Chronic child abuse perpetrated by man of God

Man of God arrested for repeated child abuse

The story of the 40-year old pastor who beats his two children so brutally with cable, leaving severe marks all over their body continues to elicit widespread condemnation, as the man at the centre of it all has now been arrested in Jos by the officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in collaboration with Social Welfare Department of Jos South Local Government of Plateau State.

The pastor known as Christopher Sule who has engaged in this bestial act for a period of three years is said to be chaplain in Bima a private hospital and also claimed to be a Pastor with ECWA Bishara (1) Bukuru and currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Jos ECWA Theological Seminary in Plateau State.

He hails from Wamba Local Government of Nassarawa State and has been handed over to the Nigerian Police Force in Jos Saturday Telegraph checks show that the pastor regularly beat his two daughters, ages eight and six, as as a result of their inability to recite what they were taught in school as well as stealing meat from the pot of soup at home due to his excessive anger.

However the management of the children’s school last week noticed several lacerations on their bodies as result of thee severe beating over a minor issue and the school quickly reported the incident to the NSCDC in Jos South Local Government secretariat and the father was apprehended for interrogation.

Wife of the pastor, Mrs Racheal Christopher, 35, and an NCE Holder teaching in one of the primary schools in Bukuru had also received a share of the treatment for coming to the rescue of her daughters.

The pathetic story of the two female children is heart wrenching given the extent of the injuries inflicted on them.

While narrating their ordeal to Saturday Telegraph in Jos, the mother could not hold back tears as she recounted the constant beating and harassment she and her daughters had endured.

“For the past three years, we have been in bondage and under the yoke of maltreatment by my husband who under slight provocation would descend on me and the children and beat us to pulp.

I had reported the issue to my family but my husband would always ask for forgiveness with a promise not to do so again,” she said.

“My husband was arrested and taken to the local government secretariat; although he had been beating them the last one was so terrible that I had to struggle with him to rescue the children. But I got the beating of my life in the process.

The beating has become so rampant that the people in the neighbourhood no longer intervene,” she claimed. She revealed that she had threatened several times to park out of her matrimonial home along with her children but was often prevailed upon by family members to stay for the sake of the kids and to pray for her husband to turn a new leaf.

She added: “It is like my husband is under a spell or spiritual attack. After my husband carried out this evil act, he always came back, pleading and telling me to pray for him because he did not know what came upon him. We have fasted and prayed together over this issue.”

While speaking Saturday Telegraph on the circumstances leading to his action, Sule said he could not justify his action and confessed that he flogged his daughters more than the offence they committed.

“I don’t know what really came upon me; although I had been beating them that way for the past three years I always regretted my action.

By nature I am temperamental and also have excessive anger, but I need deliverance,” he said. The pastor who couldn’t control his tears, admitted beating his daughters and told Saturday Telegraph in Jos that he flogged them when they could not recollect what they were taught in school and also for stealing meat in the soup.

He pleaded for mercy, promising to love his children. Chief Social Welfare Officer of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State where the incident was reported, Mr Ancha Adik Jonathan, told Saturday Telegraph in his office in Jos that the arrest of the pastor followed a tip off by the management of the school the two children attended after the discovery of several injuries on the children by the head teacher.

He said: “The head teacher of Salvation Kingdom Academy the school the children attend noticed the injuries of the beating and alerted us at the Social Welfare department because she an advocate of child protection.

Following her information and based on the child right law that had been domesticated in Plateau State we had to immediately request the service of the men of NSCDC to arrest the man, and even when we got to his house we discovered he also locked his daughter who is just over a year in a room and went to the bush to look for firewood without minding what will happen to the child.

“So, the magnitude of his offence was too heavy and we had to immediately take over the custody of his three children including his wife because there is Christian Centre called Queens that we are collaborate with on issues of child abuse and other family related issues.”

Mr. Jonathan disclosed that the pastor worships with ECWA Bishara in Bukuru where he had preached on several occasions.

“We will ensure that the man face the full wrath of the law to serve as deterrence to all other persons in the society; already he had been handed over to the Police and very soon he will be charged to court” he said.

The Management Committee Chairman of Jos North Local Government, Comrade Augustine Pwakim, who confirmed the incident, said the council would henceforth collaborate with Child Protection Agency and State Ministry of Women Affairs to enlighten parents on the danger of child abuse. Comrade Pwakim said Pastor Christopher had been handed to relevant law enforcement agencies for prosecution to serve as a deterrence to others.

Meanwhile the Plateau State Coordinator Child right Protection Network Mr Tony Obemeasor has given assurance that the children will be taken to hospital for checkup and treatment for trauma as result of the repeated beatings.

Culled from http://www.tori.ng/news/54017/so-heartbreaking-meet-the-nigerian-pastor-who-is-a.html

Chocolate City Boss, Audu Makori, Begs El-Rufai For Forgiveness Over False Tweet On Southern Kaduna Killings

Chocolate City Boss Apologises to El Rufai

Audu Makori, owner of the music label, Chocolate City, and former member of the defunct SURE-P scheme, has formally apologized to Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State for falsely tweeting that five students of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, were killed by  Fulani herdsmen.

The story was also filed by Mr. Luka Biniyat, the Kaduna State correspondent of Vanguard Newspapers, but was found to be untrue. 

Maikori's apology was contained in a statement issued in Lagos.

In the statement, the music entrepreneur said the statements issued by the College of Education, Gidan-Waya, and the Kaduna State government refuting the story that five students of the institution were killed by Fulani herdsmen 27 January compelled him to investigate the story to ensure that all the facts of the case and evidence were presented to the authorities. Makori stated that he was fed wrong information by his former driver, who is currently in police detention assisting with the investigations.

"My driver Simon Joseph had travelled to the village to attend his younger brother's burial and on his return on Monday, the 30th of January 2017, I asked him for pictures from the burial, the ID card of his brother and also pictures of the casket so I could submit to the authorities and he told me that he had phone issues so he could not store pictures on his phone. He told me, however, that his sister had the pictures on her phone and I proceeded to give him money to go to Ikeja to get the pictures from his sister, so I could present these to clear my name. He didn’t return till evening, and when he did, it was without the said pictures.

At this point, I began to strongly suspect foul play. I again questioned him about the veracity of his story to which he swore on the bible that his brother was dead and even began to shed tears," said Mr. Makori.

On February  2, added the Chocolate  City boss, he took the driver and his relative to Lekki Police Station in Lagos for questioning. This, he said, was done because the driver supplied no concrete evidence of the death of his brother and those of fellow students. "When we got to the station, he maintained his story about the deaths being real and how he was being blackmailed until the police officers at the station explained to him that he could be arrested. He then confessed and said he was just trying to collect money from me; that he knew that I was involved in the advocacy on the Southern Kaduna crisis and he wanted to ride on that to obtain money from me under the pretext of burial," Mr. Makori stated.

After realizing he had been misled, Mr. Makori said he believed the appropriate thing to do was to issue a statement retracting the tweet, which reported the murder of the students.       "I naively assumed that no one in his right mind would lie about the death of a human being, especially if that person was/is his younger brother. 

Consequently, I hereby tender an unreserved and sincere apology to the management of College of Education, Gidan Waya, the Governor of Kaduna State,  the Kaduna State government, and also to the people of Southern Kaduna and the Fulani community for the false statement by my driver which I also publicized believing same to be true.

"I make this statement with all sense of responsibility realizing that by openly admitting what transpired, people may begin to doubt my credibility and that of my statements in future… this is a risk I am willing to take, but I would rather tell the truth about the situation that suppresses it," Mr. Makori added contritely.

He added the apology is hugely significant because he is a leader in his community he is one of those that younger people look up to. 

He also pleaded with the warring parties in the state to sheathe their swords, saying the unfortunate situation is now being used by politicians, religious leaders, and opportunists for their personal agendas.

However, Makori said his apology is strictly limited to the alleged incident at the College of Education.  He added that he was glad when, on 2 February, he read the report of the arrest of 17 suspects, connected with the Southern Kaduna killings, with arms and ammunition. He commended the security agencies and government for the arrests.

culled from http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/04/chocolate-city-boss-audu-makori-begs-el-rufai-forgiveness-over-false-tweet-southern

How scraps are turning scavengers to overnight millionaires

Scrap Scavangers Becoming Millionaires in This Recession

With the complete collapse of iron mining ores in the country, steal manufacturers and rolling companies have no other options than to turn to waste metal and aluminum as great and cheaper alternatives. As a result, more ordinary people are earning a living supplying these materials to them and keeping the environment clean, at the same time.

When Saturday Tribune visited the Mechanic Village by Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa Lagos, it was discovered that venturing into scrap business is not only another way of making money, but creating jobs for other youths around you. Some young men were seen dismembering a vehicle that was later identified as used Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV). Rasheed Jimoh, a mechanic at the village told Saturday Tribune that he helped his customer to connect the scraps buyers who paid N200,000 for the vehicle because his customer needed quick cash to make for his overseas traveling cost.

“If you can gather metal, copper, or aluminum in good quantity through any reasonable means, be sure of good money. You wouldn’t even need to transport it because the companies you supply will come picking it themselves. Yours is to take your profit after sales. The metal is measured in weight and each weight has a given price”, he said.

Meanwhile, checks by Saturday Tribune revealed that one ton of metal costs between N35,000-N40,000; 10 tons or trailer-load costs N350,000-N400,000, while one ton of aluminum costs N130,000 and 10 tons cost N1,300,000. A dealer who preferred to be addressed as Yusuf from the northern part of the country said, apart from the used cars that are being turned into scraps, these things are picked freely as waste everywhere in Lagos and other cities.

“If you set out to gather them yourself, you will surely gather up to ten tons within a month and sell between N350,000 to N1.3 million, depending on the type of metal you gathered”, Yusuf said. According to him, anything called aluminum and iron metal scraps is a good deal. He explained that there are scrap machinery from construction companies, electrical equipments, scrap aluminum zinc of all type, scrap electrical wires of all type, scrap auto spare parts of all type, scrap ship or plane parts, scrap beams and rods, among others.

According to Yusuf, anyone interested in doing the business without picking the metals by him/herself, can get some hands to assist by recruiting some young and jobless boys in the community and engage them in scavenging the material while “you pay them some amount of money”. He explained that the profit sharing could be 30/70 per cent formula whereby the principal takes 30 per cent, while the agents (scavengers) take 70 per cent. This way, he said, they would be in business and the principal will still be making good money off them.

“You will need a scrap yard. That is a place where the metal and aluminum are converged for onward supply. A piece of land will do for this. Once you have your team of boys and a place to gather your metals together, you are good to go. There is absolutely no other thing required, just as simple as this”, he affirmed.

Further checks by Saturday Tribune revealed some companies buy these items. A major patron  of these scrap scavenger is metal recycling industry which has installed a state-of-the-art, metal recycling and smelting plant in Ogun State. The plant has a capacity of handling over 100 metric tons of metals per day. There is another leading ferrous foundry group in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) with a total installed capacity of 8,500 metric tons per year. It has two plants, one in Ilupeju, Lagos State and another one at Sango-Otta, Ogun State.

Owode Onirin is another popular market in Lagos where scrap metals are bought and sold. It is one of the many steel markets where any kind of metal spare parts can be found. Steel milling companies, especially the ones managed by Lebanese, Chinese and Indians, usually approach the market for scraps which will, in turn, be converted into steel pipes, aluminum and other metals.

Speaking with Saturday Tribune, one of the marketers, who identified himself as Kabiru Ashipa, said “the market is a very proud pulsar market across the globe. Foreign companies’ representatives come to Owode for spare parts which they will melt and convert into another metal at factories situated in Nigeria before export”.

As traders in Ladipo Market in Mushin area of Lagos go about their businesses unhindered, making money and smiling to their various banks daily, unconfirmed information indicates that the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led state government is planning to relocate the market for reasons still kept under wraps. This is as Saturday Tribune also gathered that owners of some portion of the market are in and out of court trying to contest its ownership and are yet to reconcile, even as a certain section of the market is largely regarded as a shanty and needed to be given a facelift to make it habitable.

It would be recalled that the state government, some four years ago, under former Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, mooted the idea of relocating the market regarded as West Africa’s largest spare parts market, as a permanent solution to the recurrent crises of environmental nuisance and abuse of use of public installations often caused by its traders.

It was then observed that the multi-billion naira Ladipo Road, said to have been constructed in 2005 by the state government, and expected to last many years, had already gone bad. Activities of the dealers and traders, who do their trading on the road and walk-sides as well as the artisans who operate and discharge oil products on the asphaltic road, allegedly disintegrated the road.

The then Commissioner for the Environment in the state, Mr Tunji Bello, was said to have headed a committee that recommended the relocation of the market on the ground that the place was no longer ideal for market due to growing population of the state. The committee, said to have comprised experts on environmental management, had suggested Ikorodu or Badagry as the likely areas befitting a market of that capacity, with a little or no negative impact on the environment.

Even Fashola, on his visit to the market, was alarmed on his visit to Ladipo Market. It was precisely one week after the market was shut in 2013.

The former governor was reported to have said during the inspection that, “The market was shut after warnings and visits by different teams of the state government functionaries; yet the traders did not heed the warning”, describing the state of the market as a massive degradation of a section of the state.

“It is a massive degradation of a section of Lagos and this is not acceptable. People should not carry on like this”, Fashola was quoted to have said then. It was, however, not clear if the recommendation the committee made then was officially adopted. Attempt to get a clarification from the Commissioner for Information, Mr Steve Ayorinde, on the matter proved abortive as he did not pick calls to his cell phone or reply to the SMS sent to him.

Nigeria’s best, Lagos’ worst

Ladipo Market, located in Mushin Local Government Area, is probably Nigeria’s biggest spare parts market, a one-stop shopping arena for any motor parts, though activities in the market over the years have gradually turned the environment into an eyesore as oil and metal scraps litter every part of the market and its environs.

Activities of the traders at Ladipo Market, Mushin leave many customers crying home as the market now harbours all kinds of miscreants, known as barandas, who parade themselves as traders defrauding innocent customers of their hard-earned money. Many customers who have fallen victims to the barandas only find out later that these characters have no shops, while their mode of operations is to run after customers coming to the market for the first time and take them to a shop they pretend to own.  The vice-president of Ladipo Market, who doesn’t want his name in print, however told Saturday Tribune that the market is presently peaceful and that the market executives are monitoring the activities of the baranda boys to checkmate their activities in the market.

Vandals or entrepreneurs?

The boom is however spelling doom for government and individual facilities in the state. Saturday Tribune findings revealed a spike in vandals’ activities since the scrap trade began its ascendancy in the steel sector. Statistics from the security agencies, particularly the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), suggest a ratio of one arrest per week of cable and rail vandals, who always point the steel markets in the state as their sales points. At a point, bridge railings, including those of the popular Third Mainland Bridge, were being vandalised by these “overnight millionaires”. Police have promised to keep cracking on them and their patrons in these markets. But will that affect their new fortune?

culled from http://tribuneonlineng.com/scraps-turning-scavengers-overnight-millionaires/

vIDEO TWO MATURE WOMEN FIGHTING ON A BUS

VIDEO TWO MATURE WOMEN FIGHTING ON A BUS

This video shows two mature ladies slugging it out on a bus. its a show of shame considering this are supposed to be matured women who should be setting examples for the little ones. The fight got so intense at one point, it had other passengers scampering for safety away from the two hefty women, one of whom has her dress lifted high up and her bum was in full glare.

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ODD WORLD

SOME WOMEN CAN DRINK SHA!!!!!!

Some women can drink for africa, or abi asia as in this case.

this video shows an asian lady guzzling several bottles of 

what appears to be alcoholic beverages in record time. 

A feat most men cant even boast of.

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Nigerian Airways Workers Get Pay Off At Last

Liquidated Nigeria Airways Workers Get Pay Off In March - Career -
From all indications, the federal government is set to pay workers of the liquidated Nigeria Airways staff their full benefits about 13 years after liquidation.
Daily Times investigations revealed that the government has done all necessary verifications to ensure payment of the workers whose over 30 percent had died as a result of various ailments since liquidation following their inability to access funds for medical bills and good up keep.
The minister of state, aviation, Hadi Sirika had in a function in Lagos told journalists that his headache was sourcing for funds to settle the former workers of the liquidated Nigeria Airways staff.
A total of N74 billion is required to offset the former workers bills and the leadership of the ex-workers are agitating for the payment of both the living and their dead colleagues.
It was however gathered that the government has agreed to their demands and has made all necessary documentation to effect payment before March 2017.
The workers were last paid on five years’ calculation between 2007 and 2008 but they are agitating for 25 years pay.
Since the liquidation, the ex-workers of the airline have been living in the trenches fighting for payment of their entitlements.
The airline has lost about 700 workers as a result of ailments while those alive continued with the struggle to get paid.
According to the Secretary General of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professional ANAP, Comrade Abdulrasaq Saidu, the payment of former Nigeria Airways workers has been long overdue. It has gotten to the level when the money will not be relevant when they are paid.
Saidu lamented that the proceeds from the sale of Nigeria Airways till today has not been declared to the public on how much it was sold with all its properties all over the world.

Buhari Reacts to #ISTANDWITHNIGERIA Protest by Tuface

Satirical Video of Buhari's Reaction to #ISTANDWITHNIGERIA Protest by Tuface

Despite the seriousness of the current economic recession facing the country which has prompted Nigerian top celebrity Innocent Idibia also known as Tuface to want to stage a protest to air his grievance against the government and its policy, alot of funny videos have emerge as a result of this action and this is one of them.




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