2 drivers in trouble for raping, impregnating pure water hawker

The Niger State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC has arrested two commercial vehicle drivers for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14 years old pure water hawker.

The suspects Mohammed Abubakar,22 and Adamu Umar, 25 are alleged to have committed the offense at Kasuwan Gwari Motor Park, in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State.

Mrs Mariam Kolo, Director-general of Child Right Protection Agency, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN in Minna on Saturday that the suspects were arrested by men of the NSCDC but were brought to the agency after the primary 6 pupil was discovered to be four months pregnant.

The victim told NAN that she was first raped by Abubakar after being offered a bottle of water in his cab.

“I was hawking pure water when Abubakar asked me to follow him to his car; he gave me a bottle of water to drink. I drank the water, and slept off.

“After I slept off, Abubakar then raped me; he woke me up and offered to take me back to the spot where me picked me; the other girls who hawk with me were there, he gave me N600.

“After he dropped me, I went to urinate, that was when I saw some whitish stains on my thighs,” she said.

She added that Umar in connivance with Abubakar lured her to a bush path the next day and also raped her.

Confirming the story to NAN, the spokesman of the Niger State Police Command, SP Bala Elkana said that the suspects had been remanded in prison custody pending the conclusion of investigation.

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Man sacks wife for being HIV positive

A Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja has dissolved the marriage between one Joseph Danjuma and his wife because of her HIV positive status.

Danjuma, a farmer had approached the court to dissolve the marriage over his wife's insistence on unprotected sex.

“My wife got pregnant and put to bed in 2012; the child got terribly ill and died.

“Due to the ailment and death of the child, I insisted that my wife be tested of HIV, which the doctor did and she tested positive.

“Because I still loved my wife, we used condom as a means of protection during sexual intercourse.

“But as time went on, she refused me using condom on her, and insisted on intercourse without condom,” he told the court.

The respondent corroborated the statement of the complainant but however consented to the dissolution of the marriage which she said she was fed up with.

Dissolving the marriage, the Presiding Judge, Everyman Eleanya, said that the court had done everything possible to reconcile the couple.

“The court did everything possible to reconcile the couple but all efforts failed,’’ he said.

The judge also ordered that the bride price paid over the woman be returned to the husband.

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Man to die by hanging for killing wife over sex

“ Going by the findings of this court, you, Benjamin Toma, mercilessly and in a calculative manner , took the life of your wife in cold blood .

“ You have not shown any remorse for your reprehensible act at the time of the incident and throughout the entire trial .

“ You were exhibiting such character traits that seem to suggest your deep conviction about the justness of your wicked and callous act.

“ In all of this , your two children are the ultimate losers , but the law shall nonetheless take its course; the offence for which you are being charged , does not contemplate a plea in mitigation .
“ The sentence of this court upon you is that you , Benjamin Toma, will be hanged until you are dead."

That was the verdict of Justice Samson Gang of a Plateau State High Court sitting in Barkin -Ladi on Thursday in a case of culpable homicide brought against 37 years old Benjamin Toma who allegedly killed his wife Vicky for denying him sex.

In a 68-paged judgement, Justice Gang pronounced Toma guilty of the one -count charge of culpable homicide punishable by death , under section 221 of the penal code.

The convict was said to have on March 4, 2014 struck his wife to death with an iron rod before hanging her with a rope in the store to give the impression that she committed suicide.

Although Toma had pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge, a prosecution witness, Sgt. Sunday Abu , who investigated the case told the court that he, Toma had in a confessional statement, said that he committed the crime on March 4, 2014 at about 1 am when his wife denied him sex.

"He ( Toma) further confessed that his wife refused to grant his request , and declared that Vicky had persistently rejected that demand for more than one year on the suspicion that he had HIV/AIDS .

“Toma said that because of this wife ’ s allegation , he went to the hospital and confirmed he had hepatitis and not HIV.

“He told investigators that on that night , he struggled with his wife and later used an iron rod to hit her.

“He said that when she fell, he left her there for two hours , and later took her out of the room and used a rope to hang her in a bid to conceal his action.”

When the confessional statement was tendered in court as evidence, Toma admitted that the thumbprint on it was his own.

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FG boosting local agriculture with HomeGrown School Feeding Program - Osinbajo

"This week on the HomeGrown School Feeding Programme. HGSFP develops local agriculture and nourishes young minds. Nigeria will prevail." VP Yemi Osinbajo

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Photos from Saraki, Dogara's visit to Buhari in London

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki was on Wednesday accompanied by Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan on a visit to Nigeria House, London where President Muhammadu Buhari is on a medical vacation.

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Buhari thanks Saraki, Dogara for London visit

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received the Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara and Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan at Nigeria House, London.

"I thanked them for visiting. I'm also grateful to Nigerians, Christians and Muslims alike, for their prayers and kind wishes for my health," he said.

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Andrew Yakubu to forfeit $9.8m, £74,000 to FG

Justice Zainab B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Kano on Tuesday, ordered the forfeiture of the $9,772,000 and £74,000  recovered from a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu to the Federal Government.

A press release issued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC's Head of Media, Mr Wilson Uwujaren explained that the order followed an ex parte application by the anti-graft agency for an interim forfeiture of the recovered money to the Federal Government.

Ruling on the application, Justice Abubakar held that “the sum of $9,772,000 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars) and £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) which are now in the custody of the applicant (EFCC) are in the interim forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.”

Recall that the EFCC had on February 3 recovered the said sums of money in Kaduna following a raid on a building belonging to the former GMD of the NNPC.

Yakubu has been assisting the EFCC in their investigations since February 8 when he reported at their zonal office in Kano to admit ownership of the money and the building in which it was recovered.

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