TOLULOPE AROTILE: COUNTRY TALENT WASTED @ 24 YEARS OLD.....

Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile was the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Air Force. She contributed significantly to combat operations against insecurity in the northern states of Nigeria.
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Yoruba first female combat pilot may have been murdered, says O'odua group
Late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, who was the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in Nigeria, may have been murdered.
Apapo O'odua Koya, (AOKOYA) in a statement on Tuesday asked the International community to investigate her death. The group said the least it expects is an independent enquiry.
"We have very strong reasons to assume that Tolulope Arotile was murdered. We are aware she had altercations with top military commanders before her death and some hated her to a tilt for her brilliance and exploit against Boko Haram and bandits " AOKOYA said in the statement signed by its officials, Captain Abigo Oritsebugbemi (rtd) and its Middle Belt Coordinator, Akeem Meduna.
AOKOYA said the theory that Arotile died in a motor accident inside the Airforce base is a cock and bull story and it is doubtful.
"We want full investigation into this suspicious death. We find it difficult to believe the story based on the information at our disposal.
"How can she have died in a traffick accident right inside the Airforce base in Kaduna?. We have made preliminary findings and all officers who spoke to us could not understand how that could have happened. One officer, her colleague in Kaduna specifically said the case of murder was the strongest motive", AOKOYA said. At the time of her death, she was 23, and one of the youngest fighter pilots in the world.
"There must be an independent enquiry for anyone to be convinced Tolulope Arotile was not murdered. The Fulani hegenomy hated bright officers of Southern origin. Tolu was exceptional and her brilliance was a threat to the establishment." AOKOYA said.
The group recalled that a Yoruba Chief of Airforce, Shittu Alao was murdered in 1969s by the Fulani oligarchy adding that Dr Ademola Adetokunbo who carried out the autopsy was also murdered by the Federal authorities controled by the Fulani. The Commandant of Nigerian Naval School, Mrs J.O Ogundana was murdered few months ago. Her body was mutilated and packed in a Ghana Must Go. In the same manner, Dr Yomi Oniororo a 29 year old officer of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, (NIA) was murdered in Abuja, 2002.His body was mutilated. Dare, a senior police officer investigating the murder of Dele Giwa was also assasinated. His senior brother is the popular journalist, Prof Olatunji Dare.
"We are taking records. At the last count, some 413 Yoruba junior and senior Yoruba officers have been murderred by the Fulami oligarchy. Many of them were killed in a 'neat job' that looked like an accident
Arotile died mysteriously due to alleged head injuries sustained, according to Nigerian Airfoce, in road traffic accident at Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kaduna.
Last year she completed her training in South Africa and was winged as a combat helicopter pilot.
Arotile hailed from Iffe in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi.
AOKOYA said it has been reliably informed how Arotile led major onsalught against bandits and armed Islamic fundamentalist. Her sorties led to deaths of several militants and bandits. "We have been informed that their agents and supporters in the military marked her and only succeeded in setting a trap for her", AOKOYA said adding that her last operation was in the North Central States tagged "Operation GAMA AIKI"in Minna, Niger State where despite rockets fired at her, she succeeded in killing many bandits and fundamentalist.
“The Nigerian authorities are shedding crocodile tears on the murder of Arotile. We promise his murderers that the several cases of murder of Yoruba officers in the Army, Navy or Airforce are being compiled and at the right time when Yoruba Nation emerges, the murderers will face the full weight of the law even if it means abducting them the exact thing Israeli did after the second world war, to those who killed them in concentration camps.
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MAN ARRESTED FOR IMPREGNATING HIS DAUGHTER AFTER RAPING HER FOR 5 YEARS

Eromosele Mahmud,47, a single parent and father of three from the Esako West Local Government Area of Edo State but resident in Port Harcourt,  has been arrested by the police in Rivers State for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old daughter after raping her for five years.

Eromosele, who claimed not to know what pushed him to the crime, pleaded that the two-month-old pregnancy of his daughter be nurtured till delivery, adding that he did not subscribe to abortion.

He confessed that his daughter started enjoying the incestuous affair and sometimes forced herself on him.

He said, “This is a battle I have tried to fight over the years and it seems to be much bigger than me. I am not going to withdraw any fact or truth as far as this case is concerned. If this is the only way my daughter can be liberated if I go to prison, then it is good. My happiness is that I am relieved even as I speak to you now.

“I can’t really remember when it started, but like I told you, it’s more of a spiritual thing. It is very unusual for a father to be sleeping with his own daughter. I am not a party to abortion, so whatever it is, the social welfare people and other government officials involved in this matter know the best way to handle this pregnancy; as a father, I cannot support abortion for my daughter, what if anything happens to her in the process.

“I don’t rape her regularly; it happens once or twice in a year; she used to be very cooperative, even when I don’t want it, she tries to force herself on me.”

On her part, the victim said each time she protested against her father’s act, he would maltreat her and stop paying her school fees and also punish her.


She stated, “It was my father who impregnated me; he started having sex with me when I was 12-year-old till now.

“The first time he came and lay with me on the bed, when I tried to scream, he told me to shut up that my mates were doing the same thing and anytime I refused to allow him, he would not buy anything for me and he would refuse to pay my school fees.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, said the suspect would be charged once investigation was concluded.

ZINDZI MANDELA DIES @ 59

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was buried at a private funeral on Friday following her death aged 59 earlier this week.

Zindzi,was South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death.

Her family said she had tested positive for coronavirus on the day she died on Monday, but they were still awaiting post-mortem results.

In a eulogy at a virtual memorial Thursday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa thanked the Mandela family for “the very important gesture of sharing this information with the nation”.
“In doing so you are helping to encourage social acceptance for sufferers.”

“This is a virus that affects us all, and there should never be any stigma around people who become infected,” said Ramaphosa.

Zindzi was buried next to her mother — who died two years ago — at a cemetery in Fourways, a northern suburb of Johannesburg.

Radical leftist opposition leader Julius Malema paid tribute to Zindzi for her role in the liberation of South Africa from the shackles of apartheid.

– ‘Shattered’ –
“She survived the most brutal regime at an early age and we thought that this crisis and invisible enemy (coronavirus) we are confronted with today, she is going to survive it because she has seen worse,” said Malema.

“And when people like mama Zindzi succumb to this invisible enemy we all remain hopeless and we are shattered,” Malema told public broadcaster SABC at the cemetery.

One of her most prominent moments was in 1985 when she read out — in front of a huge crowd of ANC supporters at a Soweto stadium — a letter in which her father rejected an offer of release from the then apartheid president P.W. Botha.
(AFP)

NIGERIAN PROFESSOR APPOINTS VICE-CHANCELLOR OF LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY

A Nigerian Professor, Charles Egbu, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University.

According to a statement on the UK Varsity website, he will take over from Margaret House, who will be stepping down after seven years.

Mr Egbu will return to Leeds, a city in which he studied and taught, to begin his new role on November 1, 2020.

Reacting to his appointment, Mr Egbu was quoted as saying: “I am honoured to be joining Leeds Trinity; a University who’s values and ethos around widening participation, offering a personalised approach and encouraging all students to achieve their best, align with my own. The University has an impressive track record in learning, teaching and employability, and I am looking forward to building on the strong foundations established under the leadership of Professor House.

“I have already been impressed by the sense of community at Leeds Trinity and I am looking forward to engaging with students, colleagues and alumni as we shape the future strategy of the institution. I am also looking forward to returning to Leeds; the city in which I spent much of my early academic life.”

With more than 25 years’ experience in higher education, he was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Experience at the University of East London.

He is also a member of various external bodies, including the Advance HE Pro Vice-Chancellor Network and QAA Panel of Experts.

Prior to this, he was Dean of the School of Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University and Head of the School of Built Environment at the University of Salford. He held academic posts at University College London, Glasgow Caledonian University and Leeds Beckett University (formerly Leeds Metropolitan).

Mr Egbu’s research interests focus on project management, construction management and sustainable development.

He has written 12 books and contributed to more than 350 publications in various international journals and conferences. He has strong links with industry, professional bodies and policy makers, and has managed several large multi-disciplinary research projects.

Meanwhile, Jamie Hanley, Chair Designate of the Board of Governors at Leeds Trinity University, said, “Professor Egbu brings with him a wealth of experience and extensive knowledge of the higher education sector. His energy and vision stood out throughout a very competitive recruitment process, and it is clear that he recognises Leeds Trinity’s strengths and values, as well as bringing with him a detailed understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced from across the higher education sector. I very much look forward to welcoming him to Leeds Trinity University.”
Professor Charles Egbu is the first Black Professor to head a University in UK. He hails from Abatete in Idemili LGA Anambra State.

QUEEN OF THE AIR TOLULOPE AROTILE: WHO MADE THE LAST TELEPHONE CALL TO HER ?

Tolulope Arotile,bold,beautiful,genius, the first-ever female combat helicopter pilot in Nigeria history, is dead. She died mysteriously at a tender age of 23.
According to the report, Flying Officer, Arotile died as a result of head injuries sustained from a road traffic accident at Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kaduna.
Her death came barely a year after she was winged as a combat helicopter pilot in the Air Force following the completion of her course in South Africa.
The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said until her death, ‪Flying Officer Arotile, who was commissioned into the NAF in September 2017 as a member of Nigerian Defence Academy Regular Course 64, was the first ever female combat helicopter pilot in the service.‬
He said: “During her short but impactful stay in the service, late Arotile, who hails from Iffe in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, contributed significantly to the efforts to rid the North Central States of armed bandits and other criminal elements by flying several combat missions under Operation GAMA AIKI in Minna, Niger State.
“The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on behalf officers, airmen, airwomen and civilian staff of the NAF, commiserates with the family of late ‪Flying Officer Arotile‬ over this irreparable loss. We pray that the Almighty God grant her soul eternal rest.”
The question that goes on  in the mind of right thinking hum&n being has been asked by Damilola Adegboye, the immediate elder sister of Tolulope Arotile,who narrated that  on the day of the incident, she and Arotile were sleeping in a room before she received a call.

    “A call came into her phone which she picked but from the way they spoke, I knew the caller must be a senior officer calling her to come to Airforce base. She felt reluctant and I offered to drop her off.

    One hour later, I read online that something serious had happened to her. I couldn’t believe that somebody I just dropped off is dead,” she explained.
“We in the family are not convinced that Tolu can just die like that in a freak accident. I know that the military is well trained in the art of investigation, we want them to carry out a thorough investigation that can convince us beyond all doubts that the incident that led to her death was real.”
 

SENATE PASSES BILL :LIFE JAIL FOR KIDNAPPERS

The Nigerian Senate has just passed a bill which prescribes life jail for kidnappers.


The bill contains amendments to the criminal code which is currently in operation in the southern part of Nigeria.
The bill tagged ‘The Criminal Code Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020’ sponsored by Oluremi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central), contains amendments to the criminal code, which is currently in operation in the Southern part of Nigeria.

It seeks to delete the statute of limitation on defilement, increase punishment for the offence of kidnapping and remove gender restrictions in the offence of rape and other related matters. 

The bill eliminates time frame for prosecuting defilement cases by increasing the period from two months to as many years as the victim decide to take up the manner.

It also removes gender restrictions on the offence of rape by explaining that both male and female could be raped.

MAN RAPES 8 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL AFTER LURING HER WITH N100

The Niger state police command has arrested one Haruna Lawal,60, for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl in Wushishi community in the state.

 

A statement from the spokesperson of the state police command, Wasiu Abiodun, says Haruna, a scavenger, saw the little girl while she was hawking fish in the area. He allegedly offered her a N100 note and then took her into an uncompleted building where he had canal knowledge of her.

 

Wasiu said during interrogation, Haruna confessed to the crime and will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is concluded.