Ogun Suspends Principal for Conducting Virginity Test on Students

 

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun

The plague of moral decadence troubling the society is compelling some untoward actions aimed at redeeming the young folks from self-destruction. It is probably in a bid to ensure a high moral standard among her pupils that the Principal of Ajuwon High School, Ajuwon in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunke Aladeojebi, took an unusual unilateral decision that has now earned her an indefinite suspension from the state government.

Aladeojebi, widely regarded as a strict disciplinarian, subjected some female students in her school to a virginity test, drawing the ire of their parents who reported the matter to the police for carrying out such a test without consulting them.

Jonathan Cautions Elite on Unguarded Statements

President Goodluck Jonathan

Political diatribe took center stage Thursday at Fadan Kagoma, hometown of late Sir Patrick Yakowa, erstwhile governor of Kaduna State who died in a plane crash along with the former National Security Adviser (NSA) at Okoroba creeks in Nembe local government area of Bayelsa State.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who spoke last at the funeral mass of Yakowa held at St. Paul's Catholic Church which lasted more than three hours, cautioned the elite class in the country from making unguarded utterances that are detrimental to the progress of the nation.

INNOVATION:Smart Cups Detect Date Rape Drugs

 Smart cups will change colour when a date rape drug is poured into it.

Drink Savvy, a Boston-based company, has created a material that changes colour when it comes in contact with a drug-spiked drink.
Founder Mike Abramson said he plans to use the discovery to create a set of products, including cups, glassware, stirrers and straws, that he hopes will be used to help reduce date rape, reports ABC News.
"Within the past three years, three of my very close friends and myself have been the unwitting victims of being drugged," Abramson said in a fundraising video.

FEATUTRES: The City of Art and Culture at Christmas

With more than fifty artists exhibiting their works at the ongoing Calabar Christmas festival, Cross River is rightly regarded as artistic and cultural state in Nigeria, reports Jude Okwe

Christmas festivities may be on in different parts of the world but Calabar remains the preferred destination. Why? There is no dull moment for the 32 days of the festival. Everyday is full of activities that engage fun lovers, arrest the attention of lovers of culture and keep music lovers on their toes. Now art exhibition has entered the programme to stimulate the interest of members of the public in the creative industry.

Inside the Creeks, Hell and Heaven Side By Side

After spending three days in the creeks of the Niger Delta communities of Ogbia, Nembe and Okoroba in Bayelsa State, Adeola Akinremi reports that not all is gloomy in the creeks

Ozigbo Wemi, 60, wears his life jacket in front of his house in Nembe and then heads to work. He struts into the street corner leading to the community health centre and finally arrives at the Nembe mainland jetty. This is yet another promising day. “Important people are coming to the creek today. It will be a good business, I can tell you there will be traffic on the waterways,” he says.

Army Promotes 150 Senior Officers

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azuibe Ihejirika

The Nigerian Army Council in one of its first major decisions since the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azuibe Ihejirika was reappointed early October, has approved the promotion of about 150 senior officers including 22 of them elevated to the rank of Major General.

Navy Arrests Oil Bunkerers in Kogi

The Nigeria Navy, NNS Luguard, Lokoja Command, has arrested four suspected crude oil bunkerers along the river waters in Kogi State.

Navy Commander, Innocent Yinfaowei , who disclosed this to journalists during the flag off of the command's security patrol on the water line along the River Niger, said that the suspects were arrested with crude oil.

According to him the chief of Naval staff had flagged off security patrol on the coastal lines to ensure safety on water ways adding that he equally directed all commands across the country to initiate their patrols.

FEATURES: Untamed Business of Kidnapping

As the Yuletide approaches, there seems to be an upsurge in the spate of kidnapping in many parts of the country. Security agencies have attributed this to the desperation of criminally-minded people to make money at all cost so as to get something to flaunt during the season.  Olawale Olaleye, Ademola Adeyemo, Omololu Ogunmade, Shola Oyeyipo, Anayo Okolie, Ayodele Opiah and Nkiruka Okoh examine this growing malady in the quest for a safer nation

For Nigeria’s security agencies, this is no doubt, a most trying period. It is bad enough that efforts to curb terrorism in different parts of the country, especially in the North have not stopped the Boko Haram insurgency. However, the rising cases of kidnapping and the mode of operations of kidnappers have further compounded the challenges facing the security agents.

Although the menace of terrorism, either by accident or design, appears restricted to certain parts of the country, the orgy of kidnapping knows no bound. Across the different parts of Nigeria, the fear of being kidnapped is the beginning of being security conscious by high profile targets and their family members. It does not matter who is involved; with a reliable insider, a kidnap operation is executed successfully and in most cases, the criminals smile to the bank.

Obasanjo: I Won’t Keep Quiet on National Issues

Chief Olusegun  Obasanjo

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Saturday said that the country  was on his mind, saying his passion, patriotism and love for the country, would not allow him to keep quiet  on burning national issues.

Obasanjo who spoke in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when the national chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur , visited his Hilltop country home , disclosed that the country, the party and government would remain his primary concern.

Such a Hard Road to Travel

Simon Kolawole Live!: Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com

Is it me or are we not losing too many lives on our roads? Maybe I’m a bit emotional about this because of my own story. I lost my dad in a road accident 36 years ago. He was just 31.  He left behind five children, with the last child barely one-month old. My grandmother has not got over the death of her first child till today, and she shudders anytime she sees his picture with me. She told me years ago: “Maybe because you are young… that is why you are not distressed holding Kola’s picture. I just can’t bring myself to look at it.” Imagine the agony of his mother, the pain and hurt of his widow and the uncertain future we faced as little children when the tragedy happened in November 1976.