Policemen present at my son’s lynching – Mother...

Rivers State Commissioner of Police Mohammed Ndabawa.

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Chinwe Biringa, mother of Chiadika, one of the four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who were lynched on Friday for allegedly stealing laptops and BlackBerry phones in Aluu community has said that policemen were present during the killings.

Chinwe who spoke in a telephone interview during a public affairs programme onChannels Television on Wednesday said she was disappointed with the way and manner the policemen looked on and did nothing to stop the gruesome murder of the four boys.

She said, “Eyewitnesses accounts revealed that policemen were at the scene of the incident. Besides, policemen at the police station confirmed to one of the bereaved parents who visited them that policemen were there.

“And the explanation they gave was that they were overwhelmed by the crowd and that they had insufficient bullets in their guns and all that thrash to confront the crowd.

“But those people were only with sticks not with guns. If they really wanted to work they would have worked. If they had done what the Joint Task Force did by firing warning shots into the air when they wanted to collect the corpses, things wouldn’t have gone awry.”

While insisting that the four murdered boys were not robbers, Chinwe said, “We don’t have security in this country. We don’t just have and our children and wards are all over the country. We are only living by God’s grace everyday, because this can happen to anybody any day.

“God knows best because nothing stops Him from doing something extraordinary to save them. But may God judge all those who had a hand in the killings.”

Culled from The Punch Nigeria.

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UNIPORT killings: Community counts losses after students’ rampage...

Vandalized vehicles. Inset:Ahanonu in his burnt house.

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THE people of Omuokiri Aluu Community have begun to count their losses barely 24 hours after students from the University of Port Harcourt embarked on reprisals to avenge the killings of their colleagues. The angry students had on Tuesday stormed the community, burnt some houses, cars and other property over the torture and murder of the students on Friday.

Four undergraduates of UNIPORT were lynched by a mob comprising members of the community for allegedly stealing laptop computer and a BlackBerry phone.

The students were Biringa Chiadika of the Theatre Arts Department; Ugonna Obuzor of Geology Department, Mike Toku Llyod of Civil Engineering Department and Tekena Erikena.

When our correspondent visited the community on Wednesday, few of the indigenes were seen bemoaning their losses.

One of the leaders of the community, Sunday Ahanonu, said he had lost all he laboured for to the students’ reprisals.

Ahanonu, whose house was torched by the students, expressed shock that security agents could not stop the rampaging students when they stormed the community.

Sixty-five-year-old Ahanonu and father of 15 children, worked at UNIPORT for 35 years before he retired.

He appealed to the state government and the management of the university to compensate him for the destruction of his property, adding that he and members of his family were not involved in the killings of the students.

Ahanonu said, “I am a retired civil servant. I worked with UNIPORT for 35. But all I have achieved for many years have been destroyed by students from the university. I don’t know where my family and I will lay our heads when my only house has been burnt.

“I lost the sum of N850,000 cash, which I kept in my house. I could not take the money to the bank because I was not feeling okay and went to the hospital. It was at the hospital that I learnt that my house was burnt by the students.”

Lesbianism finds a fertile ground in Calabar...

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Mrs. Janet Ishi of Orok Orok Street, Calabar, capital of Cross River State, is currently a worried woman. The source of her bother is her eldest daughter, Eno, whose sexual preference is less than conventional. Eno is a member of the city’s growing tribe of lesbians. And they are found everywhere–civil service, army, police as well as secondary and tertiary institutions. Queen, a dark-skinned beauty, told TheNEWS that lesbians usually seek partners among teenage secondary school, polytechnic and university students. Places like Halls 8 and 9 (Winnie Mandela Hall), Female Medical Students’ Hostel and the School of Nursing Hostel–all at the University of Calabar; Cross River University of Technology female hostel, Federal Government Girls’ College hostels and female hostels in private schools are pools where lesbians go to fish.

Ufot, a 19-year-old girl Law student, told this magazine that several girls approached her at the University of Calabar’s Winnie Mandela Hostel, but she rejected their overtures. However, while visiting Abuja during a semester break, she was introduced to lesbianism. “My sister’s neighbour kept coming to our room to woo me each time my sister was out. She was the one that bought this Nokia X3 phone for me and often gives me money. Each time I made a move to return to school, she would weep and discourage me from going back. It was when she travelled that I left Abuja,” she said.

Lesbians, as heterosexuals do, also keep regular partners and get jealous the same way.

Floods victims battle for survival in Bayelsa...

Scenes Of Flood In Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Endurance Smart, a week-old baby is battling for survival at one of the camps for flood victims in Bayelsa State. The toddler who hails from Agbobi, Biseni, in Yenagoa Local Government Area, was born in a pool of water by a traditional birth attendant at the community.

Her mother, Blessing, was trying to change her napkin when PUNCH METRO visited the Sports Complex, Yenagoa, which had been turned into a refugee camp by the state government.

Blessing said, “We named her Endurance because of the circumstances surrounding her birth. She was born in a pool of water when flood began to cover our community.

“We thought it was a joke. But six days after her birth, the water level had risen to my hip. I had to abandon my properties and carried her to the refugee camp.”

Like Blessing and her daughter, other victims who came for succour at the camp had similar agonising stories. Their homes have been submerged, their farmlands washed away and their properties destroyed by the ravaging flood. Communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area such as the Niger Delta University and Amasoma have been submerged.

Most of the settlements in Ogbia, the Local Government Area of President Goodluck Jonathan have been sacked. The woman Representative of Governor Seriake Dickson in the area, Mrs. Unity Ototo, said the entire constituency two comprising over 19 villages had been taken over by the flood. “Oloibiri, the community where oil was first discovered, has been wiped out. The Kolo Creek, Otuogid, OluEbum and even Otueke are all affected,” she said.

Many people, she said, were trapped in the flood because they could not flee the affected area.

Ototo said, “They have no access to communication. They don’t even know that a camp has been set up. The communication gadgets in the area have been shut down.

Kidnapped expatriate’s body found in bush...

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A Lebanese body who was kidnapped by hoodlums three weeks ago in Rivers State, was found dead in a bush near Shell Road in Omuawa community of Ikwerre Local Government Area.

Security agents had been searching for the whereabouts of the Lebanese in the past three weeks.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the decomposing body of the foreigner was found by women in the the community.

The women had perceived an offensive odour while in the bush and later found the corpse of the expatriate, who was an official of JMS Construction Company in the state.

It was learnt that the women abandoned their mission in the bush and reported the matter to members of their community in Omuawa.

An eyewitness, who spoke with our correspondent on Tuesday, explained that the expatriate, whose name could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report, was abducted while on duty on Azuaha Road in Ikwerre LGA. The eyewitness said, “One of the women, who usually go to the bush to get Okazi leaves, told us that they were uncomfortable about the odour around the bush. They (the women) said they thought it was a dead animal.

Britain's top black woman judge Constance Briscoe is arrested at her home...

Arrested: Top judge Constance Briscoe was questioned by police.

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Britain’s most high-profile black woman judge, Constance Briscoe, has been arrested by police.

The 55-year-old was questioned by Kent Constabulary before being bailed pending further inquiries.

‘A 55-year-old woman was arrested in Clapham, south London, on Saturday October 6. She was interviewed by officers,' Kent Police said in a statement. 

Her arrest means that she will not be able to sit as a judge while being investigated concerning matters which cannot be revealed for legal reasons.

A spokeswoman for the Office for Judicial Complaints said in a statement: ‘The Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor have suspended Constance Briscoe from the judiciary pending the outcome of the police investigation into the allegations against her. It would be inappropriate to comment further whilst the investigation is active.’

Ms Briscoe has been a controversial figure and was unsuccessfully sued by her own mother over revelations in her autobiography.

The leading barrister and part-time judge wrote ‘Ugly’ a memoir about her grim childhood in Kennington, South London, which charted in agonising detail her difficult younger years. 

Controversial: Ms Briscoe's memoir 'ugly' made her famous and led to her mother unsuccessfully suing her for defamation.

In the book, Ms Briscoe alleges that her Jamaican mother Carmen and stepfather Garfield Eastman regularly beat her as a child and repeatedly criticized her looks, once refusing to buy her school photograph with the words: 'You is ugly.'

Once her mother allegedly said: 'Look at those lips - you didn't get them from my side of the family. Why don't you use them to clear out the blocked sink?'

Ms Briscoe also describes the extraordinary lengths she has gone to not to be 'ugly' any more in the sequel to her memoirs, Beyond Ugly, published in 2008. 

She has had cosmetic operations to narrow and straighten her nose, to slim her lips, to remove eye bags, to whiten her teeth and narrow her feet.

She had two children, Martin, 24, and Francesca, 22, from a 12-year relationship with Adam Wilson, a lawyer.

Relationship: Until 2010 Ms Briscoe was with Anthony Arlidge QC.

Corps member bags chieftaincy title...

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Onuoha with the bin

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A youth corps member with the National War College, Abuja, Dr. Pascalina Onuoha, has been honoured with a chieftaincy title by the Galadimawa community, Abuja, for donating a bin for evacuating waste. Until she donated the N1.6m roll bin, residents dumped their waste by the road that leads to the community and were at risk of an epidemic.

The optometrist was given the title, Bazhim Gbagvinu 1 (woman commander) of Galadimawa by the District head, Alhaji Musa Barde, at a colourful ceremony attended by a large segment of the community. Before the bin was inaugurated, Onuoha visited the district head and explained her plan to assist his people to manage their waste in a more responsible and environmentally-sustainable way.

She also went round the community and spoke to the residents about the need to keep their environment clean and dispose their litter in a proper way.

The youth corps member told PUNCH Metro that she was motivated to donate by the unsanitary condition of the area, having observed the poor manner the residents disposed their waste.

“I discovered that the community didn’t have a proper waste management system; residents simply dumped waste at a spot by the road and this is the fastest way to provoke an epidemic,” Onuoha said. According to her, the residents are happy about the donation because the bin has met a major challenge in the community.

Onuoha said, “With an outside broadcasting vehicle from Abuja Environmental Protection Board, I went around the community on a Saturday and enlightened the people on the need to keep their environment clean and the importance of proper waste management.

“The youths joined me to evacuate the waste into the roll bin and everyone was happy because the bin has solved a major problem of the people.”