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  • Tailor remanded for allegedly defiling minor

    An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the remand of a 21-year-old tailor, Francis Adeniyi, who allegedly defiled a seven-year-old girl.

    Magistrate Mrs. E. Kubeinje ordered that the accused be remanded in prison pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    Kubeinje, who refused to take the plea of the accused, adjourned the case till March 28.

    Adeniyi, a resident of Ajiboye Street, Alapere, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of sexual assault and defiling a minor.

    Prosecuting Inspector Lucky Ihiehie said the girl’s mother reported the case at the Alapere Police Station on January 18.

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    He alleged that the complainant returned from work and discovered that her daughter was bleeding from her private parts.

    “She took her to hospital where it was confirmed that her private parts had been tampered with.

    “The girl told the police that the accused, who owns a tailoring shop in their house, dragged her to the bathroom.

    “He removed her pant and penetrated her through her private parts and anus; and then asked her to go home,” the prosecutor said.

  • Court remands tailor for ‘illegal possession of firearms’

    An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court has ordered the remand of a 38-year-old tailor, Abdulrasheed Zakariyau of Magaji compound, Oke-Andi, Ilorin, the state capital, for alleged illegal possession of firearms.

    The Prosecutor, Inspector Alhassan Jubril, told the court that the case was reported on September 24 at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) office by the Squad Vehicular Patrol Team, led by Inspector Odior Victor.

    Jubril said on the same date during patrol on Fate/Water view, Sango area to check criminal activities, they intercepted a Bajaj motorcycle with registration number (Lagos) QX368LND.

    He said the rider of the motorcycle, the accused, looked suspicious and his house was searched.

    “A short Dane gun and a locally-made pistol loaded with one live cartridge was recovered from him and when we questioned him, he could not give satisfactory account of the items recovered from him,” the prosecutor said.

    Jubril said during an investigation, the accused was discovered to be a member of a vigilance group.

    He said the type of gun recovered could not be possessed by a vigilante.

    The prosecutor said the case contravenes Section 27 (A) 1 of the Firearms Act.

    The Magistrate, Mrs Hafsat Alege, ordered that the accused be remanded in prison.

    The matter was adjourned till October 15 for further mention.

     

  • Soldiers, vigilante men beat tailor to stupor

    Soldiers, vigilante men beat tailor to stupor

    A tailor, Peter Duru was yesterday beaten to coma by soldiers and personnel of Abia State Vigilante Group (AVG) aka Bakassi during the ongoing building demolition exercise at Osusu road in Aba South Local Government Area of Abia State.

    Duru, who was immediately rushed to the hospital by sympathisers, is a well-known tailor at 88 Osusu road.

    The victim was attacked for trying to enquire the reason behind the extension of the demolition beyond where he said was the initial place marked by the demolition team.

    In a bid to escape, Duru fell into a nearby gutter together with one of the soldiers, which attracted booing from the crowd.

    Apparently angered, other soldiers joined them to beat the tailor.

    The incident caused pandemonium in the area as many residents and passers-by ran away to avoid being caught up in the melee.

    Some of the residents expressed disappointment over the maltreatment from soldiers and Bakassi members.

    “Before they came this morning, this man they almost killed now and most of us here volunteered and even help people to knock down some places. We cooperated with government. We never resisted the demolition. He only asked a question to ascertain if the place marked in his father’s house is not beyond the 10 fits government said we should give after the drainage.

    “You (this reporter) were here; you saw it and heard it all. There was no insult. They marked certain buildings last year, but last week, the other building which were not included were now included. This created confusion. Duru’s offense was that he tried to get an answer which was confusing to all of us. He’s now in the hospital. We just pray he survives the attack because, this man nearly died in accident last month,” Okai said.

  • Tailor commits suicide in Lagos

    Tailor commits suicide in Lagos

    TRAGEDY struck on Monday on a street in Yaba, Lagos Mainland,  when a tailor committed suicide.

    The incident took place at a Boys Quarter behind the late tailor’s shop at  4, Adebiaye Street, off Tejuosho Road, Yaba.

    Residents could not say how the late Funmi, who was popularly known as Iya  Hamida, took her own life.

    A trader said: “When she was passing my shop just this morning, I was calling her but she ignored me. Not until I heard she committed suicide.”

    The shop owner, Iya Sewa who hired Iya Hamida as assistant tailor, said  the reason for her action was best known to her. According to Iya Sewa,  she didn’t show any signs of depression.

    “I don’t know her reasons of choosing to kill herself; the only thing I know was that she was complaining over the contribution money she was meant to collect last week.

    “She called me on Sunday that she wanted to collect her contribution money from a thrift collector (Alajo) and that if he (the Alajo) fails to give her the money. Wahala ma se le o (there’ll be trouble),” she said.

    Asked about the late Funmi’s relatives and address, her boss said: “I don’t really know her husband and house address. All I know is that she stays at Idi-Araba, Mushin.”

    Another trader screamed, “Allahu Akbar! I saw her sitting at the shop yesterday (Monday); when I came to look for Iya Sewa and she told me her boss was not around. I can’t believe this.”

     

  • Fayose the tailor

    The Nigerian Television Authority, the octopus NTA, used to serve its 20 million viewers “Sura the Tailor”, a fictive tele-comedy.

    But NTA was in indecent haste. Had it waited a few years, even decades, it would have served its happy and titillated viewers with real-life stuff, with gubernatorial clout to boot: Fayose the Tailor!

    Perhaps to herald the 2017 International Women’s Day (IWD) in Ekiti, His Excellency, the “Irunmale to nje jollof rice” (self-named demon wolfing down jollof rice) hopped into a neighbouring Ado-Ekiti seamstress’ shop, full security in tow, to show the locals the real stuff of which gubernatorial tailoring was made.

    And boy! Didn’t the tape rule, and the machine-in-full-sewing motion, and the profile of the governor as executive tailor sit rather well on the august visitor in March?  It’s the making of Fayose the Tailor.

    O, was the governor-tailor sewing the special IWD “aso ebi”, thus assuring the Ekiti womenfolk that their day this year would be a day to remember? Nothing less, really, was expected from the gubernatorial man of the people!

    Until, of course, the John Kayode Fayemi (JKF) Centre — to be sure, no love lost between that axis and Fayose’s gubernatorial axis — hinted at some unconscionable racketeering allegedly tailored (that word again!) at a gubernatorial but crafty parasite virtually sucking the last pint of blood off the women hosts he claims to so much love.

    JFK Centre alleges the “aso-ebi”, priced at N500, was a soulless scam to fleece these long-suffering Ekiti women, in times of salary backlogs and harsh taxation, even when businesses are wilting in Ekiti.  Well, that’s JKF Centre’s allegations.  Let the Osoko and his people speak up for themselves.

    Still, it is amazing how far Fayose would go to drag the governorship to the height of the Pigmy, just because he seems well and truly incapable of vaulting its heights, by petty stunts and cheap derring-do.

    If Fayose is not combing Abuja for some bukateria to push the image of the Fela jeun kooku (eat and expire), he is scoring Ekiti to price pepper, fish and meat like some idle housewife — or more aptly, house husband! — or even visiting the “happening” joint for the latest and most potent agbo jedi (local herbs for pile) in town!

    Of course, a people so swayed by spectacle are thrilled; and they roar!  It is true, as the Yoruba quip: a lunatic show is high fun.  But whoever wishes his son or daughter pulls that show?

    Each time he puts up these stupid stunts, Ekiti regresses. But who knows what geometrical backwardness these wilful present regresses would translate to in future?

    In five years (1954-1959), the great Chief Obafemi Awolowo built a free education legacy that gifted Ekiti its cutting edge of professors, which earned it the due accolade of the land of the learned and the cultured. Would it take just four years of empty Fayose stunt-pulling to condemn its future generation to avoidable ruin?

    Ekiti thought they elected a governor.  Now, all they have is a prankster, whose latest empty stunt is Ayo the Tailor!

     

    Ekiti Kete!

  • Tailor chops off man’s hand with cutlass

    Tailor chops off man’s hand with cutlass

    A tailor, Samson Onome, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly chopping off a man’s right hand with cutlass during a fight.
    Onome, 34, of Celestial Area, Ilasan Housing Estate in Eti-Osa, Lagos, is standing trial before Magistrate B. A. Shonuga on a two-count charge of attempted murder and infliction of grievous bodily harm contrary to Sections 228(2) and 243 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
    The prosecution alleged that, at about 8pm on January 11, Onome tried to kill Wale Badejo, alias “Carry Go” by using a cutlass to cut off his right wrist and inflicting injuries on his head and left arm.
    A police source told The Nation that the incident occurred inside Onome’s room. He said a neighbour, who had been playing a game of lotto in a shop nearby, told Onome that “Carry Go”, was destroying things in the shop.
    The source said: “Onome accompanied the neighbour to the place where they met Carry Go threatening everyone. He said Carry Go punched him and pushed him to the ground, trying to lure him into a fight. He then ran into his room and locked himself in but Carry Go came after him with broken bottles.
    “According to him, Carry Go kicked down his door and charged at him with the bottles. Onome said he picked up a cutlass and cut off Carry Go’s right hand from the wrist when he tried to stab him with the bottles. He said boys in the area collected the cutlass from him and beat him up.
    “The victim was rushed to General Hospital, Marina for treatment but his severed hand could not be attached.”
    The defendant pleaded not guilty. His counsel, Stephen Opowara applied that he be granted bail.
    Prosecuting police Corporal Friday Mameh asked that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.
    He said: “The charge against the defendant is attempted murder where the defendant macheted the victim all over the body and completely cut off his hand with intent to kill him. The victim is lying critically ill in hospital in an unpredictable condition. The punishment on conviction is life imprisonment.”
    Ruling, Magistrate Shonuga upheld the prosecutor’s argument and remanded Onome in prison.
    He said: “In view of the degree of injury inflicted on the victim who is lying critically ill in the hospital, the defendant is hereby remanded in prison custody and the prosecution is ordered to forward the duplicate case file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice.”
    The case was adjourned till February 6.

  • SON and Aba tailor

    SIR: The global apparel market was valued at USD 1.7 trillion in 2012 and employs approximately 75 million people. What this means is that there is enough demand for clothing and apparel in the world which Nigeria can tap into for the employment of its millions of job-seekers and as well earn huge foreign exchange to fund further development. This is necessary especially now that the price of oil which is our major source of foreign exchange is wobbling in the international market. This is a fact which I expect that the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) should bear in mind. The agency seeks to enthrone Made-in- Nigeria-for-the-World (MINFOW) concept in the mindset of Nigerians and this is very gladdening.

    Nigeria is embarking on massive diversification of her economy as a response to dwindling oil revenue but for this objective to be achieved; her exports must be accepted in the international market. What this means is that goods expected from this country must comply with international standards. This is where SON should be assisted on its current effort to rid country of substandard products.

    One group SON should work with to achieve the goals of MINFOW is the apparel industry in Aba (Aba Tailors), Abia State.  Thousands of Nigerians in Aba are making a meaningful living through clothing. Now, we hear that many tailors of Aba extraction already based in Lagos and other Nigerian cities are now exporting clothing to Ghana, America, Europe, India and China.

    To encourage the Aba tailor’s march to global renown and wealth, Abia State, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, has moved to gather the widely dispersed tailoring shops in Aba into a cluster located at Umukalika, at the outskirts of Aba. The idea is to engender more sharing of ideas and innovation among the local creators of fashionable clothes.

    SON’s part in the arrangement is facilitative. SON is to ensure that the apparels from Aba and other parts of the country meet international standards in order to guarantee their access to the international market. SON will do well to help in monitoring compliance through certification aided by metrology, testing laboratories and factory inspection. SON and the Bank of Industry can jointly come up with incentives and facilities that will improve the quality of the works of the Aba tailor. Nigerian music is now the delight of the world and the sound of a continent because some musicians upgraded their skills. If international standards for tailoring exist, they should be propagated for the benefit of the local garment producer. Certainly, the Aba man of the cloth sewing machine will benefit from any relevant facilities the national standards body may bring.

    SON should encourage the world-conquering possibilities of the Aba apparel makers and Governor Okezie Okpeazu’s demonstrated support for the industry. This will consolidate the MINFOW that is happening and strengthen another Nigerian industry to feed the nation even better than petroleum.

    • Dr Mezi Onungwa,

    Aba, Abia State.