Pregnant woman, son electrocuted in Ibadan

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…mother’s scream attracted son, who went to hug her

By Ola Ajayi

Ibadan—IT was a pathetic scene at Alare Compound of Aremo in Ibadan North-East Local Government Area yesterday, as sympathisers gathered to mourn the death of a pregnant woman and her two-year-old son by electrocution.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrive for a concert of La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra at the ancient Greek Theatre of Taormina during the Heads of State and of Government G7 summit, on May 26, 2017 in Sicily. TIZIANA FABI / AFP

<p>France’s new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday with the two countries harbouring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria.</p> <p>Coming just three weeks after an election in which the Kremlin was widely seen as backing centrist Macron’s far-right rival Marine Le Pen — with Putin hosting her during a surprise visit to Moscow — the encounter in Versailles, near Paris, has an added personal edge.</p> <p>As a candidate, Macron, 39, had tough words for Russia, accusing it of following a “hybrid strategy combining military intimidation and an information war”.</p>

</p> </div> </div> <p>Since the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, Russia has flexed its muscles with a series of war games involving tens of thousands of troops in areas bordering NATO Baltic states.</p> <p>Macron criticised Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and “shows of force in Syria or alongside our coastlines and airspaces, (and) the use of social media or state-controlled media to destabilise public opinion”.</p> <p>But he said it was essential to “keep dialogue open with Moscow” — while government spokesman Christophe Castaner said Friday that “dialogue does not mean agreement”.</p> <p>Ahead of Monday’s meeting, the two countries’ foreign ministers spoke by telephone on Friday, the Russian foreign ministry said.</p> <p><strong>– ‘Interesting and frank’ –</strong><br /> Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov has described the visit as an “informal” occasion that will nevertheless touch on some tough issues.</p> <p>“France is among the countries with a very severe stance towards the regime of (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad, so I think a discussion on this subject will be interesting and frank,” Ushakov told a Moscow news briefing.</p> <p>The stakes are high for Russia, said Fyodor Lukyanov of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy. “It’s obvious that the Russian side wants to break the impasse,” he told AFP in Moscow.</p> <p>“One shouldn’t expect anything from this visit,” he added, however. “It’s a matter of the two leaders getting to know each other and to create a positive ambiance — or not.”</p> <p>Putin, 64, was quick to congratulate Macron on his election, urging him to “overcome mutual distrust” and “join forces to ensure international stability and security”.</p> <p>The visit comes seven months after the Russian leader cancelled a trip to Paris for the opening of a Russian cathedral complex near the Eiffel Tower in a spat over Syria with then president Francois Hollande, who had said Russia’s bombing of Aleppo could amount to war crimes.</p> <p>France had helped spearhead the EU’s economic sanctions on Russia over the seizure of Crimea and backing for insurgents in the east of the former Soviet republic.</p> <p>Macron has called for the “de-escalation” of the sanctions, which have seriously dented EU-Russia trade.</p> <p>Moscow has much to gain from a rapprochement with Paris, said Thomas Gomart, head of the French international relations think tank IFRI.</p> <p>“Russia realises that on the economic front it remains oriented towards the EU,” which relies on Russia for about a third of its gas supplies, with half of that amount transiting through Ukraine.</p> <p>In addition, “Putin wants to try to correct the very negative image he left during the presidential campaign, particularly by hosting Marine Le Pen”, Gomart told AFP.</p> <p>The venue will be the sumptuous palace of Versailles, where the pair will inaugurate an exhibition marking 300 years of Franco-Russian ties since the visit of Russia’s modernising tsar Peter the Great to France in 1717.</p> <p>“The idea is to stress… the duration and depth of the link between the two countries,” a Macron aide said.</p>

</p> </div> </div> <p>Gomart noted that while the visit is early in Macron’s presidency, it follows trips by the new leader to Berlin and the NATO summit in Brussels.</p> <p>“It’s a message that serves as a reminder that the French priority is Germany and the European project, while Moscow had banked on the disintegration of Europe,” Gomart said.</p> <p><strong>– ‘Pragmatic’ –</strong><br /> Russia’s ambassador to France, Alexander Orlov, said Moscow had a “positive perception” of Macron, describing him as “very intelligent, realistic and pragmatic”.</p> <p>“He’s not very ideological compared with his predecessors,” Orlov told a meeting of business leaders last week. “With him we have more chances of moving forward than before.”</p> <p>That would mean overcoming raw feelings over a raft of cyberattacks on Macron’s election campaign that his aides have blamed on Russia, accusing the Kremlin of mounting a “smear campaign” against him.</p> <p>On the eve of Putin’s visit, central and eastern European activists plan a demonstration in Paris to denounce “the warlike behaviour of… Putin’s Russia.”</p> <p>Organisers of the Sunday march said Russia had a “strategy of general hostility towards Europe”.</p> <p>Vía Nigeria News – Nigerian Newspaper – The Guardian Nigeria http://ift.tt/2rr8Ixr</p>&#8221; data-medium-file=”” data-large-file=”” src=”http://ift.tt/2rly1MX&#8221; alt=”” width=”480″ height=”270″ class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-81111″ />

The incident reportedly happened when the woman was spreading some clothes she had washed on a line at her residence.

Vanguard gathered that it was the deceased that was electrocuted first. Her scream was said to have drawn the attention of her son, who ran to his mum and hugged her and was electrocuted, too.

A neighbour told Vanguard that “a nearby hotel had connected a wire to a house to provide illumination for passers-by at night.

“Unknown to the deceased, who was four months pregnant, the insulator on the wire had worn off. As she was spreading her clothes on it, she was electrocuted. She screamed, attracting the innocent boy, who ran to his mum.

“He too got electrocuted on the spot.”

Confirming the incident, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said the bodies had been taken to the Adeoyo General Hospital morgue for autopsy and that investigation had begun.

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