Man breaks wife's jaw during argument over their dog's dinner

 

A man broke his wife’s jaw during an argument over their dog’s dinner, forcing her to have emergency surgery.

Patrick Coleman, 47, had an argument over the dog's dinner with his wife Jaqueline Coleman and attacked her until she was rescued by a neighbour.

According to reports,  he was spared jail after his wife told the judge it would hurt her family financially and cost her sons their home if he went to prison.

Liverpool Crown Court heard he was being "aggressive" in their living room in St Helens, Merseyside on October 10, 2020.

 

Judge David Aubrey said the argument “appears to have related to the family dog” and how it was “either eating or not eating his or her meal” when he "lost it".

Speaking to Coleman, the judge said; "the red mist descended" and "it was the first occasion that you had ever laid a finger on your wife”.

The judge said if there had been “any suggestion of prior domestic violence” he would have been jailed.

Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said Coleman shoved his wife backwards, and then when she pushed him back, he punched her in the left side of her jaw.

He grabbed her and threw her onto the stairs, before “constantly punching her to the face and the body”.

He then pushed her onto a sofa and put his hands around her neck, but "thankfully" a neighbour rushed inside and stopped the violence.

Two days later Mrs Coleman went to the hospital and had her jaw moved back into the correct position, with a titanium plate and four screws inserted.

Coleman told police "it was my fault" when arrested.

He admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm and was handed a 12-month suspended sentence.

In a victim statement, Mrs Coleman said he had never previously been violent during their 26-year relationship.

She said she was concerned about the future, had debts and a mortgage that she couldn't afford to pay on her own, if he was jailed and if she was not able to help with caring responsibilities she might also lose her job, she added.

Mrs Coleman said: "I worry this will feel like we've been punished more than Patrick."

Charles Lander, defending, said Coleman had lost his home and "the love of his wife".

Coleman wanted to "reunite" with his family "if they would want to be reunited with him”, he added.

He said Coleman, who was living in a rented bedsit but also paying towards his mortgage, had mental health issues and was drinking before the attack.

He is now free but stands the risk of facing imprisonment  if he attacks his wife again.

Kidnapped Adamawa FC driver finally freed

 

The driver of Adamawa United Football Club who was kidnapped last weekend has finally been released. 

 

Kabiru Mohammed was released around 11.30pm on Wednesday, February, 24, according to The Nation

 

Mr. Kabiru was reportedly kidnapped along Benin-Ore-Lagos road when the team bus was attacked by gunmen on Saturday, February 20, at round 6.30am, along the Benin-Ore-Lagos highway.

 

The gunmen were said to have taken money and phones from players and officials of the team before abducting the driver.

 

The football team had been on their way for a football clash with MFM Football Club, Lagos, on a week 11 NPFL fixture.

 

After the driver was kidnapped, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N50 million.

 

Permanent Secretary of the Adamawa State Ministry of Youths and Sports, Alhaji Aliyu Jada, confirmed to the publication that the freed driver is on his way back to Yola.

 

“I spoke with him, he was very coherent, he is on his way back (towards Yola) now,” the permanent secretary said.

 

Jada, who had been negotiating the terms of release of the driver, did not disclose how much was finally paid as ransom to secure his release.

Cattle traders begin strike today

 

Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) on Thursday February 25, began a nationwide strike following the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum given to the federal government to attend to their demands.

 

The union had demanded payment of N475 billion compensation for lives of members and properties lost during the #EndSARS protest and Shasa market chaos, and dismantling of all road blocks on federal highways due to problems its members get subjected to when carrying out their duties.

 

Grand Matron of AUFCDN, Hajia Hauwa Kabir Usman who announced commencement of the strike asked the police not to disturb task force of the union who will carry out enforcement of the strike by ensuring that no food and cattle were moved from North to the South.

 

Usman said; 

 

“The leadership of the union has already made a strong plan to ensure that all our exits (our borders) between the Northern and Southern part are closed.

“Every truck that will go out has to be checked. If you carry any food or cattle, you cannot take it out except you take it back or be destroyed there. None of the security agents should dare intimate our task force members because if they do, we will fight it legally.”

 

Usman who recalled how they gave a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government, vowed that the union would not compromise on its demands.

Pope Francis appoints Prof. Roberto Bernabei as new doctor after previous one died from Covid-19

 

Pope Francis has appointed a new personal doctor weeks after the previous one died from Covid-19.

 

The 84-year-old pontiff picked professor Roberto Bernabei, an expert in health care for the elderly, as his physician, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday, February 24.

 

Bernabei, 69, leads the geriatrics and rehabilitative medicine department at Rome's Gemelli, the Catholic hospital where popes are traditionally treated. 

 

The last papal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, died aged 78 on January 9 of Covid-19-related pulmonary complications, following a hospitalisation for cancer. 

 

 

Francis is believed to be in relative good health, despite having had part of his lung removed when he was a young man after developing pleurisy.

 

Last month, he cancelled several events due to a chronic nerve condition that causes hip pain and makes him walk with a slight limp. 

 

The pope later received the coronavirus vaccine alongside his predecessor, former pope Benedict XVI.

 

"They’ll find a way to let him back on”- Bill Gates says Trump should be allowed to return to social media

 

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates has stated that former U.S. president, Donald Trump should eventually have his social media accounts re-activated. 

Twitter cut the former president off from some 88 million followers after the deadly riot on Jan. 6, when a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying President Biden's victory, leaving five people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer, dead. At the time, Twitter said that Trump's tweets posed "the risk of further incitement of violence."

Facebook, Snapchat and Reddit also suspended Trump's online presence indefinitely following the attack.

Now Gates says that social media companies should let President Trump back on their platforms, despite his "corrosive" election fraud claims. 

 

Gates, asked during an interview with CNBC on Thursday, February 18, whether he would let Trump back on social media if he were a member of Facebook's oversight board, he replied;. 

"I think at some point he probably will be allowed back on and probably should be allowed back on," the billionaire philanthropist said.

Gates suggested that if social media companies allow Trump to return, they could put a warning label on any false statements he makes.

"It’s weird when you’re, you know, saying that the election was stolen without any facts there. And how corrosive that is," Gates said. 

"But I’ll bet they’ll find a way to let him back on."

House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans, impeached Trump on Jan. 13. The Senate voted 57-43 in favor of the impeachment count, ten short of the 67 needed to convict.

 

"You know in a way ... people’s interest in what he says may go down quite a bit," Gates added. "That’ll be interesting to watch." 

Man runs off with girlfriend's mother after birth of his son

 

A new father has abandoned his newborn child and girlfriend, and ran off with his girlfriend's 44-year-old mother instead.

 

24-year-old Jess Aldridge told The Sun that she was shocked to find out that her boyfriend and baby daddy was having an affair with her own mother. She revealed that she was betrayed by her partner Ryan Shelton, 29, while she was heavily pregnant and they lived in a support bubble with mum Georgina and her husband Eric.

 

Within weeks of their moving in, the gran-of-six began flirting with Ryan. And, by the time Jess came home with newborn Reuben, they had run off together and moved into a new home 30 miles away.

 

Jess said; 

 

“We were stuck together for months in the house during lockdown. It was so hard, especially as Ryan and mum were always being so flirty. I felt so uncomfortable, it was a horrible experience.”

 

 

It was further learnt that Ryan Shelton sent a text to Jess hours after she had given birth to their son, telling her he was ending their relationship.

 

She added; 

 

“You expect a new grandmother to fall in love with the baby — not the father. 

“She is meant to be a granny to my two children and helping me look after them but instead she’s off shagging my boyfriend.”

 

 

When Jess confronted her mum, she shrugged and said; 

 

“We can’t help who we fall in love with.”

 

Jess had been with car parts salesman Ryan for three years after meeting online. She gave up working as a housekeeper at a Premier Inn in ­Chipping Norton, Oxon, before ­having their first child Georgiana in ­September 2019.

 

 

Recounting how Ryan broke up with her after the birth of their son, she said; 

 

“Ryan had seen baby Reuben for only a few minutes after he was born and then 10 minutes the day afterwards as he was moving all his stuff.

“They were in such a rush. He had even had my mum waiting for him with the car packed in the car park.”

 

 

The new lovers have gone public with their relationship on Facebook, leaving friends and family stunned with the act.  Jess who has now returned to the two-bed rented home she used to share with Ryan in Willersey, said; 

 

“They’ve just been so selfish. I’m horrified.

“How am I supposed to explain to everyone that the kids’ dad and their gran are in a relationship?

“Some of our friends saw his new relationship status on Facebook and were stunned.

“I’ve had lots of messages asking what happened and if I’m OK.

“Last Valentine’s Day Ryan was really romantic and bought me a litre bottle of Gordon’s pink gin, a box of Cadbury’s Milk Tray and a card.

“But this year he’s left me and our children and gone off with my mum. I’ve been put off men for a long time. I’m not looking for a boyfriend any time soon.”

Banks are turning female marketers to sexual slaves – Senator Ayo Akinyelure says as he sponsors Bill to prohibit employment of graduates as casual workers

 

Senator Ayo Akinyelure sponsored a bill at the Senate that seeks to stop employers in the private and public sectors from engaging employable Nigerian graduates as casual workers.

 

The Prohibition of Casualisation Bill 2020 scaled second reading on Thursday, Feb 18, and was referred to the Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity to report back within four weeks.

 

Akinyelure said casualisation of Nigerian graduates in the Nigerian labour market, all because employers want to cut costs, has become worrisome.

 

He said: "Statistics from the Nigeria Labour Congress shows that many workers in the telecommunications, oil and gas sectors are engaged as casual labourers by employers of labours.

 

"Other sectors with thousands of casual labourers include mining, steel, banking and insurance."

 

Akinyelure especially focused on the banking sector. He said banks have turned female marketers into harlots and sexual slaves due to the unrealistic deposit targets they give them.

 

He said: "In the banking and insurance industry, for instance, many young graduates particularly females are employed as marketers and given unrealistic customer deposit targets running into millions."

 

"They are hired and fired at will when such unrealistic targets are not met.

 

"The female among them who are desperate in keeping their jobs turn to harlotry and sex slavery.

 

"They, move from one office to the other looking for invisible customers who have large funds to enable them meet their targets.

 

"It is high time this evil and devilish act is stopped."

 

Supporting, Senator Biodun Olujimi said: "Our girls have been turned into what we cannot imagine.

 

"Most of them have been asked to look for funds, and when they come to us, I always tell them, I do not even have the funds to eat; how can I have funds to keep with you in the bank?

 

"They will never be promoted if they don’t bring in such funds, and this is a banking industry that is privately owned, yes, but has made so much profit, and from the profit they could at least take the few that they can manage properly, rather than take a lot that they will be giving pittance."

 

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, in his remark charged the Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity to strike a balance in the Prohibition of Casualisation Bill to ensure that casual workers in the country were not laid off from their jobs.