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Man stops recruiter from hiring his girlfriend because ‘she’s not allowed to work’

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A recruiter for a company has shared the unbelievable decision a man took on his girlfriend’s behalf that prevented her from being hired.

According to the recruiter identified as Abiodun Atobatele, the lady applied for the job, was interviewed and fortunately out of all applicants, she was among the 7 people who passed the test and was selected to be employed for the company

However, the lady didn’t acknowledge her employment just like other employees, and the company decided to call the number she provided to know her reason.

A man picked the call and introduced himself as her boyfriend. He went ahead to inform the employers that his girlfriend is “not allowed to work”.

Abiodun wrote;

”Things are happening, We recently did some recruitment.

The interview was online.

We employed 7 young people. The 7 that did very well.

When we sent the letters, one of them didn’t not acknowledge it. We then reached out to her over Phone. A guy picked the call and said, “I am her boy friend and she is not allowed to work, bye bye.”

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Tragedy as fire guts section of popular Balogun Market, Lagos

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Traders at the Popular Balogun market, Lagos Island have been met with tragedy just few days to Christmas as fire razed down shops and goods worth millions of naira early Thursday morning.

Some owners of the affected shops were seen heartbroken seeing their shops and goods burnt to ashes thereby dashing their hopes of the festive season sales.

The outbreak which now seems like a yearly occurrence was reported to have razed down the market in November 2019 and January 2020 making this the third time in a row.

The cause of the fire outbreak is yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report.

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Husband sends wife packing after finding N3.6m in her account whereas their son died over N25,000 hospital bills

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A woman has reportedly been sent out of her matrimonial home by her husband after he made a shocking discovery regarding her finances.

The husband reportedly found out that she has N3.6 million in her personal account but she kept quiet about it while their son was battling in the hospital.

He made the discovery after their son died due to N25,000 hospital bills which they could not pay.

It was also gathered that the wife refused to make the payments owing to dispute with her husband who she claimed was not living up to his responsibility of catering for his household.

She maintained that the money in her account is her hard-earned money and that the man had no right to get angry and walk away from the marriage because she did not bring it out.

Nigerians have faulted both parents for not putting aside their differences to cater for their child who is now late.

becca__queen: This can’t be real..I refuse to believe this bullshit onG cus I wanna believe a mother if not the dead beat dad..a mother will drop everything just to see her child get better…so this must be fake

koda_moriss: Maybe the wife got tired of carrying the family…. Wetin even concern me sef

itz_raymaaly: I am not a judge and can’t judge any human for mistakes made from their own ignorance but this woman ehehe if I have a say make she just die coz she doesn’t deserve to live !!! She birthed that boy and seeing him dying should move her to do the extreme if she ever had love for that boy as a mother would

idikarhchoro: They are both not worthy to be called parents!
ifyike: There’s more to the story. Parents go about begging or borrowing to save a life. They both wanted the child dead.

mixx_yin: There’s a reason why mothers are mothers and worthy of the title this woman is not a mother cos mothers don’t care about whatever their children comes first

naija_rich_kids: So they both had funds and refused to pay. Your child’s health is not the weapon to use to make a point.

productreviewsbyressy: Probably saving to build a house in the village. Nigeria as a country and the so called parent failed their own child. Cruel to dwell on money when a child is in critical condition. Goodness lord.

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Police confirms killing of Kaduna lawmaker

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The Kaduna State Police Command on Wednesday confirmed the killing of a lawmaker in the state, Rilwanu Aminu Gudagau.

The command’s spokesman, Mohammed Jalige, disclosed this in a statement in Kaduna.

He said the Command got wind of the unfortunate incident through the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Saye Division, Zaria.

Gadagau, who represented Giwa West Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, was killed by gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of Wednesday.

The statement read: “At about 0900hrs information received from a good samaritan from Zura village has it that an unidentified motionless human body was seen lying in the bush hence, the report to the appropriate authorities for urgent action.

“The DPO on getting the information immediately mobilized and led a team of policemen to the scene where a close and physical observation of the corpse was carried out and all necessary photographs taken.

“However signs of violent injuries were noticed all over the lifeless body.

“The body was thereafter evacuated to Hajiya Gambo Sawaba Hospital for autopsy.

“Preliminary investigation reveals the Identity of the deceased as one Hon. Rilwanu Aminu Gadaga, a member of Kaduna State House of Assembly representing Giwa west constituency.”

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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey appoints three Nigerians to head Bitcoin Trust fund

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Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, has appointed three Nigerians and one South African to act as the board of his Bitcoin Trust (BTrust) fund which will be disbursed for development in Africa and India.

In February, Dorsey, who resigned as Twitter CEO late November, had announced a BTrust [with the ‘B’ carrying bitcoin symbol] in collaboration with American rapper, Shawn “Jay Z” Carter.

BTrust is a fund with 500 BTC capital base worth N10,014,265,775.40 ($24,426,230), when pegged to late Monday’s market price $48,815.35, and will be managed by four Africans, without oversight from Dorsey or Jay Z.

In a late statement released on his Twitter page on Wednesday, Dorsey revealed the identities of the BTrust board, three of whom are Nigerians; Abubakar Nur Khalil, Obi Nwosu, Ojoma Ochai, and South African, Carla Kirk-Cohen.

Who are BTrust board members?

The individuals were selected from a pool of 7,000 applicants who applied to be on the board, which was initially meant to be occupied by three directors.

Obi Nwosu is the Co-founder of Coinfloor, a serd-level cryptocurrency startup, which has raised $300,000 in funding round.

Ojoma Ochai is the Managing Partner at CcHUBCreative (Co-Creation Hub), a technology innovation workspace, accelerating startup growth in Nigeria and selected part in Africa – CcHUB has raised $5.5 million to aid its operation.

Abubakar Nur Khalil is a bitcoin core contributor, and had received $50,000 in BTC for his work on Bitcoin wallet software from Human Rights Foundation (HRF) in May 2021.

Khalil is also the CTO of Recursive Capital, an earlyon-stage crypto VC fund, supporting founders building critical web 3.0 infrastructure.

Carla Kirk-Cohen is a software engineer at Lightning Labs. She previously worked for Luno, a South African cryptocurrency Exchange and Wallet firm, working on the crypto-ops team.

CBN rule to affect BTrust Nigerian beneficiaries

While the BTrust funds will be disbursed in India and Africa, it’s unsure how it will work in Nigeria considering the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned cryptocurrency activities in Nigeria.

This threatens the benefit available for Nigerians, although the court in the country has ruled that the CBN circular outlawing cryptocurrency isn’t law or supported by the constitution.

However, the CBN hasn’t publicly acknowledged the ruling, and the Godwin Emefiele-led financial regulator has continued to clampdown on bitcoin and possible crypto bank accounts through Nigerian commercial banks.

Any account that receives large amount and owned by a youth is targeted and closed by banks like Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank, Kuda and other industry players.

This creates a bottleneck around the channel the funds will be disbursed to Nigerian beneficiaries, considering the purpose, sender and recipient will likely be stated on documents.

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Ogun monarch’s son, woman found dead inside car without clothes

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Azeez Ilias, a 37-year-old son of a traditional ruler in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been found dead in his car parked in front of a building at Ago Egun in the Idiroko area of the state.

Ilias who was said to be the son of the Baale of Idoforo community in the state was reportedly found with a dead woman simply identified as Deborah.

Confirming the incident in Abeokuta on Wednesday, the Police Public Relations Officer in state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the two persons were found without clothes at the location.

Although Oyeyemi noted that they could have been murdered by unknown persons, he said the outcome of an investigation into the incident should be awaited.

Yes, we are investigating. We want to know what led to the death of the two of them. We are suspecting that they were murdered, we are highly suspecting that.

We don’t want to pre-empt what the outcome of the investigation is going to be. Let’s conclude our investigation for further details about the incident,” Oyeyemi said.

Also, Moruf Yusuf, a spokesman for the Idiroko Divisional Headquarters of So-Safe Corps – a state government-owned indigenous security outfit, had confirmed the incident to reporters on Tuesday, saying the bodies were discovered at about 2 am on Monday.

It was gathered that the dead man’s clothes were found inside a gutter in front of a house suspected to be the residence of the dead woman.

“The robust relationship between the So-Safe corps and the Ogun State Police Command yielded a wonderful result as the So-Safe Corps, a state agency and Idiroko Police Divisional Headquarters jointly smelt a car parked to be suspicious and as approached, found two bodies lying lifeless in the car,” Yusuf said.

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Man attacks Bishop Oyedepo on the pulpit [Video]

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Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo was recently attacked while preaching on the pulpit.

According to PM News, an unidentified man tactically made his way past the security at Canaanland, Ogun state to accost  the clergyman.

The incident reportedly occurred two Sundays before the Shiloh programme.

In a video making rounds online, the intruder could be seen sneaking up behind security and grabbing one of Bishop Oyedepo legs and almost bringing him down before the security operatives quickly intervened.

PM news reports that the man was bundled out of the church and since that ugly incident, security had been beefed up in the church.

The security operatives who were on duty when the incident occurred have also been changed.

Watch the video HERE

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Man returns thousands of dollars mistakenly paid into his account

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A young Nigerian man, Olasupo Abideen, has received an award for his honesty after he returned the sum of $2397 (N991,159.50) which was mistakenly paid into his account in August 2021.

In a post on his Facebook page, the young man revealed the money was mistakenly paid into his account by a company he was consulting for.

According to Olasupo, what he did was normal but the society has become so rotten that such an honest act is frowned at.

His honest act caught the attention of the Gani Fawehinmi Integrity Awards and he was given a plaque on Friday, December 10.

He shared the good news on Facebook, writing;

“In August, when I refunded a 2397 US dollars that was paid mistakenly by an organisation I consulted for, it was simply the normal thing to do.

Unfortunately, however, our society has come to frown at such act. People are often described as dumb for returning money they found. For some, they lost an opportunity that came to them easily.

This has shown the depth of our moral crises and how we choose to celebrate ill-gotten wealth. People no longer care whether you make money legally, as long as you make the money.

The consequences of this seemingly new mindset has left our society in a terrible state.

Returning that money in August caught the attention of the Gani Fawehinmi Integrity Awards (GFIIA) and on Friday, 10th of December, I was awarded the Gani Fawehinmi Integrity award.

From 838 Nominations to 21 to 3 Finalist in my category and to being the recipient. I am grateful to you all that voted for me during the last stage most especially Egbon Ogundipe Segun.

I’m excited to be a recipient of such a prestigious award that was created in honour of a national icon, Late Gani Fawehinmi.

It is also an opportunity for me to remind Nigerians, especially young people, of the place of integrity, transparency and accountability in our daily actions. We cannot build a better society without holding on to these values.

I dedicate this award to my parents-Mr and Mrs Olasupo for instilling that discipline to me since I was young and to every young Nigerian striving to make their lives better while maintaining moral decency. Moral decency has become difficult to achieve today but we must not stop doing what is right.

#IntegrityAwards

#reward.”

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Nigerian govt dismisses reports on nullification of weddings conducted at Ikoyi registry

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The Federal Government on Tuesday evening dismissed as false and misleading reports that the Federal High Court, Lagos, has nullified all weddings conducted by the Ikoyi marriage registry.

The Eti Osa local government area of Lagos had in a suit marked FHC/ LS/CS/816/18 challenged the power of the Ministry of Interior to operate marriage registries, conduct weddings, and issue marriage certificates.

Reports claimed earlier on Tuesday that one Justice D. E. Osiagor, who ruled in the suit, declared that all marriages solemnized in the registry were invalid.

He held that only the local government marriage registries were empowered to solemnize unions between two people by the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

However, in a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr. Shuaib Belgore, the federal government described reports on the annulment of weddings conducted by the registry as a “deliberate distortion” of the court’s decision.

The statement read: “The attention of the Ministry of Interior has been drawn to news making the rounds on social media claiming that the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared all Marriages conducted by Ikoyi marriage registry to be illegal and invalid.

“We would like to state that this statement is false, misleading and a deliberate distortion of the decision of the Court in Suit No:FHC/L/CS/816/18 between Eti-Osa Local Government Council & 3 others v. Honourable Minister of Interior and 2 others, where the Honourable Court held that only the Local Government councils can conduct valid marriages in Nigeria.”

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I’ve bought four iPhone 13 in two weeks, I can pay your bills – Viral Nigerian lady slams critics (Video)

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A young Nigerian woman who is fast becoming a viral sensation has slammed people criticising her for chasing clout, saying they need to respect her.

The lady known as Precious Ubani had earlier shared a video of herself on a motorbike commonly known as Okada and she claimed that it was her first time using such mode of transportation.

In a separate video, she visited the popular Wuse market in Abuja and expressed shock that Nigerians buy second hand clothes (Okrika).

Precious’ videos went viral and she received a lot of criticisms from netizens saying that she is living a fake life.

Reacting, she slammed her critics and showed off an iPhone which she claimed is the 4th iPhone 13 has bought within two weeks.

She then told those sending her hateful messages that she can comfortably pay their bills.

Watch the video HERE

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Bloody Monday, as bandits take over Kaduna-Zaria highway, kill many, kidnap dozens

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It was a bloody Monday along the Kaduna-Zaria highway after a band of heavily armed bandits took over the road, killing scores of travellers while abducting many others.

Information garnered by Ripples Nigeria had it that the deadly attack occurred at Kofar Gayan on the outskirt of Zaria around 8pm on Monday, with that terrorists shooting sporadically at vehicles in order to immobilize them and abduct the passengers.

Eyewitnesses said the attackers succeeded in abducting many travellers and took them into the bush before the arrival of security agents.

“They kidnapped many travellers, some fled, while others were shot at. It will be difficult to determine the number of those killed or abducted,” a witness was quoted as saying.

“The terrorists were many and fully armed. They were shooting as if in a war situation. It was scary. I can tell you that they may have killed over 10 passengers and they also kidnapped many other people.

“They had a field day operating for many hours before security operatives came but the damage had been done by then,” a passenger who managed to escape the carnage also narrated.

The state police spokesman, ASP Mohammed Jalige, as well as the state Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, were yet to confirm the incident as calls to their phones were not responded to before going to press.

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Preacher converts three masquerades to Christianity

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A video which has gone viral on social media shows the moment a Nigerian pastor converted three masquerades to Christianity.

The preacher approached them on the road and urged them to give their lives to Christ, after which he took their canes and threw away.

When they agreed, he asked them to kneel down and then started praying for them to become born anew in Christ.

As he prayed for them to never put on the costumes again, and to change their ways, they wholeheartedly accepted by saying Amen.

Watch the video HERE

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Fire razes shopping complex in Computer Village, Lagos

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An inferno that happened in the early hours of Monday morning has razed a shopping complex in the Computer Village part of Ikeja, in Lagos State.

Although nobody was reported dead, the inferno destroyed goods and valuables worth millions of naira at the complex located at no 18, Otigba Street.

Ripples Nigeria learnt that men of the fire service who arrived promptly at the scene of the fire outbreak prevented the inferno from consuming other buildings

As of the time of filing this report, the cause of the fire outbreak was yet unknown.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu said policemen were drafted to the scene to protect the Firefighters and others.

“The fire has been put out successfully. No life was lost in the incident. However, a valuable property that estimates are not yet known was destroyed. The cause of the fire outbreak is not yet known. An investigation is ongoing,” he said.

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Nigerian pastor arraigned for ‘arranging’ 60 fake marriages in the US in 7 years

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A 50-year-old Nigerian pastor based in the United States, Joshua Olatokunbo Shonubi, has been indicted before a federal grand jury for allegedly arranging over 60 fake marriages for immigrants to enable them get resident permits.

Pastor Shonubi, the Senior Pastor of New Life City Church, Inc. in Hyattsville, Maryland, was also on Friday, charged with “conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, visa fraud and for presenting false documents to a federal government agency, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain permanent resident status for foreign nationals by arranging marriages to U.S. citizens.”

The indictment of Shonubi was announced by the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Erek L. Barron, and he is expected to have an initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson.

The seven-count indictment was handed down to the suspect from at least January 2014, through January 2021, indicating that he engaged in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain immigration benefits for foreign nationals by arranging their marriages to United States citizens who served as their sponsors for permanent residence in the United States.

The indictment alleges that Shonubi received thousands of dollars from foreign nationals in exchange for connecting them with U.S. citizen sponsors and facilitating their marriages.

The indictment also alleges that Shonubi, “often utilizing his role as pastor of New Life Church, directly or through others, recruited and groomed U.S. citizens, including economically disadvantaged citizens, with payments and promises of money in exchange for marrying foreign nationals, then sponsoring the foreign nationals for permanent residence in the United States through USCIS.”

“In addition to officiating these fraudulent marriages, the suspect also wrote reference letters for foreign nationals’ permanent residency applications on New Life Church letterhead, lying about his relationship to them. The pastor also gave false testimony regarding his counseling and spiritual guidance, as well as the arranged couples’ romantic relationship,” part of the indictment reads.

If convicted, Shonubi faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit visa fraud and marriage fraud and a maximum of five years in federal prison for each of six counts (30years) of presenting false documents to a federal government agency.

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Ogun Police arrests ‘Pastor’ for conniving with wife to rape choir member

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a self-proclaimed Pastor, Peter Taiwo, for allegedly conniving with his wife, Elizabeth, to rape a choir member.

Taiwo, the general overseer of Christ Apostolic Bible Church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta, the state capital, according to the state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested on Friday for allegedly defiling the 16-year-old chorister of the church.

Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the incident was reported at the the Adatan Division and the DPO, SP Salaudeen Abiodun, detailed detectives to the scene, where the randy pastor and his wife were apprehended.

“The couple were arrested on Friday following a complaint lodged at Adatan divisional police headquarters by the victim.

“In her statement, the victim told the police that while she was in the church for choir practice, the pastor’s wife instructed her to go and meet him in their room because the pastor wanted to send her on errand.

“As soon as she got into the room, the pastor’s wife locked the door from outside; the pastor overpowered her, and forcefully had sex with her.

“She also told the police that the pastor’s wife later came in after her husband had satisfied himself and met her crying and told her to stop crying as she is now a woman. Tge pastor’s wife then warned the victim never to tell anybody what happened or else she will die.

“On interrogation, the couple confessed to the crime but blamed the devil for it. They also pleaded for forgiveness from the victim,” Oyeyemi said.

Oyeyemi added that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation, with the view to charging them to court as soon as investigation is concluded.

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Man who bought car for N2,650 arrested in Osun

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The Osun State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old man, Abdulazeez Tunde Ibrahim for swindling a car dealer and paying the sum of N2,650 for a Toyota Camry valued at N2,650,000, in Osogbo.

The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode while addressing journalists said immediately the case was reported to the command by a car dealer, Kazeem Ogunjobi, detectives swung into action and the Toyota Camry car was recovered in a painter’s workshop in Iwo.

Olokode said the shop belonged to one Olayinka Bashiru and that he was already changing the colour of the car from green to gold as he was instructed by Abdulazeez.

The Osun police boss however stated that the suspect will be charged to court after the completion of investigation into the case.

Abdulazeez while being paraded by the Police Command on Friday also disclosed that on Saturday, November 26, he met a car dealer and after negotiating the price of a Toyota Camry car arrived at an agreed sum of N2,650,000:00.

The suspect also revealed that he later transferred the sum of N2,650 to his First Bank account of the car dealer.

According to him; “Unknowingly to him, he gave me the documents of the paper and I left.

“On Friday last week, the police came to my house to arrest me and I took them to where the car was.

“I have already taken the car to a painter in Iwo and I instructed him to change the colour of the car from green to gold.”

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”Religion is the number one problem for Nigerians” – Wole Soyinka

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Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has said that religion is the number one problem hindering Nigerians from being liberated as “rational beings.”

The revered author and playwright made the comment during a recent chat with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike.

He said; “All over the place, I find that religion has been cosseted too much. And liberty has been taken by religionists, which would not be considered to other movements which are considered secularists.

If you put on a garb of a religious leader, you can close up the expressway between Lagos and the rest of the nation, simply because you are having a religious celebration. You are just a fraction of the rest of the nation. And you should be accorded no special privileges. So, until that is done, people will always find something extra by belonging and manifesting, even to an extreme extent, your religious adhesions.

“Religion has become the number one problem for Nigerians. Hope is all very well; but hope itself can become putrid. Especially if it is hope for unearned advantages in society. If religion becomes an excuse for flouting the law, then that religion has got to be tackled head-on.

“If for instance a legislator, later a Governor, can claim the right to be a pedophile and indulge in cross-border child trafficking, celebrating child marriage, consummating that event, which is against the law of a nation, and he says he has a right to do it because his religion permits it; then both he and that religion should just be shown the way to the law courts and treated like other phenomena of society.

If you can use religion to excuse building a church which collapses on the head of humanity, many of them not from Nigeria, several from South Africa. And then you say it was caused by supernatural forces when you know very well that you flouted the conditions for increasing the floors of your building.

“So this is what has become the daily reality of Nigerians. So religion has got to be put in its place in order for people to be liberated as rational beings, beings of volition, who can tackle the problems of existence in a rational, collective way, rather than by insisting that it is only along one route that society can be transformed.

“Take a religion, practice it at home, collect around you anybody you want for collective celebration or religious seasons, nobody quarrels with that. But when you use religion to subvert the rights of others, to the extent of primordial rights, to kill, not just singling, but collectively, to burn down the places of worship of others; then it is about time we treated religion as a crime against humanity; it’s reached that level in societies like Nigeria.”

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We spend over N120k to feed them every week – Mother of quadruplets

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A woman who gave birth to quadruplets has spoken on the challenges of feeding all of them regularly.

Jenny Marr said her husband, Chris fainted when he was told they were expecting multiple kids.

The 36-year-old mother from the US said she spends $300 (N123,543) a week on food after giving birth to the surprise quadruplets. She also changes diapers at least 24 times a day.

According to Jenny, her husband got the shock of his life and fainted when he was told they would have multiple kids as they initially thought she was carrying one child.

She said that the sonographer initially told them they were expecting triplets. They then sought a specialist’s opinion who informed them that they would be having quadruplets.

Jenny also said the arrival of the quadruplets, Harrison, Hardy, Henry and Hudson, transformed their lives.

“Life has completely changed now that we suddenly have four babies to look after,” she said.

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Woman dumped by her husband builds her own house after 4 years of riding okada

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A Kenyan woman who had to start life afresh after her husband dumped her, has prevailed against all odds and become a homeowner within a space of four years.

In 2017, when Eunice Otieng’s husband left her for another woman, she would have never imagined that one day she would be a landlord because by then, she was having a myriad of challenges; one of them being that her ex-hubby left her with huge loans to service.

The mother of one however, picked the pieces up, started some new businesses and has now been able to build a house for herself.

Speaking in an interview with TUKO.co.ke, the mother of one recounted how she and her daughter became homeless after the landlord closed down their house due to months-long rent arrears.

However, being the strong woman she is, Otieng, who works as a nurse said she decided to start working as a commercial motorcycle rider.

I almost ran mad with my small salary. I had no option but to think about how to start life from zeros. I had a motorcycle which I took and I started boda boda job,” she said.

Being that her salary as a nurse was going into the repayment of the loans that she took for her ex-spouse, she did night shifts and so during the day, she hustled as an Okada rider.

She saved a sum of N94,000 and started a small business in 2018. Since she had a piece of land that she had bought before marriage, she started building her house.

”I decided that I will work hard for my baby to get the best. I think I was working hard with a lot of anger to change my life. That’s why I was able to finish the house,” Otieng said.

She also had savings for her baby and she decided to use them to build the rentals which she recently finished.

According to the hardworking Busia woman, she gifted her five-year-old daughter the rentals to heal the pain they went through when the landlord closed their house due to rent arrears.

“I gifted her the houses to wipe the tears we cried when the landlord was locking our house. I vowed to make her a landlady at this tender age,” she said.

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Afenifere decries rising cultism, unruly acts among school children, tasks govt

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The pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday bemoaned the rising act of cultism and hooliganism amongst secondary school students across the country.

This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the Afenifere National Publicity Secretary, Mr Jare Ajayi, in the aftermath of the recent rampage by students of Idogbo Secondary School in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo state, because they did not want to sit for the first-term examination.

He decried the students’ attack on the policemen who were called in by the school authority as well as beating up of teachers and setting the school properties on fire.

According to him, also on Dec. 4, a Senior Secondary School student, was reported to have beaten his teacher to death in Abraka, Delta State, for flogging his younger sister.

The spokesman said: “Cases of such unruly behaviour are now very rampant in the country.

The collapse of discipline and orderliness in our schools is reflective of the collapse of these virtues in the larger society.

“Until very recently, every adult in the society is respected by the young ones while teachers are revered very highly.

“No student would think of ambushing a teacher, not to talk of having the temerity to attack teachers in the school as happened in Edo and Delta States cases.”

He said that students now do these things with impunity, having observed that adults behave unruly in the open.

According to him, the nation’s moral values have collapsed and, making youngsters and students to get involved in drugs, cultism and banditry.

He urged the federal and state government agencies to redouble their efforts at preventing students from having access to drugs.

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