PHOTOS: Davido Graduats

The Nigerian music superstar Davido has officially graduated from Babcock University‘s music department.

After the news of his graduation went viral, he took to social media to correct reports that claim he achieved a first class in his degree. “I did not graduate with FIRST CLASS…But SECOND CLASS Yes!,” he said.

His sister Sharon Adeleke who is expecting another child, as well as his friends B-Red, Don Jazzy, Reekado Banks, Papa Omisore and Adewale Adeleke were present at the ceremony.
Don Jazzy’s arrival at the school along with Reekado Banks caused a stir as students of the institution could not get their eyes off him.

Jonathan In London

It has been learned that Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s immediate past president, was (is) in London.
The former leader of the country was spotted apparently at the United Kingdom’s Heathrow Airport yesterday. The photo which appeared on @SituationRoomNg account went viral.

Goodluck Jonathan in London

Here is how Nigerians have been commenting on the picture:
Maryam Mohd: “He looks relaxed.”
Etienne: “He looks relaxed. I am sure he is happy now.”
Booze Wayne: “I dunno man… Dude looks happier than I remember ever seeing him.”
AngelTI: “Chai. He has changed o. He does not look like an ex-president at all.”
Based on the outfit, it could be alleged that Jonathan is currently on vacation.

Meanwhile the new president yesterday arrived in Germany for the G7 Summit. Last week Muhammadu Buhari visited Niger and Chad to hold discussions regarding the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.

Man to spend 9 months in prison for stealing wheelbarrow

A 21-year-old man, Femi James, a casual labourer, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment by an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Lagos, for allegedly stealing a wheelbarrow valued at N15, 000.

Magistrate Olatunbosun Abolarinwa who handed the sentenced to the accused, said he was sentenced to three months for conspiracy and six months for stealing.

"You are hereby sentenced to a total of nine months in prison and the sentence will run consecutively."

The prosecuting officer, Corporal Cyriacus Osuji, told the court that James had stolen the wheelbarrow, belonging to one Augustine Chukwu, on May 26, at Oyingbo Bus Stop in the state.

James pleaded guilty to the charges leveled against him but Magistrate Abolarinwa would not take his plea.

Indian father chains 19-yr-old daughter so she does not elope with lover

An Indian man has been arrested by the Naswadi police in Gujarat’s tribal-dominated Chhota Udepur district, for chaining his 19-year-old daughter so as to prevent her from eloping with her lover, after she refused to go to the family of the man with whom she was married by her relatives.

The father of the girl, Vasantbhai Rathwa from Simol village, was arrested and booked him under section 342 of the Indian penal Code (IPC) for wrongful confinement.

Rathwa's crime against his daughter came to the fore when it was discovered that he used iron chains to bound his daughter's legs inside their hut after she was married off to a man she did not love and she refused to move to the man's house.

The Naswadi police said that the girl’s father and relatives had arranged her marriage to a person in Talsar village not far from their own village and she was actually married off to the man against her wishes because she had a man she loved.

The girl, however, refused to acknowledge the marriage as she was already in love with another person and instead stayed back at her father’s place where she managed to run away with the lover.

The police said it a statement:

"The girl’s relatives started searching for her and soon found her out from a nearby village. She was brought back but not let to go out. The girl’s mother is no more, so her father decided to confine her in such a way that she does not succeed in again eloping with her lover.

So on Monday, her father locked her legs using an iron chain in such a way that she could not move." 

In India: Gay men forced to sleep with mother, lesbians raped by brothers

In what is popularly called corrective rape rituals in some remote villages in India, men who are gay are being forced to sleep with their mothers while lesbians are raped by their brothers to cure them of their perceived anomaly.

The strange phenomenon, though gathering wide acceptance, has been condemned by members of the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT), community worldwide.

According to a gay rights group in that country where homosexuality is strongly frowned upon, a gay man was forced to have sex with his mother so that he can be 'cured'.

"The ‘corrective rapes' are carried out by the victim’s own family members in a desperate bid for ‘straight’ children.

The parents will arrange the rape and handpick a relative to carry out the heinous act.

In one shocking case, there are reports of family members in Bangalore forcing a gay boy to have sex with his mother to ‘cure‘ him.

In another incident, a young lesbian was raped by her cousin, while there are reports that sometimes victims’ own brothers are used to carry out the ‘corrective rape.’

If it is found out that she is in a relationship with another girl, elders in the family believe having sex with the ‘would-be’, even if it’s forcibly, will cure her.

The horrific crimes are so traumatising for their victims and they often go unreported."

In many cases in southern India, a girl may have been promised to one of her cousins at birth so it is her betrothed that is brought in to carry out the ‘corrective rape.’