A Nigerian lady identified as Kemi has canceled her wedding due to her fiancé’s failure to provide funds for the planning.
She said that since he engaged her and fixed a date for the wedding, she has been handling all expenses because he has not dropped any money towards the wedding arrangement.
Kemi announced the cancellation just three days before the wedding, mentioning her fiance’s nonchalant attitude as the main reason for her action.
According to her, he told her that his money is in a fixed deposit and offered to refund her everything that she spent.
She, however, said she visited a counselor and made a decision to cancel the wedding, though she is not confident that she made the right decision.
Kemi wrote; ”Just called off my wedding because of my fiancé nonchalant attitude. This guy hasn’t dropped one penny and the wedding is in 3days, he keeps saying his money is in a fixed deposit and that he will refund me. Spoke to a counselor and decided to call it off. Hope I did the right thing.”
Meanwhile, a young man has received heavybacklash following his choice of unhygienic lunch aimed at getting attention on the internet.
A video making rounds on social media captured a man having lunch with dirty water from a muddy road.
In the video, the individual dipped bread in the stagnant water despite expressing inconvenience as he swallowed every bite.
He however proceeded to eat as many times as he could while taping the event.
Netizens frowned at the decision as many termed it an unreasonable clout chasing that may have long-term health consequences.
A Nigerian lady whose name was given as Christabel has given up the ghost shortly after undergoing a plastic surgery at Cynosure Aesthetics in Lagos.
Her friend, simply known as @pushcupcake, raised the alarm via Twitter page on Wednesday.
@pushcupcake shared a video of the doctor, who carried out the surgery and accused him of murdering Christabel.
She further explained that the deceased had complained of a nonstop bleeding after the surgery, which the hospital dismissed as normal for everyone who undergoes plastic surgery.
She added that when late Christabel’s family and friends did not hear from her for days, they took their search to the hospital where they were informed that she had died and her body deposited at a morgue.
Reacting to the incident a Twitter user, @tjegbeyemi wrote “A good surgeon knows how to cut. A better surgeon knows when to cut. The best surgeon knows when not to cut. That said, unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary, I personally would not recommend you going under the knife. I’ll stop there.”
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.
A yet-to-be identified Nigerian lady has taken to social media to disclose that she has quit her day job as a sales representative to become a full-time runs girl.
The lady, speaking in a video making rounds online, said she arrived at the decision of facing her new found job after she was paid N50,000 by a client to satisfy his erotical desire for one night.
According to her, she has not earned that much in her three months of working as a sales representative and sees no reason to return to the job.
The lady, who was flaunting some naira notes in the video presumed to be her earnings from her night-out job, said she didn’t know prostitution is that lucrative and pays well.
Watch her video below:
What the law says about prostitution
It is against the background of prostitution being taken as a lucrative job by some women that some lawyers gave their views.
An Abuja-based lawyer, Oyero Ezekiel, said no law directly bans prostitution in Nigeria.
“This is an issue that has been raging for some time now. There’s actually no law that directly bans prostitution as the case may be in Nigeria.
“However, it is important to note that the Criminal Code criminalizes procuring and other related offences, which although may have a slight affiliation to prostitution, are not one and the same.
“A careful perusal shows the following sections of the Criminal Code (sections 223, 224 and 225A) only outlaw procuring, defilement by threat and administration of drugs on girls and women.”
Joseph Felix, a Jos-based lawyer, also said there is no general law against prostitution in Nigeria.
However, he said, “Issues like prostitution, indecent dressing and sexual assaults do not necessarily need a law to say they are prohibited.
“When they become prevalent, what the government does is to create a form of indictable offence. You may not try them for prostitution but you may try them for illegal assembly.”
Another lawyer, Johnson Omede, said while there is no place in the Constitution that prohibits prostitution, there are other laws that the constitution has empowered that provided for the crime.
“There is also the Penal Code Act of FCT, 1990 that provides against prostitution. It defines prostitutes as vagabonds. And whoever is convicted, has been found guilty of this offence, will be imprisoned for one month or a fine or both,” he said.
Francis Uchenobarim, a lawyer, agreed with Mr Omede. He said: “There is a section of the penal code that prohibits prostitution.
“In as much as the penal code has made these provisions, the Constitution is still clear on the right to freely associate with anybody.
“That is Right to Freedom of Association as contained in the Constitution. If we are to follow this Constitution, that means as a Nigerian, you are free to meet with whoever you want to meet with.
“Therefore, the Penal Code that penalizes people meeting with prostitutes or prostitutes meeting with other people might fail if tested in the court.”
“Or procures a woman or girl to become a common prostitute, either in Nigeria, or elsewhere;
“Or procures a woman or girl to leave Nigeria with intent that she may become an inmate of a brothel elsewhere;
“Or procures a woman or girl to leave her usual place of abode in Nigeria, with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of a brothel, either in Nigeria or elsewhere; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
Chapter 532 of the Penal Code Act, Federal Capital of Abuja, 1990 criminalizes prostitution and solicitation of prostitutes.
The law states that:
“An ‘Idle person’ shall include a common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in a public place or persistently importuning or soliciting persons for the purpose of prostitution.
“The term vagabond shall include any male person who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earning of a prostitute or in any public place solicits or importunes for immoral purposes; and
“Whoever is convicted as a vagabond shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to four hundred and fifty naira or both.”
However, while the Abuja law criminalizes prostitution and solicitation of prostitutes, no male have been arrested for either prostitution or solicitation.
Recall that sometime April 2019, Police officers in Abuja arrested 70 women at different night clubs and detained at Utako police station, claiming that they are prostitutes. This came barely two weeks after 30 women were arrested in the same city for the same reason.
Also, some officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) had raided a popular night club, Caramelo, and arrested 34 female nude dancers.
It was gathered that some of the women were later released on bail while 32 others were charged to a mobile court, 27 were convicted and sentenced to one month in prison for prostitution.
A Nigerian lady with the Twitter handle @tiwatopebalogun has cried out over the lost of her 10years of marriage to her maid, after her husband retrieved his Benz and handed it over to his girlfriend.
Taking to the micro-blogging platform to share her ordeal, the lady revealed that her husband even handed over his Benz to the maid in question.
In her words: “I deleted someone’s number because I actually can’t bear the thought of us not being together and seeing him happy without me.
“I actually added back the number this night and the first thing that came up on his status was his girlfriend’s picture.
“After 10years of marriage my ex hubby left me for the maid.
” My dear I almost died, I could even see the maid driving his Benz in town while I was taking my son to school on foot.”
Enraged Nigerians have taken to social media to express deep irritation over the death of a illegally jailed Nigerian lady, Itunu Babalola.
According to reports, 21-year-old Babalola from Oyo State was a trader based in Bondoukou, Cote d’Ivoire. Her apartment had been burgled by an Ivorian in September 2019 and she had reported the incident to the police but DPO informed her that the suspect was his nephew. He reportedly offered her a settlement worth roughly N100,000 to drop the case, an amount lesser than the N300,000 worth of stolen effects.
Babalola was afterward arrested when she refused the settlement, charged to court for human trafficking and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A journalist, David Hundeyin, had shared the story of Babalola on Twitter in March 2021 and the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission had said it was working to prove the innocence of Babalola.
NIDCOM, headed by Abike Dabiri-Erewa, had confirmed that the lady was charged and incarcerated for a crime she didn’t commit.
“Following painstaking investigations by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and the Nigeria Mission in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, it is now confirmed that Itunu Babalola, a Nigerian living in Abidjan was wrongfully charged and incarcerated for a crime she did not commit.
“Plans are underway to engage the services of a legal luminary to prove the innocence of Itunu Babalola at the Court of Appeal after the accused had spent two years out of a ten-year jail term for an offence she did not commit,” the commission had promised in a statement.
However, many Nigerians were surprised on Sunday night when Hundeyin, who had been following the case, gave serial updates that Babalola’s contracted an infection in the Ivorian prison. The journalist uploaded photos of the young lady in an emergency situation being attended to on a stretcher by medical personnel.
Some were devastated that eight months after NIDCOM promised to ensure justice was served on the matter and secure the lady’s liberty, Babalola still remained behind bars .
Many were equally sad when Hundeyin said hours later that the young lady died.
“I have just received a message from Cote d’Ivoire about Itunu Babalola. She is still in prison in Abidjan where she has contracted a serious infection and apparently she is dying. All those promises by NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri, OYSG etc – audio. She’s finally dying,” Hundeyin wrote.
“Itunu is dead. She died this night. Just confirmed,” he later tweeted.
@DavidHundeyin stated, “Nigeria does absolutely nothing for the citizens, especially southerners but expects the citizens to love the country and uphold some magical patriotism. RIP Itunu. So sorry to her family.”
@DrOlufunmilayo tweeted, “This same govt that abandoned Itunu to die will suddenly arrange and pay huge money to transport her corpse home. Money they never had to save her from jail. Energy they never had to fight for her. The money they never had to treat her.”
“Someone needs to call out that country’s judicial system! Someone needs to call out Nigerian Govt who can’t help their citizens home or abroad,” @DanielRegha demanded.
Her joy knew no bound. Her time had come, she reckoned when she ‘found the clue’. A mouth-watering job awaiting her in South Africa where she would literally dig gold. The jinx had been broken.
Her mother too also fell for the ploy through scintillating pictures of likely places her beloved daughter was going to work in the rainbow country.
Imagine! Soon the twenty-year-old Ekiti born Nigerian girl (name withheld) would be repatriating money home in dollars.
And another scenario, her younger sibling would sooner join her in South Africa to multiply the haul.
But first things first – the usual preparation rituals, sourcing money for passport ticket, feeding allowance.
And all this meant the poor family going to borrow and selling their properties to make up. Anyhow, all this was good as nothing in view of the finest expectations to come from the foreign land job.
But too soon all the dreams died. Firstly instead of a luxurious flight to South Africa, it turned a tortuous three-day road journey to land in Mali, a neighboring West African country and immediately into sex slavery.
The story of this young victim is just one of a many yet untold.
Hear her:
“When we got to Mali, we were handed condoms as work tools on our very first day at work: a beer parlour with several cubicle-like rooms,” says the victim who named one Mustapha as the man who sold her as a sex slave in Mali.
The suspect, Mustapha is said to be well known in the business of luring girls underage girls from Nigeria into prostitution in other countries in West Africa.
In a phone conversation, the terrified victim, who preferred to speak in Yoruba, her native language, and Pidgin English, revealed all the awful details of how she and many young girls were deceived, taken away from Nigeria, and sold as sex slaves far away in Mali.
In a phone conversation, the terrified victim, who preferred to speak in Yoruba, her native language, and Pidgin English, revealed all the awful details of how she and many young girls were deceived, taken away from Nigeria, and sold as sex slaves far away in Mali.
Journey to the Job
It seemed like an answered prayer whenever the victims meet Mustapha who talks them into believing they would effortlessly build castles by travelling out of Nigeria to South Africa to take up high paying jobs either as salesgirl, hotel attendants or female footballers.
Mustapha’s deals are always appearing so sweet that his victims feel it wouldn’t cost them a dime to embark on this life-changing journey to the ‘high-paying’ jobs abroad.
“It was around February 2016, my family couldn’t make ends meet and I was seriously looking for a job.
“My mom and dad are divorced and we the children have been struggling to cope with the meagre proceeds mum gets from selling fruits.” She said, narrating her ordeal.
“So a friend of mine, Samuel, in Ado-Ekiti where I lived at the time, told me there is a guy looking for a female worker.
I later learnt that the person was looking for more than one person (three girls, I was told).
“I collected the employer’s number from Samuel and later called him [Mustapha]. He told us that some of us would work as salesgirls in a big supermarket in South Africa, while he assured others they would secure a football club where they could build a football career.
“Mustapha met my mum and assured her of all the good plans he had for us. After showing my mother several pictures of big supermarkets in South Africa where we would be taking up the jobs, he was able to convince her and she agreed with the travel plans.
We soon set out for the journey. But shortly, things started to go awry. Plans began to change. On getting to Lagos, we were all shocked when we realised that we would be traveling by road and not by flight as earlier promised.
They conveyed us in a 14-seater bus. The journey lasted three days after which we arrived in Mali.”
The victim said they survived the journey by buying drinks to keep their body and soul. “Some of us developed horrible sicknesses as we lacked access to good food for days, we were just drinking beverages
and only had a major stop at Togo.”
***Fodio Camps***
TheNewsGuru.com was able to obtain visual footages of some of the camps where Mustapha and some of his cohorts supposedly operate.
Our finding shows they live in Fodio, a camp where gold is mined; it is located 10 hours from Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. They hardly do their business in cities to avoid prying eyes.
So they live in villages and camps. They have another camp, Papara close to Tengrela, it is three
hours away from Fodio and an hour to Mali.
The Job
“When we got to Mali, we were shocked when Mustapha started auctioning us to people [mostly ladies], at that point there was no turning back, our phones, identity cards, passports and other documents that we used to cross the borders were all seized,” the victim narrated.
“He sold me to one Madam Prisca for N250,000, who runs a beer parlour, I joined other seven new girls at Madam Prisca’s place and when we asked what our job was about, we did not get clear brief.
To our dismay, Madam Prisca distributed ‘condoms’ to us and told us to go and take our bath saying our job will be to entice men who come to patronise the beer joint and we were told that we will be set free once we can earn them 1.5m CFA [Equivalent of 750, 000 naira] Madam Prisca’s beer parlour was a hell of some sort as described by the victim.
Her shop had several rooms attached to it, where men can select any girl of their choice just to ease themselves of tensions obviously after high consumption of alcohol.
At first, the girls [victims] resented the offer to become sex slaves but later humbled to oblige to the wishes of their lords after receiving severe torture, drug inducement and partaking in several rites conducted by their fetish priests.
“They are very diabolic, they will prepare a charm/potion for us and the moment we ate it we lost our consciousness. About eight of us were sharing a room.
“They scraped our hair, [pubic, underarm included] for their fetish cause. There is a particular priest that helps Prisca slaughter, fowl, which will be prepared with other concoctions and we were all compelled to eat it.”
Recalling one of the very sordid days she learnt how deep the danger she was in, the victim said, “You dare not think about escape or do anything that negates their orders.
There was a day Prisca’s priest claimed he saw a vision about two girls planning to escape – when the girls were singled out by the priest, they were beaten mercilessly, it was close to death.
“Here, death is not strange, there are so many who lost their lives while on this trip, some fell terribly ill and were ignored as bad-buy.
The Escape
After working for over a year with Prisca, the victim said she was able to contribute about 1.1m CFA to her lord but was never at ease with the everyday danger related to the job.
She said she had several quiet prayers begging God for a saving grace but the time never came.
I was saying the same prayer one particular evening and I got the conviction to run away. I took my bible, left all the belongings I had at Prisca’s place and ran endlessly without looking back.
“I was scared they could still find me, and the punishment is grave. They have a way of catching those who attempt to escape.
They do this with the help of their policemen, in some instances they lie to the policemen you have stolen their money, say, 2 million CFA and once you are caught there is little you can say to defend yourself because you have no papers or identity.
So when they report you, the policemen will arrest you and you will probably be returned or jailed depending on the process and agreement reached.
So most times, because you don’t have documents, the police will suspect you the more and not them.
She said on escaping Madam Prisca’s place, she had to travel to Cote d’Ivoire, where she is at present hibernating and preparing her journey back
to Nigeria.
Meanwhile, TheNewsGuru attempted to reach Mustapha for comments, but his telephone number was engaged throughout the timeline of filing this report and he is yet to also answer some of the questions sent to him through his known social media handle was still unreachable as of press time.
The response of Mustapha, when provided, will be published in this medium alongside other details uncaptured in this report.
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