Police worker arrested on suspicion of killing and EATING a man he met on 'exotic meat’ website who fantasised about being murdered by a cannibal

This German police worker, known only Detlev G, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who fantasised about being eaten by a cannibal

A German police worker has been charged with murdering and chopping up a man he met on a cannibal website who had long fantasised about being killed and eaten.
The suspect, known only as Detlev G, is said to have been 'obsessed' with cannibalism and met the 59-year-old man from Hanover on the fetishist website.
Police say the victim was tortured, killed and dismembered and body parts were found buried in the garden of Detlev's home in the eastern Ore Mountains, near Dresden. 
The handwriting and document analysis specialist was arrested on Wednesday at his workplace, the Criminal Technical Institute in the eastern city of Dresden, authorities said.
He told investigators that he fatally stabbed the victim in the throat on November 4, hours after the two met in person for the first time.
The 55-year-old said he then chopped up the body into multiple pieces.
The suspect pointed officers to a number of places around his property, south of Dresden, where he had buried the remains, city police chief Dieter Kroll said at a televised news conference.
The 59-year-old victim, whose name was not released, traveled about 250 miles by bus from Hanover to the meeting.

Police started looking into the case when the victim was reported missing on November 11 by a colleague.

Two days later, witnesses told officers that 'the missing man had fantasised since his youth about being killed and eaten by another person,' Kroll said.
The killing happened about a month after the pair first met in an Internet chatroom, police said.
'The victim had been fantasising about being killed and eaten by someone else since his youth,' Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll told a news conference.
Authorities are now checking whether any body parts are missing or were eaten but the suspect has denied doing so.
The website they used says it deals with 'exotic meat.'

'He said that his victim wanted to be killed and he fulfilled this wish,' Haase said in a telephone interview.

The case has similarities to that of Armin Meiwes, who was jailed in 2002 for meeting, killing and eating a computer programmer from Berlin whose life's ambition was to be eaten.
Investigator Maik Mainda said the victim and the suspected killer maintained 'very intense contact by chat, by mail, by SMS but also by telephone' after first becoming acquainted in early October.
Police are only just beginning their investigation, he said.
'I can't give any conclusive information yet about the actual motivation of the suspect for killing his victim. We are investigating in all directions.'
German media reported that Detlev was previously married but divorced and then started a relationship with a man.

Case mirrors that of Armin Meiwes (left) who was jailed for killing, dismembering and eating Bernd Brandes

Prosecutors said the suspect did not mention whether he and the victim had any sexual relations before the killing.
The Dresden case 'will show how easily people can come together with the most gruesome fantasies on the Internet and exchange their perversions in increasingly crass manner,' police chief Kroll said.

'In 99 per cent of cases, they get their kick out of the exchange.'
His former wife is also employed by the state criminal investigation office.
In the case of the victim, it seemed his desires mirrored those of Bernd Brandes, the computer programmer who was dismembered and eaten by Meiwes at his home near Kassel in 2001.  

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UPN DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF 5 PDP GOVERNORS

The Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) has called for the resignation of the five governors who defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), calling their action a show of shame.

In a Press Statement yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Honourable Bari Salau, UPN described the cross-carpeting by the “PDP-7” as an immoral act that demonstrated lack of respect for the electorate.

Although recognizing the individual’s inalienable right to freely associate and hold and canvass political opinions as enshrined in Section 40 of the Nigerian Constitution, UPN insisted that politicians who are elected into office should be careful at manipulating the power they hold in trust for the people.

“If a Governor is elected on the platform of a political party, the honourable thing for that Governor to do is to respect the mandate given to him by the people and complete the tenure under the platform of that party; or else he should quit the post if he thinks that he no longer believes in the party under which he was elected,” the statement said.

In the words of the party: “The amalgam of the APC and the governors of the new-PDP is a show of shame that calls for Nigerians to soberly reflect on Nigerian politics. For elected governors to cross-carpet to another party, without respect for their electorate, demonstrates political rascality that should not be condoned in our polity.”

Lamenting that no ounce of altruism or national interest featured in the governors’ action, UPN said it had been about the aggrieved politicians’ personal interests.

The embryonic party complained: “In their negotiations and merger talk, all issues on the table revolved around power and position, with no mention made of the interest of the people of Nigeria. With this current amalgamation, Nigerians now know that APC and PDP are birds of the same feather with their difference akin to only six and half-a-dozen.”

According to the statement, when fully registered, the Unity Party of Nigeria will hold the feelings of the people and their mandate sacrosanct.

UPN said that the current hiccups in the political landscape have justified the emergence of an ideological party that, rather than acquire political power for selfish ends like PDP and APC, will be committed to service to the people.

In UPN’s own words: “The time for liberation is almost here, where the people of Nigeria will have the opportunity to build UPN as a party of the people by the people for the people. We want our people to take solace in the fact that when they are pushed to the wall, as they now are, they can tap into the wisdom of their heroes past to take their destiny into their hands. And that is what UPN is all about.”

Student Sets Teacher On Fire

A Tennessee high school teacher was set on fire by one of her students, cops said.
WATE reports that Gabriela Penalba, 23, turned her back to her class on Monday morning at West High School in Knoxville when a 15-year-old male student set her hair and shirt ablaze using his lighter, police said.
Students quickly put the fire out.
Gawker notes that the student allegedly "exploited the commotion" by throwing the lighter out the window and fleeing before being captured by police.
The quick thinking of her students helped Penalba avoid any burns, according to WBIR.

The student faces aggravated assault and evading arrest charges.
His name has not been released because he's a minor and has not been charged as an adult.

Nigeria sharia police smash 240,000 bottles of beer

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria's city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed "immoral" in the area.

The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming into the city in recent weeks, said officials from the Hisbah, the patrol tasked with enforcing the strict Islamic law, known as sharia.
Kano's Hisbah chief Aminu Daurawa said at the bottle-breaking ceremony he had "the ardent hope this will bring an end to the consumption of such prohibited substances".
A large bulldozer smashed the bottles to shouts of "Allahu Ahkbar" (God is Great) from supporters outside the Hisbah headquarters in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north.
Kegs containing more than 8,000 litres of a local alcoholic brew called "burukutu" and 320,000 cigarettes were also destroyed.
"We hope this measure will help restore the tarnished image of Kano," said Daurawa.

Local Islamic policemen destroy crates of beer bottles to enforce a sharia law ban on the consumptio …

Since September, the Hisbah have launched sweeping crackdowns and made hundreds of arrests in Kano following a state-government directive to cleanse the commercial hub of so-called "immoral" practices.
The 9,000-strong moral police force works alongside the civilian police but also has other duties, including community development work and dispute resolution.
Sharia was reintroduced across northern Nigeria in 2001, but the code has been unevenly applied.
Alcohol is typically easy to find in Kano, including at hotels and bars in neighbourhoods like Sabon Gari, inhabited by the city's sizeable Christian minority.
But the Hisbah boss vowed that this was set to change.
"We hereby send warning to unrepentant offenders that Hisbah personnel will soon embark on an operation into every nook and corner of (Kano) state to put an end to the sale and consumption of alcohol and all other intoxicants," Daurawa said.
People accused of engaging in prostitution and homosexual sex have been among those arrested in the latest crackdown, along with alleged drunks and drug addicts.
Nigeria is divided between a mostly Christian south and a predominately Muslim north.

FG TO LECTURERS: RESUME DEC 4 OR BE SACKED •Threat laughable, has no effect - ASUU

THE Federal Government may have decided to wield the big stick on the striking university lecturers, by threatening them with mass sack if they fail to resume back to classrooms on or before December 4.
Riding on the crest of earlier directive by the pro-chancellors of federal universities for the vice chancellors to reopen the universities to students for full commencement of academic activities, the Federal Government also directed the vice chancellors to ensure that universities are immediately reopened for academic and allied activities.
Supervising Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, while addressing newsmen in Abuja, on Thursday, said government had to take the hard stance, after the review of the entire situation, adding that it had concluded that the continuation of the strike was an attempt by ASUU to sabotage all efforts to address issues.
He stressed that any academic staff member who failed to resume on or before December 4 automatically ceased to be a staffer of the institution, while vice chancellors, according to him, had been directed to advertise such vacancies internally and externally in their institutions.
Wike said the Federal Government was miffed that after fruitful deliberation with President Goodluck Jonathan at a meeting of “good” 13 hours in the Villa, to ensure that all issues were exhausted, ASUU came up with fresh conditions for calling off its five-month-old strike outside what was contained in the memorandum drawn from the meeting.
It is recalled that ASUU, after its secret National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, last weekend, had given the Federal Government two weeks to begin the implementation of the N200 billion it pledged to inject into the system and distribute such within the stipulated time frame.
ASUU equally said government should renegotiate the 2009 agreement by 2014 and that the Attorney General of the Federation be made signatory to the memorandum of understanding (MoU), after it was agreed in the meeting with the president that the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Education should sign the MoU.
Wike, while given the rationale for the latest move, said government had satisfied all the conditions and obligations with respect to the 2009 agreement, saying “it was becoming obvious that the union is taking the presidency and Nigerians for a ride.”
The government has, accordingly, summoned all the vice chancellors of its universities to Abuja for a meeting today, for further briefing on the decision of the government.
He added that such development posed danger to the education system, the future of Nigerian youths and national development, just as he directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to monitor the compliance of the directive by the various universities.
Wike tasked vice chancellors to ensure staffers who resumed for work were provided with the enabling environment for academic and allied activities.
Indications, however, emerged in Abuja that ASUU leadership was holding meeting at a location it could not be confirmed as of press time.

Threat has no effect, laughable —ASUU
Reacting, the national treasurer of ASUU, Ademola Aremu, said the union would suspend the strike within 24 hours, once the resolutions submitted to President Jonathan were accepted.
He said the union had asked Jonathan to facilitate the endorsement of resolutions reached with him and signed by high ranking government official, preferably the Attorney-General of the Federation, but not a permanent secretary.
Aremu also said the striking lecturers wanted the N200 billion agreed upon as 2013 revitalisation fund for public universities to be warehoused with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and disbursed to the benefiting universities.
Dr Aremu said the threat by the Federal Government did not hold water, as it had confirmed the fears that the government could not be trusted.
“With the latest action, the Federal Government has shown that it is not committed to all it has been saying. We are saying that since we agreed at the meeting that the sum of 200 billion is for 2012 and 2013 revitalisation, the Federal Government should deposit same in the Central Bank of Nigeria. We are already in November and December is around the corner. If they don’t do that now, when do they want to do it?
“We are also saying the non-victimisation clause should be included as agreed, while the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement should be included as agreed with the president,” he said.
The ASUU chief said the military tried threatening the union and failed, adding that this one would fail again.
“They can re-open the school. ASUU did not shut down the universities. It was the school management that ordered the students to go back home,” he said.
He noted that ASUU appreciated the intervention of the president, but then added that some of the resolutions reached with Jonathan were not included in the letter sent to the union.
Also reacting, ASUU chairman, University of Abuja branch, Mr Clement Chup, said the union could not be intimidated.
“The school can go ahead and ask students to resume, but we won’t do any work; we won’t teach them. It is not our responsibility to resume until ASUU decides,” he said.
In his reaction, chairman of  University of Jos branch of the union, Dr Wannang Jangkam, said the strike could only be called off by the directive of the national body of the union.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune over the development, Dr Jangkam said the directive was just a mere position of the pro-chancellors and had no effect on the union, adding that ASUU could not take any position based on the position of the pro-chancellors.
According to him, the union was not worried on the ploy to break its rank on the struggle, adding that “we are committed to the struggle and it is for the betterment of the sector.”
When reached for comment, chairman of the University of Port Harcourt branch of ASUU, Professor Anthonia Okerengwo, said she was yet to get the detail of the said order.
She also said she would need to be briefed by the national president of the union before she could make any comment on it.
“I just heard about it too, I’ve not even read anything about it and yet to understand the content, so I won’t be able to give any reaction yet. I will wait to be briefed by my national president first,” Okerengwo said.
Chairman, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) branch of ASUU, Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, on Thursday, said the lecturers were not worried by the return-to-work order by the Federal Government.
Abada told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka that the union was not dealing with the minister who gave the order, but with President Jonathan.
He said it was unfortunate that rather than pursue amicable resolution of the crisis, the minister was issuing a “military order.”
Chairman, University of Lagos (UNILAG) branch of ASUU, Dr Oghenekaro Ogbinaka, told NAN that the development was strange and laughable.
He said that this was so, considering the fact that the union was yet to get back to the government, after their deliberations with President Jonathan.
He said “our reaction is simple. Let us just wait for the seven days to come around.
“We are not going to fall to that blackmail. Now, which one is better: government acceding to our demands or issuing out threats?”
The University of Benin and Ambrose Alli University (AAU) branches of ASUU described as laughable, the order by the Federal Government.
They said they were waiting to see how the order would be enforced by the government.
Chairman of UNIBEN-ASUU, Dr Tony Monye, in a telephone conversation with the Nigerian Tribune, said the government could keep its job because they had resolved that they could not continue working under present conditions.
His AAU counterpart, Professor Fred Esumeh, said the minister could only give directives to university management and not to union members, adding that it was not the responsibility of ASUU to re-open universities.
UNILAG faction backs FG
The anti-strike faction of ASUU in the University of Lagos, on Thursday, expressed its total support for the resumption ultimatum and sack threat issued on striking lecturers nationwide by the Federal Government.
The faction also denied being sponsored by the government.
The group, led by two members of UNILAG ASUU-NEC, had parted ways with the mainstream ASUU, over its continued participation in the strike, as it issued the latter an ultimatum on Monday to pull out by the end of this week.
Leader of the breakaway faction, Dr Emmanuel Ogbeide, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune on phone, was confident that UNILAG would resume before the expiration of the ultimatum, while maintaining that the sack of those who refused to comply would be lawful.
Ogbeide, who alongside another leader of the faction, Dr Adeyemi Daramola, had engaged the ASUU leadership in war of words, described their colleagues who could not speak out against the strike but were complaining in private as hypocrites.
According to him, “UNILAG will surely resume work before December 4. The school governing council has the right to sack lecturers who did not conform with that decision.”
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Asari-Dokubo regains freedom

Dokubo-Asari

LEADER of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, who was arrested on Tuesday in Cotonou, Benin Republic has been released.

Dokubo was allegedly released around 1am on Thursday after intervention by President Goodluck Jonathan.

His lawyer, Festus Keyamo, confirmed his release.

Meanwhile the Presidency on Thursday described as “blackmail and mischief” media reports that President Jonathan sent a presidential jet to convey Asari-Dokubo to Abuja from Benin Republic where he was initially detained.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, in an interview with State House correspondents said the report was an attempt by some people to package lies as the truth hoping that gullible people would believe them.

Abati said since an aircraft was not a ghost, the movement of any aircraft would be documented adding that “and if it lands anywhere, people will see it.”

He said, “There is no truth in the report that a presidential jet was used to convey Asari Dokubo. Again, what we see here is an attempt by some people to just tell lies and try to package lies as the truth.”

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Protest: Soldiers, police bar Buhari, Tinubu, others from INEC office

A combined team of security operatives including soldiers and riot policemen on Thursday stopped the leaders of the All Progressives Congress from gaining entrance to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja.

The leaders were on a peaceful protest march against the commission’s handling of the November 16 Anambra State governorship election and other forms of electoral irregularities in the country.

As early as 8.30 am, members of the party across the states had converged on its new secretariat in Wuse 2 in the Federal Capital Territory where a strategic meeting which lasted over three hours was held ostensibly to map out ways to go about the planned protest.

Although none of the rebel governors was present, the APC leaders took to the streets and embarked on a walk protest to INEC’s office in Maitama Distict.

They however met a stiff resistance from stern-looking security operatives from a combined team of the police, army, State Security Services  and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier with Registration Number NPF 6359 C measuring about 40 feet long was used to barricade the entrance to the commission’s office, while the driver of the truck (a police officer, with the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police) was pelted with sachets of pure water by the APC youths.

But despite this resistance, the party members stole the show and left their message.

Those in attendance at the protest march included the party’s national leader and a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd);  ex- Governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Niyi Adebayo;  a former member of the House of Representatives and Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network, Otunba Dino Melaye; and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba.

Others are a former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Sani Yerima; a former national Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai; Senator Oluremi Tinubu; a member of the House of Representatives, Ms. Abike Dabiri; Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajiabiamila; Mr. Pally Iriase, among others.

In their separate speeches, Akande, Tinubu; Onu and Buhari demanded the sacking of INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega with immediate effect because of his roles in the Oguta election in Imo State and the recent Delta State senatorial election.

In his speech, Tinubu said the party leadership came “to serve warning signal to INEC.”

He said, “As an institution,  INEC does not represent the interest of Nigeria. They are all compromised electoral officers. They have committed criminal offences by rigging elections in Nigeria. The electoral commissioners represent 90 per cent of card-carrying members of PDP. We are calling for the dissolution of INEC immediately.

“With the amendment of the electoral law, they have never complied with the Uwais report. They rig, after rigging, because we condone them; they are used in sharing the election, and for the promotion of corruption. We are rejecting in totality the predetermined result of the rigging in Anambra State, the Delta State Senatorial election and the Oguta House House of Assembly election. They thought they would keep us lamenting. No, we are no more in lamentation.”

Tinubu also told the police to beware. “If the Nigeria Police have become the armed wing of the PDP, let us know. That is the way you are behaving. If the Nigerian Army is now demonstrating their patriotic sense to only one party, they should serve us notice and let us know.  This nonsense must stop. APC will stop the rigging.  From now on, you must rig and roast. God bless Nigeria.”

According to Buhari, APC’s letter to INEC was the party’s demand to the institution to “do away with the election in Anambra State that was conducted and calling for the cancellation of the election totally and fixing of another day for the election.”

For Akande, the letter was APC’s protest against the rigging of Anambra State election.

He said, “We are against the rigging of Delta State senatorial election. We are against the rigging of Oguta House of Assembly election. And our coming is to ask Nigerians to support us to stop rigging in Nigeria. There is poverty in Nigeria because of fraud.

Onu said, “The APC will put an end to this. We need free and fair elections in our county. Why is PDP afraid of free and fair elections? Why are they afraid of the people?”

The APC in its letter to INEC chairman signed by Akande stated that prior to the date for the Anambra State governorship election, “the ominous signs of an election that was pre-determined to favour specific interests against the wish of the electorate were already clear.”

The APC therefore demanded “an outright cancellation of the Anambra election, having been marred by serious irregularities and non-compliance with the Electoral Act.”

The party also called on INEC to, among others, “discard the present fake multiple voter registers and produce one authentic voter register that will not disenfranchise any voter and be published 30 days before any election can take place in Anambra State.”

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ANAMBRA SUPPLEMENTARY GUBER POLLS: IGP RE-ASSURES ADEQUATE PROVISION OF SECURITY

·       Charges Officers to remain politically neutral

Arising from a strategic security meeting with members of the Force Management Team, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR, NPM, mni, psc has reassured Nigerians of the readiness of the Force to ensure adequate provision of security in and around Anambra State in view of the forthcoming supplementary election in some parts of Anambra State come Saturday, 30^th November, 2013. He reassures citizens that earlier security arrangements for the 16^th November guber election are still in place, promising that the Force will continue to maintain its optimal presence in the State until the successful conclusion of the election.

The IGP called on the personnel of the Force and other security agencies to rededicate themselves and be truly committed towards ensuring a seamless and hitch free conduct of the supplementary election. He charged the officers and men to remain steadfast, focused and neutral and exhibit the highest level of professionalism in the course of discharging their duties both during and after the period of the elections in the state.

The IGP also sued for peace among the people of Anambra State urging them to cooperate with the Police and other relevant security agencies in ensuring an atmosphere of peace and order throughout the remaining phase of the election.  He equally enjoins the politicians, traditional rulers, and opinion leaders in the state to play by the rules and also help in educating their followers on the need to allow INEC and other Government agencies to see the process of the election through.

IGP REASSURES UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY OF ADEQUATE SECURITY

 

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR, NPM, mni, psc, has ordered the provision of adequate security around University campuses nation-wide. This is designed to help secure life and property in the Ivory Towers and provide enabling environment for lecturers, students, academic and non-academic staff to go about their lawful businesses without let or hindrance. The directive is a proactive and confidence-boosting measure designed to ensure that nothing untoward happens in our academic communities.

Consequently, the IGP has directed all Command Commissioners of Police to personally, oversee the intensification of surveillance activities around Universities within their State Commands. They are to take all necessary security measures needed to provide for the safety and security of staff and students as well as property within the various Campuses.

Meanwhile, lecturers, students and indeed all Nigerians within the Institutions are advised to remain law abiding and go about their legitimate businesses without fear of molestation or intimidation from any quarters.

EFCC Arraigns Fraudster for N28m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday November 27, 2013 arraigned one Richard Onomeh Akaighe, before Justice Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Warri on one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.  Richard allegedly obtained the sum of N28, 312,570 (Twenty Eight Million, Three Hundred and Twelve Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventy Naira) from one Anunwa Jeremiah through phony petroleum products supply deal.

 According to the complainant, the accused person refused to pay him the said sum, being the cost of five truck load of automotive gas oil which he supplied to Chevron yard in Delta State since May, 2012.

The charge reads, “that you Richard Onomeh Akaighe being the Managing Director of Global Upstream Solution Limited sometimes in May, 2012 at Effurun within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud did induce one Anuwa Jeremiah to confer a benefit on you by delivering five trucks of diesel (AGO) amounting to Twenty Eight Million  Three Hundred and Twelve Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy Naira (N28,312,570.00) only under a false representation that you shall pay him within two weeks after supply is made, a pretext you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) (b) & (2) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act”.

When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty.

In view of his plea, the prosecuting counsel, F.O Dibang prayed the court for a date for the commencement of trial. But defence counsel, Jah’swill Onyemah-Iwe urged the court to grant the accused bail.

Justice Abubakar granted the accused bail in the sum of Ten Million Naira (N10, 000,000.00) and two sureties in like sum. The sureties must be senior civil servants, one of whom must be on GL15.

The case has been adjourned to the January 26, 2014 for the commencement of trial.

 

Man stabs alleged homosexual boss to death

Eji Emmanuel

A 22-year-old man, Eji Emmanuel, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for the alleged murder of a 39-year-old trader, Sylvanus Okoye.

According to the police, the suspect stabbed the deceased to death at his home on Ezemegbu Drive, Okota in August.

The suspect, however, explained that he killed the deceased in self-defence.

He alleged that on the day of the incident, Okoye had attempted to rape him.

Explaining the events that culminated in Okoye’s death, the suspect said he was a dancer and was lured to Lagos by a friend, Chukwudi, under the guise of doing music business only for the friend to introduce him to homosexuality.

He said he had gone to report the matter to his friend’s boss but his friend’s boss raped him twice and he reported the matter at the FESTAC Police Division.

He said the matter was transferred to the Zone 2 Police Command and the case was turned against him after which he spent two weeks in detention.

He said he had approached Okoye, who he considered an Igbo leader in the state, to help him with money to return to Anambra State when Okoye also attempted to rape him.

 He said, “I went along with a relative to report the matter to Okoye and he gave my friend and I N5,000 and shirts. He  told us not to worry, so we slept over at his house. At midnight, however, Okoye came to my room and attempted to have sex with me but I refused him.

“My relative later told me that Okoye had sex with him in the parlour that same night. We left in the morning and returned to Anambra State. From there, I went to Abuja where I remained for four months. However, one day, Okoye called me that he had a business deal and invited me to come to Lagos.

“I told Okoye that I would not engage in any act of homosexuality and he agreed.”

The suspect said when he returned to Lagos, the deceased said he wanted to open a bar in the area and wanted him to manage the business.

He said he passed the night at the deceased’s home, but at midnight, the deceased crept into his room and attempted to make love to him.

He said, “In the evening, Okoye served me with bread, butter and tea in my room. Around 3.30am, he crept into my room and wanted to sleep with me, but I refused him.

“Okoye was a big man so he attempted to overpower me, but I picked up the bread knife that was still left in the room and stabbed him in the neck, but he did not die.

“I picked up a flexible iron and bound it round his neck and locked him inside the room.

“When it was 6am, I stepped out of the house and gave the key to one woman beside the gate and fled.”

PUNCH Metro had reported on August 16, 2013, that Okoye was found murdered in his home two weeks after he was last seen by neighbours.

It was learnt that following the discovery, the security guard and the woman whom the suspect handed the key to were arrested by detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.

PUNCH Metro learnt that after three months, detectives were able to locate the suspect in Anambra State.

A police detective said, “The security guard told us that he could identify the suspect if he saw him.

“In the course of investigation, we obtained call logs from Okoye’s phone and we learnt that the suspect had used Okoye’s phone to call his girlfriend in Anambra State shortly after killing Okoye.

“We travelled to Anambra State and we were able to locate the suspect who was even wearing the deceased’s clothes.”

The suspect, however, insisted that he was not a killer but a victim of circumstance.

He said, “My father and my brother are dead. I am the only child of my mother. Who will take care of her if I am sent to prison?

“I am not a homosexual but I was used. I tried for several months to impregnate my girlfriend but was not successful. I feel they have stolen my virtues.”

Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed Emmanuel’s arrest to our correspondent on the telephone.

Braide added that the police were still working to establish it the the victim was a homosexual or not as alleged by the suspect.

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Ex-militant, Asari-Dokubo arrested in Cotonou

Dokubo-Asari

A Former Niger Delta militant, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, was on Tuesday arrested in Cotonou, capital of Benin Republic.

It was learnt that the ex-militant was arrested at about 1.00pm by the Benin Republic’s police.

A statement by his lawyer, Festus Keyamo confirmed the arrest, saying Asari-Dokubo was picked up around the Lubeleyi roundabout and taken to “an unknown destination.”

Keyamo, in the statement on Tuesday, argued that Asari-Dokubo was not arrested for running any illegitimate business in the country.

The lawyer noted that the ex-militant had been residing partly in Benin Republic for many years, adding that Asari-Dokubo owns property in Cotonou.

It was gathered that the ex-militant reportedly opened a private university – King Amachree African University, in Benin Republic.

The university is preparing to start degree-awarding programmes in 2014.

The statement reads in part, “Today, Tuesday, November 26, 2013, my friend and client, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, was arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic, around the hours of 1pm and 2pm by the country’s gendarmes (police).

“He was picked up around the Lubeleyi roundabout and taken to an unknown destination. In fact, he owns houses, schools and an academy in that country. All these places have been searched as of this evening and nothing incriminating was found.”

Keyamo expressed the conviction that “Dokubo’s arrest and detention are a ploy by certain forces in Nigeria in an unholy alliance with the Beninoise government to keep him away as 2015 approaches.

“We call on the Nigerian government to immediately intervene and ensure that no harm befalls Alhaji Dokubo-Asari and to use all diplomatic means to secure his immediate release and safe return to Nigeria.”

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100-level student to die by hanging

A Makurdi High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a 100-level sociology student of Benue State University, Jacob Atongo,  to death by hanging for armed robbery.
In his judgment, Justice Adam Onum, held that he was satisfied with the confession of the accused to the charges and therefore, found him guilty.
Onum sentenced the accused to death by hanging, insisting that the sentence prescribed under the law for the offence must be followed.
Atongo conspired with two others and robbed Stephen Akuma, and several others at gun point on June 26, 2012.
The convict and his accomplices robbed Akuma of his Toyota Camry car with registration number Benue AID 39 AA and other victims of valuables, including various sums of money.
He also attacked Judges’ Quarters, Makurdi on July 3, 2012 and robbed no fewer than 15 people, dispossessing them of various items and money at gun point.
The offences contravened the Robbery and Firearms Laws.
During the proceedings, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charges and testified for himself along with one witness called by his counsel.
In statements, according to the prosecution, the convict confessed to the commission of the offences.
But counsel to the accused, Mr E.Z. Agbakor, argued that the prosecution failed to prove the case against his client beyond all reasonable doubt.
Agbakor told the court that the accused did not make the statement tendered in court voluntarily, insisting his client was tortured and forced to confess to the offences.
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Policeman on rampage in Edo, kills inspector, shoots corporal

A police Corporal created panic Monday night in Benin, as he went on rampage, killing an Inspector and shooting another Police Corporal in the process.
The deceased Inspector was said to be on an official duty at a first generation bank  located on Agbor Road, when he was shot by the suspect, who was identified as Oziegbe Omobude.
The incident reportedly occurred at Iyoha Road, Ikpoba Hill, Benin City.
The suspect was said to have also attacked and shot a fellow police corporal, who boarded the same bus with him, ostensibly for suspecting that he saw him kill the Police Inspector.
The Corporal, who was identified as Ayinla, was said to have alighted from the bus and was demanding for his balance from the bus driver when the suspect shot him and ordered the driver to drive off.
The injured police Corporal was said to have been taken to an undisclosed hospital at Ikpoba Hill, where the corpse of the late Inspector was also said to have been deposited.
The police authorities in Benin did not say anything on the incident or the suspect, who is said to hail from Uokhai, Owan East Local Government Area of the state.
When contacted, spokesman of the Edo State Police Command, Moses Eguavoen, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.
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Pro-chancellors order universities open •Our leaders irresponsible —UNILAG faction

THE Committee of Pro-chancellors of Nigerian Federal Universities, on Tuesday, unanimously ordered immediate re-opening of universities across the country.
The communiqué signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Professor Kimse Okoko, was made available to newsmen late Tuesday in Abuja.
The communiqué was issued at the end of the committee meeting to discuss the protracted strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other issues affecting the Nigerian university system.
The communiqué stated that the decision to re-open the universities was unanimously agreed by all pro-chancellors in the overall interest of all concerned.
The pro-chancellors, in the communique, directed all vice chancellors to comply with the committee decision.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the decision of the pro-chancellors was predicated on the earlier referendum held by various chapters of ASUU that voted 60-40 in favour of suspension of the over four months old strike.
They expressed dismay that all efforts to resolve the crisis, including the intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan, has failed.
The communiqué recognised “all effort by Federal Government to address the major issues involved in the strike action including the bold and the supportive intervention by Mr President.”
It also stated that the committee noted “with satisfaction the outcome of the referendum conducted in all branches of ASUU nationwide which voted 60-40 in favour of the suspension of the ongoing strike by ASUU.”
The pro-chancellors called for the understanding of ASUU and indeed all staff of the various universities in Nigeria.
This order is coming on the heels of polarisation that has already crept into the ASUU, following the meeting they had with President Goodluck Jonathan penultimate week.
Nigerians were amazed that the emergency National Executive Council meeting, held in Kaduna last weekend, came out with fresh conditions for suspension of strike after it was rumoured that a deal was struck with President Jonathan.
ASUU has been on strike since July 1 and the NEC meeting was to deliberate on the resolutions of various chapters of ASUU on whether the strike should be suspended or not based on the offers by the government.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the pro-chancellors were aggrieved that even when majority of the members of ASUU want the strike called off, few elements in the union have refused to yield to the popular desire of the members.
Meanwhile, the crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter of ASUU, over its continued participation in the ongoing strike action by the union’s national body, worsened on Tuesday as the two factions in the crisis openly traded insults.
The congress, called on Monday, saw a sharp division in the chapter with a faction favouring a pull-out from the strike action, giving a week ultimatum to open the institution.
The faction also promised undisclosed further actions if the ultimatum was not met, after it held a separate congress following the disruption of the earlier one.
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Plateau: 40 killed, 10 injured, several houses burnt in a fresh attack

THE prevailing peace in Plateau State was shattered on Tuesday, when gunmen launched spontaneous attacks on four villages in Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area of the state, killing 40 people, mostly women and children in the midnight raid.
Governor Jonah Jang had on Sunday at Church of Christ In All Nations (COCIN) raised the alarm that there was a plan by some elements to attack the state and urged the people to be vigilant.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the gunmen invaded the four villages of Tatu, Rahure, Bwok and Dorong with sophisticated weapon about 1:00 a.m on Tuesday when the inhabitants had gone to bed without any premonition of possible attack on their communities.
The village head of Tatu, Da Pam Gyang Tsok who escaped death by the whisker told newsmen that 15 people, mostly women and children were brutally killed by the marauders who stormed the village in their large number adding that the attackers attacked just two families and wiped out the entire households.
According to him, they suddenly heard sporadic gunshot at about 1:00 a.m adding that the attackers went for just two families in the village and killed all of them in their respective houses.
“We were shocked by the attack because we had no quarrel with any group or person and have been living in peace with non natives in our midst. But the attack was carried out in a barbaric manner that is beyond human comprehension, they set some houses on fire and attacked two families, killing 15 people at a go.
“A boy of less than one year old who was crying when the attackers attacked the family was shot at close range while his remains littered the room when we called. We are short of word with this barbaric incident,” he said.
At Rawure village in the same local government it was a tale of sorrow and anguish, the attackers killed nine and wounded five people who are presently receiving treatment at the Plateau State Specialist Hospital.
A community leader, Job Chollom told Nigerian Tribune that the deadly operation was carried out at about 1:00 a.m adding that the entire village was surrounded by the gunmen who were in military uniform and passed instruction to one another in Fulani language while the operation lasted.
He disclosed that two families were attacked and five injured. Some of the names of those killed were Deborah, 10 years old, Christopher, 4 years, a man and his wife and a boy less than one year.
Nigerian Tribune further learnt that 10 people were killed in Bwok village and another seven killed in Dorong village within the same hour by the same set of marauders while seven were injured in the two attacks.
The Interim Administrator of Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area, Mr Habila Dungs who confirmed that 40 people were killed in the attack on four villages said the attacks were carried out spontaneously, making it difficult for the security men to curtail the invasions.
“It was a coordinated attack, the four villages were attacked at the same time and at the same hour. It was a barbaric act, no right thinking person can carry out such ignoble act,” he said.
All those who died in the unfortunate incident were given mass burial in their respective villages at about 10:30 a.m.
Speaking with newsmen shortly after the mass burial in Tatu, the outgoing President of COCIN, Reverend Soja Bewarang who strongly condemned the barbaric act said it was difficult to believe that such thing could happen with the presence of security men all over the place.
The clergyman who said the plan of the attackers was to wipe out the future of the communities called on both the government and security agencies to double up their efforts to curtail the incessant attack on innocent people, which is now becoming an embarrassment to the country.
The Special Task Force (STF) in a statement signed by its Media Officer, Captain Mustapha Salisu confirmed the incident adding that the force personnel swiftly moved to the scenes to bring the situation under control but the gunmen fled on sighting the arrival of the troops.
The statement pointed out that the situation was brought under control by men of the STF and as well secured the areas adding that the Commander of the Task Force, Major General David Enetie has visited the villages to assess the situation and has vowed that no stone would be left unturned to fish out the perpetrators of this dastardly act.
Still reeling from the attack on four villages in Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State which led to the death of 40 people, the local government councillorship primary in Langtang North Council on Tuesday was disrupted leading to the death of three people.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the primary turned violent at about 11:00 a.m in Shishiri venue of Pajat ward where Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary was taking place when some rival groups within the party engaged themselves over some electoral misdemeanours.
It was gathered that the situation turned rowdy when some men of the Special Task Force (STF) deployed to the area were trying to maintain law and order and to rescue one of the electoral officials, who was being manhandled by some aggrieved youths.
A source close to the scene revealed that the youths, most of whom were allegedly dead drunk hauled stones and other dangerous objects at the STF men who were trying to bring the chaotic situation under control, adding that the security agents in the process released volley shot  into the air to disperse  the irate youths.
It was learnt that stray bullets in the process hit three people believed to have died on the spot. Immediately the angry youths barricaded the main road and also burnt tires to protest the killing of three of their colleagues.
When contacted by Nigerian Tribune, the spokesman of the STF, Captain Salisu Mustapha said the command is yet to get detail of the development and promised to get back later.
However, the PDP councillorship primary elections conducted in most Local Government Areas of  the state on Tuesday were marred by hiccups.
However, the police in Plateau on Tuesday confirmed that multiple attacks were carried out on four communities in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state on Monday.
The report said many people were confirmed dead with several others injured in the attacks on the communities.
Mrs Felicia Anselem, the spokesperson of the command, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos that the attacks were carried at about 1.00 a.m.
“The attacks were carried out concurrently at four different locations at Rawuru, Tasu, Foron and Gurabok.
“Many people died and several others injured, but we cannot give the exact number of the casualties yet because our men are collating the figures,” Anselem said.
The spokesperson, however, said that the casualty figure would be publicised after collation.
Captain Salisu Mustapha, the spokesperson of the STF in charge of security in Plateau also confirmed the attack to NAN.
Mustapha said the STF was still gathering the details of the incident and could not give the casualty figures.
“I will give the details of the incident as soon as we have them,” he said.
NAN reports that before the incidents, there were two other attacks in Barkin Ladi and Shendam local government areas in the last five days.
The police had said five people were killed in those attacks.
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