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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A businesswoman, Mrs Mosurat Oseni, on Friday approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos seeking divorce of her 18-year-old marriage to Munirudeen Oseni over allegation of witchcraft. According to her “I want to live to eat the fruit of my labor, please dissolve the marriage”, she said while narrating her ordeal. Mosurat, 48, told the court that she was no longer interested in the marriage, because her husband labelled her as a witch responsible for his predicament. “My husband goes about telling whoever cares to listen that I am a witch and I was responsible for his low financial status. “Most times, he comes to my shop wearing worn-out clothes to curse me and destroy my goods,” the mother of three alleged. She further alleged that Munirudeen was an irresponsible husband and father. According to her, since the inception of our marriage, I have been the one paying our house rent and the children school fees. “Our first child is in the university and I am ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A mother who fled conflict and admitted killing three of her children and attempting to murder a fourth by driving her car into a lake was jailed for 26 years in Australia on Tuesday. Akon Guode, who came to Australia after fleeing civil war in South Sudan, plunged the vehicle into the lake on the outskirts of Melbourne in 2015, killing one-year-old son Bol and four-year-old twins Hanger and Madit. Rescuers pulled her and five-year-old daughter Alual from the sinking vehicle. In handing down his sentence, Justice Lex Lasry said the 37-year-old suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome but why she had driven into the lake remained a “tragic mystery”. “The sentence I’m about to impose, is in some respects inadequate to reflect the gravity of what you’ve done, yet at the same time excessive given your mental state and your background of hardship and desperation,” he said. Nonetheless “these are obviously grave offences”, Lasry added. “These children tru...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An Islam scholar, Prof. Afiz Oladosu, has advised Muslim faithful to take advantage of the holiness of Ramadan to shun all corrupt practices. Oladosu, a Lecturer at the Department of Religions, University of Ibadan, gave the advice on Sunday during a Ramadan lecture, organised by the Lagos State University Muslim Community and Prof. Ismail Balogun Foundation. Delivering a lecturer titled, “Combatting Corruption: Duties of Muslims in a corrupt society,” Oladosu said that greed and and lack of God consciousness were mainly responsible for corrupt activities in our society. “Ramadan is about law that does not sleep; it is about self accountability and transparency, and clears our minds of greed and selfishness,” he said. He said that corruption was responsible for numerous social ills in Nigeria, adding that the scourge transcended material corruption. “Corruption has cost Nigeria more than 380 billion dollars since independence in 1960; resulting to bad roads, ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Mr Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Friday dissolved a 20-year-old marriage between one Oladiran Olukayode and his wife, Oluwatoyin, over poor sexual performance. Odunade terminated the union over irreconcilable differences. “The court cannot force Oluwatoyin to continue in the relationship since she knows what is best for her. “Therefore, in the interest of peaceful coexistence, the union between Olukayode and Oluwatoyin has ceased to be henceforth. “Custody of the two children produced by the union is granted to Olukayode,” said the arbitrator. In his petition to the court, Olukayode, a commercial driver residing at Ayegun-Oleyo area of Ibadan, said that his wife was always complaining of his inability to withstand her sexual urge. “My Lord, Oluwatoyin has for sometime now been complaining that she was not enjoying my sexual display due to weak performance. “She knew quite well that I was already an old man before agr...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Alhaji Haliru Jika, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, says the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) will soon recruit an additional 35, 000 rank and file into the force. Jika, representing Ganjuwa/Darazo Federal Constituency in Bauchi State on the ticket of APC, disclosed this while answering questions from newsmen in Bauchi on Friday. “We’ve just concluded the recruitment of 10, 000 police men and women of the Nigeria police Force in the country and we will soon kick start 35,000. “The last 10,000 we did was 1,500 for officers, 1,000 for specialists – that is for mechanics, nurses and others. “And then another 7, 500 for rank and file that is the normal conventional police which is the one you are seeing here working with us. “And now these 35, 000 that we are going to start soon, is going to be strictly rank and file because this country is grossly under-policed. “It is part of our legislative agenda to strengthen the internal security ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Fans of Justin Bieber have pleaded for his upcoming British tour dates to be canceled because of the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Bieber, 23, is due to play an open air concert at London’s Hyde Park in July. But his fans have flooded social media saying his appearance should be laid off for the safety both of fans and the singer himself. According to Reuters, a person using the handle marhrukhh wrote on the Instagram account of Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun “Cancel Justin’s concert in the UK, please! We want him to be safe, please. Braun also manages Grande, also 23, a former Nickelodeon star whose huge female fan base were out for her concert in Manchester on Monday night when a suicide bombing killed 22 people and injured dozens. Leanne Murray, 20, who lives in Ireland, has tickets to see Bieber play in Dublin next month. But she said that after Monday’s bombing she is contemplating selling them. “I just don’t want what I wo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The absence of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) prosecutor on Wednesday in Lagos stalled the ongoing trial of Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a former Senior Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Dudafa is standing trial at a Federal High Court, Lagos, over alleged concealment of 15.5 million dollars (about N4.8 billion) which the former Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, has laid claim to. He was charged alongside two others, a lawyer, Amajuoyi Briggs, a senior staff of Skye Bank , Adedamola Bolodeoku, and four companies. The four companies are Pluto Property Development Company Ltd, Seagate Property Development Company Ltd, Transocean Property Development Company Ltd, and Avalon Property Development Company Ltd. At the resumed hearing of the case on Wednesday, the court informed the defendants that the EFCC prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, had written a letter seeking for an adjournment. The letter stated ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced 24-year-old hair stylist, Joy Benson, to one month imprisonment for damaging the windscreen of a taxi worth N15,000. The judge, Abubakar Sadiq, convicted Benson as she admitted committing the offence. The judge, however gave the convict N5,000 option of fine, and warned her to be of good behaviour and desist from fighting. Earlier, the prosecutor, Dalhatu Zannah, had told the court that the matter was reported by one Jonah Ben of Jabi Dakibiyu, Abuja, at the Utako Police Station, on May 4. Zannah said that on the same date at about 4 a.m. the convict boarded Ben’s taxi from Park Palace Hotel to Utako village at the agreed price of N300. He said that the convict’s boyfriend paid Ben N500, and asked him to keep the balance. The prosecutor alleged that when they got to Utako ,the lady insisted on collecting the balance. Zanna informed the court that when Ben refused to give her the N200, she started fighti...

http://ift.tt/2pYqZ1t Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala Monday ordered a probe into allegations that an 18-year-old student was forced to remove her bra at an exam centre as part of stringent measures to stop cheating in a national-level medical entrance examination. The alleged incident took place at TISK English Medium School in the state’s Kannur district Sunday, when hundreds of students went to there to appear for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions to undergraduate medical courses across the country. “My daughter went inside the centre only to return a few minutes later to hand over her bra. As she entered the centre, the metal detector at the gate beeped due to the metal strap of the bra. She was told to remove the innerwear for security, to prevent cheating,” her mother told the media. “Many others were forced to undergo the same ordeal,” she added. Kannur’s District Collector M.M. Ali said that he would look into the al...

http://ift.tt/2pnkenY PHOTO:AFP African Footballer of the Year Riyad Mahrez celebrated his 100th English Premier League appearance by scoring for Leicester City in a 3-0 win over Watford at the weekend. The goal that gave the “Foxes” a two-goal advantage at home was the first by the Algerian midfielder in eight matches in all competitions. Senegalese Mame Biram Diouf — once on the books of Manchester United — ended a year-long goal drought by scoring for Stoke City in a 2-2 draw at Bournemouth. ENGLAND RIYAD MAHREZ (Leicester) Mahrez scored against Watford as he became the first Algerian to play 100 Premier League games. He bagged his 12th goal of the season in the 58th minute by pouncing on a mistake from Adrian Mariappa to shoot low past Heurelho Gomes from a tight angle. MAME BIRAM DIOUF (Stoke) The Senegal forward netted for the first time in 12 months as Stoke drew 2-2 in Bournemouth. Diouf was only in the Stoke starting line-up because Burundi-born Saido Berahino ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ibadan – Pastor Dele Balogun, the Pastor in Charge of Region 21, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Glory House, Covenant Sanctuary, on Monday, charged Nigerians to pray hard to God to receive the grace to move Nigeria forward. Balogun gave this charge in Ibadan in a sermon he delivered at the May edition of the “First day with Jesus”; a prayer programme, held every first day of a new month with the theme: “Great Grace”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the occasion is a special programme to pray for individuals, families, the church and leaders in Nigeria. According to the clergyman, Nigeria needs the ‘Great Grace’ of God to be able to move out of the many challenges the nation is facing at the moment. He said that some nations that were blessed with the ‘Great Grace’ would witness first class fruitfulness, outstanding miracles, open doors and unstoppable progress amid the challenges. Balogun defined favour as, “unmerited divine assistance given...