D'banj congratulates Don Jazzy on launch of new label

 

 

I Am A Rapist, Man Tells Judge, Referred To Mental Hospital

A Lagos court judge has ordered that a man who admitted that he was a rapist should be taken to a psychiatric hospital Yaba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, for doctors to check his sanity.
The 27-year old man, Emmanuel Omayebu stunned a Lagos court when he proudly and openly admitted before the court that he actually raped his neighbour’s 10-year old daughter to satisfy his sexual desire as alleged by the police.
Omayebu who is now in prison custody at Kirikiri Lagos, pleaded guilty of raping the victim before the presiding judge, Mrs A. A. Oshonuji at Ikeja Family Court, Lagos.
The incident happened at 16, Adewale Rasheed Street, Egan on the outskirts of Lagos. The Kogi state-born Omayebu was alleged to have lured the primary three victim to an uncompleted building beside their house where he raped her.
The victim told the police that Omayebu bought a stick of cigarrete at their shop and headed toward an uncompleted building in their house.
She said he asked her to bring a lighter.
She said when she took a lighter to him, he grabbed her, tore her pant and forcefully raped her. She said when she wanted to shout, he threatened to kill her there.
She said he forced his penis inside her private part, and when she could not bear the pain she started crying.
Her cry attracted a neighbour who went to the place and raised an alarm that attracted other neighbours.
He was held and handed over to the police at Igando Division.
He was charged to court under section 137 of the criminal code law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011. He pleaded guilty.
However, there was twist in the matter when his relation told the court that the suspect has mental problem.
Consequently, the court ordered that he be taken to a psychiatric hospital at Yaba to ascertain his mental state.
The matter was adjourned till 18 June when his medical report will be presented to the court

France: Francois Hollande Topples Sarkozy

 

Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.

The result will have major implications for Europe as it struggles to emerge from a financial crisis and for France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy and a nuclear-armed permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Hollande won the vote with about 52 percent, according to several estimates from polling firms based on ballot samples, becoming France’s first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.
He wasted no time in pushing his agenda, telling a crowd of cheering supporters that “France chose change” and warning fellow European leaders that he would move ahead with his vow to refocus EU fiscal efforts on growth.
“I am sure that when the result was announced, in many European countries there was relief, hope and the notion that finally austerity can no longer be the only option,” he told a crowd in his adopted hometown of Tulle.
“And this is the mission that is now mine — to give the European project a dimension of growth, employment, prosperity, in short, a future,” he said.
“This is what I will say as soon as possible to our European partners and first of all to Germany… We are not just any country on the planet, just any nation in the world, we are France.”
Sarkozy had earlier conceded defeat and signalled that he intends to step back from frontline politics.
“The French people have made their choice… Francois Hollande is president of France and he must be respected,” the outgoing leader told an emotional crowd of supporters, adding that he had wished his successor well.
“In this new era, I will remain one of you, but my place will no longer be the same. My engagement with the life of my country will now be different,” he told supporters.
Sarkozy stopped short of confirming his retirement, but leaders in his right-wing UMP party told AFP that he had told them he would not lead them into June’s parliamentary elections.
“We are rid of a poison that was blighting our society. A normal president! It gives us a lot to dream about,” said Didier Stephan, a 70-year-old artist among throngs celebrating at Paris’s Place de la Bastille.
Hollande led in opinion polls throughout the campaign and won the April 22 first round with 28.6 percent to Sarkozy’s 27.2 percent — making the right-winger the first-ever incumbent to lose in the first round.
Grey skies and rain showers greeted voters across much of France, but turnout was high, with pollsters saying more than 80 percent of the 46 million eligible voters had cast ballots.
Official results were coming in, with the interior ministry saying that with 78 percent of votes counted at 1945 GMT Hollande was ahead with 51.1 percent.
The election was marked by fears over European Union-imposed austerity and globalisation, and Hollande has said his first foreign meeting will be with German Chancellor Angela Merkel — the key driver of EU budget policy.
The 57-year-old Socialist has vowed to renegotiate the hard-fought fiscal austerity pact signed by EU leaders in March to make it focus more on growth.
Hollande appeared to be winning over European leaders quickly on Sunday, with some capitals already echoing his call for growth measures.
“We will work together on a growth pact,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin. “I am confident the Franco-German friendship will be further deepened.”
On the domestic front, Hollande has said he will move quickly to implement his traditionally Socialist tax-and-spend programme, which calls for boosting taxes on the rich, increasing state spending and hiring 60,000 teachers.
Sarkozy fought a fierce campaign, saying a victory for Hollande would spark market panic and financial chaos and calling him a “liar” and “slanderer” in the final days of the race.
But Sarkozy failed to overcome deep-rooted anger at meagre economic growth and increasing joblessness, and disappointment after he failed to live up to the promises of his 2007 election.
Sarkozy, 57, was also deeply unpopular on a personal level, with many voters turned off by his flashy “bling bling” lifestyle — exemplified by his marriage to former supermodel Carla Bruni — and aggressive behaviour.
Hollande has vowed to be a “normal president” in contrast with Sarkozy, but some have raised concerns over his lack of experience.
Hollande, a long-time Socialist party leader and lawmaker from the central Correze region, has never held a top government post.
The first round of the election last month saw a record score for Marine Le Pen of the far-right, anti-immigrant and anti-Europe National Front, when she took nearly 18 percent of the vote.
Sarkozy turned increasingly to the right ahead of the run-off — vowing to restrict immigration and “defend French values” — but Le Pen refused to call on her supporters to back him and she cast a blank ballot.
Hollande won the backing of centrist Francois Bayrou, who took nine percent in the first round, and Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Left Front, who took 11 percent.
Hollande is expected to be sworn in by May 15 and after seeing Merkel will quickly set off for a series of international meetings, including a G8 summit in the US on May 18-19 and NATO gathering in Chicago on May 20-21.
The Socialists, Sarkozy’s right-wing UMP and France’s other political parties will now be focused on a parliamentary election to be held over two rounds on June 10 and June 17.
Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned Francois Hollande to congratulate him on his victory in France’s presidential vote and invited him to come to Berlin as soon as possible, her spokesman said Sunday.
“The chancellor invited the French president-elect Hollande to come to Berlin as soon as possible after his inauguration,” Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a short statement following a phone call between the pair.
“Both agreed how important close Franco-German relations were and assured each other that they would strive for good and trusting cooperation,” Seibert added.
The statement gave no date for a possible meeting of the two, but Hollande’s inauguration is expected to be around May 15.
Hollande’s campaign manager Pierre Moscovici had said earlier that France’s new leader would take up the invitation “quickly after his inauguration”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has also congratulated new French President Francois Hollande by telephone, vowing to work with the Socialist leader to strengthen the Franco-British relationship.
“The Prime Minister called President-Elect Hollande this evening and congratulated him on his victory,” said a spokesman from Cameron’s Downing Street office in a statement.
“They both look forward to working very closely together in the future and building on the very close relationship that already exists between the UK and France,” it added.

Women Fight! Girl Kills Landlord's Daughter Over Slippers

It started as a squabble between two ladies. One was the landlord’s daughter, the other a tenant’s little sister. In time, it graduated to a brawl. People, including the landlord, came to separate them. And there was peace – or so the people thought. Just when everyone was just settling down with what he or she was doing, there was a fresh commotion.

The two ladies had gone back at each other. This time,...

viciously. By the time it all ended, one of the ladies lay dead. It was the landlord’s daughter, named Rhoda. It was said that her alleged assailant, the tenant’s little sister named Happiness, stabbed her in the chest. Her dead body is now in a morgue in the Isolo area of Lagos.

Rhoda, a 23-year-old hairdresser and mother of two (she was nursing the last one before her death) was living in her father’s house, at No. 23 Odulaju Street, Sabo, with her children. Her father Oladuyoye Abel is a pastor with Christ Apostolic Church.

Her alleged killer, Happiness, 19, from Nnewi South, Anambra State and a salesgirl at Alaba International Market, Ojo, said she never intended to kill Rhoda. According to her it was Rhoda who wanted to stab her. 

Narrating the incident, Happened said she returned from the Lagos International Trade Fair to notice that her bathroom slippers were not at the entrance of her room. She started looking for them and saw Rhoda’s first child of about four years wearing them.

She continued: “I was cautioning the little girl and I didn’t know that her mother was by the well-side. Instead of Rhoda to caution her child, she started asking the little girl why she should wear the slippers of a valueless, worthless, miserable and good-for-nothing girl. She was calling me other unprintable names. It was from then that fight erupted and her father and my brother intervened immediately and separated us. That was about 7.30pm. Her father was angry with her and he asked her if she was the only lady in the compound that every time, she would quarrel with people.” 

Happiness said, in annoyance, the old man went inside the house and started throwing out his daughter’s belongings, asking her to “leave the house as he is fed up with her trouble. My brother also cautioned me that this shouldn’t be the reason to fight. I wanted to go inside when she rushed at me from behind and I shouted and drew the attention of people that thought that the fight had ended and I fell on the door of the tenants’ kitchen and she was holding my jugular. 

"Her mother was there, I didn’t know how she got a kitchen knife on the floor probably left by a tenant that was cooking and wanted to stab me. I overpowered her and took it from her and it slipped through my finger and I stabbed her. It was later that I heard that it was on the chest that I stabbed her."

Happiness is undergoing interrogation at the homicide section of SIB in Yaba, Lagos.

"My Mother Wants To Ruin My Life; I Hate Her For That"

"If my mother gets an opportunity to read this story, I am sure she will feel very bad because she went through a lot because of me and to her, all she is doing right now is helping me out of my present situation and she would feel I do not appreciate her efforts.

I am depressed and I need your help to get out of the present situation I am in. I have learnt a great deal from your column and I know you can help me.

But this is not the issue at hand because I have to go on with my life. After all, she caused the whole problem from the beginning; so, I cannot see any justification for her to be so annoyed, but I am sure she will: I am using this medium to also ask for her forgiveness.

I am the only female child of my parents and perhaps, one could say that was why we are so close. I was not a lazy brat despite our closeness. I did not depend sorely on my mother for finances. I was quite dexterous and, thank God, I got on so well in my business.

As the eldest, I didn't have the opportunity of going to school; I opted for business, but I made sure my younger brothers got some education, the least being secondary school education.

Things started taking a downturn in my life when I met Dele, a relationship my mother never liked from the onset.

I was very close to my mother, but I knew her flaws and I decided to take only the advice that I deemed useful; but despite this, I couldn't take charge of things; my mother almost sent Dele packing from my life at the initial stage of our relationship.

At first, I was overwhelmed by my mother's reaction, how she had her hackles up the first time I brought Dele home. When he left on this fateful day, the first thing my mother complained about was his stature.

I think I should describe Dele, so that you can get a better picture of him. Dele was a stout man and not really appealing. But since I was not after his beauty, I gave a little thought to my mother's lurid expression. After all, I am the one marrying him not my mother. Please what should I do?"

- The above is a letter written by a lady (name withheld) to the in-house counsellor of a National Newspaper, complaining about her mother's interference in her life.

Boko Haram Says AIT Phone-In Interview Call Is Fake

Islamist militant sect Boko Haram has revealed that a purported telephone call made to the African Independent Television (AIT) by a caller pretending to be a Boko Haram spokesperson was fake.
A source close to the sect told Saharareporters that the no one in the sect or any on its leadership initiated a call threatening to attack Lagos and Abuja in 72 hours.

A Nigerian local TV station-African Independent Television- had played a phone call in which an individual claiming to be a representative of Boko Haram threatened to attack Lagos and Abuja in 72 hours.
The caller also requested that Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan unconditionally  meet with the sect in Yobe state, without security, to discuss the terms of a ceasefire, but our most reliable source said the call was a prank pulled by individuals capitalizing on the hysteria created by Boko Haram's recent attacks in northern Nigeria. (Sahara Reporters)

Don Jazzy sets up new record label - Mavin Records. Signs Tiwa Savage

Don Jazzy sets up new record label - Mavin Records. Signs Tiwa Savage

  

The ace producer and former CEO of Mohits Records announced his new label on Twitter a few hours ago. It's no longer Mohits Records, its now Mavin Records (Mavin pronounced as May-vin). And he has signed the new label's first female artist; the unbelievably talented Ms Tiwa Savage. Aside from D'banj and his brother K-Switch, all the other artists under the now defunct Mohits records are with Mavin Records. 

Meanwhile a compilation album titled Solar Plexus, produced by Don Jazzy and featuring Wande Coal, Dr Sid, D'Prince and Tiwa Savage will be released tomorrow May 8th.

The record exec also tweeted that more artists will be signed to the label soon. And erm...go to Wikipedia's definition of Solar Plexus. #thankmelater :-)

Lagos State Government sack all striking doctors

I'm sure you all know that doctors in Lagos State have been on strike for a while now (Since April 24th). Their reason? They want an increase in salary and a downward review of taxes, among other things. Well, today Monday May 7th, the Lagos State Government announced the sack of over 1, 000 striking doctors in its employ. The government has already started recruiting new doctors to replace the sacked ones.

Bukola Saraki Detained By Police In Force Headquarters

After several days of playing hide and seek backed with a mischievous media campaign, the former governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Monday afternoon surrendered to the Nigeria Police Force at its headquarters in Abuja.

Reliable sources at the Force Headquarters confirmed that Saraki arrived their office hours after several buses load of his supporters arrived Abuja in solidarity. He is said to have been detained and undergoing interrogation.

The police said that as governor, Saraki obtained a N9.7 billion loan from the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc through a proxy company, Joy Petroleum, owned by his late aide, Matthew Obahor. But the senator had claimed he had no link to the said loan and that he had no relationship with the company, Joy Petroleum.

How long they would keep him remain to be seen. But the Force spokesman said he will have to be with them until his interrogators are satisfied...

He has now being released on bail by the Nigeria Police FORCE

My Husband Is Desperate To Have Sex With My Daughter –Wife Cries Out

"I didn’t initially understand what was happening. All I knew was that my husband was always at loggerheads with my daughter," said Mrs. Afusat Ogunrinde. 

Lagosians present at the Oshodi Grade 'B' Customary court on Monday were shocked beyond words when a middle aged woman, Afusat Ogunrinde, told the court how her husband, Ibrahim, has been trying all he can to sleep with her teenage daughter, Sidikat.

“There was a time I travelled and when I got back, Sidikat complained to me that my husband woke her up in the middle of the night and asked her to take off her pants and face the wall. I was shocked.”

Afusat said she confirmed her suspicions when an incident happened in her presence. She said, “We stay in a one-room apartment and there was this day Sidikat suddenly screamed in the middle of the night. When I woke up, I saw my husband close to where my daughter slept.

“When I challenged him, he told me he was pursuing a rat and that the rat climbed his feet and ran towards the place where Sidikat slept. I took the matter up with him and since then he became more quarrelsome with her.”

When asked about the authenticity of her mother’s claims, Sidikat told the court that her mother's husband had sexually harassed her. Sidikat said, “All what my mother said is true. When I refused to give in to my stepfather’s advances, he started persecuting me.

“At a time, he would pour water on the bed when I was fast asleep in a bid to put me in a bad light by accusing me of bed-wetting all because I didn’t allow him to sleep with me.”

Afusat said she had to send her daughter packing due to the development. Besides, Afusat told the court that Ibrahim had also threatened to kill her and urged the court to dissolve their 17-year-old marriage, which is blessed with three children.

She said, “He has gone weird of late. He beats me up and would not stop until I get wounded. One night, he came back home drunk, gave me a knife and asked me to kill him. I had to run out of the home to save my life. My life is endangered and as far as I’m concerned, this marriage can no longer stand because it has already broken down.”

Meanwhile, Ibrahim denied making advances to Sidikat but admitted battering his wife. He said, "I took Sidikat as a daughter and would never try to do such a thing. It looked like I was persecuting her because I wanted the best for her.

“Trouble began between me and her when she and my first child altered their school report cards and I tried to correct them. I beat both of them and I was surprised that she rebelled and despised me. Since then, we have been living like cat and mouse in the house.”

Ibrahim added that he battered his wife because she was cheating on him, an allegation which Afusat denied.

After listening to both parties, the acting Court President, Mrs. R.I. Adetola warned them to maintain peace pending the determination of the suit. The case was then adjourned till June 16, for further hearing.

Beyonce and her mum call surrogate rumors crazy

Beyonce addressed the surrogate rumours for the first time to People magazine.

She said:

That was crazy. It wasn’t hurtful, it was just crazy.” “[I thought] ‘Where did they come up with this? It was so crazy and ridiculous"

Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles felt the rumors were especially cruel explaining;

I thought it was very unfair and very cruel that someone would think that someone would be that diabolical to keep up a charade like that for nine months. As a mother it was painful for me to hear the crazy rumors. And I even had people ask me, which was so ridiculous.”

Boko Haram gaining ground

The recent bombing of the This Day News Paper in Abuja and Kano, the
Ado Bayero University and The Jalingo has shown what the dreaded
Islamic group are capable off.
Some Nigerians are calling for dialogue, which is not a bad thing but
a solution need to be found immediately to avert more blood shed. Long
Live Nigeria and God bless our dear Nation