Nurse And Pastor Arrested For Abortion in Ogun State

The police, yesterday, paraded a nurse, Mrs Ogundimu Monilola, accused of helping a 44-year-old pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Ogo Oluwa parish, Olokuta, Ogun State, Oluwafemi Oyebola, to procure family planning care for his 24-year-old daughter, whom he impregnated three times.

Monilola, who claimed to be Assistant Chief Matron at the State General Hospital, Idiroko, Ogun State, said she is also the health worker in charge of the family planning service at the facility.

She denied carrying out any abortion on Pastor Oyebola’s daughter, but the police said she had in her statement earlier admitted

performing abortions on the girl who opted to remain anonymous.

She said she was on duty at a particular day when the man presented the girl for family planning at the hospital, claiming the girl was his house help, while a man, who identified himself as James, stood as the husband of the girl.

103 paraded in Ogun for cultism, vandalism, robbery

 

• I started having sex with my daughter in 2017, not 2015 – Pastor

The Ogun State Police Command, on Thursday, paraded 103 suspects for allegedly being involved in cultism, vandalism and armed robbery, among others.

Fifty of the suspects were said to be members of the Eiye and Aiyeconfraternities and were nabbed while planning to wreak havoc on the state.

The command had on Sunday raised the alarm that members of a notorious cult were planning to launch a state-wide campaign of terror and violence on the state.

Parading the suspects at the command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, said the suspects were arrested at different locations in the state.

Ebrimson explained that on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at a hideout in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state, operatives from the Ifo Division arrested nine suspected cultists while planning their 7/7 day.

He stated that on July 6, 2020, three members of the group were arrested for planning to launch a bloody attack the following day on the Epe garage area of Ijebu-Ode.

Similarly, operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad during a patrol in Abeokuta arrested nine members of the Aiye Confraternity in different parts of the state capital.

The CP explained that the Inspector-General of Police Squad, while working on an intelligence report, cordoned-off two hotels in Ijoko-Ota, where 27 members of the Eiye Confraternity were apprehended.

Ebrimson said, “Upon information received about the activities of the Aiyegroup to launch an attack on their yearly 7/7 day celebration, operatives from the Anti-Cultism Unit, led by DSP Muyiwa Adeosun, swung into action and went straight to an unnamed hotel in Ogijo, where some suspected cult members were holding their meeting.

Immediately they sighted the police, they took to their heels, but three of them were arrested.

Also, following information about the planned cult anniversary scheduled to hold on July 7 across the state, the IGP-IRT, Ogun State annex, working on an intelligence report, cordoned-off the Ade Royal Hotel and the Delkish Hotel, both at Gasline, Ijoko-Ota, where members of the group converged to hold a meeting on the planned havoc on July 7; in the process, 27 members of the Eiye Confraternity were apprehended.”

Meanwhile, a 44-year-old pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church, Oluwakemi Oyebola, who was arrested for allegedly impregnating his own daughter and procuring abortion for her three times, has attributed his action to “the devil’s arrow” targeted at him.

Oyebola, who was among the 103 suspected criminals paraded, said he could not fathom why he engaged in the incestuous relationship with his daughter.

The cleric, who was paraded alongside the nurse, who allegedly carried out the abortions, added that having sex with his daughter was not intentional.

He also denied that he began to have sex with the victim in 2015 as alleged by the police, adding that the relationship started in 2017.

The cleric also said he procured abortion for his daughter just once and not thrice.

Oyebola said, “I was hit by the devil’s arrow targeted at me by my enemies. I could not fathom how I began having sex with my own daughter. It is a shameful act, I agree. But unlike what was reported in the media, I only began to have sex with her in 2017 and not 2015 as claimed by the police. Also, the abortion I procured for her was just once and not thrice.

“I regret my action and I have sought forgiveness from my daughter. She has forgiven me as she came to plead with the CP on my behalf on Wednesday. I want to sincerely beg for forgiveness from Nigerians; my action was unheard of and I seriously regret it.”

The nurse, Monilola Ogundimu, denied terminating any pregnancy for the girl.

Ogundimu, who said she was the Assistant Matron and Head, Family Planning Unit, Idiroko General Hospital, Ipokia Local Government Area of the state, stated that she only helped the girl with a family planning method as instructed by her father.

She added that until her arrest by the police, she did not know that the man was the girl’s father, as he presented her as his housemaid and not daughter.

Covid-19 Patient gives birth in Ogun

A TWENTY-eight-year-old COVID-19 patient has successfully put to bed at the State Hospital, Ijaye in Abeokuta.

Commissioner for Health Dr. Tomi Coker confirmed this on Wednesday while congratulating the health workers who took delivery of the patient’s baby at the hospital.

She said a dedicated team of doctors, midwives and other health workers took the safe delivery of the mother, who was asymptomatic, in the early hours of Tuesday without putting their health and others at risk.

She noted that the decision to celebrate the health workers was to appreciate their longstanding professional efforts towards containing further spread of the deadly virus.

The husband of the patient, who pleaded anonymity, appreciated God and the team of healthcare workers for the safe delivery of the newborn

BREAKING] WASSCE 2020: FG stops resumption of schools

The Federal Government has put on hold the planned resumption of federal schools.

It has also stopped students from participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations earlier scheduled for August 4 to September 5.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House Correspondents at the end of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The minister said federal schools would remain closed until it is safe to reopen them.

He also urged state governments that have announced school resumption plans to rescind such.

Adamu stated that the West African Examinations Council could not determine the resumption date of schools for Nigeria.

He said he would prefer that Nigerian students lose an academic year than to expose them to heath dangers amid the coronavirus pandemic

Reopen Churches Now, CAN Tells Lagos, Ogun, Others

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked Lagos, Ogun and other state governments where churches are still closed to relax the covid-19 restriction to allow reopening of places of worship.

The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), His Eminence, Rev Dr Samson ‘Supo Ayokunle, said the continued lockdown order on the places of worship was no longer acceptable or reasonably justified.

In statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Assistant, (Media and Communications) to the CAN President, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, the association said that the continued closure of the worship centres is against the new relaxed lockdown protocol given by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.

Despite the directive given by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 with regards to the re-opening of places of worship nationwide, some states like Lagos and Ogun are yet to allow worship places, especially churches, to be reopened. What sin have the places of worship committed?

“With the sudden emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) at all levels, agreed with the government on the need to close down the places of worship, economy, schools and every other facet of life,” he said.

CAN said, “With the reopening of the economy, especially the markets (both organized and the unorganised markets) along with the plan to reopen airports and schools, the closure of churches anywhere in the country is no longer tenable and acceptable.

” In what way are the open and road side markets more organized than the church which warranted their opening? Is it not our members in the places of worship that do go to markets and other sectors opened? Why are they allowed to go to markets and disallowed from going to places of worship? Is it because the marketers cannot contact the virus in the markets and airports?”

CAN said that while the government and other relevant stakeholders are working hard to get cure for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Church too has a role to play by seeking for divine solutions as well.

‘CAN appeals to the Lagos, Ogun and other state governments where churches are still under lockdown to relax it for God’s sake. As much as we believe that COVID-19 deserves attention, it is our belief that the affected state governments would not turn a deaf ear to our quest but allow worshippers to return to places of worship,”

Ogun teachers give Abiodun conditions for school reopening

Public school teachers in Ogun state on Tuesday listed conditions Governor Dapo Abiodun must first
meet before reopening schools in the state.

Putting their safety and pupils’ first, the teachers demanded provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), infrared thermometers, hand sanitizers, among other safety items in schools before reopening.

The state chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Titilope Adebanjo, who unveiled the conditions during an interaction with reporters at the union’s Secretariat in Abeokuta, the state capital, insisted they must be evidentially met before schools can reopen in the state.

Adebanjo cited other conditions given by the NUT as disinfection of school premises, provision of running water, alcohol based sanitisers, training of teachers on how to use the thermometers and standby health workers within a kilometer radius of each public school in the state.

Governor Dapo Abiodun had last Friday declared that schools and worship centres in the state should remain shut for another 14 days following the increasing COVID – 19 infection rate and seeming laying down of guards by residents.

The NUT chairman said that the teachers’ position on what should be done first before school reopening, were contained in a position paper presented to the government on Monday.

Adebanjo said: “As a union, we know that we have a responsibility and this necessitated us to present a position paper to Ogun state government as we are looking forward for reopening of our schools.

“We hear some opinions somewhere that teachers in public schools are not ready to go back to work. We are saying emphatically that our teachers are ready to go back to work. In fact, we are tired of staying at home.

“The first on the list is to make sure that the government to fumigate every part of the school environment. And we put it to them also to make sure that they provide infrared thermometers to all our schools at least to get the temperature of our students.

“We put it across to them also to make sure that they train our teachers in line with the position of this COVID-19. The training of teachers is very, very important, so that when teachers are trained to use these thermometers they can also read them and even to observe a pupil or a student that is having issue medically or the other.

“Another thing is to make provision for portable water, running one for that matter available in all our schools, along with soaps and alcohol based sanitizers. All these must be on ground before schools are reopened.

“We also recommended to them that at least within a kilometer of a school, there must be a health personnel that in case if there is an emergency, we can easily report to them. We are teachers we are not doctors, we are not nurses. But the most important thing is make sure that PPE is readily available in our schools.”

He, however advised parents to provide face masks for their children before sending them to school, warning that no student would be allowed into school without using a face mask.

He expressed the optimism that schools would be reopened in the state before the next two week if the conditions are met.

Abiodun Visits Areas Affected by Flood in Abeokuta

* Promises compensation, lasting solution

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said that his administration would carry out proper channelisation in flood prone areas to put an end to perennial flooding in Abeokuta, State capital.

He also promised to pay those who lost properties to the flood.

Governor Abiodun who stated these when he visited the areas affected by last weekend torrential rain, regretted the huge loss caused by the flood.

He however appreciated God that no life was lost.

According to the goverrnor, “I am here to look at the damage caused by the rain that fell on Saturday and Sunday. I am happy that it was only properties and not lives that were lost”.

He said government had assessed the damage caused to the roads and bridges with a view to carrying out a comprehensive and proper channelisation of the waterways to bring permanent solution to flooding in the State capital.

“I want to assure you that we will repair the damaged roads, expand the gutters and bridges so that when such rains fall, the gutters and the bridges would be able to accommodate the large volume of water. With this, the problem of erosion would be a thing of the past”, he promised.

Governor Abiodun who attributed flooding in the State capital to rapid development, urged the people to desist from dumping refuse or building structures on waterways.