Two shot, Bodija Police Station burnt as traders, policemen clash

Two persons sustained gun shot injuries while the Bodija Police Station was set on fire on Friday following a clash between the police and some members of the Hausa community. We learnt that some irate members of the Hausa community were protesting the alleged killing of one of their members by a policeman attached to Bodija Police Station.

The incident started on Thursday night when two members of the Hausa community engaged in a scuffle over a woman.He said one of them was stabbed in the scuffle, adding, “The suspect was said to have ran away while on Thursday morning he was arrested.”

The commissioner of police. Oyo state said some members of the community, who were armed with dangerous weapons and charms, came to the station on Friday morning and insisted that the suspect should be released to them. He said that their request was turned down by the policemen on duty, who suggested that the suspect be left for interrogation.

“It was at point that one of the Hausa men brought out his sword to stab one of the policemen in the hand.
“The second policeman on duty, in self defence, shot and killed one of them.
“This action was said to have drawn the ire of members of the Hausa community in the area as they attacked the policemen and burnt the police station and set some of the shops ablaze,” Commissioner said.

Obama Administration To Stop Deporting Younger Undocumented Immigrants And Grant Work Permits

The Obama administration responded to years of pressure from immigrants rights groups on Friday with an announcement that it will stop deportations and begin granting work permits for some Dream Act-eligible students.

Some 800,000 people are expected to come forward to receive deferred action from deportation, as first reported by the Associated Press on Friday morning. The policy change will apply to young undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children, along the same lines as the Dream Act, a decade-old bill that passed in the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate in 2010.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters that the policy change is part of a general shift by the Obama administration to focus on deporting high-priority undocumented immigrants.

Member of Saudi Prince’s entourage sentenced to 10 years for rape at Plaza Hotel

A member of a Saudi prince’s traveling entourage has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a 26-year-old woman in New York’s Plaza Hotel two years ago.

Mustapha Ouanes, an Algerian construction executive, argued the sex was consensual when he invited the woman and a friend to his hotel room in January of 2010 after a night of bar hopping, promising them a lavish breakfast.

‘In his bowler hat and scarf, he appeared to be relatively harmless,’ a prosecutor said of the 61-year-old during the two-week trial in February, according to the New York Times.

Both women testified of eating, drinking and smoking hashish with him before passing out, one of them on Ouanes’ bed.

When she woke up, he was raping her they said.

‘She woke up to this defendant on top of her kissing her mouth. She was unable to get him off, instead she passed back out again,’ Assistant District Attorney Samuel David said in his opening arguments, according to the Times.

‘When the woman, then 26, woke up a second time, he was having sex with her,’ he said.

The woman fought to free herself and eventually broke a glass which she intended to use as a weapon to defend herself.

Her friend, who allegedly woke to find her leggings had been pulled down, called hotel security.