ALLEGED DEADLY ATTACK BY FIANCÉE: ‘My case was closed unjustly by the police’

“I need justice.  My case was unjustly closed by the police!”  That was the persistent cry of Mary Sunday, a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, on whom a pot of stew and the kerosene stove, upon which it was boiling, were allegedly thrown at by her fiancé, a serving officer of the Nigeria. 

The incident, which left Mary with grievous bodily harm including the loss of her two ears with her upper neck glued to her arms, led to two surgeries while she needs N5million to undergo another in India.The victim told Sunday Vanguard she was on the verge of being recruited into the police  before trouble began when her fiancé was allegedly diagnosed with low sperm count, lamenting that she has been unjustly treated by the police and denied access to justice.Immediately after alleged attack.

'I Only Did It 4 Times' - Gay Pastor Goes To Jail

A magistrate court has ordered that Pastor Philip Ogbebor, Founder and General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Benin City, be remanded at the Federal Medium Security Prison, Oko for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a 20-year-old male member of his church and administering secret oaths on him, including; threatening to kill him if he told anyone.

Wife kills husband over sexual demands

 The Plateau Police Command on Wednesday in Jos said it had arrested a 17-year-old minor who allegedly killed her husband over his sexual demands.

The minor allegedly killed Lawal Bala, 26, in his sleep on their matrimonial bed on July 8.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Chris Olakpe, said the police had also arrested some suspected criminals.

CONFUSION AS MAN DIES DURING TARAWIY PRAYER

There was confusion in Okelele community of Ilorin East local Government Area of Kwara state following the death of a secondary school principal during Tarawiyh Ramadan prayer on Wednesday night.The incident happened at Asude area of the community when the school principal, Mr Hassan Alabi, was prostrating during the prayer, but could not stand up causing pandemonium in the congregation.

GAY PASTOR GOES TO JAIL

The Founder and General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Benin City, Pastor Phillip Ogbebor is now an unusual inmate at the federal medium security prison, Oko after  a magistrate court ordered that he be remanded for having sex with male members of his Church.

Surprisingly, the randy pastor of Breakthrough Ministries, Owina Street, off  Sakponba road  Benin city, neither denied the allegation of homosexuality levelled against him by the parents of one of his victims nor blamed the devil as many culprits will do. Instead, he told Saturday Sun that “I am only passing through temptation. I only did it four times with the man who is 22 years old and a regular member of my church. I can’t claim that  it was the devil’s influence , let God decide my case.”

Reformed Destitutes Requested To Be Taken Home Not Deported– LASG

The Lagos State Security Council on Wednesday met with the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umaru Manko, stating that the State has not deported anyone, but had merely taken back home destitutes who have been reformed following their request to be taken home and resettled.

‘Why We Transferred Rivers Lawmaker From London Hospital’

The member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Michael Chinda, who was hit with a mace by the Majority Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, has been transferred from the Cromwell Hospital in London to an undisclosed hospital for security reasons.

Chinda, who sustained head injuries during a free-for-all that took place in the chambers of the state House of Assembly on July 9, 2013, was taken to a London hospital for medical attention.

Though an international online news portal had reported that Chinda had been discharged from the London hospital, SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the injured lawmaker was taken away from the hospital for security reasons.

The Peoples Democratic Party in the state had flown the lawmaker abroad after being admitted for a few days in a local hospital.

Onitsha human head saga: Hotelier’s wife cries for help

Wife of the Proprietor of Upper Class Hotel where two human heads and other items were discovered by the police in Onitsha has raised the alarm over the safety of her husband.

Born without skull: US doctors create fresh head for Nigerian child

•We share in our daughter’s pains –Dad
…Pleads for more assistance
From DENNIS MERNYI
With  much expectation, the world is waiting to see  OkikiJesu Olawuyi grab a fitting place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Many across the world want to see this happen. And what that means is that a Nigerian child is well on her way to making history once she scales the mountain of surgeries standing in her path of life.
OkikiJesu  Olawuyi was born without a skull but not without a will to live. Bones from her hands are being obtained to construct a skull bone to help her live. Amazingly, she is winning this battle for  her life  at John Hopkins University in far away United States of America. There, the best hands the world can assemble are with her every passing hour fighting a medical war to give life to a miracle child  who has announced to  the entire human community that she has something different to offer. First grade surgeons – irrespective of colour, race and tongue are tasking  their expertise to see that this wonder of the 21st century lives to tell her story and  reports say that they are doing a great job to save her.

Heartless Mum

•Woman flees with 6 months pregnancy, sells baby for N100,000
From Ngozi Uwujare
The police in Imo State are now investigating how  a 27 year old housewife, Mrs Njideka Okorie eloped with six months pregnancy and went into hiding where she was later delivered of a baby girl which she sold to one Agatha Okoronkwo at Isieka Ihiala in Anambra State for N100,000.
Saturday Sun  gathered that Njideka has been married to Samuel Okorie , for  over 10 years. The marriage was already blessed with four children while they were expecting the fifth child, the wife eloped with six months pregnancy from their home in Orlu, Imo State.
The housewife also fled her matrimonial home with the other four children
in March and returned four months after, precisely on July  5, 2013, with  the four kids, but without the pregnancy of their fifth child.

Dying for their wives

•Abia communities where husband is struck dead over spouse’s adultery
•Prayers can’t destroy deity –Monarchs

By VINCENT KALU UKPONG and CHIOMA IGBOKWE

The biblical saying that the sins of the father shall be visited on their sons is a present day phenomenon in Ihechiowa and Ututu, two neighbouring communities in Arochukwu local government area, Abia State which have some things in common. One of these is how an adulterous woman is punished. Well, the irony is that, it is not the wife that gets punished for her adulterous undertaking. It is her husband.

He dies, if he continues in the marriage. But, according to the communities, the right to punish resides with the deity. As the communities claim, the deity first exposes the infidelity and the man, together with the clan, takes it from there. Punishment is applied only when the woman involved, fails to confess and performs some traditional rites.

First to speak on the issue is 96- year old Eze Arunsi Ota, Ezeogo of Umuchiakuma, Ihechiowa with his nephew, Prince Kalu Uche Ota, 32, a bricklayer. Also, in an interview, the traditional ruler of Amaeke Ututu, Ezeogo Nchehe Okeke in company of the palace secretary, Godwin Kalu Nwankwo with the palace treasurer, Cletus Ulu Ekea, reveals how the deity works, kills, its appeasement, and futile prayers by Christians in the community to destroy it.

Placenta buyers on the prowl

“Madam, I can help you raise money to pay your hospital bill, if you can give me your placenta.” This was the statement of a middle aged man identified as Segun who specialises in buying and selling of placenta.

It was part of a conversation between Segun and a woman, Mrs. Chidera Okereke who was recently delivered of a bouncing baby boy in a hospital located in Mafoluku area of Lagos State.

11 slain cops: Police declare 18 wanted

From FEMI FOLARANMI

The Bayelsa State Police Command has declared a former militant commander and 17 others wanted in connection with the killing of 11 policemen in April at Azuzuama, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.

According to investigations, the special panel set by the police to investigate the incident had indicted some former militants who benefitted from the amnesty programme of the Federal Government.

Evil merchants

•Medical equipment dealer, doctors in the soup for operating illegal blood bank
•Pay students N1,500 to part with pint of blood
•Victims fall ill frequently, one dies

A 23-year-old man, Olusola Opeyemi and his accomplices have landed in trouble for operating what could pass for illegal and secret blood bank in Orile-Agege area of Lagos. The suspects lured innocent and unsuspecting students of Oyewole Junior High School, aged between 11 and 15, into parting with their blood for a paltry sum of N1, 500.

Operating from a shop located at No. 23 Owolabi Omotoye Street, Orile-Agege, where he sold medical equipment and other articles, Opeyemi and other suspects had convinced their victims that parting with some quantity of blood will fetch them money, while not putting them at risk. The unsuspecting students had fallen for their antics and therefore, freely gave their blood at a fee of N1, 500. Before the illegal business was exposed, no fewer than 10 students had already “donated” blood.

Ex-deputy gov declared wanted over N130m fraud

…... Our case, by Ojikutu family

The Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos has declared a former deputy governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, 67, wanted for allegedly defrauding  her victim of  N130 million. She was said to have jumped bail and sneaked into the United States (U.S.) when she could not refund the said amount.

According to police source, the unit acted upon a petition which alleged that  in September, 2011, Ojikutu, and her son, Samson, conspired and sold a parcel of land known as Plot 24, Block 4 situated at Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos for N130 million.

Polygamy church: Leader preaches, practises, enforces multiple marriage

There is controversy in town. It is in the church and it has been causing ripples among families, especially the women. 

The issue of contention is the teaching of a pastor, Harrison Charles of the Day Spring Assembly that polygamy is holy, pure and biblical.
Expectedly, the female members of the church are up in arms as they won’t contemplate sharing their husbands with other women in marriage. 

The charged nature of their reactions and the insistence of the preacher with copious bible quotatations have resulted in jolts and turbulence in homes. Some homes are in Disarray as the wives pack out in protest and the husbands with the support of their pastor press their claims that such men in the church must marry other wives.

HE SAW DEATH AND LIVED

If Mr. Arthur Judah Angel were called a cat with nine lives, this description would aptly fit him. He was sentenced to death over something he did not do. He waited on death row for long, amid mental torture. His death sentenced was later commuted to 20 years imprisonment. When he completed the sentence, prison warden, who wanted him dead, refused to release him. However, he eventually regained freedom after the intervention of a human rights lawyer.

Indeed, Angle’s miracle happened on August 2, 1994, in Enugu prisons. That day, he was listed, among 39 condemned criminals, for execution. He and other were served what could have been their last meal on earth and they waited for the hour of death.  By a struck of luck or divine intervention, when the executioner called out the names of those to be marched to the gallows, his was missing. And after a total of 18 years in prison, with nine years on death row, he regained freedom.