Robbers attack five banks in Ogun varsity

Ogun State Police Commissioner, Nicholas Nkemdeme



Heavily armed suspected robbers struck at the permanent site of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State on Thursday, where no fewer than five banks were raided.
The bandits’ invasion was said to have disrupted the semester examination currently going on in the university.
The hoodlums, numbering 20, were said to have stormed the institution about 11.45am and carted away huge sums of money after their one hour of operation.
It was learnt that the armed robbers, who used explosives to break doors and windows, also vandalised four vehicles parked in the school premises.
It was learnt that the First City Monument Bank, Oceanic Bank, Skye Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank and Zenith Bank were the financial institutions in the university attacked by the bandits.
Unconfirmed reports said some students were hit by stray bullets while others lost their money and personal belongings in the ensuing confusion.
The Chairman, OOU chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr. Adesola Nassir, said he was on his way to the campus when he heard gun shots which forced him to make a quick detour.
It was learnt that no one was killed in the attack.
THE PUNCH gathered that the bandits operated unchallenged as security operatives attached to the banks fled for their dear lives apparently due to the superior firepower of the robbers.
A source said, “The armed robbers came at about 11:45am in a Toyota Hilux van. They were armed to the teeth and were shooting sporadically into the air. They attacked about five banks and at the end of the day, carted away millions of Naira.
“I can’t tell the number of students injured but some were hit by stray bullets while some lost their property and money in the process of running helter skelter. The security officials could not do anything; they were helpless as the robbers operated in the banks.
“They shot at four vehicles, one of the vehicles belong to a lecturer.
“But thank God, nobody has been confirmed dead as a result of the robbery attack.”
The university Public Relations Officer, Mr. Sam Oyeleye, confirmed the robbery but said only one student was injured during the incident.
Oyeleye added that the victim had already been rushed to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention.
The state Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, was said to have visited the robbery scene.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the robbery.

culled from PUNCH

Bridegroom hangs self at Isiala Mbano four days to Wedding

tranquil rural community of Umuezealaegbe Umuduru in Isiala Mbano LGA of Imo State woke up Tuesday morning 25th October 2011 to a bizarre spectacle of the lifeless body of their 25 years old man, Mr. Adindu Ezeala dangling on a tree branch downhill the stream side.
According to family sources, Adindu’s disappearance from home was noticed a day before, but was not taken seriously since his motorcycle was properly parked in its usual place. But when night came and he did not return, a search party comprising mainly the youth of the village swung into action and combed all nook and crannies of the community and beyond, but he was nowhere to be found all night long. But when the search team returned in the morning to freshen up preparatory to another round of search, a younger brother to the deceased strolled to the back of their compound downhill to ease himself where he saw Adindu’s lifeless body hanging on a tree branch and raised an alarm.
Speaking with the Announcer Express, Mr. Lawrence Ezeala father of the deceased, disclosed that late Adindu worked at laterite sand depot Umuduru, describing him as taciturn and industrious, the grief-stricken father regretted that his late son died when his life was sweetest to him as the family had prepared to accompany him (the deceased) to his prospective in-laws next Thursday, four days before the incident, for the traditional marriage rites of his fiancée at Lokpa in Abia State.
He further spoke of how the late Adindu had, before embarking on the self-sent journey to eternity, left on a table in his room the sum of one hundred thousand naira ear-marked for the fiancées dowry; His motorcycle keys and bank note were there on the table too.
The absence of a suicide note, however, provided an avenue for wide speculations as to the reason for the seeming suicide. While some people suspect that he might have tested positive to the dreaded HIV as he might have been asked by his in-laws to prevent a HIV-clean bill as part of the requirements for the marriage rite; others hold the opinion that it was the spiritual manipulation of evil people as could be inferred from the proverbial exclamation of an elderly kinsman who said, “when a young man gathers more firewood than his mates, he is often accused of picking them from the evil forest” for others suicide should be ruled out as the deceased had things going in his favour and never knew frustration.
However, a team of policemen from Isiala Mbano Divisional Headquarters inspected the hanging dead body shortly before it burial in accordance with appropriate tradition of the land.


culled from ANNOUNCEREXPRESS

Kidnappers kill abducted herbalist

Kidnappers have reportedly killed Mr. Roland Iyida, a herbalist, who was abducted alongside Rev. Fr. Chijioke Amoke, parish priest of Onicha-Enugu in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of the state.

The fate of Fr. Amoke, who was abducted last Wednesday by a kidnap gang who had first abducted the herbalist, hangs precariously in the balance as the church reaffirmed its stand that no ransom would be paid for his release, just as no assistance would be accepted from anyone who volunteers to pay the ransom.

The body of the herbalist was discovered inside the Anglican Church, Uda community in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area by worshippers yesterday morning. A source told Daily Sun that the worshippers alerted the villagers and a report was made at the Ogrute Police Station. The DPO in charge of the station told Daily Sun that his men recovered the herbalist’s body and had since deposited it in the morgue in Ogrute. He declined further comments but said they had no information about the release of the priest.

Rev. Fr. Simon Ukwueze, contact between the priest, the kidnappers and the church, told Daily Sun on phone that the abducted priest had complained of weakness and loss of appetite. In a press statement issued by the Nsukka Catholic Diocese, signed by the Bishop, Most Rev. Dr. Francis Okobo, the church reiterated its stand on ransom, saying that it would not pay a dime and had not paid a dime as ransom for kidnapped clergies.

According to the statement entitled: Horrible kidnap of a Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Chijioke Amoke, “no ransom will be paid to free Fr. Chijioke and whoever tries to do such will be doing both ourselves and Fr. Chijioke more harm than good. We will not pay any ransom and we will not accept anyone pretending to be doing so on our behalf.

“We wish to remind the kidnappers that they can never hold Fr. Chijioke forever. They will surely release him either to us (church) and humanity or return him to God by killing him and thereby end the work God has given him here on earth.”


culled from SUN

Met Police chief inspector sacked over sex and drugs boast

A Metropolitan Police chief inspector has been sacked after boasting on a dating website of committing a sexual offence and taking drugs.
He was also found to have used his position to advertise himself online to meet sexual partners while in uniform.
The officer was dismissed for gross misconduct after a two-day hearing.
The Met and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) refused to name the 46-year-old officer, who was based in central London.
An earlier investigation of the chief inspector by Kent Police did not find enough evidence to press criminal charges.
The IPCC said he told website users he was a serving police officer who had committed crimes including drug-taking and a sexual offence.
He is the third Metropolitan Police officer to be sacked in a month.
An constable was dismissed for mishandling 999 calls, while a sergeant was fired after he indecently assaulted a "vulnerable" teenager while on duty.
'Authority and trust'
The chief inspector was originally arrested by Kent Police last year and an internal Met investigation was launched.
At this point he had his duties restricted.
When Kent Police decided it was not proceeding with criminal charges, an internal disciplinary hearing was arranged, and this found he had committed gross misconduct.
IPCC commissioner Mike Franklin said: "Police officers, by virtue of the powers vested in them, hold positions of authority and trust in our communities.
"Those who discredit their role cannot expect to continue to serve the public and, as in this case, they should be dismissed."
Commander Peter Spindler, Scotland Yard's director of professional standards, said: "Officers and staff may believe that what they do online, whether on-duty or off-duty, is either anonymous or doesn't have any impact on others.
"We expect our employees to behave professionally, morally, ethically and with the utmost humility and integrity in all areas of their lives.
"Anything short of this will not be tolerated."

Boko Haram kills 63 in Nigeria

At least 63 people have been killed in bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damaturu, the Red Cross says.
Witnesses said the bombs hit several targets, including churches and the headquarters of the Yobe state police.
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram told a newspaper it was behind the attack and that it planned to hit further government targets.
A Nigerian journalist told the BBC he personally counted nearly 100 bodies.
"I saw 97 dead bodies in the morgue," Aminu Abubakar, who is in Damaturu, said.
"But an official involved in the evacuation told me that he counted 150 dead bodies although some had been taken away by their loved ones," he said.
'Greatly disturbed'President Goodluck Jonathan was "greatly disturbed" by the attack, and said his government was working hard to bring those "determined to derail peace and stability in the country to book", according to a spokesman.
A series of attacks on security forces in the nearby city of Maiduguri recently have also been blamed on Boko Haram.
Nigerian Red Cross official Ibrahim Bulama, in Damaturu, told the BBC at least 63 people had been killed there.
He said two other people had been killed in attacks elsewhere. News agencies said the nearby town of Potiskum had also been attacked.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher, in Nigeria's main commercial city, Lagos, says this attack appears to be Boko Haram's bloodiest strike to date.
An unnamed local government official in Damaturu was quoted by AFP news agency as saying that hundreds of wounded people were being treated in hospital.

Witnesses said the attacks began on Friday at about 18:30 (17:30 GMT) and lasted for about 90 minutes.
Gunmen then engaged in running battles with security forces.
'Church torched'
A Roman Catholic parish priest told our correspondent his church had been burnt down and eight other churches also attacked.

Boko Haram: Timeline of terror
• 2002: Founded
• 2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed
• 2009: Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf captured by army, handed to police, later found dead
• Sep 2010: Freed hundreds of prisoners from Maiduguri jail
• Dec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80; blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracks
• 2010-2011: Dozens killed in Maiduguri shootings
• May 2011: Bombed several states after president's inauguration
• Jun 2011: Police HQ bombed in Abuja
• Aug 2011: UN HQ bombed in Abuja
The attacks followed a triple suicide bomb attack on a military headquarters in Maiduguri, in neighbouring Borno state.
Military officials said the three attackers had died.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is forbidden", has launched frequent attacks on the police and government officials.
A known spokesman for the group contacted called Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper to say it carried out the attacks on Maiduguri and Damaturu.
"We will continue attacking federal government formations until security forces stop their excesses on our members and vulnerable civilians," he said.

Dumo Sibanda house fire murder: George Sithole jailed

George Sithole






A "jealous and possessive" man has been jailed for life for murdering a six-year-old girl who died in a Sussex house fire seven years ago.

George Sithole, 41, started the blaze which killed Dumo Sibanda after being upset that his relationship with a friend of her family had ended.

A judge at Lewes Crown Court said he would serve a minimum of 17 years.

Firefighters found Dumo unconscious in her bedroom in Crawley. She was pronounced dead at hospital.

The 41-year-old fled the UK that year to return to his native South Africa. He was extradited on 16 March this year.

In the hours and weeks before the fire, Sithole accused Siphenphile Mercy Mlalazi, known as Mercy, of cheating on him and bombarded her with calls and text messages, jurors heard.

After buying petrol and matches, he went straight to the semi-detached house in Banks Road, Pound Hill, where Ms Mlalazi was staying with Dumo's family.

Within minutes, flames engulfed the house, forcing Ms Mlalazi and Dumo's father Donald Sibanda to jump out of their separate bedroom windows at the front.


Six-year-old Dumo Sibanda died after the fire, despite paramedics' attempts to resuscitate her
After the fire had started, Mr Sibanda rushed into Dumo's room but could not find her because of the smoke.

Six-year-old Dumo Sibanda





He went back to his bedroom and jumped out, thinking he would then try to rescue his daughter from outside by climbing up to her window.

As the fire raged in the early hours of October 26 2004, Sithole stood outside the house and even sought to comfort the distraught Mr Sibanda.

A paramedic said Sithole looked "dumb-struck and wide-eyed but was not showing any emotion".

He denied starting the fire but jurors convicted him of murder after two hours of deliberation.

Israel ex-President Katsav has rape sentence upheld

The Israeli ex- President ,Moshe Katsav,






Israel's Supreme Court has upheld a seven-year rape sentence against former President Moshe Katsav.
Katsav, 65, was convicted in December of raping a former employee when he was a minister in the 1990s, and for sexually harassing two other women during his 2000-2007 presidential term.
He resigned from the largely ceremonial post of president in 2007.
He has denied the charges, saying he is the victim of a plot, but the Supreme Court unanimously rejected his appeal.
Katsav is due to begin serving his sentence on 7 December.
He is the first former Israeli head of state to be jailed.
Israeli women's groups had welcomed the initial conviction, arguing that allegations of sexual harassment were too often ignored.

Half-cooked Meat Inflicts 60 Nigerian Pilgrims with Gastroenteritis in Mina

Pilgrims







About 60 Nigerian pilgrims were hospitalised in Saudi Arabia Tuesday after an outbreak of gastroenteritis during their stay in Mina, the country’s health officials have confirmed.
They said the outbreak occurred following suspected intake of poorly cooked meat as part of activities marking the eid celebration.
Similarly, Saudi Arabian authorities have declared this year's hajj totally free from infectious diseases or any case that required quarantining.
Speaking in Mina, Health Minister, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, attributed this achievement to a series of initiatives taken by the ministry.
Nigerian officials said the earlier fear that there was an outbreak of cholera in the camp of some states was unfounded and not true, adding that when some pilgrims complained of visiting the toilets in unusual manner, health officials attached to them promptly dispensed the necessary drugs and the situation was contained quickly.
One of the officials who spoke to journalists, Dr. Ibrahim Adamu, said it was normal for people to experience such unease after the intake of poorly cooked meat.
He however said 60 women were given routine medication and the situation had been brought under control.
In Mina, the Saudi Arabian Health Minister said: “The precautionary and preventive measures taken by the ministry led to pilgrims being safeguarded from all kinds of infections.”
The first step taken by the ministry to guarantee an infection-free pilgrimage was to make it binding for all pilgrims coming from foreign countries to follow the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) specifications for travellers from one country to another.
Another key step was the ministry’s rigorous watch at all entry points into the Kingdom to detect if any incoming pilgrim was carrying symptoms of infections and to take immediate action if any suspicious case was found, the minister said.
“Preventive doses against meningitis were given to 365,777 pilgrims, oral polio vaccines to 532,400 pilgrims and yellow fever vaccines to 200,000 pilgrims at various entry points to the Kingdom,” the minister said.
The field health teams of the ministry handled 3,500 cases of sick pilgrims without sending them to hospital, the minister said, while enumerating the accomplishments of his ministry during the Hajj.
“The ministry’s hospitals conducted 470 specialized heart catheterisations, 20 open heart surgeries to pilgrims in addition to a number of patients waiting to undergo the surgery in the next two days. The hospitals also conducted 886 kidney dialyses and 179 endoscopies,” the minister said.
He put the number of pilgrims who visited health centres in Mecca and Medina at 421,760 and those who visited outpatient clinics in Mecca and the holy sites at 88,635.
“These achievements attest to the Ministry of Health’s capability to offer high quality services to pilgrims,” the minister said.
Al-Rabeeah also considered it a great achievement that the ministry took 415 inpatient pilgrims from hospitals in Mecca and Medina in specially equipped coaches and ambulances to perform the rites of Hajj.
He added that the ministry could offer quality services to pilgrims with the help of advanced technology, including a special computer-controlled system and geographical positioning.
The ministry also has an instant information system that supplies to field workers information about the locations of the ambulances.
The systems also enable remote consulting and video viewing of emergency wards in hospitals. It also enables the media and top officials to observe the medical services offered to pilgrims.
The ministry will hold a meeting of all health committees to analyse the positive and negative aspects of its plans and activities, he said.
A WHO director for combating infections, Dr. Jawad Al-Mahjour, has also been monitoring the services offered by the ministry to pilgrims, especially the excellent care of sick Hajjis and steps taken to detect and combat diseases.


Culled from THISDAY

Woman Allegedly Hacks Actor-hubby to Death

Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Hafitz Ringim









A Benin-based actor, Mr. Daniel Iyamu, was allegedly killed Wednesday in his sleep by his wife, at their No 1 Agonse Street, Ugbihoko Quarters in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
Iyamu was found stone-dead on his bed after his neighbours had forcefully broken the door to his room and gained access into the apartment.
THISDAY gathered that the neighbours were alerted to the scene by the deceased’s children who told them that their father was yet to get up from his bed at about 10am. This, it was further learnt, aroused the curiosity of the neighbours who then took a step further by forcing the door open.
The source also said they discovered some injuries on the deceased’s head which suggested that he might have been hit by a hard object while asleep.
The late actor’s daughter and student of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Faith, told newsmen that her mother, Grace, had been suffering from suspected mental illness which her father had been treating since last year.
The woman, who has been arrested by the police, was reported to have confessed that the late

actor died after she had hit him with a pestle.
The woman, who was found unconscious in another room by the policemen drafted to the scene, was revived before she was taken away by the security agents who also saved her from being lynched by their angry neighbours.
When contacted, acting spokesman for the Edo State Police Command, Mr. Ahwara Ejiroro, an assistant superintendent of police, confirmed the incident.
Culled from THISDAY

OPC members jailed for dismembering corpse

OPC leader, Fredrick Faseun






A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Wednesday sentenced four members of the O’odua Peoples’ Congress to two years imprisonment for dismembering the corpse of one Ibrahim Akande in Ipaja area of Lagos in 2005.
The convicts were said to have carried out the act after Akande was shot dead by one of them.They were said to have disposed parts of the body in a nearby canal.
One of the convicts, who admitted in his statement to the police that they dismembered the body to make the deceased unidentifiable, was arrested with the corpse’s head.
Justice Lateefat Okunnu, in her judgment, said the jail terms of the convicts - Mustapha Gbadamosi, Musibau Yekini, Saka Raji and Sundy Opeyemi - would take effect from May 2005, when they were taken into custody.
The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution had, among other three counts, charged them for “misconduct with regard to the deceased’s corpse.”
The prosecution had stated that “they improperly or indecently interfered with, and treated with indignity, the body of Ibrahim Akande.”
Okunnu, however, discharged and acquitted the convicts on the counts of murder and accessory to the murder.
She said the prosecution failed to prove the charges of murder and accessory to murder against the convicts.
Sunday, who was specifically charged with unlawful possession of the head and hands of the deceased for diabolical purpose was also discharged and acquitted of the offence.
The judge said it was evident from Sunday’s statement to the police that the convicts participated in decapitating the body.
Okunnu said the prosecution, was able to prove the charge of “misconduct with regard to the corpse of Akande” in line with Section 242(1)(b) of the Criminal Code Law.
But she said the prosecution failed to prove the charge of murder, accessories to the murder and unlawful possession of Akande’s head.
She said the possession of human head, according to Section 392A of the Criminal Code Law, became an offence if it was with “the intention that such head or skull shall be possessed ...as a trophy, juju or charm”.
According to Okunnu, the prosecution failed to prove that Sunday, who kept the head and hands of the deceased in a bag at the refuse dump in his yard, was having such intention as provided for in Section 392A of the Criminal Code Law.
Gbadamosi, who faced the murder charge alone, said he shot the deceased after he (Akande) dodged an earlier one.

Culled from PUNCH

Condition of stabbed student worsens, admitted at UNTH

miss Goodness






Miss Goodness Moses, a victim of violence against women, has finally found her way back to the hospital, this time, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu State.

And the news about the medical report is anything but cheering. Consequently, doctors at the UNTH have advised her to go back to the Eye Foundation, Ikeja, Lagos, where her eyes were earlier operated on, after a Lagos-based businessman, Nwzie Uzoma, allegedly stabbed the eyes and hit her jaws with an object.

One thing that seems to have compounded the case of the 26 years old girl, is the alleged uncooperative attitude of her attacker. For instance, on July 15, 2011, Uzoma’s lawyer and that of Goodness’ family agreed to settle the matter out of court. And one of the conditions given to him, as the stage was set for amicable settlement, was for the businessman to pay any medical bill that may be incurred in future by the victim, since she is still undergoing treatment.

“One of the conditions was that he would first, treat me before we settle out of court. The agreement was that he should be giving me the sum of N10,000, any time I have an appointment with the doctors. This covers the medical bills and transportation. Alternatively, he was told to be accompanying me to the hospital each time I was going to see the doctors. But I have been going to the hospital alone, even without him paying the medical bills. What I have been able to receive from his lawyer is N10,000. When I called him on phone to complain about the breach of the agreement, he abused and told me to meet my father,” the embattled lady said.

The victim, who is a student of Institute of Management Technology(IMT), Enugu, came to Lagos for her Industrial Training (IT), after completing the Ordinary National Diploma (OND), before the incident occurred. She narrated how she went back to IMT for clearance, to enable her collect her result, only to find herself at the UNTH. The school management had earlier questioned her inability to complete he IT, and she narrated her ordeal. Still in doubt, the school asked her to show medcal report to that effect. Daily Sun gathered that she quickly came to Lagos to take the important documents. But when she got back to the school, crisis started.

She said: “Suddenly, my eyes became reddish, coupled with headache, tears and I lost my sight temporarily. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), gave me a letter to the UNTH. I went into crisis because, Uzoma refused to take care of the medical bills. I had been going to the hospital but not all the time, due to financial constraints,” she said. At the UNTH, the doctors treated before referring her back to the Eye Foundation. According to her, one of the eyes can no longer see. “I’m making use of only one eye. I no longer see with the left eye,”she said.

Goodness’ father, Moses Onyike, who also spoke to Daily Sun said instead of abiding by the agreement reached with Uzoma’s lawyer and his family, he (Uzoma) reported the matter to Igbo community in Ipaye, Iba Town, Ojo, for mediation. But he failed to come the day both parties were invited by the community as wel as any time they scheduled to go to the hospital.

“Even when the Igbo community he took the matter to invited both of us, he refused to show up. The case was supposed to come up in court on September 29, but it didn’t. And the next thing Uzoma did was to turn round and accused me of conniving with the Igbo community to request the sum of N5 million from him.” The embittered man, who disclosed that he had spent over N100,000, in the last few months, to ensure that his daughter doesn’t go blind, wondered why Uzoma refused to treat his daughter, or make the settlement out of court, as canvassed by him, through his lawyer a reality.

Daily Sun first reported the case of Goodness in its Thursday, May 19, 2011 edition The Newspaper had reported how Goodness was trekking to Ipaye bus stop on Sunday March 13, 2011, along side one of her sisters, before she had a brush with Uzoma. According to her, Uzoma, who was driving in his car, almost ran over her, were it not that she dashed into the bush and fell flat.

But Uzoma, who claimed Goodness called him a devil, after she narrowly escaped being crushed, allegedly hopped out from his vehicle, fuming with rage and used an object to hit her jaws. “He resumed the attack on me the following day he came to our house and even extended it to my father. That was the day he stabbed me in one of my eyes.

And My eyes went blank. Because of the hitting and stabbing, I started vomiting blood and was quickly rushed to the El-Shaddai Hospital, Iba Town. But the doctors referred me to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Goodness once told Daily Sun.

culled from SUN

Nigerian school emerges winner at International Science Fair

Nigeria Minister tor Education, Ruqayyatu Rufai





Madonna Model Secondary School, Port Harcourt has emerged the winner at the just concluded International Science Fair competition held in Brazil.
The coordinator, Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology in Nigeria, Mr. Desmond Achoakawa, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the school emerged first out of the 35 countries that participated.
Achoakawa told the News Agency of Nigeria that Madonna Model Secondary School was one of the three schools that represented Nigeria at the fair.
The competition was tagged, 'MONSTRATEC' and the countries presented more than 300 bio-digester project, designed for decomposing organic household waste and extract gas for cooking.
The coordinator said the success of the school showed that Nigeria could actually excel in science and technology, as a relevant tool for national development.
He said the project was chosen as the best because of its relevance to the Nigerian environment and the country’s contribution to waste management and the high cost of cooking gas.

45-year-old housewife jailed for adultery

Nigeria Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke





A Jos Area Court on Wednesday sentenced a housewife, Sarah Gonna, 45, to six months imprisonment for adultery.
Sarah, who was convicted after pleading guilty to committing the crime with one Gwom Gyang in her matrimonial bedroom, was, however, given an option of N3,000 fine.
The judge, Mr. Godswill Longs, while delivering judgement, ruled that the prosecutor had done 'an excellent job' to convince the court beyond reasonable doubt that the convict committed the offence.
Longs said, "The evidence tendered before the court by the prosecution had assisted the court to convict the accused for adultery. The confessional statement of the accused also assisted the court to convict her."
The prosecutor, Mr. Gokwat Ibrahim, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on October 25, in her husband’s house at Laranto area of Jos.
"My Lord, the accused, on the fateful date, at about 12.30a.m was caught by her husband, Mr. Sale Gonna, red-handed with the accused in the bedroom. Gonna caught Gyang naked after having sexual intercourse with his wife and reported the matter to the police for action," he said.

Russian 'grave robber made dolls from girls' corpses'

A suspected grave robber in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod is said by police to have made 29 life-size dolls from mummified female corpses.
Local historian and cemetery explorer Anatoly Moskvin, 45, was arrested last week by police investigating a spate of grave desecrations in the area.
The brightly dressed dolls, their faces and limbs covered in cloth, were found in his flat and garage, police said.
It was not clear whether each doll contained a set of human remains.
Police are now trying to establish the identity of the mummified remains.
They said they had been investigating "numerous" grave desecrations in cemeteries in and around Nizhny Novgorod since last year.
Footprints
Video released by police on their website shows the dolls seated on shelves or sofas, in small rooms stacked with books and papers.

No actual bones are apparent in the footage and some of the faces are covered by masks.
Officials said the remains belonged mainly to girls or young women, and they had been dressed in clothes taken from corpses.
Also found in Mr Moskvin's flat were photographs and nameplates taken from headstones as well as instructions for making dolls and maps of cemeteries in the region, a police statement said.
Shoes found in the flat matched footprints found in cemeteries, it added.
Some Russian media are reporting that Muslim graves were singled out in the robberies.
According to the police statement, Mr Moskvin is "well-known in academic circles" having studied Celtic culture at a leading Russian university, and is the author of many books and academic works.
He is described in Russian media reports as a "necropolist", or cemetery expert.
Police did not say how he had been arrested and Russian newspapers report variously that he was caught with a bag of bones or that detectives grew suspicious when they consulted him, as a cemetery expert, about the desecrations.
Alexei Yesin, editor of a local newspaper to which Mr Moskvin contributed, told the Associated Press news agency he was a loner who had "certain quirks" but said he had given no indication that he was up to anything so strange.
"I saw no signs of that while working with him," Mr Yesin said.
In a 2007 interview with the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Rabochy, Mr Moskvin said he had begun wandering through cemeteries when still a schoolboy.
He claimed to have inspected 752 cemeteries across the region from 2005 to 2007, often walking up to 30km (20 miles) a day.
He said he had drunk from puddles, spent nights in haystacks or at abandoned farms and had once even slept in a coffin readied for a funeral.

Suffolk police officer faces child porn charges

U.S Attorney General, Eric Holder






A Suffolk police constable who viewed indecent images of children has been jailed for nine months.
Ian Reynolds, 44, of Thetford, Norfolk, admitted possessing and editing 120 illicit images of children at Norwich Crown Court last month.
Ch Insp Kim Warner from Suffolk Police, said Reynolds had betrayed the public's trust. He resigned in May after his crimes were uncovered.
Speaking after sentencing, she said he had "betrayed" his colleagues.
Reynolds worked as an emergency response officer when he was arrested in March after a team searched his home and seized his computer.
'Highest moral standards'
"What is apparent is ex-constable Ian Reynolds has let himself down severely," Ch Insp Warner said.
"However, he also betrayed the trust of his colleagues, and the general public of Suffolk who rightly demand the highest of moral standards from members of the police service.
"Most importantly, and what must not be forgotten is that the real victims in this case, are the children who appear in the images and it is with them that our sympathies must lie.
"There is no place within the constabulary for officers such as ex-Pc Reynolds."
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for seven years.

Police jail 4 men who grew cannabis at a former US naval base in Caithness.

A police operation has led to the jailing of four men who grew cannabis at a former US naval base in Caithness.

Jiajie He, 30, of no fixed address, has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison for being concerned in the supply of illegal drugs.

His appearance at Perth Sheriff Court followed the earlier jailing of three other men, one of them from Ayrshire.

The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency praised those involved in the operation.

It had worked jointly with Northern Constabulary on Operation Solstice.



Every detail of their illegal enterprise was meticulously planned”

Tony Mole
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency
The three other men were given prison sentences at Inverness Sheriff Court in August for their part in the cannabis cultivation.

Wan Yue Lin, 44, of New Cross, London, was jailed for four years and six months and Bo Chen, 26, of Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, for three years.

Ah Bing Zheng, 32, of no fixed address, was sentenced to three years.

In April 2010, Lin signed a lease agreement for the vacant former US naval base and paid a rent of £2,000 per month.

The police investigation revealed that before this date, regular enquiries had been received from the gang about leasing the property for storage and distribution on behalf of a food company.

After renting the site, Lin made regular visits to supply food to the cannabis farm's "gardener" Zheng.

Police observed Lin taking large suitcases to the base and later to an address in Wick where the cases were put in cars registered in Wales.


Cannabis was recovered from car driven by Jiajie He
In February 2011, a car driven by He was stopped by police at The Triangle services on Dunkeld Road in Perth.

Officers recovered cannabis with an estimated value of £73,750.

The SCDEA and Northern Constabulary raided the former naval base and seized about 570 cannabis plants, worth a total of between £85,000 to £250,000.

Zheng was found at the site where he had been living in a small room.

Lin was later arrested in London and drug courier Chen in Kilbirnie.

Det Ch Supt Tony Mole, head of investigations at the SCDEA, said the gang was highly organised.

He added: "Every detail of their illegal enterprise was meticulously planned.

"Each member had their role to play, but they were equally concerned with maximising profits, regardless of the harms caused by these illegal enterprises and drug misuse."

Det Ch Insp Kenny Anderson, of Northern Constabulary, said: "We note the sentence handed out today to Jiajie He.

"One of the force's strategic priorities is the targeting of serious and organised crime."

Prostitutes found in Mexico jail

President of Mexico Felipe Calderon




A surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana, and 100 cockerels for cock fighting.
The discovery in the prison in Acapulco came as police prepared to transfer the inmates to a maximum security jail.
The officers also found six female inmates living in the male section of the prison and two peacocks.
Mexican jails are notorious for overcrowding, corruption and rioting.
It is not the first time luxury items like TVs and weapons have been found in a Mexican jail.
In July, prisoners in a jail in Sonora state were found to be running a lottery to raffle off a luxury cell they'd equipped with a fridge, DVD player and air conditioning.
An inspector from the State Commission for the Defence of Human Rights, Hipolito Lugo Cortes, recently denounced conditions in five prisons in Guerrero state, among them the one in Acapulco.
He said inmates were running affairs at these penitentiaries according to their own laws and customs, with little or no control by prison authorities.

Kenya: Grenade attack on church in Garissa kills two

Kenya President, Mwai Kibaki





At least three others were injured after the grenade was thrown into the compound of the East African Pentecostal Church in Garissa.
Another bomb was placed near a military base in the town earlier on Saturday, but failed to detonate.
Police suggested the attack could have been carried out by Islamist extremists sympathetic to Somalia-based al-Shabab.
Accusations
Ibrahim Makunyi, head pastor of the church in Garissa, said a house near the entrance of the church that belonged to a church elder had been bombed.
"One of the dead is a member of the choir, and the other is the son of the church elder," he was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Kenyan police chief Leo Nyongesa said that a woman and her two grandchildren were also injured, AP reports.
Mr Nyongesa said another bomb was thrown at a busy taxi circle frequented by military officers also on Saturday, but failed to explode.
Kenya sent its troops into Somalia last month to establish a buffer zone following a spate of kidnappings blamed on al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab denies involvement and accuses Kenya of planning a full-scale invasion of Somalia.

Abductors release catholic priest on self recognition Offer him N1,000 transport fare

Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri lecturer and Catholic priest, Prof. Jerome Okonkwo will forever be grateful to God for making him a priest.Reason: His priesthood recently delivered him at the hands of kidnappers.
Fr. Okonkwo penultimate Sunday ran into a group of fierce-looking abductors in Agbaja, Nwangele LGA of the state.
The gang reportedly seized him but later let him off the hook on realising that he is a reverend father.
Nigeria Newspoint gathered that his abductors profusely apologized to him and returned N1,000 out of the N10,000 they had collected from him to enable him ferry himself to his destination.
But the urchins held onto other victims among who was the wife of Dr. Joe Madumere, a native of Nkwerre Local Government Area.
Contacted, Dr. Madumere confirmed the abduction of his wife. he also said the kidnappers had contacted him.
A top official of IMSU also confirmed the kidnap and release of Fr. Okonkwo.

Fear of boycott dampens Liberia’s run-off polls as Johnson-Sirleaf’s party wraps-up campaigns

Sirleaf Johnson



THE call by candidate of opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Winston Tubman, on his supporters to boycott tomorrow’s run-off election in Liberia on the grounds that it would not be transparent has finally dampened the high spirit expected in the polls compared to the initial first voting held few weeks ago.
Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, was busy yesterday, with no sign of the election fever, which gripped the nation before last month’s first round, and only President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s Unity Party slowly gearing up for a rally later in the day.
The election has been billed as a chance for the country to cement its fragile democracy eight years after the end of a long and savage conflict left some 250,000 people dead, and the international community has condemned the boycott.
“We are very concerned. It’s a bad signal.... political leaders must be prepared to win or lose,” the head of the African Union observer mission, Speciosa Wadira Kazibwe, a former Ugandan vice-president, told journalists.
Also, the United States on Saturday said it was “deeply disappointed” by the boycott call, as the October 11 elections “were fair, free and transparent.”
State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, said in a statement that claims that “the first-round election was fraudulent is unsubstantiated.”
Meanwhile, West Africa’s political bloc, ECOWAS, said it “deeply regrets the retrogressive tone” of Tubman’s statement, and urged all involved “not to miss this historic opportunity of consolidating democracy and peace in the country.”
Tubman claims the first round, in which he placed second with 32.7 per cent, was flawed by voting irregularities, and has made several demands in advance of the run-off, securing the resignation of polls chief James Fromayan.
He said he is still not satisfied the process will be transparent and is demanding several “administrative arrangements” including that CDC representatives be allowed to observe the counting process.
The boycott led to a bitter war of words between rivals on Saturday as each called press conferences to condemn the other.
Johnson-Sirleaf, who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize shortly before the first round, accused Tubman of holding the country hostage by calling for a boycott.
“He has told people to violate the constitution ... When you start violating the constitution, where do you stop?” Johnson-Sirleaf said.
Tubman responded: “To call for a boycott is a constitutionally guaranteed right ... an expression of my free speech.”
Johnson-Sirleaf, who made history when she became Africa’s first elected female president in 2005, said Tubman was “forfeiting the right to the finals because he fears defeat.”
She has the upper hand heading to the run-off, after winning 43.9 percent of votes cast in the first round, and has managed to secure the support of key smaller parties for the second round.
Ciafa G Clarke, 29, an economics student and Tubman supporter told AFP that if the vote went ahead “it will cause an inconvenience, the vast majority of the people will not recognise the regime. We are going to abstain from the process we feel it is not transparent.”
UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged rival sides to maintain calm and “not to resort to violence despite political disagreement, and to ensure that the peace in Liberia is maintained.”
Liberia, Africa’s oldest independent state, was founded by freed American slaves in 1847 and is still scarred by the 14-year civil war which shattered infrastructure and the economy.
Johnson-Sirleaf, who is hailed abroad for her role in rebuilding the nation, has said she wants a second term to rebuild the “broken country” which is still heavily reliant on an 8,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission.