An heartbreaking photo of a little boy who was just giving a brutal tribal marks, right from her head to her cheeks. A facebook user who posted the picture expressed her anger over the ridiculous and brutal marks all in the name of tradition. She even suggested the parents of the little girl be arrested for this mean act.
She wrote: Pls say no to tribal mark!!!! Our Law Markers pls help us out, this is heartbreaking!!! Pls who knows his parents? They must be arrested!!!
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The heartbreaking photo
showed a baby girl who was just given brutal tribal marks right from her
cheeks to the side of her head. A Facebook user who posted the image
expressed anger over the marks and why a new born baby would be allowed
to pass through such brutal act all in the name of tradition. She even
suggested that the parents of the baby be arrested. The post which has
garnered about 1.2k shares was captioned: “Pls say no to tribal mark!!!!
Our Law Makers pls help us out, this is heartbreaking!!! Pls who knows
his parents? They must be arrested!!!” Read more: https://www.naij.com/1047091-brutal-tribal-mark-given-new-born.html
A 49-year-old man who was upset that Donald Trump won the presidential
stabbed four of his family members with a meat cleaver on Saturday,
during an argument on why Hillary Clinton lost the election, police
said.
Their mum, 67 year old Yvonne Braswell, said the argument started in her
Flatbush apartment when her sons, Maurice and Dwight, got into an
argument over why Trump won and Hillary lost.
She said neither Maurice nor Dwight voted for Trump, but that the
argument escalated and Maurice grabbed a meat cleaver and attacked his
brother with it. He slashed his brother in the head and hand. When other
family members tried to break up the fight, they ended up getting cut
up as well. His sister got cut in the fight and had to get 17 stitches
in her thumb, his mum and nephew also got cut in the right hand.
Braswell said:
"They're always in confrontation, they grew up like that, bickering.
“But it's been a long time since they went this far. Many, many years.”
Maurice is awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
President-elect Donald Trump, in his first television interview since
his surprise election victory, repeated his vows to build a wall across
America's southern border, deport criminal illegal aliens, and repeal
and replace ObamaCare.
Donald Trump
said he planned to immediately deport or jail as many as three million
undocumented immigrants, as he set out his priorities in the first
television interview since his election.
The interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" is to be broadcast on Sunday
with millions expected to tune in for clues on how the billionaire
businessman-turned-politician will govern the country.
Since Tuesday's election triumph, Trump had appeared to tone down his
rhetoric, notably suggesting he might be willing to reconsider a pledge
to scrap President Barack Obama's signature health reform, the
so-called Obamacare.
He made clear, though, in excerpts of Sunday's interview that he
still intended to crack down on undocumented immigrants in the country,
focusing on people with criminal records.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are [criminals] and
have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers," Trump said. "We have
a lot of these people. Probably two million, it could be even three
million. We are getting them out of our country or we are going to
incarcerate.
After the border is secured and after everything gets
normalized," Trump added, "we're going to make a determination on
[other undocumented immigrants] ... But before we make that
determination ... we want to secure our border.
Early in the GOP primaries, Trump had vowed to
immediately deport all 11 million people living in the country
illegally. But his comments Sunday echoed House Speaker Paul Ryan,
R-Wis., who told CNN that the Republican administration was "not looking
for mass deportations."
"We are not going to do that," Ryan emphasized in the interview that aired earlier Sunday.
The real estate mogul also echoed remarks he made to
the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, in which he said he favors
keeping the prohibition against insurers denying coverage because of
patients’ existing conditions, and a provision that allows parents to
provide years of additional coverage for children on their insurance
policies.
"It'll be just fine. We're not going to have, like, a
two day period and we're not going to have-- a two-year period where
there's nothing," Trump said.
Trump also appeared to back away from his promise to
appoint a special prosecutor to investigate his Democratic opponent,
Hillary Clinton, over her use of a private email server. Trump made such
a promise during the second presidential debate against Clinton during a
rhetorical duel that ended with Trump saying if he was president,
"you'd be in jail."
"She did some bad things, I mean she did some bad
things," Trump said, to which Stahl responded, "I know, but a special
prosecutor?"
"I don't want to hurt them, I don't want to hurt them," Trump said. "They’re, they’re good people. I don't want to hurt them."
Regarding another of his campaign promises, Trump
vowed to nominate a Supreme Court justice that would be pro-life and
pro-Second Amendment. However, the president-elect showed no interest in
re-litigating last year's Supreme Court decision legalizing gay
marraige, an issue of departure between him and Vice President-elect
Mike Pence.
"It's irrelevant because it was already settled. It's law. It was
settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done," Trump said, later
adding, "I'm fine with that."
Trump touched on the protests that have broken out
across the nation since his election, complaning that the coverage
represented a "double standard."
"If Hillary had won and if my people went out and protested, everybody
would say, 'Oh, that's a terrible thing,'" he said. "And it would have
been a much different attitude. There is a different attitude."
However the president-elect said that he was
"saddened" by reports that some of his supporters had harassed
minorities since Tuesday's vote.
"And I say, 'Stop it.' ... I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it."
Trump also told "60 Minutes" he would eschew the $400,000 annual salary for the president, taking only $1 a year.
Trump's campaign was marked by derogatory comments about race, religion, gender and disability.
However, in his victory speech, he vowed to be a President for "all Americans".
A powerful earthquake rocked New Zealand on Sunday,
causing property damage and generating a tsunami that forced residents
in low-lying areas to seek higher ground.
The earthquake measuring 7.9 hit the east coast of New Zealand’s
South Island just before midnight there on Sunday, triggering multiple
aftershocks and at least three tsunami waves, with seawater levels
rising about six feet.
New
Zealand’s civil defense and emergency management issued a warning for
people living close to the coast to move inland, to higher ground.
The
earthquake struck about 50 miles north of the town of Christchurch.
Elliot Fim, a regional official, said in a telephone interview that
there were no reports of damage, injuries or fatalities there. The fire
department was dealing with a large number of emergency calls seeking
assistance.
Report says people living along about 200 miles of coastline, from the small
township of Kiakora and southward, had been evacuated. Some roadways and
a building were reported damaged, but people had been able to move to
high ground. A spokesman for the Wellington Region Emergency Management
office said there were reports of minor damage in the city of
Wellington.
Dan
Jaksa, a duty officer from Geoscience Australia, said that if the small
townships to the north of Christchurch did not have
earthquake-resistant buildings, “it is going to be tough.”
In 2011 Christchurch was also struck by an earthquake measuring 6.3 that devastated the town and killed 185 people. A further 164 people were seriously injured.
In
Cheviot, a small town thought to be close to the epicenter, there were
no reports of casualties. “There have been no deaths,” Grant Burnett,
the chief of the Cheviot volunteer fire brigade, said in a telephone
interview. “There is minimal damage to buildings that we can see. It is
surprising, because it was a big quake,” he said.
Mr.
Burnett said that some properties along the coast had been evacuated,
but none were seriously damaged by the surge in seawater, which was over
six feet in some places. The fire brigade had gone door to door to
check on residents, especially the elderly, he said. “We are just a wee
town. Everyone was O.K. We will be checking again in the daylight.”
Mr.
Jaksa said the earthquake ruptured from west to east, with shocks
moving toward the capital, Wellington, which is on the south coast of
New Zealand’s North Island. “Let’s hope this is it, and there’s no
more,” he said.
“Every
time you go up one magnitude, say from 6.3 to 7.3, it is 32 times
larger in terms of the energy released,” Mr. Jaksa said. This earthquake
was about 40 to 50 times bigger than the one in Christchurch in 2011,
he said.
After
the initial 7.9 shock, there was an aftershock measuring 6.1, and then
several more shocks, with three of those measuring in the high fives, he
said. The earthquake occurred in the Hikurangi Trench, a subduction
zone where one tectonic plate slides under another.
New
Zealand’s North Island and the northern part of New Zealand’s South
Island are on the Pacific plate, which is moving west, while the
Australian plate is largely moving north. “This is the zone where the
Pacific plate goes underneath the Australian plate,” Mr. Jaksa said,
adding that the shift had caused a change in the seafloor that resulted
in tsunami waves.
With her third and final Vogue cover as First Lady, Michelle Obama is offering some parting words on wardrobe and the White House.
Since
moving her clothes into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the 52-year-old
lawyer and mother of two has redefined first lady fashion in her eight
years as the Commander-in-Chief's right-hand woman. Between giving
sartorial unknowns a try to making a splash in bold styles, Obama has
left behind a legacy of distinct modern couture—but not without comfort
first.
"It all boils down to comfort level: If I'm going to make you comfortable, then I have to be comfortable first," she said in the December issue of Vogue. "So
my first reaction isn't 'Who made this?' But 'Let's try it on. What
does it look like?...There are definitely designers that I love, people I
love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good
people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But! When all of that is equal . . . is it cute?!"
ARUKAINO UMUKORO
writes about a 10-year-old pupil who was allegedly starved of food for
three days as punishment by the owner of a Lagos-based private school
for reportedly cheating in a class test.
Ten-year-old Mary Ezumezu got more than
she bargained for when she resumed in a new private school two terms
ago. A bright new chapter was supposed to have been opened in her life;
meeting new friends and learning in a new environment conducive to
learning.
But what followed was dark and shocking.
The 10-year-old orphan never expected to go through an ordeal that may
leave her scarred for a long time in her growing up years.
It started when the Year Four (Primary
four) pupil was ordered by the proprietress of Daniella Montessori
School, Mrs. Chichi Ishoka, to stay back after the normal school period.
Ezumezu’s offence was that she allegedly
cheated during a French class work/test. And staying with the
proprietress was supposed to be the punishment to ‘teach her a lesson.’
According to Ezumezu’s guardian, Mrs.
Elizabeth Sanda, the 10-year-old was allowed to be disciplined by Ishoka
because they felt she would help to mould the girl’s character.
Sanda further said she thought as a
mother that Ezumezu was in safe hands with a fellow woman like her and
also one she regarded as a family friend.
However, the lesson became too harsh
because during her forced stay with the owner of the school, Ezumezu
said she was starved for three consecutive days – between Wednesday and
Friday – two weeks ago, and subjected to severe punishment.
Ezumezu’s starvation would have lasted
more than three days if not for the intervention of a concerned person,
who informed the girl’s guardian about her sorry condition before she
was returned home.
When SUNDAY PUNCH visited Ezumezu at the home of her guardian, she said she would not like to return to the school.
Fidgeting with her skinny hands and looking distraught, she explained to SUNDAY PUNCH,
‘‘They said I copied the work from my textbook. When she (proprietress)
said I was not going home because of that, I thought she was joking.
She kept me in her house and said I should not eat. I kept my load in
the room, and sometimes I slept on the corridor. I stayed there for
about two weeks. But on some particular days, I went hungry because I
was not given any food.
“The day she said I should not eat, she
locked me in a room and said I should read my books. But I was hungry
and I was looking for something to eat. That was when I saw a box
containing biscuits. I opened it and ate one of the biscuits. Later in
the night, she asked who took it and I said I was the one. She then said
I should go on a dry fasting and that I would not drink water.
“She said anytime I wanted to take my
bath, they should tell someone to look after me, so that I would not
drink water from the tap while bathing and the person should report me
to her if I did. After bathing, I went back to the corridor and did some
house chores till we were ready for school.
“There was a Saturday the husband saw me and said she should give me food, but she refused. But I ate on that Sunday,” she said.
Ezumezu told our correspondent that she stole a sausage on one of the days that she could no longer bear the hunger.
“When I couldn’t bear the hunger again,
I stole a sausage roll. When they asked me who took it, I couldn’t say I
was the one because I was scared of what she (proprietress) would do to
me. That was when she took me to the backyard and pulled off my clothe
and punished me,” she added.
She said the person who allegedly punished her was a personal assistant to Ishoka, one Miss Anu.
“She (Anu) took a paint bucket and
filled it with water, then turned me upside down and put my head inside
the bucket of water. She did that three or four times until I said I was
the one who stole the snack. One teacher saw her from the first floor
of the school and cautioned her. She asked her to stop torturing me.
Then, she ordered me to sit down. I didn’t eat from Wednesday to Friday
until I was brought back home,” she added.
When SUNDAY PUNCH visited the
school, on Wednesday, in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State, Ishoka
denied starving the pupil for days or ordering her torture.
The proprietress claimed that the pupil
was only kept in a special boarding facility in the school, like other
pupils during her stay there.
Ishoka stated, “We have a special
boarding facility, which has up to five pupils. We place boys and girls
in separate places to correct erring children and help them improve on
their academics. I never starved her. I fed her well and never ordered
that she should be punished.
The proprietress also claimed that Ezumezu lied a lot and sometimes stole things, even from the home of her guardian.
Sanda said she was shocked when someone
called her from the school and informed her of the condition Ezumezu was
subjected to in the school.
She said they only allowed her to be in care of Ishoka because they trusted her as a close family friend.
“Mary (Ezumezu) is my late brother’s daughter. I took care of her from childhood,”she said.
Sanda told SUNDAY PUNCH, “I
shed tears when I saw Mary that Friday when I got back home. I never
expected that Mrs. Ishoka would do such to her. We were told she cheated
in school during a French test, but the little girl only had the
textbook on her desk. What does a little girl know about cheating? I
also heard that she operated a boarding school and she had also done the
same (keeping pupil back in school) to another pupil who couldn’t write
well, but that pupil only stayed with her for one day before the pupil
was allowed to go home.
“I went there to visit Mary after the
first three days and was allowed to see her. But after then, each time
we went to visit, we were not allowed to see her. They claimed that we
would be distracting her from her school work. My son’s children also
attend the school; she is like one of our own children.’’
On the same day, it was a shouting match
when Ishoka insisted on visiting the home of the Sandas to confront
them on the girl’s allegation against her.
Ezumezu repeated the same lines of allegation.
On Thursday, when SUNDAY PUNCH
visited the school for the second time, the personal assistant to Ishoka
denied ever forcing Ezumezu’s head into a bucket filled with water.
“Nothing of such happened,” Anu said, with a look of feigned surprise on her face.
After much questioning, Ishoka’s story changed. She then pleaded with SUNDAY PUNCH
not to go ahead with the story. She said she may not have fed Ezumezu
with enough food as she was used to during those days, but didn’t
maltreat her.
“I was pushed to a fault. But I did not starve her,” she said, almost in tears.
Anu also said, “Sometimes, I have a hot
temper, the only thing I did to the pupil was pour water on her face. I
did not force her head into a bucket of water.”
The Executive Director, Centre for
Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection, Betty Abah,
said she was shocked that in the name of punishment, a 10-year old girl
was enslaved and kept in dehumanisating conditions.
Abah said, “We are shocked to know that a
character like Ishoka would be allowed to run a school of young,
impressionable minds in this age, with the allegations of cruelty and
sheer dehumanisation of the pupil under her. They made her sleep outside
with no bed or bedspread, starved her and ask her to be punished in the
worst form, obviously taking advantage of her vulnerable condition of
not having her mother around her.
“How many more children has she tortured
in this way? How many more could have been permanently scarred either
physically or psychologically? The brazen wickedness and impunity is
simply mind-boggling. She was meant to ensure they are taught, not
tortured, for whatever reason. This is not even corporal punishment.’’
Abah said she was glad the little girl stood her ground and repeatedly recounted all that were done to her.
The child rights advocate promised to
ensure that justice was served in the case, adding, “We look up to the
police to investigate this case. We expect the Lagos State Government to
do what is right and ensure that more children do not have to endure
this suffering in the hands of this woman or any other within Lagos
State, and indeed Nigeria.”
SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the matter had been reported to the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
When contacted on the telephone, the
Public Relations Officer, WAPA, Mr. Femi Ogun, said the ministry would
be on the case and take swift action on it.
