The planned purchase of sports utility vehicles for members of the upper legislative chamber, which has generated several reactions from a cross section of Nigerians took another dimension on Tuesday, after Sunday Karimi the chairman of the senate committee on services said that based an analysis that was done by the procurement unit, the committee approved Land Cruiser SUVs’ for the lawmakers, and that after assessing the conditions of the bad roads in Nigeria, the senate committee arrived at the conclusion that the lawmakers would need durable vehicles that would last the next four years.
Dr Femi Olaleye the managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for raping his wife’s niece for over 20 months. Dr Olaleye was convicted on a two-count charge of defilement of a child and sexual assault by penetration.
The defense counsel had claimed that the survivor was tutored by the defendant’s wife to lie against the defendant as part of the scheme to take over his property. The judge ruled that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, and ordered that the doctor be confined to prison for a long period of time to convey that the justice system frowns at sexual violence and recommended that the doctor’s name be added to the Lagos state sex offenders register.
In the same vein, a judge of the Rivers State High Court, Eberechi Wike, on Tuesday, advocated for the amputation of people found guilty of defiling minors. Justice Wike, who is the wife of the immediate past governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike made the comments on the sidelines of the 2nd National Conference of Family Court Judges, Magistrates, and other Family Court Practitioners in Port Harcourt, the rivers state capital. Judge Wike insisted that the current punishment isn’t drastic enough, adding that the move will deter sexual offenders from molesting minors.
A said member of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Chukwudeso Onyema who appealed for a refund of his tithes, because of the dire economic hardship he faced in a video that resurfaced online; got a response from a Pastor of the church, Pastor Ezekiel back in February.
Pastor Ezekiel admonished Onyema in the post to seek forgiveness from God as well as help from the church rather than trying to blackmail the church of God A recent study by Statisense revealed data about the league of praying nations which showed that 95% of Nigerians say that they pray daily.
Nigeria is the 2nd highest praying country in the world after Afghanistan.
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