Celebrities who have shown their wild side in public places.

Oritse-Femi

By virtue of what they do, celebrities are well-loved by people who they don’t even know. That is why they are usually besieged by ‘strange’ fans and well-wishers whenever they step out at public places.
It is a fact that some fans can be rather unruly and overzealous whenever they meet these stars. Some of them could be outrightly rude, and it wouldn’t be out of place to put them in their place. The extreme behaviors of some fans have even led some artistes like Justin Bieber to declare that they wouldn’t take pictures with fans anymore. But it has also been observed severally that many celebrities are just too arrogant, mean, haughty and snobbish. They often look down on their fans, and in some instances, they have even gone on to physically batter them. These types of celebrities have no qualms about slapping, kicking and harassing staff such as Personal Assistants, waiters, security officials, body-guards etc. In this piece, we’ll take a look at some Nigerian celebs who have physically assaulted their fans and staff. Enjoy… Oritse Femi The singer and record label owner recently released his fifth album, ‘Corporate Miscreant’ and one would have thought that he would be investing all his efforts into promoting the album right now. But alas, the chap is busy breaking bottles and beating bouncers. The ‘Mr. Gomina’ singer allegedly beat and stabbed a bouncer at a nightclub in Lagos last weekend. Following the hues and cries over the incident, he has apologized to his fans, the battered bouncer, and the owner of the club where the incident occurred. It remains to be seen if the offended parties have forgiven him.

Seyi Law Seyi
Law is a comedian, and it is expected that people will have a jolly good time around him. He is supposed to be cracking ribs with laughter, but the black-skinned humour merchant has gone a step further to be the dealer of hot blows and slaps. He allegedly landed a heavy slap on a security official at the Eko Hotels and Suites after Kiss Daniels’ ‘New Era’ album launch earlier in the year. The security guy’s crime was telling Seyi that there was an alternative route he could take to drive out of the hotel. Seyi was said to have angrily gotten out of his car and slapped the hapless valet three times. Seyi Law later took to his Instagram page to apologise for his unruly behavior, and also state his own side of the story. He alleged that the security personnel was rude to him, but accepted that it wasn’t enough justification for his action.

Olisa Adibua
Popular On Air Personality (OAP), Olisa Adibua’s hot temper is said to be legendary. He has allegedly assaulted his co-workers and other persons on several occasions. This has led many to take extra measures not to get on his bad side. The most-known incident involving the broadcaster took place in 2011 when Olisa allegedly beat a junior colleague blue-black for daring to sleep on a couch in the office after completing his duties by 3am. Olisa is said to be in the habit of verbally assaulting staff members including a married woman. Till date, it’s not on record that he apologized to the man he brutalized.

Davido
That Davido has a flagrant temper and could get violent at the slightest provocation is known by many. The Omo Baba Olowo has been involved in numerous altercations with members of the public. He was said to have beaten an elderly cab driver to stupor some years ago after the cabbie made the mistake of bringing one of Davido’s girlfriends to a hotel where the singer was already lodged with another girl. Shortly after that, he also had issues with some soldiers who beat him and taught him a lesson for life. This is even as he is said to have assaulted several service personnel like waiters and bouncers in the past.

Wizkid

Even though Wizkid has a cool ‘baby face,’ the superstar-singer has proven time and again that he has a violent soul. He was, once reported, to have thrown his drink in the face of a fan who had approached him in a London club. He was also alleged to have broken a bottle on Dammy Krane’s head at Quilox night club sometime ago. This is even as the diminutive singer is known to have threatened violence against women including singer, Saeon and blogger, Linda Ikeji.

Ikechukwu
Not much is heard from the stables of bald-headed rapper, Ikechukwu, these days. But in his heydays, he was often in the news for things other than his music. Known to be violent, he has been involved in altercations with a lot of people; the most prominent being when he engaged in fisticuffs with some bouncers at Rehab night club.

Linda Ikeji rejects $2m partnership inventment.

Acclaimed Africa’s biggest blogger, Linda Ikeji, has turned down the sum of two million dollars ($2m) partnership investment into her recently launched social networking site, Linda Ikeji Social (LIS).
 
According to a reliable source inside the Linda Ikeji Media brand, Linda, 36, turned down the deal after owning up to her team that she is oblivious of the value of $2million in her new business since it is a new brand.
 The investors were said to have proposed to own a percentage of the new social networking site for the value of $2million after seeing how fast the site is catching on.
The investors suggested that she use the money in massive advertisement for the new brand and for technical support but Linda turned it down.
 Another source close to Linda Ikeji revealed that this is not the first time she will turn down a major investment into her online business, as few years ago, she also rejected a major seven digit investment into her blog which has eventually paid off as she currently enjoys the enviable position as Africa’s richest blogger. 
Within only three weeks of launch, the Linda Ikeji Social networking site has received over 150,000 sign ups and has continued to grow steadily. 
According to Global Tech Monitoring Site, Alexa, Linda Ikeji Social is currently listed as one of the most visited sites in Nigeria; it has become a favorite among young people because it is currently the only social media network platform in Nigeria that rewards its users with mouth-watering weekly prizes including cash gifts.

LAGOS ROCKS; #Blockbuster Upcoming Event you don't want to miss.

Star Lager will be hosting the " The biggest Music Concert ", OH ! yeah! You heard me right  the biggest music concert #LAGOSROCKS on the 26th of November, That's right," this Saturday". And I am sure you can't afford to miss all the fun and the exciting drama that will go down.

Your one and only 2Baba will be live at the concert and as usual expect nothing less than fun from him, beloved fans and for him to serenade his fans.

Falz the Badh guy and Simi will bring their undiluted chemistry on stage to entertain their beloved fans and you never can tell maybe, they would finally reveal their relationship status. WHO KNOW!

Tiwa Savage! The savage Queen would be having her first concert since her North America tour ended. She will be having a Home Coming ball on stage. You definitely don't want miss all the energy she 'll bring on stage.


The Turntables will be lit as DeeJays Big N and Neptune plan to shutdown the Eagle Club in Surulere.


And as usual a large crowd of Star Fans with music lovers will be there to turn up, the Lagos style. 


#LAGOSROCKS Star Music The Trek holds at Eagle Club, Surulere by 7pm. You don’t want to miss it.

UI Admission-Exercise-Recommended-List-and-Clearance-Time-Table for 2016/2017

     

        This is to inform all 2016/2017 aspirants of the great institution ,University of Ibadan that the admission list had been released.The admission exercise recommenced list and clearance time-table for 2016/17 is also out now.
       Candidates are advise to click on the link below to check for their names on the admission list that had just been released.
       To check for you name, click the link below.....
http://ui.edu.ng/news/20162017-admission-exercise-recommended-list-and-clearance-time-table

       Information about the 2016/2017 Admission clearance exercise is detailed below;

This is to inform all candidates who have been offered provisional admission in the 2016/ 2017 UTME and Direct Entry admissions exercise that the clearance exercise will commence on Tuesday, 29 November, 2016. Candidates are therefore advised to proceed to the admissions portal on www.admissions.ui.edu.ng to pay a non-refundable acceptance fee of Thirty Thousand Naira only (N30, 000:00) using the approved payment mode. Click to view recommended list and clearance timetable.

Candidates are requested to bring the underlisted documents for the clearance exercise:

1. Two copies of evidence of completion of pre-screening login process

2. Biodata and Acceptance fee forms to be filled and downloaded from the University of Ibadan Admissions webpage

3. Institution and candidate’s copies of the Admission letter (To be printed from jamb website)

4. Candidates who have been offered admission in other courses apart from what they initially applied for are to go and change their course to the new course on www.jamb.org.ng. The printout generated from the change of course platform should be presented at the point of clearance

5. Original and 4 photocopies of the UTME result slip (UTME candidates) and Jamb Direct entry print-out (Direct entry candidates)

6. Original and 4 photocopies of the credentials uploaded for the screening exercise - SSCE/GCE//BSC/NCE/OND/HND/CAMBRIDGE O/LEVEL and/or A/LEVEL. Presentation of credentials different from what was uploaded will lead to automatic disqualification.

7. NYSC discharge or exemption letter for Degree holders (Direct Entry)

8. Four (4) recent passport size photographs

9. Original and 4 photocopies of Birth Certificate or Sworn Declaration of Age. Certificates issued by private hospitals and religious institutions are not acceptable.

10. Two letters of reference from two reputable persons - on Letter Headed Papers

11. Original and 2 photocopies of payment receipt for N30, 000.00 Acceptance Fee

12. A file with tags

Candidates are advised to go online to download, fill and bring along for the clearance exercise the following forms at admissions.ui.edu.ng

a. Undertaking form

b. Jamb form B001 and B003

c. Fill the medical form online and submit a copy of the printout at the University Health Service (Jaja Clinic)

Note: Candidates are strongly advised not to transact any business with any other person/persons, corporate or any other site other than the University of Ibadan Website, www.ui.edu.ng and www.admissions.ui.edu.ng.

For further enquiry contact the Undergraduate Admission Office on any of the helplines: 08129732268, 08115976795 or send electronic mail to ugadmissions@mail.ui.edu.ng

For comments and questions kindly drop them in the comments box. Thanks you.

A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO GOODBYE TO THE DEAD.

       I am sure most of us have this phobia for the dead ever duo if the departed person is closer to us, we still feel this voo-voo feeling about the  departed person. We all know what a dead body might been like after few years which the person dies. And all that accompanies it if it's not been buried.

      Well there are certain people who are in no rush to bury their dead one's and who also took their time in coming back to re-dig their loved dead buried ones after some years of being buried for some certain reasons( to re-clean, re-decorate, re-associate with the dead and to re- bury)






         

         In Toraja society, the funeral ritual is the most elaborate and expensive event. The richer and more powerful the individual, the more expensive is the funeral. In the Aluk religion, only nobles have the right to have an extensive death feast.

        The death feast of a nobleman is usually attended by thousands and lasts for several days. A ceremonial site, called Rante, is usually prepared in a large, grassy field where shelters for audiences, rice barns, and other ceremonial funeral structures are specially made by the deceased family. Flute music, funeral chants, songs and poems, and crying and wailing are traditional Toraja expressions of grief with the exceptions of funerals for young children, and poor, low-status adults.

      The ceremony is often held weeks, months, or years after the death so that the deceased's family can raise the significant funds needed to cover funeral expenses. Torajans traditionally believe that death is not a sudden, abrupt event, but a gradual process toward Puya (the land of souls, or afterlife).

       During the waiting period, the body of the deceased   is wrapped in several layers of cloth and kept under the Tongkonan. The soul of the deceased is thought to linger around the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which it begins its journey to Puya.

     Another component of the ritual is the slaughter of water Buffalo. The more powerful the person who died, the more buffalo are slaughtered at the death feast. Buffalo carcasses, including their heads, are usually lined up on a field waiting for their owner, who is in the "sleeping stage". Torajans believe that the deceased will need the buffalo to make the journey and that they will be quicker to arrive at Puya if they have many buffalo.

       Slaughtering tens of water buffalo and hundreds of pigs using a machete is the climax of the elaborate death feast, with dancing and music and young boys who catch spurting blood in long bamboo tubes. Some of the slaughtered animals are given by guests as "gifts", which are carefully noted because they will be considered debts of the deceased's family.

        However, a cockfight, known as bulangan londong, is an integral part of the ceremony. As with the sacrifice of the buffalo and the pigs, the cockfight is considered sacred because it involves the spilling of blood on the earth. In particular, the tradition requires the sacrifice of at least three chickens. However, it is common for at least 25 pairs of chickens to be set against each other in the context of the ceremony.  There are three methods of burial: the coffin may be laid in a cave or in a carved stone grave, 

  or hung on the cliff.

     It contains any possessions that the deceased will need in the afterlife. The wealthy are often buried in a stone grave carved out of a rocky cliff. The grave is usually expensive and takes a few months to complete. In some areas, a stone cave may be found that is large enough to accommodate a whole family.

 A wood-carved effigy, called Tau tau, is usually placed in the cave looking out over the land.The coffin of a baby or child may be hung from ropes on a cliff face or from a tree. This hanging grave usually lasts for years, until the ropes rot and the coffin falls to the ground.

         In the ritual called Ma'Nene, that takes place each year in August, the bodies of the deceased are exhumed to be washed, groomed and dressed in new clothes.The mummies are then walked around the village.

       Thanks for reading!

 We will love to read your comments and observation about these article,Readers.

Syndicate selling newborn babies arrested in Lagos.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested members of a syndicate which allegedly specialised in selling newborn babies in the Satellite Town area of the state.

PUNCH Metro learnt that some members of the gang, led by a woman, Chinenye Amama, were arrested penultimate Friday by policemen attached to the D9 Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.

Our correspondent was told that the suspects were caught with a female newborn baby, who had been rescued and reunited with her mother.

A police source said the rescued baby girl and her mother had been transferred to the Juvenile Welfare Centre, Alakara, in the Mushin area.

He said, “The syndicate was arrested on November 4, at about 6am. A team of policemen, acting on a tip-off, stormed an isolated house, where the syndicate kept their victims.

“We recovered a female newborn baby from the suspects and they are in custody at the SCIID, including their leader, Chinenye.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the arrest, saying the suspects mentioned a religious leader as their boss. She added that the police were working on the information.

She said, “The case is under investigation. Preliminary investigation reveals that it is a syndicate that specialises in selling newborn babies. One religious leader was named by the suspects.

“The command is working on the clue to ascertain the religious leader’s culpability. Investigation will be made open on that as it goes.”

The police in Lagos State have also arrested an estate agent, Sunday Obayemi, for allegedly defrauding people with fake Lagos State Government letterheads.

The suspect, 45-year-old Obayemi, was arrested by policemen attached to the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Alausa, Ikeja.

Our correspondent gathered that a tenant, Nurudeen Duroti, who stayed on Olumo Street, Agege, had reported Obayemi, who hails from Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, as a suspected fraudster.

It was learnt that policemen thereafter searched the suspect’s house and found fake Lagos State Government documents.

The suspect said in his statement that he retired from the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment in 2014, adding that he used the fake documents to extort money from tenants.

He said, “The last one I did was a notice to quit, which I served a tenant on Olumo Street, after collecting N50, 000 from the landlady of the house with a fake Lagos task force letterhead.

“I made my money from using fake letterheads of government’s ministries and agencies. I will stop this illegal business if I am pardoned by the government.”

The task force chairman, SP Saheed Egbeyemi, said the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, had directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.

SP Egbeyemi enjoined Nigerians to be wary of dubious elements, who specialised in duping members of the public with fake documents of government agencies.

Harrysong quits Five Star music record label.

  Harrysong quits Five Star music record label.

              ABUJA – Award-winning singer and songwriter, Harrison Tare Okiri popularly called Harrysong has exited Five Star Music record label. In an interview he granted the media during the weekend, the Reggae Blues crooner revealed that his decision not to renew the contract with Five Star Music, after it expired, was based on his being unappreciated enough by the label.

      “What bothers me is not the work, what bothers me is the appreciation…. You are helping someone that knows nothing and he’s telling you that he’s helping you. You write a song and the person is telling you that ‘it’s when I sing your song that you blow, if I don’t sing your song you don’t blow’,” he said. Harrysong has floated his own record label called “Alterplate.” A visit to his instagram handle also confirms the move as nothing whatsoever on his profile still references Five Star Music anymore having replaced all such information with Alterplate. Meanwhile, a large number of his followers on social media have congratulated him and have also described the development as a decisive move that would advance his music career in the right direction.

How we found the headless bodies of the three children-Horrified Mother.

•Mrs Cecilia Emberga…Mother of the lost three children

How we found the headless bodies of the three children-Horrified Mother.

   Mrs. Cecilia Emberga Agammbuee, mother of the three children  beheaded on October 30 at Disol village in Gasol  local government area of Taraba State by yet unknown persons, has narrated her story to Sunday Vanguard. “The bereaved mother, who spoke  in tears at Disol village, a settlement where the ugly incident occurred, has just one child left. Cecilia’s story was told in Tiv through an interpreter.“She identified the three slain children as Terdors, a  girl, 10;  Terna Embelga, a boy, 8, and Sulumshima Embelga, a  girl, 6.  
The three of them went to bath in a nearby stream called Jookwa alongside eight other children around 5pm on October 30”, she narrated. “When they (all the 11  children) finished swimming, they decided to fetch water with their buckets for their use at home. On their homeward journey along the bush path, two men suddenly emerged from a farm rice and grabbed one of my three children in the group by the neck. “While the other children in the group threw away the buckets of water they were carrying amid the ambush and ran for their dear lives, my two other children decided to fight back and rescue their sibling from the assailants.
  
The escaped children brought the news home. Immediately, my husband, fellow villagers and I mobilized to the scene of the attack where we found the headless bodies of the three children in a pool of blood. It was horrifying.

“Beholding the headless bodies, I thought I would die. There were other items lying on the ground at the scene of the crime. “The items include a weird looking cap, substances believed to be hard drugs and a blood stained shirt. “We didn’t see the heads of the children. They may have been taken away for ritual purposes. “I had four children. With three of them killed in cold blood, I am left with only one that I am breastfeeding. It all shows the seriousness of the insecurity in the land.” She wept. One of the villagers, Shiaondo Juku, deplored the insecurity in the state that “led to the killing of the children”, saying government must get to the root of the incident with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book. Juku stated that he usually saw strangers (laborers) working in the rice farm from which the suspected assailants reportedly emerged to attack the children.

He quoted the children who survived the attack as saying, as of the time they were swimming in Jookwan Stream, the laborers were working in the rice farm. “The surviving children told us that when they were swimming, the workers were still on the farm. The children also disclosed  that the two men that came after them  came from the farm area. But by the time we got the information about the attack and rushed to the scene to  rescue the three children, nobody was on the farm again. What we saw were the headless bodies.“”We will like to know the whereabouts of the laborers because they are no more in the village and the farm owner has gone ahead to bring some other laborers  into the farm to work for him. Those ones  we are seeking to know their whereabouts have disappeared and to me there is something suspicious”“Taraba State Police Command Public Relations Officer, ASP David Misal, confirmed the incident and said the command was investigating the crime.“Misal, however, said no arrest had been made.

Singapore executes Nigeria’s Chijioke Obioha.

  Singapore executes Nigeria’s Chijioke Obioha
A Nigerian death row convict, Chijoke Stephen Obioha was executed in Singapore early hour of Friday, November 18, 2016 after the Court of Appeal dismissed an Urgent Criminal Motion filed by his lawyer, Mr Joseph Chen, Thursday. The Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign member, Mr Ravi, who is assisting Mr Joseph with the research for the case, took to his Facebook page an hour ago to announce the news 
“This morning, at 6am, the execution of Chijioke Stephen Obioha took place. I am not even sure if his family from Nigeria were able to attend. Soon it will be all forgotten together with Chijioke’s name, but for the many of us who fight and campaign to eradicate this barbaric practice of death by hanging, and for those of us who challenge the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking in Singapore, our work will go on. And it must”, Ravi posted. Chijoke was first arrested in 2007 and sentenced to the Mandatory Death Penalty in 2008 after being found guilty of trafficking more than 2kg of Cannabis.

Wole Soyinka is leaving the U.S. because of trumpocalypse.

Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is leaving the U.S. because of trumpocalypse

>Will other Nigerian- Americans do the same?
Like millions of others around the world, I was glued to the TV last Tuesday night, anxiously waiting for the US to elect their first female president. When it became clear that the feat was unlikely, I turned off the TV and went to bed, hoping I’d wake up to a miracle.

I didn’t.

And days later, it’s still sinking in that Trumpocalypse is upon us. That the American people would elect an inexperienced, racist, misogynist, with multiple accusations of sexual assault is almost too insane to believe. But that’s a different conversation.

The fear of a Trump presidency that could include a ban on Muslims entering the US and lots of wall-building to keep immigrants out have (quite rightly) made people (particularly immigrants and people of colour) nervous. So much so that Google recorded a surge in the query, ‘how to emigrate to Canada’ after his win and the Canadian immigration website crashed before his victory was confirmed.

A widely circulated (but debunked) article on Trump’s immigration stance states that Nigerians are high up on Trump’s immigration hit list. Although this particular report isn’t true, what is true is that Trump (despite his grandparents and wife being immigrants) has a hardline view on immigration.

So, what does a Trump win mean for the estimated 300,000 Nigerians, living, working and studying in the United States? Prof. Wole Soyinka has openly said he will rip up his green card come January when Trump is sworn in, but will other Nigerian Americans follow suit by packing their stuff and heading home?
Maybe…

>America’s divisions have been laid bare

America is a country divided. 88% of blacks voted for Clinton, as did 65% of Asians and 65% of Hispanics. 58% of white people voted for Trump. His openly racist and xenophobic rhetoric set a worrying precedence, one that clearly resonated with most white voters. Like Brexit, the ascension of Donald Trump has given racists and bigots a new sense of legitimacy.

Already there has been a rise in hate crime against Muslims, black people and Hispanics according to the Independent. Given the views and comments made by the President-elect about these groups, where will things go from here?

>Everyone loves a success story and Instagram
The tale of the successful returnee is the gift that just keeps on giving. This story (and its variants) have lured many a returnee to move in search of opportunity and adventure as advertised by Instagram. This, coupled with anxiety over what Trump’s plans may be and a favourable Dollar to Naira rate might make the idea of moving back look shiny and new.

>Time to Make Nigeria Great again?
Whenever any calamitous thing happens in the west, it usually coincides with a period of reflection everywhere else. With the US and the UK becoming less immigrant-friendly, there are rumblings that perhaps it’s time Nigerians look inwards. Or as Mo’ Abudu tweeted: “Let’s wake up and fix our country and our continent. There’s nowhere to run anymore! Let’s read the writing on the wall.”

Then again, maybe not.

Winners don’t quit and quitters don’t…
Nigerians in the US are for the most part doing quite well for themselves. Nigerians are the most educated immigrants in the US and according to a research, black immigrants in the states are earning 30% more than African-Americans. Plus, as Nigerians, suffering and smiling is somewhat encoded in our DNA irrespective of where we live. So realistically, survival seems more likely than fleeing.

>Better the devil you know?
As the slogan goes ‘there are opportunities in Nigeria’ but Nigeria is also in recession; foreign companies are shutting up shop and leaving in droves, and jobs are ever more scarce. Moving back in this uncertain period may not be the best idea.

Clinton won the popular vote and some people hung to the hope that the Electoral College (the people who vote to legally elect the president) would also go for the former Secretary of State but that wasn’t the case. This last US Presidential election was an election like no other.

Why Lagos ‘garri’ thief was lynched – Lawyer.

   Why Lagos ‘garri’ thief was lynched – Lawyer.

As Nigerians grapple with the gory details surrounding the lynching of a young man for allegedly stealing garri, a legal practitioner, whose account went viral on Thursday claimed the victim and his gang tried to dispossess a woman of her belongings.

Kingsley Ughe, General Counsel for Joint Action Aids, in a Facebook post titled, ‘A Thief and A Frenzied Mob Baying for Blood,’ said the victim was a member of a gang of notorious thieves and not a seven-year-old boy, as claimed by media reports.

He explained that the young man met his dastardly end after his gang tried to dispossess a woman of her belongings, including an Infinix Note 2 phone, at Augustine Onwualu street, Orile Iganmu, Lagos last Saturday.

The woman, however, held unto her phone and screamed for help.

Read Ughe’s account below

The true account of the young man lynched and summarily burnt to death at Orile Iganmu last Saturday speaks of the uncertainty and brevity of human life in Nigeria. It was Saturday, the 11th day of November 2016. The venue of this macabre killing orgy was at Augustine Onwualu Street, Orile Iganmu, Lagos.

A woman, (name withheld) was walking along the ever busy road of Augustine Onwualu street, Orile Iganmu. She had an Infinix Hotnote 2 handset with which she was making telephone calls in high pitched voice, frantically gesticulating in the process. Close by, on the same street were a gang of 4 notorious thieves, well known in the area for their dare devilry and viciousness. They were there, waiting, prowling and surveying the entire scenery for a vulnerable victim to rob and dispossessed of their valuables as they often do in the past. And successfully too.

“The woman approached. Still talking on the phone and gesticulating with her free arm. She was immediately spotted by the very perceptive eyes of this criminal gang. A brief conference amongst them, she was adjudged a soft target. There was no need for further plans or careful surveillance. After all they had done this successfully in the past. More so, their sheer ferocity makes them a sort of feared mobster in the local vicinity. But it turned out to be a miscalculation. And costly one at that!

“They approached and circled the woman who was oblivious of her surrounding and the imminent attack on her person. The robbery attack was swift and very decisive. She was held from behind by two members of the gang. One of them deftly pruned her hand bag off her shoulder and the same time attempted to retrieved the telephone with which she was making calls from her other arm. The last of the gang stood guard, providing cover for the others.

“They had during their planning stage misjudged the desperation of a Nigerian woman about to be dispossessed. The victim reacted swiftly. She let the hand free and held on tenaciously to her phone. A struggle ensued. The victim plaintively cried out for help. A motley crowd gathered. The other members of the gang, appropriately appraising the situation fled the scene. The fourth member was not so lucky. He continued to engage in an internecine struggle with victim for the phone. In desperation, he brought out a dagger, and cold blooded stabbed the woman repeatedly in the chest, stomach and shoulder. There is a proverb, when a strong animal flirts too much with the trap, he makes his meat available for children to share with teeth.

“The gathered crowd became enraged and promptly apprehended the abandoned thief. He was beaten to stupor, Tied up and set ablaze while the maddening crowd continued to bay for his blood.

“Joint Action Aid was alerted on Monday when video clips of the dastardly murder went viral on social media. We reported the yet another resort to “jungle justice” to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos state. The video clips were carefully analysed and some arrest made. The six people arrested through our efforts denied criminal culpability and brought fast talking lawyers.

“More frustrating, the charred remains of the alleged thief had been removed. The area council and Orile Iganmu police claimed ignorance of the whereabouts of the corpse. Thus we have a dead zone situation. No dead body, no witnesses and then, most understandably, an unwilling complainant still battling for survival from the grievous multiple stabbing at the hospital. We returned back to the office, again defeated. Frustrated. And defeated.The rule of law is vanquished again. The rule of the jungle continues to win triumphantly.

Kingsley Ughe ,a legal practitioner and General Counsel of the Joint Action Aids, can be reached via k.ughe@aol.com

Source; PUNCH NEWSPAPER.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki

Senate fails to stop ASUU strike, summons Adeosun.

     Attempts by the Senate to stop the warning strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, which started on Wednesday (yesterday), has failed.

      Senate President Bukola Saraki presided over a three-hour closed-door meeting with the officials of the union.  Saraki did not, however, speak with journalists after the crucial meeting.

      The Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund, Senator Jibrin Barau, who addressed journalists, said the Senate could not stop the warning strike.
     He, however, said its intervention would prevent the strike from transforming to an indefinite action.
    Barau added that the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, had been asked to attend a meeting of a committee comprising officials of ASUU and the ministries of education and  labour on Thursday.

The meeting on Wednesday was also attended by the officials of the Ministry of Education as well as representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Productivity.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who was absent at the meeting, was represented by the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwuka.

Barau said the lawmakers had a “fruitful deliberation” with the striking lecturers, adding that “a way forward has been found” and that “the issues will soon be resolved.”

He admitted that the warning strike would continue while the Senate worked towards preventing the lecturers from embarking on a total strike.

The senator announced that a sub-committee, made up of representatives of all the stakeholders had been set up while the panel would continue with the round table discussions on Thursday.

He said what the Senate had done was to create a template for dialogue, describing an end to the crisis as “a work in progress.”

Barau said, “We have had a fruitful deliberation and a way forward has been found by creating a sub-committee of this committee to sit and find out certain things in the Ministry of Finance, which will bring us closer to the resolution of this problem.

“We will start sitting tomorrow (Thursday), including the Minister of Finance (Kemi Adeosun), who has not been able to attend this meeting but we are sure she will be here tomorrow and the Director-General of the Budget Office.

“We have created a template on how to resolve this problem. And you know ASUU is a democratic body, they have to consult. So, it’s ongoing; it’s a work in progress and a very important headway has been created. A good template has been created and we see light at the end of the tunnel.”

The National President of ASUU, Abiodun Ogunyemi, who earlier declined to speak on the outcome of the meeting, later thanked the Senate for its intervention.

 He said, “We have discussed and our union will work with him (Saraki). We will do all possible, with the approval of our membership, to get the matter resolved as soon as possible.”

The Senate had, on Tuesday, expressed its resolve to intervene in the face-off between the Federal Government and ASUU.

The lawmakers had specifically asked to intervene in the matter and prevent ASUU from embarking on the one-week warning strike.

The lawmakers, during the plenary on Tuesday, urged the two parties to embrace dialogue.

A document containing the demands of ASUU, which was obtained from one of its executive members after the meeting, indicated that demands bothered on the implementation of the 2009 agreement and the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding between the union and the Federal Government.

Under the ‘Payment of fractions of staff entitlements’, ASUU said, “The 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement Implementation Committee had submitted a report of the outstanding balance of N65, 833, 047,372.24 (2009-2013) plus N62,417‚645‚224.23 (2014-2016), amounting to an unpaid balance of N128‚250‚692‚596.47. This was in line with the Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Government and ASUU, while resolving the crisis of June-November, 2013.

“ASUU stated that the initial N30bn paid university staff as part of EAA (earned allowance) in 2013 was given to the governing councils, not the union, as presented by the ministry. The union also corrected the impression that the record of the balance of the EAA had not been submitted by the lMC. The minister subsequently directed the Director of Tertiary Institutions to expeditiously address the matter to enable him to follow up on the matter.

                   Source: The Punch.