I Am A Rapist, Man Tells Judge, Referred To Mental Hospital

 

A Lagos court judge has ordered that a man who admitted that he was a rapist should be taken to a psychiatric hospital Yaba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, for doctors to check his sanity.
The 27-year old man, Emmanuel Omayebu stunned a Lagos court when he proudly and openly admitted before the court that he actually raped his neighbour’s 10-year old daughter to satisfy his sexual desire as alleged by the police.
Omayebu who is now in prison custody at Kirikiri Lagos, pleaded guilty of raping the victim before the presiding judge, Mrs A. A. Oshonuji at Ikeja Family Court, Lagos.
The incident happened at 16, Adewale Rasheed Street, Egan on the outskirts of Lagos. The Kogi state-born Omayebu was alleged to have lured the primary three victim to an uncompleted building beside their house where he raped her.
The victim told the police that Omayebu bought a stick of cigarrete at their shop and headed toward an uncompleted building in their house.
She said he asked her to bring a lighter.
She said when she took a lighter to him, he grabbed her, tore her pant and forcefully raped her. She said when she wanted to shout, he threatened to kill her there.
She said he forced his penis inside her private part, and when she could not bear the pain she started crying.
Her cry attracted a neighbour who went to the place and raised an alarm that attracted other neighbours.
He was held and handed over to the police at Igando Division.
He was charged to court under section 137 of the criminal code law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011. He pleaded guilty.
However, there was twist in the matter when his relation told the court that the suspect has mental problem.
Consequently, the court ordered that he be taken to a psychiatric hospital at Yaba to ascertain his mental state.
The matter was adjourned till 18 June when his medical report will be presented to the court.
culled from pm news

Sarkozy out. France gets new president...

Francois Hollande was elected France’s first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.
The result will have major implications for Europe as it struggles to emerge from a financial crisis and for France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy and a nuclear-armed permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Hollande won the vote with about 52 percent, according to several estimates from polling firms based on ballot samples, becoming France’s first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.
He wasted no time in pushing his agenda, telling a crowd of cheering supporters that “France chose change” and warning fellow European leaders that he would move ahead with his vow to refocus EU fiscal efforts on growth.
“I am sure that when the result was announced, in many European countries there was relief, hope and the notion that finally austerity can no longer be the only option,” he told a crowd in his adopted hometown of Tulle.
“And this is the mission that is now mine — to give the European project a dimension of growth, employment, prosperity, in short, a future,” he said.
“This is what I will say as soon as possible to our European partners and first of all to Germany… We are not just any country on the planet, just any nation in the world, we are France.”
Sarkozy had earlier conceded defeat and signalled that he intends to step back from frontline politics.
“The French people have made their choice… Francois Hollande is president of France and he must be respected,” the outgoing leader told an emotional crowd of supporters, adding that he had wished his successor well.
“In this new era, I will remain one of you, but my place will no longer be the same. My engagement with the life of my country will now be different,” he told supporters.
Sarkozy stopped short of confirming his retirement, but leaders in his right-wing UMP party told AFP that he had told them he would not lead them into June’s parliamentary elections.
“We are rid of a poison that was blighting our society. A normal president! It gives us a lot to dream about,” said Didier Stephan, a 70-year-old artist among throngs celebrating at Paris’s Place de la Bastille.
Hollande led in opinion polls throughout the campaign and won the April 22 first round with 28.6 percent to Sarkozy’s 27.2 percent — making the right-winger the first-ever incumbent to lose in the first round.
Grey skies and rain showers greeted voters across much of France, but turnout was high, with pollsters saying more than 80 percent of the 46 million eligible voters had cast ballots.
Official results were coming in, with the interior ministry saying that with 78 percent of votes counted at 1945 GMT Hollande was ahead with 51.1 percent.
The election was marked by fears over European Union-imposed austerity and globalisation, and Hollande has said his first foreign meeting will be with German Chancellor Angela Merkel — the key driver of EU budget policy.
The 57-year-old Socialist has vowed to renegotiate the hard-fought fiscal austerity pact signed by EU leaders in March to make it focus more on growth.
Hollande appeared to be winning over European leaders quickly on Sunday, with some capitals already echoing his call for growth measures.
“We will work together on a growth pact,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin. “I am confident the Franco-German friendship will be further deepened.”
On the domestic front, Hollande has said he will move quickly to implement his traditionally Socialist tax-and-spend programme, which calls for boosting taxes on the rich, increasing state spending and hiring 60,000 teachers.
Sarkozy fought a fierce campaign, saying a victory for Hollande would spark market panic and financial chaos and calling him a “liar” and “slanderer” in the final days of the race.
But Sarkozy failed to overcome deep-rooted anger at meagre economic growth and increasing joblessness, and disappointment after he failed to live up to the promises of his 2007 election.
Sarkozy, 57, was also deeply unpopular on a personal level, with many voters turned off by his flashy “bling bling” lifestyle — exemplified by his marriage to former supermodel Carla Bruni — and aggressive behaviour.
Hollande has vowed to be a “normal president” in contrast with Sarkozy, but some have raised concerns over his lack of experience.
Hollande, a long-time Socialist party leader and lawmaker from the central Correze region, has never held a top government post.
The first round of the election last month saw a record score for Marine Le Pen of the far-right, anti-immigrant and anti-Europe National Front, when she took nearly 18 percent of the vote.
Sarkozy turned increasingly to the right ahead of the run-off — vowing to restrict immigration and “defend French values” — but Le Pen refused to call on her supporters to back him and she cast a blank ballot.
Hollande won the backing of centrist Francois Bayrou, who took nine percent in the first round, and Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Left Front, who took 11 percent.
Hollande is expected to be sworn in by May 15 and after seeing Merkel will quickly set off for a series of international meetings, including a G8 summit in the US on May 18-19 and NATO gathering in Chicago on May 20-21.
The Socialists, Sarkozy’s right-wing UMP and France’s other political parties will now be focused on a parliamentary election to be held over two rounds on June 10 and June 17.
Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned Francois Hollande to congratulate him on his victory in France’s presidential vote and invited him to come to Berlin as soon as possible, her spokesman said Sunday.
“The chancellor invited the French president-elect Hollande to come to Berlin as soon as possible after his inauguration,” Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a short statement following a phone call between the pair.
“Both agreed how important close Franco-German relations were and assured each other that they would strive for good and trusting cooperation,” Seibert added.
The statement gave no date for a possible meeting of the two, but Hollande’s inauguration is expected to be around May 15.
Hollande’s campaign manager Pierre Moscovici had said earlier that France’s new leader would take up the invitation “quickly after his inauguration”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has also congratulated new French President Francois Hollande by telephone, vowing to work with the Socialist leader to strengthen the Franco-British relationship.
“The Prime Minister called President-Elect Hollande this evening and congratulated him on his victory,” said a spokesman from Cameron’s Downing Street office in a statement.
“They both look forward to working very closely together in the future and building on the very close relationship that already exists between the UK and France,” it added.

Boko Haram Says AIT Phone-In Interview Call Is Fake

Islamist militant sect Boko Haram has revealed that a purported telephone call made to the African Independent Television (AIT) by a caller pretending to be a Boko Haram spokesperson was fake.
A source close to the sect told Saharareporters that the no one in the sect or any on its leadership initiated a call threatening to attack Lagos and Abuja in 72 hours.

A Nigerian local TV station-African Independent Television- had played a phone call in which an individual claiming to be a representative of Boko Haram threatened to attack Lagos and Abuja in 72 hours.
The caller also requested that Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan unconditionally  meet with the sect in Yobe state, without security, to discuss the terms of a ceasefire, but our most reliable source said the call was a prank pulled by individuals capitalizing on the hysteria created by Boko Haram's recent attacks in northern Nigeria. (Sahara Reporters)

Don Jazzy sets up new record label - Mavin Records. Signs Tiwa Savage

  

The ace producer and former CEO of Mohits Records announced his new label on Twitter a few hours ago. It's no longer Mohits Records, its now Mavin Records (Mavin pronounced as May-vin). And he has signed the new label's first female artist; the unbelievably talented Ms Tiwa Savage. Aside from D'banj and his brother K-Switch, all the other artists under the now defunct Mohits records are with Mavin Records. 

Meanwhile a compilation album titled Solar Plexus, produced by Don Jazzy and featuring Wande Coal, Dr Sid, D'Prince and Tiwa Savage will be released tomorrow May 8th.

The record exec also tweeted that more artists will be signed to the label soon. And erm...go to Wikipedia's definition of Solar Plexus. #thankmelater :-)

Cocaine Story Is Blackmail; Stella Damascus' Manager

According to Square Image, popular Nollywood actress, Stella Damasus, was never detained by men of the NDLEA on the suspicion that she was in possession of substances suspected to the Cocaine. Her publicists debunked the story and described it as the handiwork of detractors.

Below is a statement from her manager:

The allegations are totally false!!! And nothing like that has ever happened during her career. We are organising a press conference to this effect and we have also contacted the NDLEA PRO, who has also denied ever releasing such statements. The story is a desperate attempt by the social site to gain publicity and another weak attempt to tarnish the image of proud honourable Nigerians who have given their all to the country. 

Stella travelled to Cameroon on the 29th of October to shoot a movie in conjunction with the Cameroon government to promote Nollywood first, and secondly to promote the movie industry in Cameroon. She travelled with her crew and heavy equipment and no delay whatsoever was experienced. She got back on the 17th from Cameroon and is currently working on completing her movie. Again I say the allegations are FALSE and we will be holding a press conference to this effect.

My Husband Is Desperate To Have Sex With My Daughter –Wife Cries Out

"I didn’t initially understand what was happening. All I knew was that my husband was always at loggerheads with my daughter," said Mrs. Afusat Ogunrinde. 

Lagosians present at the Oshodi Grade 'B' Customary court on Monday were shocked beyond words when a middle aged woman, Afusat Ogunrinde, told the court how her husband, Ibrahim, has been trying all he can to sleep with her teenage daughter, Sidikat.

“There was a time I travelled and when I got back, Sidikat complained to me that my husband woke her up in the middle of the night and asked her to take off her pants and face the wall. I was shocked.”

Afusat said she confirmed her suspicions when an incident happened in her presence. She said, “We stay in a one-room apartment and there was this day Sidikat suddenly screamed in the middle of the night. When I woke up, I saw my husband close to where my daughter slept.

“When I challenged him, he told me he was pursuing a rat and that the rat climbed his feet and ran towards the place where Sidikat slept. I took the matter up with him and since then he became more quarrelsome with her.”

When asked about the authenticity of her mother’s claims, Sidikat told the court that her mother's husband had sexually harassed her. Sidikat said, “All what my mother said is true. When I refused to give in to my stepfather’s advances, he started persecuting me.

“At a time, he would pour water on the bed when I was fast asleep in a bid to put me in a bad light by accusing me of bed-wetting all because I didn’t allow him to sleep with me.”

Afusat said she had to send her daughter packing due to the development. Besides, Afusat told the court that Ibrahim had also threatened to kill her and urged the court to dissolve their 17-year-old marriage, which is blessed with three children.

She said, “He has gone weird of late. He beats me up and would not stop until I get wounded. One night, he came back home drunk, gave me a knife and asked me to kill him. I had to run out of the home to save my life. My life is endangered and as far as I’m concerned, this marriage can no longer stand because it has already broken down.”

Meanwhile, Ibrahim denied making advances to Sidikat but admitted battering his wife. He said, "I took Sidikat as a daughter and would never try to do such a thing. It looked like I was persecuting her because I wanted the best for her.

“Trouble began between me and her when she and my first child altered their school report cards and I tried to correct them. I beat both of them and I was surprised that she rebelled and despised me. Since then, we have been living like cat and mouse in the house.”

Ibrahim added that he battered his wife because she was cheating on him, an allegation which Afusat denied.

After listening to both parties, the acting Court President, Mrs. R.I. Adetola warned them to maintain peace pending the determination of the suit. The case was then adjourned till June 16, for further hearing.