Between DSTV and Startimes: the Advantage of Competition

Time was when DSTV was the Lord of the manor. It dictated the terms of its offerings and treated its customers like vassals who existed at the pleasure of the emperor. Its lowest rate was N2600 or thereabout for a month of primary channels on its pay tv network.
Then came Startimes which tailored its offering to suit the pocket of the masses. For as low as N1200 per month you can get on its bouquet and enjoy the best of satelite television and it went further to design a bouquet for as low as N800. Per month. The people flocked to the Chinese powered network to the detriment of South African owned DSTV.

I am happy my husband is dead

My husband recently died suddenly after suffering from a massive heart attack. We have been married close to 20 years and have three children. Everyone expects me to be devastated by his death, but I’m not. He was a real socialite, very popular and friendly to friends and relations. But to me and our children, he was nasty, miserly and grumpy.
What’s worse, he had lots of affairs he wasn’t sorry for. As at the time of his death, he’d gloated to me and the children that he was planning on taking a second wife and selling the family house, so he would have money to buy a flat and pay the rent for a flat he would move the rest of us into.
So you can imagine how jubilant I was when he had a heart attack in his office. I was thankful it didn’t happen at home or his relatives might accuse me of killing him.

She threatens to tell my wife about us

For three years, I have been having an affair with a female colleague. She knows how strongly I feel about my wife and now that my wife is pregnant with our second child, I told her we should stop the affair.
To my dismay, she really got nasty and angry, threatening to spill the beans to my wife if I dumped her.
How can I make her realise it’s better if we just finish the affair quietly?

River govt’s peace move collapses, as 13 cultists die in renewed war

NO fewer than 13 suspected cultists have been feared killed in battle for supremacy at Rumuoro village, Ogbakiri community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It was learned that the cultist groups, Icelanders and Deygbam, had clashed on Monday, which resulted in the casualties.
This is happening barely less than three weeks after cultists in Ogbakiri community promised to embrace the amnesty programme of the state government.
Recall that the Special Assistant to Governor Nyesom Wike on Amnesty, Mr. Ken Chindah, had, in company of the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Emohua Local Government Area, Mr. John Wokoma, gone to the community to woo the cultists for peace.
However, after the peace moves, the boys were again locked in another round of tussle.

Man plunges car into swamp, dies

A middle-aged man was, yesterday, killed in a road accident in Imiringi axis along the Yenagoa-Ogbia Road in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
It was gathered that the deceased, the only occupant of the vehicle, was driving a red Toyota Camry salon car with number plates FKJ 821 DJ, when the car skidded off the road into a swamp along the road killing, the man instantly.
An eyewitness said the driver was on speed when the incident occurred yesterday morning, adding that it was difficult to rescue the victim.
It took the intervention of some soldiers attached to the Kolo-Creek Flow Station, who mobilised the natives to hire a pay loader with which the car and the corpse were retrieved.

Kim Jong-un uses anti-aircraft gun to kill high-ranking official for sleeping in a meeting; another for coming up with his own idea

Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of two high-ranking  officials by anti-aircraft gun over fears that the dictator is preparing another purge against his people. 

Ri Yong Jin, a senior official at the education ministry, was sentenced to death after he fell asleep in a meeting being addressed by Kim. 

After accidentally dozing off, Ri was taken into custody and interrogated where security agents found evidence of his disloyalty and disrespect towards Kim.

Dailymail Online

 

'Sorry guys and girls, someone threatening to jump off bridge'

A young woman threatened to jump off a bridge in the UK and police stopped traffic, 'negotiated' with the woman for 3 hours before succeeding in taking her into custody.
She doesn’t know she is privileged to have a caring system. Whatever she is going through, only real friends, and not government, will come to her rescue in NIGERIA.

Dailymail Online

Home's home

Nigerians deported from Libya, arrive Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, yesterday.

No criminal implications on naming dog after person —Lawyers

The incoming Second National Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Monday Ubani, yesterday, said that no offence is committed by someone naming his dog after somebody else.
He said: “In the eye of the law, it is not criminal for somebody to name his or her dog after another person. It may be offensive by examining the circumstances under which the incident happened.
“I understand that a particular dog was named after a neighbour and both of them were not in good terms;  in a Hausa community somewhere in the South-West.
“So expediency would have prevailed on him not to name his dog after somebody he was quarrelling with.
“The Bible says wisdom profited for direction. Anything you are doing must be with wisdom. If such a thing would provoke unnecessary argument, you should avoid it.”

How to make sure your child is safe in SEVEN simple steps

The first piece of advice tells parents to throw out their children's personalised rucksacks, lunch boxes and other items that visibly show off their child's name to people they don't know.

This is because when strangers know your child's name they come across as friendly and familiar - and subsequently your child is much more likely to trust them.

The author of the article Natasha Daniels says: 'Every morning as I drive my kids to school, I see these two very young girls walking to school on their own. From down the street I can make out both of their glittery names on their backpacks.'

UK Dailymail 

Who know her?

Mrs. Ibeh Pauline Chioma and her six-year-old daughter, Nwokedi Rita, were Sunday night found wandering about at Ijaiye area of Owode-Egba, Ogun State, by Olu of Owode Egba, Oba Kolawole Sowemi-mo.

CAPTIVITY: Man chains 28 persons in his Lagos house

Lagos State Police Command have rescued 13 children and 15 adults reportedly chained and locked up by one Emmanuel Adeyemi in a house at Oke-Ira, Ojodu area of the state.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, acting on a tip-off, had deployed operatives from the Area ‘G’ Command Headquarters to the scene.
It was learned that the victims were rescued after police received initial intelligence report that 17-year-old boy was chained in the house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu.
The command’s spokesman, SP Dolapo Badmus, who confirmed the rescue yesterday, said that the victims were rescued on Friday. Badmus said that the command had also arrested one Emmanuel Adeyemi alleged to have been responsible for the crime.
She said that the rescued people comprised six male adults, nine female adults, seven female and six male children, adding that they had been taken into protective custody.

How cleric inserted needles in akara for beggars

A 50-year-old Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, and his daughter, Salamat, 18, were yesterday charged before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for attempted murder. They allegedly inserted needles in the Akaras (bean cakes) they distributed to beggars.
Father and daughter are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and attempted murder, preferred against them by the police.
The prosecutor, Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on August 5 at about 2p.m. at Offin Street, Balogun area of Lagos Island.
He alleged that the defendants gave akara, that had needles inserted in them, to beggars with the intent to endangering their lives.

4 die after drinking Ogogoro in Abeokuta

No fewer than four persons reportedly lost their lives, yesterday, in Ibara Housing Estate area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, after excessive consumption of local liquor, known as Ogogoro.
The seller, one Salako Taloju, a security man that has his kiosk in front of the house of a prominent Abeokuta man, has been arrested.
It took four policemen about 15 minutes to drag Taloju, who appeared drunk, into their vehicle. He resisted arrest, claiming innocence, saying only three people died and that they lived around the area. He gave their names as Baba Imeko, Baba Onwenue and Easy.
He had reportedly been selling the liquor for over 20 years.
The incident involved four persons: three of them died on Monday, while the fourth died later at the night.
Taloju, who spoke incoherently to newsmen, said: “We have been drinking together for a long time. I do not know why they have to accuse me now of killing them. I even took the same drink and nothing happened to me.”

THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT: "Get up, get up, we have to finish this."

Two athletes have provided one of the most inspirational moments of the Rio Olympics so far when they tripped over each other in the women’s 5,000 metres - then helped one another to carry on.
American Abbey D’Agnostino and Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand were 3,000m into the race today when D’Agnostino appeared to clip Hamblin’s heel, sending both tumbling to the ground.
But instead of appearing frustrated that their dreams of glory were apparently over, both women put on a display of the Olympic  spirit that will live on long after the Games are over.
MailOnline

True Talk

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/11/privileged-nigerians-downplay-poverty-western-media

FACEBOOKING OR PHASE LOSING?

As much as all classes of people are today found on social networks, vice chancellors, school principals, CEOs, parents and teachers, it is a hardly expressed truth that one of the best things that happened to many of us was the unavailability of social media during our teen age. A careful assessment of posts on Facebook and other social media shows the height of intellectual decline among young people.
Ask teachers at all levels, it takes so much monitoring to have students keep their phones while classes are ongoing. It is a great thing to socialise, but there was always time for it back then. We had girlfriends in secondary school but relationships were over once schools closed. We ghetto children had our wonderful night plays and storytelling time but it was over once our father or mother called us in at 8pm. Do these new media children stop talking and chatting at any time of the day? How many young people do or post anything productive on social media? How many young people are still sat down by their parents to listen to Network News on NTA as it was then? Super Story ended that! I wish to carry out a study on the percentage of youths who know other media like educational media and even read online newspapers with their phones; I am scared already at what my findings may be. 

Man butchers wife’s lover in matrimonial bed

A 32-year-old man, Ezekiel Igbokwe, who butchered his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun, 38, when he caught him with his wife, Juliet Igbokwe, in his matrimonial bed, was among 23 suspects paraded by Ogun State Police Command, yesterday.
Speaking during the parade at Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, Igbokwe, who has been married to his wife for 12 years at Ago-Iwoye in Ijebu-North Local Government Area of the state, said he returned from a business trip to meet the lover in his home.
Igbokwe, an electronics seller at Awa-Ijebu, said: “I am a businessman; I sell electronics at Ago-Iwoye. I travelled to Onitsha on July 25. When I came back on the 27th, I met a man inside my room and we started fighting.
“The man was stronger than I and I didn’t know what to do. Then I got a cutlass from my toilet and cut him in the hand. He died on the way, while policemen were taking him to the hospital, because their car ran out of fuel.”
He said he never suspected his wife of infidelity before the incident, adding “it is not my intention to waste a soul like this. It is Satan’s work; if I really know it will be like this, I would have walked away.
“My aim was to injure him, go to the police station and make a report. It is obvious this is Satan’s work. We did not quarrel before I went to Onitsha. She has three children for me. But I got to know my wife had one child before we met.”

Will sex make him like me more?

Some months back, I was dating someone in my office who came for his youth service.
I really liked him, but he was not that keen and in the end, he moved back to his state. He called recently and invited me to visit. I agreed straight away.
I’m staying with him next month and I would like to prove my feelings by sleeping with him. What do you think?

He keeps trying to go below

I've just met this guy who works a few building’from where I work. We’ve only been going out a few weeks and he keeps trying to touch me down below.
I’ve told him to stop doing this but he won’t listen. I don’t want to dump him, I just want him  to stop trying to go below— I hate it. What do you suggest I do?

Why should you condemn men's fantasy

A few weeks back, you wrote that all men fantasise about sleeping with other women and that really got me angry. Women do not want to be told this is normal.
Can you tell me what is normal about a woman going to bed with her husband, and while they’re making love, he’s thinking about someone else? I like to believe that I am good looking enough for him to think only about me when we make love.
If I ever found out that he was fantasising about other women, our relationship would be over. It would be as bad as if he sleeps with another woman behind my back.
If a man is sexually fulfilled, why does he need to go elsewhere?

I've finally met a girl who loves sex

My girlfriend comes from a very religious background and doesn’t believe in sex before marriage and this could be quite frustrating for me.
Now, I’ve met this girl at the university and we’ve had sex. I am 22 and my girlfriend 23. We’ve been together for two years, though we have known each other since secondary school. All she agrees to is a kiss and nothing more.
When I met this new girl a few months back, she looked like the girl of my dreams and the most beautiful I have ever met. I got to know her and we started going out as friends.
Then, one night, we went to a party, we both had a lot to drink and started kissing. We then went upstairs to an empty bedroom.

#blacklife matter: Fuck Michael Jordan

On Monday, Michael Jordan decided to break his Clarence Thomas-like silence on race relations in this country to denounce the killings of unarmed black men, women and children at the hands of police. In a piece for The Undefeated, Jordan also condemned the killings of cops and donated $1 million each to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Institute for Community-Police Relations.

It’s with great thought and all due respect that I say, “F–k Michael Jordan.”
Theroot.com

How woman sold her unborn child for N100,000

A 29-year-old woman from Amasiri, Ebonyi State, Miss Chidimma Okorie, yesterday, stunned people at the headquarters of the Anambra State Police Command in Awka, when she admitted that she had already sold her unborn child for N100,000.
The mother of five, who said she had never been married, also admitted stealing two three years old boys at Umuoji in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, with the connivance of two medical doctors operating private hospitals in the area.
The two medical doctors, Emmanuel Tobechukwu and Cosmos Ugorji, who the police described as accomplices in child trafficking, were also helping the police in their investigations.
Chidimma said she had sold two children since she was introduced into the “business” by a woman she identified as an Evangelist.

5 die, as villagers mistake soldiers for invading hersdmen in Niger

FIVE persons were feared dead, two injured and four vehicles destroyed, yesterday, following the invasion of Kpaidma village in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State by a joint military team of the Army and Air Force men, said to be searching for arms and ammunition in the village.
The operation, sequel to a tip-off that weapons were being stockpiled in the village, was said to have taken place around 1a.m.
It was gathered that immediately the team commenced operation, the villagers woke up and responded in self-defence, thinking herdsmen had invaded.
When contacted, the state Police Command spokesman, Bala Elkana, confirmed the military operation, but said the Command was not aware of any death, saying “we actually received a distress call around 1a.m. that armed herdsmen had invaded a village.

Woman runs mad after husband shaves her pubic hair

LAGOS—A mother of three, simply identified as Remilekun, has run mad after her husband, identified as Oriyomi, allegedly shaved her pubic hairs and her head.
The couple, who have been living together since 2008 in Ikorodu area of Lagos, have three kids, but were yet to formalise their union.
According to a close family source, the victim became “mentally ill after her husband reportedly shaved both the hairs on head and pubic area.

These 3 men have been milking Abuja VIP dry

Police have arrested three members of a gang that attempted to dupe a top aide to President Muhammadu Buhari and other top Nigerians.
The gang leader, Abdulrahman Shuaibu, 21, stated that he relocated to Abuja from his hometown, Hong, Adamawa State, about a year ago because President Buhari was in power.
Many important persons  had fallen victims to their exploits and paid huge sums of money without informing police.
Sources said a Senator lost over N100 million to them within the past three months and ended up relocating his family to Kaduna, while he checked into an obscure hotel.
The source further said that worse hit by the threats were some governors visiting Abuja for their state allocation.
According to him, "these governors always come here for a jamboree and they spend money recklessly as if tomorrow does not exist.
“These fraudsters always capitalise on that and start bombarding them with threat calls. They also connive with some of their aides in Abuja, who supplies them with all the information needed to threaten their bosses.
“In fact, one of the governors nearly had a heart attack after calls came persistently with threats to expose him and kidnap members of his family.”

Fake travel agent defrauds Aba trader of N1.7m in visa scam

A fake travel agent, Benjamin Danbawa, was yesterday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for allegedly duping an Aba, Abia State-based trader of N1,703,000.
The trader, Ifeanyi Chikwelu, 28, who came to Lagos from Aba, in March last year to seek a visa to Canada, reportedly met Danbawa, 41, in front of the German Consulate at Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Danbawa introduced himself as a travel agent and proposed to assist him in procuring the visa.
Danbawa allegedly told Chikwelu that an application for a Canadian or United States of America, USA, visa would not be in his favour since both embassies preferred to give visas to elderly people.
He advised Chikwelu to seek a German or South African visa.
The prosecutor, Sergeant Cyriacus Osuji, told the Court that the defendant, who hails from Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, allegedly billed Chikwelu various sums, totalling N1, 703,000.

Idimu robbery: A bank staff informs us when customers withdraw huge amount—SUSPECT

One of the robbery suspects arrested, Monday, in Idimu area of Lagos, has said a staff of the bank gave them information about the customer, who was shot and robbed.
This is just as the Lagos State Police Command said that the police Inspector that was shot by the bandits at an Automated Teller Machine, ATM, did not die.
The command said the officer, identified simply as Inspector Musa attached to 2 PMF Keffi, was shot in the cheek and that he is responding to treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
Recall that the four-man robbery gang stormed the bank in two motorcycles and waited until the customer came out of the banking hall.
They then shot him, collected the withdrawn amount and zoomed off. On their way, they saw Inspector Musa at an ATM and fired shots at him.
However, two members of the gang were shot dead by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, who were on patrol.
In his confessional statement, the suspect, Jafar Ismail, said that they were invited by one of the bank’s staff.
He did not disclose the identity of the staff, but it was learned that operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SAS went for the arrest of the bank’s staff yesterday.

Woman dumps 3 weeks old baby, arrested

A 27-year-old woman, who was arrested while dumping her three-week-old baby close to a filling station in Festac, Amuwo-Odifin Local Government Area of Lagos State, has blamed her action on inability to fend for her child.
This is just as two other babies, who were also dumped by unknown persons, were recovered at separate places in Festac Town.
For 27-year-old nursing mother, a hawker identified as Bose Ojo, she was sighted by a resident, when she dropped the baby, neatly wrapped in a shawl, close to a gas station on 21 Road.
The resident was said to have gone to ascertain what was dropped, only to be greeted by the cry of the baby. She immediately raised the alarm, following which Ojo, who was fleeing the scene, was apprehended and handed over to policemen from Festac Division.

Chief priest cuts daughter in 2 while fighting wife

A 30-year-old chief priest, Mr. Eno Akpan, who slashed his two-year-old daughter in two weekend, said he had no intention of killing the baby, but that the mother threw the child in the direction of his machete.
Mr. Akpan, the chief priest of Ikot Akpan Udo village, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, who was paraded by the state Police Command after his arrest by operatives of Special Armed-Robbery Squad, SARS, for taking the life of his two-year-old daughter, said he was annoyed that his wife returned home late from where she went to sell seafood.
According to Akpan, he had given his wife seafood to go and sell on that Saturday morning and bring money for them to buy food, only for her to return home at about 10p.m.

At least the Federal Government spends N14,000 on each prisoner daily