UNILAG Student Hospitalised After A Date With Facebook Friend

A 21-year-old student has been hospitalised, after she was allegedly pushed down from the third floor of a building in Lagos, following a disagreement with a man she met on the social network, Facebook.

 

 

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Akabugu Nkiruka sustained multiple injuries, including a pelvis fracture, and was undergoing surgery at the General Hospital, Marina, Lagos, on Tuesday.

Nkiruka, a Linguistics student of the University of Lagos, told NAN on her hospital bed that she met the young man through the social media, barely a week before the November 1 incident.

She told NAN that the 26-year-old man (name withheld) last Wednesday invited her to a night club in Apapa from where they ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.

She noted that the young man had earlier talked about sex on the phone prior to the outing but she told him she was menstruating.

Nkiruka said on getting to the house, the man tore her dress and tried to rape her.

According to Nkiruka, the man thereafter pushed her down from the third floor of the building because she refused to have sex with him.

When contacted, the man’s mother, who was at home on the night of the incident, however, told NAN that she was not aware of what happened.

She said she slept around 10pm, while the disagreement between the couple started much later.

The mother, who pleaded anonymity, said she paid part of the hospital bill immediately after Nkiruka was admitted, and even tried to transfer her to a private hospital.

“I took her as our own daughter and so, I can do anything that will make her recover quickly,’’ she added.

She insisted that her preliminary inquiry indicated that Nkiruka was not pushed by her son as alleged, but that she jumped on her own in the ensuing scuffle.

When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer of Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, Mr. Fayoade Adegoke, told NAN that Nkiruka wrote in her statement that she jumped on her own, in order to escape being raped.

Adegoke said he ordered his men to convey the victim to the hospital immediately after he was informed of the incident by security guards in the area.

The DPO said the suspect was released on bail, pending further investigation into the matter.

NAN recalls that seven young men, including two who met a 24-year-old post-graduate student, Cynthia Osokogu, on facebook, are currently facing trial for allegedly raping and killing her in Lagos earlier this year.




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VIDEO: Obama Thanks Supporters And Speaks Of Moving America Forward

"Whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you have made me a better president." This is how the re-elected Barack Obama thanked his supporters. His fans enjoyed an almost 25 minute long victory speech, but one message underlined every word: "The best is yet to come, but we have more work to do."

Sharon Osbourne vows never to undergo plastic surgery again following double mastectomy trauma

Rock matriarch, Sharon Osbourne has vowed never to undergo plastic surgery again after her latest health trauma, which saw her have a double mastectomy.

Speaking on Monday's episode of her US chat show The Talk, Sharon said: 'No more, because I have been looking at pictures of myself recently since I started to lose weight, and in a lot of shots, my face looks plastic and at certain angles I was like, 'Oh, dear. Oh, I should never have done that. Oh, that's a bad one.' So I'm like, 'No more. No more abuse.''

Although it's not just for aesthetic reasons as Osbourne also decided to undergo the double mastectomy partially as a result of one of her breast implants bursting.

Police arrest over 100 ‘Biafran separatists’

Nigerian police today arrested 101 alleged members of a secessionist movement based in the country’s southeast in the latest such sweep in the region, authorities said.

According to police, the alleged members of the “Biafra Zionist Movement” (BZM) were found in possession of secessionist emblems.

They had staged a march in the city of Enugu, a major town in the southeast, early in the day.

“A magistrates’ court in Enugu remanded in prison custody the suspects who were earlier arrested… for illegal assembly,” police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu told AFP.

He said that BZM was a faction of the banned Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

They were in possession of 61 Biafran and other flags, 13 berets, three bands and eight registration forms at the time of the arrest, he said.

A resident said that the suspects — hoisting the flags — marched through some streets of Enugu.

Residents of southeastern Nigeria seceded from the country in 1967 after massacres of Igbo people, who dominate the region, and formed the nation of Biafra.

A 1967-1970 civil war followed that saw more than one million people die, many from starvation and disease.

Since the war ended, sporadic attempts have been made to revive the Biafra movement, which have led to arrests.





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Abandoned Octogenarian Sisters Tell Their Stories As Their Children Surface

At last, succour has come the way of Ibijoke Apena and Janet Eruwayo, two octogenarian sisters abandoned by their children and relations, as some of their children surfaced on Saturday and relocated them.

The aged sisters were moved to a private old people’s home at Jakande Estate, Isolo, Lagos State.

The relocation was spearheaded by Apena’s first child, Rotimi, a contractor in Abuja and two grandchildren, who craved anonymity.

The children’s action came on the heels of PUNCH Metro’s expose on the deplorable state of the aged women last Friday.

Before the relocation, the octogenarian sisters were somewhat quarantined to a dingy one-room apartment at 8, Amusan Street, Rogo, along Iju Ishaga, Lagos.

Their conditions in the isolated room were simply appalling. The same place they defecated, urinated and did all manner of things, was where they ate and slept.

Women had first bath in last two months

On Friday when their sad news broke, some residents of Iju Ishaga trooped out to their residence to satisfy their curiosity, while others went to offer their support.

On Friday, the aged women had their first bath in the last two months. Medical personnel from Ancilla Catholic Hospital, Iju Ishaga, also visited the women and took them to the hospital where they examined and gave them some drugs.