DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE

Father allegedly beats his 2-month-old son with hanger in Imo for disturbing his sleep, breaks the baby's arm leading to amputation

The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) and the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Imo State chapter have called on the Imo State Government and the Nigeria Police Force to immediately arrest and prosecute one Mr Confidence Amatobi, for allegedly assaulting his 2-month-old baby, Miracle.

Mr Amatobi was said to have assaulted little Miracle with a plastic hanger and broke the baby's arm for disturbing his sleep.

The incident led to the amputation of the fractured arm at the Pediatrics ward of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Owerri.

NAWOJ, NHRC and the aggrieved mother of baby Miracle, made the call for justice in Owerri the Imo State Capital.

Imo State Chairperson of NAWOJ, Dr Dorothy Nnaji who spoke to newsmen after visiting the amputated boy at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Owerri, confirmed that the injury inflicted by the 31-year-old father, a native of Amurie in Isu LGA of the state, led to the amputation of the little boy’s right hand.

Mrs Nnaji who frowned at the dastardly cruel act of Mr Amatobi expressed shock that a father could assault his innocent child simply because he was crying and disturbing his sleep.

She disclosed that Mr Amatobi was reported to have repeatedly hit the baby with a plastic hanger to stop him from crying until the right hand broke.

"The perpetrator, Mr. Confidence Amatobi, who hails from Amurie in Isu L.G.A  used a plastic hanger on the baby, simply because he was crying that the 20-year-old mother left to ease herself. He used wood and elastic bands to tie the baby's hand when he saw that hand was broken and swollen," Mrs Nnaji said.

"He locked the mother and baby to prevent  her from talking to neighbours or seeking help. He also took her phone from her. After two days she found her way out and sought help from her neighbours.  The guy  was arrested by a vigilante but he escaped.  By the time help came, the baby's hand was already decayed. The only option was to cut off baby Miracle's right hand from shoulder,"

Atiku's picture is not on the posters - Nyesom Wike

 Why Atiku Is Not On Rivers Campaign Poster - Wike

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has revealed why he removed the picture of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Abubakar Atiku, from the Rivers State campaign poster.

Wike revealed this while speaking at the inauguration of Rivers State PDP campaign council on Monday.

He claimed that Atiku picked those that he wanted to work with in Rivers State without his contribution.

Wike went on to say that he will only campaign for people who have asked him to do so and that Atiku has not asked him to campaign for him. 

He said. “The presidential candidate entered my state and picked members of the presidential council without the contribution of the(sic) whole governor. They said they don't need me to campaign for them. 

“I have never seen how people would disrespect a state like Rivers State and go and choose enemies of the state without the contribution of the governor. 

“The senatorial and governorship candidate told us to campaign for them and that is why we are here to campaign for them.” - TVC

I killed him all by myself

 I kiIIed Usifo Ataga all by myself, without help - Chidinma Ojukwu

A video of Chidinma Ojukwu confessing to killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Michael Ataga, all by herself, was played in a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) on Tuesday October 11.

Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), is the prime suspect in Ataga’s murder.

In the video, Ataga was seen lying on the floor facing up with his hands spread open wearing a white singlet and boxers stained with blood. His head was close to the wall and there was blood on the floor on his right-hand side.

There were also large blood stains on the floor and the pillow and duvet cover.

Narrating how she killed Ataga during interrogation by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Olusegun Bamidele from the Intelligence and Tactical Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Yaba, Chidinma Ojukwu said she met Ataga through a friend and they started speaking to each other.

On June 13, 2021, he asked her to look for a place for them to stay, so she got the short-let apartment where they ate, drank, took drugs and where he was killed.

She said; 

“After I got the place on Sunday, we were smoking loud, drinking, watching movies and then I went to get food. The drug we were taking got finished and I ordered another one and went downstairs to get it from the delivery guy in the morning; that was on June 14, 2021.

“Then on Tuesday, we drank and smoked loud. I added Rophynol to his drink and we had sex. I was on the bed and he was on the chair. Then later he started disturbing me for more sex. I was tired and after struggling with him, he had his way and still wanted more.

“He wanted it, he was no longer himself and I thought he was no more interested in sex, only for him to return to the bed to ask for more sex.I pushed him away, which resulted in him hitting his head against a stool that had a glass. He had a cut on his leg and he became weak.

“I got a knife and stabbed him in the neck, ribs and stomach so that he would not be able to harm me. I tied his hands with handkerchief.

“His blood was out and I was scared.

Woman kills her maid and dumps the body in the bush

 Lady arrested for beating her maid to death and dumping her body inside a bush in Anambra 

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State Command, has arrested a woman over the brutal murder of her maid. 

It was gathered that the suspect was nabbed this week after she beat her maid to death then dumped the body in a nearby bush. 

Details of the incident are still sketchy, but a video shared online shows the moment the suspect took NAPTIP officials to the bush where the already decomposing corpse was recovered. 

“I beat her and she started convulsing so I took her to Kings (hospital). Getting there, she died, so I threw her body here,” she said in the video.

My Boss Gives Us drugs that causes our stomach to swell

 My boss gives them drugs which causes their stomach to swell — Man arrested for using children with fake stomach tumour to beg for alms in Lagos 

A middle-aged man, Onyedinka Esiala, has been caught using children suffering from fake stomach tumour to beg for alms in Lagos State. 

Esiala, from Enugu Sate, was exposed by a passerby identified as Benefit, at Mile 2 area of the state on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. While speaking with Vanguard, the suspect claimed that his alleged boss, Uche, initiated the scam and gives the children unknown drugs to make their stomachs swell. 

He alleged that Uche brings kids to Lagos every year he travels to the Eastern part of the country. “My name is Onyedinka and I am from Enugu State. My oga is Uche. When I came from the village, I did not get any work to do; then he told me to be helping him to be taking these children out for begging.

"Whenever I am about to take the kids from Orile to Mile 2 pedestrian bridge, my Oga will give them drugs though I don’t know the name of the medicines which will make their stomach get swollen for some hours, and the kids’ mothers are aware of the business. Their mothers stay in the village.

 The children were staying with them in the village before they gave them to my Oga to come to Lagos. The girls are not my sisters, but their mother often brings them to my Oga. Some kids stay a year with us, and half of the money made from begging is sent to their mothers in the village. My Oga does give them black drugs. I don’t know the name of the drugs. My Oga did not tell me the name but it’s a black drug.

My Oga brought one of the kids last year December while the other girl has spent three months with us. There is a boy among them but did not come today because he is not feeling too well.  We do not come every day. We sometimes come three times in a week.” 

However, after thorough questioning, Oyedinka was taken to the Nigeria Police Station Area E, Festac and handed over to the police for further interrogation.