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Mechanic who takes little baby to workshop after wife abandoned them receives N285k donations from Nigerians
A Calabar-based mechanic, James Emina, who was spotted with a little baby at his workshop, has seen Nigerians rally behind him, donating over N285k after a photo of him caring for his child went viral.
According to James Emina, his wife abandoned them citing mental health challenges, leaving him to single-handedly care for their infant daughter, Blessing.
A customer at his workshop recently snapped a photo of Emina cradling Blessing while attending to his duties, which subsequently went viral on social media.
Mechanic who takes little baby to workshop after wife abandoned them receives N285k donations from Nigerians
Touched by the scene, Nigerians began donating funds to support Emina and his daughter. As of now, donations have exceeded N285,000
Cornelius Ella, head of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Cross River State (UNICROS), has been facilitating the donations.
Cornelius personally delivered an envelope containing N60,000 in contributions from anonymous donors, including N10,000 and N50,000 from two separate individuals.
“I visited baby Blessing and her Dad in their residence some minutes ago to deliver an envelope containing what was recently paid to them through me. The envelope contained N10,000 received from someone who prefers to remain anonymous and N50,000 from another person who equally prefers to remain anonymous.”
“Similarly, I visited them two days ago to deliver the sum of N225,000. This arose from N120,000 received from Anwulika Udanoh Bobbitt, N50,000 received from Ezinwa Nlewedim, N10,000 received from Uzzystouch, N40,000 received from someone who prefers to remain anonymous and N5,000 (five thousand naira) received from someone who also prefers to remain anonymous,” Cornelius said.
By Mario Deepromoter
Jigawa Police command has confirmed the death of 95 people and 50 got diffident degrees of injuries in Majiya village of Taura local government area in Jigawa.
Confirming that accident, the Jigawa state command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Lawal Shiisu Adams, said, “Today (Wednesday) a Petro Tanker from Porthacourt going to Nguru in Yobe state reached Majiya village of Taura local government area at around 12:30 am the driver lost control at Majiya and it falls”.
The PPRO added; “The content in the Tanker floors and flooded gutters and drainages in the village. Seen that the villagers started fetching the fuel where the petrol going into flame”.
DSP Shiisu disclosed, “As a result, 95 people confirmed died, and 50 have been hospitalised receiving treatment”.
He, therefore, advised the people to distance themselves from a situation of that nature.
Source: ibomfocus
Kwara State Police Command has dismissed three policemen for alleged murder of a student.
The deceased, Qoyum Abdulyekeen Ishola, a student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, was on September 4, this year shot dead by trigger-happy policemen at Fate, Ilorin.
In a statement, the command’s spokesperson, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi said after an investigation and an internal disciplinary trial, the three officers –AP/No 233828 INSPR. Abiodun Kayode, AP/No 287410 INSPR. James Emmanuel, and F/No 497868 SGT. Oni Philip – were found guilty of offences ranging from leaving beat, corrupt practices to unlawful or unnecessary exercise of authority.
“Consequently, they have been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force, with effect from 4th October, 2024,’’ he added.
They would be arraigned in court soon, he said.
By Francesca Hangeior
A 45-year-old man, simply identified as Kazeem, has drowned in a river at Odo Tente, a boundary community between Lagos and Ogun States.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Friday around 11 am.
Before the incident, Kazeem was said to have taken a hard drug suspected to be Colorado.
The deceased, who soon started to act under the influence of the drug, reportedly ran uncontrollably and jumped into the river.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, while confirming the incident in a statement on Sunday, stated that he drowned in the process.
The statement read, “On 11/10/2024 at about 11 am, a complainant reported at Alagbado Division that one Kazeem, ‘M’ aged 45, under the influence of a hard drug suspected to be Colorado, ran uncontrollably and jumped into a river at Odo Tente boundary between Lagos and Ogun State.
Sequel to this, the victim drowned and died.”
Hundeyin further stated that detectives from the Alagbado Division visited the scene and took photographs of the deceased.
The police spokesman added that the father of the deceased, when contacted, directed that the corpse be buried immediately by the riverside according to their tradition.
He, however, noted that the police had commenced an investigation into the incident.
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