Bad principal

The principal and proprietor of a school in Ogun state
has been arrested for tying students to crosses and
flogging them for coming late
- A policeman had witnessed the outrageous act and
stopped to caution the principal, but was beaten up in
the process
- The principal, proprietor and another teacher were
eventually arrested, and have been taken to the State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department
The proprietor of Metorite Standard School,
Ayetoro, Ogun, Afolayan Joseph, was arrested by
the state’s police command, on Wednesday, May
16, for allegedly tying up two pupils of the school
to ‘crosses’ and flogging them with a horsewhip.
Afolayan, together with the school’s principal,
who is yet to be identified, allegedly tied up the
students because they came late to school, Punch
reports.
alearn that a policeman, identified only
as Livinus, was also beaten up after he had
cautioned the men against such action.

The policeman, assisted by other residents,
eventually succeeded in effecting the arrest of
the suspects, who were then taken to the Itele
Police Station.
Narrating the incident, the policeman stated: “I
was going to work this morning (Wednesday) when I saw
some cars parked by the roadside. I discovered that it was
because of some pupils that were tied to crosses.
“When I saw it, I parked and went to meet the proprietor of
the school. I introduced myself as a policeman and told him
to untie the pupils. He refused, saying there was nothing
anybody could tell him that would make him to release
them.
“When I tried to untie the pupils, the proprietor and his
teachers beat me up. Before I returned from picking
handcuffs from my car, they had grabbed a friend who was
with me, Omaje Iremi, and beaten him up with a horsewhip.
“I entered the school – with the help of some neighbours
who gathered around – to arrest him, but he refused to
follow me. I then called the divisional police officer of the
Itele Police Station and he sent some policemen to the
school, who took everybody to the station.”
A female student also received similar treatment (Photo
credit: Punch)
The aforementioned DPO reportedly stated that
the proprietor did not take kindly to the fact that
the policeman had attempted to correct him.

The arrest of the principal, proprietor and
another teacher at the school, was confirmed by
the state police public relations officer, ASP
Abimbola Oyeyemi.
He stated: “They have been arrested and will be taken to
the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence
Department. The act is no longer a corrective measure; it is
a barbaric act and it will not be allowed in this 21st
century.”
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Recall that NAIJ.com previously reported that
violence erupted in Ibadan, following allegations
that a secondary school principal flogged his
student to death .
The turbulence began when a head teacher
allegedly flogged a student to death at IMG
secondary school, Oke Ado, Ibadan.
According to an eyewitness, the student was
flogged for arriving at school after classes had
begun for the day.

Saraki vs IGP: Return suspects to Kwara - Judiciary to Police

The Police has been asked by the chief registrar of the
Kwara State Judiciary, to bring back some criminal
suspects who had been transferred to Abuja on
Wednesday, May 16.
The suspects were accused of being involved in
murder and criminal conspiracies; and the
spokesperson for the Nigerian Police Force,
Jimoh Moshood, stated that they were
transferred to the nations’ capital for further
investigation into the matter, Vanguard reports. As

notes that Senate president Bukola
Saraki, however, alleged that the move was a
ploy by Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris
to frame him; and drew the attention of his
colleagues to the alleged plot at the Senate’s
plenary on Wednesday, May 16.
Saraki stated: “Investigation has been completed and
they were about to be under prosecution under the state law
on the advice of the DPP (Department of Public
Prosecution) and the (state) Ministry of Justice. All of a
sudden, the suspects were ordered to be transferred to
Abuja.”
Following the disclosure, Saraki subsequently led
nine senators to report the matter to President
Muhammadu Buhari.


Meanwhile,adegokblog .com previously reported that the
Police IG, Ibrahim Idis, responded to Dr Saraki’s
allegations .
Idris in a statement issued by Jimoh Moshood,
Police spokesman, said this was far from the
truth. He however admitted that some cultists in
Kwara state had confessed to killing some
persons and that according to Police procedure,
were transferred to Abuja.
He reminded the Senate president that
interfering in a police investigation remains a
crime; and said the Police will do its work,
regardless of those who may be involved.

Former president's son sentenced to 8 months in jail for stealing mobile phone

Frederick, the son of former president Frederick
Chiluba, has been convicted for stealing a mobile
phone
- A magistrate court sentenced him to eight months
imprisonment with hard labour
- Chiluba Junior, a former Zambia Air Force officer, is
facing one count of theft for allegedly stealing Brenda
Chisha's phone
The son of Zambia's second republic president
Frederick Chiluba was on Wednesday, May 16,
sentenced to eight months imprisonment with
hard labour for stealing a mobile phone by the
Lusaka magistrate court, Lusaka Times reports.
 gathered that the 34-year-old was
facing one count of theft for allegedly stealing
Brenda Chisha’s phone.
Frederick Chiluba Jr, a retired ZAF officer who
graduated in 2014, was convicted of stealing a
Samsung S7 edge, valued at K8,500 from Chisha,
on September 2, 2017 and traded it for drug in
Chibolya.


Chisha in her testimony, told magistrate Chabala
that she met Chiluba in Woodlands on September
2, 2017 and he asked to use her phone.
“I have known him for years and it was an S7 so I gave
him and he used it for two minutes then gave it back to me.
About 10 minutes later, he came and asked to use the phone
again and I gave him but he started moving further and
further away from where we were. I then asked Isaac, who
will be a witness to get my phone from him and that was
the last time I saw the phone.
“On Sunday he was caught and taken to Kabwata Police.
When I asked him where the phone was, he said he had
forgotten it somewhere. That same day, the uncle came and
assured me that they would buy me another phone,”
Chisha said.
Chisha suggested that she wanted to withdraw
the case as they were family friends but
magistrate Chabala ordered that she would
proceed to hear the witnesses.
Chiluba in his defence, denied stealing the phone
and insisted that he returned it to the
complainant. He recounted that on that day, he
was having drinks with Chisha at Mommas Pub
in Woodlands when he asked to use her phone to
call his uncle because his phone had gone off.
Lusaka Magistrate Nthandose Chabala delivering
judgement said she handed Chiluba Jr a custodial
sentence as a deterrence to him and other
would-be offenders.


In a previous report by NAIJ.com , the Rapid
Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos state police
command arrested a suspected phone thief, Femi
Solomon .
The suspect confessed that he has stolen over
1,200 from Lagos commuters since he joined
pickpocket gang three years ago, Daily Trust
reports.
Solomon was arrested on Thursday at Iyana
Oworo after stealing a Samsung phone from a
commuter.

2019: There’s plot to ‘knockout’ Buhari - Senator Marafa

Senator Kabir Marafa has alleged that there are plans
to technically 'knock out' President Buhari ahead of
2019 general elections
- President had on Monday, April 9, declared intention
to seek re-election in 2019
- Marafa also noted that there are some people within
the party's NWC who wanted to scuttle the recently
conducted congress in Zamfara state
Senator Kabiru Marafa representing Zamfara
central senatorial district at the upper legislative
chamber raised the alarm that plots are on to
technically knockout President Muhammadu
Buhari in the 2019 election.
Daily Trust reports that Marafa who is the
chairman of the Senate committee on petroleum
said in an interview that he was tear-gassed
during a parallel congress conducted by his camp
in Zamfara on Saturday, May 12.
adegokblog .com gathered that the senator said that the
state government mobilised heavily to prevent
an innocent citizen from carrying out his civic
responsibility
He said: "There was an incident in my local government.
The police I believe under the instruction of the state
government mobilised heavily to prevent an innocent citizen
from carrying out his civic responsibility, and that was me.
"Saturday, 12th of May was the date fixed by the APC for
local government congresses, and as a party man and a
politician, I drove to my local government headquarters
where the event was supposed to take place.
"On reaching there, I met massive security buildup
comprising mobile policemen and officials of the Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
"I was informed that the area commander was there, so I
tried to see him but I couldn't. There was an APC vehicle
stationed there, this time not APC political party but
Armored Personnel Carrier. Before I knew it, one of my
mobile policemen was manhandled. So I moved forward to
ask what the problem was and they threw teargas right in
front of me.
"In a nutshell, the mobile policeman was manhandled,
harassed and disarmed. My orderly was equally disarmed.
So I tried to ask what was the problem, they were just busy
throwing tear gas. But I thank God that they did not deter
me.
"The whole thing was just to stop me from organising or
conducting my own local government congress. But the
beauty of it is that the world has seen that the state
government lacks confidence of the people that is why there
was that massive police or security buildup. If you are
popular in politics, you don’t need any security agent to
help you organize your own affair.
He added that: "The state government has lost
popularity and touch with the people so it is afraid of
elections. What I simply asked was that let these congresses
be conducted following our guidelines. That is what I asked
for. What do the guidelines say?
"They show how the ward congresses should hold; how the
local government should go, and this is how that of the
state should go. So why the massive buildup of security? If
you had done the right thing, people will see it, people will
be the judges too. I think the whole essence was aimed at
either embarrassing me or intimidating me, but that is not
possible because they cannot stop me from defending my
right.
"Like in Zamfara now, we had parallel congresses - we now
have two sets of executives, one by the state government
and another by me. I have followed due process from
beginning up till where we are now. But the state
government didn’t because they have security apparatus at
their disposal.
"As far as I am concerned, there are some people within the
NWC that are desirous of scuttling the processes thereby
endangering the electoral success of the APC. They may rule
against me on the case I made to the appeal committee for
instance, but one thing I'm sure of is that the court will rule
in my favour.

Meanwhile,adegokblog .com had previously reported
that following the killings of Innocent citizens in
Zamfara state, a chieftain of the APC, Comrade
Timi Frank, on Wednesday, February 14, urged
that such an issue should not be swept under the
carpet.

We have rendered Governor Okorocha politically irrelevant - APC stakeholders in Imo declare

The APC stakeholders in Imo spoke through Theo
Elechi
- The stakeholders say they have overwhelming
evidences against Okorocha
- They claim that there is jubilation in Imo because
they have rescued the state
The stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Imo have declared that they have made
Governor Rochas Okorocha politically irrelevant
in their determination to rescue the party from
imminent collapse in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Theo
Ekechi, who spoke to newsmen after a closed-
door meeting with the APC national leadership
on Thursday, May 17, in Abuja, said the
stakeholders had overwhelming evidences
against Okorocha.
Ekechi said he had made it impossible for the
governor to get attention from any quarter in the
state and in the South-East region.

“There have been wide jubilation in Imo because we have
rescued the party from Governor Okorocha, we have made
it impossible for him to get help from anywhere.
“He cannot run to any political figure in the state because
none is with him, he cannot approach any clergyman in the
state.
“In his desperation, he ran to Sokoto, Daura and even to the
vice president, but help has refused to come,” he said.
Ekechi further said Rochas’s inaction was
responsible for the problems facing the party in
the state and the South-East generally.
In a petition submitted to the party’s national
leadership, the stakeholders detailed what they
described as the governor’s sins and appealed
for state of emergency in the state.
Ekechi called on the party’s national chairman to
bring to the notice of President Muhammadu
Buhari the crisis in Imo before it completely gets
out of hand.


He alleged that the state was being mis- managed
under Okorocha, adding that the governor was
running the state like a personal estate.
He also alleged that the governor was harassing
and intimidating perceived opponents in the
state.
Adegokblog .com earlier reported that the metropolitan
archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Diocese, Imo
state, Reverend Anthony JV Obinna , condemned
Governor Rochas Okorocha’s endorsement of his
son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, to succeed him in 2019.
This Day reports that the cleric at the weekend
during his speech on the celebration of the
Easter at the Maria Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri,
said Okorocha was planning to extend his tenure
to third term by trying to impose his son in-law
as governor of Imo state.
Adegokblog.com also reported that Reverend Geoffrey
Okorafor, the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of
Egbu, Imo, said that Governor Rochas Okorocha
had not only failed God, but has also
disappointed the people of the state.

60 percent of the people in West Africa are Nigerians - Dambazau

Abdulrahman Dambazau says the federal
government took the decision as part of efforts to
curtail clashes between farmers and herdsmen
- The effort includes the introduction of biometric
registration to monitor the movement of people,
goods and livestock into Nigeria
- Danbazau says 60 percent of the people in West
Africa are Nigerians
Abdulrahman Dambazau, Nigeria’s interior
minister, said on Thursday, May 17, in Abuja
that the federal government has introduced the
use of biometric registration to monitor the
movement of people, goods and livestock into the
country.
Danbazau spoke at a special town hall meeting to
address farmers/herdsmen crises reportedly
noting that Nigerians make up 60 percent of the
people in West Africa and thus has a high
migration level.

Daily Independent reports that Dambazau said
the new move was important as a result of the
ECOWAS free movement treaty which Nigeria is
a signatory.
Noting that a conference was recently organised
within the ECOWAS sub-region to review its
protocol on the free movement of goods, humans
and livestock, he was quoted as saying: “60 per
cent of the people in West Africa are Nigerians.
You need to know the number of Nigerians who
cross the borders to other countries to look for
livelihood.
“It is important for us to see how we can create a balance
between the implementation of the protocol and the
security of our borders.
“We have introduced the use of biometrics in other to
ensure that we take account of every person that comes
into Nigeria.”
The minister reportedly appealed to the media
and citizens to look at the crisis between farmers
and herdsmen as a national issue rather than
one to which sentiments should be attached.
Danbazau also noted that the Nigeria Police
Force was currently asking people to openly
declare their arms.


“We have given directive and this is why you see the police
going from place to place asking people to declare their
weapons.
“We have given this grace after which we will go out and
condone suspected areas, get the weapons out and even
prosecute those illegally handling them,” he said.
Adegokblog.com earlier reported that President
Muhammadu Buhari directed the military and
the police to put mechanism in place to ensure
that there is no reprisal attacks in Plateau state.
President Buhari, who was reacting to the killing
of over 20 persons by suspected herdsmen, said
the madness should not be allowed to continue.

Trump asked me twice the difference between HIV and HPV - Bill Gates

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, said on two occasions
he was asked by the United States president, Donald
Trump, if HIV and HPV were the same
- Gates said the first time the president asked him the
question was in December 2016 and the second time
was in March 2017
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder,
Bill Gate, has revealed that the United States
president, Donald Trump, didn't know the
difference between human immune deficiency
virus (HIV) and human papillomavirus (HPV).
Gates said that President Trump had asked him
twice if HIV and HPV were the same thing,
adding that the first time he asked was at Trump
Tower in December 2016 and the second time
was in March 2017, USA Today reports.
adegokblog .com notes that the Microsoft founder said:
"Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference
between HIV and HPV. So, I was able to explain that those
are rarely confused with each other."


He also described a time he saw the president
speaking with his 22-year-old daughter, Jennifer
Gates.
Gates said: "And then, like 20 minutes later, he flew in in
a helicopter to the same place. So, clearly he had been
driven away, but he wanted to make a grand entrance in a
helicopter. When I first talked to him, it was actually kind
of scary how much he knew about my daughter's
appearance. Melinda didn't like that too well."
He also said Donald Trump had asked him if
vaccines were bad for consumption, that he was
exploring forming a commission to look into the
"ill effects of vaccines".
Gates added: "I said, 'No, that's a dead end. That would
be a bad thing. Don't do that."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, HIV is different from HPV. The virus
is the most common STD. It has infected 79
million Americans. In most cases, people with
HPV do not have health problems, but the virus
can cause cancer.


Meanwhile, adegokblog .com previously reported that the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would pay off
Nigeria’s $76 million debt to Japan, over a 20-
year period, beginning in 2018.
The money was borrowed from the Asian
country in 2014, to be used to tackle the polio
disease.
As a result of the loan, Nigeria recorded no new
case of the disease in 2017; a major improvement
from 2012 when the country had over half of all
polio cases worldwide.
Gates had also acknowledged the significant
strides made towards eradicating the disease
globally.

N269.79bn generated by FG as VAT in first quarter of 2018 - NBS

The federal government generated the sum of
N269.79 billion as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first
quarter of 2018
- This was revealed on Thursday, May 17 by the
National Bureau of Statistics
- The VAT generated in the first quarter of 2018 was
higher than what was generated in the fourth quarter
of 2017, which was N254.10 billion
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said
that the federal government generated the sum
of N269.79 billion as Value Added Tax (VAT) in
Q1 2018 as against N254.10 billion generated in
Q4 2017 and N221.38 billion in Q1 2017.
This was contained in its sectoral distribution of
VAT data for Q1 2018 released on Thursday, May
17, in which it said the figure represents 6.17
percent increase Quarter-on-Quarter and 21.87%
increase Year-on-Year.
NAIJ.com notes that other manufacturing, the
bureau said generated the highest amount of
VAT with N30.14bn generated and closely
followed by professional services and
commercial and trading both generating
N16.58bn and N14.93bn respectively.


Mining was said to have generated the least,
followed by pharmaceutical, soaps and toiletries
and textile and garment industry with N46.25m ,
N243.44m and N285.43m generated respectively.
The reported stated that out of the total amount
generated in Q1 2018, N121.40bn was generated
as non-import VAT locally, while N98.40bn was
generated as non-import VAT for foreign, adding
that the balance of N50.00 billion was generated
as NCS-Import VAT.


Meanwhile, adegokblog .com previously reported that
Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, disclosed that
between January and October 2017, Nigeria
generated N797.51 billion into the federation
account , from Value Added Tax (VAT).
The minister made the revelation on Tuesday,
October 31, in Abuja, while releasing details of
the 2017 VAT collection.