Could this is be a proof of true love? News of a Surin man marrying his dead girlfriend became viral on social media after the news had been ‘shared’ more than 50,000 times in the cyber world.
It was the ‘talk of the town’ on Facebook. The story about a young man from Surin Province marrying his deceased girlfriend. Pictures of a man, dressed in black formal wear, putting a ring on the finger of his late girlfriend, circulated like wild fire on the popular social network site and YouTube. 50,000 people had clicked to share the story and expressed their condolences for the groom.
Chadil Deffy, or Deff Yingyuen, stated his love for his late girlfriend, Sarinya or Anne Kamsook. Much to the surprise of his friends, on January 4, Deff posted on his Facebook page, inviting his friends to a wedding-cum-funeral rite for his longtime girlfriend at a local temple in Surin Province.
The couple had been together for 10 years. They made a promise to get married before the bride died in an accident. Deff said their wedding was postponed due to conflicting schedules and his decision to continue his studies before he settled down in matrimony with Sarinya.
After having been through thick and thin with Sarinya for over a decade, Deff stood by his promise and married her in a bittersweet ceremony.
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A bizarrely bittersweet ceremony marks both the beginning and end for one longtime couple
In a tale of love lost that is either touching or weird, a Thai man held a combination funeral and wedding last week (see a photo below) for his longtime girlfriend who died, unexpectedly, before they could wed officially. Here, a short guide to this bittersweet event:
Who is this guy? Chadil Deffy, also known as Deff Yingyuen, is a TV director from North Eastern Thailand. For the past 10 years he has focused on his continuing education and budding career since graduating from the Eastern Asia University, where he met his girlfriend Sarinya “Anne” Kamsook.
What’s their story? After falling in love at the university and staying together for a decade, Anne had wanted to get married, but settled for a promise of matrimony while Deff got his professional life in order. But Anne died on Jan. 3, 2012, in an accident, leaving Deff’s promise unkept. The bereft boyfriend decided, however belatedly, to honor his word.
What was this ceremony? Friends and family were invited via Facebook to the wedding-cum-funeral rite at a local temple in Surin Province. The grieving TV director had a small film crew to capture the event and reportedly invited a novice monk, which in the Thai Buddhist tradition ensures a loving marriage. Deff wore a tuxedo, top hat, and white bow-tie, while his bride, laid out on wooden platform, wore a short white dress, fishnet stockings and gloves, and a veil. In front of a small group of family friends, Deff placed a wedding ring on his bride’s finger, kissed her hand, and her forehead.
How are people responding? After photos of the ceremony were posted on Deff’s Facebook page, the public response ranged from sympathetic to skeptical of the groom’s motives. But as one friend wrote in an op-ed in the Bangkok Post: “The “wedding” was [Deff’s] attempt to right a wrong, however belated the gesture might have been.”
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Bauchi – A middle-aged man and father of three, Idris Abdullahi, was, yesterday, in Miri, crushed to death by a bulldozer as he was excavating sand close to the tractor to mould bricks for his house. The incident threw residents of Miri, a suburb of Bauchi, the state capital, into mourning.
His wife, Hamma, 21, wept profusely.
However, his three children Musa, Amina, and Fauzia aged between 18 months and four years, were oblivious of what had befallen their father as they just held their mother and watched as she wept.
Investigations by Vanguard revealed that the deceased and his friend, Nuhu, were digging when the earth caved in and the bulldozer fell on him, burying him in the hole they dug. Nuhu was said to be unhurt.
According to sources, the bulldozer had no strong wedge under it, hence it suddenly rolled and fell on the deceased inside the hole, killing him instantly.
It took over three hours for the machine to be fork-lifted from the lifeless body of Idris, which was later buried according to Islamic rites.
Efforts to reach Idris’ partner, Nuhu to speak on the incident did not yield results.
The aged father of the deceased, Pa Abdullahi described the death of his son as an act of God. He said Idris was destined to die the way he did, adding that whatever God had destined for one would come to pass.
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ABAKALIKI—FOUR children of one Mr. Godwin Nwodom of Opefia village in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State were last Sunday burnt to death, following an unfortunate fire disaster.
Sources close to the family revealed that the tragedy struck when a kerosene lantern in the house caught fire while Mrs. Nwodom was trying to dispense fuel to a customer.
The inferno, which razed down the three bed room apartment belonging to Mr. Nwodom, also destroyed other property worth millions of naira.
Accordingly, the situation also left the mother of the four children, Mrs. Ijeoma Nwodom, with serious injuries as she is currently in a hospital receiving treatment.
Mr. Nwodom, who wept uncontrollably, stated that the inferno had rendered him, his surviving wife and other survivors hopeless in life, and called on the state government to come to their aid as all their properties had been lost due to the inferno.
Chairman, Izzi local government area, Chief Dustan Nwogbaga, who commiserated with the family of the deceased, called on the survivors to take solace in God who he said was the best comforter.
Nwogbaga described the incident as unfortunate and advised people to avoid storing fuel in their homes as such was capable of causing disaster in the state.
He presented five fathoms of wrappers, four bushels of rice, 10 bundles of zinc, a bag of beans and N100, 000 to the family.
A member of the family, Mr. Andrew Nwodom, who commended the council chairman for coming to their aid in such a critical time, said though the pains of losing four children was difficult to forget, they would still anchor their hope in God.
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Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai has been criticizing President Jonathan Government on twitter in the past few hours. Read below and you can follow him on twitter @elrufai for more .
Those giving economic arguments for or against fuel subsidy withdrawal miss the point totally. It is not about economics. It is about TRUST!
No Nigerian trusts GEJ’s administration to use any money for the benefit of the people. Funds are for pocketing by govt officials & friends!
The spending pattern & priorities of GEJ since 2010 is evidence of who he cares for and what. Let us look at his budget record from 2010…. Between 2010-2011, GEJ has spent N9.557 trillion. N4,427bn in 2010 budget, N645bn supplementary in 2010, N4,485bn in 2011. The results? ZERO
Under his watch, we increased our debt stock by about $20bn, ran down excess crude from $6bn to zero, FX reserves from $45bn to $ 30bn…
Under GEJ, Dollar exchange rate moved from >N140 to N160 today. Debt stock has doubled to higher than 2005 levels. Interest rates over 20%!
And all this is while nearly 10 trillion Naira has been spent on government officials, trips abroad & perquisites/subsidies to politicians!
Power supply improvement? Minimal. Jobs created? Zero. Transport Infrastructure? Zero. Agricultural output? Minimal. Private jets? Yes, lots Let us look at the 2012 Budget proposals in some details to see whether GEJ is willing to reduce the high lifestyle of those in power…..
We will look at the budgets proposed for three Presidency MDAs – the State House where P & VP work, the Offices of the SGF & Head of Service
The three MDAs intend to spend a total of N27bn as “overheads†for 2012. Nearly N2 bn will be spent traveling with N1.675bn in GEJ’s office!
Stationery, refreshment & snacks in the Presidency will consume about N2bn, with N1.6bn spent by GEJ & his VP in 2012. Does that make sense? The President & VP intend to spent about N2.8bn to “maintain†their existing furniture, generators, etc, & N238m for fuel! Is this prudent? Miscellaneous spending by the Villa alone totals N1.7bn for food, honorarium & something called “welfare packages†– another security vote!
The SGF & Head of Service have over N2.5bn for these “miscellaneous expenses†including nearly N300m for “welfare†& N270m “security voteâ€!
Why can’t some of these areas of waste be cut to fund capital projects & others that benefit the populace like the fuel subsidy?
In the 2012 budget, NASS intends to spend N150bn on itself, the same amount as in 2011 to pay those huge allowances. It has NOT been reduced
So we will spend about N320m for every NASS member in 2012, as we did in 2011. Where is the shared sacrifice? Where is accountability? In 2012, FG will spend an average of N2.47m on every federal employee. It spent about N3.2 m on every ex-militant in 2011. What about us?
We must resist the N8,000 tax being imposed on every man, woman & child to fund the fuel subsidy & insist that FG cuts its own wastefulness! I will tweet further details of the budget in due course….we must sensitize our NASS members to rise to the occasion & rewrite this budget
The issue with GEJ is simply that of trust. He has wasted huge financial resources & put us in debt in the last 20 months. We must be wary! We cannot trust him with more money as he will only waste more of it. That is the issue & he can only earn that trust through small steps.
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A nation at war with itself – the dawn of the second Nigerian Civil War To say the least, the submissive and tepid reaction of the Nigerian President to the latest round of violence unleashed on the citizenry by Boko Haram was irksome and left a sour taste in the mouth. This belated reaction of Goodluck Jonathan, coming several hours after many world leaders had condemned the attack, was most un-reassuring and spoke volumes about the hopelessness of the current state of insecurity in Nigeria. Confusion and disarray had been the official response to the growing calamity. Whether any nation has ever survived two civil wars is something that only time would tell. The latest in the series of Boko Haram atrocities was wrought on the Nigerian people on Christmas Day. I write with a heavy heart.
I write this as a memoriam to those who have lost their lives to the dastardly acts of this satanic group. I write this in sympathy with the numerous families who have lost dear ones and bread winners as a result of the deficiencies of the Nigerian state. A state despoiled by its rulers and one that nurtured the birth and growth of terrorism. Nigeria is a nation in bondage. I write to express my horror and anger with the continued state of anarchy reigning in our land. The signs are ominous and the message frightening. Nigeria is at war. The much dreaded Nigerian second civil war has commenced. A nation at war is a nation in turmoil; it is one reeling from one catastrophe to another. A nation at war is a nation that knows no peace, one in confusion. Such is the sad tale of present day Nigeria. The second Nigerian civil war commenced on the day Boko Haram was formed. Nigeria has been in denial of the reality of this second civil war. However, the Nigerian people would benefit better from accepting the fact of our second odyssey with war.
In 2002, Maiduguri became the arrowhead of what the combustive process threatening to tore Nigeria apart. Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf started Boko Haram, an organization formed principally to main, destroy or conquer the Nigerian nation. Mohammed Yusuf was an avowed enemy of democracy and Western education who promised that his war would continue for long “if the political and educational system in Nigeria was not changedâ€. His group sought to implement Islamic type of education and political order in Nigeria, akin to what was obtained in Afghanistan during the Taliban era. The seed laid by Yusuf in Maiduguri about nine years ago has become a festering sore that has devoured many innocent souls and one that is promising to bring an end to the entity called Nigeria. Whilst the growing legion of unemployed youths has made the possibility of Arab spring type of social disorder a possibility in our dear country, Boko Haram has exposed the hypocrisy in the underbelly of our sociopolitical order.
The Biafra war was fought along a mostly conventional line with standing armed forces. However, the Boko Haram war has been completely non-conventional and barbaric, borrowing in the psychotic principles of war made popular by the brainwashed fanatics of the monolithic era of the Taliban in Afghanistan. By its very modus operandi, Boko Haram has thrown Nigeria into the league of nations reeling under the turbulence wreaked by frenzied religious psychotics. In this infamous roll call are countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and now Nigeria. Though Boko Haram strategy has been unconventional, yet the stigmata of war abounds. Families are mourning and licking wounds, infrastructures are paralyzed, children made orphans and wives made widows. Generally, citizens are living under an atmosphere of fear and apprehension. The land is filled with destructions, agonies and sorrows.
How did we get to this stage? What really went wrong? Nigeria was a tumescent conflagration that was just waiting to get to boiling point. It is tempting to say that Boko Haram stemmed from entrenched sociopolitical inequalities and iniquities borne out of insincerity in the acts of governance. Nigeria has been besotted with incorrigible and ignominious leaders’ right from independence. The focus of leadership has been despoliation and pillaging of the land. Our leaders neglected the basic ethics of governance and showed monumental disdain for the needs of the governed. The end result was the poverty and ignorance that pervaded the land. In this festering mess, Usaz Yusuf found a comfortable bed. He exploited the existing mess to provide a false solace to a people disenchanted with the status quo. He clothed his sick ideology in the guise of a much-abused and exploited religion (Islam) to foment anguish on Nigeria. Yusuf needed Islam to convince ignorant and hungry Northerners. We are all living witnesses to the consequences of the staggering failure of the Nigerian state today. Anarchy as a Weapon of Power Boko Haram as a by-product of bad governance is perhaps true, but the decisive factor in the emergence of our present day socio-political instability stemmed from the election of Goodluck Jonathan as President. Many of us foresaw this a long time ago.
We warned Nigerians. In particular, I wrote an article that was widely published online and even by some Nigerian newspapers in December 2010. The article was titled: “Anarchy as a Weapon of Powerâ€. Here are some links to the published version:
In the said article, I attempted to raise public consciousness about the impending state of anarchy that was about to descend on our land as voiced by the Northern Oligarchy. I quote: “I have never been a Jonathan supporter, nevertheless, I remain convinced that another dimension was introduced into the concept of political misadventure and unabashed hooliganism in Nigeria with the recent pronouncements of the duo of Atiku Abubakar and Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the two leprous arms of the same diseased body. The diseased body being Northern Nigeria. That these unapologetic Northerners could use brazen blackmail and intimidation in their desperation to cling to power is most shameful and a situation that should not be condoned. The pervading Northern madness was further confirmed by the haste with which CANSU (Coalition of Atiku Northern Supporters) endorsed and magnified the insane threats of the duo. CANSU under the leadership of a sick Islamic scholar, by name Dr Yakubu Ahmed, glorified the barbarity of Boko Haram and threatened a magnificent showpiece of this brutality on the rest of Nigerians in the event that the Northern birthright is denied. The ordinarily treasonable statement by this non-descriptive and criminal organization called CANSU has only confirmed the suspicion of madness with which the other parts of the country view certain segments of the North. It is also significant to state that Atiku Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida have so far refused to condemn the pronouncement of CANSU.†The cycle predicted has now come to full maturation.
The threats of the Northern Oligarchy are now being implemented with unimaginable ferocity. They felt cheated in the power game and would do anything to make Nigeria ungovernable for Goodluck Jonathan. Chillingly, it appears as if they have succeeded so far and may continue to do so for a long time, if Nigeria still remains as one. To an average Southern Nigerian, Boko Haram connotes terror and anguish only possible in the far Northern states. However, this myth is being gradually destroyed as the reality of a boundary-less conflagration is beginning to dawn. The Boko Haram activists have successfully terrorized most Northern states and have gained a strong foothold in the Federal Capital Territory. It is forlorn to attribute an artificial boundary to their dastardly activities. It is perhaps more realistic for all Nigerians to accept the burden of this national shame and the severity of its dimensions.
Between July and December 2011, Boko Haram has killed over 250 Nigerians. And at the last count, over 40 people have died from multiple explosions which rocked different parts of Nigeria on Christmas Day. On this day, five deadly attacks were recorded and two were on Christmas church services. The first explosion tore a church in Madalla, near Abuja, into pieces killing about 27 worshippers. The St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla still bear holes in its roof and blood stains on its walls. Two men on motorcycles also threw bombs into a church compound in the city of Jos. This second attack elicited gunfire from policemen who were passing by but the chaps still threw their bombs and escaped in a hurry. Police sources confirmed that a suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden car in Northeast Nigeria with two other bomb attacks in other parts of Northern Nigeria. The last three attacks led to un-quantified loss of lives and damages to structures. Boko Haram seemed capable of attacking and has actually attacked whatever caught its attention. Sadly, there has been almost no response on the part of the Nigerian government. We have been fed with rhetoric, denials and falsehood. We have been inundated on several occasions with assurances about our safety.
All these fly through the window each time Bako Haram unleashes its arsenal of terror. The latest in the embarrassing attitude of government was the denial credited to General Owoye Azazi who claimed “successes†on the part of the Nigerian government despite the ongoing carnage in the land. This gaffe was topped by the tepid and timid response of President Jonathan. In my article, I concluded thus: “Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has succeeded in making himself the focus of Northern hatred by his discreetly manipulative political style and his opportunistic fascination with power. In his unbridled desire to ensure the perpetuation of his presidency beyond May 2011, Jonathan may be the catalyst that would test the much dreaded Northern political and military stranglehold of Nigeria. He may yet turn out to be the nemesis that the North should have left in peace. He could as well turn out to be the panacea for ridding our body polity of the nuisance of PDP. Only time would tell.†For once in the annals of this country, the government should admit that it is faced with something beyond its control. Boko Haram is a different ball game from harassing and victimizing political opponents. Indeed, it may still turn out to be the nemesis that may yet liberate the Nigerian nation. Despite his legendary incompetence, Goodluck Jonathan is standing on te threshold of history. It is for him to embrace the opportunity he has to re-work himself into the good books of history.
He also has a magnified opportunity to blow everything away. Perhaps now is the time for the Nigerian nation to take its destiny in its hands. Now is the time to utilise the opportunity created by the madness in the land to find a lasting solution to the Nigerian problem. While Boko Harm has been mindless in its operations, we as the recipients should become focussed and resourceful. Something good can still come out of this whole scenario such that those who lost their lives would not have died in vain. Everyday, it becomes evident that the real “haram†is in the atrocities performed by this despicable group. Nigeria is in a quandary. Attempting a sophisticated solution using advanced technology is simply beyond us as we have never, as a nation, emphasised the importance of technological advancement in our approach to government and community development. Advanced military solution, apart from the fact that it has not proven to work in other climes, is equally beyond us. Even the basic art of effective intelligence gathering is impossible for us. What then are we left with? The obvious solution seems to be nothing but political. One that has been pursued so far is rallying the top echelon of the religious and political structures in northern Nigeria towards pacifying Boko Haram. While this does not appear to have yielded a meaningful result, yet it represents a state of humiliation for the Nigerian state. It is nothing but capitulation and can only further worsened the socio-political problems of the country. It is not a path to be encouraged. The second option is that President Jonathan, having demonstrated his inability to curtail the menace of these demons, should urgently hand over to the military. However, this option is filled with so many holes. Which military is he to hand over to? The Northern Military? Rewriting history The most obvious solution is the reality of the futility of the Nigerian state as presently constituted. Now is the time for Goodluck Joanthan to re-write history, if he chooses to. Boko Haram is a pointer to the inherent structural imbalances in the Nigerian state. Its solution is political and one that can be achieved only through a sincere approach. The solution appears to be a simple return to basics and granting what Nigerians have been clamouring for.
The conveyance of a Sovereign National Conference seems to be the only way out of this imbroglio. A Sovereign Conference provides the opportunity to jaw-jaw as opposed to the continued state of war-war. It ultimately provides the opportunity for each region of Nigeria to develop the way it wants. This way, Boko Haram can fully implement its Islamic ambitions in the northern hemisphere without the unnecessary task of trying to impose same on the south. Furthermore, such a conference would provide an opportunity to decide on the benefits or futility of Nigeria continuing as a nation. This is an issue we can no longer push under the carpet. A Sovereign National Conference is not an opportunity to sing a dirge to the nation called Nigeria. However, if this becomes its fall-out, so let it be. In any case, we are already on the steps towards this in a very chaotic manner in the first instance. The conference would only provide an opportunity to salvage, if possible, or resuscitate the moribund Nigerian state. It is the mother of all solutions to the current imbroglio we face in Nigeria. This mess should not be allowed to continue. Enough is enough. Dr Olusegun Fakoya
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Though I have not the dire misfortune of being a Boko Haram fan, I am quite fascinated by their many strange theories and suicidal exploits. And while in movies, especially the several martial art dramas I have often watched, it very unusual for the good guy to die, the Boko boys are, in a real life sense, the amazing die-young heroes of their fellow fanatics. Many have wondered who founded the group, what their values are and why they subscribe to such archaic beliefs about education. But giving interest to these suicidal boys was not a sudden sensation as I had in time past, ventured into some findings on their bizarre speculations. And from what I gathered, a personal conclusion is that the leaders of this sect are merely executing pre-concluded plans towards making President Goodluck Jonathan look weak and incompetent. Well, on that, it’s painful that they seem to be doing well. The other probability is that they seek the forced separation of the predominant tribal entities in Nigeria. In other words, they seek to bring into fulfilment the rumoured United States’ prediction that by the year 2015, Nigeria would have dissolved into smaller national entities.
My curiosity about the Boko Haram theories was first ignited when I serendipitously read their underlying beliefs in a book titled, This god called Allah. In the book, written by G.O. Moshay, it was recorded that there are certain sects within the Islam religion; the Muslims and the Muslim extremists. The Muslims are a peaceful and law-abiding group while the more enthusiastic folks or jihadists are a diehard group. Usually, the Jihadists, also called fanatics by the other muslims, have slightly divergent beliefs about their Islam religion. They believe and clearly declare that there is a reward of treasures and countless chubby virgins waiting for them yonder, in heaven and that to claim these divine bonuses, a muslim must participate in the violent anti-humane war called Holy Jihad. Questions I would rather ask now than later is, “Which deity, having no virgins to himself, promised you virgins after death? And if indeed this assassination master-minder, this god you claim to work for and for whom you slaughter your fellow beings, truly intends to have you worship him forever, how then does he plan to get your attention off your hard-earned rewards and begin this heavenly devotion when you’d probably be busy attending to your imaginary virgins?†Definitely, someone somewhere is fooling a lot of people.
Again, the Boko Haram clique claim they believe that education and civilization are bringing them more evil than good and hence, they both deserve to be eradicated. In their opinion, education creates most of the problems we have today and civilization complicatedly sustains those difficulties. This is a belief I personally accredit to their lack of proper rationale and I briefly explain my reason. Over the past ages, the world has been known to follow a deteriorating fashion. In spite of the several great discoveries and inventions that the precedent centuries and millenniums have unveiled, international conflicts have not ceased, intra-national wars still occur, terrorism has waxed stronger, natural disasters and environmental degradation have increased and the abuse of innovated technologies and theories drastically progress everyday. This is not the fault of education neither is it the mistake of civilization. Instead, it is a function of unequal human thoughts and equivocal perceptions of co-human expressions. While I am not a scientist, I am aware of the axiom that the universe comprises a diversity of things, living and non-living, human (or higher) and lower animals, of the same fundamental composition but having different physical and physiological nature and we do not all have one mind. So, it should not surprise us that things seem to be getting better and worse. But then, it is the basic responsibility of humanity to protect the earth which is our habitat and to mitigate the re-current problems. And that explains the existence of bodies such as the G8 summit, the United Nations, the Commonwealth Community, the European Union, the African Union, etc. Let me remind us that the aforementioned are not groups of playful countries sending celebrity representatives to form round-table committees who appear in international snapshots and that, as opposed to what the Boko Haram chiefs and cheerleaders may have forgotten, these bodies do not consist of jobless experts drinking teas to ideas on how comical researches will be sponsored or how civilization can worsen global conditions. But indeed, they are establishments whose prime objectives border around the betterment of our planet, countries and economies.
So, it will remain indecorum, as has already been, for some anonymous notoriety-seeking literates to wake up, brainwash their thoughtless kinsmen with anti-humanistic dogma and start declaring holy wars from the cement-made buildings the same civilization they reject afforded them. It would be inhumane for them to, out of what seems like arrant insanity, seek the death of people whom you have not, cannot and will probably never be able to create simply because they hold divergent beliefs. It would also be ridiculous of their followers to not know that certain amongst their leaders consume civilization-produced paracetamol when they have headache or purchase education-and-research-afforded quinines when they become feverish with malaria. If a leader tells you, “Look, I will pay your family millions of Naira if you would go and die a holy death in pursuit of many virgins and greater treasures and blow up those infidels over there.†Why not ask him his own reasons for not being worthy of such supposedly wonderful rewards? Should he not also be qualified to explode with some bombs for the said treasures and unseen impatient virgins? Yet, the blunt truth is, there are no virgins anywhere yonder! If there were any, sex maniacs would have stopped patronising brothels and simply started committing suicide. Again, if there are supposed to be any, would they not be full of physical deformities and quite sexually distasteful since you are already blowing them away? The Boko boys, who unfortunately, are my fellow Nigerians should learn to think twice.
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A 20-year-old reprimanded for stealing groundnut kills his father with an axe
WHEN his wife, Fatsuma, was delivered of a baby boy some 20 years ago in the sleepy hamlet of Larabawa, in Gwaram Local Council of Jigawa State, Mamman Dan Alhaji, the proud father, celebrated.
Neighbours had trooped in to grace the naming ceremony as they rejoiced with Mamman who was very happy he had an heir that would carry on the family name and continue his groundnut business later.
However, that bundle of joy has turned into a bundle of regrets, tears and sorrow for his mother, as the boy, who was named Yusuf, has allegedly snuffed life out of his own father for reprimanding him over theft of the groundnut.
A weeping Fatsuma, told The Guardian: “Please, tell the authorities not to allow him come back alive.â€
She continued: “I can’t describe the misfortune that has befallen me. I don’t know what came over my son whom I carried in my womb for nine months.
“ On that fateful day, he went to the market after his father left home and I thought he had some business to do.
“He returned around noon with a shiny axe, which he held as he sat on the stone in the middle of the compound and was still sharpening it.
“After sharpening the axe, he put it in a bag and became restless, walking up and down, without talking to anybody.
“I went to him and asked him what the matter was and why he was still sharpening an axe that he already took to the market to sharpen, pointing out too that he looked restless.
But, he said he was alright.â€
Meanwhile, Yusuf on Wednesday morning had sent his wife home to her parents without his parents’ knowledge.
It was when Fatsuma called her daughter-in-law that Yusuf told his mother he had sent her home to her parents.
“At a point, he came and sat down in front of his father’s door with the axe and stick. I called my mate and told her that this boy was up to something but she advised we should leave him alone.
“At about 4.00 p.m. I left the house to see his father and to tell him not to come home because his son was up to something sinister.â€
She said when her son noticed she was out of the compound he ran and caught up with her and demanded to know whether she was going to the market to see his father for which she answered in the affirmative.
According to her, he immediately started pleading that she should come back home because he was all right.
She recalled that her husband arrived around 9.00 p.m. and shortly after, tragedy struck.
“When our husband returned, Yusuf refused to greet him. After he took his meal, I told him how his son had been acting strangely since morning, walking about with axe and stick.
“The father came out and asked why he was doing that but he rudely replied he was waiting for the police he threatened to arrest him with.
“ At this point, his father stood up and took his stick to scare him to go inside his room but Yusuf dodged but started hacking his father with the axe.
“When we heard our husband shouting: ‘Yusuf, why are you killing me? Is it because I reprimanded you?’ we rushed outside only to see Yusuf running after his fleeing father and continuing to hack him with the now-bloody axe.
“We were shouting and crying but before the neighbours came, Yusuf had killed his father.â€
The neighbours were shocked that a grown-up like Yusuf, who was expected to give his father a helping hand in his business, would resort to stealing his groundnuts.
They had seen Mamman Dan Alhaji that Wednesday morning as he prepared for the market not knowing that would be his last.
For sometime, Mamman Dan Alhaji had been unhappy that his son was not turning out as he had hoped.
The previous day, he had reprimanded Yusuf for stealing his groundnuts and had threatened to report him to the police if he did not stop. Little did he know that his son would kill him for that?
Now in police custody, Yusuf has not shown any remorse.
He claimed that his father also meant to kill him but gave thanks to God that he was the one who killed his father first.
The late Mamman ’s second wife, Abou told The Guardian their husband reprimanded Yusuf on Tuesday for stealing his groundnuts from the barn.
“His father’s threat to arrest Yusuf was just to scare him because he was tired of his groundnuts being stolen.
We never knew that that would cost the life of our breadwinner.
“Here we are with 10 children and our breadwinner gone.
We don’t have any other source of livelihood.
“The money in the house has been used for transporting the corpse from here to police and back and for transporting Yusuf to Dutse and all that. We need help,†she pleaded.
The Mai Angwan Larabawa, Alhaji Abdul Ali expressed shock over the incident.
“ Never before in my entire life had I witnessed or seen a thing like this.
“A neighbour rushed here to inform us of what was happening. I quickly mobilized other neighbours around 9:30p.m. and we rushed there. To our greatest surprise, this boy didn’t run away.
“He was standing on the corpse of his father with blood dripping from the axe. His father was wriggling in his own blood.
In shock, I asked him: ‘Did you do this?’ and he said ‘Yes’ and that he had no regret.
“He said if his father had the opportunity he would have killed him but he thanked God that he was the one who killed his father first.
“He said anything we wanted to do to him we should go ahead and do it.
“I was speechless. He almost removed his father’s limbs.
“He cut his father’s throat, neck, mouth and shoulder.
“It was a horrible sight nobody could stand without crying.
“The boy has no mental case. He is just a stubborn boy, period.â€
Yusuf’s grandfather, Malam Dan Alhaji told The Guardian he hopes his grandson would be hanged.
“I am over 70 years old and I have never seen a son hacking down his own father like an animal. Even an animal does not deserve this type of death.
“I will leave a will behind that if I die and they allow this boy to go free, my people should hunt him down and kill him. If I am alive, he will have to kill me too. I am old. How do I take care of 10 young children? Government should help me,†he pleaded.
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LAGOS-A 36-year-old man, Raymond Obi Eze, has been arraigned before an Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for sneaking into a couple’s bedroom to watch them making love, while he hid under their bed.
The couple, Mr. Leuise Chigozie and his wife, Vicky, said they were making love when they noticed the accused hiding under the bed watching them.
Eze’s attempt to escape was thwarted by Chigozie, who after grabbing him raised an alarm. The brawl between the accused (Eze) and Chigozie led to his wife sustaining injury.
The accused was said to have been arrested and handed over to the police at Idimu Station, who arraigned him before the court on a two-count charge of unlawful entry and attempted murder, offences contrary to Section 320 of the Criminal Code, Cap.17, Vol. 2, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003.
He (accused) told the police that he was not a thief neither did he attempted to harm the couple, but was only watching them to derive sexual satisfaction and pleaded for leniency.
Witnesses, who assisted the couple to arrest the accused, said they believed the accused was watching Chigozie making love to his wife.
According to the police charge sheet, the incident happened at 8.30 p.m. Friday, December 9, at the couple’s residence at 40, Ejigbo Road, Idimu, Lagos.
However, when the plea of the accused was taken in the court, he pleaded not guilty to the two-count charges brought against him.
Magistrate M. B. Folami admitted Eze (accused) bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum, but he was unable to perfect the bail conditions and was ordered to be remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons, Apapa, Lagos.
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This is white gay wedding in the Nigerian commercial capital of Lagos recently. What a happy couples.
With the recent Gay controversy about legalising gay marriage and stiff opposition from Nigerian, do you think that the right of gay people are not in breached?
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The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has described the plan by the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy on fuel as not only scandalous, but an attempt to set the country on fire.
The University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State chapter’s chairman, Abdussobur Olayiwola Salaam addressing journalists, canvassed a mass action to protest President Goodluck Jonathan’s action, which he described as, “the height of economic rascality.†The planned removal, according to him was a further attempt by the government to emasculate the masses to the advantage of the few rich elite in the society. His words: “It is anti-people because it will add more to the prevailing hardship rampaging the land. We reject it in totality and shall the millions in our ranks because it is only reflective of the greed of our leaders.â€Â
“Our leaders deal with us with rapacious prebendalism turning our roads into death-traps, our educational institutions into havens of cultism and violence, our hospitals into mortuaries and with abysmal failure in almost every facet of our national lives.
The SSANU leader also lamented that government at all levels were busy chasing shadows instead of facing the serious challenges of building a strong, egalitarian economically viable and politically stabled country.
As part of activities marking the Association’s week, slated for Wednesday, Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi will be honoured with the award of Icon of Democracy, while Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin will receive the award of Amazon of Democracy with Promise Adewusi and Rockcity 101.9 FM being honoured with the awards of Icon and Media of Democracy respectively.
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