The National Council on Examinations (NECO) has extended the deadline for candidate registration for the 2022 Higher School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school-based candidates.
The deadline that was previously set for Monday, May 30, has now been extended to midnight on Monday, June 20, 2022.
Azeez Sani, the head of the examining body’s information and public relations division, announced the extension in a statement on Monday.
However, Sani did not give specific reasons for the extension, but insisted that the new deadline will be sacrosanct.
The release added that the exam is scheduled to begin on June 27, 2022 and end on Friday, August 12, 2022.
The statement is read in parts; “State ministries of education, directors, commanders and all stakeholders are urged to note that there will be no further extension after that.
“The 2022 NECO High School Certificate Examination (SSCE) will begin on June 27, 2022 and end on Friday, August 12, 2022.”
The statement further noted that candidates must be tested on 76 subjects in the exam.
School-based candidates are currently taking part in the ongoing West African Higher School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which is conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
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A Lagos accountant, Folake Abiola, has committed suicide at her residence at Osapa London, in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the 45-year-old was at her house on Friday when she allegedly drank what was suspected to be insecticide.
She was said to have died shortly after, as her family members, friends and men of the Nigeria Police Force met her lying motionless.
A colleague of the deceased, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said Abiola had been suffering from depression for years, adding that the news of her death was shocking.Contrary to claims online that Abiola committed suicide due to loneliness, lack of a husband, among others, the colleague said her associates knew that she had been in romantic relationships, adding that she ended them due to depression.
The source said, “She had been suffering from depression for years and her death has nothing to do with loneliness or lack of a husband or sex. Within the last seven years, I know she was in a relationship twice.
“She ended those relationships on her own because of depression. She said she did not want to bring someone else into her life when she could not take care of herself. She was going through extreme depression, but people that did not know what she was going through have been posting rubbish online.She was a senior accountant at a telecoms firm and we are colleagues. She took her life herself and was buried that same Friday as she was the only Christian in her family.”
The colleague described Abiola as an angel, a conscientious accountant and a lover of Christ, who was liberal in giving, adding that she had been saying she wanted to end it all before she took her life.
“In Nigeria, we don’t pay attention to mental health; a lot of people are going through depression and it is not necessary that it has to be caused by anything,” she added.
Kunle Adeyanju, also known as ‘The Lion Heart’, travelled 41 days from London to Lagos on a motorcycle. He tells ADEBIMPE OLAJIGA about the journey.
Here is an exclusive interview between the rider and Punch correspondence :
Kindly introduce yourself. My name is Adekunle Adeyanju. I am from Kwara State, Offa to be precise. My marital status is complicated. I have children but the other part is complicated.
Can you please summarise your trip? How was it? It’s been a heck of a ride. It’s been loaded with experience and pain, lots of pain but also lots of beautiful moments. That’s what life is. It’s a combination of both. It’s been a wonderful experience.
How long have you been in London and what’s the aim of your trip? I am Nigerian-based but my family lives in London. We’ve been there for about thirty years. I shuttle between London and Lagos.
Can you name the countries you passed through? So I started from London to France and to Spain, then I crossed into Morocco and visited Casablanca. I also passed through Mauritania, St. Louis, Dakar, Mali, Bamako, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Accra, Lome, Benin before getting to Lagos.
What’s the motivation behind this trip? For me, it’s all about giving back. It’s all about using my skills and lifestyle to touch the lives of the underprivileged. I look at it that every one of us has been blessed. Some people may say theirs are not enough but we have all been blessed. So those things you’ve been given, how can you use them to touch the lives of other people? On this polio project, what was the push? For me, when I started, I said we were going to use it to support a noble cause. It’s a personal thing for me because I knew someone who had polio. As a boy, when I was growing up, we used to play football and swim. But a friend of mine couldn’t join us. Not because he didn’t want to but because he couldn’t do it as he was limited by the polio disease. I knew what he went through before he finally passed on. So, I promised myself that I must do everything possible to ensure that another person doesn’t go through what my friend went through.
I covered twelve thousand kilometres for the whole journey. I didn’t ride during the whole 41 days. There were some days when I had to do some humanitarian work which had to do with going to the field to immunise children, meeting with people who were volunteers doing this work, encouraging them and engaging them.
How do you intend to go back and what’s the plan for your power bike? (Laughs) I will fly back. I am going to auction the bike and the proceeds will go to charity.
You’ve been talking a lot about Zenab? What’s the plan for her? What’s so special about her and tell us how you met her? I knew Zenab six months ago and we’ve been talking. I discovered that she is a lady with a very good heart, she’s very tough. If you ask me, do I like her a lot? The answer is yes. Do I want to be with her? The answer is yes. Whether she will say yes or not, I don’t know. But yes, it is something I’d love to do. We’ve had so many people talk about going through that journey, trying to do the same thing you have done. What do you have to say to them? Well, if you want to do the ride, I encourage everyone to go ahead and do it. It will test your limits. It will inspire you. You will discover your true self. But I also read comments from a lot of people thinking that is how they can get to Europe. It is a lot difficult. It is easier to go by flight because, at every point, we have a very difficult border coast.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A stampede Saturday at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The Associated Press, a shocking development at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy. One witness said the dead included a pregnant woman and many children.
The stampede at the event organized by the Kings Assembly Pentecostal church in Rivers state involved people who came to the church’s annual “Shop for Free” charity program, according to Grace Iringe-Koko, a police spokeswoman.
Such events are common in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, where more than 80 million people live in poverty, according to government statistics.
Saturday’s charity program was supposed to begin at 9 a.m. but dozens arrived as early as 5 a.m. to secure their place in line, Iringe-Koko said. Somehow the locked gate was broken open, creating a stampede, she said.
Godwin Tepikor from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said first responders were able to evacuate the bodies of those trampled to death and bring them to the morgue. Security forces cordoned off the area.
Dozens of residents later thronged the scene, mourning the dead and offering any assistance they could to emergency workers. Doctors and emergency workers treated some of the injured as they lay in the open field. Videos from the scene showed the clothing, shoes and other items meant for the beneficiaries.
One witness who only identified himself as Daniel said “there were so many children” among the dead. Five of the dead children were from one mother, he told the AP, adding that a pregnant woman also lost her life.
Some church members were attacked and injured by relatives of the victims after the stampede, according to witness Christopher Eze. The church declined to comment on the situation.
The police spokeswoman said the seven injured were “responding to treatment.”
The “Shop for Free” event was suspended while authorities investigated how the stampede occurred.
Nigeria has seen similar stampedes in the past.
Twenty-four people died at an overcrowded church gathering in the southeastern state of Anambra in 2013, while at least 16 people were killed in 2014 when a crowd got out of control during a screening for government jobs in the nation’s capital, Abuja. Associated Press journalist Hilary Uguru in Warri, Nigeria, contributed.
It all started on Saturday (May 28) when Blueface’s mom, Karlissa Saffold, hopped on her Instagram page to show off her face, which appears to be swollen. She then called out the “Thotiana” rapper for allowing his girlfriend, Chrisean Rock, to assault her daughter.
“All I know is my son will never bring that person around my family ever again in life and that’s all that matters. Carry on,” she wrote. “And neither will the police or the judge. The End.”
“@bluefasebabyy I will never forgive you for what you did to @kaliweae [Blueface’s sister] & @drjioproducedit [her husband],” he continued. “Never life and I pray God has mercy on your soul.”
Blueface’s sister, Kali Miller, also jumped on her Instagram account and posted a video claiming that the Los Angeles rapper assaulted her and their mother. “Deadass, Blueface is a lame-ass nigga. The nigga dead-ass punched me and my mother in the face,” she said. “And the nigga is lame as fuck and gets no respect.” Kali had some more choice words for Blue on her IG Story as well. “Idc, how much money you got or how big your name is your still a lame ass nigga,” she typed in one post.
However, Blueface shared a video featuring Chrisean Rock on the floor confessing that she was the one who assaulted his mom and sister. The 25-year-old rapper asked Rock why she allegedly laid hands on them. “Why did you beat their ass like that?” he questioned her. Rock replied, “They gave me no option.”
Wanted drug kingpin behind the 2000.6 kilogrammes cannabis sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State last December, Henry Okamaru (a.k.a. Lawrence Ik Okamaru) has been arrested in Ondo state after five months of manhunt by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Two suspects: Matthew Donuwe and Friday Nmborgwu were arrested in connection to the consignment last December., and had confessed that the concrete mixer truck with Lagos registration number SMK 890 XB was loaded with the illicit drug in Ogbese, Ondo state while they travelled for two months on the road before arriving Adamawa where they were eventually arrested by NDLEA operatives.
A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said investigations have revealed that Okamaru is one of the leaders of a cannabis cultivation cartel that operates in the Ondo-Ekiti axis, and shuttles between Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo and Delta State from where he coordinates supplies of illicit consignments to Northern parts of the country and Lagos State.
According to Babafemi, the drug lord has also been identified as a member of an international drug trafficking ring, and shuttles between Nigeria and South Africa where he settles his family. He has a strong control and stake in cannabis cultivation in Ondo, Edo, Ekiti, Osun and Oyo States with large storage facilities in Lagos and Abbi in Delta State from where his consignments are distributed year round.
Also, a 36-year-old Nigerian based in Italy, Nwakanma Uche has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting pellets of heroin.
Nwakanma was nabbed while trying to board Air France Airline enroute Abuja-Paris-Milan, Italy on Sunday 15th May 2022. He was thereafter kept under observation during which he excreted 95 pellets of the illicit drug.
He claimed he came to see his parents in Nigeria after 12 years in Italy and to complete his fathers traditional marriage rites. He added that he was to be paid N1.5million after a successful delivery of the drugs in Milan.
Babafemi said across five states of Edo, Kaduna, Kogi, Akwa Ibom and Oyo, NDLEA operatives intensified their offensive action against drug cartels.
In Edo, a pharmacy along Sapele Road, Benin, was raided last Friday following intelligence and prolonged surveillance, the owner of the store, Thaddeus Uliagbafusi, 58, was arrested while a total of 130,670 tablets of different controlled drugs, 1,396 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 743 bottles of codeine were recovered from a secret location where the drugs are repackaged.
Babafemi said this followed a similar raid of a drug joint operated by Mrs. Christianah Gabriel, 53, at Uromi, Esan North East LGA, Edo state, who was arrested with 25 kilogrammes cannabis.
According to him 15,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection were seized by operatives in Kaduna along Abuja-Kaduna express road, 12,500 tablets of Diazepam were intercepted along Okene-Abuja highway on Thursday 26th May. The drug exhibits were found inside a truck conveying motor spare parts from Onitsha, Anambra to Kaduna.
In Akwa Ibom, a female drug dealer, Irene Bassey was arrested last Saturday, during a search of her house at Ikpa town, Esit Eket LGA where 30.5 kilogrammes cannabis was recovered, while one Muideen Rasaki was nabbed with 90.8 kilogrammes cannabis at Elere, Boluwaji area of Ibadan South-East LGA.
Meanwhile, while commending the officers and men of the Directorate of Intelligence, NAIA, Edo, Kaduna, Kogi, Akwa Ibom and Oyo state Commands of the agency for the series of arrests and seizures in the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) charged them and their compatriots across the country not to relent in their offensive action against drug cartels and their kingpins.
Reality television star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian announced Friday she is endorsing Rick Caruso (D) for mayor of Los Angeles.
In a video posted by Caruso to Twitter, Kardashian said she met with the mayoral candidate, adding “I really believe in what he stands for.”
Kardashian pointed to two major issues in the race — crime and homelessness — that she said she believes Caruso is ready to tackle.
“I think that with him he can offer a better path to a better life for people that are homeless in California and in Los Angeles. I really believe in what he stands for. I was really inspired by him,” she said.
Caruso embraced the endorsement from Kardashian in a Friday tweet.
“Kim, it was a privilege to speak with you and your family about the policies I intend to implement as mayor. We must do better. This is our hometown, and we need to care for our city and her people. Thank you for your confidence. I won’t let you down. #CarusoCan,” he tweeted.
Kardashian said she stays out of politics, but her family was thrown into political the political foray after Kanye West, her ex husband, decided on a bid for president in 2020. West has previously been supportive of former President Trump.
Caruso is running as a Democrat in the primary election that will take place on June 7, but primary challengers have slammed him for his tied to the GOP.
Caruso will also face off against Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) in a race to replace Mayor Eric Garcetti (D). Caruso and Bass currently lead the group in terms of media coverage and fundraising of nine Democrats in vying for the nomination, according to Ballotpedia.
Caruso was previously registered as a Republican until 2011 when he dropped the affiliation, and refused to define his political party. Before running for mayor, he registered as a Democrat.
Brooklyn Beckham has shown off the tattoo he got in honor of his wife Nicola Peltz.
The 23-year-old son of Victoria and David Beckham married the Bates Motel actress in April, after three years of dating.
One month after their wedding, Brooklyn decided to imprint his vows on his body.
He tattooed his wedding vows onto the underside of his right arm.
It reads: “Nicola when you walked down the aisle you took my breath away you look so beautiful tonight and always. Let me start by saying that words cannot even describe my love for you just looking at you I see my future and it feels like a dream.
“You are my world and I continue to fall more in love with you every single day.
“Having you in my life is the best thing that has ever happened to me as you have made me become the man I am today.
“I have been looking forward to this day for so long, because today is the day I get to marry you, my forever babe, my love and my best friend, Nicola – today you become my partner, my other half – and my family and because of that I am the luckiest man in the world to be able to spend the rest of my life with you.
“I promise to be the best partner, the best husband and man and to always take care of you, to make you laugh, feel safe and more importantly loved.
“I can’t wait to live out our dreams together and have lots of babies and be yours forever because you are forever mine.”
He already has several tattoos in tribute to 27-year-old Nicola, including her name on his neck, and “lovers” on his index finger.
In continuation of its clampdown on cultists and other criminals across the state, the operatives of Ogun state police command, on Tuesday, May 24th, apprehended four cultists, where they were holding a nocturnal meeting.
A statement released by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, said the suspects were arrested at different locations in Oke_lantoro and Technical college Leme, following credible information received by the police that the suspects were meeting in those locations.
”Upon the information, the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, ordered the CSP Shobiyi Oluwatoshin led anti cultists section to storm the place and dislodge the hoodlums.
In compliance with the CP’S order, the team moved to the scene at about 8:30 pm where the four amongst the hoodlums were arrested while others escaped.
Recovered from them are; cutlass, battle axes and criminal charms.”the statement in part read
Meanwhile, the state commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has assured the good people of Ogun state that the command will not relent in its efforts to rid the state of criminal elements.
He, therefore, appealed to the general public to partner with the police in waging war against the criminals by informing the police whenever a strange gathering is noticed in their vicinity.
A teenage gunman killed at least 19 young children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, prompting a furious President Joe Biden to denounce the US gun lobby and vow to end the nation’s cycle of mass shootings.
The attack in Uvalde — a small community about an hour from the Mexican border — was the deadliest US school shooting in years and the latest in a spree of bloody gun violence across America.
“It’s time to turn this pain into action for every parent, for every citizen of this country,” Biden said, his voice heavy with emotion.
“It’s time for those who obstruct or delay or block common-sense gun laws — we need to let you know that we will not forget,” he said.
“As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, addressing an earlier news conference, named the suspect as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old local resident, and a US citizen.
“He shot and killed, horrifically and incomprehensibly,” Abbott said.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials told CNN the gunman is believed to have shot his grandmother before heading to Robb Elementary School around noon where he abandoned his vehicle and entered with a handgun and a rifle, wearing body armor.
The gunman was killed by responding officers, the officials said, adding later two teachers also died in the attack.
“Right now there’s 19 children that were killed by this evil gunman, as well as two teachers from this school,” DPS spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez told NBC News.
More than a dozen children were also wounded in the attack at the school, which teaches more than 500, mostly Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students.
Uvalde Memorial Hospital said on Facebook it had received 13 children while University Health hospital in San Antonio said on Twitter it had received a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl, both in critical condition, and two other girls aged nine and 10.
At least one Border Patrol agent responding to the incident was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the shooter, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Marsha Espinosa tweeted.
Footage showed small groups of children weaving through parked cars and yellow buses, some holding hands as they fled under police escort from the school, which teaches students aged around seven to 10 years old.
It was the deadliest such incident since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed.
The White House ordered flags to be flown at half-mast in mourning for the victims — whose deaths sent a wave of shock through a country still scarred by the horror of Sandy Hook.
Ted Cruz, a pro-gun rights Republican senator from Texas, tweeted that he and his wife were “lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.”
But Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook shooting took place, made an impassioned appeal for concrete action to prevent further violence.
“This isn’t inevitable, these kids weren’t unlucky. This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day,” Murphy said on the Senate floor in Washington.
“I’m here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues: Find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely.”
The deadly assault in Texas follows a series of mass shootings in the United States this month.
On May 14, an 18-year-old man shot 10 people dead at a Buffalo, New York grocery store.
Wearing heavy body armor and wielding an AR-15 rifle, the self-declared white supremacist livestreamed his attack, having reportedly targeted the store because of the large surrounding African American population.
The following day, a man blocked the door of a church in Laguna Woods, California, and opened fire on its Taiwanese-American congregation, killing one person and wounding five.
Despite recurring mass-casualty shootings, multiple initiatives to reform gun regulations have failed in the US Congress, leaving states and local councils to strengthen — or weaken — their own restrictions.
The National Rifle Association has been instrumental in fighting against stricter US gun laws. Abbott and Cruz are listed as speakers at a forum that is being held by the powerful lobby in Houston, Texas later this week.
The United States suffered 19,350 firearm homicides in 2020, up nearly 35 percent compared to 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest data.
A Nigerian man has landed in court for stalking a woman in the UK.
Oluwaseyi Elemide, 26, an accountant admitted stalking a beautician who he failed to impress after pestering her, banging on the windows of her London salon, and sending unwanted emails.
According to Mail Online, he badgered Demi Witter at her Lavender Hill business in Battersea, bringing a gift of tea and a card, banging on the salon windows, and following her on Instagram between July 20 and 27 last year.
Wimbledon Magistrates Court heard that the University of Northampton graduate even wrote her the clumsy romantic poem: ‘Roses are red, violets are blue. We fit together like a bespoke three-piece and dapper shoes.’
Nigerian-born Elemide, of Putney, pleaded guilty to stalking Ms. Witter, 28, involving serious alarm and distress last July.
In a victim impact statement, Ms. Witter said: ‘His behaviour is frightening and I am worried he will wait outside and follow me home. He turned up unannounced three times in a week.
‘I think he is infatuated with me and I am stressed out and anxious because of this. I have to work with the door locked and I am afraid he will confront me in the street.’
Prosecutor Corran Helme told the court Elemide first approached Ms Witter, who quit a sociology degree to start her business, in the street.
‘He tried to engage her in conversation and informed her he had his own business and engaged in an arms-length business level and she told him she was not interested,’ he told the court.
‘She gave him her business card and week later received an email from the defendant, explaining he could help her business and she replied, informing him no help was needed.
‘However, he did not stop and began following her on Instagram. She blocked him and he sent her an email.’
Elemide wrote: ‘How are you? Some of the content was good on Instagram. You blocked me, what did I do to deserve that?’.
He then attended the victim’s busy salon and left a box of teabags and a greeting card wishing her luck.
Ms. Witter told Elemide to grow up and asked how old he was, repeating he was not welcome at the salon and she would call the police if she saw him again.
Two minutes later he returned to the salon window, showing the victim a post-it note with his age written on it.
Elemide even tried to get an appointment at the salon, emailing Ms. Witter: ‘Hi. I’d like to have a booking to try something with my brows’.
When she begged to be left alone he replied: ‘Jesus Christ. What the f****’s your problem?’.
Ms. Witter and her female business partner were alone in the salon at 5.45pm on July 27. ‘Suddenly there was a loud banging on the window and the defendant was there again,’ Mr Helme said.
‘They felt afraid and hid behind one of the screens in the salon.’
Elemide’s lawyer Alex Mullen told the court: ‘He had a tough time during Covid and his restaurant business closed and he is now in an accounting role full-time for a television and film production company.
‘He has a degree in accounting and finance from the University of Northampton and this infatuation has sadly landed him in court.’
Elemide was handed a 12-month community order, which includes 50 hours community service and up to 20 days of a recommended activity requirement.
The court also made him subject to an indefinite restraining order, prohibiting contact with Ms. Witter or going to the salon, and he must pay £85 costs and a £95 victim surcharge.
A suspected car snatcher has been beaten to death by angry residents in Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Spokesperson of the command, SP Gambo Isah, who confirmed the incident in a statement on said the suspect belonged to a notorious syndicate of armed robbers and car snatchers.
According to the PPRO, a five-man gang attacked a 52-year-old man and snatched his car at gunpoint.
One of the suspects was intercepted by some residents of Charanchi and killed while taking the vehicle outside the state.
“Today 21/05/2022 at about 1200hrs, a distress call was received that armed robbers numbering about five (5) in a motor vehicle, attacked one Alhaji Usman Abdulmumini, ‘M’, aged 52yrs of Charanchi LGA, while supervising work at his farm, in Kirkini village, Kankia LGA, at gun point and snatched away his motor vehicle Honda, Continue Discussion, blue in colour, with registration number CRC 135 KA, valued two million and six hundred thousand naira (N2,600,000:00K),” the statement read.
“On receipt of the report, DPO Charanchi led a team of policemen and blocked the Katsina – Kano highway at Charanchi town.
“Consequently, the team successfully intercepted the stolen motor vehicle driven by one of the robbers, who tried to beat the police checkpoint and reversed back, but was subsequently intercepted by some community members and beating to death
“In the course of searching the motor vehicle, one Makarov Pistol with five (5) rounds of 0.8mm ammunition was recovered in his possession
“The Command is making efforts with a view to arresting other members of the syndicate that escaped in the other motor vehicle. Investigation is ongoing.”
Prince Andrew is reportedly set to appear alongside the Queen for Garter Day at Windsor Castle on June 13 after his sex abuse scandal and ties to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Mail Online, the Duke of York will take part in the ceremony alongside other senior royals in what is one of the most important ceremonies in the Royal calendar. His name will also appear in the next day’s Court Circular, and will attend Garter Day ceremonies as a Royal Knight.
Andrew was stripped of all his honorary military titles and designation HRH in January in light of the civil sex abuse case with Virginia Giuffre – a victim of Epstein who claimed Andrew had sexually assaulted her when she was aged just 17.
The Duke of York and Giuffre ultimately settled out of court for an undisclosed fee earlier this year, but the settlement is believed to be worth millions of pounds and the case has destroyed Andrew’s reputation.
There are now fears Andrew’s attendance at Garter Day celebrations could overshadow the event, after he had reportedly agreed to step back from public life following the conclusion of the case.
The annual iconic Garter Day procession is one of the most traditional ceremonies in the Queen’s calendar.
Hundreds are expected to gather in Windsor to watch the procession, though it is not known whether The Queen will take part given her recent mobility and health issues.
A 27-year-old Kenyan man who chopped off his ex-girlfriend’s hand after she rejected him was charged with causing her grievous harm.
The suspect, Joel Okongo is accused of severing the high school student’s left hand in Silanga area of Kibera in Nairobi on April 22, 2022.
Okongo has also been charged with threatening to kill the victim’s brother after allegedly warning he would chop off his head.
Okongo and the minor were previously in a relationship but they broke up as she wanted to continue with her education.
The suspect had sought to revive the relationship with the minor during the school holidays but she declined his advances which angered the suspect who started issuing threats to her warning her of undisclosed consequences.
On the fateful day, the minor was returning to her parents’ house after visiting a relative when she was waylaid by the Okongo who allegedly aimed a panga at her neck but she shielded herself with her left hand which was severed. The hand was cut into two.
Okongo then escaped into the slums as the minor fell down bleeding profusely. She was rushed to a hospital from where she was referred to the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Okongo denied the charges before senior principal magistrate Esther Bhoke of Kibera law courts.
He was released on a surety bond of Sh200, 000 and an alternative cash bail of Sh60, 000.
The case will be mentioned on June 21 before hearing starts on August 18, 2022.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have had their third wedding.
The couple, who had a wedding in Las Vegas in April and a legal wedding in Santa Barbara on May 15, had their third wedding in Portofino on Sunday evening, May 22.
43 years old Kourtney, looked stunning in a white figure-hugging minidress as she got married to Travis, 46, in an alfresco ceremony at the medieval Castello Brown fortress.
Kourtney’s veil was adorned with floral embroidery with an image of the Virgin Mary. As Kourtney entered the garden where her wedding held, a woman sang a moving rendition of Ave Maria.
The couple took their vows at a grotto of the Virgin Mary after which they returned to the historic house where it is believed they had prepared for the ceremony.
Resident Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) President, Dr. Brian Sampa, has said that homosexuality is a disorder.
Dr. Sampa, who stated this on his official Facebook page on Monday, May 23, also said that the anus is not a sexual organ but for excretion.
Read his post below:
HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DISORDER, THOSE ARE PATIENTS WHO NEED MEDICAL HELP
In Genetics a man has XY chromosomes while a woman has XX.
Man has More testesterone while woman has more oestrogen.
Man produces sperms while woman produces eggs.When they meet the sperm fertilizes the egg to produce offsprings.
Because of oestrogen a woman has breasts,hips,nice voice and other female characteristics. Because of testesterone a man is masculine, hairy,deep voice and other male sexual characteristics.
Due to this make up a man admires a woman while a woman admires a man that’s what makes them come together for the purpose of procreation.
About body parts; The organs involved in procreation are penis in males and vagina in females.
Note:THE ANUS IS NOT A SEXUAL ORGAN!!!! It’s for excretion.
Now in nature nothing is perfect so we have conditions where a child is born with two sexual organs.
In this case the best thing to do is to check the genetic makeup of that child.If the child is XY then the operation will be to close the vagina and maintain the penis, while if the child is XX the surgery will be to remove the penis and maintain the vagina.Its that simple.
Anything apart from What has been said above is a disorder and requires medical attention.
**IF A MAN ADMIRES ANOTHER MAN THEY NEED MEDICAL HELP.
**IF A WOMAN ADMIRES ANOTHER WOMAN THEY ALSO NEED HELP
Everyone has got the right to medical attention, don’t deprive people of their rights to be treated by accepting their diseases.
ITS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT TO BE HOMOSEXUAL ITS A DISORDER!!
A Kyiv court Monday ruled that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian was guilty of war crimes and handed him a life sentence, in the first verdict against Moscow’s forces since their invasion.
“The court has found that (Vadim) Shishimarin is guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment,” judge Sergiy Agafonov said. Shishimarin, a Russian sergeant, admitted early in court to killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the first days of the Kremlin’s offensive in north-east Ukraine.
Some Civil Society Organizations have demanded justice for the late Obinna Udeze, the 19-month-old pupil of Arise and Shine Nursery and Primary School, Asaba, Delta State, who was reportedly flogged to death by the proprietress of the school and her son.
Sahara Reporters learnt that the CSOs led by Harrison Gwamishu of Behind Bars had visited the school on Saturday upon learning that activities were about to resume there.
Gwamishu said the school building, which was earlier sealed by the state government, was reopened and some works were ongoing to allow for prompt resumption.
However, the CSOs stormed the school and re-sealed it, stating that nothing will be done on the premises until justice is served.
Meanwhile, Ebenezer Omejalile of the Advocates for Children and Vulnerable People’s Network (ACVPN) said the police had released the accused persons, Mabel Nwagbo and Joshua Nwagbo.
He alleged that the Delta State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) had not done a thorough investigation but restricted their investigation to the Asaba Police Division report which had a lot of flaws.
According to him, the State Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Community Support Services, Bridget Anyafulu is a close associate of the proprietress and her family and has done everything possible to frustrate the case and the moves being made to get justice for Obinna’s mother.
Meanwhile, Gift Ohanazeze, the mother of the deceased, once lamented how Anyafulu had shamed her for her financial situation when she was invited to the Commissioner’s office.
She claimed the commissioner and two other people present — one who identified as a doctor/lecturer and another who identified as a Minister, urged her to repent and accept Christ as she had not lived a good life by having a child without a father.
According to her, the Commissioner and her partners said that even if little Obinna had not been beaten to death, he would have still died when he died as that was when he was destined to die.
Omejalile noted, “The Delta State Government has practically abandoned Obinna’s mother in her quest to get justice. We are all aware of the intrigues of this case.
“We have been monitoring events in Delta right from the first time the incident occurred there, then after three days, Obinna gave up the ghost.
“There were a lot of conspiracies from all quarters. The Delta State Police Command SCID didn’t further their investigation into this matter, they restricted their investigation to the Asaba Primary Police Division report and this gave room for a lot of discrepancies.
“It is very shocking to believe the Delta State Governor and his wife who behaved in a bravado way by paying the late Obinna’s mother a condolence visit with their entourage and doing as if heaven would come down there.
“Afterwards, things went from bad to worse with the inaction of the Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs who was hypothetical about sympathy towards the mother of the late Obinna. Deep down in her (Anyafulu’s) heart, she’s an associate of the proprietress of the school, Mabel Nwagbo and her son, Joshua Nwagbo.
“The Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs was practically working against the interest of Obinna’s mother’s quest to get justice. At a point. Commissioner Bridget addressed the late Obinna’s mother as an unfit, irresponsible mother. She justified that the late Obinna deserved to die.
“It should be on record that ACVPN through the efforts of Comrade Savior Iche has been supporting the late Obinna’s mother, all this while until recently we got her an apartment and a store where she can operate a hair salon so that she can fend for herself.
“Just on Saturday, 21st May 2022 we got a call from Obinna’s mother that the alleged murderess, Proprietress Mabel Nwagbo had been released and it appears like she’s about to resume operation in the school because she saw some of her staff members at the school which was closed down by the Delta State Government after the public outcry. The school is now reopened, the question is who reopened the school?
“This is the most irresponsible action by Delta State Government whose Governor is a medical doctor but could not ensure justice is duly served. No form of support no thanks to the heartless Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs.
“As of May 22, 2022, we heard the Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs had resigned her position in her quest to contest for a seat in the Delta State House of Assembly. Monday, 23rd May 2022 is the next court sitting.
“As of yesterday, we heard some Comrades in Delta State stormed the school and sealed the school demanding justice for the late Obinna and his family.
“We will not be deterred until we get justice for the late Obinna’s mother, while we continue to support her. Shame on the Delta State Government for not honouring its promise to the late Obinna’s mother. But the Delta State Government could score cheap popularity under deceit and false pretence.
“The Delta Government should note that the voice of the people is the voice of God. No child deserves to die the way the late Obinna died. He was only 3 years old before his life was cut short.
“Just yesterday, it was all over the news that the Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa’s daughter won the seat for Delta State Ika North. The Governor should note that what is good for his daughter is also good for the late Obinna.”
Two visually impared lovers got married in a wedding ceremony that attracted over 15 Catholic priests and government functionaries in Anambra state.
Thankgod Ohaeri, a legal practitioner and Amarachi Nwokedi, a staff of Anambra State Ministry of Education, walked down the aisle at St. Peter’s Catholic Church Nkwelle, Awka on Saturday, May 21.
Thankgod hails from Ohokobe Ndume Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area, Abia State, while his hearttrob, Amarachi Nwokedi, is a native of Umunnebuogbu Okohia, Ihiala, Ihiala council area.
In an interview with the Anambra State Broadcasting Sevice, ABS, the groom spoke about how he met his wife and how some people tried to discourage him from getting married.
“Today, I feel great walking down the aisle with my lovely wife. It was indeed ordained by God. By the grace of God I feel I have moved to the next level of life. I met my wife when I was a student. She was living close to my apartment and I was the one helping her. So from there, we fell in love and that’s what led to today’s occasion,” Thankgod narrated.
“There were many challenges, but with God on our side we have been scaling through. Though my wife is blind, she’s doing well. It is a thing of joy to be with her. When I said I want to marry, many people were against me, but as a man I know what I want and I went for it.
“I realized that there is ability in disability, that a person is blind doesn’t mean he/she can’t go to school. My wife is a civil servant and works in the Ministry of Education. So I wish we will continue in the mutual understanding we have built, because understanding matters so much in any marriage”, said the groom.
On her part, the bride said she is so happy getting married to Thankgod.
“This is the best time of my life since I was born. Thanks be to God for achieving my dream. I was attracted to my husband because he is a God fearing person, nice and loving.”
The police in Ogun have arrested a 25-year-old class teacher of a nursery and primary school in Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu North Local Government Area for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of his 13-year-old pupil.
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, police spokesman stated in Abeokuta on Saturday that the teacher was arrested on Thursday.
He stated that the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at the Ago-Iwoye Divisional Police Headquarters by the victim’s mother.
Oyeyemi added that the victim’s mother reported at the police station that the suspect lured her daughter to his house after school lesson at 4:30 p.m., and forcefully had unlawful carnal knowledge of her.
The mother took the blood-soaked pant of the victim to the station as exhibit.
The police spokesman stated also that upon receipt of the report, the Divisional Police Officer at Ago-Iwoye, SP Noah Adekanye, sent detectives to arrest the randy teacher.
“During interrogation, the teacher initially denied having done anything with the victim, but when the victim confronted him, he was unable to say anything further,’’ Oyeyemi stated.
The suspect has been taken to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and possible prosecution, Oyeyemi added.
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