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.

Read her encounter here


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.

Read more here

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.