Monday 8 February 2016
South African Police officers laugh at man for reporting he had been sexually assaulted by 3 men
Vurgee Tshabalala was allegedly sexually assaulted by three men who had offered him a lift from Soshanguve, South Africa to town last week. On their way, the men stopped the car, and forced him to take off his clothes. "They told me they wanted to see my private parts and then sexually assaulted me," said Tshabalala.
The gay man went to open a case with the police but instead the officers burst into laughter and made fun of him. According to Pretoria North Reckord, the police officers who treated Tshbalalala with scorn could themselves face the law after he was advised to file a case with the independent police investigative directorate.
The directorate investigates cases of misconduct against the police. Soshanguve police spokesperson, Lolo Mangena said:
"Legally that is discrimination. When you are treated unfairly in certain areas of the law, that is discrimination. That is not how we operate as police. If you are treated unfairly or differently from other people because of gender, sexual orientation, religion, skin colour, political or intellectual ability, a complaint can be laid against the police officers who assisted him. That is if he can remember them, their names, or at least can identify them."
Mangena said Tshabalala’s ordeal at the police station was tantamount to sexual assault. Mangena advised him to file a complaint with the directorate.
Heavy rainfall, flooding, malaria, cholera expected in Nigeria this year
The report adds that severe drought, flooding, heavy rains and temperature rises are all known effects of El Niño that can lead to food insecurity and malnutrition, disease outbreaks, acute water shortages, and disruption of health services. The health implications are usually more intense in developing countries like Nigeria.
“The current El Niño from 2015 to 2016 is predicted to be the worst in recent years, and comparable to the El Niño in 1997-1998, which had major health consequences worldwide. In Eastern Africa, as a result of the El Niño in 1997-1998, WHO found that rainfall patterns were unusually heavy and led to serious flooding and major outbreaks of malaria, cholera and Rift Valley Fever” the report states.
Photos: Nigeria Labor Congress stage protest in Abuja over plans to increase electricity tarriff
More photos...“From 14 Naira per unit to 28 or 26 Naira. This increase is outrageous. When it subsists this time around, be sure that it will continue and the exploiters will continue to exploit us. This is the message that we are taking to all these agencies. We are also going to the National Assembly because they are the true representatives of the people. They feel our pulse and they represent our various constituencies and therefore they must stop all these by making laws that will actually protect the people. Law should be made to protect the people and not encourage exploitation. The increase is going to affect manufacturers, medium and small scale enterprises and even consumers. Every consumer must be provided with meter because people should be able to pay for what they consume and not to pay for darkness"he said.
Mum gives birth to twins with different skin colouring (photos)
"Kyle is mixed-race and I'm white, so from the word go, our friends joked: 'What would you do if one came out dark and the other was fair?' Laughing it off, I replied 'I don't think it's very likely!' Now our girls turn heads wherever they go and it is not just because they are so cute",
"I can't walk down the aisle at the supermarket without getting stopped. People always comment, 'Are they both yours?', 'are they sisters', 'are they related? As well as looking different Anaya and Myla are already developing their own personalities". Myla is always on the move, she's already crawling, although backwards, while Anaya's more laid back",
"We can't believe they're twins, they've got the same birthday and the same mum and dad but they're just complete opposites in every way."She added:
"At first, both the girls had a purple tone to their skin, but they looked darker so I assumed they'd both taken after Kyle. But after two weeks, it was clear Myla takes after her dad with dark skin, brown eyes and brunette locks, while Anaya is more of a mummy's girl with a pale complexion, fair hair and light eyes. We couldn't believe it. Kyle and I told all of our relatives and friends, 'We've got one of each.More photos...
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Nigerian man who attempted to withdraw money from another man's bank account jailed for 6 months in Dubai
The unemployed Nigerian man who tried to withdraw more than Dh500,000 from the bank account of a man who had lost his Emirates ID was sentenced to six months in prison today, February 8. He will be deported after serving his sentence. (Read previous post here)
The 26-year-old was found guilty at Dubai Criminal Court of using an original official document belonging to others and of forging an official document - the withdrawal slip - by signing it and adding his personal details, as well as using the forged slip, and attempting to fraudulently obtain Dh580,000.
He visited a bank on Khalid bin Al Waleed Road in Dubai and pretended to be Kenyan D M, 23, by signing an order to withdraw Dh580,000 from the latter’s account and using the card as ID.
On May 12 last year, the Nigerian was contacted by his friend, whose name and nationality were not given, after the friend had found the ID card. He asked the Nigerian to pose as the card holder to withdraw the money and he would get a share of Dh50,000.
"I lost my wallet two months before I was contacted by police to inform me that my card was used by someone to withdraw cash from the bank,” testified the Kenyan.
Source: The National UAE
Saturday 6 February 2016
Bride treks to her wedding venue due to Lagos marathon vehicle restriction
Friday 5 February 2016
BVN exposes 23,306 ‘ghost workers’ on Fed Govt payroll
Details of about 312,000 civil servants have so far been checked & 23, 306 of them had irregularities with their data within the ministry and the one in the bank.
According to The Nation, the Federal government has started deleting the indicted civil servants from its payroll. Some of those affected have tendered their resignation letters to pre-empt dismissal from service and prosecution. A source from the Ministry who spoke on the development said
“Out of the accounts of about 312,000 civil servants processed so far, the ministry was said to have uncovered irregularities in the account of about 23,306 of them, who were suspected to have been collecting double salary. These indicted individuals are in two categories. In the first group, we found out that the names of some civil servants, whose salaries are being processed, are different from the names on the accounts where their salaries are paid. What this means is either those in this category are drawing salary from two sources (which could be different agencies), or they are ghost workers,”.The source added that the probe also showed that salaries were being paid to some inactive accounts, thus raising the suspicion that government was merely making payment to ghost workers. To this end, the Federal Government has placed some banks under watch for their roles in salary scam.
FG pleads with major oil companies in Nigeria as they plan mass sack following dwindling oil price
“The issue of laying people off is not a decision that comes lightly. I will not come here to tell you that people are being laid off or not. The situation in the oil company is dire. We want to ask for more understanding in appreciation of the challenges we face” she said.According to Tribune, during the meeting, Chris Ngige appealed to the oil marketers and companies not to lay off people as Nigeria is facing a lot of social security problems and could not to afford more problems through job cuts
“The oil majors in Nigeria must therefore bend backwards and see what they can plough back from their profits to keep Nigerian workers on their duty posts. Keep the existing jobs. We have a downturn today but you can be sure it will not last forever. If you are not creating new jobs, let us keep the ones we have. That is what this government is pleading and we must emphasise that is what we want.”he said.
Increase farming or risk Nigerians starving to death by 2050 - Minister of Agriculture says
"We have written to state governments to encourage them to develop dams and canals so that agriculture becomes an all year round activity and it is not confined to the rainy season alone.
Besides, by 2050, Nigeria population will be very close to 500 million at the current rate of growth. This is just 34 years from now. If we carry on at the current rate of one crop per year, with very low mechanization, Nigerians run the risk of starving to death”he said
Photos: South African gold mine collapses, trapping more than 100 miners
Spokesman Manzini Zungu says AMCU leadership are en route to the mine. He has heard unconfirmed reports that 3 people may have died. Zungu says it is possible that the incident was caused by a sinkhole, although Barberton is not known for such geological issues. Currently, says Zungu, it is not clear how far underground the miners are.
He adds emergency services should already be on site to rescue those who are trapped. According to an update by Reuters, some 49 miners have so far been rescued. "Mine rescue services are still busy on scene to rescue the remaining miners underground," emergency services group ER24 said in a statement
Amazing recovery story of a little girl who weighed 650g at birth
"So about 5 years ago, my boss at the time was pregnant with her 2nd child, she was about 2sthg weeks gone then we had a meeting in one of our branches. After the meeting, another boss of mine which was her friend noticed her extra swollen feet and thought she had to go to d hospital immediately.
We headed to the Abuja National Hospital immediately...there and then they had to wheel her in for immediate CS and then the picture left below came out, she was 650g...The doctor said she wouldn't ve survived if they didn't bring her at that time, She had severe eclampsia!!! Fast forward, She's 5 today guys! Hale, hearty, smart, healthy...who says God does not exist!!! U think ure in the worst state now? Trust me, my boss was most likely more devastated than u. I'm talking too much...I'll jst like to say, don't give up on whatever it is!!! Things will work out just fine"
Buhari proceeds on 5-day vacation, Osinbajo to act as President
The statement added that in compliance with Section 145 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, President Buhari has dispatched a formal notice of his vacation to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Photo: 5 months pregnant woman who went missing in Abuja has been found
Rescued Nigerian girl says she would rather be with the Boko Haram militant who kidnapped and impregnated her
Almost a year after she was rescued from Boko Haram captivity by the Nigerian army, Zara John, 16, is still in love with one of the fighters who abducted her and impregnated her, AlJazeera reports.
She was delighted to discover that she was pregnant with his child following a urine and blood test carried out by a doctor in the refugee camp to which she was taken after her rescue.
"I wanted to give birth to my child so that I could have someone to replace his father, since I cannot reconnect with him again," said Zara, one of hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram during a seven-year insurgency in northeast Nigeria.
But any decision over the baby was taken out of her hands. Her father drowned during flooding in 2010 so her uncles intervened. Some were adamant that they did not want Boko Haram offspring in their family - and insisted on an abortion. Others felt the child should not be blamed for its father's crimes. In the end, the majority carried the vote and Zara was allowed to keep her child, a son she named Usman who is now seven months old.
"Everybody in the family has embraced the child," Zara in a telephone interview, asking that her location remain undisclosed. "My uncle just bought him tins of Cerelac [instant cereal] and milk."
Zara was 14 when Boko Haram members fighting to establish an Islamic state raided her village of Izge, in northeast Nigeria, in February 2014.
They razed homes in the village, slaughtered men and loaded women, girls and children on to trucks.
Two of Zara's brothers were out of town when the assailants struck in one of a wave of hit-and-run attacks on villages, as well as suicide bombings, on places of worship or markets.
Zara's mother fell off one of the overloaded trucks but tried to chase after the vehicle that was ferrying away her only daughter and her four-year-old son, but was unable to keep up as it drove 22km to Bita.
At the time, Bita and other surrounding towns near the Sambisa forest were in Boko Haram control.
"As soon as we arrived, they told us that we were now their slaves," Zara recalled
Her days were spent doing chores and learning the tenets of her new religion, Islam, until two months later when she was given away in marriage to Ali, a Boko Haram commander, and moved from a shared house to his accommodation.
"After I became a commander's wife, I had freedom. I slept any time I wanted, I woke up any time I wanted," she said.
He bought me food and clothes and gave me everything that a woman needs from a man." She added that he also gave her a mobile phone with his number in it, and tattooed his name on her stomach to mark her as a Boko Haram wife.
Ali assured her the fight would soon be over and they would return to his hometown of Baga, where he intended his new wife to join his fishing business.
He told her he abandoned his trade and joined Boko Haram after his father and elder brother, both fishermen like himself, were killed by Nigerian soldiers.
In a June 2015 report based on years of research and analysis, Amnesty International said the Nigerian army was guilty of gross human rights abuse and extrajudicial killings of civilians in parts of northeast Nigeria, calling for an investigation into war crimes.
Ali was not at home when the Nigerian army stormed Bita in March 2015 and rescued Zara and scores of other women, taking them to a refugee camp in Yola in northeast Nigeria.
The raid came as international scrutiny on Nigeria increased after the high-profile abduction of 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in northern Nigeria in April 2014, which caused outrage internationally and sparked the global campaign #bringbackourgirls. The girls are yet to be found.
But Zara and Ali stayed in touch by phone until Nigerian soldiers realised some of the girls in the camp were still in touch with their abductors, seized their phones, and moved them to another camp until they were reunited with their families.
Zara now lives with her extended family and son in a town far away from Izge.
Her male relatives took over control of her life again, with requests for interviews fielded by them and all of her movements monitored by her family. But asked her opinion, she said she would rather be with her Boko Haram "husband".
"If I had my way, I would retrieve the phone number he gave me," she said, regretting not committing his number to memory.
Source: ALJAZEERA
But Zara is realistic and knows the possibility of being reunited with Ali is slim.
Instead she wants to return to school when Usman stops breast-feeding, and maybe then run her own business.
"I want to do a business that is suitable for a woman, something that will not take me out of the house," she said.
Hillary Clinton might strengthen Social Security by taxing your investments
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Election season is in full swing now, with candidates trying to win voters by proposing ways to improve America. One big issue is Social Security, with many GOP candidates interested in reducing benefits and Democratic candidates offering ways to shore up the program and even strengthen it. One suggestion put forth by Hillary Clinton will likely worry some investors: making investment income taxable.
The big pictureHere's what that means: Right now, your income from work is taxable according to a schedule of tax brackets, with most Americans in the 25% or 28% tax brackets and the highest earners facing a rate close to 40%. (Of course, whatever tax bracket you're in doesn't represent the overall tax rate you pay. Thanks to deductions, credits, and progressively higher tax rates on increasing levels of income, your overall tax rate is likely considerably lower than your tax bracket.) Investment income such as long-term capital gains and dividend income gets a different -- and better -- tax rate, though. It's taxed at 15% for most of us, and 20% for high earners. Short-term capital gains are taxed at ordinary income tax rates.
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