Strangers leave waitress $400 tip, then an even bigger surprise

For months, Cayla Chandara has been a waitress at two different restaurants, pulling double shifts just to make ends meet.

The 21-year-old moved to Waikiki, Hawaii, from Santa Rosa, California, for school. But with student loans and the high cost of living, Chandara didn’t want to slip into debt.

Instead of continuing her education, Chandara decided to take a step back. She accepted a job at a nearby Cheesecake Factory and Noi Thai Cuisine, hoping to save up enough money so she could return to school one day.

Little did she know, a group of strangers would make that happen faster than she could have ever imagined.

Chandara was serving two “life-long friends” and a 10-year-old girl visiting from Australia at Noi Thai Cuisine last week. They struck up a conversation, asking Chandara why she moved to Hawaii. Chandara told them about school and her dreams for the future.

The waitress thought the customers were just being polite. But as she cleared their table and collected their $200 tab at the end of the night her jaw-dropped.

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The tip was $400 -- double their bill.

“I was then at a loss for words and all I wanted to do was hug them,” Chandara told CBS News.

Chandara recalled where the couple said they were staying, and decided she would swing by after her shift to thank them properly.

“I genuinely wanted to say thank you,” Chandara said. “I sent a thank you letter saying how much it meant to me.”

She left it at the hotel’s front desk and slipped out -- never expecting to see the tourists ever again.

The next night, the woman and the little girl returned to the restaurant. They told Chandara they would like to give her $10,000 to pay off her student loans and to contribute to her continuing her college education.

Chandara was at a loss for words.

“I initially told them I couldn’t take that offer, but they insisted that it would be just as great for them to do it for me,” Chandara said.

With their help, Chandara told the generous tourists, who wish to remain anonymous, that she will go back to school in the fall to study business. She asked how she could ever repay them.

“They told me the best way to thank them is to be my best possible self, dream big and strive for my goals,” Chandara said.

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The 21-year-old wants to thank the couple for not only helping her fulfill her dream of graduating college, but also for teaching her a valuable lesson.

“They have truly changed my life, not only financially but in the way I look at things. They are the most beautiful and kind-hearted people I’ve come across and I really look up to them and I can’t wait until they watch me graduate,” Chandara said.

She hopes the story of their generosity reminds others that there are still good people in the world.

“Always be genuine. You will get it right back. 
Good things happen,” Chandara said. - CBS News

Kanye West's £150 Yeezy trainers are made by Chinese workers earing just £147 a MONTH

© Provided by Trinity Mirror Plc It is believed Adidas paid Kanye £7million to collaborate on the Yeezy trainers (Photo: REUTERS)
Factory workers making Kanye West ’s new Adidas trainers are paid just £147 a month, £3 less than the price of the £150 sneakers.

Fans queued for four days outside a shop in Nottingham in February to get their hands on the rapper’s latest line, the Yeezy Boost 350 V2.

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The limited edition shoes, which were expected to later trade online for up to £500, are made by workers who slave for 10 hours a day, six days a week.

They are expected to arrive 15 minutes early every day to sing the company song and attend production meetings, meaning they do an hour and a half unpaid time every week.

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The Mirror teamed up with US-based China Labor Watch to find the Apache Footwear factory in Guangdong province where the shoes are made.

Pay is as low as £147 a month, just £6 more than the minimum legal wage there.

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Apache staff are paid the equivalent of 85p an hour based on a five-day week.

By working an extra 20 hours a week, meaning six, 10-hour days, they can raise take-home pay to £329 a month.

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The average wage in Chinese cities is £714.69 a month. The 80 hours’ overtime exceeds the 36 hours permitted by Chinese labour law.

Worker Fang Lee, 39, told how she was expected to stand for 10 hours a day. She said: “I am way too weary to stand for such a long time without rest.”

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She said workers had to arrive at 7.15am, 15 minutes early, or be sacked. Mum-of-two Fang said: “I have to get up at 6am and take my children to school as my husband is working. The work and taking care of the children has worn me out. For the family’s sake, I must keep holding on.”

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The family shares a single room, paying £40 a month rent. Fang said: “My basic wage is too low, so I have to work overtime to make ends meet. But even if I work 80 hours’ overtime every month, there is nothing much left.

“Everything goes on rent and living expenses. I have to take every opportunity to work overtime and not take leave or we will be in financial trouble.”

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Adidas argues its supplier is allowed to take advantage of a loophole allowing some employers to use an average overtime figure for the year.

It is believed that Adidas paid 39-year-old Kanye, who has two children with his wife Kim Kardashian, £7million to collaborate on the Yeezy trainers.
Workers are expected to turn up early to attend an unpaid morning meeting and sing the company song.

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War on Want’s Owen Espley said the use of cheap labour was “shameful exploitation” and called for Adidas to be “held to account for the shocking conditions in their suppliers’ factories”.

Adidas said it was investigating the allegations of the early morning meeting and agreed that workers should be paid for attending meetings outside working hours.

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The company said when bonuses and allowances were taken into account, the average take-home pay for an Apache worker was £329 a month.

A spokeswoman said: “We are fully committed to protecting worker rights and to ensuring fair and safe conditions in our factories.

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“We only conduct business with overseas manufacturers who work in a fair, honest and responsible manner.
“We have strict procedures in place to ensure employees are paid and treated fairly.” - Mirror 

Update ! Former PDP Chairman Finally Admits To Ownership Of Building Where EFCC Found $50m

A former chairman of the People's Democratic Party, Adamu Muazu, has finally admitted that he is the owner of 16 Osborne Road in Ikoyi, Lagos where agents of the 

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently discovered a hoard of $50 million in cash. 

Mr. Muazu admitted to owning the building in a telephone conversation between his London-based aide, Akin Oyegoke, and a correspondent of SaharaReporters. 

Nigerians, as well as other observers, have been scandalized since news broke yesterday that EFCC agents, acting on a tipoff from whistleblowers, raided the apartment in the upscale Ikoyi suburb of Lagos and found staggering sums of cash in US dollars, British pounds sterling as well as the naira, Nigeria’s currency. The stash of cash was found behind safes placed behind a false wall in Apartment 7B.

The EFCC has yet to officially reveal the owner of the money. However, a senior source at the anti-corruption agency had told SaharaReporters that the cash possibly belonged to Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, an erstwhile director of retail at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Ms. Nnamdi-Ogbue was sacked three days ago over a scandal involving the illegal sale of 130 million liters of gasoline belonging to the NNPC. 

An EFCC investigator claimed that the fired NNPC executive colluded with a controversial oil marketer, Ifeanyi Ubah, to enable the latter’s Capital Oil Company to sell the NNPC gasoline. 

Mr. Ubah is currently under detention in Abuja by agents of the Department of State Security (DSS).
However, earlier today Ms. Ogbue denied ownership of the funds but claimed that the owners were well known. One source stated that the apartment where the hoard of cash was discovered belonged to one of the daughters of a top PDP official, Anthony Anenih. 

However, Mr. Muazu contacted SaharaReporters through his UK-based aide, Akin Oyegoke, and admitted that he built the house and began selling apartment units to buyers. He also claimed that the building still has some empty apartments yet to be sold. He also admitted that he reserved the penthouse at the building for his personal use.

Mr. Oyegoke would not disclose Mr. Muazu’s whereabouts but merely said that the former PDP chairman travels between Nigeria and several international destinations.


Mr. Muazu had initially denied the ownership of the property until SaharaReporters revealed the fact that a construction company, ETCO, which built the apartment complex listed him on their website as the owner/client. - SR

No 16 Osborne Road, Ikoyi 

Former President Jonathan's Chief Security Officer Obuah Dies Of Heart Attack In Abuja | TheCable

Godwin Obuah, former chief security officer to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, is dead. A source disclosed this to TheCable, saying he died at the National Hospital, Abuja, after suffering “massive heart attack”.

The Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested Obuah two months after his principal left power. He was detained at the headquarters of the agency.

To protest his detention, Obuah embarked on hunger strike and fell ill after he was released. - The Cable


Gordon Obuah 

UK denies residency to London-born children of Dutch-Spanish couple

Monica Obiols and Jan-Dinant Schreuder have a 15-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter, both of whom were born in London. Photograph: Handout
A Dutch and Spanish couple who have lived in Britain all their adult lives have told of their “devastation” after the Home Office refused their post-referendum application to have their two London-born children recognised as permanent residents of the country.

Jan-Dinant Schreuder and Monica Obiols, both 49, found themselves in a “bureaucratic nightmare” when they were told their 15-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter had to provide more evidence that they lived permanently with their parents.

“What evidence are they supposed to have? They don’t have council tax bills or proof of where they live. They are children,” said Obiols. “They have gone to school here all their lives, English is their mother tongue. I was just so shocked when we got the refusal letters.”

Their experience is the latest of many reported by the Guardian illustrating how red tape is heaping worry on families across the country.

In one recent case, a young man born to German parents in the UK was advised to take a citizenship test before he could get a British passport, because the tax authorities could not locate his mother’s tax records.

In another, a French scientist, who had worked in the UK for 20 years, and his British wife decided to quit the country after his application for permanent residency was rejected.

Obiols, a special needs teacher, has been living continuously in the UK since 1988, while Schreuder, a teacher in a secondary school, has been in the country since he was three.

© Handout Obiols and Schreuder are both teachers in London.

Both their children have Spanish passports. Under EU law, nothing more needed to be done after they were born to establish their right to remain in the UK.

But the family became “panicked” after the referendum last June, thinking they needed to have paperwork in case they were ever asked to prove their status – for example, in a hospital or by an employer, said Schreuder.

In September, he decided to apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) as he had been in the country since 1970, three years before the UK joined the European Economic Community. 

Obiols applied for a permanent residency (PR) card for herself and their two children.

The Home Office has now issued Schreuder with an ILR card and Obiols with a PR card. However, to the family’s horror, the Home Office sent separate notices to the two children notifying them that their applications for PR had been refused.

“You have not provided evidence that you have resided in the United Kingdom in accordance with those Regulations [European Economic Area immigration rules] for a continuous period of 5 years,” said the letter, signed on behalf of the secretary of state, Amber Rudd.

“It was surreal. I was so shocked that [it was] the children, who, probably of all people, were most deserving,” said Obiols. “It’s scary because people say, ‘oh, you can always leave the country if Brexit doesn’t work out’, but we can’t because the children are in school. We can’t disrupt their education and why should we. I feel quite devastated.”

Schreuder said he did not understand the Home Office policy on children of parents deemed eligible to remain in the country.

“Their approach seems to be based on a weird assumption that parents would have children and then their children wouldn’t actually live with them – that they would send them off to another country to live with their grandparents or something. We are actually stunned,” he said.

Obiols said she included the children’s birth certificates with the application form and would now reapply, but felt she would need to “create evidence” that they lived at home.

Jan Doerfel, an immigration lawyer, said he believed the Home Office may have made a mistake under laws applying to children born after 1983. If Schreuder’s mother had obtained ILR documents for him when he was a boy, then his children are entitled to British citizenship.

“Even if he did not [have the documents], the mother would be considered settled once she had exercised treaty rights as a European citizen for five years,” Doerfel said. 

Having been in possession of the birth certificates of Obiols and Schreuder’s children, which showed they were born in the UK, and details about their parents’ status, the Home Office case worker should have notified the family that the children were likely to be British citizens, Doerfel added.

Schreuder came to Britain as a small boy when his doctor father and mother decided to move to the UK after a stint working and living in Kenya. 

“They met lots of British doctors there and liked them, and when they came back to Europe they decided they wanted to live in Britain, because they thought Holland was dull and boring by comparison. It was an adventure,” said Schreuder.

Theresa May, the prime minister, has been accused of using EU citizens as bargaining chips in Brexit negotiations. But after a strong campaign from grassroots organisations such as the3million, the European commission has said the issue will be one of the top priorities in the talks.

“If you had said to me before the referendum that I would be worrying about my future, worried about choices my children make for university, what fees they will pay etc, I would not have believed you. 

Now the things I considered completely safe are being decided by other people,” said Obiols. 

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Police warning over fake £5 notes just six months after launch of new fivers

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Police have warned shoppers to lookout for counterfeit versions of the polymer £5 note just six months after the new fivers entered circulation.

Officers warned the public to be on the lookout for fake banknotes after they were spotted in Wadebridge, Cornwall.

Dorset Police had issued a similar warning in February saying counterfeit notes were found in circulation near Poole.

The new warning comes just six months after the new £5 note was launched by the Bank of England.

It is stronger than its predecessor and boasts new security features which the Bank of England said makes it harder to counterfeit. 

PCSO Pete Sobye, of Wadebridge police, said: "If you find yourself in possession of a fake £5 note, contact your bank. Or if you have been given a number of these as payment, contact police on 101."

The old paper fiver and the new £5 note have co-existed since the polymer banknote was first issued by the Bank of England.

But British shoppers have until May 5 to spend paper £5 notes before they lose their legal tender status.

The new banknote has been controversial after it emerged that traces of animal-derived additives were used in its production.

In September this year, the Bank will issue a new £10 polymer note featuring author Jane Austen, recognising "her universal appeal and enduring contribution to English literature". - Evening Standard

EFCC Vows To Prosecute All INEC Staff Indicted For Corruption In The Conduct Of 2015 Election

The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu has said that the Commission will prosecute all staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) indicted for corruption in the conduct of the 2015 general election. According to him, "we are already prosecuting some of the INEC staff, we have started in Lagos and we are in the process in Port-Harcourt, Kano and Gombe". The EFCC boss made the disclosure Thursday, April 13 while playing host to the Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmud Yakubu who led other management staff of the electoral body on a courtesy visit to the EFCC head office, Abuja.

While expressing satisfaction with the collaboration between the two agencies, Magu commended the INEC boss for supporting the investigation affecting some of his staff members.

"What you have done will change the course of electioneering in this country, by bringing in sanity and credibility. It will send a signal and serve as deterrent to any person who may wish to perpetrate fraud in the electoral process whether as a monitor or staff of INEC," he said.

Magu assured the INEC of EFCC's continued support, noting that the agency's functions were central to the future of the country, and that the next election must be different.

Yakubu, while appreciating the EFCC, revealed that some of the indicted INEC staff had made refunds of their share of the over N3.4 billion bribe money. He added that from the list received from EFCC, 70 staff across 3 states of the federation are still in denial and will be referred to the EFCC for further investigation. He said about 5 political appointees who are either National Commissioners or Resident Commissioners were found wanting, while 21 retired staff mostly acting under the aegis of WANEO ( West African Network of Election Observers ) were also indicted and have been blacklisted from monitoring election or any activity organized by the Commission.

"If we get our election right, we get our democracy right as the right people will be elected and once we get our democracy right we will get national progress and development on track.

"INEC, the EFCC are on the same page in this big responsibility of sanitizing the country, he said"

The delegation from INEC included Amina Bawa Zakari, Baba Arfo Shetima, Prof OkeyIbeanu, Engr Abubakar Nahuche , Mohammed Haruna , Professor Anthonia Okoosi Simbine, Musa H. Adamu, Oluwole Osaze Uzzi, and  Rotimi Oyekanmi. - EFCC

Acting Chair of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu

United Airlines staff 'forced frail grandma, 94, out of £2,800 Business seat into Economy for 16-hour flight'

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United Airlines staff forced a frail 94-year-old grandma to leave her £2,800 Business Class seat and sit in discomfort in Economy, her family have claimed.

Paz Orquiza was travelling from Los Angeles back to Melbourne, Australia, after visiting relatives.
Her granddaughter Marianne Santos Aguilar said Mrs Orquiza has a number of disabilities including severe arthritis .
Her relatives had all chipped in to buy her a Business class seat with United in the hope of making the 16-hour journey more comfortable.
But Ms Aguilar claims her grandma was left "in tears" due to her treatment by United staff.
She claimed staff would not allow Mrs Orquiza's daughter Rose, who was also on the flight in Economy class, to help her with tasks such as reclining her seat or opening her food unless she paid for a Business Class ticket as well.
Neither would staff themselves help the fragile passenger, the family claim.
They claim they were left with no choice but to move Mrs Orquiza out of Business and into Economy so her daughter could assist her, despite having paid for extra comfort.

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According to Ms Aguilar: "My aunt tried to comfort my grandmother, who was in tears, and was horrified to see how much pain she had to endure during this flight.
"Upon arrival to Australia, my grandma's legs had swollen, she suffered from a stiff neck and her whole body ached.
"She is still in great distress and pain from this ordeal."
The family have filed a complaint with United and say they were eventually offered £400 in travel vouchers and a refund of £690.
But the family remain unhappy.
Ms Aguilar added: "Our family is heartbroken that this painful plane ride back to Melbourne will be the last memory of our trip for my grandma, and this has ruined an otherwise incredible family reunion.
"I want a guarantee that what happened to my grandma will never happen to another disabled or elderly person again, and that we can stand together to stop discrimination towards the disabled and elderly."

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United Airlines have been contacted for comment.
It comes as the company has come under intense scrutiny for the treatment of a doctor who was physically dragged off an 'overbooked' flight.
Dr David Dao, 69, had refused to leave his seat after being told he had been bumped because United staff needed it.
Airport security agents were eventually called and passengers watched in horror as Mr Dao was ripped out of his chair and down the aisle by his arms.- Mirror 

13-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Kills himself On Live Instagram

A schoolboy has died after accidentally shooting himself on Instagram Live in front of his horrified friends.

Malachi Hemphill, 13, was recording himself in his bedroom on Monday evening when the tragedy occurred.

He reportedly started handling a gun, while his pals watched and sent him messages via the social media site.

But as he "tried to put a clip in" the weapon, it suddenly went off, causing him to fall to the ground in a pool of blood. Malachi's shocked mum, Shaniqua Stephens, ran upstairs after hearing a "big boom" at their home in Georgia, US.

She said she and her daughter kicked in the teen's door and found him lying on the floor, surrounded by blood.

"My daughter screamed and said, ‘Mom, turn his phone off!'.

"As I proceeded to look at his phone, he was on Instagram Live."

As Malachi was taken to hospital, dozens of kids from the area reportedly rushed to his home, after witnessing the shooting live.

Despite doctors' best efforts, the teenager did not survive his injuries.

His mum said she had been told that he was trying to put a clip in the gun when it suddenly went off, killing him.
Detectives investigating the horrifying incident are trying to work out where the gun came from, WXIA reports.

Just moments before the fatal shooting, Malachi had reportedly taken out the rubbish at his home in Forest Park.

His mum now wants to warn other parents to monitor their children's activity to prevent a similar tragedy from happening.

'I’m not the owner of $50m found by EFCC' - Sacked NNPC MD, Esther Nnamdi- Ogbue

Sacked Managing Director at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue has denied ownership of the $50m found by EFCC in a residential building located at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi.

In a statement released through her lawyer, Emeka Etiaba SAN, she denied ownership of the large sum of money and commended the EFCC for their continuous fight in curbing corruption in the country.

The statement reads:

“The attention of Our Client, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue has been drawn to the news making round in the News Media to the effect that the large sums of money to wit: $38,000,000.00 (Thirty-Eight Million Dollars), N23,000,000.00 (Twenty-Three Million Naira) and £27,000.00 (Twenty-Seven Thousand Pounds) uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) from an apartment in Osborne Towers, Osborne Road, Ikoyi Lagos, Lagos State belong to her.

By this Press Release, we inform the public (especially the News Media) that the said sums of money and/or the apartment where the sums of money were found do not belong to Our Client.

Our Client is as shocked as many other Nigerians at the uncovering and recovery of the said sums of money and wishes to salute the courage and efforts of the EFCC in the war against corruption.

She also wishes to commend the whistle blowing policy introduced by the Federal Government in the fight against corruption which policy has resulted in large scale uncovering and recovery of monies and assets.

It is Our Client’s belief that the source and ownership of the said uncovered sums of money is known or eventually will be known by the EFCC in due course. There is, therefore, no need for conjecture or speculation.

Yoruba actress, Mide Martins celebrates her husband on her birthday - "I'm So Privileged To Be Your Woman"

Actress, Mide Martins' husband, Afeez Biodun turned a year older and she took to her Instagram to celebrate him. She wrote;

"Happy Birthday To My Pillar!!!!.... Behind Every Successful Woman There's Always A Strong Back Bone.... HBD To The Greatest Man Ever Created!!!.,. My Man, My Everything... My Guardian Angel ...@officialafeezowo ....
Am So Privileged To Be Your Woman... No One Else Has Ever Loved Me The Way Do.... Without You There Wouldn't Have Been Me... Ever Since My Mother Left This World... You Have Always Been There For Me Like a Shadow... My Shield... Pls People Help Me Appreciate This Wonderful Man In My Life... I Can't Just Thank You Enough Ade Mi.... Binu B'ase Si Bi Igba Ni Then You Would See How Significant You Are To Me... I Celebrate You My Love.... May God Continue To Bless Your Existence... May We Live Long To Celebrate Many Beautiful Years Ahead In Sha Allah.... HBD Olowo Ori Mi...

Indian Police arrest Nigerian man and his 52-year-old Indian girlfriend for fraud

The Thalaghattapura police, India on Wednesday, April 12, arrested a 41-year-old Nigerian national, Andrew a.k.a. Eric Peters and his 52-year-old Indian girlfriend on the charge of duping a woman of Rs 50 lakh, with a fake business proposal through a website.

The police who took up the cases, approached the accused as a prospective client offering them huge sums of money and, trapped them. The two were arrested when they came to collect the money.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) S D Sharanappa said Andrew had come to India on a business visa and landed in Delhi. He has been in India for a long time now and his passport and visa documents are being scrutinized as to how he arrived here.

Andrew befriended Babli Parveen Hashmi (52) from Mumbai and the two started committing online frauds luring people, offering export business propositions for herbal medicines. They lured Vijaya, a Bengaluru-based entrepreneur, offering her dealership for herbal medicines to cure snakebite and chronic diseases. The accused also offered to help her business in Western countries which could fetch her profits in billions.

Vijaya transferred Rs 50 lakh into their account online and soon she realised that she had fallen into their trap and had been duped. The duo subsequently went incommunicado. Based on Vijaya’s complaint, a team of police contacted the accused and offered to buy herbal medicines. They asked them to come and collect the cash as they could not transfer such a huge sum due to demonetisation.

The duo were nabbed by the police as soon as they landed in the city. Inquiries revealed that the duo had several bank accounts and had duped more than 100 people in several states and collected at least Rs 8 crore from them in a span of four years.

The police have recovered Rs 21 lakh from one of the bank accounts and will return it to Vijaya after obtaining permission from the court, a senior police officer said. 

Since the fraud has been committed across the country, the city police are considering handing over the case to the CID, City Police Commissioner Praveen Sood said. 

The 7-month old girl defiled by her 57 year old step father in Katsina state has died

The 7-month old girl who was raped by her 57 year old stepfather, Magaji Dansale, in Katsina state last month, has died. She died at the Turai Yar'Adua hospital today.

Recall that Magaji who is currently in police custody, raped the little girl at his home in Marmachi village of Musawa Local Government Area, Katsina State.
He told newsmen that he had canal knowledge of the little girl because he believed he would become rich once he sleeps with an infant.

 May her soul rest in peace (Amen).

Husband’s Murder In Ibadan: Witness says wife didn’t kill him, he stabbed self

A witness in the murder case involving a lawyer in Ibadan, Yewande Oyediran, said her husband mistakenly stabbed himself during a disagreement with his wife at their apartment in Ibadan.

Yewande is standing trial in an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan for allegedly stabbing her husband, Lowo Oyediran, to death with a knife during an argument in February 2016, but the new claim by this "witness" has introduced controversy into the case.

During the continued hearing of the case, a defence witness, Mr Michael Lana, told the court that the couple’s landlord, Mr Akinpelu Adelodun, confessed to him in private that the defendant’s husband mistakenly stabbed himself to death.

Led-in evidence by the defendant’s counsel, Mr Leye Adepoju, Lana said that the landlord of the couple told him at a meeting in his (Adelodun) house that the late lawyer’s husband mistakenly stabbed himself while he was struggling with the knife with him as he tried to prevent him from stabbing his wife.

He said, “Adelodun told me that Yewande came out from the couple’s apartment screaming for help with the late husband in tow, chasing her with a knife. He also told me that at a stage, the late husband had pinned down Yewande beside his car and had raised the knife to stab her, but that he (landlord) seized his hand from behind and that the wife was able to escape, while in the process, the husband still violent, mistakenly stabbed himself in the neck.”

Lana had earlier told the court that he was a relative of the landlord and that he had called him on the telephone to narrate to him the events leading to the murder of his late tenant. He also said that the landlord told him that he (landlord) switched the murder weapon.

“He also asked me for advice on how to handle the matter, adding that he didn’t want to give evidence in court because the police might want to rope him in. I told him that he can only refuse to testify if his transport bills were not paid by the prosecutor, especially if he is a private prosecutor. Based on my advice he asked me to write, which I did to the prosecutor and defense counsel.

During cross-examination by the prosecution’s counsel, Mr Sanya Akinyele, Lana said he was in the court to prove that the landlord contacted him and that what he told the police was not the truth.

Case adjourned till May 24, 2017 by Justice Munta Abimbola for continuation of hearing.