My adulterous wife denies me sex – Ibadan man

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday has dissolved a marriage of seven years due to sex starvation.

The petitioner, Mr Wahab Olabanmiji, had approached the court to seek the dissolution of the marriage because his wife identified as Tawakalitu, denied him of sex for years.

Wahab who lives at Olopo-Meta Estate, Ibadan, had petitioned the court that his wife was endangering his life with her extramarital relationships.

He said, “Tawakalitu has remained a source of frustration to me for two-and-a half years now, denying me of sex.

“All my efforts at changing her attitude for good have yielded no result as she has become a pain in my neck.

“In addition, Tawakalitu is heavily involved in adulterous acts and I have caught her many times.

“Worst still, she has been having grudges with my children from my first wife. she doesn’t want to see them as she has not hidden her hatred for them.

“I no longer want to have anything to do with her, please separate us,” Wahab urged the court.

In her response, Tawakalitu agreed to the divorce and did not deny the allegation of sexual starvation leveled against her.

Tawakalitu, however, said that she was acting on a medical advice. - Daily Post

One-third of Nigerian adults hypertensive, experts say

The Nigerian Cardiac Society (NCS) says one in every three adults in Nigeria has high blood pressure.

Okechukwu Ogah, NCS president, disclosed the statistics on Friday.

High blood pressure is a condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls is too high. Usually, hypertension is defined as blood pressure above 140/90.

It could lead to other health conditions including coronary heart disease and stroke.

Ogah blamed the rise, which he says calls for concern, on unhealthy and sedentary lifestyle.

“At the just concluded 47th annual general meeting and scientific conference of the Nigerian Cardiac Society, it was noted with great concern that the frequency of heart disease in Nigeria is not only high but rising,” Ogah said.

“The increase in heart disease may not be unconnected to the current lifestyle that favours physical inactivity and consumption of unhealthy diets, rich in dietary salt.

“The information making rounds in the social media, on high blood, cholesterol as unharmful is false, especially in the presence of other risk factors such as hypertension.”

Ogah, a consultant cardiologist at the department of medicine, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo, said more cases of heart attack are being reported in hospitals like never before.

He appealed to Nigerians to make conscious choice of a healthy lifestyle through good diet and regular physical exercise, while urging that salt intake should be reduced to less than a teaspoon per day.

“The hitherto almost non-existent cases of heart attacks are now seen more often in the hospitals,” he said.

“Together, we all can reduce the projected burden of heart disease when we make and keep our promises, to prevent heart disease and stroke by becoming more physically active, eating right and quitting tobacco for good.

“It is also prudent to do regular medical check-up, including blood pressure check, even when there is no apparent ill-health.

“One is never too young or too old to make healthy lifestyle choices.” -TheCable

All Set For AAC National Convention Today

The African Action Congress (AAC) is set to hold its national convention on Saturday, October 6, 2018, a first for the newly registered political party.

The convention, which will take place at Funplex Centre, CMD, Shangisha, Lagos will feature the presence of around 2,000 delegates from the 36 states of the federation to nominate a party chairman as well as a presidential candidate for the party.

Speaking on the event, Director General of the Take It Back movement, Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi said: “We expect the convention to be as fair as possible. So far, only one candidate has completed the registration process for the presidential position. A lot of people have indicated interest, and we will see how it goes tomorrow".

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had issued a statement earlier on Thursday to restate the October 7 deadline for political parties to conduct primaries for all elective positions for the 2019 elections.

The reminder was issued in a statement by Solomon Soyebi, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Thursday. - Sahara Reporters

In a first, HIV-positive mother donates liver to save her child's life

Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from an HIV-positive mother into her HIV-negative child, it was announced Thursday.

The doctors at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg revealed that one year after the operation, the child may not have caught the virus from her new liver.

The child had a terminal liver disease and would have died without the transplant.

Medication given to the child "may have prevented the transmission of HIV. However, we will only know this conclusively over time," said Jean Botha, chief surgeon at the university.

The team of doctors at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre performed what it said was the first liver transplant from a mother living with HIV to her HIV-negative child, who was close to death after waiting six months for a donor.

They said that the mother and child, who have not been identified, have fully recovered and are in good health. After transplants, liver remaining in the donor is able to regenerate rapidly.

The mother, who is being successfully treated with antiretroviral (ART) medication, had repeatedly asked to donate her liver to save her child's life -- posing a major ethical debate for doctors due to the risk of HIV transmission.

"The transplant team faced the dilemma of saving the child's life whilst at the same time knowing that the child might end up HIV positive," the university added. "The actual chance of transmitting HIV was unknown."

South Africa has the world's largest HIV treatment programme with 7.1 million people living with HIV, an 18.9 percent adult prevalence rate.

About 3.7 million people in the country receive treatment for HIV, so the use of HIV-positive donors could help tackle the severe shortage of donors.

In 2017, 14 children waiting for liver transplants in Johannesburg died before having the operation.

"We hope that this ground-breaking operation will be the first of many like it and will contribute towards promoting justice and equity in liver transplantation," June Fabian, research director at the university's medical center, said in a press release.

A paper detailing the case was published on Thursday in the peer-reviewed AIDS medical journal. - AFP

As Gaza worsens, Palestinian leader controls fate of US plan

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been sidelined, isolated and humiliated by the Trump administration. But the embattled Palestinian leader may have the final say in determining the fate of the White House's long-awaited vision for Mideast peace.

In recent weeks, Abbas has thwarted a series of internationally backed initiatives aimed at rehabilitating the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. With Gaza expected to be the centerpiece of the U.S. peace plan, Abbas has given himself a virtual veto over the expected American initiative. The deadlock over Gaza appears to be a key reason behind the repeated delays in unveiling the plan.

"The U.S. is trying to use the humanitarian situation in Gaza as a tool to implement its plan," said Mohammed Ishtayeh, a top Palestinian official. "We say that Gaza is an integral part of the Palestinian lands, and solving the problems of Gaza should be in the context of a broad political framework."

For all of its talk about bringing a new approach to Middle East diplomacy, the Trump White House is running into a familiar obstacle that has confounded its predecessors and the international community for over a decade: the Hamas militant group's continued control over Gaza.

The American refusal to work with Hamas, which it brands a terrorist group, and its inability to oust it, has made it virtually impossible to move forward on the diplomatic front — a weakness that Abbas now appears to be exploiting.

Abbas has two main concerns. First, he fears that any interim cease-fire deal in Gaza will deepen Hamas' control over the territory.

Second, after Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and his attacks on the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Abbas fears the U.S. is trying to remove sensitive issues from the negotiating agenda. For him, Gaza is the last obstacle preventing the U.S. from forcing what he sees as an unacceptable plan on him.

"What is left for this administration to give to the Palestinian people? Humanitarian solutions?" Abbas said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly last week.

Hamas, a militant group that opposes Israel's existence, seized control of Gaza from Abbas' forces in 2007. Despite three wars with Israel, an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that has devastated the economy and international isolation, Hamas remains firmly in control.

Abbas says there can be no progress on the diplomatic front until he regains control of Gaza. Attempts to reconcile with Hamas have repeatedly failed, leaving the Palestinians divided between rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza.

Abbas seeks an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The two-state solution has widespread international support.

But since taking office, President Donald Trump's Mideast team, led by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, has backed away from the two-state solution. Although the Trump team has refused to reveal details of its plan, the Palestinians fear the U.S. is plotting to impose a "mini-state" that would consist of Gaza and only small pieces of the West Bank.

Two senior Palestinian officials confirmed that Abbas has been working behind the scenes to scuttle U.N. and Egyptian attempts to forge a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas or to carry out large infrastructure projects that would bring relief to Gaza's beleaguered population.

As the officially recognized Palestinian representative, Abbas' government continues to coordinate the movement of goods through Israeli-controlled crossings into Gaza. This has given him the ability to block large-scale projects, even when approved by Israel.

Israel, which has come under fierce international criticism over Gaza's dire state, has in recent days seized on Abbas' moves, perhaps to deflect attention from its own policies.

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Abbas of "choking" Gaza, warning it could "lead to very difficult consequences."

The Palestinian officials also said Abbas has relayed messages to the U.S. through his Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt, that there can be no peace plan that excludes him from Gaza.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal Palestinian deliberations, said Abbas fears various plans under consideration will end up entrenching Hamas and freezing him out of Gaza.

Abbas believes there can be no significant progress in Gaza without a reconciliation deal that brings him back to power in the territory. The talks have repeatedly broken down over Hamas' refusal to disarm.

This week, another set of Egyptian-brokered talks ended inconclusively, according to people close to the talks.

"Until yesterday, we did not reach any result worth mentioning," said Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas official in Gaza. He accused Abbas of taking "retaliatory" action against the people of Gaza.

Abbas has taken a series of measures against the territory, slashing the salaries of thousands of former government workers in Gaza and cutting fuel subsidies to pay for electricity, all in an effort to step up pressure on Hamas.

These measures, combined with the decade-long blockade, have sent Gaza's economy into freefall. The increasingly desperate Hamas has stepped up mass protests along the Israeli border in hopes of pressuring Israel to ease the blockade. Nearly 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, yet Israel shows no signs of lifting the closure.

In his address to the U.N. General Assembly last week, Abbas threatened to tighten the screws even harder, warning he could not "bear any responsibility" for Gaza if the deadlock with Hamas continues.

At the same time, Israel and international donor nations were meeting on the sidelines of the assembly to discuss ways to improve conditions in Gaza. Those talks, like similar meetings in recent months, ended inconclusively.

Jason Greenblatt, the White House's Mideast envoy, blamed Hamas for the dire conditions in Gaza and said the U.S. "will not fund a situation that empowers Hamas."

Yet he also voiced frustration with Abbas, urging other countries to be "direct and frank" in pushing the Palestinian Authority to forge a "new, sustainable path."

The Gaza conundrum is just the latest obstacle for the U.S. peace plan. The Palestinians cut off ties with the White House after Trump declared Jerusalem to be Israel's capital and moved the U.S. Embassy there.

The Trump administration has also cut hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Palestinians, including $300 million for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, and shuttered the Palestinians' diplomatic mission in Washington.

Accusing the U.S. of being unfairly biased toward Israel, Abbas has already said he will not consider the American peace plan.

Greenblatt acknowledged the challenge ahead at the donor meeting. Refusing to say when his plan would be released, he pleaded for all sides to consider the proposal.

"Palestinians and Israelis deserve to read it, think about it, engage on it, and see if we can make it happen," he said. - AP

FSARS nabs vigilante, 5 others for vandalizing communication mast

Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Lagos Island, Lagos, have arrested the vigilante in charge of security for the residents of Fifi Street area of Idiroko Road, Sango, Ota, Ogun State, Azeez Yusuf and five others for allegedly vandalizing some of the telecommunication masts of network providers in Lagos and Ogun States.

Police alleged that the suspects vandalized the masts at Ikotun Egbe, Ayobo and Ipaja in Lagos and Sango Ota, Mowe and Ibafo in Ogun State and sold the stolen items at Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos.

The feat, according to a police source, was achieved by the Deputy Commissioner of police, DCP in charge of FSARS, Ibrahim Kaoje who directed his men led by DSP Olaniyi Festus to fish out the suspects following a tip-off by concerned Nigerians.

Police identified other suspects as Akeem Zakaria, Femi Akinlade, Oyesansan Adeola Yusuf, Ganiu Mohammedvand Azeez Kabiru.

Police alleged that nemesis caught up with the suspect in September, 2018 when Kaoje received a tip-off that the suspects had perfected another plan to vandalized telecommunication mast at Ayobo area of Lagos.

Following the report, Kaoje dispatched DSP Festus and his team to the area to trace and arrest the suspect and the police arrested Zakaria and two others at the scene with their operational bus.

During investigation, Zakaria allegedly confessed to the crime that they have been vandalizing the telecommunication mast at Ikotun Egbe, Ayobo, Ipaja in Lagos and Sango Ota, Ibafo and Mowe area of Ogun State to steal batteries and panels and selling the stolen items at Alaba International Market, Lagos.

Zakaria allegedly stated that anytime they storm the masts, they would descend on the security men on duty, beat them up and tie them with a rope before stealing the items, adding that while the vigilante at Fifi street, area of Sango Ota, Azeez Yusuf was the one providing them with information,

Zakaria led the police to arrest others. A police source alleged that they have launched a manhunt for the arrest of the fleeing suspects, adding that all the suspect would be charged to court after investigation of the matter. - PM News

PDP primary election: Hoodlums attack policemen, set van ablaze in Delta

Hoodlums Friday attacked policemen at the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, primary election in Delta State and set their patrol van ablaze.

DAILY POST reports that the hoodlums stormed the Ethiope-East Local Government Council, venue of Ethiope-East Constituency election during accreditation.

They blocked the gate while shooting sporadically and beating up the electoral officer who was to conduct the PDP primary election.

A serious fight, however, ensued between the hoodlums and some youths leading to an attack on the policemen and their van. A rifle was snatched from a policeman in the process.

The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Muhammad Mustafa confirmed the report in a chat with DAILY POST.

CP Mustafa said, “There was a problem actually. It was the PDP House of Assembly election which held at Isiokolo. Though, we have recovered the rifle. The situation has calmed down. One person was injured but it’s not that serious.” - Daily Post