Woman Sleeps With Her Son, Now Pregnant For Him

A woman and her son have done the unthinkable – they have fallen in love with one another. And now they want to marry since the mom, Betty Mbereko is six months pregnant and expecting a child for her son. “Look, I strove alone to send my son to school and no one helped me. Now you see that my son is working and you accuse me of doing something wrong. Let me enjoy the products of my sweat,” the woman boasted before local authorities. Mbereko (40), from Mwenezi in Masvingo, who was widowed 12 years ago, has been cohabiting with her first child, Farai Mbereko (23). She confirms that she is six months pregnant and that she has decided it is better to “marry”her son because she does not want to marry her late husband’s young brothers, whom she says are coveting her. Betty stunned a village court last week when she said the affair with her son had begun three years earlier. She said after spending a lot of money sending Farai to school following the death of her husband, she felt shehad a right to his money and no other woman was entitled to it. Farai said he was more than prepared to marry his mother andwould pay off the ilobola balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents. “I know my father died before he finished paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay it off,” he said. “It is better to publicize what is happening because people shouldknow that I am the one who made my mother pregnant. Otherwise they will accuse her of promiscuity.” But local headman Nathan Muputirwa says: “We cannot allow this to happen in our village, this is a bad omen indeed.In the past they would have to bekilled but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.” He warned them to break off their marriage or leave the village immediately. Funny enough, the mother and son chose the advice and have left the village for an unknown destination.

A man is standing trial at Sabo Magistrate's Court, for allegedly beating up his landlord and attacking a policeman, tearing his singlet which the prosecution saidcost N90, 000.

The defendant, Mr. Akinsola Ajayi, 32, was arraigned on five counts of assault and malicious damage. When the case was called up in court, the prosecution could not read the charge sheet clearly and after several failed attempts, the Magistrate, Mrs. Bola Folarin-Williams, halted the proceeding in anger. She said, "Who are you reading the charge sheet to? Is it to the court or the accused person? Are you strange to this court? You don't know how to read the charge sheet or what?" Folarin-Williams subsequently adjourned the case until April 23 and Ajayi was returned to detention. The charge sheet, which our correspondent obtained, reads in part, "That you, Akinsola Ajayi on the December 5, 2012 at about 10.30pm at 13 Adebolu Street Bariga in the Lagos Magisterial district, did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace by unlawfully disorganising the peaceful environment of the Street and throwing out bucket, property of one Ibrahim Olusesi and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 166 (d) of criminal law of Lagos State."

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday described the Monday Boston Marathon bombings in the United States as an assault on human freedom.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday described the Monday Boston Marathon bombings in the United States as an assault on human freedom. Special Adviser to the President onMedia and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, made Jonathan's position known in his Twitter handle. The President expressed his condolence to the families of the victims and Americans in general. "President Jonathan has describedthe Boston Marathon bombings asan act of cruelty, an assault on human freedom and a sad day for athletics. On behalf of the people and government of Nigeria, President Jonathan expresses his heartfelt condolences to the affected families and the people ofthe US," Abati wrote. The explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 100.