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Saturday, 23 February 2013

Two Kids Found Dead As Mother Vanishes With Third Child


NOBODY who visited No. 1 Elias Odili Street, Abakaliki, would believe, as being claimed, that the two children who lay lifeless on the bed were matcheted to death by their own mother in the early hours of Wednesday February 20, 2013. Did she really do it?

At the time of filing this report, the whereabouts of the woman and her third child were unknown. Did she flee to escape the fate that befell her two children?

Mrs. Joy Uchaji, a middle-aged school teacher, married to a former leader of Ebonyi Legislative Council was alleged to have butchered her two children, Nneoma and Godwin Uchaji aged four and two years respectively at the home with a machete after which she packed her bags and fled.

When The Guardian visited the scene, the machete with which Mrs. Joy allegedly committed the act, lay innocently on top of the slain daughter.

Family members disclosed that the body of the boy was found on top of the bed with his neck almost severed from the body while the girl was found in the kitchen with machete cuts on her back.

Her husband, Mr. Chamberlain Uchaji, was not around as he was said to have travelled to Abuja where he secured an employment recently.

However, elder brother to Mr. Uchaji, Elias, told reporters that the incident was an ugly development in the family, stressing that until the husband and other members living outside Ebonyi returned, the family could not take any decision on next line of action.

Commenting on the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ebonyi State Command, Mr. Sylvester Igbo, a Deputy Superintendent of Police said the command received a report of the incident and had begun a search for the woman, adding that preliminary investigations by the Police indicated that the woman must have run to Lagos.

He said bodies of the slain children had been cleared to be deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, (FETHA) mortuary.
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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Teenager bags 6 years jail term for burying her own 2 year old baby alive...



AN Osogbo Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday sentenced an 18-year-old mother of one, Mrs. Adeola Joseph, to a six-year imprisonment with hard labour for burying her only child alive for three days.

The court, presided over by Mr. Olusola Aluko, in its ruling, said the convict was unrepentant of her cruel action and hence, did not deserve to be in the midst of human beings.

Mrs. Joseph was said to have buried alive her only child, Fatia Nafiu, at her residence in Ijetu area, off Ilesa -Osogbo Road, Osogbo, in Osun state.

According to the Police Prosecutor, Mr. Solomon Oladele, Mrs. Joseph buried her child in the early hours of Monday, February 18, 2012 and the child was rescued after two days by a good Samaritan, Prophetess Tunrayo Akinwande, who lives around the area.

Oladele said the intervention of Prophetess Akinwande and other residents of the area, who exhumed Fatia from the grave and took her to the hospital, helped to save the innocent two- year-old baby who was still alive after two days in the grave.

According to the Prosecutor, the convict had through her actions committed an offence contrary to and punishable under sections 320 (1) and 509 of the Criminal Code, Cap 34, Vol 11, Laws of Osun state of Nigeria 2003.

The convict, who was arraigned on a three -count charge of attempted murder, felony and breach of peace pleaded for leniency.

She told the court that her parents were not favourably disposed to her marriage with the father of her child and she had since been living alone without assistance, hence her resolve to terminate the life of the toddler.

The convict also told the court that she decided to kill the baby due to her decision to relocate to Lagos in search of a job, without adding the child’s responsibility to her own.

It was gathered that the convict had made several attempts to kill the child before until her last attempt, which landed her in jail.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Justus Esiri: Cause Of Death..



According to reports, the now late Justus Esiri has been secretly battling diabetes for a while but his family chose to make it a secret until his sudden demise Monday night at the age of 71.

Nollywood Actor Justus Esiri Reported Dead!


Veteran Nollywood actor and father of popular Maven artist, Dr.SID, Justus Esiri is dead.
According to sources, the award winning actor who also star and played a leading role in the popular Village Headmaster of the 80′s died last night.
Cause of his of his death is not yet clear as speculation of illness but promise to update details as development unfold.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

French children kidnapped 'by Boko Haram' in Cameroon

Seven French citizens, including four children, were kidnapped in Cameroon on Tuesday, amid a surge of attacks on French interests across West Africa since Paris ordered its country's troops into Mali to battle Islamists there.
French children kidnapped 'by Boko Haram' in Cameroon
Francois Hollande, the French president, pointed the finger at al-Qaeda allied fundamentalist group Boko Haram, based in neighbouring Nigeria, blaming them for the kidnapping Tuesday.

The seven hostages were taken from Cameroon's far north close to the Waza National Park and Lake Chad, both attractions for tourists on adventure holidays. The semi-arid area lies alongside the border with Nigeria, and Islamist strongholds in towns there, including Maiduguri, are less than 100 miles to the west.

It is nonetheless believed to be the first time that Nigeria's growing problem with Islamic fundamentalism, and kidnapping, has been exported into its generally stable neighbour.

"They have been taken by a terrorist group that we know and that is in Nigeria," Mr Hollande told reporters during a visit to Greece.

 
Francois Hollande pointed the finger at fundamentalist group Boko Haram (AFP)

He added: "I see the hand of Boko Haram in that part of Cameroon."

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon's information minister, said his government and security services were investigating the reports but would not immediately confirm details.

One of the adults is employed by GDF Suez. The French utility giant said the employee, based in the Cameroon capital Yaounde, and the family were on holiday in the north of the country.

A Western diplomat in the region told AFP that six armed kidnappers on three motorbikes abducted a couple, their four children and an uncle in the northern village of Dabanga near the Nigerian border.

The children are aged five, eight, 10 and 12, the diplomat said.

Mr Hollande said that his intelligence services said they suspected the group was being taken towards northern Nigeria, or had already been smuggled across the border.

A French engineer was kidnapped close to Katsina, a Nigerian town further west, in December. Eight other French nationals, mostly employees with its uranium miner Areva, have been held hostage in the region since 2010.

Seven other Westerners, including a British construction specialist, were kidnapped on Sunday from another northern Nigerian town.

The French president is facing increasing domestic pressure to justify ordering the operation in Mali, where 4,000 French troops helped stall an Islamist surge south towards the capital last month.

"France is in Mali, and it will continue until its mission is completed," Mr Hollande said. telegraph.co.uk