RRS nabs 5 kid-robbers who specialize in stealing phones in Oshodi

In what appeared to be a clampdown on criminals operating in Oshodi, the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested 5 teenage mobile phone thieves in Oshodi, while brazenly dispossessing commuters of their belongings.

The suspects; Ganiyu Rahman Sadiq Adebayo (15); Timilehin Oluwaseun (14); Ogundare Moyinoluwa (18); Toheeb Tijani (19) and Adeleke Sodiq (17) were arrested on Friday morning in Oshodi Oke.
According to Rahman, “We are over 50 boys. We are always in Oshodi-Oke, from morning till late night. At times, we pretend to be helping them but our focus is their valuables. Most times, we work in groups.
While the other is helping out, another person is stealing the victim’s valuables either from bag or pocket. There are some other guys who forcibly dispossess passers-by of their belongings. These gangs operate early in the morning and late at night when their victims are helpless.”
Getting personally, Rahman disclosed that he is a product of a broken home. He said: “I have been sleeping in Oshodi Under Bridge since 2013. I have been committed to 13 month rehabilitation by the Lagos State Taskforce but my home is in Oshodi Under Bridge."
Adebayo, who was allegedly in company of two other boys while stealing an iPhone and a phantom Techno phone from a car, disclosed: “Osas and Janbele stole the two phones. We have sold them along with 7 other phones to Tuwo in Idi Oro, Mushin. They gave me N7,000 from the proceeds."

Troops arrest Boko Haram drugs supplier

Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE on patrol from Bama to Pulka, intercepted suspected Boko Haram terrorists drugs and other logistics suppliers from Firgi and Zawan axis, Bama LGA of Borno State, at suspected Boko Haram terrorists crossing point, trying to cross into Sambisa forest.

The troops pursued them but were only able to apprehend Kadiri Umate, 35, while others fled into the bush. The patrool team recovered 35 packets of 500ml of Glocose Intravenous infusion (Drip), assorted analgenics and pain killer drugs, clothes, bathroom slippers, insecticides, salt, kolanuts and a bicycle.
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In a related development, a suspected Boko Haram terrorists logistics and fuel supplier, Fantoma Lasani, was arrested at Muna garage when he came to pick his wife to finally relocate out of Maiduguri.
The suspect is among some unpatriotic elements in the society that had been supplying Boko Haram terrorists with Premium Motor Spirit and Automative Gas Oil in Bama, Gwoza and Sambisa general area.

Kidnappers release victims, abduct those who came to drop ransom

9 members of a kidnap gang have been arrested by the operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The police said the gang was responsible for most of the kidnappings that took place within GRA Phase 2, Port Harcourt, Borokiri General Area and YKC axis of Woji in Rivers State.
They are: Daniel Gabriel (33), Alaso Igodo (25), Akeodi Aselemi (34), Ayibinmotei Livinus (25), Anikuroka Marshal (33), Biebele Elijah (34) Efiye Anda (34), Daniel Lessor (31) and Isaac Reuben (27).
In one of the kidnaps carried out by the gang, on August 10, 2016, a pastor, Mrs. Luis Ubah and one Mr. Chika Ezenwa were abducted. Soon after, the gang made contact with Ubah’s husband, Bishop Prince Ubah, from whom they demanded a N50m ransom for her freedom.
During the ensuing negotiation, the ransom for the release of the bishop’s wife was reduced to N2.8m and a place was agreed on for the family to drop the ransom.
But when two brothers of the bishop, Onyeka Ani and Pastor Okezie Akara, took the money to the agreed place on August 25, 2016, 15 days after Mrs. Ubah was kidnapped, the gang members decided to release her along with Ezenwa, but kidnapped the two brothers instead.
The police said they then demanded another N1m ransom from the bishop for his brothers. But N750, 000 was eventually paid for their release.
The police said investigation on the scale of the operations of the gang was still on and that they were making efforts to arrest other members of the gang who are now underground. Crdt: Punchng

Serial child kidnapper burnt alive in Imo State .

A notorious kidnapper, Osundu, aka Galaxy, and his gang got more than they bargained for at Umu-Ode, on October 4, 2016, as he was not only caught, but burnt alive by members of the community,the Sun reports.

Galaxy had been a terror to the people as he specialized in the kidnapping of children for sale, an act he carried out for over five months.
Galaxy and members of his gang had a practice of visiting Umu-Ode Ezelu on the communities market day, when most people would have gone out, and particularly at such hours when there would probably be no adult person around to confront them.
They would then abduct any child they could see. But on that fateful day, they met their Waterloo, after they abducted the male child of a street trader, Mrs. Elesius Duru, and zoomed off.
The woman raised an alarm that caught the attention of youths in the area and members of the Imo Security Network, who pursued the gang and caught them.
The irate youths took custody of Galaxy and one of his members, and after questioning them, they instantly administered jungle justice by setting the duo ablaze, even before the police arrived at the scene.
An indigene of the community explained that the youths took the decision because of their conviction that the duo would have been set free if they had been handed over to the police.

Nigerian man arrested, in the U.S, on charges he killed his 20-year-old girlfriend

Emmanuel Dike, 22, a Hillside man, has been arrested on charges he killed his 20-year-old girlfriend, whose body was found in his apartment last week, authorities said.

He was taken into custody Thursday at a hotel on Routes 1&9 in Newark, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park said in a statement.
He is charged with the first-degree murder in the killing of Christa Caper, 20, of Jersey City. Dike is being held on $1 million bail.
Police responded to a call Oct. 20 about a woman, identified as Capers, who was found unresponsive in Dike's apartment on the 1500 block of Schley Street in Hillside. The cause of her death is still under investigation, authorities said.
Hillside police, investigators from the Union County Homicide Task Force, and Union County Sheriff's Office Crime Scene Unit conducted an intense search for Dike over several days and spanning multiple states, before he was eventually arrested on Thursday.

Police arrest woman who allegedly goes about abducting children for her "begging business"

The Lagos State police have arrested a woman who reportedly goes around, within and outside Lagos, abducting children and camping them in a building at Odoguyan, Ikorodu, Lagos, where she then uses them to beg for alms. Some of the abducted children were rescued from her.

Sacked FRSC official kills ex-colleague

Nurudeen Alin, 32, and his accomplice, Mohammed Garba, 26, went to the residence of their victim, Yahuza Fakai, at College Road, Amejiogbe area of Oyo town, Oyo State, and stabbed him with a knife several times, Punchng reports.

The state Commissioner of Police, Samuel Adegbuyi, said investigation revealed that Ali was dismissed from the FRSC for driving licence touting offence, stating also that the victim had on many occasions supported Ali with money after he lost his job.
He said, “The victim and Ali were friends and after Ali was dismissed, he got a lot of financial help from Fakai. On October 14 this year, Ali and an accomplice, Garba, went to Fakai’s house and stabbed him to death. The murder weapon, a knife, was recovered from them."
Ali, who confessed to the crime, said his late friend had promised to give him some money but delayed in doing so, which was what made him angry and attacked him.
He said: “Fakai was my friend because we worked together at FRSC before I was dismissed. He had been helping me until I killed him. A day before he was killed, he called me and gave me some money.
He also said that I should see him again for more money. I went to his house with Garba but when we got there, I needed to receive a call and stepped out, by the time I returned to the house, Garba had stabbed him in the neck.
He handed the knife to me and I also stabbed him." Giving the account of his involvement in the crime, Garba said the deceased had promised to assist Ali but delayed the assistance after learning that he was hugely indebted.
He said, “Our aim was to threaten him with the knife so that he could release the money but after stabbing him in the neck, I realised that the injury was life threatening so I left the scene because I was afraid. Ali stabbed him more leading to his death. I had never met the deceased before that day.”

N4.75bn arms cash: Obanikoro refunds N100.4m to EFCC … may regain freedom .

Former Minister of Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday paid N100.4m out of about N785m allegedly collected from the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) by Sylvan McNamara Limited, a company which was allegedly linked to him.

It is unclear when the ex-Minister will pay the balance, but there are indications that he had entered into a commitment with the EFCC. The ex-Minister may regain freedom any moment from now, following the partial fulfilment of his undertaking.
It was learnt that a prima facie case has been established “beyond reasonable doubt” against Obanikoro. A top source in the EFCC said: “After many days of foot-dragging, he has paid back N100.4m.
This, however, does not mean that we are dropping any charges against him. Our objective is first of all to recover the illegal funds. The decision on his trial will depend on the review of his case and the extent to which he is liable.
You know the ex-Minister has admitted flying over N1.299billion to Akure in two shuttles for Gov. Fayose. He also confessed that he personally gave $5.377m (N60m then) cash to Fayose.
He admitted on oath that he was used to siphon public funds meant for arms purchase. These are all criminal offences which are punishable by the nation’s laws. The testimonies of Obanikoro will hasten his trial and ongoing prosecution of all the suspects implicated in the arms cash.”

Troop foil another suicide bomb attempt on an IDPs camp in Borno State

At about 9.00am this morning, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed behind Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, Damboa road, Maiduguri, on security duty, intercepted and killed a male suicide bomber who had attempted to sneak through the troops’ inner parapet towards the IDP camp.

The vigilant sentry sighted the bomber and laid in wait until the suicide bomber came close. The sniper instantly shot and killed the terrorists as he tried to force his way to the western flank of the IDP camp fence.

Unfortunately, the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) vest strapped on the bomber failed to detonate. Consequently, a combined team of military and police Explosive Ordinance Device (EOD) have been called to safely detonate the IED.

Father strangles own children, as sacrifice for his father

Thomas Matthew, 35, has revealed how his father, who he claimed initiated him into an occult group, appeared to him and told him to sacrifice his children to him. In response, Matthew strangled his two-month-old son, John and daughter, Mary, 4-month-old, at different times.
However, his attempt to also kill his first son, Josiah, 9, backfired. The incident happened in Mountain village, Asokoro, Abuja.

The FCT Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Mustafa, said Matthew strangled his daughter, Mary, inside his house on October 7, 2016, after beating his wife, Bola, who is deaf and dumb, and chasing her out of the house.
In a brief interaction facilitated by a sign language expert, Bola recalled how the husband had tried to kill their first son. She said: “I didn’t know that my husband is a cultist. I remember when he first tried to kill our first son, I reported the matter at the Garki Police Station.
It was my mother who took the boy away from the house and he is still staying with her in Mararaba, Nasarawa State. Then I had another son last year. When he was two months old, he became sick. My husband killed him in September 2015. I didn’t know until he confessed.
This year I had our daughter. In the night of October 7, 2016, we were together in the house when suddenly he started beating me. I got injured and ran away to his elder sister’s house. Before I came back with his sister, he had strangled our baby to death."
While speaking to newsmen, Matthew said: "My father is a cultist and he initiated me into the occult. My father asked me to offer the children as sacrifice and mark of honour to him, promising he would make me become rich.
It was a covenant. My father gave me conditions that if I revealed the covenant, that the covenant would be destroyed. I also wanted to kill my younger brother according to my father’s instruction. My father is still alive and he is in the village in Benue State.” Crdt: The Sun

I bought two human heads for N10,000 — Herbalist

Ramoni Akeem, 41, Azeez Ojelade, 36, and Salimon Salami, 40, have been arrested at a hideout in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, for being in possession of two human skulls, after the police received information from members of the public, who had raised the alarm that the suspects were dealing in human parts.
The state Commissioner of Police, Samuel Adegbuyi, said one of the skulls was discovered to have had what looked like a deep machete cut at its temple, leaving the police to suspect that the person the head belonged to might have been gruesomely killed.

Akeem said he paid N10, 000 for the skulls and that Salami was the vendor. Akeem said, “I am a herbalist and I heal people with herbs. I have never used body parts for rituals. One day, a friend came to me and said his friend discovered two corpses on a land where he had wanted to cut trees.
He asked if I knew what body parts could be used for. I told him that I did not know anything about charms prepared with body parts. One of our friends, Saheed Ifa, who is a senior herbalist, heard about it and said he could make use of the skulls to prepare charms.
When the skulls were produced, the man who brought them demanded for N10, 000. I paid him in four instalments. But that is all I know about the skulls. Ifa has travelled to Lagos. I don’t know where he lives in Lagos.”
Salami, who claimed to have discovered the corpses, denied any wrongdoing. He said, “I was asked to cut some trees on a large piece of land but when I got there, I discovered two corpses and I told a friend that I was afraid to work on the land because someone killed two people there.
He said I should continue with my work while he looked for what to do with the corpses. When he got a buyer, he contacted me and I went back to the bush and dismembered the heads from the bodies,” he said. Crdt: Punchng

Thief almost beaten to death by angry youth, after being nabbed

The suspect simply identified as Yinusa, 24, was almost beaten to death around at 5:30am this morning, after himself and his accomplice were caught removing a vehicle's shock absorber in Ilupeju, Lagos. His accomplice, however, escaped. Yinusa is now in police custody.

We got N14.8m as ransom in 3 months – Suspected kidnappers

Suspected kidnappers of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) pastor at Ikorodu yesterday said they made N14.8m ransom from three victims within 3 months.

Martins Kowei, 34, Lawyer Repo, 20, Pleasure George, Bamidele Blessing, 26, Monday Lucky, Hope Tamwell, Monday Uyakumig, Saby Dandi and Gadilo Agbajo who were arrested at a hotel in Ijede while planning to kidnap a hotelier claimed poverty forced them into the crime.
The gang, it was learnt, also kidnapped Otunba Lateef Ogunfowora, owner of LatOgun Petroleum in Ijebu Ode. They disclosed that they got N6m, N5m and N3.5m from kidnapping an expatriate and two others at separate occasions in Lagos and Ogun states.
The suspects who were paraded by the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, were said to have had in their possession, two AK47 rifles and six AK47 magazines and 51 rounds of live ammunition, as well as military camouflages which they used for their operations.

Exxon Mobil discovers 1bn barrel of crude oil in Nigeria

The United States-based Exxon Mobil Corporation Thursday, said it has discovered about one billion barrels of Crude oil at the Owowo field which is located off shore Koloama community in Bayelsa state.

ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, said that the Owowo-3 well had a 460-foot column of oil-soaked rock. The well is 10,410 feet deep.

4 female children branded as witches, rescued in Akwa Ibom State

They were rescued on Oct 25, 2016, and according to Child's Right And Rehabilitation Network (CRARN),
who posted it on Facebook, wrote: "Four female children were yesterday rescued by a good samaritan around 1:00 AM in the night.

The children whose origins are yet to be identified said they were told in a prayer house that they were witches, an allegation which compelled their parent to abandoned them in another prayers house which they went for deliverance, for years without bringing them food.
Their parent later came to the church at the instance of the pastor, pick them and put them in a waiting car which drove them to the Abak bridge and dropped them there.
The children were malnourished and seen with wounds, bruises, and scars in different parts of their body indicative of variant degrees of torture, which of course are not uncommon with children who suffer similar faith consequent upon witchcraft stigmatization.
'My father said he's afraid of God, he would have killed us as instructed by the prophets." one of the children said.
A right activist said after the rescue: "Children have continued to be abandoned in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria over witchcraft allegation by parents after desperate and nouveau riche pastors and prophets label witches/wizards and made their parents force them on the streets if not killed.
These children were lucky to be rescued yesterday in the wee hours of the night at Abak new bridge otherwise, they would have been picked by the lurking human traffickers or ritual killers who maraud the streets in search of children for diabolic purposes."

Woman Bags 90 Years Imprisonment For N5.6m Admission Scam

EFCC, on Thursday October 27, 2016, secured the conviction of one Mrs. Chika Amsy Charles, who was convicted by Justice D.V Agishir of the Federal High Court Enugu, and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment on each of the 30 count charges preferred against her.

The sentences are to run concurrently from the date of her conviction. The convict was found guilty of swindling three young Nigerians to the tune of N5,620,000, under the guise of helping them secure admission into Enugu State University of Science and Technology ESUTH, through her unregistered NGO called 'Bold and Dynamic Gender Initiative'.
But Chika ran out of luck in 2007 when one of her victims whom she defrauded petitioned the EFCC, on her fraudulent activities.

3 die in mysterious well, rescuer receives strange slap, as residents seek spiritual solution

Residents of Hanik Street, Federal Housing Estate 3-3 Onitsha, Anambra State were recently thrown into mournful mood, following the death of three men in a borehole, DailySun reports.

Eyewitnesses said the locally dug borehole developed fault and a young lady, who lived in the building, invited a man to recover the sumo for repairs. Unfortunately, the man got trapped inside the hole while every effort to rescue him failed.
“They called for help and a fellow Calabar man went inside to help bring out his kinsman but got trapped as well. Some minutes later, an Hausa man living around the area also volunteered to enter the well to rescue the trapped men, although at the cost of N100, 000 which the residents agreed to pay but the man never came out .
It would have been four dead bodies because a fourth person entered but he was lucky to come out alive though he complained of receiving a strange slap from the spirits inside the hole. He came out with swollen face and is in critical condition, presently,” the source stated.
It was gathered that the owner of the building is a pastor and had travelled outside the country. After several efforts to rescue the trapped men, some residents resorted to prayers while others began incantations and offered sacrifice of goats and fowls to appease the gods so that the victims would be brought out alive but all were in vain.
Officials of the National Emergency management agency later helped to evacuate the bodies. The cause of their death was attributed to the lack of oxygen as the person that finally evacuated the dead bodies succeeded because oxygen was repeatedly injected into the borehole.

Angry secondary school students set classrooms ablaze over mass failure

Today, blocks of classrooms were set ablaze in Oyo, Oyo State, marking the worst phase of secondary school students’ unrest that began days ago over mass failure in exams, PremiumTimes reports.
The classrooms set on fire were at Isale Community High School, Oyo Town. But students elsewhere have threatened to cause similar damage to public property in their schools.

Crisis erupted on Monday following mass failure in the last promotion examinations across secondary schools in Oyo State. The Oyo State Government set a new promotion policy which meant only students with 50% in Mathematics and English language will transit to the next class.
On Monday, students of Anglican secondary school in Oyo unleashed mayhem on their teachers and destroyed billboards bearing Gov. Ajimobi’s picture.

Mariah Carey and billionaire fiancé James Packer calls it quits

Mariah Carey and James Packer have called it quits, TMZ is reporting. The billionaire casino mogul dumped his fiancée after falling out over her new reality TV show and extravagant spending.
The tycoon is understood to have walked away from the singer as she prepares to expose much of her glittering life on a new reality TV show, allowing her to keep the $10m diamond engagement ring he gave her in January.

TMZ's sources say what may have been the deal breaker for Packer came when she had some sort of rendezvous with one of the dancers in her Vegas show, something that is on video for the reality show. James hated the reality show from the get-go and it became a major source of conflict.

Woman abandons one-month-old baby in Warri hospital over outrageous bill

Tony Okiemute, a 25-year-old woman has abandoned her one-month-old baby in St. George’s Specialist Clinic and Maternity over her inability to pay for her N125,000, medical bills in Warri, Delta State, DAILY POST reports.

 
 Administrative Manager of St. George’s Specialist Clinic & Maternity, Sunny Ebone made this known while taking the baby girl to the police “B” Division in Warri to get police extract.
He revealed that Okiemute delivered a set of twin, a boy and a girl on October 5 through cesarean operation when she was rushed on emergency to the hospital. He also noted that the woman lost the baby boy while the girl survived.
The manager claimed that the woman abandoned the baby while pretending that she was going to purchase pap (Akamu). He said she absconded since October 15 when she visited the hospital for further treatments.
He noted that all efforts to trace the woman who claimed to be a resident of Ekakoto Street in Orhunwhorhun Community in Udu LGA, were unsuccessful.

My "spiritual private jet" crashed while ‘flying’ from Benin to UK, says man found in Sapele river

A man, who confessed to newsmen that he was ‘flying’ from Benin Airport, Edo State, to attend a meeting in the U.K, before watching a football match going on simultaneously in the coven, also in the U.K, was, yesterday, discovered at Ajogodo River, Sapele, Delta State, Vanguardngr reports.

The self-confessed wizard said: “I was flying in with what is known in the physical realm as ‘Plantain Leaf,’ but it is actually my expensive private jet in the coven realm. It crashed me into this bridge, when the fuel in it finished.
My members will be here tonight to refuel it for me, so I can continue my journey to the UK. I have to be in the UK to watch football, because there is economic recession, unemployment and inflation in Nigeria.”

Police arrest man with 620kg of Marijuana

Operatives attached to the Police Border Patrol in Ogun State Thursday arrested Olamilekan Taiwo, 35, with 62 parcels of Marijuana, compressed such that each weighed 10kg.

He was allegedly smuggling out of the country and was said to have concealed the illegal drugs in bags of clothes to deceive security agents, but was apprehended when policemen insisted on searching his luggage. Crdt: The Nation

Nigerian Nanny Accused of Force-Feeding 8-Month-Old Girl Until She Choked

A Maryland nanny has been charged in the death of a baby girl after she was allegedly caught on surveillance camera forcefully feeding her two bottles, police said.

Eight-month-old Enita Salubi of Glenarden died Monday afternoon after she was rushed to a hospital, Prince George's County Police said. Authorities said video camera footage shows the events that led to the little girl's death.
The nanny, 66-year-old Oluremi Oyindasola, was asleep on a couch inside the house Monday when the baby, who was in a walker, began crying and woke the nanny, police said.
Police said a video surveillance camera shows the nanny tried to feed the baby, but without success. Oyindasola then pulled the baby from her walker, removed the nipple from her bottle and forcefully fed her, police said.
"She forcefully poured the two bottles of what looks to be milk down the baby's mouth, causing her to not be able to breathe, suffocating her, and eventually she died at the hospital," said Col. Harry Bond of Prince George's County Police.
The baby appeared to squirm and resist while being fed the first bottle, and then Oyindasola forced the contents of a second bottle into her mouth, the documents said.
The baby became unresponsive, and Oyindasola called the baby's father, who dialed 911 as he raced home. Police said an autopsy revealed Salubi's cause of death was asphyxiation, and the manner of death was homicide.
Oyindasola has been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death, and related charges. More than one neighbor said they'd been concerned about the baby for some time. "That baby just cried [and] cried," said neighbor Walker. "Every time I came outside, I'd hear that baby cry."

For freezing my $15m, EFCC should pay me extra $200m, Patience Jonathan tells court

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday fixed December 7 to hear a suit by ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan, against the EFCC, seeking to unfreeze her account. Mrs. Jonathan is demanding $200m from the commission as damages for infringing on her rights.

She is also urging the court to issue an order discharging the freezing order and restraining the EFCC and its agent from further placing a freezing order on the said accounts.

Housewife brutalizes her 12- year-old niece for stealing meat

Mmesoma Ani, has been admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Surulere, after she was allegedly tortured by her aunt, Mrs. Ogechi Iruwane, Punchng reports.
The mother-of-three was said to have used her bare hands to pinch off the victim’s chest, and inflicted injuries on her back. Ani was also reportedly starved for two days for allegedly stealing a piece of meat.

Our correspondent learnt that a trader on Nurudeen Street, Orile Iganmu, Lagos State, where the incident happened, raised the alarm on Tuesday. The case was said to have been reported to the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender.
Officials of the agency reportedly apprehended the suspect and subsequently handed her over to the police at the Orile Iganmu division. The victim was afterwards taken to LUTH.
The trader, who discovered the incident, said Ani returned an empty bottle of soft drink to her when she saw her injuries. She said, “Her neighbours told me it was not the first time she would beat her. I decided to report the matter to the OPD.”
A source at the OPD said: “Ani claimed she was 12 years old, even though she looked younger. She also looked malnourished. There were different scars on her back. The irony is that the suspect has three children and they look well-fed.
The girl claimed that she is the 11th of 12 children. She said the woman came to take her from her parents in Enugu State in December 2015. She said she was in primary three before she was brought to Lagos, but since her arrival, she had not been going to school.
She said the woman accused her of stealing a piece of meat and for about two days, she was not given food to eat.” The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident, adding that the matter would soon be charged to court.

Banker Hires assassins to kill her ex-husband in Lagos

Barely 2 weeks after a woman paid N500k to get her estranged husband killed in Lagos, the Ogun State Police Command has arrested two suspected hired-assassins and a female banker over failed attempt to assassinate her ex-husband identified as Tochukwu Onyebuchi.
While parading the suspects state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, said, “Oluchi, a 32-year old banker, who is married to one Tochukwu Onyebuchi years ago, got separated from her husband following some matrimonial problems.The custody of their only child is currently being contested in the court but Oluchi has another plan.

She connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart, Kingsley Ikechukwy and one other who is now at large to eliminate her husband. She arranged for the weapons which includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo area of Lagos State and described where she kept it to the assailants.
The suspects went there on Wednesday as planned and matcheted the man severally on his head and poured the acid on him. The suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and took away his range Rover Jeep which Oluchi instructed them to drop at her brother’s place in Onitsha, Anambra State.
Luck ran against them when a patrol team of the Ogun State command on Wednesday sighted the vehicle along the Ijebu-Ode/Benin expressway and stopped it for search. While searching the vehicle, blood stain was seen and the two occupants were unable to give satisfactory account of the blood stain, hence, they were arrested.
It was during interrogation that the suspects revealed all that transpired to the police.” The commissioner said that the victim, who had been treated at an undisclosed hospital, was in the custody of the police helping them in the process of investigation.
Oluchi, however, denied contracting the duo of Chigozie and Kingsley and one other at large to assassinate her husband. Meanwhile, Chigozie told newsmen that it was Oluchi who hired them to kill her husband with a promise to purchase “Tokunbo” cars for each of them after a successful operation.

Nigerian footballer, Ighalo, risks two-year prison sentence over bribery

Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, faces a two-year jail term having been fingered in a bribery scandal while he was playing in Spain with Granada, Spanish publication, Marca, reports.

The provincial district attorney’s office of Granada has allegedly requested a two-year prison term and a fine of €3,000 for Ighalo, his ex-Granada teammate, Diego Buonanotte, and 93 others for allegedly bribing their way to pass a driving test.
According to the provisional writing of the prosecution, in 2012 and 2013 someone was hired to write the exams for Ighalo and the other accused. After the test was written, the errors made on the sheet were deleted.

Investigation further revealed that three syndicates of Íllora (Granada), Mengíbar (Jaén) and Ciudad Real who moved to Granada allegedly recruited students to help write exams for clients who wanted to pass the driving license exams, and were charged between €1,500 and €2,500.
Following the incident, the prosecutor found the Super Eagles striker culpable of the crime of falsifying an official document. Meanwhile, as is the practice, Ighalo may be dragged to appear in court to testify in Granada if an open trial is to be held.

Lebanese to prison by Agos Court over alleged theft of €30,000 (N13.8m)

Khodor Jichi, 38 has been arrested by operatives of the Interpol section of the Nigerian Police, Alagbon close, Ikoyi, Lagos for allegedly obtaining €30,000, equivalent to N13,800,000 under false pretence from Alhaji Abdul Kareem Musa, PMNEWS reports.
After investigations by Inspector Raphael Ajuro and his team, Jichi, a resident of Apapa, Lagos was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a two-count charge of felony to wit: stealing.

Police prosecutor, ASP Henry Obiazi, informed the court in charge No.6/65/2016 that the accused and others still at large committed the alleged offence in August, 2016 at Agege, Lagos.
Obiazi told the court that the accused tricked and collected €30,000 from the complainant, Alhaji Musa, by pretending to assist him to send the money to his business partner abroad, but instead converted the money to his personal use.
Jichi pleaded not guilty and Chief Magistrate A. O. Komolafe admitted him on bail in the sum of N5m with two sureties in like sum. Komolafe directed that the defendant must deposit his international passport with the court. Jichi was taken to Ikoyi prison, Lagos, pending when he will be able to fulfill his bail conditions.

Two suspected ritualists Arrested in Ogun State

Taiwo Adeleke, 47, and Kayode Oseni, 52, were apprehended at Abule Ifa, in Obafemi Owode, after detectives uncovered the alleged ritualists’ den used by criminals to fleece people of their money.

According to the zonal spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, the den, a massive ediffice, had names of prominent persons who might have fallen victims to the suspects, inscribed on it. Also seen at the place were fetish materials/structures, charms, figurines and shrines.

5 Children Rescued From Child Traffickers In Ondo State

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force at Funbi-Fagun division in Ondo town have arrested a couple, Ayobami and Mujidat Wahab with two other women over alleged child trafficking.
According to the DPO in charge of the station, Olu-Ojo Ogunmoyole, the suspects who specialized in street begging are indigenes of Ibadan, Oyo State. They were arrested alongside five under-aged pupils who are between eight and 10 years.

The police chief said the suspects who always pretended as if they were blind, always moved about with the children and begged for alms on daily basis. In their confessional statements, one of the suspects, Folasade Iyiola, said she relocated from Ibadan to Ondo town recently.
She said she left Ibadan with two of the children, without the knowledge of their parents. She explained that she had been in the business for over three years, until he was arrested by the police.
One of children, Ibrahim, said he was a primary six pupil in Ibadan, stressing that he was in the midst of his colleagues during the celebration of the last Ileya festival when he was picked by one Mrs Mujidat and brought to Ondo.
Ibrahim said “On that day, the woman held my hands, and I could not remember anything again. I later discovered that I was already in Ondo town. A few days later, we started the street begging business.
Later, I started dreaming about my mother; that was why I told Fatai (one of the victims) that I will run back to Ibadan.” He explained that after escaping from the child traffickers, they became hungry and begged a woman for food. He said the woman took them to the police station. Crdt: Punchng

Buhari will surprise Nigerians in 2017 – Trade Minister

Yesterday, while in Abeokuta, Ogun State for the 8th Session of the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enalamah, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said the results of the efforts by the Pres. Buhari-led administration will surprise Nigerians in 2017.

He said: ”You will start seeing result at the end of this year and early next year. As far as I am concerned, next year is a year of results. All the work we are doing will start yielding results from this quarter.
The level of delivery in 2017 will suprise everybody. People may be saying we are not doing anything but it is impossible for a man to start broadcasting a plan we haven’t really put together well.”

NERC Chairman-designate, rejects Buhari’s appointment

Prof. Akintunde Akinwande, the Chairman-designate of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has rejected his appointment, by Pres. Buhari, to head the agency.

The rejection marked the third time an appointee by Buhari would reject his or her nominations in recent days. Mrs. Pauline Tallen (Plateau) and Usman Bugaje (Katsina) recently rejected their ambassadorial appointments.
It was learnt that Akinwande rejected the nomination because he was not consulted before the nomination was made. It was further gathered that the professor was not resident in Nigeria but based in the U.S where he’s pursuing a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Crdt: ThisDay

Man Arrested For Producing Fake dollar Worth N30M

Highsent Nwogu, 60, has been arrested for allegedly producing dollars worth N3m and defrauding residents of the Ogba area, Lagos State. Nwogu, a father of five children and grandfather of three, said he ventured into the “washing” of fake dollars to make ends meet.

The Abia State indegene used a rented apartment on Abimbola Street, College Road, Ogba, for illegal production of the dollars. He would ask his victims to buy some goods from overseas, and thereafter offered to get dollars for them to pay for the goods.
The suspect allegedly gave his victims the fake dollars. Hellen Olajide, who was defrauded of about N1.95m, reported the matter to the police and Nwogu was thereafter arrested with fake dollars worth N3m, chemicals and water drums allegedly used, were recovered from him.
The grandpa said he began the business four years ago. Nwogu said, “I want the government to forgive me. I collected N10,000 from my first victim, N30,000 from my second victim and N50,000 from another. I have three persons working with me; I used the money to solve my family problems.”
Narrating her experience, Olajide, said: “I was returning from work on that day, when three men accosted me and said I should follow them to a place to transact business. They said they were into importation and exportation of goods such as computer sets and Brazilian hair.
I am sure they used some charms because it was after paying money the third time into a bank account I was given that my senses came back. It was after a month that I cried to the police for help. I want the syndicate to return my money, which is N1,992,000.” Crdt: Punchng

A mad woman told me to sacrifice a human head, says man arrested for beheading

Emmanuel Effiong, a 20-year-old man, has said he beheaded a woman at the Aba park on the instructions of a mad woman, who allegedly advised him to throw a human head into a river or he would go mad, Punchng reports.

He said: “I gave a mad woman money one day in Aba and she told me to look for a skull or human head and throw inside a river or I will go mad. One morning, when I saw a lifeless body in front of the park, I decided to cut off the dead woman’s head for the exercise.
I threw the head into the Aba River to remain a normal person." He made the confession while in the custody of the police. He had been arrested by police operatives in Aba, Abia State in connection with a threat to kidnap and kill one Ikechukwu Udogu.
He had threatened to kill Udogu, if he failed to pay him a N15m ransom. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Adeleye Oyabade, said he confessed to the crime and also confessed that he was behind the headless woman found on September 29, 2016 at the Aba main motor park.
He said three knives and a phone were recovered from the suspect. Speaking with Southern City News, Effiong, who said he hails from Ikot Edet in Akwa Ibom State, accepted that he demanded the ransom from Udogu for refusing to pay him his salary since September 2009.
He said, “I served Mr. Udogu for many years as his gateman, but he stopped paying my salary since September 2009. So, I decided to send him the threat message to get my money from him.”

I didn't rape her. I only put my p*nis in her mouth - Teacher arrested for raping a student

A school teacher Olamilekan Enilolobo, 20, has been apprehended by the police for allegedly sexual assaulting a pupil. The suspect said he only put his manhood inside the mouth of his 12-year-old victim.
While being paraded by the Lagos State police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, he said: “I usually teach the victim and two others after school at Ikotun. When the girl was brought to my place, I said they should buy a notebook for her but her parents didn’t.

So, last Wednesday, I gave her an assignment but she didn’t do it. When she came to me on Thursday during school period, I asked if the notebook but she said her mother didn’t give her the money. I told her to go to JSS one class and join the other two girls that I would soon be with them.
When I was done with my classes, I joined them there and teaching them for the day. My house is not far from the school and my mum had called that I should do the dishes. So, I told the girl to follow me that I would buy the notebook for her at a woman’s shop near my house.
She followed me down, I bought the book for her and she said she was hungry. In order for her to understand what I would teach, I bought biscuit for her and as I was about to go, the woman said I should bring her bottle which has been with me.
I told her I would bring it later but she refused and said instead, the girl should follow me to the house so that I would give her the bottle. So, that was how the girl followed me to the house and I took her inside our parlour. I put her on the chair and put my manhood in her mouth.
It just came over me. I don’t know what happened. I didn’t touch her private part. They have done a test and confirmed I didn’t touch there. She didn’t cry and she didn’t complain. But she went home and reported to her parents and they came to the school to complain.
I know that I have committed a crime and I am guilty. Whatever is my punishment, I would face it and hope God would have mercy on me. I have never done something like this before. I don’t have a girlfriend.”

Ogun Police arrest kidnapper of 4-year-old schoolboy

Wale Ogunbadejo was arrested, last Friday, for kidnapping Attairu Amisu, a pupil of Abdul Rahman Academy Sabo, Obalende Ijebu-Ode, at the school premises. The kidnappers had gone to the school pretending to be a relative sent by his parents to pick him up.

It was gathered that the school authorities handed over the boy to the purported relative, only for the child’s mother to come minutes later for the child. Having successfully kidnapped the minor, the criminals, it was learnt, contacted his family and demanded N5m ransom.
It was gathered that the family immediately reported the case at the police station and a manhunt for the suspects was initiated. Ogunbadejo was arrested in his hideout and the child rescued unhurt. A serious manhunt has been lunched for the fleeing members of the gang. Crdt: The Nation

Cross River governor appoints 1,106 fresh advisers

Prof. Ben Ayade, on Tuesday appointed 1,106 persons into various positions. The positions were in the categories of special advisers, special assistants, personal assistants as well as the chairmen and members of boards, commissions, departments and agencies.

The governor had, in a parley with journalists in August, reiterated his decision to appoint over 1,000 political appointees for poverty alleviation in the state. So far, there are 28 commissioners in addition to 65 special advisers and over 100 special assistants, personal assistants and community relations officers.
A breakdown of the latest appointment shows that 799 were appointed into various boards, commissions and agencies, while the remaining 307 appointees were categorised into special advisers (six), senior special advisers (30), special assistants (75) and Personal Assistants (25).
Others are personal assistants to paramount rulers (16), representatives of each local government in the state food bank unit (90), liaison officers for the 18 local government area and three senatorial districts (21), special assistants on religious affairs (18) and permanent secretaries (26). Crdt: Punchng

"it was PDP that humiliated my husband and killed him"Alameiseigha‎’s Widow maggie

Mrs. Magareth Alameiseigha, the widow of the First Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Late Diepreye Solomon Alameisegha, yesterday exonerated the leadership of the APC from the events which led to the October 2015 death of her husband.
According to her, though the events leading to the last year death of her husband sparked off controversy between the PDP and APC ahead of the Governorship election, the killing of her husband started with his removal from office, arrest, trial and seizure of owned properties under the leadership of the PDP.

While speaking with news men during the First Year Anniversary of the death of her husband, she said: “I can categorically say today that it was the PDP that arrested my husband, seized all his properties and humiliated him to the point of his death.
It is PDP that killed my husband and not the APC. It was PDP that arrested my husband, it was PDP that humiliated my husband and killed him. At the end they seized everything that belonged to him.
It was the PDP that tormented my husband and he died as a result of the humiliation he suffered in the hands of the PDP. As far as am concerned, the humiliated me and took everything away from us.
When my husband took over the mantle of leadership, he saw how his people were suffering. As an intelligent man, he saw the need to fight for resource control as the way out for his people.
But at the end it is the same people that he fourth for that betrayed him. They sold him out to the PDP that eventually killed him. I want to advise the Ijaw people to stop betraying their leaders, so that they can move forward.”

Lagos State Government arrests 8 prostitutes in Gen. Azazi’s house

The Lagos State Government has arrested eight suspected prostitutes and three men in the house of late National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi in Ikoyi, Lagos, PMNEWS reports.

The arrest was part of the Lagos State Government’s clean up exercise in Ikoyi and Victoria Island which have been overtaken by illegal and abandoned structures. Most of the young women arrested were from Benue State and will be charged to court by the taskforce for constituting nuisance in the area.

Teachers sent abroad for training have absconded – Jigawa state government

About 700 primary school teachers in Jigawa State stand the risk of losing their jobs, following the ongoing verification in the state, to fish out ghost teachers and absentees, especially those who went for in-service courses in universities across the world, but had graduated and refused to report to their place of work.

The action of those teachers has compelled the government to further suspend, indefinitely, in-service training courses. The government was furious that the teachers betrayed its trust by remaining abroad when their expertise was needed back home.
Lamenting the development, the Head of Service, Mohammed Inuwa Tahir, said: “What kind of degree course does a worker spend 15 years studying and still collecting salaries.
Our government will not condone laziness and unfair act by some workers who have the habit of completing their study and refusing to report back to their place of work.”

DSS foils former BBC reporter's attempt to escape from Nigeria

A middle-aged man named "Idris" has been apprehended by the Department of State Services (DSS) detectives for attempting to facilitate the escape of a former BBC Hausa Service reporter, Jamilah Tangaza from Nigeria through a small border town in Kwara state, SR reports.
The DSS agents caught Idris with Ms. Tangaza's passport after he had attempted to get it stamped by the Nigerian Immigration Services outpost in Chikanda in Kwara State.

According to a DSS official, Ms. Tangaza was waiting to collect the passport and exit Nigeria through the border town. She could not be found after her emissary tipped her off that he'd been arrested by the DSS.
Ms. Tangaza was detained in August 2016 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission accused her of stealing N800m while she served as the Director of Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) as well as a SeniorSpecial Assistant to the former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed.
A source at the EFCC said the agency was surprised that she acquired another passport after depositing her original passport with the EFCC in August as part of the conditions for granting her bail.

" I don’t believe somebody can just steal $2.2bn."-Goodluck Jonathan

Yesterday, former Pres. Goodluck Jonathan said it was impossible for the National Security Adviser (NSA) during his administration, Sambo Dasuki, to have stolen $2.2 billion as claimed by the EFCC.

His words: “They said the National Security Adviser stole $2.2bn. I don’t believe somebody can just steal $2.2bn. We bought warships, we bought aircraft, we bought lots of weapons for the army and so on and so forth and you are still saying 2.2bn, so where did we get the money to buy all those things?
Yes, there were some issues; yes, there are still corruption issues; but some of it were blown, I’d say exaggerated, and they give a very bad impression about our nation. You cannot say the national security adviser stole $2.2bn. It is not just possible."

Father Receives Longest Prison sentence of 1,503 years for raping daughter

A California man received the longest prison sentence in the history of Fresno — 1,503 years — after he refused two plea deals that would have put him back on the streets, according to a report.
Rene Lopez, 41, was convicted of felony incest in Fresno Superior Court after he repeatedly raped his 12-year-old daughter from 2009 to 2013, the Fresno Bee reported.

In handing down the sentence, Judge Edward Sarkisian Jr. admonished Lopez for committing the callous acts and violating his fatherly trust while labeling him a “serious danger to society.”
Sarkisian also blasted Lopez for not showing any remorse and blaming his daughter for his unspeakable acts. During the sentencing hearing, the victim, who is now 23, stood up and read an emotional statement, saying, “When my father abused me, I was young.
I had no power, no voice. I was defenseless.” Prosecutors said Lopez “chose to turn her into a piece of property and use her to satisfy his sexual needs.” Lopez raped his daughter up to three times a week until she mustered up the courage to leave him and report his dirty deeds to the police.

It’s impossible to sell petrol at N145 per litre today – NNPC

The Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Department of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, has said the nation’s difficult business environment may make it difficult to sustain the current pump price of petrol.
He spoke at the 10th Oil Trading and Logistics Africa Downstream Week in Lagos, where he also said it was impossible to import products at the current market price, at current fixed foreign exchange rate and recover one’s money.

He said marketers that are currently selling below N145/litre are doing so because they are not the importers of the fuel. “Because we (NNPC) have taken the heat, and you buy from us you can afford to go to the market and then put a ridiculous price. It is not possible, because they did not import it.”
However, Kyari ruled out the possibility of increasing the pump price by government due to the economic hardship in the country, saying, “It is impossible for this government to announce tomorrow that petrol is about N150. This government cannot sustain it. That is the truth. The people will not take that number. But that is why the suppliers now are not importing. It is not about the foreign exchange.”
He said “we are in subsidy regime absolutely, there is no way you bring product today and take it and sell at N145 and get back your money, and make profit. That is not possible. You can see some marketers saying that fuel is N138. It is because they did not import. Somebody has taken the heat of the price."

We fought corruption without making noise – Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan said this on Monday while speaking at the Oxford Union of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Responding to inquiries by some of the students regarding his administration’s fight against corruption, GEJ said he would not like to “interfere with the legal processes” because “several matters are pending in court”.

He, however, said he did enough to reform anti-corruption agencies to enable them function effectively. “We reformed the institutions and introduced various mechanisms to stop the corruption problems in our country without publicity,” he said.

EFCC docks businessman over N229m fraud

Sunday Evbodaghe and his company, Sunnivik Rivera Nig. Ltd, was, today, arraigned on a 4-count charge of stealing, forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N229m.