22/01/2021
NEWS UPDATE!!!
January 22, 2021
Again, child sexual abuse rocks another Akwa Ibom school
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While the public outcry over the alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old boy at Deeper Life High School, Uyo , is yet to fizzle out, another Akwa Ibom school is enmeshed in a child sexual abuse case.
The latest case involves a three-year-old girl whose mum discovered, last week, her underwear was soaked with blood when she returned from school – Awin International Schools – in Ikono, about 32 kilometre from Uyo, the state capital.
The victim is in the nursery section of the school which also has sections for primary and secondary schools.
“My daughter went to school on Wednesday, 13 January, in the morning, nothing happened to her. When my daughter came back from school, I put water (in a bucket) and wanted to bathe her immediately they dropped her at my shop. I removed her knicker, I saw blood. I removed the pant, I saw blood. The pant was torn. I shouted and asked her, ‘mummy, what happened to you?’ She said it was aunty that chucked her,” the victim’s mother, Dorathy Alphonsus, told PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday afternoon, at her lawyer’s office in Uyo.
“I checked her private part, a big wound is there,” she said.
Mrs Alphonsus and her husband, Iniobong, were at the lawyer’s office to seek legal aid over their daughter’s case. They looked frightened and helpless, when a PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter met with them.
Their daughter appeared restless. She cried intermittently.
A police medical form filled by a doctor at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital confirmed the girl has been sexually abused.
From the doctor’s report, the girl told her mum that a pen was forcefully inserted into her va**na by her class teacher.
The police in Uyo arrested some of the school officials and a man, said to be the landlord to the Alphonsus, who drove the victim from school and handed her over to the mum, before it was discovered that she was sexually abused, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
Some of the arrested persons were, however, said to have been released by the police.
The Alphonsus said they are under pressure to withdraw the case from the police.
Chris Ekpo, a civil rights lawyer Uyo, is offering free legal services to the victim and her parents.
Mr Ekpo said there was a threat to evict the family from the community where they are living in Ikono, for reporting the case to the police.
The principal of Awin International Schools declined to comment on the case when PREMIUM TIMES contacted him on phone.
“Please I am not in the position to speak (on the case), you can get to the police station and find out (what happened),” he said.
The principal later called back our reporter to say, “The head teacher is a better person for you to speak with because it happened in the nursery section, not in the secondary section.”
The police spokesperson in Akwa Ibom, Odiko MacDon, said he was not aware of the case.
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Wike under fire over donation of N500 million for rebuilding of Sokoto mosque
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Pensioners in Rivers State are gnashing their teeth over Governor Nyesom Wike’s N500million largesse to the Sokoto State Government to douse the pain on the state and traders affected by the inferno at Sokoto Central Market.
The pensioners, who lampooned the governor, said N500million would have to a high extent met some of the demands of retired civil servants in the State.
Some retirees who spoke to newsmen at the Rivers State Secretariat Complex lamented that since the Governor assumed office in 2015, Pensioners are yet to receive their gratuities and pension arrears.
One of the retirees, Bariza Kpaen said, “How can our governor give out such an amount of money when there are so many unresolved financial issues? We want the governor to immediately settle the issues surrounding the gratuity and Pension arrears now that it is obvious that he has so much to spend.”
Afe Babalola University records scientific breakthrough on COVID-19
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The Chemo-Genomics Research Institute of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, CRIA, in collaboration with the ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, AMSH, have gained new understanding about the reasons humans are more vulnerable to infections by the new variant of COVID-19, popularly known as N501Y SARS-CoV-2 mutant.
One of the reasons provided by the bio-medical scientists and researchers, led by Dr. Olaposi Omotuyi, is that the new variant is 80 times more effective at binding to human cells and is characterized by faster human-to-human transmission, more rapid progression of symptoms and death.
Since the country is not on total lockdown, the scientists and researchers advised that people should adhere to the laid down non-pharmacologic preventive procedures.
Oil rises to $56 on US stimulus prospects...........................
FOREIGN NEWS.......................................
Biden Kills Off an Estimated 52,100 Jobs in First Day as President — During a Pandemic!
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It starts with the ending of the Keystone Pipeline.
The pipeline provides 11,000 direct construction jobs that will now be laid off, not to mention a total of 42,100 jobs throughout the US pertaining to the project.
These 11,000 construction jobs are high paying positions.
Biden also ordered the halt of the border wall construction and the 10,000 jobs associated with it. That makes 52,100 jobs in less than eight hours. And with his pledge to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, you can expect many many more.
They have to realize that there are just some jobs that aren’t worth that much money, and companies will replace them with machines when it makes more fiscal sense.
Republican congresswoman files articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden,
says "we'll see how it goes".
Twitter Being Sued for Telling Child Po*******hy Victim That Images of Him at 13 Years Old Didn’t Violate Their Terms of Service
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A 17-year-old boy asked Twitter to remove images of him when he was 13 and being exploited by predators who blackmailed him. The predator pretended to be a girl in his class and got him to send pictures of himself. Then those pictures were used to blackmail him.
He notified Twitter who refuses to remove them.
The boy is now suing Twitter, which will have to defend their right to post child po*******hy or settle out of court. If they settle, it could set off a whole slew of similar lawsuits.
RAPPER LIL WAYNE THANKS TRUMP FOR PARDON AND ‘RECOGNIZING THAT I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO GIVE’
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Rapper Lil Wayne on Thursday thanked former President Trump for including him on the list of 100-plus pardons issued in the final hours of Trump’s presidency, thanking him for “recognizing that I have so much more to give to my family, my art, and my community.”
“I want to thank President Trump for recognizing that I have so much more to give to my family, my art, and my community. I also want to thank
for working so diligently to secure another chance for me. Love!” the five-time Grammy Award winner said in a message to his nearly 35 million Twitter followers, signing the message with his full name, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.
NETANYAHU CONGRATULATES BIDEN BUT ASKS HIM TO CONTINUE TRUMP POLICIES
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DR. FAUCI: U.S. WILL REMAIN IN WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION UNDER BIDEN......................
SPORTS.....................
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Nigeria’s Akpejiori volunteers to help Tyson Fury beat Anthony Joshua
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Nigerian heavyweight contender, Raphael Akpejiori, has told Tyson Fury to use him as his sparring partner in his (Fury) preparation for the world title fight against Anthony Joshua.
Akpejiori said his “devastating” power would make him an ideal sparring partner for Fury.
The Nigerian Akpejiori, who is set to fight Joshua Tuani in Miami on Saturday, has before now knocked out all eight of his opponents.
Fury is currently in Florida resort, where he is preparing for the fight against Anthony Joshua and Akpejiori who also trains at the resort believes he and gym-mate Christian Thun can help Fury prepare for Joshua’s concussive punches.
Josef Bican scored 821 goals not 759 – Czech football federation rejects Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal record
PREM Liverpool 0 - 1 Burnley
LIGA Eibar 1 - 2 A. Madrid...............................
1964 new cases of # COVID19Nigeria ;
Lagos-824
FCT-246
Plateau-166
Kaduna-128
Ogun-76
Nasarawa-74
Anambra-69
Edo-50
Rivers-45
Ondo-44
Niger-40
Oyo-38
Adamawa-35
Kano-31
AKWA IBOM-27
Gombe-19
Kwara-13
Ekiti-12
Delta-6
Kebbi-6
Bauchi-5
Ebonyi-4
Osun-3
Zamfara-1
116,655 confirmed
93,646 discharged
1,485 deaths
discharges today include 798 community recoveries in Lagos State and 191 community recoveries in Ondo State managed in line with guidelines................................
January 22.
National Blonde Brownie Day
Celebration of Life Day
National Sanctity of Life Day
