Man Shot By Drunken Policeman Loses Eye

When Nonso Ozoemena, a 28-year-old man, arrived in Lagos, his plan was to set up a business so that he would be able to support his widowed mother and his seven siblings in Anambra State.

Soon after, he was able to open a restaurant in Trade Fair Complex, FESTAC, and it seemed his dream was coming true.

His expectation was however eroded after a drunken police corporal, Mohammed Abubakar, shot him in the eye.

Ozoemena said he was shot in the eye in the FESTAC area on August 5, 2013.

Narrating what transpired on the fateful day, he said, “I had just returned from work and I was about entering my house at Amuwo Odofin when I heard the policeman arguing with someone in the next house. The policeman then called his colleagues for help.

“When his colleagues arrived, they persuaded him to leave the place because he was drunk. After much pleading, the policeman left. A few minutes later, the policeman returned with a gun and started shooting sporadically.

“One of the bullets hit me in the right eye. A barber, Bright John, was killed.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that during the shooting, a pregnant woman was hit while another man, Tayo Ajasa, was also shot in the thigh.

It was learnt that the policeman, who is attached to a security company in the area, fled the scene after realising the havoc he had wreaked.

Ozoemena and the other victims were later taken to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.

It was learnt that while other victims were treated and discharged, Ozoemena, was taken to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital, where the eye was operated.

The company was also said to have contributed N146, 000 to pay the medical bill.

The victim, who had been discharged, told PUNCH Metro that he had not been able to go to work since the incident occurred.

He said he had been in constant pains and had found it difficult to sleep.

Our correspondent observed that pus was coming from Ozoemena eye. But the victim said the pus was the least of his problems.

He said, “I am in so much pain. The unfortunate thing is that I have not been able to tell my mother about the incident because I don’t want her to worry.

“I don’t have perfect vision anymore. In fact, a few days ago, I was knocked down by a vehicle coming from the right side while I was attempting to cross the road.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Umar Manko, had declared the policeman wanted.

Manko said the wanted policeman was attached to Police Mobile Force 17, Akure, Ondo State, and wondered what he was doing in Lagos.

However, Ozoemena’s lawyer, Mr. George Nwahajioke, said the police must compensate his client. The lawyer said declaring the policeman wanted was not enough, adding that the victim’s expectations had been eroded by the loss of his eye.

Nwahajioke, who lamented the increase in police brutality, said, “Nigerians are living in fear of arrogant culture of impunity within the Nigeria Police. Nonso Ozoemena is just one of the few lucky Nigerians to survive as our police, who are supposed to protect us, now turn the barrel of their guns at us.

“We are demanding N100m as compensation from the police and the company jointly and severally to help our client get the urgent medical attention he needs.”

All efforts to contact the company proved abortive as an email sent to it was not replied, while a text message sent to it was not responded to.

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Shocking Facts About World's Most Powerful Man "Barack Obama"

Who is the most powerful man in the world?

I am sure there are no two thoughts while answering this question, its none other than Mr Barack Obama, the President of United States of America!

Barack Obama once said "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

People write how good he is when it comes to leadership skills!

People write how good he is when it comes to bringing change into political system!

People write how good he is as human being!

People write about his trade policies and its effectiveness!

But do people write about the shocking facts about Barack Obama?

I guess the answer is no or maybe there are few who tried to bring out the true facts. Let’s look into such shocking and unheard facts about Mr President.

 

1.Marijuana smoker?                

Obama was a member of the "choom gang", a group of friends that spent time together and used to dope all the time, mainly marijuana and cocaine. In the year 2008 even Mr president said in a speech that he regret the use of drugs in the early stage of his life.

2.No access to records which may reveal his past?

When Obama was the Leading candidate for the post of president the wide range of researchers attempted to fill in the mystical blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers manipulated various records or say simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama’s legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this?

The president who campaigned for a more “transparent government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his certificate records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records. All of his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing. It doesn't end here, no one can even find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii when he was a kid.

3.Funding from terrorist group?

More than 49 law suits have been filed on the "birth certificate" issue alone, with several of the suits making it all the way the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied a full hearing. Strange!

Obama will not release any student loan details despite repeated requests from the Chicago Tribune. There were speculations that his Harvard education may have been paid for by a foreign source. Khalid Al-Mansour, an adviser to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talah, told Manhattan Borough president, Percy Sutton, that he was raising money for Obama’s Harvard tuition. Incidentally, Prince Tala is the largest donor to CAIR, a Muslim group declared by the U.S. Government in 2007 as an indicted co-conspirator in a terrorist financing trial. At least three of CAIR’s leaders have been indicted for terrorist activities. 

4.The game of social security numbers! 

Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at, not just that he used Two Social Security numbers for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364.

Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for the same. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999.

 

5.Obama's mother in Porn Industry?

Researchers have discovered 99 separate addresses for Ann Dunham (Obama's mother) and many social security numbers with the same name. We do know she worked for the ultra-liberal Ford Foundation but the rumors also suggested that she may have earned some income from pornographic poses, as evidenced by photos recently discovered by some researchers... Unbelievable! The only thing researchers were able to find out about Obama’s mother is the fact she made porn. I’m sure that’s a first for presidential mothers.

 

6.Obama a chain smoker? 

Mr President was a big time chain smoker which eventually turned in to the use of marijuana and cocaine. Though, Mr President is now as clean as a glass according leading tabloids.

No matter HOW much we try to unfold mysteries of his past, the truth is, he is still one of the best role model of today's time because of his leadership qualities. 

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Flood With Love Campaign with TV personality - Eku Edewor

The Flood With Love campaign has officially kicked off. To donate please text the word FLOOD to the short code - 35388. The campaign is raising money to rehabilitate flood victims and rebuild devastated areas. Be a Nigerian and do your part. N100 is all you need to donate. Text now!

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9 Cute And Deadly Animals – Looks Can Be Deceiving

Looks can be very deceiving, and apparently this does not apply only to people: some animals can look cute and adorable and you may feel like cuddling them, without knowing that this might be the last thing you do. Here is a closer look at the top 9 cute and deadly animals that will make you want to think twice before you pet them:

1. The Slow Loris

The Slow Loris is definitely an adorable creature: its big eyes and its fluffy body make it one of the cutest mammals on Earth. However, few people know that the Slow Loris is also one of the most poisonous, given the fact that it produces a toxin inside its elbows. If they feel threatened or annoyed, they can easily spray that venom in your eyes and cause permanent blindness. If you have thought about getting a Slow Loris as a pet, you might want to reconsider your decision!

2. The Duckbill Platypus

The platypus is known for its strange yet adorable appearance: these mammals are truly unique as they seem to combine physical traits and features from several different animals like ducks, otters and beavers. Just like the Slow Loris, the duckbill platypus also produces a deadly venom located in its hollow spurs. Although this venom is designed to protect the mammal from predators, it can hurt humans as well.

3. Polar Bears

Polar bears are gentle and fuzzy at first sight, but this is actually one of the largest carnivores and it will do everything it takes to survive. Polar bears attack and kill tens of people every year, so you might want to watch your back if you will ever find yourself anywhere near one in the future!

4. The Poison Dart Frog

Generally speaking, frogs are anything but cute. However, this does not apply to the Poison Dart Frog: its beautiful, lively colors and cute appearance certainly make you want to squeeze it and play with it all day long, blissfully unaware of the fact that it is called “the POISON Dart Frog” for a reason. This frog is one of the most poisonous of its kind, as it produces toxic secretions that were commonly used in the past by the American Indians to poison the tip of their darts.

5. The Blue-Ringed Octopus

There are hundreds of different octopus species out there, but none of them is as dangerous as the blue-ringed octopus, in spite of its very tiny appearance. This octopus will not hesitate to bite you and inject a strong venom that can kill you within minutes, if you do not get the anti-venom right away. However, if you do not step on it or provoke it in any way, it seldom attacks for no apparent reason.

6. The Cassowary

This is a rare bird that in spite of its flamboyant turkey-like appearance, can be easily compared to a Velociraptor undercover. What makes the cassowary so dangerous is its extremely sharp claws who can easily cut through human skin, causing extensive wounds and even death. If you are not careful enough or you provoke the cassowary in any way, it can easily disembowel you within seconds.

7. The Stingray

Stingrays are beautiful, and if you have ever been to an aquarium you have certainly seen one by now. However, these seemingly docile creatures can turn out to be deadly: as a matter of fact, the well known Steve Irwin (better known as the Crocodile Hunter) died of a stingray wound to the chest. Their barbed stinger coupled with a powerful venom are the aspects that make stingrays so feared: the toxin is situated at the tip of the stinger, and although the toxin itself is not necessarily fatal, it can turn out deadly if the stinger punctures your vital organs such as your heart.

8. The Pufferfish

Pufferfish are so cute because of their appearance when they are fully expanded: their chubby appearance is what makes them so adorable. However, these fish are considered some of the most poisonous vertebrate on Earth, this is why fishermen often use extremely thick gloves when handling them. If the venom of the Pufferfish gets to you and you do not get treatment right away, it can paralyze your diaphragm and lead to suffocation within minutes.

9. Hippos

Hippos are adorable, especially when they are small: those cute round eyes and those cute little ears have turned them into popular cartoon and movie characters, over the decades. However, hippos have turned out to be deadly more than once, as these animals are very territorial if somebody gets to cross their mud pond. Hippos are very fast in spite of their huge weight – never underestimate a hippo, especially its jaw and canine teeth that can grow up to 10 inches in length. Although they are herbivores and they do not kill for prey like other animals (such as                                                                 crocodiles), they can kill you in an instant.

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'Jungle Men' Found Still Hiding From Vietnam War Since 1971

A father and son are found in the jungle after more than four decades hiding from the horrors of the Vietnam War.

Ho Van Lang being led away

A father and son have been found living in the jungle more than 40 years after they fled US bombing during the Vietnam War.

Ho Van Thanh left his home village with his baby son Ho Van Lang in 1971 after a mine blast killed his wife and two of his children.

The pair apparently survived by foraging for fruit, lived in a timber treehouse and wore loin cloths made from tree bark.

The authorities were alerted after locals searching for firewood spotted the men deep in the forest in Quang Ngai province's Tay Tra district.

A team was set up to look for the pair - now aged 82 and 41 - and found them after a five hour search.

82-year-old Ho Van Thanh was too weak to walk.

When found, Ho Van Thanh was too weak to walk and had to be taken out of the jungle on a stretcher.

The father could speak a little of the region's Cor language but the son only knew a few words.

The pair have been checked by doctors and a decision must now be made on how to reintegrate them to society.

Ho Van Thanh is believed to have lived a normal life in the hamlet of Tra Kem, but fled into the jungle after the explosion that decimated his family.

The two men were checked out by doctors.

Father and son discovered living alone in jungle for 40 years. The men are thought to have grown their own food and even cultivated tobacco during their time in the wilderness.

Another son, Ho Van Tri, told Vietnamese newspaper VnExpress that he found them hiding out around two decades ago but could not convince them to return home with him.

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era conflict that claimed millions of military and civilian lives and left surviving soldiers and victims traumatised.

The US dropped millions of tonnes of bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the war, which ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces.

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Paranormal After-Death Experiences 'Explained'

Near-death experiences sometimes involve travelling towards intense light

Scientists find that brains are pushed into a higher state of arousal at the brink of death - which may trigger strange visions.

A mysterious surge of brain activity observed in dying rats may explain reports of near-death-experiences (NDEs), researchers claim. Even after the animals' hearts stopped beating and no blood was reaching their brains, they appeared to show signs of conscious perception.

The study is the first to take a systematic look at the neurophysiological state of the dying brain after a cardiac arrest. It suggests something happens at the brink of death that pushes the conscious brain to a high level of arousal. This may trigger the visions and sensations associated with NDEs, scientists believe.

As many as a fifth of people who survive cardiac arrests report having had an other-worldly experience while being "clinically" dead. Typically NDEs involve travelling through a tunnel towards an intense light or being separated from the body. Others encounter long-departed loved ones or angels and undergo some kind of judgment of "life review". Some emerge from NDEs as transformed individuals with a completely altered outlook on life, or a new belief in religion.

But many scientists believe near-death-experiences are nothing more than hallucinations induced by the effect of the brain shutting down. The new research involved recording the electrical nerve impulses of anaesthetised rats whose hearts were artificially stopped.

Researchers looked at brain activity in rats whose hearts had been stopped

Within 30 seconds after suffering a cardiac arrest, all the animals displayed a short-lived surge of widespread, highly synchronised brain activity.

"We were surprised by the high levels of activity," said Dr George Mashour, one of the US researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "In fact, at near-death many known electrical signatures of consciousness exceeded levels found in the waking state, suggesting that the brain is capable of well-organised electrical activity during the early stage of clinical death."

The findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously it was assumed that brain activity ceases when the heart stops. "This study tells us that reduction of oxygen or both oxygen and glucose during cardiac arrest can stimulate brain activity that is characteristic of conscious processing," said lead scientist Dr Jimo Borjigin, also from the University of Michigan. "It also provides the first scientific framework for the near-death experiences reported by many cardiac arrest survivors."

British expert Dr Martin Coath, from the Cognition Institute at University of Plymouth, said: "This new research is genuinely interesting. "But the conclusion that these are 'neural correlates of heightened conscious processing' isn't strongly supported, unless you take it to mean 'more of some types of activity that are associated with being awake' which is a bit of a stretch. "As the induced cardiac arrest happens while the rat's brain is anaesthetised, the results show the response of an unconscious brain to critical lack of blood flow and oxygen. "It is certainly interesting that this causes some types of activity in the brain to increase in a predictable and coordinated way well after the heart has stopped, but hardly surprising."

Dr David McGonigle, from University of Cardiff, said: "Do we know if animals experience 'consciousness'? Most philosophers and scientists are still at loggerheads over what the term refers to in humans, let alone in other species. "While recent research now suggests that animals may indeed have the kind of autobiographical memories that humans possess, the kinds of memories that allow us to place ourselves in a certain time and place, it seems unlikely that near-death-experiences would necessarily be similar across species."

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How Sleeping Drug Overdose Killed Tope Alabi’s Ex-Spiritual Father Prophet Ajanaku

Prophet Ajanaku Died In His Sleep Of Drug Overdose: How Church Members Engaged In Prayer For His Resurrection

Details surrounding the sudden death of Prophet Elijah Ola Ajanaku, the former spiritual father and pastor of Nigerian gospel singer Tope Alabi has been released.

The founder and pastor in charge of the Christ Revival Church International located in Baruwa in Ayobo-Ipaja, Lagos, died in his sleep on Saturday August 17, 2013.

We learnt the controversial prophet died in his sleep on Saturday after a nurse administered sedatives to calm down his nerves after his situation got worse.

He reportedly didn't wake up from his sleep.

His dead body was brought into his house in Lagos from his hometown (Gbogan) on Sunday evening.
According to sources, the elegant preacher reportedly fell ill about 8 weeks ago and after all medical methods to get him well proved abortive, he was taken to his home town for traditional treatment.

Throughout his downtime, his church members were told he’d travelled abroad to rest not knowing he had been taken to his hometown.
This was the reason for his absence at the church’s anniversary on the 18th of July, 2013.
During the church service yesterday, most of his church members didn't believe he has died with many calling his death a hoax.
Most of them argued that he could not have died, insisting that he travelled abroad to rest due to his hectic schedules.

According to reliable sources, some of his church members were hostile to news men who visited the church to confirm this report..
Late Prophet Ajanaku’s corpse was taken to a local mortuary around 11 a.m this morning.
A member of the congregation was seen directing another member to arrange for security personnel to accompany the corpse to the mortuary.
Church members who trooped to the home of the man they called ‘Daddy’, were directed to report at the church at Baruwa while the top leaders of the church were planning to take the corpse to the mortuary.

Late Prophet Ajanaku became popular after his association with gospel singer Tope Alabi.
The two split over sex allegations few weeks before his death.
Tope Alabi who is currently in Toronto, Ontario Canada was one of the earliest callers at the residence of the deceased on Sunday.

In another development, a neighbour to late Prophet Ajanaku said his followers believe he’ll come back to life.
As a result, several prayer sessions have been held since he died.
“He died since Saturday, but the church members have decided to keep sealed lips.Instead, they have engaged in marathon prayer sessions. They held a vigil on Saturday where they prayed fervently for him to resurrect, but nothing happened.
“The church members were shouting: ‘Prophet Ajanaku, wake up’ throughout Saturday night,” Mrs. Rita Ade said.

Unknown to the public, Late Prophet Ajanaku was arrested and detained few months ago by security officials after an embarrassing public fight with Tope Alabi.
Weeks after his arrest, he reportedly fell ill and the rest is history.
Tope Alabi’s husband responded to the allegation thus: “this trouble started when we stopped attending Prophet Ajanaku’s church because he was beginning to see himself as a god in our lives.
“All he has said to the media are bunch of lies, just to look for a way to bring us down. I know there is a God in heaven who will judge everything we do on earth and reward all of us accordingly.
“I intentionally told my wife not to say anything and leave God to judge everything but I am using this medium to tell everyone out there that Tope Alabi never asked Prophet Ajanaku to sleep with her.”

Late Prophet Ajanaku was a Muslim man with a solid Islamic background. He converted to Christianity on arriving Lagos few years back.
According to his profile, the late preacher tagged Bad boy for Satan was denied access to basic education. He didn't attend primary, secondary or university.
“Illiteracy was a big title for him because of his chronic state. He understood and could communicate in Yoruba language only.” He later attended the Winners Church Bible school

He is survived by a wife, aged mother and children (a boy and a girl).

May his soul rest in perfect peace.

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