Cultists, Security Guard Rape Undergraduate In Ekiti

Four suspected members of a cult
group and a security man at a private
polytechnic in Ekiti State have been
arrested for allegedly gang-raping a
student of the institution.
The rape victim (name withheld), who
is an ND 1 student of the polytechnic,
told PUNCH Metro at the Ekiti State
Police Command headquarters in Ado
Ekiti on Wednesday that the suspects
stormed her room, tied her up and
took turn to rape her.
The four suspected rapists are Kunle
Aralepo 20, Oluwaseun Akomolafe, 23,
who are ND II students of Business
Administration and Kehinde Adeyemi
and Ayo Olomola, who are on the
run.
The victims added that one of the
boys had asked her out and she
refused.
She also accused one of the security
men in the polytechnic, Mr. Seyi
Adanbioje, of raping her the same
day at his residence.
The victim said the Chief Security
Officer of the school directed
Adanbioje to take her to police station
to make an official report of the rape
case.
She said after leaving the station, the
security man took her to his residence
and also forcefully had sex with her.
The security man, however, denied
raping the female student. He
explained that he granted the girl an
“asylum” because she said she could
not sleep alone in her house.
He said, “She could not sleep alone
because she was afraid that those
who had earlier raped her might
come back again.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr.
Victor Babayemi, who paraded the
suspects, said police investigation had
shown that rape cases had been
rampant at the institution.
He said the police were still probing
such cases of rape and why they were
not reported to the police.
Babayemi said the police would
thoroughly investgate the fresh rape
incident and allow justice to take its
course.
The PPRO said, “A group of four
young men namely, Aralepo Kunle,
Akomolafe Oluwaseun (both ND II
Business Administration students),
Kehinde Adeyemi and Ayo Olomola,
aka AY Bishop, who was expelled
from the school in March for rape
went to the house of a female student
of the polytechnic, broke her door to
gain entry, tied her hands and legs
and gang-raped her.
“They also robbed her of her phone
and the sum of N5,000.00. A security
guard at the polytechnic, Seyi
Adanbioje, 28, was also found to be
part of the gangsters. He was told to
take the girl to the police station and
make a report but he took a detour to
his house, where he also raped the
victim.”
He said medical report confirmed that
the victim was raped.
In a similar case, the police said the
proprietor of a private primary school,
Mr. Ibitoye Babatunde, who was
arrested for allegedly raping an 11-
year-old pupil of his school, had a
case to answer.
Ajibade, who denied the accusation,
said a man who saw him while
entering into a bush to defecate
demanded money from him and he
threatened to deal with him if he
refused.
He said he refused and the hoodlum
raised the alarm which attracted a
crowd.
But the PPRO said the medical report
confirmed that the girl’s hymen had
been broken.
The police also paraded two
commercial motocyclists (okada
riders), who were accused of raping a
young lady.
The PPRO said the suspect – Babatope
and Oluwasusi Tope- gave the girl a
free ride and took her to another
place where she was raped.
In a related development, the police
also said that a 17-year-old boy had
been arrested for defiling a three-
year-old girl.

Prof. Wole Soyinka ~ I Was Not Behind Achebe’s Accident

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole
Soyinka has berated critics, who
attributed the cause of late Chinua
Achebe’s accident that eventually
confined him to a wheel chair until he
recently breathed his last, to the
“spotless ram” he presented to him as
a gift for his sixtieth birthday. Soyinka,
in a release entitled “The Village
Mourners Association,” lamented the
reaction of a category of people he
likened to “homicidal clerics,” whom
he said began to spread the
falsehood after Achebe’s burial.
According to Soyinka, it was wrong for
people to situate the ram he
graciously presented to a friend on his
birthday, which he (Achebe) warmly
received with a comment “Typical of
Wole,” as the cause of Chinua
Achebe’s motor accident. Soyinka tells
his own story in the release, saying:
Here goes the story, for those who
seek light relief from ponderous
unctuousness: “What happened was
that I found myself unable to return to
Nigeria for a Colloquium in honour of
Chinua’s sixtieth birthday.
My dramatic mind immediately
scrambled for some striking manner
of compensation. “So I telephoned a
business friend who had some
agricultural connections in Delta State
and told him: find the chunkiest,
spotless ram in Delta State – all white
or all black, but a thoroughbred of
striking physique. “Find a leather
pouch, tie it to its neck with the
following message and deliver it at the
venue of the Colloquium. I no longer
recall the exact dictated wording,
nothing inspirational, just the usual
felicitations and injunctions to turn
that ram into asun for general
feasting.
“Those who attended the event will
recall the grand entry of the gift – as
reported by one and all, including the
foreign visitors, and Chinua’s reported
reaction, seated on the podium.
He shook head and said, ‘Typical of
Wole.’ “The ram was then led off to
meet its destiny at the hands of the
gathered. (As a side note, it was I who
took a gift away from his seventieth at
Bard University – a sobering flash of
time past that resulted in my ELEGY
FOR A NATION.
I had that poem re-published to mark
the day of his funeral.) “Our story is
only beginning. On the way back from
that celebration, Chinua had his
accident and was flown to the United
Kingdom. At the first opportunity, I
made my way there and called up the
High Commissioner, Dove-Edwin, who
was certain to know the hospital
location.
“It turned out that he also planned a
visit that afternoon, and he agreed to
give me a ride. We waited – I was
joined by two others – waited, and
waited, then a phone call came from
him that the visit had been called off.
The High Commissioner would
explain why, on arrival – over a
promised dinner, as compensation.
“That explanation was this: Dove-
Edwin had received communication
that some of ‘Chinua’s people’ – a
university professor among them,
who was named – had pronounced
publicly that ‘Chinua should have
known better than to accept a
spotless ram from his enemy’ – yes,
that was the word used – ‘enemy.’
“I verified this report from various
other sources. Later, an alternative
diagnosis surfaced: ‘Chinua had been
too long away from the chieftaincy
politics of his hometown, otherwise
he would have realized that the title
that he took was coveted by some
others – and these were deeply
steeped in traditional psychic combat.’
“In short, those rivals ‘did him in.
’ Both diagnoses competed for
dominance for a while, petering out
eventually. “Before the promotion of
that alternative cause-and-effect
however, Dove-Edwin had re-
scheduled, and we had a most
bracing, optimistic afternoon with
Chinua. Yes, our patient was
eventually told the cause of the earlier
postponement, and he had a good
laugh.
“On my return to Nigeria, I could not
wait to take the opportunity of a
public lecture to invite all desperate
enemies to please send me their rams
of choice – spotless, spotted, piebald,
striped or nondescript – so I could
treat starving writers to free meals in
my home for the rest of the year. And
I promised to taste a piece of each
ram before serving.
” Soyinka said it was that same breed
that “continues to sow poison in the
minds of the susceptible.” He said
those people may want to position
themselves of “being there, even
when absent,” yet they
“ostentatiously” position themselves at
the event, or at vicarious gatherings to
denounce, attribute sinister
motivations, and inseminate hate
against those whom their “pedestrian
vision cannot see.” “Your very
loudness proclaims your absence,”
Soyinka said.
“You were always absent. You will
always be absent. So, this
communication is not really meant for
you but for those potential almajiri –
whose minds you corrupt daily with
your jeremiads in that
accommodating madrassa known as
Internet,” he said. Addressing his
critics, Soyinka said they should not
misinform their audience.
“Äs a teacher, I lament your failure to
use the opportunity of the passing of
a revered writer to turn your younger
generation in enlightened directions.
“You have chosen instead to coarsen
their sensibilities and breed in their
minds misunderstanding, suspicion
and above all – hate!”
“You will have understood by now
how I have come to view you as no
different from the homicidal clerics
who arm youths with kerosene and
match, cudgel and knife, a few Naira
in their beggars’ bowls, and dispatch
them to set fire to structures of
comradely cohabitation, of reflection,
of mind enlargement, and destroy
communities of learning. “Your gospel
of separatism goes beyond the
geographical – in which I have not the
slightest interest! – but the
humanistic.
The difference is in the weapon – in
your case, poison, mind corrosion.
“The means – Internet, and it’s wide
open, undiscriminating generosity.
That is where you lay spores of
poison, and doom future generations
to a confinement of human
relationships within the darkest
corners of the mind. “You are beyond
pity. Kindly absent your selves from
my funeral, when that event finally
intrudes,” Soyinka said.

Prof. Wole Soyinka ~ I Was Not Behind Achebe’s Accident

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole
Soyinka has berated critics, who
attributed the cause of late Chinua
Achebe’s accident that eventually
confined him to a wheel chair until he
recently breathed his last, to the
“spotless ram” he presented to him as
a gift for his sixtieth birthday. Soyinka,
in a release entitled “The Village
Mourners Association,” lamented the
reaction of a category of people he
likened to “homicidal clerics,” whom
he said began to spread the
falsehood after Achebe’s burial.
According to Soyinka, it was wrong for
people to situate the ram he
graciously presented to a friend on his
birthday, which he (Achebe) warmly
received with a comment “Typical of
Wole,” as the cause of Chinua
Achebe’s motor accident. Soyinka tells
his own story in the release, saying:
Here goes the story, for those who
seek light relief from ponderous
unctuousness: “What happened was
that I found myself unable to return to
Nigeria for a Colloquium in honour of
Chinua’s sixtieth birthday.
My dramatic mind immediately
scrambled for some striking manner
of compensation. “So I telephoned a
business friend who had some
agricultural connections in Delta State
and told him: find the chunkiest,
spotless ram in Delta State – all white
or all black, but a thoroughbred of
striking physique. “Find a leather
pouch, tie it to its neck with the
following message and deliver it at the
venue of the Colloquium. I no longer
recall the exact dictated wording,
nothing inspirational, just the usual
felicitations and injunctions to turn
that ram into asun for general
feasting.
“Those who attended the event will
recall the grand entry of the gift – as
reported by one and all, including the
foreign visitors, and Chinua’s reported
reaction, seated on the podium.
He shook head and said, ‘Typical of
Wole.’ “The ram was then led off to
meet its destiny at the hands of the
gathered. (As a side note, it was I who
took a gift away from his seventieth at
Bard University – a sobering flash of
time past that resulted in my ELEGY
FOR A NATION.
I had that poem re-published to mark
the day of his funeral.) “Our story is
only beginning. On the way back from
that celebration, Chinua had his
accident and was flown to the United
Kingdom. At the first opportunity, I
made my way there and called up the
High Commissioner, Dove-Edwin, who
was certain to know the hospital
location.
“It turned out that he also planned a
visit that afternoon, and he agreed to
give me a ride. We waited – I was
joined by two others – waited, and
waited, then a phone call came from
him that the visit had been called off.
The High Commissioner would
explain why, on arrival – over a
promised dinner, as compensation.
“That explanation was this: Dove-
Edwin had received communication
that some of ‘Chinua’s people’ – a
university professor among them,
who was named – had pronounced
publicly that ‘Chinua should have
known better than to accept a
spotless ram from his enemy’ – yes,
that was the word used – ‘enemy.’
“I verified this report from various
other sources. Later, an alternative
diagnosis surfaced: ‘Chinua had been
too long away from the chieftaincy
politics of his hometown, otherwise
he would have realized that the title
that he took was coveted by some
others – and these were deeply
steeped in traditional psychic combat.’
“In short, those rivals ‘did him in.
’ Both diagnoses competed for
dominance for a while, petering out
eventually. “Before the promotion of
that alternative cause-and-effect
however, Dove-Edwin had re-
scheduled, and we had a most
bracing, optimistic afternoon with
Chinua. Yes, our patient was
eventually told the cause of the earlier
postponement, and he had a good
laugh.
“On my return to Nigeria, I could not
wait to take the opportunity of a
public lecture to invite all desperate
enemies to please send me their rams
of choice – spotless, spotted, piebald,
striped or nondescript – so I could
treat starving writers to free meals in
my home for the rest of the year. And
I promised to taste a piece of each
ram before serving.
” Soyinka said it was that same breed
that “continues to sow poison in the
minds of the susceptible.” He said
those people may want to position
themselves of “being there, even
when absent,” yet they
“ostentatiously” position themselves at
the event, or at vicarious gatherings to
denounce, attribute sinister
motivations, and inseminate hate
against those whom their “pedestrian
vision cannot see.” “Your very
loudness proclaims your absence,”
Soyinka said.
“You were always absent. You will
always be absent. So, this
communication is not really meant for
you but for those potential almajiri –
whose minds you corrupt daily with
your jeremiads in that
accommodating madrassa known as
Internet,” he said. Addressing his
critics, Soyinka said they should not
misinform their audience.
“Äs a teacher, I lament your failure to
use the opportunity of the passing of
a revered writer to turn your younger
generation in enlightened directions.
“You have chosen instead to coarsen
their sensibilities and breed in their
minds misunderstanding, suspicion
and above all – hate!”
“You will have understood by now
how I have come to view you as no
different from the homicidal clerics
who arm youths with kerosene and
match, cudgel and knife, a few Naira
in their beggars’ bowls, and dispatch
them to set fire to structures of
comradely cohabitation, of reflection,
of mind enlargement, and destroy
communities of learning. “Your gospel
of separatism goes beyond the
geographical – in which I have not the
slightest interest! – but the
humanistic.
The difference is in the weapon – in
your case, poison, mind corrosion.
“The means – Internet, and it’s wide
open, undiscriminating generosity.
That is where you lay spores of
poison, and doom future generations
to a confinement of human
relationships within the darkest
corners of the mind. “You are beyond
pity. Kindly absent your selves from
my funeral, when that event finally
intrudes,” Soyinka said.

Nigeria-Uruguay Preview: Super Eagles look to land knockout blow

It was a case of
mixed fortunes for
Nigeria and Uruguay
in their opening
Confederations Cup
fixtures.
The history books
will tell of a resounding 6-1 win for the
Super Eagles over minnows Tahiti, but
the Africa Cup of Nations champions
were far from at their best and came in
for criticism after the game.
Dynamo Kiev striker Ideye Brown could
be named in the starting XI at the
expense of Anthony Ujah or Ahmed
Musa - both of whom failed to score
against the Polynesian island.
Uruguay endured struggles of their
own, as they went down 2-1 to Spain,
in what was very much a one-sided
affair against the world and European
champions, though Oscar Tabarez may
give the same XI a second chance to
impress on Thursday.
DID YOU KNOW?
*Victory for Nigeria will see them
qualify for the Confederations Cup
semi-finals.
*AC Milan forward Nnamdi
Oduamadi scored a hat-trick in the
6-1 win over Tahiti, prompting
Rossoneri chief Adriano Galliani to
call for him to be promoted to the
first team next season.
*The Super Eagles have kept just one
clean sheet in their last five games
but are unbeaten since defeat to
Peru in May last year.
*Uruguay had just six shots to
Spain's 16 in their 2-1 defeat on
Sunday.
The Copa America winners also
enjoyed just 29% of possession,
with la Roja dominating from start
to finish.
*Luis Suarez (pictured, right) is
Uruguay's top scorer in their 2014
World Cup qualifying campaign with
eight goals.

MTN Project Fame All Stars Concert

This season MTN Project Fame has
decided to bring together all its
superstars and take them on a two
city tour of Calabar and Lagos.
Project Fame’s season 1 winner
Iyanya was discovered in Calabar.
MTN plans to paint Calabar Yello
with a rich collection of Project Fame
All Stars from season 1 to 5.
The MTN Project fame concerts
promise a parade of both Nigerian
and West African Award-winning PF
Stars including Ayo, Monica, iMyke,
Chidinma, and Iyanya, Kesse and Nii
from Ghana, Nicholas and Musulyn
from Liberia, and Anis from S/
Leone. They will be supported by
Fineboy Eyo, Tolu, Ochuko, Yetunde,
Adetoun, Ella and Marvellous,  and
lots of others plus special guest
appearances from Wizkid and
Davido.
The concerts are free with
registration by texting, name,
location and age to 5005 from an
MTN line.
The Calabar concert will hold at the
Cultural Centre on Mary Slessor Ave
on Friday June 21st from 7pm and
in Lagos  on Friday June 28th at the
Lagos Oriental Hotel, lekki, lekki Toll
plaza.

D'banj acquires Suit of Money from Okunoren worth $25, 000

International superstar, entertainer
and Oliver Twist crooner, Dapo
Oyebanjo popularly known as
D’banj is always breaking new
grounds in terms of his wardrobe
and clothing items. In a recent
newspaper interview, he confirmed
he wears the same wristwatch as
American rapper Jay-Z, valued at
$50,000.
He has been appointed as the
Hennessy Artistry artiste for 2013
and also recently became the
Goodwill ambassador for the Bank
of Industry. D’banj has continued to
rise in stardom despite his split
from erstwhile partner and friend,
Don Jazzy. He has continued to
command huge sums of money in
endorsements, appearances and
performances thus still making him
the highest earning Nigerian artiste
of all time. His DKM concert being
held on June 23rd 2013 at the Eko
Hotel & Suites will feature
International rapper, 2Chainz as
well as another surprise guest.
This increasing earning power has
also led to an increase in spending
as D’banj just took delivery of what
is known as the “Suit of Money”.
Designed by Okunoren, Nigeria’s
leading clothing brand, the Suit is
made of actual One Hundred Dollar
bills and cost a whopping $25,000,
which is approximately N3.7 million.
It was entirely sewn by hand in
London but was then taken to Italy
for the specialized Milanese
buttonholes to be done at the same
factory used by Tom Ford.
His new song titled Blame it on the
Money”, featuring Snoop Lion and
fellow Good Music act Big Sean goes
further to emphasize his wealth
where he states he is unapologetic
for being rich, it is set to become
one of the major anthems this
summer.

Send Him Home, He Can No Longer Function As a Normal Human – US Doctors Give Up on Gov Suntai

Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba
Suntai can no longer function as a
normal person, Neurological
Doctors treating the embattled
Governor in the United States have
told his family and the state
government.
It was gathered that after several
months of treatment in the US, the
Doctors have now informed the
family of Suntai and the Deputy
Governor of the state, during a
recent visit, to send Suntai home to
manage his worsening condition, as
there was nothing they could do to
bring him back to stable condition.
DailyPost recalled that Suntai was
first treated at the famous John
Hopkins University Hospital in
Baltimore, Maryland, before he was
later moved to a rehabilitation
centre in upstate, New York, both of
which have not yielded any positive
result.
Medical sources said when Suntai
was brought in from Germany, his
brain was swollen and had totally
lost significant control of his ability
to recognize people or speak
audibly. He disclosed that the
Governor now drools like a baby.
It would be recalled that Suntai in
October 2012, was flown to
Germany for brain treatment after
surviving an air crash near Yola
Airport.
DailyPost leanrt that the State
government has spent close to $3.5
million on his treatment in the US
alone, yet no improvement.
The Governor’s wife and a few other
politicians, including the
Commissioner of Information,
Emmanuel Bello, are reportedly
manipulating the media by claiming
that Suntai has fully recovered and
would soon return to govern the
state.

Muslim man gets 11 years jail after burning Bible

Muslim man received a harsh
prison sentenced after he burned
the Bible, according to court
proceedings in Egypt.
The Islamic preacher, who is known
in Egypt for his hate speeches
against Coptic Christians, was
sentenced to 11 years in prison for
burning a Bible in front of the U.S.
embassy during a protest against
an anti-Islam movie, last year.
An Egyptian court in Cairo
sentenced Ahmed Abdullah on
Sunday for insulting religion and for
burning of a Bible. He was also
fined 3,000 Egyptian pounds, or
about $430.
Abdullah's son was sentenced to
eight years in prison and a fine of
2,000 Egyptian pounds, or $286 for
his role in the Bible burning.
Abdullah publicly burned the copy
of the Bible as part of a protest
against the anti-Islam movie
"Innocence of Muslims". The movie
was produced in the United States
by a Coptic Christian of Egyptian
origin, and raised anti-American
protests in the Muslim world.
Abdullah also announced that he
planned to send his grandson to
urinate on the Bible.
The decision was a surprise to
many, since the Egyptian courts are
heavily biased towards Islamists.

Actress Yvonne Nelson Accuses Friend Of Leaking Personal Info To Bloggers

Sexy Ghanaian actress and model
has come on twitter to lament on
her poor quality of friends
*confused*
Yvonne, it’s not really our fault if
you made friends with the wrong
people, maybe you should shine
your eye wella.
The actress accused a specific guy
of revealing false dating stories
about her to bloggers, read tweets
below:

BREAKING NEWS: James Gandolfini 'The Sopranos' star Is Dead

James Gandolfini, the New Jersey-
bred actor who delighted audiences
as mob boss Tony Soprano in “The
Sopranos” has died following a
massive heart attack in Italy,
Read more: Source

KCee & Praiz Join Iyanya, Davido Others as MTN Ambassadors

“Rich & Famous” singer, Praiz and
“Limpopo” crooner, KCee have
joined Iyanya, Davido, Wizkid
among others as telecoms giant,
MTN ambassadors.
The one-year endorsment deal was
signed today.
Congrats to them!
Photo credit: Bellanaija and
Bricksclicks

"I would have been married if MoHits had not broken up"- Dbanj

Culled from a recent Interview with
Funsho Arogundade of PM News
When are you going to get
married and have kids?
To tell you the truth, I would have
been married if Mo’Hits had not
broken up. The crisis really affected
me and I had to start so many
things afresh. Just like my mentor
2Face Idibia, I will be married and
have my own kids one day.
How much do you miss Don Jazzy?
I really miss Don Jazzy and I miss
the whole Mo’Hits crew. But are we
talking about the engine or about
the whole car?
How much would you say D’Banj is
worth now?
Oshee! I can tell you that Eja nla (big
fish) is comfortable. But sincerely, I
don’t know how much I am worth
because I have not really taken my
time to check. In fact, I don’t even
want to check so that it won’t get
into my head. But I must confess to
you that God is really involved in my
life right now.