NIGERIAN FRAUDSTER IMPERSONATING US SOLDIER IN AFGHANISTAN REMANDED

The Lagos High Court, Igbosere, on Tuesday, remanded suspected fraudster, Adagun Moshood Olalekan, in Ikoyi prison for posing as a United States soldier on peace-keeping mission in Afghanistan.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned him before Justice O. A Taiwo, on a 17-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents.
Olalekan pleaded not guilty to the charge.
After his plea was taken, the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that the prosecution had its first witness in court and was ready to commence trial.
Defence counsel, L.O. Balogun, however, called the attention of the court to the bail application already filed by the accused, dated April 14, which Oyedepo said was only served in court.
Justice O.A. Taiwo then adjourned the case till May 15 and 16 for trial and ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison.
Olalekan’s arrest followed a complaint by the United States Department of Homeland Security, alleging that the accused had been impersonating one Lieutenant-Colonel Cabin Cayce Webb, an American soldier on special duties in Afghanistan.
Part of the charge against Olalekan reads: “Adagun Moshood Olalekan (a.k.a Lieutenant-Colonel Cadin Cayce Webb) on or about 6th day of October, 2013, in Lagos, within the Lagos Judicial Division with intent to defraud obtained the sum $800  on false pretence from Diana Snow by falsely representing to her that you are one Lieutenant-Colonel Cadin Cayce Webb, whose representation you know to be false.”

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MY HUSBAND WANTS TO KILL ME, JUST TWO MONTHS AFTER WEDDING

Dr. Pamela Iwudiaba, a staff of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakiliki, Ebonyi State has dragged her estranged husband, Dr. Ndudim Chukwu Obeka to court over his threats to kill her.
She also dragged along the commissioner of police in Ebonyi State for allegedly infringing upon her fundamental rights and is asking for an injunction restraining the husband from further threatening her, and the court to order him to pay the sum of N50,000,000 (fifty million) to her as damages and compensation for infringement on her right to dignity of person.
In a suit, which she filed at the Federal High Court sitting in Abakiliki, Pamela claimed that she was arrested and detained by the police on the instance of her husband over matrimonial matters and while at the police headquarters, Abakiliki, she was subjected to all sorts of inhuman and degrading treatment, adding that the police refused to allow her change her sanitary pad, leaving her body to be soaked with blood.
According to her, she discovered after their wedding that her husband was already married and had a child. Barely 2 months into the marriage, her husband began to taunt and insult her that she’d not gotten pregnant.
One night, he started insulting her that she was infertile and she suggested they go for fertility test, he then pounced on her and began to strangle her to the point she became unconscious.
Speaking to journalists on her plight, she said she just returned from a medical treatment in London after her husband strangled her, insisting that her life is now in constant danger owing to threats from some strange faces suspected to be working for her husband.
“I feel so unsafe here every day, strange faces are following me around. It took the intervention of the First Lady of Ebonyi State, before he allowed me to collect my personal effects. I plead with concerned Nigerians to come to my aid so that I will be transferred to another state before they kill me”, she said.
She added that the marriage is now in the process of annulment for deceit and misrepresentation.

ULTIMATE WARRIOR DIED FROM HEART DISEASE: AUTOPSY

Authorities in Phoenix say former pro wrestler The Ultimate Warrior died of cardiovascular disease.

Maricopa County spokeswoman Cari Gerchick says that's the finding from an autopsy conducted Thursday by the county Medical Examiner's Office. Results were released Monday.

The 54-year-old wrestler's given name was James Hellwig. He collapsed April 8 while walking with his wife to their car at a Scottsdale hotel and was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Scottsdale police have said there were no signs of foul play.

The Ultimate Warrior was one of pro wrestling's biggest stars in the late 1980s.

ATTACKERS ABDUCT 200 SCHOOL GIRLS

Heavy security in the north-eastern Nigeria has not stopped the attack

Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say.

Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel's teenage residents on to lorries.
Parents told the BBC's Hausa service that at least 200 girls had been abducted. The attackers are thought to be from the Islamist group, Boko Haram.
On Monday, bombings blamed on the group killed more than 70 people in Abuja.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been waging an armed campaign for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

'Soldiers overpowered'

The attack on the hostel in Chibok was confirmed by police, although they had no confirmation of the abductions.

Residents in the area reported hearing explosions followed by gunfire last night, said BBC reporter Mohammed Kabir Mohammed in the capital, Abuja.
 

"Many girls were abducted by the rampaging gunmen who stormed the school in a convoy of vehicles," the AFP news agency quotes Emmanuel Sam, an education official in Chibok, as saying.

Another witness, who requested anonymity, told AFP that gunmen overpowered soldiers who had been deployed to provide extra security ahead of annual exams.

A student, who did not wish to be named and managed to escape, told the BBC they were sleeping when armed men burst into their hostel and asked to be shown the school's store.

The schoolgirl said the men loaded the food items in the store into a truck and ordered some of the girls to climb in.

The other girls were packed into a bus and two other trucks, one carrying sacks of food and the other petrol.

The girl said the convoy had passed about three villages when the truck she was in developed a fault and was forced to slow down.

The attackers are thought to be from the Islamic group, Boko Haram

 

 

 

This gave her and about 10 to 15 other girls the opportunity to jump off and escape into the bush.

Nigerian media reported that two members of the security forces had been killed, and residents said 170 houses were burnt down during the attack.

Boko Haram emerged as a critic of Western-style education, and its militants frequently target schools and educational institutions.

This year, the group's fighters have killed more than 1,500 civilians in three states in north-east Nigeria, which are currently under emergency rule.

The government recently said that Boko Haram's activities were confined to that part of the country.

However, Monday's bombings in Abuja prompted renewed fears that the militants were extending their campaign to the capital.