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  • TWOREM prays February 2

    The first edition in 2015 of the quarterly interdenominational prophetic impartations, declarations and revelations of The Way of Reconciliation Evangelistic Ministries (TWOREM) International a.k.a Prophetic & Solution Chapel, Lagos, tagged: BOJUWOMI (Lord, look down from your throne and bless me), will hold on February 2.

    According to a statement, it will hold at Sekunderin Int’l Miracle Prayer Mountain, Adegbayi-Olode, New Ife Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, from 8am to 3pm with the theme: The Power of Focus.

    Its Convener/Chief Host, Rev’d/ Prophet Oladipupo Funmilade-Joel (Baba Sekunderin), said special prayer would also be offered towards the success of the coming general elections, while also assuring that God has always intervened in the affairs of men with prayers of faith.

    He will minister the Word alongside Prophet Folorunsho Macaulay and other anointed clerics, while gospel artistes like Evangelists Toyin Ilori (Akoko Mi To), Bukola Akinade (Senwele), Joy Oluwaseun (King Osuba), TWOREM Mass Choirs (Ibadan & Lagos) and others will be there.

  • Save me from my violent husband, woman urges court

    My husband comes home almost every night drunk. He beats me mercilessly at the slightest provocation. This is someone who claims to care about my well being.”

    These were the words a 31-year-old clerk, Gbemisola Samuel, before the Alakuko Customary Court in Lagos yesterday.

    Gbemisola had approached the court to seek for the dissolution of her 16-year-old marriage, alleging battery, lack of care and threat to life.

    The petitioner, who resides at 152, Powerline Road, Jankara, Alakuko, also accused her husband, Paul Samuel, a labourer, of always sending her and the kids out of the house.

    She said: “He does not contribute to our children’s school fees let alone their upkeep. He once sent me out of the house naked, all thanks to a neighbour who accommodated me with our children.

    “What prompted me to bring our case to court was because he abused my mother to the extent that she cried bitterly. I had to leave the house with our children because the beating was too much and I felt I might lose my life.’’

    The mother of two urged the court to grant her the custody of the children after dissolving the union.

    However, Samuel (45), denied the allegations, saying:”I don’t drink to stupor but I smoke cigarettes. I only beat her when she is wrong. At times, she doesn’t sleep at home. She often claims that her job is demanding which I have refused to believe.

    “I still love her and I want the children back; please do not dissolve the union,” he pleaded with the court.

    The court’s President, Chief Awos Awosola, ordered the parties to maintain peace and obey the law. He adjourned the case till February 26, for further hearing.

  • NIM holds youth forum on Friday

    The Nigerian Institute of Management will hold on Friday hold its second Corporate Breakfast Forum in Lagos.

    In a statement, NIM President and Chairman of Council Dr. Nelson Uwaga, gave the theme as Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

    Senior Adviser/Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Africa Business Roundtable Dr. Nelson Olatunji Olaniyi is the guest speaker. The event will be chaired by Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Dr. Christopher Kolade.

    The Institute, Uwaga said, chose the theme because of its concern about the rising unemployment. The statement reads: “The dearth of employment opportunities has led to a serious inertia on the part of the youths in terms of their innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities”.

  • NIM holds youth forum on Friday

    The Nigerian Institute of Management will hold on Friday hold its second Corporate Breakfast Forum in Lagos.

    In a statement, NIM President and Chairman of Council Dr. Nelson Uwaga, gave the theme as Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

    Senior Adviser/Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Africa Business Roundtable Dr. Nelson Olatunji Olaniyi is the guest speaker. The event will be chaired by Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Dr. Christopher Kolade.

    The Institute, Uwaga said, chose the theme because of its concern about the rising unemployment. The statement reads: “The dearth of employment opportunities has led to a serious inertia on the part of the youths in terms of their innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities”.

  • Warning for vehicle owners

    Yhe Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Zone 2, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State Command and the Chairman/Operating Officer of (Tow To Go) Automotive Service Ltd, Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2, Ikeja, Lagos, have warned owners of abandoned vehicles to remove them.

    The affested vehicles are parked at Zone 2 Command Head-quarters; Ifako Division; Gbagada; Apapa Division; Area B; Tolu Division; Shagamu Road Division; Ikorodu; Shasha Division; Trinity Division; Oko-Oba Division and Tow To Go Automotive Services Ltd. They are to come with their original documents to remove or forfeit them.

     

  • Alcohol, hemp-smoking crash marriage

    After about two years of irreconcilable differences orchestrated by the husband’s alleged excessive alcoholism and hemp smoking, a Lagos court yesterday dissolved the marriage between Segun Falaye and his wife, Celestina.

    The Customary Court in Igando, a Lagos suburb, ordered that the couple should cease to be husband and wife immediately.

    The petitioner, Celestina (33), a business woman, had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of her marriage, citing her husband’s heavy drinking and hemp smoking habit.

    “My husband takes alcoholic drinks excessively and gets drunk after which he falls inside gutter, misbehaving and disgracing me,” she told the court.

    Celestina said after smoking hemp, her former husband had always behaved strangely.

    “My husband is always mentally disturbed after smoking hemp …he always descends on me giving me serious beating,” she added.

    She regretted that the man could not manage the business she established for him as it collapsed two months after.

    Celestina said: “I opened a bookshop for my husband, but he mismanaged it; the capital and the profit were spent on beer. He is lazy and does not want to work. He depends solely on me for feeding, paying the children’s school fees and for house rent.”

    The mother of two pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage, saying there is no love lost between them.

    However, Falaye (40), who denied some of the allegations, said: “I am used to drinking, but not always. I have never taken Indian hemp before. I take alcoholic drinks moderately not excessively. I used to pay the bills when I was working, but now that I have no job I cannot steal to fend for my family. My wife controls and commands me like a baby, all because she pays the bills. My wife is aggressive; she gets angry easily and always.’’

    He, however, urged the court not to grant his wife’s request for the dissolution of the marriage, saying: “I still love her.”

    The court’s President, Mr Ruphus Adeyeri, who said all efforts to reconcile both parties were unsuccessful, ruled: “Both parties are no longer husband and wife; they are free to go their separate ways.”

  • Customs seizes N1.3m IIndian hemp

    Customs seizes N1.3m IIndian hemp

    Oba of Lagos to INEC: don’t alte

    The Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, yesterday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to alter the wish of Nigerians at the February elections.

    Akiolu said that INEC should not tolerate rigging or any other electoral malpractice to ensure free, fair and credible polls that would deepen Nigeria’s democracy.

    The monarch who urged the commission to ensure that all eligible voters would get their cards before the elections, assured it of the support of the traditional institution in the state toward credible general elections.

    Akiolu regretted the insurgency in some parts of the country but hoped that it would soon end.

    “I know that our military was not equipped in the past the way it should, but everybody has learnt from his mistakes,’’ the royal father said.

    Nigerians’ wish

  • Customs seizes N1.3m Indian hemp

    Customs seizes N1.3m Indian hemp

    The Headquarters Monitoring Team of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Idiroko Axis, has intercepted a wine-coloured Toyota Corolla car along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    The car was laden with three sacks of substances suspected to be Indian hemp estimated at about N1.3 million, The Nation learnt.

    Following a tip-off, the patrol team, led by Yahaya Usman, an Assistant Comptroller of Customs (ACC), trailed the vehicle to a low-risk area before interception to avert any operational hiccup.

    The team’s leader expressed deep satisfaction with the Comptroller General of Customs, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko and his management for their support and the confidence reposed in his team.

    Usman said since inception, the team has contributed immensely to the seizure profile of the service to justify the essence of its creation.

    He added that the collaboration and synergy which his team receives from the Controller Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’, Deputy Comptroller of Customs (DCC) Turaki Usman Adamu, had been overwhelming.

    He vowed to remain committed to the anti-smuggling efforts of the NCS and promised to ensure strict compliance with the Federal Government’s fiscal policy on trade and commerce.

    Usman urged the public to give the team useful information that would assist their operations.

    “Smuggling, just like scavenging, is a global menace and the NCS will continually be at the vanguard of ensuring its drastic suppression in line with its statutory obligations and extant laws,” he said.

  • Alcohol, hemp-smoking crash marriage

    After about two years of irreconcilable differences orchestrated by the husband’s alleged excessive alcoholism and hemp smoking, a Lagos court yesterday dissolved the marriage between Segun Falaye and his wife, Celestina.

    The Customary Court in Igando, a Lagos suburb, ordered that the couple should cease to be husband and wife immediately.

    The petitioner, Celestina (33), a business woman, had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of her marriage, citing her husband’s heavy drinking and hemp smoking habit.

    “My husband takes alcoholic drinks excessively and gets drunk after which he falls inside gutter, misbehaving and disgracing me,” she told the court.

    Celestina said after smoking hemp, her former husband had always behaved strangely.

    “My husband is always mentally disturbed after smoking hemp …he always descends on me giving me serious beating,” she added.

    She regretted that the man could not manage the business she established for him as it collapsed two months after.

    Celestina said: “I opened a bookshop for my husband, but he mismanaged it; the capital and the profit were spent on beer. He is lazy and does not want to work. He depends solely on me for feeding, paying the children’s school fees and for house rent.”

    The mother of two pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage, saying there is no love lost between them.

    However, Falaye (40), who denied some of the allegations, said: “I am used to drinking, but not always. I have never taken Indian hemp before. I take alcoholic drinks moderately not excessively. I used to pay the bills when I was working, but now that I have no job I cannot steal to fend for my family. My wife controls and commands me like a baby, all because she pays the bills. My wife is aggressive; she gets angry easily and always.’’

    He, however, urged the court not to grant his wife’s request for the dissolution of the marriage, saying: “I still love her.”

    The court’s President, Mr Ruphus Adeyeri, who said all efforts to reconcile both parties were unsuccessful, ruled: “Both parties are no longer husband and wife; they are free to go their separate ways.”

  • ‘Save me from my violent husband’

    My husband comes home almost every night drunk. He beats me mercilessly at the slightest provocation. This is someone who claims to care about my well being.”

    These were the words a 31-year-old clerk, Gbemisola Samuel, before the Alakuko Customary Court in Lagos yesterday.

    Gbemisola had approached the court to seek for the dissolution of her 16-year-old marriage, alleging battery, lack of care and threat to life.

    The petitioner, who resides at 152, Powerline Road, Jankara, Alakuko, also accused her husband, Paul Samuel, a labourer, of always sending her and the kids out of the house.

    She said: “He does not contribute to our children’s school fees let alone their upkeep. He once sent me out of the house naked, all thanks to a neighbour who accommodated me with our children.

    “What prompted me to bring our case to court was because he abused my mother to the extent that she cried bitterly. I had to leave the house with our children because the beating was too much and I felt I might lose my life.’’

    The mother of two urged the court to grant her the custody of the children after dissolving the union.

    However, Samuel (45), denied the allegations, saying:”I don’t drink to stupor but I smoke cigarettes. I only beat her when she is wrong. At times, she doesn’t sleep at home. She often claims that her job is demanding which I have refused to believe.

    “I still love her and I want the children back; please do not dissolve the union,” he pleaded with the court.

    The court’s President, Chief Awos Awosola, ordered the parties to maintain peace and obey the law. He adjourned the case till February 26, for further hearing.