Imprisoned Enugu first lady, Clara Chime hires Femi Falana to secure her release!

Following the out- cry by Clara Chime, wife of the current governor of Enugu state:

Clara Chime

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. MD Abubakar, to ensure the immediate release from unlawful detention of Mrs. Clara Chime, the First Lady of Enugu State who is being held hostage at Government House Enugu by Governor Sullivan Chime, or be dragged to court.

Femi Falana

In a letter dated November 1, 2013, Mr. Falana, representing Mrs. Chime, pointed out that his client has been kept incommunicado in solitary confinement for over four months on the directives of Governor Chime.

“Thus our client’s fundamental rights to the dignity of her person, personal liberty, fair hearing, private and family life and freedom of movement guaranteed by the Constitution and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 have been violated without any legal justification,” it said.

“Although our client’s dehumanizing detention conditions have had deleterious effects on her psychological state as well as her mental and physical health she has been denied access to her doctors by her abductors,” the petition said. 

“It is particularly disturbing to note that some of the police and state security service personnel assigned to secure the safety of the Enugu State governor, his wife and other family members have aided and abetted Mr. Chime in subjecting our client to egregious infringements of her aforesaid fundamental rights.”

It pointed out, however, that unlike the governor who is currently immune from prosecution under the constitution, the police and state security service officials involved in the illegal arrest and detention of Mrs. Chime ought to be sanctioned under the relevant laws.

Enugu state governor, Sullivan Chime

In a letter exclusively published by SaharaReporters on October 28, Mrs. Chime complained that Governor Chime had placed her under house arrest, and begged human rights bodies to come to her rescue.

She said that eminent personalities such as President and Mrs. Goodluck Jonathan and the Bishop Callistus Onaga of Enugu State and other top priests had attempted to intervene in the matter without success.

Among other things, Mrs. Chime said she had been introduced to two psychiatrists, Dr. Onwukwe and Dr. Agumo, who prescribed “all kinds of drugs that ends up keeping me acute depressed and also drives me into hallucinations.”

Strange cloud discovered in a Nigerian town just before the eclipse!

It was reported that this 'strange' sight was seen in a town in Nigeria just before the sun eclipsed on the 3rd of November 2013.

Whatz your view on this folks???

So strange isnt it??

Police DPO holds G7 Governors hostage at Kano Govt lodge in Asokoro!

According to a reports, the DPO of Asokoro police division, CSP Nnanna Ama, invaded the meeting of the G7 governors at the Kano government lodge in Asokoro, Abuja today.

DPO of Asokoro Police division,  CSP Nnanna Ama, in orange polo shirt barges into G7 governors meeting with a retinue of officers. He is enraged after the governors dare him to do his worst. Seen in the above picture reportedly telling the governors to remain on their seats.

Source: Sahara reporters

Wife beats hubby's secretary to coma over alleged affair!

The wife of an embattled former chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrashid Maina, (pictured above) recently stormed her husband’s office in Abuja, in the company of a female accomplice, to beat Mr. Maina’s female secretary unconscious. Mr. Maina was not in the office when the incident happened.  

Mrs Maina furiously dashed into the office and accused Ndi Bala of dating her husband. It could not be ascertained whether Ms Bala dated Mr. Maina as alleged by his wife. 

eye witnesses say that “The woman did not even give the lady the chance to explain the accusation before they pounced on her and beat her seriously, they did not stop until the lady became unconscious,” and she left with the unconscious lady's handbag.

 “On regaining consciousness, the woman called one of her friends who came with a lawyer and they all went to the Life Camp police station in Abuja where they reported the matter,” 

 The police officers on duty at the station reportedly took the woman’s statement, as well as pictures of her bruised faced. 

Two police officers male and a female were subsequently dispatched to Mr. Maina’s residence to make arrests. 

A PREMIUM TIMES reporter who visited Mr. Maina’s residence in the Jabi district of Abuja witnessed intense drama between the police officers from Life Camp and the security officials guarding the house. 

One of the officers, who appeared to be a prison warden, said, “I know this lady, she works with oga and I am also aware of what happened at the office today”. But when the police officers demanded to see Mrs. Maina, the prison official said he would have to telephone Mr. Maina for permission. He emerged shortly afterwards to say he spoke with Mr. Maina who told him not to let anyone into the house until he arrived. 

He reportedly said he was already on his way back home. After waiting for nearly two hours without Mr. Maina arriving, the police made intermittent attempts to force their way in while the security guards at the gate resisted. 

The victim, whose dress was torn at the front and back, later suggested to the police officers to look for an alternative way of arresting the woman, 

 according to her “we can be here up to 12 am and Mr. Maina will not come”. 

After waiting for over three hours, and becoming frustrated with the antics of the security men at the gate and Mrs. Maina (who was at a point sighted coming out of the main building to shout instructions at some domestic staff), the police decided to retreat, saying they would return the next day “with reinforcement”.

culled from premium times.

Solar eclipse experience in Lagos, Abuja and Ibadan!

According to Prof. Opara of the Centre for Basic Space Science, the eclipse will happen at these times: - Lagos (12.50pm and 4.01pm) - Ibadan (12.52pm and 4.01pm) - Abakaliki (1.06pm and 4.09pm) - Port Harcourt (1.03pm and 4.09pm) - Abuja (1.03pm and 4.03pm) - Enugu (1.04pm and 4.07pm) - Kano (1.07pm and 4.01pm) - Uyo (1.06pm and 4.09pm).

The much-awaited eclipse was Sunday witnessed in some major Nigerian cities and towns, between 1100 and 1600hrs.

Kanye West angry With YouTube Co-Founder Over Leaked Proposal Video?

It has been reported that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are currently not pleased the person they contacted to record their Oct. 21 engagement at San Francisco's AT&T Park leaked it to the press,and they might sue. 

The website reports the person who did it signed a confidentiality agreement. "We're told a lawsuit is imminent."

The person who filmed and uploaded the Kimye proposal video was alleged to be YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. The 2-and-a-half minute clip was posted to his new collaborative video app, MixBit, and has since gotten more than 1.5 million views.

26 year old man stabs a 13 year old girl for refusing his sexual advances!

A 26 year old man known as Ntsika recently stabbed a 13 year old girl for refusing his sexual advances and absconding there after. 

The victim

The scene of the incident; behind the container

On a visit to the Isakaba residence of the victim where the incident happened, she was still recuperating from injuries and shock of the incident as she was discharged from the Hospital on Monday, October 21st.

 Despite visibly still traumatized  she managed to give an account of what happened to her. "When I went to throw away dirts, as I was coming back, I saw the man with bottle, I wanted to run, he held me on my clothes, around my neck, broke the bottle on my head  and pulled me to a dark corner. He wanted to start touching my body but I refused and struggled with him, then he wanted to stab me on my stomach with the bottle, but I blocked it with my hands and he stabbed my hands, and stabbed me all over my body. I was shouting for help all the while. He then abandoned me and ran away".
On his part, her uncle identified as Mr Anthony narrated how his attention was drawn  to the incident by his niece's scream, but on getting to the scene, the culprit had taken to his heels: "that early morning, my niece went out to throw away dirts. All of a sudden, I heard a loud  sound of a bottle 'gboa' as if it was broken on something; after that I heard my niece's shouts for help, so I rushed down there and saw her covered in blood. There was blood on the walls, everywhere, not knowing what else to do, I carried her out of that  scene to a safe place, before asking what happened to her by this time, crowd had gathered. She said that Nsika broke bottle on her head and stabbed her all over with it, because she refused his sexual advances. I didn't meet the young man when I got to the scene, he ran away. But he is somebody that we know very well around here, even though he escaped, his parents are here. The next day, I reported the case at Ajuwe Police station and I was told that the young man had a previous case at the station. The IPO asked me to make a statement, then he gave me a note to Akodo General Hospital, where my niece was admitted, she was only discharged on Monday the 21st of October. Since she was admitted, Nsika's parents did not show up at the hospital to know how she fared. We were left to cater for over 50 percent of the medical bills, out of the N83,100 bill, they brought N15,000. We had to sell off almost all we had in my wife's small shop to raise money for the bill even at that, we are yet to clear the over all bill. I would go to the Hospital every day to bath and brush her teeth because she can practically do nothing with her hands.
"She was supposed to resume school the very day she was discharged, but due to this problem, she can't do that now because we spent all we saved to that effect on her medical bills. I am afraid she have to wait until next session when we would have saved up a little, also by then, she would have recovered fully".

The 50-year-old mother of the culprit Mrs. Ekwere wept as she narrated the ordeal their son had caused her family, she said the Police should do all they can to get him apprehended and face the law. "I don't know what to say, that young man has caused me so much pain. that early morning, we were asleep when I heard bangs at the gate, we also  heard people shouting Nsika's name; I said 'not again', then I asked my his younger brother to go and know what the noise was all about. I over heard them telling him what his brother did and felt very weak, Nsika has caused me much problems. I don't know what to say about this case, though he hadn't stabbed some one before, Nsika has been living rascally. The other time they brought a case against him, I gave them money to go and arrest him. He is no longer a boy, he is a man. We have tried all possible means to help him be a man on his own but to no avail. From the time of that incident till now we have not set our eyes on him. I tried calling his number but could not get through. I don't know if he barred my number from calling him. He was not always like this, he stated exhibiting some of these traits when he started making friends with some bad boys in this neighborhood  I don't know his friends up till now. I told him I don't  want to see his friends around here, that was the initial issue we had with him. I have been ill since that incident happened, there was nothing within our ability that we haven't done to make Nsika live a more responsible life style but he rebuffed all that and choose to continuously bring us shame and reproach. He dropped out of secondary school at JSS 3, after that we enrolled him as an apprentice in a few places, but he would not sit and learn anything; after a while we would hear reports that he stopped going for training. He has caused me his mother so much pain. His father is suffering from heart failure today due to his recklessness. Please if there is anything the Police wants to do with him, there should go ahead and do it because we are tired. Concerning the hospital bill, it is unfortunate because for the past two years, my husband have been out of work. I am currently not engaged in any job now, what we could raise was the N15,000 we gave. If we had more, we would have given".

Nsika's 60 -year-old father Samuel Ikwere told roving informant in a gentle but angry tone,  he chipped in how disappointed and fed up he is with the acts of his son.
"How many times have people come to knock on this gate to report one case or the other about my son?" He asked, heaved a sigh and continued: "If not that Jehovah is with me, I don't know what might have happened.  That early morning I refused them to open our gate because when I closed it, it is closed, but when I saw the girl the next day I was shocked, how could Nsika do that to a girl?. Just recently, Nsika was released from Jail on bail because he  kidnapped one 15- year-old girl. It was reported that he impregnated the girl then he gave the girl one medicine to abort the pregnancy and she nearly bleed to death. A couple of days after his release, he showed up here with the same girl, I told him to send the girl away but he refused, saying since her father sent him to jail, he has kidnapped her and would get some money from the father. I personally reported the case at Ajuwa Police station. Amidst threats from him to deal with me, i arranged and handed the girl over to the Police since it was obvious her parents wanted nothing more to do with her as a result of her association with Nsika. Each time he showed up here he either steals his mother's or my handset and any other thing in sight and disappears, after a few months we would receive calls that he had gotten himself into one trouble or the other. I am managing a heart related health challenge today due to his recklessness. When he was very young, we used to chain his leg down when ever he returned from school just to keep him at home; otherwise he would disappear only to return home very late. That was the only way we knew to keep him at home and make him do his home work. He was sent for a Diploma program in Electrical Engineering at Yaba College of Technology, he finished that but getting him to sit and practice what he studied is another thing altogether. He learnt barbing and some other professions, some he did not even finish with the apprenticeship. Where did I go wrong with him?. I am no longer interested with what ever happened to him hence, he is a grown man, since he choose this life style, let him bear what ever consequences that it brought him".

The perpetrator Nsika is believed to be at large as at the time of filing this report.