Update on Borno attack: unspecified number of teenage girls abducted. Resident says soldiers are afraid to confront terrorists

At least four persons were killed and an unspecified number of teenage girls were on Sunday abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Bam village in Biu Local Government Area, about seven kilometres from Buratai village, hometown of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, in Borno State.

A resident of the area, Abubakar Ali, who fled to Miringa town for safety after the attack on Bam, told THISDAY on the phone yesterday evening that the insurgents invaded his village at about 3.30 am and set ablaze the whole village.

He said that they killed four persons and later left with some teenage girls but did not give a number on the numbers of abducted girls.
He said the insurgents raided the village till about 5 am and had sufficient time to “separate the teenage girls from married women, set the whole village ablaze and left with the girls unchallenged”.

He said it was unfortunate that “the hoodlums always attack our villages unchallenged. I am calling on General Buratai to do something about this, as the soldiers seem to be doing little to checkmate them here”.

“We have been telling the soldiers that the Boko Haram members are in some villages around here but they only go to Mangari, a few kilometres away from Buratai and shoot in the air and come back. It seems the soldiers are afraid to confront them,” he said.
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Source: Thisday

Fresh terrorist attacks in Borno leaves 6 soldiers dead

About seven persons including a soldier, were killed in both Bam and Gajigana villages of Biu and Magumeri Local Government Areas of Borno State.

In the two attacks, while unspecified numbers of teenage girls were abducted in Bam Village, scores of people were injured in Gajigana village after insurgents set ablaze shops and houses without confrontation.

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Sex workers complain about how Policemen extort money from them; 'they use us like ATMs'

        

Commercial sex workers in Lagos State have expressed their grievances with officers of the Nigeria Police Force over how money is extorted from them. Read the full story here

PHOTO: Herbalist kidnaps two minors, turns them into sex slaves

                               

The Cross River State Police Command on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old herbalist identify as Emmanuel Akpan-Okon for allegedly holding two kids hostage for four years and turning them to sex slaves.

Following their rescue by the police yesterday, both kids, Esther Wisdom and Felicia Destiny, aged 11, revealed that the herbalist raped them almost every day for the four years they were held hostage.

The suspect was nabbed after the police got a tipoff that the 42-year-old specialized in the preparation of charms for armed robbers.

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U.S-based Nigerian bus driver honoured for saving 30 kids

                          

The board of Spring Branch Independent School District, Houston, honoured Samuel Agunbiade for keeping 30 students safe on Friday when their bus caught fire. Agunbiade said he heard a loud pop and saw smoke coming from the bus’s tailpipe.

Flayvour360 reports that he immediately pulled off and within a few minutes the bus caught fire but he got all the students off the bus unharmed. Video taken by a witness shows the terrifying moment when the bus exploded. While reacting to the honor, Agunbiade who has been a bus driver for 21 years, said:

“They’re calling me a hero. I said hero? I just did what I was supposed to do. You guys are mine. I’m supposed to take care of you.

Gross! South Korean Professor forces student to eat faeces and drink urine

A South Korean court on Thursday jailed a university professor for 12 years for forcing a student to eat human faeces and drink urine during a two-year period of physical and psychological assault.

The sentence was two years more than had been demanded by prosecutors, reflecting, the court said, “unimaginable atrocities” committed by the 52-year-old professor that had amounted “to a sort of psychological murder”.

The professor, identified only by his surname Jang, was arrested in July after his victim — a design student now aged 29 — attempted to commit suicide to escape his ordeal.

The abuse began after Jang hired him to work for a non-profit organisation.

The court heard how the professor — aided by other former students who were accused as co-defendants — had assaulted his former student with a baseball bat and other weapons.

He also had a plastic bag forced over his face and filled with pepper spray, after which he was fed human excrement.

The victim told police he had tolerated the abuse in the hope that Jang might help him find a full-time post as a college professor.

“The accused trampled upon his victim’s human dignity,” the court said.

The three students who had aided Jang were sentenced to between three and six years in prison.

source: Vanguard

Mandela's step daughter loses vision to domestic attack

                              

It’s likely that the daughter of Nelson Mandela’s third wife Graça Machel will never use her right eye again, and she says that her boyfriend is to blame. In a telling interview with City Press, Josina Machel recalled the October 17 incident that changed her life forever.

The trouble began the night before her mother’s 70th birthday. Graça was in South Africa attending to other commitments. The family had plans to reunite and celebrate the following day. However, Josina desired to feel close to her mother that evening and decided that she would spend the night at her mom’s house. She desired to sleep in her bed.

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source: Flayvour360

LAGOS: Defiled toddlers come under custody of Lagos State government

                    

The Lagos State Government has taken custody of the two toddlers that were allegedly defiled by their father’s friends and co-workers in recently in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Lola Akande disclosed this on Thursday, saying that the children, ages five and three, have been rescued from the abusive environment and taken to one of the Children Homes for proper psychotherapy and guardianship.

She added that the Ministry would henceforth be responsible for their upkeep and educational pursuit.

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source: PM News

Man Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Defiling A 12-Year Old Girl In Calabar As NGO Marks International Day For Elimination Of Violence Against Women.

As violence against women continues to be a global pandemic, the international community is celebrating “International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women” today the 25th day of November, 2015. Coincidentally, a Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by the Hon. Justice Elias Abuo has about 6hours ago, convicted one Okem Benjamin for the offence of rape and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The convict (Okem Benjamin) was on trial for the rape one Miss X who was a child of just 12 years old as at the time of the inglorious incident. In his judgment which was incisive and coloured with great erudition, Justice Abuo also lambasted the guardian of the innocent victim for exposing the girl to the porous environment which the convict took to his advantage.

The case was reported to Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, a leading and famous human rights organization in Calabar on the 11th  day of  February, 2013. The organization dutifully documented the case, supported the victim, pressed for criminal charges on the accused and meticulously watched the complainant’s brief throughout the prosecution of the case in court. Trial initially commenced at the Family Court Division of the High Court in Calabar, however due to the problems presently bedeviling the Family Courts in Cross River State, the case was subsequently transferred to the   regular High Court in Suit No. HC/16C/2014 (The State V Okem Benjamin) where judgment was eventually delivered today 25th November, 2015.

Basic Rights Counsel Initiative is a not-for-profit making organization based in Calabar, Cross River State and is committed to the protection and promotion of the rights of children and indigent women.

How three policemen collected dead, non-existent officers’ insurance claims

A female Inspector, an Assistant Superintendent of Police and a corporal all attached to the insurance section of the command has been detained by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly collecting the insurance claims of dead and non-existent policemen.

According to reports, the arrested officers whose names were yet to be ascertained as at press time, had allegedly defrauded the Police Force by collecting the claims of policemen reportedly worth millions of naira.

An unnamed police source disclosed to Punch that the suspects, who are to undergo an orderly room trial, were arrested by the X-Squad Section of the command after a petition reached the police authorities that families of some dead policemen had yet to get the claims.

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Factory worker denies raping 4 year-old, says he only 'released' on her laps

A 21-year-old factory worker, identified as Emmanuel Umanah, was Tuesday apprehended by the Police at Amukoko Divisional headquarters, Lagos, for allegedly raping an unidentified four year-old-girl.

DAILY POST gathered that the police arrested Umanah following a report from the girl’s grandmother that the factory worker who was her neighbour, allegedly lured and raped her granddaughter in his one-room apartment on Opeoluwa Street, Mosafejo-Amukoko area of Ajegunle.

“After preparing food, I did not see my grandchild who I was calling to come and eat. I was still searching for her when a little girl about her age told me she was in Umanah’s apartment watching a film.

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source: Daily Post

Suspected human traffickers arrested in an attempt to travel to Mali, found carrying newborn babies with umbilical cords.

Three suspected human traffickers have been arrested by the Lagos state Police Command for attempting to take two stolen new-born babies out of the country.

It was learnt that the babies still had their umbilical cords when the suspects, identified as Hillary Wafo, 43, Kadijatu Dialo Diawara, 39 and Yakari Dialo Diawara, 41 were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos.

Two of the suspects, Kadijatu and Yakari said to be married to two brothers, were travelling to Mali, when they were apprehended at the international wing of the airport with two babies suspected to be from different mothers.

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Graphic Photos: Two PDP supporters critically injured in an attack alleged to have been carried out by APC thugs in Bayelsa

Some thugs alleged to have a link with APC attacked some members of PDP on Sunday, November 22, at Agudama-Ekpetiama in Yenagoa local government area, Bayelsa, leaving two of its members critically injured. In a statement made available to newsmen yesterday, the Director of Publicity, Restoration Campaign Organization Hon. Jonathan Obuebite who condemned the attack, described it as barbaric and most unacceptable.

Obuebite, in the statement disclosed that the APC thugs were led by one Weri Digifa, a well known thug in the area loyal to the former deputy governor, Werinipre Seibarugu. Digifa allegedly mobilized his thugs under the cover of darkness supported by three armed soldiers who acted as his bodyguards; as they pounced on the defenseless members of the PDP, shortly after the campaign team of the governor left the community at the weekend.

The injured members are currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital

Man who was accused of cutting off wife’s ear speaks up

 

The man who was accused of cutting off his wife’s ear by a pair of pliers has spoken up on the accusations levied against him. According to him, he did not subject his wife to any form of domestic violence, and also did not cut off her ear with a pair of pliers. The accused, Chukwunonso Paul Nzedebe, in his response to the post on Linda Ikeji’s Blog, stated that his wife’s ear was hit a by the pliers which fell from their gateman. Read his side of the story below:

It is with utter most dismay, disgust ‎and shock when I learnt of the details of the allegation that I cut off my wife's ear on your blog.

Please be patient to hear my side of the story.

The occasion leading up to the event, that led to injury sustained by my wife was a fight between my wife and the housemaid.

I am completely stunned that somebody would turn around and tell the whole world that I did this to my wife.

I am a victim of circumstances in this incident as I only came to separate a fight at about11:30pm between my wife and the maid.

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Secondary school student, 19, who stabbed colleague, arraigned in court.

You would recall the incidence of a 19-year-old Senior Secondary School student of Gaskia College, Amukoko, Lagos, Saka Ahmed, who allegedly stabbed his school labour prefect, Saheed Jimoh, to death.

Ejo, as Saka is fondly called, was on November 5, arrested by policemen attached to Amukoko Division, in his hideout somewhere around the school’s vicinity, at about 6.40 pm. The 19 year-old on Friday appeared in an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

While in court, Ejo denied stabbing the deceased. According to him,

“I pushed Jimoh; I didn’t stab him. Jimoh fell on an iron rod, which pierced his chest.”

He also alleged that he and his friends on the said date had waited for the deceased after school hours to confront him for punishing him for coming late to school but he never showed up, only to be reported dead the day after. However, the accused was today arraigned on a one-count charge of manslaughter.

According to the Prosecutor, Sgt. Daniel Ighodalo, the offence contravened Section 227 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

Ejo, however, pleaded not guilty.

The Magistrate, Mrs. Folarin Williams, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N250, 000 with two sureties in like sum, and adjourned the case till January 18, for trial.

Source; Daily Post

Liberia records a new case of ebola virus after being declared ebola-free

A new case of Ebola virus has emerged in Libera. The new information was contained in a statement by the Liberian Health Minister, Bernice Dahn on Friday.

According to Dahn, it was a setback for the region, which was struggling to end an epidemic that had killed around 11,300 people.

The patient is a 10 year old boy who lived with his parents and three siblings in Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, she said.

All six family members, as well as other high risk contacts, were in care at an Ebola Treatment Unit in Paynesville, Dahn added.

She also said that the hospital was currently decontaminating the unit; all of the healthcare workers who came in contact with the patient had also been notified.

“We know how Ebola spreads and we know how to stop Ebola but we must remain vigilant and work together,” she said.

Liberia has seen more than 10,600 cases of the disease and 4,808 Ebola deaths since it was first announced in March, 2014, according to WHO figures.

Source: Daily Post

The Nigerian Association of Prostitutes identifies a corpse as one of their members

The Nigerian Association of Prostitutes have identified the corpse of a lady which was abandoned in Abeokuta at a refuse site near a taxi park in Olomore, as one of their members.

About 50 members of the association were reported to have stormed the Ogun NUJ Press centre, Abeokuta on Tuesday because of the incident., claiming that the deceased was one of their members.

They also alleged that a ritualist male customer must have dumped her after killing her and removing some of her body parts. They also claimed that one of their members is also missing.

The association however pleaded with the police to assist in bringing their colleague’s murderer to book and urged the state government make their security and protection a priority.

source: Daily Post

21 members of a Nigerian criminal organisation arrested in a raid by Barcelona Police for forcing Nigerian women into prostitution

On Monday, Nov. 16, Catalan regional police launched a large-scale raid against human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women in Barcelona, Spain. 21 people, 15 men and 6 women, tall Nigerians, were arrested in the early morning operation for forcing Nigerian women into prostitution. Above is one of the arrested Nigerians

The Central Unit against Human Trafficking disclosed that the suspects are part of a criminal organisation, known as "Supreme Eiye Confraternity", that has forced more than one hundred women into prostitution since the beginning of 2014.

Investigators believe the group may have exploited dozens of women, many of whom were charged large sum of money to be brought to Spain from Africa with the promise of a job and a better life.The women, instead were forced into prostitution to repay their debts to the human trafficking ring.
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BREAKING: suicide bombing at an IDP camp in Borno

                             

It was earlier reported that there was a suicide bombing at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Borno State. However, Daily Post clarified the incidence via a correspondent that,

“The blast did not happen inside the main IDP camp as earlier reported but at a screening centre,” the source told our correspondent.

“There is small centre where IDPs are screened before they are taken to the main camp.

“It is more of a transit camp and located near a motor park along the Mafa-Maiduguri road.

“A female suicide bomber, a teenager, carried out the attack.

“She was among those brought from Dikwa after troops cleared the village of Boko Haram insurgents.

“Witnesses say the girl screamed as she detonated the bomb.

“Seven civilians died while two civilian JTF sustained injuries.”

It remains a mystery how the teenage IDP got and hid the bomb that blew her and others.

DAILY POST gathered that the military was studying the incident.

It is expected that security in and around IDP screening and main camps would be tightened to avoid access to dangerous materials and infiltration by terrorists.

DELTA STATE: SARS rescues 5 children sold by child traffickers.

Some suspected child traffickers have been arrested by the Delta State Police Command, Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS.

According to the State's Commissioner of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, SARS rescued five children suspected to have been sold by members of the group who operate within Delta, Anambra, Cross River, Akwa-Ibom and Rivers state.

 “When we heard about the inter-state human and child trafficking syndicate cell in Asaba, SARS operatives arrested the gang leader of the group.

“The suspect and her husband confessed to the crime and led the officers to their different hideouts in Anambra, Akwa-Ibom and Cross Rivers state,” he added.

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Ending violence against children - Odinkalu

 A four year-old-girl raped by her uncle; a 10-year-old boy beaten to death by his father; yet another heart-wrenching story of abuse. No day passes without similar stories in the media. Many of us will sigh and turn the page, searching for the financials, the latest corruption scandal, or the sports news. We seem to have become desensitised to these horrors our children suffer.

Police arrest 21 homosexual students in Delta

 

Delta State Commissioner of Police, Alkali Usman

Police detectives in Asaba, Delta State, have arrested 21 students who have been allegedly involved in same sex activities.

Nigeria: Women, Girls Risk Rape for Lack of Decent Toilet Facilities

 

19th November is world's toilet day. A day earmarked by the United Nations to raise awareness on the state of sanitation around the world especially in third world and developing nations. According to statistics released by the UN, Some 2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation and over a billion are forced to defecate in the open, thereby getting exposed to disease and other dangers.

Lagos records 14,166 rape, domestic violence

 

The Lagos State Government has revealed that it handled about 14,166 rape and domestic violence in the state in the last eight years.

Man rapes 11-year-old girl in Lagos

 A 30-year-old factory worker, Peter Ekom, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl.

Police arraign 57 for rape, sodomy in Kano

 

The Kano Police Command has arraigned 57 men between the ages of 30 and 60 for rape and sodomy they allegedly committed with 58 minors.
The accused were arraigned before a Magistrate Court 18 presided by Justice Idris Muhammad.
Others were arraigned before Magistrate Court 6 presided by Chief Magistrate Fatima Adamu.
The prosecuting counsel, S.O. Ekwe, said although the police were still investigating the matter, they had enough evidence against them.

Carpenter in court over alleged rape of university student

 

  A 25-year-old carpenter, James Sodiq, on Friday appeared before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo for allegedly raping an unnamed 23-year-old 400 level National Open University student.

VIEWER'S DISCRETION: Woman allegedly killed by her husband's brothers...they butchered her.

The story was posted on LIB. It was sent by one of her readers who claims his sister was murdered by two of her brother-in-laws. Read the story below:

Mr. Praise Ismail Onye and Mr. Azubike Onyejegbu who both hail from Oba Idemili South LGA, in Anambra, have been declared "Wanted" by The Nigerian Police Force, for the murder of Mrs. Nkechi Onyejegbu. The incident happened on Friday 6th, November 2015, in her house shortly after she came back from an event she attended with her husband. The two younger brothers of her husband used cutlass and other weapons to attack her.

VIEWER'S DISCRETION: VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS! 

GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Man cuts off wife's ears with pliers during domestic violence

                                  

The lady pictured above is a victim of domestic violence whose ear was cut off by her husband. The report came via a friend of the victim who could no longer condone the constant threats made on the life of her friend by her husband. Read what her friend wrote below :

His name is Nonso Paul Nzedebebe. They got married in December 2014 and have a 3 months old baby. The girl carried the pregnancy for 9 months in agony and threats but we thought after delivery he will amend his ways. The day the lady was discharged from hospital, after a Cs operation, he beat her, locked her up and used a knife to stab her. But she escaped and ran to Rubghe Police station to report. He was invited but refused to honor their invitation. He later assured them he will show up and was cautioned to maintain maximum peace till he shows up.Eventually, on the 16th of November, he cut her ear with pliers for reporting the abuse she was facing.

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KANO BOMB BLASTS: 15 dead, 57 critically injured!

                     
Multiple deaths have been recorded in the suicide attack on Kano GSM market this evening. Two female suicide bombers reportedly walked into the populated market and detonated bombs strapped to their bodies. The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Katsina, who confirmed the number of casualties, said 10 people died on the spot while 5 others died at the hospital. 57 others are said to be critically injured.
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source: LIB

Female Sergeant arrested for selling baby

                        

A female sergeant identified as Obotie Adesuwa, attached to the Akinpelu Division in Lagos is currently cooling her heels in custody of the X-Squad Section of the State Police Command, for allegedly selling a one week-old baby brought with his mother to the police station.

It was learnt that the baby boy and his mother identified as Toyin, who is allegedly mentally unstable, were brought to the police station, where Adesuwa is attached to.

A kind-hearted person was said to have brought the baby and his mother to the station after Toyin delivered the baby in a psychiatric hospital.

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source: Daily Post

BENIN: APC youths clash with revenue colectors, 20 injured

No fewer than 20 persons were yesterday injured at the Oredo Secretariat and Ring road, Benin City, Edo State following a ‘bloody clash’ that ensued between two revenue-collecting groups in the Local Government.

Vanguard reports that the clash which started at about 11:30 am saw youths armed with cutlasses at the Ring road area and the Oredo Council secretariat. The alleged clash is said to be between those authorized to collect revenue in the council area and some youths suspected to be members of All Progressives Congress, APC, who claimed to have the authority of the state government to take over revenue collection in the council.

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Man, 25, rapes cousin, 15

Asimiu Adebayo, a 25-year-old unemployed man,  was on Wednesday remanded in prison by a Lagos Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old cousin.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the suspect be remanded in Kirikiri prison, Apapa, over the alleged rape.

Adebayo, who resides with the father of the victim at Moricas, Agege area of the state is standing trial a one-count charge of defilement.

Earlier, the prosecuting officer, Sgt. Jimah Iseghede, told the court that the suspect committed the crime on November 12.

Iseghede told the court that a neighbour who heard the screaming of the girl peeped through the window and saw the accused raping the girl.

“She then alerted the other tenants and the accused was apprehended,” he said.

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

When the charge was read, Adebayo pleaded not guilty.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias ordered that the accused be remanded in prison while adjourning the case till November 25, for ruling on his bail application.

Man kills four of his children and attempts suicide

A middle aged man (name withheld), on Wednesday in Kaduna reportedly slaughtered four of his children and attempted to kill himself.

Neighbours said that the man had quarrelled with his wife throughout the night, forcing her to leave the house located on Ahmadu Bello Way in Kawo area of Kaduna metropolis.

Thereafter, the man allegedly locked the entrance to the house and used a knife to slaughter the four children aged between one to six years.

One of his children, who was not in the house at the time, alerted the ward head of the area, when he found the door to the residence locked from inside.

When the neighbours and some police officers went into the house, the children were already dead while their father was still alive but in critical condition.

Kaduna State Police Command Public Relation Officer, Zubairu Abubakar, said that the man and the children have been conveyed to St Gerard’s General Hospital in Kakuri, Kaduna.

He said that the police had commenced full investigation into the matter.

source: Daily Post

Over speeding vehicle kills highway LAWMA staff

                              

An employee of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, was Wednesday reportedly killed when a fast approaching vehicle knocked her off the Third Mainland Bridge.

Daily Post reported that the accident occurred at about 11 am behind Kam Salem House, the Police Headquarters annex at the Obalende.

Eyewitnesses said that the victim, simply identified as Bisi by her colleagues, was flung into the air and thrown over the bridge to the ground when one of the vehicle's tyre deflated.

The driver of the vehicle, alleged to be military personnel, was said to be over speeding when his tyre deflated and the vehicle somersaulted severally.

It was learnt that the unconscious military personnel was taken to the nearby Military Hospital in Ikoyi in a tricycle.

An official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA, speaking anonymously, confirmed that the owner of the Peugeot 407 car was on speed when the incident occurred.

The corpse, as at press time, was covered with cellophane wrapping and cloth while her colleagues awaited their managers to arrive the scene of the accident.

NUDE PHOTOTS: 'Slut Walk' protest against sexual violence.

                      
The streets of Rio de Janeiro were filled with unclad women who were determined to address claims by some that women provoke attacks by the way they dress or act. They also wanted to fight against proposed new abortion restrictions which, if passed, would mean a woman who was raped could only have a termination if she could prove the crime. 

One of the protesters, Indara Costa, 18, said: "Men in Brazil think we are objects. We want to be able to do what we want with our bodies without being harassed." Stephanie Ruas, 26, said: "We may face violence anywhere. At school, as a young girl, at work - that's the culture. "Brazil is one of the worst places for a woman to travel alone. When I travel I bring a special door jam so that my hotel room cannot be opened."

The protesters said a woman is killed every two hours in Brazil which they claim makes it the fifth most dangerous country for females.

                         

                            

                         

                              

Wives of late monarch banned from re-marrying

The wives of the late‎ Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, have been banned by tradition from re-marrying.

Quoting a palace chief, who preferred not to be named, The Nation reports that the order was prescribed by Ife tradition, since the Ooni is not considered dead but to have transited to a higher realm.

The chief, maintaining that the Ooni still lives, said it is forbidden for wives left behind by Oba Sijuwade to re-marry.

He said: “The rules is general and applies to all Ooni that has passed on and not peculiar to the wives of Oba Sijuwade, the immediate past Ooni. There may not be a clearly defined repercussion against the tradition but it is advisable that the order is obeyed at all times and for all generations. The best that can happen to the oloris left behind by any late Ooni is for them to remain single or be inherited by the reigning Ooni.”

The palace chief added that it does not matter whether the wives are young or old, “what matters is that the tradition must be sustained in the overall interest of the society.”

The late Oba Okunade Sijuwade left Oloris Morisola, Ladun, Odunayo, Adedolapo and Linda behind, with their ages ranging between 40’s and 60’s.