The South-South Women Organisation (SSWO) has appealed to women in the Niger Delta to come out and make their feelings known on the Niger Delta question.
Making this appeal at a seminar, held at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, the president of the organisation, Mrs. Vickie Djewudu, said “women can handle the situation of the region better than the men.”
The seminar/award ceremony with the theme: “Tapping Into The Potential Of The Niger Delta and Women Empowerment,” she disclosed, was held for Niger Delta women in Lagos, to add their voices to the quest to find a lasting solution to the problems facing the region.
“As mothers, women and daughters of the region, we know that violence, hostage taking and other restive activities may not be a lasting solution to the problems facing the region.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Jilted Man Bathes Girlfriend With Acid
Man’s inhumanity to man was again manifested on Sunday night, when a jilted man, said to be a KAI official, Segun Adegbose, gave his 23-year-old girlfriend, Miss Kafaya Dauda, an acid bath.
Speaking with P.M.News at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Kafaya said, “It all happened between 10 and 11p.m., on Sunday. I came back from the mosque and after I had changed my clothes, I decided to relax.
“I was later woken up by Segun who queried my refusal to pick his calls. I told him that my phone was in silent mode. He screamed and made so much unnecessary noise over the issue before he left.
“I was still resting when I noticed that someone had entered the room again. I discovered that it was Segun. But before I could raise my head, he poured something on my face. I screamed when I felt a burning sensation on my skin and realised that I could not open my eyes again. He fled immediately.”
pmnews-cover-7-october-200.jpgHe is still on the run. Kafaya added that she and Segun were lovers, and that they started dating in March, this year. She, however, ended the affair when she discovered that Segun’s character was not different from that of a tout.
This infuriated Segun, who is from Ikorodu and lives somewhere around Olusosun bus stop at Ojota, while his mother lives in Ikorodu.
Kafaya, a resident of 5, Ali Lane, Off Ogba Road, Lagos, further said: “At the beginning of our relationship, Segun told me that when the girl he was dating before he met me tried to jilt him, he had threatened her with an acid bath.”
According to the victim’s neighbours, Kafaya is a nice girl. Her neighbours have been trooping to the hospital to sympathise with her. She is a fashion designer and owns a shop in Ogba.
Immediately they heard of the incident, a group of women in the area raised about N59,000 to cover part of her medical bill.
Kafaya, who hails from Saaki in Osun state, stays with a woman known as Mummy Rhoda, a midwife and the owner of a trado-medical centre at the same address.
Mummy Rhoda said, “Kafaya has been living with me since her childhood. Her parents are in Saaki. So, I have been taking care of her. I was not around when the incident happened. I don’t know this Segun, though I knew that she was dating somebody.” A concerned neighbour, who craved anonymity, said Segun called Kafaya’s present boyfriend on phone this morning (yesterday morning) and threatened that he would be the next victim. The matter has been reported at the Isokoko Police Station, Agege. At the time of filing this report, Segun’s whereabouts remained unknown
Speaking with P.M.News at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Kafaya said, “It all happened between 10 and 11p.m., on Sunday. I came back from the mosque and after I had changed my clothes, I decided to relax.
“I was later woken up by Segun who queried my refusal to pick his calls. I told him that my phone was in silent mode. He screamed and made so much unnecessary noise over the issue before he left.
“I was still resting when I noticed that someone had entered the room again. I discovered that it was Segun. But before I could raise my head, he poured something on my face. I screamed when I felt a burning sensation on my skin and realised that I could not open my eyes again. He fled immediately.”
pmnews-cover-7-october-200.jpgHe is still on the run. Kafaya added that she and Segun were lovers, and that they started dating in March, this year. She, however, ended the affair when she discovered that Segun’s character was not different from that of a tout.
This infuriated Segun, who is from Ikorodu and lives somewhere around Olusosun bus stop at Ojota, while his mother lives in Ikorodu.
Kafaya, a resident of 5, Ali Lane, Off Ogba Road, Lagos, further said: “At the beginning of our relationship, Segun told me that when the girl he was dating before he met me tried to jilt him, he had threatened her with an acid bath.”
According to the victim’s neighbours, Kafaya is a nice girl. Her neighbours have been trooping to the hospital to sympathise with her. She is a fashion designer and owns a shop in Ogba.
Immediately they heard of the incident, a group of women in the area raised about N59,000 to cover part of her medical bill.
Kafaya, who hails from Saaki in Osun state, stays with a woman known as Mummy Rhoda, a midwife and the owner of a trado-medical centre at the same address.
Mummy Rhoda said, “Kafaya has been living with me since her childhood. Her parents are in Saaki. So, I have been taking care of her. I was not around when the incident happened. I don’t know this Segun, though I knew that she was dating somebody.” A concerned neighbour, who craved anonymity, said Segun called Kafaya’s present boyfriend on phone this morning (yesterday morning) and threatened that he would be the next victim. The matter has been reported at the Isokoko Police Station, Agege. At the time of filing this report, Segun’s whereabouts remained unknown
7 Picnickers Die In Auto Crash
At least seven picnickers going to the Alpha beach, Lekki, for fun were killed on Sunday, in a ghastly motor accident which occurred along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. P.M.News gathered that the 22-seater Volkswagen Faragon bus conveying the picnickers, numbering about nine, to the beach, sommersaulted after colliding with another vehicle.
The accident, which occurred around 6.15 p.m., led to a taffic jam along the expressway, as sympathisers and passersby did all they could to rescue the trapped occupants.
Narrating the incident to P.M.News, a friend of one of the victims, who was in another vehicle when the accident occurred, stated: “The Volkswagen Faragon bus carrying the picnickers to the beach was around Still Water Estate, near Ilasan Bus Stop, when a car coming out of the Total Filling Station on the other side of the road, drove recklessly into the major road.
pmnews-cover-14-october-20.jpg“This forced the driver of the Faragon bus to swerve to the right lane, and in the process lost control and the vehicle somersaulted several times.”
Investigations revealed that sympathisers and passersby rushed to help the victims, but the vehicle was so mangled that they had difficulty bringing the trapped picknickers out.P.M.News gathered that corpses of six of the occupants of the vehicle who died in the accident were taken to the mortuary of the Lagos Island General Hospital.
When P.M.News got to the scene, a corpse, identified as that of Ibrahim Murhi, was still on the expressway.
“In all, seven persons lost their lives and several others were seriously injured in the accident. Even a lady lost her right eye during the accident,” an eyewitness told P.M.News.
Another witness at the scene said: “Most of the victims could have survived if they were rescued on time. The victims lost a lot of blood and before a rescue team came, they were already dead.”
The accident, which occurred around 6.15 p.m., led to a taffic jam along the expressway, as sympathisers and passersby did all they could to rescue the trapped occupants.
Narrating the incident to P.M.News, a friend of one of the victims, who was in another vehicle when the accident occurred, stated: “The Volkswagen Faragon bus carrying the picnickers to the beach was around Still Water Estate, near Ilasan Bus Stop, when a car coming out of the Total Filling Station on the other side of the road, drove recklessly into the major road.
pmnews-cover-14-october-20.jpg“This forced the driver of the Faragon bus to swerve to the right lane, and in the process lost control and the vehicle somersaulted several times.”
Investigations revealed that sympathisers and passersby rushed to help the victims, but the vehicle was so mangled that they had difficulty bringing the trapped picknickers out.P.M.News gathered that corpses of six of the occupants of the vehicle who died in the accident were taken to the mortuary of the Lagos Island General Hospital.
When P.M.News got to the scene, a corpse, identified as that of Ibrahim Murhi, was still on the expressway.
“In all, seven persons lost their lives and several others were seriously injured in the accident. Even a lady lost her right eye during the accident,” an eyewitness told P.M.News.
Another witness at the scene said: “Most of the victims could have survived if they were rescued on time. The victims lost a lot of blood and before a rescue team came, they were already dead.”
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