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JUST IN: Tragedy Averted In Benin As Heavy-duty Trucks Falls, Destroys Vehicles, High-tension Cables

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Tragedy was averted at Reservation Road, front of Nigerian Correctional Service Headquarters Benin, on Friday when Crane said to have been brought from Abuja for site work fell off its Lowbed meant for carrying it.

The Crane was said to have been brought from Abuja to fix some irons at the Edo Museum for West Africa Arts- EMOWAA ARCHAEOLOGY PAVILION – situated on the land where Edo Central Hospital was sited.

The Crane was said to have finished its work and was about climbing its Lowbed (Truck meant to carry it) when it suddenly fell off the truck and destroyed high-tension cables belonging to power distribution company.

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The incident happened a stone throw away from the EMOWAA ARCHAEOLOGY PAVILION.

The driver of the Crane was said to be inside the Crane and was trying to set it on the Lowbed when one of the tyres suddenly tripped off leading to the Crane falling off the Lowbed.

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The driver has been rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.

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High-tension cables pulled down by the Crane also destroyed a car parked by vehicles plying Government House whose park is exactly where the incident happened.

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Officials of the company who were on site declined comment but the driver of the Lowbed who wouldn’t want his name mentioned spoke in Pidgin English: “He don finish work ooo, and I say make I carry am dey go Abuja. No, the tyres balance, we no just know wetin happen, but thank God say him no die, we don rush am go hospital.”

Men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force have cordoned off the scene thereby restricting vechular movement

 

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I Provide Four Square Meals A Day For My Wife, Man Tells Court

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A commercial mototrcyclist, Malam Isma’il Abubakar, has told a Shari’a Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, that he provides ‘four square meals’ for his wife every day.

Isma’il made this known while responding to his wife, Zainab Saleh’s allegations that he does not provide food for her.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she also alleged that her husband does not respect her parents.

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She said she was done with their 10-year marriage and wanted divorce.

Isma’il, however, prayed the court to give him time to settle the dispute with his wife.

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The judge, Malam Malam Anas Khalifa, asked Zainab to provide witnesses who can testify to her claims.

He ordered the couple to present their parents or guardians in court.

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Court Dissolves Marriage, Orders Man To Pay N30,000 Per Month For Kids’ Food

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An Area Court at Centre-igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the nine-year-old marriage between a woman, Bilikis Abake and her husband, Kehinde Bintin, over claims of domestic violence.

Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Mr Idris Etsu, held that the respondent, had sent a letter to the court through the bailiff, releasing his wife.

Etsu, consequently, dissolved the marriage between both parties, but ordered the woman to observe three months iddah (waiting) period, before she could remarry again.

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According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court awarded custody of the two children of the marriage, who are eight-year-old and six-year-old, to their mother.

The court ordered the respondent to pay the sum of N30,000, as monthly maintenance fee.

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He held that the father should be responsible for his children’s school fees, and should be allowed unrestricted access to his children, except at odd hours.

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‘My Husband Kept Coffin Under Our Bed, Planned To Use Our Child For Ritual’

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In a chilling case that shocked Matero Local Court, Zambia, 36-year-old woman from Chisamba has been granted divorce from her husband, whom she accused of attempting to sacrifice their two children.

Bertha Mumbi told the court that her husband, Abel Ngoma, 46, of Chibombo, allegedly plotted to kill their two daughters—aged 11 years and 7 years as part of ritual instructions he received from a witchdoctor in 2021.

According to Zambia Observer, testifying before the magistrate, Lewis Mumba Bertha said that Abel even made a small coffin in preparation for the supposed death of their firstborn and kept it in their bedroom for four consecutive nights after she refused to participate in the scheme.

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“By then, he had already made a small coffin in readiness for the death of my firstborn. He never told me about the coffin he made. We slept for four days with it under our bed,” she said.

Bertha said the plan was brought to light by the witchdoctor’s informant, who approached her to demand compensation for cancelling the agreement, since she had refused to consent to the sacrifice.

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