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  • My husband bites me always, woman tells court

    A 45-year-old beer parlour operator, Mrs Kudirat Sodiq, yesterday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that her husband always bites her whenever they quarrel. She said that, Wahabi, her husband for 23 years, was also threatening her life. “My husband left scars on my body as he always bites me whenever we fight. “My husband will not leave me until he sees blood coming out from the wound, I have scars all over my body as proof of his abuse.

    ” The petitioner said that apart from the bites, her husband was also threatening her life. “Wahabi is always threatening to kill me by suffocating me to death with a pillow. “Because of his threat, I ran away from the house I built and relocated just to save my life. “Last month, he came to my shop, threatening to kill me; he smashed a beer bottle on the ground and wanted to stab me on my neck. “I used my hand to dodge it and the bottle cut me on my right hand, blood was gushing out but for the quick intervention of neighbours who rushed me to the hospital, I could have died.

    ” The mother of four presented as exhibit recording of her husband’s alleged threat, and picture of her injured hand. The woman also accused Wahidi of attempting to appropriate her house. “My husband wanted to sell my house, he approached land grabbers asking for the original document of my house. “The people called me to know if I was the one that sent my husband to come for the document. “My husband drinks to stupor and smokes Indian hemp, after which he usually loses self control.” She begged the court to dissolve the union, saying she was no longer in love with her husband. “I live every minute of my life in fear.

    Save me from the cruel hands of my husband, I have suffered so much in silence.” Wahabi, on the other hand, said that his wife was adulterous and having extra marital affairs. “I caught my wife inside her shop with a man cutting his nail, immediately I entered the man quickly stood up and left,” he said. The 47-year-old transporter said that he has stopped smoking weeds and drinking alcoholic for some weeks. The respondent said that he never threatened to kill his wife but that he stabbed her by mistake. He made a fervent plea to the court not to dissolve the marriage, claiming that he was still in love with his wife. The president of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola adjourned the case till July 25, for judgment.

  • Man bites off friend’s lip

    A 26-year-old man, Anthony Nwokpoku, has been arrested by the police for allegedly biting off part of the lower lip of his estranged friend, Jonah Ogbonna, during a fight.

    The Nation learnt that Nwokpoku and Ogbonna, both from Anambra State, were friends until last month when they quarrelled and stopped talking to each other.

    Last March 28, they met again at a shop and a fight broke out.

    The incident happened around 7pm at a shop in the Langbasa area of Ajah in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State.

    Ogbonna had gone to the shop to buy provisions when he met Nwokpoku buying soap.

    The men abused themselves and began trading punches. Ogbonna said he felt Nwokpoku’s teeth chomping into his lower lip.

    The incident was reported at the Langbasa Police Station, Ajah, and Nwokpoku was arrested.

    It was learnt that Nwokpoku told the police that he bit Ogbonna in self defence after Ogbonna smashed a bottle on his head.

    On March 31, prosecuting Police Inspector Philip Osijale brought Nwokpoku before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court on one-count of assault occasioning harm.

    He pleaded guilty.

    Magistrate L. O. Owolabi, who stood in for Miss M. B. Folami, granted Nwokpoku N20,000 bail and adjourned till today for facts and sentencing.

  • Woman bites off rival’s ear

    A fight over a lover boy turned bloody yesterday when a woman bit off the ear of another for allegedly attempting to snatch her man at Badore, a suburb of Lagos.

    The woman, who is simply identified as Iyabo, was said to have caught the victim, Kemi, with her lover and demanded to know what she was doing with him.

    Kemi, who was also infuriated for discovering that her man was sharing her with someone else, told Iyabo off, threatening to deal with her if she saw her anywhere near her man again.

    An eyewitness said Kemi mocked Iyabo, calling her a fool who should be ashamed of herself for thinking that she could claim the sole ownership of a man she was not married to.

    The source said: “As Kemi uttered these derogatory words against Iyabo, she held her blouse and Kemi held hers too. They were both trying to strangle themselves but the man at the middle of the issue would not allow them. He made efforts to separate them, but they would not listen”.

    The man, who was simply identified as Adeyomi, told Iyabo to understand that they were only unmarried friends and so, should not create a scene over a simple matter that could be resolved amicably.

    It was gathered that when all efforts to stop Iyabo from fighting Kemi failed, Adeyomi warned her not to come closer to him again because he had found a new lover in Kemi since she would not listen to him.

    Enraged further by Adeyomi’s stance, Iyabo was said to have angrily pushed Kemi into drainage nearby.

    She was said to have jumped on Kemi inside the drainage and before passersby could intervene to separate them, she allegedly bit off her ear.

    The source also said that Iyabo’s relations who witnessed the incident, attempted to rush Kemi to a private hospital, but she refused. Adeyomi later took her to a clinic where she was treated.

    After her treatment, Kemi reported the matter to the police at Badore.

  • Suara bites again

    As the Mundial truly got underway in the land of soccer and samba, Okon has been as busy as a bee, smiling all the way to the red light districts of Mushin and Awoyaya. The scam was typically and quintessentially Okonian. What began as a huge and outlandish joke soon turned into a major money spinning machine, with Okon emerging as a soccer pundit, a webless blogger and historian of the mass hysteria induced by football.

    Whenever there was a missing historic link, you can be sure that the old rogue would come up with the facts. For example, Okon explained to a swooning crowd of admirers that despite the fact that the team from Mobutu’s  Zaire went to the 1974 World Cup in Germany with their witchdoctor and private supply of monkey meat, it did not prevent them from a 9-0 shellacking from Poland. Okon also revealed that the hero of the Cameroun team that qualified for the 1982 World Cup in Spain was their goalkeeper, Thomas Nkono.

    Furthermore, Okon disclosed that the name of the witchdoctor of the great Camerounian team of !990 was Baba Bamenda. That was the team that almost caused a civil uprising in Columbia when Higuita, their goalkeeper-sweeper , was spectacularly dispossessed by Roger Mila the great Camerounian striker. There was also the case of Benjamin Massing, the robust Camerounian striker, whose own soccer boot flew out from his left foot after a particularly wicked stud and was promptly red-carded. Massing sheepishly begged the referee to allow him retrieve his boot from far afield.

    Everyday, Okon’s football crowd began to multiply in the backyard. He had acquired a second hand generating set and a brand new Hitachi television. He was charging a hefty fees for entrance. A typical day began with Okon’s commentary of the day pasted on a makeshift board which usually attracted passionate discussion from other soccer louts and loonies. It was a paradise of libel. One of Okon’s efforts was titled: Barlotelli is a baboon. The crazy rogue claimed to have privileged information that the gifted but anarchic Italian maestro was the product of a forced union between a mountain gorilla and a Nubian woman.

    On Thursday afternoon, Okon’s commentary of the day attracted Snooper’s attention. It was about Luis Suarez, the gifted but troubled Columbian forward , who seemed to have developed a bizarre taste for human flesh on the field of play. Dubbed the cannibal, the Columbian wolf-boy often makes a meal of opponents’ earlobes with the relish of a professional headhunter from Papua New Guinea.  But the last one was an ear too far. It has landed the cannibal in soup. When Snooper queried Okon as to why he insisted on calling Suarez by the name Suara when he was not a Nigerian not to talk of being a Yoruba chap, Okon retorted.

    “Ah oga dem mad boy be Yoruba boy. He get one Yoruba boy for Mushin like dat and him name be Suara. Anytime we dey fight him go dey bite you when dem thunder blow come dey dabaru him head. So each time I been ask am why him dey use him teeth, him go reply say biting na part of fighting. So I think say dem Suarez be Suara”. On that note, snooper withdrew to his boudoir.