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  • Border closure boosts local rice patronage

    Demand for local rice has risen sharply in Sokoto State following the partial closure of Nigeria’s border, a check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reveals.

    Nigeria partially closed its borders with Niger and Benin Republics to stem smuggling cross border crimes and illicit arms deals among others.

    Nigeria has intensified joint patrols involving its customs, immigration, DSS and other security agencies along the affected borders putting intense pressure on smugglers.

    A check in Illela, Gwadabawa, Kware and Sokoto metropolis shows that traders of local rice are making brisk sales as the patronage increases.

    A trader in Illela, Alhaji Garba Dankwanni, told NAN that the increase in the price of foreign rice has made consumers to revert to local rice.

    “Price of foreign rice has increased to N1, 000 per measure as 50 Kg bag of the commodity is being sold at above N18, 000 at present.

    “The increase has led to consumers demanding locally produced rice with a stable price between N550 to N600 a measure.

    “Farmers are now releasing the local rice into the market.

    “In the past, the preference for foreign rice has affected the sales of local rice, but because of the stability in price, local rice is now in high demand, but am suspecting the price will increase very soon,” he said.

    Dankwanni said the price of foreign vegetable oil has also increased by N100 and N2000 respectively, as a bottle now sells at N400 from N330, while a 10 litter jerry can sells at N11, 000 from N9, 000 sold in the past.

    Another trader in Illela market, Malam Halliru Yusuf, said apart from local rice prices of all other commodities have been on the increase since the closure of the borders.

    He said the increase also affected household items.

    Yusuf said local rice has maintained its old price of N550, N600 and N800 depending on the location and harvest history.

    A trader in Lolo, Bagudo local government, who deals in seafood, turkey and chicken, said on condition of anonymity that their prices are on the increase “because they are smuggled items and the exercise has made it difficult to replenish our stock.”

    He said since most traders are running out of stock and don’t know how long the exercise would last, they have all increase the prices of their stocks.

    He said a carton of hard type turkey that was selling at N9, 000 is now N16, 000 and the soft type is now selling between N13, 500 and N14, 000 from N7, 500.

    He said a carton of croaker fish is now selling at N25, 000 as against N12, 000 or N15, 00 depending on the size and customer’s bargaining power.

    The trader added that prices of other fishes like Titus, salmon or crabs and shrimps are on the increase too.

    Meanwhile, Alhaji Muhammad Salah, the District Head of Kasagu, a border town in Bagudu local government area in Kebbi, has commended government for the measure.

    He noted that since the partial border closure, traders who transact illegal businesses across the border are finding it very difficult to carry out their trade.

    Salah however said no fewer than eight settlements in Kebbi share border and same language with their brethren in Benin and Niger Republics.

    The district head said they all speak Dandi language, and pleaded for early opening of the border, as the exercise had affected farming and is putting pressure on local produce.

    He said the border communities have interwoven relationship as Nigerians cultivate farms in Benin Republic while Beninous cultivate farms in Nigerian communities for long period.

    “Crops have ripened for harvest and security teams had denied farmers access to bring their produce to markets,” he lamented.

    He therefore urged the Federal Government to reopen the borders as soon as possible.

    READ ALSO: Mixed reactions trail border closure

    Malam Hassan Adamu, Councillor representing Lolo ward in Bagudo LG, called for adequate support for President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain such efforts.

    He said the exercise would go a long way in actualising government policies on ensuring food security, check illegal migrants and activities of smugglers.

    “Some people are using the border in making illicit gains hence they are dumping all sort of things or commodities through them into our country,” Adamu noted.

    The councillor called on neighboring countries to be in tune with Nigerian government policies if they want government to open the border.

    According to him, Nigerians mostly in the rural areas have gone back to farming thereby saving the country huge sums of money which will otherwise have been expended on importing rice using scarce foreign reserves.

    A Customs officer, who pleaded anonymity, explained that “the exercise is yielding results as some seizures have been made.

    “These include drums of petroleum, bags of parboiled foreign rice, bags of fertiliser, vehicles, groundnut oils, tin tomatoes and other items, while some illegal aliens were apprehended.’’

    He said Nigerians must be patriotic enough to support the government on its efforts to protect local production, and ensure food security.

    (NAN)

  • ‘Abe must be expelled from APC to end Rivers crisis’

    To ensure peace and unity in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State chapter, a call has been made for expulsion from the party of the representative of Rivers Southeast Senatorial District in the 7th and 8th Senate, Magnus Abe.

    The call was made on Monday in Port Harcourt by a chieftain of APC in the Southsouth zone, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze.

    The National Working Committee (NWC) of APC, led by a former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adam’s Oshiomhole, last week set plans in motion for the conduct of fresh ward, local government and state congresses of the party in Rivers, between September 17 (today) and 28, while also inaugurating the Isaac Ogbobula-led five-member caretaker committee of the party in Rivers state, in order to move to the next level.

    Last Thursday, Abe and his supporters, however, obtained an order from Rivers High Court, Port Harcourt, stopping the congresses and declared the caretaker committee as illegal.

    Efforts were made yesterday to get the senator’s reaction to the call for his expulsion from APC, through his Spokesperson, Parry Benson, but he declined to respond.

    Eze said: “The personal attacks on the National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, by Abe, is an attempt at destroying the party at the national level, after dismantling the APC’s structure in Rivers State.

    “Abe decided to turn the heat on the NWC of APC, even while continuing to make moves to ensure the party in Rivers State never gets out of the incapacitation he foisted on it.

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    “The sin of Comrade Oshiomhole and why he must be destroyed and ridiculed is the resolve of the NWC of APC to restore sanity and unity to the Rivers State APC, by setting up a caretaker committee that will conduct the congresses.

    “Abe is on a mission to destroy APC in Rivers State and to dismantle the party at the national level. The continued presence of the former senator and his followers in the party is dangerous. It is left to the national leadership of the party to do the needful by expelling Abe, in order not to weaken APC ahead of the 2023 general elections.”

    The APC chieftain also stated that he was glad that the Chairman of Abe’s faction of the party in Rivers, Chief Peter Odike, had abandoned the senator and returned to the mainstream APC, led by Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi.

    He also congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his tribunal victory, while calling on all Nigerians to continue to support the focused administration.

    Eze asked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to ignore the enemies of democracy, who were urging him to challenge the tribunal’s judgment at the Supreme Court, while declaring that nothing would come out of the appeal and that the former Vice-President would end up wasting his money, time and energy.

  • Obasanjo writes Buthelezi, says attacks will cripple investment in South Africa

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday said it was a “fallacy” for South Africa to believe that xenophobia would make more jobs available to its citizens.

    Obasanjo, in a letter to the Leader of South-Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, said that such attitude would rather cripple investment in the country.

    “As it is being touted that xenophobia will give South Africans more jobs, I dare say, it is fallacy.

    “Xenophobia will make investment in South Africa more difficult, which will lead to lack of job creation and loss of existing jobs,” Obasanjo said in condemning the recent xenophobic attack against Nigerians in South-Africa.

    Obasanjo noted that Nigerians had played great roles in the liberation of different peoples in different parts of Africa, including fighting against the apartheid regime in South Africa.

    He said such kind gestures were not motivated by praises or positions but by sense of duty and obligation as Africans towards fellow Africans.

    The former president condemned what he described as “incompetence or collusion” on the part of South African Police for standing aloof watching miscreants and criminals committing crimes against fellow human beings in the country.

    “This was experienced in South Africa in recent times and it shows either incompetence or collusion on the part of the police.

    “We believe that Africans living in any other part of Africa must be treated as brothers and friends.

    “If they commit any crime, they should be treated like citizens of that country will be treated when they commit crime which will mean applying judicial process,” he said.

    He advised South African government to send emissaries to the countries concerned to explain, apologise and agree on the way forward for mutual understanding, accommodation, reconciliation to promote brotherhood in Africa.

    “Repatriation of Nigerians from South- Africa is obviously not a permanent solution. At best, it is palliative because the hurt will still remain for some time and revenge is also not the desirable solution.

    “Mutual understanding and acknowledgement of what needs to be done on all sides is imperative and getting down to doing them is the solution that will serve Nigeria and South Africa and indeed Africa, particularly in this era of Africa Continental Free Trade Area opportunities.

    Read Also: Xenophobic attacks: Returnees relive ordeal, demand revenge against South Africa

     

    “In the final analysis, if South- Africa fails to initiate appropriate and satisfactory steps to deal with the issues to pacify affected victims and work for reconciliation, the countries concerned should come together to table appropriate motions at the African Union level first and consider other measures if the situation is allowed to continue,” he said.

    He said that most migrants did not migrate to other countries with total emptiness, adding that some had education, skills, experience, expertise, entrepreneurship which could help economies of host countries.

    “What has helped most developed countries in the world is openness and receiving migrants with open hands and open minds.

    “In any case, all of us in the world are migrants, no matter where we live, depending only on how far back you want to go,” he said.

    Obasanjo urged African countries to develop programmes that would provide livelihood for its
    terming youth population.

    He noted that such measure would discourage the youths from embarking on hazardous journeys to places where their lives would be endangered.

     

    (NAN)

  • NECO withholds Niger students’ results

    Students in public secondary schools in Niger state are currently unable to access their NECO May/June SSCE results as the examination body has withheld the results of the students due to debts owed by the government.

    The NECO May/June SSCE results were released on the 27th of August 2019.

    Students or public secondary schools that reached out to The Nation bemoaned their inability to access their results in order to attend post-utme screenings of the universities of their choice.

    The Niger state government has admitted that they are owning the examination body N470 million adding that they have paid N150 million.

    The Permanent Secretary of the Niger State Ministry of Education, Abubakar Aliyu who spoke to The Nation admitted that they are owning the examination body but appealed for consideration to enable the students to access their results especially those due for port utme screenings.

    “The state government has been paying NECO and WAEC for its students from the previous government and the arrangement has always been that when the government has funds, we pay installmentally.

    “NECO is owned N400 million this year and the government has commenced the payment. Last week Friday, we remitted N150 million to them and we are still negotiating with them to release the result but they have not. Hopefully, they may release it today (Monday).”

    Aliyu declared that the government does not have enough money to give to NECO at once assuring that they will pay whenever there are available funds.

    Read Also: NECO releases May/June 2019 exam results

    “For us, as a government, we do not have money to release at once but as a responsive government, we have a clear picture of what we want to do. Once we get money, we will make release them. Within the availability of resources, we have given what we have and we will continue to give them what we have until we clear the accumulated debts.”

    The Permanent Secretary, however, stated that if the result is not released before the end of Monday, they will look for ways of sourcing for money to pay the debts adding that one of the Directors in the Ministry is still in a meeting with NECO as at the time of interviewing him.

    The Information Officer, Mallam Azeez Sani could not be reached to state the stand of NECO as to why the examination body has not released the results of the students in the state.

  • ‘10,000 Nigerian girls forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso’

    The Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed says no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso.

    Ahmed disclosed this in an Interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) in Ouagadougou on Monday

    She said the victims of sex-trade were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou and in mining camps across the West African country.

    Ahmed who had been in Burkina Faso since August 2017, said that over 200 Nigerian girls had been voluntarily repatriated this year.

    According to the Ambassador, many of the girls who were promised jobs in the country and Europe by the human traffickers are not willing to return home.

    “The spate of human trafficking here in Burkina Faso is a big concern to the embassy because at present, we have nothing less than 10,00 Nigerian girls who have been trafficked into Burkina Faso as commercial sex workers and most of these girls are underage, most left school and are roaming about doing commercial sex work in Burkina Faso.

    “This apart from been a dent to our country, it is also a sort of concern as far as their health is concerned, This is very serious to us and most of the girls who wants to go back as a result this voluntary repatriation do it because they were tricked, they did not know the condition there are going to found themselves here.

    “For every Nigerian girl that escapes and wants to go back, there are more than 10 in the bush that are willing to carry on.

    Read Also: Ogun tops list of South African returnees

    She said the Embassy is partnering with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Ouagadougou to assist in the voluntary repatriation of some of the victims of human trafficking.

    “200 girls have been repatriated to Nigeria by the embassy, this is apart from the ones that run to the churches, some to other Civil society Organisations(CSOs) and the International Organisations on Migration (IOM).

    In fact, the IOM is complaining to the embassy that most its money meant for West Africa is used to repatriate Nigerian girls back home and they are complaining that with time, they would not be able to cope with the number.

    “So if the embassy alone has repatriated 200 girls, you can imagine how many girls the IOM has repatriated and the reason they are complaining.

    Ahmed also appealed to Nigerian parents and guardians to monitor their children and wards more closely and not to be swayed by promises of greener pastures abroad.

    “I am pleading with Nigerian parents that they should know what their children are doing, most of the girls said that their parents don’t know what they are here and some will tell us that their parents know and some will say that they were sent by either their father, mother, Uncle.

    “This is a problem that emanates from the family, for the girls, I wish to tell them that anybody they see that comes to tell them that he is taking then to somewhere, either employed as hairdressers or work in the shop, these are human traffickers.

    Anybody that will tell them not work in Nigeria but to move outside is simply a human trafficker and they should be wary of such persons. she said

    It will be recalled that the U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report (TIR) 2019, Burkina Faso is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking.

    NAN reports that the Director-General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah Donlie while briefing the ECOWAS Parliament on the spate of trafficking in West Africa in December 2018 said that 500 girls were trafficked from Nigeria on daily basis.

    She added that a whopping 20,000 Nigerians girls were also discovered in Mali.

     

    NAN

  • 80 percent of university lecturers are quacks – Nasarawa Varsity Chancellor

    The Chancellor of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Shehu Chindo Yamusa III has alleged that about 80 percent of Nigeria university lecturers are quacks, hence lacking the skills and method to be in the classroom.

    He advocated to the management of various Nigeria universities to ensure that those to be employed as lecturers have the minimum required certificate in education or related programs approved by Teachers Registration Council or National teachers Institute.

    The Chancellor who was speaking at the 2nd stakeholders’ meeting of University in Keffi said those already in the system and have no training or qualification in education should go back to class room in order to become more productive.

    “It is evident that, 80 percent of lecturers are not professionals, but only those in the faculty of education and few ones that have PGDE in other Faculties are qualify to teach.

    “Some universities have started full implementation of “MUST HAVE” PGDE before employ as lecturers and where a Lecturer does not have, he/she is recommended to faculty of education for one or two years programs, after which he/she is engaged in the field of facilitations.”

    Yamusa III who was a university lecturer before ascending to his ancestral throne as Emir of Keffi, tongue-lashed management of Nasarawa State University, Keffi for promoting sentiments responsible for the fallen standard of university education system.

    He however blamed lack of adherence to due process and rule of law as factor militating against the growth of the university in all aspects.

    “It is sad that meritocracy doctrine has been jettison in the university administration.

    “However, not to long ago many lecturers were recruited based on favouritism, politics and primordial mundane sentiments and that added degradation to the realization of intended objectives.”

    READ ALSO: I‘ll ensure greatness of Nasarawa varsity, says VC

    The Vice Chancellor, Suleiman-Bala Mohammed who corroborated his views to that of the Chancellor said, he was going to fight unethical conducts and introduce whistle blowing policy to expose lecturers engaged fraudulent activities in the system.

    Mohammed stated that the university was confronted with a number of challenges that have threatened its potentials growth.

    He mentioned drift towards impunity, dilapidated infrastructure, inadequate facilities, agitation for compensation of university land, inadequate funding are among other factors confronting the University’s growth.

    He lamented how the image of the university has gone bad due to the activities of few minority and assured that, with the support of other management staff he was going “to fish out bad eggs, mercenaries in the university”.

    “The essence is to nature the university to a 22 century standard, because we have the capacity, ability and the people to achieving that,” he said.

  • NBTE hails Obaseki on revamp of Government Science and Technical College

    The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has hailed the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration on the wholistic revamp of the Government Science and Technical College (GSTC) formerly Benin Technical College, noting that the new learning environment has set a new standard for technical education in the country.

    The Deputy Director, NBTE, Mallam Samaila Tanko, said this when he led an NBTE Accreditation Team to GSTC, in Benin City, for resource inspection/assessment of the structures, curricula and equipment available at the college, which resumed for a new session on September 16, 2019.

    According to him, “We are impressed with what we have seen at GSTC. We hope to see more of such replicated in other places. We urge the state government to continue in his developmental strides. We call on other governors to borrow a leaf from Edo.”

    Permanent Secretary, Edo State Board for Technical and Vocational Education, Mr. Bernard Oigbokie, said the state government is undertaking a wholistic revamp of technical education in the state.

    READ ALSO: PenCom, NBTE, commission first pension school

    He added that the accreditation of the colleges is long awaited, noting that the accreditation of the college would make it possible for the state to access funding from the IDEAS Project, jointly funded by Federal Government and the World Bank.

    The Project Coordinator, (IDEAS) Project, Edo State, Mrs Blessing Osahon-Osemwota, said the state government has recruited 104 teachers spread across the state to ensure the availability of skilled hands to man the various technical colleges in the state.

    She said the team is going to visit Irrua, Igarra and Afuze for further inspection of other facilities for technical education.

    She urged parents to take advantage of the opportunity to enroll their children and wards into the various technical colleges spread across the state, to benefit from the programme.

  • Italian police arrest Juventus fan chiefs for blackmailing club

    Police on Monday arrested 10 chiefs of hard-line Juventus supporters clubs on suspicion of blackmailing the Serie A champions to obtain free tickets to sell on the black market in the latest blow to the image of Italian football.

    The 10 ringleaders of the so-called “ultras” groups of organised fans, notorious for violence and racism, are among 37 accused of threatening to cause riots and chant racist abuse unless the club gave them free tickets to be re-sold.

    The arrests came after a year-long probe by the Turin police special investigations unit Digos, which was prompted by a complaint from Juventus that the club was being blackmailed by its own fans.

    The police carried out 39 searches in 14 towns and cities in northern and central Italy as part of its swoop on Monday.

    Italian soccer has been marred for years by criminal investigations, fan violence and racism.

    This month Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku was subjected to racist abuse in only his second game in Italy after his transfer from Manchester United.

    Those arrested on Monday face a range of charges including being accused of criminal conspiracy, racketeering, money laundering and assault, a police statement said, adding that two other fans were put under house arrest.

    Juventus declined to comment.

    Prosecutors last year opened a separate, ongoing investigation into allegations that the ‘Ndrangheta crime mob, based in the southern Calabria region, had infiltrated the organised ultras groups in the Turin club’s Allianz stadium.

    Juventus is Italy’s most successful club. It has won the Serie A title for the last eight seasons and lifted the domestic cup a record 13 times.

    Two years ago the club was fined and ordered to play a home match with one of the main sections of its stadium closed for selling tickets to “ultras” and facilitating touting.

    The club’s president Andrea Agnelli was fined over the scandal but his one-year ban was lifted by an Italian soccer federation appeals court in December 2017. (Reuters/NAN)

    e carried out 39 searches in 14 towns and cities in northern and central Italy as part of its swoop on Monday.

    Italian soccer has been marred for years by criminal investigations, fan violence and racism.

    READ ALSO: Abia youths accuse ex- Commissioner of blackmailing Gov. Ikpeazu

    This month Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku was subjected to racist abuse in only his second game in Italy after his transfer from Manchester United.

    Those arrested on Monday face a range of charges including being accused of criminal conspiracy, racketeering, money laundering and assault, a police statement said, adding that two other fans were put under house arrest.

    Juventus declined to comment.

    Prosecutors last year opened a separate, ongoing investigation into allegations that the ‘Ndrangheta crime mob, based in the southern Calabria region, had infiltrated the organised ultras groups in the Turin club’s Allianz stadium.

    Juventus is Italy’s most successful club. It has won the Serie A title for the last eight seasons and lifted the domestic cup a record 13 times.

    Two years ago the club was fined and ordered to play a home match with one of the main sections of its stadium closed for selling tickets to “ultras” and facilitating touting.

    The club’s president Andrea Agnelli was fined over the scandal but his one-year ban was lifted by an Italian soccer federation appeals court in December 2017.

    (Reuters/NAN)

  • Nigerians react over Lupita Nyong’o adaptation of Adichie’s ‘Americanah’

    Mixed reactions have continued to trail news that Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o will play the Nigerian lead character in aeries adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘Americanah’

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Sunday, Lupita confirmed that HBO Max had ordered a 10-episode series based on the award-winning novel.

    Following the announcement, Nigerians on social media shared diverse views on the casting of Lupita as the lead character, Ifemelu, an Igbo woman raised in Lagos.

    While some fans applauded Lupita for purchasing the movie rights, thus earning casting control, others opined that an Igbo or Nigerian actress would do justice to the role.

    Some fans suggested Genevieve Nnaji, ‘Insecure’ star, Yvonne Orji, Cynthia Erivo or Tracy Ifeachor for the role.

    @Yugerohu tweeted, “Lupita is going to play Ifemelu from Igbo land Nigeria? I love Lupita a lot, but this is not it.

    “Feels like she’s the default pick whenever Hollywood needs an African Actress. If it’s too hard to find one in Nigeria, give us Yvonne Orji? Cynthia Erivo? Tracy Ifeachor?”

    @Mide_TA said, “Seeing as she bought the film rights. She can cast whoever she wants I think.”

    @Behembaba said, “Black Americans have been making this same argument about Black foreigners playing Black American roles.

    “Cynthia Erivo should never have been caste as Harriet Tubman.”

    @Johnmuriuki said, “We, Africans, didn’t gripe when Morgan Freeman played Mandela, nor did we raise a ruckus when Denzel played Steve Biko.

    “We didn’t raise an eyebrow when Forrest Whittaker played Idi Amin. We oughta ran riot when @shakira did that god-awful song in 2010 but we held our wheels.”

    @Theolufolake said, “Lupita bought the film rights in 2014. Honestly I feel you. I felt the same way about Half of a yellow Sun.”

    @Shawlarh said, “Forget about her buying the rights. She’s the only African Actress well suited for the role and big enough to reach a bigger audience, which is what they need. It’s simply business.”

    @Onioluwafunmi said, “I still have a beef with the Lady that played Olanna in Half A Yellow Sun. I felt really sad. It just wasn’t right.”

    NAN reports that some other fans pointed out that Nigerian actor, David Oyelowo played leading roles in Uganda-based ‘Queen of Katwe’ and ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’.

    @Echezona tweeted, “Y’all should stop being pressed about Lupita taking on the role of a Nigerian woman.

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    “Y’all weren’t pressed when David oyelowo acted Queen of Katwe (set in Uganda) and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the boy who harnessed the wind (set in Malawi).”
    @99thoughts said, “I get your point but

    David oyelowo was casted in ‘Queen of katwe’ which was a Ugandan story. He was also the main actor in ‘a United kingdom’ which was a South African history.”

    NAN reports that Nyong’o purchased the film rights to ‘Americanah’ in 2014 and immediately collaborated with fellow Black Panther’s castmate, Gurira to write the screenplay.

    However, in 2018, the duo stated that the novel was being turned into a mini-series and not a feature film. They visited Nigeria to do research for the screen project.

    ‘Americanah’ tells the story of Ifemelu (Nyong’o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a teenager falls in love with her classmate Obinze.

    Living in a military-ruled country, they each depart for the west, with Ifemelu heading for America.

    There, she learned that despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple for the first time with what it means to be black.

    (NAN)

  • Man accused of leaking ex-girlfriend’s nudes to her friends, family

    A New Mexico man allegedly sent his ex-girlfriend’s nude photos to her family and friends — and dished out her personal information to complete strangers — in an act of revenge after she broke up with him, according to a new report.

    Andrew Sandy, 23, of Albuquerque, was busted on Sept. 9 and charged with a third-degree felony count of extortion along with misdemeanor counts of stalking, voyeurism and unauthorized distribution of sensitive images, according to court records obtained by The Farmington Daily Times.

    In January, the victim, a Farmington resident, told local police that she’d just broken up with Sandy and he was threatening her, according to the report.
    She said she met Sandy online, dated him for about three months and ended the relationship despite his attempts to convince her to stay, the outlet reported.

    In a series of schemes that went on for nearly a month, Sandy allegedly released his ex’s personal information to strangers — which prompted people to show up at her job and approach her for sex, according to the report.

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    She was so afraid that she quit her job, the court records show.

    Sandy also allegedly sent out 10 nude photos to nine of the victim’s friends and relatives through Facebook, without her consent or knowledge, the documents obtained by the paper reveal.

    The photos were said to have been screenshots from a video chat between the two, in which Sandy asked the woman to take off her clothes, according to the report.

    He also obtained his ex’s personal information, including her Social Security number, vehicle identification number and medical information — all of which he planned to use against her, the paper reported.

    And he allegedly claimed to contact the New Mexico Children, Youth and Family Department to report his ex as an unfit mother so that her child would be removed from her custody.

    (www.newsnow.co.uk)