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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There have been rumours going around that Kanye West is contemplating the title, I Am God, for his follow-up to 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BBC News Magazine was the first to break the news that also included reports of West and Kim naming their child North West.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not many believed any of these to be true, since his previous album titles were Rich Black American or Black American Psycho.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Huffington Post revealed that the title is actually for his next single, not an album. It is not called “I Am God,” but “I Am a God.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frequent collaborator Malik Yusef tweeted to an unknown source the correct title. Until Kanye himself or any other member of his camp responds, we are just going to leave this to speculation.</span><br />
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Undoubtedly one of the biggest Hiphop stars in Africa with amazing versatility, Ice Prince Zamani makes his debut African movie appearance in the new Ghanaian comedy film House of Gold. His hit single Aboki has been chosen by Media Ghana, producers of the movie as the official soundtrack for the yet-to-be-released movie House of Gold.<br />
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The highly anticipated movie is an expression of award winning movie director, Pascal Amanfo, and has a rich conglomerate of top-flight African movie stars such as Yvonne Nelson, Majid Michel, Omawumi Megbele, funniest African actor, Francis Odega, Eddie Watson, entrepreneur and business mogul – Mr J. Kofi Bucknor and “Spirited actress” Luckie Lawson as lead actors. Talented new youngster Umar Krub, and Top model/fashion 101 TV host Sandra Ankobiah also played supporting roles in the movie.<br />
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The movie, when released will be the second major production of Media Ghana after they debut the industry with a multiple award winning movie Single & Married in late 2012.<br />
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The Grand premiere of House of Gold comes off on Friday April 12th, 2013 at the National Theatre (Accra), where organisers intend to mesmerize movie lovers and fans of the cast with a glamorous and absolute world-class premiere, coupled with lots of surprises.<br />
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House of Gold simply depicts the tribulations that emerges after a secretive and pretentious family reunites under one roof for seven days.<br />
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Dan Ansah Williams, high-flying entrepreneur, business mogul, polygamist and socialite is battling with cancer and has 6 weeks left on his time line. With the help of his long time associate and legal representative he embarks on a mission to recall all his children back home, most of whom were born out of wedlock, being products of various illicit affairs. Dan’s last wish is to have his children all under one roof for 7 days. All known to each other and bonded by the fact that they share the same blood line. However, that reunion proves a little more than everyone bargained for as each child indeed returns with an agenda, setting the stage for the most hilarious and bizarre 7 days of their lives. At the end they realize that there is just too much for too many.</div>
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Nigeria rapper, Naeto C and his wife Nicole has received their first bundle of joy. The couple welcomed their first child this week.<br />
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According to reports, his wife Nicole gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday, 26th of March in a United States hospital and the rapper has displayed his bundle of joy.<br />
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The Kini Big Deal crooner posted a picture of himself and ‘Baby C’ on Instagram, giving a vote of thanks and also explaining that he is short of words.<br />
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“Thanks 2 every1 for all the messages…words aren’t honestly enuff to express this moment…it’s ironic especially for some1 like myself who is used 2 putting words 2gether…maybe later…but right now I’m just Thanking God w/my Family and enjoying my son’s company! I wish u all similar moments at some point(s) in your lives!”, he wrote.<br />
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They are currently in the US where Nicole delivered the baby boy. Naeto is expected to continue his North American tour in Winnipeg, Canada.<br />
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Naeto C is credited with the hit Tony Montana which he featured D’Banj. He is the son of Chief (Mrs) Kema Chikwe, former Aviation minister and PDP Women leader.<br />
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The police authorities yesterday briefed the Presidency on the circumstances surrounding the death of two operatives of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSDC) in Lagos on Wednesday.<br />
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Both Messrs Adaji Gabriel and Innocent Akegbe, Assistant Inspector and Inspector of corps respectively were killed during a clash with policemen over policing of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines in Ikorodu area. The police delegation was led to the meeting by the DIG ‘A’, Suleiman Fakai. The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, is said to be currently out of the country.<br />
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The President had earlier met with the leadership of the NSCDC on Wednesday evening. Other members of the police delegation were Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko; Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Anti-Vandalism, Friday Ibadin; and the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, President Goodluck Jonathan was said to have at the meeting which lasted less than an hour stressed the need for co-operation between sister security agencies. Mba later confirmed to reporters that the police authorities came to brief the President on the clash.<br />
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He said the force also presented to the President what he called “the police perspective of the report” and presenting the facts as they are. Mba said: “The meeting is just one of those routine visits where the police leadership comes around to brief the President on co-operational related issues. Basically, that is why we are here this morning. “Of course, that (the clash between policemen and officials of the NSCDC) is one of those issues we discussed and we also have to come here to give the President a police perspective on that report and that is exactly what the leadership of the police has done.<br />
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Give the President a comprehensive report of what actually transpired, from police perspective and actually presenting the facts as they were’’. The Force Headquaters’ spokesman, while describing the incident as unfortunate, debunked the claim that the policemen involved set free vandals allegedly arrested by the NSCDC personnel. According to Mba, there was an exchange of fire by both sides during the clash as the expended bullets recovered from the scene clearly showed that different guns belonging to different security agencies were fired during the fracas.<br />
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Contrary to the reports that the police team that came to the scene were invited by the vandals allegedly arrested by the corps team, Mba explained that a Security Manager of Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) called the police for assistance when a drop was noticed in the pressure of the pumped fuel which suggested leakages. He noted that the police patrol eventually got to the scene where they met the NSCDC personnel numbering 14.<br />
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“When the police patrol team arrived at the scene, they met the NSCDC personnel but there were neither suspected vandals nor recovered products in their custody. “There was a slight altercation. The NSCDC operatives eventually disarmed and arrested the leader of the four-man police team. He was chained with handcuff on the wrist to one of the officers of the NSCDC.<br />
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“It was during that period that a member of his team made frantic effort to call for reinforcement’’, he said. Mba said that when the reinforcement eventually arrived, there were sporadic gunshots. “In the commotion, it was difficult to explain which bullets did what. As I’m talking to you, the expended bullets recovered from the scene showed that different guns were used and it would take ballistic expert analysis to determine the guns that caused the unfortunate death’’, he stressed.<br />
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To buttress his assertion that the police patrol team were actually responding to a distress call, the police spokesman said the PPMC security manager that made the distress call accompanied the police personnel to brief the President on the matter.<br />
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He said that the NSCDC officer who held the police Inspector that led the police patrol in handcuff has been detained to prove the truth about the incident. While regretting the incident, Mba called for caution and restraint among inter-security agencies, since, according to him, they have a common objective to maintain security of lives and properties<br />
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It was a moment of joy recently for the mother of a prison inmate that had been awaiting trial since 2005. Mrs. Maria Emmanuel danced and shouted with joy on the court premises of the Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere when Justice Deborah Oluwayemi released her son, Paul Samuel.<br />
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Five other awaiting trial inmates were also released by the court. They included Fatai Amidu, Adebayo Owuade, Gabriel Samuel, Mike Ofoje and Lawal Karimu.<br />
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Speaking with Daily Sun, Mrs. Samuel, a police corporal at Egbe Idimu Local Government Area (and whose husband is a retired soldier), said she had tried all efforts to cause her son to be released from prison – all to no avail. She noted that her son was not arraigned since he was arrested at Maryland, Lagos, in 2005 and had been awaiting advice from Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) since then.<br />
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According to her, she pleaded with her colleagues at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba where her son was first taken but regretted that nobody, including her senior colleagues, was able to help her.<br />
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“When I went to Alagbon Police Station, no one could help me. They said it is because he was an armed robbery suspect. I did not go to any senior police officer to help me.<br />
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“These past eight years have been terrible for me. I was fat before but if you now look at me today, you will see that I am thin. I could not eat or sleep; I was worried, thinking and crying even in the office. I was running around for my son’s release.<br />
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“This was compounded by the retirement of my husband from the Nigerian Army due to his legs, which were affected during the January 2002 bomb blast at Ikeja Cantonment in Lagos. He can’t work anymore and he has gone to stay in Bayelsa where we hail from. I am the only one struggling for everything,” she said.<br />
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She stated that all her efforts to get her son out of prison were futile until she met a lawyer, Ahmed Kazeem-Adetola from a non-governmental organisation, Prisoners Right Advocacy Initiative.<br />
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Unable to contain her happiness over the new developments on the court premises, she enthused: “I am so happy. I have not started to dance. I want to praise my God. This is the eighth year that I have been fighting for my son’s freedom. I will call my husband to tell him the good news.”<br />
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Her son, who was 17 years old when he was arrested was to be arraigned over a charge for armed robbery in the name of another suspect, who also bears Paul Samuel but who had been arrested in 2010.<br />
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Fortunately, his lawyer was present in court. His lawyer was able to clarify issues to the court. The court released him on the ground that he had been in prison without trial over the alleged offence of armed robbery for eight years.<br />
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Reliving the incidents that led to his imprisonment, Paul vowed to be careful about his choice of friends. According to him, all he did was to greet a friend and he ended up in prison. He noted that the ‘friend’ bailed himself out without looking back to see how he fared.<br />
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“On a Sunday morning, I was on my way to Maryland when I saw a friend and we greeted. I shook his hands and suddenly, the police came to raid the place and they arrested everyone they saw. They took everyone to Panti.<br />
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“I could not contact my family to come and bail me out and I didn’t have money. Many of those people I was detained with bailed themselves out with money. But those of us that didn’t have money were left and they charged us before a magistrate court for robbery.<br />
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“They dumped us at Kirikiri Prison and later I was transferred to Ikoyi Prisons where I was taken to Maximum Prisons.<br />
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“It is saddening to know that I was in prison for eight years over a charge of robbery without any trial or anybody showing up as complainant in the case. One of the things I have learnt now is that I will be careful of who I choose to be my friend,” he said.<br />
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However, Paul is hopeful that life after imprisonment would be better because he learnt how to make shoes and sandals in prison. He says he wants to make use of that knowledge and to also organise seminars for people to know how to make shoes.<br />
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“At least, I learnt how to make leather shoes, slippers and sandals during those eight years. I want to be making shoes and I will be lecturing people on how to make them.<br />
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“When I was there, as a devout Catholic, I attached myself to the church. That was where I was able to get good food and clothes. Prison food is horrible. It isn’t easy to be in that place for eight years without freedom, good food, clothes and even sex!”<br />
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Reacting to the development, Paul’s lawyer, Kazeem-Adetola, noted that the problem of prison congestion stemmed from the Federal Government, Ministry of Justice and the Nigerian police. He said his organisation had been working hard in the past two years for the release of inmates, who had been awaiting trial for many years without trial.<br />
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“We have filed fundamental human rights applications, press releases, letters to the Inspector-General of Police and the Ministry of Justice but these are not enough. We could try Habeas Corpus but the government, the police and the justice ministry need to sit up and do the right things.<br />
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“For instance, in this particular case, Paul Samuel’s file was mistaken for another’s with the same name. If they had done a thorough job, they would have seen that this Paul was arrested in 2005 while the other one was in 2010.<br />
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“Filing applications takes time and the court may award paltry sums as compensation so we filed an application for 106 inmates and we can safely say today that 90 people have been released.<br />
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“Filing fundamental rights application may be misconstrued as an avenue to get money, so we have decided not to file such now,” he said.</div>
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It emerged yesterday that the scion of the Awolowo family, Chief Oluwole Awolowo who passed on in London hospital on Wednesday evening had long predicted his death. Meanwhile, April 19 has been fixed for the funeral of the late publisher of the Nigerian Tribune. A relation of the deceased, Mr. Tolu Awobodu revealed the death predicted during a condolence visit to the Ikenne home of the Awolowos yesterday.<br />
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Awobodu who was the thirteenth people to sign the condolence register which was opened early yesterday wrote: `’You told me and my children who are staying with you, Tutu and Toyin that when you are 70 years, you will die. Why? R.I.P.’’ A family member who pleaded anonymity confided in Daily Sun that the family had tentatively fixed Friday April 19 for the funeral which will hold in Ikenne. This is against the position of one of the children of the deceased , Yejide who was quoted as saying that her father would be buried next week.<br />
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The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun who also joined other mourners wrote in the condolence register: ‘’I really don’t know what to say or write. Despite our grief, we thank God Lord. He gives and takes. “We can’t question or query Him. May the good Lord grant you eternal rest and may He continue to give Mama good health, and comfort him too’’ President Goodluck Jonathan in his condolence message which was delivered by his adviser on Research and documentation,<br />
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Oronto Douglas described Awolowo as a great son of Nigeria.” His words: “Chief Oluwole Awolowo lived his life in the service of the people. He was a quiet philanthropist and an exemplary leader who impacted on the lives of those who came in contact with him positively. He was amiable, jovial and down to earth. We will all miss him.” The Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Senator Adegbenga Kaka said the deceased was a gentleman, harmless and kind to all. General Oladipo Diya in his condolence said,”<br />
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It is sad, but in everything the Bible tells us to give thanks. We thank God for his life. May God Almighty grant him eternal rest.” The Bishop of Remo Diocese (Anglican Communion), The Right Reverend (Dr) Olusina Fape, in his tribute said the death of the Tribune publisher was a great loss to him and the Diocese. “His death to me as a person is a great loss.<br />
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His encouragement and work in the ministry especially the part he played where he was still much active at Obafemi Awolowo Memorial Anglican Church (OAMAC) here in Ikenne. Others included Gen. Oladipo Diya (rtd), Prince Bola Ajibola, Professor Timothy Ogunlesi, Ogun State Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Abimbola Awofeso.<br />
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Sympathisers also included the Alakene of Ikenne-Remo, Oba Adeyinka Onakade, representatives of the Ooni of Ife, led by Apetumodu of Ipetumodu, Oba Elijah Adegoke, Sir. Olaniwun Ajayi, Justice Owolabi Sonoiki (rtd) and Chief GOK Ajayi and wife among several others.<br />
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A 33-year-old Senegalese woman has informed narcotic investigators that she smuggled drugs for the love she had for her Nigerian boyfriend.<br />
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The suspect, Kamara Oumou, with Senegal international passport number 400680371, was found in possession of 680 grammes of narcotic that tested positive for heroin and cocaine.<br />
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She was apprehended by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos while attempting to board an Arik flight to Dakar.<br />
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NDLEA airport commander, Mr Hamza Umar, explained that the suspect used industrial tape in sticking three parcels of cocaine weighing 515 grammes on her waist while six wraps of heroin weighing 165 grammes were inserted in her private parts.<br />
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In his words, “it was a carefully concealed method but not intelligent enough to escape our detection.”<br />
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However, unlike most drug couriers that smuggle drugs for money; Kamara Oumou shocked her investigators when she said that she smuggled the drugs for the love she had for her Nigerian boyfriend.<br />
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“How can I ask my boyfriend to pay me? I smuggled the drugs for the love I have for my Nigerian boyfriend,” Kamara stated.<br />
She simply identified her boyfriend as Hakeem.<br />
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Preliminary investigation revealed that they both met in Dakar where Hakeem is believed to have lived for 11 years. Their relationship lasted only six months before Hakeem left Dakar in December 2012.<br />
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Hakeem invited Kamara to Lagos from Dakar and lodged her in a hotel where they both spent a week together. Within this period, he made necessary arrangement for Kamara to go back with the drugs.<br />
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In her statement, Kamara said that it was her first time of seeing drugs.<br />
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“I have a good relationship with Hakeem until my arrest. The day he brought the drugs to the hotel room was the first time I ever set eyes on drugs.<br />
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He called the drugs products; and that his business partners were unfaithful and he wanted me to take the products to Dakar because he had trust in me.<br />
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“Hakeem taught me how to pack the drugs and also took care of my travel arrangements. He said that he lived in the east but he took good care of me in the hotel in Lagos. We were to travel together to Dakar, but he suddenly changed the arrangement.<br />
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Hakeem travelled to Dakar a day before my trip,” Kamara stated.<br />
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Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA Ahmadu Giade advised members of the public to be careful of the tricks employed by drug trafficking syndicates.<br />
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“It is wrong to commit a criminal act. No reason is strong enough to engage in drug trafficking. Drug barons may claim to be in love with unsuspecting couriers.<br />
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They may even present themselves as philanthropists. I advise members of the public to be courageous enough to shun drug trafficking,” Giade urged.<br />
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The suspect, according to the NDLEA, will soon be charged to court.<br />
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Breastfeeding Babies Will Help Provide Enough Milk for them<br />
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Many new mothers worry that their babies are not getting enough milk from breastfeeding. But new research suggests the problem, which can lead to dehydration and serious illness, is actually very rare.<br />
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Now, the researchers behind the study are calling for better support for breastfeeding mothers to prevent them turning to bottle-feeding.<br />
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Doctors in Bradford and Sheffield collected details of all of the cases of severe neonatal hypernatraemia – where babies lose weight and become dehydrated due to lack of milk - between May 2009 and June 2010.<br />
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In that time, Dr Sam Oddie and his colleagues found that there were only 62 cases, The Guardian reported. This equates to seven cases for every 100,000 live births.<br />
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Anne Woods, deputy programme manager for Unicef’s Baby Friendly Initiative – a programme which encourages hospitals to train staff in providing breastfeeding support – told the paper that the number of babies who could not feed was negligible, and that only about one per cent of mothers do not make enough milk to sustain their baby.<br />
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Neonatal hypernatraemia usually appears when a baby is about ten days old.<br />
The first signs include lethargy and irritability; however, some babies will deteriorate very rapidly and require quick hospital admission.<br />
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In the most severe cases, the condition can cause seizures, brain damage and even death.<br />
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In the new study, all of the affected babies were admitted to hospital. But they had all been discharged within two weeks, having put on weight and without having suffered any lasting damage.<br />
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Dr Oddie said, “Measures such as early initiation of breastfeeding, skilled helpers observing and supporting women breastfeeding and targeting help in cases where feeding is difficult and will both support the initiative of breastfeeding in general and find cases where a more serious problem may be developing.<br />
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“As far as I’m concerned the answer isn’t more formula feeding, but better support for breastfeeding from the outset. ‘In only a few cases were there special features of the baby [such as a cleft palate] that made it likely that there would be a severe feeding problem.”<br />
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Achebe, Things Fall Apart Copies Distributed Free<br />
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The King’s College, Lagos, will on Thursday distribute free copies of the novel, ''Things Fall Apart'', in tribute to the author, Prof. Chinua Achebe, who died on March 21.<br />
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The Principal, Mr Oladele Olapeju, said on Tuesday that the college would give out more than 1,000 copies to its students at its Cultural Day celebration in Lagos.<br />
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He said that the event would have the theme: “Our Culture, Our Pride”.<br />
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“This year’s Cultural Day of the King’s College, Lagos, has been dedicated to the late Chinua Achebe, Africa’s literary genius.<br />
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“We are not only proud of Prof. Achebe’s incomparable exploits, we are pre-eminently gratified that it was Nigeria that produced him for the world,” he said.<br />
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He told NAN that the event would showcase Nigeria’s cultural heritage, to encourage students to be proud of their country.<br />
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He expressed the hope that the distribution of the copies of the novel would promote reading culture among the students and make them to see Achebe as their role model.<br />
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The principal said that the college would continue to engage in activities that would promote academic excellence.<br />
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He told NAN that King’s College emerged 2nd in the most recent list of 10 best secondary schools in Nigeria. (NAN)<br />
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2face And Annie Idibia's Wedding Vows, Read...<br />
Here are Annie Idibia’s wedding vows; she posted it on her Facebook page a day after their wedding.<br />
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"I stand before you today as open as I can ever be, humbled by the light and love in your eyes. 13 years ago, I met the most amazing man on earth! I flew on the wings of that love, uncaring, unheeding! Believing firmly that you are and will always be the wind beneath my wings.<br />
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Life happened, oh yes Life happened but through it all my heart beat only for you!My heartbreak became my greatest joy! My strength! My life! Day after day I am more in love with you!<br />
When people ask me what is love! I say Love is right here! This moment! This second! Today! Tomorrow! Love is you! Love is real! Love is my eternity with you Innocent Ujah Idibia.<br />
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I give you all of me today knowing that in you and you only has this imperfect girl found perfection!!!I do 13 years ago when I met you, I do seven years ago, I do five years ago when we created our daughter! I do through all the blogs and tabloid headlines. And on this day, at this very second I stand in front of the world and I say I do take you as my wedded husband! I love you!<br />
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I love you so much, so so much"<br />
Annie Idibia.<br />
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<b>2face’s vows:</b><br />
Many years ago I was farther than the eyes could see.<br />
Now we are now in that future<br />
When I look into your eyes, I still see<br />
You came into my life and you lit it up<br />
Like the sun, like the moon, like the stars<br />
All the words in the dictionary<br />
All the words in this world cannot be enough<br />
To say what my heart feels for you.<br />
But all I can say is baby, my heart is like a stereo right now<br />
And it will beat only for you till death do us part.<br />
I love you baby.<br />
Innocent Idibia<br />
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2 Civil Defence Officers Killed In Lagos By Police<br />
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An anti-vandal squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, was yesterday ambushed by armed policemen attached to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) who opened fire on them, killing two officers, injuring several others and freeing the pipeline vandal they had arrested.<br />
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Although authorities of the NSCDC refused to release the names of the two officers who were killed at about 3am along Ikorudu axis yesterday, family sources identified them as Gabriel Adaji, an assistant inspector of the corps (AIC), and Innocent Aigbe, an inspector of the corps (IC).<br />
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While Adaji died on the spot, Aigbe was said to have given up the ghost at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) following fatal bullet wounds he received from the policemen.<br />
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LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that a police identity card with number 120622, belonging to one Inspector Sunday Gabriel, a pistol and a walkie-talkie believed to have fallen off from the policemen who killed and freed the four arrested vandals, were retrieved from the scene of the attack.<br />
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Meanwhile, a source who spoke to LEADERSHIP from the NSCDC national headquarters, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed that although the corps’ operatives exhibited maturity by not engaging the police in a bloody fight, they were, however, able to gather useful exhibits from the police, such as the pistol, an ID card and a walkie-talkie, to support their claim that the attack was carried out by the police.<br />
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According to the source, “The wounded operatives of the corps have the needed evidence proving that the Wednesday morning attack on them was carried out by men and officers of the Nigeria Police, who under normal circumstances should give us their backing, as the army, navy and other good-hearted sister agencies, who hold the task of redeeming the economy of this great country from the hands of this dreaded saboteurs, do.”<br />
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With a tearful voice, the source further said, “As I speak to you now, two of our operatives are lying dead while others narrowly escaped with fatal gunshot wounds. What kind of wickedness is this among security agencies?<br />
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How can security agencies tasked with the mandate of securing our nation be this divided? We didn’t think that this kind of thing would have ever happened.”<br />
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Eyewitnesses and one of the wounded officers who spoke to LEADERSHIP from Lagos at about 4am yesterday on telephone alleged that the police swung into action in response to a ‘save our soul’ call put across to them by the vandals after they were over-powered by the NSCDC operatives, who had seized their operational materials as exhibits to nail them.<br />
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According to the witness, “Immediately the police officers got wind of the information which they feared would have nailed them, they immediately swung into action, laid ambush with their patrol vehicle and fired at the NSCDC operatives at close range without any argument ensuing between them.<br />
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After the first deceased slumped on the ground and after others escaped with serious gunshot injuries, the policemen hurriedly freed the arrested vandals and escaped, but some injured Civil Defence men who hid in the bush were brave enough to take some important evidence to nail the police.”<br />
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Meanwhile, there was a mild drama at the Lagos State Command of the Civil Defence Corps when the Lagos State commissioner of police allegedly mobilised three trucks, loaded with armed mobile policemen, to invade and retrieve the recovered police pistol, the ID card and the walkie-talkie recovered from the scene of the attack.<br />
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They, however, met stiff resistance from the NSCDC operatives, who were later joined by army personnel. They had sent a distress call to the soldiers.<br />
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LEADERSHIP learnt at the time of filing this report that the army had barricaded the premises of the NSCDC to forestall possible further invasion by the police.<br />
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When contacted on the matter, the NSCDC public relations officer, Mr. Okeh Emmanuel, confirmed the killing of two officers.<br />
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He said, “Yes it is true that we lost two officers of the Corps but as a law abiding agency, we don’t want to carry out any action that will negate the rule of law. We believe in due process and so we will let the law take its natural course. The NSCDC and the Nigeria Police are both government agencies.”<br />
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LEADERSHIP recalls that for some time now, there have been reported cases of clashes of interest, unnecessary bickering and rancour between policemen and officers of the NSCDC, with the police alleging that its functions are being encroached on by the corps, an act it considers an affront and needed to be checked.<br />
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Allegation against police baseless – Lagos Police PRO<br />
However, the Lagos State Command has denied the claims of the NSCDC on the incident, describing the allegation as unfounded.<br />
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The command, in a statement by its PRO, Miss Ngozi Braide, reads in part: “The Lagos State Command wishes to use this medium to put the record straight on what actually transpired at Isawo-Ikorodu at early hours of today (yesterday) between the NSCDC and the Police.<br />
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“At about 0145hours of date, there was a distress call from DM security, PPMC, Mosimi, that they were experiencing a drop in pressure on the pipeline.<br />
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The Unit Commander in charge of Konu immediately pulled out his men on Konu axis under Inspector Sunday Gabriel to proceed to the scene.<br />
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“As they were approaching, they heard sound of serious gunfire in their area of pipeline coverage and the Inspector instructed his men to proceed to that direction as it could be the activities of vandals.<br />
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“Upon arrival, they saw a group of Civil Defence Corps Members coming out from the direction where the shooting was earlier heard.<br />
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The NSCDC men challenged the policemen who were about four in number on what their mission was in the area, saying that it was their sole responsibility (Civil Defence) to guard and protect pipelines.”<br />
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According to Braide, it was at this juncture that an argument ensued between the NSCDC and the Police and the most senior NSCDC officer, DSC Olufemi, ordered his men who were about 14 in number to disarm, arrest and handcuff the police team leader and three other members of his team.<br />
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“The NSCDC succeeded in disarming the police team leader Inspector Sunday Gabriel, handcuffed him, collected his service pistol, walkie-talkie and police ID card,” she stated.<br />
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The police spokeswoman further said that it was as the NSCDC officials were about dragging him into one of their standby Hilux vehicles, that a phone call was put to the Police Unit Commander, following which the three other officers resisted the arrest, “and this infuriated Civil Defence officials who started shooting sporadically to intimidate and subdue the police officers”.<br />
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Braide said that before the police commander could arrive at the scene, the NSCDC officials had taken to their heels, abandoning the handcuffed and leg-chained police inspector with one of NSCDC personnel.<br />
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She said that it came as a shock to the police that at about 4am, the Civil Defence Corps Commander called the police commander, Mosimi, to say that he had lost two of his men and that their corpses had been deposited at the hospital.<br />
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She also noted Inspector Gabriel’s pistol and other accoutrements were are still with the NSCDC.<br />
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The police image maker further alleged that in Alausa, Ikeja, at about 8am yesterday, the NSCDC officials abducted and assaulted three policemen, namely Sgt Charles Igiebor, Cpl Ekun Julius and Cpl Okoro Charles, who had gone for National ID Card registration exercise, and that they also started attacking policemen on sight in other parts of the state.<br />
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As a reaction to this, she said, the Lagos State commissioner of police immediately went on air to warn policemen not to engage in any form of confrontation with the NSCDC officials, noting that investigation into the matter had commenced. She advised Lagosians to remain calm.<br />
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Awolowo’s Son, Oluwole Died In London<br />
One of the children of the late Premier of the Old Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Oluwole, has passed on at an unknown hospital in the United Kingdom where he had gone for treatment few months ago.<br />
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Confirming the incidence to LEADERSHIP in a telephone interview, one of the children of the deceased, Mr. Babajide Awolowo, said, “My father died in London few hours ago.”<br />
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Family sources told our correspondent that the late Oluwole Awolowo had been bedridden for sometime now, owing to a ghastly motor accident he had sometime in 1992, which left him partially paralysed since then.<br />
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The source said his health deteriorated in the last few months prompting the family to move him to the unknown hospital abroad for proper medical attention, where he finally gave up the ghost on Wednesday night.<br />
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“Brother Wole had been in bed for sometime at his Ikenne home and he had been receiving treatment until the family realised that his health was fast failing. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make it back home,” the source, who is a first cousin to the deceased, said.<br />
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With the death of Oluwole, who was elected into the Lagos State House of Assembly in the Second Republic on the platform of his father’s party, Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), the family has lost three of the children of the late politician.<br />
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He is survived by his mother, Chief Mrs. HID Awolowo, his wives and children.<br />
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Music: HI (Official Video) - Tonto<br />
The most sensational nollywood actress turned artiste drops her hit banger video "HI". Poko brings another innovation into the Nigerian music industry with her "Techno" music. You really should get "Hi" to feel this one!</div>
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It appears the whole drama of taking off her clothes during the shoot of her video is a gimmick to show the guys that she's still got 'hot body' despite being a single mother. Her relationship with the man who impregnated her didn't work out, so she is hunting for a new man.<br />
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Below is what Singer Waje said about the kind of man she wants:<br />
"I want a man who fears God. A man who is confident and comfortable and would not be intimidated by things that come with what I do. I know what it is to be talking with a friend and somebody you don't know from Adam would come to excuse you and say 'I want to take a picture with you'. It keeps going on and on. So it's somebody who understands that can take this. Then that person must be handsome.<br />
"As a single mother the natural question people must ask is about the relationship that produced the child and what happened? some things are better left unsaid. It did not work out that is it. It has nothing to do with music or me doing music, it just didn't work out."<br />
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40-Year Old Man Defiled A 10-Month Old Girl...Parents Beware<br />
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Please Parents be more careful with people they allow to 'play' with your babies:<br />
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As you read this, Mr Kingsley Ndubisi, a 40-year old man, has been arrested and charged to court for defiling a 10-month old girl right inside a church. He was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of felony to wit, defilement of a minor.<br />
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The incident, according to the police, occurred at the True Tabernacle Church in Lagos.<br />
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The police said Ndubisi was arrested following a complaint by the parents of the victim that the accused on 14 March, 2013 at the church defiled their 10-month old daughter by fingering her private part. This resulting in the little girl bleeding from her private part.<br />
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During interrogation, Mr Ndubisi was said to have confessed to the crime.<br />
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After investigation by a police team led by Corporal Raymond Udoeka at the division, the accused was charged to court for the offence which is punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.<br />
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But while in court, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and magistrate Mrs. A.F. Adeeyo admitted him on bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum who must have proof of tax payment to the Lagos State government.<br />
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The defendant has been remanded at Ikoyi Prison pending when he would fulfill the bail condition, which the case was adjourned to 5th April, 2013.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Police Discover Dead Bodies In Shallow Grave, Fulani/Tiv Crisis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The renewed hostilities between the Fulani herdsmen and Tiv farmers in Naka town of Benue State yesterday took a terrible dimension as some dead bodies were found in a shallow grave at Angwuhagh village in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LEADERSHIP reports that a group of Fulani herdsmen had, last weekend, allegedly attacked Tiv farmers and killed three policemen and a driver and burnt down several houses. A police sergeant was also declared missing and is yet to be found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The state commissioner of police (CP), Mr Chris Kakwe Katso had on Monday paid a visit to the affected area where he had earlier drafted trucks-load of heavily armed police men to maintain peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, the police public relations officer (PPRO), DSP Daniel Ezeala who accompanied the CP to the scene told LEADERSHIP yesterday that some human bodies which were confirmed dead have been discovered in a grave in the bush path of the troubled village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Ezeala the Fulani herdsmen may have killed their victims and hurriedly buried them in the grave to avoid been caught by security operatives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The PPRO said it was not yet confirmed whether the missing police sergeant was among the human bodies that were discovered in the grave and added that the state police command had contracted qualified medical personnel to carry out an autopsy on the corpses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, residents of the affected area including Fulani herdsmen and Tiv farmers have continued to flee for safety to the neighbouring villages, just as schools, churches as well as market places have been shut down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fresh Attack On 2 Riyom Villages In Plateau, 15 Killed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No fewer than 15 people were killed in two communities of Da Jak and Attakar in Riyom local government area of Plateau State when unknown gunmen stormed the two villages at the early hours of yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A source who did not want his name in print told LEADERSHIP that the two communities have been sacked as the houses of the villagers were burnt by the invaders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The source further said that the, “Two villages were over run in a midnight attack by people suspected to be hired Fulani militias”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Confirming the incident to LEADERSHIP the member representing Riyom state constituency and majority leader in the state House of Assembly, Hon Daniel Dem who spoke with our correspondent on phone said 15 people were killed while most of the houses in the two villages have been burnt to ashes even as the villagers have moved to Kaura local government area of Kaduna State to seek refuge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I Have no Facebook, twitter accounts - Sanusi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that its Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has no account in the social media – Facebook, Twitter, 2go and so on. A statement from the bank, signed by the Director, Corporate Communications, Ugochukwu A. Okoroafor, made available to Daily Sun stated that the attention of the apex bank has been drawn to various postings on social media platforms purported to have been made by the CBN governor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The statement read in part: “We wish to state unequivocally as follows: that the Governor currently has neither a facebook nor Twitter account; that any such account, purported to belong to the Governor is fake; that in the last six months, there have been deliberate efforts by unknown elements to use the internet, with its social media extensions, to tarnish and malign the image and reputation of the CBN Governor.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bank maintained that any such statement or post, purported to have been made by the CBN Governor, is false and that efforts at tackling this menace “had been yielding positive results as over 100 of these fictitious accounts had been closed with the collaboration of the Facebook authorities.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The apex bank further revealed that while the relevant law enforcement agencies have been duly notified of these developments, there is a criminal case against one of the elements using these channels to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We, therefore, urge members of the public to disregard these fake accounts and their false and malicious contents as they are calculated to deceive the public malign the reputation of the CBN Governor and cause disaffection in the country,” the bank stated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What Do We Call This? Some Communities Still Sees Twin As Taboo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is 98 years ago that Mary Slessor, the Scottish missionary to Nigeria, died. She was reputed to have led crusades that stopped some societies from killing twin babies at birth. Such births were taboo and not tolerated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While her history remains alive, as her remains were interred in Nigeria, it seems some communities in Nigeria, even today, are out to rubbish and undo what Slessor did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It might shock you to hear that there is still a community that still sees twins or multiple birth as abomination. But it is more confounding to find that the communities are in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). How awful that even within the world’s newest city, with all the trappings of modernity, the preponderance of religions and inclinations that abhor killing of human beings, twin kids are still sacrificed to the gods of tradition that don’t want them alive like the biblical story of the notions that passed their babies through the fire of Molech.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine yourself visiting a community called Basa Komo in the FCT and all of a sudden, you come face-to-face with a crowd. You move closer and are confronted with a helpless infant, struggling to set himself loose from the grip of community leaders, who want to bury him alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This scenario is not from a Nollywood film or a best selling novel. It happens today in a community in the nation’s FCT. In Bassa Komo, it is abomination to be born a twin, or a mother dies within three months of a baby’s birth, or a child grows upper teeth first or is born with defect. These are all faults of the baby or babies involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All these, to the people of the community, are signs that such babies were fabricated in the factory of the devil and are themselves evil. Such offences by the evil baby or babies are punishable by burial alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such bizarre drama was witnessed by a couple, Olusola Stevens and his wife. Stevens is the North Central Director of the Christian Missionary Foundation (CMF). He has been in missionary work for 22 years. In all his years as a missionary, nothing prepared him and his wife, Chinwe, for the trauma of hearing or witnessing the practice of killing infants or burying some alive with their dead mothers even in the domain of the FCT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, their happiness is that some of the rescued children have been reunited with their families, even though they are still living with the Stevens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stevens recalled to Abuja Metro the challenges of taking care of the rescued children but remains happy that: “God has never failed. Though there could be delays but He will surely come through and this we can testify to in our case.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Christian Missionary Foundation (CMF) is a non-denominational body with task of evangelising the interior and remote societies. That is the gospel that touches human lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We just don’t preach the gospel. In some of the places we have been to, we have established schools, especially in the North East. We also have medical outreach centres. Basically, we don’t stay in city; we go to the interior to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to people.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CMF was launched in Ibadan in1982 by the late Bishop Benson Idahosa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said the group came into the FCT in the late 80s, reaching out to the Bassa Komo, the Gbagyi Yama and the Ganagana. “We went into the rural parts of Abuja, preaching, planting churches, organising literacy classes for the local people, who could not read or write,” he narrated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They discovered some strange practices among the Bassa Komo (Gbajingala clan) that endanger the lives of children and asked God for an opportunity to save some of the children from the clutches of death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If you are not very observant, you will not know this practice is going on and it took us some time to actually confirm. Some of the enlightened indigenes of the area deny the practice, maybe out of shame, but it is still happening till date,” Stevens confirmed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are considered as strange spirits and not fit to live among men. When they are delivered, they will be poisoned (the child dies gradually) or is strangulated after being forcefully taken from the mother by masquerades that women are not allowed to see. Once they are killed, an altar will be raised on the walls of their huts to worship their spirits and make sacrifices to ward them off from returning. They believe the dead children are spirits that want to come back but they are not welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another outrageous practice is the killing of babies whose mothers die after their birth. If a woman delivers and dies during childbirth, the child will be tied to the body of the dead mother and buried alive with her. If the nursing mother should die of any cause without weaning the baby, the baby will be accused of having strange powers that killed the mother, the penalty for this is also death. In some villages, the children may be abandoned on the grave of the dead mother while some are left unattended to in the village, leading to starvation and eventual death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A child that grows upper teeth first is also bound to die. The couple discovered that babies that grow the upper teeth first are also killed because they are bad omen. This is neatly done, an outsider may never know when and how unless you understand their language and pay close attention to young babies in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Stevens, the practice is not common among the Abuja indigenes alone, “We also learnt from some other agencies that we work closely with that twins are not allowed to live in Uturu, Abia State.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There is also sacrificing of young children to the fertility god during planting season to have bountiful harvest that is common amongst the Bassa. They don’t physically slaughter the baby but once they pick a baby, a child that is healthy now will mysteriously die. You will hear the child cry and complain of a minor ailment and the next minute, he or she is dead. We have two children in this category, they were brought to us by their mothers so as to save them from being sacrificed by their fathers,” the rescuer couple hinted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The first child we rescued is a girl, Aisha. That was in 1997. She has gone to school, otherwise you would have met with her. Her father was about sacrificing her to the god of fertility like he allegedly did the previous ones but his wife was concerned that for how long would she continue to lose her children to the god of fertility. So, she confided in one of the villagers. All these I am telling you happened in less than 10km from here in a village called Kayi. So, she was advised to go to ‘aunty’ (my wife) to pray to her Jesus. Those that directed her had realised that when she is given to Jesus, she will be spared as her husband will not be able to use her for any sacrifice. My wife, the ‘aunty’, was my fiancée then. She was a pioneer missionary in that village. So, the baby was brought to my wife and asked to pray to prevent her husband from killing her. She promised to bring the baby back to Jesus once she grows a little. So, after we got married, the woman returned and said the baby was still alive and her husband had not done her any harm. She came back to give the baby to Jesus, as promised. She has been with us and now in JSS2.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If a woman delivers triplets or quadruplets, they will be thrown into the Gurara River or strangled and later buried in the bush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The couple said they learnt that Gbagyi Yama also practise killing of twins but “we are yet to rescue any child. We were to rescue a set of twins two years ago but they did not allow us. They were taken to the ancestral home and usually the babies will not return if taken there.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The villages in these practices today are up to 40. Some of them are in Gwagwalada Area Council, more of them in Abaji, some in Kwali and part of Kuje.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Since I live among them, we have missionaries, working in those villages. There are even natives, who are no longer comfortable with the practice after hearing the word of God and they run to tell non-native missionaries once they are about to kill twins or any other child. We tell them if you don’t want these ‘evil’ children, give them to us; we want them.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“My wife, from Anambra State, was single and knew about the practice, even though the natives will deny it, particularly those who are embarrassed that such things still happen in their community. They never knew what to do or how to assist in saving these vulnerable babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In January 2003, my dog delivered five puppies. After few days after, someone in the neighbourhood poisoned the dog. I could not watch the puppies die; so, I went to the market, bought feeding bottle and baby milk to start feeding the puppies. After nursing them for about two months; they died one after the other. It was a real sad experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One fateful day in April of the same year, one of the missionaries, working with me in the interior, came with two and half-month old-baby girl. He told me the baby was rescued from death by a Muslim cleric, who contacted him to take the baby. The cleric, who lived in Beri Beri village had passed by a house where a nursing mother died and they wanted to bury the child alongside her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After discussing with the missionary and my wife, we decided to keep the baby for a day. When the baby was rescued, she was already traumatised from crying and rough handling. Usually, before they bury the baby they will do some incantations, put something on the baby, chanting ‘you evil child, we reject you, you must not come here again’. Our intention was to actually send the baby to the welfare department after getting her treated but the Lord rebuked me for my insensitivity, asking that if I could take care of the puppies, why not a baby? After sharing my thought with my wife, we made up our mind to keep the baby. That girl is now in primary school at Christ Academy, Gwagwalada, doing very well.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To really settle down and handle the rescue assignment, the couple had to set up a home, the Divine Heritage Home as an offshoot of the missionary work in the interiors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two weeks after the first rescue, a baby boy was rescued from death. He too is in school now. They call him Wonder Boy. From that time, they mandated the missionaries to do more to save as many children as possible from the strange practices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We have rescued about 33 such kids spread across several villages. There are also 13 less privileged children that were picked from the rural areas. All the children are in school. The youngest we have now is a set of twins about four months old, Rachael and Rebecca.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the time they started rescuing the children, one of them had asked the villagers if after some four years and the child turns healthy, they would have such back. They bluntly refused, saying the evil spirit would still be in their bodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The terrain through which they pass to the rescue these children is terrible, particularly during the rainy season. The road is usually muddy, that they find it almost impossible to go with motorbikes and sometimes have to walk long distances to get to the kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are days they don’t get back home in Gwagwalada until 2am. “That is how we started raising those children. Since God asked us to raise them we don’t give them out for adoption. God told us expressly to nurse them that He would take them back to their communities so as to stop this practice. How He will do that, we do not know.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to the glory of God, we didn’t give them out for adoption even after suggestions to do so. We know their family houses, we know each of the compound where we got the children from,” Stevens said with satisfaction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We make sure we collect data of their families, including their grandparents and relations. We usually tell them that these children are yours but we want to show you that there is nothing wrong about them. Rejecting them is just a cultural thing, a taboo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The practice of killing or rejecting a child that grew upper teeth first was there in the past in Yoruba land where I come from. They didn’t believe such child was normal but today, it is no longer there. In Calabar, it was also the issue but long dropped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, it is their culture here but we are working to convince them to drop it because these children are precious. Some of the kids were rescued at tender ages, a day old, two weeks old, a month old, etc.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initially, they didn’t know the twin kids are sometimes poisoned before disposing of them. So, the first baby they rescued was involved in that and they later lost her. She was named Olufunmilayo. “When we rescued her, her twin sister had died of the poison but we had thought it was because she was premature. It was a missionary with the Redeemed Christian Church that saw them, trying to kill this baby that rescued her.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After taking Olufunmilayo to the hospital and running tests, she still was not improving and she was on admission for about four days, and later died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I narrated our observations to the national coordinator of the mission, a medical doctor, who left his practice to work in the mission. We asked him to help us find out what could be responsible. So, he brought a team of medical doctors from Ibadan. In the course of their work, they discovered while engaging the local women when their husbands were not around that it was the men who belonged to the cult in their communities that usually poisoned the kids with a particular root. They soak the root in water for some days and then feed the babies with the potion and they will start drying up. That is what happened to Olufunmilayo; she was eating normally and taking her medications but she kept drying up until she died. Till date, we are still trying to find out what root they use.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After five years of work in the area, the couple had two children in their care from the Tumbudu axis, who are grandchildren of the village head. They would have been killed when their mother died but for the intervention of a missionary whose name is Grace. At the time she rescued the children, she was single. So, when she was getting married, some of the villagers, who were happy their pastor was wedding, attended in Gwagwalada. When they visited us, she pointed out one of them and said, ‘that is your village head’s grandson that you called evil child and wanted to kill.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they got back and informed the man that his grandson was alive and doing very well, he was shocked and came visiting. He said: “I was informed he is still very much alive”. He was convinced then that the boy was not an evil child, only that he inherited a culture that sees such children as taboo. He was really happy to see his grandson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“He brought us guinea corn, roasted fish and promised that he would ensure no other such child is killed in his village. He assured us of his assistance to rescue them and also to influence other village heads in the area to join the crusade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“So, after that visit, it was like a floodgate was opened. We started getting rescued babies from even areas we had no missionaries and from villages I never heard of before, such as Dagiri. It was the collaboration that started working.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They don’t call the place the rescued kids are kept an orphanage but a home because they take them as their own children. “The children all call me daddy and my wife, they call mummy. We eat together, play together and we even watched the final match between Nigeria and Burkina Faso in the African Cup of Nations together. There are days we go out to eateries together. There is one of them that was born on May 27. When we visit such places on celebration days, people ask if we have a school and when I say they are all my children, they usually express surprise. There was one lady, who saw us the first time we went to Mr. Biggs to eat and she was curious and after hearing our story, she has been coming with her friends, bringing things to us. Some of them come here to celebrate their birthday. Churches have been coming here also to be of help to us. In fact, the bus we use was donated by a lady that works with the NNPC. She had come visiting and saw my old BMW with which I took the children to school. So, she decided to support us with a coaster bus. At a time, the place we were wasn’t enough to accommodate us, a former Redeemed Christian Church provincial pastor offered to build a mini-dormitory for us.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the rescue of the last set of twins, their father, a Muslim, came from Bassa, four days before Abuja Metro visit. He expressed shock at what the couple and their mission do for their people free. Today, he has relocated to the place the missionary rescued his children to also assist and he has given his life to Jesus Christ. “Our intervention has helped them to come to the knowledge of our saviour. When they visit, I ask them to pick their children and take photos,” Stevens assured</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The home has even returned three children to their relatives, who have been established as strong Christians and are willing to take them. They still monitor their progress there. “We heard one of them later died but it was through natural causes. We pray together and share the Bible every morning. To the glory of God, I don’t deny them anything. My wife and I have only one child of our own but you will not tell the difference. I am a domestic man so, there is no stress, taking care of them. Right now, my wife is on her PhD programme and I am right here taking care of them with the help of the nannies. They are doing very well in school and very intelligent kids.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The school they attend with the kind support of the owner does not charge them fees. They just pay the other smaller charges involved. In fact, he will be the first to ask if they have another child that is ready for school. The oldest is Aisha, who is 16. Some of their parents are now working as local pastors and as the children grow they intend to hand them over to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Our organisation operates by faith. We rely on donations and we do some agricultural activities, raise chicken for sale and I sell Christian books, tapes, videos. These help us financially as well, especially in cases of emergency. During holidays, some of the children, living with us because their parents are unable to send them to school, go back to their parents to assist in farm work.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The accommodation the mission plans to move into was built at a cost of N17.5 million. The fund came from the same woman that donated the bus, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), individuals and some other organisations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The former speaker of Kwali Area Council once visited them. He has a nephew, Bengy, that is also with the home. He (the speaker) was privileged to be taken away from the village by a Hausa trader to Minna as a young boy where he schooled and even did his university education. The sister died after giving birth to Bengy. The Home calls Bengy the PRO because of his seamless interaction with people. “He would have been the first to welcome Abuja Metro and start a conversation, as if you have known for years,” Stevens explained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the former speaker visited while still in office, he was very impressed with what the mission had done and they had requested for a health centre, which they said would reduce the child and maternal death rate. Majority of the rescued children come from dead nursing mothers. “So, if we had good health facility it would be reduced but sadly, he did not return to the area council. So, we are still in need of that.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I requested recently from my headquarters for a medical doctor and a nurse because we want to start a health facility so we can reach out to other villages. We are going to have an outreach soon and our first training will be for traditional birth attendants (TBAs) We want to teach them signs they can quickly notice on a mother or child to notify us on time so we can assist to save the lives of these mothers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“At times, we are asked why government has not intervened but I don’t have an answer to that. Some government officials have been here. All I can tell you is that a greater government sent me on this assignment and I cannot afford to fail.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forty-five days after being found guilty of terrorism, Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) was sentenced by a South African court yesterday to 24 years in jail. He was convicted of 13 terrorism charges over deadly twin bomb attacks in Abuja in 2010. One of them was the bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in the federal capital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twelve people were killed in the attacks as Nigeria was celebrating its 50th independence anniversary. The court said that Okah showed little remorse during the trial, and that his intentions in the bombings were to “obtain maximum casualties. Effectively, the accused Okah is therefore, sentenced to 24 years imprisonment,” said Judge Neels Claassen at the Johannesburg court. MEND which in 2010 was a well-equipped armed group fighting for a greater share of the Niger Delta oil wealth, claimed responsibility for the attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okah, who has permanent residency in South Africa, has denied any involvement in the bombings and of being the leader of MEND, claiming the charges against him were politically-motivated. The 46-year-old Okah was also found guilty over two explosions in March 2010 in Warri, Delta State. The prosecutor, Shaun Abrahams, said that the sentence included 12 years each for the Warri and Abuja attacks. He was also sentenced to 10 years for being a threat to South Africa, a term that will run concurrently. Abrahams said the prosecution which had asked for a maximum of life in prison, will consider appealing the sentence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okah is the first foreign national to be tried for terrorism in South Africa. He has been in custody since his arrest in October 2010, a day after the Abuja bombings. Okah did not testify during trial, prompting the judge to say that his failure to take the stand meant the evidence against him remained uncontested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has had several run-ins with the law. In September 2007, he was arrested for arms and explosives trafficking in Angola and later extradited to Nigeria. Police identified him as “an international gun-runner and a major oil bunkerer in the Niger Delta.” Recall that on January 21 this year, Okah was found guilty on 13 counts of terrorism including delivering, placing, and detonating an explosive device.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heads may roll at the Abraka Police Division, following the rape of a female suspect, Mrs. Ese Isaiah in police cell, where she was detained. The woman was arrested and detained in the cell along with men, following a fight she had with a neighbour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two men were said to have raped Mrs. Isaiah in turn, even as she reportedly cried for help with the policemen on duty turning deaf ears. Following the incident, the woman’s counsel, Ejomasuvwe Efe petitioned the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 5, Benin, Alhaji Hamisu Argungu, who promptly redeployed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) of the Abraka Police Station, Chris Sorgbara and John Olise, respectively to his office, pending conclusion of investigation into the incident.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consequently, no fewer than 11 policemen, including the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) and Abraka Police Station cell guard, who had been in detention were expected to face Orderly Room trial today at the Zone 5 in Benin, in connection with Mrs. Isaiah’s rape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Already, two men, who allegedly raped her, Enamuotor Akpevwe, 21 and Ugbede Obruche, 20, had been arraigned in an Abraka Magistrate Court, which ordered their remand in prison at Sapele, Delta State. Hearing in the two-count charge case preferred against the two accused persons had been fixed for May 3.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">A commercial motorcyclist in Bauchi State identified simply as Auwalu, has allegedly raped a 30-year-old housewife, (names withheld) who was five months pregnant at the time. The victim who narrated her ordeal in an interview with Daily Sun, said she was rape in the presence of two of her children. She also lost her five month pregnancy and almost died following the incident.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The Fulani woman said Auwalu carried her and two of her children aged six and five respectively on his motorcycle on the fateful day he raped her. The mother of four said Auwalu carried her and two of children to Bakala in Brugga, Tafalwa Balewa Local Government area of the state She said: “When we got into the bush, he diverted from the road and stopped the machine and said that he had a flat tyre and asked us to come down.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">“I came down with my children and he then told me that he wanted to have sex with me. I said no way, I can’t do it. I am a married woman and I am pregnant. “He threatened that if I did not do it, he would kill me and held me and wrestled me to the ground. He cut my left hand with knife and slapped me hard on my face before he raped me right in front of my children. “When he finished he did not take me to Bakala. He did not collect the N300 fare we agreed on and left after raping me. I had a miscarriage and my husband rushed me to the hospital where I received 10 drips.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">“My husband was very angry. I felt ashamed of myself because he has tarnished my name and reputation. People will look at me as a wayward woman. Now people will think of me as an irresponsible woman. I knew no man except my husband. I feel very sad” Victim’s husband, Umar, 35, a peasant farmer said he felt very sad about what happened to his wife and had to borrow N15, 000 to save his wife’s life.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">“Auwalu is someone I knew I feel very sad over what he did to my wife and I intend to see that he did not go unpunished. I sent people to ask him if I ever offended him that he carried out such an evil thing on my family. He sent back that I did not offend him in any way. That he was sorry but he dii not rape my wife. I said no way. I don’t accept his apology.” Umar who said there were several attempts by Auwal’s family to settle the issue out of court said he felt justice had to be done to ensure that Auwalu was punished for his crime and rebuffed such moves.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">“Auwalu confessed that he defiled my wife and I had to report him to the police but the Ardo, village chief was not happy that I went to the police. Even the police are not willing to assist me. Maybe Auwalu’s family has given them money.” Umar said but for divine intervention his wife would have died because of the shock. “ I want justice and I am calling on the governor of the state, Mallam Isas Yuguda to ensure that justice is done because Auwalu is even boasting that I am just a poor man and there is nothing I can do. I want justice,” he appealed. When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Bauchi Police Command, Hassan Mohammed Auypo said he was not aware of such case and promised to find out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bobbie Smith, the original lead singer of soul group The Spinners, has died at the age of 76 in Orlando, Florida.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The group's management said in a statement on Monday that Smith died on Saturday due to complications from pneumonia and influenza. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The statement added that Smith had been diagnosed with lung cancer in November.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smith was the voice behind the band's first hit, That's What Girls Are Made For. The band was also known as the Detroit Spinners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their biggest hits came in the 1970s, including I'll Be Around, Could It Be I'm Falling in Love and Games People Play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They all featured the voice of Smith, although fellow lead singer Philippe Wynne had by then also joined the band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quintet began in 1955 as a high school doo-wop group called the Domingoes and they were signed by Harvey Fuqua to Detroit record company Tri-Phi Records. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Berry Gordy's Motown label took over Tri-Phi in 1965, but the group struggled to make a big impact on the charts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was not until 1972, when tenor Wynne came on board and the group signed to Atlantic, that the hits began coming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wynne left the group in 1977 and new lead vocalist John Edwards came on board but the band's producer Thom Bell left shortly afterwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The band has continued in various guises since then, the most recent version consisting of Smith and fellow original member Henry Fambrough, along with newer members Charleton Washington, Jessie Peck and Marvin Taylor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She did not want her brother to be pope. The thought of it made her pray against it. But God had other plans. And now Maria Elena Bergoglio has to come to terms with the fact that her brother, Jorge Maria Bergoglio, is now the Pope –Pope Francis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the Catholic faithful celebrate the emergence of a new spiritual father, amid the shouts of “Long live the pope!” Maria Elena, has only one wish: that the world prays for her him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I feel we have to pray a lot for him because we are living in a very troubled world at a difficult time for the church, we need God permanently,” Maria Elena is reported to have told Argentina’s C5N, adding that she still cannot believe her brother was elected Bishop of Rome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to her, the 76-year-old former archbishop of Buenos Aires “did not want to be pope” when he finished second in the election to succeed John Paul II in 2005 and so she prayed for him not be elected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking from her home in Itusaingo, Buenos Aires, she said, “It’s been a really big shock, I am still living it; I was not expecting him to be elected pope. Poor man, the emotions he must have felt hearing the people shout ‘Long live the pope!’” Maria Elena said from her house in Ituzaingo, a city in Buenos Aires province.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just as she has to live with the election of her brother as pope, Maria Elena believes he also has some adjustments to make to deal in order to carry out his new role, especially since he had never wanted to be pope, himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite his reluctance, Maria Elena is confident that Pope Franciswill carry out his role with the commitment and dedication it requires as he had always done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“My brother fulfilled his duties, with increasingly more responsibilities, but I never believed this,” she confessed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Agencia Informatica Católica Argentina — or the Catholic wire service in Argentina, which spoke to priests and coordinators in slums that surround Buenos Aires, reported that Pope Francis has already been termed “papa de los villeros” or “the pope for the slum dwellers.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The service reports that during his tenure as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis multiplied the number of priests serving the slums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Now his limits won’t be the archdiocese,” Father Pepe told the news outlet. “Now it’s the world and he will have to take up the task in other places like Africa, where there are many who work in favor of the poor.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francis, others recount, visited the slums frequently, celebrating mass and washing the feet of drug addicts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Everyone here felt very close to him,” the slum priests program coordinator said. “They talk about his way of being. The poor in general are very close to him. He’d visit jails and hospitals; he’d ride the bus and subway. He had a closeness with the street.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing that’s worth highlighting is that in many of the interviews of this piece, the focus is on Francis’ ministering, not necessarily his charity work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This goes hand in hand with what he said during his first homily today in Rome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reuters reports that he urged the church “not to forget its primary mission of proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ or risk being reduced to what he called ‘a compassionate NGO.’”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although she could imagine the emotions and thoughts running through Pope Francis’ mind just before walking out on the balcony before the massive crowd in Saint Peter’s Square in his first appearance as the pontiff, Maria Elena has no clue what her brother’s Papacy would be like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All she knows is that his inclination has always been to work for the poor, the most marginalised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">News.com.au reported that Maria Elena [in line with her call] offered a prayer “that the Holy Spirit will strengthen” Francis for his new role, and spoke of feeling pride “not only as a family but as the Argentine people.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It added that Francis, formerly Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, is the oldest of five children — three boys and two girls. His three other siblings, Alberto, Oscar, and Marta Regina have already died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newly elected Pope Francis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. He is a huge football fan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. While studying to become a priest, he taught literature and psychology at two high schools in Argentina</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. His inclination is to work for the poor, the most marginalised</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. He cooks his own meals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Of his four siblings, only his sister – Maria Elena – is alive. His parents are both dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. He is opposed to same-sex marriage</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. He is free spirited, friendly and a great listener.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. He is the first pope to be named Francis; choosing his name in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi, because of his love for the poor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. He has close ties with the Jewish and Islamic community (in Argentina).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. He loves to dance.</span><br />
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