FAMILY OF 11yr OLD ASK TO TAKE DOWN CROSS

The family of an 11-year-old girl who was killed at the Big Four Ice Caves in Verlot has been forced to take down a cross they placed there in the memory of their daughter.

Grace Tam was killed in July 2010 by a chunk of falling ice the size of a pickup.

Hikers are told not to go inside the cave because of danger of falling ice, but the girl and her brother did not go inside the cave and were outside when the ice fell. 

When Grace's family placed a pink cross outside the caves, the U.S. Forest Service told them to take it down because it was a religious symbol and was against regulations.

In an email to the Forest Service, Grace's father, John Tam, wrote:

"Please note we took the day off & went up the Ice Caves & removed Gracie's cross per yours' & US forest service requirement.  Please note every so often ( At least once a year as long as I /we are able to ), I will be still going up there with a TEMPORARY cross ( For that day use only )."

Grace Tam was killed on July 31, 2010. 

NEWS FED: 15 YRS DIES WHILE CHARGING PHONE

 Tears are still flowing in Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, as the people continue to mourn the death of a 15-year-old boy, Junior Abia, in Okesa area of the Ekiti State capital. Junior was the second born of the Abias. 

His parents are popularly known as Papa and Mama Chibuzor it was learnt that tragedy struck in the home of the Abias on Friday, August 8, at about 2pm. On that day, Junior suddenly shouted for help, jolting his elder brother, Chibuzor, into action. Junior had an electric shock while listening to music on his mobile phone through the earpiece, as the handset was plugged into the wall socket, charging.

After raising the alarm, Junior’s elder brother was said to have looked for a long stick with which he could remove the earpiece from Junior’s ears. 

It was gathered that when he could not have the earpiece removed, Chibuzor also raised the alarm and that alerted other people, who promptly swung into action to rescue Junior.

The mobile phone was eventually removed from the power socket and Junior was rushed to a nearby hospital in the area, in a frantic effort to save his life. Unfortunately, the boy passed on just before the rescue team stepped into the hospital.

Narrating the ugly incident to the reporter at their two-room apartment in the area, Mama Chibuzor, who could not control her emotions, said: “Junior had assisted me in cooking some rice for sale in my stand at Okesa market before I left home. But it was hardly two hours after I left that someone came running to me that Junior had been electrocuted. I immediately rushed to the scene and met people making frantic efforts to rescue him.

“We eventually removed the earpiece from his ears, unplugged the handset from the power socket and rushed him to the hospital. But he died just as we were about stepping into the hospital.

“I was told that Junior plucked the handset, which he also connected to the earpiece, into the power socket so as to charge the phone. He was also using the earpiece connected to the phone to listen to some music on the phone.

“Some people said he slept off while listening to the music on the phone and charging the phone at the same time. They said it was while doing that he suddenly shouted for help, and when people rushed to him, he was already gasping for air.”

Mama Chibuzor further said his son would have lived had he got help on time. She said: “If there had been elderly people around, apart from his elder brother who wasn’t clever enough to devise a better means of saving Junior, my son might have survived the electrocution.”

She said she couldn’t say if Junior had been in the habit of listening to music on the cell phone while charging it. “I only know that he was an obedient boy who didn’t get into trouble with anyone. He was also very dutiful; he never got tired of running errands in the house at anytime. Only God understands why this happened to him,” she lamented.

Junior was buried three days after his death. According to his mum, all his clothes, pictures, shoes and other things that could bring back some emotional memories had been removed by the family.

MADMAN STABS TWO POLICEMEN

Two policemen were stabbed yesterday in Alakija area of Lagos metropolis as they tried to drive an insane woman away from the premises of a popular pentecostal church.

According to an eyewitness,

Trouble started when the woman was standing in front of the church and policemen deployed to the area attempted to evict her.

“Suddenly, a madman, who was watching what was going on, went to meet the policemen ostensibly to stop them.

Leaving the woman, they went confronting the insane man. beating him with their batons. The madman, who was with a stick started flogging the policemen.

“Suddenly, the madman brought out a broken bottle from his bag and stabbed the two policemen, who were later rushed to Navy Town Hospital by church members and onlookers.

“Information got to other policemen attached to the church that their colleagues had been stabbed by the madman and they reinforced and began to look for the madman, whom they found at Alakija Bus-stop.

The five policemen surrounded the madman and tried to overpower him and after much struggle, they tied him up with a rope and bundled him into their van and took him back to the church for interrogation.

The Question is, was this madman fighting for love ?