Juliana Francis Blog: March 2014

Monday, March 31, 2014

Married bank worker stole £2m then spent the lot on call girls: £1m went on ONE Thai escort

A married bank worker who stole more than £2million from Barclays and squandered it on prostitutes has been jailed for seven years.
John Skermer, 45, set up fake bank accounts with overdrafts of £1million, then siphoned the money into his personal account.
He spent almost all the cash on call girls, lavishing £1million on one escort alone. The computer geek spent months wining and dining the Thai woman, known as Kookai, travelling to London from his Cheshire home and taking her to expensive hotels and restaurants.

John Skermer, with his wife Tracy, leaving court in Runcorn. Skermer stole more than £2million from Barclays and spent it on prostitutes

Sergeant loses car, pistol in night club

For preferring a ‘nice time’ at a club to his duty, a police sergeant, simply identified as Tokunbo, is now in trouble. The policeman, attached to Area F Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos, has been arrested and detained for losing his pistol to robbers while enjoying himself inside a night club at Igando area of the metropolis.
The sergeant also lost his Toyota Camry car. Tokunbo, according to a police source, parked his car outside the night club and walked in to have a ‘nice time,’ leaving his pistol inside the car. After the fun, he came out to discover that his car and Bereta pistol, loaded with eight rounds of ammunition, had been stolen.

300L LASU student killed, dumped in Ijeshatedo

When Miss Rita Onwuli, a 300 level Economics student of the Lagos State University (LASU), left home last Tuesday, probably for school, she had no inkling of what cruel fate had in stock for her. For three days, her friends, colleagues and family members searched for her to no avail. On the third day, Thursday, they received urgent calls to come and see her. But it was shock that awaited them.
They were not alone that Thursday morning. The residents and business owners at Odo Olowu Street, Ijeshatedo, on the Apapa – Oshodi Expressway, Lagos, woke up to a horrendous sight. The body of a lady, later identified to be that of Onwuli, was lying near a popular church in the area. People, terrified by the sight of the body, gathered in clusters, wondering what was responsible for her death.

‘I get charms for my Yahoo plus from Benin Republic’

Yahoo plus is what is trending in the cybercrime world today. It’s an off shoot of YahooYahoo. According to some cyber-fraudsters; Yahoo plus came to be because, “white people are no longer falling victims and getting dollars from them has become very difficult!” Yahoo plus is the fusion of black magic into cybercrime, which is supposed to spell bind the white folks wherever they are, to cough out dollars.
A few sceptics may not believe this, but many Nigerians apparently believe in the efficacy of black magic in cybercrime, to the extent that it inspired several Nigerian movies. An internet fraudster, arrested in 2013 by detectives at Adeniji Adele Police Station, who identified himself by different names; Joseph Sarumi, Akeem Ahmed and Femi, said: “ Yahoo plus is the use of juju to make the white people to fall and pay money.
There’s no money in YahooYahoo anymore. Any Yahoo person you see driving expensive cars and making it big on internet scam, is into Yahoo Plus.” An internet fraudster, who wishes to be known simply as Chidi, said he had to call a halt to the life of crime in October, 2013, after he went with some friends deep into the heart of Benin Republic, to meet a juju man, who gave them power to be able to milk white folks through the internet or phony phone calls.
Chidi said that they were three young men that embarked on that journey. They had heard about Yahoo Plus from other fraudsters and did not know how to go about it. Another internet fraudster in Benin Republic soon introduced them to it.

Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako

Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako on Sunday said President Goodluck Jonathan had once again demonstrated a lack of humility in his approach to issues.

Nyako was reacting to Jonathan’s comment at the North-East rally of the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday, that the abdication of the responsibility of providing primary and secondary education by the governors in the zone was responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency.

Jonathan had said, “It is shameful for a governor who has stayed in power in his state for up to six years or more, to come to me and talk about bad leadership when you have youths in your state, more than half of whom have not attended primary school and you are doing nothing about it.

Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade
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Deputy Director, Public Relations, Department of State Services, Ms. Marylyn Ogar

Security was beefed up around the Presidential Villa and other parts of Abuja on Sunday morning as heavy shootings were recorded at the headquarters of the State Security Service.

The SSS headquarters, known as Yellow House, is located behind the Villa.

The access gate to the Villa through the Fire Service office in Asokoro was quickly shut while more heavily armed soldiers were seen at the gate leading to the nation’s seat of power through the Federal Secretariat.

Military helicopters were also seen hovering over the area.

One dies as police, OPC clash in Lagos

Members of the Oodua People’s Congress and policemen clashed at the Tolu Police Division, Ajegunle, Lagos State on Saturday evening.

One member of the OPC, identified as Dauda Apampa, lost his life, while a police corporal, identified simply as Emeka, sustained gunshot in the incident.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the fracas was caused by a disagreement over the release of an unidentified man from OPC’s custody.

It was learnt that prior to the fracas, the man at the centre of the disagreement had been arrested by OPC men on Friday for allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl.

Japan releases world’s longest serving death row inmate because evidence that put him behind bars for 45 YEARS was probably made up

A Japanese court has ordered the release of the world’s longest serving death row inmate because the evidence used against him was likely made up.
Iwao Hakamada, 78, a former professional boxer convicted of the 1966 murder of a family, has spent the last 45 years behind bars on death row, a Guinness World Record – including 30 years in solitary confinement waiting to die.
The court ordered a retrial for Mr Hakamada - who was sentenced to death in 1968 but not executed because of a lengthy appeals process - although the prosecution has four days to decide whether it will appeal the decision.
According to local media, Mr Hakamada was released from Tokyo Detention House for the first time in decades at around 5pm today, Japanese time. Accompanied by his sister, Mr Hakamada, in a yellow shirt, made his way slowly out of the court to a car before being driven away.

A Japanese court has ordered the release of Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest serving death row inmate who has spent nearly 50 years behind bars, because evidence against him was likely to have been made up

The court ordered a retrial for Mr Hakamada, a former professional boxer, who was sentenced to death in 1968

'I'm worthless': Woman sobs as she testifies about helping her boyfriend kill his then-wife in order to collect million-dollar insurance payout 12 years ago

A Florida man accused of murdering his new wife just days after they were married more than a decade ago is now representing himself in his long-anticipated first degree murder trial, and on Tuesday he cross-examined the prosecution's star witness: His former girlfriend who admits that she helped him murder his wife.
Authorities say Michel Escoto bludgeoned his 21-year-old bride Wendy Trapaga to death in October of 2002 - just four days after they were married - so he could collect on a million-dollar life insurance policy and run off with his girlfriend, Yolanda Cerrillo, who has admitted to helping Escoto plan the murder of her then-romantic rival in exchange for complete immunity from prosecution.
'Happy with yourself?' Miami-Dade County prosecutor Gail Levine asked Cerrillo of her involvement in the murder and the deal she reached with prosecutors.

Tears: Yolanda Cerillo sobs as she admits her involvement in the murder of Wendy Trapaga

'I’m worthless,' Cerrillo sobbed. 'That’s how I feel right now.'
'But it’s not about you, is it?' Levine asked.

Tiny 5ft 4in heartless gangster who gunned down ex-girlfriend, 19, then let fellow thugs shoot her son, 2, in the head as he clung to his leg makes it to FBI’s 10 most wanted list

A Salvadoran thug who executed his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend and let fellow gang members shoot her terrified two-old-son as he grabbed his leg for help has been added to the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives' list.
MS-13 gang member Juan Elias Garcia, 21, whose last reported sighting was somewhere in Honduras in 2011, is the fourth person sought by federal authorities in the Long Island killings of 19-year-old Vanessa Argueta and her 2-year-old son Diego Torres, said George Venizelos, the FBI assistant director of the New York field office.
Garcia, who is 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighs 125 pounds is a native of El Salvador and is the first MS-13 gang member to make the bureau's most wanted list.

Mother of murdered British teacher Lauren Patterson sobs in Qatari court as killer is given death sentence for sexually assaulting, stabbing and burning the 24-year-old

Tragedy: Lauren Patterson, 24, was murdered in Qatar in October last year

The mother of a British school teacher murdered in Qatar sobbed as her killer was sentenced to death by a court in Qatar today.
Lauren Patterson, 24, from Kent, was sexually assaulted and stabbed before her burnt remains were left smouldering in a remote desert location by a local 'casual acquaintance' in October last year.
Badr Hashim Khamis Abdallah al-Jabr and an accomplice maintained Miss Patterson's death was accidental, but were today found guilty of the brutal killing.
Miss Patterson's grief-stricken mother Alison was in court in Doha to hear the verdict and dropped her head into her hands and let out a brief sob upon hearing the sentence.
She was supported by more than a dozen friends and family in the courtroom.
Another man, Mohamed Abdallah Hassan Abdul Aziz, was jailed for three years for helping the killer to dispose of Miss Patterson's body by burning it, as well as damaging and getting rid of other evidence.

Woman who performed a sex act upon a uniformed police officer wins £6,600 in damages from the Met for the psychological damage it had caused

A woman who performed a sex act on a uniformed police officer has won £6,600 in damages from the Metropolitan Police today.

The 37-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, asked PC James Formby, 34, to kiss her when he attended her home during a patrol in Bromley, south-east London.

But the woman brought a damages case claiming she had been too drunk to consent when she later performed a sex act on the officer, who is not married.

Former police constable James Formby lost his job after a woman performed a sex act on him after he was called to her house following reports she had been assaulted

Church robbery: Court grants suspects N100,000 bail

An Ikeja Magistrate’s court on Thursday granted bail to eight armed robbery suspects said to have been involved in a church robbery in which phones and money estimated at N2m was said to have been stolen.

Among the suspects is the son of the traditional ruler of Ojokoro Community, 31-year-old Adeola Taiwo.

Others are Agozie Ordu, Amidu Shittu, David Bojuwola, Ismail Mufutau, Ahmed Akinola, Moruf Bello and Mutiu Adeosun.

The arrested Boko Haram members as well as weapons and motocycles seized from them in Taraba and Adamawa States... on Thursday.
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The Special Forces have arrested 31 fighters of the Boko Haram Sect who were attempting to flee the country through Taraba State and Gumti in Adamawa State into Cameroon.

The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in an electronic mail on Thursday that one of those arrested was a mercenary claiming to be a citizen of Chad and Burkinafaso.

A scene of a gas explosion at Shagari Plaza, opposite Area One shopping complex, Garki, Abuja...on Thursday.

Residents scampered for safety on Thursday as explosion rocks Shagari Plaza on Moshood Abiola Way, Garki-Area One, Abuja.

The quick succession in which the explosion occurred made customers and neighbours to scamper into safety. Many expressed fears that it was a bomb explosion.

But an eyewitness account said the first explosion occurred at about 5:17pm when a gas cylinder exploded. A jeep parked close to the gas dispenser went up in flames.

The gas retailer, who tried to recover his money kept under one of the cylinders, was also caught in the explosion while trying to save his earnings for the day.

$50bn stolen from Africa annually —UN

THE United Nations, on Thursday, disclosed that over $50 billion is being stolen out of Africa annually.
This disclosure was made by United Nation’s Deputy Secretary General, Mr Jan Eliason, when he paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal.
While decrying the spate of looting in Africa, he said “ it is more regrettable because the money will have been used to develop the continent.”
On Nigeria’s contributions to global peace, the United Nations’ official said “Nigeria is also a world leader in building security, peace-keeping and economic development and is a strong ally to the United Nations.”

Policeman kills wife, landlady, 4 kids, self

•Fulani attacks: Gov Suswan’s security adviser, 9 others killed

It was an ugly scenario at No 67, Ifelodun Street, Akingbala area, in Obatanko of Abeokuta, on Thursday morning, as a police corporal, identified as Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi, was said to have run berserk and shot dead his wife, Corporal Oluwatosin Faremi.

The deceased officer was also said to have killed a commercial motorcycle rider, identified as Kunle, a landlady, simply identified as Iya Basirat, landlady’s children, Basirat, Taofeek, a Senior Secondary School two students of Nawar-u-Deen Grammar School, Obantoko and his brother, Sikiru, landlady’s granddaughter, Kaosarat and one other person, while three other persons are lying critically injured at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta, for medical attention.
The deceased policeman, until his death,was reported to have been attached to the Mobile Police Unit at the Command’s headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Fuel scarcity forced us into pipeline vandalism, confessed burnt vandals

The Inspector General of Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit, Lagos Command, has arrested two persons, believed to be among those behind the fire outbreak at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation pipeline at Ilare/Imagbon axis in Ikorodu area of Lagos on March 20, 2014.

The two suspects, identified as Rotanna Ifeanyi and Soji Omomoyesan, with others at large, allegedly caused the outbreak of the fire, while attempting to extract PMS.

They however fled before security operatives and fire fighters reached the scene, but not without receiving severe burnt from the fire.

The two said that they embarked on the illegal trade after fuel scarcity started in Lagos.

It was gathered that the suspects were apprehended with the help of members of the community who trailed them to the house of an herbalist where they ran to receive treatment for their burns.

Elvis Ezeani

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today March 27, 2014 arraigned one Elvis Ezeani before Justice Valentine B. Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Wuse, Abuja on a 3-count charge which borders on obtaining money by false pretence.

The accused had been at large since December 2006 when he jumped the administrative bail granted him by the EFCC, until he was re-arrested on the 14^th of February, 2014.

His accomplice, Joseph Morah, was successfully prosecuted by the Commission and convicted by the court for the same offence of obtaining the sum of N13, 500 million under false pretences.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today said it has achieved some success in the prosecution of pension fraud cases. Briefing journalists in Abuja, the agency’s Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the Commission has called several witnesses in many of the cases under trial and succeed in securing the final forfeiture of a property linked to Shuaibu Teidi, former director, Pension Accounts, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, who is facing a 22-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, conspiracy to commit fraud and concealing the origin of stolen pension funds to the tune of N18.3 billion.

The said property, Brifina Hotel, which is located at Plot 1106 Cadastral Zone, Durumi District, Abuja, was allegedly acquired by Teidi through his company, Badawulu Ventures, for three hundred and thirty nine million naira.

NURTW, RTEAN invade police station, injure four

At least four persons were critically injured yesterday when the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed in Ondo in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The wounded included the Ondo town branch Vice-Chairman of RTEAN, Alhaji Alimi Arowosola, and three others.
The bloody clash was over the control of motor parks and the loading rights. Narrating the incident to journalists at the emergency ward of Ondo Specialist Hospital, one of the victims, Lukuman Saibu, alleged that the attackers were members of the NURTW.

Police shun N200,000 bribe, arrest six thieves

Police have arrested two security guards, who allegedly connived with four others to rob a company they were guarding at the Ilupeju area of the Lagos metropolis. The suspects were said to have offered N200,000 bribe to a police patrol team attached to Ilupeju Police Station, which stumbled on them while loading their trucks with products from the company. The stolen products are 630bags of PVC chemicals valued at N3 million.

We were going for N14m operation – Robbery suspects

Eight suspects, now in police custody, have disclosed that they were about to rob a man of N14 million before they were rounded up. But to burst the eight-man robbery gang, a policeman had to risk everything, including his life, to go into the underworld.
The robbers had already marked their target and were about embarking on the operation, which would fetch them. A 14 million, but they needed transport and a driver. The policeman, simply identified as Azeez, who posed as a robber, offered to drive the robbers to their destination in Lagos from Ogun State.

Five arrested for certificate, document forgery

Police have arrested five persons, Emmanuel Onyehiela, Ugorji Chibueze Ramsey, Emeka Chukwu, Chinyere Bright and Abdulazeez Sadiq, for certificate forgery. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) Frank Mba, said the suspects were arrested after a team of operatives attached to International Police Organisation (INTERPOL) section, Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja followed a tip-off from a concerned Nigerian.

I needed to raise money for my family – Drug pusher

A suspect arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said he pushed drug because of the need to cater for his wife and kid.
The 39-year-old Udoji Chike, who disguised packs of diazepam injections as Alabukun powder, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Chike told the anti-narcotic agents that he decided to carry the packs of banned substance because he wanted to raise money to send to his wife and child in Liberia.

NDLEA unveils 10 biggest arrests in 2013

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), recorded a lot of amazing arrests in the year 2013. Below are some of these achievements. 10. Drug barons failed to export first liquid meth In September, 2, 2013, NDLEA revealed how it prevented the illegal shipment of liquid methamphetamine to South Africa. The methamphetamine weighed seven kilogrammes and was disguised as vegetable oil.
Anti-narcotic officials made the discovery at the cargo section of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos during routine check. A clearing and forwarding agent who brought the consignment for shipment through a South African Airline flight was arrested. The suspect, Ugochukwu Okoroji, accepted ownership of the drug.

Policeman rapes four-year old in Jos

A riot policeman attached to the Special Task Force was on Wednesday arrested for raping a four-year old girl in Jos, Plateau State.

The girl, identified simply as Helen, was allegedly raped by the policeman, said to be a 32-year corporal, serving under STF at Rapum in Kassa, Barakin Ladi Local Government Area.

Our correspondent gathered that the little girl was first treated for bleeding at the Barakin Ladi General Hospital and later discharged.

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke

There were indications on Wednesday that members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts had come under intense pressure to tread softly on their ongoing investigation into the alleged financial excesses of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.

It was also learnt in Abuja that Alison-Madueke chartered a third jet for her use, besides the two already in the records of the committee.

Senate confirms Emefiele as new CBN gov •Says I will not allow illegal spending

The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed Mr Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), following a televised screening which saw the nominee answering a number of questions from senators.
Emefiele, however, survived a scare from the opposition senators, as Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC Kano), raised a point of order in a bid to stall the screening.
Gaya had told the Senate that in line with Order 53(5) of the Senate Standing Rules 2011, as amended, the screening should be suspended since the matter was in court.
In his motion, Gaya told the Senate that “the matter is in court. When the CBN Governor was suspended, he went to court and Order 53 (5) bars us from moving ahead on this matter.
“Why not wait for the court case to be over? That’s my submission sir.”
Senate President David Mark, however, ruled him out of order, stating that the issue before the court was a different matter.
Mark said: “Distinguished senator, you’ve done your best and you’ve also been seen to have done your best by your constituency. Unfortunately, your best isn’t going to carry the day here.
“So, let me, and all of us, including you, take responsibility for the screening. Unfortunately, what’s before the court has nothing to do with what we are going to do now. So, I rule you out of order.”

A Federal High Court Lagos, on Wednesday, has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), to impose new number plates on motorists in the country.
Justice James Tsoho gave the ruling while delivering judgment in a suit filed by a lawyer, Emmanuel Ofoegbu, against the FRSC.
Delivering the judgment, Tsoho held that it was unlawful for FRSC to impose the new number plates on motorists, where there was no existing law permitting same.

“The issue of redesigning new number plates by the respondent, is not covered under the provisions of any law in Nigeria.

Bulldozers demolishing the kidnappers den before the operation was stopped

THE demolition of the warehouse where kidnappers kept their victims situated at Soka area of Ibadan, was on Wednesday, halted by the state Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Indabawa.

The management of Ibadan Local Governments Properties Limited, in company with combined security personnel comprising the police and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), were on hand to supervise the demolition exercise which started at 11am.
At about 11:35am, the operator of the bulldozer pulling down the structure stopped the engine and discontinued the work. Nigerian Tribune, however, gathered that the stoppage was on the order of the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Indabawa.

I MAY LEAD ADAMAWA OUT OF NIGERIA - LAMIDO OF ADAMAWA

A delegate and the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Aliyu Lamido has threatened to stage a boycott of the conference by his people.
This is just as a 49-member body, on Wednesday, met behind closed doors with the chairman of the national conference, Judtice Idris Kutigi, in his frantic bid to break the stalemate over the voting pattern to be adopted at the conference.
The Lamido hinged the threat on what he perceived as moves to impose a practice, ostensibly the two-thirds simple majority of the “so-called Western world” on the country through the conference.

Kidnappers abduct woman, daughter in Edo … abduct couple in Bayelsa

Esohe Abel

Kidnappers have abducted a woman, Mrs. Esohe Abel, and her daughter, Miss Osarunmwese Abel, in Edo State.

Esohe and Osarunmwese are wife and daughter of a prominent transporter in Edo State, the Managing Director of Iyare Motors Limited, Mr. Abel Omoruyi.

Both women were said to have been kidnapped at about 5pm on Monday around the Ugbor Primary School, Benin City.

Their car was reportedly abandoned at the scene, while the victims were forcefully taken away in the kidnapper’s car.

A family source told PUNCH Metro that the matter had been reported at the Ugbor Police Station and the victims’ car, recovered by the police.

The source, craving anonymity, said, “Esohe and Osarunmwese were kidnapped at Ugbor village, close to the Ugbor Primary School. Although we have made a report at the Ugbor Police station, so far there is nothing new. The police have, however, recovered the abandoned vehicle.

SUPER Eagles skipper, Joseph Yobo

Intercontinental Bank shareholders drag Sanusi to court •Court orders suspended CBN gov to enter appearance

Aggrieved shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc have dragged Mallam before an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Plaintiffs/applicants in the suit are Abdullahi Sani, Adaeze Onwuegbusi and Chijioke Ezeikpe, all shareholders of the bank, which has been taken over by Access Bank Plc.
The defendants are Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (1st), Central Bank of Nigeria, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Okadaman drops bomb in Kaduna •Police quiz late Yakowa’s aide over S/Kaduna attacks

But for the prompt intervention of the Nigeria Police, an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) neatly concealed in a pack would have exploded at the Unguwan Rimi high brow area of Kaduna metropolis on Tuesday.

A man riding a motorcycle, according to eyewitnesses, had dropped a pack containing the IED along Sir Kashim Ibrahim road by Sultan Road junction.

Lagos CBN office on fire

THERE was a stampede late on Tuesday as fire razed the Broad Street , Marina Lagos office of Central Bank of Nigeria.
A yet to be identified firefighter from the Lagos State Fire and Emergency service suffocated and became unconscious and was rushed to the hospital.
The fire which started around 6 o’ clock in the evening destroyed many valuables on the first floor of the building, where it was first noticed on the ground floor.

Again, gunmen kill 35 in Benue, Nasarawa

IT was another sad story in Benue State as gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, yesterday invaded Agena in Gwer Local Government Area of the state, killing about 20 persons.
The attack is coming barely three days after a bloody fight between Tiv youths and suspected Fulani marauders in Gbajimba, Guma Local Government Area reportedly claimed over 50 lives on both sides.

Madmen become targets in Ibadan, 4 mobbed

•One caught with suspected human tongues

AS the uproar over the discovery of a kidnappers’ den at Soka area, Ibadan, Oyo State, is yet to die down, 25 pieces of items suspected to be human tongues were found in the possession of a ‘madman’ at Oluyole area of the capital city.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that one of two other ‘madman’ suspected to be working with the one arrested was mobbed to death while the other one was seriously injured and was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, for medical treatment.

'None of those on board survived': Malaysia Airlines tells families by TEXT that their loved ones are dead and the missing jet DID come down in the Indian Ocean minutes before press conference

Relatives of missing flight MH370's passengers and crew have been told there were no survivors and they had hoped in vain.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak revealed new analysis of satellite data by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and tracking firm Inmarsat indicated the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8.
No confirmed sighting of the plane has been made since, but much debris has been found in remote waters off Australia which might be part of the missing plane.
But bad weather will delay the search for wreckage at least another day, as the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) suspended today's air and sea search operations due to adverse conditions.

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The message which ended the hopes of the missing passenger's relatives and a map where debris has been located

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The moment relatives found out their loved ones aboard flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean

Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd)

A former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday described the ongoing national conference as a waste of public funds.

He said at the opening of the inaugural edition of the PGF Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable in Abuja, that the huge amount being spent on the entire process, should have been put to better use.

Buhari, an All Progressives Congress national leader, argued that what the conference was trying to achieve was what the National Assembly was in a better position to do.

He said, “What I say about the conference is a personal view. What the conference is doing is the duty of the National Assembly.

“The elite should have call themselves together and ask the National Assembly to sponsor a bill for some amendments to the constitution.

“I do not think that at this time when government is finding it difficult to pay salaries of workers, it can afford about N7bn to waste on a conference.”

Also at the event, Senator Bukola Saraki said the current administration needed to be more transparent in the management of the nation’s funds.

Ibadan kidnappers’ den for demolition tomorrow •Gov visits scene, revokes property’s C of O •Woman allegedly killed by stray bullet •Police fire teargas at thousands of protesting youths

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State visited the kidnappers’ den on Monday just after a woman was allegedly felled by a police stray bullet (inset to the right) while the police stood guard at the scene. PHOTO: TOMMY ADEGBITE AND TUNDE OGUNESAN.

THE house where abducted people were kept at Soka area of ibadan is to be demolished tomorrow.
According to the General Manager, Ibadan Local Government Properties Company Limited, Mr Olalekan Babalola, this is sequel to the revocation of the property’s Certificate of Occupancy by Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, during a visit to the area on Monday.
Ahead of the governor’s arrival at the scene, a middle-aged woman had been allegedly killed by a stray bullet from the police.
Police stray bullet killed woman at Soka
All hell was let loose when rampaging youths, pounced on unsuspecting motorists on the expressway, destroying cars and other property on the highway.
Nigerian Tribune investigations revealed that trouble started around 11:45 a.m, when it was learnt that a policeman allegedly shot at one of the people when they attempted to gain entrance to the underground enclave of the kidnappers’ den.
This situation was said to have infuriated the youths, who began to riot in protest. The riot spilled from Soka area unto the expressway and motorists were forced to hurriedly make u-turn back to Challenge or the Lagos-Ibadan expressway for fear of being attacked. Some motorists also made a detour to Felele, Idi Mangoro and Sanyo areas. Some vehicles stuck in the ensuing traffic were damaged by the youths.
Reports said a woman was killed around Soka allegedly by a stray bullet from the police.
The woman, according to sympathizers at the scene of the incident was hit on the chest and she immediately gave up the ghost. It was also gathered that the shot allegedly came from one of the police officers who manned the APC stationed by the side of the bridge.
As soon as the governor’s convoy got to the bridge, sympathisers beckoned at his car, describing the situation to him, he came down to attend to them.
At the scene, Governor Ajimobi then approached the crowd which later informed him properly and angrily that “one woman had been killed by police stray bullet”. Senator Ajimobi who was dazed by the revelation, appealed to the crowd, but before he could move further, they carried the woman’s corpse to the expressway where the governor was attending to them.

More scenes of Ibadan forest horror.

Two ladies residing in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria have given a moving account of their ordeal in the hands of suspected members of the Boko Haram sect and how they managed to escape.

Speaking in an interview with the BBC Hausa service monitored in Kaduna on Monday, Liatu, aged 23, said she spent 12 days in the hands of her abductors inside the Sambisa forest before she escaped.
According to her, she had left Maiduguri on her way to the village when she was abducted,adding that the Boko Haram members had barricaded the road just near the Bama bridge, killed some people and went away with others into the bushes.
She said after staying with them for that period, “one man suggested that we run away because one can only die once.”And we took a Golf car and ran away,the Boko Haram people chased us on motorbike, shooting us, they killed those who sat at the back, when we were approaching Bama, they retreated and went back.

15-year-old girl 'shot dead by male friend' in East London house as three boys aged just 15 and 16 are questioned by police

A teenager was accidentally shot dead at her boyfriend’s party as she dropped off his birthday present, friends said last night.
Star pupil Shereka Marsh, 15, bled to death in minutes after being shot in the neck as a youth ‘showed off’ an antique gun, ‘waving it around’.
Witnesses claimed they pleaded with the boy to put the weapon down. But moments later, the World War Two handgun went off without warning.

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Tragic: Shereka Marsh has been named by police as the victim of the shooting in Hackney Wick, London

One of the victims that were rescued by the police at Soka forest, Ibadan, Oyo State, which is believed to be a ritual killers’ den, said she was kidnapped in September 2013.

The victim, whose name is being withheld for security purpose, is currently recuperating with seven other victims in Adeoyo Hospital, Ibadan.

No fewer than 20 decomposing bodies were discovered in the forest on Saturday, while about 23 others were rescued alive.

They were taken to different hospitals in the city, with eight of them – four men and four women – in Adeoyo Hospital.

The woman, who was still weak from her experience, told PUNCH Metro that she knew she left her home in September and since then could not remember anything until Saturday when she was rescued.

She said, “I remember that I left my home in Okebola and was going to Challenge. I entered a taxi and that is the only thing I can remember until police rescued us yesterday (Saturday).”

When asked whether she did not see her captors killing people and selling their parts, she said, “I think such thing happened, but it did not really register because my mind was blank.

“I can recollect seeing people falling down, I can remember that some were taken away and they never returned, but really, it did not mean anything to me until Saturday. It was as if I woke up from a slumber.”

At this point, the victim countenance changed as if she went into a trance. Many questions asked by our correspondent went unanswered.

PUNCN Metro also observed that other victims were yet to regain their full strength.

They muttered words that were disjointed, but the nurses said they would regain full mental and physical ability.

They said two days of treatment was not enough to cure them completely, having been chained and maltreated for a long time.

No doctor was around to attend to our correspondent, but it was gathered that two of the victims were able to give their names.

FLEEING SUSPECT KNOCKS DOWN EFCC OPERATIVE

Barde

Oluwanishola

An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde, was on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, knocked down by a Honda Accord car, desperately driven by a fleeing suspect, Tajudeen Oluwanishola, who was trying to escape arrest over a case of fraud being investigated by the Commission.

Barde sustained serious injury and was subsequently rushed to the Military Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos for medical attention.

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