Abuja prostitute bags 100 days imprisonment for stealing customer's N500k

A 23 year old prostitute named Rosemary Ebikeme has been sentenced to 100 days in prison by an Abuja court for stealing a customer's $3,200 (about N500,000).

The senior magistrate, Abdulahi Ilaleh, of Life Camp Senior magistrate’s court, Abuja, convicted Rosemary after she pleaded guilty to a one-count charge, however, gave her an option of N5,000 fine.

Ilaleh cautioned the convict to desist from the crime, saying that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others. Continue...


Prosecutor Ona Odigiri had told the court that on September 4 one Aleixandre Sachir of Tack Continental Estate, Life Camp, reported the matter to Life Camp Police Station. The prosecutor further told the court that the complainant met the convict in a cinema hall and took her to Waxride Hotel. He said the convict stole $3,200 from the complainant on September 2 and eloped.

Odigiri said that when the convict came back to complain on September 4, she was apprehended and handed over to the police. The convict, however, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court to temper justice with mercy. She said: “Please have mercy on me; I am a student and I am only looking for money to pay my school fees. I stole the money to do business so that I will stop selling my body for money. Please forgive me. “I stole the money from him, even though he paid me N5,000 for my service, please have mercy in God’s name.”

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 288 of the Penal Code Law.

Source: Vanguard

Dear LIB readers: I was raped in school and now it's come back to haunt me

From a female LIB reader

I'm in a big mess, and I don't know how to get out of this...here is my story. About Seven years ago, when I was still in the University, I did something very stupid and childish and I paid dearly for it, and right now its looks like the ghost of the past has come back to haunt me. 

I was in my 2nd year in school when I met Tosin (not real name) she was my Roomie that year and we became quite close. She was dating this cool guy who bought her so many things and took her to the coolest parties, despite our (the girls in the hostel room) plea to meet her boo, she refused, saying girls are not to be trusted. After about seven months of dating him, she entered the room this particular day crying...continue...

...telling us how she caught the guy with another girl. She cried for days, she was devastated. Then she came up with this ridiculous idea of setting the guy up and treating his f**k up. I was picked to be the bait, because I was the innocent and quiet one. I collected the guy's phone number and he fell for the sweet voice. That was how Jide and I started our relationship but it was a Revengetionship on my part. The deal was to make him fall for me and then I dump him. Jide was sweet to me, but I never allowed him to come see me in school, and once he found out that I was a virgin, oh he treated me like I was the rarest of all gems. After about four months of this charade, He found out the connection between Tosin and I, and to say he was angry is an understatement. He called me names and we went our separate ways. He was hurt and this was good news for Tosin.

Six months later, I met this wonderful guy, Frank. He was so smooth and jovial, he charmed me and we started dating. After about three months, on this particular day, I got a call from Frank, he told me he was not feeling fine that I should quickly come over. Like every young lady in love, I dashed down to his house, but to my surprise, I met Frank playing scrabbles with two of his friends, looking quite healthy. He told me he just wanted to see my face. I sat down and watched them play for some minutes, then the door bell rang, and to my utmost mortification, Jide strolled in. It was at that moment that I knew I was in deep mess. To cut it short, my virginity was taken in a brutal way. I was raped by Jide, Frank and their two friends, I was then warned never to breathe a word to the police about it or they will kill me. I went back to the hostel and Tosin was the only one who knew about it, she was my rock and anchor, and she kept apologizing for putting me in the mess. We finished school and everyone went their separate ways.

Ever since the incident, I was not interested in men or any relationship, I kept to myself, focused on my future, I got a Job with a Telecommunications company and all was well in my world. Then early last year, I met this amazing guy, who gave me a reason to love again. Oh he loves me, and I love him too. Three months ago, he proposed and I accepted. It was that time that I found out that he is Tosin's very close cousin, Since then, Tosin has been threatening to tell him about the rape, that I should leave his cousin alone. She said if I don't, she will tell my fiance's family. I was shocked. She was the reason I went through all that, and she is threatening to take the little happiness I just found away from me again. I'm confused, I'm angry, I'm sad. I don't want to lose my man. I accept that I was stupid back then but I've paid dearly for it. Should I be deprived of this too? Someone please help!

Four die, one missing in Lagos boat mishap

A speed boat belonging to Oke’ra-Nla Boat Association in the Ajah area of Lagos over the weekend capsized leaving four people dead with one person missing

According to reports, the boat, with 22 passengers on board, was heading towards Bayeku from Oke-Ira when it capsized. While some witnesses say the boat hit a stone as it ferried along the waters, other accounts say another boat hit it from behind after the ill-fated boat experienced boisterous water waves which the boat could not control from behind, resulting in it capsizing. Continue...

According to Vanguard, Seventeen persons were rescued while four bodies identified to be the bodies of some carpenters who were returning from Ajah after a week long job there were recovered. One person's body is yet to be found. Reports say some pf the passengers refused to wear their life jackets for fear of contracting the deadly Ebola virus.     

Meanwhile the owner of the boat as well as the operator of the boat are currently being questioned by the police and the Lagos State Waterways Agency,  LASWA.

Photos from Mercy Johnson's baby shower

Here are some photos from Mercy Johnson Okojie's baby shower which took place yesterday in the US. The actress and her husband are expecting a boy this time. See more pics after the cut...

Moment actress was handcuffed for kissing her white husband because police assumed she was a prostitute

This is the moment Django Unchained actress, 

Daniele Watts was handcuffed by police officers after,

 she was seen kissing her white husband because,

 the police men assumed she was a prostitute.

Daniele, who took to Facebook to share her ordeal,

 said she was with her husband Brian James on a busy street in Hollywood on September 2nd,

 and a few minutes after the couple kissed, 

policemen (who had been called by unknown persons) 

approached them and asked to see their ID cards.

 Daniele refused and that was when her ordeal started. Continue...

 

Daniele Watts wrote on her Facebook page: 

'Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.'

'When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn't harming anyone, so I walked away.

'A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when two different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs.

'As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes.

'The tears I cry for a country that calls itself 'the land of the free and the home of the brave' and yet detains people for claiming that very right. 

Her husband Brian also posted the incident on his Facebook page. He wrote

"From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad,

I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers),

saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a H* (prostitute) & a TRICK (client). 

'What an assumption to make! Because of my past experience with the law,

I gave him my ID knowing we did nothing wrong and when they asked D for hers,

she refused to give it because they had no right to do so.

'So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until,

they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her,

they cut her wrist, which was truly NOT COOL!!!'

The cut on her wrist

 

The couple

Daniele in her role as house slave Coco in Django Unchained

Photos: Jay Z & Beyonce make out in their Bang Bang trilogy

Despite the rumours, Jay Z and Beyonce have proved over and over again that they are still crazy in love. The power couple made out behind a screen in the first part of their Bang Bang trilogy on story telling site, Nowness. The 3min video to promote their On The Run tour was directed by Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino and it premiered early this morning. See more loved up stills from the movie after the cut...

Oscar Pistorius cries in a Pretoria, South Africa, courtroom on Thursday, September 11, 

as Judge Thokozile Masipa delivers part of her verdict in Pistorius' murder trial. 

Pistorius, the first double-amputee runner to compete in the Olympics, 

was cleared of premeditated murder in the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp,

 but he was found guilty of culpable homicide on Friday, September 12.