Ramadan Tragedy: 3 teenagers drown in well

Three secondary school students drowned one after the other in a well while trying to fetch water to perform ablution last weekend in Okerimi-Oro in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.
The three boys, whose ages ranged from 14 to 15, are students of Ayaki Secondary School located in the area and had wanted to perform ablution ahead of breaking their fast when the tragedy struck.
It was gathered that one of the three boys had tried to fetch water from the well, when he suddenly fell in.

He’s still sends his ex naughty texts

I recently had to use my boyfriend’s mobile, with his consent, but curiously peeped through his messages. To my horror, I discovered he’d been sending steamy texts to a woman called Jakie.

My step-brother wants us to date

My mother re-married over six years ago and we moved into my step-father’s house. He has three children and I’ve always found his eldest child good-looking. He is in the university and I’m at the nursing school. I’m 23 and he’s two years older.
About five months ago, we finally agree to having mutual feelings of love and we kissed a lot. We recently took things a step further by making love. I love him so much and he feels the same.

Suspects escape by throwing money into crowd in Warri

THREE suspected bandits pursued by the police, Tuesday, sprayed bundles of naira on a crowd at Ajamuogha, Warri, Delta State, to cause commotion and make their escape easy.
Their gimmick succeeded as people scrambled for the naira notes while they escaped, leaving the anti-kidnapping patrol team angry.
Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the incident, said: “On Tuesday, at 11:45a.m., operatives of anti-kidnapping patrol team on routine patrol along Ajamugha Road, Warri, accosted a red Vento car with number plates DELTA UGH 519 MZ, with three occupants.
”On sighting the patrol team, the suspects zoomed off and the patrol team gave them a chase to Ajamugha Sharp Corner, where the three occupants alighted from the Vento car and ran into the crowd of people throwing money at the crowd. They eventually escaped.
”The abandoned Vento car was recovered. On searching the vehicle, two cut-to-size double-barrelled guns, 31 live cartridges, 10 expended cartridges, four different pairs of car plate numbers, one Nokia 201 handset and one Lexus car key were recovered.
“Efforts are on to track down the fleeing criminals.”

18-year-old girl kills mum over houe chores

An 18-year-old girl has hacked her mother to death at Rumuchakara village, Choba, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
A source close to the family said a disagreement had ensued between the young lady and her late mother, Wednesday evening, after the mother asked her to prepare dinner for the family.
The source said the girl protested that she would not cook and this was said to have infuriated the mother, who then slapped her.
The girl, in retaliation, picked up a plank and smashed her mother’s head with it. Efforts to save the woman's life reportedly failed.
A source revealed that the whereabouts of the girl is unknown since the news of her mother’s death broke yesterday.
Leaders of the community are said to have passed a decree barring the young girl from ever returning to the community.
At press time last night, police were yet to comment on the development.

38-yr-old woman to die by hanging over step-son's murder

A Makurdi High Court, presided over by Justice Jennifer Ijohor, yesterday, sentenced a 38-year-old house wife, Mrs. Ternenge Tersoo, to death by hanging for the murder of her one-year-old step-son.
The convict’s husband had reported her to the Police at Vandeikya in 2012, alleging that his wife killed his one-year-old baby.
According to the First Information Report, FIR, filed before the court by the police prosecutor, she was accused of snatching her year old step-son from a nanny and strangled him to death.
In the course of the trial, the accused testified for herself and denied the allegation, but called no witness to support her claims.

He is a sex-machine!

My boyfriend is far too randy for me. He wants lots of hot sex every night, and he goes at it fast and furious.
Sometimes we go on for hours and I end up sore and exhausted. It may sound like I’m the luckiest woman on earth, but too much of everything is bad and I’m getting bored and upset by it all— to the point where I don’t look forward to sex with him.
How can I tell him I don’t want sex all the time?

Police arrest masquerade; 2 others with human parts

TWO suspects, identified as Adebayo Saheed and Bello Mustapha, have been arrested by Oyo State Police Command for alleged possession of parts of human skull and hair.
The suspects were paraded along with a custodian of an Ibadan masquerade, known as Ogunmola Adenimodo, for allegedly destroying some vehicles at Ayeye area of Ibadan metropolis.
They were rounded up at Moniya in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state.
Ibadan masquerade festival had always left on its trail tears, losses, violence, bloodshed and even death in some cases.

Ogunmola custodian

15-year-old dies aborting 5-month pregnancy; lover docked

A 20-year-old man, Sodiq Sulaimon, yesterday appeared before an Ikeja High Court for allegedly procuring abortion for his 15-year-old lover (names withheld), who died in the process.
The defendant is facing a one-count charge of manslaughter brought against him by Lagos State Government, for which he pleaded not guilty.
“Sodiq Sulaimon, on or before December 11, 2012, about 4p.m., at 7 Oriokuta Street, Imota, Ikorodu Lagos, in the Ikeja Judicial Division, did unlawfully killed girl (names withheld) by procuring abortion for her,” the charge stated.
At the resumed hearing, a witness, Sergeant Elizabeth Osikanlu, told the presiding judge, Justice K. A. Jose, that the matter was referred to her after one Femi Adegboyega came to the station to report that the defendant impregnated his niece and gave her drugs to abort a five-month-old pregnancy.
According to her, the defendant admitted having sexual intercourse with the deceased sometime in October 2012 and giving her two tablets to prevent pregnancy.

Man defiles two daughters, nieces in Ibadan

Their father

Raped

Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man who allegedly defiled his two under-aged biological daughters and two of his nieces, all between 14 and 17 years.
The crime was allegedly committed at Moniya in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state.
Though the suspect, a herbalist, denied the incest allegation, saying he was being held for a crime he did not commit, the confessions of the four girls took many people at the state police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan by surprise as they narrated how the father had sex with them at different times.
While parading the suspect, identified as Tajudeen Awoniyi, Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammed Katsina, said the accused person had carnal knowledge of his own daughters whenever he was drunk.
The commissioner alleged that the suspect would give black soap to the other two nieces before having sexual intercourse with them one after the other.

Girl gang-raped by boyfriend, 3 others

DETECTIVES from Ondo State Police Command have arrested four students of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, for allegedly gang-raping a female student of the institution.
The victim is a girlfriend of one of the suspects.
The suspects, according to a police source, are student in the Department of Business Education in the institution.
Police source said the victim, who is on admission in a private hospital, was raped at a residence in Oka area of the town until she became unconscious.

Court acquits suspect over HIV status

Magistrate M. Opeagbe of an Igbosere Magistrate’s court, yesterday, discharged and acquitted a HIV positive and tuberculosis patient, Aliu Musa, 38, who allegedly stole an i-Pad valued at N85,000.
The magistrate discharged him of the theft based on his health status, adding that she did not want him to go and infect other inmates in the prison, if sent there.
The defendant, who was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing, pleaded guilty to the charges against him.
Musa, who was coughing out blood in court while the charge was being read to him, was handed tissue paper by the magistrate to cover his mouth.

Woman stabs 3-yr-old son to death

A woman,yesterday, went berserk at Otta in Ado-Odo Local Government Area of Ogun State, stabbing her three-year-old son to death.
Identified as Funmilayo Adeyanju, she allegedly stabbed her child, Emmanuel, several times on the head and other parts of the body with a knife.
It was alleged that the child was a product of an incestuous relationship between the woman and her own biological father.

Comedy of uniforms as policemen are arrested over checkpoint

A mild drama unfolded yesterday at Okota area of Lagos when some policemen, who mounted illegal checkpoint, took to their heels to evade arrest by policemen attached to the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force.
The fleeing policemen reportedly fired some shots into the air, apparently to clear the way for their escape.
Unfortunately for two of them, they were arrested and whisked into the task force's waiting van.
Eyewitnesses said: “The policemen mounted an illegal checkpoint in front of UBA bank, which caused a hitch in traffic on the already bad road.
“All of a sudden, we saw them running and shooting. Everyone concluded they had seen robbers and we also fled for dear life. One of the policemen jumped into a motorbike, while the other two were struggling for who to board the bike first.

I am about to lost my Airtel SIM card

I had to be sure it is Airtel, because I have been witness to too many changes of name since I bought my line in 2006 or '05. A friend said the present name, starting with 'A', is a strategic move, since they still have 25 alphabets to pick from.

Anyway, what's in a name? The service is what matters. And right now, I don tire. I can't explain how my airtime disappears. If I by mistake put on the data connection, Usain Bolt will envy the speed at which my airtime hit the N0.00 mark.

Even if I do not recharge in the region of N100,000, or even its half-way mark, I have this conviction that some unexplained disappearing acts is been executed by a dubious computer or human being.

Well, they have millions of subscribers, so if I dump that SIM card, it won't make any difference. But they should make sure I am the only one grumbling. Otherwise.. hem! Hem!

Four escape death in bus fire

Four persons escaped death by the whiskers yesterday, as a private Volkswagen bus with number plates, LSB 28 CP, suddenly went up in flames on Ikorodu Road, Lagos.
Although the vehicle was totally burnt, the quick intervention of law enforcement agents and fire fighters saved occupants of the vehicle from being roasted.
The incident caused panic among road users, many of who scampered for safety.
Eyewitnesses account said the incident, which occurred around 2.37p,m,, was a result of electrical sparks as the vehicle towards Anthony area.
The eyewitness said the incident caused traffic gridlock, which in turn caused commuters to be stranded.
Director, Lagos State Fire Services, Razak Fadipe, urged motorists to ensure their vehicles were in good condition before embarking on a journey.

TOUT vs OKADAMEN: Badagry community initiates Oro, as reprisal attacks loom

Some of the burnt buildings

Aggrieved commercial motorcyclists at Era, in Badagry, a Lagos suburb, have threatened to avenge the killing of their colleagues by motor park touts, otherwise known as agbero, during a fight over collection of levy on Tuesday.
A visit to the community yesterday revealed that one of the deceased commercial motorcyclists, simply identified as Lawal, was allegedly hit with a charm.
Two others, said to have suffered same fate, had reportedly been discharged from the hospital and taken to an undisclosed herbal home for further treatment.
Residents had fled the area. Those that returned and others that stayed back remained indoors, with their children withdrawn from school. Shops and business centres were still under lock and key.

‘Lawal wasn’t working’
One of the motorcyclists, who gave his name as Benjamin, said 35-year-old Lawal was killed at Adele Bus Stop.
He said: “Lawal was not even working on that day (Tuesday). When he was accosted by the abgeros, he told them he was not working and hence would not pay the N50 levy.
“They insisted he must pay, which led to a heated argument, during which he was attacked with local charms.
‘’He spun several times before falling down dead. Two other persons, who came to know what the problem was, were hit with the charm. But they did not die, as they were rushed to a nearby hospital, from where they were transferred to a traditional home.”
A member of Landlord/ Resident Association in the community, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said almost all commercial motorcyclists in the community were from Kogi State.

Security guard dies after winning drinking, smoking bet

A security man, simply identified as Thompson, has died after drinking a bottle of a popular alcoholic drink and smoking five sticks of cigarette in two minutes, which were the terms of a bet he entered into with others he met at a joint.
The incident happened at Agege area of Lagos on May 7, after the deceased bought bottles of Ogogoro (local gin) for his drinking companions, who then challenged him to finish a bottle of bitters and smoke five sticks of cigarette within a stipulated time.
If he had won, the friends would have paid for everything he consumed.

Kano govt withdraws charges against killer child bride

The Kano State government has dropped murder charges against  a 14-year-old girl, who reportedly killed her husband.
The child bride, Wasila Tasiu allegedly thumb-printed a confessional statement while in police custody that she killed her husband, Umar Sani through application of rat poison in his local delicacy.
Tasiu was said to to have taken the action after she was forced to marry the deceased against her wish.

14 JSS students arrested for cultism in Edo

NO fewer than 14 Junior Secondary School, JSS, students have been arrested by the Police in Edo State over alleged involvement in cult-related activities in Benin.
The students, whose ages ranged from 12 to 15 years, were said to have been picked by policemen at Oguola Secondary School, along St. Saviour Road in the state capital and were being screened at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Police headquarters, Benin.