Soldiers Beat Up Lawyer, Shoot At Him In Lagos

According to reports today, a group of soldiers brutalized a motorist for arguing over right of way. The soldiers numbering about four reportedly chased the motorist identified barrister Olajide Sipe, from 23 road Mobile Petrol station and shot at his car twice.

After one of the bullets hit Barrister Sipe’s tyre and he had to stop, the soldiers then went on to drag him out of the car and beat him thoroughly with stones and sticks almost to the point of death.
But for the timely intervention of a retired commodore who stopped his car and restrained the soldiers from inflicting more injuries on the lawyer, he could have lost his life in the attack. After the commodore intervened, Jide was rushed by bystanders to Mercy Gate hospital along 72 Road where is receiving treatment.

Barrister Sipe Narrated his ordeal to a correspondent of Naij.com. He said
“I was coming from where I went to buy water barely ten minutes after talking with my wife on the phone, at 23 Road Mobil Petrol station, those buying fuel had blocked one lane and a soldier had stopped a bus on the other lane in the middle of the road.

“When I realsed that the soldier was blocking the road I said to him, Oga this thing you are doing is causing holdup, why don’t you take the bus out of the road, so that we can move, and then he said to me who are you, what nonsense are you talking, and I said, no Oga I’m not trying to teach you what to do, I’m only telling you that if you do this thing it will be better for us using the road.
“The next thing he said was, You must be a useless man, then when I saw that he was already taking that tone I decided to move my car, then he started running after me, after I took the turning on 23 Road, another soldier, light in complexion came in front of my car, I stopped, then he began kicking my front wheel and smashed my windscreen.

“When I saw he was kicking my car, I moved, then the two Soldiers boarded a bike, then they later became four and began chasing me, as I got to 7th Avenue, I made a U-turn and they rammed their bike into my car, then I drove off, when the soldiers saw me driving off they shot at the car twice, the second bullet hit my tyre. When I heard the sound of the gun I couldn’t believe I was being shot at.   

Police IG orders arrest of petrol hawkers, filling station attendants

According to a statement signed by the Force Public Relations officer, ACP Olabisi Kolawole, Arase lamented the havoc the people selling and hoarding fuel in plastic containers have wrecked in their environs - fire outbreak for one.

“Apart from the hardship this act is causing to fuel buyers, it has also rendered some innocent and law abiding citizens homeless due to fire outbreak from jerry-can petrol storage," he said.

He stressed that petrol is highly flammable and if not stored and handled properly, can pose serious danger to lives, property and the environment.

Arase warned that filling station attendants who sell petrol inside jerry cans will also be arrested and prosecuted.

[PHOTO] Man Shoots Wife Dead In The Presence Of Her Mother In Nasarawa

A man in his 20s, Okala Jo­seph, is alleged to have done the unimaginable by shooting his wife dead, in the presence of his mother-in-law.

Joseph was said to have committed the dastardly act at Ninda village, Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa State.

He allegedly shot the victim, 18-year-old Helen Precious for refusing to have more babies by aborting the babies.

As Sunday Sun gathered from the Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State Police Command, Mr. Lawal Shehu, the horrible incident happened on April 4, 2016 around 2 pm when Joseph allegedly went to the village of his in-laws, where he learnt that his wife and moth­er-in-law had gone to the farm. Okala went to his mother-in-law’s farm at Nindama village in Kokona LGA Nasarawa State and shot his wife in the presence of her mother and younger sister and then left the scene.

He was allegedly wearing a face mask when he shot his wife and wanted to escape before he was arrested by policemen at­tached to Garaku Police station.

The suspect, Joseph Okala told Sunday Sun that he was the one who killed his wife. “My wife denied me going to school. My father warned me against marrying her rather I should go to school. Since my late wife insisted that I must marry her,I have to deny my fa­ther and abandon my education to marry my late wife in 2013. I was blessed with one kid, a baby boy.

“My late wife has been preg­nant for me but she would abort the pregnancy, she has done the abortion severally. It was the senior brother of my wife who came on December 25, 2015 and packed my wife’s luggage and took her away from my house, we have been quarrelling over the matter,” he said.

The suspect who hailed from Kokona Local Government Area; Nasarawa State added that it was four months later after his late wife left his house. “It was April 4, 2016 around 2:00pm I went to Nindama village, my wife’s mother’s village and met them in the farm; I went in anger and took my dane gun and shot my wife dead in the presence of her mother and I wanted to escape before the policemen arrested me.  

Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black Africa Race –US Report

A United States academic report for 2015 has suggested that the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria are the most brilliant black African race. According to the report: “a search through the promotional materials of school for a black student – all schools and colleges would always show some black faces in their promotional materials if they have any – reveals that they have had at least one black student, and it was, unsurprisingly, a Nigerian Igbo.”

This is just as two teenage Nigerian high school students, Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, have broken a record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Ekeh is a 17-year-old senior student at Elmont Memorial High School, Long Island while Uwamanzu- Nna is a high-school student from Long Island, New York. Schools within the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

However, the feat, according to two online news portals, NBC News and MSN, revealed that both teenagers are faced with “a big decision to make soon.” For instance, Ekeh was granted admission by 13 universities, including all the eight Ivy League schools.

The NBC News reported that Ekeh is faced with the dilemma of whittling down his college prospects, having applied to 13 colleges, with the hope to “maybe” get into Stony Brook University, about an hour east of his home in Elmont, Long Island.

But, in recent weeks, the cascade of reply letters started pouring in: Harvard. Yes. Yale. Yes. Princeton. Yes. Not only did he get accepted to all of the schools he applied to, those include all eight Ivy League institutions. Speaking with NBC News, Ekeh said: “It’s very, like, stunning.

It’s like getting hit with a brick, honestly. When you see congratulations, you’re like, wow your hard work has paid off, definitely.” The straight-A student has accomplished the rare feat of getting into all of the nation’s Ivy schools, crediting his parents’ work ethic for setting an example and a desire to strive in his adopted homeland after emigrating from Nigeria 10 years ago.

“I find that I’m very over-involved,” Ekeh said, counting advanced placement classes and extracurricular activities, such as science research, school plays and being editor-inchief of his school newspaper, as filling up his time. Ekeh, who scored a 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs, said: “I do have conflicts that maybe I’ll have this programme at the same time as I have another programme and so it’s hard to choose which one to be involved in.

I expected to maybe get into Stony Brook, a couple of other safeties, just based upon the SAT and the GPA, but I was still never certain of anything. There are so many variables taken into consideration in college admissions, so I was never certain of anything at any point.”

Ekeh, one of five brothers, said he wants to study biochemistry and become a neurosurgeon. He is inspired by his grandmother, who began showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s when he was 11. He wants to find a cure. “There are so many researchers working for Alzheimer’s disease right now and many neurogenic disorders that definitely a cure can be found soon,” he said.

As for where he is going to college, he isn’t quite sure, but would like to stay close to family. “I am leaning towards Columbia right now because I’d like to stay in New York City for I guess the rest of my career and work at Mt. Sinai,” Ekeh said, adding that America has given his family a life they might never have had in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Uwamanzu- Nna, who also had found herself in the same situation, told MSN News that she has a big decision to make soon. The Elmont High School valedictorian, who was accepted into all the eight Ivy League schools, also gained admission into Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, who said her parents instilled in her the value of education. “Though I was born here in America, I visited Nigeria many times. And I’ve seen that my cousins don’t have the same opportunities that I have.

So, definitely, whatever I do, I want to make sure that it has an impact on Nigeria,” she said. She also said her own tenacity and persistence helped shape her into becoming a great student. But as with a lot of students, she did face hardships with some classes.   

I Slept With More Than Eight Men Daily – Nigerian Girl Lured Into Prostitution In Russia

A Nigerian girl, Blessing Osakwe ,24, has revealed how she was lured into prostitution in a Russian city ,Voronezh for two years.

Blessing,while speaking at a show anchored by presenter, Emma Burrows, revealed how she was deceived into the act by a certain woman in her hometown, who told her that there was work for young ladies in Russia.

She said was promised a job in a supermarket which would take her only five or six months to earn the money to repay the costs of the visa and the trip which was $40,000 after which she could keep any money she makes.

Blessing also disclosed that her parents were very poor and that the idea of going to Russia to assist her family and to save money for her education appealed to her and she accepted the proposition but on her arrival in Russia, she was forced to work as a prostitute instead of the supermarket job she was promised.

She also noted that sometimes are clients were more than six and would force her to do things against her will and even threaten to kill her. She recalled she was once taken to a flat where one man was waiting for her. Later, she discovered that there were eight men and she was made to sleep with all of them without condom. She said the men took back the money they had paid her, raped her, beat her and threw her down from the balcony which is at the 4th floor of the building. She said she hit the ground and broke her hip bone and could no longer walk properly thereby confining her to a wheelchair.         

60-Year-Old Woman Buys & Sells Baby For N1 Million In USA

A 60-year-old grandmother, Asabi Adebayo, has told the Oyo State Police Command that she had a thriving baby trafficking ring where she allegedly bought five babies for the whopping sum of N5 million, at N1 million per baby, with the sole purpose of taking the babies to the United State of America, for sale.


Adebayo who added that she had lived a large part of her life in the USA, said she bought the babies from a child trafficker based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The suspect, after buying the babies, brought them to an orphanage in Ibadan, and was in the process of obtaining a certified police report for them in preparation for moving them abroad before she was nabbed.


Parading Adebayo at the state police headquarters at Eleyele, Ibadan, the Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, said the woman would have escaped if not for the patriotic effort of the officials of the orphanage who reported the matter at the Iyaganku Police Station.

In Enugu ; Many killed as suspected Fulani herdsmen invade community

The spokesman of the Enugu Police Command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the incident to journalists in Nsukka.

"The police are aware of the attack in Uzo-Uwani and the state commissioner of police is already there to ensure that the situation is brought under control," he said.

“The police are also collaborating with sister security agencies like the army, civil defence and the Department of State Services to handle the situation."

The Chairman of Uzo-Uwani local government, Mr Cornell Onwubuya, who also confirmed the incident, lamented that in spite of efforts to stop the crisis through dialogue, the suspected herdsmen continued to attack the people.

“Yes, there is serious problem in the local government as suspected herdsmen today attacked Nimbo community.

“Information reaching us said many people were killed but I do not know the actual number now,” he said.

According to an anonymous eyewitness, the herdsmen numbering about 300 stormed the community with guns and machetes, shooting sporadically and killing people.

“As they were killing the people, they were also setting houses and vehicles ablaze. Many people have been killed; I do not have the actual number.

“The residents of Nimbo and motorists have fled the community for safety,” the witness told NAN.

It was gathered that scores of the people who fled from Nimbo are now taking refuge in some primary schools in Nsukka. 

Parent bought priated copy of Tom and Jerry, and what they saw shocked them.....

Original copies of cartoons and children media entertainments are expensive, costing between (#2000-#5000), hence pirated copies (#100-#150) are selling like crazy.

I am not encouraging the purchase of pirated works, but when buying a pirated children's cartoon or educational videos, please preview it alone first before exposing your children to it.

A friend bought a pirates copy of "Tom and Jerry". It was a lazy Friday the kids where napping and we decided to catch a little action of the feuding cat and mouse.

30 minutes into the cartoon...like an interruption of scheduled program, a hardcore pornographic movie came on. See us scampering for the remote, like it was a kill switch to an atomic bomb

Thank God the kids were not in the sitting room. Mummy would have explained; " why one aunty didn't wear her pant and was shouting..Harder! Harder!! Harder!!!"

Man Strips Unclad To Buy Fuel At A Station In Lagos.

This is very serious... The present economic hardship is taking a whole new level now as an able-bodied man stripped unclad in public at a fuel station filled with customers in Lagos. The young man who was outside the petrol station -shamelessly removed his clothes in order for him to be allowed in to buy fuel. Even a team of policemen stationed there and area boys couldn't stop him from having his way. He was finally allowed into the station where he laid down on the ground after the attendants refused to sell for him. A policeman had to beg the workers there to sell fuel for the mad man

Ritualists Murder Man In Mansa, Zambia

There was shock and panic in Mansa town in Zambia after residents woke up this morning to find a man killed and his private’ parts removed. The body of the yet to be identified man was discovered at the main Market near UCZ St Paul Church in Mansa town. The heart and the skin which covers the neck were also removed. RIP to him.

Police woman takes topless photo on duty, posts it on Facebook

– A female police officer caused a storm after her topless selfie went viral – She was on duty when taking explicit photos – Mother-of-two was suspended and forced to make a public apology  A police officer caused a stir online after posing for a topless photograph while on duty and posting it on social media.

Nidia Garcia was supposed to be guarding the streets of the Mexican town of Escobedo, when she exposed her breasts in a patrol car. READ ALSO: Woman arrested after admitting to killing lover on Facebook Shortly after her provocative photo was shared hundreds of times the police started internal investigation and the mother-of-two was suspended. She later took to her Facebook page once again but this time to write an apology, she wrote: “I was wrong in letting myself be photographed in my hours of work while still wearing the uniform of an officer.

I want to ask a huge apology to the secretary of security and Justice of proximity and more to my municipality general Escobedo for this immoral act on my part. I feel disgusted by the great damage caused and the damage done mainly to my two daughters, followed by my husband, my parents, brothers and entire family

 It is still unclear whether Ms Garcia was photographed by her colleague in the vehicle or it was a selfie. But the fact she was armed, wearing a uniform and on duty was the main reason of criticism. Presently, the state’s internal police commision is investigating the case and to decide what chrages and punishment Ms Garcia would face.

Man slice off wife's ear for accusing him of incest

The suspect identified only as Amaoh, reportedly committed the crime at the home at Kumso in the Brong Ahafo region of that country, after he beat up 40-year-old wife, Madam Konadu, when he could longer take her constant accusation.

According to rainbowradioonline.com, Madam Konadu said she once caught Amaoh in bed having sex with their daughter but decided to keep her discovery a secret to save her marriage and family from embarrassment but still suspected him of continuing with the act even after he promised not repeat his incestuous act after he was caught.

 

But after one of such accusation, a fight erupted between them and the suspect who is on the run, allegedly chopped off his wife’s ear, claiming she had accused him falsely.

A transgender woman talks about life in a male prison : i was raped 2000 times

MARY was still as the car pulled closer towards the threatening prison gates and a place that was soon to become her hell on earth.

As she stepped into the reception area of the jail, she felt all eyes fall upon her as she continued to walk closer to her cell.
See Mary, not her real name, wasn’t just any “normal” prisoner — she was a transgender woman who was about to be locked behind bars with men.
Mary was sickened by what happened to her in that Queensland prison, Boggo Road, as it was known in the 90s.
She has lived in fear for decades, with regular flashbacks to the disturbing things she lived through while in jail.
Mary admits she was wrong, she shouldn’t have stolen the car that put her in jail in the first place, but in her mind, she was a female and yearned to be treated as such.
She couldn’t understand why she was thrown among a pack of men.
According to Mary, she was preyed on and raped once a day, sometimes even more 

When Mary made it through the jail’s reception she was ordered to strip.
The stares were menacing her as she turned around for a routine bodycheck.
By time Mary had made it to her holding cell, news had travelled through the prison that she was transgender.
She sat in the jail cell, surrounded by some male prisoners who were awaiting court, or who had just returned.
“You are basically set upon with conversations about being protected in return for sex,” Mary told news.com.au.
She was finally taken to the cell where she would stay and within minutes of arriving, she was approached by many men.
“They are either trying to manipulate you or threaten you into some sort of sexual contact and then, once you perform the requested threat of sex, you are then an easy target as others want their share of sex with you, which is more like rape than consensual sex,” she said.

Mary not once wanted to have sex with prisoners, she said she only did it because she was so scared of being bashed.
At times, Mary was put into a cell for prisoners who needed protection, but even then she said she was assaulted by sex offenders.
“It makes you feel sick but you have no way of defending yourself,” she said.
She transferred to other prisons across the state and while she was assaulted at all of them, she said Boggo Road was the worst and most violent.
Mary said she was forced into performing sexual acts more than 2000 times when she was serving her sentence, which was about four years long.
“It was rape and yes I was flogged and bashed to the point where I knew I had to do it in order to survive, but survival was basically for other prisoners’ pleasure,” she said.
“It was hell on earth, it was as if I died and this was my punishment.”
During her sentence, Mary was labelled a high-risk prisoner because she tried to escape three times.
“This meant I would serve all my time in maximum security with the most violent prisoners,” she said.
“I wasn’t escaping for anything else, I just had to get away from the sexual assault.”
In her first couple of nights in jail, Mary tried to defend herself and pushed prisoners off her, but she was flogged.
“Each time I said no and tried to push them away, they just force you and it’s not just one or two people, there’s a bunch of them,” she said.
But it wasn’t just the rape that has caused Mary’s distress.
When she arrived in jail, a prisoner cut her long locks into a crew cut.
“It was halfway down my back, it was horrific,” Mary said.
“It was like my identity was taken away from me.”
She was also denied her hormones, and began to grow facial hair again.
“Your hormonal levels drop so fast, you just start going haywire within a week.”
Mary tried to fight for her hormones but said it was a strict no.
There was one other person in the prison however, who did understand Mary.
She was also a transgender woman and too was targeted for sex.
Unlike Mary, this transgender woman was not able to live with what happened to her.
“She was eventually released but was arrested for breaching parole and she hung herself so she didn’t have to go back to prison,” Mary said.

She believes transgender women are raped because they look like females.
Mary had breasts, but not gender reassignment surgery, and said men just wanted sex.
She tells her story after a transgender woman in WA was put into a male prison in Perth earlier this year.
But this is something that happens all over the world.
Just last year, transgender woman Tara Hudson spent a week in an all-male prison in Gloucestershire where she was tormented.
She was moved to a female prison after people signed a petition.
Also last year, transgender woman Vicky Thompson was found dead in an all-male jail in Armley.
Her lawyer was pushing to get her into a female prison as Thompson told friends she would kill herself if she had to serve her sentence in a male prison.

Transgender advocate CeCe McDonald, who was jailed for defending herself against a group that hurled transphobic and racial slurs at her in 2011, also served her sentence in a male prison.
Mary says she just can’t understand why it happens.
“People must think if you go to a female prison, you’re going to rape women and you’re not — it doesn’t make any sense,” Mary said.
“I’d rather die than go to prison ever again in my whole life.”
Mary said transgender women who had reassignment surgery would be put in a female prison, but believed those who identified as female should have the same rights.
“You’ve seen a psychiatrist, been approved to be on hormones and that takes two years,” she said.
“I look like a woman and I think if a transgender person is genuine and they are living as the opposite sex, then they should be housed in a female prison, even if you’re in a wing on your own.
“You shouldn’t be subjected to sexual assault. You are serving a punishment for an error you made in your life.”
Mary has found it hard to move on since her life in prison.
“I don’t have a relationship and I don’t trust men and never will ever again in my life — I’ve not had a relationship since prison,” she said.
“We are human beings and most of us were born this way and we want to just live our lives but are ridiculed by society because we have the guts to be who we are.”

Fayose ‘Ekiti Governor needs spiritual deliverance,’ Segun Oni says

Punch reports that Oni said Fayose needs spiritual deliverance from emotional bondage.

Oni in a statement said “Governor Fayose was in his characteristic state of hallucination when he wrote the letter and claimed, while reveling in his world of ecstatic fantasy, to be voicing the opinion of Nigerians.

“Fayose’s seemingly strange behaviour is not strange to people like us, as he is only behaving to type.

“We called the attention of the people to his conduct years ago, during his first term as governor, after the under-the-barb-wire drama at the airport, that any governor, who chooses to pass under the barb-wire at an international airport, whatever the circumstance, cannot be a normal person and should have his fitness for the exalted office ascertained.”

The APC chieftain also urged supporters of the Ekiti Governor to ascertain his mental and emotional state before things get out of hand.

Governor Ayo Fayose wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday, April 14, 2016, asking him not to grant Nigeria any loan.   

"Welcome to my Life" Chris Brown releases trailer for upcoming documentary

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, popular R&B singer, Chris Brown, announced that he'll be telling the story of his life through a documentary titled "Welcome to My Life."

The singer has now released an official trailer of the documentary which will feature interviews from his mother Joyce Hawkins, and his friends including Jamie Foxx, Usher, DJ Khaled, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Ora, and Mary J. Blige.  

Chris Brown reflects how he went from being America's sweetheart to the public enemy number one. “I went from being on top of the world, No. 1 songs, being kinda like America’s sweetheart to being public enemy No. 1,” says singer in trailer.

No further details has been revealed as regards the release date, but fans can expect to have fun watching the actor's interesting and controversial life on screen.

To be directed by Andrew Sandler, the documentary is expected to cover his career, and personal battles, 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna, relationship with Karrueche Tran, and his daughter Royalty.  

The "X" singer has featured in movies like "This Christmas," "Think Like a Man," "Battle of the Year" among others.

Watch "Welcome to my Life" trailer below.   

  

Stop Boko Haram: Tawiah To TB Joshua

 General Overseer of the Church of Rabbi is urging Nigerian prophet, TB Joshua to stop the activities of Islamist group, Boko Haram in Nigeria if he wants his prophecies to be taken seriously.

Prophet Kwabena Tawiah said he is baffled at how the supposed prophet did nothing and now the Boko Haram insurgents have infiltrated and carried out several bombings in Nigeria.

In his view, TB Joshua who is the head of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) should concentrating on driving away Boko Haram from Nigeria and “leave Ghana alone”.

Prophet Kwabena Tawiah’s comment is in reaction to TB Joshua’s prophecy of an eminent attack on Ghana and Nigeria.

Last Sunday, the renowned prophet asked his congregation to pray against the attack which could happen either on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
The Nigerian Prophet was emphatic in prophesying that, “I see Thursday, Friday. Pray for these two nations – Nigeria and Ghana – over gathering in any way; over an attack. I am seeing the attack and that will be in a foreign way. The attack will come not in a local way. So please open your lips and pray for these two nations for protection.”

But his prophecy has been met with a lot of criticisms with many religious bodies including the Christian Council calling on security agencies to ignore it since Ghana cannot run on “the back of prophecies.”

In support, the outspoken Kwabena Tawiah stressed that the prophecy must be treated with the contempt it deserves.

Describing TB Joshua’s prophecy as unnecessary, the Church of Rabbi leader said assuming without admitting that the prophecy is true, God would have revealed it to a Ghanaian prophet and not a foreigner.
“What is TB Joshua saying; he should leave Ghana alone and concentrate on Boko Haram in Nigeria” he fumed.

Rather, Kwabena Tawiah called on TB Joshua to support President Buhari with his prophecies to help arrest the Boko Haram insurgents terrorizing citizens in Nigeria.   

Linda Ikeji Blogger's sister reportedly in love with Kanu Nwankwo's brother

Laura Ikeji, a rising fashionista and Linda Ikeji's kid sister has been reported to be enjoying a romantic affair with ex-footballer and Kanu Nwankwo's younger brother, Ogbonna Nwankwo.

According to a report by Faith Irabor News Room, the two are seriously into one another and have been keeping their affair close themselves and few family members.

In one of the Laura's 2,499 pictures on Instagram, she posted a picture of herself and Ogbonna having an early morning jog in far away United States of America, where she had gone to visit her sister.

Though Ogbonna, who works closely with his brother, Kanu Nwankwo, has two kids from a previous relationship that went sour, he's said to be head over heels in love with Laura, who also doubles as a blogger.

In another picture, Laura posted a picture of herself in her bed awaiting the arrival of Mr O, and followed it with a picture of her hand and a male hand (suggested to be Ogbonna's hand) with the caption, 'My world.'   

Fayose Nigerians mock Governor over China 'speech'

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, who is currently in China, has been the subject of ridicule since photos of him supposedly addressing the Chinese business community were released online by his loyalists.

According to report, he gave a speech at the Multinationals Sourcing Service Centre, PAzhou Trade Complex, Guangzhou, China, canvassing for the support and empowerment of Nigeria.

Fayose had on Tuesday, April 12, written a letter to the Chinese government not to borrow Nigeria $2 billion in loan, for which purpose President Muhammadu Buhari is in the Asian country - the All Progressives Congress (APC) described the move as an act of sabotage.

However, Nigerians believe Fayose's supposed speech was just a propaganda, with some people familiar with the venue of the 'speech' saying it is a tourist centre, where people take pictures posing with the podium.

A popular social media influencer, Japheth Omojuwa, described the Governor as "Nigeria's biggest joker".   

Ex-senator says child-rapists should be castrated

Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, has advocated for capital punishment for any individual convicted of rape or sexual assault.

In a report by Vanguard Newspaper, Ita-Giwa advised that the only way to end rape and sexual assault is by ensuring convicted rapists get  castrated.

Speaking at the ‘Magnenta and Black Art & Fashion for Charity’ at the British Council, Lagos Ita Giwa stressed further that imprisoning rapist is not enough justice as castrating convicted rapist will serve as deterrence to intending rapists.

In her words,

       "If I were a judge and a man is brought to court for raping a child, he will receive capital punishment. But I will say, `don’t kill him, rather let him live his life in pain, let his organ be cut off’.

'He should not be allowed the pleasure of using that organ anymore. If the organ is not cut off, at the end of his term in prison, he will use it on other children. Fortunately for them, I’m no longer in the Senate  but I will find a way to get it into the chamber. This is the proper way to end the evil of rape in the society,' she said.

Ita-Giwa, represented Cross River in the Senate and later served as Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.  

Linda Ikeji: I Took Wizkid To Police In Lagos Because Of These

My issue with Wizkid...why I took the case to the police

I'm sure many of you have read that the police is now involved in my issue with Wizkid. Yes, I reported his public threat to me two Sundays ago to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police and I want to explain why I did it! Please pay attention and keep an open mind.

I've read a lot online from people saying I don't like Wizkid. Even Wizkid himself thinks I don't like him. Why he or anyone would think so is puzzling to me to be honest. Apart from his achievements after he started insulting me online a few weeks ago...everything else, every success Wizkid has recorded in the last 3/4 years is on LIB. All the awards, all the record breaking feats, his sold out concerts, his foreign magazine features, and collaborations, everything that has built him up to the young man he is today is on LIB. Please verify! Search my blog. Please continue...

I was a huge Wizkid fan. The only song I danced harder to than his 'Dance For Me' track was Fuse ODG's 'Antenna and Kiss Daniel & DJ Shabzy's Raba. So, no, I had no dislike for Wizkid. But about a year ago, I noticed his indirect snide remarks at me...and when some other music star beefed with me, Wizkid showed his support and made disrespectful comments. That was when I noticed he had issues with me... but that didn't stop me from writing about him and celebrating him.

Now to the issue at hand. When I reported that he was served quit notice at his Lekki home, I stated fact and I didn't write it out of malice. It's not everyday you get exclusive stories...and I'm sure any other blogger who got the story first would also have published it. So, there was no beef, I was just doing my job. A day or so after I wrote this story, Wizkid went on my instagram page to call me names and lied that I slept with some director of his...which I have said before is 1000% lies! But the insult and lies is not why the police is now involved.

Here's the thing; You can insult me, insult my family, call me any names you like, even lie that I slept with your forefathers...but don't threaten me. If you threaten me, I will act!

I read people online saying that I reported to the police because I am scared of Wizkid. No, my darlings, I am not afraid of Wizkid. Though I do not take his threats lightly. I went to the authorities for two reasons...and please young boys of our generation, pay attention to what I am about to write below.

You see, violence against women and threat of violence against women is not okay. Threatening harm to someone in a public space is a criminal act in every country of the world, including Nigeria. I bet some of you didn't know that, yeah? You can not publicly threaten someone with harm. You will only get away with it if your victim doesn't report to the authorities. If they do, you will have a case with the police and I promise you, the police take these things seriously.

I reported this case to the authorities because I want our young men to know this is not okay. You should not raise your hands on a woman. You shouldn't even threaten to raise your hands on a woman. Wizkid wrote that he would send his 16 year old cousin to beat the poo out of me. Letting Wizkid get away with it is basically telling our young men that this is okay...and it's not!

After Wizkid made the threat to me, I saw a lot of teen boys hailing and applauding him. To them, this was okay. If their idol can threaten a woman with harm, and use derogatory words, they also can do it...and that's how the circle of abuse of women continues. Women being called 'smelly Kitty-Cat' trended online for a day or two! Little boys were happy to use the words. Sad!

It is appalling to me that anyone, especially women, would cheer Wizkid on. When he wrote RIP Linda, I saw a few young girls write same, laughing. This is not a laughing matter. It doesn't matter whether you like me or not! This is not about Linda Ikeji. This is about abuse of women which has eaten deep into our society, so deep that it has now been accepted as normal. Men do it all the time and get away with it. So many women are battered by their husbands and they refuse to speak up because of the stigma. They refuse to seek help because they are afraid of what people will say. I am sorry, I am not one of those women. I refuse to be victimized. And as long as I have my voice and my platform, I will speak up.

We women have to come together to lend a strong voice to the plight of women in our continent. When we see a woman being physically and mentally abused, let's act. Let's speak up. Let's not laugh and say she deserves it. If we continue to keep quiet, the circle of abuse will continue. And one day, You, yes You, will find yourself in the receiving end of a thundering slap, followed by heavy blows. If not you, then maybe your daughter? Let's condemn violence and threat of violence against women! This is not acceptable!

Young men like Wizkid, a father of two young boys himself, should never advocate violence against women. One day, he will have a daughter, how would he feel if another male threatens to put hands on her or even calls her a hoe?

I can't count how many times Wizkid called me a hoe in his rant against me. That's what boys do. When they get into a fight with a woman, they try to slut-shame her. Smelly Kitty-Cat, hoe, ashawo etc. You call a woman, who gave another young woman, whose real name she doesn't even know N500,000 just because she said she would rather work by carrying cement than prostitute herself, that's the person you call a hoe? When your mind is so warped you can't differentiate between a woman and a hoe, then this is what happens. Except you drive to Sanusi Fanfuwa at 2am to pick up a prostitute, who proudly describes herself as one, then you shouldn't call any woman a hoe.

Even Tupac who was a well known thug could differentiate between the types of women he dealt with. When asked in an interview why he called women bitches, he said people shouldn't confuse things, that he wouldn't address a mother or a sister the way he would address a Dam, that the bitches were the ones he dealt with in the clubs who behaved like one. He reiterated that he respected women!

In more civilized countries, Wizkid would have lost his endorsements and spent the next year or so apologizing and being in the fore-front of promoting anti-violence crusades against women. It took Chris Brown years to get back on his feet after his assault on a woman. Up till today, he doesn't have any major endorsements and some countries still deny him entrance into their country i.e Australia for something he did 7 years ago. Yes, violence against women is serious!

And there's the case of incitement. When you have power and influence, you have to be careful what you say in public. Because you have such power, something you say can influence your followers. A fan can commit acts that even you may not support or might not even condone. But because it came out of your mouth, they think you mean it. So it is irresponsible to say things that might be inciteful. In Law, you can be held responsible when people act based on what you said in public. Tupac was charged to court and indicted after some thugs killed a police officer. The thugs went to court and mentioned that their idol encouraged violence against LA police officers in a song where he said 'Drop a cop'. So, we folks with some measure of influence should be more careful with our utterances. People are watching and listening!


The second reason I filed a police report is to encourage other women in similar situations to do same. My dear ladies, if a man threatens to puts hands on you, and you feel the threat is real, report to the authorities. Don't wait until he does it. What if you don't survive it? If he's picked up and may be charged to court (yes, you can be charged to court for making threats...it's a misdemeanor with a prison sentence), then he will think twice before making threats against you in the future or any other woman for that matter.

I went as far as I did for me and for other women. This is to pass a strong message to our young men that these kinds of behaviour towards women will not be tolerated. Should not be tolerated. If you assault or even threaten to assault a woman, the law will come after you if she chooses not to be silent. Women, don't be silent. Let's break the circle. For your sake, for my sake, for the sake of our daughters, grand daughters, great grand daughters and all other women that will follow them.

And that's really all I have to say in the matter. Thank you guys for reading

And to Wizkid fans, please be rest assured that I wish him all the best in life. He will continue to grow from strength to strength (as long as he doesn't endorse violence against women) and his light will never diminish. God brought him to this level and will continue to keep him. I have nothing but love for his craft and hope that one day, we will put this behind us.
God bless him, me, you and everyone else in the world
Cheers.