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.
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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.”
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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

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

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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!

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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.