A 45-year-old man escaped jail after a South African judge gave him a five-year suspended sentence for raping his neighbour’s puppy.
Fanroi Mochachi, a married father-of-six, was caught having sex with his neighbour’s puppy after a child heard the animal howling in a communal garden.
Mochachi was caught having sex with eight-month-old Blackie by her 10-year-old owner and his uncle after they heard the pet’s cries.
He claimed he had caught two dogs mating on his way to a shared toilet and was overcome by temptation, chased the male mutt away and had sex with the female one.
A magistrate, Syta Prinsloo, branded the dad’s disgusting session as “serious, unnatural and barbaric”.
“Worse still is that you are married and a role model to your six children.
“Upsetting is that you will be expected to engage sexually with your wife, how will you explain this to her?”
Mochachi got a suspended five-year jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to bestiality in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The slap-in-the-wrist sentence has, however, spurred a wave of criticism from Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as well as the Women and Men Against Child Abuse.
Both organisations expressed concern about the sentence as Mochachi was now “roaming the streets unchecked”.
They called for harsher sentence “regarding the sexual violation of animals who, like children, are completely helpless to stop such violent attacks on them.”
Ebube Nwagbo is the type of woman that would make many men drool, but the actress has said she wants to ‘take her time’ before getting married.
Speaking with Sunday Scoop, Nwagbo stated, “I believe that everything happens at the right time, which is the time that God ordains. I don’t like abandoning things halfway; I prefer to stick with it till the end. That’s why I have to be very careful about marriage. I don’t think divorced couples go into their marriages with the intention to split. It is because issues came up that they couldn’t handle or that they did not know one another well enough before getting married. Anyway, I have learnt from the mistakes of other people and whenever I make my decision, it just has to be the right way.”
On her experience with some male fans, she said, “Some of them can be quite extreme and I always put such people in their place. I try to relate with people equally, irrespective of class or status. However, most of my fans are pleasant and I love them all very much. I appreciate all the females too. But I also want fans of celebrities to know that as humans, their favourite actor or artiste wouldn’t always be in the best of moods. They should try to be a bit more understanding.”
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Oye, on Monday, alleged that two lorry-load of sensitive materials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, meant for the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State were intercepted in a hotel in the state.
Oye said this at a press conference at his residence in Amawbia, Awka South Local Government Area of the state.
The APGA chairman alleged that security agencies in the state intercepted the materials at an undisclosed hotel and two persons were arrested in connection with the discovery.
But when our correspondent contacted the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Garba Umar, on the telephone for his reaction on the mater, he described the allegation as false.
He said, “There was nothing like that. It’s a false alarm.”
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr. Nwachukwu Orji, described the allegation as laughable.
Orji stated that INEC’s sensitive materials could hardly come that early to the election, adding that when such materials arrived in the state, they would be in a bank.
Oye told journalists that the sensitive materials, containing everything for the poll in wards, local government and state, were intercepted in two trucks by security operatives.
He said he had a strong suspicion that an opposition party in the state was the mastermind of the act.
The APGA chairman added, “This afternoon, in a hotel in the Okpuno area of Awka, security agents intercepted two-lorry load of sensitive materials meant for the Anambra governorship election, and it is believed that an opposition party in the state was responsible for the act.
“We called this conference to draw the attention of Nigerians and the world to this sad development because the Anambra governorship election must be free and fair. We will not accept any act of rigging.
“We had believed in the capability of INEC and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to conduct a free, fair and credible election in the state, but we are already disappointed by this sad development.”
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Italian prosecutors are investigating the deaths of 26 Nigerian women, most of them teenagers whose bodies were recovered at sea.
There are suspicions that they may have been sexually abused and murdered as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean.
Five migrants are already being questioned in the southern port of Salerno. A Spanish warship, Cantabria, docked there, carrying 375 migrants and the dead women, following several rescues.
Twenty-three of the dead women had been on a rubber boat with 64 other people.
Italian media reports that the women’s bodies are being kept in a refrigerated section of the warship.
Most of them were aged 14-18.
Most of the 375 survivors brought to Salerno were sub-Saharan Africans, from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, The Gambia and Sudan, the daily La Repubblica reports. Among them were 90 women, eight of them pregnant and 52 children.
There were also some Libyan men and women on board.
People-smuggling gangs charge each migrant about $6,000 (£4,578) to get to Italy, $4,000 of which is for the trans-Saharan journey to Libya, according to the Italian aid group L’Abbraccio.
Many migrants have reported violence, including torture and sexual abuse, by the gangs. So far this year,, 150,982 migrants arrived in southern Europe by boat from North Africa, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reports.
Of that number, 111,552 (nearly 75 percent) came via the Central Mediterranean route to Italy. The number who died on that route was 2,639, the IOM says.
Others arrived in Greece, Cyprus or Spain. The total is less than half the 335,158 who arrived in the same period of 2016.
Last year the total for Greece was higher than that for Italy.
Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria (MCN), Dr. Chukwuemeka Kalu Uche, has said the present structure of Nigeria should be re-negotiated, with each zone having some measures of autonomy.
He said the current structure is inimical to the growth and development of the nation.
Uche disclosed this in an interview with newsmen at the MCN, Diocese of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, after a programme to commemorate one year of consecration of Right Revd Ademola Moradeyo as a bishop, installation of patron and patroness for the children in the diocese and presentation of awards of excellence to notable Nigerians and foreigners.
The awardees included Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Pastor Femi Adesina, who was honoured with Excellence Award of the Faithful of God; Minister of Communication, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu (Great Pillar of Trust); former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala (Grand Patron of the Diocese); wife of the MCN Prelate, Florence Uche (Grand Matriarch); wife of immediate past Prelate, Abimbola Makinde (Grand Matriarch); and scores of other achievers.
Uche said: “The idea of coming to Abuja is not helping us and that’s why we have massive unemployment. Each area knows her needs. So, if we re-negotiate Nigeria, we are not going to divide, each area will have a measure of autonomy, just as it was before the military takeover, that’s what we are clamouring for.
“We want a Nigeria where the component parts, whether we call them regions or zones, will be stronger than the centre. Everybody will contribute and agree to a percentage of her wealth to the centre.
“If we want the present zoning of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which is in line with the zoning of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), that will be nice, so that we may have the South East zone, South West zone, South South zone, North East zone, North Central zone and North West zone. Each area produces something that will be her contribution to the centre.”
“We may only retain police, immigration, army, security forces for the federal set up. We can have something like vigilante group or community policing for the various areas or regions.
“This will make for healthy competition. What we are doing now is not helping us and we are not getting better. We all love Nigeria. If you go to the United States, immigration for instance has a measure of control; the measures, the governors, that’s what we want for our country so that we can develop. What we are doing now is a unitary government and unitary government is a military in conduction, it is not helping us.”
The Prelate further stated that presidential system of government “is also very costly because each member of the House of Representatives has special assistants, this and that, and that takes a lot of money.
“To also make the local government stronger, separate the account of the local government from the state government, give them money directly and supervise them closely how they use the money given to them.”
Uche also charged Nigerians on obedience to God, saying everybody should be selfless. Everybody should think more of Nigeria than thinking of self. We must think of what we can do to improve our country and the most important thing we must do is to empower our young people.
“If we want to go into mechanised agriculture, we will go. In our system of education, talking about cognitive alone is not helping us. Education has to do with cognitive, affective and psychomotor. Psychomotor has to do with vocational education, where people will be employers of labour and not seekers of job. That will help us.”
NO fewer than 250 victims of snake bite have died in the last three weeks in Plateau and Gombe states, following scarcity of anti-venom drugs in the country. The figure represents confirmed deaths from three snake treatment centres— General Hospital, Kaltungo; Ali Mega Pharmacy, Gombe, and Comprehensive Medical Centre, Zamko, Plateau State.
Visits to the three medical outfits show victims in critical conditions, with some of them left on bare floors, as the doctors said they were helpless without the anti-venom. It was gathered that the snake anti-venom drugs— Echitab Plus ICP polyvalent and Echitab G monovalent— had not been supplied to the country since August, after the last vials were used up in the first week of October.
The missing anti-dotes
Echitab Plus ICP, produced at Instituto Clodomiro Picado, University of Costa Rica, treats bites from all venomous snakes in Nigeria, while Echitab G, produced by Micropharm Ltd., United Kingdom, is solely for carpet viper bites. Medics, who spoke with journalists at the three treatment centres, said the cases of snake bites were usually very common during the harvest season. “We receive an average of 50 victims every day; some arrive here in very critical conditions and we just have to watch them die because we are helpless,” Abubakar Abdullahi Aliyu, Managing Director, Aliyu Mega Pharmacy, in Gombe disclosed. He said that more than 70 victims had died in the last three weeks following the lack of anti-venom to treat them, adding that some came from Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Borno and Plateau states. His words: “An average of six deaths is recorded daily. If you go to the snake treatment centre at the Kaltungo General Hospital, you will pity the victims; the lucky ones among them get supportive treatment, while many are left to their fate since the drugs are not available. “Between August and October, we received 750 victims. We were given 700 vials of the anti-venom on August 31, but we exhausted them before October. Many people are just dying. It is a major crisis.” Aliyu said the only available drug— Indian anti-venom— is not effective in the treatment of the bites from carpet vipers, the commonest poisonous snakes in the country. “We have tried the Indian anti-venom, but it does not elicit much response. Sometimes, we give six vials and more to a patient, but the effect will be minimal. If we had Echitab drugs, one dose is enough to cure a patient.”
Task for FG
The pharmacist urged the Federal Government to promptly step in to assist Echitab Study Group, the outfit coordinating the supply and distribution of the Echitab drugs, to make them available. The Snake Treatment Centre at the Kaltungo General Hospital, Gombe State, equally presented a sorry sight with helpless patients gasping for breath, while the medics watched helplessly. Dr. Abubakar Ballah, the Snakebite Treatment Officer, disclosed that the situation was “sad and scary. “We have a serious crisis here. In the last one week, 139 patients were admitted with 77 absconding when we appeared helpless, owing to the non-availability of the anti-snake venom drug. “Some were unconscious when they were brought here. Sometimes, it is corpses that are brought to us. “In the last few days, we have recorded 21 deaths. The figure is more because many of those that absconded were in bad shape; many others did not even bother to come here because of the fore-knowledge of lack of anti-venom in the centre. “The last drug was used on October 13. We try to give Vitamin K to the victims to enhance blood clotting in the absence of anti-venom because bites from the viper snakes cause bleeding, which is difficult to control without anti-venom. “It is a critical period, but we are helpless. This is why we call on the government to work with the Echitab Study Group to provide a lasting solution to this menace. “Already, some criminals are faking the drug and selling it at N43,000 per vial, contrary to the original anti-snake venom sold by the Echitab Study Group between N13,500 and N30,000. “What we must avoid is a situation where desperate people produce fake drugs. We must work toward an effective handling and supply of the drug to guarantee quality and ensure that only genuine drugs are supplied to the treatment centres.’’
…lists solutions
Dr. Ballah urged government to treat the issue as a national emergency, adding “the need for the snake anti-venom should be seen as a security issue with its necessity equated with having an Army, Customs service, Police force and other security agencies. “The government should work with the Echitab Study Group to have a reliable supply channel; government should subsidise the cost to avoid a major crisis like the one in our hands now, because we find it difficult and embarrassing to explain the situation to our patients.” Reacting to the non-availability of the snake anti-venom drug, Dr. Nandul Durfa, Managing Director, Echitab Study Group, representative of the two companies that produce the anti-snake-venom drug in Nigeria, blamed the situation on the “late placement of order for its production.”
As Nigerians, we are bound to obey the Nigerian law. It is expedient to emphasis on the reasons for the establishment of the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra which is the De Facto government of the Biafrans until they gain their independence. The Rule of Law abhors anarchy, breach of peace, breach of public order and propensity to lawlessness. For this reason and in obedience to the Nigerian Customary Law the Elders of Biafraland rose up to gather their children together and guide them in their struggle for independence to avoid anarchy, lawlessness and bloodshed. By our Customary Law, it is the duty of the Elders of the land to gather their children together and guide them appropriately. The Biafrans are no longer like sheep without a shepherd. If Nigeria breaks up today as predicted by the American experts, it is the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra headed by the Supreme Council of Elders that will gather the people together.
By the jurisprudence of Section 315 of the Nigerian Constitution which recognises the validity of the Sharia law and Customary law as existing laws in force before Nigeria and its Constitution were created, if the country should disintegrate by an act of God, there would not be any more legislative houses to make laws but only the Sharia laws and Customary laws of the people would survive. The Northerners are wiser to have elevated their Sharia Government into statutory government by passing the Sharia Bill into law in the Northern States’ Houses of Assembly. The legal implication is that the Sharia Government in the North, having been given statutory existence by the State law, has become a State organ that should be financed by the State. They have therefore established their Sharia Police and other Sharia Government organs to enforce the Sharia law in the North. This is a wonderful legislative engineering performed by the Northern politicians and I commend them for their foresight.
The Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra is not fortunate to have intelligent politicians to pass their Bills into law in their States’ Houses of Assembly. It appears that their politicians are afraid to talk about their indigenous identity as Biafrans. At the moment therefore, the Indigenous People of Biafra under the Supreme Council of Elders are pursuing their organizational goals by self-help efforts. We advise all the Indigenous People of Biafra to support and obey the Supreme Council of Elders. It is unfortunate that Nnamdi Kanu, who was in charge of their Radio Station called Radio Biafra, instead of promoting the Supreme Council of Elders, suddenly became stubborn, disrespectful, incorrigible, recalcitrant and abusive to the Elders and Dignitaries of the land for which reasons the Elders ostracised him after several efforts to correct him had failed. The Elders rightly invoked their powers under Customary Law and disciplined their erring child to instil discipline in him.
The Structure to hold the Biafrans Together in times of Crisis- The Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra.
8.1 There is palpable fear that anything may happen at any time to cause the disintegration of Nigeria without the fault of anybody. In such a situation, we call it an act of God. The prediction by the American experts that Nigeria would disintegrate within 15 years from 2005 has not yet failed. Many people thought that the Americans gave the year 2015 in their prediction but that is a wrong interpretation. In their Report in 2005 they predicted the fall of Nigeria in 15 years’ time. As an expert in the science of estimation, I know that there is always an acceptable margin of error in forecasting. Sometimes, it can be plus or minus 5%; or plus or minus 10%; the lower the margin of error the higher the accuracy of the estimation and closer to the line of best fit if measured by the use of standard deviation. In effect, the American experts’ prediction of the fall of Nigeria has not yet failed.
8.2 It is our duty to prepare the people for anything that may happen in the future. I have said it in my previous statements that our mission is to set the Biafrans free from Nigeria but not to destroy Nigeria. I gave examples of many nations that gained independence in the past without destroying their host countries. From Biblical history, Israel came out from Egypt without destroying Egypt. In modern times, Eritrea came out from Ethiopia without destroying Ethiopia. Bangladesh and Pakistan came out from India without destroying India. South Sudan came out from Sudan in 2011 without destroying Sudan. Why do people think that Nigeria would not survive if the Biafrans should go and establish their own country?
8.3 I want to allay the fears of the owners of Nigeria that their country would survive if they let us go and build our own country as the Egyptians allowed the Israelites to go. The foreigners who have invested in Biafraland will remain the owners of their investments. We shall remain friendly neighbours as the Israelis and the Egyptians are today, as the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indians are today. The Nigerians will not need visas to come to Biafra and the Biafrans will not need visas to go to Nigeria because both nations are under the ECOWAS Treaty. Moreover, any Nigerian who wants to maintain dual citizenship is free to apply to become a Biafran citizen if he meets the requirements under the Immigration Law. Also any Biafran who wants to maintain dual citizenship can retain his Nigerian citizenship just as many Nigerians today are British and American citizens. Why are the people afraid? They are afraid because they lack knowledge of the law. The Bible says that the people perish for lack of knowledge, Hosea 4:6. 8.4 It is in preparation for the unknown that the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra has been established as a de facto government structure that can hold the people together in times of crisis. It is not Ohaneze Ndigbo. Its jurisdiction covers all the Indigenous People of Biafra living in the three contiguous regions of the South East, parts of the South-South and parts of the Middle Belt of Nigeria. Ohaneze Ndigbo is only for the Igbo Nation but the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra headed by the Supreme Council of Elders is for the entire Biafraland. The composition of the Supreme Council of Elders must therefore be representative of the entire Biafraland. It is not an Igbo affair. All the officers of the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra are hereby advised to commence effective mobilization and communication to gather the people together under the Supreme Council of Elders. It is the duty of the elders of the land to put their house in order. Let us do it now before it is too late. I hereby authorise the Media Department of the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra to publish this message in booklets and distribute it to the whole world where the Biafrans are found.
Signed: Emeka Emekesri, Esq. Solicitor for Indigenous People of Biafra
The Indigenous People of Biafra on Thursday described as “a shame” the Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership and the South-East governors failed bid to clinch the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation to the geopolitical zone.
President Muhammadu Buhari recently appointed Mr. Boss Mustapha as the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
This was after the President accepted the recommendation of the panel to terminate the appointment of the former SGF, Mr. Babachir Lawal.
In a statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB said its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was visionary and prophetic to see that there was no place for the Igbo in Nigeria.
The group’s statement read in part, “The Indigenous People of Biafra under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the greatest prophet, seer and visionary of all time, notes with sadness and utter humiliation, the belittling of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, South-East governors and the entire south-eastern political class over the rejection of an Igboman for the lowly position of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation by Buhari’s administration.
“Despite lobbying discreetly and openly for this somewhat inconsequential position of SGF for months, the entire political class in the South-East were roundly rebuffed by Muhammadu Buhari, who instead gave the position to another northerner.“This has left the supposed apex socio-cultural organisation to take to the pages of newspaper to vent their frustrations at Buhari; a very unedifying spectacle unworthy of leaders of a once proud and gifted race.
“To make matters worse, this public rejection of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and repudiation of the values of the Igbo political elite by the Buhari administration is a confirmation, if such were needed, that the hasty proscription and banning of IPOB was a costly mistake on their part.
“They failed to appreciate that without the impetus and urgency that IPOB provided, any request made to the government of Nigeria to right the injustices meted out to south-easterners is bound to fail.”
Nigeria last night in Lome, Togo emerged the inaugural champions in the men’s category of the 2017 FIBA 3X3 Africa Cup beating Cote d’ Ivoire in the final game 21-9 points.
The Nigerian team led by Azuoma Dike left no one in doubt in the encounter after dispatching Egypt 21-14 points in the semi-finals and were unstoppable, as Abdul Yahaya who scored 39 points in five games left the Ivoriens confused. Godwin David and Lucky Subel gave a good accounts of themselves to ensure victory for Nigeria.
Dike was also named the Most Valuable Player and led the list of the top three players that included Tisiane Traore of Cote d’ Ivoire and Elly Randriamampionona of Madagascar.
However, Mali women were a stumbling block for Nigerian girls in the final, winning 12-11 in a keenly contested game that left Nigeria Silver medal winners.
Mali’s Nassira Traore was at her best for her country in the final game and was named the championships Most Valuable Player that also paraded Jamla Nasikombi of Uganda and Nigeria’s Nkechi Akashili making up the list of top three women players in the first FIBA 3X3 Africa Cup.
