Coffin maker dumps 14-yr-old son in well for casting evil spell on business

A middle-aged man, identified as Papa Ogada, has dumped his 14-year-old son in a well, accusing him of being behind his inability to make progress in life.
Ogada, a coffin maker, who hails from Oberete village in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, had been complaining that his son was a wizard, who had caused him serial misfortunes since reuniting with him, after leaving his mother’s place.
A source said: “The truth is that the man has been separated from the boy’s mother. Since the boy came back from his mother’s place where he lived, the man has been accusing him of being a wizard.
“He once told us that he had consulted many spiritualists, who told him that his son is a wizard and is behind the problems he has had in his business.
“We are not surprised that he went this far.”
Check details in vanguardngr.com 

‘I haven't heard from my husband since he got a job in Owerri 10 years ago’

A 39-year-old  woman, Bose Ayinde, has asked an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her 18-year-old marriage with her husband, Nureni, accusing him of abandoning her and children for 10 years, after getting a job in Owerri.
Bose told the court that all efforts to reach her husband proved abortive and that she had been the one paying the house rent and children school fees since his disappearance.
The petitioner said since her husband stopped communicating with her 10 years ago, he neither called to ask for the children’s well-being nor visited.

Murder of school prefect in Lagos: Police arrest suspect, six others

Saka Hammed, the 19-year-old student of Gaskia College, Amukoko, Lagos, who allegedly stabbed a prefect, Saheed Jimoh, to death on Wednesday for punishing him over lateness, has been arrested by the police.
He was said to have been arrested by policemen attached to Amukoko Division, in his hideout somewhere around the vicinity, at about 6.40p.m., yesterday.
Also arrested earlier were six students of the college.
Before his arrest, the suspect’s father was invited by the Police for questioning. At 2p.m., yesterday he was still being interrogated by the police.
At Gaskia College yesterday, normal school activities had resumed as students were seen in their respective classes receiving lectures. Officials from the office of Educational Quality Assurance, Zone 14, were also sighted in the school, compiling reports of the incident.

Cultism, charms popular in the school
However, a student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “There are several cult factions in the school. It is an open secret that many students are involved in cult-related activities and the use of charms.

Remembering ‘Ibadan,’ an archetypal poem from the most lyrical era in Nigerian poetry

Ibadan,

running splash of rust

and gold-flung and scattered

among seven hills like broken

china in the sun.

J.P. Clark

Of bloggers and Wizkid's intelligence

When you embrace technology, it is like taking a public office— your privacy, or what remains of it, takes a battering. In any case, voyeurism is one of the indices of post-modern times.

Whatever contemporary realities have thrown at us does not excuse going to town with unconfirmed reports or half-truths.

Bloggers have become content aggregators and, at times, without acknowledging copyright owners. So, if only Linda Ikeji had tapped into the endless depth of Wizkid's knowledge, the prodigy would not have laid into the blogger with such venom. After all, only a wizkid can make billions singing songs that have no lyrical syntax or psychological depth.

Nero fiddles, Rome burns...

Queues return as fuel scarcity (real or imagined) returns

Nero fiddled away, while Rome was burning. The Jews took the fall.

Those Nigerians who can't find fuel to buy are the Jews in today's Nigeria. Rumours of fuel price slash prosper; importers won't import, marketers won't lift. Fuel stations hoard as black marketers literally and figuratively set the country on fire. Nero fiddles away. Everyone walks on ice-tin ground.

Somehow, power has dropped and insecurity is taking a new dimension. Some people even blame it all on former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

Many more shades of ‘CHANGE’ loom and every Nigerian you talk to seems to know what is happening, but concludes with a helpless look. Throw in the prospect of having ministers without portfolio! Rome burns.

Pictures of a Baale's palace in Ajegunle on fire, from a black market dealer's hoard. 

How case file on Dele Giwa's murder disappeared—TSAV

As controversy over the investigations into the 1986 murder of renowned journalist, Dele Giwa, rages, one of the police officers who investigated the crime, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has disclosed that the case file on the crime disappeared into thin air in the course of probe.
Dele Giwa, a founding Editor of Newswatch magazine, was killed in his Lagos residence by a parcel bomb on October 19, 1986.
Tsav said that the murder case was initially handled by a former Police Commissioner, now late, adding that it was, thereafter, transferred to him as the officer in charge of general investigations at the Force Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Lagos.

So blacks can invent?

Book review by Andrew Ose Phiri

Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success is a ground-breaking book that  highlights the inventions by people of African descent globally. Written by Keith C. Holmes, an American who painstakingly spent over twenty years researching and gathering information on thousands of inventions by Black people from the years 1769 to 2007, the book is an inspiring must read for Africans at home and in the Diaspora if only to engender self confidence in African peoples necessary to reclaim the 21st century, especially in the crucial areas of science and technology.

If there is any book one can positively judge from the cover, Black Inventors is one of them. On the cover are pictures of George Washington Carver and Marjorie Stewart Joyner with a globe signifying not only the global presence of African peoples but the contributions responsible for world progress in technology. Carver, though born in slavery, is one of the world’s prolific inventors and became the first and greatest agricultural chemist who single handedly saved Southern USA from environmental waste by developing hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes and other plants. He was the first to introduce the practice of crop rotation and planting of legumes to enrich soils and his expertise was sought by many governments including even the Soviet Union under Stalin.

My latest book is the nastiest—WOLE SOYINKA

Professor Wole Soyinka has said of his 130-page new book, InterInventions— Between Defective Memory and Public Lie, A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars: “It is the nastiest book I have ever written. It is so truthful that it hurts… it is my vengeance against public lies. It is not one of the butterfly books. No, it is not a butterfly book.
“I want to draw blood (with it). I’m warning all of you, if you feel vengeful, read this book and you will be alright. It is like homeopathic medicine.”
Our WS spoke at the formal inauguration of The Wole Soyinka Foundation, a retreat haven for writers.
The work was presented to the public at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, by Governor Adams Oshiohmole of Edo State.
In page seven of the book, he decries “lies of staggering impudence, especially considering the fact that, in most cases, both victims and their traducers are still living.”
According to him, there is the need for a “ritual of public purgation where both sides— such victims of lies and the traducers— are brought together before the public tribunal for the world to know the truth.”
Soyinka also gave insight into alleged lies against him by some individuals and past leaders, including former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. He states in the first paragraph of Page 82: “It was a great fun (for him, Soyinka) to watch him (Daniel) lie his head off.”

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Who pirated October 1?

When some one dedicates himself to making quality films in today's Nollywood, there has to be concern as to how that person stays afloat. Kunle Afolayan prefers plaques on his walls to money in the bank. He might not be broke, but he must be in debt. He values name more than wealth, at least for now. He desires to tell a story rather than exploit the people. His only gain, for now, must be catharsis: there must be a certain inner glow that beats any orgasm millions of Nairas (no, make that Dollars) account balance must gives rabidly money-minded Nigerians. But it is what we have become: selfish, individualistic, neo-colonial apologists— a being no longer recognisable, bearing little or no resemblance to the men that made October 1, 1960, a reality.

But that is what happens when an otherwise good venture is hijacked by a people dedicated to feeding fat on ignorance and vulnerability. So, when Prince Aderopo eagerly goes for the white man's education, the freedom knowledge gives is tainted by the sexual exploitation a Reverend Father subjects him to. If he must become human again, he must be cleansed. So, just as his forefathers would have done, a girl must die for each of the number of years he was abused; in a land where all young girls must remain virgin till wedding night, they must die at the point of deflowering for a befitting cleansing.

20-year-old sells 2-week-old baby for 20k

MARIA Ekanem, a  20-year-old school drop out from Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, said yesterday in Calabar that poverty and lack of where to stay after she gave birth made her sell her two weeks old baby girl for N20,000.
Maria, who was arrested by the police along five other accomplices, said her boyfriend who got her pregnant, asked her to abort the baby but said a doctor helped her  with free antenatal care and food until she gave birth.
This, she added, prompted her to agree to sell the baby when arrangements were made to sell.
Paraded along with Maria were a 55-year-old medical doctor, Okokon Offiong Okoho, the proprietor of Evangel Clinic,of 2, Atu Street; a 70-year-old matron of Sadatoe Maternity located at Umoh Street and a nurse at the maternity who allegedly made the plans to sell the girl to an Abuja-based lady who is now on the run.

Okowa’s victory an act of God — OSANEBI

The Deputy Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Friday Osanebi, has said that the victory of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at the election petition tribunal further re-established that the April polls’ victory was an act of God.

He said: “I am not surprised by the outcome of the election petition tribunal judgment because Governor Okowa has both support from God and the people of Delta state. This ruling has further deepened our democracy and proven that our judicial system can be relied upon.” Vanguard

Enugu sex hawker dies after marathon with customers

THE  Enugu State Police command through operatives of the Udenu Division has commenced investigations into an alleged incident of murder in which a commercial sex worker was allegedly killed in a brothel after a marathon sex with customers.
It was gathered that around midnight on October 24, the customer, identified as Ikechukwu Oga had gone to a brothel at Obolloafor, in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State where he met with the sex hawker, Roseline and had a sex deal.
Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to newsmen, explaining that the suspect after a bargain with the deceased, agreed to sleep together for a fee.

800,000 commit suicide from depression annually—DON; 12% of 400m world sufferers ‘re Nigerians

A professor of psychiatry, Joseph Adeyemi, has said that no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide yearly due to depression, yet policies on mental challenges remain archaic.
Professor Adeyemi, who spoke in Lagos at the presentation of the book Shadows in the Mirror: the Many Faces of Depression, written by Dr. Vivian Ikem, said the Mental Health Act, enacted in the 1900s, was last reviewed in 1959 despite medical improvements made over the years. 

My man's ex needs to be called to order

My partner’s ex-wife treats him appallingly. They have a son together whom he  loves very much. As a result, he has to maintain contact but every time he sees her to  collect his son, he comes back really angry and this upsets me. She’s verbally abusive,  threatens and belittles him and his self-confidenced is shattered. 
I tell him he has to be more assertive with her and suggest ways of handling her  but he’s too scared to do it. I’m seriously considering calling her to try to talk some  sense into her. She doesn’t frighten me and I’m sick of putting up with her bad behaviour.

Her views on marriage are absurd

I’m one of a group of friends who’ve been together for years and we meet often  socially.
A woman in the group is currently going through a bad patch in her marriage  due to her husband’s verbal abuse.
Another friend, who’s always been outspoken is  showing her true colours once again. When our friend told us her husband undermines  her often in the presence of the kids and once threw a plate of food at her in anger, this  friend said the husband’s behaviour could not be sorted out with counselling and the worst thing our friend could do is leave and become a single parent. 

JP Clark and Wole Soyinka!

These baaaaaad boys met at the commendation service for late Deacon Gamaliel Onosode at Ikoyi Baptist Church, Lagos.

The good Lord knows how many knocks and flogging (secondary school) and sleepless nights (tertiary level) these grey hairs gave me! I still grapple with some of their works.

However, ‘Abiku,’ whichever version, is now good mainly for its poetics and as a reflection on the ignorance that characterised our forefathers' existence, the subject matter haven been ‘neutralised’ by the knowledge of sickle cell anaemia.  

Pope Francis tasks Nigerian churches on campaign against poverty, environmental degradation

The Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis I, has urged Nigerian churches to lead in the campaign against poverty and environmental degradation in order to ensure economic growth and sustainable development.
The Pontiff noted that environmental degradation and poverty were closely related and inseparable, hence the need for an aggressive campaign against the menace.

I need answers

Why would anyone design shirts without breast pockets?

Is David Mark still in the Senate?

Why are they crying over the migrants’ crisis and rebels after "arranging" Gaddafi, crippling Greece? Then again, is it not one country (EU)? lol.

Why Military? Why now?  Why a Ransome-Kuti?

When will LASU find a ‘perfect’ VC?

Has Governor Oshiomhole forgotten his promise concerning Insurance of Benin FC (the Naija Gunners)?

Is Governor Ambode aware that his workers excavate but do not evacuate the earth because they are waiting for buyers? (So motorists spend hours squeezing through one lane along Cele-Okota-Ikotun Road)

Fake Coke from the East

Industrious wise men from the East getting the millions rolling in.
Ran into this on a dependable source's Facebook wall.
I hope Nigerians guzzle what they know and the relevant authorities are on this.