Michael Abiodun
The joy of every woman is to settle with her ideal man and make a happy family, but when the reverse becomes the case, some will go the extra mile to get the man of her dream.
This vividly captures the shocking revelation by a native doctor and suspected ritual killer who was recently arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command.
According to the suspect, he grinds human heads into powder as charm for ladies who are looking for choice husbands and big contracts.
The native doctor who gave his name as Olasunkanmi Owolabi, is a 43-year-old native of Oyo town. He also disclosed that the human concoction could be used to cure stubborn sores, mental illness, sickle cell anaemia and epilepsy.
Arrested with Owolabi were his two cohorts, Clement Omodijie and Usman Saliu a.k.a. Alfa. Omodijie, a 54-year-old indigene of Ekpoma, Edo State, says he is married with three childre and a grave digger at Gbogbo Cemetery, Ikorodu, Lagos on a monthly salary of N22,000. He said he had worked at the cemetery for five years before he was arrested by SARS operatives.
In his shocking confession, Owolabi said, “I am an Alfa and a native doctor. But I am not yet registered. I finished my Arabic studies in Kwara State about 13 years ago and relocated to Ikorodu to work as a native doctor. I have the ambition of building a native hospital if the government gives me an approval.
“I started by praying for sick people. Last year, I met this cemetery worker (Omodijie) and told him about the products (human parts) they were wasting. I learnt about using human skull to do powerful charms and medicine after travelling to Kano, Kaduna and other parts of the north.
In Kano, I met a Yoruba native doctor who told me that if i mixed ground human bones with soap and some herbs, it would bring luck for my clients or patients.
He explained that it could also cure chronic and stubborn sores and help pregnant women to deliver without complications or operation.
Owolabi said, “It can also cure madness and other terrible diseases that defy orthodox solution.
”Women who are looking for husbands can also mix the ground bones with their powder. When they see a man they like, especially if they want a husband, they would rob the powder and talk to the man and the man will fall for them. it can also bring good luck and help job seekers to secure employment.
It can make somebody to become rich. It can cure epilepsy. A woman can also bath with it and men will be begging her to marry them. I sell a tablet of the soap for N2, 000. It depends on the pocket of the buyer. Some buy it for N1000. I sell it around Ikorodu and Ajah in lagos.
On how he met Omodejie, Owolabi said, “I knew the grave digger to be a worker in Gbogbo cemetery at Ikorodu. When he wanted to throw away some (human) parts, I told him that I needed them. I normally give him N4,000 per skull.”
On his part, Omodijie said, “I was content with being a grave digger before I met Owolabi in a restaurant in front of the cemetery in Gbogbo area of Ikorodu. Since I met Owolabi, my life has not been the same again. I have moved from one problem into another.
I was enjoying my N15, 000 monthly salary as a grave digger before I met him and he lured me into supplying human heads to him at N4, 000 each. The naked truth is that there is nothing reasonable I have done with the N4,000 per human head that he has been paying me. I used it to drink gin or smoke cigarettes with it. It is the devil’s money. I hardly fall sick since I was born. But after selling human heads to him, my health has been deteriorating.
Since abandoning his block-mounding job for the illicit business, life has become unbearable for the young man.
Hear him, “I buy drugs as if it is food, making me to spend more money than before. “I was moulding blocks before I secured a job in the cemetery as a gravedigger. We were paid on a daily basis. We used wooden or machine moulder. But whichever moulder we used, we charged the owner N500 per bag of cement, which can give one about 40 blocks. If we did three bags, we collected N1, 500.
When I got a job in the cemetery, I was happy because it is not as hard as moulding blocks.
The salary was small but I was enjoying it. The grave was shallow or deep, depending on the owner of the corpse and the way he or she wants it to be buried.
On how his trouble started, Omodijie said, “My trouble started a day I went to buy food opposite the cemetery. That was where I met Owolabi and he said there was something he had wanted to tell me. He asked whether I was a worker in the cemetery and I said yes. He said I should give him a human head and I asked him what he meant. he said the head of a corpse already buried.
We have cemetery rules, which forbid us from doing such a thing. I told him that I would not be able to do that, and he left. But thereafter, each day I went to the restaurant to buy food, he would accost me with the same request. I insisted that I would not do it because I did not want to lose my job, but he said it was better to sell human parts to him than allowing them to waste. “I summoned courage to ask him what he wanted to do with human heads and other parts. he said he was a native doctor and Alfa, and that he wanted to use it to make medicine.
He said he would grind it into powder and mix it with certain herbs for pregnant women to drink in order to deliver their babies without complications or operation.
Asked how he obtained the heads he sold to Owolabi, the embattled Omodijie said, “The graves where I normally bring out the skulls from are shallow, and coffins are not used for the corpses brought there because of religion or financial status of the owners. It is cheaper to bury a corpse in a shallow grave than to do so in a deep, cemented or marbled one. Most burials done in shallow graves are temporary. That is why that section of the cemetery is called the temporary site. After some months, the corpses buried in shallow graves are excavated and burnt. That was why Owolabi i should not allow the skulls to waste and that I should sell them to him instead.
Four of us work in the cemetery, but the other workers did not know that I was smuggling out human skulls and other parts to sell to native doctors. it was only two heads I had sold before detectives from SARS arrested me. There is no useful thing I can say I did with the money.
Like a case of medicine after death, Omodijie is currently pleading for leniency, claiming that he was deceived by the devil.
His words, “I was deceived by the devil. I am pleading for forgiveness because I did not kill anyone to sell their heads. I sold the skulls of corpses already buried and had decayed. I did not know that it would land me in this trouble,” he pleaded.
Nigeria Super eagles has defeated Libya in their third Group E fixture of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers with a four nill at the Akwa Ibom Stadium in Uyo.
Naija news Understands that Nigerian,Super Eagles striker , Odion Ighalo was themain man who led the team an hat-trick goal which gave the Nigerian side in a great spot in qualifying for Nations Cup come January.
Jasmine Tridevil, a Florida, USA, lady has made history as the first woman to have three breasts.
A 21-one-year old Tampa, Florida, USA, massage therapist, Jasmine Tridevil, has shown that there is nothing impossible in this life, as long as you have the determination to achieve your dreams.
Her long term dream from the age of 13, has been to have three breasts, instead of the two God gave to her and with determination, patients and lots of money, $20,000 and a night of sex to boot, she got her wish.
Here comes the woman with three breasts! Jasmine Tridevil spent a lot of money on plastic surgery just to have a breast transplant which has made her the first woman alive to have three boobs.
And to go with her achievement, she has now landed for herself a reality show called My Third Boob. The show will center around her daily life as a woman with three boobs. Will men date her? How will she be treated on the streets? Will she be able to make it as a three-boobed stripper (her dream job)?
But Jasmine has explained why she got a third boob:
I got it because I wanted to make myself unattractive to men. Because I don’t want to date anymore. Men are big assholes.
She says the third breast feels just like her other two - except the nipple which has been tattooed on.
The third breast was made from a silicone implant and skin tissue from her abdomen. She also admits her parents were horrified by the result and have since stopped talking to her.
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has ranked Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo, as the best in the country.
Masa’udu Kazaure, executive secretary of the board, made this known in Kaduna on Thursday.
Kazaure said the polytechnic emerged the best after scoring 85.08 percent in the assessment of 112 federal, state and private polytechnics in the country.
He said the exercise covered the 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 academic sessions.
Kazaure said the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro came second with 73.08 percent while Kaduna Polytechnic came third with 72.31 percent.
Other polytechnics in the top 10 include The Polytechnic Ibadan, ranked fourth; Federal Polytechnic Bida is fifth while Auchi Polytechnic is ranked sixth.
Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, is seventh while Federal Polytechnic Offa, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic and Yaba College of Technology jointly occupy the eighth position.
Federal Polytechnic Oko was ranked 11th while Federal Polytechnic, Idah, is 12th best in Nigeria.
The NBTE boss said when disaggregated by ownership, Federal Polytechnic Nekede also emerged the best federal polytechnic in the country followed by Federal Polytechnic Ilaro and Kaduna Polytechnic.
“The Polytechnic Ibadan, IMT and Rufus Giwa polytechnics were the highest ranked among state polytechnics, while Lagos City Polytechnic is the highest ranked private polytechnic and the 16th in the country,” he said.
“Dorben Polytechnic and Heritage Polytechnic were the second and third best private polytechnic in the country.”
Kazaure explained that the polytechnics were ranked based on the total number of programmes with full accreditation in the last two years and percentage of programmes with full accreditation.
He said: “Other criteria include proportion of academic staff showing the right mix, that is, chief lecturer and principal lecturer down to assistant lecturer; and ability of institution to introduce programme in new and emerging fields.
“They were equally assessed based on capacity building of staff both within and outside Nigeria, teaching quality, including staff /student ratio and ratio of full-time to part-time staff.
“Other areas are availability of current campus master plan, strategic plan, and academic brief; percentage of academic staff with relevant higher qualification and professional registration; and 70:30 technology-non-technology enrolment ratio.
“Another consideration was the incorporation of entrepreneurship education into the institute’s curriculum and fully established Entrepreneurship Development Centre.”
You would think that Oshiomhole will be commended for his forthright decision on direct primaries. No. There are two major groups tackling Oshiomhole.
Abba Adakole
Our clever-by-half politicians have been all over the place of late. They have been defecting, re-defecting and un-defecting from one party to another. While some of them have tried to explain away the reasons behind dumping the parties that gave them the platform to win elections and be in government, others have ended up coming across as dumb in their own attempt to explain. Yet in all this miasma of political peregrinations is the common denominator of selfish interests. What these nomadic politicians are not willing to disclose is their inordinate ambition to contest the 2019 general election – even if their political parties consider them unworthy to fly their flags.
So when such a politician comes with the tales by moonlight, just be sure that it is all about 2019. As everyone can see, the politicians are now visiting home; they are talking to the people and feigning humility and accountability! As much as these politicians are parroting internal democracy and the lack of it in their former political parties, it is altogether doubtful if they indeed understand the way democracy works.
One of the defining features of liberal democracy is periodic elections. Election provides citizens the great opportunity for enjoying their constitutional right of franchise. It affords citizens the chance to vote for and be voted for. Beyond the opportunity to exercise vote choice is the fact that elections provide political parties with the opportunity of putting its members in power by forming a government. And because of the realisation that those in government are not angels but human beings with their own frailties, the logic of democracy further dictates that these elections have to take place periodically, in our case, every four years. This is to afford the electorate the chance to review the performance of their elected officials – executives and legislators – and either renew their mandate or vote them out.
It means that elections are instruments of vertical accountability that empowers the electorate to reward or sanction a given official. It does not matter whether that official is a president, governor, senator or local government chairman. What is important though is that an election is proof that power belongs to the people. However, the experience of the Nigerian electorate with their leaders cannot be said to be an assuring one. If anything, the Nigerian voter since the introduction of the elective principle in 1922 has consistently been swindled. The same basic problems of governance that have bedevilled the country especially from the Second Republic are clearly more complicated today. Whether you consider absence of good roads, poor electricity supply, lack of potable water, poor healthcare delivery, poor funding of education, corruption, abuse of office, etc., the story is that of compounded woes.
Whereas it is axiomatic that there is a positive correlation between liberal democracy and economic development, the Nigerian democracy is yet to yield the dividends to our people. Our politicians are still at this pedestrian level of asphalting theory of democracy by chronicling the few kilometres of road tarred as major dividends of democracy. And why are citizens not asking the right questions? Why has a system noted for improving the life chances of ordinary people globally not producing the same cheery results in our own domain? Why are Nigerians poorer in the last two decades that their country has earned the most revenue in history?
The answer is quite simple. Our elections have been perverted to the extent that they no longer perform the basic democratic function of rewarding effective leadership and punishing a poor one.
You would think that Oshiomhole will be commended for his forthright decision on direct primaries. No. There are two major groups tackling Oshiomhole. Understandably the first is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which sees something sinister in the idea. Although its opposition to direct primaries can hardly change anything in the ruling party, it went ahead to allege of an illusory plan to use the result of the APC direct president primaries to “justify” a rigged result in the 2019 presidential election for President Buhari. How imaginative? PDP if not for its disorientation, as a matter of fact, needs direct primaries more than the APC. As an opposition party, facing a huge image overhang as a direct consequence of its poor performance in sixteen years, the PDP needs an exceptionally popular candidate to win any election in the country. And that kind of popularly acceptable candidate can only be thrown up by a direct primary shorn of the manipulations of godfathers in the corrupt delegate system. But it seems that PDP is yet to learn any lessons from its bloodied nose in 2015.
Oshiomhole as a former governor understands why state governors are the second group behind the surreptitious and slimy campaign against direct primaries in his party. Governors pose the greatest obstacle to democratic practice in Nigeria. Yes, governors nominate ministers for the President, choose who will be local government chairmen, who will run for the state assembly slot in all the constituencies in the state, who will go to Abuja as senators and members of the House of Representatives and who must replace them if they are on their second term! Those on their second term not only want to foist their successors even if their personal choice as in Imo State is considered irritating to their people; they also want to grab the senate ticket for themselves or their wives. They are opposed to direct primaries because indirect primaries make it easier to buy up all the delegates and foist unpopular candidates on their party.
This battle to enthrone direct primaries should not be left to Oshiomhole alone to fight. All lovers of democracy irrespective of party affiliations need to lend a hand. One of the key institutions where corrupt elections, which indirect primaries represent has undermined is the Senate.
Today, the red chamber which ought to be the bastion of our contemplative politics and policy-making has been reduced to a sanctuary for corrupt former governors hiding from the law.
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Adakole writes from Abuja via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Third Republic Senator representing Uyo Senatorial District, Anietie Okon has declared that he single-handedly made Emmanuel Udom Governor of Akwa Ibom State.
This is against general belief that the Governor was chosen by the immediate past Governor Godswill Akpabio.
Akon, who became the first National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the onset of the Fourth Republic, also lambasted Senator Akpabio for defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Asked how Udom intends to win the next election having lost Akpabio’s support, Akon, said, “That’s crap! How could he have done that? I was the tower of strength and credibility that pushed and marketed Udom because I had had previous dealings with him and could attest to his integrity, brilliance and his moral anchors.”
On Akpabio’s defection, he continued, “It is very disappointing, very , very disappointing for the same lack of real commitment to the principles and ideologies of enhancing the condition of the state.
“I have had some very vacuous statements that he left in the national interest. I think a more appropriate description should have been that he left because he could not stand the heat of the revelations of his inappropriate conduct and almost mindless vandalism of the treasury of the state and of our commonwealth.
“So when he talks about reconnecting Akwa Ibom and the federal government, how do you make of that? It is completely illogical. It is akin to the statement which some criminals when they are caught always say as a cause for redemption.
“Some people of this state have asked some of us why did we not take action earlier. They say that until a crime is committed and discovered, you don’t know that it exists. It will be difficult to find harsher words for the basic elements of treachery of the cause of our people, that is what the defection amounts to.
“The only things that he had achieved in public life, the opportunities had been granted and provided by the people of the state
“As you would have seen, he seems to have a heavier baggage than others to account for. You know the APC waves a wand of forgiveness whenever they go to surrender all their sins are forgiven.”
A Third Republic Senator representing Uyo Senatorial District, Anietie Okon has declared that he single-handedly made Emmanuel Udom Governor of Akwa Ibom State.
This is against general belief that the Governor was chosen by the immediate past Governor Godswill Akpabio.
Akon, who became the first National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the onset of the Fourth Republic, also lambasted Senator Akpabio for defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Asked how Udom intends to win the next election having lost Akpabio’s support, Akon, said, “That’s crap! How could he have done that? I was the tower of strength and credibility that pushed and marketed Udom because I had had previous dealings with him and could attest to his integrity, brilliance and his moral anchors.”
On Akpabio’s defection, he continued, “It is very disappointing, very , very disappointing for the same lack of real commitment to the principles and ideologies of enhancing the condition of the state.
“I have had some very vacuous statements that he left in the national interest. I think a more appropriate description should have been that he left because he could not stand the heat of the revelations of his inappropriate conduct and almost mindless vandalism of the treasury of the state and of our commonwealth.
“So when he talks about reconnecting Akwa Ibom and the federal government, how do you make of that? It is completely illogical. It is akin to the statement which some criminals when they are caught always say as a cause for redemption.
“Some people of this state have asked some of us why did we not take action earlier. They say that until a crime is committed and discovered, you don’t know that it exists. It will be difficult to find harsher words for the basic elements of treachery of the cause of our people, that is what the defection amounts to.
“The only things that he had achieved in public life, the opportunities had been granted and provided by the people of the state
“As you would have seen, he seems to have a heavier baggage than others to account for. You know the APC waves a wand of forgiveness whenever they go to surrender all their sins are forgiven.”
