'He Was a Cruel & Jobless Addict, Our Marriage Was Hell'- EgyptAir Hijacker's Ex wife Reveals

 The EgyptAir plane Hijacker's ex-wife, has revealed that there is no love story in their marriage. She branded him a jobless drug addict and claimed their five years marriage was a 'living hell'

Seif Eldin Mustafa on Tuesday forced a passenger jet to redirect to Cyprus after he wore a fake suicide vest and threatened to blow himself up.

In her first interview, Marina has revealed that he was a violent unemployed bully who was cruel to her and their four children.

She added 'the world has been painted a picture of a man who hijacked a plane for love'  but says it could not be further from the truth.

'Most of the media painted a picture of a romantic situation in which a man was trying to reach out to his estranged wife,' she told Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros.

'But that couldn't be further from the truth and they would have a different opinion if they knew what he was really like.

'It was a marriage of hell with threats, beatings, torture and fear. He was a man who knew how to inflict fear and to create misery around him. He was unbalanced and a scary person.'

Marina, 51, met Mustafa in 1983, when she was 18 years old, and married him two years later.

During their seven years together the couple had three daughters and a son, but Ms Paraschou still describes them as the 'darkest chapter in my life'.

She says the couple lived with her parents on Cyprus during their marriage, but unemployed Mustafa never provided financially to the family. 

The couple divorced in 1990 and Mustafa left Cyprus for Egypt in 1994 where he was jailed for forgery and fraud.

He broke out of prison in 2011 amid the chaos during the uprising against Egyptian president Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak. 

'One in Every Four Nigerian is Mad' - Doctor Says

 According to the Medical Director, Synapse Services Resource Centre, Dr. Vincent Udenze, one in every four Nigerian is living with one form of mental disorder or another.

Udenze further noted that one in seven persons would suffer a serious episode of mental illness in their lifetime.

Udenze made this prognosis at the inauguration of the centre at Lekki, Lagos.

According to the mental health specialist, Nigerians suffer the consequences of mental health problems due to the acute shortage of registered health facilities and the stigma attached to the condition.

Udenze added, “One in every four Nigerian has one form of mental disorder and one in every seven will suffer serious mental health problems. This is a conservative estimate, considering that many Nigerians with mental challenges do not seek help because they do not want people to stigmatise them and their families.”

He also lamented that the majority of the health care institutions in the country paid less attention to mental illness cases.

He said, “Look around, we have got over 50 government hospitals looking after pregnant women. We have thousands of private hospitals and maternal homes for women and children. How many mental health facilities are in Lagos with a population of over 18 million people? They are very few.

“If you provide the environment, facility and make people aware that it exists, you will be surprised at the response you are going to get. The truth is that the government will never be able to do enough in tackling the menace of mental health because it does not have enough resources for that.

“While the government is doing what it can, the private sector, non-governmental organisations, and individuals must come together to address stigma and provide facilities for those who need treatment before they fall into the wrong hands.”

To make a difference, Udenze said the centre would establish more centres in the state, just as its foundation would provide free treatment for indigent patients.

Women Who Get illegal Aborti*ns Should be 'Punished' - Donald Trump Says

 Women who have illegal aborti*ns should be punished, Donald Trump said yesterday, Wednesday, March 30th.

 The Republican presidential frontrunner made the comments during a heated exchange at a town-hall event in Wisconsin over whether aborti*n should be banned.

 He told US broadcaster MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "There has to be some form of punishment." after calling for a ban on the procedure.

Pressed by the journalist to explain further, he responded: "I haven't determined what the punishment should be." Mr Trump said he was "pro-life with three exceptions", but did not provide details as to what they were.

Democratic frontrunner and his possible White House rival Hillary Clinton was quick to react on Twitter, branding his remarks "horrific" "Just when you thought it couldn't get worse. Horrific and telling." Clinton said.

A statement issued later by Mr Trump's campaign said the aborti*n issue should be left to individual US states to determine.

Bernie Sanders called it "shameful" and even major pro-life groups spoke out strongly against punishing women who have aborti*ns.

Even Trump's conservative rival Ted Cruz, an evangelican Texas senator, bashed him, accusing the real estate mogul of saying "anything just to get attention".

Ohio Governor John Kasich, the third runner in the Republican race for the White House, also weighed in saying "Of course women shouldn't be punished," he told MSNBC.

Women's health provider Planned Parenthood, which conservatives oppose for its abortion practices, said Trump "is now inciting violence against women for making a decision that's theirs to make."

Trump later retracted what he said and stated that it's the doctors who perform the aborti*ns that should be punished not the women.

Did Governor El-Rufai Really Slap His Deputy?

 Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, on Tuesday night cleared the air on a lingering controversy, saying he never slapped his deputy, Barnabas Bala, whom he described as a friend of 40 years.

 El-Rufai made the clarification in Kaduna while reacting to an alleged fight between him and Bala.

The friendship of the governor and Bala dated back to their undergraduate days at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where the former graduated with a first-class degree in Quantity Survey while the latter bagged a first-class degree in Architecture.

El-Rufai said he had known Bala since 1976 at the university and there was no grouse between them.

Political reports had claimed that the governor and his deputy were at loggerheads over plans by governor El-Rufai to sack some top civil servants in the state.

In an interactive session with some journalists in Kaduna, El-Rufai simply laughed over the allegations, he added that the rumour mongers were not intelligent enough.

His words: “I have known Bala since 1976. I never had an argument with him; I respect his opinions and each time I travelled out of the country, I made him the acting governor. He signs documents on my behalf.

“We chair executive council meetings together. We operate like partners, and now people want to create enmity between us. I am of age, I can’t descend so low. This rumour is completely false; it is created to cause division. We never discussed the retrenchment of workers in the state as claimed by the rumour mongers.

“I have never slapped anyone in my life. I have never argued with Bala. I don’t slap people, I fight people with my mouth.”

Shame! : This Young Girl is Celebrating on Facebook After She Committed Aborti*n?

 Oh my! Just see what someone shared on Facebook. what won't people share online nowadays.

Man Accuses Lagos State Police Officers of Causing The Death of His Six Weeks Pregnant Wife

 A widower, Solomon Wilfred has accused the Lagos state police command of causing the death of his six weeks pregnant wife, Vivienne, on March 16th, the Nation reports.

 Solomon who just got married to Vivienne in December last year, said his wife was arrested at the Apena market on March 15th over allegations of kidnapping a teenage girl. 

A woman identified as Chinwendu Udomadu had accosted the deceased with claims that the little girl she came to the market with, Perpetual Ucheweaku was one Osinachi Udomadu, her daughter, who had been missing since 2014.

The deceased denied the claims, stating that she was the guardian of the teenage girl and that she also knows the teenage girls parents. After much argument, police officers at the market arrested the women and took them to the station.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Akinpelu was said to have transferred the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) at Panti, Yaba, claiming that it was a criminal case which could not be handled at his station.

Solomon said his wife was detained in a cell while he wrote a statement. He said he begged to swap places with her since she was pregnant and “suffers stress induced seizures”.

“I told them she was pregnant and sick. I told them she had stress induced seizures, and I went upstairs to write the statement for me to swap places with her. But when I came back, they had thrown her into the cell. I even thought they put her behind the counter to wait for me to write the statement, but she was in the cell. Then I told them to release her because I already told them she was not feeling fine” he said.

Solomon said his wife died shortly after she was released the next day March 16th.

However the Lagos state police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, has denied his claim. According to Badmos, the deceased was never put in any cell.

"She was never put in the cell and she was released by the ACP SCID immediately her husband said she was six weeks pregnant and has health challenges. The ACP later called and told me that she has been informed the woman fainted at home and was rushed to the hospital where she passed on,” she said.

Badmos added that the the teenage girl and her alleged mother are to be subjected to a DNA test

“The police did nothing wrong in the matter. The suspects (Chinwendu and Chinemerem Udomadu) have been charged to court and the result of the DNA test is still being awaited.”she said

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APC & PDP Senators Fight To Take Over Senate President Seat From Embattled Saraki

 With the possibility that the Code of Conduct Tribunal may move to unseat the senate president, Bukula Saraki, fresh indications have emerged that PDP members in the Senate have perfected strategies to produce the new Senate President if Saraki is removed as a result of his corruption trial at the CCT.

But APC senators have vowed to resist any attempt by PDP to take over the red chamber from them.

According to Punch, the PDP senators met for hours on Monday night to take a final decision on the issue.

It was not clear if the current Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, would be allowed to take over the top Senate seat by his PDP members.

A source claimed that some people were of the opinion that Ekweremadu should resign with Saraki as a sacrifice while an APC senator from the North-Central would emerge as deputy to a PDP senator.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Peter Nwaboshi, boasted that the PDP would produce the next Senate President.

He said, “Should the incumbent, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is forced to vacate the office, we have perfected necessary arrangements to take over the upper chamber.

“Well, I wish the APC the best of luck if they are on a wild goose chase. But I want you to mark what I am saying. I was the first to address the press in Port Harcourt and I told them that Saraki was going to win the Senate Presidency and I gave them my reasons.

“Then, nobody ever thought that Saraki was going to win. People were saying that APC had decided. But it was clear to me that he was going to win and I had to address the press. Eventually, we went there, he won. If, but God forbids, because we don’t see it coming, by chance, Saraki is removed, I can tell you that the PDP will produce the next Senate President.”

Speaking on how the PDP intends to get the support of other lawmakers to produce the next Senate President, Nwaoboshi said, “We only need three (APC senators) and we have them.”

But senators elected on the platform of the APC, are not taking the plot of their PDP colleagues lightly as they held a meeting in the house of ex-Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aliyu Wammako, in Abuja.

APC senators at the meeting were more concerned about the embarrassment disunity was causing the ruling party in the Senate. According to sources close to the meeting, the lawmakers wanted a situation in which the interests of government would be promoted at all times in the Senate.

The meeting was said to have resolved to work in the interest of APC in all matters.