You want to know how much they value the electorate, look at Amaechi and Wike faces

From left—Dakuku Peterside, DG NIMASA, IGP Ibrahim Idris, Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transport; Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers and DG, Department of State Service, Mr. Musa Daura

Internally Displaced Poet

They said the militants said to north we must turn
Not to disobey either god
Wife and children scrambled towards riverside
I followed my instinct to anonymous hills.
They said the military had ordered we run southwards

After a long spell,
Night came with a quest to know:
‘Internally Displaced Poet,
Are you hearing from your lovely wife?
What is happening to your children by the dreaded waters?’
(Akeem Lasisi, July 26, 2016)

SS2 student leader of Calabar robbery gang arrested

Christian Donatus, alias Inyang, a Senior Secondary School 2 student of Eastern Secondary School, Ediba, Calabar, leader of the robbery gang that raided Value Mart, the shop owned by former Cross River State First Lady, Obioma Imoke, two weeks ago, has been arrested.
The 19-year-old Christian from Akokwa, Imo State, was paraded by police alongside one of his accomplices, Ubong Bassey Essien, who is from Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State, while four other members of the gang are said to be on the run.
According to Cross River Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ms Irene Ugbo, Christian and his gang have been terrorising various parts of the city, raiding homes, shops and commuters and dispossessing them of their valuables.
According to her, the gang shot a medical doctor at Akim Qua three weeks ago and also carted away safes at a shop along Marian Road, containing large sums of money.
She said Christian and one of his members were arrested on July 16 by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.
“Efforts have been intensified to track down those on the run and we hope that very soon they will be arrested and brought to book, while these ones in our custody will soon appear in court,” she added.

LAGOS INVASION: Militants regroup, engage soldiers, police in gun battle

Sounds of sporadic shots by gunmen suspected to be Niger Delta militants, continued yesterday at the Ewedogbon end of Totowu.
They were said to have fired for several hours without coming out of the creeks. But no life was lost.
Unconfirmed report had it that the militants engaged a joint military and police team in another gun battle at the riverine community in Ishuti, Igando, old Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State for a second day running.
However, police sources claimed there was no confrontation. Rather, a joint military  and police team, according to sources, were stationed at the river banks to confront the militants who were said to have remained inside the canal, from where they fired continuously.

Children of War: The Most Endangered Species

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of a child – Maria Montessori.

Nations are at war as we succumb to casualties around the world. Children living in conflict zones today are being marginalized as countries seek solutions to a problem larger than life itself. The safety and security of children worldwide seems to be at stake, as there are more weapons of war being generated than food and shelter for the oppressed segments of society.

The laws that unite have failed to secure us and our children. The children of war remain in misery as rising death tolls exceed our wildest nightmares. Security agencies have failed to adopt a unified strategy that would combat this epidemic and blood is being spilt every day. Children are being forced to take up weapons of war, coerced into leading oppressed lives, separated from their loved ones and families, literally being brain-washed.

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Even hustlers dey vex for empty basket

scarcity in plenty: Carriers without patrons, gloomy with their empty baskets at Oyingbo Market, Lagos, yesterday. PHOTO: Akeem Salau.

Na so e just be

My husband moved in with his lover

My husband and I have been married for close to 25 years and I always believed we had a good marriage. We have five children, live in our own house and he runs a very thriving business.
A few years ago, there was this rumour that he was responsible for the education of a girl in one of the universities. I thought it would soon blow over as a lot of his affairs had.
Unfortunately, it didn’t and my husband has left his matrimonial home to go and live with this girl.
As I write, she’s expecting their first child. My children are quite bewildered by it all and I feel really depressed being abandoned this way. Why did he throwftway 25 years of marriage for this girl?

Can I have paternity test without my husband's knowledge?

I have two children, a boy and a girl. I know for sure that my daughter was fathered by my husband but I’m not sure if my husband is also the father of my son.
As at the time I conceived the second time, I had a brief fling with an ex-boyfriend and now I am afraid this boy could be his.
Can I have tests done without involving my husband? He believes he’s the father of both children.

Hubby spikes my drinks to make me hornier

My husband and I have been married for 12 years and have children. Recently, he’s become more and more obsessed with sex— he wants it all of the time and I’ve just found out he sometimes spikes my drink to make me homier in bed.
I still love him, but what can I do?

11 dead, three injured in Lagos auto crash

Three females and eight males died when a 14-seater commercial bus had brake failure, somersaulted and burst into flame at about 5p.m. yesterday at Otedola Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
It was learned that the 14-seater bus was heading to Berger from Mushin, when it had a brake failure, somersaulted and caught fire immediately.
Confirming the accident, the state Police Public Relations Office, Dolapo Badmus, Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe and General Manager Lagos State Emergency management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Michael Akindele, disclosed that the bus burst into flames.
Fadipe noted that the 14-seater bus caught fire while on motion and landed on its door, thereby trapping the passengers.

Taxi driver absconds with passenger’s N1.8m

A 38 year-old taxi driver, Muritala Olugunju, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, for stealing the sum of N1.8 million from a passenger.
The suspect, who is a native of Ogun State, was said to have picked his passenger, identified simply as Mohammed, at Wuse Zone 6 Area of Abuja for shopping, before taking him to a hotel where he was to stay.
The victim, who was visiting Abuja, was said to have entered into the hotel to book a room, leaving his bags containing his cash and other belongings in the taxi.
The taxi driver then made away with the passenger's belongings.
The victim, who became helpless following the incident, alerted the police, who trailed the suspects and arrested him few weeks later.

22 teenagers nabbed for robbery, cultism in Lagos

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command have arrested 22 teenagers for robbery, stealing and cultism.
Commander RRS, Tunde Disu, while parading the suspects in Alausa, Ikeja, said the suspects, among who are four females, were arrested for their alleged involvement in separate incidences of robbery, stealing and cultism around Agege and its environs.
The leaders of the first gang, which consist of eight members, Babatunde, 15 and Tayo, 15, were arrested last Thursday, in Mulero, Agege for assaulting and robbing one Aladegbo Abidemi with an axe, and snatching her Blackberry Z10.
The suspects were reported to have given out other members of the gang the next day.
The others include Matthew, 18; Sakiru, 16; Ganiyu,13; Reliwan, 15; Ibrahim, 15 and Kudus, 15.
According to one of their victims, Aladegbo Abidemi, a 26-year-old female, who was in Alausa: “I was coming from work and decided to pass through Mulero to link the closest bus stop around 10p.m.
“My phone rang and I picked it. Few seconds into the call, I noticed some young boys swarming like bees towards me.

4 teenagers arrested over sale of human skull

Luck ran out of four young men said to be trading in human parts as they were, yesterday, arrested by operatives of Criminal Investigation Department, CID, of Akwa Ibom State Police Command, when the suspects went looking for a buyer of a human skull in their possession.
The suspects are Emmanuel Edet Ikot, 17,  from Edeabasi, Oron; Ubong Udong, 18; Bright Effiong Okon, 19 and Okon Ita, 20, from Orukim.
The alleged leader of the group, Emmanuel Edet, denied the accusation, saying he only stumbled on a human skull while working at an uncompleted building for a man (names withheld) in Oron.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Public Relations Officer, Delia Nwawe, who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner, Mr. Murtala Mani, said the suspects were arrested by officers of the CID of the command in Mbo Local Government Area on receiving an alert from vigilant youths in the area.
He said with the arrests effected, the suspects would be charged to court for the law to take its course.
Leader of the gang, Mr. Emmanuel Edet, said: “I was paid to cut grass and clean up an uncompleted building by one man in Oron.

This Kano girl lives in a bowl

Like any other teenager, she is a bright, happy girl who one day dreams of one day opening her own shop.

But after being born with a mystery condition, Rahma Haruna has no limbs and suffers constant pain, as she lives most of her life in a plastic bowl. 

The 19-year-old, from Kano, Nigeria, was born a healthy baby but when she turned six months old her growth came to a sudden halt and she stopped hitting key development milestones.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE:UK Dailymail

Siblings murder 2 people to send elder brother to jail

Three suspected ritualists, Saidi Amadu, Idris Amadu and Quadri Ayodele, paraded by the Kwara State Police Command yesterday alongside two others, disclosed that they killed their victims to implicate their elder brother, Ayodele Amadu, who is now in prison.
They hatched the plot because their elder brother, Ayodele Amadu, took the larger portion of the property left behind by their late father.
It was gathered that the three suspects were arrested in connection with the killing of Fasilat Azeez and Rohimat Kehinde last week Tuesday.
The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Mr. Sam Okaula, who complained about the rising cases of ritual killings in the state, explained that the victims, Fasilat Azeez and Rohimat Kehinde, were hawking drugs and other items around Gaa-Arasiko via Alapa last week when they were waylaid and gruesomely killed.

New Evidence: The Real Reason Gaddafi Was Killed

The recent Hillary Clinton email leaks have opened a can of worms everywhere including in Africa. Wikileaks released an unclassified U.S. Department of State document emailed to Clinton, dated April 2, 2011. Sidney Blumenthal, the sender of the email confirmed what the world already suspected. Qaddafi was not killed for humanitarian purposes but for the oil and for money. His ideas of an African gold-backed currency were his major undoing.
In April 2011, then President of the World Bank, Robert Bruce Zoellick spoke at a panel discussion about how he hoped the World Bank would have some sort of role in the reconstruction of Libya along with other countries.
The African Exponent

Vanguard nailed it with this editorial cartoon

Man acquitted after 11 years on death row

A man, Mr. Ganiyu Wahab, who has been on death row for 11 years, finally regained freedom as he was discharged and acquitted by a Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos.
Wahab was arrested on January 23, 2005 on the allegation of murder and subsequently convicted and sentenced to death on July 2, 2007 in a judgement delivered by Justice Oluwayemi of Lagos High Court.
The case against Wahab at the High Court was that he murdered one Kolawole Alaran on January 23, 2005 by stabbing him with a bottle.

3 die in Benin gas explosion; 12 hospitalised

A cooking gas explosion in Benin, Edo State capital, in the early hours of yesterday left three persons dead, with 12 others lying critically ill at a medical facility in the state.
Among the victims were two members of a family, identified as Favour Godwin, 11 and Odion. Their parents are currently receiving treatment at a medical centre.
The incident reportedly occurred around 7a.m. on Sunday at their 32, Osazuwa Street residence, off Benin Agbor Road.

Girls breed babies for sister to sell

A 26-year-old lady, Gift Etim Ikono, and her two sisters, Esther Etim Ikono and Florence Victor Ikono, are currently in police custody in Calabar, Cross River State, for allegedly selling their babies to yet-to-be identified persons.
The Akwa Ibom State-born suspect, Gift, who resides at 8th Mile, Calabar, was arrested on June 28 for allegedly selling two children belonging to Esther and Florence, her sisters.
It was gathered that Gift harboured Esther and Florence in her apartment while they were pregnant, and sold their babies at birth.
According to Mr. Jimoh Obeh, Cross River State Commissioner of Police, “the two girls got pregnant and when they gave birth, the babies were sold out by the suspect (Gift) to unknown buyers.”
The principal suspect, along with her sisters, according to the Police Commissioner, would soon appear in court after investigations are completed.

This woman allegedly lures secondary school girls into sex work during school hours

She say it's a lie: BUT I AM A SEX WORKER

A widow, who was paraded by Lagos State Police Command alongside some criminals for allegedly recruiting young schoolgirls as commercial sex workers in a hotel in Surulere area of the state during school hours, has denied the charge.
The suspect, identified as Chinonso Okolokwo, said she was a commercial sex worker at the said hotel located at Ikate area of Surulere.
Briefing newsmen on her arrest, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, disclosed that the suspect’s method was to lure the students from different secondary schools around Surulere to the hotel.
Okolokwo, according to the CP, would give the students clothes to change into and use them as sex slaves until school closing hours.
Some of the students, as gathered, went home with between N1,000 and N2,000, depending on the number of men they attended to. But the amount, it was learned, was just 10 percent of what was paid by their male customers, while the rest was allegedly pocketed by their managers, among who is Okolokwo.

36-yr-old man impregnates daughter, aborts pregnancy

A 36-year-old father, Peter Kennedy, has been detained by police for impregnating his 16-year-old daughter and aborting the pregnancy.
Peter was also detained with his wife, step-mother to the victim, who revealed that her husband said he wanted to test his ability.
The man, who had been detained at Anthony Division, had allegedly been sleeping with his daughter since 2013.
Peter, a resident of 5 Kode Street, Mende, Maryland axis, was reported to the police by a neighbour after the father allegedly had sexual intercourse with his daughter again on Friday, July 8.
It was learned that the victim had been taken to MIRABEL Centre at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, for test, even as the case was said to have be transferred to Gender Desk of the Commissioner of Police’s office, for further investigation.

THE STRANGE THINGS I HEARD THIS WEEK

A) Ghana's Vice President drove into a local (home brand) vehicle factory and bought two SUVs.

Eh! Na custom-made BMWs our Ogas at the top they use here o.

B) One bros said he would impregnate and beat another man's wife.

However, I can't tell which of the two doings will come first. He must have been practising these for a while. Anyway, make we ask wetin the woman tell am b4 e get these ambitions sha.

C) Lawmakers making laws, sorry, noise about being owed one month salary!

Who be the slothful worker wey no know say our lawmakers need even their August salaries and allowance because times are hard?

President No Nonsense

Vendor escapes N44,000 recharge card scam

The almost-sharp guy

A middle-aged man, yesterday, met his waterloo while attempting to steal recharge cards worth N44,000 from a female vendor at a complex around Bode Thomas area of Lagos State.
The suspect was apprehended, beaten up and taken to the police station.
According to an eyewitness, Temitope Ajayi: “The suspect, who was well dressed, told the young lady selling recharge cards that he owned an office in the complex and one of the parked  Sport Utility Vehicles.
“He took all the lady's recharge cards and asked her to sit somewhere in the compound to calculate the total cost, while he informs his Secretary to bring her the money.
“After pretending to climb the stairs into the building, the suspect returned and told the young lady that her money is on the way, she should wait for his Secretary.”

He had unprotected sex and prankster took him to the cleaners

Dailymail UK

IT CAN ONLY BE EDUCATION

The Yoruba proverb has established that the child that is not trained will sell the family’s heritage. This is supported by all religions and traditions. I conceptualise the family here as a nation or country. Any country that takes for granted the EDUCATION of her citizens will not have peace. Now you are bothered by the pipeline destructions. Now you want to arrest all hawkers in Lagos. Now you want to ban okadas on highways because its casualties dominate the emergency wards.

Dear Government of Nigeria, there is only one thing that is best to do now: solidify education!
Vocational education is evidently collapsed and schools are now overcrowded. Twenty thousand students apply to schools that can at best admit seven thousand students. Great tailors, painters, hair stylists, mechanics, vulcanizers are busy writing UTME. 

 Gani Gab Abisoye Bamgbose

Black Lives Matter: The Baton Rouge photo hailed as 'legendary'

In the wake of ongoing protests in the US against the killing of black men by police, more than to 100 people were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday.

In the wake of the demonstrations, and growing debate over the seeming militarisation of American police, one photo has stood out.
It was taken by Jonathan Bachman, a New Orleans-based photographer who has been working for Reuters in the past few days.
BBC

Abuja preacher's murder

Pastor Olawale Elisha, her hsuband

Wife of the Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo, with some of the late preacher's children.

Late Mrs Eunice Olawale

Where she was killed

One of the miscreants living in the area

OKIJA AGAIN: Anambra landlord drags tenant to Kija over N36,000 rent

A tenant, Mr. Chukwudi Diribe, in Awada, a suburb of Onitsha, Anambra State, has been reportedly dragged before the celebrated Ogwugwuakpu shrine in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state, popularly known as Okija Shrine, over house rent.
His 70 years old landlord sought the aid of the shrine when his tenant, Mr. Diribe, insisted that he does not owe the him the N36,000 he (landlord) alleged.
Few days after insisting that he paid the landlord when due, a messenger from the shrine brought a letter, saying that the shrine had invited Mr. Diribe to come and defend on the allegation levelled against him by his landlord.

A SELFIE? She must be in the SPIRITE!

SOURCE: Facebook

OPINION: Before Parents Start Eating Their Kids...

Haven't been able to write or post steady for awhile. So I appreciate this write-up and wish to share. Read the full piece on the original writer's blog.

“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man is starving.” O. Henry, 1862-1910, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, P 233. 

Nigeria is descending to a new low in barbarism, which if left unchecked will define the new era of politics. Parents, presumed to be sane, but obviously callous and distressed, now sell their kids to procure food for the rest of the family. Whether the evil is perpetrated with a heavy heart is difficult to say until we conduct a study into the motivations of the few known examples to date. And, the sooner the better, because this trend might gain momentum and become irreversible for a long time to
come. It is difficult to imagine how parents would determine which of their kids to be sold. That they don’t particularly care what fate befalls that child is obvious. That they don’t consider that the sale of one child for a pittance will not solve their problems permanently is also clear. They certainly don’t ask themselves what will happen when the food purchased with their own kids’ blood money is exhausted.
Kevindjakpor

Robbers chop off DPO’s ear in Anambra

The Divisional Police Officer for Ajali in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State (names withheld) had one of his ears chopped off and was stripped naked for attempting to arrest members of a notorious robbery gang.
The said DPO had led his team to the den of the nine-man gang that had been terrorising Nanka, also in Orumba North, for years.
Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Awkuzu Okechukwu, said that following a raid on Nanka community, Ifedilichukwu Nwankwo, Chidi Nwankwo and Udoye Kenechukwu were arrested after previous attempts by the police from Force CID, Abuja, and Zone 9 Headquarters, Umuahia, to arrest them failed.

Sex worker causes pandemonium after attempt to seduce magistrate fails

A sex worker,  who failed to show up in court last week Friday, caused a stir at the Magistrate’s Court, Monday, when she could not seduce the magistrate, who then ordered her remanded at Afokang Prison, Calabar, for jumping bail.
The Bayelsa State-born sex worker, Princess, was reportedly arrested alongside her colleagues at the Moonshine Brothel, located at Uwanse two weeks ago in the wake of the clamp down on sex workers and hoodlums, following rising crime wave in Calabar.

PLAYFULLY: 7-yr-old kills househelp with father’s gun

Police in Abia State are currently investigating the death of a female househelp allegedly killed by a toddler with his lawyer-father’s gun in Aba.
Meanwhile, security agents in the state have launched efforts to rescue a kidnapped Medical Director of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba.
Though information about the death of the househelp is still sketchy, it was gathered that the lawyer’s child, said to be about seven years old, jokingly shot dead their house help with his father’s gun.
The child was said to have picked the father’s gun from his bedroom, thinking it was a toy gun.