Hotel attendant caught videoing customer's sexual exploit

Three hotel attendants, who allegedly recorded a customer’s sexual affair and demanded a ransom of N10 million, were on Thursday charged before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

The employees had used the hotel’s CCTV to record the guest’s sexual exploit with his girlfriend.

The accused: Sunday Okon, 23; Rita Emmanuel, 28; and Goodness Akpan, 24, whose addresses are unknown, are facing a four-count charge of fraud, demanding property with menace, conspiracy and indecent practices.

Prosecutor Uche Simon told the court that the accused had on 13 August at a hotel in Ogudu area of Lagos conspired to record a guest while sleeping with his girlfriend.

According to him, the accused produced a VCD on it which they circulated to residents of the area.

He alleged that they also demanded a N10 million ransom and threatened to post it on the social media platform, Facebook if the man failed to part with the money.

“The accused actually posted it on the Facebook between August 13 and 23.”

Simon said the offences contravened Sections 136, 166 (d), 299 and 409 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

NAN reports that the accused may be sentenced to a minimum of three years each if convicted.

The trio however pleaded not guilty and were granted bail in the sum of N100, 000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

NAN also reports that the three attendants were taken to Kirikiri Prisons pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs O. J. Awope, adjourned the case till 19 September for mention.

Nigeria Health Minister confirms Ebola death in Port Harcourt

Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt.

Nigeria’s Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the Port Harcourt doctor had died on 22 August, but the results of the tests have only just been made public.

The doctor, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Nigeria.

His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.

The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.

As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor's hospital, Good Heart Hospital in G.R.A Port Harcourt, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.

The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow. 

Charly Boy Gives Lessons on Marriage

Son of late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, Charles, better addressed as Charly Boy, says marriage is not all about finding someone who matches up with on all the cards but someone that does not want to blow out that little light inside his/her partner.

According to the ‘Area Fada’, as he is also known as, he grew up seeing his parents love each other dearly, but does not get carried away because they argue and quarrel as if they couldn’t stand each other.

The singer stressed that though marriage is full of various challenges, but he never realized that he had been with someone from another background, home training and different ideology for 36 years.

He explained that his three failed marriages happened because he wasn’t psychologically and mentally prepared for the messes and challenges associated with marriage.

Charly Boy also revealed that he has been married to his wife, Lady Diane for years and the seeming success of the union maybe as a result of his experience from other broken marriages.

The Area Fada advised that for there to be a sustainable union, it is important that couple listen to each other in a way that the partner can’t possibly doubt their love for them.

“It was when I realized that love was forbearance that I had a successful marriage. Both parties have to know and have that. You bear and you keep bearing and you keep bearing. To be a bearer you must be a forgiver, sometimes no apologies rendered. Oooops! Yeah, that’s marriage,” he advised

Withces are people i the church and they control governance.... Withces Leader

Forum, the umbrella body of all Binis in the country and Diaspora, Chief David Edebiri, the Esogban of Benin Kingdom in Edo State, says unknown to many, witches run government and once they make decision, it is binding all over without the people knowing how.

The Bini chief, who recalled that witches were very vicious before now in the kingdom, said a traditional parliamentary action was endorsed by “our great, great grandfathers” to put together a group, which he (Edebiri) is presently the leader, to tame their excesses.

Speaking on being a departmental head of witches, the chief cleared the air that he was not a witch but rendering service to humanity.

“You should know that the head of the Federal Ministry of Health is not necessarily a doctor. I do not need to be a member, if I was a member, I will not be able to do what I am doing now. Secondly, their grade is too junior, if I were to be a member I cannot be in their grade. This thing has grade,” he stated.

Chief David Edebiri further disclosed that witches do not succeed where the name of Jesus Christ is being mentioned, adding that these people (witches) are either church singers or one thing in the church.

“But I can tell that so many of them have been converted to Christianity after passing through this place. The elders, who made this possible were very wise people, otherwise, what we should have been seeing today is burning and killing people, who are witches and that would have brought the society to another catastrophe,” he revealed.