Outrageous murder crime : Concubine set rival, lover, children ablaze in Osun:

 A man, said to be one of the lovers of a married woman, has set ablaze the woman, his rival and three of the woman’s children in Ede, Osun State.

Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that the suspect, whose identity had yet to be made public, stormed the house of the woman, Hadijat Adegoke, and found another lover, Lawal Munirudeen, there.

Enraged by this, he was said to have bought some petrol and allegedly poured it inside the room where the lovers were said to have slept and set everybody inside the room ablaze, apart from one if the woman’s children, who was not asleep as of the time of attack.

Out of the four kids, only 12-year-old Ishwat escaped unhurt.

Fawas (13),  Sodiq (eight), and Fathia (six), who live with their mother in her newly built house, were seriously burnt.

Hadijat and Lawal were alleged to have died at the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, where they were rushed to while the three kids are said to be responding to treatment at the Muslim Hospital, Ede, where doctors were said to be  battling to safe their lives.

The woman was said to have been separated from her husband and moved to the new house, believed to have been built for her by some of her friends.

Head, Public Relations and Protocol of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in the state, Mr. Wale Folarin, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with our correspondent.

PUNCH. 

'I only threatened my wife with hot water' -Man tells court

A 40-year-old trader, Salau Kehinde, has admitted beating up his wife, Mrs. Salau Shakirat Olaide, over sex, but denied planning to pour hot water on her.

Kehinde, of 9, Fatai Oloko Street, Haruna, Ikorodu, was dragged by his wife to a customary court sitting in Ikorodu, Thursday, for dissolution of their marriage.

He agreed that he used to beat Olaide up whenever she denied him of sex and if she came home late from her trading business, but that he “merely boiled the water so he could threaten her with it.”

“I had no intention of bathing her in the water,” he told the court.

Kehinde continued, “She refused to cook for me when she was pregnant. She also said I should look for another wife.”

Speaking earlier, his 32-year-old wife, Olaide, of 1, Azeez Aremu Close, Ibeshe, Ikorodu, told the court that they got married 10 years ago and had two children together, but had been living separately for over two years now.

“He always refused to give me money and this made us quarrel and fight a lot,” she said. “I had to leave him when he kept threatening to pour hot water on me.”

“His friend advised him to beat me up and he became fond of beating me. He would beat me whenever I returned from work, he would beat me when I told him I was too tired to have sex, or for any flimsy excuse.”

She added that Kehinde also lacked respect for her family.

When the court’s president, Olu Adebiyi, asked her what she wanted, Olaide replied: “I want this court to dissolve our marriage and grant me custody of our children.”

Kehinde, however, promised to stop beating or threatening her and said he was willing to take her back if she wants to stay with him.

The court adjourned the matter to September 13, for possible reconciliations 

The Nation. 

Check out how a nurse was buried in Ghana (photos)

See how a nurse was buried last week in Ghana . This is a coffin by the way. Creative???

See what this Soldier did when he caught his wife cheating with her lover.

A Cameroonian solider paraded his wife and her lover all of the street naked . This photo went viral on social media. This is crazy!!! Is this right guys???

Shocking brutality : ISIS Militants execute and crucify some men (Graphic photos)

This is just so wicked,  see some photos that show how ISIS terminate their 'enemies'. Quite sad to see...

Check out this very touching storyline of a young lady near death experience.

Check this out guys : Very sad story I saw on social media  and decided to share. Don't know if this is just a story but things like this truly happens. Be careful ladies especially towards strangers. Read more details below:

If you have a daughter make sure she READS THIS
Please share with every youth you know,  please!

My name is chinwe, I am 26 years old, I never graduated from the
university, simply coz I was
stupid and careless, on my 24th
birthday, I received a nice gift, it
was a blackberry phone, I always
wanted one, it was like a right of
passage, my ex-boyfriend got it for
me, he was a student like me, didn’t
have a job, and I really never cared
to ask as he could afford it, my
concern at that point was, yes I had
finally arrived, other girls in my
hostel had blackberries and I would
always get pissed when I heard sounds
of pings and messages coming into
their phones at all hours and I
would stare at my nokia phone and
wish I could throw it away, but half
bread they say is better than none, so
I hoped and even fasted to get a
blackberry phone, looking back now,
if I had the opportunity, I’d have a
landline with no internet activity
what so ever, anyway I got the
blackberry phone and even got free
BIS subscription, at that moment my
life was complete, no more going to
the cyber cafes to check my emails, my
face-book or twitter, I had it all at
my finger tips, life indeed was
complete, or so I thought.

Anyway, I became addicted to my
blackberry and also my social media
applications, and since I had constant
access, I quickly gained enough
followers, and especially guys, mostly
because I had a lot of erotic pictures
on my timeline, I was popular,
finally I felt I was the main girl,
everyone wanted to follow me, I
didn’t care if it was virtual, it felt
good, checking out my profile and
having well over 8,000 followers,
more than half of which were guys,
but one particular guy caught my
attention, till this day I don’t know
what made him stand out, but we got
chatty, he sent me direct messages
and I replied, he was quiet a
gentleman , and I can’t remember
him ever asking for a nude picture
unlike the rest of them, so this made
me comfortable with him, his name
was tobi, he said he was a doctor , I
didn’t have any cause to doubt him,
he had extensive knowledge and even
gave me some medical advice from
time to time, we eventually moved
from twitter to blackberry chat, we
chatted all the time, I got so
comfortable with him, I gave him my
number, and that would come to be
the biggest mistake I ever made.
Tobi called me every day, some days
he called more than once, at night he
would call and I would lay on my bed
and have phone sex with him, his
voice was so soothing, he made me do
things I never thought possible, he
had gained so much access into my
head, I realized later I had done
some very sick and twisted things
just to please him.

 I would take nude pictures of myself, I would send him videos of me touching myself in private, and send him voice notes of me making moaning sounds and simulating orgasms, and all this
while we had not met, not face to face
at least, eventually I played into his
hands.

 I began pestering to meet him
in person, at this point I had lost my
mind, I assumed I was in-love with
him, and when my boyfriend at the
time broke up with me, I really
welcomed it, for me it meant no
more sneaking around.

Tobi eventually agreed to come to
lagos to meet me, all this while he
had made me to believe he was in
calabar, and would take time off
work to spend a weekend with me in
lagos, when I heard this I was excited,
he told me to book a reservation for
him, stating he would pay me back as
soon as he arrived and also he said
it would make him more committed
to the visit and would convince him
of my seriousness, I bought it all, he
was smart, he was cunning, and I was
stupid, oh how stupid I was.

The funny
thing was I had sent him tons of
pictures, and all I had was just one
picture of him, and whenever I asked
he would claim he wanted to be sure I loved him for him, and not for his
looks, and sheepishly
I would try to convince him of my
undying love, and would try to
appease him with nude pictures of my body.

He eventually made it to lagos, I met
him at the hotel, he was tall,
handsome and had a wonderful
smile, he made love to me over and
over, and convinced me to spend the
night with him, I told him I couldn’t,
because I had a test the next morning,
now at this point I don’t know what
triggered his anger, don’t know if it
was because I couldn’t spend the night,
or maybe I said something else I can’t
remember saying, but whatever it
was, brought out a very ugly side of
him.

He  called me foul names, and
kept going on and on about how he
always knew I was cheap, and he knew I was sleeping with other men, the same man whom had swept me away,slammed me on the floor, he told me of how he had shown his friends all my nude pictures and how they had
watched the videos and listened to
the voice notes, he told me he had
made a bet with his friends, that I
would actually pay for him to have
sex with me, just to prove how stupid
I was, well you can imagine how I felt.

I was confused and shocked, but I
attempted to regain any little
dignity I had left, and so I tried to
mouth off at him, suddenly he
punched me in the face, and I tripped
over, and hit my head on a stool.

The next thing I remember was
waking up on the bed, I was tied up,
and he was staring at me, his eyes
were dark and he had a sinister
smile on his lips, he stood up and
walked towards me ,I tried to scream
and realized my mouth was tapped,
my head was racing, the unfortunate
part was that no one knew where I
was, he turned me over, and told me
he was going to teach me a lesson, at
this point I was naked, he rapped me
from behind, and I mean my anus,
the pain was mind blowing, I
struggled, and he hit me, when he
was done he brought out a small
blade, and he looked at me for a
minute and said, this scare is going
to always serve as a reminder, for
girls like you always trying to be
more than you are, for stupid fools
like you.

He put the blade to my
nipple and cut it off, and anytime I
think of it, I still feel the pain, it was
like nothing I had ever felt before, he
was calm, like he had done it a
million times, I could feel the warm
blood dripping down my mutilated
breast, tears of fear and pain
running down my face, and suddenly
he turned around again, this time
all I saw was a flash.

I don’t know how I survived it, but I
woke up in a hospital days after, well
I was awake, bt my eyes were swollen
shut, It took a couple of days for me
to open my one good eye, and realize
d damage he had done, he had
plucked out my eye, and cut my face,
he had cut my breasts up real bad,
they had to it out, like I had cancer
or something, there was no record of
who I was, coz he had taken
everything, he had taken my bag,
containing everything I had.
I was able to tell the nurses about
what I could remember, and also give
them my mum’s phone number, the
hospital felt so much pity, they
actually treated me for free, hard to
believe right?
Anyway I was taken home after weeks
at the hospital to recuperate, it was
tough, I was blind in one eye, I had
one breast and a hideous scar of my
face, talk about your sinage, he did
a number on me, how dumb was I,
sometimes I wish he had killed me,
but there are fates worse than death,
and I guess this is one of them, he was
gone without a trace, the receipt
from the hotel was in my name, so yes
he had played me from the start.
I didn’t dare go back to school, I was
sure everyone would have heard, and
I was not going to become a statistic,
so I decided to stay home, and mind
my business, besides what do I need an education for, I’d rather stay home,
because there is no rising from this,
there is no happy ending to this
story, this is the simple ending, I was
a victim if a sexual predator, and I
let him into my life period, and I
take full responsibility for that, I
was driven by greed and lack of
morals, I allowed myself fall into an
abyss, but well saying all this doesn’t
change anything, it’s a memory I
will have to live with for the rest of
my life, well not a memory, because I
look at myself in the mirror
everyday, who would want to see a
nude picture of a woman with one
breast, one eye, and a stub.

I have decided to publish my story,
because
with the rise of social media
atrocities being committed, every
story can go a long way in saving a
life, so while you read, SHARE and
help someone

 [truncated by WhatsApp]

A Man In Court For Touching A 10-year-old Girl’s Breast

A 52-year-old man, Maxwell Ekwueme, was on Wednesday arraigned in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly touching the breast of a 10-year-old girl without her consent.

The accused, who resides at No, 17, Tola Oduntan St., Shomolu, Lagos, is standing trial on a count-charge of sexual abuse.

The prosecutor, Rita Momah, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Aug. 13, at about 2:00 p.m., at No. 17, Tola Oduntan St., Shomolu, Lagos.
She alleged that the accused, a co-tenant, saw the 10-year-old girl washing plates and suddenly covered her mouth with one hand, and indecently pressed her breast with the other hand.

The prosecutor explained that the accused was apprehended when the 10-year-old girl reported the incident to her parents.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 135 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.

Ekwueme, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The Magistrate, Mrs. F.A Adeeyo, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum, and adjourned the case till Oct. 26.

 (NAN)

Sex-starved wife secures divorce as court dissolves 14-yr-old marriage

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved the 14-year-old marriage between one Mrs Adeola Adelani and her husband, Olajide, after the wife said she had been sex-starved for eight-years.

Delivering his judgment, the President of the court, Mr Hakeem Oyekan, said that the estranged couple were tired of the marriage and all efforts to reconcile both parties had failed.

“ Since both parties consented to the dissolution of their marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve the marriage.

“The couple can no longer stay together because the marriage has broken down totally; both parties are no longer husband and wife, they are free to go their separate ways.

Both parties are to keep the peace all the time; any violation of the order should be reported to the police for redress,” Oyekan ruled.

The petitioner, Adeola, 39, had approached the court seeking to dissolve her marriage to Olajide for allegedly refusing to make love to her for eight years.
She told the court that she was married to Olajide about 14 years ago and had a 12-year-old son with him.

“My husband refused to make love to me for eight years. I want to have another baby because our son is 12-year-old and I am not satisfied with only one child,’’ she told the court.

The petitioner accused her husband of abandoning her and their child for an unknown destination since 2013.

She alleged that her husband had refused to disclose where he lives and where he works, but said that he always sent his son’s school fees and house rent through her bank account.

Adeola said her husband told her pastor that he had married another woman and had children, and that she should find another husband for herself.

The petitioner said she was a sad woman with neighbours referring to her as a “rejected and abandoned property.’’

She begged the court to dissolve the marriage because she wanted to move on with her life.

In his response, Olajide, 45, a businessman, did not deny the allegation of starving his wife of sex.

He said that he refused to make love to his wife because he did not want her to have another baby because the first baby was born through Caesarean Section (CS).

“I don’t want to risk her life because she gave birth through CS, this is why I have distanced myself from her and I want her to take care of our child.

“Besides, I did not abandon my wife, I only decided to move closer to my work place due to the distance from my house.

“I always squat with my friends and I come home once in a while,’’ he said.

He claimed that he had no other wife nor children elsewhere.

Olajide, however, conceded to the dissolution of the marriage because he was also fed up with the union.

The Guardian. 

Check Out Photos Of Actor Mofe Duncan and his bride on their traditional wedding today

Mofe Duncan and his fiancee had their traditional wedding in Lagos today August 20th. Their church wedding will hold on Saturday August 22nd. More photos after the cut...

Buhari appoints Tunde Fowler new chairman FIRS

President Buhari has appointed Tunde Fowler as the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Until his appointment, Mr Fowler was the Chief Executive Officer /Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue from 2005 to 2014.

He had his higher education in the United States where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Business Administration degree from the California State University. He will serve as Acting Executive Chairman of FIRS until his appointment is confirmed by the Senate.

Meet the Britons who uses rescue of Chibok Girls to lure women to bed

A conman, Beau Plantard, 49, who claims to be a veteran paratrooper in Britain lied to women that was once asked to assist with the rescue of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram in a bid to sleep with them.

Plantard who also goes by the name John Pugh, claimed he was a Special Air Service (SAS) hero who worked as Princess Diana’s bodyguard.He would play his friends videos which apparently showed him jumping out of planes and even had a tattoo of Parachute Regiment-style wings emblazoned across his shoulder blade, with the word ‘airborne’ inked above.

But the Walter Mitty-style character, from Blockley, Gloucestershire, had actually served as a private in the Royal Artillery.But she says he persisted in regaling her with exotic tales about his alleged time in the SAS. He even reportedly told the mother of one of her friend’s that he had been a security guard for Princess Diana.

Now, one of his ex-girlfriends has also claimed he is a serial love rat, who began dating her while he was still in a relationship with his partner of 17 years.Beau Plantard now dating Loren Brodie, 19

Second World War historian Amy Jelfs, 36, who dated Plantard for around five months, said she broke up with the ex-serviceman after rumbling his charade, branding him as ‘disrespectful’ and ‘manipulative’.

Amy Jelfsfell, a victim of Beau Plantard lies

“He just told a pack of lies from day one. He has his whole village thinking he is some sort of war hero,” she told Mail Online.

“I wasn’t even impressed or particularly bothered that he was in the SAS, but he would just go on about it constantly: every day he had a new story to tell. He’d apparently been all over the world on secret missions.

“He’s an awful man and, more than anything, it is so disrespectful to serving troops. That is why he needs to be exposed.”

Ms Jelfs met Plantard while they were both members at the Utopia gym in Evesham, Worcestershire.

Because her ex-boyfriend had served with the Army for more than 20 years, she did not find Plantard’s elaborate stories particularly impressive.But she says he persisted in regaling her with exotic tales about his alleged time in the SAS. He even reportedly told the mother of one of her friend’s that he had been a security guard for Princess Diana.

“He was charming and manipulative,” Ms Jelfs said. ‘When he told me he was away in Nigeria, he was actually on holiday with his partner.

surgery to have a piece of shrapnel removed from his bottom, which wasn’t the case at all.

When Ms Jelfs started to get suspicious, she began asking some of her friends in the Army whether they had heard of Plantard. They all claimed that they had – but that he had not been in the SAS.

“I had my suspicions and then he would just come out with more and more weird stuff. I started digging around myself and realised he wasn’t telling the truth.”

“As for his tattoo, it’s hideous and wonky. That also made me suspicious.”

Ms Jelfs was eventually contacted by Plantard’s long-term partner, who found out he had been dating another woman. She then confronted him at his home and the pair broke up.

But days later, Plantard started seeing Sam Joubert, a 40-year-old dental nurse and part-time Zumba instructor, to whom he fed the same imaginative stories.

When Ms Jelfs warned Ms Joubert about Plantard’s ways, he reported her to police for harassment.

“I just wanted to warn Sam that he was dangerous. She has got a little girl,” Jelfs said

Ms Joubert told The Sun: “He lied to me from the beginning. He never mentioned he was in a relationship. He said he had been in the Paras and always used to make out as though he had a traumatic time.”

Meanwhile, Ms Jelfs contated the Walter Mitty Hunters Club, a group which exposes bogus servicemen and women.

But Plantard was already on the group’s radar after he performed at a re-enactment group of the Pathfinder Airborne Troopers, claiming he was in the SAS.

He later issued an apology on the website, claiming his actions were a result of Huntingdon’s disease and that he had been discharged from the Army after having a mental breakdown.

He wrote: ‘Let me apologise for being a k***. I walted and duly lied… The lies took over. I made a mistake and for that I am sorry.’

When asked about whether he had lied about his career, he told The Sun: ‘Yes, a long time ago.’

He is now dating student Loren Brodie, 19.

Annie Idibia shares photos with her adorable daughters

Annie Idibia shares photo of herself with her adorable daughters. See another photo after the cut.... 

Buhari sacks DG Budget Office, announces replacement

President Buhari has sacked the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Bright Okogu (pictured above) and announced Yahaya Gusau as his replacement.

A statement from the director of press and public relations at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Marcshall Gundu, Mr Gusau's appointment takes effect from August 18th with a term of four years renewable for another 4 years. The reason for Mr Okogu being fired was not stated in the statement.

Until his appointment, Mr Gusau who hails from Zamfara state was the director, fiscal policy, budget monitoring and evaluation and acting director- general, Budget Office of the Federation at the exit of the former Director-General, Dr Bright Okogu.

Check out how this fisherman was buried???

Check this out guys :A popular fisherman who died in a village called Oshei in Ghana was buried in a fish casket.

Anita Oyakhilome looking stunning as she attends her mum's birthday party (photos)

Pastor Anita, the divorced wife of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy Nigeria, pictured above at her mother's birthday party in London recently. More photos after the cut ...

Crime:Police arrest suspected cultists for killings in Ogun

The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspected cult members in the Ijoko area of the state in connection with a deadly clash between two rival groups – Eiye and Aiye confraternities ─ in the community.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects, identified as Idris Adejumo, aka Aloma; Muyideen Bello, aka Iso; and Friday Edoh, were apprehended around 8am on Wednesday by policemen attached to the Agbado Police Division shortly after they started fomenting trouble in the neighbourhood.

Edoh claimed to be a member of a vigilance group while Aloma confessed to being a member of Aiye Confraternity. Iso said he was just a friend to Aloma.

Our correspondent had reported on August 7 that three persons died on August 5, while others were injured when the two rival groups clashed. The state police command, however, said only a youth, identified simply as Sunday aka Fele, was killed in the attack.

Fele, who was said to be a member of the Eiye Confraternity had visited his mother on the fateful day with his friend, Olamilekan Oladitan and were returning on a motorcycle when Aloma and his gang members reportedly waylaid them.

Fele was hacked to death, while Oladitan was severely injured and rushed to a hospital.

Oladitan, who was at the station on Wednesday, said, “Sunday met and I were friends. We played together at the palace. We were returning from his mother’s place on a motorcycle that day when Aloma and his members ambushed us. They attacked us and poured alcohol into our mouths. I pretended as if I was dead. Some people later rescued me.”

Aloma told the police that he and six others had gone to Ijoko-Ogba Ayo area on Wednesday to extort money from commercial motorcyclists (okada riders) when he was arrested.

He said, “I was not the one who killed him (Fele). That fight was between boys working for two monarchs in our area. I only know those boys; I don’t belong to any group. 

Fele belonged to Eiye Confraternity and he usually stayed at a palace with his members. About seven of us went to collect money from okada riders this morning (Wednesday). We were not fighting.”

Iso, who denied being a cultist, said he was neither involved in the August 5 clash nor the Wednesday’s fight, adding that he was on a visit to a friend when the police raided the area.

He said, “I am not a cultist. I only know Aloma. I was at a drinking joint in Ogba Ayo this morning when he came and we exchanged greetings. He then took anokada to Abule. Some minutes later, I also took anokada to visit a friend called Radical in Abule. Iwanted to leave there when the police arrested me. I was not at home during the clash on August 5.”

Edoh said he was coming from a church in the community, where he was posted to for a night duty when he was arrested.

The Ogun State Police spokesperson, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the suspects were being investigated and would be charged to court afterwards.

He said, “Policemen of the State Department of Criminal Investigation, with the help of operatives at Agbado Police Division, stormed the area this morning (Wednesday) and were able to arrest three suspected cultists in connection with a recent deadly clash in the community. 

They have been transferred to the SDCI in Eleweran for further investigation.They will be charged to court after investigation.”

Punch. 

Olamide says "I Might Not Marry My Baby Mama"

Its no longer news that Rapper Olamide, has since joined the trend of celebrity baby daddies.
In recent interview with Andre Blaze, the ‘Shakiti Bobo’ crooner, opened up on his love life, his plans for his baby mama and lots more.

Speaking on having a kid, he said, I’m very happy with the fact that I have a kid right now. I just can’t live that young and reckless ‘Mr. Man’ kind of life anymore (Laughs). Fatherhood is very nice, it’s good. I wasn’t scared at all. I’ve been longing to have a baby since I was in SS3 but I wouldn’t want to have a baby that’s going to come to this world and suffer. I think I’m good financially. I’m more mature and all that.

On his relationship with his baby’s mother, “We’re very cool. We’ve been cool from way back and we’ve been together for almost 5 years now. It’s not just some random chic that came around from nowhere. That’s just it. But the question of marrying her, that one is very hard to answer because Olamide is not God. Only God knows tomorrow.”

He also shared his biggest fears, ” my major fear is not making Heaven; the second one is failure. Nobody thought it was going to be this big for me…or for someone coming from Bariga, and you’re not even doing like Pop, RnB or something. You’re rapping, like rap doesn’t even really sell like that in Nigeria. And now you’re coming from the ghetto, and you’re not doing English rap. But glory be to God, I did a lot of hard work and it has paid for me. The grace of God has really helped me as well,’ he said.

Court Case:A Gay guy bites off man’s lip over sex in Lagos

A 27-year old man, Saidi Abubaka, has been arrested and charged with sodomy before Magistrates’ court sitting in Isolo, Lagos State, western Nigeria.

Pm News reports that,he allegedly bit off the lip of his victim for resisting the sexual act.

According to the police, Abubaka was arrested for his involvement in indecent act by forcing Abubaka Abdulahi, 25, into unlawful sex and assault.It was alleged that when the victim, Abdulahi resisted the unlawful sexual act, Abubaka bit off his lower lip.

The incident happened at Ago Palace Way in Okota, Lagos where both the defendant and complainant reside.

The matter was reported to the police at Okota division who arrested Abubaka and took him to the station where he allegedly confessed.

The prosecutor, Mr Abayomi Abass informed the court that it was not the first time Abubaka was involved in indecent assault of male for sex.
Abayomi told the court that Abubaka had been arrested on two occasions by the police for harassing and molesting males for sex.

Journalist killed in S.Sudan after president threatens media

Gunmen shot dead a South Sudan reporter in an apparently targeted attack, colleagues said Thursday, days after President Salva Kiir publicly threatened to kill journalists who reported “against the country”. 

Colleagues, who gathered at the hospital in the capital Juba where Peter Moi’s body was taken on Thursday, said the reporter’s money and his telephone were reportedly not taken by the gunman after the killing.

He is seventh journalist killed this year in the war-ravaged country. “This was an intentional killing,” said Oliver Modi, chairman of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan. 

Moi, a reporter for the New Nation newspaper, was shot dead after leaving work in Juba on Wednesday evening, colleagues said, in the latest apparent attack on the media.

“Freedom of the press does not mean you work against the country,” Kiir told journalists Sunday as he left for peace talks in neighbouring Ethiopia, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

“If anybody among them (journalists) does not know that this country has killed people, we will demonstrate it one day, one time.” 

There was no immediate response to the killing from the police or security forces. “Today it is Peter, tomorrow is someone else,” Modi added.

 “We are being taken one by one.”

 ‘Self-censor for survival’

Five journalists working for state-run media were shot dead along with government officials in January in an ambush by unknown gunmen in Western Bahr al Ghazal state.

 Another journalist was killed in May in eastern Jonglei state, reportedly in cross-fire during a gun battle between rival groups.

International press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders ranks South Sudan as the 125th worst nation out of 180. Rights groups have repeatedly warned about the security forces cracking down on journalists and suffocating debate on how to end a civil war in which tens of thousands of people have been killed.

“More and more independent voices are being silenced in South Sudan at this critical time in the country’s history, when the public desperately needs independent, impartial information,” said Tom Rhodes from the CPJ.

 Condemning the “senseless killing” of Moi, the CPJ said his death “will inevitably cast a pall over journalists in South Sudan, inducing them to self-censor as a means of survival.”

Earlier this month security forces shut down two newspapers and a radio station after they reportedly promoted a proposed peace agreement that the government has since dismissed as a “sellout”.

 South Sudan’s civil war began in December 2013 when Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings that has split the poverty-stricken country along ethnic lines.

The government of the world’s youngest nation on Monday refused to ink a power-sharing deal signed by rebels, despite the threat of sanctions and mounting international frustration at the failure to seal a peace accord. The government said it will return to the talks in Ethiopia in early September after consulting with the people, to “finalise” a peace deal.

Chigul reveals on MTV Base real talk 'I hate proud Nigerian men’

Popular TV host and comedienne, Chigul has revealed a few of the characteristics she finds unappealing about Nigerian men. She disclosed her reasons on this week’s edition of MTV Base Real Talk.

While responding to the question from MTV VJ, Stephanie Coker on what upsets her about Nigerian men, she said, ‘I don’t like men who assume because they have small money, ladies should just jump and follow… Sometimes the money is not even real, it’s in their mind…that’s very annoying’.

She also answered questions from fans including Udeh Chukwunonso Celestine who asked about her marital status. ‘Are you married or when are you getting married?”. 

Chigul replies,‘It’s complicated, let’s leave it there’ and jokingly added, ‘Nonso come o. Help yourself, Knock on my door, I will open for you’.

Another fan asked, ‘What are some of the things people don’t know about you? and in response, she said, ‘A lot of people don’t know that I am a certified French teacher and I speak five languages. I am also a jazz singer and can do a lot of things with my hands’. 

MTV Base Real Talk is a one on one question show hosted by MTV VJs, Ehiz and Stephanie that allows fans connect with their favorite celebrities via social media; No questions are off-limits, secrets, guilty pleasures, old memories, phobias and everything is brought on the table.

Court Case:We were living in peace until daddy married another wife

The children of a petitioner, Mr Jimoh Ebunoluwa, on Thursday testified against him in a divorce suit, in which he accused their mother of threatening his life. 

The children, Hakeem Jimoh, 28; and Bolu Jimoh, 24, told an Ikorodu Customary Court, Lagos, that their father’s allegations against their mother were false.

 “Our father is not saying the truth; our mother has never, even for once, threatened our father’s life.

“We were living in peace until our daddy married another wife. “Ever since he brought in this second wife, there has been trouble in the house, because our father always supports the younger wife. 

“Our father stopped taking care of us and our younger ones since he brought home a second wife,’’ both of them chorused before the court.

The 53-year-old petitioner, a driver, had alleged that his wife, Modupe, was always engaging him in a fight, each time she erred and was corrected. “She is just too stubborn for me; I can’t cope anymore. My parents have called her severally, but she has always refused to listen to them and is always fighting my younger wife.

“In fact, she has reported me to the police and does not greet me anymore. “I can accept her back in my house only when she apologises to my parents because she is always abusing them.

 “I am fed up with her and don’t love her anymore,’’ the husband, who is seeking the dissolution of the 30-year-old marriage told the court.

In her defence, Modupe, 47, a mother of four, denied all the allegations and prayed the court to help her settle their marital dispute. 

“I have never threatened my husband’s life; he is accusing me wrongly because he wants me out of the house. “The second wife is always abusing me and I will only retaliate; my husband wants to turn me to her slave.

“My husband and my mother-in law are always supporting the second wife, but I have never abused them. “Help me beg him, I don’t want to re-marry at this age,’’ Modupe said. 

The President of the court, Mr Olu Adebiyi, ordered the couple to maintain peace in the house, and to bring family members at the next adjourned date. The case was adjourned till Sept.21 for further hearing.

Vanguard.