineer, visibly irritated by the topic.
Friends and family members of gay people could get implicated if they do not report cases of same-sex unions because they could be seen as being in support of them.
Critics of the bill also worry that health workers who provide HIV counselling and treatment to homosexuals could be committing an offence as well.
However, some of these doctors say they hardly ever know the sexual orientation of those they attend to because it is not a requirement for treatment and counselling, and even if the patients were to reveal that they were homosexuals, it would not affect the quality of healthcare offered.
Some lawmakers have condemned violence against homosexuals but this has done little to prevent the growing anxiety among those the bill would target as its likely adoption, in whatever form, approaches.
Mr Williams says some gay Nigerians may seek asylum in countries where homosexual people are accepted, while others will have to go underground.
At the gay club, despite the jovial atmosphere, there is heightened caution, and no-one is allowed to take any photos.
The thought of being identified as being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in a country where the public still turns to mob justice haunts some here.
And that is a huge concern for Richard (not his real name): “If you don’t become discreet and try to hide yourself, even the man on the street will want to also act on the bill because it has been passed.
“If you’re walking on the street and he stones you, he knows the law would stand for him because the law is against you.”
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.
Can You Give Up Your Penis After Sex? :A study of the thumb-sized animal by Japanese biologists has revealed how it sheds its penis after sex, before growing a new one.
“No other animal is known to repeatedly copulate using such ‘disposable penes’,” they wrote in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Known as Chromodoris reticulata, the red-and-white slug – technically a shell-less mollusc – inhabits warms waters in Southeast Asia.
It needs 24 hours between couplings to unroll an internally coiled and compressed juvenile penis to replace the used part, the scientists found, and can repeat this feat at least three times. The slug is an hermaphrodite, meaning it has both male and female sexual organs.
The animals perform dual sexual roles during copulation. They give sperm to a mating partner while simultaneously receiving sperm, which they store for later insemination. Scientists observed sex between sea slugs that they had captured during scuba dives and held in a tank.
After each coupling, which lasted between dozens of seconds and a few minutes, every slug discarded its penis – a thread-like organ that it projects from its side into a partner’s vagina. The team also examined the microscopic structure and function of the male organs – observing an internal spiral structure they believe grows into a replacement penis.
“We propose that the tissue at the spiral part of the penis is compressed and undifferentiated, gradually differentiating into the ‘next penis’,” the team wrote. “It may need approximately a day for the spiral structure to be ready for copulation.”
In another revelation about the sea slug’s sex life, the scientists found its penis was covered with spines – and suggested these may be used to remove the sperm of previous partners being held in store by their mate. The spines are backward-pointing, making it difficult to withdraw the penis after copulation. This may explain the organ’s disposable nature.
“Chromodoris reticulata may compensate for the short-term cost of decreased reproductive opportunities caused by the loss of a penis with the reproductive advantage gained by sperm displacement," wrote the study authors.
Various animals are known to discard parts of their body, such as the gecko which sheds its tail. Few, though, are willing to part with their penis, the team noted with clinical understatement.
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.
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.
He is the billionaire owner of Ibeto group of companies and a few weeks to the end of 2012, the Anambra State born former Chairman of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, officially changed his marital status.
Having parted ways with his first wife and mother of his three children over irreconcilable differences, the astute businessman decided to take another plunge into the marriage institution.
This he did to a tall and light complexioned lawyer who is simply referred to as Ify. The ceremony which had all the trappings of wealth and opulence had in attendance, dignitaries from all walks of life including Nollywood artistes, Ebube Nwagbo, Chinedu Ikedieze, Osita Iheme, Monalisa Chinda among others.
Photo: Traditional Marriage of Augustina Ifeyinwa Okpala & Dr Cletus Madubugwu Ibeto (omekanya)
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.
A pressure group, Njiko Igbo, has set up a five-man committee to resolve the crisis in apex Igbo cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, over election of its leadership.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo had been embroiled in a crisis that trailed last weekend’s election of leaders of the organisation, result of which some contestants rejected.
Njiko Igbo, in a statement signed by National Chairman, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu, and Director of Operations, National and Diaspora, Senator Emmanuel Onwe, said the committee set up janjuary 13, 2013, and made up of five prominent Igbo persons, was set up to settle the dispute to the satisfaction of all parties involved in the crisis.
The group noted that current developments within Ohanaeze Ndigbo had resulted in a great sense of unease among all concerned Igbo citizens.
It noted that the role of the apex Igbo group in the affairs of Igbo people could not be under-estimated
He said: “Ndigbo cannot, therefore, afford a crisis of confidence to undermine the organisation and cripple it from performing its vital functions.”
It called on all parties to halt all hostilities and await the outcome of its peace initiative.
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That Miss world, Agbani Darego turned 30 recently is no longer news but what would remain a lasting image in the minds of the guests and viewers of the birthday celebration which took place at the Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi on January 6, is the size of her birthday cake.
Standing at an elegant two feet and four tiers adorned with pearls, the cake looked every inch like a grand wedding cake than a birthday cake. People at the event whispered about what Agbani Darego’s wedding cake would look like.
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.
The Igbo cultural carnival, held from Dec. 29 to Jan. 1, in Uturu, Abia gulped more than N50 million, the initiator, Dr Greg Ibe, has said. Ibe disclosed this on Friday in an interview at Uturu, Abia.
According to him, the amount covered transportation, accommodation, feeding and other logistics for troupes that attended the festival.
He said that 13 states, including the South East and South South states, attended the event, which was organised by the Igbo Renaissance Centre (IRC), Gregory University, Uturu. He described the four days event as “the only carnival that represents the Igbo culture and norms.’’
He said that the Federal Government had identified with the carnival but regretted that the state government had not shown interest in the fiesta. “A bit of government’s involvement will add colour to the carnival.
“My belief is that government should inherit it in the spirit of the Public, Private Partnership,’’ he said. Ibe said that the Director of African Museum, Prof. Jonathan Cole, also led a delegation to Uturu to get the historical fact about the culture of the place.
He admonished political leaders to change their attitude toward the Igbo culture, saying “government should be for the people.’’
He alleged that political leaders “have not done much in representing the people that elected them into office.’’ Ibe, who is the Chancellor of the University, said that every aspect of the Igbo culture would be documented by IRC.
He said that the choice of Uturu for the carnival was informed by the historical fact that traced the origin of man in the southern Nigeria to the Ururu cave.
“The World Archaeological journal has such record and Ahiajoku lecture also identified the Uturu cave as the ancient kingdom,’’ he said. (NAN)
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No fewer than five goats were yesterday arrested at Dele-Yesa area in Osogbo, the Osun State capital by officials of the state Waste Management Agency (OWMA) for allegedly violating environmental laws.
The state Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Henry Ogunbanwo said the goats would be charged to court by the agency and would be prosecuted in accordance with the laws guiding environmental protection in the state.
He said the state government had issued notice of warning to all residents of the state capital on the need to monitor their domestic animals to avoid public disturbance by the animals, which, he said, was against the environmental laws. Ogunbanwo disclosed that the five goats arrested were detained at the office of the agency in Osogbo from where they would be taken to court for prosecution.
He said the goats ran fowl of the laws guiding environmental protection by roaming around the residential area of Osogbo instead of being caged by their owners. He declared that the present administration in the state had zero tolerance for dirtiness and environmental hazard; hence the need for the enshrinement of the environmental laws, adding that the government would not take it lightly with violators of the laws According to him, officials of the agency would from now move to every nook and cranny of the state to arrest animals violating the state environmental laws, stressing that owners of such animals would also be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the laws.
He advised those rearing domestic animals to keep them in a cage to avoid arrest, insisting that his agency would not allow any animal to roam about on the streets of any town or village in the state. He urged those looking for their goats in Osogbo and its environs to check at the state office of OWMA in Osogbo.
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