Sex-starved man beats up prostitutes for refusing to service him

A 36-year-old man, Daniel Johnson, has been
arrested for beating up and injuring some
commercial sex workers » who refused to
service him in a brothel in Ajegunle, Lagos
State.
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According to Champion Newspaper, Johnson had
reportedly gone to the brothel located at Akinbo
Street in the area and requested to have sex
with a prostitute » but the lady refused.
He then approached another prostitute and met
with the same rejection and this angered him so
much that he resorted to violence and beat them
up, injuring some of them in the process, before
escaping from the scene.
One of the victims who identified herself as Gloria
Francis said she was badly injured after Johnson
threw an iron chair on her which left her with a
deep gash on her leg.
The matter was reported at Tolu Police Station
and Johnson was later arrested and taken to the
station.
At the station, he reportedly told police that the
sex workers in the hotel conspired against him and
whenever he went there to have sex with any of
them, they will deny him.
It was gathered that the sex workers decided to
refuse to service him due to his history of having
sex with them and refusing to pay the agreed
amount and whenever they complained, he would
become violent.
The police charged him to court with conduct likely
to cause a breach of public peace and assault
under the Criminal Code.
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When the charge was read to the accused, he
pleaded not guilty and the presiding Magistrate,
T. Abolenwa granted him bail in the sum of
N50,000 with one surety in like sum.
Magistrate Abolenwa ordered that he be
remanded in prison custody pending when he will
perfect his bail while adjourning the case till
October 31, 2016, for a mention.

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Turkey Detains 45 Military Pilots On Coup-related Charges

The media has reported that
Turkey has again detained 45
air force pilots on charges
connected to the July military
coup.

The report, published on
Thursday in Istanbul, said 28
other pilots are being sought.
It said the warrants of
detention for the pilots
comprising 71 lieutenants and
two colonels, were issued by a
prosecutor in the central Konya
province.

The report said that since the
coup attempt in July by a
faction in the military, the
Turkish government had
arrested more than 30,000
people.

Tens of thousands of public
sector employees had also been
dismissed, while thousands of
army officers including high-
ranking generals had been
fired.

Metin Gurcan, a Turkish
military analyst, said that after
the first wave of dismissals, the
number of active pilots in the
country had dropped from
about 600 to just over 300,
reports dpa.

He said the new set of
detentions would further
decrease the number.
Gurcan said Turkey now have
more warplanes than pilots.

“Turkey is carrying out
airstrikes in both Syria and
Iraq, largely against Kurdish
militants. It has also hit the
Islamic State,’’ he said.

The government blames the
coup attempt on Fethullah
Gulen, a Turkish preacher
based in the United States.
Gulen, who was once a long-
time ally of Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan until
they split a few years ago,
denies the charges.

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Rebel fire kills 6 children in Aleppo

Syrian government forces walk in the
strategic area of the Bazo hilltop, north of
Khan Tuman on the southern outskirts of the
northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo as
they advance in the ongoing offensive to
seize the rebel-held eastern part of the city
on October 25, 2016. Government forces and
allied fighters are advancing on the southern
outskirts of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory
for Humman Rights reported, seizing
territory overlooking rebel-held areas. / AFP
PHOTO / GEORGE OURFALIAN
At least six children were killed and 15
injured in rebel rocket attacks in the
government-held west of Aleppo city on
Thursday, Syrian state media said.
A monitoring group said a child was also
among at least eight people killed in
government shelling on the rebel-held town
of Douma outside Damascus.
The rocket fire in Aleppo hit two
neighbourhoods in the west of the city,
with one of the attacks striking a school.
“Three children were killed and 14 students
were injured in a terrorist rocket attack on
the national school in the Shahba
neighbourhood of Aleppo,” state news
agency SANA reported.
It added that the attack also damaged the
school.
A second rocket attack hit a house in the
Hamdaniyeh neighbourhood, killing three
brothers and injuring a fourth, SANA said.
The two neighbourhoods are in the west of
the city, which has been roughly divided
since mid-2012, when rebels seized its
eastern half.
Rebels regularly fire crude homemade
rockets into government neighbourhoods,
often killing civilians.
Regime forces backed by ally Russia have
waged an aerial and ground assault since
late September to recapture eastern Aleppo,
killing hundreds of civilians and destroying
infrastructure including hospitals.
On Wednesday the UN children’s agency
UNICEF said 22 children had been killed
along with six teachers in air strikes on a
school in rebel-held Idlib province.
The strikes, carried out by either Russian
or Syrian warplanes according to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, hit the
village of Hass.
Moscow denied any involvement in the
raids.
The British-based Observatory, which has a
network of sources in Syria, gave a toll of 36
dead, among them 15 children and four
teachers.
The incident prompted outrage from
UNICEF director Anthony Lake.
“This is a tragedy. It is an outrage. And if
deliberate, it is a war crime,” he said,
adding that the school complex had been
hit repeatedly.
Outside Damascus meanwhile, at least eight
people were killed on Thursday in
government shelling on Douma in the rebel-
held Eastern Ghouta region, the
Observatory said.
Douma is regularly targeted by government
fire, and in recent months regime forces
have waged an offensive in the area, which
has also been under siege since 2013.
At a makeshift hospital in the town, an AFP
photographer saw medics using a
defibrillator on one man, his face speckled
with blood.
On a stretcher nearby, a wounded man lay
with his artificial leg detached and lying on
top of him, smeared with his blood.
More than 300,000 people have been killed
in Syria since the conflict began in March
2011 with anti-government protests.

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Iraq: Thousands displaced as battle for Mosul rages on

Iraqi forces progress towards city
limits despite heavy resistance from
ISIL, as aid groups expect flood of
refugees.

Iraqi civilians have had to make the
dangerous journey fleeing the violence on foot
[Reuters]
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More than 10,000 Iraqis have fled their homes
since the start of an offensive to retake Mosul
from ISIL this month, according to the UN.
That figure is just a fraction of the
displacement that aid groups expect to see
when Iraqi forces reach the city limits and
some of the million-plus people thought to be
inside attempt to flee.
"As the fighting gets closer to more populated
areas, we're starting to see more and more
families flee the fighting," Al Jazeera's
Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Erbil in
northern Iraq, said.
"At least 1,000 people were evacuated by
[Iraqi] counterterrorism forces from their
villages," Dekker added. "These are terrifying
times for those people - their houses are
shaking, and they are being caught in the
crossfire."
And while those evacuated by the elite Iraqi
unit were guided to nearby camps, there "are
no humanitarian corridors" to manage the
thousands more being displaced, Dekker said.
"Many other people are making this terrifying
journey on foot."
But, though the number of displaced Iraqis
has increased rapidly over the past two days,
there was no sign an exodus of larger
proportions was beginning.
The aid community has been scrambling to
build camps and bring equipment to areas on
the edges of the Mosul battlefield, a vast area
where Iraqi forces are closing in on the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group
(ISIL, also known as ISIS) from the north, east
and south.
Strong resistance from ISIL has made the
battle slow and dangerous, but Iraqi and
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have retaken 90
villages and Iraqi government troops have
gotten within six kilometres of Mosul on the
eastern front.
Meanwhile, the Peshmerga have concentrated
their attack in the northeast, on the town of
Bashiqa.
US-led coalition forces have been supporting
them by hitting parts of the town with air
strikes.
The US Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, said
on Wednesday that despite the slow progress,
there were no plans to add more troops to the
battle.

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