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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Nigerian comedienne Lepacious Bose, whose real name is Bose Ogunboye began her weight loss journey almost two years ago, and it with each success she achieves, we are all amazed and inspired by her sheer discipline and determination.
She shared this photo of her beautiful new figure on her IG page
and wrote:
#Life is about determination. You make a choice, you focus and you go after your dream. Don't allow anything distract you, focus is everything. On a Weight-loss journey you have to make up your mind to fight everyday, fight for what you want, fight for where you are going, fight for how you want to look. Ignore the negative voices and maintain your focus after all its your life not theirs. Still celebrating my 111kg it's been a looooong walk and I just wanna keep walking. #gratefullheart #HealthyLiving #Fitnesss #joyofweightloss #anyonecandoit #healthyandhappy
Inspiring... she had definitely come a long way from this
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I really don't know if this is fashion or something else i really can't name. I feel there should be limits, for the sake of propriety. However you may disagree with me.
See full photos after cut and decide if you agree or disagree
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O ye ponmo lovers, beware...
Many lovers of cow skin popularly known as ponmo in Nigeria are at a big risk as health officials have warned that toxic cattle used for leather production have flooded the country’s market.
The Ogun state commissioner for Agriculture, Funke Sokefun, who raised the alarm, warned residents of the state that the markets were flooded with ponmo reportedly processes with industrial chemicals such as biocides and fungicides.
It was said that ponmo allegedly imported from Japan, Italy, Sudan and some other African and European countries are toxic.
She said what is being sold is raw hide meant for leather production. These hides are often brownish, foul-smelling, abnormally thick with layers and also cheap compared to the certified ponmo.
Encomium
So people, lookout for the certified and original ponmo and stay away from the fake ones.
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Many lovers of cow skin popularly known as ponmo in Nigeria are at a big risk as health officials have warned that toxic cattle used for leather production have flooded the country’s market.
The Ogun state commissioner for Agriculture, Funke Sokefun, who raised the alarm, warned residents of the state that the markets were flooded with ponmo reportedly processes with industrial chemicals such as biocides and fungicides.
It was said that ponmo allegedly imported from Japan, Italy, Sudan and some other African and European countries are toxic.
She said what is being sold is raw hide meant for leather production. These hides are often brownish, foul-smelling, abnormally thick with layers and also cheap compared to the certified ponmo.
Encomium
So people, lookout for the certified and original ponmo and stay away from the fake ones.
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Something fishy is going on. Rumor has it that an Instagram user published a photo of Ice T and wife Coco Austin‘s newborn daughter online before Coco had even given birth.
The couple reportedly acted quickly to scrub the photos from the Internet before they hastily posed for their own family photo with their new baby.
Word is that housewife Coco Austin supposedly gave birth to little Chanel Nicole on Saturday at 11:47 am local time in Englewood, New Jersey. But the 57-year-old musician and his curvaceous spouse weren’t expecting their surrogate to deliver Chanel for another three weeks.
That’s why the photos of baby Chanel were posted online before Coco had even given birth.
Coco joins the small sorority of wealthy celebrities who hire surrogate to deliver their babies, but they are too ashamed to admit it.
“Surprise!!! Look who came early!!,” Coco tweeted on Saturday. “Welcome the new arrival of Chanel Nicole.. A beautiful healthy 5.7 pound baby girl.”
The rampant rumors explains why Coco never appeared pregnant during her 2nd and 3rd trimester.
Sandra Rose
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The whereabouts of a 26-year-old youth, Waidi Kabiru, had been a mystery since Sunday, November 23, after he was reportedly whisked away from the custody of the Igbogbo Police Station, Lagos State, by a three-man gang.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the three gang members, who put on masks, had sneaked into the station around 1am on Sunday and bundled him out of the cell to an unknown place.
It was learnt that Waidi, a musician, was arrested by a team of policemen who raided Shelewu Road, in the Ikorodu area of the state on Friday, November 21.
The state police command confirmed Waidi’s arrest, but said he had been released on bail. The command, however, did not disclose the surety to whom the youth was released.
Waidi’s father, Mr. Bisiriyu Kabiru, said he had been visiting his son since Friday when he was arrested, adding that he had gone to the station to give him food on Sunday only to be told that he was no longer inside the cell.
He said, “He called me on the phone around 9am on Friday that he was arrested during a raid and I went to the station to see him. One of the policemen I met asked me how much I had to bail him out and I said N4,000. But he told me it wasn’t enough and I left. I later came back with N5,000, but I was told that the DPO had taken over the case.
“On Saturday, I brought food for him (Waidi) at the station and was there till the evening, trying to secure his bail. When I got there on Sunday to give him food, the policemen at the counter said he had gone out with the DPO. But I was not allowed to see the DPO. I later learnt that he was whisked out of the cell early Sunday morning by three men who were masked. It was on Monday that I decided to inform his mother.”
Waidi’s mother, Karimat Adebanbi, said she went to the station on Monday and was shown a register containing details of suspects.
According to her, the record reads that Waidi was nabbed during a raid, but had been released.
The mother said the policemen directed her to the DPO when she demanded to know the person that stood as a surety for him. She added that her efforts to meet with the DPO were frustrated by his men.
She said, “The policemen I met at the station called my son from the cell, but nobody answered. They checked the register and saw his name there, indicating that he had been released on bail. I asked them who stood as a surety for him, but they refused to tell me. They told me to look for him at his friends’ houses. We don’t know his whereabouts and his number is switched off.“I went to the station again on Thursday and Saturday to see the DPO; they said he was not around. I called him several times before he picked his call.
He said he was somewhere and told me to wait. I waited for hours but he did not come back.”
Our correspondent gathered that the family had also petitioned the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, through an activist, Prince Akinsemoyin, to investigate Waidi’s disappearance from the cell.
The petition also requested the CP to quiz the DPO and policemen involved in the case to unravel the circumstances surrounding the youth’s disappearance.
It read in part, “I wish to bring to your attention that up till now, the whereabouts of Waidi Kabiru is still unknown. We strongly suspect a foul play in this matter. The time has come to critically investigate the DPO and the role the DPO played in this case. If he has been released, to whom? On what grounds was he released to the surety and what offence was he arrested for?
“We would like the police to produce the surety or else the policemen involved in this matter need to explain his sudden disappearance from Igbogbo police’s custody. This incident is capable of bringing the image of the police to disrepute. We hereby request a full scale investigation into this matter.”
The Lagos State police spokesperson, DSP Joe Offor, said Waidi was not abducted from the cell, insisting
that he had been released on bail. He, however, said he did not have the knowledge of the name of the surety.
He said, “It was not true that he was abducted. The suspect was released on bail to an identifiable person. The DPO said he had the name of the surety, but he did not disclose the name of the person to me.”
Nigerian police!!!
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These Hilarious Photos Of Groomsmen Eating Out Of Dust Packers At Their Friend's Wedding Has Gone Viral
The wedding, tagged #adunade2015, took place recently in Abeokuta, Ogun State. As a result of a shortage of cutlery, the groomsmen got creative and used the packers that were to be used as souvenirs to eat.
One word! Creative!!
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Most women would hit the roof if their beloved husband got his 19-year-old girlfriend pregnant.
But Belinda Miller told her husband Thom, a 60-year-old vicar, to go ahead and marry his mistress - with her blessing.
Thom Miller, a former mafia enforcer who found God in prison, is now building a massive home in their hometown of Mansfield, Ohio, with one wing for each wife.
Belinda, 44, and Reba, 19, claim to both be perfectly happy with a life of polygamy, but Reverend Miller stresses that he is the only person in their relationship allowed to have more than one partner.
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The polygamist vicar will split his time between the pair.
He currently lives in a smaller home and has each of his wives spend three nights with him before the other one takes her turn.
Thom, a former mafia enforcer turned pastor, had talked about polygamy with his first wife Belinda but it was seven years before they settled on 19-year-old Reba Kerfootruba joining their family. He has known Reba since she was a child.
Reba said: 'At first my family thought that what we were doing was not right. They didn't think it was proper for me to be with a man that was already married.
'But they started to come around and now they're happy as they know I am happy.
Having to share him with another woman can be kind of upsetting at times.
'But I try not to get jealous and when it's not my time with Thom I just try to occupy myself by going out friends.
'The baby will have two moms which I'm okay with.'
Mrs Miller said: 'We kind of make jokes about the baby and where he or she will sleep because we've got two separate master suites - in case mommy Reba needs a break then mommy Belinda can have the baby for the night.'
'I'm definitely excited there's going to be a little human part of us, part of the family,' Rev. Miller added.
The couple got close to Ms Kerfoot while volunteering at a soup kitchen and she moved in with them shortly after.
Rev. Miller was a friend of Ms Kerfoot's family and knew her when she was younger but claims he was surprised when they met again and she had become a woman.
Rev. Miller added: 'I've known Reba for a long time, then she moved away and I hadn't seen her for years.
'I caught something because she hugged me and I wanted to keep hugging her and I realised, wow, I'm really appreciating this woman.'
The pair married at Thom's church just seven years after he had the exact same ceremony with Belinda.
Mail Online
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President Muhammadu Buhari, the representative of the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II and Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, are some of the dignitaries expected on December 7, at the installation and presentation of staff of office to the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II
Other prominent traditional rulers expected at the ceremony are the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Shehu of Borno, Alake of Egbaland and Awujale of Ijebuland, among others. Also the 36 governors, members of the Federal Executive Council FEC , diplomats and captains of industries are expected the attend the ceremony.
National Helm
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A preacher in the Celestial Church of Christ In Riverdale, USA has been arrested after being accused of beating, robbing and raping escorts in hotels across Washington DC.
Gabriel Omogbo of Hyattsville, Maryland, is charged with attempted first degree murder, armed robbery, first degree assault and reckless endangerment.
Police believe that the 33-year-old used the website Backpage.com to find female escorts and arranged to meet up with them.
According to WJLA, the first two attacks happened at the Best Western Plus Hotel in Rockville and on both occasions he is accused of raping and stealing from two women he had met online.
A third attack took place at the Radison Hotel in Rockville, where he is accused of threatening a woman with a knife.
He ordered the woman to take off her clothes before reportedly telling her 'You are going to die today.'
He then beat her, cutting her arms, legs and hands and stole her iPad, cell phone and $300.
The woman survived and told police that before he fled the hotel room offered her a glass of water.
He was arrested after police traced CCTV footage from the hotels as well as collecting DNA evidence from each of the rooms.
CCTV footage showed a man matching Omogbo's description wearing blue jeans and brown loafers entering and leaving the hotels at the time of the attacks
Omogbo is now being held at Montgomery County Correction Facility on a no bond status. He will next appear in Court on January 8 and could face life in prison.
According to his Facebook page, he preaches at the Celestial Church of Christ in Riverdale and is a former student at Bowie State University.
He also works as a security guard and currently lives at home with his parents.
Daily Mail
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A brutal tradition akin to female genital mutilation is spreading in Cameroon’s war zone. Girls’ breasts are “flattened” with hot irons and stones to keep men at bay.
When Grace Tchami started showing signs of puberty at age nine, her mother, hoping to protect her, began to torture her. At about seven o’clock every morning, her mother would take one of the heavy stone pestles used for grinding food and heat it burning hot over a charcoal fire, then press it on Grace’s breasts, attempting to flatten them.
In a small, bamboo-roofed kitchen behind the house, Grace remembers, Mama performed this procedure day after day for three months. Grace’s older brother would hold her legs so she couldn’t run away. And then, still reeling from the ordeal, Grace would be sent along to elementary school.
I met Grace, who is now 16, in this southern Nigerian town where she had traveled across the Cameroonian border to buy fabric for her mother’s sewing business. She said she is permanently scarred and still suffers from the trauma. She said her mother told her the goal was to make her less desirable to boys, and thus to kill any chance of her getting pregnant early.
And Grace is not alone. The tradition of “breast ironing” has gone on for years in Cameroon, and appears to be spreading among parents who hope to keep their daughters out of the hands of Boko Haram’s brutal jihadists.
In its its 2014 human rights report on Cameroon, the U.S. State Department likened “breast ironing” to the more prevalent practice of female genital mutilation. This “procedure to flatten a young girl’s growing breasts with hot stones, cast-iron pans, or bricks” has “harmful physical and psychological consequences, which include pain, cysts, abscesses, and physical and psychological scarring,” according to the report.
The United Nations says breast ironing now affects 3.8 million women around the world. While the U.S. human rights report suggested reports of the practice are “rare,” the local press in Cameroon has reported that up to 50 percent of girls undergo the very painful procedure on a daily basis.
Research in 2011 by Gender Empowerment and Development (GEED), a non-governmental organization based in Bamenda in Cameroon’s northwestern region, found that about one in four females in the country had experienced it. In about 58 percent of the cases it was mothers who performed the procedure, believing they were protecting their daughters.
Analysts say breast ironing was initially done by women with the thought of improving a mother’s breast milk. But the thought later changed when rape and teenage pregnancy became rampant. Mothers began to carry out the procedure on their girls as they believed that their daughters’ breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and early pregnancies.
Girls from rich families are made to wear a wide belt, which presses the breasts and is supposed to prevent them from growing.
While the tradition is widespread in Cameroon, similar practices have been documented in Nigeria, Togo, Republic of Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and South Africa.
The United Nations Population Fund has named breast ironing as one of five under-reported crimes related to gender-based violence.
Findings from GIZ, the German state-owned development agency, revealed that 39 percent of Cameroonian women oppose breast ironing, while 41 percent support it.
Human rights activists say breast ironing affects women in all 10 of Cameroon’s provinces, and the tradition is practiced by all of Cameroon’s over 200 ethnic groups.
“The process of breast ironing requires the use of any metal, including wooden sticks, pestles, spatulas, spoons and rocks,” said Maryam, a Cameroonian hairdresser now based in Ikom, a home to thousands of Cameroonian migrants and a market place for traders from the Central Africa country. “The heat from these tools is expected to melt the fat on the breast, and stop it from projecting.”
Maryam who said she had practiced breast ironing on two of her daughters, added that other methods can also be used in the practice.
“Most people prefer to wrap very tight elastic bandages around the chest of their daughters overnight, but that system usually keeps the girls very uncomfortable,” she said. “For my daughters, I used hot coconut shells or heated stones to flatten their breasts.”
Breast ironing is less common in Cameroon’s northern region where the population is primarily Muslim. As of 2011, less than one tenth of adolescent girls in the region had undergone the procedure, according to GEED statistics. But now that may be changing as the presence of jihadist group, Boko Haram in the far north seems to be creating an upsurge in the practice.
One Cameroonian mother, who recently began breast ironing procedures on her daughter, told me in Ikom, where she came to buy goods, that she was carrying out the practice in an attempt to make her child less attractive to Boko Haram members who have been abducting adolescent girls and forcing them into marriage.
“I live in Tiko in the southwest but my daughter schools in Maroua in the far north where terrible things happen, and I won’t take chances,” she said. “If they [Boko Haram] don’t see her breast, they won’t think she has come of age.”
Another Cameroonian lady who was in Ikom for trade said she and her sister carried out breast ironing procedures on each of their two daughters, because militants were abducting girls in Maroua where they lived.
“We didn’t want our daughters to be taken to the Sambisa forest,” the lady who gave her name as Agathe said. “It wasn’t just us. Many women did it on their daughters for the same reason.”
In Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, where Boko Haram was founded, a member of the state’s main vigilante group who spoke to The Daily Beast said some girls who fled the war in the far north of Cameroon into border towns in Borno told members of his group that the breast ironing procedure was carried out on them by their parents when the jihadists began to abduct adolescent girls in the region.
“We’ve spoken to a few girls who said their parents ironed their breasts so that they will appear less attractive to Boko Haram militants,” Abass Bashir of the Civilian Joint Task Force vigilante group, which works closely with government forces in Borno, said. “Some of them said they still feel terrible pain on their breasts and around the chest region.”
Parents in Cameroon’s far north region have grown increasingly scared of seeing their adolescent daughters develop breasts, especially since it was widely reported in February that eight girls between the ages of 11 and 14 were abducted close to the border with Nigeria, almost the same time rumors that the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls had been married off to Boko Haram militants spread like wild fire in far north Cameroon.
“Some girls said their parents kept reminding them of the eight kidnapped girls and the missing Chibok girls as a way of convincing them to undergo the procedure,” Bashir said. “Their parents told them that these girls would not have been abducted if they hadn’t developed breasts.”
Until Boko Haram began to create a base in the far north, breast ironing was hardly spoken about in the predominantly Muslim region, perhaps as a result of the high rate of early marriage, which eliminates the need to maintain illusions of a girl’s youth. Now, locals say parents are talking themselves into carrying out the practice on their daughters.
“I visited a compound in Mokolo where every girl had undergone the procedure,” said Musa Oumarou another of Cameroon’s hundreds of traders visiting Ikom daily. “A woman whose daughter narrowly escaped Boko Haram capture started the procedure on her lucky child and then convinced her neighbors to carry out the same act on their daughters.”
But just as parents try to prevent abductions and eventual marriages to deadly militants in far north Cameroon, many girls in the region, in an attempt to escape early marriage, try to flatten their own breasts so they can delay their sexual maturity and continue going to school.
Children’s rights activists in Cameroon have for a long time carried out nationwide awareness campaigns in schools, churches and across media outlets aimed at drawing attention to the harmful physical and psychological consequences of breast ironing, a practice which was done mainly in secret until it was exposed to the international community in 2006. But in spite of their efforts, millions of girls are still victims of the horrific tradition.
Health workers believe better hygiene, nutrition and healthcare means that girls are attaining puberty early. A 2011 social and demographic health survey conducted in Cameroon showed that between 20 to 30 percent of Cameroonian girls get pregnant before their 16th birthday, and a third abandon schooling.
Grace became pregnant at the age of 15, but sadly lost her child during childbirth.
She said breast ironing is even more painful than childbirth, and that it did nothing to prevent her from getting pregnant before marriage.
“The whole practice was useless after all,” she said. “Rather than teach, breast ironing kills. My mother should have taught me sex education, rather she let this evil practice devastate me.”
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If it came down to love, would you change your religion?
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A lot of people face this issue in their relationship, and it’s such a touchy subject so most people sweep it under the rug.
The most difficult thing to do while in love is to leave your love for what you love.
When we’re born we don’t know what we believe in, our parents teach us and raise us to believe in what they think we should believe in so its natural for us to follow this same path once we grow up.
I have a friend that is in a relationship with someone that has a different religion then her, she doesn’t want their future children to believe in what he believes in so she’s faced with the decision to stay or leave.
What would you do if this were you? If this was me I don’t know what I would do, do I leave the love of my life because we have different views or do I stay and live a different lifestyle from him.
- DonTBone
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Every year, the United Nations holds a summit on climate change, where it works to persuade countries large and small to give up fossil fuels. This annual gathering, now in its 21st year, is called the Conference of the Parties, COP21 and it began yesterday in Paris.
Vogue magazine photographed the 13 women on the frontline fighting climate change right now at the Conference of Parties; and our Minister of Environment Amina Mohammed is one of them.
Kim Kardashian's sister Kendall Jenner took to her IG page to show her support and also asked her fans to follow the minister.
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Kylie Jenner launched her latest line of lip glosses at the Dash Boutique in West Hollywood on Monday. The 18-year-old showed off her emerald green hair and stepped out in matching outfits with her father Caitlyn Jenner for the event.
See more photos..
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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Our God has been faithful, guys.
Like play, like play, today is December 1st, 2015, the first day of the last month of the year. Here's what I asked of God on behalf of all of us this morning:
As we have witnessed today, every thing that is remaining to be accomplished in our lives this year,
we shall possess before the year runs out in Jesus' name.......
All our blessings that are hanging anywhere, they all will descend on us this December, in Jesus' name....
May December leave us with great testimonies to remember. If there's going to be any news concerning you or your loved ones, it shall be good news only in Jesus name......
Can you cope with all these this December?
Suprises!
Elevation!
Peace!
Breakthroughs!
Joy! Unspeakable Favour!
Success!
Prosperity!
It will be a loaded month for you!
Weave in faith and God will find the thread this December, guys.
Happy New Month!!!!
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Like play, like play, today is December 1st, 2015, the first day of the last month of the year. Here's what I asked of God on behalf of all of us this morning:
As we have witnessed today, every thing that is remaining to be accomplished in our lives this year,
we shall possess before the year runs out in Jesus' name.......
All our blessings that are hanging anywhere, they all will descend on us this December, in Jesus' name....
May December leave us with great testimonies to remember. If there's going to be any news concerning you or your loved ones, it shall be good news only in Jesus name......
Can you cope with all these this December?
Suprises!
Elevation!
Peace!
Breakthroughs!
Joy! Unspeakable Favour!
Success!
Prosperity!
It will be a loaded month for you!
Weave in faith and God will find the thread this December, guys.
Happy New Month!!!!
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One Emmanuel Onuche has dragged the Nigerian Bottling Company before the National Industrial Court in Lagos, seeking N110m compensation for allegedly becoming blind in the course of duty.
Onuche claimed to have been involved in an industrial accident on May 31, 2013, in the NBC plant in Ikeja, Lagos State, during which he sustained caustic soda burns, rendering him completely blind in both eyes.
He alleged that the injury was due to non-provision of safety wears by the company for its
employees.
Onuche claimed to be working in the Quality Assurance Department of the NBC as a contract staff member when the accident occurred.
He alleged that since May 31, 2013, when the incident happened at the NBC plant in Ikeja, the company had failed to pay him any compensation.
He also accused the NBC of ignoring a letter which he wrote through a lawyer, Ali Abba, demanding his financial compensation so he could urgently go for an eye surgery before he became completely blind.
He further alleged that he was sacked, while his N20,000 monthly salary was stopped because he demanded to be given financial compensation.
According to him, his suit before the industrial court followed a letter dated August 18, 2015, which he wrote to the Directorate of Citizens’ Rights, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, requesting legal representation.
Joined as defendants in the suit are the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited and Coca-Cola Limited.
Onuche is seeking an order, “compelling the defendants to immediately pay the claimant the sum of N100m as insurance claims and compensation for the industrial accident in which he sustained caustic soda burns in both eyes rendering him blind as a result of poor safety procedures during his normal schedule as a contract staff member in the Quality Assurance Department of the defendants.”
The claimant is also seeking “special damages in the sum of N10m on the grounds of trauma and pains of disabilities due to caustic soda burns in both eyes rendering him blind as a result of poor factory safety procedures.”
The defendants have yet to file any reply to the claimant’s suit, PUNCH reports.
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He alleged that the injury was due to non-provision of safety wears by the company for its
employees.
Onuche claimed to be working in the Quality Assurance Department of the NBC as a contract staff member when the accident occurred.
He alleged that since May 31, 2013, when the incident happened at the NBC plant in Ikeja, the company had failed to pay him any compensation.
He also accused the NBC of ignoring a letter which he wrote through a lawyer, Ali Abba, demanding his financial compensation so he could urgently go for an eye surgery before he became completely blind.
He further alleged that he was sacked, while his N20,000 monthly salary was stopped because he demanded to be given financial compensation.
According to him, his suit before the industrial court followed a letter dated August 18, 2015, which he wrote to the Directorate of Citizens’ Rights, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, requesting legal representation.
Joined as defendants in the suit are the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited and Coca-Cola Limited.
Onuche is seeking an order, “compelling the defendants to immediately pay the claimant the sum of N100m as insurance claims and compensation for the industrial accident in which he sustained caustic soda burns in both eyes rendering him blind as a result of poor safety procedures during his normal schedule as a contract staff member in the Quality Assurance Department of the defendants.”
The claimant is also seeking “special damages in the sum of N10m on the grounds of trauma and pains of disabilities due to caustic soda burns in both eyes rendering him blind as a result of poor factory safety procedures.”
The defendants have yet to file any reply to the claimant’s suit, PUNCH reports.
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