Fatai Ganiyu Abass was more than self-sufficient, practising as an auto-electrician and moonlighting as a Fuji musician. The future looked rosy for him until tragedy struck a couple of years back.

He developed problems with his eyes and eventually lost sight in both eyes. His world seemed to fall apart. Without his eyes, his means of livelihood literally dissolved like ice cubes in the sun. He could only move around with the assistance of his 10-year old son, Abdulateef. The job of fending for the family fell on the laps of his wife, a petty trader.

According to Abass, depression was setting in, but he kept consoling himself that things would take another turn for the better for him.

Sure enough, one day, he was sitting in his house when he received a call from Globacom customer care representatives informing him that he had won a grinding mill in the ongoing Glo Recharge and Win Big Promo also called My Own Don Beta.

He initially thought it was a prank or a case of wrong number. But when he showed up at Glo Office in Jos and the news was confirmed to him, he regained his old effervescent self.

“I have got a new lease of life. With this grinding mill that Globacom has given me, my family has a new stream of income. My wife will add it to her petty trading. At the very least the cost of buying drugs for my eye condition will be taken care of,” he said.

At the prize handover ceremony to prize winners in Toro community, Bauchi State on Friday, a grateful Abass rendered a Fuji song he composed to show gratitude to Globacom for a gift that he said would transform his family.

At the ceremony, graced by the traditional chief of the region, Hardon Toro, Alhaji Mohammed Inuwa, Nollywood comic, Saeed Mohammed and other dignitaries, five other winners were given their prizes.

Thairu Abubakar, a business man and Onyekwelu Chinenye Doris, a UNN Accountancy graduate received a tricycle each. Fatima Kabir a Youth Corper and her husband, Murtala Kabir, showed up to collect an industrial sewing machine, which the wife said she would use to further her ambition to sow wedding gowns.

Abdusalam Musa Mamman also collected a grinding mill, while Abdulfatai Shittu, collected an electricity generator at the community presentation at Toro, Bauchi State on Friday.

Some 50 winners had been presented their prizes at the Jos Terminus Market the previous Monday. In all, over 700 winners had won tricycles, industrial sewing machines, grinding mills and generators. Globacom subscribers need to recharge their lines with a minimum of N200 to stand a chance of winning a prize in the promo.

Dahiru Inusa, a 56-year-old father of 15 children has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly chaining and dragging his 15- year-old daughter through the streets in Lafia, Nasarawa State’s capital.

The man who was arrested at Bukan-Sidi area of Lafia on Wednesday December 4, said he was trying to tame his daughter who became wayward and refused going to school.

The NSCDC commandant in the state, Mr Muhammad Mahmoud-Fari said the suspect will be charged to court for attempted murder, child abuse and torture.

He said, “This is a case of a father chaining and dragging his biological daughter on the street in the name of instilling discipline in her. We all must join hands to fight this menace in our society.

“Just yesterday (Thursday), we had the case of a 75- year-old man who defiled a three-year-old child.”

Inusa admitted committing the offence but said it was a mistake. He alleged that his daughter was fond of absconding from school and associating with bad friends.

He said, “I was angered by the fact that some girls were influencing her negatively and it was the anger that pushed me into making the mistake of putting her in chains. I was only trying to make her take me to her friends and not to harm her. I am begging my daughter and the government to forgive me.”

A man identified as Ibrahim Aremu, popularly called Jenromi, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly being in possession of about 300 wraps of suspected Indian hemp.

The command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known on Friday, December 6th saying the suspect was arrested following information received by the police at Enugada division ”about his activities as an alleged leader of a cult group terrorising Itun Seriki community, Totoro Abeokuta”.

He said information further revealed that the suspect is also a ‘big-time’ dealer in illicit drugs ”and that his cult group always uses his abode as their meeting point from where they plan how to carry out their notorious activities”.

“On receiving the information, the DPO Enugada division mobilised his men to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested while some of his accomplices escaped. About 300 wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp was (were) recovered from him,” he said.

The commissioner of police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department.

An 18-year-old boy, Awuzie Duruhas allegedly been shot dead by a police officer because he retaliated when the officer slapped him.

He was allegedly killed within the premises of a new generation bank branch at Umuaka on Sunday, December 1.

According to reports, Awuzie, popularly known as Aboy, from Isiozi Aka in Umuaka, Imo state, had gone to the bank to withdraw money from the bank’s ATM gallery. The boy took his space on the line and other newcomers took their place behind him.

After a while, Awuzie left the line to answer a call. When he returned to take his place on the ATM queue, the bank customer who was behind him refused to let him back on the line.

This led to a verbal confrontation. A policeman present witnessed the confrontation but did not interfere.

The fight soon turned physical and the policeman got involved and started scolding Awuzie.

According to The Nation, Awuzie then told the officer that he refused to do anything when the were simply exchanging words but wants to scold him now that it has turned into a physical fight.

At this, the officer reportedly slapped Awuzie for talking back at him. Awuzie slapped back and the officer allegedly shot him.

The boy’s killing stirred up tension in the town as the youths in the area began planning an attack on the police station.

According to village sources, the youths mobilised to attack the police station but some elders appealed to them to allow the police hierarchy handle the matter.

An elder in the area told The Nation: “I can tell you that the boys were not happy with the matter is that policeman killed the boy over an altercation. So, they had mobilised to burn down the station to show their anger and loss.

“But, some of us had to intervene because this kind of thing has happened here before about 15 years ago when some policemen caused the death of some people in Umuaka here and our youths burned down the police station. So we don’t want this kind of thing to happen anymore.

“Some of them are still planning to launch an attack but we’re still appealing to them.”

The state police commissioner, Rabiu Ladodo confirmed the incident. He added that the command was doing everything possible to contain any further crisis that might arise from the incident.

Ladodo also disclosed that the policeman involved had been arrested and will be punished if found guilty.

An second year student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, MAPOLY, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has died after allegedly plunging into a well.

According to reports from his peers, Samson aka Asese Lee woke up around 5a.m on Wednesday in Fagba, Lagos State, and started screaming “my money is inside the well.”

They added that before they could understand what was happening, he had jumped inside the 180ft well and he died before help could get to him. Samson was laid to rest on Thursday.

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Idowu Omosuyi, the police officer that reportedly shot and killed a truck driver along the Akure-Owo Expressroad, Ondo State has finally surrendered himself to the police authorities.

According to reports, Sergeant Omosuyi surrendered himself at the Ondo Police Command headquarters on Thursday, December 5th barely twenty-four hours after he was declared wanted by the police authorities.

The Police Officer, who is attached to the Federal Highway Patrol, had on Monday, allegedly shot Ado Saleh in the head at a security check point after the latter refused to pay him a bribe. The truck driver died on the spot.

The Police Spokesman in Ondo state, Femi Joseph, who confirmed his appearance at the police headquarters said that the police officers would face a disciplinary panel.

“The officer (Sergeant Omoniyi) would now have to face a panel of investigation that was set up by the Commissioner of Police on the case.

“We have repeatedly said that the case would not be swept under the carpet and just as we have assured members of the public that the Nigeria police shall continue to abide by the laws and protect the lives and properties of the people,” he said.

Another batch of winners in the on-going Glo promo, Recharge and Win Big, received their prizes at Terminus Market, Jos, Plateau State, on Monday. Fifty prizes comprising tricycles, generators, grinding mills and industrial sewing machines were won by Glo subscribers in the Tin city.

Jos is the seventh city to host the prize presentation exercise which has been held in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano and Onitsha in the last few weeks.

Launched in October, the Recharge and Win Big Promo popularly known as My Own Don Beta, is an empowerment promo packaged by national telecommunications company, Globacom.

Speaking at the occasion, Glo Regional Manager, Primary Sales, North East 1, Mr. Jide Ofor thanked guests, the media and everyone present for attending the event. He stated that the testimony of winners across different cities on how the prizes will boost their income has been resounding, adding that it has shown clearly that Globacom’s decision to empower Nigerians with life-changing prizes was a step in the right direction.

Speaking further, the Glo representative said, “At Globacom, we have kept our promise by delivering the prizes won by our lucky customers before the media, the general public and representatives of regulatory bodies such as the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC)”.

The event was attended by Nollywood star, Mrs Patience Ozokwor popularly known as Mama G; Chairman, Terminus Market, Jos; Alhaji Mustapha Ibrahim, Zonal Head, Monitoring and Enforcement, Plateau office of National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Mrs Mandy Appiah, Secretary of Tricycle Riders Union of Nigeria, Plateau State, Mr. John Bala Musa, amongst others.

A new set of winners also emerged in a computerised live draw held at the market, supervised by officials of NLRC in the presence of guests, artisans, traders and officials of the market. They will receive their prizes during the next presentation exercise scheduled for the coal city of Enugu.

Rev. Fr Uche Ukor, a catholic priest in the Archdiocese Onitsha, on Wednesday evening, slumped during a novelty match with other colleagues in Asaba, Delta State.

The priest, who was the coach of his side, slumped during a football match between priests of Onitsha diocese and Issele Uku diocese, and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The deceased identified as Rev. Fr Uche Ukor was also the Director of the diocese’s media arm, publishers of Trinitas Newspaper.

“He slumped during a football match between priests of Onitsha diocese and Issele Uku diocese yesterday at Asaba.

“He wasn’t even playing. He was their coach. I’ve been in shock since a mutual friend called me last night to inform me of his demise,” a source told Daily Post.