SHEPHERD DIGEST MAGAZINE: March 2017

Friday 31 March 2017

Mother, two children killed in Ogun crash

A woman and her two children were on Thursday burnt to death after their family vehicle had an accident at the Ewekoro end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.

A 22-year-old Cameroonian, Joel Ludguo, is currently in police custody at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly killing his boss, Miss Temidayo Adeleke.

Ludguo was a cleaner and lived with the victim on Prince Tayo Adesanya Street, Park View Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.

A trigger-happy policeman, Mr. Pius Senu, has shot and killed a driver, Michael Ishola, at Awo in the Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State.

Our correspondent gathered that Ishola’s wife was just delivered of a baby about two weeks ago.

Rev up your sex life with chicken meal

It’s Christmas season; and one of the perks of the holiday celebration is the chicken meal that children usually look forward to!

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Monday sentenced an Islamic cleric, Osupa Adini, to three months imprisonment for stealing and assault.

Adini, 49, was convicted on a six-count charge preferred against him by the state.

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday said it had recovered 15 different weapons and 18 vehicles from 33 armed robbery cases between November 18 and December 18.

A wife hacked at her husbands penis with a sugar cane cleaver because he said he was too tired for sex.

The 46-year-old man named only as Liu spends long hours working as a taxi driver and often feels tired when he gets home.

Pregnancy changes a woman’s brain – study

Pregnancy causes “long-lasting” physical changes to a woman’s brain, with significant, but seemingly beneficial, grey matter loss in parts of the crucial organ, a study said Monday.

Some alterations lasted at least two years, they reported, but did not appear to erode memory or other mental processes.

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a man who allegedly abused a minor sexually for money ritual in the state.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, said this in a statement in Enugu on Sunday.

A 30-year-old supervisor with Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, Emmanuel Peters, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for the alleged theft of N4.5m.

There was outrage on Sunday at Gwallameji, a suburb of Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, after a dog was found eating a newborn baby abandoned at a rubbish dump.

‘I created route to neigbour’s house day before robbery’

A 21-one-year-old undergraduate of a university in Osun State, Rilwan Iyiola, said he created a route to the attic of his neigbhours’ apartment a day before he and his brother, Kazeem Iyiola, 19, robbed the victims.

A pastor at the Divine Yard Deliverance Ministry in Iyana Iyesi, Ota, Ogun State, Peace Udoh, has been arrested by the police for allegedly running a baby factory in the church.

A 100-level part-time student of a journalism institute, Falope Oluwole, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly duping no fewer than 33 men.

Oluwole, a 22-year-old undergraduate, was alleged to have posted the photo of a United States female makeup artist, Shayla, on his Instagram page, through which he duped the unsuspecting men who asked for a relationship.

A 30-year old man, Hammed Abubakar, on Monday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly forcefully having sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old girlfriend.

15 meanings of sex to a real man

In working with couples, it is quite evident that men and women give different meanings to lovemaking. It is common, and not terribly surprising, that many women do not fully understand the nature of the sexual relationship from a man’s perspective.

A mob beat to death an elderly couple accused of witchcraft in eastern India, police said Saturday, the second such killing in the region in two weeks.

Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country.

Three persons, comprising two suspected kidnappers and a member of a private security outfit, Danga Security, lost their lives during a fierce gun battle between a combined team of policemen and men of the private security outfit in Bauchi State.

I can rob any taxi driver with ordinary biscuit – Suspect

Forty-nine-year-old Garba Ibrahim, a shoe seller-turned car dealer, found a niche in the robbery world. He simply specialised in robbing taxi drivers.

In fact, Ibrahim, a native of Otukpo, Benue State, believed his robbery method was so fool-proof that he did not think he could ever fail.

On Friday, December 9, 2016, people across the country and beyond were alerted to the news of a 16-year-old boy, identified as Aduragbemi, who was found in-between two walls (about 10 inches apart) in the Oduduwa Area, New Town in Ondo Kingdom, Ondo State.

The last few days have indeed been some of the most interesting times in the life of Mr. Lawrence-White Udoka. Since photographs of the 44-year-old man hawking doughnuts while neatly dressed went viral, the Akwa Ibom-born father of two has suddenly transcended from a little known Nigerian to a celebrity of sort. From east to west, north to south, images of Udoka are almost now a common sight anywhere you turn to. It is an unprecedented period for him.

The Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’, Owerri, has said that the unit intercepted and arrested a trailer numbered GBB 85 XA suspected to be carrying adulterated diesel along Aba-Owerri expressway.

What roles does protein play in the body?

Protein is considered a macronutrient, which means that your body needs it in large amounts every day to function properly. When you eat protein, your body breaks it down into amino acids that are used for several purposes. Protein can provide your body with energy when necessary, but you should not rely on protein as a primary energy source because it has more important physiological roles to play, according to “Nutrition and You” by Joan Salge Blake.

For the fourth time in one month, cattle rustlers have invaded Gbaka village in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

It was learnt that no fewer than 700 cows and unspecified number of goats and sheep were stolen.

Nigeria’s cross-dressing social media sensation, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has subtly owned up to what may be his real sexuality.

Bobrisky, whose sexuality is shrouded in controversy on Wednesday posted a video on SnapChat, in which he lauded his own cooking skills while frying egg.

A maid, Cynthia Shamang, has been arrested in Kaduna for absconding with Amarachi, the one-year-old baby of her employer, Mrs. Kachi Mbagwu.

The 17-year old was arrested alongside her father in Kaduna and handed over to the police in Abuja.

How often should you wash your bra?

The bra is an integral part of a woman’s dressing. It shapes the body and helps especially well-endowed women to manage their assets.

A family, whose son was shot dead in Ojuelegba, Lagos, on his 24th birthday, has cried out to police for justice against the assailants who gruesomely murdered their child.

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ile Ife has sentenced a couple – Fatai Jimoh and Lateefat Jimoh – to death by hanging for armed robbery and the murder of one Mrs. Bukola Taiwo of Ikeketu, Ile Ife.

Taiwo was said to have gone on a business trip to Ile Ife on August 12, 2009, and slept over at the Jimohs’ apartment.

A thug had punched a man who was hooked up to his dialysis machine to death for thinking he was a paedophile.

Metro UK reported that Paul Sandford died after Adam Goodridge entered his home in Maltby, South Yorkshire, in October, while he was asleep and threatened him to move away.

Woman arraigned for using children as beggars

For allegedly using her children as beggars, Ayo Okegbero, 36, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okegbero, an unemployed woman, who resides in Ojota, Lagos, is being tried for breach of the peace.

The police in Lagos State have arrested a woman who sold suspected adulterated liquor in the Oko Afo, Badagry area of the state, in connection with the death of a 16-year-old boy, identified only as Ngozi.

The police in Lagos have arrested 24-year-old Babalola Rotimi (Jnr), who allegedly killed his father, Babalola Rotimi (Snr) in the Magodo, Shangisha area of Lagos State.

Justice Abubakar Talba of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Gudu, on Thursday admitted Sani Magaji and Mohammed Aliyu, charged with possession of firearms and robbery, to N1m bail each.

Ruling on their bail application, Talba ordered that the defendants must produce two sureties each in like sum.

Man kidnaps, drugs church member’s 10-year- old son

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old suspect, Triumph Okechukwu, for allegedly abducting a 10-year-old boy, Chukwudalu Nnaji, in the Orile area of the state.

A 55-year-old trader, Mrs. Saidat Abu, on Thursday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that her husband impregnated her younger sister on two occasions.

Two sales representatives with the West Coast Fisheries Limited, Oluwaseun Olatunji and Oladapo Fasan, are cooling their heels at the X-Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, for the alleged theft of 1,730 cartons of fish.