Earlier today, There were rumours on media outlets that Musa, the 4-year-old mutilated by his Step mother had passed away.

Angels of Hope Foundation, an NGO that has been giving reports on Musa’s treatment and progress in the hospital, has debunked the reports. According to their CEO,

“It is sad that people start false rumors without confirmation. People have been circulating rumors that the mutilated toddler Musa has passed away. I received various calls this morning from online news channels asking me to confirm or refute the story. Well here is my answer “Musa Is Alive and getting better”.

For news channels that have put up his death even before confirming, I Omar Naveed Mohammed Abdulmalik Request that you take it down immediately (On Behalf of his mother). This family have been through enough trauma for a lifetime and I consider the spreading of this false rumor as Mean. Please take it down and let the family heal emotionally and physically. Just pray for them and support them in anyway you can. Thank you all for your support and concern”.

The Federal Government yesterday scrapped the conduct of post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions.

The Muslim Rights Concern rejects the abolition of post-JAMB. It is reactionary, myopic and irritating. It is JAMB itself that should have been abolished.

Our position is based on the bitter experiences of Nigerian youths and their parents over the years. Post-JAMB examination was introduced after the general public and tertiary institutions lost faith in the national examination body.

There were allegations of bribery and corruption being rampant among staffers of JAMB who swapped candidates’ marks for the highest bidders.

There were also alleged cases of impersonation whereby parents who could afford it merely bought high scores for their children who never wrote any examination. Many brilliant candidates allegedly got low marks.

Excellence was compromised on the altar of mediocrity. JAMB was ruining the future of Nigerian youths.

It was the poor performance of JAMB candidates who scored amazingly high marks but who could not justify their high scores in tertiary institutions that attracted hue and cry.

They performed woefully after gaining entry into institutions and it was natural for the schools to do something about it since it was obvious that JAMB was dumping dullards in the universities and polytechnics all over the country.

It was an alarming situation. Many undergraduates could not write a single correct sentence. The quality of education in Nigeria was deteriorating.

University graduates were performing woefully in job interviews and prospective employers had problems getting genuinely qualified graduates. The lion share of the blame for the fall in the quality of education in Nigeria today should go to JAMB.

Post-JAMB examinations emerged as a corollary of this ugly situation. The universities and polytechnics needed to separate the wheat from the chaff.

MURIC is not quite comfortable with government’s explanation that all tertiary institutions were at liberty to conduct screening for candidates seeking admission into any school because ordinary screening without written examinations cannot be effective enough. FG should also note that any type of screening at all must cost the institutions some money.

We call on FG to grant tertiary institutions some level of autonomy particularly in the area of admission requirements.

FG should also stop JAMB from exposing the lives of teenage Nigerians to danger through its early morning examinations. It is most irrational for JAMB to slate its papers for 6.30 am in a country where insecurity is still a far cry.

Many JAMB candidates who went out to write the 6.30 am during the last exercise had ugly experiences. Many were forced to travel far distances and sleep overnight in strange and unsafe places.

Two allegedly lost their lives as they were attacked by ritualists and armed robbers. One was allegedly raped by hoodlums.

Another was kidnapped and the parents were made to cough out a huge amount of money. JAMB must put on a human face.

In conclusion, we submit that post-JAMB examination is part of the war against corruption. It is part of the change mantra.

It has come to save Nigerian youths from the monster called JAMB. It is therefore JAMB that should be scrapped, not post-JAMB.

. Being a statement by Prof. Ishaq Akintola, the Director of Muslim Rights Concern.

Another black Friday, as no fewer than nine persons have been confirmed dead while 10 others sustained varying degrees of injuries after an 18-seater commercial bus rammed into a truck in the Fadeyi area of Lagos‎, this morning.

The accident happened around 5.30am and the injured were rushed by emergency officials to the Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre in the Tollgate area for treatments.

Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Emergency Agency Nigeria Police Force and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority were on the ground to clear the wreckage.

The LASEMA General Manager‎, Mr. Michael Akindele, said the accident was caused by the speeding commercial bus, which swerved and rammed into the path of the truck.

He said,

“The agency received an emergency alert of an accident involving two vehicles at fadeyi Bus stop around 5.45am this morning.
This prompted immediate activation of the Emergency Response Plan.‎ Total number of nine people lost their lives in the incident while 10 others sustained injuries and were taken to the emergency Trauma centre at Tollgate.”

A suspect, Zainab Salisu, who allegedly disguised as a customer to abduct a one-year-old girl, Fehintola Lawal, in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State says she named the girl, Taiwo, and another abducted boy, Kehinde (twins).

Salisu, 42, who hails from Daura, Katsina State, told PUNCH Metro on Thursday that she lied to her husband, who she had earlier informed that she was travelling abroad in 2015, that she got pregnant and gave birth to the twins.

PUNCH Metro had reported that the suspect, who disguised as a customer, met the victim’s mother, Damilola Lawal, at a shop in the Abule Egba area and requested some items which were not available.

Two days later, Salisu, who was accompanied by the victim’s mother to get the items in the Agege area. She was said to have escaped on a motorcycle with Fehintola strapped to her back.

Our correspondent reported on Thursday that Salisu was arrested by policemen attached to the Anti-Human trafficking Section of the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, on Wednesday in the Idimu area of the state.

Fehintola and another one-year-old boy were rescued from Salisu’s house on Koleade Street, Council bus stop, Idimu.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, Salisu said her plan was to adopt the abducted kids to cover up the lie she told her husband that she was pregnant with twins.

She said,

“I am from Katsina State, but I have been staying in the South West since I finished my secondary school education in Kano State. I got married in 1992, but I lost my husband in 1993. I met my new husband last year.

“I stay in the Ifo area of Ogun State. My new husband lives in the Matogun area. When I met Fehintola’s parents on that Saturday, I intended to take her away and nurture her as my child. When we went to the supermarket, I did not observe any camera, but I knew there would be cameras there.

“When I fled, I took the girl to my place in Ifo. I lied to my husband in August 2015 that I was pregnant. I told him I was travelling abroad when I realised that he would notice that I was lying. He was the one who drove me to the airport.

“But I did not travel abroad. So when I stole Fehintola in May, I went to him and told him I was back. I took the girl and another boy to him as my twins.”

Salisu, who finished from a polytechnic in Ogun State, however, denied abducting the boy, saying he was her cousin.

She said,

“I told my husband that I had a set of twins. I said they were a boy and a girl. He did not suspect anything until yesterday when the police came to arrest us. I call the toddlers Taiwo and Kehinde. The other boy is related to me. He is my cousin. The mother is dead, but the father lives in Sagamu. I took good care of both children.”

Salisu’s husband, Saheed Akinwale, said he was not aware of his wife’s schemes.

“When she came back in May 2016, I did not ask her any question. She had called me in August 2015 that she was pregnant and was delivered of twins. I did not doubt her. When she came back last month, she brought the children. It was when I saw policemen on Wednesday that I knew she had been lying to me,” he said.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Fehintola’s mother, Damilola, said, “I am grateful to God for rescuing my baby. I am also grateful to the police and the media. Fehintola is my only child. She celebrated her one-year birthday on May 5. This abduction happened on May 16.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said, “We have not reunited the boy with his parents because we have not seen them. We appeal to members of the public to help us locate them. The suspect is a serial child kidnapper and she will soon be charged to court.”

Founding president of Believers’ Loveworld Incorporated aka “Christ Embassy,” Chris Oyakhilome full of smiles as he is being received at the airport as he arrives London in his private jet for a church activity at the London branch of his church.

See photos below;

The eight-year-old boy, George Ward, has had every bone in his face broken by surgeons to help him breathe properly after he was born with a rare genetic disorder.

Daily Mail reports that George Ward has undergone 30 operations to Crouzon syndrome – which causes the plates of a baby’s skull to lock in position too early, before the brain has had chance to grow.

It means his face developed abnormally, making it was dangerous for him to sleep without the aid of a breathing machine.

But now the youngster is adjusting to sleeping unaided for the first time since he was six months old after surgeons broke then reset 14 bones.

He had to wear a special £10,000 facial frame for four months which his mother Carleen Leyland, 47, adjusted twice a day.

The operation was a success, helping stop his hearing and sight problems as well as changing his appearance.

George, of Leigh, Greater Manchester, was diagnosed with the syndrome as a baby.

The condition, which affects on in about 15 million babies, means there is no space for the brain to grow further.

Although brain development is normal, lack of space causes pressure to build up and often leads to problems including the optic nerves becoming damaged and the tubes behind the nose being constricted.

The throat is squeezed causing reflux and ear infections are also common.

‘After his last operation, George had a frame fitted for four months to try to make his concaved face come out more,’ said Ms Leyland.

‘Now that the frame is off he can sleep through the night without a breathing machine.

‘It’s amazing what they have been able to do for George. I just love watching him sleeping now. It is so overwhelming.

‘He also looks better now but for us it is more about the health benefits. He has hearing and sight issues, which are a bit better after the operation.

‘Hopefully, with him being able to hear better, it will help his speech as well.’

George’s family including father Mark Ward, brother Josh, 20, and his sister Alex, 13, are now wanting to fundraise for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, where he has received most of his treatment.

Ms Leyland signed up to do a Tough Mudder challenge in September, designed by the British special forces to challenge the toughest of the tough.

She said:

‘Being in Alder Hey you never feel that far away from other brave children, and it is crazy to think how most of us take the NHS for granted until we need it.

‘I am raising money with the hope of helping more children like George. The more you raise the more equipment there will be and the more research will be done to help.

‘People in Leigh have always been so kind and supportive.

‘I just hope they will be so again and sponsor my Tough Mudder challenge to help other children in need like George.’

Angry Muslims youths in Kano on Thursday evening decapitated a woman trader over allegations that she blasphemed Prophet Muhammad.

The victim, who was said to be of Igbo extraction was accused of blasphemy during a religious argument at Wambai market.

The woman, who sells plastics at the local market was in the company of her husband when she was murdered.

Contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Kano Police Command, DSP Musa Magaji, confirmed the incident.

He said ” At about 4 30 pm, there was a disagreement between the murdered woman and some traders bordering on religion.

”The woman was said to have blasphemed Prophet Mohammed, which did not go down well with the mob.

He said, the woman whose named he didn’t disclose, was in the company of her husband when the incident happened but the timely intervention of the police saved the husband, who was immediately whisked for safety.

Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a bill banning smoking in public places in the state.

The “Bill to Regulate Smoking in Public Places and for Connected Purposes’’ also provides three to six months imprisonment or fine of between N15, 000 and N50, 000 for offenders.

The bill was sponsored by Mr Segun Ajanaku and Mr Segun Olaleye, representing Ibadan South-West II and Ibadan North II constituencies, respectively.

Supporting the passage of the bill, the Chairman of the assembly’s Committee on Health, Mr Silas Okunola, said that the bill was necessary for regulating smoking in designated places, include shopping centres, restaurants, public toilets and cinemas.

Other areas covered by the proposed law are hospitals, creches, schools and public transportation vehicles within the state.

Specifically, the bill stipulates fine of N15, 000 or three month imprisonment or both for first time offenders while any person guilty of repeated act would be liable to a N50, 000 fine or six months imprisonment or both.

It also stipulates that any person found guilty of smoking in the presence of a child in a manner that exposes smoke to be injurious to the child, would be liable to a month imprisonment with an option of N15, 000 or both.

The bill states that any person who repeatedly violates the provision of not smoking in the presence of a child will be liable to one year imprisonment with an option of not less than N100, 000 or both.

It makes it compulsory for any person involved with the management of a public place to put a ‘No-Smoking’ sign in conspicuous areas. It states that refusal to place the sign or symbol by a corporate body, director, manager, company secretary or any person concerned in the management of the corporate body will be liable to N250, 000 fine upon conviction.

According to the provisions of the bill, any person found guilty of not putting up a ‘No-Smoking’ sign would be liable to six months imprisonment or N100,000 or other non-custodial punishment that the court may deem fit.

In another development, the lawmakers called on relevant government agencies and departments to investigate the incidence of earth tremor experienced in Saki West constituency.

They made the call following a motion by the Deputy Speaker, Mr Musah Abdulwasi, brought under Matters of Urgent Public Importance. According to Abdulwasi, Saki town has been experiencing cases of tremor in its communities around Medina, Abimbola and Veterinary areas.

He said that the tremor occurred in the affected area as often as three days intervals.

“A tremor ordinarily precedes an earthquake. Unless urgent steps are taken, the affected communities will continue to live in a state of apprehension, anxiety and insecurity and it will affect the quality of life of the residents,” he said.

The couple pictured above has been married for 25 years….after 25 years of Marriage they welcomed their first kids! – A set of twins, a boy and a girl.

The couple dedicated the twins at their church, Living Faith church, Ogborhil in Aba, Abia state last Sunday May 29th. Congrats to them.