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Ifa Priest, Araba Ifayemi Elebuibon. Juju priests, Imams, Pastors, others speak •Money ritual real but there are consequences —Aroh Deity Priest •If money rituals have potency, juju priests would be on Forbes’ rich list —Fr. Oluoma ...Faulty parenting, poor education, bad governance driving youths  to money rituals —Rev. Hayab ...Money rituals promoted by materialistic clerics - Sheikh Nuru Khalid  ...Killing for money rituals, haram in Islam —Shi’ite cleric THESE days, reports of certain killings in Nigeria, where the human body is decapitated and sensitive parts harvested are believed to be for ritual purposes. In some instances, especially, if the motive remains unclear, some people assume they must have been about money-making. However, other people, including Christian and Muslim clerics, don’t believe in the efficacy of money rituals. By that, they mean there is nowhere in the history of humankind where anybody has made real cash appear through the means of magic. They s...

THE story you are about to read was culled from womenofrubies.com, a capacity building and inspirational platform for women. The story took us through the traumatic journey of the life of a young girl who at the tender age of 9 was abused by her church pastor whom she was later forced to marry at age 11. It also took us through a vivid imagery of willful lack of care on the part of those who were supposed to protect her. Her mother’s contributory negligence was perhaps the most complicit in the chain of horrific abuse that would span several years. I found this quite chilling and relevant to the situation of many young people right now. Please, enjoy reading and share your thoughts with me.   Sherry was just nine-years-old when she was raped by a man she should have been able to trust - the deacon of her local church.  He was 18 and targeted Sherry when she was still a young child. Her mother and sisters were out at church and the youngster was home alone.  Sherry’s ...

•My captors told us they own Nigeria, Tosin •They said they also sell body parts of some victims for rituals THE persistent spate of insecurity in Nigeria has no doubt, reached an alarming level just as it has become obvious that the country’s security infrastructure is incapable of clipping the wings of rampaging terrorists. From gory tales of massacre of innocent villagers, destruction of people’s houses and sacking communities as well as mass kidnap of villagers and travellers, the story is the same all over Nigeria. The increasing intensity of the nefarious activities of unscrupulous elements terrorising the country, has created palpable fear in the masses such that nobody knows when or where next the dare devils will strike.   Kidnapped and released three days later, Gospel artiste, Sir Oluwatosin Alao found his voice after two years, to relive his experience in the kidnappers den. Fact is, Tosin as fondly called, and his band that survived the ordeal, are just few out of...

•PDP silent on zoning, clears 15, disqualifies 2 aspirants •I’ll respect PDP’s decision on zoning – Obi, Emmanuel •Bello, Nwajiuba, Umahi, Okorocha, Tinubu buy APC forms THE ruling All Progressives Congress, APC ; and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ,   have kept Nigerians guessing on whether they would zone their presidential tickets or not.. While the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, pointedly said his party has not taken a decision on the zoning, the PDP was silent, as its committee has screened no fewer than 17 aspirants drawn from across the country. The PDP screening committee led by former Senate President, David Mark, cleared 15 of the aspirants and disqualified two. The polity has been astir of recent over clamour for zoning. There are three schools of Thought on zoning, namely: Power-shift to the South; zoning the presidency to the South-East; and throwing the race open to all parts of the country. Ahead of the presidential primaries on...

•I lost two of my three children in just one day, I’m in shock — Distressed father IT was double tragedy for the residents of Oke-Aigo Street in Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo council area of Ondo state. The last Easter festivity was turned into mourning while a birthday celebration by some children in the neighborhood turned tragic. April 21 would remain an unforgettable date in the community as two siblings and two other children were electrocuted in a steel container shop when a newly installed 11kv Powerline snapped and fell on it. Those electrocuted were the siblings; Akinyemiju Motunrayo and Akinyemiju Jesutofunmi as well as  Adebiyi Adebowale and Akinfisoye Samuel while the only survivor, Adebiyi precious, is still in critical condition at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC), Ile Ife, Osun state One of the victims, Samuel Akinfisoye is the son of the community head (Baale) of Adegbaso village, in ile-Oluji, Rope Akinfisoye. Five children reportedly gathered...

TWO men, Bode Fabiyi and Afeez Opeyemi Ahmed, have been sentenced to death by hanging, by a Lagos State High Court sitting at Tafa Balewa Square, TBS, for kidnapping and killing a 53-year-old businessman, Kolawole Animashaun, who had just relocated from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. Justice Modupe Nico-Clay also sentenced them to 77years imprisonment after finding them guilty of the offence of conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, murder, collecting of ransom and dumping the corpse in a soakaway pit. She sentenced them to 14 years imprisonment for the first count and sentenced them to death on the second count charge and 21 years each for counts 3,4 and 5 respectively. Justice Nico-Clay said the term of the sentence should run concurrently. Delivery judgement, Justice Nico-Clay said the prosecution has been able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt that the convicts committed the offence. The judge held that the offences of conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping have been establi...

 A bullion van was, yesterday, attacked by unknown gunmen at Ogbor Nguru, Nwankwo in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. An eyewitness said the gunmen went after the bullion van heading to Mbaise from Owerri thinking it was conveying cash. The eyewitness added that the unknown gunmen shot sporadically at the driver of the van and two other persons, but “the driver in the bid to escape somersaulted.” The driver of the bullion van escaped after the somersaulting severally and rammed into about four different vehicles packed at the spot where it happened. It smashed the vehicles as well as destroyed the windows, doors, and windscreens of the vehicles. “A bullion van conveying cash from Owerri to Mbaise was attacked at Ogbo Nguru, in Aboh Mbaise LGA. The bullion van was double-crossed and under serious fire. The vehicle tumbled and destroyed about four other cars parked in that area. “The driver of the bullion van was able to escape, but his vehicle destroyed other  ve...

Late Stephanie Terungwa. A member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Stephanie Terungwa, who was declared missing in Abuja, has been found dead .   The corpse was found wearing the NYSC khaki trouser with the face defaced beyond recognition in the highbrow Maitama district of Abuja has been confirmed by the police as that of a missing corps member deployed to the nation’s capital, Stephanie Se-Ember Terungwa. The NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, made this known in a statement, yesterday, entitled, ‘Re: Missing Body.’ Terungwa, a graduate of Microbiology from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, went missing April 14 after she left home fully dressed in her NYSC uniform. Unfortunately, she did not return alive. Her death is still being treated as “unexplained.” However, sources at the NYSC headquarters believe that at this stage, there was a third-party involvement. The NYSC statement read: “The attention of NYSC management has been drawn to ...

THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC , expressed anger over the Federal Government’s perpetual silence while public universities remained shut down for over two months. NLC lamented what it described as gross injustice in the society, where the political class was busy with 2023 electioneering activities and universities shut down indefinitely. Speaking to journalists before the commencement of the Central Working Committee, CWC, meeting preparatory to the May Day Commemoration, the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, decried the alleged injustice meted out on the four university-based unions and by extension, the children of the underprivileged who attend public universities. He accused the Federal Government of lip service to issues concerning education at the detriment of the masses. He said:  “We are facing a period of great injustice on the downtrodden of the society, children of the poor are at home but the children of the rich are going to school, we have written several communi...