Bus driver commits suicide over Police Extortion

commercial bus driver in Kaduna has committed suicide, left a note in which he said he decided to end his life over alleged police extortion.
The deceased, identified as 30-year-old Sunday Igwe, took insecticide when he could not bear incessant police arrest and extortions, his suicide note revealed. In his premortal note Mr. Sunday wrote he had been hired as a commercial bus driver by a man Henry.
The note further revealed that the police arrested Mr. Sunday on several occasions over alleged traffic offences but each time he was arrested, police demanded money from him.
A driver who would not want his name to be disclosed said before the deceased ended his life on Sunday, policemen in Sabon Tasha arrested him and detained his bus. They requested for N2, 000 from him to release the bus which he paid. Another group of policemen arrested him at Taiwo road over wrong parking two hours later and demanded for N2,000.
"He could not afford the money the policemen demand and left to inform the bus owner. The owner of the bus told him not to worry as they still stand a chance to collect the bus on Monday but he proceeded to his room located at No 27 school road Nasarawa in Kaduna South Local government, wrote the shocking note and took a local liquid insecticide popularly called Ota pia-pia that led to his death."
A photocopy of the suicide note :

"Please Ozo, tell my Oga Henry to go and look out for his bus at the Police station. Tell him that am sorry for everything I have cost him let him forgive me. It is not my forth (fault). That is the way things should go. Let them look for my conductor so that they can go together to biel (bail) his bus and let them tell the police people what happened.
"After crying explend (explaining) everything to them but all their (they) need is money and I don't have it let them come and take my cops and relies (release) someone bus for him. Anyway I have nothing against them and let them read this too. Thanks you Oga Henry bye."
Kaura Abdullahi, the Chairman of Nasarawa branch, Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) told the newsmen that his Financial Secretary informed him on Sunday that one of their drivers was arrested by the police at Command Junction and collected N2,000 from him over wrong parking.
It has been further learnt that Mr. Sunday stayed for years without a job before he was employed as a bus driver.
His body was deposited at Dr. Gwamna Awan General Hospital and hospital officials could not speak to our correspondent but said Sunday was Brought-In-Dead (BID).
Aminu Lawan, Kaduna police spokesman, commented on this matter, told it is currently being investigated.
"From what we have gathered, he was arrested because of road obstruction and the policemen demanded him to produce his papers and drivers license which he said he will bring. He left and did not return. We have the letter they said he wrote and its only investigation that will revealed whether he was the one that wrote it," the spokesman said.
On the allegation that the police received money from him while another group demanded N2,000 Lawan said they will investigate and ensure that culprits are brought to book.

Jealous Gf bathes BF with hot water on his birthday

A jealous female student of the Osun State Polytechnic, simply identified as Yetunde has been arrested by the police for pouring hot water on her boyfriend, Niyi Adelana shortly after his birthday.
The 19 year-old lady, Yetunde of Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) department was said to have poured hot water on Niyi because he invited other girls and failed to give her adequate attention during the birthday party held at Miracle Hall, BHS area in Iree.
Niyi, a Higher National Diploma (HND II) student of Computer Science department in the institution whose body was mutilated was rushed to the General hospital, Iree for medical treatment and later transferred to an undisclosed hospital in Ikirun town.
It was gathered that Niyi who celebrated his birthday last Saturday was said to have invited some of his friends mostly ladies to his birthday party, a situation that did not go down well with his girlfriend, Yetunde.
However, when the party ended, Niyi made attempt to pacify his lover (Yetunde) but the angry girl was furious and eventually poured boiled water on him. The agonized boy screamed and this drew the attention of other students in the hostel to the scene.
The incident took another unfortunate dimension as Niyi's ailing father; Pa Adelana who was receiving medical treatment in a hospital in Abeokuta, Ogun State gave up the ghost immediately he received the news that his son was bathed with hot water.
The Police Public Relation Officer for Osun State Police Command, DSP Folasade Odoro confirmed the incident in a chat with Daily Trust correspondent.
She noted that investigation is still going on and that after diligent investigation; the girl will be charged to court.
When contacted for reaction, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Tope Abiola said that the incident took place outside the school premises and that the management could not do anything about it. He said "It's very unfortunate and we sympathize with the
victim and his parents. It's a criminal act and very unfortunate".

Dillish from Namibia wins Big Brother The Chase!

In what came off as a huge surprise to many fans across the continent especially to the Nigerians as Melvin and Beverly were evicted in the finale of the show as well as Cleo representing Zambia ,and Elikem
representing Ghana. Yes we're talking, Big Brother Africa The Chase finale.

It will come as shock to many viewers in West Africa who felt Melvin, Beverly & Elikem had a great shot of claiming the grand prize. Beverly had made a huge name for herself for the viewers as her steamy relationship with South Africa's Angelo gathered a lot of attention across the continent as well as hate.

However Dilish Matthews walks away with 300,000 USD as the cash prize and will undoubtedly become a household name for years to come as she is the winner of this year's Big Brother Africa.

After expressing her desires to be the first woman to win the Big Brother grand prize since Zambia's Cherise did so seven seasons ago, Dillish has done it for all of Africa's women!

The gorgeous Namibian started her Chase race as the proverbial underdog and was labeled everything from lazy to a pampered princess. As the Chase rolled on however, Dillish quickly emerged as a very strong contender for the Chase title and won her fellow Housemates and Africa over, with her quirky, accented alter ego, aptly titled Princess Dillish.

The Namibian made sure to stay away from trouble and coasted through the Chase by taking her place behind the scenes. While her fellow Housemates got themselves into hot water, fighting and gossiping their way to what they hoped was the top of the mountain, Dillish remained grounded and maintained cordial relations with her fellow Housemates.

The only time the Namibian got herself in a spot of trouble was when she and her good friend, Nigeria's Melvin, had a disagreement after she told her fellow Housemates about a relationship he was involved in, which was less than stellar. Dillish and Cleo proved to all and sundry that women are indeed a force of nature. The two hotties pipped their male counterparts, Elikem and Melvin to the Top 2 while, as well as their close friend Beverly.

Before the big news was delivered, Pebbles the fish surprised all and sundry with one last speech. "On behalf of myself and the other fish, I would like to congratulate you on your amazing feat. You are the specialest ladies in Africa," Pebbles said.

However, one thing is clear! Tonight is Dillish's night and oh whata moment it was! As soon as the Namibian was announced the winner of the Chase, the Namibian broke down in a heap of tears at the realisation that she has a cool USD 300 000 sitting in her bank account. Yes Africa. She came, she saw and she conquered. In heels even! Congratulations to Delicious Dillish!

In the final minutes, Beverly was the first to get evicted, followed by Melvin, then Elikem and to the surprise of many, Cleo and Dilish were shocked to be in the final 2. The two Nigerians received the lowest votes after an intense round of voting.

In the final moment, Cleo was announced as evicted and automatically, Dilish became the winner of the 8th edition Big Brother Africa.

Boy who hid inside ARIK aircraft wheel thought the plane was going to America

Teen stowaway, Daniel Ihekina, who was arrested at the Lagos Airport after flying in the tyre hole of an Arik plane from Benin to Lagos on Saturday morning, thought he was on a US-bound flight.

A source at the Benin Airport who disclosed this said the boy's parents had already departed for Lagos in search of the stowaway.

The airport source, who did not want his name in print said, "From what we heard, the boy said he was being maltreated and tried to escape from his parents. He thought he was on his way to the US.

"The parents have travelled to Lagos by road, to get him back."

Meanwhile, investigations conducted by one of our correspondents in Lagos revealed that the boy had been handed over to the operatives of the State Security Services for further investigation.

The General Manager, Corporate Communications, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Mr. Yakubu Dati, who also confirmed the development, said the aviation security personnel of the agency had handed over the young voyager to the men of the SSS for extensive investigation.

Dati said, "The residential address the boy gave to us was traced to a church in Benin by our airport manager and his team. So, there is need to hand over the teenager to the SSS who are experts in such investigations. They will carry out further investigation on the matter."

The FAAN spokesman said the nature and circumstances surrounding the crime informed the agency decision to hand over the stowaway to the SSS operatives.

Meanwhile, following the Benin Airport incident, FAAN has adopted the 'risk amelioration processes to safeguard flight operations' at all its 22 airports across  the country.

Dati stressed that the agency had tightened its risk amelioration procedure to ensure that similar incident did not occur again.

He also said the agency had prioritised the perimeter fencing of all the 22 airports in the country.

"In the meantime, we have adopted risk amelioration processes to safeguard flight operations. As a result of this incident in Benin, we have further tightened our risk amelioration procedure to ensure that a similar incident does not occur," he  said.

However, FAAN has also continued to trade blame with Arik Air over the Benin incident.

The agency, in a statement on Sunday, said it read with "great dismay the statement released by Arik Airlines about the stowaway found on board Arik's flight 544 from Benin to Lagos on Saturday 24 August, 2013."
Dati said FAAN was "unfairly indicted" while the airline took no responsibility whatsoever for such a "serious security breach."

FAAN said its preliminary investigation had revealed that Arik did not give accurate account of the Benin Airport incident.

Giving the accounts of its preliminary findings, FAAN said, "Our investigations reveal that a passenger on board the flight called the attention of the cabin crew while the aircraft was waiting to take off at the threshold of the runway, to the effect that they had seen a young boy walk under the aircraft and had not seen him re-appear on the other side."

"The cabin crew in turn informed the pilots in the cockpit about this. The pilots called the control tower and asked them to request FAAN to do a sweep of the area after their departure, opting to carry on with their flight despite the report."

"Upon the arrival of the aircraft in Lagos, we were informed that there had been a stowaway found alive alighting from the wheel well of the aircraft. While FAAN takes this security breach extremely seriously, we deem Arik's attempt at indicting and smearing FAAN as irresponsible. Safety and security breaches occur when all the checks in the system are beaten.  Given that security is a responsibility for all players in this industry, a critical last opportunity to detect and prevent this stowaway was offered and had the airline taken the information by passengers as seriously as they should have, this incident would have been avoided."

Transfer record:Real Madrid land Bale with £86 MILLION

Gareth Bale is free to join Real Madrid after Tottenham agreed a world record £86million deal with the Spanish giants on Sunday night.



Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy signed off the staggering move for the PFA Player of the Year following talks with directors in the boardroom at White Hart Lane. Bale's transfer to Real beats the previous world record of £80m which Real paid to Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.

Levy returned from talks in Madrid with Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett and Tottenham director of football Franco Baldini to watch his club's 1-0 victory over Swansea City after agreeing the deal.


Bale's transfer to Real beats the previous world record of £80m which the Spanish giants paid to Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.

Levy returned from talks in Madrid with Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett and Tottenham director of football Franco Baldini to watch his club's 1-0 victory over Swansea City after agreeing the deal.

It is understood that the decision to travel to Madrid to meet Perez — who is known to revel in these situations — was part of a tactic designed to get the highest possible price.

The fee represents an extraordinary return on the £7m Spurs paid Southampton six years ago and will only add to Levy's reputation as the toughest negotiator in the game.

It also brings to an end one of the most protracted transfer sagas in the history of the game following a summer of talks.