Today Naija Blog: August 2015

37-Year-Old Man Sets Pregnant Lover Ablaze In Edo State

An Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin, Edo State, sentenced 37-year-old Lucky Esonahae to five years imprisonment for setting his pregnant lover ablaze.

The prosecuting officer, Sergeant Ganiyu Yahya, told the court that the incident occurred at Uwelu Quartres in Benin, and was reported by the victim, Stella Isaac, on July 6, the same day it occurred.

A 16-year-old girl identified as Bimpe Badmus is currently in pains from the injuries she sustained following an attack by her aunt. Bimpe’s aunt burnt her with a hot pressing iron, for allegedly having sexual affair with their landlady’s son in Ogunjirin Street, Ketu area of Lagos.

It was learnt that Bimpe’s aunt asked her friends, Khadijah and Iya Daniel to help hold her hands and legs before burning her with the hot iron on several parts of her body. A neighbour while reacting to the incident disclosed that the victim was severely beaten and chased out of the house.

2 sisters have been sentenced to rape as punishment which one of whom is15-year-old after their brother had an affair with a married woman in Indian.

An unelected all-male village council in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, ordered that Meenakshi Kumari, 23, and her teenage sister will also be paraded through the streets naked, with blackened faces, as they are made to pay the price for their brother's alleged transgressions.

37-year-old Maureen Akowe who has been looking for a child for three years after marriage due to delayed conception was blessed with a baby girl. She christened the baby Chinonso (meaning God is near).

Like most Nigerians who belong to the middle-class, Maureen employed a nanny to help care for her baby, who was already four months old. As expected of any nursing mother, anytime she took her baby out with her, her nanny moved along.

According to Mr and Mrs Osarhiakhi Ebohon, on June 13, 2015, a baby was dumped at Obazuaye Street in Evbuareke Quarters, Uselu, Benin City, at about 11am.
Residents saw a newborn baby wrapped in a black nylon bag. The Ebohons, among other residents, placed curses on whoever might have thrown the child away.

The police was invited to take away the baby who was later sent to the Ministry of Women Affairs in Edo State.

That night, Mrs. Ebohon observed that their oldest daughter, Joy, was acting different, so she tried to find out what her daughter’s problem was, to no avail.

The Sultan of Sokoto and President Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Saad Abubakar, advised Muslim women to fight against corruption by rejecting stolen public funds from their husbands who are public office holders. He said this in Ilorin, Kwara state capital yesterday during the formal opening of the 30th annual national conference of Federation of Muslim Women’s Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN).He also advised wives of state governors and emirs to lead the campaign for girl-child education.

This happened in a bar in Sydney, Australia, which offers its customers the luxury experience of eating off a naked women’s bodies.

An extraordinary way of serving platter – with women lying naked on the table with fruit on their bodies – caused outrage on social media.

A 10-day-old baby boy died after being eaten up by rats in an Indian hospital’s neo-natal intensive care unit. Parents of the deceased child said the rats chewed their sick child’s left eye, face, chest and hands after climbing into his incubator.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has stormed and occupied the Lagos home of Chika Egwu Udensi, a crew member of the Arik Air flight W3101, who was arrested with 20 kilogrammes of cocaine at the London Heathrow Airport.

Wow! This is so romantic, this happened today at the University of Jos medical school. The boyfriend of a female medical student named Chinenye Umeh disrupted a lecture to propose to her. It caused an uproar of course because this has never happened before. First in history.

A 12-year-old school girl whose mother died of breast cancer killed herself after posting self-harm pictures on Instagram, an inquest has heard.

Isabel Ann Richardson, from Norwich, was struggling with feelings she was ‘worthless’ and ’empty’ after losing her mother Karina to the disease in 2010.

35-year-old Daniel Anowa Steven (pictured above) have been arrested by the Akwa Ibom police command for beheading 31-year-old Daniel Bassey Solomon, the brother of his girlfriend at his one-room apartment in Itu Street, Uyo, the state capital.

A 87-year-old woman named Liang Xiuzhen (pictured above) in Guiyan village in Ziyang City, is set to undergo a surgery to remove a unicorn horn from her head in south-west China’s Sichuan Province. The elderly woman, known locally as the 'unicorn woman' because of the 13cm-long horn on top of her head which began to grow about 2 years ago. Doctors are astounded by the abnormal growth.

A 24-year-old lady, now in police net, has explained while she stabbed her fiancé, Edet Ebong, to death with a kitchen knife. The lady, identified as Blessing Edet, told our correspondent that the quarrel and subsequent fight which led to Ebong’s death was over sex.

Do you all remember the landlord who set his tenant ablaze killing him in the process? Well he has also died.

A jealous wife allegedly throw acid in the face of undergraduate young student of a tertiary institution ( pictured) in a bid make her look un- attractive to her husband, according to a user on social media.

A 29-year-old German man Demetrius Soupolos is suing his 34-year-old neighbour, Frank Maus for breach of contract after the latter failed to impregnate his wife in 72 different attempts to do so. Soupolos had hired Maus to impregnate his former beauty queen wife Traute as he was sterile and Traute wanted a baby badly.

Below is a press statement released by the Spokesman of National Hospital, Abuja...

What is this world really turning into? What in the whole world will make one a lesbian and sisters also practicing this dirty act. Does it mean the movie our young generation girls watch is influencing them negatively or they tend to learn it from people around them, here is an incident that happened recently.

Police are looking to arrest a prostitute on a charge of assault after allegedly stabbing a man who demanded a refund following a bad sex, police in Washington said.

The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said that the prostitute stabbed the man of Port Orchard, after being paid to have sex with him.

A waiter at a Chinese hotpot restaurant in Wenzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, reportedly poured a bowl of boiling water onto a female customer after she posted poor restaurant ratings on her social network.

The woman, surnamed Lin, had an argument with a waiter over his service when she visited the restaurant with her daughter on Tuesday. However, the waiter, who was later identified by police as Zhu, refused to take her request and walked away.

Ekiti based businessman, Muyiwa Owolabi, has filed for divorce from his wife, Tinuola Owolabi of over 10 years, following allegations that she engages in sexual escapades with men she meets on social media.

Three robbery suspects, who were arrested while they were operating on Iju Road, in the Agege Area of Lagos State, have escaped from the police cell.

The 3 suspected members of the gang, which reportedly laid siege to a hotel and some residences of Sands Avenue, off Iju Road, had been handed over to the Pen Cinema Police Division, before two of them escaped from the cell.

A 67-year-old landlord, Sola Solomon allegedly poured petrol and set fire on one of his talents, simply identified as Abeeb, aka Ogbon in the Idumota, Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that as the victim struggled to put out the flames, the landlord pushed him down from the top floor of the three-storey building.

A 19-year-old woman, Faith Nuhu who sold her only child to a suspected child trafficking syndicate at a paltry N100,000 and sold three of her cousins for N600,000 has landed into police net along with her accomplices.

A male cabin crew member of Arik Air was on Monday night 24th August, arrested at Heathrow Airport, London, by the United Kingdom Border Force for allegedly possessing items suspected to be banned substance.

A bank manager, Mrs Blessing Okpoko and 12 suspected thugs have been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ court for allegedly involvement in the demolition of a furniture factory in Ajao Estate, Lagos.

Popular Nigerian blogger Olatuga Moses SNR popularly known as "Mozarti"is a year older today.

Actor Ernest Asuzu was one of Nigeria’s finest actors that have featured in many movies some years back.

There was no film worth a mention at that time that Ernest wasn’t featured in. He was a darling to many Nigerians until he disappeared from the screens and for a long time, nothing was heard of him.

A TV host collapsed and died live on air while presenting an awards ceremony in Morocco.

37-year-old woman, Araceli Alvarez-Mendoza (pictured above) intentionally killed her 36-year-old husband by running her car over him in Lanham, MD, Maryland, USA with her SUV on Sunday afternoon after they argued over something.

The Nigeria Police has arrested a middle-age woman, Toyin Akinrosotu on Monday 24th August, in Idanre, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, after allegedly causing the fatal fall of an infant strapped on the back of its mother.

A Florida couple has celebrated their anniversary every year for the past 60 years by eating a bite of their unrefrigerated wedding cake.

A bloody clash between two rival cult groups at the University of Jos (UNIJOS) over the weekend has left a student dead. Sources claimed that the incident occurred at Gondola, near Angwan Rukuba in Jos North local council, as members of a group went to the room of a member of a rival cult simply identified as Nanfwan, a diploma student at the institution’s Centre for Continuing Education.

The robbery suspects who allegedly robbed banks in Ikorodu have told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the confessional statements they made to the police were not voluntary.

The Chief Matron of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs. Caroline Oriola, has been found dead in her office this morning. Oriola was found dead by a cleaner who had gone to clean the clinic before others resume.

45-year-old Nollywood actress, Bimbo Akintola, in a recent interview with Vanguard has declared that she is not in search of a husband. In the interview published Today 24th August, Bimbo who has been in well over 50 Nigerian movies including Yoruba movies, says she does not need a husband and she is happy the way she is.

According to a very reliable source, Dabota Lawson’s marriage has sadly hit the rocks just 8-month-old after getting married to a billionaire, Sunny Aku.

34-year-old widowed, Mrs Ogodo Egede a mother of 4 from Egwudunagu village, Amachi community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was allegedly raped to death by 40-year-old Alex Nwabu.

Handsome Prince Ezeogu, was a stylist to the Late Singer Goldie.

Ini Edo Yesterday 23rd August while on Rubbin’ Minds spoke on why her marriage to business man, Philip Ehiagwina crashed. Though that was not Mr Ehiagwina’s first marriage, it was Ini’s, but the marriage only lasted for a short period.

43-year-old Mohammed Abad (pictured above) is now able to achieve an erection for the first time in decades, and he hopes to lose his virginity and start a family soon.

37-year-old Ajiboye Oluwaseyi (picture above) has been arrested by the Lagos State police for allegedly raping his two daughters 6-year-old, 4-year-old and his 15-year-old stepdaughter in the Lekki area of the State.

I can't imagine how a bride to be will go for such a cake (pictured above) for her bridal shower. It was seen at a bridal party in Lagos.

27-Year-Old Man Arrested For Impersonating Ex-Lagos Police Commissioner

The Lagos State Police Command on Saturday said it has arrested 27-year-old Friday Aguibosim for allegedly impersonating a former Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, who has been transferred to Abuja.

According to a police source, who spoke on the issue, Aguibosim was arrested on August 12 for opening a Facebook account in the name of the former Lagos commissioner of police.

“The suspect opened a Facebook account in the name of the former Lagos CP and requested policemen who wished to go on a peace keeping mission to pay money into a particular Fidelity Bank account.

“The account was traced to the suspect at Ihiala, Anambra State, before he was arrested,” he said.

Atleast they are willing to work. Yesterday unemployed graduates numbering up to 100 in Lagos, marched peacefully to the Government’s office in Alausa, Ikeja where they had gone to express their displeasure of no job to the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. The protesters said they had no form of jobs and are ready to work if provided with jobs. See more photos after the cut from the very peaceful protest. Such a sad situation.

16-year-old teenage girl, Elizab Juarez (pictured above) was allegedly brutally raped by a group of men and had her eyes gouged out by her sister as part of a terrifying exorcism ritual in North Argentine province of Chaco.

The girl, Elizab Juarez, who is just 16, is now fighting for her life in hospital after the horrific ordeal.

Her family said they had believed she was possessed by the devil, and were seeking to save her.

Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali( pictured) was killed in a strike near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, according to National Security Council spokesman Ned Price.
The No. 2 leader of the Islamic State terrorist group Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz is dead.
He was killed in a U.S. military air strike in Iraq earlier this week, according to National Security Council spokesman Ned Price. Hajji Mutazz, was traveling in a vehicle near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul when he was killed Tuesday.

A 24-year-old woman, Fadipe Funmilayo, was on Friday arraigned before an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for cutting her neighbour with a razor blade.

Funmilayo, who resides at Sodimu Kayode Street, Oju Oro Road, Owutu, Ikorodu, Lagos, was arraigned on a one-count charge.

The Prosecutor, Cpl. Abosede Adegeshin, told the court that the accused committed the offence at her residence.

"The accused and the complaint one Gbemisola Ayanlade both resides in the same place and had a misunderstanding on Aug.18, but was settled by the elders in the neighbourhood.

"Later that evening, the complainant went out to buy some things and was attacked by the accused; she pounced on her with a razor blade and cut her face with it.