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Thursday 1 October 2015

PHOTO OF THE DAY: ALAAFIN OF OYO KINGDOM'S QUEENS WITHOUT MAKEUP

Yea…..you have seen them on the streets London, Oyo, Abuja…..even at various ‘owambe’ parties. Can you now spot them without makeup?

MAN SPENDS 20 YEARS ON DEATH ROW FOR MURDER OF A MAN WHO WAS ALIVE

This is very annoying, pathetic and barbaric case. Mpagi Edward Edmary,an Ugandan taxi driver, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal murder of his neighbor that never was. But not only was Edward an innocent man, there hadn’t even been a murder!

Edward had been framed after a land dispute between families in the village got out of hand. Witnesses were bribed to say they had seen him kill the man and dispose of the body.

He spent the next 20 years in Kampala’s notorious Luzira prison and was only released when his family proved that the dead man had been hiding out in another part of the country!


As Edward says, “In Uganda, conditions for death row prisoners are cruel, degrading, and inhumane. We were always denied medicines. There were lice, flies, and other vermin in the prison, and this resulted in many illnesses – and many prisoners died from these illnesses.


Life is terrible on death row in Uganda, Africa. No one was ever given any notice that they would be executed. Each time we were taken by complete surprise. We lived in complete fear of any unusual activity from the wardens…..

BBC Story


RIVAL GANG SHOT MC OLUOMO'S RIGHT HANDMAN DEAD IN LAGOS


 MC Oluomo’s very close ally, Olayinka Mamowora a.k.a Mamok, an indigene of Ijebu-ife,  was shot dead by a  rivalry group on Wednesday night while barbing his hair at a salon said to be very close to his house in Oshodi area of Lagos state. The men who stormed the vicinity on motorbikes shot him several times on the head to ensure he was dead before speeding off the community.


MC Oluomo and his boys are said to be mourning his death at the moment. Olayinka Mamowora a.k.a Mamok was a key figure in MC Oluomo's led gang, He is survived by an aged mother, a wife and a child. May his soul rest in peace . Graphic photo after the cut….


WOMAN BATTERED AND THROWN OUT BY HUSBAND FOR REFUSING TO TAKE CUSTODY OF MISTRESS CHILD

Mrs. Sinmiat Omowumi Ogunbanjo, a mother of four was on Sallah day, battered by her husband, Jimmy Omotalabo Ogunbanjo, 40, a staff of Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Abeokuta, Ogun State after she refused to take custody of a baby delivered by her husband's mistress.

According to report, he told her that he brought the child to her to nurse because the mistress could not take proper care of the baby. Omowumi asked him to return the baby to the mother because she was not ready to nurse or take custody of the baby. Several family members, including her mother-in-law, Ganiyat Ogunbanjo pleaded with her to take custody of the baby but she refused.

 Her refusal to accept the child led to an argument and in the process Jimmy and other members of the family allegedly battered her and threw her out of her matrimonial home.

Omowumi, who was seriously injured, reported the assault to the police who told her it was a family matter and sent her away. Following the development, Omowumi contacted a lawyer, Barrister, Olufemi Ajiboso who petitioned the Ogun State Commissioner of Police and the management of FRSC Ogun State Command, her husband’s employer.

Ajiboso, who confirmed the incident, said what happened to Omowumi was a clear case of inhumanity to man and an assault not only on the victim but women in general. He said Omowumi informed him that her husband had subjected her to all sorts of ill treatment since he married her and she had been enduring it because of her children.


P.M News reports

14-YEAR OLD GIRL SUSPECTED TO HAVE FLED WITH 40-YEAR OLD LOVER

Rosemary, just 14, who was on Monday, September 8, rescued by officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (MWAPA) from the apartment of her alleged lover, Chukwu Nkenna, 40, at Obelle Junction, Surulere, Lagos, has reportedly gone missing again.


The teenager was said to have met Nkenna in the Surulere around January 2015 and moved in with him. The Surulere Police Division had on Friday, August 21, arrested Nkenna after neighbours filed a report alleging he was sexually abusing the teenager. The matter has since been transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation (SDCI), Yaba, on Monday, August 24.

Subsequently, the police at SDCI reportedly released Nkenna while the victim was asked to seek medical attention. Rosemary, afterwards, went back to continue living with her lover and the matter was said to have also been brought to the attention of MWAPA, which sent its officials to take the girl from the suspect’s house on September 8.

The agency reportedly billed the 14-year-old to go to a government rehabilitation centre, but she opted to stay in the Agege area with her uncle. However, on September 13, Rosemary reportedly sneaked out of her uncle’s apartment in Agege, and had since not been found Efforts to find Rosemary have proved abortive.

Following the search, Nkenna’s apartment in Surulere was allegedly raided but she was not found. Nkenna was also said to have travelled out of Lagos State, and was unavailable for comment. Rosemary’s uncle, who identified himself as Benjamin, said, "When Nkenna was initially arrested by the police and taken to SDCI, the police failed to follow up the matter. They released him, and said we should allow the girl to marry the man since they were both lovers. I was not happy with the way they treated that case. When they asked the two of them to go home, she returned to Nkenna’s house until she was taken from the apartment by government officials.

Days later, she fled, and since that time, we have been looking for her. She called one of my brothers two days ago, but she did not tell us where she was staying. We assumed she was with the suspect. We do not have Nkenna’s number. So, we cannot reach him." Benjamin added that Nkenna must have given his niece love potion and appealed to the the state government to rearrest him.

"There was a time that Nkenna called the family with Rosemary’s number, and we asked him to show up, but he refused. We are still looking for her." An unnamed official of MWAPA in Alausa, confirmed that the ministry was handling the case, adding that the director of the Child Protection Unit was unavailable for comment.

"The case was reported to the unit by an NGO, and we are working on it. The director is not around to talk on it," the official said The Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) Joe Offor, said investigation was ongoing on the matter. He said the case was at the SDCI, and that they are investigating alleged rape.

 "The police do not get involved in cases of relationships and marriages. If the girl is a minor, the police know she cannot give a valid consent. However, the girl’s family should find out where their daughter is and let the police know so we can assist in recovering her. Offor said. "If the suspect is given an administrative bail, he will come back on the day he is asked to report. If he does not show up, then we know what to do" he added.

Source: Punch

KING FROM NELSON MANDELA'S ROYAL FAMILY JAILED FOR ARSON IN SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa's top appeal court has sentenced King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo  to 12 years in jail; and said the traditional monarch who is from royal family of Nelson Mandela's Thembu ethnic group should report to prison within the next 48 hours - upholding his conviction for arson, kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice

"We are very shocked. He is a senior member of the royal family so there is a big sense of loss and uncertainty," Chief Simphiwe Pantshwa told the BBC.

"We knew to expect anything but the news that he will not be coming home came as a shock."
The case has caused divisions within the AbaThembu royal family since it began in 2009, with some feeling the king was being victimised, while others were adamant that no-one should be above the law.


BBC

NOATALGIA: UMARU DIKKO..... FOILED HIGH PROFILE KIDNAP PLOT

 Umaru Abdulrahman Dikko (1936-2014), Lawyer, Nigerian politician, was born in Wamba and educated in Zaria in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state. Schooled at London University bagged a Bachelor of Science degree and worked for some time with the BBC's Hausa-language service.

Alhaji Umaru Dikko , became a household name in Britain and Nigeria  in the summer of 1984 when men said to be from the Israeli secret service ‘Mossad’ and the Nigerian government of the day conspired to kidnap him in a large wooden crate.

During the second republic (1979-83), Dikko played prominent roles in the government, as special adviser to President Sheu Shagari, transport minister and head of the presidential task force on rice. After the military coup on 31 December 1983, the Shagari government was overthrown, Dikko then fled into exile in London.

The new military regime accused him of large-scale corruption while in office as head of the presidential task force on rice in particular of embezzling millions of dollars from the nation’s oil revenues. The accusations he denied.

On the 5th July, 1984, Dikko was seized outside his house in London, bundled into a van and taken to Stansted Airport in Essex, where a Nigerian Boeing 707 cargo aircraft waited to repatriate him to face charges of corruption brought against him in Lagos. His captors handcuffed him, drugged him, and stuffed him in chains into the crate with a doctor by his side maintaining a tube to keep him breathing.

According to report, the doctor and another of his captors, a diamond trader, were Israelis; the other two, a Nigerian ex-army major and a Tunisian-born shopkeeper. The other men climbed into a second wooden crate. Only when all were waiting take-off did a telephone call by suspicious British customs officers to the Foreign Office discover that the two crates, each four and a half feet by five and a half in size, did not have diplomatic clearance.

Customs officials were told to open the crates in the presence of an official Nigerian government representative. The crates were searched and the men discovered. Dikko was whisked to hospital in Bishop's Stortford, where he woke up unharmed after remaining unconscious all night, and his captors arrested.

The doctor and the shopkeeper were later sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, the Israeli organizer of the snatch to 14 years, and the Nigerian military man to 12 years. The men lost appeals to have their sentences reduced.

Neither Nigeria nor Israel ever admitted taking part in the only-just-thwarted effort to avoid the time-consuming process of securing Dikko's extradition to Nigeria, but both countries were referred to in Parliament as having been involved, for reasons that would remain shrouded in mystery. The Nigerian High commissioner was expelled from Britain and two expatriate British engineers working in Nigeria were accused of stealing an aircraft. They were sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, and for the next few years relations between Britain and Nigeria were frosty. The two were freed three years later.

Dikko told an interviewer two months after his ordeal: "I was warned all the time... but I had to live. I had to go out." He remembered seeing his abductors staring at him: "The stare sent a shock through me. I was on foot, alone... they grabbed me and held me... they banged me against the van. I hurt my back."

 "I remember the very violent way in which I was grabbed and hurled into a van, with a huge fellow sitting on my head - and the way in which they immediately put on me handcuffs and chains on my legs," he told the BBC a year later.

The heroine of the moment had been Dikko's secretary, Elizabeth Hayes, who saw the snatch and her boss being put into a yellow van, and called police. She also managed to tell Dikko by sending a message on his electronic pager, which he received just before being chemically knocked out. "It was a great relief," Dikko said. "Then they jabbed me [injected the drug] and sat on me." He later added: "It was so tight it was as if a knife was cutting through my wrists... They tied my hands and my ankles together. I was bent double."

He stayed in Britain until being invited back to Nigeria by President Goodluck Jonathan under more clement conditions. He was chairman of the disciplinary committee of the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria. He died in London after a series of strokes. His son, Dr Bello Dikko, survives him.