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.