Remember the 3year old little boy named Abubakar Usman whose eyes were removed by some ritualists in Kaduna last week? Read story here. The boy's father, Usman Isa, says doctors at the Ahmadu Bello University have performed an operation on the little boy. According to Isa who spoke with Daily Trust, the doctors said the ritualists removed everything in the boys eyes and that there was no hope of him seeing again except by a miracle.

“The Kaduna hospital has referred us back to ABUTH. Doctors have conducted surgery yesterday. From what they told us, the perpetrators have removed everything that has to do with the eyes, which would make fixing them difficult. However, doctors said that they would review the operation to see the outcome, hoping they can fix artificial ones.” 

He said the doctors said the artificial eyes would be fixed just to fill the holes, but not for the young boy to see. “Except if Allah performs a miracle,” he sobbed.

Meanwhile the grandmother of little Usman, Malama Hadiza Usman, narrated how she got to know that her grandson's eyes had been removed by ritualists while he was on his way to an evening Islamiyya class.

In tears, Malama Hadiza told Daily Trust that she would never forget the incident for the rest of her life. “I’d given him N5 to buy sweets on his way, on Sunday, January 24. He left the house with his brother Umar, but on their way they were intercepted by yet-to-be identified men who took him to an uncompleted building and gouged his eyes out.”

At the hospital, little Abubakar was telling those around him to open his eyes to enable him see his mother and grandmother. “Open my eyes, I want to see Mama. Mama, where are you? Where’s Grandma?” he kept wailing.

Kano State Govt through the state Commissioner for Women Affair, Barr. Zubaida Damakka Abubakar empowered the family of Rahma Haruna, a limbless 19-year old girl of Lahadin Makole in Dawakin Kudu local government area of Kano state.

 

Rahma, who has no functional limbs but tiny appendages in the position of arms and legs, is being moved about in a synthetic washbasin by a young cousin, to beg for alms in Kano city, about 26 kilometers from her village. The earnings help in sustaining the family of four.

 

Her father, Haruna Muhammad said her challenge started when she was 6 months old and largely due to poverty, he could not take her for specialized medical attention. He had sold his farm and personal belongings but no progress was recorded in her treatment. At last, he resigned to the sad fate, which many people in his community seem to believe, that her condition is the handiwork of evil spirits.
Because of her condition, the poor girl cannot do virtually anything without the support of a family member. She and her brother, who carries her to solicit alms to feed the poor family, do not go to school.

 

While presenting the donation of empowerment items to the family on Friday, January 29, the Commissioner of Women Affairs, Barr. Zubaida Damakka said the state government is touched by the condition of the girl stressing that the government would do all it could to see that Rahma does not feel forsaken.

"Government would continue to look after her welfare to ensure that she lives as comfortable as possible and to make sure that she does not beg because of her physical challenge" the commissioner assured.

Barrister Zubaida stated that she was “amazed by the girl's zeal to do something meaning for herself rather than the usual street begging which she and her younger brother engaged in”, adding that the donation was meant to empower the family so that they can earn a living decently and take their children to school.

Items donated to the girl’s mother to start a business include 10 cartons of noodles, 2 bags of detergent, 10 cartons of biscuits, 2 bags of semovita, 2 bag of rice, a sack of soya bean, 2 gallons of cooking oil 25 liters each and the sum of twenty thousand naira.

*Says no to disregard to the party constitution

The youth group affiliated to the office of PDP National Youth Leader dissociated self from Ahmed Gulak self declaration. The decision was unanimously reached after brief meeting held in the party's secretariat, Wadata plaza, Abuja.

The group described the self declaration of Gulak as shameful, disrespect to the party's constituted authorities and outright demonstration of impunity and over ambitiousness.

While affirming their support for the presence NWC, the youths asked Gulak to support the Party mechanism to ensure free and credible convention come March 2016.

Group express disappointment in the action of the Ahmed Gulak which is not enjoying the backing of the North East leadership of the party.

"In as much as we respect him as a senior citizen and leader in our party, we wont patronize any act of impunity and disregard to the party constitution. We hereby advise him to denounce his declaration and work with the present leadership who are putting all modalities to replace all National Officials whose tenure will soon expire. And the right place for such changes should be the PDP National Convection. We are hopeful that the new leadership will reposition the Party ahead of 2019 general election when Nigerians will give power back to the PDP and free us from this APC inept government who has turn its Promise of Change slogan to Change of Promise.

"Finally, we stand by our party and its aspiration and resist any form of imposition whereby an individual will hold a press conference and declare himself a Party Chairman. The implication of this action is that anybody else from the Northeast can as well declared himself the Party Chairman which will definitely set in a very bad precedent. This should be discouraged and condemned in totality."

The statement was signed by PDPNYF National Cordinator, Usman Okai Austin and National Coordinator PDP Young Democrat, Hon. Dr Olusegun Aderemi, for the PDP youths group.

Usman Okai Austin
PDPNYF

A group of suspected cultists have been apprehended by the police in Ebonyi State. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Peace Abdallah, made this disclosure on Wednesday while parading the suspects.

According to the CP, the incident occurred at Igboeze Onicha in Onicha area of the state.

“Six of the cult boys - Ugochukwu Onueze, Michael Innocent, Ogbonnaya Okike, Ogbonnaya Ogbu, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya and Emmanuel James - abducted two girls, dragged them into the bush, initiated them into their cult group and forcibly had carnal knowledge of them. 

“The suspected cultists are said to be members of a terror cult group popularly known as German Arror,” CP Abdallah noted, adding that they will be charged to court.

When Ronald Jackson found a text he thought was rude and inappropriate on his then 12-year-old daughter’s phone in September 2013, he took the cell away. But the child’s mother, Michelle Steppe, got mad at his action and she called the police.

As you read this, the 36-year-old father, who hails from Texas, had been charged with theft of property after confiscating his daughter’s iPhone 4 after he found an inappropriate text on it.

Shortly thereafter, Mr Jackson received a citation for the “theft,” a Class C misdemeanor. What!?

Jackson was then offered a plea deal in January 2014 if he returned the phone, attained legal representation, and requested a jury trial.

Surprisingly, the city attorney’s office refiled the case with a harsher offense, a Class B misdemeanor that is punishable to up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.

After a warrant was placed on him, Jackson was arrested and taken into custody in April 2015, but managed to post a $1,500 bail to avoid incarceration during his trial.

Luckily for him, the judge ordered for Jackson to be found not guilty, citing insufficient evidence.

Mr Jackson shared his ordeal to CBSDFW:
“I was being a parent. You know, a child does something wrong, you teach them what’s right. You tell them what they did wrong and you give them a punishment to show that they shouldn’t be doing that.”

“It made no sense to me for them (Police) to show up and make a big deal out of something that was a small thing,” Jackson said. “I couldn’t believe they would go to this extent for a cellphone. It didn’t seem right.” 

Funny enough, Mr Jackson spent one night in jail before he met the $1,500.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” John Cook, one of Jackson’s defense attorneys, said on Wednesday. “You would think we were on the Jerry Springer Show.”

Mr Jackson is now filing a Federal complaint of civil rights violation due to the way he was treated by police and the city attorney’s office just because of his daughter's phone. This is really Oyibo craze.

The new tariffs approved for electricity consumers will become effective on Monday and will enable the power distribution, generation and transmission companies to acquire needed infrastructure, the acting Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Anthony Akah, has said.

The NERC boss said the lack of cost-reflective tariffs had hindered the electricity companies from acquiring the necessary infrastructure, adding that with the new tariffs, they would not have any excuse for not delivering on the agreements they entered into with the government.

Akah said under the new MYTO, all premises must be metered and consumers who subscribe to specific metering models must be supplied meters within 60 days after which they would not be disconnected or charged on estimation if a meter was not supplied.

No fewer than 200 shops and goods were destroyed on Thursday after fire razed some sections of the sawmill in the Jakande Market, in the Ikosi-Ketu area of Lagos.

This is just as a fuel-laden tanker went up in flames at the MRS filling station in the Lawanson area.

The Ketu fire, which started around 4am, also destroyed three cars, an office and a toilet facility within the market. Traders estimated their losses at millions of naira.

Sadly, the fire was caused by an electrical surge from two of the prepaid meters in the saw mill.

Most of the victims approached by Punch declined comments as some of them were busy salvaging what was left of their property.

A trader, lamenting his loss, said in Yoruba, “What do you want us to be saying when our property has been destroyed? About 200 shops and several milling machines were burnt. I just bought goods of about N3m yesterday (Wednesday) and everything is gone just like that. One of the burnt cars was bought a few months ago.”

Another shop owner, Waheed Adekeye, said he lost his planks and machines worth N5m to the inferno.

He said, “I got a call that the sawmill was on fire. Before I reached here, all my planks and three machines of about N5m had been burnt.”

A youth, who identified himself only as Shina, said he was woken up by smoke, adding that he escaped death by a whisker.

He said, “I am a tailor. I have a shop here and I sometimes pass the night in the shop. The fire started around 4am. It was the smoke that woke me up. By the time I rushed out, the fire had almost reached me. All my machines were burnt.”

A resident, Tunde Kolawole, said firefighters arrived the scene about one hour after the fire started:
“I live close to the sawmill. I heard people shouting, ‘help, help’. I saw the fire raging and dashed out to the scene. The firefighters came a bit late, but they tried their best.”

The police in Lagos have arrested two undergraduates for allegedly r*ping a job-seeker, identified only as Nike, and also robbing her of valuables in the Igando area of the state.

The suspects, identified as Valentine and Kusimo, allegedly took turns to r*pe her after luring her into a hotel. R*pe in a hotel? Valentine, an indigene of Imo State, was said to be seeing off the 27-year-old with the hope that she would not raise the alarm when Nike suddenly called for help.

The guy was subsequently arrested and dragged to the Police station.

The incident happened on Thursday, January 14, 2016, on Idowu Ibiyemi Street, in Igando, Lagos.

A police source told Punch that Valentine and Nike had met on a dating site.

He said, “Valentine is a 400-level Civil Engineering student of a university in Imo State. He chatted up the lady on the dating site and from there, their conversation shifted to WhatsApp.

“The suspect told his friend, Kusimo, about the girl and they decided to trick her. Kusimo, a student of a polytechnic in Ogun State, would sometimes take Valentine’s phone and be chatting with Nike, without the girl knowing that it was Kusimo.

“Having done that for some days, they decided to invite her to Lagos.”

It was gathered that Nike, an indigene of Osun State, travelled down from Ibadan, Oyo State capital, where she was based, to the Igando area of Lagos.

She and Valentine scheduled to meet at his house. Instead of taking her to his apartment, the suspect took her to a popular hotel in the area.

The source said, “The girl did not know she was taken to a hotel because he took her through the back into the room.

“The second suspect, had, however, hid inside the toilet. As the lady entered the room, Valentine shut the door and Kusimo jumped out from his hideout with a bottle. He smashed the bottle on the ground and he told the girl to cooperate or they would kill her.

“While Valentine had two rounds of s*x, the second suspect had three rounds of s*x with her. After they had r*ped her, they robbed her of her BlackBerry and N15,000.

“In order to prevent her from exposing them, they took snapshots of her n*kedness and threatened that if she told anyone about her ordeal, they would put the pictures on the Internet.”

After committing the act, Valentine was bold enough to see off Nike. Once they got to an open place, she raised the alarm, drawing the attention of passersby.

She was said to have narrated what happened to people, which led to the arrest of both suspects.

They were detained at the Igando Police Division, before the matter was transferred to SCID, Yaba.

But another police source said the guys claimed that Nike agreed to mutual s*x with them and only raised the alarm because she was not well paid, the way she wanted.

She said, “How can you leave your place in Ibadan for Lagos and claim not to know what you are doing? It is not true that they r*ped her. She only wanted to make money off the men, and that was why she raised the alarm outside.

“The suspect said the girl demanded N200,000 for settlement and she is saying she does not want her fiancé and family members to be aware. She is not innocent.”

Police is trying to crack the case to find out who is saying the truth between the guys and the girl.

Another political upset. The Supreme court has sacked Senator Andy Uba and Senator Stella Oduah from the upper chamber of the national assembly. Both lawmakers from Anambra are members of the PDP. 

While Andy Uba represented Anambra South senatorial district, Stella represented Anambra north. They've been ordered to vacate their seats immediately, and be replaced by the authentic candidates.

As reactions continue to trail the gruesome murder of a 4-year-old girl by her mother in Gboko area of Benue State, the IDOMA VOICE has obtained the image and picture of the lady behind the cruel act.

A resident said the lady who is currently at large killed her 4-year-old daughter, tied her in a sack bag and dumped her inside a well. According to the testimony of a neighbour who witnessed the said incident, the body of the late infant was discovered when children wanted to fetch from the well.

The eyewitness said this gruesome act was suspected to have been committed in the early hours of Monday or Sunday night after which the murderer escaped to an undisclosed destination early on Monday.

Police are tracking her and hopefully they will get her.

I don't agree with everything here because I believe a lady who has been trained to be a good wife will be, either she is working in a office or running a business full time or part time. But let's hear him out:

So much relationship concerns are running in the minds of people, in particular between young folks. Most young guys and ladies are asking many questions concerning their relationship. Some of the questions asked are if it is alright for a working class man to date a girl still in tertiary school with the mindset of marrying her. Some guys are complaining that they found their girlfriend with another guy if they should break up the relationship?

These are why some relationships that have lasted for months and years end abruptly. Details...

This article focuses on why you should marry a lady who is working. It doesn’t mean I am against dating a lady still studying in school, but am against dating a lady that still thinks as she is in school.

The climax of this article is that dating a working class lady has much more advantage than dating an undergrad. Why? Below are my reasons:

1. Better At Managing Money
Dating a working class lady is so good because she knows and feels the condition of the economy. When she spends, she does it with sense and not like ladies who don’t know that making cash is hard and spends anyhow. With this kind of lady, you don’t need to worry about the way your finance is being spent.

2. Maturity
Going through work stress builds up maturity in her. Even though girls have a general nature; there is still a difference you will see between a working lady and an undergrad. Matured ladies are mostly needed for dating and not just ladies that begs for recharge cards all the time.

3. Her Hospitality Is Heightened
It is expected she has overcome the "Me Alone" character because a part of her salary goes to her family, probably. Sometimes, she transfers some to her siblings. Most of the time, she is left with a little. At those times, her display picture will change to "Family is all". True! Those lads in her workplace will be questioning, "what's she doing with her cash?". Now you grasp. You can be sure she will be wise with money and you guys can plan together easier.

4. She Has A 'better' View On What She Need In Her Man.
She has met guys before you, so her taking you is more of her "last resort". She'll respect you well.

5. Less Time for Irregular/Childish Stuff
It's hard to find a lady working who is preoccupied with work, find time to live irresponsibly (partying). It might exist but only in limited cases. More often than not, she kills time with her dearest besties, not with any guy. If she is ALWAYS on Facebook, forget her. At least, you can tell she has a vision, a feeling, an impulse. Even if she is less occupied, she tries to improve her tailoring, dancing or other skill. She dislikes being idle. Above all, silly stuff like making money out of guys is a NO for her.

6. Work Exposure
Having to work with other wedded co-workers of hers, she gets to know the real necessities of every man thus growing into matrimony with some form of appropriate knowledge. (Just hope she doesn't meet the wrong women at work).

Source: Lover Secretz

When you see people giving excuses why they can't change their situation or circumstances, just know they are simply lady and lacks the requisite focus to build something out of life for themselves.

Pictured above is 25-year-old Didas Byaruhanga who was born without arms. He has gone ahead to study Adult and Community Development at the University of Kyambogo, Uganda.

He was awarded a Diploma at the school’s graduation ceremony on Wednesday January 27. The indigene of Kasese, Uganda, says he hopes to pursue a Law Degree. Waoh! See more photos...

Mr Didas did not allow "disability" limit his dreams of leading a productive life. Stop giving excuses!

A Federal High Court in Abuja has denied the bail application of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and director of Biafran Radio, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is standing trial for treasonable offences filed against him by the Federal government.

Justice John Tsoho in his ruling today said Kanu should be remanded in prison until his trial, because he was a threat to national security and since he has dual citizenship, could jump bail.

Photos of Nnamdi Kanu in court today

The Pro-Biafran group leader was denied bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja today January 29th. More photos after the cut...

 

Photo credit: Sahara Reporters

Residents of Ojo and Badagary local government areas say they received a threat letter from members of a dare devil armed robbery gang known as One Million boys, telling them of their plans to visit their neighbourhood soon. The robbers asked the residents to keep money in their home for when they come or be prepared to die.

Some residents who spoke with PM News said the robbers said they were coming to attack after four of their members were arrested during a robbery in the area three days ago. Over 20 robbers reportedly attacked Ojo/Badagry residents during the robbery. Many were injured but nobody was killed.

Residents who had no money were cut with machetes while the women were raped or asked to sleep with blood relations. Photo of one of the residents injured above. While the robbery was going on, youths in the area confronted the robbers, overpowered them and were able to hold on to four of them who they handed over to the Ajangbadi Police station.

The suspects have been transferred to SCID, Panti, Yaba for further interrogation. The threat letter has put the residents in perpetual fear and has forced the men in the area to keep vigil.