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Fire-ravaged home on Martin Street

The Wellsville Village Board will hold a public hearing October 14th to decide if a house on Martin Street and a garage on North Broad Street should be declared unsafe buildings.

Code Enforcement Officer Jo Fenske says the home on Martin was ravaged by a fire last year and the N. Broad Street garage has been on the radar since 2016. Fenske says the owners can present statements at the hearing scheduled for 5:45 p.m. Oct. 14th. The Board could that night or at a subsequent meeting, officially declare the structures unsafe. If that happens, the property owners will be served with notice and have 30 days to either bring the structures up to code or they must be demolished.
Earlier this week, the Board declared a home at 86 E. Hanover Street to be unsafe. The owner has been summoned to a village meeting on October 28th to advise if repairs have been made or if demolition has been scheduled.
The owner of the Martin Street home is Moshe Kiln-Abrahamov. Fenske said he lives in Israel, but county tax records shows he has a post office box address in Allentown. The home was sold by Paul Ceglia in 2007 and by Luis Jaramillo in 2017. The garage on North Broad Street is owned by David and Aimee Cummins.
Meanwhile, another commercial building is being knocked down this week, but not under any village order, but apparently for economic development purposes. The building once housed a pet store and mattress shop and is located on South Main Street across from Bokman auto dealership.

Benue State Police Command has confirmed that four suspects have been arrested in connection with 10 bodies found buried in shallow graves in Benue community.

On Wednesday, police detectives led a suspect to a thick forest in Agbatse village, Ushonho Local government area in Benue state and exhumed 10 bodies killed and hurriedly buried in shallow graves.

The 30-year-old suspect told the police that he killed about 30 people, mostly Okada riders and buried them secretly.

The suspect said he was acting on a direction of juju man who prepared a charm for him and assured if he killed a certain number of people, he will have supernatural powers like wanted criminal gang leader Terwase Akwaza aka Gana.

Police spokesperson Kate Anene confirmed the incident and said four suspects have been arrested in connection with the crime and would be paraded on Friday.

It’s Rauf Aregbesola’s wife’s birthday today and to celebrate her, he shared beautiful photos of her on his twitter page with sweet words. Wishing her the best of the day, the former Osun Governor and current Minister of Interior wrote;

”On this special day, I celebrate you. I’m a blessed man because I have you in my life. Happy birthday darling! You are a pillar of support to me”.

On this special day, I celebrate you.

I’m a blessed man because I have you in my life.

Happy birthday darling! You are a pillar of support to me! pic.twitter.com/SCJbEqjG8D

— Rauf Aregbesola (@raufaregbesola) September 26, 2019

Two children were beaten to death in India for defecating in the open, police said Thursday, underlining the violence sometimes unleashed to enforce Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship cleanliness drive.

The children from the Dalit community, India’s lowest social caste previously known as “untouchables”, were on their way to their grandfather’s house in the Shivpuri district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.

“It was early morning and they had stopped to attend to nature’s call” when they were attacked, police inspector general Raja Babu Singh told AFP.

“The kids were taken to the hospital but they succumbed to their injuries.”

Two brothers had been arrested, one of whom appeared to be “mentally unsound”, Singh added.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, on Thursday arraigned a 36-year-old Joesph Oyediran, one of the wanted suspects by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI.

Oyediran was arraigned before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on a five count charge bordering on internet fraud and other fraud related Offences, obtaining money under false pretence among others.

Oyediran, however, pleaded not guilty to all the five count charges levelled against him by the anti-graft body.

When the matter was called on Thursday, Prosecuting Counsel, Sessan Ola told Justice Abdulgafar “My Lord, we have a five count charge before this honourable Court dated 19th day of September 2019, we urge the court to accept the charge and allow the accused person to take his plea.”

Counsel to the accused, M.A Bello, however did not object to the application.

After the plea was taken, prosecuting Counsel further informed the court that “My Lord, in view of the defendant’s plea of not guilty, we are asking for a trial date to enable the prosecution to prove its case, we also pray your Lordship to remand the defendant in prison custody pending the hearing and determination of this matter.

Ruling on the submission, Justice Abdulgafar ordered the accused person to be remanded in Mandala Prison and adjourned the case till October 9, 2019 for commencement of trial.

The National Broadcasting Commission has warned the organizers of Big Brother Naija over ‘unwholesome’ contents that breach its code shared on TV channels where the reality show is aired.

NBC Director General Mallam Ishaq Kawu, during a press conference in Abuja also revealed that 45 broadcasting stations were fined in the second quarter of 2019 for breaching its rule of broadcast.

According to Kawu, most of the TV stations were fined between April to June 2019 over their political programmes.

A breakdown of the offences, which were allegedly committed between April and June, according to Kawu, include breaching broadcasting code on hate speech, use of vulgar lyrics and obscene content.

Speaking further, he said; “Therefore, 20 stations were fined in the second quarter for breaching provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code on hate speech.

“Other breaches were in the area of Obscene and Vulgar Lyrics – 10 stations were fined for infractions related to use of vulgar lyrics and obscene content. It is worth mentioning that the programme, Big Brother Naija (BBN4) was cautioned against unwholesome content on its broadcast.

“Use of unsubstantiated and misleading claims by advertisers, especially trado-medic advertising, also dropped significantly from the last quarter, but a total of 30 stations were fined for infractions related to same.

President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded the contributions of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Aliko Dangote Foundation to humanitarian and developmental activities in Nigeria.

Meeting with the duo at the sidelines of the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York, the President said they have touched humanity in many positive ways, and congratulated them “for achieving what you had set out to do.”

According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, the President added “Thanks for deriving pleasure in helping people. Congratulations to you for returning part of your wealth to the people in diverse ways. Whatever we save in areas in which you have intervened, we can deploy to other areas like building of infrastructure.”

On agriculture, in which Alhaji Dangote makes huge investments, the President noted that farmers were very happy in Nigeria now, “as we have made fertilizer available, cut the price by half, and given many other incentives. They have no regret going back to the lands. The more we invest in agriculture, the better for us.”