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Two gang rapes of teenage girls including one supposedly involving 30 men that was filmed and posted online have shocked Brazil. The UN women’s rights agency condemned the cases after the video was posted on Twitter apparently by one of the rapists who boasted about the assault. According to Brazilian media, the video posted on Wednesday showed a girl of 16 surrounded by men who claimed she had been raped by 30 of them in Rio de Janeiro, which hosts the Olympic Games in August. In another case, a group of at least five men allegedly drugged and raped a 17-year-old girl in the northeastern state of Piaui. “Apart from the fact that these are young women, these barbaric cases are similar in that the teenagers were lured by their attackers in premeditated plots,” the spokeswoman for UN Women in Brazil, Nadine Gasman, said Thursday. “They were violently attacked in a context of illegal drug use.” The posting of the video by the attackers sparked a wave of revu

A rejected suitor, Mr. Ogundele David, aged 35,  who allegedly killed her lover, Miss Tosin Ashinwo (30),  an MTN worker;  has been remanded in  the Federal Prison in Madalla, Kwara State by Mrs. Mercy Adebola of the Ilorin Magistrate’s Court. Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that the Kwara State Police Command had arraigned the accused before the court for alleged murdering the lady. David,  who is a teacher at the Landmark University Secondary School, Omu-Aran, was charged with culpable homicide punishable by death, and an attempt to commit culpable homicide contrary to sections 221 and 229 of Penal Code. It was learnt that the matter was transferred from ‘F’ Police Station, Ilorin, to the State Department of Criminal Investigation. According to the police report,   the accused was at Ashinwo’s residence at Tanke, Ilorin, where he met the mother of the deceased, Abiola (65), and made effort to convince the deceased and her mother to accept his marr

The rescued 14-year-old girl, Ese Oruru, was on Thursday morning delivered of a baby girl. Ese was allegedly abducted in Bayelsa State in August 2015 and taken to Kano State where she was converted to Islam and married out without the consent of her parents. Since her return to Yenagoa,  she has been living at the Police Officers’ Mess in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. She was said to have gone into labour on Thursday morning and taken to the Bayelsa State Government House Clinic where she was delivered of a baby girl. Ese’s father, Charles Oruru, obviously elated by the news, confirmed the development. Charles said his daughter was delivered of the baby about 10.15am on Thursday. He said the young girl, who was in Junior Secondary School at the time she was taken away, was in a good state after going through the early morning labour stress. “Ese and her daughter are hale and hearty. She gave birth to a baby girl at the Government House Clin

Scandal-plagued FIFA has fired its deputy secretary general, Markus Kattner, with immediate effect. The soccer’s governing body said in a statement on Monday that an internal investigation “uncovered breaches of his fiduciary responsibilities in connection with his employment contact.” FIFA said it would not make any further comment, but it would “continue its cooperation with the relevant authorities.” Kattner has not been charged with a crime. He could not immediately be reached for comment, Reuters said. FIFA has been embroiled in a corruption scandal over the past year. Several dozen officials, including former FIFA executive committee members, have been indicted in the United States. So far, at least 15 people and two corporate entities have pleaded guilty in the U.S cases. Kattner stepped in as FIFA’s acting secretary general from September until earlier this month to replace Jerome Valcke, who was himself dismissed from the post and later banned b

A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court has ordered the prison remand of a teacher of Maromipin Nursery and Primary School, a private school in Makoko, Lagos, for allegedly raping a 10-year-old pupil. The 34-year-old teacher, Tunde Mudashir, was arraigned by the police on one count of sexual assault before the presiding magistrate, Mrs. A.F. Adeeyo on Monday. PUNCH Metro learnt that Mudashir had tricked the primary 3 pupil, Sandra, to one of the deserted classrooms on a Thursday on the pretext that he wanted to give her extra coaching. It was gathered that during the purported coaching, Mudashir told the victim to spread her legs, which she did. As Sandra tried to question Mudashir’s instruction, he reportedly resorted to force, removed her pants and raped her. He was said to have covered her mouth when she wanted to cry for help. Our correspondent was told that Mudashiru warned her against divulging the act to a third party, threatening to kill her if she did.

The family of Oluchi Anekwe, a 300-level student of Accounting in the University of Lagos, who was electrocuted by a live wire on the school premises, has been paid N45m as compensation. A source told PUNCH Metro that the money was paid after the Eko Electricity Distribution Company reached a non-disclosure agreement with the victim’s family. Our correspondent had reported in September 2015 that Oluchi, a first class student of UNILAG, was electrocuted at about 7pm, while returning from an evening mass with her younger sister. Oluchi had reportedly entered the Eni Njoku Hall to buy an item and was walking out of the hostel when a high-tension wire fell on her. The remains of the Igbo-Etiti, Enugu State indigene, were buried shortly after. The Federal Government also set up a panel to investigate the death. A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, reportedly took up the case and wrote EKEDC, asking that the firm compensate the family or r

Motorists and youths blocked the Igando end of the Lagos State University-Iyana Iba Road on Monday to protest against the alleged killing of a commercial driver, identified as Muyiwa Ijaduola, by a female police corporal attached to the Igando Police Division. The protesters, who burnt tyres and planks at about 11am, blocked the road with three buses, demanding that the police should arrest the female corporal, identified only as Taiwo, and release Ijaduola’s corpse to his family members. PUNCH Metro learnt that on Sunday around 2.30pm, Taiwo and another female corporal were in front of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation filling station in the Igando area, checking vehicles. Our correspondent gathered that 46-year-old Ijaduola was stopped by Taiwo. It was learnt that the corporal allegedly demanded N500 from the driver who offered N300. Our correspondent was told that an altercation had ensued during which the corporal allegedly pushed the dri

The Deputy National Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Sen. Offia Nwali, is dead. He was 74. He was reportedly found dead inside a pond located in his Ameka Community, Ezza South local government area of Ebonyi State, on Saturday. He was the first black man to obtain Ph.D in Computer and Analytical Studies from Harvard University, United States. The late Inspector- General of police, MD Yusuf, facilitated his return to Nigeria in 1972 shortly before he was appointed chairman of school board by the then East Central state. Nwali, a foremost founding father of Ebonyi State, represented Abakaliki Senatorial District at the National Assembly, between 1979-1983.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, was absent from his ongoing trial before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. Upon an inquiry by the trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, about Metuh’s whereabouts, his lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), said the defendant was on a bed rest at the National Hospital, Abuja. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited, on charges including fraudulent collection  of N400m from the Office of the National Security Adviser in November 2014 and using same for PDP’s presidential campaign. Metuh and Destra Investments Limited are also being tried on charges of money laundering involving alleged cash transaction of $2m. Justice Abang had on Monday adjourned till Tuesday for the continuation of the testimony of the fifth defence witness, Mr. Richard Ihediwa. After intimating the judge on why Metuh was absent from cour

Jose Mourinho was on the verge of fulfilling his dream of managing Manchester United on Tuesday after Louis van Gaal’s troubled two-year reign came to a bitter end. The path was clear for the former Chelsea manager to be confirmed as the new United boss after Van Gaal was sacked Monday. That is the price of failing to get one of the world’s biggest clubs into the Champions League. Mourinho’s agent Jorge Mendes was reported by British media to be in negotiations to tie up a deal. It sets the stage for one of the sport’s most intriguing characters to at last manage the Red Devils after a glittering career that so far features 21 major trophies, including three English Premier League crowns and two Champions League titles. Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea in December after a miserable campaign marred by rifts with the club’s star players that eventually became intolerable to owner Roman Abramovich as the team, champions just months earlier, languished near the r

Louis Van Gaal said he was “very disappointed” to be sacked just 48 hours after leading United to victory in the FA Cup final against Crystal Palace on Saturday. But United had finished fifth in the Premier League and thereby missed out on a lucrative Champions League place, which proved the final straw for the club’s US-based owners. The Glazer family didn’t let United’s first piece of silverware since the 2013 retirement of legendary boss Alex Ferguson stop them from wielding the axe on 64-year-old Van Gaal. The Dutchman cleared out his office at United’s Carrington training ground on Monday after talks over a settlement for the final year of his three-year contract — worth a reported £6.4 million ($9.2 million, 8.2 million euros) per year. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported that Mourinho called Van Gaal in the last few weeks to warn him that United had sounded him out about the Old Trafford job. Mourinho worked under Van Gaal at Barcelona in the late

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos has declared as invalid the caretaker committee constituted over the weekend to take over the  affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party from its acting National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff. The judge, in a ruling on Monday, directed the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to enforce his order, barring the members of the constituted caretaker committee from taking over the affairs of the party. Details later…

Tragedy struck in the Ojota end of the Ikorodu expressway after an interstate bus driver, Eze Gabriel, crushed his passenger, identified as Sunday, to death. PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased was among passengers who joined the interstate bus from Jibowu, Lagos, en route to Abuja. Sunday was alleged to have entered the vehicle without paying the requisite N5,100 fare to Bonny Way Transport Company, owners of the luxury bus.  Our correspondent was told that as the bus was about taking off, the last passenger who had gone to buy something complained that his seat had been taken by Sunday. Confusion was said to have started after the victim refused to vacate the seat, insisting he had right to the seat because he paid some people. It was learnt that Gabriel pulled over at Ojota, urging Sunday to get up for the rightful owner of the seat. Some hoodlums in the area were reported to have barged into the bus and robbed the driver of his valuables, wh

No fewer than 13 persons died on Sunday after a commercial bus en route from Enugu State had a head-on collision with a trailer at Ofeme Junction on Umuahia Road, Abia State. Two other passengers in the 18-seater bus belonging to Peace Mass Transit Limited with number plate, AKL895YY, reportedly sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident that happened around 11am. The trailer en route to Enugu State from Port Harcourt, River State, was said to be on top speed and lost control, veering into the path of the bus, which was a few kilometres away from its destination – Umuahia. It was gathered that the trailer driver fled the scene immediately after the crash. An eyewitness, who identified herself simply as Sharon, said some of the passengers were mangled in the bus while  others were thrown on the road as crowd gathered to rescue the injured. She said she was in another bus travelling to Ebonyi State, adding that he counted eight lifeless bodies

A Nigerian man has been arrested for sexual harassment in South Korea. The man was accused of sexually harassing an Australian school teacher, Airdre Mattner by the Korean authority. The Nigerian was arrested after his DNA matched the one taken from the Australian. However, the Australian is accusing the Nigerian of drugging, abducting and rapping her in company with two other accomplices. According to news.co.au , Mattner who teaches English in Japan, was visiting Seoul with her boyfriend and a friend last September, and decided to stay on a few days alone. She had joined a pub crawl advertised on Facebook to get to know the city better only to be drugged and raped by three men. Mattner said she had only been on her third drink when the effect of the drug kicked in. She had then found herself hauled into a taxi heading where she didn’t know. “The next thing I recall is being on a bed in a hotel room,” she said. “The man was on top of me. I struggled and tried

OPERATIVES of the Anti-Kidnap Unit of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested nine pregnant women during their raid of a suspected baby factory in Umuikpe in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State. The pregnant women, who were members of a baby-making syndicate, were paraded in Port Harcourt on Monday. They were between the age of 21 and 25 years. Also arrested was a 68-year-old private security man, John Ndukwe, who was manning the gate of the baby factory identified as Charity and Rehabilitation Centre. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Muhammad, told newsmen that the arrest of the pregnant women followed the abduction of a four-year-old boy, Friday Alioma; and a pregnant woman, Happiness Samuel; in Ogbogoro, Obio/Akpor LGA on May 15 and 16, 2016 respectively. “Through discreet investigation, one Nkechi Oguama, a native of Ugiri in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, was arrested with Ngozi Ogbonna, Bl

A murder suspect, identified as Gift Edosomwan, who was arrested for allegedly killing a mother and her three-year-old daughter, has reportedly escaped from a juvenile welfare home, where he was being detained in Benin, the Edo State capital. It was learnt that Edosomwan escaped last Saturday morning from the welfare home at Upper Sakponba. The 15-year-old suspect and others at large were alleged to have gruesomely murdered the 28-year-old victim, Itohan Enagbare, and her daughter, Iwinosa, at about 1pm on December 9, 2015. Southern City News had reported that the deceased mother and child were allegedly stabbed to death at their residence on Osaze Street, off Dumez Road, in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. The little girl’s loud cry when she saw that her mother was in danger had also caused the killers to stab her in the back and chest before they fled the scene. The landlady of the house where the incident occurred had earlier been arre

Latest audit report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of not remitting $3.8bn and N358.3bn to the Federation in 2013. The Chairman of NEITI, Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this on Monday while presenting the 2013 audit reports of the agency in Abuja. Citing the audit, Fayemi said some revenues that should have gone to the Federation in 2013 were not made or lost due to a number of reasons. He said, “These revenues were broken down as follows: Sum of $3.8bn and N358.3bn as outstanding revenues from NNPC and its sub-units in 2013. These outstanding payments were due from unpaid consideration from the divested OMLs (Oil Mining Liseases), cash call refunds from NAPIMS (National Petroleum Investment Management Services), and NPDC (Nigerian Petroleum Development Company) liftings from NAOC JV (Nigerian Agip Oil Company Joint Venture), etc. “Sum of $5.966bn and N20.4bn as revenue

Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, several British media outlets reported Monday, amid speculation he will be replaced by Jose Mourinho. Both Van Gaal and leading employment lawyer Paul Gilroy were seen entering United’s Carrington training ground on Monday. Gilroy’s clients have included David Moyes, whose sacking as United manager paved the way for Van Gaal’s appointment. There has a yet been no official confirmation from United, 20-times English champions, about the position of Van Gaal, who still has a season remaining on his three-year contract. But James Ducker, the northern football correspondent of Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, tweeted Monday: “Paul Gilroy QC finalising Van Gaal’s severance package now…£5m pay off. Expect an announcement lunchtime.” The BBC said that United would make a statement about Van Gaal at 1:00pm local time (1200 GMT) Monday. British media have been awash with reports of Van Gaal’

A police officer has been removed from a UK anti-corruption unit after claims he was paid for information about a case against jailed former Delta State governor, James Ibori. Ibori is in prison for fraud and money-laundering linked to his time as governor. The Crown Prosecution Service said it had intelligence which “supports the assertion” a Met officer was paid for information. He denied wrongdoing. The CPS previously denied claims it had not handed over all key evidence. Ibori was jailed in 2012 for 13 years for laundering millions in the UK through the purchase of property, a fleet of armoured Range Rovers and a £120,000 Bentley. Det Sgt John McDonald, who is accused of receiving payment in return for providing information about the case, headed the police investigation. He has always denied any wrongdoing. Det Sgt McDonald has been removed from the National Crime Agency’s International Corruption Unit, where he had been on secondment. He has return

Four undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) Ondo state yesterday died in an auto crash along the Ilesa-Akure express road. The accident occurred at Ibule village about one kilometre to FUTA North gate with many other students of the university injured. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the state Police command Femi Joseph confirmed the accident, attributing it to over speeding. He said some students of the university travelling to Ibadan, Oyo state for a religious programme were involved in the ghastly motor accient The PPRO said the accident which involved a Toyota hiace bus and a motorcycle was caused by over speed on the part of the driver of the bus. He stated the deceased students have been deposited at the morgue while the injured were receiving treatments at different hospitals in the state. The Public Relations Officer of the University Olu Adegbenro said the students were on a private religious trip wh

A late night attack on Oke-Ako community in Ikole local government of Ekiti State by suspected Fulani herdsmen last Friday has left at least two persons dead. The attack also left several other villagers injured with many of them fleeing to neighbouring Irele, Ipao, Ikole in Ekiti State and Ponyan in Kogi State. It was gathered that the mass exodus has turned the agrarian community to a ghost town. Many residents of Oke-Ako fled following fears that herdsmen might return. A resident told our correspondent on phone last night: “This is a bad development. People are leaving the town in droves. “Some are even packing their belongings because of the fear that they could stage more ferocious attack. “We have been co-habiting peacefully with Fulani herdsmen for long. We didn’t know when things went awry. The security agencies must rise to the occasion. This is a serious threat to Ekiti.” Deputy Governor Kolapo Olusola, who visited the town yesterday, said the sta

The amount of vitamins and minerals contained in fruits are sufficient for our daily nutritional requirement when we consume as low as two or three different fruits a day. The nutritional benefits of each fruit are numerous and some of them are highlighted as follows: Pomegranate Pomegranates can be used as a gargle for sore throat, and to treat haemorrhoids. It can also be used to tackle flu and stomatitis. Each contains approximately 100 calories. Products such as pomegranate juice, vodka, salad dressing, ice cream, salsa, lollipops and gummy bears can be made from pomegranate. They are a fantastic source of vitamins (B6, B12, C, E, K ) thiamin, folate, riboflavin and choline. Pomegranate is made up of good levels of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, manganese, etc. Health benefits: Fights breast cancer: Pomegranates are a rich source of phytonutrients called ellagic acid. It has the ability to “suppress oestrogen production that prevents the pr