Plot To Kill Pastor Itua Ighodalo By Staff Exposed

An attempt by two domestic staff to poison Pastor Itua Ighodalo of Trinity House (former RCCG's Pastor) a mega church in Victoria Island, Lagos, western Nigeria, has been foiled.

The two workers allegedly connived with a herbalist to hatch the plot to enable them kidnap the pastor’s wife, Ibidunni, and demand for a ransom of N80 million.

But the plot was foiled by the couple before they could actualise it. The police have arrested the two domestic staff and the herbalist and charged them to court for attempted murder.

Police identified the suspects as Abdulkareem Mohammed, 24, the alleged mastermind of the plot, employed by the couple as a dog handler, Makinde Ewuosi, 36, a native doctor who resides at 21, Joseph Street, Lagos Island and has his shrine at 9, Alofun Street, Lagos Island, and Paul Eke, 29, a security guard at Osborne Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos where the couple resides.

Police investigation revealed that nemesis caught up with the suspects when the couple’s pet dog named Simba suddenly died from food poisoning at their residence at Ikoyi, Lagos.

Suspecting a foul play, the couple contacted their dog’s doctor to conduct an examination on it to know the cause of its death and the doctor’s report revealed that the dog died from food poisoning.

The couple reported the incident to the police and the dog handler was arrested and taken to the station for interogation.

During interogation, according to the police, the dog handler (Mohammed) from Borno State, allegedly confessed that he mixed poisonous substances given to him by a herbalist with food for the dog to eat and after the dog ate the food it died.

In his alleged confession to the police, Mohammed further said: “The security man in our estate, Eze, brought the information that if we poison my boss to death, kidnap his wife and demand for N80 million ransom we would be rich overnight. And to actualise our mission, I went to consult a native doctor, Ewuosi for help.

“And after explaining my mission to the native doctor, he gave me poisonous black powder, black soap and sponge with a directive that I must use the powder to poison my master’s dog to know the effectiveness of the poison and if it vomits and dies, I should use it to poison anybody.

“After the dog died, we were still planning how to use the poison on my boss and kidnap his wife for ransom before I was arrested. But I don’t know how the devil used me to plan such evil against my employers because they were taking good care of me. I pray to God to forgive me.”

Following his alleged confession, Mohammed led the police to arrest the herbalist and the security guard.

Ewuosi, the herbalist, allegedly confessed that he prepared some concoctions for the dog handler but not to kill anybody.

After investigation, the suspects were charged before a Tinubu Magistrates’ court on a two-count charge of attempted murder of Pastor Itua Ighodalo and his wife, Ibidunni.

The offences, the police prosecutor, Supol Chidi Okoye said, are punishable under sections 409 and 228(1)(2) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused persons, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge in the open court, and Chief Magistrate Miss A.O. Awogboro admitted them on bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two surties each in like.

Awogboro directed the prosecutor to send the case file to the DPP’s office for advice and adjourned the case till 18 March, 2015 for mention.

The defendants were, however, taken to Ikoyi Prison, Lagos, pending when they will fulfil their bail conditions.

Courtesy of PMnews

SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACKS MARKET IN BORNO STATE

 
A deadly explosion from a female siucide bomber went off in a crowded market on Thursday in Biu, the largest town in Southern Borno state, it killed many and left several others injured.
The witnesses said injured persons and corpses were being evacuated to hospital at the time of the incident .
Another witness, Abdullahi Biu, who is also a member of the Civilian-JTF said “We cannot say how many people got killed here because they are many. And so many people are also injured.”.
He said the hospital in Biu has run short of blood to administer on injured ones who he said “lost too much blood”.
“We are trying to mobilise people to go and volunteer as blood donors in the hospital. There are lots of bodies, some shredded beyond recognition,” he said.

Revealed: How Jega, Buhari, Babangida, Jonathan and Fashola Contributed in Council of State Meeting on Reschedule Of Election-What They Actually Said :

HOW IMO GOV.OKOROCHA LIED TO NIGERIANS

Before the Council of State meeting, the position of the president, and that of the ruling party, PDP, was that the elections should be postponed. The argument was that by virtue of Section 132 (2) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, there was time to make adjustment. The Section provides that “an election to the said office (presidency) shall be held on a date not earlier than one hundred and fifty days and not later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of the last holder of that office.” That was the subtext to the Council of State meeting. 
At the meeting, Jega presented his report, giving a breakdown of the number of registered voters in each state and the number that have collected their PVC's and reiterating that he was ready for the polls. The first person to speak after his presentation was the NSA, Dasuki, who harped on the renewed efforts by the Multinational Forces to dislodge the Boko Haram insurgents and the need to shift the elections forward. The service chiefs and the Director General of the Directorate of State Security (DSS) followed with similar presentations.

With the floor now open for discussion, Buhari was the first to fire a salvo against the idea to have the elections rescheduled. He said all the reasons adduced by the military do not warrant postponing the elections, especially when, according to him, soldiers have minimal role to play in the election process. With Buhari done, the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, presented what appeared a detailed position of the APC as to why the elections had to go ahead.

 He looked at the possible implications of such a postponement from both the legal and political prisms, with the conclusion that it would not bode well for the country and the president. However, the Cross River State Governor, Mr Liyel Imoke countered Fashola’s arguments with what also appeared the PDP position as he went beyond the issue of Boko Haram to that of the preparedness of INEC. 

Some of the issues he raised included the “lopsidedness” in the distribution of PVCs nationwide, the fact that the Card Readers to be used by INEC had yet to be tested and that the electoral officials to use them have not even been trained. At that point, according to sources, Jega sought to respond and was given the floor. He explained that most of the misgivings being expressed have been factored into INEC plans. He, however, added that it was unrealistic to expect a hundred percent turn-out of voters at elections as there is no such thing anywhere in the world. 

To this, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Godswill Akpabio reportedly countered that Jega was wrong. Akpabio said there is a difference between people who may choose not to vote even if they have PVCs and those who cannot vote because they have been denied what ordinarily should be their rights. He said elections cannot be credible in situations where millions of people could not get what would enable them to exercise their franchise. In asking INEC to go ahead with the polls since the commission said it was ready, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, added that the advisory role of the Council of State does not extend to election matters. To that, the president, who had evidently been well-briefed, drew the attention of Tambuwal and that of the meeting to the Third Schedule (Part 1) of the 1999 Constitution, especially Section B (6) which states that the Council of State “shall have the power to (A) advise the President in exercise of his powers with respect to the…(4) the Independent National Electoral Commission (including appointment of members of the commission).” 

In his own intervention, General Ibrahim Babangida argued that since INEC said it was ready for the polls, the real issue before the Council was on what to do about the four states where the security agencies said they needed more time to deal with the insurgency. Babangida now asked whether it was feasible to conduct elections only in 32 states. 

The president interjected quickly that such election would end in fiasco. I have it on good authority that some people in the administration had suggested this idea to Jega in November last year and he said any such election that excise a section of the country would not pass the test of credibility or even for that matter, legitimacy. So the president knew that succumbing to such an idea would be politically suicidal for him and he rejected it outright. 

However, from the way the meeting went, it was evident that positions had been taken along party lines. At the end, the responsibility as to what to decide was pushed to INEC but the real drama was announcing the “decision” arrived at because for all practical purposes, nothing was decided as to whether or not the elections should go ahead or be postponed. 

With Governors Olusegun Mimiko, Rochas Okorocha and Bala Ngilari asked to brief the media by the president, the three rushed to the press room to grab the centre chair. Mimiko got there first and said no decision was taken and that INEC would consult and announce whether to postpone the elections or not which was the most accurate position as to what transpired. However, immediately Mimiko stood up and they all appeared to be leaving, Okorocha grabbed the chair that the Ondo State Governor had been sitting on and also started to brief the State House correspondents. 

He said the Council had decided that the elections should go ahead. While that was not a true reflection of what happened, that was the slant reported in the media, which to be honest is a reflection of the mood of the public. 

EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLE: 2015 Election: Jonathan's Risky Call, by Olusegun Adeniyi 

Source:Elombah

APC PLANS TO RIG LAGOS GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION-PDP

 

Press Release -

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been charged with grand plans to rig the 2015 polls in Lagos State.

Making this accusation in Lagos, the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate for Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, said it had unearthed plans to use the ad hoc staff, including teachers and civil staff, employed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to swing the polls in its favour.

In a Press Statement released today, the Director of Media and Publicity to Mr. Jimi Agbaje, FELIX OBOAGWINA,

cited as proof the sack of two ad hoc staffers by INEC, on the excuse that they were preventing non-indigenes from collecting their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) 

It accused the APC government of getting the Executive Secretaries to compel teachers and civil servants in the local government to attend meetings in which party candidates and leaders directly campaigned.

The statement said such actions traduced the civil servants’ right to freedom of thought, conscience and Right to freedom from discrimination as enshrined in Chapter IV of the Nigerian Constitution.

“What the Lagos State Government is getting the Executive Secretaries to do is contemptible and is a blatant abuse of office,” he said.

The statement demanded that INEC should go beyond the dismissal of the registration officials, and prosecute them for colluding in the APC’s plan to disenfranchise non-indigenes and other voters opposed to the continuation of the current order.

INEC had exposed the dismissal in a press statement circulated among the media on Tuesday.

“Although INEC has washed its hands off the illicit conduct of the sacked ad hoc officials, we insist that the Commission must go beyond merely relieving those concerned of their jobs and must, in fact, make them face the law. They must be used as scapegoats to expose and discourage the shenanigans of APC,” Oboagwina said.

According to the statement, it was clear that the sacked ad hoc INEC officials were on the pay of Lagos APC, which realised that it could lose the vote of non-indigenes and had embarked on systematically disenfranchising them through getting unscrupulous officials to deprive them of PVCs.

It also charged APC with colluding with INEC officials to take PVCs from house to house for people they think were favourably disposed to voting for the ruling party in Lagos.

 “How did well-known APC members illegally secure the PVCs of people that they took to their owners at home? That is a case for INEC in Lagos to answer,” Oboagwina said. “It is part of the grand scheme by APC to rig the coming elections.”

Felix Oboagwina

Director of media and publicity to the PDP Governorship Candidate for Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje

BAR MANAGER SETS EMPLOYEE ABLAZE FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING N1,500

 
The Ogun State Police Command is presently searching for a bar manager, Mr. Bidemi Shittu, who allegedly poured petrol on his 13-year-old attendant, Ezekiel Emmanuel, and set him ablaze. It was gathered that the manager took the action because the teenager reportedly stole N1,500 from him.

The incident happened in the Akoka area of Ibafo, Ogun State, on Monday, February 9.

The runaway suspect, Bidemi, who is married with children, was the manager of Golden Fingers Bar in the area, while Emmanuel was one of his attendants. Bidemi, who had accused Emmanuel of theft on Sunday, allegedly tied the teenager’s hands and feet in a room in his bar till Monday, waiting for him to admit the offence.It was gathered that on Monday, at about 11.30pm, Bidemi brought Emmanuel out to the front of the bar, poured petrol on the boy and set fire on him.

Some residents, who were out at the time, rescued and rushed Emmanuel to a private hospital in the area where he was initially treated before he was referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, the following day. The matter was reported to the Ibafo Police Division, and the policemen sealed off the bar.

However, it was gathered that the suspect, Bidemi, fled before he could be arrested.

Emmanuel’s uncle, Mr. Toyin Olayemi, said the boy was rejected by four different hospitals before he was eventually taken to LASUTH.

He said,
“Emmanuel’s father is not around. He went to his hometown in Ekiti because he fell ill. On Tuesday morning when they told me about Emmanuel. I rushed to the private hospital and I saw him on the bed, severely burnt from head to abdomen.
“He was working on part-time basis in the bar, although Bidemi did not pay him any salary. Emmanuel is also learning generator repair at a workshop. I was told that the manager accused him of stealing N1,500.
“Despite pleas from neighbours that they would repay him, he waited till everyone had gone to sleep and brought out the boy and burnt his body.
“The private hospital asked us to take him away the following day. We went to about four government hospitals which rejected him before we came to LASUTH.
“Since that Tuesday, they have not allowed us to see him. They said he was still under observation. The suspect too has run away. We learnt that a policeman in the Ibafo division tipped Bidemi off to evade arrest.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident. He added that the police were intensifying efforts to arrest the suspect.
He said, “The suspect poured petrol on the boy for stealing, He maltreated him, tied his hands and feet, and set him on fire. The boy is still in the hospital and the suspect is presently at large.“But the police will arrest the suspect.
“This act is not only criminal, but also barbaric. We are intensifying efforts to get him, we will.”

See The Boy Born With Angel-like Real Wings[Photos]

Wonders they say shall never end. A two-year-old Oliver look like a little angel as he was born with a rare skin condition that makes him look like he has feathered wings across his back, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Oliver’s parents Matt and Stephanie Brown were stunned when they saw weird birthmarks on their baby’s back. 

The boy was diagnosed with Congenital Melanocytic Naevi a type of melanocytic nevus  found in infants at birth ,that occurs in an estimated 1% of infants worldwide.

The unusual mark runs half way down his spine from his hairline and across his shoulder blades. Oliver should visit doctors at least every three months as such large marks increase the risk of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer. Despite the diagnosis Oliver is likely to live a full and healthy life.

Speaking about her conditins Mrs Brown says, “Oliver is one of the fortunate ones. Some children are riddled with moles and even get them on their eyelids. He actually has his on the top half of his back so it looks like wings. There can be lots of questions because it comes up to the nape of his neck and so is visible.

As he gets older we would hope he can accept himself for who he is. We have all got these bits of ourselves that we do not like and we have to accept them. He is wonderful the way he is and I’m sure in the dark times he will realise this. He is lucky in the sense he is such a cutie pop, everyone seems to think so, and I think people will overlook his condition."

In children with CMN the cancer is 10 times more aggressive and it’s untreatable once it reaches the brain.

The latest research has found the cause of 80 per cent of CMN cases and it’s caused by a mutated gene which develops as the baby is in the womb. This is why it’s so important to give babies MRI scans at birth and regularly to keep an eye on it in case it spreads.

-naij

In The Spirit Of Val :Man Marries Spiritual Wife In Ikoyi Registry

Confusion broke loose when a man in Ikoyi applied to the marriage registry to get married to a woman whom he allegedly happened to be a spiritual entity.

Apparently, the young man went to the marriage registry dressed up in suit and looking ready for the ceremony, but trouble started when the clerk asked him where the bride was.

His reply that his wife was standing beside him made the clerk look at him with such malicious disdain which was not unsuggestive of the fact that the young man was probably an escapee from one of the maximum security Psychiatric   Institutions in the Country.

When asked to explain, the young man replied that his wife was a spiritual being who was not visible to ordinary mortals, except those who who were exceptionally  righteous.

This reply irritated the clerk who saw it as an insult suggestive of his unrighteousness. When asked how he intended to consumate the proposed marriage with a spiritual woman whom he probably could not see, he expressed his doubts and said that where there is a will, there is a way, and he and his wife would work out an arrangement which would be beneficial to both the spiritual and physical worlds.

However, the young man’s application to get married to the spiritual wife was refused, as the practice was one which was unheard of and contrary to our system of law.

He was advised to proceed to a spiritual marriage registry to effect the marriage, especially as it would be within the jurisdiction of his wife’s government.

The aggrieved young man then proceeded to  the high court where he sought an injunction to compel the marriage registry to perform their lawful duty by approving the marriage.

He also sued them for breach of his fundamental right to freedom of association, as the registry were purportedly preventing him from having legal relations with his spiritual wife.

Laugh don tire me I beg.