Priest killed after two men armed with knives attacked a church in France

A priest was found dead with his throat slit after two men armed with knives took hostages at a church in Rouen, France this morning July 26th. The men had arrived the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray and held the priest, two nuns and other church members hostage during their early morning mass. The police arrived the scene and shot dead the two armed men. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The French police is investigating the incident as it unfolds.

Navy Parades Members Of Niger-Delta Avengers

Operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS Delta), Warri, Delta State have arrested and paraded suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers. The Commander, NNS DELTA, Commodore Joseph Dzunve, while parading the suspects, gave their names as Felix Ibiador and Prince David. They were arrested on July 10th with new 11 motor batteries and electric cables allegedly used for bombing oil and gas pipelines in the state.

“They are suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers. Ibiador was the supplier of the equipment used for the bombing of oil pipelines. David was the mechanic who repairs their boats which they use in conveying these materials whenever they run into problems. Further investigations would be handled by the appropriate quarters who will review the extent to which they partook in criminal activities in the region” Commodore Dzunve said. During interrogated, both men denied claims they were members of the militant group. When asked why they were in possession of bomb making materials, they could not give any reasonable answer. Also paraded were four men who operated illegal refinery in the region. All the suspects have been handed over to the NSCDC for further investigation. See more photos below 

Wealthy CEO Kills Ex-Wife While Making Her Death Look Like Suicide, But He Is Finally Fingered

When four young children woke one morning and couldn’t find their mum, they instinctively phoned their dad.
Their parents Michelle and Braulio had separated, and a protective order meant Braulio wasn’t allowed to step inside the family home.
So, abiding by the law, he had asked a neighbour to look for his ex-wife while he drove the children to school.
The neighbour called the police, and when they searched the house, they made a horrifying discovery. Michelle was hanging from a cord in a basement shower. Her suicide stunned everyone.
The devoted mum was on the brink of starting a new life, with holidays planned and her divorce almost finalised. Had the thought of life as a single mum been too daunting, or the pressure of the separation too much? An autopsy revealed a far more shocking reason behind her death.
Michelle, 43, was a proud mum to five children.The two eldest had been adopted and the youngest three were her biological kids. Michelle was living in a large home with her four youngest, aged 11, nine, six and three. The oldest, Nicholas, was away at college.
Michelle and her estranged husband Braulio had lived a privileged life. Braulio was the CEO of a security company and they’d built their luxury home, which was worth over $1.1 million. But for Braulio, life was spinning out of control.
In 2013, he’d been investigated and accused of gaining $500 million worth of government contracts through his friendship with an official. His relationship with Michelle was breaking down too.
Threatening behaviour By 2014, they’d been separated for a year and were in the middle of a bitter divorce battle. Michelle had accused Braulio of being threatening during their marriage, and a judge had put a protective order in place to keep him away from the family home.
Michelle had put forward four pages outlining his behaviour, including locking her in rooms and pushing the children. Braulio was still allowed access to the children and moved to a home less than a mile away.
Smothered by a pillow On 19 March 2014, the children visited Braulio, and his sister delivered them back to Michelle at a local car park. While she was driving back, Braulio broke into his former home in Ashburn, North Virginia, and hid. He waited until Michelle had put the children to bed, then attacked.
He tried to smother Michelle with a pillow on her bed, until he realised that one of his young sons was sleeping there. He woke the disorientated boy and told him to go to his brother’s room.
When he was gone, Braulio struck again. He beat and strangled Michelle to death. Then he dragged her body downstairs to a bathroom in the basement.
He wrapped an electrical cord around her neck and hung her from the shower to make it look like she had killed herself. After staging the scene, he fled, leaving the children in the house with their dead mother.
The next morning, when the kids phoned him because they couldn’t find their mum, he played the concerned father.
After Michelle’s body was found, an autopsy revealed she hadn’t died from the cord around her neck. There were signs that she’d been beaten and suffocated to death – and Braulio was the prime suspect. Police had CCTV footage of a man matching his description entering Michelle’s home just before she returned. He was captured on a neighbour’s camera leaving alone after midnight.
When police went to talk to him, he had a black eye and a cut to his face. His DNA was also found in the house that he hadn’t lived in for a year.
Two months later, the disgraced CEO was arrested and charged with Michelle’s murder. He was released on a $2million bail. While his children were in the care of Michelle’s best friend, he walked free for two years.
At the trial in June this year, Braulio, 52, took the stand and calmly denied breaking into his old home and murdering Michelle. The jury were not allowed to hear the reasons behind the protective order, or that Michelle thought her life was under threat.
Instead, he painted a picture of them amicably working their way through the divorce for the sake of the children. Braulio said he’d watched TV the night she was killed, before falling asleep, and said his black eye was down to his son accidentally throwing a torch at him.
His defence experts claimed that Michelle could have committed suicide and the bruising on her face could have been inflicted during death convulsions.
His lawyers questioned why he would choose to kill Michelle when the kids were in the home, rather than striking during one of her isolated training runs.
The young son who had been sleeping in Michelle’s bed testified that he’d been woken by his dad and asked to leave the room. Another son said his dad had given him a golden coin in return for the security code to the house – also denying there had been an accident with a torch. The eldest son, Nicholas, identified his father on the surveillance tapes from his distinctive walk.
Braulio was found guilty of killing Michelle and staging it to look like suicide. As he remained silent. Family and friends cheered. The jury spent five hours before sentencing Braulio to life in prison for murder, plus 15 years for breaking and entering, and another year for breaking the protection order.

Panic In The Air As Fake Super Glue Floods Market

The Alteco Chemical PTE Ltd., a company that produces Alteco 11O Super Glue, has raised an alarm over the faking of its product across the country.
Mr Ifeanyi Dike, the company’s Media Consultant, said on Sunday in Onitsha that the company’s products that were faked and worth millions of naira were confiscated during several raids in Onitsha, Aba and Lagos.
Dike, who noted that over 100 shops were raided in Onitsha alone, said the raid was carried out in collaboration with the Police after obtaining Anton Pillar Order from court.
The Anton Piller order is an order of court which requires the defendant to permit the plaintiff to enter the defendant’s premises to obtain evidence.
“Six different companies faking Alteco 110 super glue with designs that deceive unsuspecting consumers have been sued.
“Counterfeiting practices have a far reaching impact on many facets of people’s lives, especially as the materials and manufacturing processes do not follow standards,” the media consultant said.
He explained that proliferation and sale of fake products such as Alteco 110 super glue prevents fair market competition and has a huge impact on businesses.
While commending the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) for its determination to rid market of fake and adulterated products, Dike called for an intensified campaign against counterfeiting.
He called for stiffer penalties for culprits in order to deter others who plan to indulge in such an unscrupulous venture.
Dike thanked the leadership of Onitsha market for its cooperation during the raids.

Oba Of Iba In Lagos Kidnapped. Guard Killed, Wife Shot

Gunmen have abducted a first class traditional ruler in Lagos, Oba Yushau Goriola Oseni, the Oniba of Ibaland, killed his guard and shot his wife.

The gunmen, suspected to be from Niger Delta, stormed the monarch’s palace at Iba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria around 11:30pm on Saturday and took the monarch away, escaping through the waterways.

Palace source said the gunmen killed Oseni’s guard, a Neighbourhood Watch officer and then shot his wife before escaping with the monarch.

When contacted around 00.44am, Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus said she was not aware of the kidnap, but that she would confirm and get back to our reporter.

Oba Oseni is the father of a former Iba Local Council Development, LCDA, Chairman, Mrs. Ramota Oseni-Adeyeri.

Last week, ex-Lagos State Commissioner for Rural Development, Cornelius Ojelabi had lamented the state of insecurity in Ojo and Badagry area of Lagos and called the attention of the Lagos State Government and the police to swing into action.

Ojelabi, who spoke during a Town Hall meeting in Badagry told Governor Akinwunmi Ambode that his four-year old grandson was kidnapped since January 20, 2016 and that the police had not done anything about the kidnap.

He said insecurity in Ojo and Badagry areas of the state had been frightening as kidnappers were on the prowl.

The former commissioner stated that just recently, three children were kidnapped in Ojo and that the police had not been able to do anything about the kidnap.

He added that when he got to the police station in Ojo where the complaint of the kidnapped three children was lodged, about 35 other people besieged the police station to complain that their children were also kidnapped.

The former commissioner, who was pained, begged that urgent attention should be given to security threat in Ojo and Badagry axis.

Illegal immigrant emerges from traveling bag at S.A Border after he could no longer endure the pains (photos)

An illegal immigrant from Zimbabwe who squeezed himself into his friend's luggage shocked people at the South African border when he emerged from the traveling box after he couldn't endure the pains on his limbs. After 45 minutes of squeezing himself in the box, passengers were shocked at the BeitBridge Border post when they heard moans coming from the bag.

“The tall man in his early 20’s had squeezed himself into the case and was wheeled onto a Mercedes Benz Sprinter, disguised as his friend’s luggage. But the discomfort took its toll after 45 minutes, causing him to wail,” iMzansi reports. 

“Shocked passengers alerted authorities after hearing strange noises coming from the unattended bag. Guards removed the case from the vehicle at Beitbridge and were stunned when a human hand emerged.”

“It’s deeply worrying the length and breath migrants go to so that they can make it to their final desire destinations—but considering the current state of Zimbabwe, some of these people come from without any prospects of a better life for them, these risks are somewhat all they got”

Source: IMzansi.co.za

Militants blow up Agip pipelines in Bayelsa

YENAGOA-SUSPECTED militants in the early hours of Friday blew up the Tebidaba-Brass Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC pipeline. Also affected are the Goulubokiri Manifold and Lasukugbene pipeline. Bayelsa state Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps,NSCDC, Desmond Agu, who confirmed the incident said men of the Command on surveillance exchanged gun fire with the vandals. Agu said: “Reports from the swamp area indicates that last night(early hours of this morning) a gang of heavily armed youths with two double 200hp speedboats used explosives to blast three different points on the Tebidaba-Brass NAOC pipeline.”
Source: Vanguard

Photo: 9 dead after stampede at Sallah party in Kumasi, Ghana

A stampede at a Sallah party in the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi has claim 9 lives so far. Six of the dead are females and three males while those injured are receiving treatment at the Manhyia hospital. 
The incident occured in the early hours of Thursday, July 6 as revellers gathered to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitri festival. The stampede broke out after a power cut and in the rush to get out people got strampled over. 

Kidnapper arrested as he picks up N3m ransom

The Akwa Ibom police command has arrested three suspected kidnappers identified as Austin Agba, 35; Friday Sunday Paul, 23, and Christian Ekenu, 27, after their leader simply identified as Agba, went to pick up the N3 million ransom from relatives of one of their kidnapped victims at Olympus Hotel, along Afaha Uqua Road, Eket Local Government Area.

Bayelsa State-born Agba who denied being a kidnapper, had gone to the said hotel in Eket to collect the N3 million he had negotiated for the pirates from the fishermen when the police apprehended him.

‘I’m a middleman. I am just an Ijaw man and a middleman to the Ijaw fishermen and the pirates. So, there are certain groups of fishermen that normally contribute money to the pirates to make sure they do their businesses smoothly. When the pirates had a meeting with the fishermen, they said I am the one that would be negotiating the monthly payment. The fishermen said if they negotiate directly, the pirates will charge them too high, but if I intervene, the pirates will bring down the levy because I am an Ijaw brother. On that fateful day, I went to collect the money to settle the pirates so that they would allow the fishermen do their business. It was in the process that I was arrested".

Denying being a kidnapper, another member of the gang, 23 year old Friday Sunday Paul, from Eastern Obolo Local Government Area, whose duty it was to convey victims on his motorbike, said on the contrary, he was kidnapped by the group members.

“I was riding my bike along Afaha Uqua Road junction when three guys stopped me. Two of them climbed the bike and told me to take them somewhere. On getting there, one of them put his hand in my trouser and said I must take them to where they were going to. They used a gun to threaten me, saying they were going for an operation. I am not one of them. I was set up"he said

Ekenu, who is from Oron Local Government Area, said

“I came in from Lagos to meet my friend, Tony. I am an artist. When I arrived Oron, he asked me how much I came with and I said I did not come with any money. He called his friends and said they should take my shoes, watch and phones. When they went outside the room, I escaped through the ceiling and ran to the police station. Unfortunately for me, along the road, they picked me and took me to the police station, saying I was a kidnapper. It is for that reason that I am here. I do not understand any of these.”

Refuting their claims, the spokesperson of the Akwa Ibom Police command, Delia Nwawe, said they were members of the same gang, who were arrested following each suspect’s confessional statement

Oh my! See how this man was duped at Computer Village, Ikeja

He sent in his story to Naija gist...please read below and learn...it's new format you need to be aware of...

Yesterday, I was in Computer Village and I was fooled by some guys selling phones and accessories. I told him a need an Android phone and my budget is N10k and he showed me a techno phone which he tagged for N15k.. I said to myself this phone is cool.
Then I asked him to bring the price down that I do not have up to that amount. To cut it short we agreed on 10k. He gave me the phone, I tested it,  checked the IOS and the Storage, Ram and the Network etc.. everything is working fine. I paid him the money he counted the money the next word that came out of his mouth was "why?", I said what.. he said: 'Guy your money no complete give me my phone'. Suddenly a guy came out from nowhere and said "Wetin dey happen for here.. e wa ! make una no shout for here o". The seller was like 'Oga give my phone, I no sell again..I don give you your money.. ' The other guy said.. 'Guy commot for here na this phone you want buy 10k'.. I returned the phone..and within a millisecond I didn't see any one of them again. I deeped into my pocket just to count the money to see if the money was complete.. and this is what I saw (to everyone when ever they refund your money, count it first) Thanks

Photos: Little girl severely bruised after her school teacher allegedly flogged her mercilessly

A Lady (IG - lurdluggard) who claims to be a good friend and

neighbour to the mother of the little girl pictured, shared this story

and pics, seeking for assistance in getting Justice. According to her,

"I saw this kid and tears rolled down my cheeks. The lady at

the top right corner is that kid's teacher. She flogged her

mercilessly just because the 4 year old girl did the class work

wrongly. The teachers name is Mrs eno, the proprietress

name Mrs lagunoke and the school is Lydia spring private

school, located at Popo street, tejuosho, Yaba Lagos. The

little girl was flogged by her eyes and now has a red eye as

the cain struck her left eye. She's had swollen and reddish

skin due to the flogging . This is mean , no one should do this

to little kids while trying to teach them at their respective

schools . Upon all this , Mrs Eno the perpetrator and the

proprietress named Mrs lagunoke are not feeling any

remorse for the action . Please if there's anything you

people can do for them to pay for their actions I'd be so

glad. Her mom is a good friend/neighbor and it hurts to see

this woman cry everyday as the little girl cries in pains."

Photo: Nigerian man arrested in India for duping 90 people through online lottery fraud

The cyber crime cell of Pune police, India has arrested a 43-year-
old Nigerian national from Delhi, who had a staggering 14 accounts
in reputed banks and has till now duped more than 90 people across
India through lottery scams to the tune of around Rs three crore.
The accused, identified as Igwe Festus Abraham was arrested in
Delhi on Tuesday, May 24 and brought to Pune on Wednesday. He
has been remanded in police custody till May 31, the police said.
The investigation was initiated by the cyber cell of Pune Police after
a woman registered a complaint of losing Rs 16.18 lakh to cheaters
in January this year, deputy commissioner of police (cyber and
economic offence wing) Deepak Sakore said.

"The woman received a mail in September 2015, informing her that
she has won a lottery worth Rs 4.92 crore. She provided her bank
and other details as asked in the mail," the DCP said.
"The accused then called up the woman and asked her to deposit
money from time to time under the pretext of various taxes and
fees," Sakore added.

The accused met her at a hotel in Pune and gave a bag, telling her
that it contained US dollars and even took out four notes from the
bundle. He applied some chemical on the notes to show its
genuineness.

"He told her that since the chemical was over, he will have to
procure it from the UK, so that remaining notes can be analysed.
He then left by handing over the suitcase to the woman,"  Sakore
said.

The woman took the notes to the foreign exchange, where she came
to know that the suitcase contained plain papers, the officer said,
adding,

"After realising that she has been duped, the woman lodged a
police complaint. We successfully tracked the accused and arrested
him in New Delhi," said Sunil Pawar, an Inspector with Cyber cell.
During investigation, police came to know that the accused has
duped around 100 people across the country and got Rs 3 crore
deposited to his various bank accounts.

Source: The Indian Express

Two ladies set trap & arrest fraudulent Bureau de Change operators who duped one of them (Photo)

Instagram User 'carsandrah' shared this story on her page and
warned people to be wary and careful of so called Bureau de
Change Operators out to defraud unsuspecting people. They
swindled her friend out of $6,500 and this pushed them to
strategically plan to trap, set up and have them arrested by the
police. Recounting what happened, she shared the alleged fake
money (pictured) and wrote;

"Be careful, people are so cruel. Few weeks ago my friend
was swindled of 6500 dollars by these bureau de change
people, she was approached and asked if she wanted to
change money she said yes and they gave her a very good
rate...told her their oga was gonna call her and kept asking
her how much the money she wanted to change was...so they
came with exactly the same 6500 dollars (fake) and some
naira to change...got to a bank and told her they wanted to
count and confirm her money, she gave them and they
switched it, gave her come excuse about the naira not been
complete yet and that they wanted to go get the lots from
their own bank before it closes and they would be back....she
collected her 6500 dollars naively and was waiting and
waiting but they never came back or picked up her call
again...it wasn't till we got to another mallams place that we
knew we'd been duped.

So we gave it like a month and decided to trail them and set
them up, as God will have it we caught them today cos we
told them we wanted to buy dollars about 5000 and the man
and his boys showed up as usual with the original 5k and
same fake bundles after having me confirm the money from
the bank that it was good money they switched it and wanted
to collect my money and give me fake...That's how we got
them
Y'all be careful these scammers are everywhere, they are
cruel, evil and heartless....May God protect us all from bad
people...Amen!!!!"

Three hours is all it took for 100 thieves in Japan to steal $13million from cash machines in daring heist

In an audacious heist involving thousands of coordinated
withdrawals, 100 thieves in Japan made away with $13m in just
under three hours and what's more, none of them have been
apprehended.

Police believe that as many as 100 people worked together using
forged credit cards containing account details illegally obtained
from a bank in South Africa.

The attack which took place on the morning of May 15th appears to
have been the brainchild of a criminal mastermind.The fake cards
were used in 1400 ATM's and each person made a withdrawal
100,000 yen – the maximum allowed by the cash machines, they
were able to cart away more than 1.4bn yen (US$12.7m)
Japanese police have requested the assistance of the authorities in
South Africa, via Interpol in establishing how the credit card
information was obtained.Transaction data retrieved from the cash
machines suggests that the criminals used information for 1,600
credit cards issued by the unnamed South African bank.

According to local media, the daring operation went into place
early on Sunday the 15th, the withdrawals began just after 5am
with the last one made just before 8am the same day.

Reports suggest that members of the gang may no longer be in
Japan. They made sure to buy themselves enough time by using
cards issued in another country and carrying out the theft on a
day when banks won't be open, by the time the crime was
discovered, they already had a good headstart.
Source: The Guardian UK

Cameroonian boy who disguised as a female apprehended and made to strip (photos)

The guy was apprehended by Cameroonian police after getting a tip off from an anonymous source. He disguised himself as a female and went around deceiving men. He was paraded and made to strip at a police station in Yaounde. See more photos after the cut...

Theft of Lincoln’s hand baffles Illinois Museum

Someone stole Abraham Lincoln’s hand. The crime had no witnesses. There are no suspects. The police are not even certain when the hand disappeared.

About all anyone knows is that a plaster sculpture of the 16th president’s hand, proudly displayed for years at the Kankakee County Museum, has been missing from its shelf since at least Dec. 11.

Any art theft would be jarring in Kankakee, a working-class city about an hour’s drive south of Chicago, but because of its connection to Lincoln, the loss of this sculpture has touched a nerve there.

 

 

NY Times

Graduate abducted and killed by father's business client

A 34-year-old graduate of the University of Benin, Enero Ukonga, had just returned home after completing his Masters in Business Administration ,MBA, course in Turkey and was making an attempt to prepare for his PHD in the United States.

While he was in his Opebi, Lagos family home,one Osaretin Enabulele, accompanied by 4 others identified as Elisha Jonah, Kazeem Ibrahim, Charles Timinnemi, a Medical student in Romania who was on holiday and the fourth identified simply as Fred visited him.

The lead man, Enabulele , an importer who resides in Benin city, Edo state, was said to have told Uknonga’s father, a retired Customs officer,who is a clearing and forwarding agent, on the phone, that he was bringing the original copy of the bill of laden of a 1 by 40 feet container, to facilitate its clearance from the Apapa Port in Lagos.

Enabulele was said to have requested Ukonga to follow him to the car to get the document for his father who was then in Benin city .

But apprehension reportedly set in after Ukonga’s friend(names withheld) reportedly waited in vain for his return. Curiously, he stepped out of the house to look for him but did not see him and didn't see any of the visitors either.

 However, as he searched for Ukonga, he reportedly stood still with his mouth open in shock, on seeing Ukonga’s pair of slippers in a disarrayed manner. Sensing trouble, he reportedly put a call to Ukonga’s phone only to discover it was switched off. Thereafter, he contacted his father who was in Benin city, to inform him of the ugly development before reporting the matter at the area ‘F’ division.

The police reportedly swung into action but their effort proved abortive. It was gathered that the case was transferred from area ‘’F ‘to the Special Anti Robbery Squad , SARS for further investigation. It was gathered that effort to reach the main suspect , Enabulele failed . Operatives were said to have travelled to the suspect’s home at 4, Ehigie street, off Aiaohan, Dumex road, Benin city, where his girlfriend and his brother were arrested but later released.

 Preliminary investigation by operatives of SARS revealed that the main suspect had bolted to Ghana, following claims by some of his friends that he called them with a foreign number informing that he was in Ghana. But when the number was dialled, he reportedly did not pick his call. Investigation at SARS, lingered for six months without any headway.

Determined to unearth the mystery surrounding his son’s whereabouts, Mr Benjamin further lodged a complaint with the Department of Security Service ,DSS. This action paid off, as one of the men who reportedly visited that fateful day was arrested in January 2015, six months after.

  He is Elisha Jonah. Jonah as gathered, was arrested mid January, through Enero Ukuoga’s stolen Black Berry phone. The phone was said to have been traced to a user in Ikeja, Lagos. By the time the user was arrested, he told the DSS operatives that he bought it from a friend. At the end , it was discovered that five persons had used the phone, with the seller traced to Jonah .

Jonah’s confessional statement reportedly led to the arrest of one Kasim Ibrahim, popularly called big daddy, on March 17, 2015.

During interrogation, the duo gave a starling disclosure of the whereabouts of the missing Ukonga . They revealed that he was dead and had been buried in a shallow grave at Abesan’s estate, Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, close to Kazeem’s house.

When the cat was let out of the bag, Mr Ukuoga reportedly lost balance and slumped on one of the seats in the office of the DSS. By the time he came back, he reportedly gave a blank stare at the suspects , apparently trying to fathom their claim. When he managed to say a word, he reportedly started by asking amid tears “what on earth could have warranted such cruel act on an innocent person?  

At this point, the DSS reportedly transferred the case to the Force Criminal Investigation Department headquarters annex in Alagbon,

EFCC Returns 10,000 Euros To Scammed French Lover (See Photo Of The Scammers)

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered and returned 10,000 euros to F. Mercade, a French citizen, who was victim of internet love scam.

The fund was wired to the victim through his account in France on the recommendation of the French Embassy in Nigeria.

Roger Balima, French Police Liaison Officer who confirmed the receipt of the funds by the victim, thanked the EFCC “for the good job.”

Mercade was duped by two internet fraudsters, Omodara Adedapo Oluseye and Adesuyi Ayodeji Adedapo after he was deceived into a phantom relationship that was supposedly alter-bound.

The scam was reported to the Commission via a petition from the French Consulate in Lagos, on behalf of Mercade.

The petitioner alleged that he met a Nigerian beauty by name, ‘Kate Williams’ on the internet sometime in 2009 and they developed a relationship which was to culminate in marriage.

‘Williams’ was to relocate to join Mercade in France, to consummate the relationship.

While Mercade planned the logistics of the relocation, ‘Williams’ who purportedly did some jobs for an unnamed company in Nigeria, came up with a story that the company refused to pay ‘her’ for job done.

‘She’ sought the assistance of Mercade and the ‘couple’ contacted a lawyer named ‘James Robert’, to procure traveling documents and also help her claim money from the company owing her.

Mercade parted with the sum of 25,000.00 Euros, through Western Union, in processing his brides’ passage with no bride in sight. Eventually, it dawned on him that he had been scammed.

Investigations into the matter by the Commission revealed that ‘Kate Williams’ is the pseudonym of Omodara Adedapo Oluseye, a male student of the College of Agriculture, Akure, who, however, resides in Ibadan Oyo state.

Omodara’s accomplice, Adesuyi Ayodeji Adedapo, assisted in collecting the money transferred by the victim from the Akure, Ondo State branch of a new generation bank, using forged drivers’ license.

The duo were prosecuted on a two count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretences before a Federal High Court Lagos, convicted and sentenced on 13th June 2011, to one year imprisonment each without an option of fine.

NDLEA- Nigeria records highest number of drug related convicts in the World

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, announced that Nigeria has the highest number of persons serving jail terms for drug related offences worldwide.

Iweajunwa Okechukwu, the NDLEA commander in the state disclosed this while celebrating the 2015 UN Drug Free Day in Minna on Friday.

“There is no doubt that as a country, the menace of drug abuse and trafficking is one of the biggest problems staring us in the face today.

“All over the world, Nigerians are notorious for drug trafficking. We have the highest number of traffickers serving jail terms more than any other country in the world,’’ he said.

 

This year’s Drug Free Day is tagged: “Let’s Develop our Lives, our communities and our identities without drugs’’.

 

Okechukwu said that the recent Indonesian incident involving Nigerians was a pointer to the claim.

 

He said that in Niger there was a serious issue of drug abuse, especially the prescription drugs and psychotropic substances such as tramadol, rohypnol and diazepam.

 

According to him, other drugs abused in the state include Librium, cough syrups with codeine, sukudia (suck and die), glue, solutions, petrol, gutter dirt, zakami, lizard dung and cannabis sativa (Indian hemp).

He said that the harmful habit was common among the youths, married women, secondary school students and primary school pupils.

 

The agency’s commander urged parents, teachers, religious leaders, state government and traditional leaders to see drug abuse as a societal problem that must be tackled by all stakeholders toward minimising it.

 

Okechukwu advised the people of the state to desist from abusing drugs and report illegal drug dealings to the agency.

NAN

Woman Gets Arrested After She Posted A Pic Of Her And Her Pet Dog Having S*x

A teenage woman has reportedly admitted taking selfies as she had s*x with a dog in her grandma’s house.

Ashley Miller is said to have told police how she coaxed her pet dog, a pit bull called 2-face, into licking her vagina between 30 and 40 times over the past five years. Officers have also indicated that she admitted to making her previous dog, a pit bull-Rottweiler cross named Scarface, perform MouthAction on her.

Miller, from Bradenton, Florida, has been charged with two counts of sexual activities involving animals after police discovered the vile images on her mobile phone.

According to documents obtained by the Smoking Gun, she told officers that 2-face lives at her grandma’s house, also in Bradenton, a city in Manatee County.

Whenever she wanted to have s*x with the dog, she would lock herself in a bedroom, take off her underwear and beckon the dog over, reports the New York Daily News.

She described how the pooch would “put her snout into her vagina on her own”, but insisted she never forced the dog into any sexual act.

Miller told officers she never touched 2-face sexually.

The acts always took places when one of her family members was in the house, although they had no idea about what was going on in the bedroom, Miller said.

On at least two occasions, she took selfies, showing the dog licking her vagina.

The ‘puppy p**n’ pictures were discovered in two hidden folders on Miller’s phone, one titled “2-face fun” and another titled “Me”, police said.

Miller told officers that less than 10 of the acts occurred after she turned 18 in February.

A vet has indicated that 2-face showed no sign of injury when she checked her out.

Miller is due to appear in court next month.