Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Girl Jumps from 18 Storey Building in Lagos to Escape Facebook Rapist

Ada Nba Agbazue, the 17 year old girl who fell
from an abandoned 18 storey building in Abule-
Ajanloco, Lagos, while trying to escape from a
Facebook lover turned rapist, says that her
assailants intended to kill her for ritual purpose
after forcefully taking carnal knowledge of her.

Nba Agbazue is currently lying at the Ilemba
Ajangbadi hospital in Lagos where she is being
treated for multiple fractures and other injuries.

She attributes her being alive to a miracle,
stating that she finds it hard to explain her
survival.

According to
NationalMirror
, Nba Agbazue was
lured to the abandoned storey building on
December 26th by a man she purportedly met
on Facebook. The injured young lady said she is
alive to tell her story from the
sick bed to teach others to be careful of who
they make friends with on social media.
“My being alive is a miracle and I am
grateful to God. With what I saw in that
room, that man can be a cultist, he can be
a ritual killer.

He told me that he is a Buccaneer,” she
narrated, tearfully. According to her, a Facebook
friend she identified as Michael lured her
through Facebook to the abandoned building.

Agbazue, on that fateful day, got dressed for a
date with Michael. Narrating her ordeal, the
young girl stated that she got a call on her
mobile phone.

“My phone rang and a man said he
wanted to speak with me. I don’t know
how he got my number but he told me that
it was from my Facebook page but he is
not my friend on Facebook. He told me his
name is Michael but he is not any of the
Michaels that I know.

I did not see any harm because he said we
should meet at the Ile -Nla Bus Stop which
is a busy place. When I got to the bus
stop, I noticed he was looking at my
picture on his phone. He looked up to see
my face. He was standing opposite the
road,” she narrated.
Agbazue said she became alarmed at first
because the man did not look like the Michael
she knew on FB. At that point, she hastily
pointed out that she does not know him.
As if trying to reassure her, the stranger told
Agbazue to cross over. Not realizing the mistake
in doing so, the girl crossed over.

The man
touched her and immediately, as narrated,
matters changed. According to her she lost all
will to resist the man.
“He touched me and immediately, I lost my
senses. I started following him. It was just
him, no other person was with him. He is a
young man around 24 or 25 years old. He
told me that he is staying with his mum
and brothers in the uncompleted building
and they have neighbours.

He told me that they live in the
uncompleted building (an 18 floor
abandoned Federal government building).
She explained that this was about 4.30 pm, that
day.

“As we were going inside the building, I
saw a lady coming out from the building. I
saw passers-by and people playing ball.
When we entered, he took me to the fourth
floor and we entered a big room.
I saw clothes. He told me that even the
other side has neighbours. When we
continued climbing up the stairs, I told him
that I was tired but he pleaded with me. At
the walls, I saw some strange diagrams,
cultists diagrams painted on the wall. I
saw a human head by the wall.
The head
is not fresh but the head has long weave
on (attachment) on it . I was scared when I
saw the head. I wanted to go back but he
brought out a knife.

I was kind of scared but not too scared. He
ordered me to keep climbing up into the
wider room.''
According to Agbazue, the place looked like an
umbrella and has many windows.

She said that
the man ordered her to leave the window. But
she saw also that there was the word
‘buccaneer’ on the wall. The man called Michael
then told her that he is a Buccaneer.

Continuing
her narration, the girl said that she saw lots of
cultist diagrams on the wall.
“I moved away and he told me to start
pulling off my clothes. I told him you are
not my husband so I cannot pull off my
clothes for you; he told me that I was
proving stubborn but I continued to beg
him, but the more I begged him the more
he used the knife to threaten me.
“He said
if he calls his friends, it will be too much
for me” she said.

Michael started making calls. He made the first
call and he started calling the second person.

According to her, the man said that she should
not try to run. Now desperate, she moved to the
window looking for an escape.

She tried to climb down by holding a pole that
she saw. At that point, he ran to her and held
her hand, “trying to prevent me from escaping.
I used my other hand to push him and that
was how I fell to the ground,” she stated.

Residents of the area saw Ada as she fell from
the building thinking that she might be an
apparition
. Police authority however says that
Agbazue was a victim of bad Facebook
relationship.

Credit:Laila

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Nigerians plead for foreign help as Ebola fears spread


Lagos: Standing just a few hundred metres from the Lagos hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola, John Ejiofor pleaded for the world to help contain a spread of the virus raging across west Africa.

"Nigeria is in a serious mess," the 40-year-old electrical engineer told AFP. "We lack the capacity to deal with the situation."

Residents of Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa's largest city with more than 20 million people, returned to work today after a four-day break to mark the end of Islam's holy month of Ramadan, a public holiday across the country, even in the majority Christian south.



It was the first workday morning in the bustling mega-city since authorities confirmed that the worst-ever Ebola epidemic -- which has killed more than 670 people since March in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- had reached Nigerian soil.

Patrick Sawyer, an employee of the Liberian finance ministry, is thought to have contracted the virus from his sister before travelling to Nigeria for a regional conference.

The 40-year-old died in quarantine Friday at a hospital next to the Obalende market, where Ejiofor sat in his car on today, voicing concern over Nigeria's response to the outbreak.

"If there is an Ebola epidemic in Nigeria today, our health authorities will be too overwhelmed... The government has to work with the World Health Organisation (WHO)," to stop the virus from spreading, he said.

Elizabeth Akinlabi, a 30-year-old schoolteacher milling around Obalende, agreed, saying that days after the Ebola death was confirmed, the government's response remained lacklustre.

"A lot of people still do not know about the existence of the disease, not to talk of taking measures to prevent it," she said, asking the WHO "to come to the aid of Nigeria".

AFP

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Is Ebola coming to Britain? UK health officials issue warning to doctors as outbreak fears grow

Public Health England has contacted UK doctors to warn them to look out for signs of Ebola arriving in Britain
One of world’s deadliest viruses – which makes people bleed from their eyes, nose and mouth – has now been flown out of main affected countries
Public health officials have issued an urgent warning to British doctors to watch for signs of the Ebola virus arriving in the UK, after an infected man was allowed to fly from the affected countries to a major international travel hub.


Patrick Sawyer’s death in Lagos, Nigeria has sparked a reaction around the world as fears grow that the deadly virus could infect populations beyond West Africa.

The disease, which can be fatal in as many as 90 per cent of cases, causes both internal and external bleeding and has no cure, has now killed more than 670 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It has been the subject of a major campaign from the UN’s World Health Organisation – and questions remain as to how Mr Sawyer, whose sister had just died from Ebola and who had started presenting symptoms, was allowed to board multiple international flights.

Vomiting and suffering from diahhorea, he flew from Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo and then died in Nigeria – and experts say he could have passed on the disease to anyone sat near him or who used the same toilet on one of the planes.

Dr Brian McCloskey, director of global health at Public Health England, said the Government agency was carefully monitoring the Ebola situation and that it had started taking action to protect the UK population.
“[It is] the largest outbreak of this disease to date,” Dr McCloskey said. “And it's clear the outbreak is not under control.

Dr McCloskey said the case of Mr Sawyer was a particular “cause for concern”, adding: “We have alerted UK medical practitioners about the situation in West Africa and requested they remain vigilant for unexplained illness in those who have visited the affected area.”

The danger to UK travellers going out to West Africa is thought to low, and Dr McCloskey said health officials were engaging in “preparatory thinking rather than alarm”.

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, expert virologist Professor John Oxford said it would be “a couple of weeks” before we know whether any of those flying with Mr Sawyer – who could have travelled on to all corners of the globe – were infected with the disease.

He said that it was likely airports like Heathrow in London would be making extra efforts to keep an eye on people coming in from West Africa, but added: “I think you have to be careful to balance between panic – because we know from the past that you can’t stop aircraft flying – and alertness.

“I think people will be [more] alert at airports – they have been alert for some time with viruses like Mers, Sars and bird flu, so I don’t think it will be much more of an effort to be alert for Ebola.”


Sunday, 27 July 2014

[News] Nigeria nabs Facebook fraudster


Abuja - Nigerian security forces say they have arrested a suspected internet fraudster accused of stealing nearly $6m from people who thought were paying fees to apply for government jobs.

Emmanuel Okeh, a spokesperson for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said on Friday that the suspect, Michael Ogun, 44, is accused of using Facebook and other websites that appear to represent government agencies, including customs, immigration and security. The pages urged applicants to pay small fees to apply online for jobs.



Okeh said the scam is one of many in Nigeria that are specifically designed to extract small sums from Nigeria's unemployed. Conservative estimates put Nigeria's unemployment rate at about 24% in a nation of more than 160 million people.

Nigerian security forces say they never recruit online.

Connect Social

Twitter Googleplus Facebook Youtube Instagram