Man arraigned for allegedly raping mentally ill girl in Oshodi

A 33-year-old man, Itodo Stephen, has been arrested and charged before Oshodi Magistrates court for alleged indecent assault and having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 20-year-old mentally challenged girl in Oshodi, Lagos.

Stephen allegedly had sex with the victim (name withheld) when she was alone in their home at Alhaji Shehu Close, Oshodi, Lagos.

Stephen lives with the victim’s parents and was caught in the act by a neighbour who raised the alarm.

PM News reports that Stephen was charged with indecent assault by touching her private part and rape under the Criminal Code before Magistrate Akeem A. Fashola.

The incident happened when the victim’s parents were not around, whereas Stephen did not go to work on that day.

The victim’s parents were contacted and when they returned from work they reported the matter to the police at Makinde Division and the suspect was arrested.

At the station, he told the police that the victim did not resist him and that he did not force her as claimed by her parents.

 However, the victim could not make statement to the police to determine whether it was actually a case of rape or not.

Stephen pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him.

DailyPost 

Court sentences four kidnappers to 85 years imprisonment in Delta

According to DailyPost, Four persons who abducted a house wife in Warri, Delta State in 2011 have been sentenced to 85 years imprisonment by Justice Marshal Umukoro, of the Asaba High Court.

The accused persons, Daniel Barefo, Sunday Analue, Silvanus Mudiaga Onome, and Ezegbune Daniel, were arraigned on a four count charge bordering on conspiracy, kidnapping, armed robbery and illegal possession of firearms.

While delivering judgment, the presiding Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro said the statement of the convicts shows that they committed the crime.

Umukoro noted that their statement was an indication of the role they all played in the kidnapping, adding that the victim also identified the first accused person.

The court stated that the testimony by the accused persons equally showed that the abduction was carefully thought out, hence they were sentenced to 85 years imprisonment with hard labour.

Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun Declare Today As Public Holiday

Four South West states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Osun  have declared today, June 12 as a work free day as part of the 22nd year commemoration of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.

The governor of each state has urged the people of the state to remain steadfast in their prayers for the sustainability of democracy in the state and the country at large.

Happy holidays to you if you reside in any of these states.

Child Rapist Bags 21-Years Imprisonment for Defiling Six-year-old

According to ThisDayLive An Ikeja High Court Thursday sentenced a 27-year-old trader, Chidi Ibiam, to 21-years imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old girl.

Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya sentenced Ibiam, who sells foodstuffs and resides at the Baruwa area of Ipaja, Lagos after he was found guilty of a charge of defilement.

The judge while delivering her verdict said: “I have noted before me all the relevant facts of this case.

“The defendant is hereby found guilty of the crime of defilement and is sentenced to 21 years in prison.”

During the trial, the prosecution led by the state counsel, Mr. Adebayo Haroun informed court that Ibiam committed the offence on December 15, 2012 and was caught after the victim reported the assault to her mother.

The prosecution said the convict was well known to the victim’s family as he was a neighbour and a  church member.

The six-year-old (name withheld) in her testimony, told the court that the defendant had unlawful carnal knowledge of her on 12 different occasions including in his shop and a neighbour’s house.

The victim also referred to Ibiam’s genitals  as “tom tom” throughout her testimony.

Justice Ogunsanya who noted this fact in her judgment, admonished parents to start teaching their children the rightful names of male and female genitals.

“Parents should teach their children the right names of genitals and give their wards a proper sex education,” she said.

The offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011. 

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RUSTLERS’ ATTACK: 2 MISSING VICTIMS FOUND DEAD IN BUSH

Two persons, who were reported missing following last Monday’s attack by gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers at Sukuku village were on Thursday found dead in the bush at the community.

The gunmen had on Monday invaded the village, located in Kwali Area Council and killed the village head, Mr. Emma Sarki and six others, after they were caught at a farm where they were removing yam seeds in the area.
Our reporter, who visited the community on Thursday, learnt that one of the corpses, an adult male, was found inside a bush few meters away from the village on Tuesday evening.
A resident of the community, Musa Danjuma, said the second corpse was also found in the bush outside the village, after some elders and youth mobilised a search of the bush for the two missing persons.
“It was this morning when we started perceiving smell that we mobilised to trace the source and later discovered the decomposing corpse of one of the missing persons, while the other corpse was found on Tuesday evening also inside the bush,” he said.
Our reporter saw relatives digging graves inside two compounds, apparently to bury the two corpses while six other graves, including that of the slain village head, were also seen inside a compound.
The residents were seen still wearing mournful look and the primary school in the area remaining closed over the deaths.
City News reporter, while on his way out of the community, saw a combined team of the police anti-terror squad and policemen in two Hilux vehicles moving towards the village. 

Source:Dailytrust 

Dame Helen Mirren reigns at Tony theatre awards

Dame Helen Mirren has been named best actress in a play at the Tony theatre awards in New York.

She took home the prize for her portrayal of the Queen in The Audience.

Dame Helen, a previous Oscar-winner for The Queen, accepted the award saying: "Your Majesty, you did it again."

Other British wins included Alex Sharp for best actor and Marianne Elliott for best directing of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was also named best play.

The stage adaptation of the hit novel started life at the National Theatre in London before transferring to Broadway.

Dame Helen, who beat off competition from fellow British actresses Carey Mulligan and Ruth Wilson, dedicated the award to her husband, director Taylor Hackford.

She said: "This is an unbelievable honour and I am so thrilled."

Alex Sharp said it felt "insane" to be awarded the prize for best actor

An adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, The Curious Incident tells the story of a young boy with Asperger's

Director Marianne Elliott said she was amazed to see the play go to Broadway

London-born Alex Sharp, who plays a gifted mathematician with Asperger's syndrome in The Curious Incident, beat Bradley Cooper and Bill Nighy for the best lead actor award.

The 26-year-old reminded the audience that he had only graduated from drama school last year.

As well as best director, Marianne Elliott's Broadway transfer of the play was also honoured with awards for best lighting and best scenic design.

When she was nominated in April, Elliott had told the BBC: "We had no idea when we first started how the hell this play was going to go down. We had no idea whether there'd be an audience for it. So to see it go to Broadway is quite amazing."

An American in Paris and Fun Home took most awards in the musical categories.

An American in Paris won four technical awards, while Fun Home won for best score, book and direction.

The award hosts opened the show with a medley of jokes and songs

The ceremony at the Radio City Music Hall in New York was hosted by British actor Alan Cumming and musical star Kristin Chenoweth.

Source:BBC

Police arrest five ritualists in Ondo

FIVE suspected ritualists have been arrested at a shrine where abducted persons are slaughtered and their parts sold to prospective buyers at Ago Oyinbo in Okitipupa area of Ondo State.

Consequently, upon discovery of the kidnappers den, youths in the town stormed the place and demolished it.

Vanguard gathered that the suspects were arrested, following a tip-off by people of the community, who noticed strange movements and stench oozing out of the building.

The human slaughter house and some of the fetish materials therein.

Men of Igbotako Police division reportedly effected the arrest of the suspects.

Before their arrest, the suspects were alleged to have been occupying the building in the last three years.

Sources informed newsmen that the suspected ritualists, after kidnapping their victims, usually take them to the shrine and slaughtered them for ritual purposes.

The said shrine is located in the village which is a few kilometres away from Benin-Ore-Ijebu Ode expressway.

Fetish materials such as cow horns, different types of clothes suspected to belong to those abducted, palm fronds, bottles of gin, calabashes, ‘Ghana must go’ bags, among others, were found at the shrine.

The Baale of Ago Oyinbo, Chief Moyebi Okeowo, who spoke to newsmen, said the shrine must have been erected in 2012 when the suspects came to beg for a space in the village to use as location to shoot films.

He said: “I asked somebody to take them to the owner of the land, unknown to him that they wanted to use the village as a kidnappers den.

“When they came to me to beg for a piece of land to shoot their film, I told them I am not the owner of the land and I took them to the brother of the landlord of the land who took them to the wife of the landlord in Akure.

‘I learned they were authorized by the wife of the landlord to use the land and since then, they have been using it.

“When I did not know what they were using the land for, I told their leader to go and report their activities to the police and he later informed me that he had done so.”

Okeowo explained that he was not aware of the activities of the suspects until last Monday when he got information that the suspects were using human beings for sacrifice on the land.

Also, the Principal of Community Grammar School in neighbouring Kajola, in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, Mr Joseph Edosama, said two of the security guards of the school were among the suspects arrested by the police for conspiring with the suspected kidnappers.

Another community leader, who spoke in confidence, explained that it had been long since the suspects started operating in the village.

But the state police spokesman, Wole Ogodo, feigned ignorance of the development in the community, saying the state command had not been briefed by its Divisional police station at Igbotako.

Woman struck by baseball bat at Red Sox game in serious condition

A woman who was struck in the head by a shattered baseball bat at a Red Sox game in Fenway Park on Friday remains in a serious condition at a Boston hospital, her family said on Sunday.

Tonya Carpenter was sitting in the second row of Boston's home game when the broken bat flew into the stands during the second inning and hit her.

Blood streamed down Carpenter's face as an emergency team wheeled her away on a gurney, with initial reports saying she had received life-threatening injuries.

"On behalf of our family, we want to thank everyone for the continued prayers and well wishes," the family said in a statement.

Source:Yahoo

Gobe!! Police Arrests Fake Doctor After Working For 10 Years With FG

Police have arrested a man who had been working in the federal ministry of health as a doctor for nearly 10 years on a practice licence he allegedly stole from his friend.

The man, identified as Martins Ugwu, was a top official of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), where he has worked since 2006 under the name of Dr George Davidson Daniel until his arrest on Thursday in Abuja, officials told Newsmen.

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, which registers all Nigerian doctors and regulates their practice, called for his arrest after its own investigations uncovered two Dr Daniels-the same name on two separate identity photographs.

The council had been petitioned to investigate complaints against Dr George Davidson Daniel, who worked at NCDC, but the photo in its database was not Daniel, the lead investigator told Daily Trust.

“When we looked at our archives, we discovered there is actually somebody that bears the name Dr George Davidson Daniel but the picture is not the same as was sent to us,” said lead investigator Dr Henry Okwuokenye.

The Daniel under investigation had a photocopy of a practice licence and a provisional licence-the first temporary documentation for new doctors valid for only two years-but the unique folio number matched the real Dr Daniel on MDCN files.

“The actual person that bears that name is a doctor doing his residency at teaching hospital in Jos,” said Okwuokenye.

Daniel, based in Jos, appeared before the council on invitation, and identified the ‘doctor’ under investigation as his childhood friend, Martin Ugwu, and was the best man at his 2006 wedding.

Daniel admitted he had lost his documentation when both men visited an uncle in Abuja on a job hunt but did not report it stolen because he thought he had misplaced them.

He said Ugwu returned the documents a year later, claiming a Good Samaritan had found them and sent them back.

Investigators believe Ugwu took on Daniel’s name and got employment between the times Daniel’s documents were lost and returned.

Since then, he has being in the federal civil service for nearly 10 years, worked in the heart of the federal ministry of health headquarters in Abuja, under the ministers of health and the head of the NCDC, beating routine civil-service reviews, verifications and assessments and taken his most recent promotion in 2010 that’s placed him on a fast-track to director cadre.

Ugwu was top on a government committee that met more than 200 contingents returning from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea where they had volunteered to help fight Ebola under an African Union mission.

Video footage showed him ushering volunteers off their plane at 21.38 am on May 24 as the Ethiopian Airlines flight landed and hurrying them through interviews and onto buses waiting to take them to their hotels.

On June 3, when news broke that volunteers were stopped from checking out because their accommodation bills had not been paid, Ugwu as George reportedly turned up at Summit Villa at Life Camp and placed a call to permanent secretary Linus Awute who pleaded with hotel management to let the volunteers go.

‘George’ had to deposit his identity card with the hotel standing as surety, Premium Times reported on June 3, the same day he told MDCN investigators searching for him that he was away on official assignment in Bayelsa State.

In the lead up to his arrest, he had told AIG Medical, Dr Grace Okudo that he was in Minna.

On Thursday, he was traced to Summit Villa from where plainclothes police officers invited him for questioning at the Apo police division.

On the drive to the station, he phoned his friends and brother-in-law that he was being arrested.

“They haven’t told me [the reason] but it cannot be unconnected with the N5 billion fraud I uncovered,” he said on his call to friends and relatives.

He also called his wife, with whom he has five children, sent N150,000 for her upkeep and told her: “I am not calling you to be worried. It is not a big deal, I’m not a criminal, I didn’t kill anybody.

I am talking to you as your husband. You know what is on ground right?”

But he calmed when confronted with allegations of working years while impersonating a registered doctor.

The council says it is investigating or prosecuting some 40 cases of quacks in courts so far.

Source:Thespark

PHOTO: Emir of Kano Strikes A Pose With Family

Aww this is soo adorable, The former CBN Governor and the current Emir of Kano, Shares a picture with 3 wives and children