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The first storey building in Nigeria, which was built in 1845 in Badagry, Lagos State is in urgent need of renovation.
Investigation carried out by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry reveals that the storey building is deteriorating and is in urgent need of repairs.
When the NAN correspondent in Badagry visited the storey building, the upper floor which is made of wood had holes in them and were shaking.
The staircase leading to the upper floor is rickety and one must be carefull while climbing the steps in order to ensure that the staircase does not collapse or fall.
The Bible store at the upper floor cannot be reached because the floor which is made of wood has been eaten by termites thereby making the wood fragile.
The building which is a major tourist site also has no electricity supply thereby making the building stuffy and uninhabitable.
An inside source revealed that the storey building had turned to a place where bats come to sleep. “The storey building lacks maintenance.
Its so bad that the building harbours bats.
“The part of the building where bats stays smells and these drives away tourist at times because the smell is very awful and dangerous to human health ” the source revealed.
Venerable Dickson Ilegbusi, who is a priest at the Cathedral Church of Thomas, Badagry and also doubles as the curator to the first Storey Building noted that he was aware of the problems.
He promised that renovation would be carried out as soon as possible.
He said that the reason why renovation was being delayed was because the church did not want to temper with its originality.
“The Bishop is aware of these and renovation would be carried out as soon as possible.
“The reason why we have been delaying the renovation of the first storey building is because we do not want to tamper with its originality.
“Fumigation would be carried out soon in order to drive away the bats that reside in the building,” he said.
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said the President Goodluck Jonathan administration had not been reaching out enough to the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and canvassed what he described as a “carrot-and-stick” strategy to address the sect’s menace.
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Obasanjo told the CNN in an interview that Jonathan had been applying less of dialogue and more of force in solving the Boko Haram issue.
“To deal with a group like that, you need a carrot and stick. The carrot is finding out how to reach out to them. When you try to reach out to them and they are not amenable to being reached out to, you have to use the stick,” the ex-President said.
He said Jonathan was “just using the stick.”
“He’s doing one aspect of it well, but the other aspect must not be forgotten,” he added.
But the Presidency, in a reaction to the ex-President’s submission, said Obasanjo’s position on the Boko Haram issue had been contradictory.
Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, told The PUNCH that it was surprising that the same Obasanjo who said recently that his presidency applied force when he was confronted with similar situation in Odi, Rives State, has now turned round to accuse Jonathan of applying only the stick against Boko Haram.
“It is surprising. That means the former President contradicted himself. Were you not in this country recently when he said that when he was confronted with a similar issue in Odi, he applied force? Where exactly does he stand on this matter?” Abati said.
He said that contrary to what Obasanjo wanted the world to believe, the Federal Government’s handling of the Boko Haram menace had been purposeful and that a lot of progress had been made.
Also, the Christian Association of Nigeria described the ex-President’s position as unfortunate. The association has repeatedly expressed its opposition to dialogue with Boko Haram.
The Public Relations Officer for CAN in the 19 northern states, Mr. Sunny Oibe, said, “How do you negotiate with a faceless group except Obasanjo wants to tell us that he knows them? This is the same Obasanjo who went to see the family of Boko Haram founder, Yusuf Mohamed and after discussing with them, a senior member of the family was slaughtered. Our stand is that you don’t negotiate with a faceless group.
“President Goodluck Jonathan should not listen to such advice because it is a booby trap set for him to fall on a banana peel. The position of government should be strong on that because if they should negotiate with them, other groups will now emerge and they will now hold government and the people of this country to ransom.”
Spokesperson for the central northern group, Arewa Consultative Forum, Anthony Sani, last week, said on behalf of the group that force was not the solution to the sect’s challenge.
“In terms of security, dialogue still remains the best. It is not the only way out, but I believe it still remains the best,” Sani had said in a reaction to the President’s celebration of the fact that security agencies foiled several bombing attempts during the yuletide.
He added, “It is very heartening to hear President Goodluck Jonathan say the security agents have been foiling attacks by Boko Haram of recent.
“But this does not vitiate the need for dialogue as a viable option. This is because there has been a precedent in which President Umaru Yar’Adua used force and killed 700 members of the sect and their leader but Boko Haram has remained unbowed.”
In the 2013 budget passed by the National Assembly, the Federal Government is to spend N24.1bn on internal security operations for the armed forces. The sum exceeds the N16.4bn allocated to police formations across the country by N7.7bn.
The soldiers’ provision consists of N16.107bn earmarked as “Operations-internal for Armed Forces.”
Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces are currently engaged in several internal security operations, including membership of Joint Task Forces fighting kidnapping in the South- East; oil bunkering in the South-South and Boko Haram in the North.
Obasanjo told the CNN that he had tried to reach out to Boko Haram about one- year-and- a-half ago through a lawyer who was acting as the group’s proxy, and had asked if they had external backing.
He said the lawyer told him that the group was receiving support from other Nigerians who have resources overseas or “other organisations from abroad,” worrying that, “If they had 25 per cent support a year and a half ago, today that support has doubled.”
The ex-President had in 2011 made a widely-reported contact with the sect; and the killing of the in-law to the late leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, barely 24 hours after, was seen as rejection of Obasanjo’s intervention.
Obasanjo said resolving the issue was central to the country’s progress.
“Boko Haram undermines security, and anything that undermines security undermines development, undermines education, undermines health, undermines agriculture and food and nutrition security,” he said.
Boko Haram members have since 2009 launched a violent campaign against the Federal Government, attacking military and police facilities, drinking joints and worship houses in the northern states and Abuja.
The group in 2011 attacked the Police headquarters as well as the United Nations office in the Federal Capital City, killing many people.
The international rights group, Human Rights Watch, in a report late last year had said Boko Haram members had killed more than 2,800 people.
A 15-year-old in the Maldives whose father is accused of repeatedly molesting her and killing the resulting baby risks being flogged for “fornication” with another man under the nation’s strict Islamic law, a police source said Monday.
In the course of inquiries into the rape case, investigators say they unearthed evidence of the girl having had consensual sex with another man, which is an offence in the Indian Ocean holiday destination, the source told AFP.
Women, including minors, having consensual sex outside marriage can be charged in the Maldives, where convicts can be publicly flogged. Minors receive the punishment when they reach 18, the age of majority.
The child’s step-father is accused by police of repeatedly molesting the girl and fathering a child by her which he subsequently murdered. The girl’s mother has been charged with helping dispose of the infant’s body, police said.
“We completed the investigation (into the murder of the infant) and gave a report to the prosecutor general’s office,” Maldivian police spokesman Hassan Haneef told AFP by telephone.
He declined to give details saying that Maldivian common law did not allow the discussion of any case involving a minor.
The local Haveeru newspaper quoted an unnamed official from the prosecutor’s office saying that the fornication charge was unrelated to the rape which had been separately dealt with.
The legal system of the Maldives, a nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims known for its coral-fringed islands and sandy beaches, has elements of Islamic Sharia law as well as English common law.
The country carries out the flogging of women despite calls from the UN Human Rights Council to drop the practice.
In September, a Maldivian court ordered a public flogging for a 16-year-old girl who confessed to having pre-marital sex. Her 29-year-old lover was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The gang-rape last month in the Indian capital of a 23-year-old student who subsequently died has also sparked protests over crime against women in neighbouring South Asian nations including Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
A woman who allegedly killed her husband after the two were involved in a domestic fight is in court on murder charges.
Talent Makonde, 24, allegedly got involved in a fight with her husband, whose name was not mentioned in the state papers, leading to his death in a hospital. Makonde is jointly charged with Shelton Bhiya, 25, who allegedly joined the fight while trying to restrain the two.
The court heard, Makonde met her now deceased husband at a Shopping Centre before the two went home together. While on their way, a scuffle erupted between the two and the now deceased started assaulting Makonde, the court heard.
According to state papers, Bhiya, who was passing by, intervened trying to restrain the now deceased from further assaulting Makonde. The court heard police officers arrived at the scene and arrested the now deceased before detaining him. The next morning, the court heard the now deceased collapsed at the police station before a statement was recorded from him. He was taken to the hospital where he later died.
A post-mortem carried revealed that he had died from haemorrhage in the brain due to assault. Magistrate Tendai Mahwe yesterday remanded the two in custody to January 21. They were advised to apply for bail at the High Court considering the magnitude of their offense.
Nigerian man, Tony Rholand (pictured above on the right) was stabbed to death by his South African wife, Lungi, at their home in Willims town, Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday January 1st.
The couple, who have a kid together, got into an argument in the early hours of January 1st and before anyone could stop it, Lungi stabbed Tony severally in the stomach. Tony died in the hospital a few hours later. Lungi has been arrested. See another photo of the family after the cut...
No fewer than five goats were yesterday arrested at Dele-Yesa area in Osogbo, the Osun State capital by officials of the state Waste Management Agency (OWMA) for allegedly violating environmental laws. The state Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Henry Ogunbanwo said the goats would be charged to court by the agency and would be prosecuted in accordance with the laws guiding environmental protection in the state.
He said the state government had issued notice of warning to all residents of the state capital on the need to monitor their domestic animals to avoid public disturbance by the animals, which, he said, was against the environmental laws. Ogunbanwo disclosed that the five goats arrested were detained at the office of the agency in Osogbo from where they would be taken to court for prosecution.
He said the goats ran fowl of the laws guiding environmental protection by roaming around the residential area of Osogbo instead of being caged by their owners. He declared that the present administration in the state had zero tolerance for dirtiness and environmental hazard; hence the need for the enshrinement of the environmental laws, adding that the government would not take it lightly with violators of the laws According to him, officials of the agency would from now move to every nook and cranny of the state to arrest animals violating the state environmental laws, stressing that owners of such animals would also be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the laws.
He advised those rearing domestic animals to keep them in a cage to avoid arrest, insisting that his agency would not allow any animal to roam about on the streets of any town or village in the state. He urged those looking for their goats in Osogbo and its environs to check at the state office of OWMA in Osogbo.
A female cleric with an undisclosed Pentecostal church in Abia State, Prophetess Mrs. Ezelu (other name withheld),, is currently telling police detectives what she knows about the sale of a two-year-old boy that was recently rescued in Ondo State.
The female minister was among the three women and a man that were arrested and paraded by the Abia State Police Command for alleged conspiracy, kidnap and sale of a two-year-old baby boy, Master Prosper Light, from Abia State.
The little boy was sold for N600,000 (six hundred thousand naira) but was rescued at Ore, Ondo State, while being transported to Lagos. The Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ambrose Aisabor, recently paraded the suspects at the State Police Headquarters, along Bende Road, Umuahia. The police boss said a popular photographer in Aba lured the little boy after promising to buy him a balloon.
The boy took the bait and was allegedly abducted by the photographer, who quickly handed him over to his customer, a female restaurant operator. Also paraded by the police boss for the alleged crime were 38-year-old Mrs. Chinaza (other name withheld), a staffer of Bende Local Government Area of Abia State said to be the buyer of the baby; 45-year-old Mrs. Anele (other name withheld), the restaurant operator, who contracted an Aba-based photographer, Nwaogu (other name also withheld), popularly called Ejima, for the kidnap. Nwaogu was also paraded.
According to the Police, Chinaza was intercepted at Ore in Ondo State while travelling to Lagos with Baby Prosper. Chinaza reportedly told the police that she was taking the child to one Ann, a friend of hers based in Lagos, who she said was in dire need of a child. Mr. Aisabor who paraded the suspects said he would ensure that people like the suspects were exposed and brought to book, according to the law of the land. “My advice to those who did not give birth and want to have babies is that they should rely on God because there is no situation that God cannot change.
They should not go into crime as a result of the condition they find themselves in. The law will take its course. We will follow due process and the four suspects will be charged to court. If the court releases them, I cannot question the decision of the court. Ours is to do our duty according to the law,” Aisabor said. All the suspects who spoke to Daily Sun gave various versions of their roles in the sale of Baby Prosper.
The prophetess, Mrs. Ezelu, who hails from Ngor Okpuala in Imo State, and was married to a man from Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, said that the only role she played in the saga was introducing the buyer to the seller. Prophetess Ezelu said she lost her husband four months back and because she did not have a child for him, her friend, Mrs. Comfort Anele advised her to adopt a baby.
So na you wan oppose God's command when God said,Abstain form Blood and Do not Eat Blood !!!
Bro, only those things one chews through the mouth that is called Eating. If someone receives drip, does it mean the person drink or swallow the drip? Definitely not. We are not in charge of our lives, so let's not misuse it.
A PETROL tanker driver driving against the run of traffic, yesterday, in Onitsha received the shock of life as he cane to face with Governor Peter Obi along the ever busy Onitsha-Owerri federal highway.
Obi, who was on official duty at the time of the incident, personally intercepted the lorry with number plate ENUGU XY260 ENU and other vehicles following it behind.
Typical of Onitsha residents, many people abandoned their businesses and gathered to witness the development, while other vehicles also driving against the flow of the traffic turned back, thereby causing more traffic jam in the area.
The governor, who repeated his earlier warning to motorists and other road users going against the traffic, described the practice as barbaric, adding that it was capable of causing multiple accidents on the road.
He made it clear that going against traffic often constituted serious threat to other road users with the attendant traffic congestion.
He charged security operatives to be alive to their responsibilities to ensure that nobody drove against the traffic on any road in the state.
….Assures flood victims of support
AWKA-VARIOUS communities in Anambra State affected by last year's flood that ravaged many states in the country have started counting their losses, even as the state governor, Mr. Peter Obi has been assuring them of government support.
Eight local government areas in the state were affected by the flood, with two, Ogbaru and Anambra West, totally submerged.
As the people returned to their various communities after the flood, they came face to face with the reality of the damage done by the flood.\
Most of the houses, schools, local government headquarters and domestic animals were completely destroyed.
Though the 57 communities affected have received N57 million cash and other materials, including farming implements, from the state government to enable them resettle, they have continued to cry that what they lost was so much to bear.
However, Governor Obi, who has been visiting the communities with the materials and cash, has continued to assure them that they would not be abandoned.
Interacting with the people of Umuikwu Anam in Anambra West local government which was totally submerged during the flood, Obi announced that the state government would commence immediate rebuilding of water schemes destroyed by the flood in the area.
He argued that it was important to give them regular clean water in view of the terrain of the area.
He also explained that government would soon start emergency repairs of Anam-Nzam-Kogi State road which, though was almost being completed, was devastated by the flood.
The fire started Tuesday afternoon in the Ebute Metta neighborhood of Lagos. The blaze’s massive flames could be seen from the city’s long Third Mainland Bridge. Many people stopped their cars on the bridge to take mobile phone images of the fire.
Emergency officials in Lagos could not be immediately reached for comment. Fire remains a major danger in Nigeria, where many people store gasoline and diesel in their homes to run generators for electricity.
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