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IN collaboration with the OWD Foundation, Dr .Oladipupo Wilson Diriwari recently facilitated the distribution of JAMB registration forms to indigent students in Ajeromi-Ifelodun in Lagos State, helping them take a critical step toward tertiary education. The initiative is part of a broader, sustained intervention that has, over the past eight years, covered not only JAMB […]

•He stopped feeding me, our children, lavished money on other women —Wife A 36 year old man of Lusaka’s Chelston area in Zambia, has complained to the Lusaka Boma Local Court about the sex drought that has characterised his marriage. Before court was Best Bwanga, who told the court how his wife, Phelliny Hamainza, 37, […]

•She’s special among my wives — Husband A housewife, Mas’uda Ado, has approached an Upper Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), seeking the dissolution of her marriage to her husband, Nasir Abubakar on grounds of lack of love and affection. Mas’uda told the court that she got married to Nasir, according to […]

An Area Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday dissolved the Islamic marriage between one Rashida Bashir and her estranged husband, Bashir Adegboye, over the latter’s womanising attitude. The Presiding Judge, Hammed Ajumonbi, in his ruling, said that the letter sent by the husband revealed that he agreed to the divorce. Ajumonbi, therefore, dissolved the marriage […]

A woman, Tejumola, has brought her husband, Adeyi, before the Grade A Customary Court, Court 2, sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, on the allegation of constant battery and domestic violence. Tejumola said she had known no peace since she got married to her husband seven years ago. She explained that she and her husband […]

The Nigerian Universities Accounting Students Association (NUASA), McPherson University chapter, hosted its Accounting and Finance Impact Global Conference, bringing together students, academics, and industry professionals to examine emerging trends shaping the future of the discipline. The conference, held on Thursday on the university campus, was themed ‘Beyond the ledger: Exploring the impact of AI and […]

•Says our 6-yr-old son was electrocuted as a result of my wife’s carelessnes Grade A Customary Court, sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has adjourned for judgment a divorce suit brought before it by a man, Ismail, against his wife, Aishat whom he claimed had been irresponsible and had neglected all her responsibilities toward him. […]

 This is a statement issued by Nigerian Ambassador designate Femi Fani-Kayode on the crisis rocking ADC

“I watched a faction of the ADC conducting what they described as their party Convention a few days ago & it was pitiful.

I saw an overcrowded hall filled with hot, sweaty, men & women, most of them looking worne, tired & undernourished.

They wore orange caps & were using pamphlets & brochures to fan themselves because the building had no functional air-conditioning system. 

They sweated profusely, argued loudly amongst themselves, broke into fisticuffs & at a point in the proceedings one of their more elderly leaders got on the stage, took the microphone and screamed “APC” at the top of his voice after which he suddenly remembered that he had left APC years earlier & that he was actually in an ADC Convention!

Clearly senility & cognitive dissonance had set in & his brain was no longer functioning as it once did.

Pin drop silence hit the crowd & one man, who could not contain his anger, shouted out loudly for all to hear that the embattled & confused elder should ask God for forgiveness for his unforgivable faux pas. 

I actually felt sorry for the elder because anyone can make a mistake.

Nevertheless his shame & embarrsament was total & in an attempt to redeem himself & melt the ice he told the astounded & shocked gathering that he was sorry for blurting out the ruling parties initials instead of theirs & that he needed to “take a purgative”.

After him another strange-looking elderly man came on the stage who looked badly ravaged by the rigours of life, who was terribly unkempt & who appeared to be in dire need of  medical attention.

His attire was badly rumpled, his hat was worne & fading & had holes in it & his slippers were peeling on all sides.

He dressed like a man who had not bought new clothes in ten years.

Once on the stage he grabbed the microphone & bellowed in surprisingly good english & with immense force, confidence & the hubris that always comes before a hard fall that “even if we field a corpse we will defeat Tinubu in 2027”.

This was an interesting & rare display of what is commonly referred to as “Dutch courage”: that is the boldness that is often associated with a drunken sailor & those that have had one drink too many & are highly & perpetually inebriated.

There is no doubt that this man is troubled & needs help because he looked more like a tramp or a witchdoctor than a politician.

Whatever it is that is troubling him I wish him well & will remember him in my prayers.

Another curious dimension to the whole thing was watching a fully grown bearded man on the stage with a huge pot belly (which made him look pregnant) wearing what looked like a woman’s beige skirt on top of a pair of beautiful beige trousers whilst sporting a pair of dark sunglasses to cover his eyes.

Some called it a “bold fashion statement” whilst others said it was an expression of his non-binary status & gender fluidity.

Whichever way to wear a man’s trousers & a womans skirt all at the same time at a factional party Convention or anywhere else is a novelty & something few of us have witnessed in a political gathering. I guess times have changed.

Forgive me for saying so but this was indeed a strange gathering of confused, reckless, desperate, cantankerous, quarrelsome & in some cases senile actors from the past who have long lost their glamour, gravitas & steam & who have no sense of purpose, unity or direction.

Is it any wonder that they call them an  ‘Association of Destructive Clowns’.

If that is the best they can do then President Tinubu has already won the 2027 election. By 12.00 noon it will be over.

What we witnessed was more of a gathering of hungry, ragged & desperate jackals & long-rejected souls that are craving for a return to power rather than the Convention of a legitimate & serious political party.

Mr. President rightly described theirs as a “street Convention”. What he failed to add was that it was a street Convention of vagabonds, riggers & wanderers.

Bottom line?

The ADC ain’t going nowhere!

(FFK)

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, have uncovered a baby factory in Okuju, Ilado, Badagry area of the state.

It was gathered that the operation lasted from late Wednesday to early hours of Thursday.

The operatives reportedly rescued 18 pregnant women and 10 children, and arrested the operators of the facility, Joy Okeke and Raphael Agwu, according to Punch.

The pregnant women, upon delivery, had their children sold and were paid between N500,000 and N1.8m, while some came to the centre with children and infants for sale to willing buyers.

The women, aged between 18 and 30, were paraded at the NSCDC office, Badagry Division, Ibereko, on Friday.

During the parade, the Commandant of the Lagos State NSCDC, Adedotun Keshinro, said operatives swooped on a building following actionable intelligence gathered for three weeks.

“They are operating a baby factory where victims are made pregnant. When the babies are delivered, they are sold. The suspects entice pregnant victims to come and negotiate with them that when they deliver the babies, the babies will be taken from them, and they will be paid off.

“When they deliver the babies, the babies are taken from them to be sold to customers, and the victims are paid off,” Keshinro said.

According to him, 18 victims who were rescued are pregnant, though one was said to have suffered miscarriage. He added that there are other grown babies on negotiation for interested buyers.

He said the operators of the facility have committed a “grievous crime against humanity,”

The NSCDC commandant further stated that the operators would be handed over to the police for prosecution, while the victims would be handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.

Keshinro also noted that the facility will be handed over to the state government for possible demolition.

NSCDC Busts Baby Factory In Lagos, Rescues 18 Pregnant Women, 10 Children is first published on The Whistler Newspaper

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