I married my wife a virgin – Governor Ayade

Yesterday, Gov Ben Ayade of Cross River State said that he married his wife as a virgin, which is the pride of Africans, who value the virtues of chastity. . . 

Governor Ayade, who made the disclosure in Calabar, while delivering a lecture on the HIV/AIDS scourge to mark the 2016 World Aids Day, said the greatest gift any woman could possibly hand to her husband was to present her body as a virgin to him. . . He said: “I should say to the teenagers here today that when somebody leads you to the altar, at the end of that day he should be glad to say I married my wife a virgin.” . .

 The governor stated that young people easily gave in to sex due to financial inducement, peer pressure and influence of international movies and believed that with the use of condom they were secure from HIV, which in most cases was not full-proof protection against the pandemic. . . According to the governor, “when people use condom, they think they are safe which is the major cause of infection because evidence abound that the use of condom does not provide total protection against HIV/AIDS since the condom itself has small holes that are 0.05 wider than microbes, which makes HIV virus to pass successfully.”" 

"Man Loses His Hands After Torture By Herbalist In Lagos. .

A 26-year-old man, Oluwasegun Ayoola, has lost the use of his two hands after he was allegedly tortured by a herbalist in the Oke-Aro area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the unidentified herbalist, who is still at large, tied the victim’s hands and feet and dumped him in a clay pot for three days without food. . . The victim was said to have been released after some family members intervened. He was subsequently taken to a hospital for treatment. Punch gathered that Oluwasegun was cleaning up his apartment on Idimu Road, Ejigbo, when he collapsed and was taken to the herbalist’s shrine by a half-brother, Afolabi. His mother, Mrs. Kudirat Ayoola, said she never knew they were being taken to a shrine on the day of the incident. She said, “My son lives in his late father’s house in Ejigbo; I don’t stay with him. On April 30, 2016, I was called that he had collapsed in the house. My stepson, Afolabi, and a stepdaughter told me to join them because they were taking him for treatment. I never knew it was a herbalist’s house they were taking us to. “When we got to Oke-Aro, they handed us over to a herbalist. I protested, but they said it was for the improvement of his health. They dropped us off and left. “On the following day, the herbalist poured palm oil around my son with candles and some fetish items. He asked my son to kneel down while I should be praying. He brought out a knife and a divination tablet. He said my son had become his meat. “We were alarmed and my son started struggling with him. I screamed for help. 

They started fighting and my son headbutt the man. Some of the herbalist’s associates came and beat up my son. They tied him up and dumped him in a clay pot. He was there for three days.

” She added that efforts to locate a police station in the neighbourhood to report the incident proved abortive, adding that her relatives later came to free the victim. Oluwasegun said the incident had left him disable, saying he depended on his mother for almost everything. He said;" 

"Parents chain 14-year-old runaway daughter

A teenage girl, identified as Onyeka John, has regained freedom after she was allegedly chained by her mother to the burglar-proof bars for about one month.The girl lived with her parents in a rented apartment on Serebe Street, Abaranje, in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. . . The parents reportedly tied up John by the neck and legs for habitually running away from home, which they ascribed to mental illness. Punch Metro learnt that the parents had gone out on Wednesday and locked up the girl as usual. . . On that day, the landlord, Mr. Oladapo Olubajo, was said to have gone to the backyard, where the family’s apartment is located, to check a pumping machine when he saw the girl.The landlord was said to have alerted a resident, who reported the case to the police at the Ikotun division. . . The resident, who begged not to be named, said the girl’s parents eventually showed up at the police station and made statements. He said, “The parents locked the girl up. She is about 14 years old. She was chained naked to the burglary inside the room by the neck and legs. Policemen came to rescue the girl. Her parents later turned themselves in at the station. They said the girl had been a disgrace to the family.” . . The landlord, Olubajo, told punch that he wanted to take up the matter with the parents, but some residents prevailed on him not to.He explained that he met the girl naked in the apartment, adding that the condition she was could frustrate her to commit suicide. . . Olubajo said, “When I saw her chained to the burglar-proof bar, I raised the alarm. The police later got the parents to the station and interrogated them. 

The girl said she had been there for almost one month. 

Her parents moved here a year ago. I have noticed that their behaviour was odd. but I didn’t know they could go to the extent of chaining the ir daughter. . . “People begged me and the police eventually released the girl to them yesterday (Wednesday). The conclusion we reached is that I want them out of my house. They also claimed the girl is mentally ill. Even if she is mentally challenged, was that the right way to go about it?" 

"LASG begins housing initiatives, bans okada near banks

The Lagos State Government has commenced its new housing initiatives — Rent-To-Own and Rental Housing policies.The Rent-To-Own policy targets the low and medium income earners and requires individuals to pay five per cent of the value of the housing unit, while the balance is spread over a 10-year period. . . Rental Housing is targeted at the people with regular income who will be required to pay monthly until the required amount is paid on the house. The Commissioner for Housing, Gbolahan Lawal, on Thursday, said the government had allocated 20 per cent of the available housing units in each of the Rent-To-Own estates for Rental Housing. . . He said the initiative would enable the state government to increase the number of Lagosians living in their own homes and reduce slum settlements.He said, “Accessing our housing units had been largely on a cash and carry basis, thereby excluding majority of the citizenry until recently when the mortgage scheme was introduced. . . But a large number are unable to meet the requirements which the mortgage scheme demands. The new initiatives will make houses affordable and accessible to the citizenry.” . . Meanwhile, the state government has started the full enforcement of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law, 2012. It also banned commercial motorcycles (okada) operation near banks and other financial houses’ premises.
 The acting Commissioner for Transportation, Anofiu Elegushi, said all prohibited roads in the traffic law were forbidden for okada operators. Elegushi, who spoke in company with the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, Omohimi Edgal, said enforcement would begin immediately. Punch"

"LASG begins housing initiatives, bans okada near banks

The Lagos State Government has commenced its new housing initiatives — Rent-To-Own and Rental Housing policies.The Rent-To-Own policy targets the low and medium income earners and requires individuals to pay five per cent of the value of the housing unit, while the balance is spread over a 10-year period. . . Rental Housing is targeted at the people with regular income who will be required to pay monthly until the required amount is paid on the house. 

The Commissioner for Housing, Gbolahan Lawal, on Thursday, said the government had allocated 20 per cent of the available housing units in each of the Rent-To-Own estates for Rental Housing. . . He said the initiative would enable the state government to increase the number of Lagosians living in their own homes and reduce slum settlements.He said, “Accessing our housing units had been largely on a cash and carry basis, thereby excluding majority of the citizenry until recently when the mortgage scheme was introduced. . . But a large number are unable to meet the requirements which the mortgage scheme demands.

 The new initiatives will make houses affordable and accessible to the citizenry.” . . Meanwhile, the state government has started the full enforcement of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law, 2012. It also banned commercial motorcycles (okada) operation near banks and other financial houses’ premises.

 The acting Commissioner for Transportation, Anofiu Elegushi, said all prohibited roads in the traffic law were forbidden for okada operators. Elegushi, who spoke in company with the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, Omohimi Edgal, said enforcement would begin immediately. Punch" 

"A Baltimore school tutor has been relieved of his duties after he attacked one of the students in care. The 7-year-old boy suffered severe injuries from a fractured jaw, and loosing two teeth. .

According to KTLA, 25-year-old Timothy Randall Korr has been charged with multiple counts of felony child abuse. He claims he removed the Trayvon Grayson from the classroom because he was acting up.
 He said that while he was escorting the young man out of the room he lost his balance and the boy “hit himself” on the wall but the mom isn’t buying that. . .
 “He can’t throw himself into the wall and fracture his jaw and lose his teeth,” she said. “He’s only 7 years old. He’s so small he’s not going to do the damage to himself After further investigation detectives determined that the tutor was lying and they charged him."

"Kanye West’s brother reveals rapper has been depressed since Kim's Paris robbery .

KWest has been left so traumatised by his wife Kim Kardashian’s brutal robbery that he fears his life is now in danger, his stepbrother has claimed. For the first time, Hal Carmichael – whose mother Cheryl was married to Kanye’s father Ray – has broken the family’s silence over Kanye’s hospitalisation. . . Speaking exclusively to the Sun Online, Hal says: “No one thought Paris would happen in a million years and now he’s seen it happen to Kim, it’s traumatising. “Ye is tired, he’s hurt, he feels betrayed and he’s probably feeling depressed. “It’s like who can he trust? You can’t trust anyone, even the people you’ve been paying to protect you. They haven’t been doing their jobs correctly. “I think Kanye got to a point when he was fearing for his life and for his family’s safety because of what went down in Paris – I think it took a toll on him. “He ends up walking about worrying and thinking, who’s going to do what to me?”“It was so shocking when I found out he was in hospital but I knew in my stomach why – he’s mentally exhausted because he works so hard. “Since he started out in the business he has never taken a break, or stopped working. He’s lost it right now because he’s only human." 

Heartbreaking Photo!

See Coffins Of Brazilian Footballers Killed In Plane Disaster Laid Side By Side In Funeral Home" 

17 year old teen shot twice by boyfriend of a dying gunshot victim he was trying to save . .

A 17 year old Senior at Central High School, Louisiana, Daniel Wesley, was headed home after leaving the Mall of Louisiana when he saw a woman with gunshot wounds, dying on the street. He put on a pair of gloves and searched for the woman’s bullet wounds, looking for the best place to apply pressure. The 17-year-old didn’t have his EMT certification yet, but in the critical moments the first thing that came to his mind was to help stop the bleeding. April Peck,  a 30-year-old mother of two, had been shot by her boyfriend on Sunday,when Wesley saw her but before the teen could do more, Peck’s boyfriend came roaring back in a Chevy Malibu screaming.. “If you help her, I’m going to kill you,” he said, according to Wesley’s mother, who spoke to the Advocate, a newspaper based in Baton Rouge. The boyfriend, Terrell Walker, rammed the car into Wesley, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office. The car threw him into the side of an arriving ambulance, shattering his arm and snapping his femur. Injured, Wesley crawled to the median in pain. Not satisfied, investigators say Walker pointed his gun and shot the teen twice. Walker also fired at the ambulance’s crew, but didn’t hit them, before getting in the car and peeling off. First responders ultimately sorted out the injured. Peck,, was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she died.  Wesley was taken to the same hospital, and went through two surgeries in three days. 

 The paramedics weren’t injured. Mike Chustz, a spokesman for East Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services, said they were barely out of their ambulance when the Malibu crushed Wesley into it. 

They had been flagged down by a motorist about an injured woman in the street and initially thought they were on their way to help an injured pedestrian.

 “It was totally unexpected,” Chustz told The Washington Post. “They all did whatever they could to seek shelter to try to put some distance between them.” Walker was gone when deputies arrived, but investigators initiated a manhunt.

Angry passengers disrupt Arik’s flights at Abuja airport . .

The flight was disrupted for some in Abuja for some hours on Thursday because of the inability of the airline to transport them to their various destinations. It was learnt that passengers of the carrier, who were meant to travel from Abuja to Warri, Delta State around 3pm on Wednesday, could not do so and the flight had to be rescheduled. Punch reports that one of those affected told them the passengers were asked to return to the airport on Thursday, but on getting to the NAIA, the airline announced that the flight had been cancelled. This irked the travellers and made them to stage a protest, as they prevented other passengers of the  airline who were travelling to other destinations from boarding their respective flights around 4.30pm on Thursday."