FATHER FLOGS HIS 14MONTHS OLD BABY

Shocking: Father lacerates back of 14-month-old baby

What would push a man into an action that will inflict severe pain or even endanger the life of his own child?  Which sensible or a normal father will readily take up a whip to flog a child that is only 14 months old? A child that can barely talk? These are some of the questions now begging for answers following the petition of a housewife who brought her husband before the Bauchi State Shariah Commission.
Vanguard Metro, VM, gathered that Huwaila Abdulahi, 22, who has been separated from her husband, is asking the Commission to investigate and unravel the mystery behind the strange marks all over the back of her 14 months old daughter. Although the estranged housewife is not seeking for a divorce, she is demanding for justice for her innocent baby as the 14 marks were not there when the father sent one Ibrahim to bring the little girl to spend some time with him.
The man, identified as Ibrahim Haladu, is being accused of carrying out a ritual on his child. He has been invited by the Commission to explain the strange marks on his daughter’s back. But he is insisting  that he only flogged his daughter with the cord of his handset charger because she was disturbing him from watching his favourite satellite television programme. He has also denied that the marks on his daughter’s back were for ritual purposes.
In spite of his statement, many people who saw the strange marks on the child were not convinced of his testimony as they  believed they were carefully incised.

*The injury marks on her back

In his account of the incident, Ibrahim said: “I was watching an Arab channel but she would not let me be with her cries. I was enjoying the programme, but her cries kept distracting me. I was provoked so I brought out my charger phone wire and flogged her. My first wife Aisha who heard her cries came out and was shouting at me to stop. She was even angry and rebuked me for beating her like that. I regret my action.
The marks on my daughter’s body is not  for ritual purposes as wrongly insinuated by some people. I can never use my child for ritual. It is unfortunate that my wife had to drag me to the Sharia Commission because she has a grouse against me. We have been having problems with her, but that is between us. Why should I go to the extent of using my child for ritual? I only beat her as a father. I don’t belong to any cult or secret society”.
Some residents of the Tirwun, a suburb of Bauchi, where Ibrahim allegedly carried out the beating  of his baby were left in shock on seeing Sahura with the 14 strange marks on her back. They called for thorough investigation into the case so as to unravel the motive behind his action.
But his estranged wife Huwaila, the mother of the little girl, is still sceptical over her husband’s explanations. She is pleading with the commission to thoroughly investigate the matter. VM learnt that the couple had not been living  together due to some marital problems.
Ibrahim moved to his house in Tirwin with his first wife, Aisha leaving his second wife, Huweila with his parents. Hajiya Huwaila told VM that  her husband occasionally comes to pick Sahura to spend some time with him since they were not living together. According to her: “My husband, his first wife and I lived with his parents at Bakin Kura before he moved with his first wife to Tirwun, leaving me and my daughter Sahura behind.
But he occasionally comes to take the baby to spend some time with him in his new place and bring her back. One day he sent one Ibrahim to come and bring Sahura; this was around one in the afternoon. But when they brought back my daughter, I noticed something unusual about her because she kept crying and I wondered what was wrong with her.
When I checked her body, I saw some strange marks all over her back”. Huwaila said she quickly rushed to the Bauchi State Shari’ah Commission to lodge a complaint after she confronted her husband who claimed he only flogged Sahura because she was disturbing him with her cries.
The permanent Commissioner II of the State Shari’ah Commission, Jibril Hassan, confirmed that Huwaila lodged a complaint prompting the commission to summon the husband. Hassan added  that the commission was investigating the issue and would charge the father of the girl to court at the appropriate time. He also said that if found guilty of the accusations leveled against him, the accused would be charged to court.

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Spain beat Nigeria 3-0

Nigeria’s Mikel Obi (left) is marked by Spain’s Sergio Busquets during their FIFA Confederations Cup match, at the Castelao Stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil on Sunday

Jordi Alba’s brace and Fernando Torres’ header saw Spain beat Nigeria 3-0 to top Group B into the semi-finals of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. In the other match of the group, Abel Hernandez scored half of the goals as Uruguay cruised to victory an 8-0 win over a hapless Tahiti team.

Spain expectedly took the game to Nigeria at kick-off and within three minutes Iniesta fed Alba, who beat a couple of weak tackles from four Nigerian defenders in a sweep before coolly finishing into the bottom corner afterwards. But soon after the goal, the Super Eagles gained confidence and the game became balanced. And with the turn of events they attacked the Spaniards time and time again but all works done from the back through the midfield ended with very poor finishing in their opponents’ box with Brown Ideye and Mohammed Gambo the major culprit. Gambo missed from close range with Valdes helpless in goal for Spain at the 74th minute. But despite the misses, Mikel Obi remained the leader, as with the previous matches, as he led and fell back to defend in a free role. Vincent Enyeama in goal proved he could be depended on any time Nigeria faced a major world power.

At the break, Spain had 54 per cent of the ball against Nigeria, completing 86 per cent of their passes. Shots on target for Nigeria were 13(3) and 23(9) for Spain. At the end of the game ball possession stood at 42 per cent for Nigeria and 65 per cent for the world and European champions in a reflection of the proceedings.

Hernandez’s goal for Uruguay which was scored after 1 min 19 seconds now stands as the fastest-ever at the Confederations Cup. He completed his hat-trick on the stroke of half-time and then scored his fourth of the game from the spot in the second half. Uruguay were first awarded a penalty after Tahiti’s Nicolas Vallar fouled Matias Aguirregaray. Gilbert Meriel saved  Aguirregaray’s penalty diving low to his left. His heroic was well applauded in spite of the heavy goal deficit against his country. Luis Suarez who came off the bench joined the goals-party, twisting and turning past a tired looking Henri Caroine and slotting in with his left foot.

Uruguay’s Andres Scotti became the first player to receive his marching orders in Brazil after two yellow cards.

Brazil will take on Uruguay in the semi-finals on Wednesday while Spain face Italy in a repeat of last year’s Euro final match on Thursday.

Police trying to cover up student’s shooting –Lawyer

Babalola

A lawyer, Mr. Kolawole Olaniregun, has accused the Lagos State Police Command and the management of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe, of trying to cover up the shooting of a student, Jamiu Babalola, in the school.

Olaniregun, who represents Babalola, said he was surprised that instead of naming the policeman responsible for the shooting and prosecuting him, the police had been trying to cover up the act.

Babalola, a 200 level student of the institution, was shot on Monday during a protest at the college.

Olaniregun said, “I have spoken with the DPO of Epe Division of the Nigeria Police, but he has not been forthcoming about the identity of the policeman responsible. He had only told me that investigation is going on.”

Olaniregun said the students were appealing to the college to allow those who had made half-payment to write the first semester examination.

He said, “The school authority said they would refuse the students entry into the examination halls unless they paid in full. The students protested, and the school authorities invited the police to quell the protest.

“Policemen were deployed in the scene of the protest. A yet-to-be-identified policeman, shot at the student. The bullet hit Jamiu on the leg. He is currently in a critical condition at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital.”

Babalola, 20, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday on the hospital bed, said he was unhappy that the management denied that the incident happened.

 He said, “The bullet pierced through my left thigh and passed into my right thigh. Though I have been attended to medically, there are still fragments of bullet in my legs.

“I am not happy that the management of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education denied that the incident happened.”

The spokesman for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, said, “From preliminary findings, we are not sure whether the shot was fired by the police or the students. But the police have visited the wounded student in the hospital, and he said he didn’t know who shot him.

“Meanwhile, we have arrested all the policemen on duty on that day; they are in detention. Their rifles have been collected and submitted for ballistic examination. We are not protecting anybody. If any policeman is found culpable, he will face the music.”

OAU explains controversy over undergraduate’s baby

The baby

Authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, say a 400-level engineering student, Miss Oyinlola Rotimi,  did not attempt to flush her newborn baby boy down the toilet at Moremi Hall on Wednesday.

Rotimi had caused commotion when she was seen in the toilet with the baby.

But a statement by the Head, Public Relations Unit, OAU, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, on Thursday, said Rotimi did not attempt to kill her baby, whom he said was rescued from the water closet of the toilet.

Olanrewaju said the father of the baby is a “400 level Student of Mechanical Engineering, OAU, Ile-Ife.”

He said an investigation into the incident showed that Rotimi had no intention to kill her baby, adding that she was inexperienced about labour.

The statement read, “The truth of the matter is that, there was a delivery of a baby boy by an inexperienced mother who, in her naivety, thought she was pressed by call of nature while she was actually in labour pains.

“Prior to the appearance of the baby, the young, inexperienced mother had discovered that she was bleeding and went to the toilet only to observe that something expelled into the water closet.

“It was at that juncture that she screamed and shouted for help when her friend, Miss Satope Oladayo, heard her voice and traced her to the toilet from their room. It was when Satope entered the toilet and found the baby that she (Satope) called an elderly cleaner for assistance because the two of them were novices in childbearing.

“As of now, Rotimi’s mother is with her and she has started breastfeeding her baby.

“Upon interaction, in the presence of the Matron, Mrs. M.G. Oyedele, Oyin stated that prior to the delivery, she was passing stool and had visited toilet several times but the last time she went around 7am, she could not describe how she was feeling.”

Mikel scores as Uruguay beat Nigeria

June 21, 2013 by Pius Ayinor

Mikel scores as Uruguay beat Nigeria

Mikel Obi rarely scores but on a night that he won his 50th cap for Nigeria he scored the goal that had given the Super Eagles hope in the game against Uruguay in the FIFA Confederations Cup holding in Brazil. The goal from the Chelsea star in the 37th minute of the Group B game was a response to the opener by Diego Lugano who hit the first goal of the game with a tap-in for the South Americans in the 19th minute.

Mikel whose last goal for Chelsea was in January 2007 off a cup game, was the heart of the team in a match he scored the fourth for his country. Before the quality goal in Salvador, the midfielder last scored for the country in Calabar in October 2012. But if Mikel’s goal was superb, Diego Forlan’s hit was priceless as the Uruguayan put his country ahead in the 51st minute on the night he won his 100th cap. That goal became the difference between both countries with the South Americans gaining the better chance of reaching the semi-finals. They will play against the competition underdogs Tahiti on Sunday while the Eagles have the uphill task of beating world champions Spain to have any possible chance to qualify. All the Uruguayans need is to beat Tahiti more than the 6-1 handed them by Nigeria.

Before the loss in Salvador, the Eagles had gone unbeaten in 18 games. The Uruguay are now unbeaten in 12 competitive matches against African countries with eight wins and four draws. Uruguay and Nigeria met for the first time in a competitive match with the Confederations Cup game.

In the first match of the night, Spain won by a landslide as expected but tiny Tahiti emerged with their reputation enhanced and their dignity intact despite their 10-0 loss to the world and European champions.

Fernando Torres scored four times, and missed a penalty, David Villa hit three, David Silva two and Juan Mata one as Spain scored double figures for the third time in their history. The outcome of one of the most unlikely matches ever to take place in a senior FIFA competition was never in doubt and even Tahiti coach Eddy Etaeta said before the game his side’s chances of winning were “quite impossible”.

Tahiti’s first-ever meeting with European opposition was more of an occasion and even though the Pacific Islanders lost they will always remember the day they played the world champions at the revered Maracana Stadium.