Airlines cancel flights over aviation fuel sacrcity.Read it all on Tafia World

Murtala Muhammed International Airport

Olawunmi Ojo

The scarcity of aviation fuel, which has affected the industry over the past few days, became worse on Sunday as a number of domestic airlines cancelled their evening flights out of Lagos, while others simply rescheduled them.

Among the airlines that cancelled their flights were Aero Contractors, Medview and First Nation, while Dana Air rescheduled it flights out of Lagos.

As a result, many passengers, who were due to travel from the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2, had their plans disrupted.

Stakeholders in the industry had recently estimated that the scarcity of aviation fuel had led to 50 per cent reduction of the carrying capacities of the local airlines.

An intending passenger, who was scheduled to fly into Abuja, explained that while some passengers made frantic efforts to make alternative flight arrangements, several others whose flights were cancelled left the airport in disappointment.

According to the passenger who was due to fly Dana Air’s flight 9J 359 from Lagos to Abuja, the 5.10pm flight was cancelled with the passengers dispersing in disappointment.

However, he later received a message from the airline’s customer service team at about 5.50pm, informing him that the flight had been rescheduled for 18.30 hours.

“It is scandalous and disheartening. A lot of passengers were read more  

Police rescue boy from abductors. Read it all on Tafia World







Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt

OPERATIVES of the Rivers State Police Command have rescued an 11-year-old boy identified as Chisom Okafor from four men suspected to be ritual killers.

Chisom’s abductors had taken him away on May 1, 2016 after a friend to his father, Okorie, sent him on an errand. Chisom, who hails from Ndimoko community in Anambra State, was said to have be whisked away by his abductors in a Sport Utility Vehicle.

Chisom, who could not express himself clearly in English Language, said he was blindfolded up to a point by his captors and was only left to go when the police stop the vehicle conveying him.

Explaining that he was a son of a carpenter, Chisom said his father had a week before his abduction taken him to Okorie to learn a trade.

He said, “I was taken away by four men from Ndimoko. I am Chisom from Ndimoko in Anambra State. They blindfolded me and I did not know where I was. They removed the blindfold when they got to police checkpoint.

“They drove away after I got down from the vehicle when the police said they wanted to search the vehicle. The police are still looking for how they can take me to my parents,” Chisom said.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Muhammad, told newsmen that Chisom was rescued by policemen who were on a stop-and-search on Eliozu Bridge in Port Harcourt.

Muhammad said the four suspects escaped after the boy (Chisom) came down first on the directive by the police that occupants of the vehicle should come down for a thorough search of the SUV.

“It was at that point that the suspects left the boy behind and zoomed off. After several questions, the boy made us to realise that he was kidnapped by suspected ritualists.

“We suspect the four men are ritualists because the father of the boy is just a carpenter. We have intensified investigation to ensure we get those behind the boys kidnap.

“We are also working towards locating the community of the boy with a view to reuniting him with his parents,” the state Police spokesman said.

Muhammad urged the parents and other relatives of Chisom not to panic, adding that the police was making arrangement to locate the victim’s community after his rescue

Father deflowers, batters daughter for refusing more sex.Read it all on Tafia World

 

Ogundele

Afeez Hanafi

A commercial driver, Fatai Ogundele, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping his 14-year-old daughter, Titi (pseudonym).

He was said to have been arrested by the police from the Onipanu Police Divison after he beat up his daughter for denying him more seks.

 

 

It was learnt that Ogundele and Titi’s mother divorced in 2006.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the Junior Secondary School 2 pupil and her sister had been living with Ogundele’s mother since then until 2014 when he relocated them to his residence in the Alasia area of the state.

He allegedly started engaging in the incestuous relationship with Titi about two years ago.

However, the bubble burst on May 6, 2016, when Titi raised the alarm, drawing the attention of neighbours when her father allegedly wanted to molest her again. The neigbours reported the matter to the police, leading to his arrest.

It was gathered that Titi’s sister had fled home when Ogundele requested to check her private parts to know if she had been growing pubic hairs.

During a chat with our correspondent, Titi said her father raped her whenever her stepmother was not at home, adding that he had raped her on five occasions

Titi said, “My sister and I lived with daddy, but she left home sometime in 2014. That time, daddy called us and said our mother directed him to check the hair on our private parts. We refused and called our mother on the telephone. She said she did not tell him anything of such. My sister fled home since then and had not come back.

“One day, he took me out, telling my stepmother that she wanted to buy books, bags and clothes for me. I was very happy. But he took me to his friend’s house somewhere in Mushin and raped me there. I have never experienced it before. He was the one that deflowered me. After that time, he raped me four times in our house when my stepmother was not around. There was a time that he sneaked into where I  read more ....

South Africa mum sentenced for trying to sell baby on Internet read it all on Tafia world.

       

The baby was put up for sale on the Gumtree website (AFP Photo/)

A South African mother who tried to sell her 19-month-old baby boy on the Internet for $340 was given a five-year suspended sentence, a justice official said Thursday.
The 20-year-old mother will not spend time in jail, but will live under house arrest for three years.
The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, put the baby up for sale for 5,000 rand in an advertisement on the Gumtree website last year.
A member of the public alerted the police who arrested her in an undercover operation in October.
“She was given a wholly-suspended sentence of five years,” National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson-Kara told AFP.
She will “undergo correctional supervision, which means basically house arrest for a period of three years,” Ramkisson-Kara added.
The mother said she had tried selling her baby after her boyfriend stopped paying childcare following paternity tests that showed he was not the child’s father.
Human trafficking carries a maximum life jail term or a fine of 100 million rand ($6.7 million).
But the court sitting in the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday handed down a lighter sentence after considering the woman’s circumstances.
“The magistrate found that the woman did not have intention per se to traffick the child,” said Ramkisson-Kara.

White South African judge in Facebook ‘racism’ row .Read it all on Tafia World

       

PHOTO:BCC

A white South African judge was at the centre of a social media storm on Monday after Facebook comments emerged in which she suggested rape was part of black culture.
Political parties rushed to condemn the messages, which sparked fresh outrage after a series of recent Internet postings underlined racial tensions in South Africa, 22 years after the end of apartheid rule.
“In their culture a woman is there to pleasure them. Period,” wrote Judge Mabel Jansen, who sits in the High Court in the capital Pretoria.
“It is seen as an absolute right and a woman’s consent is not required.”
Jansen added: “I still have to meet a black girl who was not raped at about 12. I am dead serious.”
“Murder is also is not a biggy. And gang rapes of baby, daughter and mother (are) a pleasurable pastime.”
The opposition Democratic Alliance party said it would report the messages to the country’s Judicial Services Commission to be investigated.
Her comments were “not only hurtful and demeaning”, but undermined “the dignity of our people,” the party said.
The women’s league of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) lambasted the judge.
“Her comments made on Facebook where she claims that the rape of young children is part of black culture, are purely racist and misrepresentation of facts about black culture,” it said.
The league questioned whether Jansen would be able to deal fairly with cases of rape in court.
Jansen told Business Day newspaper that her postings had been misrepresented.
“What I stated confidentially to somebody in a position to help has been taken completely out of context and referred to specific court cases,” she said.
“The real issue… is the protection of vulnerable women and children and an endeavour to cure the pandemic.”
The messages, posted a year ago, were part in a Facebook conversation that was made public on Sunday.
Anger erupted earlier this year when Penny Sparrow, a white realtor and DA member, complained on Facebook about black people littering beaches and likened them to “monkeys”.
In the ensuing uproar, local government employee Velaphi Khumalo wrote in another viral Facebook message that blacks should act towards whites “as Hitler did to the Jews”.
Official statistics showed that 43,195 rapes were reported in South Africa between April 2014 and March 2015, though most rapes are not reported to police.
Africa Check, a fact-checking project devised by but independent of the AFP Foundation, recently dismissed reports that a woman or child was raped every 26 seconds in the country.
The project said the number of rapes committed each year in South Africa could not be accurately estimated due to lack of research.

Return Nigeria’s stolen assets, Buhari tells UK

Nigeria does not need any apology from the United Kingdom, but a return of all its stolen assets stashed away in Britain and its Crown territories, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday in London.

Buhari spoke in London at the Tackling Corruption Together Conference ahead of the International Anti-Corruption Summit to be hosted on Thursday by British Prime Minister David Cameron.

"All I will demand is return of assets. What would I do with apology? I need something tangible," Buhari said less than 24 hours after the publication of a video which shows Cameron describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as the two most corrupt countries in the world.

"Unfortunately, repatriating stolen assets is tedious, time-consuming, costly. It entails more than just signing of bilateral agreements."

In an earlier response to the Cameron's comments, Nigeria's presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the country was embarrassed by the comments and noted that it did not reflect present realities.

"This is embarrassing to us, to us say the least, given the good work that the President is doing. The eyes of the world are on what is happening here. The Prime Minister must be looking at an old snapshot of Nigeria. Things are changing with corruption and everything else," Shehu said in a message posted on social media.

However, Buhari insisted that Nigeria was ready to partner with the UK in order to combat corruption. He hoped the two countries would be able to agree on rules-based architecture to combat corruption at the end of the Summit on Thursday.

" I call for establishment of an anti-corruption infrastructure that will trace and return stolen assets to their countries of origin.

"Corruption does not differentiate between developed and developing countries. It is serious threat to good governance, peace and security."

He re-emphasised his government's zero tolerance for corruption and would fight the 'monster', "even if many feathers would be ruffled."

Edo Assembly’s show of shame read all on tafia world.

       

The ugly wrestle for power by Edo State Lawmakers in the Chamber of the State House of Assembly.

The public show of shame by lawmakers in the Edo State House of Assembly the other day over

 some political disagreements is a sad reminder of the bastardisation of Nigeria’s democracy, an advertisement of how terribly short of true democrats the political landscape is. With the violence they unleashed on each other as well on the collective psyche of Nigerians, with their failure to act within the rules to advance the tenets of democracy, the dishonourable lawmakers sent out to the world the signals that they are nothing more than promoters of anarchy. They must apologise collectively to the people, and also individually to their respective constituencies over that conduct. Nigeria is, indeed, better off without such a breed of violent combatants who could only settle matters with gun-shots instead of reasoned debates.
Current developments also indicate how much Edo State has gone into a state of flux and the state is getting overheated politically because it is a few months to another governorship election. This probably is a statement on the immaturity of the key actors and operators of the system. This must stop. Whatever good Governor Adams Oshiomhole may have done in office so far stands to be rubbished if he does not work to douse the political tension in Edo State.
Pandemonium broke out as the former Speaker, Victor Edoror, who read more ......

Police arrests alleged wife killer, Lekan Shonde read it all on Tafia world.

Efforts of the Lagos State Police Command to bring to justice a man, Lekan Shonde, who allegedly killed his wife yielded a result on Monday as the suspect reportedly turned himself in to  to the Commander of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, Tunji Disu.
Shonde is currently being quizzed at the Command headquarters in Ikeja at the time of this report.
Lekan was said to have allegedly strangled his wife, Ronke, to death and fled the scene leaving behind their two children in the house.
After an alarm was raised by the family’s nanny, who reported for duty on Friday morning, neighbours were forced to break down the doors of the deceased’s flat due to loud cries of the children.
Blood was said to be oozing from the nostrils of Ronke when her body was discovered. There were also bruises on her. Ronke was said to be an employee of Guaranty Trust Bank until she was sacked recently before she went into the business of selling clothes.
According to the police image-maker, “Marks of violence” were found on Ronke’s body, suggesting that she was murdered in cold blood. “Yes, I confirm the incident. The landlady reported it on Friday at about 8:00a.m. She said at about 7:00a.m., she heard the screaming of Mrs. Ronke Shonde’s children, who was one of her tenants, as they couldn’t find the key to open their door from inside.
“When the door was forced open from outside, the lifeless body of the victim was found on the floor. Police operatives visited the scene and the corpse was removed and deposited at the Isolo General Hospital mortuary for autopsy