PHOTOS: Port Harcourt Food Seller Runs Mad After Confessing To Using Mortuary Water To Cook Food

A woman who is the owner of a popular buka in Port Harcourt confessed last Saturday to using diabolical means to entice customers, as well as take their “destinies.”

According to eye witnesses, the woman, who is from Akwa Ibom, suddenly ran mad while at her buka located at Aleto in Eleme Local Government area of Port-Harcourt, Rivers state.

They say she suddenly started acting bizarre, tore her clothes and started confessing how she employed diabolical means for the growth of her business.

In her confession, she said she mixes water used to bathe corpses with her food, as well as water from her private part and menstruation blood. She said she did all these to attract customers whose “destinies” she used for the growth of her business and riches.

She then ran around town naked, confessing her atrocities, appearing to have lost her sanity.

The news of her confession spread around the area, and some of her customers (including Okada men)  and angry onlookers descended on her and gave her the beating of her life, before Police men intervened and took her away.

 

Victory for Nigerian oil tycoon Michael Prest’s wife as ‘cheats’ charter’ overturned in landmark Supreme Court divorce case

Millionaires will not be able to use their businesses to shield their wealth from their spouses

The most senior judges in the land quashed any chance of a “cheat’s charter” when they ordered a millionaire businessman to hand over company properties to his former wife.

The hotly-awaited ruling was greeted as a victory for fairness by lawyers who nevertheless said it was extraordinary and would send a ripple thought the justice system. While family solicitors insisted it was the most important review of company law since Victorian times, some working in the corporate sector warned that it threatened to open a Pandora ‘s Box.

The landmark case, which centred around the £17.5 million divorce of oil tycoon Michael Prest and his wife Yasmin, had pitched the family division and the commercial division of the High Court against each other and many had presumed the more powerful corporate side would win.

But in allowing Mrs Prest’s appeal, the seven justices of the Supreme Court backed the long held belief that family courts could exercise legal discretion when sharing assets.

Today Mrs Prest said she was “delighted and relieved”. She told The Independent: “It’s been tough at times, but I’ve had my faith and I knew I was doing the right thing for myself, for my children, and for others who may find themselves in a similar position. I’ve been quietly confident that justice will prevail.”

Her lawyer Jeremy Posnansky QC, of Farrer & Co, added: “Decent husbands and wives have nothing to worry about. Honest company directors have nothing to fear. But for those who misuse companies to cheat their spouses on divorce and for company directors who hide the truth behind a bogus corporate façade, the Supreme Court has shown that truth and reality will prevail.”

He continued: “The judgements aren’t only important for matrimonial law, but also for company law and entrepreneurs.  It’s the most authoritative review and refinement of the law about piercing the corporate veil since 1897.”

“This decision has preserved the sanctity of the corporate structure and supported the Court of Appeal judgment in my clients’ favour,” said Sarah Ingram, representing Mr Prest’s Petrodel companies, adding:  “However in trying to find another way to give the wife what she is seeking, the Supreme Court has also left a lot of unanswered questions which may cause problems in the future for family companies. ”

Mr Michael Prest, 51, and his wife, who met twenty years ago in London, enjoyed the fruits of the fortune he amassed, sending their son and three daughters to public school, and alternating their time between a multi-million pound house in London and homes in the Caribbean and Nigeria, where he was born the son of a Itsekiri chief before moving to the UK as a child.

After their separation in 2008 Mr Prest, who lives in Monaco, refused to pay the multi-million pound settlement to his 50-year-old ex-wife – a British-born IT consultant who has dual Nigerian nationality like her husband. The High Court, describing the husband as a manipulative and a “wholly unreliable witness”, ordered the transfer of 13 properties from his companies as part payment.

But the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the Petrodel Group companies, representing seven of the properties. While the judges did not reverse the £17.5 million award, they said that Mrs Prest could not claim assets.

Family lawyers insisted that such a situation created a “cheat’s charter” where the wealthy could simply hide assets in companies and ignore court orders. Commercial experts, however, claimed that “piercing the corporate veil” would create an impossible position where spouses were allowed to tread where other creditors are not.

Today, however, the Supreme Court ruled that, on the basis the companies were wholly owned by the husband, Mrs Prest was entitled to the properties. The judges added that there was no evidence to contradict the High Court inference that Mr Prest had deliberately sought to conceal them and failed to comply with court orders because the companies were “beneficially” owned by him. However, they added that the corporate veil could only be pierced in exceptional cases.

“The judgment is a victory for the family courts and fair sharing of assets,” said William Healing, Family Law Partner at Kingsley Napley. “Today the court has parted the corporate veil. The decision is a blow against spouses who seek to evade their responsibilities using company structures.”

Michael Hutchinson, of Mayer Brown, said: “The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark decision in which, for the first time since at least the end of the19th century, it has accepted a general exception to the rule against ‘piercing the corporate veil’.

”This is an extraordinary decision and the implications for corporate governance are potentially huge. Businesses and lawyers will be poring over the judgment for some time to try to understand its limits.“

”Even though the corporate veil has not been pierced, the judgement will have significant ramifications and is likely to open Pandora’s Box when it comes to the overlap of divorce proceedings and company law,“ added Kyri Papantoniou, Corporate Partner at Seddons. ”Only time will tell the true impact of today’s ruling.

 

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PHOTONEWS:Giant Snake Swallowed a Woman In South Africa

Linda Laina Nyatoro, a South African reporter witnessed the incident and sent this picture. The giant snake swallowed a Woman two days ago, near Durban North,South Africa

Meet the vampire-obsessed woman who drinks half-a-gallon of human blood a month

Twilight and True Blood have made vampires the fictional theme du jour. But for one suburban mother-of-two, the blood-sucking lifestyle is a stark reality.

Julia Caples, 45, from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania has been drinking live human blood from willing donors for the past 30 years.

The care worker, who says she is hooked on the practice, consumes around half-a-gallon of blood per month and believes that it keeps her feeling young and vigorous.

Vampire-obsessed: Julia Caples, 45, from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania has been drinking live human blood from willing donors for the past 30 years

‘When I feed off of a person and drink their blood I feel stronger and healthier,’ she says.

‘I know scientifically there’s not a lot nutrition in blood, but maybe there’s some value we haven’t discovered yet.

‘I feel more beautiful than any other time when I’m regularly drinking. I’m also extremely healthy with no major health problems, and I have an abundance of energy all the time.’

Bizarre hobby: Ms Caples’ drinking sessions take place at her home, where she cuts the donor with a pagan-like sterilized knife she designed herself

Ms Caples says she finds her ‘donors’ – fellow vampire fans willing to let her drink from them – at her local occult and oddities store.

‘I feel more beautiful than any other time when I’m regularly drinking blood’

Drinking sessions take place at her home, where she cuts the donor with a pagan-like sterilized knife she designed herself.

Ms Caples says her fascination with blood began as a young girl, during her first kiss as a teenager, when she got the urge to bite her sweetheart with disastrous consequences.

‘It was my natural instinct and I liked the taste,’ she said. ‘I just got an urge and can’t really explain it. It’s never gone away. Needless to say though, he never kissed me again.’

Vampire mom: Ms Caples with her ex-husband Donald Lazarowicz and their son Alexei, nine

She says she and goth friends did it occasionally through her teens, but it wasn’t until she met ex-husband Donald Lazarowicz, 49, that she started drinking live blood regularly.

The pair became part of a subculture who would hit New York nightclubs and drink from each other, and married in a vampire-themed ceremony in 2000 and drank from each other to celebrate.

Risk factor: Ms Caples’ daughter, Ariel Marie Martin, 24 (left) does not approve of her mother’s pastime

But when they had son Alexei, Mr Lazarowicz vowed never to drink again.

The counselor, who is still good friends with Ms Caples and shares parenting duties, explained: ‘I gave up, so Julia didn’t have to. We agreed that one of us would need to stop and focus on parenting full time.

‘Julia still likes to drink, but she’s also an amazing mother, and her children come first. She’d never let it stop her mothering her kids.’

Daughter Ariel, 24 and Alexei, now nine, both have reservations about their mother’s bizarre habit though.

‘We have all these decorations at home like coffins and dolls. I’m starting to think she’s a vampire,’ Alexei says.

Adds Ariel: ‘I don’t agree with it. I think she runs a lot of health risks. I worry she might get a disease from someone through the blood.’

Ms Caples says she is aware of the health dangers, but all her donors are tested before she’ll drink from them.

‘I meet some donors online but I absolutely have to meet them in person first, she says. ‘And they have to get blood tests to make sure that they’re not carrying any blood borne diseases like AIDS or HIV.’

Doctors believe that there is a resurgence in blood-drinking thanks to the recent trend for vampire-themed TV series and films.

Haematologist Steven Gruenstein at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, says a variety of cultures have been drinking blood for thousands of years but it could be due to deficiencies in the body.

Taking responsibility: When Ms Caples and welcomed son Alexei in 2004, now ex-husband Donald Lazarowicz vowed never to drink blood again in order that he could be a better father

Longtime obsession: Ms Caples in 1996 with two fellow vampire fans in a blood letting photo shoot

He says: ’Blood does contain chemicals like salt, iron, protein, and people might be driven to drink it because of a deficiency of iron or some other chemical.

‘I would absolutely discourage someone from ingesting raw human blood,’ he warns.

‘There are risks involved. HIV, hepatitis and other viral and bacterial illnesses can be transmitted through blood, so though these risks are not large, they are real and it would be an unnecessary danger.’

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PHOTONEWS: Fred Ajudua Sent To Prison

 

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EFCC Press Release: $1.69billion Fraud: Court Remands Ajudua In Prison

Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday, April 11, 2013, ordered that, Fred Ajudua, who is facing trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  over a $1.69Billion scam,  be remanded in  prisons custody pending  arguments on  bail applications brought by his counsel, Olalekan Ojo.  Ojo had presented two applications before the court, one of which prayed the court to restore the bail earlier revoked in 2005. The bail was revoked by the court after Ajudua jumped bail and all efforts by the EFCC to make him appear for his trial proved abortive.

When the matter came up on Tuesday, Ojo also asked the court to vacate  a bench warrant issued on  Ajudua in December 2006. He said since the first defendant was present in court, the need for the warrant was no longer relevant.

He also prayed the court that in the event that the first defendant will be remanded in custody, the EFCC custody or the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH where he is said to be receiving treatment as an out-patient, should be considered.   He said medical facilities in the prison custody will not meet his client’s medical needs.

Counsel to the prosecution, Wemi Ogunde, SAN, however opposed the application. Ogunde said since Ajudua appeared in court,  it would be necessary for him to explain to the court why he had refused to appear for trial seven years after the court granted him bail. He added that the case has taken too long owing to the continuous applications brought by the defense clinging to one excuse or the other in order to delay the commencement of the criminal trial. Ogunde continued that the case started in 2003 and ten years after, it ought to have either been concluded or near finishing if not for the delay by the defense. He then submitted that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.

“I appeal to your Lordship’s sense of justice to refuse these applications. This is a case  whose trial commenced  and got suspended since February 2005 because the first defendant was not present. I want you to act on the facts before you. You have revoked the bail because there is no reasonable reason for his absence. Based on that, I will ask your Lordship that the first defendant be remanded in prisons custody. The likelihood of the first defendant not coming for trial is high. We do not know what additional reasons will be brought. If he is not in the prison, your Lordship, his likelihood of non-appearance is higher. We have spent 10 years on this case. My Lord, I ask you to refuse the applications and remand the defendant in prison.” Ogunde submitted.
Justice Oyewole then ruled that  Ajudua be remanded in prison custody but should be allowed access to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, to attend to his medical needs as an out-patient. He adjourned the matter to June 24,2013 for hearing on applications brought by the defense.
At the last adjourned date, the defense counsel,  Ojo had informed the court that his client was back in the country. He brought another medical report before the court in which Ajudua was said to be sick. The counsel subsequently made another request for adjournment till a date in September; a request the court turned down.

The judge said the content of the medical report which stated that Ajudua is being treated for urinary tract infection does not indicate his whereabouts, the duration of his treatment and whether he is mentally fit to stand trial or not. Justice Oyewole then dismissed the request for a further adjournment and ordered that the suspect must face his trial. He consequently set June 11, 2013 for the defendant to appear, a move that necessitated Ajudua’s presence in court Tuesday.

Ajudua was granted bail on medical grounds in March 2006 by the court after he told the court that  he was receiving treatment at Grant Medical Foundation, Pane , India . After securing the bail, he failed to make further appearance in court and all efforts to bring him to court was frustrated by his unending applications, a move that warranted the court to revoke the bail earlier granted and to also issue a bench warrant on him.

Wilson Uwujaren
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity
11th June, 2013
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