Police shoot at protesting LAUTECH students, injure three

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Jesusegun Alagbe
Mobile policemen shot at the students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, on Friday, injuring three of them.
Three other students were arrested.
Our correspondent learned that the students were shot at while they were protesting on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway over the prolonged closure of the school.
The university has been shut down since June 2016 over ownership and funding crises caused by the two owner states, Oyo and Osun States.
Since then, the Students’ Union Government of the school had paid several visits to the Ooni of Ife, the Olubadan of Ibadan, the Alafin of Oyo and other traditional rulers in the two states to help them appeal to the state governments.
Meanwhile, to solve the problem of funding, there have been rumours that the owner states were planning to increase the tuition from N65,000 for students who are indigenes of Osun and Oyo states and N75,000 for non-indigenes to N350,000 respectively.
As a result of this development, about 100 students took to the streets on Friday to protest against the six-month closure of the school and the rumoured increase in tuition fees.
While the protest was going on, our correspondent gathered that several policemen fired teargas at some of the students, while shooting rubber bullets at others.
One of the injured students, Fawole Israel, said he was shot at three times by the police while he was on a motorcycle.
He said, “The protest was meant to be peaceful, but the police came and caused chaos. I was shot at three times. I fell down from a motorcycle. While I fell down, a policeman used the butt of his gun to hit me on the head. My head bled.
“We have been doing nothing for the past six months and this is not helping us. We are about to lose a full academic session. That was why we had to protest.”
A member of the school’s SUG who was also among those protesting, Abdulfatah Oloyede, said the police injured three students and arrested three others.
“Right now, we don’t know the whereabouts of those arrested. The injured ones have been taken to the hospital for treatment. The protest was meant to be peaceful, but the mobile police came and caused chaos. They started shooting at students. This is terrible,” he said.
Another student, Okedara Ridwan, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the aid of the students.
Repeated calls to the spokesperson for the Oyo State Police Command, DSP Ajisebutu Adekunle, for reaction were not answered as of the time of filing this report.
A text message sent to him was also not responded to.

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Fake embassy found in Lagos, two Chinese arrested

The suspects

Sesan Olufowobi

The Lagos State Police Command says it has discovered a fake embassy operating in Lagos where many innocent members of the public had allegedly been defrauded.

It was gathered that policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) had swooped on the ‘embassy’ and arrested two Chinese and two Nigerians.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the fake embassy was located at Golden Point and Suite on Duduyemi Street in Ejigbo, Lagos.

The RRS said the Chinese – Liu Honyang, 47; and Sun Xinai, 49 – and their Nigerian collaborators – Oriyomi Olawale, 47 and Desmond Chinedu, 25 –  had been swindling Nigerians who had planned  to travel out of the country.

It was learnt that the suspects issued mainly Trinidad and Tobago’s visas.

The RRS said the Trinidad and Tobago embassy in the country had confirmed the visas to be fakes, while disowning the two Chinese.

A RRS source told our correspondent that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, directed the squad to act on the intelligence reports received from some victims of the ‘embassy.’

He said, “Some RRS policemen had lodged in the hotel for nine days, watching and monitoring the activities of the suspects before their eventual arrest.”

Some people, who claimed to be victims of the fraud, stormed the RRS headquarters on Sunday to write their statements against the suspects.

One of the victims, Adekunle Adefuye, said he met them through one of their agents, one Dorcas Slyver.

He said, “She is a daughter to my brother’s pastor in Abeokuta, Ogun State. I told her about my intention and zeal to travel to the United States. She told me to come to Lagos that she could procure the American visa for me.

“On getting to Lagos, she took me to the Chinese and I was advised to travel to Trinidad and Tobago. They said I would secure employment with at least $3,000 salary.

“I paid a total sum of N1.3m in installment for the process, including visa processing and flight fare.”

He said he was arrested immediately he got to Trinidad and Tobago on October 19, 2016, by the country’s immigration officers for coming into the country with a fake visa.

“I was arrested with another Nigerian. We spent two days with the police. They treated us like criminals trying to enter the country illegally. We were deported on October 22, 2016, and arrived in Nigeria the following day,” he added.

Another victim, Rasheed Ololade, said he paid N1.3m.

“I was fortunate to escape being jailed in Trinidad and Tobago for coming into the country with fake documents.

“They beat me up and starved me for two days. I was lucky to have been deported,” he added.

Another victim, Friday Owah, said he just paid N600,000  before the arrest.

He said, “I was introduced to them by one man, Mr. Oscar. They promised to secure the visa for me within two weeks.”

Another victim, Lukmon Odeyemi, who claimed to be a footballer, said he parted with N125,000.

But Sun Xinai, the main suspect, said she was unaware that a stamped visa for Trinidad and Tobago was no longer tenable in the country.

However, a response to a letter written by the RRS to the High Commission of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, dated December 7, 2016, read in part, “…the mission can categorically confirm that the individual Sun Xinai, who is claiming to be an agent of this mission, is unknown to us.

“Furthermore, this mission does not use the services of an agent in any capacity whatsoever and has never done so in the past either.

“With regard to the authenticity of the attached visas, the mission can also categorically confirm that those visas were not issued at this High Commission and are clearly fraudulent.”

The letter was signed by one Garth Lamsee, the acting High Commissioner.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police had launched a manhunt for other agents of the fake embassy.

“Members of the public should be wary of visa agents. Anyone who wishes to travel out of the country should direct their applications to the embassies,” she added.

She said the suspects had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation  and Intelligence Department, Yaba,for further investigation.

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Tragedy: See two Nigerians drowned in Malaysia

Two Nigerian students have been found dead in a river in Tasik Taman Negara Loagan Bunut, Miri Malaysia.

The students, Amate Mohamed Amate, 26 and Emine-Imoh Daniel, 23 had been reported missing when a boat they were travelling in capsized on Sunday.

FreeMalaysia.com quoted Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department director Nor Hisham Mohammad, saying the bodies of Amate and Emine-Imoh were found at 12.45pm and 5.15pm some meters away from the scene of accident.

The corpse were sent to the Miri Hospital for a post-mortem.

The two victims were among six students from Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia, conducting observation and research on wildlife in the lake area when the boat capsized.

Four other students, one each from Oman, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Malaysia and the skipper of the boat were reported to be safe.

A passing boatman who witnessed the incident reported the matter to park manager Anthony Chong, who sent a rescue team of five men to the location.

The search and rescue operation involved the fire and rescue department, police and a team from Taman Negara Loagan Bunut.

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When you are too fat, your sex life suffers

Experts have said that being too fat can impair your sexual functioning.

A 2010 multi-centre study that included the department of psychiatry at Toronto General Hospital and universities in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany conclude that being overweight can cause hormonal imbalances and, if you’re trying to get pregnant, can disturb the growth of a healthy egg.

In men, the experts warn, a big belly keeps the sperm too warm, affecting their quality and motility.

“Reaching a healthy weight often improves a person’s sex life. Indeed, subjects said that when they lost excess weight, they were happier in the bedroom,” one of the researchers notes.

The researchers suggest that certain physical conditions that go along with obesity also affect sex drive, further dampening the desires of those who are overweight.

Director of Sexual Health and Male Infertility at New York University Medical Centre, Dr. Andrew McCollough, warns, “Those who have high cholesterol and insulin resistance  — which is an early indicator of type 2 diabetes — may be unable to have good sexual performance. This may kill the desire, particularly in men.”

He says this is because both conditions can cause the tiny arteries in the penis to shut down, particularly when vessel-clogging fatty deposits begin to form. “Impotence or erectile dysfunction is often the result,” McCollough says.

Men are not alone in this problem, as research also shows that overweight women’s sex drive and desire are equally affected by the same problem.

A Director of Sexual Medicine at the Pelvic and Sexual Health Institute of Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, USA, Dr. Susan Kellogg, notes that in the case of women, the width of the blood vessels leading to the clitoris are affected by the same kind of blockages that impact blood-flow to the penis.

What this tells you is that in order to enjoy rich sex life, you need to maintain healthy body weight.

The way out
• Lose a little weight in order to stimulate sex hormones
• Eat more nutritious foods, which control cholesterol and blood sugar levels
• Do physical exercise in order to get the blood flowing to the pelvic area
• Maintain positive body image

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