There was a fire scare on Sunday at the official residence of the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire.

It was gathered that the fire started at the boys’ quarter of the resident after an electrical spark.

Officials of the government said it was a minor fire incident.

Some sources had told our correspondents that the spark degenerated into a fire that took a combined team of federal and state fire services officials to put out.

But the media aide to the deputy governor, Mr. Tunde Abatan, said the incident was a minor spark.

He said, “There was nobody at the boys’ quarter at the time of the incident. The spark was quickly fixed; it did not cause fire at all. I can assure you that the deputy governor is in her apartment.”

The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, said mischievous people were trying to hype the incident.

He said, “It was just a spark that was quickly attended to, nothing more than that.”

The Director of the State Fire Service, Mr. Fadipe Idowu, who also described the incident as minor, said it occurred at 6.22pm.

He said, “It was just a spark that affected the metre board. It was put out with fire extinguisher before we arrived at the place.”

A text message from the National Emergency Management Agency read, “Electric spark at Deputy Governor’s house at Osborne Road, Federal and state fire services currently working to put off the fire.”

BENIN—SOME leaders of Egbema-Gbaramatu community in Delta State, have described as misleading, allegations of plot to blow up oil installations in the community due to purported leadership tussle in the area.

They called on the management of Chevron to disregard the alleged threat and go about its activities without fear.

Coalition for the Defence of Human Rights in Delta State had raised an alarm over plans by a faction in the leadership of the community to blow up oil pipelines in the area.

But reacting to the allegation, Counsel to Darlington Lelekumoh, Morrison Abisoko, Benjamin Ogbudu, Francis Ogbudu, Ebiwei Eyenmi, Matthew Polo and Clement Elebiri, Mr. Ugha Kurumah, said the allegation was untrue and an attempt to bring the name of his clients to disrepute.

Kurumah, in his statement to journalists in Benin City, weekend, alleged that the rights group was being used “to witch-hunt” his clients who, according to him, are the authentic leaders of the community. He said the bloc would communicate appropriately to Chevron when there is any change of Exco.
He said: “We, therefore, call upon the management of Chevron to discountenance all allegations made, as it was mala fide, in bad faith, and that Chevron should go about its operations in the Egbema axis without any fear of molestation.

“Our clients have also instructed us to assert that they have got a long standing peaceful relationship with the management of Chevron Nigeria Ltd, including holding the duty of providing surveillance  for all Chevron facilities in their vicinity and they will continue, as always, to explore every legitimate means to ensure continued safety of Chevron facilities in and around their vicinity.”

Women in Swaziland risk arrest if they wear miniskirts or tops which exposé part of their stomach as they will be violating moral standards, a police spokesperson has said.
“The act of a rapist is made easy, because it would be easy to remove the half-cloth worn by the women,” Wendy Hleta was quoted as saying.
Offenders face a six-month jail term under the ban, which invokes a colonial criminal act dating back to 1889.
The ban also applies to low-rise jeans.
“They will be arrested,” she said.
Hleta said women wearing revealing clothing were responsible for assaults or molests committed against them.
“I have read from the social networks that men and even other women have a tendency of ‘undressing people with their eyes’. That becomes easier when the clothes are hugging or are more revealing,” Hleta said.
Traditional costumes
However, the ban does not apply to traditional costumes worn by young women during ceremonies like the annual Reed Dance, where the ruling King Mswati III chooses a wife.
The monarch already has 13 wives.
During the ceremony, beaded traditional skirts worn by young bare-breasted virgins cover only the front, leave the back exposed. Underwear is not allowed.
The law was enforced after a march by women and young girls last month calling for protection against a spate of molests in the impoverished kingdom, almost entirely surrounded by South Africa.

Police in Onitsha, Anambra state have arrested a middle-aged woman, identified as Uchenna for reportedly breaking her maid’s hand with a pestle and cutting her private part with a razor blade.
The victim, identified as Chisom Nwafor was living with her mistress at Osuma Street where she was allegedly manhandled.
The 10-year-old victim who hailed from Enugu-Abo in Enugu State while narrating her ordeal said that Uchenna returned on a Sunday morning and started beating her and used razor blade to tear her private parts.
She said, “I was changing her daughter’s dress because she urinated on it. My madam entered and started shouting on top of her voice and she immediately rushed into the kitchen and collected a pestle and hit me severally on my back and she hit me again and broke my left hand, I fell and she entered her room and took a razor blade, tore my pant and started tearing my private part after which she poured pepper inside my private part which was bleeding” she said.
The Onitsha Area Commander, Mr. Benjamin Wordu who confirmed the gory incident described it as the ‘highest level of man’s inhumanity to man’, noting that the suspect would not go unpunished.
The police boss however warned parents against giving birth to children they can’t train rather than giving them out to some people who would maltreat them.
Meanwhile, Uchenna had denied cutting her maid’s private part with any sharp object.
The suspect is currently in the police cell