After weeks of speculation and rumors, Google has officially pulled back the curtain on what they have come to call Project Glass — a pair of augmented reality glasses that seek to provide users real-time information right in front of their eyes.

“We think technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t,” wrote Babak Parviz, Steve Lee, and Sebastian Thrun, three Google employees who are part of the Google X skunkworks. “We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input.”

Something tells me that they won’t be hurting for feedback.
To call these things glasses may be a bit of a stretch — early rumors noted that glasses bore a striking resemblance to a pair of Oakley Thumps, but the demo images on Project Glass’s Google+ page (one of which can be seen above) don’t look a thing like them. Rather, they appear to be constructed of a solid metal band that runs across the brow line, with a small heads-up display mounted on the right side.

The New York Times‘ Nick Bilton, who broke the Project Glass story today, went on to say that the prototype model seen in the images is just one of the potential designs currently in testing. Among others, one of the potential designs for Project Glass is (thankfully) meant to be attached to a person’s existing pair of glasses.

These demo designs are far more stylish than the original reports made it out to be, but really — who cares about that right now? A brief demo video (below) highlights some of the functionality that the Project Glass specs aspire to provide: the protagonist of the video goes about his daily life aided by the glasses, which displays a circle-based UI that provides real time information like and weather and transit when needed. Further applications include the ability to send messages using your voice, instructing the glasses to take a picture, and displaying the location of nearby friends.

This is terribly, terribly cool stuff, but I’d caution users to take the images and video with a grain of salt for now — not because I don’t think Google will eventually make good on them, but because they represent just one direction that the project could go in. According to Wired, Project Glass is still more of a concept than an actual product, and won’t see an official release for a very long time.

It’s also worth noting that as downright magical as these things could be, there’s still very little insight into how they would actually work. Bilton’s early write-up notes that the glasses will be capable of establishing a 3G or 4G wireless connection, but how exactly Google will shoehorn those components (just to name a few) into a comfortable headset is still up the air.

Google Project Glass - Augmented Reality Glasses 

 BY  Chris Velazco

I won’t Allow my Daughter to Married to a White Man - Chief Iyabode Olufunmilayo Adedoyin

Chief Iyabode Olufunmilayo Adedoyin, the wife of the President of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State, manages Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, Osun State, The beautiful mother of five girls and two boys tells GBENGA ADERANTI what it takes to be married to a husband who is always on the move.

Do you still practise your religion?

Yes, my husband allows me. Being married to a Muslim has not changed me from being a Christian. You know there are some things you imbibe as you grow up.

 All the Christian traits and values my parents put in are still there. I can’t change those things even though I’m married to a Muslim.

How about your children?

Well, I can see some of them imbibing Christianity. You know that we women stay with the children than their fathers. They are picking some things from me. They copy the way I do things. That does not mean that all of them are Christians. Some of them have chosen to go the way of Islam. I still call some of them their Muslim names. There is no problem, and they are okay with both religions because they can practise both.

Has there been a time the issue of religion caused a problem between you and your husband?

No. But what my husband always says is that he would not allow any of his children to be a religious fanatic or fundamentalist. He warns that if you want to be a Muslim, don’t be one that would be condemning everybody. And if you want to be a Christian, don’t condemn anybody either.

Would you allow your children to marry from outside your tribe?

Yes, I would. They can marry a Christian or a Muslim. There is no problem about that.

Would you allow your daughter to get married to a white man?

No, I won’t. If a girl is married to a white man, they will forget about home. You know that their culture is me and my wife. I don’t like their style.


If you were to advise a lady who is about to get married,. What would you say to her?

My only advice for a lady who wants to get married is that she should put everything in God’s hand and should be asking God for wisdom, knowledge and understanding. If she asks for these, God will give them to him. You are your own prophet and pastor. Anything you want, if you tell your God, the answer from God is no, yes or wait. It is only when we cannot wait that we make mistakes. But if you are focused and wait and say this is the type of man I want in my life or this is the type of woman I want in my life, God will bring it to pass.

I think anybody who wants to marry should not say because she is a doctor, she would want to marry a doctor or she would want to marry a chartered accountant because she is a chartered accountant. Such a home will not be peaceful. It will be like a two masters wanting to drive a car.

 It won’t be easy. I have ladies and I always tell them, ‘If you want to marry, marry the person that you love, not wealth. You need to do a proper check on the background of the person you want to marry. If the parents of the people you want to marry are not together, that is a problem.

Anambra crime headquarters•Where robbers, ‘blood-sucking demons’ and fake policemen reign

Ndidi Anyiam is a young girl staying with her elder brother, Donatus, a trader at the Onitsha Bridge Head drug market. After three years of battling to secure admission into the university, she got tired of staying at home and opted to assist her brother in his shop at the Bridge Head.

One Friday morning, she set out to go to the market. On crossing the other side of the road at the Upper Iweka NITEL bus stop to board a bus plying the Uga Bridge Head route, she was approached by a nice-looking young man who asked her the direction to locate Nwaziki Street in Awada.
 Coincidentally, it was on the same street she resides. But the attempt to assist this ‘harmless’ young man was her greatest undoing.

All Ndidi could remember two days later was that she found herself in Asaba, the Delta State capital. She could not explain how she was hypnotized, she went to her brother’s shop and collected N80,000 being the cost of two cartons of Procold tablets her brother just sold that morning. Ndidi went ahead and borrowed N120,000 from different sources inside the market, lied to them that it was her brother that sent her and subsequently went back to Asaba to hand over the money to the fraudsters. It was when she came back to look for more money that the brother, who had gone to the Abuja park to send goods to a customer, accosted her and demanded to know where she kept the money inside the drawer. She never gave a satisfactory answer. It was after the brother slapped her that the ‘scale’ fell off her eyes and she started crying.

Sample 2
Sister Mmesoma is a nun in the congregation of Immaculate Heart Sisters. She was transferred from their convent in Awo-Omama, Imo State, to the Nkpor Convent to take charge of the provision store and canteen serving the mission hospital. On a particular day, she went to the Ogbaru Main Market, popularly known as the Relief Market in Onitsha, to buy goods. On approaching the foot of the flyover at Upper Iweka, there was a traffic snarl. So, she and the driver joined the queue.

Because the car air conditioner was faulty, the windows  were wound down. Suddenly two young men appeared by the window and shouted: “Give us that bag.” Out of fear arising from different tales she had heard about Upper Iweka, she handed over the bag containing the sum of N210,000 to the boys even before the driver could tell her not to since the boys were a regular nuisance that harass people without guns within the area.

This is Upper Iweka, the unofficial crime headquarters of Anambra State. Upper Iweka literary possesses different faces - the good, the bad, the ugly. These true life encounters are just samples from the action thriller churned out daily from the hot spot of Onitsha.
Upper Iweka is a big spectacle in contradiction and absurdities. Though it derived its name from the popular Iweka Road, named after a monarch (now late) from Obosi in Idemili North Local Government of the state. Upper Iweka is simply the upper part of the Iweka road but because of its vantage location, it is the heart of Onitsha.

It is the connection point for many travellers as it serves as a point of arrival and departure for various travellers within the city or those in transit. Because of its central location connecting the Onitsha-Enugu expressway, Asaba Bridge Head expressway as well as Onitsha-Owerri expressway, many cannot do without Upper Iweka, although it is often dreaded like a plague due to the chilly stories and happenings within the area.

When popular musician Ibealoke Chukwukeziri (aka Apama Boy) released an album in 2001 titled: Ihe na-eme na Upper Iweka (things dey happen for Upper Iweka) it was a hit. The Achi, Oji River-born artiste demonstrated in song the activities of illegal tax collectors, who extort money from individuals in the name of tax rates until they met their perfect match in the person of Chief Perricomo Okoye, whom they carried shoulder high to their office to perfect their extortionist tendencies but were surprised that they couldn’t bring him down despite all efforts. Ichie Perrycomo, using his own African magical powers, taunted them all through, commanded and collected outrageous items from them before he set them free.

Today, the tax collectors may have fizzled out of Upper Iweka but the activities in the area can make for another block buster movie. In June this year, Upper Iweka was in the news again as 20 corpses were reportedly found in a tunnel while a criminal was being pursued. Although official sources say the figures reported in the media were inflated, our reporter spent some days in the area and came up with several discoveries that would make the activities of those days under the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos look like child’s play.

Upper Iweka is the place where two men can engage in an open fight totally naked with passers-by watching. There, Okada riders and others passing by, when pressed by nature, will simply unzip, pull down their trousers and begin to defecate in the gutter while others pass and look the other way.

In this place, it is every man for himself as no one cares what happens to the other. Everybody seems to be always in a hurry here. It is also a dumping ground for ritualistic activities, an area where one confronts in the early hours of the day gory pictures of beheaded ladies or butchered men whose vital body parts may be missing.

Fake policemen on the prowl
There used to be a police station at Upper Iweka opposite the NITEL office. The place was formerly a beehive of activities as the police then were accused of massive arrests of innocent people. It was during the MASSOB uprising some years ago that some hoodlums capitalized on the situation and burnt the station down.

Since then, the Anambra State police command has not rebuilt it, although there is another police station nearby at Okpoko layout. While policemen in uniform mount checkpoints around the flyover and the Lagos park axis, Sunday Sun revealed that fake policemen also harass and extort money from individuals. They operate around the NITEL area, Aba Park axis, Micmerah Park, Ogbaru Relief Market as well as Old Asaba/TRACAS Park. Their style of operation is usually to flash their identity cards at an already fidgeting trader and then search and collect any valuables in the person’s bag unless the person is ready to settle.

Narrating his frequent encounter with this group of ‘policemen’ to Sunday Sun, Justus Ijeoma, who is head of the publicity desk of a human rights group in Anambra, said: “There was a day one of them flashed his identity card and wanted to search my bag. I resisted and he called another man on the other side of the road, who he addressed as Inspector. The so-called Inspector flashed his own identity and I quickly grabbed it, only to discover that the man was a police constable. I called the Area Commander on the phone and he told me to hold the man and await the arrival of his men. Unfortunately for them, the press crew of a private television station was passing by and one of the reporters recognized me. They filmed the encounter and took all of us to the station where it was discovered that the constable was working hand-in-hand with the fake police officer. The man was sanctioned appropriately.”

Our reporter also observed that many traders in Onitsha become victims of these fake policemen and other real policemen in plain clothes, who harass people within the area with phrases like “wetin you carry?”; “from where to where?”; “where is your helmet?”; “when you reach station, you will explain further”; “where is the receipt for this goat?” among other such gimmicks.
Speaking on the development, the new Onitsha Area Commander, AC Larry Osita, said the command was poised to discipline any errant officer as he had zero tolerance for corruption.

Emergency toll collectors
In 2009, The Federal Government awarded the contract for rehabilitation of the Onitsha-Enugu dual carriageway. Although the pace of work has been at a snail speed, with concerned residents lamenting the situation, there are however other individuals “praying” daily that the work should be abandoned completely. They are the emergency toll collectors reaping bountifully at Upper Iweka. Since the construction company excavated large sand, which blocked the gutters in between, it has become practically impossible for pedestrians, motorcyclists and vehicle owners to cross over to the other side of the lane without assistance.

This became an employment opportunity to many jobless youths who capitalized on the situation to erect wooden crossover ‘bridges.’ The toll fee is N10 per crossing for pedestrians and ‘Okada’ riders while vehicle owners pay N50. Between the Ogbaru market, down flyover, TRACAS to MCC bus stop, this reporter counted 15 of such illegal tolls/crossings and all the operators are busy from morning till night. Some of the points are manned by red-eyed Indian hemp addicts, who are ready to “die” with any uncooperative user. One of the operators who identified himself as Tobias said he makes an average of N3000 daily from his toll point.
In the evening, the business becomes more spectacular as wheelbarrow pushers convert them into emergency flyovers. They put their barrows between the gutter for people to step on to the other side, also for a fee.

Centre of mysterious accidents
Upper Iweka is also the place where the highest number of road crashes is recorded yearly in Onitsha. It is estimated that accidents occur on the average of two per day in the area. Some attributed it to the presence of “blood-sucking demons” in the area while others say it is the result of the chaotic nature of the area and the concentration of human and vehicular traffic. Most of the vehicles often involved in crashes are heavy-duty trucks and people wonder how such vehicles crash at the point of destination at Onitsha after covering long distances from Maiduguri and other parts of the North.

When contacted on the telephone, the Onitsha Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr Ben Akunne, declined comment on the development but demanded an official letter before he could respond.

Headquarters of hooliganism/brigandage
Apart from regular touting by motor park and garage workers, Upper Iweka is also the headquarters of hooliganism and brigandage. Pick pockets, handset and handbag snatching are rampant. Armed robbery incidents occur mainly in the early hours of the day and in the evening. A car dealer, Onuorah Oodo, narrated how he lost his valuables to armed robbers at Upper Iweka while returning from Lome, Togo, where he sources cars for his clients. This practice takes place in various forms by various faceless groups, who have the raw nerve to demand and grab money and other valuables from their hapless victims. However, there are two identifiable groups whose activities leave much to be desired. They are the Anambra State Traffic Agents (ASTA) operatives and the Task Force known as Ndi Mpiawa azu (the lacerators, back breakers or the cane masters).
The ASTA operatives appear in green trousers and yellow shirts while the Mpiawa azu group is known by its traditional ox blood fez cap on which is inscribed Anambra State Task Force. They usually wield long canes.
Although the ASTA operatives have their head office at the Bridge Head section while the Mpiawa azu is located at the Onitsha-Owerri road bypass, both groups have unofficially relocated their head office to Upper Iweka because of the lucrative nature of their business in the area. The two outfits were created by a former Commissioner for Transport and Special duties in the state to ease traffic, check the excesses of commercial bus drivers on major roads in Onitsha as well as to clear the streets of the excesses of street traders.

Sunday Sun findings however revealed that the major preoccupation of the two groups is extortion and brutality. The ASTA operatives impound and forcibly remove vehicle number plates, tow such vehicles to their offices and extort the driver. They apprehend those driving against the traffic yet they flout the same rules themselves while on duty. The cane beaters (mpiawa azu) collect money openly from drivers while any hesitation results in continuous flogging and breaking of vehicle mirrors.

Their boss is popularly known as IKO and is alleged to operate a very lucrative transport business with a fleet of vehicles while they don’t remit the accurate revenue accruing to the government. When Sunday Sun contacted him on phone for comments on the allegations, his response was: “What is your business in this matter? Did government tell you that their money is missing? If I like, I can procure 100 buses monthly for my business. If you had come physically to ask me this stupid question, I wouldn’t have talked to you. Rather I would have told my boys to beat you up.”

This reporter witnessed recently how a pregnant woman fell off a commercial motorcycle that was knocked down by a commercial bus being pursued by the group at Upper Iweka. She died soon after.

Rent a bench to pass the night
At the Lagos Park section of Upper Iweka is another big story. Many street urchins and barrow pushers that are homeless find refuge in the area. While some of them sleep on top of their barrows at night, others that cannot afford the luxury rent wooden benches for N40 and sleep in the open space. Bench renting is another lucrative business in the area.

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How You Can Be Able To Build Your Dream Company From Home

The age of the virtual company is upon us. Future historians may look back and declare that the concept of offices began their slow but inevitable extinction some time around 2011 A.D. Our grandchildren will watch movies like Office Space with a touch of bewilderment—did people really have to sit in front of a desktop computer for eight hours every day?
Yes, this is all an exaggeration. After all, some offices will need to provide a space for face-to-face meetings. But it’s hard to argue that the growing popularity of the home-based business model isn’t becoming a characteristic of the entrepreneurial mindset. Now, more than half of all small businesses in the United States are based out of the entrepreneur’s home, according to the Small Business Administration. That’s around 15 million home-based businesses, and represents about $500 billion in revenue every year.
Obviously, the costs of running a business from home is advantageous because it’s cheap.
It’s simple, says Danny Wong, co-founder of Blank Label, a start-up that offers custom men’s shirts. Wong and his co-founders have a completely bootstrapped approach to their business model—and opening an office just didn’t make sense for them. “We just didn’t want to pay,” Wong says. Blank Label is also a paradigm for the 2011 version of a virtual company. They use video chat and Google Wave when the team isn’t together, and they’ve never even met one of their developers, who lives in Orange County. “We video chat with him, but he’s always kind of in the dark,” Wong says.
Cutting costs early on can be attractive to investors, too. “Bootstrapping in this fashion creates a lean, efficient business model that will appeal to investors and buyers later on,” says Sam McRoberts, founder of Vudu Marketing, which is based out of McRoberts home in Provo, Utah.
But for many, running a business from home has very little to do with the money it saves them. It’s all about, as one entrepreneur put it, the “10-step commute.”
Hakan Nizam, who runs a web development company out of his home in Brooklyn, enjoys a more fluid approach to his business model. When Nizam needs to meet with clients, he rents a conference room at a co-working facility in a location that’s convenient for them. If one of his temporary employees wants to work at a desk, he rents them one. Nizam doesn’t have any permanent employees—he mostly just hires freelancers and independent contractors, when needed. “It’s like a team,” he says. “I am happy, they’re happy. It’s all virtual.”
For Emily Newman, founder of Once Wed, an online resource for brides-to-be, working from home was pretty much a necessity. “My father lives with us,” Newman says. “He got sick a while ago and working from home allows me to be there for him. It’s been a huge benefit of my business.”
Raising a family is no longer a reason—or excuse—to prevent the launch of a company, either. Stacy Blackman, for example, chose to keep her consulting company based from home in Los Angeles, California to be closer to her three young children. “I transition between the ‘professional me’ and the ‘personal me,’” she says. Jenny Ford, who runs Monkey Toes, a home-based shoe and clothing retailer in Denver, Colorado, says she works during her daughter’s naptime.
Home-based franchises, which often swell with popularity during a recession or a tough labor market, can be an easier transition for someone looking to launch their business from home. The franchise model is known for its hands-on services—maintenance, repairs, and services—but according to Chris Couri, the founder and CEO of We Do Lines, a Ridgefield, Connecticut-based parking lot striping franchise, it’s really just a sales and marketing job. “Other than the paint on pavement, which you hire a crew to do, we built the system around making it easy for someone to run this business off a Droid phone and a laptop,” he says.
Stewart Vernon, the founder of America’s Swimming Pool company (ASP), one of the country’s largest pool maintenance franchises, says that the home office is the ideal place to start your business, and that most of his franchisees eventually segue into retail or office space. “Our business model is certainly based around home offices,” he says. “But the longer term goal is to have offices or retail space,” he says.
Still, there is a darkside to running a home-based business. For many entrepreneurs, starting and running a business out of a home office has felt like a carefully guarded secret.
“It almost has a negative connotation, like you’re doing this cute little thing,” says Chris McCann, co-founder of  Startup Digest, which is based out of McCann’s home in Palo Alto, California. But Startup Digest is anything but “cute.” In less than a year, its subscriber base has grown to reach over 100,000 subscribers in 50 cities.
Perhaps another Inc. writer put it best. “Outsiders are apt to view even the most successful virtual companies with a measure of skepticism, if not outright derision,” wrote senior writer Max Chafkin in an April 2010 Inc. feature story.  “Convincing them otherwise means carefully managing perceptions about yourself and your company.”
But managing these perceptions has become a relatively easy task. Services like Google Voice offers specialized phone settings to make your company appear larger than it may actually be, and project management tools like Acunote let you work in the cloud with clients.
Another concern for the home-based business model revolves around the fear of distractions. But these fears tend to be largely unfounded. A 2009 survey conducted by CISCO, for example, found that 67 percent of its workers found working from home—verus working out of an office—improved the quality of their work.
This is because work does not get done at work, said Jason Fried, founder of 37Signals and Inc. columnist, at a recent TED conference. “I’ve been asking this question for 10 years—where do you go when you really need to get things done?” he said to an audience. “I’ll hear things like the porch, the deck, the kitchen, an extra room in the house, coffee shop, basement, train, plane, car…you almost never hear anybody say the office.” Why? Because the office is filled with interuptions that you can’t control.
But beyond the improved productivity, the low barriers of entry, the convenience of removing a commute, and the ability to be close to a family, there’s a more intangible advantage of working from home. It’s liberating.
“To me, the best part about it, was that I just feel much more alive doing this,” says Alex Martin, a tax consultant who launched his company, Productive Pricing, from his home in Plymouth, Michigan after over a decade working a corporate job. “I do things my own way.”

My biggest regrets as referee -Alex Mana

For decades, it has been a recurring decimal for Nigerian referees to be dropped from top flight FIFA organised competitions. While both the public and the football authorities have continued to blame the referees for their inability to make it, retired FIFA badged referee, Dr. Alex Mana, is full of regrets that the Nigerian referee is highly misunderstood.
Speaking at a chance meeting with Sunday Sunsports at the MM2 in Ikeja, he stated that Nigerian referees are so maligned that they have been thrown to the dogs. He is of the view that if the Nigerian referee is given the right encouragement, they would go places.
“I feel sad that things are going the way it is at the moment. I feel bad that nobody sees anything good about the Nigerian referee because some of us had compromised in such a manner that people just generalise and speak ill of Nigerian referees. I look back at my days as a referee and still feel sad that I never made it to a major FIFA World Cup assignment.”

He said that referees' administration has not helped the cause of players because they have over politicised issues for their selfish interest.
Dr. Alex Sule Mana, who currently lectures at the National Institute for Sports in Lagos, has been a FIFA referee from 1995 till the end of 2008. “I looked forward to making it to the FIFA World Cup. I did not because things were so badly done in the administration of referees that things are done so badly. When the late Gen. Yabilsu was president of the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA), he helped to propagate the very high standards to us, but subsequent leadership has not helped. When the good referees are not in their books, they prefer to use those that are still learning the ropes.”
He noted that when such referees fail, they blame the lot of Nigerian referees. “The thinking here is that all Nigerian referees are corrupt and that is not true. In fact, many people used to call me the highest bidder and I didn't know why until recently when I went to the football secretariat in Abuja. I asked one of the staff who called me as such and he said most clubs would fight over me to be the centre referee in their away matches because they know that I'm firm.”
“Look at the way some of us finished our refereeing career without making it big in the long run. Many of us are victims of politics and it pains me to my marrows that countries that can't even look us in the eyes are producing referees that feature at major FIFA events. Take a look at Togo, Republic of Benin and their like and compare them to us. They can't match us and I don't see them as better referees than those we have in Nigeria, but their countries work for them and they are right up there. We need to look at people on merit if we want to grow,” the former athlete stated.

source:sunnewsonline

PDP Stalwart And Ministerial Nominee Drowns In The Lagos Lagoon, Body Yet To Be Recovered

 The body of a Lagos politician, Mr. Al-Mustaim Alade Abaniwonda, who jumped into the Lagos lagoon yesterday evening is yet to be recovered, sources within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, told P.M.NEWS this morning.
The politician, who was 56 as at the time he committed suicide, was a ministerial nominee who could not make it to the screening of nominees by the Senate recently.
Abaniwonda, a die-hard loyalist of Chief Bode George, had lost the senatorial seat in the last election to Senator Gbenga Ashafa, who now represents Lagos East Senatorial District.
P.M.NEWS learnt that he spent a lot of money during the campaign and was supposed to be compensated with the ministerial slot. He was however denied the slot under circumstances which could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report.
When P.M.NEWS contacted the party’s secretariat over the incident this morning, Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Barrister Gani Taofeek, said a search party had been on the lagoon in search of the body of Abaniwonda, who jumped into the lagoon after driving his car, a Toyota Camry with registration number MU 555 AAA to the Leventis Bus Stop in Marina.
Explaining how the incident occurred, his driver, Wasiu, who drove him to the spot, said they were coming from a bank on the Lagos Island when he told the driver that he was pressed and would need to use the toilet. He rebuffed the driver’s advice to wait till they get to the CSS Bookshop building located on Broad Street.
According to Wasiu, who spoke with journalists at the scene of the incident, “he ate his food after we left the bank and he told me he was going to use a toilet down there. That was all I knew until I heard people shouting.
“He was still struggling to get out of the lagoon when I got there but he later went down inside the water.”
Eyewitness account has it that when the politician jumped into the lagoon, he was still able to stand upright at a shallow part of the lagoon but he deliberately walked into a deeper section of the lagoon.
The late Epe-born politician’s son, who rushed to the scene with some other siblings while the rescue efforts were still going on, denied that his father took his life as a result of frustration from his failure in politics, saying he was lively and happy while the family celebrated the birthday of their mother the previous day.
“If he is still in the water up till now, and you told me it happened about an hour ago, then he must have died because he is diabetic. There is a limit to which his lungs would be able to hold him under water,” his son said.

Update

 Drowned Lagos politician’s remains found, buried 

 The late Abaniwonda's widow
 Forty-eight hours after he slipped and got drowned in the Lagos lagoon, the remains of Lagos politician Mustain Abaniwonda were finally retrieved and buried yesterday afternoon at the Victoria Court Cemetery, Lagos.

His remains were found floating face-up deep into the sea by a search party 48 hours after he slipped into the lagoon in Marina and was swept away by the tidal waves.

His family have denied he jumped into the lagoon, they insist he slipped and drowned when help didn't come to him on time. What they told the press when you continue...

Lecturer in Auchi Polytechnic Edo State beats student to pulp

AUCHI - A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Osaigbokan Okaro is currently battling in hospital for his life following alleged beating to pulp by his landlord who is also a lecturer in the institution over domestic differences.
The gladiator, Dr. Philip Aiweriale who THE NIGERIAN OBSERVER learnt is a Chief lecturer in the Polytechnic, was said to have violently boxed the 18-year-old student in the head and body until he collapsed
The victim, it was gathered, was rushed to a private hospital for treatment where he allegedly laid in critical condition before he was referred to the Central Hospital, Benin for further medical attention.
It was also gathered that the student received intensive Medicare for poor audition resulting in the pounding of his head with blows; a development that prompted the doctor to refer him for further treatment to prevent
 permanent morbidity.
Contacted, Dr. Aiweriale admitted that the student tampered with his electricity metre resulting in its burning but threatened that someone would be in trouble if the story was published when he realised he was speaking with a journalist.
A competent police source confirmed to THE NIGERIAN OBSERVER that the lecturer and parents of the student were negotiating settlement, while the medical bills were being shouldered by the lecturer, adding that the victim was still receiving treatment. Contacted, Dean, students Affairs of the Polytechnic, Mr. George Umoru who also confirmed the incident, said however that the matter was not within the jurisdiction of management as it was not officially reported to the institution.
By MORRISON HAYBLE PM.NEWS

Royal rumble -Lagos monarch, high chief draw battle line

The once rosy relationship between a Lagos monarch, Oba Rafiu Salami, the Onibeju of Ibejuland, and an Ibeju High Chief and son-in-law to the royal father, Chief Kamilu Bakare, the Atayese of Ibejuland, has hit the rocks. And unless it is urgently curtailed, the smouldering fire may soon consume not only the major characters but the entire community.

The king and his chiefs are drawing their swords against each other over allegations of insubordination, kidnap, threat to life and extortion, among others.
At the centre of the controversy is the king’s daughter and Bakare’s wife, Toyin.
According to findings by Daily Sun, trouble started a few months ago when Toyin suddenly abandoned her husband and relocated to her father’s palace with her belongings.

Toyin, who was Bakare’s seventh wife, said she left her husband of four years when she was being forced to take a love oath that would permanently bind her to Bakare. She already had a baby girl for the Ibeju chief.
Things started falling apart a few days after Toyin abandoned her husband. On December 15, last year, the lady was kidnapped at gunpoint in front of her father’s palace.

Her father, Oba Onibeju, promptly informed Bakare and a frantic search for her began. The incident was reported to the police, and Bakare was picked up.
After 11 days in the lions’ den, Toyin was freed. Her father said he paid a ransom of N3.5 million. Bakare also regained his freedom, but that wasn’t the end of the matter.

He sent petitions to the police, complaining that the traditional ruler and some other chiefs were selling hundreds of hectares of his family land illegally, threatening his life with hired assassins and blackmailing him with allegations of kidnap and armed robbery.
Distraught with Bakare’s action, Oba Onibeju and his council relieved Bakare of his traditional titles of Atayese and Ilufeminiyi of Ibeju land. This was published in The Punch of May 30. Bakare’s lands and buildings under development in Ibeju were also confiscated by the traditional police, the dreaded Ogboni Confraternity.
Bakare again fought back. He invited some policemen from Abuja, who reportedly invaded a meeting of the Ogboni confraternity, arresting and detaining five of the members.

Bakare claimed that when he visited one of the buildings recently, alongside his lawyer, Raji Olusegun, and some police officers, about 50 Ogboni members attacked them with charms and he was beaten unconscious. Describing the attack as unlawful, Raji said his client would soon be dragging the Onibeju to court.
This reporter recently met with Oba Salami, his daughter, Toyin and Bakare’s lawyer, Raji. They explained their own sides of the matter that is causing ripples in this sprawling community in Lagos.
Bakare has offended the land and he must apologise - Oba Salami
Kamilu Bakare is my in-law. My last daughter, Toyin, had a baby girl for him and for your information, I made Kamilu Bakare the Tayese of Ibejuland. So, you can see how close we are. However, things began to fall apart between us when my daughter, his wife, suddenly indicated indirectly, her resolve to quit her love relationship with Bakare. She said she had just discovered that Bakare deceived her into the union as he did not tell her that he was already married to six women and that they all had children for him.

After that incident, my daughter was kidnapped by gunmen in front of my palace. That happened on December 15 last year. When it happened, a lot of indigenes of this land were alleging that Kamilu Bakare was responsible for her kidnap. They suspected Kamilu because the incident happened just few days after Toyin packed out of his house. But I did not listen to those people. Meanwhile the kidnappers were demanding between N400 million and N500 million before they would give me back my daughter. I had to part with about N3.5 million before she was released after 11 days. I told Kamilu Bakare about it but he didn’t do anything until I got her back myself. I also reported the matter to the police. They asked me if I suspected anybody and I said I did not suspect anybody and told them to just help fish my daughter out from wherever she was.

I think they already knew that she just left Kamilu because a lot of phone calls were coming in from many people that they suspected that Kamilu arranged for my daughter’s kidnap. Soon, Kamilu was arrested and taken to the SARS in Ikeja for interrogation concerning the kidnap. After investigating him on the matter, the police granted him bail and he was asked to be reporting to the station until the matter is resolved.

Ban on his buildings
This was a decision unanimously passed by five traditional rulers in Ibeju kingdom. These included Oba Tajudeeen Elemoro, the Onitedo of Oke-Odo, Oba Amusa Atiku, the Onimedu of Onimedu, Oba L. Liasi, the Onilekki of Lekki, Oba Ganiu Adegbesan, the Onise of Iseland and all the chiefs and Baales in Ibejuland and myself.

Nobody ever beat him with charms as he alleged, neither did anyone take any of his building materials. All those allegations are bloody lies. How can I send hired assassins to kill my in-law? My daughter has a baby girl, who is barely three years old, for him. How could I do such a thing? It is just a laughable allegation; it is not true at all.

He said I’m not the rightful ruler here? Well, let him go and bring his own king. In Nigeria and in all Yorubaland, once an Oba is installed, the aggrieved ones are free to go to court, so let him go to court. That is the way it is done.

The way forward
Kamilu Bakare is a native of Ibejuland; he is a son of the soil and as a royal father, everybody in Ibejuland is my child. Indeed, if anybody offends the royal father, it is only normal to punish that person to serve as a deterrent to others. What I expected of him as my in-law and a chief was to come to me and say he was sorry when the community took the decision to sack him as a chief and to seize his land and buildings. He should have said he was sorry; it is Satan’s work. That is all he ought to do and the whole issue would have been settled.
Oba Salami organized his own daughter’s abduction
–Bakare’s lawyer
My name is Mr. Olusegun Raji of Olusegun Raji Chambers, Agege, Lagos. I am the lawyer to Chief Kamilu Bakare.
Oba Onibeju unlawfully seized some lands and buildings of my client, Chief Kamilu Bakare. We had the rumour that Oba Rafiu Salami, the Onibeju of Ibejuland ordered the Ogboni Confraternity of Ibeju-Lekki-Eti Osa axis to go to all the yet to be completed buildings of my client, Chief Kamilu Bakare, the Atayese of Ibejuland and the Ilufemiloye of Ibejuland. The said Kabiyesi used his veto power and ordered his Ogboni Confraternity to place charms on Bakare’s buildings. The charms were in the form of red clothing. He did this to punish Bakare unjustly.

We found a reason for his action through our own investigations and it is to the effect that Bakare reported the Kabiyesi to the police at Abuja and he was invited. Tso the Kabiyesi, Bakare has violated the customs of the land by taking such actions. This is understood to mean that the Kabiyesi is taking the law into his hands. We also want to believe that the Kabiyesi must have given the Ogboni people some gratification to induce them to carry out the seizure of my client’s buildings.
Toyin’s abduction
We want to believe that the kidnap of Ms. Toyin Salami, on December 15, 2010, was arranged by her brother and in fact, the whole family of Oba Onibeju. This is because the secret number with which the kidnappers were calling the Onibeju during the time Toyin was held hostage, was later found with the Onibeju’s son and elder brother to Toyin. He was arrested and detained when we reported this but he was later granted bail.

My client was called by the Kabiyesi to come to the palace, that they had agreed to pay some ransom to the kidnappers and he wanted my client to follow the other chiefs to Bayelsa State where they would get Toyin. But while my client was driving to the palace, the Divisional Police Officer of the Akodo Police Station called and ordered him to report to the police station immediately, that he had a kidnap case to answer. He promptly turned back and headed to the police station and on getting there he was confronted with some hand-written documents, which contained an allegation that he planned the kidnap of Toyin Salami. The DPO informed my client that he got the information from a telecommunications company. He was detained and was released later when Toyin was found.
I knew Bakare had many wives when our affair started - Toyin Salami
I met Kamilu Bakare about four years ago. Then, he introduced himself as the Tayese of Ibejuland. After that time, we had a relationship and I got pregnant for him.
When he came to me, I didn’t know that he was one of my father’s chiefs and he didn’t know that I am a princess of Ibejuland. The day he saw me, he just told me that he liked me so much and that he was interested in me. Our relationship was on for about five months before I got pregnant for him.
Did I know he was married? Yes, I knew that he was married with four wives but I didn’t want to marry him. I just wanted to have a relationship with him for some time and then quit the affair. But then, I got pregnant for him. Even when that happened, I didn’t tell him because I wanted to abort the pregnancy but my mother found out about my pregnancy and reported to my father. It was my father who persuaded me not to abort the pregnancy.

When I eventually made up my mind to call it quits with Bakare, I didn’t pick a quarrel with him. No, I didn’t. This is because each time I wanted to pick a quarrel with him over his refusal to pay my child’s school fees and feed us, my father was always intervening. My father has been shouldering the responsibility of feeding my baby and myself. Bakare has not been responsible after I gave birth to my baby.

I left because of the terrible thing Bakare and his family wanted to do to me. They invited me and the other wives to come to their family house one day and told us that we must take an oath concerning our relationship with Bakare. They said that we should inform our parents and seek their consent on it. They gave us an ultimatum. So, when I came back to the palace, I told my father about the development but he wasn’t really in a mood to give a final answer. He asked me to see him later. But before I could see him again on the issue, he had travelled to Mecca. So, when the date given to us by Bakare’s family came, I sneaked out of the palace to honour the invitation without telling my mum.

On getting to the family house, I was shocked to discover that we have been called for a sinister exercise. They had hired a herbalist, who was administering the oath-taking. They were asking us to swear to a very deadly and difficult oath. For instance, they said we should swear that we would not allow any other man to have sex with us except Bakare. They said if we did, terrible things would happen to us.
The second wife and I refused to do it. We said Bakare had to do the same thing for us first before we would accept to do this. But the family and Bakare himself declined, insisting that we must do it because we were women. We refused and that was when trouble started. Bakare and his family threatened fire and brimstone. They were demanding vehemently that we should do it but we refused. We probably would have been coerced into doing it if the man who is now Bakare’s lawyer, Barrister Raji Olusegun, had not intervened and told them to leave me alone.

Before I left there on that day, Bakare threatened that he would make me pay for what I did.
Then on December 15, 2010, I went to the salon to make my hair. It was about 2 pm. Then a call came from Bakare again and he was demanding to know where I was. When I told him that I was making my hair in the salon, he said, ‘Oh! Who are you making hair for? You are making hair for your boyfriend, abi? I will deal with you.’ Then he hung up.

Then, in the evening, about 6pm, I was kidnapped in front of my father’s palace by about six hefty guys who rushed out of a car that had blocked my way. They were armed with guns. They dragged me to their car and drove to a place called Oke Ogun where one could get a boat and travel to other coastal parts of the country. From there they drove to Bayelsa and took me into a thick bush.
They dragged me into the forest and pointed their guns at me, demanding that I say my last prayers. They said they had been commissioned to kill me. I was begging them frantically not to kill me, that they should have mercy on me. I was crying that I had not done wrong to anybody and that they should spare my life because of God.

After that they changed their mind and said they would use me to get money from my father. They asked me for his number and I gave them my father’s number. Then they called my father and told him that they were my kidnappers and demanded the sum of N300 million for them to release me.
Did I suspect anyone? Personally, I didn’t suspect anybody. But after about five days in their custody, the one that slapped me called me and confided in me that it was Bakare who sent them against me. I don’t know if it is the truth or not. I didn’t even believe him when he was saying that. But I believe it now because of what Bakare has been doing against my father recenly.

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