DISABILITIES MEN BEAT UP SECURITY OFFICERS AT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABUJA

In Nigeria, you need to fight for your right and stand by it. On Thursday December 17,few men living with disabilities beat up a security officer at the National Assembly Abuja.

 

The persons living with disabilities from the Niger Delta region, stormed the National Assembly Complex in Abuja to protest neglect by Federal Lawmakers representing them in the Federal Legislature, but were stopped by secrity officers.

 

In anger, they fought with the security officers who tried to prevent them from gaining entrance to the complex.

 

Watch a clip from the scene below

PHYSICALLY CHALLENGE PEOPLES BEAT UP SECURITY MEN

 

VIDEO: 344 KANKARA SCHOOLBOYS RELEASED..APC ALLEGED THAT NORTHWEST GOVERNOR IS BEHIND THE BANDITRY

The 344 Kankara schoolboys who were released by their abductors on Thursday, December 17, couldn't contain their joy as they smiled and cheered as they were transported in a military truck.

However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that a northwest governor is behind the heightened cases of banditry, abductions and other violent crimes in the region!

 

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yekini Nabena made the allegation in a statement released on Thursday December 17. 

 

 

In the statement released after the PDP embarked on a protest over the abduction of schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) in Kankara, Kastina State by bandits, the APC warned the opposition party against politicising the incident. 

 

The statement read; 

“Our security agencies have intelligence reports linking one of the Northwest governors to collusion and sponsorship of violent and criminal activities of bandits. I won’t give details because of the sensitive and security nature of the issue.

“However, relevant security agencies must as a matter of urgency, investigate the report and determine its veracity. Human life is not what we should play political chess games with.

“We must shun enemies of the country including the PDP who seek political gains from issues of insecurity.

“Our security agencies must also be alert to plots to further destabilise the Northwest region and frustrate the quick and safe release of students abducted from the GSSS."

WATCH VIDEO HERE: KANKARA SCHOOL PUPILS

 

COURT REJECTS GENESIS POST-CONVICTION BAIL APPLICATION CLAIMING HE'S SUFFERING FROM HYPERTENSION AND DIABETIC ETC

The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, has rejected the post-conviction bail application filed by the Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Ogundipe.

 

Ogundipe was arraigned before the court on a seven-count charge following a petition filed by a UK-based architect, Mrs Olaide Williams-Oni, who accused him of obtaining a total of N17 million from her with the promise to help her procure some landed property. In her testimony before the court, Williams-Oni had told the court that she met prophet Ogundipe in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria when she was taken to his church for prayers by her step-sister. 

 

The presiding judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade, on November 18, found the clergyman guilty of two of the seven charges brought against him and dismissed the remaining five over lack of evidence. She then sentenced him to one-year imprisonment on each count but said the prison terms would run concurrently.

 

After the judgment, Ogundipe through his counsel, Olanrewaju Ajanaku, filed a motion on notice for bail pending an appeal. In a 16-paragraph affidavit sworn to by his counsel, Ogundipe noted that being diabetic, he could not follow a strict diet and constant specialized medical attention in the custodial centre, which had taken a toll on his health. He said that before his incarceration, he was suffering from hypertension, peptic ulcer and unending malaria, which had worsened his health challenges since his conviction.

 

However, in a counter-affidavit sworn to by the prosecutor, Rotimi Odutola, he urged the court to reject the application, noting that the convict never made mention of his health status during the trial.

 

"The convict spanned several years before the court for trial, there was never a time the convict complained about his state of health during the trial, only for him to allude to facts about his alleged state of health now that he has been in custody for barely three weeks.

"Indeed, if his health status truly requires treatment, the correctional centres also have a procedure for referral where an inmate's health case so demands without the prompting of anyone."

 

Following the argument of the prosecution counsel, Justice Akinlade dismissed Ogundipe's application.

"The convict has not shown any medical records of his illness. Also, he has not been to the prison hospital for treatment, so his appeal can be heard early by the Court of Appeal."Justice Akinlade said

 

ISREAL OLADELE GENESIS: HOW HE DEFRAUDED THE LONDON BASED BUSINESSWOMAN

Popular prophet and Shepherd-in-charge of Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global  Parish, Israel Oladele Ogundipe aka Genesis was sentenced  to two years imprisonment by Lagos State High Court   for defrauding an abroad-based woman, Mrs Olaide Williams-Oni.

According to source, Ogundipe, who has been on trial since 2011,about this particular case, was charged with seven counts of obtaining by stealing, inducing delivery of money by false pretences, unlawful conversion of property and forgery.

In her testimony, Williams-Oni had told the court that she met the prophet in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria when she was taken to his church for prayers by her step-sister.

Mrs. Oladele Williams-Oni, in 2010, said she was allegedly defrauded of over N17 million by the Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Parish, Alagbado, Lagos , Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipe.

" she first met Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipethe in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria when she was taken to his church for prayers by her half-sister, Mrs. Ogungbemi."

"He told me something about my husband in one of his prophecies that I should not have anything jointly with him because he was having an affair behind me. He gave me a liquid to drink and I started vomiting. I was asked to sit down and he lit a candle and said I should be there until the candle-light goes off" she said.

"According to Williams-Oni, on her return to London, Ola-Ogundipe called her and advised her to invest in landed property in Lagos, an advice she heeded after consultation with some persons."

"Williams-Oni said she sent money to Ola-Ogundipe in five installments of N900,000, N2.5 million, N8.5 million, N2.7 million and 12,000 pound sterling between 2002 and 2005 to purchase the property on her behalf."

"She alleged that after collecting the money, the prophet converted some of the said property for his personal use and refused to refund the money for the others."

"When I confronted him about this, he started threatening my life and blackmailing me. He was saying that I had a son for him, which became an embarrassment to my family', she claimed."

However, in her judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade found the clergyman,Prophet Isreal Oladele,  guilty of two of the seven charges brought against him and dismissed the remaining five over lack of evidence.

Akinlade ordered that he should pay the complainant the sum of N11m, which he illegally obtained from her.

“Both sentences are to run concurrently and the defendant is to restitute the complainant the sum of N2.5mi in respect of count two (stealing) and N8.5million in respect of count 4 (unlawful conversion of property not delivered),” the judge said.

Following the judgment, Rotimi Odutola, lead prosecuting counsel for Lagos State, thanked the court for the ruling.

According to the prosecution, Ogundipe committed the offence between August 30, 2002 and 2005.

During that period, he is alleged to have fraudulently obtained N14m and £12,000 in various tranches from the complainant.

Between August 30, 2002 and December 2003 at 32, Bello St Ladipo Estate, Shogunle, Lagos, he allegedly received N2.9m from Williams-Oni to purchase an uncompleted building for her but fraudulently converted the money to his own use.

The prosecution said that between March and December 2003 at Commint Bureau De Change, Broad Street, Lagos, he stole £12,000 from the complainant, which was meant for the purchase of four plots of land for building a mosque.

He is alleged to have stolen N8.5m between October 2002 and March 2003 from Williams-Oni for the purchase of landed properties in Lagos, Odutola revealed.

The prosecution also noted that on diverse days between 2002 and 2003, he had received N2.6m from the complainant by falsely representing to her that he is a man of God and that the money was to be used for his church.

 

 

FIRST CLASS MONARCH MURDERED BY GUNMEN IN ONDO STATE

A first class monarch, Oba Adegoke Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon in Ondo State, has been murdered by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, Oba Adeusi was killed on Thursday evening at a spot around the Elegbeka axis of the town.

According to source,the monarch was returning to his palace from Akure, the state capital, when he was killed.

The source said, "The king had earlier attended the meeting with all Obas in Akure and while on his way he was kidnapped which caused apprehension in the community.

"But while we were trying to ensure his rescue, we saw that he had already been killed by the kidnappers. It is very sad.”

 

Alhaji Jimoh Akintola Odutola(1905- 2010): IJEBU MAN PER EXCELLENCE

Alhaji Jimoh Akintola Odutola(1905- 2010) industrialist, mining magnate, textile dealer and philanthropist.

Jimoh Odutola was one of Nigeria’s pioneering Industrialists and most successful businessmen. Born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, he was the younger brother of the famous businessman/ philanthropist Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola. Jimoh did not have the benefit of Western education. He started out at age 12 as a Houseboy and apprentice Cattle trader to Alhaji Abdul-Kareem Otupa. That stint ended in 1918 due to the global influenza pandemic of that year. At age 16 with £6 seed money from  Sanni Bilesanmi, his stepfather, he started his own business as a textile trader. In 1927, he ventured into the transport business, by 1929, he went into cocoa produce merchandise, achieving great success both in terms of resources and reputation. 

In 1932, at his mother’s insistence, he went into partnership with his brother, Adeola Odutola, who had been a court clerk and a part-time trader, with considerable experience as an administrator. The brothers were involved in produce marketing and export, weaving, gold mining. In 1948, the partnership failed with each brother going his own way, they became each other’s rival, their rivalry was bitter. As fate would have it, each became phenomenally successful in their own right. 

In 1950, he set up J.A Odutola and Company Ltd as the corporate umbrella for his business. Four years later, he set up the West African Tyre Retreading and Company Ltd, the first tyre retreading company in Africa, so successful was this company that Jimoh Odutola was invited by the governments of Ghana and Kenya to come and set up factories in their countries. Odutola was also a pioneer in the manufacturing of rubber and plastic foam with his establishment of the Nigerian Rubber Foam Company in 1958, and the Nigerian Plastic Foam Company in 1960. By 1951, he had opened an office in the United Kingdom, in Oldham. In 1967, he was awarded a certificate of merit as the first African to visit the North Pole. The same year, he was the first African to fly on Lufthansa Airline from Tokyo to Alaska, Alaska to Copenhagen. 

Even though he had no Western education, he made sure that all his 24 children were educated to the best of each person’s ability. One of his children is Prof. (Mrs). Ebun Clark, a pioneer Professor of Theatre Arts in Nigeria and wife of renowned writer/ poet the late Prof. J.P. Clark.

Alhaji Jimoh Odutola was a great philanthropist. He built a secondary school and a Koranic institute in Ijebu-Ode – jummah Odutola College. He built a 9 miles road from Irogbo to Ipinredo, in Ilesha, also worthy of mention was his donation of 200 mattresses to the Ibadan Garrison organisation in support of the Nigerian Government during Biafran War. 

He lived to the ripe old age of 105 years and remained throughout an epitome of modesty. He shunned the limelight and ostentatiousness.

source: shola adebajo/ Bimbola Babarinde

 

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