NIGERIAN PARENTS LOST CUSTODY OF THEIR 9-YEAR TWINS IN US AFTER 4 MONTHS OF LIVING ALONE

Jerusalem and Gladys Monday, Nigerian parents, have lost custody of their 9 yr old twins whom they left completely to themselves in their New Hampshire home for four months while they took their other three children to Nigeria. More of the story below from AP...

Manchester police said the uncle, 25-year-old Giobari Atura (pictured above), told them he would stop by every couple of days to drop off food, but when police got involved in November, they found no edible food in the refrigerator and only ramen noodles in a cabinet.
Atura was charged in December with one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. He was freed on $500 bail.
Atura's older brother, Jerusalem Monday, left for Nigeria with his wife and three of their children in July, intending to return in August. They told police they were delayed by illness and passport problems.

The door at their apartment was ajar Thursday, but no one answered a knock; a telephone listed in Jerusalem Monday's name was not receiving calls. A neighbor, Christaly Garcia, said she didn't recall seeing the boys but noted they wouldn't necessarily stand out because there are a lot of kids in the well-kept apartment complex in New Hampshire's largest city.
The case came to light in November when officials at the boys' school told the state Division of Children, Youth and Families that the twins had been living on their own for months. The kids were getting themselves up and on the bus, then eating breakfast and lunch at school.

The boys were taken into protective custody and then placed into foster care.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Michael Valentine said the parents returned home shortly after they learned the boys were being left alone. Because they left them in the care of a relative, Valentine said, they won't be charged. The boys are back with their parents.
In a police affidavit, Atura said he'd stop by the apartment on days that he went to work, but that didn't happen every day. He said he checked on the boys three days a week and told them to call him if they needed anything.
"It should be noted that no operable phone was located within the apartment," the affidavit says.
In an interview with police, one of the boys said "he felt lonely while staying at their own house because his mom and dad were not there and nobody was with them," according to the affidavit.

When police finally reached the parents, they said they had instructed Atura to stay at the apartment, and if he couldn't, they gave him the name of a family friend to contact. The parents said they stayed in phone contact with Atura, who assured them everything was fine.
His phone number isn't listed. His lawyer, John Stanzel, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

MEET LADY ADA-NIGERIAN WOMAN WHO MURDERED HER EUROPEAN HUSBAND IN 1953 FOR CHEATING

Ada Esther Johnson, popularly known back in the 50s as Ada Ocha Ntu pictured above with her lover, Mark Hall, whom she murdered in 1953 after she found out that he'd used the 400pounds she loaned him for business, to go to England and marry an English bride. According to history , Mark used part of Ada's money to buy his new bride a car which she would use to start a transport business in the UK.

When he returned to Nigeria, Mark told Ada what he had done with the money she lent him and a very furious Ada used a pair of scissor to stab Mark repeatedly Mark eventually died from injuries sustained from the attack.

Ada was tried and convicted in 1956 and was placed on death row at Broad Street Prison in Lagos. She was however pardoned by former head of state Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe, who changed her death sentence to life imprisonment in 1961.

BIRTH CONTROL:STOP BREEDING LIKE RABBITS....POPE FRANCIS ADVISED PARENTS

Pope Francis has advocating for birth control methods..In a chat with reports while traveling from the Philippines to Rome, the Holly Father said that Catholics may have a moral responsibility to limit the number of their children.

Pope Francis shared the story of a woman he recently met who had given birth to seven children via Cesareans section and was expecting another child. He asked the unidentified woman...

 "Does she want to leave the seven orphans?""This is to tempt God,". "That is irresponsibility." Catholics should speak of "responsible parenthood." "God gives you methods to be responsible," "Some think that—excuse the word—that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits. No."

He said each person must have a healthy dialogue with his or her  pastor and seek "how to do that responsible parenting."

Source:The National Catholic Reporter

WOMANHOOD: MEET WOMAN WHO RESCUES BABY LYING NEXT TO HIS DEAD MOTHER IN BAGA..

As people fled Baga, Borno state last week en-mass, the woman pictured above with saw a baby boy crying next to his dead mother. She stopped and picked him up. She now cares for him. Photo credit: UN Refugee Agency. See photos of other Nigerian refugees currently in Chad, after the cut...

IMMIGRATION: MUM BEGS UK GOVERNMENT NOT TO DEPORT HER 5-YEAR OLD SON

 A Nigerian mum on Wednesday pleaded with the UK Govt to allow her son 5 year old Rafeeq Atanda (pictured above), to remain in the country hours before he was due to be deported to Nigeria.

"Speaking from the centre, Bola told the Evening Chronicle: “I feel safe in Gateshead, but we have no one in Nigeria. Rafeeq was born here, he goes to school here and is doing well, it is so very hard for us. There are so many kidnappings and frightening things with Boko Haram happening in Nigeria, it would not be safe.”

Fighting back tears, Bola, 30, told how she had first come to the UK following the death of her parents and brothers and sisters in a car tragedy in Nigeria in 1997.

She said: “It was so hard but I thought I’d have a better life here and we have made a lot of friends in Gateshead.”

Gateshead MP Ian Mearns contacted the Home Office on Wednesday, requesting a barrier be placed on the planned deportation, citing concerns over Rafeeq’s health.

He received a response stating: “We are aware of the health issues regarding this family and have been working with various services to ensure the family’s needs are met during removal. “It is considered there are no grounds to place a barrier on this removal at this time.”

He said: “I understand that the family are desperately trying to put together the evidence to submit a fresh application to remain. Surely time should be given for that application to be made and considered.”

More than 5,500 people have now added their names to a petition launched earlier this week asking for the Government to reconsider deporting the little boy.

Family friend Kath Hayward, who started the petition, said: “We’ve had so many people sign up since Wednesday. We are only hoping this will now do some good.

“We would urge more people to get involved. We have heard from Bola’s solicitor and everything that can be done to help, is now being done.”

Bola said: “We just got taken and put into a car. We were not allowed to take any of our possessions.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “Bola Fatumbi was first told in 2007 that she had no right to be in the UK. Later that year she was jailed for nine months for possession of a false document, which she used to illegally obtain employment in the UK.

“She subsequently applied for asylum. This claim was refused, the decision backed up by an independent judge who found her claims not to be credible.

“Every claim is carefully considered and where there is a genuine need of protection asylum will be granted.

“We provide help and support to those found not to have the right to remain in the UK in returning to their own country. If they refuse to engage with this process we will enforce removal."

Source:  UK Mirror

HERE THEY GO AGAIN: VOTE JONATHAN & GET IBADAN STATE...JUMOKE AKINJIDE

Jumoke Akinjide, has urged the people of Oyo state to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan and all Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidates in February to ensure the creation of Ibadan state.

The Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory (FCT), made the call during PDP campaign for Jonathan and Senator Teslim Folarin in Ibadan yesterday. “You should please go out and convince others to collect their voter cards. Tell them to vote for Jonathan and Folarin. It is by doing so that we can get Ibadan state. Vote PDP, vote Ibadan state,” she said.

Source: PM News

TOO BAD:59-YEAR OLD MAN RAPED OF 2-BABY SISTERS AGED 3&5 RESPECTIVELY

Ferdinand Duwanamu, 59, has been arrested by the Taraba State Police Command, Jalingo, after he was accused of raping 2 baby sisters, aged 3 and 5 respectively.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ademola Omole, said that the father of the two young girls, Igwe Samson, reported the case to the Kurmi division and the police moved to arrest the accused.

Admitting his sordid crime while begging for mercy, the accused said; "I lost my wife almost 10 years ago and my first daughter is 34-years-old. This is a mistake and I think it is the work of the devil. This is the first time in my life that I would do such a thing and I wish it never happened."
The police said the accused will be charged to court as soon as they are done with their investigations.