AN Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Oliseh, to life imprisonment for raping his friend’s 12-year-old twin daughters. Delivering judgment, Abiola Soladoye described Mr Oliseh, the assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry in Okota, Lagos, as a “serial rapist” who took turns raping his friend’s daughters. She held that the prosecution had convincingly proved the charges of defilement against Mr Oliseh beyond any reasonable doubt. The judge sentenced Mr Oliseh to life imprisonment on the two-count charge bordering on defilement. She said: “The testimony of the defendant portrayed him as…
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JUDICIARY workers in Oyo State, on Wednesday, called on the state government to ensure prompt payment of their salaries to ensure efficiency. The workers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan that some of them stayed off their offices because of the recurrent delay in salary payment. NAN reports that the entrance gate to court premises and some offices were open for commencement of work after the Eid-el-Fitr and May Day holidays. However, some workers stayed away from their various duty posts, while others, who were present, sent their colleagues home to ensure that none of them was…
ABDUL Abiola, one of the sons of the late Chief MKO Abiola has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of his father. He said this via his Twitter handle: @AbdulMKO on Tuesday. He said that it was time for Nigerians to know the truth as to the circumstances that led to the death of his father, adding that “the President should look into the archives,” which he said would help the President to unravel the mystery behind the death of the late MKO, stressing that it was only such move that would…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed a fire outbreak in one of its offices in Zamfara State. The fire incident, which occurred late Monday night, affected its office in the Kaura Namoda LGA of the state. It is one of the many unfortunate incidents recorded by the commission in the last three years. The INEC, barely 18 days ago, lost a staffer in an attack launched by unknown gunmen in Imo State while discharging his duties in a community. The commission’s spokesperson, Festus Okoye, in a statement on Tuesday, said though no life was lost in the fire…
RUSSIAN President, Vladimir Putin, has signed a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions in response to the “unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organisations”, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The document does not provide any details of which individuals or entities may be affected by the measures. According to the decree, Russia will forbid the export of products and raw materials to people and entities that it has sanctioned. The decree also prohibits transactions with foreign individuals and companies hit by Russia’s retaliatory sanctions, and permits Russian counterparties not to fulfil obligations towards them. Under the decree, the Russian…
INDIA’s western state of Maharashtra has registered 25 deaths from heat stroke since late March, the highest toll in the past five years, with more fatalities likely elsewhere in a country sweltering in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. Scientists have linked the early onset of an intense summer to climate change, and say more than a billion people in India and neighbouring Pakistan were in some way vulnerable to the extreme heat. With cooling monsoon rains only expected next month and increasingly frequent power outages in some parts of India, even households that can afford air conditioners will have little…
SOMALIA’s al Shabaab group attacked an African Union mission troop camp in the Shabelle region in the centre of the country, a local elder and the group said on Tuesday, and another resident said three civilians had died in the crossfire. The resident, who lives in a village near the scene, later said he saw two helicopters flying by and gunfire coming from them. “We were awoken by huge blasts early in the morning. The blasts were at the African Union mission base. Heavy exchange of gunfire followed,” local elder Mohamed Nur told Reuters by phone from El Baraf, about…
ANTI-ABORTION activists and pro-abortion rights supporters took to the streets of Washington on Tuesday after news that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which legalised abortion nationwide. A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico reported on Monday. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the authenticity of the draft opinion. The Supreme Court and the White House declined to comment. Within hours of the news, anti-abortion activists chanting “hey, hey, ho, ho, Roe v. Wade has got to go” and abortion rights supporters shouting…
THE Director-General of the Hope ’23 Yahaya Bello Campaign Council, Hafsat Abiola-Costello says, no candidate is better positioned for the 2023 Presidency than the leading aspirant Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Abiola-Costello, who is also the daughter of the acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, made this known on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. She rolled out reasons Yahaya Bello remained Nigeria’s best bet in the forth-coming 2023 presidential election. She explained that 30 years after June 12, Bello was in the Presidential race to restore the truncated hope of Nigerians, especially…
THE National Youth Mandate Group (NYMG) in collaboration with North Central Youth Council of Nigeria (NCYCN) have advised all political parties to zone the 2023 presidential ticket to the North-Central. The National Coordinator and Convener of the groups, Mr Abba Abba, gave the advice in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Abba said that zoning the presidential ticket to North Central would balance political equation in the country. The youth leader insisted that the North Central had been sidelined in the scheme of things for long, as per the issue of presidency was concerned. “North central is the region hosting…