N2,000 palaver: Policeman crushes wife, kills baby

Lucky, Dupe and their baby

Like a scene from a horror movie, a police corporal, Lucky Ikharia, on October 30, allegedly used a bus to crush the legs of his wife, Dupe. Having left her for dead, Lucky went home where he allegedly stabbed his baby, David, to death, ripping out the toddler’s intestines.

Still in a rage, the policeman turned the knife on himself in an attempt to take his own life.

however, learnt that Lucky and his wife survived but both were in critical conditions.

We learnt that the incident occurred at the family’s rented apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi last week.

Our correspondent gathered that four days prior to the incident, 34-year-old Lucky, who hails from Sabon Gida Ora, Edo State, had a quarrel with his wife, Dupe over N2,000, after which he reportedly sent her packing.

The policeman, who is attached to the Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, Lagos had also ‘seized’ their only child from Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.

We learnt that around 8pm on the day of the attack, Dupe, a 30-year-old indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State

Marrying more than one wife is no big deal — KWAM 1

Veteran Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as KWAM 1, has shown times without number that he is a dynamic force to reckon with. Just when people are set to put lid on Fuji music as a dead genre, the king is ever in the horizon to fuse some sort of concoction with his Fuji music to produce something new, yet appealing to both the old and the new generation.

The NEXT big thing on the table of the maestro is the K 1 Live Music concert featuring 2Face, Ali Baba, Olamide and others. In this short chat with Potpourri, KWAM 1 talks about the concert, politics, matrimony, Fuji music and his Collabo with Olamide:

You are always on the road for ONE show or the other; can we say this has been the reason for your inability to produce an album until recently when you came up with ‘State of the Nation’?

The opportunity to travel with my band to many countries has given me the chance to interact with international musicians and also to tap from their experiences. Music is a global phenomenon just like football that brings everyone together. I have performed and attended many world class musical concerts and seminars in NIGERIA and even outside the shores of Africa in a spectacular way but this has not affected me from producing good albums. It has only opened my understanding and I also have to stress that I do not need to produce albums at this level of my music career every year to remain relevant in the NIGERIA and global music industry. I am a brand to reckon with.

Your latest single ‘State of the Nation’ celebrated the Awujale of Ijebu’s 80th birthday; was this because you are from Ijebu Ode in Ogun state or does it have a political undertone?

UPDATE: Tambuwal’s security details withdrawn

 

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has redeployed the Police personnel attached to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, hinged the withdrawal of Tambuwal’s security aides on Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of NIGERIA as amended.

Statement reads, “In view of the recent defection by the Right Hon.  Aminu Waziri Tanbuwal, CFR, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of NIGERIA, from the People Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress and having regard to the clear provision of section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, the Nigeria Police Force, has redeployed its personnel attached to his office.”

Ojukwu could not be reached to comment on why the same treatment was not APPLIED to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, who defected from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party a few weeks ago.

Lizzy Gold Onuwaje goes hairless, tattooed for movie role

There are many parts to the budding actress, Lizzy Gold Onuwaje, former Delta State beauty queen.

Just when you thought you have got an angle on her, there is always another part of her creeping up. She once declared to Potpourri that she would never marry a poor man or a struggling man. She also declared in the same interview that bank alerts turn her own. What a mean streak, you would want to say, but Lizzy has a heart of gold. Out of her earnings she sponsors some indigent students in the university. Now, how many Nigerians could do that fairly and squarely?

Unlike many of her peers, she doesn’t even have a tattoo. Even one that is being printed on her recently is mainly to pull off an act in her upcoming movie. “ Yeah I got this tattoo for a movie. It would be on my body for three months. It is a semi permanent tattoo” she said.

“It is my first tattoo. I have it to play a role in a movie. The movie is Golden House and I am playing the lead role. I also shaved my hair for the movie