Instant Judgment: Car Snatcher Shot Dead by Car Owner

Talk about instant judgment. A middle-aged man suspected to be a car snatcher was in the early hours of Saturday shot dead at Kubwa by the vehicle owner, who happens to be a police officer.

According to another policeman at the scene, a gang numbering three persons, trailed the jeep owner from a distance and almost succeeded in snatching the vehicle but the owner pulled out a gun and shot one of them. He said the man died on the spot, while the other two escaped.

Some policemen were reported to have been later spotted at the Kubwa General Hospital with the corpse inside their van as they made effort to deposit the corpse at the hospital’s mortuary.

Source: Dailytrust

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Pope Benedict XVI launches official Twitter account

DailyPost can authoritatively confirm that Pope Benedict XVI will officially join Twitter on December 12. The information says the pope will be twitting in eight languages, with @pontifex as his tweeter handle. This will run within the Christmas period, the Vatican confirmed on Monday.

“The first tweets will be answers to questions sent to the pope on matters of faith. The public can start sending them now,” the Vatican said.

Already 2,435 people are following the Pope since the announcement was made. An introductory message on the account is quoted thus: “Welcome to the official Twitter page of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.”

The Pope will be responding to languages such as Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages that Vatican confirms could be added in future.

“The pope’s presence on Twitter is a concrete expression of his conviction that the Church must be present in the digital arena,” the Vatican said while speaking on the twitter handle.

The statement further revealed that Pope Benedict wanted “to ensure that the good news of Jesus Christ and the teaching of his Church is permeating the forum of exchange and dialogue that is being created by social media.”

Nigerian Students Spend N80b To Study In The UK

The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, CVC, on Saturday said that Nigerians spend an average of $500 million annually as students of European and American universities.

Ike Onyechere, chairman Exam Ethics International had on November 12 said Nigerians spend N80 billion or $500m in the UK alone and N1.5 trillion globally.

A communiqué signed by Professor Michael Faborode at the end of a two-day Consultative Policy Dialogue on the Future and Relevance of the Nigerian Universities and other Tertiary Institutions, organised by CVC and Trust Africa, Dakar, simply parroted Onyechere, and broadened the expenditure to cover what Nigerians spend in the entire EU and America, Guardian news reports.

The vice chancellors added that the amount was about 70 per cent of the total allocation to all federal universities in 2008.

The communiqué said that this was an indication of the loss of faith in Nigerian universities as shown by the rush for foreign institutions, even to other African countries, adding that constant restiveness of students between host communities, school administration, weak governance structure and processes were some of the challenges facing the Nigerian Higher Education Sector.

The communiqué pointed out these have contributed to disruptions of the academic calendar, including the constant bickering between the academic staff union, other staff unions, university management and government.
The VCs said that this had thereby affected the culture of robust debate and collaborative engagement between government, university management and staff for a common vision and progress.

It noted that the global ranking of Nigerian universities had nose-dived considerably, adding that there had been growing concern over the quality of graduates from Nigerian universities.

The committee resolved to restore a culture of consultation, strategic productive engagement, and partnership, collaboration between management and staff of Nigerian higher education institutions.

It also resolved that the nature and dimension of the problems confronting higher education institutions in Nigeria would require a new approach to governance.

The communiqué also resolved that the appointment of vice chancellors must include respect for academic excellence, managerial and leadership capabilities, transparency and accountability.

It said the other problem plaguing university education was the negative application of the principle of federal character, which breeds sectional agitations and clamour for indigenes and other parochial interests.

The committee also resolved that as much as possible, “indigene-ship” should not be critical in the appointment of vice chancellors.

It resolved that government must invest in the future of the country by providing adequate resources to enable universities achieve their goals.

The VCs said that stakeholders and private sectors should be committed to investing in higher education through sponsoring of research.

The communiqué called for the setting up of an education, research innovation and development council to coordinate the synergy between knowledge, innovation and development in all the sectors of the economy.

It also resolved that government needed to be more cautious in the current trend of establishing and approving of new universities without commensurate increase in the number of teachers.

The VCs believed that the higher education sector had a critical role to play in forging a sense of nationhood, and nation building as well as citizenship.

It also recommended that regular consultative policy dialogue on Nigerian Universities and other tertiary institutions should be held biannually. [VN]

Couple To Appear In Court Today For Keeping Underage S*x Slave

An Oceanside, California couple are scheduled to be in court on Monday (today) to face accusations that they kept an underage Mexican immigrant as a s*x slave, forcing her into prostitution and beating her severely.

Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, and Inez Martinez Garcia, 43, were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of 13 felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child under age 14. The girl had been smuggled into the US at age 12, and the abuse by Hernandez and Garcia occurred over a 21-month period, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said.

Hernandez and Garcia forced the girl to care for their three children and cook and clean for the family, as well as have s*x with Hernandez, according to Deputy G. Crysler, an investigator with the North County Human Trafficking Task Force.

“When the girl victim refused to participate in the s*x acts or did not complete her tasks in a timely or correct manner, she was beaten,” Crysler said. The couple forced the victim into lying about her age so she could work at a local restaurant, with Garcia and Hernandez keeping the money she earned, according to the arrest documents.

She was also forced into having sex with older men, with Garcia and Hernandez keeping the money paid by “johns”, the documents said.
Authorities were called after the victim was allegedly beaten by Garcia. Reunited with her family, she returned to Mexico. Recently, she returned to the US and is assisting in the criminal investigation, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

Bishop Oyedapo sued for N2 billion over death of 3-year-old girl

Consequent to the death of three year old Imienfan Omokaro who got drowned during school hours at Kingdom Heritage Model school operated by Winners Chapel in Benin, the General Overseer, Bishop David Oyedepo has been asked to pay N2 billion within 14 days as general damages or face legal action.

The letter which was written by Omokaro’s Counsel, Prince Peter E. Uwadiae-Igbinigie dated November 28, 2012 was also presented to News men in Benin, Edo state capital. In it, the counsel explained that the huge amount was “for the callous and senseless killing of our client’s daughter, Miss Imienfan Omokaro.”
Stating more of their demands, Omokaro’s lawyers also compelled Kingdom Heritage Model School to tender unreserved apology in three national newspapers, warning that if the demands were not met within 14 days, “we have the irrevocable instructions of our client to commence legal action against the school (Kingdom Heritage Model School) and Church (Winners Chapel) without any further correspondence from this Chambers.”

It could be recalled that last month, Dailypost published a story of how little Imienfan Omokaro, a KG I pupil of Kingdom Heritage Model School got drowned in a drum of water inside the school toilet.

The teachers on duty allegedly concealed the truth from her mother when she came to pick her little girl after school hours until late in the evening.

Shaken by the condition of the Miss Imienfan, the school authorities and Winners Chapel had reportedly kept the girl for more than an hour, praying for her to resuscitate her . However, when their prayers seemed unanswered, they later took her to Irowa Hospital in Benin, where she was confirmed dead on arrival (DOA) by the doctors.

Enforcement of capital punishment would greatly reduce crime rate in Nigeria – Legal Practitioner

A lot of Nigerians will definitely agree with legal practitioner, Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), when on Sunday in Abuja, he said that the enforcement of capital punishment in Nigeria would greatly reduce crime rate in the country.

According to Izinyon, in countries like Malaysia, China and Singapore where capital punishment is in place, the level of crime is very low. Izinyon, who spoke with journalists during the consecration of Pastor Micheal Akpami as the Bishop of Global Revival Gospel Ministries, added that the judiciary should ensure that there was fair treatment and justice in the matter.

In his words: “We must have capital punishment in Nigeria; even in the United States of America, capital punishment exists. So why can’t we have capital punishment in Nigeria? Although there may be people who could be executed innocently, that would be unfortunate… But that means the fault lies in the machinery of justice to ensure that there is adequate fair treatment in the matter. That would ensure that innocent people are not executed. As far as I am concerned, I advocate capital punishment in Nigeria, not necessarily for corruption but for other offences like murder.”

Meanwhile, the newly consecrated Bishop, Michael Akpami, stated that asides capital punishment, fervent prayers would go a long way to sanitise the country of criminality and all other forms of vices